Talk:Attack on Titan

regarding request to remove Eren's motives

Starting a new thread to reach a consensus on if the plot summary should remove the part explaining Eren's motives. This thread is a followup to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Attack_on_Titan#regarding_Eren's_motives I recommend anyone participating in this thread read that thread first. Basically, I believe that Eren's true motives are too subjective to be included in the plot summary. I requested that

"After Levi kills Zeke and a mysterious creature that is the source of all Titans' powers, Mikasa kills Eren, causing the power of the Titans to vanish, reverting all Titans to human form, and stripping the Titan Shifters of their powers, thereby freeing all Eldians from the curse. His death also releases memory blocks that he put on his friends, revealing that what transpired was part of Eren's plan to spare twenty percent of humanity, with Armin, Levi, Mikasa, and the others being recognized as heroes in the eyes of the world for killing him and stopping the Rumbling. Three years later, as Paradis and the rest of the world rebuilds, Armin and his allies begin peace negotiations led by Queen Historia."

be changed to

"After Levi kills Zeke and a mysterious creature that is the source of all Titans' powers appears, Mikasa kills Eren, causing the power of the Titans to vanish, reverting all Titans to human form, and stripping the Titan Shifters of their powers, thereby freeing all Eldians from the curse. Three years later, as Paradis and the rest of the world rebuilds, Armin and his allies begin peace negotiations led by Queen Historia." (I also changed added the word "appears" before the first comma since the original implies Levi killed the source, which he did not) User @WikiVirusCsaid "There is a lot of interpretation to be had and its going to be opinionated of course. Regardless of what Eren wanted, he knew what was going to happen. See the part of quoted text "Even if I didn't know that you'd stop me..." He knew he would be stopped, and regardless of him wanting this or that, he kept going along the path that ended up with some people being spared. Maybe the text could be reworded, because while yes its true it wasn't his desire for 20% of world to be spared, he intended for that to happen."

My response to that is that it is unclear where Eren's will ends and his future vision begins, so I'm not sure if he can say what his intent is. Still, I concede that 80% of humanity being killed and Armin and friends becoming heroes is worth a mention, so I propose a new edit: "After Levi kills Zeke and a mysterious creature that is the source of all Titans' powers appears, Mikasa kills Eren, causing the power of the Titans to vanish, reverting all Titans to human form, and stripping the Titan Shifters of their powers, thereby freeing all Eldians from the curse. His death also releases memory blocks that he put on his friends, revealing that eighty percent of humanity has been killed in the rumbling, and that Armin, Levi, Mikasa, and the others will be recognized as heroes in the eyes of the world for killing him and stopping the Rumbling. Three years later, as Paradis and the rest of the world rebuilds, Armin and his allies begin peace negotiations led by Queen Historia." AOTEditor (talk) 03:14, 17 May 2023 (UTC)

My response to that is that it is unclear where Eren's will ends and his future vision begins, so I'm not sure if he can say what his intent is. I'm not saying go into his will or add anything about that, I don't want to change/add anything in. He said "Even if I didn't know that you'd stop me" [from killing everyone], he knew he would be stopped. Your version of text removes that plot point from the summary. If you want to change it from Eren's plan, to Eren's vision that he carried out/let happen or something than that's an option, but I feel plan is simpler and works. WikiVirusC^(talk) 12:23, 17 May 2023 (UTC)

Also to add from 139, (wording depending on the translation), Armin says "It was all... ...to push us away from you... ...and make us into heroes who saved humanity from extinction by hunting you down?", Eren replies "...That's right." Armin ask if this was his plan, and Eren says yes. WikiVirusC^(talk) 12:44, 17 May 2023 (UTC)

Since you bring that up, I think it's necessary to view what is happening in that scene. We do not see the conversation that occurs prior to the start of chapter, so we do not know exactly what Eren told Armin. It is possible that the idea of Eren doing the rumbling purely for his friends was an assumption Armin made. Regardless, when Armin asks Eren if he did it for them, Eren says "that's right," however when Eren says this, his eyes are looking down, not at Armin, which may indicate that he is lying. Then when Armin questions Eren further on this, instead of answering, Eren changes the subject.

Keeping what Eren says later in this chapter, along with what he said in 131, in mind, it looks to me like Eren is too ashamed to admit to his true motive here, but he also cannot lie to his friend, so he changes the subject to avoid this confrontation.

