Falco's Titan has some of the most wide-reaching consequences out of all the failures of the ending, yet most don’t realize just how extensive this is, if even realizing it has problems at all. There’s been a good amount of posts about it in the past, but none have done much more than touch upon the most surface-level issues of his transformation. This post should hopefully cover it all, though.

One of the things strongly established within Marley’s worldbuilding was that they have done many, many experiments and tests with the titans. Not only that, but this was most significant with the Beast Titan, who according to Marleyan history has very little usage in combat and is almost solely used for experiments - especially Zeke's. 

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As I’m sure you all know, Zeke eventually discovered he had the power to control Pure Titans made with his spinal fluid, specifically that when he screams, whatever command he’s thinking the titans will follow. 

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Why does this matter? Because of this: ^((I promise the post will slow down with the panels in a minute here haha))

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This is what allows Falco to become a Flying Titan, the spinal fluid for his pure titan form being from Zeke. That’s the reason directly told to us by the story, there are no implications for it being false or some alternative cause being the true reason… except, of course, for it being complete nonsense.

The Beast Titan is used for experimentation, not combat - except for Zeke’s Beast, which is used for both, as well as much more experimentation than past Beasts, given his unique traits. Marley had discovered long ago that the Female Titan can “absorb” elements of other shifters, that apparently being its ability. Zeke also received his shifter the year 842, whereas the other warriors (Annie, Zeke, Bertholdt) received theirs the year 843, and Galliard’s well past the rest. And finally, basically every pure titan we see throughout the series is made from Zeke’s spinal fluid. But given all that… we’re supposed to believe no shifter has ever been made with Zeke’s spinal fluid? Or not even just Zeke’s, but that any shifter has been made with Beast spinal fluid? That’s nonsense and obviously false, or just absolutely horrid writing; I can’t even come up with an analogy equivalent in its ridiculousness.

But let’s continue. 

Ironically enough, in the same scene as Falco’s flying titan reveal, it was revealed (or more accurately it was confirmed) that the Female Titan’s ability is to use parts of other titan’s abilities without having to eat them. So what happens with that? Falco was turned into a pure titan with Zeke's spinal fluid (like how a bunch of other pure titans have been made) and after getting the Jaw, suddenly has full Beast Titan powers better than the actual shifter, with attributes of a completely arbitrary and random shifter from the past instead of Zeke’s.

First of all, there’s the Female Titan aspect of it. The specific power of the Female is to absorb traits… but Falco, a Jaw Titan, does it drastically better… for some reason. It should be obvious that this basically ruins the Female Titan power that we just learned about, since this implies all shifters can or could steal attributes the same way.

This also trivializes the Beast power, for obvious reasons - as I said before, “full Beast Titan powers better than the actual shifter”, for a shifter that… isn’t the Beast Titan. And for one you might not have been expecting, this also trivializes the Cart Titan power! Why is that? Falco has what appears to be infinite stamina and shifts (since shifts are just determined by tiredness) that he used to fly across an entire continent and ocean, without getting tired at any point. This even destroys the concept of "each shifter having unique traits" that was so reiterated earlier on. 

Should have made that sentence a bit longer - \"theoretically fly around the whole planet effortlessly with his titan once experienced\". The line I drew for how far a titan can run is actually there and pretty accurate btw.

I don’t think I could express just how badly this one event messes up the mechanics of the titan shifters. My best guess is that Isayama was planning for Falco to get the actual Beast Titan power somehow, like Zeke transferring it to him through paths shenanigans, since this form had been foreshadowed long before (look at his name after all), but it ended up just not working out, something that we'd seen happen to other elements of the story before as well.

This post was really difficult to write out compared to the last few, for some reason, despite it being drastically simpler and shorter. I’m not exactly sure why, but I found it difficult to fully detail points I attempted to detail, or structure it in a good way (balance the size of paragraphs, text to image ratio, flow of topic). My next post, though, should be a bit interesting; I try to always enjoy working on these, and I thought it would be fun to make the next an image slideshow. From the skeleton I’ve made of it so far, it should be somewhat entertaining without losing the (mostly) professional tone and detail, and hopefully turn out less scuffed than this was haha.

So I’m currently watching a few people reacting to AOT for the first time and i love to see their first reactions.

