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* LivingOnBorrowedTime: Armin gets a case of this where after suffering from Fifth-Degree Burns across his entire body, the Survey Corps uses their syringe of Titan Spinal Fluid on him to turn him into a Titan and devour Bertholt to gain access to the Colossal Titan and the Titan-Shifters' natural HealingFactor. [[spoiler:Immediately after gaining these powers and recovering the notes kept in Erens' basement by Grisha, they learn about [[YourDaysAreNumbered The Curse of Ymir]]: where all Titan-Shifters have a life-expectancy of just 13 years after gaining their powers.]]
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* INeedAFreakingDrink: There are few situations that warrant a drink more than being in the grip of a Titan. To emphasize the cruelty of the series, one guy who is in this situation finds a bottle of good wine and tries to have one last drink...[[YankTheDogsChain but the bottle is empty]].
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* GenderNeutralWriting: A common occurrence in the series. Fan translations often substitute in gendered-insults (eg. bastard, bitch), to replace the more neutral ones used in the original.

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* LostInTranslation: The DoubleMeaning of the series' title in Japanese is lost in it's English translation. It makes enough sense why they changed it; ''Shingeki no Kyojin'', translating into "Titan of the Advance", doesn't appear to make sense grammatically in English ''or'' Japanese. But the reason behind the weird title is that [[spoiler: this is actually the true name of Eren's Titan form, the Advancing/Attack Titan.]]

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* LostInTranslation: The DoubleMeaning of the series' title in Japanese is lost in it's its English translation. It makes enough sense why they changed it; ''Shingeki no Kyojin'', translating into "Titan of the Advance", doesn't appear to make sense grammatically in English ''or'' Japanese. But the reason behind the weird title is that [[spoiler: this is actually the true name of Eren's Titan form, the Advancing/Attack Titan.]]


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* LoveTriangle: Implied between Krista, Reiner, and Ymir, with [[AmbiguouslyBi Reiner]] (though we don't know if he really has a crush on Krista or is just messing with Ymir) and Ymir both looking at Krista. This ends when Krista returns Ymir's feelings and Isayama confirms their romantic relationship, and is further eliminated when Reiner reveals that while Krista is cute, he has other motives for wanting her unharmed.
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* HelplessKicking: Happens often, owing to the fact that people getting eaten by mindless giants is part of the premise. Two notable examples are: a member of the Scout Regiment who, when his squad gets attacked by a group of titans, the last we see of him are his legs sticking out of a titan's mouth and squirming about right before it slurps him. The other is during the fall of Wall Maria, when a panicked civilian woman gets plucked up and eaten by a titan. As she's carried out of frame [[LosingAShoeInTheStruggle one of her slippers falls off and lands in the foreground.]]
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* InherentInTheSystem: The major flaw of the military. Those who score the highest in things like 3D Maneuvering in training, and are thus best able to fight the Titans, get preferential treatment in becoming part of the highly coveted position of Inner-Wall Military Police Brigade to protect the interior and the king, and are thus the furthest from any actual combat where they could put their skills to use. Furthermore, Annie points out that while the corrupt and selfish soldiers may be immoral, they are ''normal'', and any system that expects and depends upon the vast majority of its soldiers to be moral paragons is doomed to fail. No specific entity or organization blamed for the situation: it's just what happens when [[AsskickingEqualsAuthority one's position in the organization is based upon who has the most skill in combat]] and a society is lulled by a hundred years of general peace.

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* InherentInTheSystem: The major flaw of the military. Those who score the highest in things like 3D Maneuvering in training, and are thus best able to fight the Titans, get preferential treatment in becoming part of the highly coveted position of Inner-Wall Military Police Brigade to protect the interior and the king, and are thus the furthest from any actual combat where they could put their skills to use. Furthermore, Annie points out that while the corrupt and selfish soldiers may be immoral, they are ''normal'', and any system that expects and depends upon the vast majority of its soldiers to be moral paragons is doomed to fail. No specific entity or organization blamed for the situation: it's just what happens when [[AsskickingEqualsAuthority [[AsskickingLeadsToLeadership one's position in the organization is based upon who has the most skill in combat]] and a society is lulled by a hundred years of general peace.
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** [[spoilers: In the flashbacks of episode 87, when the scouts visit Marley in disguise. They hear word of an Eldian Civil Rights group, which gives them hope for diplomacy with Marley. When they attend, they discover that the group only supports rights for the ''interned Eldians in Marley'' and is just as fearful of the "Island Devils" of Paradis as the rest of their countrymen.]]

