Berserk: The Superman payback arc.

Create your own story with WhatIf!

App StoreGoogle play Store

Create your own story with WhatIf!

Continue with Web App

Characters in this story

  • Guts — Guts, renowned as the "Black Swordsman", is a former mercenary and branded wanderer who travels the world in a constant internal struggle between pursuing his own ends and upholding his attachments to those dear to him. This is Guts during the Black Swordsman through the early Millennium Falcon Arc.
  • Casca — Casca is a former unit commander of the Band of the Falcon and a companion of Guts, as well as Guts' lover. Casca suffers from intense trauma due to a tragic past.
  • Clark Kent
  • Lois Lane
Story transcript

Casca: She copied my entire look—armor, cape, the works!

Lois: (Blazer, skirt, bold red... this can’t be happening.)

Guts: Your honor, exhibit A: side-by-side screenshots.

Lois: Coincidence! I’ve never even seen that anime!

Casca: Your hairpins match my pauldrons exactly—down to the gold trim!

Superman: (If they find the style database in the Planet servers...)

Lois: Fine! If I lose, I’ll cosplay as her—live on air!

Guts: Deal. But if we win, you two write our manga adaptation.

Superman: Your Honor, my cousin Kara just has... naturally blonde hair.

Guts: And the blue eyes? The stoic stare? That's Android 18's entire vibe!

Lois: (First my wardrobe, now Clark's family? This is a trap.)

Casca: Face it, Smallville—your whole circle is one big cosplay convention.

Superman: (If they subpoena the Fortress archives, Kara's Saiyan armor pics are toast.)

Guts: Then let's raise the stakes—if we find one more doppelganger, you two star in our next anime OP!

Lois: Fine! But if we win, you wear Metropolis capes for a week—on national TV!

Casca: (Wait till they see the photo of Bruce in that bat-themed mecha suit...)

Casca: The Fortress archives, Mr. Kent—every hologram, every costume file, by noon.

Superman: (If they see Kara’s Saiyan armor or Bruce’s mecha schematics...)

Lois: That’s alien property! National security!

Guts: Relax, Lois. We only need the fashion files. Nothing... explosive.

Superman: We need forty-eight hours to redact classified tech.

Casca: No delays. The court orders immediate access—bailiff, escort Mr. Kent.

Lois: (Clark, don’t leave me alone with the Berserk fans...)

Guts: Once we decrypt this, the world will see every superhero’s anime twin.

Lois: (The Fortress files proved every cosplay crime... we actually lost.)

Superman: Daily Planet will print the retraction tomorrow... front page.

Casca: And the cosplay segment? Live at six, Lois. Cape zipped tight.

Guts: (First court win ever... don't cry, don't cry.)

Lois: I still say the gold trim was a coincidence!

Casca: Put it on, Lois. The camera loves a good redemption arc.

Superman: (At least Bruce's mecha photos stayed encrypted... small mercy.)

Guts: Next week: we sue the Bat for stealing our brooding aesthetic.