![]() ![]() I'm not advocating for pacifist protagonists who sit around and wait to be killed I just prefer that they actually cared and tried to minimalize pointless deaths. Ideally, he could've transformed further away from shore so less sailors and dock workers were incinerated and had smashed the ships (possibly giving people in time to escape before the ships sank), but he did the best with what he had. The Survey Corps and Eren have proven themselves more than capable of handling the enemy team all at once (though whether or not Zeke was actually trying to kill our heroes for real is still up in the air), so its not like the sudden surprise attack was essential.Īrmin had little to no alternative the navy needed to be wrecked before it could deploy to threaten Eldia. I'm fairly certain that if Eren showed up at Fort Slava and started tearing down the docks, the train tracks, the walls, and the depots, that Zeke and co would show up. If Eren wanted to draw out the Marleyan titans, there were far less bloody ways to do it, such as not fighting in a dense population center. There's no reason not to assume that there were officers in those stands who - if given the opportunity - would reform Marley from within and prevent another bloodbath, but I digress. Erwin Rommel is a perfect example of that. The problem is that they held authority, so even if the average grunt disagreed, they couldn't realistically resist orders from the top. Contrary to popular belief, not every German soldier was a Nazi the Nazis were actually the minority. The last fourteen chapters have made it pretty clear that many of the soldiers are good, normal people, who are simply being forced into combat with our protagonists because the higher ups are corrupt and would have them shot if they disobeyed or showed sympathy to ours heroes, similar to the regular German forces during WW2. I don't subscribe to the argument that they were acceptable targets because they wore a uniform, nor the argument that all Marleyan officers are evil. ![]() Next, he leaps into a stand of military officers. There's no way you can tell me that each and every one of them were bloodthirsty, racist delegates. The problem is how he goes about it again, he erupts out of a housing complex of dozens of innocent people, throwing up debris and shooting splinters into the crowd, killing at least a hundred people right there. Presumably, that's Marley's titan warriors. It seems he was in a hurry to remove the greatest threats to Eldia as quickly as possible, while they're all together. He's clearly overcome that at this point. Now, I think its pretty obvious that Eren didn't destroy the festival plaza out of revenge. For all Eren knows, he erupted from a house of innocent, unbiased, good willed people simply because he chose to hideout underneath their building. ![]() Yes, Willy declared war, and the delegates cheered, but just because your enemy threw morality out the window does NOT give you the right to do so yourself. Trampling upon thousands of helpless bystanders isn't.Īs much as like apparent Eren's character growth - forgiving Reiner and understanding the nature of the situation - I cannot respect Eren for his reckless, unrestrained carnage in Marley. He deliberately positioned himself underneath an apartment complex, blew up said complex, killing everyone inside and hundreds more with debris and splinters, killed even more people by leap frogging into the stands in a blind attempt to get the warhammer titan ("all of these officers here are evil, right? WHT must be one of them! KILL EM ALLLLLLL!"), then proceeds to kill hundreds more by starting a fight in the middle of a residential area. I don't buy into the "a few innocent bystanders must be sacrificed for the greater goods" mantra. The only thing he can do is to "continue moving forward" and maybe at the end of the road, there is something good.So? A human that lives in a cruel world where there is very little hope. He is doing this because it is the only way to end this conflict. Eren isn't driven by revenge or selfishness. I think you are heavily misinterpreting some character's (mainly Eren's) actions. ![]()
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