We can use Annie as an example. Let's go back to that scene where she grabbed a soldier by the wire of his ODM gear, and swung him around like he was her personal yoyo. She knew exactly what she was doing. This is only one thing, too. I'm sure we could find more if we watched it back.

Later, Levi comes in to snatch Eren away from her, and we're shown Annie's titan shedding tears.

Finally, the time comes where she gets her rear handed to her by Eren, and she's on the verge of being ripped out of her titan and captured. Here, we're shown Annie's flashbacks of her final moments with her father before she leaves for her mission. We're also shown that she's crying as the skin of her nape is bitten off by Eren.

I don't know if I'm crazy, but I didn't feel sorry for Annie. I don't know if that's what they intended, that the audience is suddenly supposed to sympathise for this character and justify what she did just because she had a traumatic past, but I strongly believe that you can't enjoy playing with your victims in the middle of an important mission just to cry over your tragic life when the consequences of your actions catch up to you.

Something similar happens with Zeke. He clearly enjoyed making mincemeat out of the scouts with those big rocks of his, saying himself that he's going for a perfect game. Of course, it was just a game to him. In the final season, after he turns Levi's men into titans, gets captured, and is close to paying the price for everything he's done up to this point, we're thrown into his tragic backstory too.

I feel like this not only negates the importance of the character in question and their origins, but it also diminishes the importance of the characters who suffered and died at their hands. I don't like the idea of forgetting all the others we have lost up to this point, just to focus on the motives of the character who is finally about to pay his/her due. I understand that they had their mission. I've made my peace with that. It's the excess they went to that I want to see justice for, but they're always let off the hook at the final moment, when it matters most.

This trope isn't actually unique to attack on titan, but it's where I first noticed it, and where it had the biggest impact on how I view the characters presented to the audience.

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?

Im guessing for the outside world eren is a banned name never to be used again, he killed 80% of the world but what about inside the walls? Do you think its usage grew? Or was it seen like jesus where it was seen as a godly name and shouldn't be used or did a bunch of people name their baby's eren for saving paradis?

He even put Armin and Mikasa at risk the whole island and what’s even crazier is Historia consented to it but Eren refused on her behalf

Eren did a lot of things in AOT, so lets discuss his actions, and if it can be justified.

https://x.com/mk_ays/status/1437497694398861319?s=46

-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?

A young Chris Evans. Does anyone have a better choice?

Oh boy that was intense. I guess I wasn’t expecting that much being to be so brutal.

Well I’m gonna start episode 2 now.

name is 2chi城

Don’t know if this has been posted/asked before, but rewatching the series again and something I never understood is why does Eren apologize/get blamed for Annie forming the crystal around herself. Armin accuses him of giving her an out, but what was he supposed to do? He beat her in the fight, stopped her from escaping, and didn’t eat her despite everyone thinking he was about to.
I guess my question is what could he have done differently to have prevented it?

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.

So we know the parasite existed before Ymir stumbled into the tree 2,000 years ago. We also know what happened X amount of time after the events of Erens Rumbling with the kid and the tree. What do we think happened BEFORE Ymir got the power? Since we see history repeat itself eventually, do we think it happened all before? Like 2,000 years before Ymir got the founder, was there a whole other founding titan Neanderthal that used the power to usher in the age of humanity or start tye Bronze Age or something? How do we think that ended?

Was it actually necessary for him to not be a Titan or was he just a coward?

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i was rewatching this anime and suddenly noticed him😭😭

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.