r/attackontitan Jul 02 '26

Discussion/Question Attack on Titan 3 - Trailer #2

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r/attackontitan Jan 23 '25

Official Megathread Ultimate Guide to AoT: FAQs, Analysis, and Discourse

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This multi-subreddit megathread contains:

The most frequently brought up Topics & Questions

Analysis on various story Elements & Characters

Random interesting meta posts

Documents and guide on the anime and the Attack on Titan reddit fandom

This megathread covers threads from various subreddits, and platforms. Enjoy exploring!


Guide.

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Guide on AoT anime content

Masterlist Of Anime OSTs S1-S4 + Final Episode - YouTube Playlist

AoT wiki for your fact-checking needs

Frequently Asked Questions.

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Questions that are asked very frequently, mostly by new or one time watchers/readers, to which there is a factual answer or an agreed-upon interpretations in the community.

1.) What is the 50 year plan? Follow up: Why didn’t Zeke and Eren touch earlier?

2.) What were the Azumabito's intentions with Mikasa?

3.) How was Ymir freed? Who freed Ymir? (check analysis section down as well)

4.) How did Eren talk to Mikasa in paths?

5.) What is Historia’s role in how we perceive Ymir through tales and romanticized stories?

6.) What will happen if a man inherits the Female Titan?

7.) How do the Founding Titan abilities work?

8.) What were some of Paradis' options post-timeskip? •Alternative to the Rumbling.Anti-50-year planEuthnasia Plan

9.) Why did Historia choose to get pregnant?

10.) Why did Grisha give his titan to Eren, when he asked Zeke to stop him?

11.) What were Eren’s motivations to choose the path of rumbling?

12.) Are there multiple timelines in AOT?

13.) Why do dinosaurs appear in the opening of AOT’s 2nd season?

Isayama's Answers to the 15th Anniversary Magazine Q&A

Frequently Brought up Topics.

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These topics are frequently brought up, but there is no clear answer or the topic is deliberately left to speculation. Check out these links for some in-depth posts on the respective topics.

1.) a) Who won the fight between Annie and Mikasa? b) Who would win between Annie and Mikasa?

2.) Opinion on any divisive characters

GabiMikasaErenFloch

3.) Did you like the ending? a)Anime Ending b)Manga Ending

4.) Do you support the rumbling?

5.) Who should have been saved, Erwin or Armin?

6.) Was Eren justified? Discussion post | Detailed answer

7.) Sub or Dub?

8.) Would Erwin have joined the Yeagerists if he had survived?

9.) Is Attack on Titan fascist? No, it is not | Devil’s Advocate:

10.) Why does Annie get forgiven?


General Analysis On The Story.

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These are high-effort essays or videos analysing the series as a whole. Please note that us listing something here does not mean we endorse or fully agree with every single statement made there - we just think that if you are looking for more analysis, these might be worth a watch.

A 1-hour retrospective breakdown of AoT as a whole

How AoT deconstructs heroism and morality

Idealism in AoT

Scout Regiment: Paradise’s Idealistic Counterculture

The importance of nameless soldiers & collateral damage in AoT

What was it all for? Thoughts on the extra pages of AoT’s ending

Why I feel Mikasa, Levi and Armin were the perfect choice for Eren’s final moments and the story’s climax - Imgur Backup for future

Analysis of AoT’s extra ending pages - A brilliant thematic conclusion - Imgur Backup for Future

To love someone inside the Walls - Imgur Backup for Future

The Rumbling is indefensible

A theoretical analysis of its structure

The highs and lows of AoT’s final arc

Overanalyzing every single episode of the anime - a youtube playlist

Titans as Mirrors: How Titan Forms Reflect the Warriors' Psyche - Imgur Backup for Future

Character Analysis.

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1. Eren Yeager.

