Board Thread:Theories/@comment-75.176.164.75-20160318202428/@comment-24407809-20160402012430

Aggression25 wrote: I'm hoping Zeke dies. I'm hoping he sticks around, not only because he's one of my favorite characters, but because I really want to see an antagonist who poses an actual threat to our protagonists. I mean, outside of Reiner and Bertl (who disappeared for, like, 20 chapters after their identities were revealed), the series has had nothing but a revolving door of useless antagonists who are utterly worthless when it comes to menacing the main characters.

Examples

 * Annie Leonhart: makes her first appearance in her Female Titan form in chapter 22, and is captured in chapter 33 after only managing to kill a bunch of nameless nobodies and the original members of Squad Levi.


 * Kenny Ackerman: first appears in chapter 52, and dies in chapter 69, after only managing to kill Dimo Reeves, and Nifa... A pretty anticlimactic end for "Kenny the Ripper", who killed over 100 members of the MP on his own...


 * Rod Reiss: first appears in chapter 52, and dies in chapter 68, without killing anyone (or even posing a credible threat) despite holding Eren captive for for 10 chapters, and turning into a Titan that dwarfs the Colossal Titan.


 * And now, we arrive at Zeke, who made his explosive debut in chapter 35, and made it clear that he meant business by killing Mike "2nd only to Levi" Zacharius. He then proceeded to menace the 104th recruits at Utgard Castle, before disappearing (that's right: he survived his run-in with them! He did what Isayama claimed was impossible, and survived a fight with the Plot Armor bunch!) for 35 chapters. He then made an explosive reappearance in chapter 70, where beat Reiner's Armored Titan half to death, immediately establishing him as a credible threat once again.

What I'm saying is, Zeke is just too interesting of a character to die so quickly after his reintroduction. Not to mention the fact that Isayama has spent so many chapters now building him up as an unbeatable force of nature, I would be severely if he decides to kill off Zeke simply because Eren and co. possess stronger plot armor than he does.