Resonance Of The SKULL KNIGHT

[@ericschuller908]

I love the Skull Knight. He is the perfect cautionary story for Guts - a shambling warning of what he may become if he submits to the darkness in the heart of the berserker. As a former educator, I actually took inspiration from Skull Knight when talking to my students and working with those whose rage and trauma echoed my own. I wanted to make sure that my students didn't make similar mistakes to my own and for them to fully understand what rage unmanaged can lead oneself to: ruin.

[@BirdOfHermes83]

Ruin is a good brand of sacrifice song!

[@Peppersalt25]

beautifully said my friend

[@DammnDeejay]

I always find it interesting that time turns us all into teachers

[@ericschuller908]

@@DammnDeejay, agreed.

[@Cloud-gd5tg]

skull knight has many names like: Captain calcium,knight of Skelton,mr berserker,skull daddy and king gaiseric.

[@cloudbloom]

A fellow cloud enjoyer I see☁️🤝🏼

[@Cloud-gd5tg]

@@cloudbloom I see I have met someone who also likes clouds ☁️🤝

[@justajobro1266]

Calcium chan

[@Cloud-gd5tg]

@@justajobro1266 I would’ve included that but it didn’t sound as badass as the other ones

[@daltonking6956]

The Caped Cranium

[@InfamyOrDeath-__-]

Skull Knight is the most badass character in manga, seeing him just bursting into the Eclipse, attacking Void, killing a bunch of apostles, avoiding an attack by Femto, then throwing Guts & Casca on the back of his horse and hauling ass out of there, such a boss.

[@hazelxx294]

Absolutely, definitely one of my top moments in berserk.

[@trollinrollinrollin]

Facts.after beating zodd in a duel then straight ruining the eclipse for old bird boy n his megamind looking ass boyfriend lol

[@bishop2286]

Skull knight, the rule of cool done to perfection

[@thezerowulf2046]

Nah, you need a rule of law and an exception of cool

[@cloudbloom]

It's pretty obvious now that he's Gaiseric and Void was his version of griffith who branded his woman, caused the fall of his kingdom etc. I'm not sure why people think he isn't Gaiseric especially since the last few chapters of the manga show events of his past

[@BlackEpyon]

That was my suspicion as well.

[@richman360]

Yeah, I mean they flat out tell you it's Gaiseric.

[@introvertedextrovertedtraver]

Why was she branded and not Gaerseric? Why was his kingdom and lover sacrificed? Was he also a sacrifice? Or was he tricked into invoking the ceremony? That’s why there’s some hesitation, still missing pieces

[@arushsharma42]

@@introvertedextrovertedtraver why was his kingdom sacrificed? To complete the ritual of god hand duh

[@introvertedextrovertedtraver]

@@arushsharma42 Reread the question I know what a ceremony is, but if Skull Knight is Gaeseric there’s a few questions. It looks like a reincarnation ceremony like what happened with Albion when Femto turned back into Griffith and got his physical body back. The sheer scale was way bigger than Griffith sacrificing the band of the hawks. So was someone incarnated from a previous cycle, or did Gaeseric choose to sacrifice the city and his lover? What the sage in the tower the one who choose to sacrifice the city instead and Gaeseric got screwed? Was the city in danger due to the Kings expansion backfiring so he felt despair? Was he just tricked? Did something else like the egg of the world occur and it was a coincidence? Obviously the ritual was needed but there’s a traditional apostle ceremony, the red behelit ceremony and the reincarnation of a god hand into a physical body? All have different set ups, and outcomes but the common theme is a sacrifice, but despair isn’t always needed.

[@cakegasm9831]

Skull Knights is such an iconic character, his aura of mystery is so interesting and well made I'm not even sure i would have liked to know his full story. On a lighter note, his interactions with Luca are pure gold, he also kind of reminds me of the nonexistent knight: an amalgamation of knightly sentiments that give life to an empty armour.

[@huyivant5190]

Such a cool character.. he’s like the personification of Miura/the reader, jumping in to give heed to guts, cutting through layers of reality. Thinking about it… Radahn (and Leonard) is like a loose homage to Skull Knight.

[@cloudbloom]

I saw radahn as more of an homage to Zodd

[@riven5544]

@@cloudbloom I just realized that Radahn's armor has many similarities to Geiseric's armor.

