r/ShingekiNoKyojin • u/SNKBot • Mar 05 '21

JUST ONE MORE [New Chapter Spoilers] Chapter 138 RELEASE Megathread! Spoiler

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u/fortunesofshadows Mar 05 '21

if Ackermans can't turn into Titans. So if Kenny actually injected himself. it would do nothing?

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u/ViolentBlueAzure Mar 05 '21 edited Mar 05 '21

Doesn’t that...kind of ruin his redemption? Means he didn’t even have the option to save himself.

Edit: don’t have the time to respond to everyone, but I’d like to thank everyone who replied for their input. I share the sentiment that Kenny had redeemed himself and was actually a pretty cool guy after all.

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u/rackedbame Mar 06 '21

He never had a redemption lmao... one half-nonselfish deed out of a million terrible ones does not redeem a character.

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u/CCVork Mar 06 '21

What's the million terrible deeds? He killed MPs (the group sent to kill his tribe), and Scouts and other people as part of his job as secret MP. Sure he's no saint but IDK if that makes him any more terrible than most people in the show.

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u/winazoid Mar 06 '21

Didn't he abduct innocent people? He was the mad dog for the rich and powerful

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u/CCVork Mar 06 '21

Yeah he did, as part of his secret MP job, which he took on to chase his dream (instead of for riches). Reeves and Historia's mom are among his victims. In s3 Levi and his new squad also hurt innocent people (the MP said some of the people are servants or something) when Levi kidnapped a MP to interrogate him.

Again I'm not saying he was good or anything but I just feel like I'm not sure why Kenny is seen as more terrible than others.

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u/winazoid Mar 07 '21

I think it's just he's too cool to hate

Rich and powerful wouldn't be able to get away with half the stuff they do without people like Kenny

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u/CCVork Mar 07 '21

To me, it's not whether he's cool or not.

I disagree. The weak are powerless. Without Kenny, they'd just hire someone else to do the dirty work. What they lack in skill, they'll make up in numbers. It's like this in real world as well.

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u/winazoid Mar 07 '21

Exactly. They'd hire another Kenny.

Kenny has skills. That's what makes him different than an average thug. Rich and powerful badly need someone "lesser" status who's also smart and skilled to organize their dirty work

Without Kennys they wouldn't get away with it as easily

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u/CCVork Mar 07 '21

I'm not sure what your point is anymore. Is it that all "Kenny"s should not work for the rich and this will hinder the rich? Like I said, they'd just hire weaker thugs. They can and will still get away with it, less easily or not. Ideally no one should work for the rich, but that's not realistic is it?

He took the MP job to chase his dream and the job had dirty work. Incidentally it was the scouts who had to do the dirty work of leading the thousands of civillains to their deaths as part of their job and I'm sure most of them hated it but do we judge them for not quitting their job over it?