History Fridge / AttackOnTitan

* A combination of Fridge Horror and Logic upon looking back at Chapter 112 from chapters 120 and above [[spoiler: Eren's speech about being free to Mikasa and Armin is tragic because of the revelation that there is a predetermined time loop and that his actions have already been decided making him a slave to the fate set out for him. While his current choices are technically his own from the future he may have desperately hoped that he could change something only to realize that there was no other path for him from the start which leads to an incredible amount of death and destruction]].
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* As of Chapter 130, we have yet to still understand the full extent of the Attack Titian's powers to connect to the future. It is possible that Eren's has seen futures that are WORSE then what he is planning to bring about. At this point he is committed to the path of genocide. The world of Attack on Titian must have truly bee on a dark path if world's destruction is a preferable alternative.

* While many have criticized the whole "political corruption" arc for taking focus away from the Titans, it actually fits in perfectly with the series' overarching theme: HumansAreTheRealMonsters. [[spoiler:The Titans and their origins]] prove this on a more literal level, while [[spoiler:the Antipersonnel squad, the autocracy's willingness to abandon the people, Kenny's willingness to shoot Levi dead]], and pretty much every other despicable person or act committed in and out of this arc complete the allegory by proving it on a metaphorical level.

* [[spoiler: Uri Reiss]] comes off a humble, quiet NiceGuy, and he certainly [[spoiler: spared Kenny's life when he could have quite easily killed him]]. Yet one must remember that the assassinations, tortures, and other cruelties carried out by the Central MP went on unabated during his reign. In fact, a younger Djel Sannes even mentions that he can do the things he's ordered to do because of his devotion to the King. In other words, [[spoiler: ''Uri'']] might have ordered Erwin's father's horrible death and the killing of who knows how many others.

* Imagine if Zeke DID succeed with his plans to kill all Eldians with the sterilization plan...it would just prove Marley in their own eyes RIGHT, and this would not do anything to stop suffering, and in fact would just cause MORE since they would be thinking "well since we were "right" about the eldians we can just go onto the next race we deem "inferior" to us" since murderous racists won't just stop being murderous racists, they will just shift their hatred to the next convienant target and the process starts all over again (since it is stated that Marley is forcing other people, not just Eldians to do dirty work for them ) we see other people from other places who Marley took over being forced to fight for them, so even if all Eldians just dropped dead, the pain would continue, just with another race of people deemed "unfit to live" by whatever bullshit logic Marlyians come up with.

* TheReveal in Chapter 88 that [[spoiler:Titan Shifters are doomed to die 13 years after gaining their powers]] offers one explanation for why Grisha passed his power on to Eren. He may have been approaching his limit. It also offers another reason Grisha was weeping hysterically when he did it: not only was he forcing a tremendous responsibility on to his son, [[spoiler:and he's painfully aware of how badly that can go considering what happened to his first son Zeke]], he knew he was also [[spoiler:ensuring
that his son would die young.]]

** Additionally, [[spoiler: very few of the Titans have their powers "stacked" to a wide diversity. Injecting multiple Titan powers into a single person? That's the last thing you want to do if you want to control them.]]

* TheReveal in Chapter 88 that [[spoiler:Titan Shifters are doomed to die 13 years after gaining their powers]] offers one explanation for why Grisha passed his power on to Eren. He may have been approaching his limit. It also offers another reason Grisha was weeping hysterically when he did it: not only was he forcing a tremendous responsibility on to his son, [[spoiler:and he's painfully aware of how badly that can go considering what happened to his first son Zeke]], he knew he was also [[spoiler:ensuring that his son would die young.]]

** While it's revealed that titan size is determined by how much serum is injected into their spines so the smaller titans are still likely to be adults, Eren Kruger reveals that Marley isn't merciful to children and will titanize them for as little as being outside an internment zone without their armbands. So yes, the Survey Corps probably killed at least a few children.

* The blue flowers that sometimes show up resemble [[spoiler: delphinium, which are [[http://www.lackuna.com/2012/04/11/the-language-of-flowers/ said to have the ability to transcend the bounds of space and time.]]]]

* The blue flowers that sometimes show up could be [[spoiler: delphinium, which are [[http://www.lackuna.com/2012/04/11/the-language-of-flowers/ said to have the ability to transcend the bounds of space and time.]]]]

