The God Hand offer Griffith a new, stronger demon body, an army of devout demon followers, and a laundry list of superpowers. The group is looking for a new member and think Griffith is the perfect candidate. Griffith gets an opportunity to make this dream a reality when he is approached by 4 demon lords known as the God Hand. Griffith (Middle), Guts (Bottom), and the other major members of The Band ItвЂ™s revealed through the early arcs of the manga that Griffith has a dream of creating a kingdom so large and so perfect that everyone can live safely and comfortably inside its walls, preferably with him in charge. Enter Griffith, the secondary protagonist, leader of The Band of The Hawk (a janky, medieval version of The A-Team), and a close friend to the actual protagonist, Guts.

Small kingdoms are constantly warring with each other, bandits run rampant, monsters roam across the countryside and innocent men, women, and children are dying by the boatload. While Watchmen presents a world on the brink of collapse, the medieval land of Midland where Berserk takes place is in a state of collapse. This final scene forces Adrian (and the reader) to grapple with the possibility that the peace he sacrificed millions for may only be temporary. Manhattan warns him that nothing is permanent. But before Adrian can bask in his victory, he has one last conversation with the future seeing Dr. Adrian does all this with the hopes that the nations of the world will separate their differences to fight an alien threat that doesnвЂ™t actually exist.ДЄdrianвЂ™s plan succeeds, at least at first, in response to New York CityвЂ™s sudden and brutal destruction at the hands of an unknown threat the worldвЂ™s nuclear superpowers put aside their differences to prepare for a future attack. The monster dies the second it makes contact with the ground, but it emits a psychic pulse that kills everything else in the city. Adrian uses the next to infinite wealth at his disposal to design, genetically engineer, and then deploy a giant psychic monster on top of New York City. Ozymandias, who has the funding and resources to actually stop this nuclear armageddon. Except for retired vigilante Adrian Veidt, a.k.a. To make matters worse, the various вЂheroвЂ™ characters we are introduced to throughout the work are either uninterested, unable, or ill-equipped to do anything about it.

In Watchmen the reader is introduced to a world on the brink of nuclear self destruction. Two characters who perfectly exemplify this are Ozymandias from Alan MooreвЂ™s Watchmen and Griffith from Kentaro MiuraвЂ™s Berserk Ozymandias (left) and Griffith (right) Often throwing the reader and community around a work into ethical turmoil. But, some authors choose to turn this formula on its head by creating heroic characters who do villainous things, all for the greater good of course. One of the essential parts of any story is the antagonist, someone with bad intentions for the reader to root against. Also spoilersВ ahead for Watchmen and Berserk. Disclaimer: Due to the sheer length and depth of both of these works, I have had to skip over some details of plot and character development involving Ozymandias and Griffith.

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