Later in the chapter, after Eren breaks down and cries in front of Armin, he says "how... could I ever be forgiven...?" Here it seems like Eren does not view his own actions as morally justifiable. Right after this Eren confesses to Armin that he truly wanted to do the rumbling.

What it looks like to me is that after breaking down in front of Armin, Eren is now comfortable disclosing his shameful true motive, since he has already embarrassed himself, and what he says here effectively overrides what he said at the beginning of the chapter.

Even if you do not view it this way, the beginning of 139 is really the only evidence that Eren did the rumbling for any noble means. There is more evidence to suggest the contrary, not all of which I have brought up, but I will if you need me to.

If you see it necessary for the summary to mention Eren seeing the future, so be it, but I do not wish for it to imply that Eren started the rumbling for this reason. Try to avoid using the word "plan." AOTEditor (talk) 18:13, 17 May 2023 (UTC)

We aren't saying he did it for noble means, and no one is trying to word article to imply it was morally justifiable, he did it for his own personal preference. But that isn't the point, I do not want to speculate or analyze the manga, evidence across chapters won't help. Combining things from chapters to come to any conclusions is WP:OR, If no reliable sources support the theory then just leave as is verbatim summary sourced from the manga without opinions/speculations. WikiVirusC^(talk) 20:05, 17 May 2023 (UTC)

I agree that my interpretation cannot be backed up under Wikipedia’s rules, but neither can the interpretation that the way things turned out was Eren’s plan from the beginning.

All I want at this point is for the word “plan” to be taken out, and for the text to not imply that Levi killed the source.

(I deleted the previous reply to this because I accidentally sent it while not logged in) AOTEditor (talk) 21:24, 17 May 2023 (UTC)

@WikiVirusCsince you have not responded for about a week, can we go forward in removing use of the word "plan," and making it clear that Levi did not kill the source. AOTEditor (talk) 19:28, 23 May 2023 (UTC)

I reworded sentence so it didn't imply Levi killed the source, and it was more a result of Eren's death. I already responded multiple times about the word plan. Its the simplest way to describe it, but if you have a better way to describe it without removing the the fact Eren confirms it when Armins verbatim if everything was to make them heroes and he says yes. We are over analyzng and theorizing way too much, let a secondary RS do that. If we using the manga as a primary source, we just need to summarize what happened without adding opinions to it. I feel the article already does/did that fine with current wording. WikiVirusC^(talk) 21:43, 23 May 2023 (UTC)

"His death also releases memory blocks that he put on his friends, revealing that what transpired was part of the future Eren saw where eighty percent of humanity is killed, with Armin, Levi, Mikasa, and the others being recognized as heroes in the eyes of the world for killing him and stopping the Rumbling." AOTEditor (talk) 01:56, 24 May 2023 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 22 August 2023

idk i saw a bunch of changes that were needed to make through grammarly so editors can just do that or smth idk MatthewChenChen (talk) 12:47, 22 August 2023 (UTC)

 Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. — Paper9oll (🔔 • 📝) 14:38, 22 August 2023 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 29 November 2023

It still states here that the manga has been sold 120 million copies as of September 2023.

As of 29th of November 2023, the manga has sold 140 million copies.

Source: https://x.com/shingeki_fly/status/1729802961344200984?s=46&t=UzvPDi6hCOEx7zs_pQsUpw Miiyuh (talk) 10:09, 29 November 2023 (UTC)

 Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. Per WP:RSPX, Twitter is not a reliable source. Liu1126 (talk) 10:22, 29 November 2023 (UTC)

Themes section?

Should we include a themes section including the themes of the story, including the meaning of the tree at the end? HiGuys69420 (talk) 02:20, 1 December 2023 (UTC)

If the section contains analysis and discussions from reliable secondary sources or the author's own views and comments, yes. If the section contains fan theories, user-generated discussions or other kind of interpretations without attribution, then no. Xexerss (talk) 04:06, 1 December 2023 (UTC)

"internet communities"

The article cited here is focused on a single internet community (4chan's /pol forum). It might be more accurate to change the wording here to reflect that.

In 2020, Shaan Amin, writing for The New Republic, identified Attack on Titan as a favorite of alt-right and white nationalist internet communities, while also pointing out that people tend to "sift through stories to find the messages they expect".

In reviewing the source that the author cited (search results, from that period), I'm not seeing a consensus among right-leaning users. The claim hasn't aged well, based on more recent search results. 2600:8801:8D00:425:7EFC:96F0:32F8:F628 (talk) 19:40, 21 March 2024 (UTC)