Board Thread:Movies/@comment-27463738-20160102173920/@comment-27441457-20160102230747

I have a strong feeling that the manga Titan origins will have to do with some advanced scientific experimentation, probably as some sort of biological weapon, but I doubt the origin of the Titans will be in modern times like the movie portrays. The technology needed to create anything like the Titans we see in the manga is WAY beyond anything we're concievably capable of nowadays. The movie mentions how Titans are caused by rapid cellular reproduction creating giant humanoids, but the manga has many more implications with things like the Titans' surprisingly light weight and their reliance on sunlight for energy.

And of course, there's Hange's daunting speculation: "What I think is happening is that what we can see and the true nature of what actually exists are totally different things."