Attack on Titan's ending is actually GENIUS. Here's what everyone missed.

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  @weebjail · 2 years ago (edited) · pinned

  Notes:<br>1. Yes, Ymir had her tongue cut out. The reason she doesn&apos;t talk isn&apos;t important. The point was that she DOESN&apos;T talk.<br>Not sure why everyone is commenting on this... maybe because I explained the reason in terms of its purpose in the story but yes that&apos;s not why she physically can&apos;t talk lol.<br><br>2. Yes, other people bite their hand very occasionally when it&apos;s necessary. The point isn&apos;t that Eren is the only character that does this. It&apos;s that he ALWAYS chooses to do this.<br><br>Also, a lot of people are commenting that it&apos;s because Frieda does it. This is just a random fan hypothesis, it&apos;s never actually stated anywhere. There is a bit where he wonders why he knew he had to bite his hand, but this is more likely wondering how he knew to use titan powers themselves, not SPECIFICALLY bite his hand. Again, other characters DO bite their hand very occasionally, this is not unique to him or Frieda. What is unique to Eren is that he ALWAYS chooses to do it.<br><br>Lastly, as pointed out by someone below this, something I missed in the video is that Eren does stop doing this sometime after he leaves Paradis. So the fact that he does this is very much an integral part of his character here that changes once he turns to genocide.

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  @Mailrebel94 · 2 years ago

  A few notes:<br><br>It&apos;s revealed in the Uprising Arc that Frieda also bit her hand to transform into a titan, and it&apos;s suggested that Eren just unknowingly inherited this habit from her. The first time he even bites his hand to transform was done purely on instinct.<br><br>The takeaway from the Eren saving Ramzi scene is that he feels like a total hypocrite. He compares himself to Reiner, someone who infiltrated the walls only to eventually make friends with the people there and inevitably betray them. Reiner obviously feels guilt over this and thus refers to himself as a &quot;half-assed piece of shit&quot;. However, Eren sees himself as worse than Reiner, because when he is in a similar situation with Ramzi (saving a boy who he knows will inevitably die in the rumbling anyway), he realizes that his actions have been the exact same as someone he once despised. His small act of kindness was meaningless in the face of the horrors he&apos;s about to commit. It&apos;s such a sad moment for his character while also providing him some insight into what Reiner actually went through and how he shouldn&apos;t hold such hatred for him. At the end of the day, Eren sees himself as the worst of them all.

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  @stephenwarren9355 · 2 years ago

  As a writer, I believe the ending to any good story will always spark controversy. &nbsp;If everyone hates an ending it is poorly written. &nbsp;If everyone loves an ending it is poorly written. &nbsp;If an ending divides people and makes them dramatically and vehemently vocalize their opinions and perspective regardless of which side they are on, it is superbly written.

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  @isoutoforbit · 2 years ago

  We must also consider Mikasa&apos;s role in this. Ymir needed Mikasa to kill Eren in order to break free from the never-ending attachment and twisted love she had for King Fritz. She saw herself in Mikasa, and had to create the only scenario in which Mikasa would through her own free will choose to kill Eren and sever her bond with him. The only way Mikasa would have ever done this was if Eren became the ultimate monster. I think Ymir took advantage of Eren&apos;s personality and used him as a pawn to gain her own freedom. She sacrificed the world to free herself, ultimately I think Ymir is the true villain of the story.

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  @aqualucasYT · 2 years ago

  Oh boy can’t wait to binge all these AOT ending vids as they come out, cool

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  @dinabelyaeva4051 · 2 years ago

  I think the dog thing was a really good point, and how i see the ending when the bird ties mikasas scarf, is that he finally stopped being this “dog” and became the free bird he was always longing to be…<br>(not saying he physically reincarnated as a bird, but metaphorically)

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  @Cbgjaden · 2 years ago

  No, it didn&apos;t need to be a super sad ending where almost everyone from the main cast dies. A lot of characters who were once a part of the main cast already died and there was already a lot of deaths in the show even before the rumbling start so no it wasn&apos;t off in that regard. At some point, they needed to find a way to pull thru. If they took the akame ga kill route and killed off most of the remaining main cast, the ending would&apos;ve been even worse. The ending was good but bittersweet. It could&apos;ve been better, but given his vison for the ending, there wasn&apos;t a whole lot else he could do.

