History AttackOnTitan / TropesGToL

** {{Hotblooded}} hero Eren has vibrant turquoise-colored eyes, inherited from his mother. [[spoiler: In his Titan form, they glow bright green]].
** TeamMom Petra has a soft, earthy shade of green.
** ExtremeDoormat Bertolt's eyes are a muted, dark shade of green.
** Clever, selfish Hitch has cat-green eyes.
** Close examination reveals that the Colossal Titan has green eyes, oddly enough. [[spoiler: The exact same muted, dark shade as its' human form, Bertolt.]]

* GildedCage: In Eren's opinion, the walled cities are this. Most of his peers are content to live inside the Walls indefinitely, but he repeatedly compares it to a birdcage and is determined to see the outside world.

*** Grisha [[spoiler:turns out to be a bit more complex, as he's resented by his older son Zeke. While he was a good parent to Eren, he's presented as incredibly flawed]].

* HeirClubForMen: Completely averted. While the majority of leadership positions are held by men in the series, women are shown to freely inherit without any question or concern. [[spoiler: Historia Reiss]] takes the throne without any indication that a Queen is unusual, while [[spoiler: Frieda Reiss and Lady Tybur both inherited their clan's Titans over their brothers]].

** Taken UpToEleven in that [[spoiler:the ''entire world'' wants Eren Yeager dead and sees him as a threat]].

* HotBlooded: Eren's biggest strength ''and'' weakness, as he sometimes crosses into LeeroyJenkins territory, [[spoiler: particularly when he was trying to avenge Thomas -- his single-minded pursuit of the abnormal Titan that had devoured him made him blind to the ''other'' Titans nearby, losing a leg and getting his team killed in the process]]. [[spoiler:After the TimeSkip, he becomes more composed and calcualting.]]

** Eren's hatred for the Titans stems from one eating his mother. [[spoiler: He is the Titan that ate his father.]]

** Also, [[spoiler:Eren potentially has the power to control them and set them free]].

* GrotesqueGallery: Titans are a seriously freaky-looking bunch.

* HotBlooded: Eren's biggest strength ''and'' weakness, as he sometimes crosses into LeeroyJenkins territory, [[spoiler: particularly when he was trying to avenge Thomas -- his single-minded pursuit of the abnormal Titan that had devoured him made him blind to the ''other'' Titans nearby, losing a leg and getting his team killed in the process]].

*** It's either GreyAndGreymorality or BlackAndGreyMorality depending on who you ask.

** After the TimeSkip Eren does the same, [[spoiler:keeping his leg broken to maintain his cover as Kruger, a shellshocked Marlayen soldier]].

** Eren is flat out stated in the story to be more '''Persistent''' than anyone. Unfortunately, [[FearlessFool his ego writes checks that his body can't cash]]. He's an example of a character who has strong willpower but not the raw talent or insight to go with it, and as a result, he repeatedly suffers injury, failure and setback, which makes even ''his'' strong willpower constantly falter. True to the Japanese Spirit archetype, the persistent character is the most important one (by virtue of being the {{Protagonist}}, and he has a number of hidden "talents/powers" which ''only'' work if he holds on to his persistence even in the face of death. [[spoiler: His EvilCounterpart, Reiner, is initially stated to be a soldier that possesses incredible willpower. However, it is his wavering conviction that causes him to slowly lose his mind]].

* HighConcept: [[DualWielding Dual-wielding]] [[SteamPunk steampunk]] [[BuildingSwing spidermen]] [[ChildSoldiers child-soldiers]] [[DavidVersusGoliath fight]] [[EatenAlive man-eating]] [[HumanoidAbomination giants]] [[ApocalypseHow bent on wiping out mankind]]. [[WhamEpisode Holy]] [[HolyShitQuotient shit]]. [[TearJerker There's]] [[AnyoneCanDie something]] [[GutPunch in]] [[CrapsackWorld my]] [[HopelessWar eye]].

* InfantImmortality: Children are most definitely victims of Titan attacks, and Episode 25 clearly shows rocks falling and crushing both children and women as a consequence of the Stohess incident. We also get to see [[spoiler:Bertolt and Reiner's friend Marcel die]] in the manga.
** [[spoiler:Grisha's sister Faye gets EatenAlive by ''dogs'' at the age of 8]].

* GreyAndGrayMorality: Chapter 55 drives this home repeatedly, showing just how blurred the lines have become. Ultimately, every group seems to believe their actions are necessary or justified, and getting their hands dirty for the sake of the greater good. [[spoiler: Hange and Levi brutally torture a captured enemy for information, while Erwin and Pixis plot to overthrow the rulers and install Historia as a [[PuppetKing Puppet Queen]]. Armin openly considers the advantages of a FalseFlagOperation, and reminds the others that from here on out they will have to kill people for nothing more than because they are from another Branch -- stating that they are no longer "good people"]].

''Manga/AttackOnTitan'' tropes: [[AttackOnTitan/TropesAToF A to F]] || G to L || [[AttackOnTitan/TropesMToR M to R]] || [[AttackOnTitan/TropesSToZ S to Z]]

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* GreenEyes: Used to subtle effect, both in terms of conveying something important about the character, with variations on the hue also used to express something about them.

* GildedCage: In Eren's opinion, the human city is this. Most of his peers are content to live inside the Walls indefinitely, but he repeatedly compares it to a birdcage and is determined to see the outside world.

