Nosferatu Zodd Origins...
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- Опубліковано 15 січ 2021
- Theorizing the potential origins of Nosferatu Zodd and his human self
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I think he would be the guy who was a proud warrior who could not be defeated, so when he met a warrior that bested him he wanted nothing more to beat him so he turned to despair and became an aspotle, only for him to sacrifice the only one better then him, now bound to search forever for somebody stronger, which he would eventually find in griffith.
Oooh, that's a good one. The irony of the very person Zodd transformed himself for being used as the sacrifice and leaving him with no purpose makes it extra juicy.
interesting
Dope
Sound sir, very sound!!
ur theory makes perfect sense! i'm sold
You could be right about Zodd originally being a weak man, i mean Wyald was a frail old man underneath it all, so it makes sense.
Nah because Zodd is an apostle who doesn’t indulge in rape or eating humans. Zodd only looks for people who are strong and has honor.
@@Huey111 I think of him like a Viking who didn’t die an honorable death to a strong worthy opponent in his human life and maybe on a death bed about to die a peaceful death he was in deep despair for dying peacefully and deep desire to finally battle a strong opponent and he summoned the god hand and struck a deal with them. Just my theory about him
@@grimreaper1551 or a dying last effort in a situation like Kratos
All pretty good theories
Nah Zodds normal form is already a hulking monster as it is.
Given Zodd's absolute "morality", it's possible he killed someone by cheating, someone he knew was vastly better than him, and it haunted him so badly afterward that he would do or did literally anything to remove that stain, and now simply lives to achieve death the "right way".
He's also, in literal terms, a damage check on the godhand. If you can't beat Zodd, there's no way you can face a member of the godhand and hope to win.
I always have this thought that he will one day betray Griffith, Zodds too much of a beast to be under someone’s control
Would be very chad if he had done that
Alot of the apostles will "betray" Griffith. Either the Child or Guts will become their new leader.
I predict goat archer will defect, same with Grunbeld and Zod. The world will unite against Griffith as his plans to sacrifice Falconia to become the very False God of Evil itself. Whatever is left over from the events will go onto challenge Griffith before he tries to up the anty and sacrifice the entire world for his ambitions. His dream is a toxic, self serving one that is why he was chosen specifically by "fate" or "causality".
Griffith did *everything* wrong and will do much worse things than the first eclipse when this all happens.
I agree
@@drewthwreatt9398 Guts has no chance to become the leader of apostles, he hates them. He worked with zodd, but it was more like “I’ll kill you after we kill Ganishka” the moonlight child is Griffith just under a full moon where he transforms into guts and Cascas child. The only reason the apostles would betray Griffith is if it’s fate and an act of causality
Causality doesn't apply to Guts much like the gods dice in goblin slayer doesn't effect Orcbolg. He acts before the dice can be cast.
Leader? Maybe not. But something to consider here is this.. If the false God is removed from the equation.. Doesn't that mean that all the apostles disappear since it was borrowed power? Methinks it does.
The child appears when it's a full moon because his body was stolen by Griffith. He commands a very unusual respect/fear over astral beings and apostles. GUT's inner rage is supposed to be Fenrir. The Norse God that grows bigger and more powerful the longer it lives. Yet... The damned child pierced past that entity and through the armor to reach Guts.
The child is on a different level compared to other astral beings. And that's because he's Gut's kid, not because of Griffith. If anything, Griffith is siphoning /the child's power/ as well as his body.
Griffith is such an obvious false God that it hurts to see shortsighted people defend him.
Zodd doesn’t even really look like an apostle. Plus he doesn’t have his human body hidden somewhere in his apostle body like most of the other apostles do. The only other apostle I can think of is locus and...that’s about it.
What about Irvine?
@@srslydoatm9251 His human form, is literally on the back of the Elk body.
You know I've actually never thought of something so obvious. Great observation!
@@Alucia0 What about the God Hand members?
And the one that chewed on guts' arm.
