User blog comment:Neetaku/A Think Piece on the Characters of Sasha Blouse and Connie Springer (AKA: Neetaku Rants: Part 1)/@comment-26495049-20170715093853/@comment-24407809-20170715182912

I meant to talk a bit about Sasha and Connie's statuses as comedic characters in my blog, but by the time I got to Connie, I was so caught up in my rant that I completely forgot about it... oops XP.

I actually agree that Sasha produces the best comedic scenes in the series thanks to her food obsession. She was and still is a good comedic character. However, I would argue that 1 solid moment of comedy every 20 or so chapters (seriously, go back and look at her appearances, her comedic scenes are much more sparse than most might realize) does not justify her continued survival when she adds nothing else to the story.

I would argue that Connie, on the other hand, is not a comedic character at all. Because he's not funny. Don't get me wrong, I can clearly see instances in which Isayama is trying to wring a comedic moment out of his character, but they all fall flat in my opinion. I think part of the reason for this is that any and all comedy involving Connie involves other characters making fun of him for being an idiot, and no one did that better than Ymir. Ymir and Connie's interactions were always a joy to see, because they antagonized each other so brilliantly. But now Ymir's dead. And Connie is left with nothing to offer the series except a few empty attempts at capturing the comedy the sprang so organically from his interactions with Ymir.