Board Thread:Manga/@comment-5774380-20190607184944/@comment-27125793-20190617130051

Timjer wrote: Sorry, but I always saw one of the big messages of AoT (especially recently) is that pointless revenge always comes back to bite you. The cycle of vengeance is what keeps everyone in the story suffering over and over and over. Pretty sure Kruger even said that Grisha needed to raise Eren with love to break the cycle. I agree. I think Isayama is trying to convey the message that revenge, in and of itself, is pointless, and what keeps the world from moving forward into the future are the people who go out of their way to get it. After all, those who believe in revenge are people who are still stuck in the past and can't move on from old conflicts, or are incapable of putting their personal issues aside for the greater good. Sadly, in my eyes, Captain Levi also belonged in this category somewhat; not the most extreme version, but he's a very vindictive sadist who couldn't stop talking about how he would kill Zeke even after 4 years had passed.