Griffith having Zodd's loyalty might not last. Him beating Zodd is like a gamer playing with Invulnerability on. There's no skill as a warrior there. I also think Griffith making an Empire will inevitably land Zodd in the same situation he has always despaired in- Which is having nobody else to fight.
For Zodd, fighting the strongest may lie in him fighting the greatest battle there is to fight... which is Guts fighting against the world and Fate itself. I think that he may join Guts for this reason and turn on the Godhand- finally having the ultimate battle he's always wanted.
I’m ngl a year later and this theory sounds amazing still
I love Zodd. My favourite apostle as well.
I can't wait to see his backstory. I'd love if he survived the story but he won't and when he dies it's gonna hurt bad...
Yeah, especially in such a narrative that is so lethal to its supporting cast, Zodd seems like an easy character to kill off, and I feel that his time could come at any moment. Quite honestly, I'm (pleasantly) surprised that he's still alive.
It reminds me of Kratos when he was a Spartan General on the verge of death. But instead of sacrificing his own soul to save him and his army, Zodd probably sacrificed his army to save himself. Maybe that's why Zodd respects warriors so much. That's my theory at least.
Im sure he originally wanted to sacrifice himself, but his army insisted zodd to use them
@@shoopersaiyan that makes zero sense
@@Usernamehere263 bro shut up this comment is so old
I think the answer to this riddle is grounded in how you interpret the Count's conversation with the Godhand about killing Guts.
Zodd is guts without casca.
Or maybe, just maybe, what if Zodd had a "Casca" before he became an apostle?
Zodd is Guts that did what Griffith did (sacrifice his men).
@@Somespideronline that would just mean that in the case of zodd and his casca, their bond wasn't as strong as guts and casca.... Or at least how guts feels about casca. His will to power and ambition serve her or himself? This is the development of guts and have yet to see the answer.
Skull knight
@@Kage-jk4pj skull knight is the future of guts with casca if he chooses the third rail, as the skull knight did. It's a power play between ambition, revenge and love.
During the attack on Floras villa, we found out that Zodd has seen the Berserk armor, and knows of SKs connection to it. This suggests that Zodd dates back to the age of Gaeseric, as we recently found out that Gaeseric’s life ended during Voids ascension, we can disregard the previous assumption of his age being 300 years.
Here is my take on Zodd ascension to apostle. All head canon of course.
He was a warrior of skill and renown during the age of the waring states. His village/city capitulated to Gaeseric without resistance. Zodd saw this as dishonorable and cowardly, while he despised himself for understanding the decision. Defeat was inevitable, and Gaeseric razed opposing forces to set an example to deter opposition from others; Zodd understood that his own kin would die along with everyone else.
Zodd did not hate Gaeseric. He hated his own leadership. He wished he could cross swords with the legendary king clad in skeleton armor and test his mettle.
The first incarnation ceremony happens. Gaeseric disappears.
Zodd grows old, filled with regret that he never faced a legend. He has raised a family. But life felt empty, and he reminisces about the battle field.
In his old age, with failing health, the once mighty warrior despairs over his own decline. And the egg shaped trinket around his neck suddenly starts moving as though it is a thing living.
That's fucking badass. Unfinished business. It reminds me a little of Legate Lanius story from Fallout New Vegas.
That's fucking badass. Unfinished business. It reminds me a little of Legate Lanius story from Fallout New Vegas.
But Gaeseric isn't skull knight, at least the most recent manga chapter show us SK was indeed the king of elves, i really think Gaeseric is Void, as we know Void is the only member of god hand that remain untouched, unlike any other of the reamaning 4 members (as guts saw the flashbacks from the previos owner of the armor) who have been replaced, remember that chapter when they show an insane amount of people with the Brand of sacrifice? I really think Gaeseric sacrificed his entire kingdom to became the founder of god hand (Void) .
@@alanalb1449 Hold up, Alan. Could you provide more detail on your thinking? As far as I could extract from the last chapter we found out Skull Knight was likely the husband of Dannan's mother, who died during Voids ascension.
Personally, I haven't seen any evidence that points us away from Gaeseric being SK, or towards Void having been Gaeseric.