* The blue flowers that sometimes show up could be [[spoiler: delphinium, which are [[http://www.lackuna.com/2012/04/11/the-language-of-flowers/ said to have the ability to transcend space and time.]]]]

* The blue flowers that sometimes show up could be [[spoiler: delphinium, which are [[http://www.lackuna.com/2012/04/11/the-language-of-flowers/ said to have the ability to transcend space and time.]]

Pieck and Magath [[spoiler figure out that Zeke has betrayed them]]. This means that the surviving members of the [[spoiler Yeager family]] on the mainland are now in terrible danger. Now that the Warrior has turned traitor, the family is likely to be executed or turned into Titans for military experiments.

* Something that came to me recently was why Titans were thought to never be active at night only the day. With the knowledge that there are people in the Titans had lost their sense of self and were acting more on instinct then anything else the reason is that they were simply sleeping at night and just waking up with the sun.

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* Prior to the reseal Trost operation, Pixis tells the soldiers that Eren is an "experimental super soldier created via science to dissuade them from killing him. [[spoiler: Many, many chapters later, we find out that he was more or less correct, not only about Eren, but Titans in general.]]
* The War-Hammer Titan remained off the world stage for a century, and is never seen in person until chapter 101, over one hundred chapters into the serie

* Whose idea is it to [[spoiler:save the rogue Titan]], and who pipes up in favor? [[spoiler:Reiner and Annie, respectively. Annie even appears to be addressing Bertolt behind her when she says that the Titan could prove to be an ally.]]

* The Walled City seems to have a serious problem with institutionalized classism, with the wealthiest and most talented being given the best and safest places to live, while everyone else is more or less expected to die to maintain the city. [[spoiler: The people who originally found the Walls and founded the City inside it ''were'' the wealthiest people in the world at the time. When they had to set up a system of government, naturally they would build it around the idea of preserving their own status.]]

* Eren tells Levi that he's much more talkative now [[spoiler: in the aftermath of his team's death]]. Levi says he's always talks this this much. Cue a panel showing that they're the only two in a large mess hall. This could imply that yeah, Levi isn't very talkative to ''Eren''. They've only just met. When he's around his [[spoiler: now annihilated]] team, he probably speaks much more, thus accenting how much more alone he's suddenly become.
* It seems like it was too risky for [[spoiler: Annie]] to kill the captured Titans. It wasn't likely that the new experiments were going to reveal anything. However, Eren was supposed to be involved in the experiments. Eren, who they already suspected of being the coordinate. In other words [[spoiler: had the power to control Titans.]]

* So since Titans don't have digestive organs, that means they likely don't have stomach acid either. Meaning that when a person is swallowed whole, the only way they'll die is either through dying from the heat or drowning in their comrades' blood. It's clearly what would have been Eren's fate had he not turned out a Shifter.

** While it still doesn't say anything [[spoiler:on her Titan training]], ''Wall Sina, Goodbye'' does further explore the hellish training of which she went through as a child. Every day, her father would make her kick the padding on his legs, padded poles or sandbags hanging from trees from ''before the sun rose'' till ''it set in the evening.'' At one point, he scolded her for trying to take a break to which she lashed out on him as a result. And, while it may be looking too deeply into things, his reprimanding that caused her to snap is very similar to the one we hear in her dream in episode 23. It could be she woke up at that moment as she didn't want to recall her beating of him.

* In Chapter 47, [[spoiler: Ymir reveals that she spent 60 years wandering around as a regular (mindless) Titan. It was only five years ago that she was able to wake up and regain her human form. She describes those decades as being trapped in an "endless nightmare", but doesn't recall exactly what she did during that time.....including having devoured Reiner and Bertolt's friend, Marcel. Bertolt states it was "the same" for them as well. If this is the norm for Titans, then that means ''all'' Titans were once human. And they all have the potential to wake up, and regain their human minds and forms. That means the ''only'' difference between Shifters like Eren and regular Titans is that they were able to escape their LotusEaterMachine.]] In the same chapter, [[spoiler: Ymir says that "Eren doesn't remember, either", which means either a) She is assuming Eren was a Titan from outside the Walls as well. Or b) Eren killed his dad after he injected him due to a partial or full transformation and reverted back into human form without remembering anything. Possibly c) both. Keep in mind, we still don't know where he has been during Eren's training.]] Turns out it's option B.

