How Levi Survived In Attack On Titan (& How Injured Is He)

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By what miracle did Levi Ackerman survive Zeke Jaeger's blast in Attack on Titan season 4, and what kind of physical state will he be in for the final battle? The future looked bleak for Levi as Attack on Titan season 4, part 1 ended. Rigging Zeke Jaeger to a Thunder Spear, Levi never suspected his prisoner would take the extreme step of detonating the trap to break free, but his guardian angel was none other than Hange Zoë, who dragged her mortally-wounded Survey Corps comrade into a nearby river.

In Attack on Titan episode 83 («Pride»), flashbacks reveal how Hange patched Levi up, stitched his many, many wounds, and fashioned a cart for transporting his immobile body. No human should survive the blast Levi and Zeke endured, with the latter only emerging thanks to his Beast Titan powers. Hange attributes Levi's amazing durability to Ackerman DNA, but what exactly does this mean? And how did it protect Levi from being blown apart like a wet egg?

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Though the Ackermans remain one of Attack on Titan's biggest mysteries, Zeke Jaeger previously confirmed the bloodline was a product of «Titan science.» Essentially, Marley's finest minds fiddled with the biological components of proper Titans, then genetically engineered those qualities into a specific lineage — the Ackerman clan — who awaken their power through triggering moments, such as when Mikasa protected herself from kidnappers. Levi's Ackerman strength awakened long before Attack on Titan's present-day timeline, and although we've never witnessed one of the clan come this close to death before, it's safe to assume the Titan DNA swirling around Levi's bloodstream gave him a higher threshold for damage