For my part, it seemed to confirm that Gaeseric(SK) had an alliance with Elfhelm, and likely even married into the kingdom, explaining his ability to conquer the continent with little opposition during his era.
Very happy to hear your full thoughts on the matter though. It would certainly be an epic twist after 15 years of red herrings.
I just got the Berserk Oficial guide which was released in 2016 and it doesn’t say that Zod is 300 something years old, it just says ‘unknown’, so yeah he could be much older.
So Zodd was basically Captain America. From weak to strong, keeping his honor and drive.
Or staying within the manga universe I thought of Deku from My Hero.
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One thing I wanted to mention is that when the Berserker Armor was first introduced, Zodd seemed to have been aware of Skull Knight's fate regarding his status as its previous wearer. In the recent chapter, we were given information on how it seems that Skull Knight died in the Berserker Armor possibly during Void's inocculation. So it's possible that Zodd's existence predates even Void.
Zodd when he saw guts using the beserk armor he showed fear you could see fear on his eyes, a beast like Zodd tembled at the sight of it , can you imagine how much of a beast that SK was with the berserk armor.
@@xFirtewx I think it was more because guts was in the armor, than just the armor itself, he knew guts was a monster even without the armor and I'd like to think that he'd assumed guts had inherited some of skull knights abilities in using said armor. I'll say that no matter what, skull knight for sure has transcended the berserker armor, however effective he was, has to pale in comparison to what he is. He left zodd reassembling himself during the eclipse.
I feel like Zodd must have been a noble in Gaseirick times, that's why he acts in the way he does. Maybe another king of a subordinate land to Midland.
@@mightdai7489 yeah, it's very easy to imagine that scenario.
Gaiseric is supposed to be Charlemagne, so Zodd might be any franc germanic warrior king of the middle ages.
Given the name, probably Vlad III himself in Rumania, fighting the Kushan (Turks).
Zodd is what happens when you give Akuma a behelit lol.
@@tokyobassist Normal Akuma can already blast earth shattering meteorites with his kamehameha.
An apostle version would be straight up Goku or Saitama.
Basically Godhand or strongest power levels.
@Ladarius Capers dunno, according to what i remember there are RUMORS that there has been a beast of the battlefield known as the immortal Nosferatu Zodd for at least 100 years.
But that's just hearsay and wives tales. No one knows for sure and until the phantasia arc, no one would had believed that someone has ACTUALLY lived that long.
I imagine that actually people has been saying the exact same thing for centuries, but since no one knew for sure, the myth continued.
Then again, i never said that he was a contemporary to Gaiserick while alive either. Midland has always been a alliance of smaller kingdoms. It doesn't matter that much exactly when he became an Apostle but rather why.
They know each other well since a long while and they still haven't kill each other either, so who knows.
No he wasnt. Because Zodd is around only 300+ yesrs old while Skull Knight is about 1000 yesrs old. Zo the time doesnt match
Looking at his attire, I think he was a barbarian warrior, powerful, but something happened which made him unable to fight, either an illness or injury. Given the only thing he seems to value is strong opponents, then perhaps he sacrificed his opponents or his tribe. I think Guts and Zodd do appear to be similar, however Guts fights to protect Casca now, but Zodd probably never had anything like this. I think there is a real chance that Zodd will join Guts and Skull Knight, given that he likes a challenge, and who in the Berserk universe are stronger than the god hand, Zodd also wants to die, as he is bored of immortality and having such immense power. Now Miura has pasted, I don’t envy anyone trying to finish off this story.
I gotta admit, I really like the idea of Zodd being a frail mortal who was forced to sacrifice his loved ones.
There is a bitter sweet feeling to have some one craving power and not have it, only to gain it an lose everything.
Though the "Crippled Warrior" seems much more likely, being nursed by someone he grew to both love and yet despise as they represent his weakness.
Would explain why we haven't seen him think much off it, the sacrifice has been Justified by his code.
