History WhamEpisode / AttackOnTitan

* Chapter 103: The Paradis team have managed to capture Zeke, albeit with everyone [[BrokenPedestal having lost trust in Eren]] for what he did just to kill Willy, only for Gabi to manage to sneak into the blimp they're escaping on and [[KilledOffForReal kill Sasha.]] And if that wasn't enough, [[HeelFaceTurn Zeke reveals himself to be working with Eren]] due to the two passing letters off-screen that hide their true intentions.

* Chapter 99/100: The Tyburs reveal to the world the truth about King Fritz and how he plotted with the Tyburs to destroy his own kingdom and seclude himself and the remaining Eldians on Paradis Island. The Tyburs also claim that Eren overthrew King Fritz and is planning on reestablishing the Eldian Empire. Meanwhile, a covert force is quietly eliminating Marley's Shifters. In the following chapter, Eren responds to the declaration of war by obliging to Willy's hidden wishes and crashing the meeting in Titan form, effectively turning the world against Paradis Island and commencing the second great Titan war.

* Chapter 99: The Tyburs reveal to the world the truth about King Fritz and how he plotted with the Tyburs to destroy his own kingdom and seclude himself and the remaining Eldians on Paradis Island. The Tyburs also claim that Eren overthrew King Fritz and is planning on reestablishing the Eldian Empire. Meanwhile, a covert force is quietly eliminating Marley's Shifters. In the following chapters, Eren responds to the declaration of war by obliging to Willy's hidden wishes and crashing the meeting in Titan form, effectively turning the world against Paradis Island.

