I watched berserk in one night without any clue of what it was about, and when I say I literally cannot bring myself to hate Griffith. The whole series he was my favorite and that will never change

Imagine Griffith turning human and being unable to come to terms with what he did and kills himself

Why Griffith is an example on how to make a good antagonist of revenge story : 1. He has history with the main character, and was on good term for that period. Which enhanced his betrayal 2. He didn't just turn good to evil because the story needs it. Berserk has hinted multiple times that there's sinister thing about Griffith like when he death stares the minister or his face when he breaks guts' arm 3. He isn't cartoonishly evil. He's evil but the make sense one. He didn't just sacrifice his army for fun 4. He isn't punching bag for Guts or loser. He succeded multiple times and pose ab actual threat to Guts 5. There's reason behind his actions. During the eclipse, he has two choices, Live as crippled for his entire life or Prioritize his dream I didn't say that I didn't hate him for what he's done, I say that he's a perfect antagonist

I wouldn't agree that he has done more good than evil- the 'good' is just lowering the harm the HE CREATES, he is building the kingdom that gives safety from the crumbling of the world THAT HE CREATES. He is like an abuser that keeps the abusee locked, 'to protect them'. From the very begining he was a possesive abuser, that tries to manipulate people, and so is his 'savior' persona is also just another manipulation. The lives of those outside his control have become much worse, yes it is causality, but part of the story is to ask where free will come in, and if he hadn't came to the regular plane, the reality wouldn't have crumbled and monsters would have been less prevelant. IDK about the kushans though...

He has a pretty interesting dynamic with Guts obviously.

Yes, the good you do in your life can overcome the evil. Guts is an example of that, he's killed hundreds of people, endangered children and even killed children. However his arc is understanding his evil, how it manifests and his guilt for it. He can't bring himself to look at Casca once he knows he triggers her, likely becauee he sexually assaulted her. He likely doesn't expect forgiveness or compassion for his actions because he doesn't give those to himself. Griffith however is entirely evil. People say he created a utopia, no he shifted reality into hell and kept just effigy people alive to feed in their souls for power. His conversation with Mule shows us that the souls of the dead are under his control and he sends them all to the same place, the vortex of dark souls. Griffith has 0 heroes features, even his accomplishments before he became Femto were selfish. To say that Griffith has any kind of good in him is outright wrong and overlooks not just with wide spread evil of transforming humanity to prey for the Apostles but his direct evil actions like Casca during the eclipse.

the second behelit the one guts has picked up…it’s already been confirmed that a being who has already used a behelit can use a behelit a second time

Bro wdym "no one hates him for the 'evil' " on quotes, did you really watched what I watched?! 🥴 yes Griffith was a human who understood his actions and then created a safe place for people to go to don't justify who he is. He killed, torture, r3pa, hullimate, manipulate, assassinated, kidnapped, was out of touch and it's responsible for guts living the rest of his life in constant torture after all guts wanted was to save him, see him achieve his dreams and even after he heard he sacrifice the band of the hawk guts didn't believe it and tried to rescue him and guess what Griffith does in return? Yes. He grab the last member of the Hawk and the only person guts truly cares about and gave guts ptsd where he said on quote on chapter 130: " I DIDN'T RUN AWAY!!" "I CAN'T RUN AWAY.." "Not from the last thing..." "...Seared into my right eye...!!" "...Fear...malice, I don't know... possibly it's both..." "But I can't never atone for this dark flame!!!" Guts was never the same and not only he is haunted by monsters but also by the memories. Griffith honestly has no excuse and he created a kingdom based on lies and self prophesies. Griffith would sacrifice all those people again if he could get more power and he would even go out of his way to go back and step on their Graves like he didn't do anything and it was just business

In other words, Griffith is a top.

"Griffith cannot accept the idea that someone else in on top of him". Well he did accept the idea when Gennon offered him a lot of gold...

