![]() Attack on Titan reveals it was Eren who, by looking at this moment, managed to traverse time and goad his father to kill them, setting in motion the events of the entire series since Eren’s father gave him those same Titan powers that first manifested in season one. In season four, as Eren and his brother, Zeke, explore the memories of their father, Grisha, they uncover the night he murdered the Eldian royal family and its children and took the power of their Founding Titan for himself. Eren’s final-season pivot is framed just as nihilistically, if not more so, spinning out of the revelation of a causal loop he created. Game of Thrones has been criticized for ending in a cynical, nihilistic way, framing Dany’s actions in “The Bells” as the result of an inherent, genetic madness rather than a choice that felt earned. And their protagonists start out likable but grow so corrupted by power that the true heroes rally to stop them. They even share a few minor character designs because Isayama is apparently a Thrones fan. They both led fans to petition for a change to the endings of their respective stories. ![]() Their production schedules ran across years of high anticipation after shockingly brutal first seasons. They have a fair number of incestuous couplings: Jaime and Cersei, Jon and Dany, and Eren and Mikasa, who are in love despite having grown up in the same house as brother and sister. They share an interest in shock value, viscera, decapitations, and ( often problematic) allegory. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire novels and Isayama’s manga - that are split into diverging, often conflicting points of view. They were both adapted from sprawling fantasy texts - George R.R. The shows share common references to Norse mythology, including magical trees, ancient creatures linked to those trees, and warriors who lose arms in tragic struggle. That declaration, the explosiveness of these episodes, and the overall arc of this season of Attack on Titan collectively bring to mind another final-season heel turn: that of Daenerys Targaryen, who vowed, “I will take what is mine with fire and blood,” rode a black dragon into a city full of civilians, and indiscriminately torched it in the penultimate episode of Game of Thrones, a series I often fall back on when struggling to explain this highly divisive, dopamine-pumping anime to non-anime watchers. He really means it when he says, “The Wall Titans will trample every inch of the world beyond this island until every last life beyond our shores is wiped out.” And it’s not a bluff, as his old comrades reckon with in the next episode, “Thaw,” which follows the aftermath of his declaration. When the Eldians first discovered the Titan power, their enemies fought them until they managed to persecute the Eldians, ghettoize them, and steal the powers for themselves.Įren’s mission is, in its indefensibly twisted way, a corrective to that history of violence. Attack on Titan is a story about 2,000 years of violence and misery begetting increasingly more of the same. We learn over time that Titans aren’t beasts but Eldians who have been changed that, in fact, there is a whole world beyond the walls and that the Eldians are trapped in exile behind the walls, robbed of their memories by a conspiracy involving their royal family. Eren and his friends join the military and help hunt down the Titans right as he discovers he can turn into one at will. For most of the fantasy series’s early seasons, the audience is told that humanity lives solely within giant walls erected to protect them from the rampant Titan threat. ![]() You don’t come back from mass murder.Īttack on Titan’s path to this point has been about as wobbly and disconcerting as its titular, grotesquely caricatured behemoths. It’s a break-bad moment that, in both the anime and creator Hajime Isayama’s original manga, frames his face like that of a menacing gargoyle, carved from stone and intransigent as he becomes the villain of his own story. ![]() Eren’s stated goal is to punish the world that has historically persecuted his people, the Eldians, by using the Titan powers that are both the Eldians’ curse and their genetic heritage. At the end of Attack on Titan’s 80th episode, “From You, 2,000 Years Ago,” and nine years since since the show’s debut, protagonist Eren Yeager initiates his plan to exterminate the vast majority of the human race by “rumbling” the weapons of mass destruction at his disposal: an army of brainless humanoid giants eager to trample the human race underfoot. Spoilers follow for every season of Attack on Titan and Game of Thrones.
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