History Characters / AttackOnTitanErenYeager

* FinalBoss: [[spoiler:By instigating the Rumbling, he becomes the final antagonist of the series. He put himself into this through the use of the Attack Titan's power, as he believes that by instigating the Rumbling, he would not only present Paradis as a global threat to the other nations across the sea, but also allow his former comrades (who disagree with his motives) to fight and ultimately kill him, as a means to put an end to the power of the titans and be hailed as heroes to the rest of the world.]]

* BigBad: [[spoiler:Officially usurps his half-brother Zeke of this role in the final arc, serving as the main antagonist of the rest of the series. Eren manipulates events in order to gain access to the Paths realm and meet Ymir Fritz. Managing to outwit Zeke, Eren convinces Ymir to give him the full power of the Founding Titan so that he can awaken every single one of the Wall Titans and command them to trample all life outside of Paradis Island. His friends don't accept this, thinking that he's gone too far, and band together with their former enemies to stop him. It's ultimately revealed in the final chapter that Eren was deliberately playing the role of the villain to give his friends the motivation to stop him and paint them as heroes to all that's left of humanity while simultaneously wiping out enough of the world that they couldn't effectively retaliate against Paradis.]]

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: The official translation gives his family name as Yeager, which is the Anglicized version of Jäger/Jaeger. However, many translations (most notably Funimation's) use Jaeger as his surname.

[[Characters/AttackOnTitanShinganshinaTrio Shinganshina Trio]] ('''Eren Yeager''') | [[Characters/AttackOnTitanWarriorTrio Warrior Trio]] | [[Characters/AttackOnTitanThe104thTraineeCorps 104th Trainee Corps]] ([[Characters/AttackOnTitanKristaLenz Krista Lenz]]) | [[Characters/AttackOnTitanSurveyCorps Survey Corps]] ([[Characters/AttackOnTitanLeviAckerman Levi Ackerman]]) | [[Characters/AttackOnTitanMilitaryPoliceBrigade Military Police Brigade]] | [[Characters/AttackOnTitanGarrison Garrison]] | [[Characters/AttackOnTitanTitans Titans]] | [[Characters/AttackOnTitanMarley Marley]] [[[Characters/AttackOnTitanWarriorUnit Warrior Unit]] ([[Characters/AttackOnTitanZekeYeager Zeke Yeager]], [[Characters/AttackOnTitanGabiBraun Gabi Braun]])] | [[Characters/AttackOnTitanEldia Eldia]] | [[Characters/AttackOnTitanOthers Others]] | [[Characters/AttackOnTitanBeforeTheFall Before the Fall]]]]-]]]

* OfficialCouple: [[spoiler: He and Mikasa are in love with each other but unfortunately they never get the chance to elope and reunite as couples since he offically dies in the end.]]

[[Characters/AttackOnTitanShinganshinaTrio Shinganshina Trio]] ('''Eren Yeager''', [[Characters/AttackOnTitanMikasaAckerman Mikasa Ackerman]], [[Characters/AttackOnTitanArminArlert Armin Arlert]]) | [[Characters/AttackOnTitanWarriorTrio Warrior Trio]] ([[Characters/AttackOnTitanAnnieLeonhart Annie Leonhart]], [[Characters/AttackOnTitanReinerBraun Reiner Braun]], [[Characters/AttackOnTitanBertoltHoover Bertolt Hoover)]] | [[Characters/AttackOnTitanThe104thTraineeCorps 104th Trainee Corps]] ([[Characters/AttackOnTitanKristaLenz Krista Lenz]]) | [[Characters/AttackOnTitanSurveyCorps Survey Corps]] ([[Characters/AttackOnTitanLeviAckerman Levi Ackerman]]) | [[Characters/AttackOnTitanMilitaryPoliceBrigade Military Police Brigade]] | [[Characters/AttackOnTitanGarrison Garrison]] | [[Characters/AttackOnTitanTitans Titans]] | [[Characters/AttackOnTitanMarley Marley]] [[[Characters/AttackOnTitanWarriorUnit Warrior Unit]] ([[Characters/AttackOnTitanZekeYeager Zeke Yeager]], [[Characters/AttackOnTitanGabiBraun Gabi Braun]])] | [[Characters/AttackOnTitanEldia Eldia]] | [[Characters/AttackOnTitanOthers Others]] | [[Characters/AttackOnTitanBeforeTheFall Before the Fall]]]]-]]]

->''"I'll be waiting... in Hell."''