* Chapter 51: Titans [[WasOnceAMan were once human]], and are innocent victims transformed into monsters by some unknown force.
* Chapter 53: [[spoiler:Pastor Nick is found murdered, and the Survey Corp's investigation of this reveals that there's a GovernmentConspiracy responsible for both the Wall Titans and the murders of Krista's family]].
* Chapter 54: [[spoiler: Erwin is preparing to stage a military coup d'état]].
* Chapter 55: [[spoiler: Because the Reiss Family is the royal family, Historia will be placed as the new queen by the coup forces.]]
* Chapter 56: [[spoiler: There's a group within the Walls actively suppressing humans, and apparently work for the king. Levi's full name is Levi '''Ackerman''' and there's a captain in the human-supression task force who called Levi his "pride," and also has a last name of ''Ackerman''.]]
* Chapter 57: Three [[OhCrap revelations]] in a row: [[spoiler:That Titans may be able to consume other Titans and obtain their abilities (including Titan-shifting) like Kirby, that Eren could be eaten by one of the Millitary Police's Titan Shifters/captive Titans and inherit his ability to control Titans, and that Ackerman Senior just killed three members of Levi's squad-]] WAIT, WHAT?
* Chapter 60: [[spoiler: The Survey Corps are going to be disbanded by the Royal Gov't, and Erwin Smith is marked to hang.]]
* Chapter 62: [[spoiler: Rod Reiss and Krista give Eren back his missing memories, revealing that Eren ate his father shortly after being given the Titan injection.]]
* Chapter 65: [[spoiler: More of the Ackerman bloodline is revealed, Eren reaches the DespairEventHorizon, wanting Historia to kill him & take his Coordinate. And she seemingly obliges, injecting herself and changing into a Titan.]]
* Chapter 66: [[spoiler: It turns out that the royal bloodline doesn't WANT to save humanity and reclaim the world, because the Coordinate contains the will of the first king, who wanted to rule over humanity in the walled kingdom. Historia destroys the syringe, and her father drinks it and becomes the Titan from last chapter. Eren finds a vial containing the Armor ability, breaks it open WITH HIS MOUTH, and transforms.]]
* Chapter 70: [[spoiler: Bertolt and Reiner have returned to Shiganshina District to recapture Eren and rescue Annie along with their new partner; The Beast Titan, who turns out to be a fellow Titan Shifter!]]
* Chapter 77: [[spoiler: The events that led to Marco's death are at long last revealed; During the battle of Trost, Marco accidentally overhears Bertolt and Reiner talking about their mission and their true identities as Titan Shifters. Both Bertolt and Reiner nervously write it off as a joke but Marco puts the pieces together and figures out that they were, in fact, NOT joking. Before Marco can react, Reiner tackles and pins him on the roof of a building out of sight from the rest of the soldiers. Annie ends up coming into the scene, and Reiner ends up forcing her to remove Marco's gear to prove she hasn't been compromised and is still loyal to their cause. They then leave Marco to be eaten by an nearby Titan, and all three of them end up emotionally traumatized by the whole ordeal.]]
* Chapter 81: [[spoiler: The entire Survey Corps, except Levi and the 104th, suicidally march to fight the Titans, Erwin included, to give Levi some time to come up with a strategy to defeat the Beast Titan. We see several gruesome deaths, as the Beast Titan pounds them all with rocks. Marlow dies a pretty horrible death, and Erwin Smith is pretty much implied to be dead. This leaves Levi and his squad, the survivors of the Reclaiming Expedition, unless Hange and her squad's fates are revealed. Worse still, Levi's charge to finally finish the Titan seems to be in vain, as the Beast Titan aims his gun at him.]]
* Chapter 82: [[spoiler: Armin gets burned to death by the Colossal Titan.]] It was all according to plan, though.
* Chapter 83: [[spoiler: Armin is alive, but barely. Also, the Beast Titan knows the Yeagers, more specifically Grisha, and implies that Grisha was also responsible for the Titans.]]
* Chapter 84: [[spoiler: Armin is saved by being injected with the Titan Serum, devours Bertolt and becomes a Titan Shifter. Erwin succumbs to his wounds and dies.]]
* Chapter 85: [[spoiler: At long last, Eren ''finally'' reaches the basement his father Grisha gave up his very life for with the fleeting hope that his son would one day do so and learn the truth about the world. While only a small piece of information was revealed so far, a photograph of Grisha and his first family, it was more than enough to completely shatter everything the humans living within the Walls have been led to believe; Beyond the Walls, Humanity is not extinct in the slightest and is in fact ''thriving'' with technological advances such as cameras, hence the photograph, and certainly numerous others.]]
* Chapter 86: [[spoiler: We learn about the world outside the walls. We learn of the oppressive government who blamed Grisha's ethnic group for the sins of their ancestors, and that he wanted to overthrow them with the power of the First Titan hidden within the Three Walls. We learn that that government also wanted the First Titan's power for their own reasons, but neither side could openly invade the walls without setting loose the countless Colossal Titans hidden within them. We learn that Grisha has a son with Dina Fritz, who was of the same royal bloodline as Historia. And that he sent his son to infiltrate his enemy's ranks as TheMole for his resistance group, only to be betrayed by him. Said son's name is Zeke, and he is currently the Beast Titan. Add to that the obvious Nazi overtones, and the series just became more complex. Oh, and we also learn that Dina Fritz was the ''Smiling Titan'' - the same titan that ate Eren's mother and Hannes, implying either a very bad cosmic joke or that it happened by way of some residual memory inspiring a desire for revenge on Grisha for remarrying. Last but not least, we learn that Titan Shifters are doomed to only live another 13 years after getting their powers, which means that Armin and Eren are both living on borrowed time; something Misaka [[HeroicBSOD takes about as]] [[ThousandYardStare well as you'd expect]].]]
* Chapter 90: [[spoiler:Armin's dream come true! The main trio along with the rest of the Survey Corps. have finally reached the ocean! On a more somber note, Eren realizes was only able to unlock the Coordinate powers because someone with Royal Blood (Dina and Historia) were present there, and starts contemplating whether or not he should try to [[SlidingDownTheSlipperySlope titanizing someone with Royal Blood and making contact with to use the power for himself]]]]
* Chapter 91: [[spoiler: Another 4-year TimeSkip occurs. This time, the story focuses on the new generation of the Marleyan Warrior Program, with a protagonist switch to [[AndNowForSomethingCompletelyDifferent Reiner]].]]
* Chapter 92: [[spoiler:Even after taking the enemy base and winning the war, even the Marleyans along with the Eldians fighting for them are starting to realize the era of the Titans is coming to an end.]]
* Chapter 93: [[spoiler: Ymir is KilledOffscreen by being fed to Galliard, who is brother of Marcel - the Titan Shifter Ymir ate to become human - which not only makes Jaws and Dancing Titan the same but also means the 9th Titan has yet to be revealed. We also meet the 8th Titan Shifter, who turns out to be the "Mule Titan" that saved Zeke and Reiner during the failed Shinganshina ambush - who's human form is a woman named Pieck - and learn that Zeke and Reiner are in the last years of their "tenure" as Titan Shifters, with the former already having his successor chosen and the latter being expected to choose from the newly-introduced cadets. Lastly, we learn that Zeke's ability to control Titans is the result of his royal blood, and that Zeke for some reason hasn't shared this fact with the Marlayan Government - which hints to him having a hidden agenda.]]
* Chapter 97: [[spoiler: Eren has been hiding in Marley disguised as a wounded soldier. In addition, it's revealed that Marley is secretly being controlled by the Eldian Taybar family. However, due to the Taybar family's past mistakes, Marley is set on an inevitable course of self-destruction through uncontrolled military expansion, which is why their only option is to declare war on Paradis Island.]]
* Chapter 99: [[spoiler:The Taybars reveal to the world the truth about King Fritz and how he plotted with the Taybars to destroy his own kingdom and seclude himself and the remaining Eldians on Paradis Island. The Taybars also claim that Eren overthrew King Fritz and is planning on reestablishing the Eldian Empire. Meanwhile, a covert force is quietly eliminating Marley's shifters.]]