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** [[spoilers: [[spoiler: In the flashbacks of episode 87, when the scouts visit Marley in disguise. They hear word of an Eldian Civil Rights group, which gives them hope for diplomacy with Marley. When they attend, attend a meeting, they discover that the group only supports rights for the ''interned Eldians in Marley'' and is just as fearful of the "Island Devils" of Paradis as the rest of their countrymen.]]
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** [[spoilers: In the flashbacks of episode 87, when the scouts visit Marley in disguise. They hear word of an Eldian Civil Rights group, which gives them hope for diplomacy with Marley. When they attend, they discover that the group only supports rights for the ''interned Eldians in Marley'' and is just as fearful of the "Island Devils" of Paradis as the rest of their countrymen.]]

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** After TheReveal [[spoiler:that he is the Colossal Titan, it seemed as though quiet Bertolt Hoover was the only villain without any remorse over his actions. But when his former friends push him hard enough, he suffers a VillainousBSOD and begins to cry hysterically while alternately admitting he knows his actions are unforgivable and stating that his time as their comrade was the only time he was genuinely happy. This breakdown is sufficient to defuse Mikasa's RoaringRampageOfRevenge and earn the offer of a LastSecondChance from the others. His statement that he [[TrappedInVillainy can't do that]], while crying and begging someone to "please find us", reveal him to not be the soulless monster the audience expected]].* HumansAreBastards: Even with the ever-present threat of Titans, famine, and disease... humanity still has plenty of time to lie, cheat, steal, and murder. For every heroic character, there are plenty of cowards and criminals ready to show the worst of humanity.

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** After TheReveal [[spoiler:that he is the Colossal Titan, it seemed as though quiet Bertolt Hoover was the only villain without any remorse over his actions. But when his former friends push him hard enough, he suffers a VillainousBSOD and begins to cry hysterically while alternately admitting he knows his actions are unforgivable and stating that his time as their comrade was the only time he was genuinely happy. This breakdown is sufficient to defuse Mikasa's RoaringRampageOfRevenge and earn the offer of a LastSecondChance from the others. His statement that he [[TrappedInVillainy can't do that]], while crying and begging someone to "please find us", reveal him to not be the soulless monster the audience expected]].expected]].
* HumansAreBastards: Even with the ever-present threat of Titans, famine, and disease... humanity still has plenty of time to lie, cheat, steal, and murder. For every heroic character, there are plenty of cowards and criminals ready to show the worst of humanity.

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* HumansAreBastards: Even with the ever-present threat of Titans, famine, and disease... humanity still has plenty of time to lie, cheat, steal, and murder. For every heroic character, there are plenty of cowards and criminals ready to show the worst of humanity.

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* HumanizingTears: The series usually deals with InelegantBlubbering, but several notable examples stand out.
** EmotionlessGirl and resident badass Mikasa shows little vulnerability or emotion, right up until she is reunited with Eren after [[spoiler:his supposed death]]. Her stoic mask finally breaks, and she cries while holding him in her arms, showing her softer side for the first time.
** After TheReveal [[spoiler:that he is the Colossal Titan, it seemed as though quiet Bertolt Hoover was the only villain without any remorse over his actions. But when his former friends push him hard enough, he suffers a VillainousBSOD and begins to cry hysterically while alternately admitting he knows his actions are unforgivable and stating that his time as their comrade was the only time he was genuinely happy. This breakdown is sufficient to defuse Mikasa's RoaringRampageOfRevenge and earn the offer of a LastSecondChance from the others. His statement that he [[TrappedInVillainy can't do that]], while crying and begging someone to "please find us", reveal him to not be the soulless monster the audience expected]].
* HumansAreBastards: Even with the ever-present threat of Titans, famine, and disease... humanity still has plenty of time to lie, cheat, steal, and murder. For every heroic character, there are plenty of cowards and criminals ready to show the worst of humanity.
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** Taken UpToEleven in that [[spoiler:the ''entire world'' wants Eren Yeager dead and sees him as a threat]]. Subverted, [[spoiler: in that Eren had already completed his ProtagonistJourneyToVillain at that point.]]

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** Taken UpToEleven in that [[spoiler:the [[spoiler:The ''entire world'' wants Eren Yeager dead and sees him as a threat]]. Subverted, [[spoiler: in that Eren had already completed his ProtagonistJourneyToVillain at that point.]]



** Eren's feelings towards the Colossal and Armored Titans who destroyed his hometown. It's the same as his feelings towards all Titans, but turned [[UpToEleven Up To Eleven]].