* MythicalMotifs: Eren is heavily associated with Loki from Myth/NorseMythology. Loki is a Jotunn, yet accepted among the Aesir as Odin's blood brother, and while he causes no small amount of trouble, he also helps to fix most of his mistakes, even after the Aesir chain up one of his sons inside of a cave and throw the other into the ocean. Once Loki goes too far, though, he is severely punished, leading him to become extremely bitter and enact his revenge by causing Ragnarok, which will see virtually all of the gods slain, including Loki himself. [[spoiler:Eren is initially very idealistic and even after being confronted with the truth about the world outside of the walls, is willing to try and find a way to coexist. After seeing the extreme systemic racism that Eldians face, though, and Marley attempting to demonize him into a devil so that the world can enact a FinalSolution against the Eldians of Paradis, though, Eren ultimately decides to [[ThenLetMeBeEvil be the kind of monster they implied he was]]; he becomes a cunning schemer and sets up events to use the Titans to enact a FinalSolution on the rest of the world in defense of his home]].

** [[spoiler: With the reveal of Eren's true destiny in the final saga of the series, it turns out he's a deconstruction of ''many'' different types of TheChosenOne - TheUnchosenOne, ThePoorlyChosenOne, ItSucksToBeTheChosenOne, ApocalypseMaiden and even TheChooserOfTheOne - all in one go because [[StableTimeLoop it is his future self, and eventually his present self, who determine that he ends up the Founding Titan]], enabling him to trigger the Rumbling to end the rest of the world. It is a plan that is outlined many times as a horrific recourse of action and that Eren is not entirely in the right for activating it but does so anyway because he cannot see any other option to protect his people. And despite going through with it, it's not an action which comes easy; even before he sets his plan into motion, he's clearly crippled by the guilt of his pre-determined astronomically numbered kill count but cannot find a way to change the future.]]

** [[spoiler:In Chapter 65 of the manga while in the underground chamber in the Reiss chapel. After it's been revealed what happened to the Reiss family and what Eren has to do with it, Kenny Ackermann takes the gag off of an BoundAndGagged Eren and [[BodyHorror cuts open his forehead]] to allow him to get revenge, only to be surprised when Eren basically states how he never wanted any of this while sobbing and Eren begs Historia/Krista to eat him and set things right. For a moment it looks like she will, but she ultimately refuses.]]

** [[spoiler:This also applies to his actions in regard to the Rumbling. Due to the timeline being predetermined (which itself is due to Eren orchestrating events for the Rumbling to come to pass), he is unable to avert the future or stop himself from slaughtering humanity. Reiner notes that if he was in Eren's position, he would want someone to stop him, which turns out to be right on the mark. Eren refused to take away the Alliance's will to defeat him, but he also made it clear that the ''only'' way the Rumbling can be stopped is to kill him.]]

* ImGoingToHellForThis: [[spoiler: Eren fully believes that he deserves to go to hell after killing 80% of the human population in the Rumbling.]]

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* TheExtremistWasRight: [[spoiler:The final chapter in the series heavily implies that Eren's actions, which killed 80% of humanity, were ultimately necessary in order to ensure that the Eldians had a chance at survival. In spite of this, Eren knows what he did was wrong.]]

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** [[spoiler: Eren's stoic façade briefly breaks when Sasha dies]].

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: The official translation gives his family name as Yeager, which is the Anglicized version of Jäger/Jaeger. However, many translations (most notably Funimation's) use Jaeger as his surname.

* OneManArmy: Deconstructed and frequently Subverted. The revelation that Eren can turn into a Titan immediately makes him the strongest fighter humanity has on its side and capable of killing more Titans single-handedly than most squads of trained soldiers. However, his [[UnstoppableRage bottomless reservoir of fury]] and [[LeeroyJenkins complete absence of discipline]] frequently cause him to get himself [[DidNotThinkThisThrough way in over his head]] and result in the Survey Corps needing to [[BigDamnHeroes back him up or bail him out]]. At times, these character flaws, combined with his general importance to the plot, cause him to be targeted by the enemy before he can even accomplish much and force the Scouts to devote all of their energy to protecting/rescuing him, [[TheLoad making him more of a liability than a superweapon]]. Even when he is undoubtedly at his most capable and ruthless during [[spoiler: the raid on Liberio]], his decision to attack on his own and trust the other Scouts to think of everything else almost gets him killed multiple times—had it not been for [[TheAce Mikasa and Levi]] (who have been directly referred to as one-person armies themselves), he likely would have fallen to either [[spoiler: the Warhammer Titan or the Jaw Titan]]. This all becomes moot, however, when he [[spoiler: attains the full power of the Founding Titan, unleashing the thousands of Colossal Titans in Paradis' walls and becoming ''[[PersonOfMassDestruction a one-man fucking apocalypse.]]'']]