* WordOfGod has said to base the story off his experiences as a victim of bullying. With that some characters and plot points have a more scarier interpretation. For instance, [[spoiler:the Special Unit that got killed by the Female Titan or even a GovernmentConspiracy regarding the walls]] could represent how most situations with bullies have a [[AdultsAreUseless surprisingly lack of involvement from adults]] or even situations where people see bullying as a ''good'' thing and often defend the bullying. Certain Titans seem to be modeled off stock bullies. The Colossal Titan reflects the BarbaricBully, usually a big and tough person who [[spoiler:might have a DarkAndTroubledPast]], the Female Titan being the AlphaBitch, the Armored Titan as the JerkJock, and Rogue Titan being the BullyHunter... or more scarier: [[spoiler:[[HeWhoFightsMonsters He Who Fights Bullies]]]]. Even more when you consider the whole [[spoiler:Coordinate]] plot point. So the early, seemingly insignificant scene of our main trio dealing with a group of bullies was in fact symbolic for the entire series.

* The [[spoiler: Titan serum Rod was carrying with him]] comes in a small organized kit with a little case for the syringe, bottle and replacement needle. All in all, the thing looks industrially produced or at least manufactured for that specific purpose. ''Somewhere, somehow, [[spoiler: Titan serum]] is being created, perhaps on an industrial scale.''

* [[spoiler: Uri Reiss]] comes off a humble, quiet NiceGuy, and he certainly [[spoiler: spared Kenny's life when he could have quite easily killed him]]. Yet one must remember that the assassinations, tortures and other cruelties carried out by the Central MP went on unabated during his reign. In fact, a younger Djel Sannes even mentions that he can do the things he's ordered to do because of his devotion to the King. In other words, [[spoiler: ''Uri'']] might have ordered Erwin's father's horrible death and the killing of who knows how many others.
* While Attack on Titan unambiguously takes place on Earth, something that's perplexed fans is the time period. The opening title of both the manga and anime is ''To you, 2000 years from now'', although in some translations it's ''To you, 2000 years in the future.'' Most assume this means it takes place in the past, given the dark age appearance of the setting, though with steampunk elements like the 3D maneuvering gear. Now that we know [[spoiler: the Reiss family has been ''intentionally'' [[MedievalStasis stagnating technological development]] to ensure stability. They've been using the 1st Squad to secretly eliminate intellectuals and their inventions, such as better firearms and hot air balloons, as well as anyone who happens to learn too much. [[MindControlConspiracy They even went as far as to erase humanity's memories of the outside world and actively suppress all information about it.]] The fact that it's addressed to as "To you" also has some very [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou unsettling implications]] [[BadFuture A lot can happen in two thousand years after all]].]]

* The Thunder Spears have been criticized as being an overpowered invention due to how they [[spoiler: shattered the Armored Titan's armor. But think about it: this is the newest, latest, most powerful invention the Survey Corps have....and it ''didn't work''. What's more, now that Reiner knows about them, they may not ever be useful again -- he and Annie have already shown that the same strategies just don't work twice. Since the Thunder Spears have to be embedded in a point and detonated to be of any use, their threat can be completely eliminated by the simple measure of a Shifter covering their nape with their hand. Even worse, this could be ''used against them'', since that would allow the Shifter in question to aim the resulting explosion at the enemy. Talk about a double-edged sword.]]

* One of the Titans appearing in Chapter 35 is clutching its swollen belly in a manner very much reminiscent of how a pregnant woman may hold their own. [[spoiler: The reveal that all the Titans seen in the coming arc are the result of all the residents of a village within the walls being turned into Titans, all of them carrying a resemblance to their human body, means this Titan was very likely a pregnant woman]]
* According to the fable told to Grisha by his father [[spoiler: the ancient Eldian's practiced ethnic cleansing because they deemed all other races inferior. While this in and of itself is absolutely terrifying, it doesn't explain why the Eldians would also interbreed with other races (after all, why sully their bloodline with that of inferior races?) until you remember that the Coordinate had the power to control human beings of the Eldian bloodline. The Ancient Eldians were deliberately breeding new soldiers... or rather, the Coordinate was breeding new soldiers. The Eldians likely had no more control over their actions as their victims.]]

* It may or may not be intentional, but when Annie spars with Eren in episode 4, there's a [[FreezeFrameBonus split second]] where she covers her neck with her arm.