Well, we do know Zodd and the Skull Knight had some kind of relationship in the past as he has called him 'old friend' and they have a rivalry somewhat. I think he was either a gladiator or viking of some sort. A nomadic mercenary. I could also see him as a soldier who had loyalty to the wrong kingdom. He was forced to kill the weak or helpless and sacrificed that king or comrades, maybe a rival?
In my "head-canon" I always thought that maybe Zodd was this brave warrior, who wanted to be the very best there was. But ultimately he lost some fight, and in dispair became an apostle.
Now that he technically IS the greatest warrior, he's bored on the battlefield.
I would love this kinda thing, because the very thing he wished for, is now robbing him of the joy of fighting.
I see it as being similar to Hellsing Ultimate's Alucard. He tries to find humans to fight against him and you don't really ever see him clashing with apostles.
The only way Zodd will truly be satisified is dying in battle to the hands of a "worthy opponent" or someone greater than himself.
I.e., Griffith, Bone Daddy, Guts.
The man he couldn't beat was maybe Gaeseric in his berserker armor? That could be a reason. If he was another noble king and refused to submit, on the verge of dying, seeing his kingdom and people in the hands of the enemy, defeated by a cheater Geaseric in berserker mode( aka not honorable) he could have sacrificed his people to ascend. Since for him they were doomed anyway now.
Your thoughts?
That's a really interesting theory..
The "weak man" concept is more in line with Grunbeld. Grunbeld seeks to overpower everyone with sheer strength.
Zodd has his code that he strictly adheres to, beyond the calls of the God hand.
I want zodd to team up with guts. He just seems like a nice apostle and his bond with guts is strong.
Love the vids man, I been trying to learn the rest of the story after watching the golden age anime 50+ times.
Thanks for the narration
I imagined he wasn't just a great warrior but a great hero that survived past his prime into a bitter old man who couldn't fight anymore. That the people he sacrificed were those who saw him as a hero including his family.
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I like to think Zodd was a driven and honorable warrior who would defend the helpless, and trained his entire life for battle. Then went up against and someone who was no where near as driven or hardworking as Zodd was but had all the raw talent in the world and defeated Zodd handily, and that defeat broke Zodd completely because he realized that no matter how hard he tried he simply couldn't catch up to someone who was born with greater talent than him, and that completely crushed him and drove him to use a behelit
Yea cuz steroids are cheating. Its like using an aimbot to beat pro, super lame
Zodd so powerful, he ascended the monster manual format
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If I can guess Zodd's backstory, he was a talented nobody like Guts. He was big, he could work hard and he could fight. He became a mercenary to pay the bills. He had a "family" either blood relation or not. Zodd wanted to get stronger, think of Guts when he realized Casca had wandered off while he was apostle killing, but Zodd neglected his "family" because of his search to fight worthy opponents in the disguise of "working" and his family was tasked with taking him out or betrayal because of jealousy or he was injured and they were going to mercy kill him, but he sacrificed them to become an apostle. The way he wants Guts to make it t the Eclipse because it would be his date with destiny.... a date that I feel was something like his (betrayal by a friend and only the strong will survive logic kicked in).
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What if him becoming an apostle was literally just a bruh moment and nothing more
And it actually is my birthday! Thanks Ryan! This is great!
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just yesterday i finished all the released chapters on Berserk... and I can finally watch ALL the youtube videos discussing the story and characters. feel so good!
world peace is declared
zodds behelit: “you rang?”
great job Ryan. proud of you
I think Zodd must have been an undefeated warrior dying of old age. Because I don't see this man ever accepting power so freely and without effort. Zodd seems one to appreciate the struggle and think he could only accept demonhood if he earned it.
Damn I just love these videos while waiting for a new chapter
My theory is that Zodd was a strong juman Aswell as an honourable soldier who climbed ranks and became a leader within his mercenary group or army and similarly to how guts came across an apostle who he was no match for maybe zodd was faced with an apostle someone he finally couldn’t beat and seeing that them being on another unreachable level made him realise there’s a whole new world of strength
Hey Ryan did you get a new mic, this video sounds pretty good
Yup!