[@timboned5305]

isn't radahn always on a horse? jus saying......

[@MK-vi2cm]

Radahn is a fusion of Zodd, Gaeseric, and Grunbeld

[@riven5544]

@@MK-vi2cm Yeah, that tracks.

[@ronancathor5388]

My favorite character just because of his desgin and vibe he gives

[@allahalkareem8055]

He's straight alpha. No emotions just pure drive and ambition, even more than Guts.

[@ryandouglas4039]

Has it ever been explained why several of the most powerful characters have names that start with "G"? Guts, Griffith, Gaiseric, and Gnishka

[@y2ksmoothie3]

Miura liked the letter G

[@marxist-leninist-protagonist]

They're all gay

[@Al_musawi14]

@Mos3ab Gigachad

[@mobyhuge8623]

Void?

[@Helaw0lf]

Gefahr as in risk or danger I believe.

[@brolaire4117]

Don’t know if anyone has pointed this out before but the four being with void could be the four elemental kings, so from left to right - Frost giant would be air, sun disc is fire, mollusk sea creature looking thing is water and the fertility goddess would be earth. What if when making the sacrifice the idea of evil used it as an opportunity to supplant the natural order and introduce its own avatar through Void in a Fantasia style event, and then has been building up to Griffith by creating causality

[@patflann29]

Oh my god

[@patflann29]

This would also explain the “4 angels” thing” and the fact that Skull Knight knows Flora so well. Maybe he was aware of them too and they were corrupted, which also caused magic to fade away

[@LowellLucasJr.]

Skull Knight knows Guts for he has seen himself through him. He knows what he's going through because he's lived through his own eclipse. Now, he has his own reasons for wanting revenge, but I wonder, from his travels, would his path of vengeance cease an even greater threat? Either way, we do have an AWESOME reminder and survivor of what someone living through that hell can do to a man...other than Guts.

[@soulreaver6083]

Skullknight is guts on some terminator/back the the future shit. Lol jk or am i? 😝💀👑

[@YoKhai1221]

Goddamn Ol’ Skully is so cool. I lament the fact we’ll never know the his full story, but as always a great video Boss!

[@spiketail94]

I was bouncing around in my head the other day that maybe Skull Daddy isn't on a mission to destroy the Godhand per say, but rather to destroy the Idea of Evil - the creator of causality itself. doing that is the only thing that'll break the cycle after all

[@anujaustin8752]

how would he know the idea of evil unless he was an apostle I don't see any other way meeting the idea of evil but u never know where this mans been

[@thenotoriousmichaeljackson8938]

@@anujaustin8752 he prolly learned by fighting Apostles for literally hunnids of years. He collected Behelits too.

[@anujaustin8752]

@@thenotoriousmichaeljackson8938 how could he learn Only godhand members meet it and never mention it again And no one knows cause flora said there is some unknown entity even deeper than the deepest layer known

[@pranaysharma96]

My personal theory is that i believe that just how humanity's fear and emotions form into the idea of evil and other fantasy stuff in berserk skull knight is his vengeance given form. Its facilitated by the berserker armour which essentially acts like an amplifier and at the end of his life his vengeance and darkness was so much that it gave birth to skull knight. Him saving that woman is also not related to just saving women in general, i think its related to him not wanting other people to lose their lover like he did. The woman whose name i cant recall rn was in a relationship with the soldier dude. This also relates to the thing with overcoming trauma in berserk because since its vengeance that gave birth to skull knight he became bound by causality itself and is bound to play into it and repeat the cycles to say in a way, because his he cant exist without hia vengeance and it wouls kinda prevent him from existing if he ever succeeded in his goal of killing the god hand. He cant basically over come his trauma and his bound to fall into the toxic cycle itself which in berserk universe would be causality principle.

[@RickyLatinGuitar]

Thanks Ryan. One of your finest ones

[@TheGrimSton3]

100k is right around the corner! GG BRO!

[@benparrish672]

Real Life Ryan keep making great content man. I will be leaning on you for the right translation & ur point of view on the chapter.

[@snally6111]

I liked your point about how hes in no means a main character. But when hes present, he is the main character to Guts.