It's safe to say that Manga/AttackOnTitan ''loves'' this trope, since there are so many of them:
* Chapter 4 (Episode 5): [[spoiler: Protagonist Eren gets swallowed whole ([[AnArmAndALeg minus an arm and a leg]]) [[HeroicSacrifice to save Armin]]]].
* Chapter 9 (Episode 8): [[spoiler: Eren is alive with all his limbs intact, and was the Titan that attacked the other Titans]].
* Chapter 31 (Episode 23): [[spoiler: The Female Titan is Annie.]]
* Chapter 33 (Episode 25): [[spoiler: There are Titans within the Walls.]]
* Chapter 40 (Episode 29): [[spoiler: Ymir is a Titan as well -- and, years ago, killed a childhood friend of two of her comrades.]]
* Chapter 42 (Episode 31): [[spoiler: Reiner and Bertolt are the Armored Titan and Colossal Titan, respectively.]]
* Chapter 50: [[spoiler: Eren is indeed the [[HiveQueen Coordinate]], and it grants him the power to control Titans.]]
* Chapter 51: [[spoiler: Titans [[WasOnceAMan were once human]], and are innocent victims transformed into monsters by some unknown force.]]

* Chapter 86: [[spoiler: We learn about the world outside the walls. We learn of the oppressive government who blamed Grisha's ethnic group for the sins of their ancestors, and that he wanted to overthrow them with the power of the First Titan hidden within the Three Walls. We learn that that government also wanted the First Titan's power for their own reasons, but neither side could openly invade the walls without setting loose the countless Colossal Titans hidden within them. We learn that Grisha has a son with Dina Fritz, who was of the same royal bloodline as Historia. And that he sent his son to infiltrate his enemy's ranks as TheMole for his resistance group, only to be betrayed by him. Said son's name is Zeke, and he is currently the Beast Titan. Add to that the obvious Nazi overtones, and the series just became more complex. Oh, and we also learn that Dina Fritz was the ''Smiling Titan'' - the same titan that ate Eren's mother, implying either a very bad cosmic joke or that it happened by way of some residual memory inspiring a desire for revenge on Grisha for remarrying. Last but not least, we learn that Titan Shifters are doomed to only live another 13 years after getting their powers, which means that Armin and Eren are both living on borrowed time; something Misaka [[HeroicBSOD takes about as]] [[ThousandYardStare well as you'd expect]].]]