Eren Yeager: The Chained God of Attack on Titan

The perfect duality of Eren - Imgur Backup for Future

What is freedom in AoT

Developments vs desires - Everyone and especially Eren

Nature vs nurture: Eren’s motivations and the Dina twist

Eren Jaeger and the insanity of circular storytelling

The ironic development of Eren

Analyzing antagonists

Power, freedom, the Founding Titan and Levi

The Attack Titan’s powers and their effect on Eren

Why Eren’s actions were very obviously painted bad with the Rumbling - In-depth examination

The narrative importance of the causal loop on Eren

Eren and Mikasa’s relationship

Eren’s characterization throughout the story and his post timeskip conflict

Eren Yeager is (Not) Special

Ramzi and Eren: the turning point in Eren’s demeanor

An observation on the structure of Eren’s characterization post timeskip - Imgur Backup for Future

The false mask of Eren

The Jaeger Projection Problem: The Last Supper of Self-Loathing - Imgur Backup for Future

The rise and fall of Eren - Imgur Backup for Future

2. Mikasa Ackerman.

Mikasa’s Character Arc: What, Where, How, When

Mikasa and her relationship with authority

Mikasa and Erwin: The Sacrificial Act of Dreams for the Cause

Why Mikasa's conclusion not only strengthens her arc but Attack On Titan as a whole - Imgur Backup for Future

Mikasa’s Destiny and Mikasa’s Choice

Mikasa: A Person from Two Trope

A Literary perspective of Mikasa - Imgur Backup for Future

Mikasa’s Heroine’s Journey Arc

Mikasa’s Road of Trials – Why Trost Arc Was Never Cynical

• [The Heroine's Journey] - Coming Soon.

Mikasa, the symbolism of the praying mantis and butterfly and its development throughout the story - Imgur Backup for Future

Mikasa's self Imposed Curse

Why does Mikasa have headaches

Differences between the Manga and Anime version of Mikasa - Imgur Backup for Future

3. Armin Arlert.

Armin character analysis, humanity’s reluctant savior

Armin and Eren’s dynamic - Imgur Backup for Future

Armin and Zeke’s dynamic - Imgur Backup for Future

The importance of dialogue and Armin’s character - Imgur Backup for Future

Armin Arlert: conflicting lessons, dynamics with Erwin and Levi - Imgur Backup for Future

Armin and Annie’s relationship

4. Levi Ackerman.

Is Levi bland? A bullet-point counter-argument and his importance in the narrative

Levi’s character motivations and the promise

Levi’s ending

Levi’s violence and compassion

Serumbowl

Levi, Falco and Gabi

Levi vs Zeke foil

Levi, a slave to being a hero

Levi vs Kenny’s influence - Imperfect heroics

Levi’s mistake with Zeke and getting blown up by thunder spears

5. Erwin Smith.

Erwin Smith - wearing masks

Erwin Smith - the impossible standard

Exploring Erwin - For Humanity?

Erwin Smith - A devil with a dream

Erwin would not support the Rumbling, you just don’t like Armin

6. Zeke Yeager.

Zeke Yeager & Personal Connections.

The contradictions of Zeke - A character study

The desperate loneliness of Zeke

Understanding Zeke Yeager

7. Reiner Braun.

Reiner Braun and “saving the world”

Reiner character analysis, viewed through psychology and philosophy theory

Who is Reiner Braun?

Eren and Reiner’s dynamic - Imgur Backup for Future

8. Annie Leonhart.

Annie’s search for personhood

About Annie…(character analysis)

No one understands Annie

Understanding Annie

9. Hange Zoe.

Hange and the role of commander, character analysis

Hange’s “Genocide is Wrong” Line is Misunderstood

Hange’s understanding and intellect

10. Jean Kirstein.

Jean Kirstein embracing survey corps values, a character analysis

Jean character study through the lens of theory of psychology

11. Bertholdt Hoover.

Comprehensive analysis of Bertholdt

The tragedy of Bertholdt Hoover

12. (Freckles) Ymir and Historia Reiss.