Awesome video! can’t wait to see the next video about guts

For me this video lacked focus. You had some interesting ideas like the infinite hunger of greed/ambition, nature vs. nurture when it comes to evil and looking at his actions from a utilitarian perspective. I think if you stuck to one of those points and made an entire video about that, it would have been far more interesting Just my 2 cents

Why do people try to redeem him, dude is a demon he literally serves the Idea of Evil

the idea of evil is no longer cannon to the story

Griffith reminds me of Madara from Naruto. He wants peace through domination, rather than relying on peace through cooperation. Good and evil, love and hate; these are strawman arguments. What makes Griffith such a great character and antagonist is his seemingly invincible rise to power, and the fear of volatility of his way to get it.

More Griffith than last time!

I could imagine someone making this video into a drinking game with how many times he says on top.

Take a shot every time he says “on top” Great video btw!

There was a comment in a KZfaq short that put it brilliantly: Griffith didn’t bring peace to Midland after being reborn but rather monopolized it. To put it bluntly, his dream of a kingdom after his revival as a human hit a new high and he wished to be the strongest kingdom. Returning to this, his kingdom is the only sanction that allows people to live without fear of the astral world creatures. A real life example would be the Nestly debate on how they said water isn’t a necessity and attempted in due part to buy up drinkable water companies which in turn they’d love to increase the price of water. Griffith harbors those who pledge allegiance but is not all loving and thus why the views on Griffith as time goes become ambilivilant from those in the kingdom or straight up hateful to those outside but nevertheless vital to the state of the current world

right off the bat griffith hasnt done any good. he only did things that APPEAR to be good. Obviously something bad is going to happen to falconia. We already know you can go through the rebirth process a second time so he may sacrifice falconia to become something above even the god hand. Or it could be something else. Either way its not a true utopia

Amazing video.

Really good video

If theres a chance to do good , he would do it despite what ever benefit of it But for his dream sadly theres a lot of evil deeds are neccesary or even a must But then again his dream and desire are unneccesary in the first place

The decision to use that track from the Vinland Saga OST was god tier.

The "good" is not good. He is setting the trap, the greatest sacrifice. To gather all of humanity in one place where he will kill them.

It's really not that difficult to understand why Griffith does what he does it's actually very simple the reason is because it benefits him, for example sacrificing the band of the hawk allowed him to be reborn as a member of the God hand, which makes him one of the most powerful beings in existence, and even him playing the role of hawk of light the great savior of mankind is just him fooling people into thinking he's some kinda of God that would protect them as long as they believe in him and follow his command, which benefits Griffith because that means he has a almost unlimited supply of people willing to fight and die for him that proves that any good he has done is only because it benefits him so how is he good in anyway

I'm not completely sure Griffith doesn't have emotions towards Guts, if he doesn't want to hurt Guts furthermore, why did he wait until the first full moon of Casca having her senses back?

i haven't watched the video yet but does this spoil volume 41?

Griffith is the hawk of darkness, so he can technically say the n word.

im pretty sure if it came to it Guts would be the TOP :p

Anyone happen to have the sauce for the thumbnail?

What if Griffith joined the consensual god hand

I'm feeling a little ambivalent - is it griffith choice or was he destined to become femto ._.?

[ you belong to me ]

I think Griffith will keep being a god and guts will need to let casca go to protect her she may forgive Griffith not all endings are happy endings eventually guts will get old or hurt he can’t fight demons forever he won’t be strong forever he isn’t a god or a apostle his wars will take a toll on his body forgiveness isn’t for the other person it’s for you so you can let it go and move forward that’s how I feel it’s probably wrong maybe unpopular but at this point guts is powerless and doomed to die

He is me fr

What compels Griffith is pure selfishness

First again bru

I hate Griffith, and I also really hate Griffith

I like this character, but let me jump off this cliff.

Why does everyone seem to forget the state of the world outside of Falconia? Everywhere else is now filled with man eating monsters because Griffith merged the Astral world with the physical world. It's literally a hellscape for anyone who finds themselves anywhere but Falconia and the immediate surrounding regions. Merging the two worlds might be the worst thing Griffith has ever done.

Just say he is bad.

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bleh bad

I think your take on destiny and concept such as evil is very immature and it lacks the depth and most of all truth.