Board Thread:Manga/@comment-27321453-20190408212907/@comment-38810880-20190506011138

I guess I'm being slightly influenced by the wording.

While Zeke is euthanizing the Eldian race, he just wants to mass-sterlize the current entire Eldian population so they just can't have kids. When I keep reading his "euthanasia" plan, I keep equating it with a softer version of Marley's plan, which is just kill all the Eldians when there usefulness runs out.

After reading some of the most recent comments here I'm picking up the nuance of Zeke's plan and it reminds me of an HBO movie, Conspiracy. In the film, one of the officials in the Nazi Germany government is passionately arguing against the SS mass-murdering the Jews via gas chambers, and instead proposes sterilization. That character is still evil for just that, but there's a difference between him and his colleagues, like Zeke and the Marleyan military officials.

I would have liked for the Isayama to show how Zeke envisions his plan working,  because up until now it just sounded stupid, at least when read in manga form. When I just read "I want to euthatnize Eldia," I think, that's not much different from what Marley wants to do. But if it was mentioned explicitly that he wanted to use the Coordinate to sterlize all Eldians, young and old, and, with the leverage of the "Rumbling," relocate all the Eldians in Liberio to Paradis, so that ALL Eldians can live out there lives in freedom and peace, I think Zeke's master plan would sound more like a master plan.

On top of that, I think it would have been better if Zeke were shown playing up that idea of "freedom from persecution" to Eren, which would make Eren's alliance with Zeke more plausible to the readers AND to Zeke. That way, for us the readers, there's still some uncertainty where Eren's loyalty lies. Instead, Zeke's short description of the plan to Eren, and Eren's quick agreement make the war chief come across as extremely gullible, and we already know that Eren would never go for a plan like that, at least the way it was presented. Maybe Isayama could have shown Eren looking back at all he and his comrades had fought for, all the deaths involved, and how maybe, just maybe, this is the best chance at freedom. Maybe another child out there wouldn't have to see his mother eaten by a titan, or slaughtered by an opposing army.