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** Eren's feelings towards the Colossal and Armored Titans who destroyed his hometown. It's the same as his feelings towards all Titans, but turned [[UpToEleven Up To Eleven]].worse.
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* ImprovisedBandage: During the siege on Castle Utgard, Reiner breaks his arm, and Historia rips her skirt to use as a makeshift splint.
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* ImmediateSequel: The second season starts immediately after the first season ended. The last episode of the first season showed Pastor Nick yelling at the Survey Corps members to [[spoiler:keep the two fighting titans away from the walls]], and {{the stinger}} for that episode showed [[spoiler:the face of a titan]] inside the wall as a piece of it crumbled away due to damage. The first episode of the second season opens on the Survey Corps members staring up at [[spoiler:the face]] in the wall, just as Nick finally catches up to them. We then get a flashback to twelve hours ago, meaning that part of the episode was actually running concurrently with the first season's last episode.

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** The Mindless Titans that spend most of the series as a huge threat to the people within the walls, pushing them to the brink of extinction: [[spoiler: they are in fact a major deterrent to the people of the outside world mounting a full-scale invasion of Paradis, the island where the walls are located.]]



** The Mindless Titan's that spend most of the series as a huge threat to the people within the walls, pushing them to the brink of extinction: [[spoiler: they are in fact a major deterrent to the people of the outside world mounting a full-scale invasion of Paradis, the island where the walls are located.]]
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** The Mindless Titan's that spend most of the series as a huge threat to the people within the walls, pushing them to the brink of extinction: [[spoiler: they are in fact a major deterrent to the people of the outside world mounting a full-scale invasion of Paradis, the island where the walls are located.]]
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** Eren wanted to save humanity by destroying all the Titans. Now, [[spoiler: Eren wishes to save the Eldians (those who can turn into Titans by destroying humanity.]]

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** Eren wanted to save humanity by destroying all the Titans. Now, [[spoiler: Eren wishes to save the Eldians (those who can turn into Titans Titans) by destroying humanity.]]
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* 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 shit]]. [[TearJerker There's]] [[AnyoneCanDie something]] [[GutPunch in]] [[CrapsackWorld my]] [[HopelessWar eye]].
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* GameChanger: Humans on Paradis Island are losing ground against the Titans, until they get their own Titan and develop anti-Titan weapons such as the Thunder Spear and Executioner from Hell.
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* IdiotBall:
** To say this of ''any'' of the Eldians of Paradis consuming wine from an enemy nation passed on to them through the hands of the very people who were once at war with them, some of whom have since shown themselves to be no less hostile to Paradis than prior to the events of the Return to Shiganshina arc, and all while Zeke Yeager's loyalties were yet to be ascertained....Is a massive understatement. Said oversight left the island at the mercy of a potentially massive Titan outbreak, which comes to pass when Zeke screams during the Marley's attack on Shiganshina. The surviving soldiers as a result are forced to slay hundreds of their own comrades before said outbreak is finally stopped, just as Eren has activated the Rumbling.
** Arguably, the Marley's entire campaign to destroy the Eldians on Paradis has been this. By antagonizing the island and waging war against the Walls, they only ended up attracting the wrath of Eren Yeager, who through his awakening of the Wall Titans via the Rumbling has triggered the very apocalypse the Marley had once sought to prevent.
*** Before that was the decision to punish Eldians by Titanizing them and unleashing them on Paradis to harass the Walls. This was a poor decision on two fronts. First, any invasion by Marley would have to go through that constantly growing army of Titans. This led to the death of a Warrior and Marley temporarily losing control of one of the Titan Shifter powers. Second, the king inside the Walls has Coordinate which could be used to take control of the Titans at any time.
** The failure of the Survey Corps to secure the blimp as they fled Liberio, during which they were still in enemy airspace. While they are busy celebrating their crushing victory, they leave ''one'' soldier to monitor the blimp's path of escape, and perhaps most egregiously ''nobody mans the gunner's nest'' situated by the still-open hatchway. Such half-assed precautions prove fatal not just for said sentry, but also for Sasha as Gabi Braun kills both in her near-suicidal effort to board the blimp. Lampshaded later as Jean admits they had "gotten too careless".
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* HereWeGoAgain: [[spoiler: Very heavily implied in the epilogue of the story: A young boy finds the tree Eren was buried in years after Paradis is destroyed in a war…and it has grown to resemble the tree Ymir fell in centuries ago.]]
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** [[spoiler: Eren Yeager, manipulating Kruger to betray the Marleyans and give his Titan to Grisha, and manipulating his father to kill the Reiss Family and feed himself to his younger self.]]