* GoneHorriblyRight: The titan guillotine works! [[spoiler: ...too well. It turns out the titans were a buffer between Paradis Island and the outside world. The outside world wants ALL Eldians dead with extreme prejudice; and the titan deterrent isnt there anymore.]]

** On a lesser note, many of the character's names are Germanic in nature. makes one wonder if the only nation that survived the initial war lived in central Europe. Which would explain the European architecture found in Shinganshina. Which would make the Japanese names present seem more like GratuitousJapanese.

* ImpendingClashShot: This features [[TheProtagonist Eren]] in mid air with the 3DMG Dual Blades about to clash with the Colossal Titan in volume 1's cover. also present in a different angle in the form of a HitStop in the anime's opening,

* LotusEaterMachine: [[spoiler:Eren loses control of his Titan form during the Trost counter-offensive, as his consciousness enters a dream-like state of being back home with his family in Zhiganshina. Armin breaks him out of it.]]

* HandWave: Mikasa. Her unnatural skill level rivaling that of Levi, a long standing captain of the Scout Regimen, is due to [[spoiler:the two being from a bloodline of natural-born warriors.]] She eventually becomes his informal second-in-command on the field, as he usually pairs himself with her.

* {{Hypocrite}}: [[spoiler:Reiner and Bertolt, if not all of the enemy Titan Shifters, went through traumatic events in their past in which loved ones were eaten by Titans. Yet they consign countless hundreds of innocents who were once living in peace and safety to the same horrific fate, and intend on doing so to the entirety of the humans in the Walls. The motivations behind this, though, remain a mystery.]]

* LastOfHisKind: Mikasa Ackerman whose mother's race, Asians, was wiped out by the Titans. Makes sense given that the Walled City's region seems roughly analogous with northwest Europe, so East-Asian analog humans would have been for the most part much too far away to take refuge there in time.
** However, they may just be referring to the Asians who had been living in the region at the time the Titans appeared. It's possible that they were "wiped out" not by the Titans, but simply through centuries of mixing with the more numerous Central European analogs.

** [[spoiler: After chapter 90, with the Titans completely cleared from Paradis Island, the story also moved away from the ZombieApocalypse backdrop and turned into a straight up [[WarArc war story]] about the two human factions and their respective Titan Shifters. And as of chapter 100, the OntologicalMystery aspects of the story are ''also'' slowly being phased out as more and more of the truth is revealed during the war arc]].

** In chapter 66, Eren is halfway to a HeroicBSOD after the revelation that [[spoiler:his father ate Historia's older sister to steal the gift that could potentially save all of humanity and gave it to him, even though Eren isn't of the Reiss bloodline and therefore can't use it to its full potential. He even begs Historia to eat him and use it, declaring that it's too much to live like this. Historia slaps him and states that she is getting him out of there so ''he'' can save humanity, since she isn't going to.]]

** The nameless blonde soldier in chapter 80 freaking out about how his death will be meaningless? [[spoiler: He's the only one that seems to have survived the suicidal charge against the Beast Titan in Chapter 81.]]

* LovecraftianSuperpower: [[spoiler:Titan Shifting.]]

** [[spoiler: After chapter 90, with the Titans completely cleared from Paradis Island, the story also moved away from the ZombieApocalypse backdrop and turned into a straight up [[WarArc war story]] about the two human factions and their respective Titan shifters. And as of chapter 100, the OntologicalMystery aspects of the story are ''also'' slowly being phased out as more and more of the truth is revealed during the war arc]].

** One of the reasons for the sheer UncannyValley of the Titans is that compared to the stylized manga humans, they are drawn in a realistic style which makes them look very disturbing. One of the ways to distinguish a regular Titan from a [[spoiler: Titan shifter]] is that [[spoiler: shifters]] share the same stylized faces and eyes as their human forms. [[spoiler: This is why Eren as a regular realistic-styled Titan in Grisha's flashback is so utterly horrifying.]]

* GreaterScopeVillain: [[spoiler: The Kingdom of Marley, are the ones who stole the Nine Titan Powers from Eldians, and started war with them. They are also responsible for the titan attacks and ones behind the whole conflict throughout the series]].

** [[spoiler: Armin tanks the Colossus Titan's steam blasts, getting cooked alive, all in order to provide a diversion for Eren to finally take him down.]]

* HumongousMecha: No really. [[spoiler:The Shifters' Titan forms]] are a flesh-and-bone version of this, with some fight scenes sceaming ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion''.

** [[spoiler:And Marley's militar personnel has to be the worst example of all since while the titans were wiping the Middle East army they berated the Eldian soldiers about how the titans did the same to their ancestors while they are now using the titans just to gain more territory and power.]]

** Eren's hatred for the Titans stems from one eating his mother. [[spoiler: He is the titan that ate his father.]]
** The nameless blonde soldier in chapter 80 freaking out about how his death will be meaningless? [[spoiler: He's the only one that seems to have survived the suicidal charge against the Beast Titan in chapter 81.]]

** [[spoiler: Further subverted: it turns out Titans all used to be humans.]]

* GunsAkimbo: [[spoiler: The Anti-Human Suppression Squad dual wields pistols instead of swords, since their targets are other soldiers]].

** [[spoiler: As of chapter 90, with the Titans nearly completely cleared from Paradis Island, the story also seems to be moving away from the ZombieApocalypse backdrop and turning into a straight up [[WarArc war story]] about the two human factions]].