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In BRZRKR #5, Keanu Reeves’ immortal warrior reveals the heartbreaking details of what mentally broke him over thousands of years.
WARNING: The following contains spoilers for BRZRKR #4, now available from BOOM! Studios,
Keanu Reeves’ BRZRKR continues its slow burn into the past of its titular immortal warrior and how he satisfied his craving for blood. After a mysterious lightning god created him to live forever, the warrior known only as B became disenchanted after over 70,000 years of living. Now, he’s working with the American government as a killer in exchange for figuring out the secret to his power so he can die in peace. Now, BRZRKR #5 by Keanu Reeves, Matt Kindt, Ron Garney, Bill Crabtree and Clem Robins, drops a new bombshell about what shattered B’s will to live over the years, and it’s quite heartbreaking.
Diana, the doctor in charge, visits B at home and gets into a drinking session. She wants something a setting intimate and personal, outside of their lab, as she feels this can help crack B’s muddled memories. Luckily, she sparks something in him and the next day at the lab, he goes back to when he was first able to love — saving a mysterious lady from a bear. But as he recalls, this gift was also his curse.
It turns out, while B was out being quartered and beheaded, his wife gave birth to a stillborn child. As he regenerated, he moved on from lover to lover, and he realized all his kids died as soon as they were born. Some even killed the mothers as well, making his already brutal existence even more untenable.
After seeing his own family turn him into the Unute, a dog of war, B felt robbed of the chance to fix that aspect of his life. He wanted to be a good husband and father, but he knew he’d be condemning women to a life of loneliness. It’s why he often left them, moving on sometimes before they grew old in an arc akin to Andy from The Old Guard. He couldn’t see them hurt, nor could he get addicted to love as the pain was just too immense to bear.
From Europe to feudal Japan, B was resigned to his fate as a wandering, soulless shell of a man who had no purpose. It took away his humanity, leaving him with violence and aggression to fill the gap, which is what the United States is now weaponizing.
As he unearths this, the mind-machine he’s hooked up to explodes and B departs. It seems his physical frame and emotions overloaded the circuitry, but Diana and her superiors still got the data they were secretly trying to correct.
In all likelihood, they probably want to use this research to create their own army of rage-filled immortals, another kind of offspring of B. But hopefully, B won’t have to kill warped versions of his kids, which would turn his denied dream into an absolute nightmare.
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