User blog comment:Neetaku/Top 5 Deaths in AOT/@comment-27281341-20161023112141/@comment-24407809-20161023220248

With series such as Attack on Titan, it's not at all uncommon for the main character's parents to die to give him a tragic backstory, or to act as a motivator for him. I could see Carla's death coming from a mile away. Now, the way she died (sacrificing herself to save her kids) is definitely praise-worthy, but her death was just a bit too predicatble to make the list.