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  @robertosoto7167 · 2 years ago

  the tone is off only if you wanted an edgy/depressing ending where everyone died and the world is on fire for ever end.... because at the end of all battles comes another day (except if the rumbling complited its cause)... because as painful or hard it is, life goes on, so this is the perfect ending for an anime that was about the struggle of livining from every prespective, just the battle ends and people make their lives waiting for another battle... this battle ends with death and sorrow, but at the same time with relieve.

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  @Gokaruto · 2 years ago

  honestly the divided views on this ending is exactly why i love AOT&apos;s ending, it truly shows that no two people are the same, and conflict arises anywhere and everywhere &quot;until theres only one human left on the planet&quot;

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  @einfachnurjo3129 · 2 years ago

  I didn&apos;t know that the ending was such a controversy<br>I personally loved the ending and didn&apos;t think that it was &quot;happy&quot;. Yes, it had a happy undertone. But I think that&apos;s because the war.... the fight and struggle was finally over. It&apos;s still sad remembering all. The. Many. Lives. That. Were. Lost. <br>It&apos;s like in real life during the end of WWII. It&apos;s a &quot;happy&quot; ending that the killing stopped and the right side won. But the aftertaste of millions upon millions lost lives is still there.<br><br>And the extended ending is also fantastic in my opinion. It shows that in the grand scheme every fight, every death is meaningless. Yes Mikasa, Armin, etc. Went on to live (more or less) happy &nbsp;lives. But they&apos;re going to be forgotten and history will repeat itself.

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  @ashanithesharp · 2 years ago

  In the vision with Armin, Eren shows he’s still there. The best friend he grew up with was still there. When he obtained the attack titan power and saw his fate at such a young age, it’s like he stopped maturing in the right way. He was stunted and fueled purely by animalistic, survivalist behavior in order to save the ones he loves. They wouldn’t have lived long either way being turned into Titans themselves. Not only did he attempt to sever that but he wanted to leave the world a better place for them once they were free.<br><br>My heart ached for Eren. My husband thought him as a psycho but I could feel the characters deep sorrow and fear for the loss of those he loved. He’d rather die than live without them. The freedom I think he’s trying to obtain is not just for him but for his loved ones which he thinks will make him free but doesn’t because of all the heinous things he did. <br>Being a mother, I’d give my life to save my daughter. I can understand the rage he felt towards the world that he knows wants to hurt the people he loves. It’s relevant today. At first, I thought the ending sucked but the more I’ve thought about it the more I’m moved to tears at how masterful and deep all of it is. I feel I’ve lost friends from this ending which I always do when completing any story, but this one is different and has hit me harder than I thought it would.

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  @Chril916 · 2 years ago

  I think the point drawn by then ending and its tone that you have an issue with is the scene between Zeke and Armin. They both come to realize that “the need to multiply” as determined by the original hallucinogenia &nbsp;is in fact the meaning of life and as such conflict will always arise because the need to multiply inherently causes a struggle. But the ending of the story sides with armin in the fact that while life has its pitfalls, being able to exist and experience trivial joy outweighs the cons of life. So when everyone is happy and getting a full life it’s because the whole point of the story is that “life is a struggle, and struggle causes conflict, so you must fight fight fight to live, but to live is beautiful and full of joyful moments that cannot exist without life having happened”, Ill probably cone back to edit this when I have more of my thoughts fully ready but for now I ask not that you disregard your issues with the ending but to try to see it from another angle, <br><br>Thank you for coming to my TedTalk

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