* Chapter 99: [[spoiler:The Taybars reveal to the world the truth about King Fritz and how he plotted with the Taybars to destroy his own kingdom and seclude himself and the remaining Eldians on Paradis Island. The Taybars also claim that Eren overthrew King Fritz and is planning on reestablishing the Eldian Empire. Meanwhile, a covert force is quietly eliminating Marley's shifters.]]
* Chapter 101: [[spoiler: Grim Reminder 2.0 has arrived and the Titans are no longer the dominant power in this world.]]
** [[spoiler: At the stage: Willy declares war upon Paradis, which Eren immediately responds to by shifting and devouring Willy, attempting to gain the Warhammer's powers. But Willy isn't the Warhammer; his [[SamusIsAGirl sister]] is. She shifts and after an initial lag period, [[CurbStompBattle impales and decapitates Eren's titan]], breaking through his hardened titan skin with barely any resistance. As she readies to execute Eren, Mikasa jets in from behind and unleashes multiple Thunder Spears to the Warhammer's nape, demolishing her.]]
** [[spoiler: The surrounding areas: Sophia and Udo are killed in the ensuing chaos from Eren's shifting. Gabi is traumatized. Falco and Reiner are missing, presumed dead. Zeke is MIA. Porco and Pieke are rescued by the Panzer squad, only to see mysterious and familiar figures armed with spears flying across the rooftops. Marley soldiers attempt to kill Eren with anti-Titan guns, but they are taken out by Thunder Spears and soldiers armed with anti-personnel 3DMG. The Survey Corps are back in action.]]

* Chapter 99: [[spoiler:The Taybars reveal to the world the truth about King Fritz and how he plotted with the Taybars to destroy his own kingdom and seclude himself and the remaining Eldians on Paradis Island. The Taybars also claim that Eren overthrew King Fritz and is planning on reestablishing the Eldian Empire. Meanwhile, a covert force is quietly eliminating Marley's shifters.]]

* Chapter 86: [[spoiler: We learn about the world outside the walls. We learn of the oppressive government who blamed Grisha's ethnic group for the sins of their ancestors, and that he wanted to overthrow them with the power of the First Titan hidden within the Three Walls. We learn that that government also wanted the First Titan's power for their own reasons, but neither side could openly invade the walls without setting loose the countless Colossal Titans hidden within them. We learn that Grisha has a son with Diana Fritz, who was of the same royal bloodline as Historia. And that he sent his son to infiltrate his enemy's ranks as TheMole for his resistance group, only to be betrayed by him. Said son's name is Zeke, and he is currently the Beast Titan. Add to that the obvious Nazi overtones, and the series just became more complex. Oh, and we also learn that Diana Fritz was the ''Smiling Titan'' - the same titan that ate Eren's mother, implying either a very bad cosmic joke or that it happened by way of some residual memory inspiring a desire for revenge on Grisha for remarrying. Last but not least, we learn that Titan Shifters are doomed to only live another 13 years after getting their powers, which means that Armin and Eren are both living on borrowed time; something Misaka [[HeroicBSOD takes about as]] [[ThousandYardStare well as you'd expect]].]]
* Chapter 90: [[spoiler:Armin's dream come true! The main trio along with the rest of the Survey Corps. have finally reached the ocean! On a more somber note, Eren realizes was only able to unlock the Coordinate powers because someone with Royal Blood (Diana and Historia) were present there, and starts contemplating whether or not he should try to [[SlidingDownTheSlipperySlope titanizing someone with Royal Blood and making contact with to use the power for himself]]]]

* Chapter 98: [[spoiler:The Taybars reveal to the world the truth about King Fritz and how he plotted with the Taybars to destroy his own kingdom and seclude himself and the remaining Eldians on Paradis Island. The Taybars also claim that Eren overthrew King Fritz and is planning on reestablishing the Eldian Empire. Meanwhile, a covert force is quietly eliminating Marley's shifters.]]

* Chapter 97: [[spoiler: Eren has been hiding in Marley disguised as a wounded soldier. In addition, it's revealed that Marley is secretly being controlled by the Eldian Taybar family. However, due to the Taybar family's past mistakes, Marley is set on an inevitable course of self-destruction through uncontrolled military expansion, which is why their only option is to declare war on Paradis Island.]]

