Board Thread:Manga/@comment-27321453-20190408212907/@comment-4383890-20190410030714

Neetaku wrote: Penguinluver1431 wrote: Tdfern14 wrote:

-The end-chapter text seemed to be implying that Eren is the evil one while painting Reiner in a somewhat-heroic light. Big fat NOPE. After 90+ chapters of watching Paradis/SC go through hell, no trauma-conga line is gonna make me root for a mass-murdering angsty jock, and I don't like being told that that's who I'm supposed to root for. Well actually it seems like a big role reversal for Eren & Reiner since Reiner is supposed to be Eren's foil. Have you seen a YouTuber by AndrewAllStars I believe he made a video how Reiner became a villain to hero. Yes but it could not possibly be more wrong. Any time I say Eren is just 'doing what he needs to protect his people' and call Marley 'evil', people shout "GREY MORALITIES". So no, they can't just turn around and call Reiner a hero as if he is in any way good. Right, but I could say the exact same thing about Reiner. "Eren is just doing what he needs to protect his people." Well, Reiner is just doing what he needs to to give his family a better life.

"Eren is justified in killing Marleyan women and children because the Eldians have been oppressed." Well, Reiner thought that the Paradis Eldians were evil warmongers who would release Colossus Titans upon the whole world, so from his point of view he had the moral authority to participate in an attack on Paradis (I don't actually believe that, but going by the logic used to justify Eren, Reiner would also be justified).

And if we want to talk about all of the grief the Survey Corps had over Reiner and Bertolt breaking Wall Maria, why don't we talk about the fact that Eren led them straight into a fight that they didn't want at Liberio, getting soldiers killed in the process, and then proceeded to go full Joseph Stalin and poison and/or imprison anyone who disagreed with his methods. You could say that, yes. But my point was that people calling Reiner a 'hero' while simultaneously telling me the concept of 'heroes and villains' doesn't exist in SnK because of grey morality is laughable. Also the fact that I literally don't care about the Warrior's perspective in any of this.