As i expected the whole "warrior with band" part thing kinda makes sense, i originally imagined him being a bandit, who stopped killing for money and started killing to show his strength, his band of bandits were his best friends from childhood, until one day during one bad raid, he he was surrounded by friends trying their best to survive an elite group of knights trying to kill them, fortunatelly he got behelit, and despite the fact that he sacrificed what remained of his friends, he also happened to sacrifice random people. Thats how he was born
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I personally like the idea that Zodd was a weakling, but my interpretation has him sacrificing his stronger allies because they had no honor and betrayed him leaving him alone on deaths door.
I still got Zodd switching sides and joining Gutz. He’s helped Gutz all along the way. Also Zodd has honor none of the people in god hand have honor they’ed snake you out in a second. But still he made a sacrifice that was close to him.
zodd transformed from a human to an apostle , because he needed the power to fight skull knight for the godhand. he doesnt kill defenseless people because he saw his own people he loved defenseless slaughterd by demonkind during his transformation and doesnt want to be like the demons that killed his loved ones , he simply was a guts-like warrior appointed by the godhand to take care of skull knight and sacrificed his loved ones to become an apostle because he felt the godhands bidding was absolute and had no option but to carry out their task
I think the second theory makes more sense. Really liked the vid :)
At this point even Zodd would blush with all the Zodd love lol
Zodd is awesome. I believe he's the 2nd, maybe 3rd, strongest apostle and has a design to match.
I freaking laughed with the berserk time to finish at the end lol nice one
It's funny you post this. I'm getting a Zodd tattoo on the 21st or at least getting the sketch done up by the artist for a half sleeve.
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Your second theory is more than likely correct as I have theorized this as well based on the story patterns and the consistency of those patterns.
The problem with Gatsu is that he is both dumb and smart in a way a the same time. Early on in the Count Arc we learn that in order to call the god hand or the angels and I say angels loosely you had to have reached rock bottom. This begs the question that despite what Gatsu has went through from gambino, to the band of the hawk, being a century slayer, to the eclipse, to restoring caska, right up to where we are at in the manga.... He has not hit rock bottom yet!
This makes you wonder is he smart, dumb, or just that rare nobody or everyday human who is not anything special, but able to endure extreme hardships. I may have worded that sentence wrong, but even in real life I get similar instances where people don't understand me and are significantly shocked or surprised at my ability to endure such hardships.
We are all fighting causality.
All life is struggle!
Can you do an apostle analysis on those who keeps arguing “Griffith did nothing wrong”
but dude he did nothing wrong.
@@xFirtewx bro you must be an apostle
@@xFirtewx we found the sociopath everybody. Do not trust this individual they will stab you in the back and blame everything they've done wrong on you.
He really didn't do nothing wrong but follow his dream
Hey Ryan, I found that surprisingly most of the Apostle we knew are less aged then Zodd.
I mean most of them shows up in human forms other just seems to surprise they supposed to be older or anything.
(Of course maybe they used different names)
But seems only Zodd was known to Be Long Lived, and we haven't known for sure that any Apostle was the same age or era of Zodd (except God Hands)
My reaction was that of the mouth frothing guy from Avatar when Aang showed up when I saw this video pop up. If they ever did a Zodd spinoff, they could have all the monies.
The idea of Zodd being noble in spirit yet weak in body when he was human doesn't sound too outlandish. I mean, Wyald's true form was a frail old man.
He's very much like Augus in Asura's Wrath. The Eternal Warrior, living for the fight. "The answer lies in the heart of battle" - Ryu (Street Fighter)
My guess is that Zodd was a very powerful honorable hero warrior who was almost unbeatable but one day he was almost killed by a group of opponents in an ambush and ended up sacrificing someone weak and defenseless but dear to him to gain the power not to lose in desperation and his only fighting of willing opponents is a way to "make up" for that.
Or he could have possibly been one of King Gaiseric's greatest warriors, always one of the best but always insecure that he could never actually defeat Gaiaseric himself in combat. Mabye during the fall of Gaiseric's empire Zodd was badly crippled in the chaos and the fact that he would never be able to challenge Gaiseric or anyone again drove an otherwise honorable man to sacrifice his family or something.
