Eren Yeager: tragic hero or an anime-justified genocidal maniac?

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  Maya6d ago

  Eren is the best written character in modern anime precisely because you can't cleanly call him a hero OR a villain. That's the genius.

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  Maya5d ago

  Whether you cried for him or feared him, the fact this debate exists means the writing won. No other shonen pulls this off.

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  Liam R.5d ago

  The basement reveal turned him from a hero into something we couldn't look away from. Peak storytelling, terrifying character.

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  Elena6d ago

  Y'all really watched a boy lose everything from birth and then act shocked he wanted the world gone. The show TOLD you who he'd become.

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  Marco B.6d ago

  The freedom theme is the whole thread. He was never free, not even from his own future memories. That's the actual tragedy.

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  Leo6d ago

  Defending the rumbling is wild but I also can't pretend I wouldn't root for him in the moment. That's what good writing does to you.

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  Leo6d ago

  'I'm just like them' — Eren admitting he's no different from the people he hates is the most honest a protagonist has ever been.

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  Kofi R.5d ago

  He's a kid who never got to be a kid. Monster and victim. The fandom wanting one clean label is the real problem.

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  Quinn6d ago

  Tragic hero is cope. He chose the rumbling when other paths existed. Brilliant character, but call it what it is.

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  Kofi5d ago

  Comparing Eren to real history makes some of these defenses age very badly very fast. Just saying.

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  Leo6d ago

  He's a deconstruction of the 'angry shonen protagonist'. Isayama took the trope and showed where that rage actually leads.

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  Quinn 926d ago

  He committed the largest genocide in fiction and people still defend him because he had a sad backstory. Trauma explains, it doesn't excuse 80% of humanity.

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