Everything You Know About Eren Is WRONG 

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I always liked the quote by eren in the beginning, “I'll kill them, I'll kill every last one of them." I find it cool that he never specified that he was gonna kill the titans. Kinda like foreshadowing

Eren did care about Sasha, I felt like he laughed out of the irony of the situation. Of the first time he met Sasha, she was obsessed with meat and food. And when he asked what was her last words it was pretty much that. You could tell he was crying too

37:57 this is wrong. He laughed because once again he failed to change the future he saw not because he didn’t care

The assessment that Eren didn't care about his friends towards the end completely ignores the conversations he had with everyone in the paths. You know the one where he lays out that by becoming public enemy number 1 he gave all of humanity a new enemy, gets rid of all titans, and even crippled all world militaries so Paradise has the time it needs to catch up to the rest of the world technologically. Eren didn't just decide we'll I have to kill everyone now. He waited and waited for a solution that wouldn't make him have to do that. He didn't choose revenge over his friends, or else he would have simply controlled all the Eldians to stop them from fighting back. He chose his friends over the world, even though he had to lose a few.

I love ALL of your content but yeah bro. You missed a key part in why he killed Willy Tybur and everybody else there… it was the whole world agreeing to attack Paradis. I use this as an example all the time. If your whole neighborhood hated you and made it quite clear they would NEVER stop attacking you, would you sit back and take it? Paradis has been getting pooped on for a hundred years and it’s all because Marley kept sending titans there. Eren lost his mom, his dad, his close friends, his sanity, and childhood because of hatred. The literally held a WORLD meeting about attacking Paradis. Eren did the only thing he could do to stop having his people be attacked after being attacked all their life. He knew he would be the enemy but like you said so yourself Nick, “He puts his friends above humanity.” He became the monster so his friends could be safe. Paradis gave numerous amounts of warnings but did Marley stop? Nope. They got the rest of the world to help attack Paradis. They were warned 🤷🏾‍♂️

Eren: Who's the final Enemy of the series? *Pieck points at Eren*

*Eren Yeager* Season 1: Kill all Titans Season 2: Kill all Titans Season 3: Reason with Titans Season 4: Kill all enemies.

Saying eren didn't care when Sasha is so wrong, because his reaction is the same reaction he had for Hans without the tears.

Bruh...he literally said everything he did was to ensure his friends have a long and "peaceful" life. He doesn't just kill anyone and feels nothing. It's those that take away others' freedom that he feels nothing for or despises das why he still cries and feels guilt for murdering everyone else

If Zeke hadn't arrested Grisha, then Eren wouldn't have existed.

I feel like you missed that Eren did care when Sasha died, he had the same reaction as to when Hannes died. He laughed at himself for being unable to save someone close to him, he essentially had a mini-mental breakdown.

I’m pretty sure protagonist and antagonist have nothing to do with morals. I think they just mean lead of the story and challenge to the lead of the story.

First off, even though I don't agree with a lot of the video, I appreciate the analysis that you have provided. I think AOT can be seen in a lot of ways, and not one reading is by default bad or good. That being said, I don't think Eren, or any other character outside of maybe King Fritz, can be seen as a "bad person". The story to me is more of a narrative about generational trauma and how it can impact people even when not realizing it. Throughout the story draws parallels to multiple generations of individuals who were unable to surpass the pain and harm inflicted to, or caused by, of their ancestors because of actions taken generations before their own. To say that Eren "could have" changed his fate and decreased the number of dead is not quite an accurate reading to me as well. Eren is not a "good person" by any stretch of the imagination at the end of the story, but he was also 19 years old and a child solder who likely didn't know any better (even if we ignore the causality paradox of him knowing the consequences of his actions at a certain point in the story). He had seen, for his entire life, his family, friends and others die, then was forced with what he thought was a reality that he would not be able to prevent it from occurring. Then he found out that he would have a limited amount of years to live and likely wouldn't even survive to see a peaceful future he wanted as a child. To say that we can mark all of those actions as him being a "sociopath" (when you typically cannot diagnose that until adulthood) is a bit of a stretch to me. Should he be seen as a savior? Heck no, he killed upwards of 80% of his planet's population. But he never had the chance to truly have the opportunity to determine if he could change his fate and be someone like Naruto either. He was trapped in the paradox of wanting the one thing he could never touch until he was gone.

