No One Should Accept Eren Being An Idiot

Eren went from Malcolm X to Hitler

Eren in a nutshell:: "Nothing you did ever mattered" That is his character

here comes ending defenders claiming eren was just a 19 year old-- he committed a global genocide.........and saw the past AND future.... can yall come with better excuses

He is a 19 year old with the most powerful ability in the world. Of course he is experiencing a mix of so many emotions. Hating Titans since he was a child, wanting them gone to protect all his friends and family, hating having people in the outside world since he dreamed it was all empty for him to explore. He has to either kill himself and end the power of the Titans or serve out the last 4 years of his life fighting in war and then let those after him continue the war and be killed on and on. Of course he would be contradicting himself. He has to act certain ways infront of other people, he has to be cold and a badass infront of Zeke and Ymir to convince people of his actions, but infront or Armin he can show his whole other side. Its perfect

Ngl that ending was trash 😭

7:21 I don’t understand why he didn’t just invite that boy & his family asylum to be safe from the Rumbling. If he had that much compassion for that child & regret he could have saved their lives. Stuff like that doesnt seem like first season Eren. 1-3 Eren would’ve took the boy in

I watched another YouTuber's rant on 139 and he asked, "Why do Mangaka keep doing this? I invest all these years into following a story just to be slapped in the face in the end." Casual viewers and hype beasts are (IMO) the reason for it. Popularity can be a curse.

I think the ending symbolizes that everything goes full circle; no matter what happens or who starts it, nothing changes humanity's hate and curiosity. Meaning that the Age of the Titans will inevitably come full circle back to where it all began. It still could have been done better, IMO, and if they had never included the ending credits, I think I would have liked it a lot more. But i recognize that its the message isayama was going for. So in a way i respect that. Either if it was positive or negative. I feel like Eren did what he sought to do. He protected his friends and made them have long happy lives. And tbh, i wouldnt want an ending where he runs away with Mikasa and lives the rest of his 4 years in seclusion. I still think the overall message is depressing, and i enjoy the message of vinland saga far more. But i can't deny that its one of the most memorable animes I've ever watched. I dont think people should accept what eren did, because it was infact a horrible sin, but nothing can change the fact that he did it. The point is to hate him, and to hate what he has become. Although I still think he saved his friends and made Titans go extinct by doing the mass genocide. And if there was any other way to gain the same outcome without doing that, I'm sure he would have. His goal was to make his friends live happy lives, at least just them; he didn't care about the rest of humanity. And well, he ended up achieving that.

3:37 this right here. Somebody gets it.

Thank you! Thats what I was thinking too. People defend this shitty ending and using every ambigious scenes to excuse that. I hate when people excuse the shitty ending with „tHe aUtHor wAnTEd tO sHow tHE hUman CondiTIon and HOw cOnFlicts hAVe cYCles…“. My ass human condition, my ass cycle of war. The whole story wasnt about the freaking human condition, the whole story wasnt about Eren being an idiot. The story began with one thing and after 3 seasons shifted to some shit. Although the ending was heavy and it touched me, nevertheles I couldnt stop to have the feeling that something is off. The whole story was full of meaning st the beginning and in the middle. But the ending was shitty, because Eren achieved nothing good, neither for humanity or for people of paradis nor for his friends. He killed them/endangered them or gave them life trauma (Mikasa killing and beheading her beloved one)

Eren is paranoid he's scared to death of Oppenheimer that's why he made those decisions

13:50 dude I fucking hate that guy he’s so pretentious yet so consistently wrong

I think when sasha and hange died,it showed that you need to sacrifice people you love for the majority of the people,he was beat by levi and only had 13 years to live,it was basically a suicide mission,they saying its only because of an idiot was stupid, sorry if it was a bad take The suicide mission was the rumbling,he could have stripped everyone of their titan powers,but he saw the future and decided that he would let his friends live after he lost so many people

Being an idiot has been a consistent piece of characterization for Eren from the beginning though. To me, that is the most honest and believable statement he made to Armin during that conversation. Part of Eren's character is informed by the fact that he is not "special" he is not a "chosen one" but average. I would suggest revisiting the Shadis backstory episode since it deals with this theme in the story pretty comprehensively. Eren is surrounded by people who are more "special" or "chosen" than him. Mikasa has the super strength, Levi is the archetypal hero, Erwin is the great leader, Historia is the lost royalty restored to the throne, and even Jean has an "everyman turned leader" arc. Everyone around Eren has a stronger case to be a main character, or chosen one, than Eren does. Especially super brained Armin. Eren says it himself when he is convincing Levi to save Armin's life, Armin is more of a hero than him. Armin has a vision while Eren only has incompetent rage. I love Eren's character. I feel like his average-ness and idiocy paired with the God powers he obtains underlines the major themes of AOT.

The ending gets better and better everytime I watch it

Have you seen Moist Critikal's video on the ending?

Erin became a mass murderer why does isiyama portraying his as a idiot or a pos or pathetic (in the armin scene talking bout mikasa) make the ending bad, a lot is bad, its not great but its not promised neverland anime or got or anything like that

Honestly no character had agency most events or actions happened because of a plan eren or zeke carried out like the attack on Liberio or the second battle of shiganshina

lmaooooo

When you really take a step back aot story isn’t too different then how American treats black people and also shows human nature what’s dope about aot too me is that NOBODY was a hero or necessarily a villain they are just PEOPLE and nobody deserves to get treated like that it makes you wonder fr imagine if black folks had all the power in the world we all know for a FACT we will be the most hated (eldians pretty much had all the power in the world cause they had titans) so with all the power in the world knowing the world hates your race and your love ones would be killed shit killing everybody is somewhat justified