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* HistoryRepeats: Discussed by Eren and Armin when Eren sees children who remind him of himself, Armin, and Mikasa, and notes that the kids will probably see what they saw when the Colossal Titan broke the Wall. It's then averted, as Armin says that this time there are soldiers on the Wall who are ready to fight, and that those soldiers are them, and they succeed in stopping the Titan and saving the people inside the Wall.

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** Chapter 139.5 serves as an epilogue to the series, showing [[spoiler:Mikasa getting married and having children while continuing to visit Eren's grave until the day she dies. Civilization progresses and skyscrapers are built, until a war breaks out and reduces the city to ruins. All the while, Eren's tree grows until it towers over everything else, a hollow cavity forming at its base where Eren's head was buried -- much like the one Ymir tried to hide in millennia earlier. Untold decades later, a child implied to be one of Mikasa's descendants comes across the giant tree and peers curiously into the cavity.]]
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* GaiasLament: [[spoiler: After the Rumbling, not only has 80% of humanity been wiped out, but the world's ecosystem has been devastated. Eren points out that he's crushed most of Marley's forests and left behind a barren wasteland that'll be flooded with insects that've grown fat on carrion. If he hadn't been stopped, the entire world outside Paradis would've been crushed as well.]]
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* HandshakeOfDoom: [[spoiler: Eren and Reiner reunite after their last encounter on Paradis Island four years prior, with Falco bearing witness to the meeting after unknowingly bringing the latter to him. After a conversation, Eren shakes hands with Reiner, to which he reveals he cut himself before their meeting, and thus can transform into a Titan at any time. Sure enough, right after Willy Tybur announces his declaration of war against the people of Paradis, Eren turns into his Titan form and bursts out of the building behind him.]]
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* KatanasAreJustBetter: Zig-zagged and downplayed. While the blades that are part of the Vertical Maneuver Gear are definitely katana-like, they break quite easily and generally seem to be less effective than regular swords. They are definitely better Titan slaying weapons than anything else in the show, save for Eren's Titan form and Titanshifters in general.
** Played straight in the [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness original one shot of the series]], where regular katanas were the main weapons against the Titans and could [[FlamingSword even shoot fire]].

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* HopeSpot: In Episode 5, things look hopeful even as the Trost gate is smashed. Triumphant music plays as the Garrison vanguard rushes to intercept the first wave of Titans, the Trainees get ready to test their mettle as soldiers, the civilians look like they have enough time to evacuate, and in general humanity looks much more ready than last time. Then we find out that the experienced vanguard was routed, the Titans made it into Trost, and the forward group Trainees get decimated, including Eren's own squad [[spoiler: followed by [[OurHeroIsDead Eren himself.]]]]

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** In chapter 137, [[spoiler:Armin convinces Zeke in helping him stop Eren, inspiring him to sacrifice himself to end the Rumbling. The Survey Corps blow Eren's titan head off, revealing the spine-like organism that is the origin of the titans, and with Reiner holding the latter down, Armin uses his Colossal Titan transformation as a nuke to finish it and Eren off once and for all.]] Happy ending, right? Wrong. [[spoiler:The following chapter, Eren is revealed to still be alive with a colossal Attack Titan form, and the organism secretes a vapor that turns all non-Shifter and Ackerman Eldians into Titans, including Jean, Connie, Gabi, and the Warriors' families, in order to kill the Shifters. Mikasa, after finally finding her resolve, is forced to enter Eren's titan and decapitate him herself.]]

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* GrievousHarmWithABody: The Titan that attacks other Titans tends to favor this method of fighting groups.

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** The Beast Titan ([[spoiler:Zeke]]) threw Mike's horse at him.
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* HeelRealization: [[spoiler: In chapter 134, the entire humanity, especially Marley, finally admit that, all the hatred they inflicted upon Paradise is brutally returned to them in the form of The Rumbling, and wish to be better if they somehow will survived.]]

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* HeelRealization: [[spoiler: In chapter 134, the entire humanity, especially Marley, finally admit that, all the hatred they inflicted upon Paradise and The Eldians is brutally returned to them in the form of The Rumbling, and wish swear to to be better if they somehow will survived.survive.]]

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** Sasha and Connie are LikeBrotherAndSister, and serve as the primary comic relief during lighter moments.

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