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| “ | Can you not hear them?! Every person congregated in this place now desires, as one heart, salvation. They are eagerly awaiting the time of God's victory! | „ |
| ~ Mozgus during the Incarnation Ceremony. |
| “ | You fool, who rebels against God! You shall pay for this sin with your blood! | „ |
| ~ Mozgus showing his delusional beliefs. |
Bishop Mozgus is a major antagonist of Berserk, being the main antagonist of the Conviction Arc.
He is one of the Chief Inquisitors of the Holy See, who uses the idea of God and his beliefs as a way to excuse his and his disciples' acts of torture and murder against "heretics". He would eventually face Guts and commit actions which would lead to the rebirth of Femto in the Physical World.
In the 2016 anime adaptation and the video game adaptation Berserk Musou, he was voiced by Rikiya Koyama. He is voiced by Ray Chase in the Dubbed version of the 2016 anime adaptation.
His Evil Ranking[]
What Makes Him Close to Being Pure Evil?[]
- Even before his first appearance, he and his disciples had brutally tortured and murdered at least hundreds of people who they viewed as heretics.
- Mozgus also takes sadistic glee in torturing people, and states that the breaking wheel is his favorite instrument of torture.
- It should also be noted that Mozgus had taught his disciples his ways since they were very young, so he is responsible for turning them into monsters as well.
- He and his disciples are sent by the Holy See to dismantle a recently established pagan cult. Along the way they brutally torture and murder many people.
- When a rebel group confronts Mozgus' group and some Holy Iron Chain Knights to get revenge for what they did to their village (torturing and murdering villagers), Mozgus lets his disciples torture the rebels to death, even forcing Farnese to watch the carnage.
- He takes over the city of Albion, torturing hundreds of nobles and commoners alike, due to seeing them as heretics.
- While Farnese is able to briefly stop him from acting so cruel, he still refuses to think he is in the wrong.
- He did want to stop the Great Goat's pagan cult, which was committing horrific crimes like eating babies, but his attempts to do so were unnecessarily extreme and inept, as he mostly just tortured, mutilated, and killed anyone who he merely suspected of being involved with the Great Goat.
- After assuming Casca is the leader of the pagan cult, as well as a witch due to her Brand of Sacrifice, Mozgus puts her in an iron maiden to be tortured later on.
- This action starts the Incarnation Ceremony, an event which results in a massive amount of deaths and inhumane acts from numerous people. While Mozgus did not intend for this to happen, he feels no remorse for this, believing it to be an act of God.
- The Incarnation Ceremony results in Mozgus and his disciples becoming Pseudo-Apostles, and they proceed to cause even more havoc.
- When the dead start rising from beyond the grave, Mozgus assumes this to be Casca's doing, and attempts to burn her at the stake,
- He attempts to kill Guts for trying to interfere with his plans, which luckily fails and results in him being killed.
- Due to accidentally causing the Incarnation Ceremony, Mozgus is indirectly responsible for the rebirth of Femto and him triggering the Great Roar of the Astral World.
- While it could be argued Emperor Ganishka has done worse, Mozgus has way less resources, and his torture count alone makes him easily stand out.
What Prevents Him from Being Pure Evil?[]
- He is genuinely affable to his fellow Holy See members, especially his disciples, acting friendly to them without pragmatic reasons.
- He truly cares for his disciples, raising them as his own children and taking them under his wing, and even though he did turn them into monsters by teaching them his ways, this doesn't change the fact that he truly loves them as his own. He even cries tears of blood after seeing them die and vows to avenge them.
- He has some Pet the Dog moments, feeling sympathy for those who have had truly horrid lives, like the poor, disabled and abused. An example is when he listens to a woman's plea and gives food to her starving child. And even though he tortures the woman afterwards, which resulted in her death later on, he believed it would make her faith stronger.
- He's a genuine Well-Intentioned Extremist who wants to fulfill the wishes of God in a universe as brutal as Berserk.
External Links[]
- Bishop Mozgus on the Villains Wiki.
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 Near Pure Evils
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Snake Baron | The Count | Bishop Mozgus | ||