Attack on Titan's End: Who Lives and Dies in the Final Chapters?
Warning: contains massive spoilers for Attack on Titan
As fans of Attack on Titan know, being important or popular is no guarantee that a character will survive. The hit story has seen the shocking and unprecedented deaths of several iconic and well-loved characters. Accordingly, identifying and understanding who lives and who dies in the manga's final chapters will be important in appreciating its ultimate conclusion.
It would not be a stretch to characterize Attack on Titan as a war manga. Underlying the trials and tribulations of individual characters is the story of the conflict between the people of Marley and the Eldian people of Paradis Island that has lasted for hundreds of years. Naturally, throughout that conflict, countless people on both sides have lost their lives. The events that readers observe in Attack on Titan is but one segment of the history of that conflict. In other words, to tell the story properly, characters, even the most beloved, must die.
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Naturally, the most visceral death that occurs in the final chapters of the story is that of Eren Jeager. Eren has been present throughout the story as both a hero and a villain, and regardless of what fans think of him, he is the absolute center of the story. Accordingly, his death is palpable and, depending on the fan's attachment to him, one of the most gut-wrenching deaths in comics. After Eren succeeds in his mission of causing the Rumbling and killing roughly eighty percent of the world's population, Mikasa and Armin have no choice but to kill their friend. While Armin uses his Colossal Titan Powers to combat Eren's horrific Founding Titan, Mikasa breaks in to the
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