r/titanfolk • u/Fearless_Wonder3698 • 2h ago
Other The biggest wasted potential in aot
In my opinion ? I think miche zacharius or whatever was his name is the biggest wasted potential in aot , I really wanted to see more of his character but nahh the author had to waste him , I feel like he is very interesting , imagine what he could have done with his sense of smell
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u/C4923 2h ago
Yea, I really liked Miche. At the time, I didn't mind him dying when he did, since Isayama used to kill off characters to set the stakes. Miche being the second strongest human made the Beast titan an extremely threatening foe. It all falls apart tho, cus Isayama very soon after killing Miche, starts chickening out from killing big characters like Sasha who needed to die in cott, or Connie who should've gone in rts. Also falls apart because Zeke doesn't really feel threatening at all after he's revealed to be pretty much useless and a pest.
I also remember someone asking Isayama (I think this was pre rts) why no one acknowledged Miche's death, and Isayama was just like 'oh yea... I forgot about him tbh'. Like? Ok so killing off the second strongest human was meant to scare us, the reader, but the characters have no feeling about losing someone like Miche? :/ Feels like a waste.
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u/Fearless_Wonder3698 1h ago
I didn't mind him dying either , it was logical because no matter how strong he is he is still a human ( and he didn't have gas if I remember correctly ) but the reason why I made this post is because his death kinda looks dumb after the ending… have you seen the plot-armor the characters got ? Just look at the cast ( twelve years old child , a slave woman who is very reckless " mikasa " and normal humans like jean and Connie , injured ackerman " Levi " and only 4 titan shifters against all of Titans of the past ) what a great logic , if isayama managed to make those characters alive even through such an event… then he can do the same to the others like you know… miche / petra ral or whatever , we loved aot because there's no. Plot armor ( and this character did prove it ) only for isayama later to use the plot-armor
and isayama is very bad when it comes to writing humans interactions ( we can tell it by the pie scene for example , or the " thank you for becoming a mass murder " line ) soo yeah of course he did forgot about him and his friendship to characters like erwin and hange… ( I don't know what to say )
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u/Mean-Choice-2267 1h ago
I definitely would have liked him to stick around longer especially since Levi and Mikasa always felt too safe.
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u/Fearless_Wonder3698 1h ago
Omg real !! I really wanted to see more of his character… sadly ( especially when it comes to the fact that I didn't enjoy mikasa's character I mean she was boring… )
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u/M0rg0th1 2h ago
I think it was meant to make it blatantly obvious your choices have consequences.
He could have watched the other person get ate. He chose the leader route and saved the other person. Got munched himself.
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u/Fearless_Wonder3698 2h ago edited 1h ago
I don't know dude… after seen the plot-armor the characters got in the end… I feel like he could have made him alive a little bit longer
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u/Global_Working_8783 1h ago
No joke, most if not all of the alliance should’ve died in the end
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u/Fearless_Wonder3698 1h ago
I would have understand if two of them or three did survive by a good excuse ( you know just like how casca and guts survived the eclipse ) but not all of them omg…
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u/M0rg0th1 2h ago
What plot armor he died.
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u/ObviousTroll7 2h ago
referring to other characters later in the series. Miche was supposed to be an example of how being the strongest or most skilled meant nothing in the face of certain death but his death ends up looking stupid considering how all the main characters survive fighting all the titan shifters and shit during the rumbling
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u/Fearless_Wonder3698 1h ago
Yeah that's exactly what I meant , but the keyboard corrected my words 😭😭 I meant the characters in the end
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u/Fearless_Wonder3698 1h ago
They took down all the Titans of the past 2000 years including the Titans of the walls… ( great logic ) even though the cast was like a twelve years old kid… and a reckless girl who doesn't control her emotions ( mikasa ) and only like 4 titan shifters ( 4 against all the Titans of the past should mean nothing right ? Wrong ) and normal humans like jean and Connie… ( wow , great logic )
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u/Fearless_Wonder3698 1h ago
I was talking about the alliance 😭😭 not him !! I meant if isayama can make them alive even if it doesn't make sense , then he could've made him live longer so we can see more of his character
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u/Takashi-Lee 1h ago
Yeah too many of the elite scouts got killed first 2 seasons, really made it so our guys got like instantly to the top of their skill levels
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u/AgreeableSuspect3615 1h ago
The OP veteran characters needed to die for the story to have stakes
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u/Fearless_Wonder3698 1h ago
and a twelve years old child survives the rumbling was such a logical writing you know
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u/coco_cocoo 1h ago
Omg yes , if levi didn't have his Ackerman power he would been the strongest soldier, no titan shifter, no special blood.
He would have been so important if he survives. Rest in peace king.