* Chapter 97: [[spoiler: Eren has been hiding in Marley disguised as a wounded soldier]]

* Chapter 93: [[spoiler: Ymir is KilledOffscreen by being fed to Galliard, who is brother of Marcel - the Titan Shifter Ymir ate to become human - which not only makes Jaws and Dancing Titan the same but also means the 9th Titan has yet to be revealed. We also meet the 8th Titan Shifter, who turns out to be the "Mule Titan" that saved Zeke and Reiner during the failed Shinganshina ambush - who's human form is a woman named Pieck - and learn that Zeke and Reiner are in the last years of their "tenure" as Titan Shifters, with the former already having his successor chosen and the latter being expected to choose from the newly-introduced cadets. Lastly, we learn that Zeke's ability to control Titans is the result of his royal blood, and that Zeke for some reason hasn't shared this fact with the Marlayan Government - which hints to him having a hidden agenda.]]

* Chapter 91: [[spoiler: Another 4-year TimeSkip occurs. This time, the story focuses on the new generstion of the Marleyan Warrior Program, with a protagonist switch to [[AndNowForSomethingCompletelyDifferent Reiner]].]]

* Chapter 91: [[spoilerL Another 4-year TimeSkip occurs. This time, the story focuses on the new generstion of the Marleyan Warrior Program, with a protagonist switch to [[AndNowForSomethingCompletelyDifferent Reiner]].]]

It safe to say of Manga/AttackOnTitan ''loves'' this trope, since there are so many of them:

* Chapter 90: [[spoiler:Armin's dream come true! The main trio along with the rest of the Survey Corps. have finally reached the ocean! On a more somber note, Eren realizes was only able to unlock the Coordinate powers because someone with Royal Blood (Diana and Historia) were present there, and starts contemplating whether or not he should try to [[SlidingDownTheSlipperySlope eat someone with Royal Blood in order to gain the power himself.]]]]

* Chapter 93: [[spoiler: Ymir is KilledOffscreen by being fed to Galliard who is brother of Marcel who she ate and thus inheriting the Jaws Titan, not only making Jaws and Dancing Titan the same but also that the 9th Titan has yet to be revealed. We also meet the 8th Titan shifter, who turns out to be the "Mule Titan" that saved Zeke and Reiner during the failed Shinganshina ambush - who's human form is a woman named Pieck - and learn that Zeke and Reiner are in the last years of their "tenure" as Titan Shifters, with the former already having his successor chosen and the latter being expected to choose from the newly-introduced cadets. Lastly, we learn that Zeke's ability to control Titans is the result of his royal blood, and that Zeke for some reason hasn't shared this fact with the Marlayan Government - which hints to him having a hidden agenda.]]

* Chapter 93: [[spoiler: Ymir is KilledOffscreen by being fed to Galliard who is brother of Marcel who she ate and thus inheriting the Jaws Titan, not only making Jaws and Dancing Titan the same but also that the 9th Titan has yet to be revealed. We also meet the 8th Titan shifter, who turns out to be the "Mule Titan" that saved Zeke and Reiner during the failed Shinganshina ambush - who's human form is a woman named Pieck - and learn that Zeke and Reiner are in the last years of their "tenure" as Titan Shifters, with the former already having his successor chosen and the latter being expected to choose from the newly-introduced cadets. Lastly, we learn that Zeke's ability to control Titans is the result of his royal blood, and that Zeke for some reason hasn't shared this fact with the Marlayan Government - which hints to him having a hidden agenda.]

* Chapter 93: [[spoiler: Ymir is KilledOffscreen by being fed to Galliard who is brother of Marcel who she ate and thus inheriting the Jaws Titan, not only making Jaws and Dancing Titan the same but also that the 9th Titan has yet to be revealed.]]

* Chapter 42: [[spoiler: Reiner and Bertolt are the Armored Titan and Colossal Titan, respectively.]]