[@emmanuela7528]

I think Skull Knight is like if Guts became an Apostle, something that is not yet out of the question. A supernaturally strong human who is suddenly granted Apostle powers but through sheer force of will rebels against the Godhand. Maybe Flora helped him do this somehow. He's a walking cautionary tale for Guts, and he protects Guts whenever he can, probably because he knows that Guts's breaking will lead to the swordsman becoming like him, as some other commenters have noted.

[@justsomeguywithadogpicture2622]

no, that's Zodd's role in the story

[@ObiClon]

More lore/thoughts on the Skull Knight is/are always welcome

[@benplaster9943]

As always your Berkle vids are so well done

[@rimerez8503]

Zodd represented guts, skull night represents guts, Gambino acted like guts beginning of the story, Griffith was like guts in talent aspect, casca looks like guts when they were kids, evreyone is guts, guts is guts and guts is guts

[@Ron322]

I think in those last few chapters where he disclosed his history at Fantasia, it further enforced a "turning of the corner" for Guts, as Guts seems no longer interested in challenging Guts again but rather, despite lack of combat, has begun to find peace w/Casca (who'll likely remember everything WITHOUT going apeshit again), Schierke, Isidro, Puck, his son and others in the vein of when he found family and friends with the Band of the Hawk, except none of them are saying, "oh btw Guts, you're my slave".

[@RonDom1]

Guts would actually become a doggo if he wears the armor too much

[@MassiveSwordAndCards]

Ah, the Knight of Skeleton. Somehow I really doubt he was actually Gaiseric. It seems to me the only reason for a storyteller to write a character with such "obvious links" to another is purely to subvert expectations. I guarantee Miura was gonna flip our theories on its head. Since Skull Knight knows about the rebirth ceremony, then maybe he existed since BEFORE Gaiseric and Gaiseric was actually an incarnated Godhand like Griffith? The tale of his kingdom is a mirror to the new Falconia, after all. If not Gaiseric, who else would have been incarnated during the ceremony, and for what reason? Maybe Skull Knight is a former God Hand member and was incarnated but somehow lost the God Hand status? Maybe he was created by the Idea of Evil in order to fulfill mankind's desire for vengeance just like it created the God Hand for mankind's desire for Evil?

[@knoxschyuler5716]

I Always saw it as it needing to be obvious because guts looked past so many obvious things in pursuit of revenge so they have the consequences of that path be shown right in front of his eyes again and again-is the point.

[@MassiveSwordAndCards]

@@knoxschyuler5716 This could still be true, too. Since the repeating events don't happen exactly the same, maybe SK's situation was a combination of Guts & Griffith? Perhaps it was for Gaiseric's ambition of getting his kingdom that he first donned the Berserker Armor, and use of that armor led to his betrayal by the Wiseman who became Void.

[@emmanuela7528]

I don't mind believing that Gaiseric was a Godhand reincarnated who then decided to break free of the Godhand and had to rely on the Beserker armor to do it, losing himself and possibly himself in the process. We all know Flora helped him out somehow.

[@Varindran]

A little off topic but for the English Dub Jamison Price as a PERFECT cast as Skull Knight imo. His voice is so commanding yet mysterious.

[@redblade5556]

11:48 All of it. Period. All of it. Slowly becoming a peace-lover and lavish king, Gaiseric also possibly "betraying" Void's trust and Void betraying him, with the Empire being the cost.

[@MichaTheLight]

The most badass character ever. And despite being the remnants of once great king there is still smth good coming from it. He rescued two branded from certain dead, supports the struggler and stands against the God hand. This world could improve tremendously due the actions of the skull knight and his allies. A world free of the good hand would save millions of souls. And may there will come an option even for SK to have salvation.

[@sean16hall3]

Skull night and zodd have some connection that I can’t wait to see unveiled

[@GUTZ420]

Skull G saving Luca is a personal favorite of mine!

[@deadinfebruary]

I always imagine his voice to be rough, metallic, a low booming echo to it.

[@snally6111]

The skull knight always means business. Id love to see a video of the band of the hawks last hurrah rescuing Griffith!

