Board Thread:Theories/@comment-26624146-20170608143408/@comment-30508636-20170614002130

Eobard95 wrote: RandomDudeDude wrote: That first one would be horrible.....Reiner being killed as an evil villain by his own childhood comrade just for the sake of a personal Annie/Armin shiptease fanservice? Nah. I never liked how people are so forgiving and loving towards Annie and treat Reiner like a monster. While I admit I am an Armin/Annie shipper that's not why I think they should kill him. It's because the series started with the Collosal, Armored and Female Titans as the villains so it'd be poetic if the Female and Collosal Titans took down the Armored Titan, it ends where it began and all that. It's not like it'd just be "Annie kills Reiner end of story". I imagine if this happened emotions would run high and they may try to reason with each other, but ultimatley if they're on opposite sides they have to treat each other as enemies.

People are so forgiving towards Annie because she's done more to earn a chance at redemption than Reiner has. He destroyed Wall Maria killed thousands and is devoted to Marley's cause and believes the Paradis-Eldians are "earth devils". Reiner is emotionally damaged true with split-personality but his "Warrior" persona seems to outweigh his "Soldier" persona, and he doesn't appear to be remorseful for the lives he's taken but just damaged at how many he's taken. Annie has killed several dozen including Petra and Marco, but she appears more remorseful of her misdeeds and doesn't appear that devoted to Marley's cause compared to Reiner. She's also done more to indicate she became more sincere towards Paradis as she saved Connie and Jean, hesitated to kill Armin several times, trained Eren, helped Marlowe and was in tears when she left Marco to die, which Reiner forced her to do. Reiner did much more for paradis than Annie, he really believed he was a soldier, helping everyone. Annie was just an ant social who did literaly nothing for nobody. And the way Annie killed her victims in the forest were cooler, she even got to play with their bodies. Rendering yourself killing an ally and childhood friend is the dumbest thing I've ever seen, this can not even be called redemption.