User blog comment:WarriorNumber4/The Main Problems With Eren Jeager's Character/@comment-27938131-20170117150849

First of all, I want to say I respect your point of vue and was very interested by your critic of Eren. This protagonist is quite interesting to analyse, and if I personally found good things, he's far from perfect, so it's good to learn what does the "non-fan side" reproach to him. Overall, I'd be quite Switzerland, and say it's your point of vue and I don't believe you're wrong. But there's a few details I'd like to discuss.

First of all, the characters that come to hate Bertolt and Reiner and slaughter them at the moment we know they're the enemies. I believe it's not true and will take the examples of Mikasa, then Eren.

Mikasa. I'm not a big fan of her, but I think her reaction was good. She's a rather logic girl (except when it comes to Eren) and a soldier. It's war, you don't have always signs that things will get fucked up, so you have to react quickly, and be the most efficient. My comrades are our ennemies? I'll kill them before they do. Moreover when her first attack failed, she did admit to herself she had a moment of hesitation when she attack them, and later, when Bertolt does his speech about liking his comrades but having a mission, she listened to him, and instead of just attacking him again she asked him to give Eren back. Conclusion, Mikasa is indeed a soldier but she wasn't 100% resolved to kill them at these moments.

Now let's see Eren. Reiner and Bertolt were his friends, they spent three years together, he told them what he experienced in Shiganshina... And then Eren learns his friends are the two biggest foes of mankind who destroyed his town, are responsible of the deaths of thousand people, including his mother, and created humanity's biggest traumatism? Why wouldn't he feel betrayed or angry??

But he isn't just angry. After the shock, I remember of a conversation he had with Historia where he says he would kill them because he had to rather than because it'd please him. See, when he thinks he's not so bad. :p