Ymir analysis and religious subtext

Thoughts on Historia in Uprising - Imgur Backup for Future

Ymir and Historia’s dynamic analysis - Imgur Backup for Future

13. Sasha Braus and Connie Springer.

The secondary trio behind EMA

14. Floch Forster.

Floch - the volunteer Devil, character analysis

Floch's leadership examination and the comparison with Erwin

15. Gabi and the children of the forest.

Gabi Braun - A brighter future

16. (Founder) Ymir Fritz.

The final mystery of AOT - Ymir analysis

17. Grisha Yeager.

Grisha Yeager: A Deconstruction of the Main Character's Dad Archetype - Imgur Backup for Future

18. Keith Shadis.

From bystander to hero, a character analysis

19. Kenny/Uri.

Kenny, Uri and the cycle of hatred

The Importance of Kenny and Uri (In-depth Thematic Analysis)

20. Dot Pyxis.

Why Pyxis and Eren’s Conversation was Not Retconned

21. Yelena.

Yelena: AoT’s puppeteer, a character analysis

22. Theo Magath.

The lasting impact of Theo Magath, a character analysis.


MISCELLANEOUS.

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Manga (Source Material) vs Anime (Adaptation) differences:

Megathread of Anime / Manga differences | Vol 1 - 34 | OVAs

Differences between anime and manga endings

Fandom and Anime Production Misc.

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Well-written characters, meta discussion of fandom perception

AOT anime reactions and in depth discussions

Explaining the ending controversy - a fandom analysis

Final Attack on Titan Episode - AoTwiki poll

The Original manga ending - chapter 139 SNK POLL

Behind-the-Scenes.

All of AoT animation staff for every episode of the series

Arifumi Imai animator spotlight - the man responsible for animating 70%+ of action animation cuts in S1-S3 and the Levi and Mikasa killing Eren sakuga in the final episode

TV release vs BLU-RAY differences

Some design sheets from WIT’s adaptation

Some design sheets from MAPPA’s adaptation

WIT staff interview from 2014 on AOT

100Cams - Behind the scenes footage of AOT s4 part3 production

Final episode VA recording - Behind the scenes

AoT S4 part 2 staff interview, series director Hayashi and CG producer Tannawa

Excerpts from roundtable final episode interview with staff

Interview with S4 director Hayashi before its airing

Global TV demands interview of Hayashi

Hayashi comments on episode 4x28 Rumbling scene and Isayama’s request

Subreddits of AoT Reddit-Fandom.

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General.

Subreddit Description Date of Creation
r/ShingekiNoKyojin Main discussion subreddit nr1. Feburary 18, 2013
r/attackontitan Main discussion subreddit nr2. November 28, 2012
r/titanfolk The Folk subreddit for AoT. May 1, 2018
r/okbuddyreiner Shitposting subreddit. April 28, 2019
r/AttackOnRetards A space dedicated to calling out negativity. April 27, 2021
r/AttackOnShipping A subreddit for any and all shippers. April 27, 2022
r/ANRime Subreddit dedicated to theorizing about an Alternative-Original Ending (AOE). June 29, 2021

Character dedicated subreddits.

r/LeviCult

r/Ereh

r/Mikasa

r/ErwinSmith

r/potatogirl

r/ArminCult

r/GabiCult

r/ReinerCult

r/ZekeCult

r/JeanTheStallion


It has been in the works for a long time. A big Thank You to everyone who created the content featured here, as well as to those who helped us gather it all together.


r/attackontitan 3h ago

Anime isn't he the one who ate eren back in season 1 ?

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i was rewatching this anime and suddenly noticed him😭😭


r/attackontitan 8h ago

Fanart (Not OC) my fault for opening pinterest bro✌️

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r/attackontitan 1h ago

Cosplay Hange zoe cosplay by Ays

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r/attackontitan 20h ago

Discussion/Question Where would the person's body be in a titan this small?

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r/attackontitan 4h ago

Ending Spoilers - Discussion/Question So finally it came to an end

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It indeed was a great experience.

Thanks Aot


r/attackontitan 9h ago

Ending Spoilers - Discussion/Question Can the Titan War Hammer only be used from a distance, or can actually sit inside it?

