Board Thread:Misc./@comment-26932251-20150827064835

And by everyone, I mean, all of humanity gains the ability to turn into a titan and back into a human at will.

The show at first has been running on the premise that it can end with either all of humanity extinct or all of the titans exterminated. But what other options are there? What else would be motivating the titan shifters from 'the homeland' so much? Are they really that motivated by a singular desire to exterminate humanity?

What if they are trying to get the secrets of the Reiss Family, the knowledge, coordinate, and all of that, because it's essential to their plan of making all human beings into titan shifters?

So far, all new titan shifters have been created by turning people into titans and then having them eat a pre-existing titan shifter. But, all of these titan shifters had to have had an original titan shifter that was then subsequently eaten. How were these original titan shifters created? Maybe the answer to that question is what 'the homeland' is after.

Apparently the Beast Titan has the ability to turn a mass of people into 'dum-dum' titans but is missing some key piece of information to turn all humans into titan shifters. Maybe the original plague of titans was in part a failure to let all humans turn into titan shifters and instead just throngs of dum-dums.

Anyway, to bring it all around, this could be a fitting conclusion to the series because if everyone become a titan shifter then we are left with the classic "when everyone's special, no one is special" conclusion. If everyone on Earth is a titan shifter then that heralds a new era of the world where no one can unilaterally use the power of titans to try to coerce or threaten humanity ever again, like the First King apparently did (if everyone became a titan shifter then the monarchy could never control all of humanity). Achieving this outcome might be the point of why 'the homeland' is in conflict with the people behind the walls.

In my opinion, this would be a more fitting conclusion because it offers more resolution than titans are exterminated because does humanity just go back right to where it was before knowing that something like titans and titan shifters can exist? No, you can't unsee that kind of potential.

What does the forum think? 