All I know is whenever we get an origin story of Zodd its gonna feel odd to see him as a human
Edit: Your second theory about Zodd being a weak human sounds interesting! I'm really in love with it!
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i like your second theory, i think it makes sense because of his restraint .
I agreed with this as well.
I’m here for the vid
Zodd is a parallel to guts as skullkight is a parallel to Griffith. People withe the same first goal and ended of different paths.
Many thanks for your completely new impressions. I thought right off the line that Nosferatu Zodd had a resemblance to Guts, which was confronting the strongest possible foes because he's strong, and only that. But thinking about it, what if Zodd was a weak human who had the obsession being the strongest of all warriors takes me out of the interesting thoughts that in a deterministic perverse way like Guts, Zodd is forced into actions contrary to his nature by following Griffith when only trying to escape one's destiny, or transcend, although there is a difference between Guts and Zodd in terms of sacrifice.
Perhaps this development is an absolutely pivotal one in terms of Berserk's story. Who knows, maybe the alliance between Zodd, Skull Knight and Guts is the deciding factor that was not foreseen by the God Hand. An apostle, a long known foe or friend or both and a human defeat one of the God Hand. What an epic.
BTW: Great channel. I would be honored to be one of your sacrifices. But tbh I would struggle.
PS: Sry for my bad english. Greetings from Germany. x)
Zod sacrificed his Guts.
Sorry, GodHand obliged me to write that pun.
The fact that Zodd doesn't seem to have a human part in his Apostle form made me wonder considering by the point Zodd was introduced Miura already had designed a lot of other Apostles. I though, maybe he was the first Apostle, but I think he only is around 400 years old. He might have been someone like Guts once.
I hope we get a flashback at one point and that he gets to punch Griffith once. Your second theory about Zodd's origin is actually pretty cool.
Its funny how before Griffith Zodd didn't have a leader the Godhand never took any apostles under their wings and Zodd was being defiant at first until Griffith cut his horn off then he fell in line and has become part of Griffiths new army no other Godhand could make apostles do things except for Femto.
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Awesome video as usual! I have read all comments. Just one thought I have....
What if Zodd is a deserter god hand? :D
- Theres 4 god hand before Femto, we dont know yet who was the 5th and what have happened to it.
- Zodd is not joining the eclipse event (all other apostles seams to be there). He got more power/free will than other apostles.
- Zodd dont have the classic apostle-look (monster with human face somewhere). Like god hand members.
- Zodd is bound to Femto (the 5th god hand), maybe theres some deal like "bye bye fu all I do my own way now, but I will help you with the new guy thats the least I can do"
- I read before that theres is a gap in the God hand 270~ year cycle, someone could have rejected their spot.
- God hand members could represent this; intelligence/knowledge (Void), lust/flesh (Slan), trippy/crazy/happy (Ubik), gluttony/greed (Conrad) and then Zodd would represent strenght/power/wrath. Their looks and personalities you get my point.
So my long shot theory is that Zodd might have been a God hand but quitted and is now nerfed down, or he might have been close to becoming one but rejected the offer. He is for sure a very important character, alot more powerful and experienced than other apostles still nothing in power compared to the current God hand.
massive fan. Thanks for your content. I hate the people ripping the new anime when its not that bad, I enjoyed it. I get the animation isnt great but its the manga adapted into animation what is there not to like. All theses people ripping it, have basicly made it so that the series got less sales in turn have made it so we get less berserk content. Pisses me off tbh.
I come back to this more than I should 0:06
I re-read the golden age arc. When Zodd first see’s the egg of the king, he mentions how this isn’t the first time it’s been a young pure looking person. And how it’s devious of “them” to do that.
I feel like Zodd may be the struggler in between Skull daddy and Guts.
We know time repeats itself. And we also know that Zodd has been around for about 300 years. Meaning our eclipse was the second he witnessed.
