Board Thread:Manga/@comment-27321453-20180708204808/@comment-33637057-20180725154441

Kowys wrote: Now that we're done with Sasha, I'd like to discuss what's been on my mind for a while, which is the current predicament of the Survey Corps.

They have faced a lot of enemies, each more powerful than the last, and they have always pulled through and emerged victorious, sometimes by the skin of their teeth. But this new enemy is different, not only because it's much more powerful than those they've faced in the past, but also because defeating this enemy is a tragedy in itself.

Because this enemy is the world.

After Eren effectively declared war on the nations of the world during the festival, there appears to be only 3 ways for the story to end:

1. Paradis claims victory by crushing the rest of the world with the Wall Titans, committing mass genocide.

2. Paradis is defeated by the alliance of world nations. Our main cast dies.

3. A stand-off occurs indefinitely, with Paradis' Titan powers being passed on every 13 years.

There used to be a 4th way (Armin's plan), which is trying to find a diplomatic solution to get the world to accept their existence, but that is no longer possible after Eren's atrocities.

I'm hoping Isayama somehow finds a way to pull the Survey Corps out of this predicament, but I really can't find any alternative to the 3 ways mentioned above. How else can the Survey Corps make it out of this one? Number 1 isn't necessarily mass genocide. Based on Eren's recent actions, he wants to crush the world's militaries, not the entire nations themselves. He seems to want Willy's plan to come to fruition. When the world unites and sends a giant army to attack Paradis, Eren will use the Wall Titans to smash the army, thus rendering the world militarily impotent for a time as well as frightening them into submission, thus making sure they won't attack again for a time (he's likely hoping for enough time for Paradis to modernize). At least this is the impression I got.