Tormenting
Tormenting adjective - Intensely or unbearably painful.
Usage example: a tormenting injury
Violent and tormenting are semantically related. in very painful topic. In some cases you can use "Violent" instead an adjective "Tormenting".
Violent
Violent adjective - Marked by bursts of destructive force or intense activity.
Tormenting and violent are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Tormenting" instead an adjective "Violent".
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In both versions there's an alternate character interpretation that he wanted to make them stop tormenting Puck and Isidro, and was just hiding his altruism behind a selfish excuse, but the 2016 show makes it look like he's either more altruistic than in the manga, or just more pointlessly violent.
Source: Anime / Berserk (2016) -
The Sword of Éclat is is a male chauvinist, takes great delight in tormenting his owner, and his power is to make anything he touches come to life as a violent creature, so "Éclat" does not quite fit.
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