Board Thread:Manga/@comment-5774380-20160609000528/@comment-25322628-20160615061235

Fire Eater wrote: The motivation of the Homelanders still confuses me, as does Bertolt, Reiner, and Annie's eagerness to kill so many people when they're probably nothing more than tools who barely know what they're fighting for.

The Titan Shifters definitely get a lot of second chances with their powers, but their regular human selves surely have a weakness. Rod Reiss was decapitated the same most other Titans are by Historia after he became a Shifter, right? Same trick seems to work. Rod didn't become a shifter because he didn't devour or ingest the spinal fluid of a shifter. He just inappropriately ingested the Titan Serum and had a bad reaction to it by turning into an abnormal.