I felt like the least Eren could've done was impregnate Mikasa before he died. 😂

Eren's favorite words are "Fight!" and "Freedom."

Damn, incredible that you turned 3+ hours of work into a 40 minute masterpiece

The way Eren cried thinking about Mikasa being with another guy. 😢

I really like your analysis. I just one issue and that's that, no really, Eren cannot control Mikasa. He straight up lied to her so she would be angry with him. At this point Eren had been getting good at half-truths, he knew about mikasa's headaches from living with her, but when he asked Zeke, who a student of one greatest Titan researchers if he ever heard of his Ackerman hypothesis, he said no, they seem unrelated and that she probably does care deeply about him. The only thing different about Mikasa is her combat ability, not her mind.

At the point of the story where Eren joins the military to kill all titans the titans aren't looked at like people. They're mindless monsters that kill and eat humans just to kill, not needing to eat humans to survive. So I feel like him wanting to kill all titans is justified at that point in the story. But genocide is still wrong lmao.

That technically doesn't mean he's not the protagonist. The "protagonist" doesn't have to be the good guy, it can simply be the main or most prominent character the story follows..which is Eren 🤷🏾‍♂️ still, love the video 🔥

WRONG! Eren Yeager is the hero who does what is needed. He didn't start the fight, but he damn sure finished it. Team Yeager baby.

I do not know about this video a decent amount of information was wrong. 1) Eren did care about his friends and Paradise island he says in the anime and manga you even see evidence that supports this. When Eren father tells the holder of the founding titan in the Reiss family to use her power to protect Paradis island she says that the Eldians deserve to be killed off (even though she herself is a Eldian) Eren is showing pissed off listening to her say that. 2) You failed to mention that Marley and the rest of the world knew that the Eldians had there memories erased yet they still killed and tortured Eldians for fun and would turn them into pure titans and send them off to Paradise island to kill the people there. 3) Marley started war with Paradise island first as they sent Reiner, Berholdt, and Annie to Paradise island looking for the founding titan. Which resulted in them kicking down the walls killing thousands of people including children. So Eren attacking Marley was a retaliation strike.

*Eren is the best written Anime protagonist of all time* Chapter 139

Eren Yeager represents us in life. We all are happy children only to grow up and deal with the harsh cruelty of reality.

after watching all of this… it just solidifies in my mind that eren of the great mc of all time and he’s the hero

I feel like you overlooked thinking it would be easy-ish for Paradis to covertly end the war with Marley and the world with little amounts of deaths. You mentioned Eren and crew could have just killed the Marley parties responsible for Paradis being attacked. The allied forces tried to assassinate Hitler all the time, but were unable to do so. Also, killing leaders doesn't always lead to a downfall. When the US kills terrorists overseas way too many civilians get killed in the crossfire, and can often galvanize/strengthen said terrorist groups. The allies carpet bombed and killed hundreds of thousands of German civilians. They also sentenced to death any Nazi soldier who killed someone, regardless if the circumstances led to it being involuntary. While those killed German civilians is still objectively less wrong than committing a Holocaust, there isn't a 100% universally good party there. There isn't typically a simple way to end a war without too many lives lost. Long story long, war is garbage. Unfortunately, there isn't usually a Naruto way to bridge the empathy gap between 2 hurt parties at war. Lots of shades of black, sometimes grey.