* If you look closely, some of the less deformed Titans have facial features belonging to races that are not seen within the Walls. For example, the Titan that ate the soldier talking to Erwin during the Clash of the Titans arc is clearly Asian, and the Deviant Titan pulling on Historia and Nanaba's tree during the Female Titan arc is most likely Hispanic. [[spoiler: Now that they are revealed to be transformed humans, it's possible that the majority of humanity wasn't ''eaten'' during the Titan-apocalypse...it was transformed.]]

* Aside from the sequences in-story that foreshadow the identities of the Colossal Titan and Armored Titan, Isayama also instructed the animators to leave some pretty spoilerific hints in the second anime ending: [[spoiler:Pay attention to the way the characters of the 104th Trainee Corps are grouped along the wall. Everyone in the second grouping of characters (with the exception of Krista, who has a different secret) are all Titan Shifters - what's more, their identities are revealed in the same order that the camera focuses on them onscreen. Eren is the only Titan Shifter not included in this grouping because he fights for humanity.]]

* Why is [[spoiler:Rod Reiss]]'s Titan form so ridiculously large? Kenny points out how impractical it is for what was supposed to be a "combat oriented" Titan. This is because it's a mutation--Titan fluid is meant to be injected into the bloodstream, not ingested. Notice that most of the mass is concentrated on [[spoiler:Rod's Titan]]'s stomach, where the fluid ended up.
* Why is [[spoiler:Armin]]'s Titan form so small, scrawny and emaciated? Because he was near death with serious injuries when he was transformed! When the Corps tested Eren's form, it turned out that Eren's abilities, as well as his titan's size, diminished significantly when he's tiring, or transforming too many times subsequently. Also, [[spoiler:Reiner]] states that a shifter at minimal, has difficulty transforming when they're seriously injured, presumably due to the stress it already takes on the body. If [[spoiler:Armin]] transforms when he's healthy, his Titan form probably will look differently.

* The entire battle to [[spoiler: seal Shiganshina]] is a CallBack to the major points of the battle at Trost. At Trost, the Colossal Titan appears and kicks in the gate. Eren jets in and tries to kill it but fails. Armin has a near-death experience and is saved by Eren, who gets eaten instead. Eren titanizes on the brink of death, and saves the day by sealing the broken gate. [[spoiler: At Shiganshina, Eren titanizes and seals Wall Maria. Armin sacrifices himself to give Eren an opening to jet in and capture Berthold. Armin has a near-death experience and recovers, cannibalizing Berthold as the new Colossal Titan. And the Colossal Titan never succeeded in kicking down the gate again.]]
* TheReveal in Chapter 88 that [[spoiler:Titan-shifters are doomed to die 13 years after gaining their powers]] offers one explanation for why Grisha passed his power on to Eren. He may have been approaching his limit. It also offers another reason Grisha was weeping hysterically when he did it: not only was he forcing a tremendous responsibility on to his son [[spoiler:and he's painfully aware of how badly that can go considering what happened to his first son Zeke]] he knew he was also [[spoiler:ensuring that his son would die young.]]
* Ymir can recognize when Krista is being dishonest, so why [[spoiler:was she grateful for Krista's "kindness"? Because it ''was'' real- Historia just didn't realize it because she was feeling melodramatic at the time she revealed Krista's real nature]].
* Why is it that the [[spoiler: Ackermans and Asians were persecuted in the walls? They weren't Eldians so they couldn't be brainwashed by the power specifically meant to brainwash titans or other Eldians.]]
* The reason for Grisha not showing Eren what was in the basement before becomes obvious after his backstory is revealed. [[spoiler: Him specifically trying to turn his other son, Zeke, into a soldier and a hero for Grisha's from the time that he was a small child is what led to his wife being turned into a mindless titan and his son ending up a child soldier for the other side. Of course he didn't try to do the same to Eren - he'd already seen it backfire horribly once before. Instead, he allowed Eren to form his own thoughts and opinions on life within the walls before he planned to reveal the truth of their world to him.]]

* [[spoiler: At first the Coordinate may seem to be an AssPull, but with the revelations in recent chapters, it was actually foreshadowed when the Beast Titan (AKA Zeke) appeared. He was able to turn the population of a small village into Titans and was able to control them to a degree. The reason Zeke is able to do this is because of his royal blood, and the only way to use the Coordinate if the user has royal blood or touches someone a titan who has royal blood. In short, Zeke has a downgraded version of the Coordinate.]]