[@clickbaitable6320]

I find it interesting how Guts lost his right eye like Skull Knight’s presumed Queen did. Casca’s mind was shattered and lost and Skull Knight’s existence is shattered and now only a small part of him. A grudge remains. Like how Casca only had her fear and childish behaviors after her and Guts’ eclipse

[@Kanawanu]

I think Skull Knights motive is to defy causality which is something God Hand is led by. And by making ripples on the pond of the causality that has a whirlpool in its center he could create waves that would obstruct and collapse the whirlpool. Caska and Guts are exceptions to the rule, this new band of strugglers are crating more ripples and triggering ripples else where. Rickert is on his way to be allied with Silat and Bakirakas, Elfhelm and their sorcery is joining. A new front will form from outside and within for Griffith when monsters feel the pressure and start attacking humans, his picture perfect kingdom will collapse and Skull knight will be there to jump him when he does not expect.

[@grecojones]

He’s like a super well developed plot device.

[@skyrogue1977]

With the series slated to continue, we’ll be getting more of the Number 1 skeleton man.

[@tumultuous_cojones]

You mean Captain Calcium?

[@thaillistproducer]

Skull Knight is big on Causality related events, maybe Luca will play major role in the events to come. Maybe that's why he saved her..

[@HN-fb6md]

I finished watching the Northmen. It shared the same message the SK shared to Gutts. Revenge or Life.

[@whirlwind872]

"never coming back and will never be the same again" I have never in my life been sad in the slightest by a celebrity/artist/author's death, until Miura died. And to this day I'm genuinely sad about it, berserk is one of the greatest stories ever and for it to end on that cliffhanger of all things... Its not even like we were doing some random bullshit with the sea god, we were at the most awaited turning point in the story that we've been looking forward to for YEARS! The most tragic thing is, we all made jokes about he was surely going to die before finishing the manga. Thinking it was gonna be from old age. Manga finally starts picking up the pace with huge plot revelations and shit really starting to ramp up. And ofc Griffith meets guts again. Then Miura fucking dies 😭😭😭😭 reality is too cruel

[@patflann29]

Well I’ve got some good news for you. They did announce that the series is continuing

[@y2ksmoothie3]

@@patflann29 "even if you try to force things back, they'll never be the same"

[@chremem357]

​@@y2ksmoothie3 I started watching this video and immediately thought 'damn i guess we will never get answers' only to remember that the story is continuing. Just for that I am overjoyed, even if it isn't the same level of quality.

[@patflann29]

@@y2ksmoothie3 well of course not. But he claims to know the main points moving towards the final act and the ending itself. I’ll take something over nothing

[@_GeneralMechanics_]

A part of me still wants to believe Skull Knight is *NOT* King Gaiseric. The few times when someone addresses him as "your majesty," it feels like an insult when spoken by the God Hand or a misdirection by the denizens of Elfhelm. His flashback to the fall of Gaiseric's empire, he calls it "the end a foolish king," without directly inferring his own identity. It's from that I see more of a parallel of who Skull Knight was to Gaiseric as Guts was to Griffith, with the same kind of events that led to both Eclipses. While he is completely drained of whatever humanity he has left, saving Casca was Skull Knight's way of not allowing the same tragedy that happened to his lover to befall Guts even though he knew Causality would put him on the same path of revenge. Thus furthering Skull Knight's true motive to seek revenge against Void.

[@ambrizfer7898]

I always thought that it was going to come down to if guts was willing to kill the child my guess he wouldn't do it because casca wouldn't want to kill the child and as a result guts and skull knight would end up fighting as a result.

[@spencerfoote6977]

I wish Skull Knight joined Guts with his party. That would be so cool to have a skull bro but he’s just doing his own thing against the Godhand.

[@introvertedextrovertedtraver]

He may only exist in intersects? That means he can’t always manifest physically everywhere.

[@Dionaea_floridensis]

Skully is such an incredible character

[@spencerfoote6977]

I wonder if Skull Knight would have fought Guts eventually over the moonlight boy (son/Griffith)

[@cloudbloom]

Calcium-Chan owo

[@sheenae47]

Enjoyed this analysis! It would’ve been great if the original anime adaptation showed the skull night warning Guts, instead they used Zodd to warn him.

[@ToneSherpa]

The most similar character I can think of in literature or TV to Skull Knight is probably Cold Hands from GoT.

[@boomerraptoons8323]

holy sht the way this video ended gave me chills 🔥

[@stgsoullore]

Have you noticed that skull knight's love also had her right eye cut? Maybe he sees that parallel in guts.