* Chapter 90: [[spoiler:Armin's dream come true! The main trio along with the rest of the Survey Corps. have finally reached the ocean! On a more somber note, Eren realizes was only able to unlock the Coordinate powers because someone with Royal Blood (Diana and Historia) were present there, and starts contemplating whether or not he should try to [[SlidingDownTheSlipperySlope eat someone with Royal Blood in order to gain the power himself.]]

* Chapter 86: [[spoiler: We learn about the world outside the walls. We learn of the oppressive government who blamed Grisha's ethnic group for the sins of their ancestors, and that he wanted to overthrow them with the power of the First Titan hidden within the Three Walls. We learn that that government also wanted the First Titan's power for their own reasons, but neither side could openly invade the walls without setting loose the countless Colossal Titans hidden within them. We learn that Grisha has a son with Diana Fritz. And that he sent his son to infiltrate his enemy's ranks as TheMole for his resistance group, only to be betrayed by him. Said son's name is Zeke, and he is currently the Beast Titan. Add to that the obvious Nazi overtones, and the series just became more complex.]]
* Chapter 90: [[spoiler:Armin's dream come true! The main trio along with the rest of the Survey Corps. have finally reached the ocean!]]

* Chapter 86: [[spoiler: We learn about the world outside the walls. We learn of the oppressive government who blamed Grisha's ethnic group for the sins of their ancestors, and that he wanted to overthrow them with the power of the First Titan hidden within the Three Walls. We learn that that government also wanted the First Titan's power for their own reasons, but neither side could openly invade the walls without setting loose the countless Colossal Titans hidden within them. We learn that Grisha has a son with Diana Fritz. And that he sent his son to infiltrate his enemy's ranks as TheMole for his resistance group, only to be betrayed by him. Said son's name is Zeke, and he is currently the Beast Titan. Add to that the obvious Nazi overtones, and the series just became more complex.]]

* Chapter 40: [[spoiler: Ymir is a Titan as well -- and, years ago, killed a childhood friend of two of her comrades.]]

