Attack On Titan Season 4: How [SPOILER]'s Death Mirrors Ymir's
Warning: Contains spoilers for Attack on Titan season 4, episode 19.
Attack on Titan season 4, episode 19 has Porco Galliard dying in the battle between Eldia and Marley, and his death mirrors Ymir’s in a lot of ways. Every new season of Attack on Titan is filled to the brim with callbacks and parallels to previous ones in the service of enhancing the new material. Season 4 has been no different in that regard, and the latest episode brings material from all the way back in season 2 full circle.
In order to distract Marley long enough to enact the Eldian euthanasia plan, Zeke uses his ability to transform anyone who’s ingested his spinal fluid into a Titan. Falco was among the affected parties, and when Reiner is led to believe that Zeke is killed and Eren’s threat is neutralized, he decides to let Falco eat him so he can become the Armored Titan and give himself an excuse to stop fighting. Before Reiner can be eaten, however, Porco appears in his human form, which is enough to divert Falco’s attention away from Reiner and make Falco eat him, instead.
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Porco’s death ends up having a lot of similarities to Ymir’s death, though it also contrasts with it in a few ways. Both Porco and Ymir possessed the power of the Jaw Titan - Porco having obtained it by eating Ymir — and both lost their lives in order to help Reiner in some way. Not only that, but while their sacrifices did help Reiner, neither one of them particularly liked him, and each of them was motivated by more personal reasons that Reiner only happened to be associated with.
Those motivations are where Ymir and Porco’s deaths begin to contrast with each other. Ymir sacrificed herself because she was
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