Eren Yeager

Humanity is on the brink of extinction, hiding behind three enormous concentric walled cities to protect themselves from man-eating colossal giants known as Titans.

After a catastrophic attack breaches the outer wall, destroying his home and resulting in his mother being eaten alive, a young Eren Yeager vows to eradicate every single Titan.

He, along with his fiercely loyal friend, Mikasa Ackerman, and the brilliant tactician, Armin Arlert, joins the military's Survey Corps.

For the first few seasons, it operates as an immaculate monster movie thriller.

By the final seasons, the perspective flips.

You are forced to empathize deeply with characters you were previously trained to despise, and conversely, you are utterly terrified by the genocidal actions of the heroes you used to cheer for.

Eren Yeager's evolution is one of the most complex debated character arcs in modern fiction.

Our source discusses how the show explores these themes of fascism and war, and while it's heavily debated politically, the show itself just lays out the horrors of the cycle of violence impartially.

like uh rocket launchers and this is why i think it's from the late 80s because the rocket launchers are very much from that era and including the clothing and it's kind of like i don't like it's obviously the town is smuggling north korean armaments and he's the only asshole that does not know this and so that becomes a running joke so they think that they destroy they finally uh This unstoppable monster that is described between a more feral looking attack on Titan beast.

It looks like Eren's

Titan.

But a lot more gory and hands are different.

This isn't fair.

They put Eren Yeager in here.

Get him outta here.

He doesn't count.

And then you start finding out about who's in charge, and just like in Claymore, Attack on Titan as well, where you start getting murky on who's good, who's bad, who's just doing what they're told, and it just, it just all comes down to the people pulling the strings, always.

I was just about to say that, 'cause it, it sounds like the Eren Jaeger situation.

[laughs]

Yeah.

Okay, okay.

So after witnessing a heroic, yes, a very heroic personal loss, a horrific personal loss at the hands of the invading creatures, Eren Jaeger.

dedicates his life to their eradication by enlisting into the Survey Corps, an elite military unit that combats the merciless humanoids outside the protection of the walls.

Eren, his adopted sister Mikasa Ackerman, and his childhood friend Armin Arlert Join the brutal war against the Titans and race to discover a way of defeating them before the last walls are breached.

Shit.

Yeah.

Drinker.

If Erwin had survived instead of Armin, do you think he would have sided with Eren better or stopped his revenge path sooner?

Oh,

that's a good question.

I think Erwin would have stopped him because he is a man of principles.

Like, if nothing else, he's willing to sacrifice everything, not just for the greater good, but for doing what's right.

And so when he understood what Eren was actually doing, what he was planning to do, yeah, I think he would have stopped him.

So, yeah.