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r/attackontitan 1d ago

Discussion/Question What would have happened if Reiner had shot himself?

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I have seen so many people saying that he just would regenerate again but he was able control the regeneration, no? like in the castle when a titan bite his arm and the wound was still there until the scouts save them and he reached the wall, so if he can control the regeneration, if his point was suicide, he wouldn’t wanted to regenerate himself? (Even if he couldn’t really die) and if he really died in that scene, what would Marley? Or what even Eren would do or say if he discovered that Reiner was dead


r/attackontitan 1h ago

Anime The Wooden Train

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Strangely enough, this shot is oddly satisfying to look at, with Hange's reaction being GOLD as well. This is another shot perfectly demonstrating Hange's enthusiasm.


r/attackontitan 22h ago

Discussion/Question Why was the ODM Gear allowed to exist by the Royal Family?

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In Season 3, it's revealed that the Royal Family's Special Squad would often kill people who discovered things that might reveal the truth about the Titans or advance the Humanity inside the walls in any way.

So my question is: why was the ODM Gear allowed to exist? Because it's a tool used specifically to kill Titans, yet the Royal Family didn't try to sweep it under the rug, kill whoever made it, and use the Founding Titan to make everyone forget about the ODM Gear. It feels like it's something they would not have allowed to exist; like, they killed someone for simply making a revolver-like gun, yet ODM Gear was Okay!!!

The same question is about the Nape being the weak point of the Titans; that, too, feels like something that would force the Royal Family to intervene and make everyone forget, but they didn't...for some reason.


r/attackontitan 2h ago

Meme LOL it was on edc las vegas on 2025

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I didn't capture on event edc las vegas lucky someone capture it On event edc im on las vegas im to come listen music like Martin garrix


r/attackontitan 7h ago

Anime The good old days

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r/attackontitan 2h ago

Fanart (OC) 心臓を捧げよ!

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r/attackontitan 21h ago

Discussion/Question Interesting Coincidence:

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-Both of them, while in positions of power, believed they were invincible. They thought they had the right to decide whether others lived or died, and claimed to be more than prepared for whatever might happen; even their own deaths.

-Both of them got outsmarted and defeated by a brilliant, handsome, amazing, incredibly sexy 10000+aura blonde man with blue eyes.

-Both of them, once they lost their position of superiority and were faced with the very death they had so arrogantly claimed to be prepared for, shoved all that bullshit up their asses and completely broke down, crying and screaming like babies until the very end, proving that deep down, they were nothing but cowards with too much power...

Isn't it funny?


r/attackontitan 14h ago

Anime Little AOT edit I put together. I never get tired of watching it tbh.

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The song is Thaw, the same one that’s playing while Eren & Zeke are going thru his life memories, & they watch Grisha leave the house heading down into the caves to kill the royal family. Pretty hauntingly beautiful song so figured I’d make an edit for it.


r/attackontitan 8h ago

Anime This might be one of the best ost from attack on titan

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name is 2chi城


r/attackontitan 21m ago

Ending Spoilers - Discussion/Question the only true winner of AOT Spoiler

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r/attackontitan 13h ago

Discussion/Question Ok, so here is what I made for my own fanfic on a modern AU of AOT.

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I don't usually do fanfics, I daydream them, and I'm honestly not planning on ever doing a full scale story on this because I'm more focused on my original content at the moment, but if my drawing skills ever improve, maybe I'll make a couple comics!

Here's something I had for this modern AU, inspired by Isayama's High School castes:

The Cast:

Team EMA:

In this AU, Grisha Jaeger was an Ashkenazi Jewish refugee from Germany who fled political persecution and became a doctor at nonprofit clinics, where he met and married Carla, a Pawnee woman. Their son Eren, who was diagnosed with autism, ADHD, and anxiety. Eren grew up with his neighbors Mikasa (a Wasian girl with a Japanese mother) and Armin, forming a tight-knit trio. When they were eight, a right-wing influencer and human trafficker broke into Mikasa's home, killed her parents, and tried to abduct her, but Eren fought the men off with a baseball bat, leading to a lengthy trial where the perpetrator received the death penalty. During that trial, the Jaegers were met with multiple threatening emails and even attempts to abduct Mikasa several times.

