Eren and Lelouch: Heroes or Villains?

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Warning: Spoilers for Attack on Titan & Code Geass BelowWith Attack on Titan’s final season underway, the fast-approaching ending to the popular anime has left many fans reeling. Eren Jaeger, a typical shonen protagonist in a world where the power of friendship and talking your enemies into repenting never works, goes through a complete personality change in the final season. Eren is dedicated to starting the Rumbling, freeing the thousands of Colossal titans that form the walls that surround his home and sending them marching on the rest of the world, killing everyone in their path until the only ones left are the people of Paradis Island. A far cry from the boy who would cry over the loss of the Levi Squad and yet still intimately close to the nine-year-old who killed two men to save Mikasa Ackerman.

Eren’s actions in the final season of the show have left many confused by his reasoning, but all that becomes clear towards the end of the series. The plan was for Eren to become the evil his friends must defeat, inciting the hatred that would unite the entire world against him. He made sure to push away every ally he had and wait for his ultimate fate at their hands, all in accordance with his plan. In many ways, his actions are similar to another anime character's; Code Geass' Lelouch.

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It’s rare for a protagonist to turn their back on their own ideals, morphing into the very thing they swore to defeat, and in doing so, ensure that those who defeat them become heroes. Rare, but not impossible, since Lelouch vi Britannia did it in 2007.

Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion made its mark with action-packed mech battles, intense political scheming, and moral dilemmas. The protagonist,