[@angelvazquez1547]

I will never understand why he could at least scratch Femto when they were on top on Ganishka. Like bro, not even a scratch?!?!

[@ThePressureKing]

Just calling the shots, King Gaiseric is Skull knights there’s just no way in hell a guy from 1000 years ago wearing skeleton armor is not the 1000 year old skull knight

[@spencerfoote6977]

BERSERK IS RETURNING

[@ammonn9930]

Berserk and souls games helped me trough my depression

[@benparrish672]

Trevor (last name?) from GTA 5 is the perfect Old Spice spokesman. The actor tht plays Trevor should be cast as a SuperVillain for DC or Marvel

[@agent47-e7w]

gods hand is absolute evil and not only for revenge skull knight really helps a lot for humanity

[@jasonwaller6803]

Well I hope we're going to find out the full back story on skulls but I really think that he is Danan's father..

[@themister.s-1st]

1:10: I think he’s kinda similar to Shanks from One Piece in that regard.

[@JanaSzIsBasicGlitch]

Or maybe He only thinks that he doesn't have anything else because he was in that Emotion soo long... IT is also very real human state... That Is kind of hard to get out from... But with right circumstances...

[@Kruskfar]

Skull daddy is the hero we need

[@TheElochai]

Skull Knight is neutral (not good or evil). This man has some powerful magic and knowledge on the events to come. I don't think he believe he can stop the eclipse nor does he want to. His goal is singular.... his speech when he says that explains this part very well. He helps Guts because they are "soul brothers". Guts has the evil egg, the armor and the rage. Skull Knight saved him because he knows there's something about the causality with him; he's a "glitch in the Matrix". He also saves Casca, he saved her for "Guts".... MAYBE... remember SHE almost rode out the Eclipse. If Griff took an extra minute getting his wings, would she have made it out? What about her baby? Remember Ganishka and how he created apostles using pregnant women? That's not a coincidence. Griff's SA of and tainting of her child was intentional. Skull Knight, I believe sees causality or understands it because he's been dancing the same causality dance for a long time with Void. Instead of JUST futilely attacking Void and friends, he saves FOUR people who have some part to play in the story. They ALL have the ability to break his cycle. (I believe he's done this before and indirectly killed the previous godhand.) The People He Saved 1) Casca - Griff's mama in a way and he has to save her if she needs help (remember her brand and demons protected her), point proven when she wandered away...not normal for a branded survivor. 2) Ric... with the golden hand who slapped Griff. 3) The Moonlight Child... he's now apart of Griff UNINTENTIONALLY and he can pull Griff to his will and take over "his body". 4) And then there's Guts HE wasn't being "good" when he was saving them. It was for his own agenda. Skull Knight isn't human. He is what remains of his grudge with Void when he was human.... that's not a lot to hang moral compasses.

[@tamerahmed7182]

The role of the skull night in storytelling is called the deus ex machina.

[@BirdOfHermes83]

Aaaahhhhh, what happened to YOUR body!?!?!

[@milesmungo]

I think of Skull Knight as the Gollum to Guts' Frodo.

[@lostman214]

Imagine if skull knight one day decided to actually use the behelit.

[@leahsparks8436]

I feel bad for the skull knight being the bad ass as he is. But he’s unable to get revenge 😭 he’s a beautiful creation 🌸 im gonna him tattooed on me haha

[@redblade5556]

well...Luka did enter through the gates of Falconia... Femto's Domain after all.

[@oleksandrbyelyenko435]

I think his face is pretty full of expression. Btw, why there is no such word as expressionful?

[@MassiveSwordAndCards]

The word you want is "expressive". "Emotive" might also work.

[@oleksandrbyelyenko435]

@@MassiveSwordAndCards indeed. Still, the suffix -ful is used a lot. Useful, fateful, fearful, joyful....

[@tom-ov6mw]

THEY ARE CONTINUING BERSERK

[@safefield]

Berserk will be back! June 24, 2022. Hakusensha makes the announcement on June 7, 2022.

[@safefield]

The latest big news is on June 7, 2022.

[@GothicXlightning]

got to love my Skully one of my personal dearest Dark Hero of all times and my fav character in BERSERK aside of the Black swordsman of course i would love to believe that he is Gut's father somehow but, i also think he got to be related to Griffith some damn how.. hate you Griffith

[@ToneSherpa]

If Skull Knight is just a metal armor puppet from some dead guy in the Astral Realm.. does Griffith's meat puppet body function similarly?