I just now was watching 2 girls reacting to AOT, 1 is into anime the other one haven’t watched a single one, both watching AOT for the first time. So this one girl thats new to anime is shipping Eren and Mikasa the whole time talking bout how he is her man fr and shit like that. Now in episode 6 she already is saying “i get why she loves him but its kinda a toxic relationship”😭😭😭

Like cmon even people completely new are seeing that this relationship is build out of toxicity. I love Mikasa tho and until S4 she one of the best female characters in anime imo but even new people noticing this shit is just hilarious.

lol, sorry if this seems like reposting I am dealing with an Issue

Yes, I think ending is mediocre and we should get BETTER conclusion to the story, but that's not what I wanted to talk about. Simple facts: Erehisu was canon, until retcon; Eren saw 100% rumbling until it was retconed into 80%; Eremika is one sided and toxic; buildup strongly suggests 100% rumbling; Ymir Fritz was retconed; Eren killing his own mom - what the fuck; Past titans; whole path scene "you are free now Ymir"; Eren's motivation and grand plan - big retcon and BIG middle finger; if someone liked Ending we got, well I understand why, but THE FACT is - ending was retconed. No one, none hardcore ED can change my mind.

So, they say he has two personalities: Warrior (senshi) and soldier(heishi). I see a lot of people address him as one person and not like, two people in one body (when talking about pre TIMESKIP). The show talks of his condition only a little, so that's understandable. And in S4 it's pretty much absent, as if ISAYAMA forgot. What is the nation of his, or, THEIR condition?

(fun fact: even though it's true, I feel irritated by the perhaps single digit number of people that call him a 'system')

Ngl Watching this fanmade makes me think now this is

What do you guys think?

-Different maps (Districts, Forest, Marley)

-Battle Royale is a sense. There are 100 or less scouts (players or bots) 

-There are titans. Your goal is to kill as many as you can as soon as possible

-When you kill enough titans, you become one of the 9 titan shifters

-To win all titans and scouts must be killed . It is the last one standing 

-Other players will also become titan shifters and it becomes a big battle between 9 Titan shifters / Titans / and scouts

-Having titans will give you very strong abilities to easily kill scouts if they don't have team work

-Scouts will have many perks and will be hard to kill if they can dodge easily 

Gameplay concepts will be similar to Dead by Daylight and Evolve.

Edit: Apparently it was an April Fools joke. Some websites didn't get the memo.

Greetings, fellow humans, I just heard about an AoT sequel called "A Founder's Curse," but have been unable to find anything about it on official sites other than references to some posts that are no longer up.

Was it ever a thing?

Did it get cancelled?

Is it still in production?

Or was it just an elaborate prank?

Why is season 4’s entire story so controversial and why do so many people online claim Eren’s character was assassinated? Eren’s entire arc is probably hands down the greatest cautionary tale I’ve ever seen told and I love how we see his descent from standard shonen protagonist to authoritarian genocidal mastermind villain. I also love the tragic irony of the story how Eren, the one who kept marching forward for freedom the most, was the one person willing to strip the entire world of theirs in the name of freedom and how Eren himself was actually the least free of everyone. Also, given recent word events, I loved season 4’s themes of breaking out of indoctrinated “us vs the enemy” mindsets and how everyone on both sides acknowledges their flaws and their moral ambiguity and uses that acknowledgement as a way to join arms. That’s another layer of irony for me. In Eren’s march for freedom, he attempted to rob everyone of their freedom in the name of his and yet them all choosing to set their differences aside to join arms and fight Eren and his freedom is what ultimately lead to theirs. I’ve seen people argue Eren’s character was devolved because it was stupid that he could’ve just chosen to quit doing what he was doing at any point but he didn’t and that he’s poorly written because of that, but I think those people completely missed the point of Eren being a slave to freedom and him being a cautionary tale. I think they also misunderstand how Eren is meant to serve as the foil to Mikasa. Eren became a slave to freedom and perpetuated the curse and the cycle in doing so, essentially doing the opposite. Then Mikasa made the ultimate sacrifice and chose to break the curse and the cycle and in that moment had more freedom than Eren ever did.

Me personally, I think the seeds and foreshadowing for season 4 were there from even the very first episode and I enjoyed binging it all so much that I wish I could go back and do it all blind again. This series was up there with the likes of Breaking Bad and Silent Hill 2 for me as an all time great story, not just anime or show, but story in general. Like Breaking Bad, I personally rank the seasons in order as they came out because for me, this story was a nonstop snowball that just got greater and greater as it went on and it somehow managed to have a damn near perfect finale in my eyes.

I wanna have a laugh.

Litteraly the title.

enhanced story and concepts

left no loose ends

enhanced all the characters and didn't overlook the importance of any of them

captured the essence of human behavior with realism

presented a satisfying conclusion that transformed all the previous events into something even more important

kept the writing of the characters impeccable until the end

didn't betray his own writing

didn't introduce pointless plot twists just for shock value

both presented a cycle story, Dark did it masterfully, in AOT it was mediocre, poorly developed and unsatisfactory

The comparison is a bit unfair, Final Dark was a much more planned series than Attack on Titan, but it's still interesting to think how AOT would be even more remembered and loved if it had followed these steps to its finale.