Board Thread:Manga/@comment-5774380-20200908210434/@comment-1327106-20200922210045

Attackcjc wrote: RuneLai wrote: KemonoTitan wrote: How many times is the "can you kill Eren" question gonna pop up? Guess Yams wants to hammer it in for the speed-readers. At this rate I'm going to be disappointed if they can't. Otherwise why bother asking the question? Its not even hammering in if they will fight him. Its hammering in how they don't want to fight him, and that Isayama is doing his part not to let readers think this is all leading to a fight. In fact, chp 131 solidifed through foreshadowing that we are not just in for a talk, but we're in for one in the same style as the talk Eren and Armin had during the season 1 boulder mission.

Besides, not to state the obvious, but Eren being killed will achieve nothing worthwhile in the long run. There's no guarantee it will stop the rumbling, and his people will still be demonized. We all know the story ends with peace and freedom, and that can't happen if Eren dies as "the bad guy" so something is going to happen that we're not expecting.

It's not a question of will they kill Eren. It's can. If they're asking the question "Can you kill Eren?" and the answer is yes, but they don't, that's fine.

But if the answer is no, then why bother asking the question over and over again when the person asking (mostly Annie) and the audience already suspects they know the answer?