Board Thread:Manga/@comment-27321453-20190508212248/@comment-1327106-20190511065842

YSL Slime wrote: -Magath saying "we need a hero like Helos." But Helos was made up. So he's saying Marley needs to create another fiction? Is he referring to himself or Reiner?

Helos was manufactured for morale, so I think Magath is saying they need to make up a new hero. I'm not sure whether he's referring to himself or Reiner though. Personally, I think Magath does not have someone in mind and would rather not be that hero himself, but if say... Reiner or Porco (or even some rando soldier) happened to be the lucky guy to take down Eren he'd be happy to anoint that person as the new Helos for PR's sake.

-Reiner sounded like a screw up, but maybe he will end up saving the world. I was expecting Reiner to put up a more strategic fight on his own, but I guess he was just playing a part in Magath's plan in wearing out Eren's Warhammer abilities.

I'm sure Reiner does feel like a screw-up. He lost Bertolt, he's afraid he nearly lost his cousin, and he knows he screwed over an entire island of people minding their own business who weren't the devils he thought they were. This attack's only happening because Reiner feels so bad about Gabi and Falco being taken. I suspect that if they hadn't been on the airship, Reiner wouldn't have taken the battle back to Paradis. He's trying to avoid losing the people he cares about.

People are saying this is the final battle though, that the series is going to end soon, but it seems like there is still so much more to reveal. Yelena's back story, Annie and her father, what happened to Zeke, Levi's fate, Historia's child, what's going on with Eren, the truth of the Advancing Titan, the true story behind Ymir's deal with the devil, more about King Fritz, Lady Tybur's background, what will happen to Gaby and Falco, if Mikasa is really being controlled by her blood, her clan...man, so much more.

I don't think this is the final battle, but it's supposed to be the final arc, and you can see it's building towards a climax with Marley invading and almost every notable character assembled in one place. (Even Pixis and Nile are in town.)

The only really important mystery left is Eren's side of the story. Yes, there are other questions, but the only critical mystery (like the story simply would not function if it's never answered) is why Eren changed over the timeskip and what is his true agenda.

Everything else is technically skippable. I mean, I'd like to know what the heck happened to Zeke and his resurrection, but if for some reason it was never revisited, I wouldn't feel the story was broken. I'd just write it off as something really weird (since the Paths are already a strange metaphysical thing).