* In chapter 94 it's revealed that [[spoiler:Reiner was the least skilled of the Warrior candidates, only getting that far due to showing loyalty to Marley. In particular, at the start of Reiner's flashback it's shown that he struggled in the physical resistance test, and that he called out to Marcel to wait up. Reiner admits he was trying to imitate Marcel's personality in the previous chapter, so one can only imagine that this played a part in why he specifically tried to help Armin clear the resistance test: he saw himself in Armin's place, and [[BecomingTheMask acted in the way he wished Marcel had helped him]].]]

* Why is Eren so determined to [[spoiler: save Armin when Levi wants to give the serum to Erwin? Because Armin not only came up with all those plans that were mentioned, but was the person to not only inspire Eren's interest in the outside world, but another flashback to when they became friends heavily implies that Eren's refusal to run away from a fight came from Armin telling Eren that he didn't lose a fight because he didn't run away. Of course Eren wants to save Armin at any cost - he's been following Armin in one way or another this entire time.]]

* In Chapter 47, [[spoiler: Ymir reveals that she spent 60 years wandering around as a regular (mindless) Titan. It was only five years ago that she was able to wake up and regain her human form. She describes those decades as being trapped in an "endless nightmare", but doesn't recall exactly what she did during that time.....including having devoured Reiner and Bertolt's friend, Marcel. Bertolt states it was "the same" for them as well. If this is the norm for Titans, then that means ''all'' Titans were once human. And they all have the potential to wake up, and regain their human minds and forms. That means the ''only'' difference between Shifters like Eren and regular Titans is that they were able to escape their LotusEaterMachine.]] In the same chapter, [[spoiler: Ymir says that "Eren doesn't remember either" which means either a) She is assuming Eren was a Titan from outside the Walls as well. Or b) Eren killed his dad after he injected him due to a partial or full transformation and reverted back into human form without remembering anything. Possibly c) both. Keep in mind, we still don't know where he has been during Eren's training.]] Turns out it's option B.
* In Episode 3, Jean says that he is from Trost. So during the Battle of Trost, on top of everything else, he's watching the Titans destroy his home town.

** After [[spoiler:Eren gets kidnapped by Bertholdt and Reiner]], Hannes reminisces of the times when Eren, Mikasa and Armin used to fight bullies together, and how even if he always lost, Eren never gave up. Armin dryly notes that the size difference between schoolyard bullies and Titans is pretty big.

* There's also the fact that [[spoiler: Captain, or Kenny, Ackerman was a serial killer who took out over a hundred [=MPs=] over the course of a few decades and is considered a legend in the inner district.]] He was also the the man who [[spoiler: Levi lived with when he was younger]]. It's no wonder [[spoiler: Levi says he's an aberrant human]]; whatever [[spoiler: Kenny Ackerman taught him when they lived together]] must have really messed him up one way or another.
* Titans have no reproductive organs and yet they seem to be numberless. Now that we know that they are [[spoiler: transformed humans]], two horrifying possibilities can be considered: either the story of the rest of the human race being devoured is inaccurate [[spoiler: and the Titans ''are'' the vanished humans]]. The second might be even worse--somewhere beyond the Walls, humans are still being actively hunted down and [[spoiler: turned into Titans.]]

* If a Titan Shifter [[spoiler:is only created after he/she was a mindless Titan eating another Shifter, then who did Reiner, Annie and Bertolt eat? (Though the existence of serums capable of directly transforming a person into a Shifter might be a possibility.)]] The fridge horror gets dampened a smidgen thanks to chapter 65. [[spoiler: A Titan doesn't need to eat another Titan Shifter to become a shifter themselves, they simply need to ingest their spinal fluid. It's likely that the serums that Reiner, Annie, and Bertolt were given was a mixture of the standard Titanization serum, and another shifters spinal fluid]].
** Kinda debunked with the reveal of [[spoiler: the Reiss family and Marley government. The former appears to ritually sacrifice the Founding Titan's powers to the next person in their bloodline every 13 years when their life is almost up. The latter does the same thing as a military program, titanizing the worthiest candidate and having them consume the previous holder.]]
** Additionally, [[spoiler: very few of the titans have their powers "stacked" to a wide diversity. Injecting multiple titan powers into a single person? That's the last thing you want to do if you want to control them.]]
* [[spoiler: If all it takes for a Titan to become a Shifter is for it to ingest a Shifter's spinal fluid, that means the cure has been in human hands this entire time. We don't know how much fluid it would take, but essentially, it means that once somebody gained the necessary advancements to perform a successful lumbar puncture on a Titan shifter and cram a dose of fluid down a Titan's throat, the problem could have been solved as quickly as the cure could be administered.]]