What if his first was one of the God hand sacrificing Zodd’s very own band.
S.K succumbed to the Armour, so say he didn’t recommend it to Zodd.... but Zodd felt powerless against the God hand and with his dying breath activated a beheilet.
That's a callback to Grunbeld as well if that's the case.
@@drewthwreatt9398 Yeah, that way his sacrifice was only because his loved ones were already dying.
I really can’t see Zodd betraying his own people. Just something about him. We know that their characteristics get heightened after meeting the God hand.
@@theblackprotagonist5936 if you want to see something interesting about all of this (and I have even more to add but time is an issue lol) find my comments on this video. One about Zod betraying Griffith and the other I made myself. The bit on Fenrir is an amazing touch by Miura.
Great video
Yeah berserk is God like
Name-wise, "Nosferatu" was the title given to the vampire character in F. W. Murnau's 1923 film "Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror." "Zod" (General Zod, actually) is the name of a Kryptonian villain in the DC universe, first encountered in Adventure Comics in 1961 as a foe to Superman. It cannot be suggested that Miura came up with these names himself, but his combining them for one character is rather interesting.
Frankly, I wish Miura had chosen better by using less-known character names or perhaps created one of his own. Neither character from which "Nosferatu Zod" is derived are similar in any way, and in fact, one can be killed by the sun's rays while the other gets all of his superpowers from the sun's rays. In the case of Nosferatu Zod himself, he can operate in shadows or in broad daylight. None of the characters in question are in any way alike in terms of their characters.
I'd liken him to a fallen angel or "Nephilim" as suggested in The Bible in terms of Nosferatu Zod's archetype. In The Bible, there is "Satan" or "Lucifer" who led one-third of the angels in heaven to rebel against God, and among these fallen there are levels of rank between them. Some ancient writings suggest that some of these fallen had sexual relations with women, resulting in baring children who became monstrous giants. Seeing as Miura uses some Christian themes for his ideas, it wouldn't surprise me if he became familiar with these legends.
I think similarly to you… my “thoughts” of zodds sacrifice played out in my head something like this... Imagine a battle for zodds homeland or whatever… zodd giving everything hes got as this glorious warrior (similar to guts), and finally succumbing in battle because of the sheer numbers. He then lay almost lifeless next to his parents. His mother, brutally attacked/raped, deceased next to him while his father, also beaten to near death, gives zodd permission to sacrifice him in order to avenge his mother. That would be really cool/different for any type of sacrifice scenarios already in the story and it would add to zodds likeablility since he technically didnt forceably sacrifice anyone unwillingly
Zodd is the most badass uber from history.
Basically a uber that can fly and take Griffith wherever he wants.
Zodd absolutly knew sk from a long time ago, +300years anyway, bcz he litirally said to sk when he saw guts with the berserker armor for the 1st time "ah the memories"
So zodd for sure was there when sk was human.
I'm thinking "300 years" is more like "300 average human lifetimes"... Zodd is insanely old...
Someone mentioned that if Gaeseric was inspired by Charlemagne then Zodd could have been a king of germanic tribes who preferred to die in battle with honor then bow to Gaeseric.
I find it interesting when you look at how he is dressed in human form, that fits.
What do you think?
I don't see Zodd as someone who might of had a pathetic background.
I imagine he might have been something closer to an elite level boxer who never lost until father time came to be his opponent. The one thing that defeats all warriors. Somewhere I imagine he sacrificed those he once fought for, so that he didn't have to face the rigors of age.. maybe he might have lost to someone he was convinced would have no chance during his prime.
But then he becomes the apostle, perhaps defeating his enemy easily because of his new abilities, yet he doesn't get the same joy out of it. I suspect a similar thing has happened to Griffith in the sense that he has become what he wanted but his lack of humanity is leaving him cold to what the apostles have granted him... So Zodd takes a human like form when he pulls his punches, those who fight this form are in audition, if they pass then he can really fight at his peak abilities.
