Board Thread:Wiki/@comment-28807545-20160621071026/@comment-5774380-20160621134922

About Armin, I've seen many fans analyzing his clinical status as if he was a real person, but don't forget that this is a fictional character, so any medical analysis is irrelevant here. If Isayama wants to kill him, he could kill him by a bee sting; if he wants him to survive, he could make him survive being cut into pieces. Real life logic doesn't apply on a work of fiction. But what we have seen on this series so far is that regular people (no Titan Shifters) don't usually survive wounds that serious. Kenny died for less and he was physically much stronger than Armin; and don't forget that on top of being burned alive to the point of near carbonization, Armin also fell dozens of meters on a roof.

As to our current knowledge, Levi is far away from them pursuing Zeke and he is focused on saving Erwin, he very likely doesn't know about their predicament and possibly doesn't even know where they are. We have no factual reason to believe that he will make it in time to save Armin. If we based Armin's status on "well, he may receive the Titan Serum, so he should be alive", that would be speculation. We have no idea what will happen on the next chapter and are not allowed to speculate about it either. If he somehow turns out to be alive on the next issue, we will change his status; but until then, we can only act according to the information we have at the moment, and this information suggests that he is dead, while we have really nothing solid to support the idea of him being alive.

About Moblit, I've been always unsure about the correctness of stating him as deceased. It's true that he was listed among the deceased soldiers envisioned by Erwin and that Hange was not there, but that was only what Erwin believed, and not necessarily has to be true. But I didn't take part in changing his status and all the other admins and staff members seemed to agree (or at least didn't complain), so I just let it be. But I certainly think that he should be listed as unknown until we have more solid proof that he is dead.