** Chapter 4 (Episode 5): [[spoiler: Protagonist Eren gets swallowed whole ([[AnArmAndALeg minus an arm and a leg]]) [[HeroicSacrifice to save Armin]]]].
** Chapter 9 (Episode 8): [[spoiler: Eren is alive with all his limbs intact, and was the Titan that attacked the other Titans]].
** Chapter 31 (Episode 23): [[spoiler: The Female Titan is Annie.]]
** Chapter 33 (Episode 25): [[spoiler: There are Titans within the Walls.]]
** Chapter 40: [[spoiler: Ymir is a Titan as well -- and, years ago, killed a childhood friend of two of her comrades.]]
** Chapter 42: [[spoiler: Reiner and Bertolt are the Armored Titan and Colossal Titan, respectively.]]
** Chapter 50: [[spoiler: Eren is indeed the [[HiveQueen Coordinate]], and it grants him the power to control Titans.]]
** Chapter 51: [[spoiler: Titans [[WasOnceAMan were once human]], and are innocent victims transformed into monsters by some unknown force.]]
** Chapter 53: [[spoiler:Pastor Nick is found murdered, and the Survey Corp's investigation of this reveals that there's a GovernmentConspiracy responsible for both the Wall Titans and the murders of Krista's family]].
** Chapter 54: [[spoiler: Erwin is preparing to stage a military coup d'état]].
** Chapter 55: [[spoiler: Because the Reiss Family is the royal family, Historia will be placed as the new queen by the coup forces.]]
** Chapter 56: [[spoiler: There's a group within the Walls actively suppressing humans, and apparently work for the king. Levi's full name is Levi '''Ackerman''' and there's a captain in the human-supression task force who called Levi his "pride," and also has a last name of ''Ackerman''.]]
** Chapter 57: Three [[OhCrap revelations]] in a row: [[spoiler:That Titans may be able to consume other Titans and obtain their abilities (including Titan-shifting) like Kirby, that Eren could be eaten by one of the Millitary Police's Titan Shifters/captive Titans and inherit his ability to control Titans, and that Ackerman Senior just killed three members of Levi's squad-]] WAIT, WHAT?
** Chapter 60: [[spoiler: The Survey Corps are going to be disbanded by the Royal Gov't, and Erwin Smith is marked to hang.]]
** Chapter 62: [[spoiler: Rod Reiss and Krista give Eren back his missing memories, revealing that Eren ate his father shortly after being given the Titan injection.]]
** Chapter 65: [[spoiler: More of the Ackerman bloodline is revealed, Eren reaches the DespairEventHorizon, wanting Historia to kill him & take his Coordinate. And she seemingly obliges, injecting herself and changing into a Titan.]]
** Chapter 66: [[spoiler: It turns out that the royal bloodline doesn't WANT to save humanity and reclaim the world, because the Coordinate contains the will of the first king, who wanted to rule over humanity in the walled kingdom. Historia destroys the syringe, and her father drinks it and becomes the Titan from last chapter. Eren finds a vial containing the Armor ability, breaks it open WITH HIS MOUTH, and transforms.]]
** Chapter 70: [[spoiler: Bertolt and Reiner have returned to Shiganshina District to recapture Eren and rescue Annie along with their new partner; The Beast Titan, who turns out to be a fellow Titan Shifter!]]
** Chapter 77: [[spoiler: The events that led to Marco's death are at long last revealed; During the battle of Trost, Marco accidentally overhears Bertolt and Reiner talking about their mission and their true identities as Titan Shifters. Both Bertolt and Reiner nervously write it off as a joke but Marco puts the pieces together and figures out that they were, in fact, NOT joking. Before Marco can react, Reiner tackles and pins him on the roof of a building out of sight from the rest of the soldiers. Annie ends up coming into the scene, and Reiner ends up forcing her to remove Marco's gear to prove she hasn't been compromised and is still loyal to their cause. They then leave Marco to be eaten by an nearby Titan, and all three of them end up emotionally traumatized by the whole ordeal.]]
** Chapter 81: [[spoiler: The entire Survey Corps, except Levi and the 104th, suicidally march to fight the Titans, Erwin included, to give Levi some time to come up with a strategy to defeat the Beast Titan. We see several gruesome deaths, as the Beast Titan pounds them all with rocks. Marlow dies a pretty horrible death, and Erwin Smith is pretty much implied to be dead. This leaves Levi and his squad, the survivors of the Reclaiming Expedition, unless Hange and her squad's fates are revealed. Worse still, Levi's charge to finally finish the Titan seems to be in vain, as the Beast Titan aims his gun at him.]]
** Chapter 82: [[spoiler: Armin gets burned to death by the Colossal Titan.]] It was all according to plan, though.
** Chapter 83: [[spoiler: Armin is alive, but barely. Also, the Beast Titan knows the Yeagers, more specifically Grisha, and implies that Grisha was also responsible for the Titans.]]
** Chapter 84: [[spoiler: Armin is saved by being injected with the Titan Serum, devours Bertolt and becomes a Titan Shifter. Erwin succumbs to his wounds and dies.]]
** Chapter 85: [[spoiler: At long last, Eren ''finally'' reaches the basement his father Grisha gave up his very life for with the fleeting hope that his son would one day do so and learn the truth about the world. While only a small piece of information was revealed so far, a photograph of Grisha and his first family, it was more than enough to completely shatter everything the humans living within the Walls have been led to believe; Beyond the Walls, Humanity is not extinct in the slightest and is in fact ''thriving'' with technological advances such as cameras, hence the photograph, and certainly numerous others.]]
** Chapter 86: [[spoiler: We learn about the world outside the walls. We learn of the oppressive government who blamed Grisha's ethnic group for the sins of their ancestors, and that he wanted to overthrow them with the power of the First Titan hidden within the Three Walls. We learn that that government also wanted the First Titan's power for their own reasons, but neither side could openly invade the walls without setting loose the countless Colossal Titans hidden within them. We learn that Grisha has a son with Diana Fritz. And that he sent his son to infiltrate his enemy's ranks as TheMole for his resistance group, only to be betrayed by him. Said son's name is Zeke, and he is currently the Beast Titan. Add to that the obvious Nazi overtones, and the series just became more complex.]]