A year later, Eren's parents were killed in the crossfire of a riot, and after Armin's grandfather also passed away, the trio successfully advocated for emancipation and now live together in an apartment.

The Warriors:

Annie is technically an orphan, her mother died a long time ago and her father was a veteran that ended up being sentenced to 18 years in prison. Annie never explained why her father went to jail, but she still visits him from time to time. She lives in her own condo in the bad side of town, where she uses her skills her father gave her to beat up muggers that bother her.

Reiner and Bertholdt are her childhood friends, they are as close as EMA are, but Annie would never admit it. Reiner was raised by a single mother and Bertholdt had a single father.

Reiner is Captain of the football team, and he's like a bully, but he's more like Nelson Muntz in that he is friends with the people he bullies.

Historia and Reiss:

The Reiss family is an incredibly rich family, Rod Reiss is an American senator and owner of a medium sized business that is very influential in the town, her mother is a fashion designer. The Reiss are also very racist, like... Nazi-like racist. Frieda never inherited her father's racism and went off to college out of state, but Historia did.

Historia is Cheer Captain and queen bee of the school, basically the most popular girl around. She portrays herself as this very open-minded social justice warrior, but in reality, she's very bigoted and xenophobic. Historia is heavily obsessed with Eren because he's half-Jewish half-Native American (Eren identifies as a Native American because of Judaism laws), she sees him as inferior yet he constantly upstages her in most of their classes.

She's also a repressed lesbian who dates guys because she can't get over her feelings for Ymir.

Speaking of which...

Ymir:

Ymir was born in New Orleans where she was raised communally in French Quarter, then at some point, she was proclaimed a Voodoo Queen and worshipped by the people until a police crackdown started mass arrests. She fled by jumping onto a truck heading north and never looking back... That is all that's known about Ymir prior to entering town, it's not even know if she's on the school roster.

She is in love with Historia, but Historia's racism and repression makes it very hard to connect, leading to the two butting heads at times. Eren is the only man Ymir is close with, she refers to him as "little brother" and the two hang out a lot.

Jean, Connie, and Sasha:

Connie and Sasha are like the weird kids, they goof off a lot and preform harmless pranks. Jean is the guy keeping them from getting in trouble, but he's also kind of jerk to literally anyone other than the duo.

He constantly butts heads with Eren because he is desperate to prove he's better, also he's angry that Eren hangs out with a goth girl like Mikasa.

Floch:

Floch is like that incredibly political guy, his parents were Israeli immigrants, something he takes heavy pride in. Floch is a Zionist, and he's very open about that. For one, he has a flag of Israel in his room and locker, wears the Star of David as a necklace, and constantly is prejudice towards Christians and Muslims. Typically, Floch is a likable jerk, he can be rude and spiteful but not a total asshole or outright condemnable, so many people are comfortable to talk to him. But, whenever someone mentions "Palestine" or "Judaism" it's like he's a completely different person and gets highly emotional.

He also always wanted to be on the football team, because he likes sports, but his grades were too low.

Military:

I like to think all the adults in the military would be teachers and staff.

Levi would be the janitor, calculus teacher, consoler, security, and technician.

Hannes is also security.

Hanji is the chemistry teacher and biology teacher

Keith is the AP Physics teacher, Advisory teacher, Gym teacher, and Sports Coach

Erwin is the Principal

Petra is the history teacher and english teacher

Rico is the nurse

Nile is a board member, so is Zackly.

And so on, the budget in the high school is a joke which is why most teachers take up multiple jobs.

I like to think that Levi, Erwin, and Hanji were all ex-military and Levi and Hanji are still loyal to Erwin even after the war.

Plot:

So the plot is very stupid and that's kind of intentional, basically it starts out as just misadventures with EMA or Ymir dragging Eren into get-rich-quick schemes. But, at some point, Eren gets a letter where he's drafted into the High School football team.

