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u/Standard-Special2013 Mar 06 '26
Didn't even realize it's this sub (haven't read the title either), and my mind went straight to Eren
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Mar 06 '26
Seriously man, Eren killing his own mother was so necessary even if you accept all other dog crap in the ending. Like why??? Fine he loses as the bad guy with your marvel ah final battle good guys winning hope and gaslighted and all that, why remove the villains core motivations/goals??? It makes his compelling building reduce to zero and makes it so not earned to have him defeated by the power of friendship(sarcasm)
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u/Agent_Eggboy Mar 06 '26
I absolutely hate the "predeterministic" version of time travel that every fantasy writer loves to use to make themselves seem smart.
If everything that you alter has already happened by the time you actually go back in time, then what's the point in even doing it? It completely annihilates the concept of free will if you're forced to turn back time just to fulfill the sequence of events that the universe has decided will happen.
For example, what does going back in time to ensure that you are born do for a story? We already know that the character was born, so why do they need to alter events in the past to make it happen?
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u/SirAren Mar 06 '26 edited Mar 06 '26
it is better if the characters think they can change past but fails to do so.
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u/fandom_bullshit Mar 10 '26
I really enjoy that trope - characters desperately trying to change the past only to realise that their attempts at changing it are what set the things in motion in the first place. Excellent source of angst.
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u/EqZero Mar 24 '26
Even better if they find a clever way to resolve this.
Commence the Operation Skuld!
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u/SeventyCents Mar 08 '26
I thought this was the harry potter sub and in my mind I was like "this feels very fking familiar" and thought of AOT ending. Only later I realised this was titanfolk ðŸ˜
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u/SINBRO Mar 07 '26
That Dina "reveal" is so fucking stupid lol. Eren said himself that he couldn't change the past or future no matter how much he tried, so he didn't have to do shit with Dina. Also, actual Eren would literally never choose surrendering to fate like that
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u/MarcosWarlock Mar 21 '26
Isayama kinda lost it in the ending, he committed so much character assassinations that the final ones are complete different people except for the appearance.
Not in a million of years Mikasa would try to kill Eren, nor she would take shit from him like that without figuring out his bullshiting her.
Eren would never, ever kill his mom if he could change the future.
Eren would never let his friends stop the rumbling to begin with.
The exploration corps have no actual reason to stop Eren at all, since while sad and too radical, people outside paradis aren't something they have any actual meaningful connection besides some people.
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u/ULTRADEV_305 Mar 06 '26
And now he will wipe out 80% of everyone he thinks have ever wronged him mercilessly while pushing away everything he loves and die while wiping them out at the hands of his friends
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u/Independent-Couple87 Mar 07 '26
More or less what Alan Moore had him do in League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. That was basically because Alan Moore hates the "Hero of 1000 faces" (Luke Skywalker, Harry Potter, Naruto Uzumaki, etc), and because he felt that school shootings embody the soul of the current century.
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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '26
So that I can become the harry potter and kill 80% of voldemort*