I imagine he must have been some kind of aging warrior who yearned for his prime. Not realising that it was the human limitation that gave his life meaning. His desire, like Griffith turned out to be a Monkeys paw. They got what they wanted but they can't enjoy it now. I am think this idea will tie into Guts and the Berserker armour, if he gives up his humanity in the course of seeking revenge he will end up as empty handed as Skull Knight z Griffith and Zodd...
I could go on, but all I will say is that Casca is the only thing that can pull him from that tragic fate, don't forget he chose Casca over revenge before. What this means to me is not that he won't pursue Griffith, but that he will not give up his humanity in the pursuit.
Man I'm still hurting over losing kentaro it is so heartbreaking to think that we may never recieve the conclusion to the greatest story ever told.
Sad Boi Zodd had that Captain America backstory.
Zodd being the master warrior he is was probably able to quickly adapt to most situations and use anything and everything he could to his advantage. He probably mastered his senses as well, so .. he was probably quick to gain control of his apostle form instead of letting it control him.
Zood joining Femto is just like Guts joining Griffith he got beaten in a fight and thats it i could see him leaving the new band if Guts beat him it would be cool
Let's go!!
there's some credence with the second theory, if he was a weakling but still stubborn enough to fight then his bullish appearance relates to his unflinching desire for battle
One of the numerous alleged origin of the word nosferatu could be a derivation of nefârtat (a romanian term roughly incorporated into the latin language) and would mean the unbrothered, the enemy, similar to the word Sheitan in arabic (the adversary) wich became Satan in biblical lore. Nosferatu is a complex word trully, sometimes it's just the vampyr, or the disease bearer, the one that does not breathe ... but to quote the manga it is said "we called him Nosferatu" so it is implied from the beggining that Zodd purpose and existence might be greatly misunderstood, and you rightfully points out that indeed he is nowhere seen to be a flesh eater, wich is in my opinion one of the greatest mystery surrounding the character.
I don't know how zodd sleeps with constant applause following him everywhere he goes
It's been a few years so im rusty on my berserk lore. But if im not mistaken when he fought skull knight during the eclipse, skull knight mentioned something of zodd being a guard, which would make sence since he is quasi inmortal, the only wound so far that hasnt healed being the horn. Maybe 300 years ago he was a knight or a guardsman that in order to protect whatever it was tasked to him, he sacrificed maybe a family or friends to become the inmortal monster that he is. But by doing so he grew bored and decided to wander around as a force of nature.
I really like the idea of him being extremely weak before. Much more interesting than the other alternatives.
Zodd is literally the Akuma
fuck yeah
Zodds monster form looks fluffy tbh.
Before the recent chapters, I thought that was owner of the berserker amor becuase skull Knight gave It to him to help killing apostles, but at the end he became weak because of the effects of the armor and weakness is the thing Zodd hates so at the end he found a behilit and used it to have a body that can made him fight no matter what attack him. And the only thing that Zodd values to sacrifice is a rival he respect, maybe when he was asked what he wanted to sacrifice he believed that he would kill his rival and offer the body to the God Hand, but when he accepted he realized that he was not the one who have to kill his "beloved" rival and thats the reason he didnt went to the eclipse, becuase it make him remember the time he couldnt give a proper death to the person he most values.
Zodd is so badass
probably a chill guy
If he didn't have any beast like features in his human form, I kinda wonder if Zodd and Guts would look more alike. As if, maybe, they could be blood related? Not necessarily father and son, but some sort of blood relation.
Crossover Fight Idea, Zod vs The Silver Eyed Lion King from Claymore?
Zodd is a coward, he says he can't find a challenge but retreats into his demon form the second he is challenged
Lol you're absolutely right. Guts can obliterate zodd in his human form, but whenever he's injured he transform... I guess that just how strong Guts is, but that's not even fair fight bruh.
I dont rember zod having an Egg of the godhand. His only explanation of being "who" he is in the original animation was he was "struck with the mood for genocide" which i read in the very first subtitles when i watched gray market subtitles of berserk in the lare 90's. So what that means to me is he just became a monster through his bloodlust. Correct me if im wrong.