You did an excellent job but I can’t help but feel that you missed a really key moment in erens decision. That being the meet with all the world leaders and they all declared eldia as the true and only enemy. With that said Erens mind was made up entirely at that point hence him storming out of that meeting. That to me was a very pivotal moment I would have loved for you to touch on because that moment itself was a very defining moment… to me lol otherwise excellent job lol lmk whatcha think

Erin kissing Historia's (Royalty) hand gave him the Timeline Vision, so he recognized killing the Reiss family and saving Historia is the only way that he could activate the power himself. If not, then his first vision would be touching Zeke, which would change the entire story. Also, You watch your mother die, you make a choice. He chose vengeance. Revenge is Human. Human adaptability always resorts to survival. If giving someone else that knowledge can completely change history (because we know simply sneezing on someone can change a timeline) he doesn't know if he survives or not. If I'm Erin i'm always betting on myself, especially when I have a goal since 9 yrs old. also, lol. If i was BETRAYED BY ALMOST EVERY FRIEND THAT I SWORE TO PROTECT AT EVERY ELEMENT OF MY TEENAGE LIFE, MY VENGEANCE WOULD EXASPARATE TOO

If only Eren can physically time travel. He'd be the Future Trunks of Attack on Titan.

While I do think some of Eren's decisions were pretty fucked up, I don't think you could really blame the guy. The way I see it, anyone would've done the exact same thing if they were in his shoes.

Imagine Eren's mom Carla was just waiting for Eren on the other side.

“Only a Sith deals in absolutes” Nice comparison

This is a very well constructed argument but It feels like you were purposely not giving information about Eren that goes against your argument. But hey it’s not a fan theory if it’s believers dismiss evidence against it.

Would love to see more Attack On Titan videos. I know it’s not as vast and intricate as Naruto and maybe harder to make more AOT videos but they would be cool to see even hypothetical situations in some videos. But great content like usual

I'm begging you to put the naruto statues in a proper display box, it gets me so anxious to see Jiraiya so close to the edge of a table 🫥

Oh, man. I’ll start by saying the narrative clearly says Eren is in the ~wrong~, but there’s a lot of context you’re either not adding or artificially adding. 1. Eren isn’t a sociopath. He’s doesn’t fit the definition at all. Eren clearly possesses empathy and fits into most social norms. Idk what definition of ASPD you’re using, but it ain’t one I’ve ever heard of. This isn’t a debate about themes; he just doesn’t fit the definition. 2. The universe of AoT is deterministic; he can’t go back and change the past outside of what the universe has determined he does, and you flip flop between this at multiple points in the video; you apply it to Grisha, but you don’t apply it to Eren earlier in the video. I know that people have a pretty visceral reaction to the lack of free will, but that’s part of the larger point of the story. Eren is what he is, just like Armin is who he is. They have no control over it, and this is directly referenced at multiple points in the series, such as Eren’s conversation with Reiner. We identify with Armin being the one in the right because of our nature and experiences that were outside of our own control. We are who we are. Everything is what it is, and Armin lucked out that this is largely his viewpoint - appreciating everything that is. Eren can’t do this because that isn’t who he is, and he recognizes this, so the person that he is attempts to make a world for Armin that Eren believes is most free in his own warped way. Determinism makes anyone thinking about it redefine choice. Choice isn’t conscious. 3. Eren already probably saw the rumbling in the dream given to him by Ymir in chapter 1, and there’s evidence later in the chapter that he knows, at least subconsciously, what’s about to happen when Bertholt and Reiner broke the wall. We don’t know when or if he was able to fully contextualize the dream, but we know that he had at least seen Mikasa killing him all the way back in chapter 1. 4. Reiner is definitely a foil to Eren, but I think you’re missing some of the scope here too. Reiner never grows out of wanting to be a hero in the same way that Eren never grew out of the need to fight for freedom. Eren will always need to fight for freedom, and Reiner will always strive to be a hero. Both are warped and will reason with their actions in order to justify their motivation. “Everyone is drunk on somethin’” 5. You’re absolutely wrong in the conclusion. Eren is for sure driven to fight for freedom, regardless of the body count, but reducing his motivation to just that is superficial, and it goes against multiple plot and thematic points, such as Eren clearly looking for an out when he asks Mikasa what he means to her. Isayama even goes through the trouble of imagining a whole different universe (since this one is deterministic, so you can’t just change this one) to show us exactly what would have happened if Mikasa told Eren how she felt. This universe dictated that Eren would never feel the warm love that Mikasa got from him wrapping the scarf around her neck, Reiner felt from Gabi and Falco, or Annie felt from her father (weird one I know). The whole series deals with culpability and how we both frame and process it. By the end, all of the characters we follow in the story come to understand this, and it’s why they’re so broken up after they kill Eren. They knew that this was the path he was always going to follow no matter what, but they still love him, and Armin even goes as far as to thank him.