* The Thunder Spears have been criticized as being an overpowered invention due to how they [[spoiler: shattered the Armored Titan's armor. But think about it: this is the newest, latest, most powerful invention the Survey Corps have....and it ''didn't work''. What's more, now that Reiner knows about them, they may not ever be useful again--he and Annie have already shown that the same strategies just don't work twice. Since the Thunder Spears have to be embedded in a point and detonated to be of any use, their threat can be completely eliminated by the simple measure of a Shifter covering their nape with their hand. Even worse, this could be ''used against them'', since that would allow the Shifter in question to aim the resulting explosion at the enemy. Talk about a double-edged sword.]]

* In chapter 87, [[spoiler:Klaus explains why he fed Grisha's sister to dogs, namely that he sees all Eldians as filthy for being able to turn into titans, and that they should be exterminated. He also goes on to talk about how he realizes the world's cruelty and that he can die at any time, so he wants to do as much as he can (which for him means taking entertainment from torture and killing Eldians). His entire philosophy and outlook is almost completely the same as Eren's, wanting to kill all titans and understanding in full his own mortality. Even worse is that we're treated to seeing that all of this is being seen by Eren himself, so he's having to see a complete flip of his own ideals.]]
* [[spoiler:Based on what has been revealed in the last few chapters, it can now be inferred that The Walls are a massive concentration camp, with the Titans as attack dogs.]]

** [[spoiler: Zeke in chapter 77: “I want us to end it.” Is he becoming an OmnicidalManiac because he knows his life is shortened?]]
* [[spoiler: Currently, neither Eren nor Armin can look forward to a peaceful death at the end of their now shortened lives. Its stated that if a Titan Shifter's power isn't directly passed on via consumption by another titan, then said power will manifest itself again in any random individual. The Survey Corps likely will not allow this to happen, so they will eventually have to feed Eren and Armin to another titan in order to maintain control over their powers.]]
* [[spoiler: The Beast Titan took Mike's gear before he killed him. That means the Marley know about the Survey Corps only weapon and presumably have engineered ways of defending against it. Combine this with the fact that Zeke now knows exactly what to expect from Levi and the next Survey Corps attack could very easily stall.]]

* [[spoiler: The Braun clan's extremist BoomerangBigot views, and their BlindObedience to Marley. While most Eldians parrot the propaganda out of necessity, they ''genuinely'' believe every word of it and have taught the children to aggressively report others. Both Reiner and Gaby have been raised to be obsessively loyal to their oppressors, with the family eager to see both of them sacrifice their lives to Marley. They seem oblivious to Reiner's suffering, and groom Gaby to follow in his footsteps....by ''eating'' him to inherit his powers. They demonstrate no hesitation to see their children suffer and die for Marley, because they've been promised [[CoattailRidingRelative "recognition"]] in exchange. To appease them, Reiner is forced to describe his former comrades as "Demons" and attempt to badmouth them. When he fails to do so convincingly, his family is visibly ''horrified'' that he described them as actual people.]]

** [[spoiler:And then Marcel reveals in chapter 95 that he specifically praised Reiner to their superiors because he hoped that in doing so his brother wouldn't be chosen; being a Titan shifter would put him in the line of danger more than Marcel could bear.]]
* It's a good thing that Ymir did not manage to get Historia to the Warrior trio's homeland....[[spoiler:Because Ymir would have been killed for the Jaws titan power anyway...and Historia most likely would have been turned into a breeding mare for Marley, if they ever found out about her royal heritage, or she would have just been made into a sex slave because of her beauty or tossed into the ghettos with the other Eldians to rot or await to be titanized.]]
* No matter your feelings on Gabi...it's still horrifying to think that a little girl will most likely be killing [[spoiler:Her cousin Reiner]] VERY SOON..and could very well not just inherit his memories...but also his [[spoiler:Mental conditions.]]
* The guidebook reveals that Armin's parents were [[spoiler: the couple that tried to escape the walls in the hot air balloon, and were caught and killed by Sannes. Now, considering that we don't see any Military Police in Shiganshina in the flashbacks, and that the balloon isn't even off the ground when they're being attacked by them, it makes it very likely that, like with Erwin and his father's suspicions about the true history, someone caught on to what they were planning and turned them in.]]