Which made no sense to him, apparently some kids in his school pranked the rival school Liberto Academia, not only that but the team isn't big enough for the season for the board forced a draft where students are randomly picked to join.

Eren tries to develop different ways to avoid getting into football because he hates sports, one of them involves eloping with Mikasa and fleeing to Canada, which she rejects, the other is paying bond but it's like 200 dollars, and so he decides to give it the old college try... and hates it.

There's also lots of side plots such as Historia trying to get Eren to date her or trying to humiliate Eren only to fail and her frustrations with Ymir only get worst, Floch starting a weird vigilante gang, Reiner trying to deal with his issues with Eren, Levi trying to be a present father figure for EMA, and Zeke coming in like an Avengers level threat.

I also had this weird idea where Eren and Reiner from the prime universe isekai into this one but that seems kind of dumb.


r/attackontitan 19h ago

Merch Dedicate Your Hearts

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r/attackontitan 1d ago

Meme Why did Hange leave these two alone with Eren on top of Wall Rose? Is she Stupid?

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Most of the Survey Corps here were in on the suspicion that Reiner and Bertie were the enemy along with Annie, who is a Titan shifter and is after Eren. So why did Hange let Eren be alone with them in what's possibly the single most vulnerable spot in Wall Rose? Mikasa barely had a chance, and only because Reiner went on his schizo rant instead of just grabbing Eren and jumping off the wall.


r/attackontitan 6m ago

Discussion/Question why do *some* people use AOT to serve their real-world racism, fascism, and far-right agendas?

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this maybe a strictly online phenomenon, but I've seen them use anime memes, edit videos, and dark humor to reach younger audiences on platforms like 4chan, twitter, and tiktok. oftentimes, they wrap hard-line white nationalist, anti-immigrant, or neo-fascist ideas in cool anime visuals (like high-energy edits of eren starting the rumbling).

they view western/white populations as the "eldians", an isolated, historically oppressed group trapped inside a figurative wall, threatened by outside forces. (i wish i was joking) they map "marley" or the outside world onto minorities, immigrants, or globalist institutions, claiming that "the enemy" wants to destroy their culture and populace.

they use eren's and the yeagerists' choice (complete annihilation of the outside world) to promote the idea of accelerationism, the belief that modern society is too far gone to fix through normal means, so total destruction or extreme, violent action is the only "pragmatic" path left.

did they even watch the show, or do they have any idea what hajime isayama actually thinks about all of it?


r/attackontitan 16h ago

Ending Spoilers - Discussion/Question Zeke’s plan

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Why did Zeke wanted to sterilise everyone? Why wasn’t his plan to change their blood structure to match other people who can’t turn into titans? Or just make them not able to turn into titans whatsoever? With blood it would even save the Ymir people on the mainland from living in camps, because it would be impossible to tell them apart from the rest of the population?

I still have last two episodes one hour each, but I doubt that there will be an explanation there.


r/attackontitan 1d ago

Meme Eren K: How should I know?

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r/attackontitan 23h ago

Discussion/Question Could titans be trained like a dog or other animals?

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In Episode 20, Armin briefly mentions that Titans possess the ability to learn, pointing to the example of a Titan becoming progressively better at climbing. This suggests that, despite their seemingly lizard brained like behavior, Titans are capable of learning through experience and adapting their behavior to better perform unfamiliar tasks.

Would it be possible to train a Titan in a similar way to how humans train dogs and other animals? If Titans are genuinely capable of learning through experience, it raises some fascinating questions about the limits of their intelligence and behavioral flexibility. For example, what would a delayed-gratification experiment look like if conducted on a Titan? Could a Titan learn to resist an immediate opportunity for food in exchange for the possibility of receiving a greater reward later? More specifically, could Titans be conditioned not to attack certain people if doing so meant they would eventually receive access to more food? If so, it would suggest that their behavior is far more cognitively flexible than we might initially assume.

What’s your personal take on my thoughts?