It be really sad and cruel if Eren went back in time and told those guys where Mikasa's family lived.

bro i love your content and how consitent you are keep up the good work man

I love the videos. I have been watching your vids averyday on my lunch breaks for the past six months

Absolutely LOVE your content! Amazing vid!

Love the video and keep up the great work nick

Eren's the person who would go far to take away his enemies Freedom.

Eren is just a pre-puberty guy waking up as an adult one day and started listening to voices in his head

Ayeee I’m currently watching AOT and I’m on season 3!! I’ll like this video. Keep up the good work!

I’ve been watching for a long time now and i will say, you have gotten much better at the snack reviews. they used to be PAINFULLY obviously read off of a script but now it’s getting a little better

NC: "He's a sociopath!" Me, with ASPD: "Why you gotta say it like that?"

Bro the 360 intervention shot almost made me crash my car laughing lmaooo

I'm not quite convinced that as the founder Eren could have altered the events from his own past before he officially obtained the founder... I agree that once he had the founder he absolutely could perceive and alter the entire history of Eldians. But he couldn't change things like the fall of the walls because altering too much in the past would have changed the series of events that lead to him obtaining the founder, which is why he only did things like providing visions to young him and his father

I mean there's also the train scene where Eren says he still truly cares about his friends. I think he's doing all this because he sees it as the only way to protect them

Great video and analysis!

Eren was never a villain, because a villain is someone who wants to harm somebody because he is either mentaly ill, or he has bad reasons. But Eren didn't have any of that. He did all of this so his friends and dear ones could live, so it's better to asume that he was an antihero not a villain, because he was a hero who wanted to do something good no matter the methods

I would love to hear your take regarding Light and Lelouch. Feel that would be a great watch.

After finishing AOT I got excited to see you do videos about it feels like the shows post credit scenes

Great video as always!!! Could you do analysis videos on Floch and Gabi? Also, the Zoldyck family from HXH and characters from Chainsaw Man?

Great breakdown!!!🔥 👏 👍🏾

it's nice to see you expand into other anime, im down for all anime you want to talk about dude

Carrying the anime community on your back bro, stay winning! Sending love and support from New Zealand 🇳🇿

I would love to see more videos like this one! I love long form videos but I understand why we don't get them a lot

I always learn something when i watch you

i wasnt aware that eren could talk to any disciple of emire i thought it was only attack titans he could talk to

At around 10:10 there's another possibility. Grisha could have the ability to choose freely if he gives the titans to Eren or not; and he decides he will do it. Why? Idk, maybe to protect his son, maybe he thinks Zeke could change stuff, but we don't really know if Grisha has a choice or not

love this guys videos

Excellent video man

After watching this and the previous video, I am reminded of why I started listening/watching your videos on Naruto and Attack on Titan. You've educated me and have blown my mind. You've also made me realize and understand situation's in AOT that I didn't fully comprehend myself. I have only said this about one of other person in my life and now I'm saying it about you, But I like the way your brain works, more or less.

I’m so glad you made this video!!! I have been telling my homies forever that Eren is just a sociopath. It’s obvious. He’s not an anti hero. He he’s the protagonist of the story that happens to be its biggest villain. Protagonist also can just mean the main character. I think we forget that.

Saw the title and was hoping it's a long video. It appears I won't be disappointed

Great and well planned out analysis. My only gripe would be when the world decided that Paradis was their one and true enemy. Even if Eren went back through the paths to try and stop the deaths of his people, it wouldn't have brought them any closer to peace. While the Coordinate and the Attack Titan were missing, Marley would've kept sending their soldiers and might to Paradis until they got it back or completely obliterated the Eldians on Paradis.I do believe (without spoiling the ending) that Eren knew the truth at the end of Season 3 and was waiting on a better solution but there wasn't any. Genocide is terrible, but what would've been the better solution when the entire world, (of which Paradis had no knowledge, no weapons, and no transportation so they were sitting ducks,) saw you as a threat and wanted to eliminate you? It sounds terrible, but I would've chosen my friends and loved ones I was raised with too, everytime.

