Board Thread:Manga/@comment-5774380-20160109013258/@comment-24407809-20160110065828

One of the things about Marco's death that interests me is the state of his body when it is later found by Jean. He is shown in this chapter being devoured by a Titan (sorry anyone who thought he was still alive), but when he is later found, only half of his body is devoured. One of the things I've noticed about Titans is that, unless they are stopped from doing so, they usually devour their victim's entire body (one notable exception to this is Mammon), but this is obviously not the case with Marco. It's possible that our favorite (or not-so-favorite depending on how you felt after reading this chapter) crazy-little-warrior Reiner's split "soldier" personality intervened, although this seems unlikely since the Titan had already started eating Marco by the time Reiner began to show any remorse, and there would have been no point in intervening.

A few other things I'd like to note are that Marco's corpse is found on the ground, rather than the rooftop where the Homeland trio left him, and the wall his corpse is propped against is slightly damaged, indicating that his body was thrown down, which also seems uncharacteristic of Titans (if the Titan hadn't wanted to eat him, it would have simply ignored him like other Abnormals).

NOTE: I'm not trying to start any new Marco-related theories, it just seems weird to me that Marco's Titan apparently started eating him, got bored, and tossed what was left of him aside.