[@GOLDEN-EYED-TIGER]

Guts and casca survived with vengeance in mind. having a second man helps bone daddy eliminate them in turn guts helping them both rid them of their betrayers.

[@harchert]

Okay, I'm just throw out a completely random question out there and see what you think: Would it be implausible if Skull Knight is/was the Beast of Darkness of King Gaiseric?

[@El-Chad]

Good video buddy.

[@cliffkleckner6202]

i always assumed that Skull Knight was a God Hand himself but wasn't down for they b.s. so to speak

[@planetzdr]

Skull Knight is like then Shanks of Berserk

[@charleshammel8541]

My attempt to name the term for SK: Subtagonist

[@IcemanJuice]

Is it known for sure the original god hands were killed or disappeared? Or is it possible they became the current god hands?

[@SolidSnake240]

They get "replaced" so the old ones probably get sent to the abyss or maybe they're absorbed into the current members. I wish we had more info to go on.

[@jamescranley933]

Is it a possibility that skull knight killed off the previous god hand?

[@allahalkareem8055]

Love this

[@Relevant_Saga0]

Skull Night was a Rolling Stone.

[@rodricensi5788]

Id call these type of character ordinators, kind of the protagonist of a different story

[@turtleanton6539]

he is so badass

[@benparrish672]

I kno u love BERSERK, so u will @least enjoy a 4 novel series (in English) "The Norseman Saga" Caelan Erikson wields the Hell-Forged Spear/Glacius Axe/Trinity Shield while trying to procure Divine weapons before The Fallen can tip the scales to Darkness

[@frenchupkennelz]

Skull daddy 🖤🖤

[@Deforestater]

Great!

[@Lazerecho]

Skull Knight is my fairy-god-skull-father

[@a1racer441]

Skull knight isn’t guts skull knight is like a what would happen to guts if he didn’t meet his companions and just charged straight ahead till the end but failed. It’s a different time line guts that doesn’t accept help or acknowledge others. That’s why him and guts have a shared emotional experiences toga her when they meet each other.

[@blk124]

Dammnnn what if the skull knight was the FINAL boss of the story. He ends up using guts to kill off the God hand and take over as the only ruler and regain his lost kingdom. That would be a wild asf twist.

[@SolidSnake240]

That'd be a horrible twist though and kind of cliche.

[@InfamyOrDeath-__-]

I’m so pissed, I spent $1,200 on a Skull Knight statue, and yesterday I was moving my manga around and put Vagabond onto a shelf, then the shelf totally collapsed and the books all went flying crashing down on top of my statue smashing it up. I nearly had a meltdown haha, it took me over 3 hours to glue the pieces back together, it’s not back perfectly, 2 of his spikes on his shoulders don’t have the tips and there’s a little piece on the bottom of his shield is chipped and I couldn’t find it. But just looking at it it looks fine, and I’m never going to sell it so it doesn’t matter about affecting the price.

[@BlackEpyon]

Damn... Might be time to invest in some better shelving.

[@InfamyOrDeath-__-]

@@BlackEpyon Yea haha, stupid shelves I bought off Amazon, I bought them because they had little sides on them so it would hold the manga on there.

[@BlackEpyon]

@@InfamyOrDeath-__- I prefer to either build my own with metal 'L' brackets screwed straight into the wall studs, or buy pre-fabricated garage/shop shelving units (that are good for 300 lbs per shelf).

[@sean16hall3]

I want guts happy but a side of me wants him to go to the dark side and never come back. Griffith has no better challenge than guts pushed berserk.

[@klyzn]

berserk forever!!!

[@relly793]

"good"

[@yz9x]

you sound so much like solar sands

[@davidignatiusanyaeche8101]

skull daddy

[@freddylopez8950]

Skull daddy 😂

[@HER0333]

Skull 💀 daddy 🤣

[@AchillesofTroy]

I think skull knight is zodd

[@luvwad]

Skull knight and guts is the bromance zodd could have had.

[@RkoMari]

Omg Im so mad miura is dead

[@playswithsquirrels4630]

Don't be. He died doing what he wanted, no matter what, right? I bet he was happy