35:03 Yeah, he called them hypocrites and monsters, but he also noted to Reiner during his initial attack on Marley that they were the same after all.

Great vid as always! Your channel is quickly becoming my favorite. Can you do one about Mikasa, Levi, and the Ackerman clan as a whole?

3:57 he was about to spit that out so fast LMAOO

You're overlooking the facts that eren hid the memories of Carla dying from grisha, because that would be the thing to force him to give eren the titan. Plus overlooking the fact that, eren waited for armin and hange to find some sort of way to fo this diplomatically and. eren only gives up the search after seeing the party that wanted to spare Eldians hated and wanted Paradis dead. Only then does Eren fully decide to enact his plan. Do I think eren is right? No. But we can't overlook the out of character efforts he took to avoid this outcome. He sets Paradis free by not killing the rest of the world, but killing 80 % and making it a fair fight for people and the others by also taking away all titans. Eren isn't gonna be Naruto, eren doesn't have enough time to find a solution before he dies and before his homeland is killed. Nor will he be itachi and sacrifice his people for the world that's hated his people.

Really awesome work as always people just really don't get it this video explains it well and fast compared other videos

Beautifully done.

i subscribed because i was impressed with your ability to describe food with such detail. animes cool too.

A sociopathic hero who ends up wanting to destroy the world. F-ing brilliant. Man I love this show.

I’ve honestly always thought Eren was villain because of his choices. I wasn’t surprised at all he really is angry and revenge driven right off start. Good Video!

Great video! I'm still deciding if I want to wait for season 4 pt.3 or just read the manga to find out the ending!

Damn, that moment u realize you’ve watched the villains coming out story.

You're right the 360 no scope to Sasha being shot was hilarious.

hey nick, is there enough information to make a video on Utakata? I don't remember if he was filler or not, I keep putting off my rewatch, but he was one of my favorite characters

A good video would be how and why the walls are set up the way they were

Been liking Thursdays the best these past few weeks

This is an anime.. so I’m backing Eren 😂. I always knew what he was about and that world needs to restart

Nick did you know that in season 1 of AOT you can see future EREN lurking around watching the younger versions of him and the gang ?

Hey man, I love you videos. I do have to say though you cut always are so much louder than you are. While hilarious, the one if this video also tried to pop my ear drums 😅 Can you look into that for me?

that edit was, in fact hilarious

your editor is insane

W vid, can you do one of kanaki in Tokyo ghaul

One thing I can’t recommend enough is when you talk about an obscure or one off side character you should have a picture of them on screen so we know exactly who you’re talking about.

You should do a video on Toji the only person to ever push gojo past his limits. He’s basically the reason why gojo is considered a god in the jjk universe now. But I’m curious on gojo once he gets out of the box

Best editor ever 😂

As incredible evolution Eren Yeager has Ben undergoing, one thing I cannot figured is why can’t he changed Fate since he witnessed future memories of the attack Titan’s power. Was he unable to because it was all let.., or was Eren unable to do it because he can’t go against his own nature; his own desire? Either way, I do not like him being a villain in the end.

I seriously don't comprehend this series. There's just. So much symbolism....

Well Eren can look into the memories of the Eldians but not influence them he was able to do this to GrIsha Yeager because he posses the ability of Attack titan which gives him the ability to see into future and he was able to exploit this ability of Attack titan in order to influence him.

Am here, as it drops

pretty much when Eren came into contact with historya he got the future memories of what *NEEDS* to happen through the influence of present Eren (basically manipulating all past Erens choices) and there setting the path of the show

Sasha cuts are gold

I got this notification while watching ur tiktok

26:38 "frIENds" voice crack lmao