Talk:Bertolt Hoover

Request to split article
I Am somebody who only watches the AoT anime, and after finishing the available episodes, as per usual, I decided to read the character descriptions that I may have missed. I went through the general characters: Eren, Mikasa, Sasha, etc. I was satisfied with those characters' pages becasue they kept the anime and manga knowledge generally separate, while the less separated sections, which could be identified by their manga scans, I averted with my eyes. Navigating via links, I head to the page of the colosal and armored titans. To my shock and horror, the pages redirect to the Garrison crew, groundbreaking information which is meant to be unavailable to anime fans. To prevent unintentional spoilers like this in the future, can this page, along with the Armored Titan page be split so the titans forms and the human forms have respective pages, with explicit spoiler tags? Thank you. Porp1 (talk) 21:55, July 5, 2013 (UTC)

I agree, same with the armored titan, the female titan and the dancing titan.

- Unsigned person???

Seems this comes up from time to time, and my understanding is that the moderates already decided that you enter at your own risk with the main page warning of major spoilers ahead. So I don't think anyone is going to be doing that any time soon, sorry.

--Harostar (talk) 08:08, September 4, 2013 (UTC)

Spellings
Please do NOT use translated spellings as "Bertolt Hoover" on this wiki. The official and accepted spelling is "Bertholdt Fubar". I don't know what you did but I can't rename the page, its up to you to fix it. Chris (talk) 17:02, July 16, 2013 (UTC)


 * What source do you have to says that "Bertholdt Fubar" is the official spelling? The manga spells his name "Bertolt Hoover", so this is the officail spelling.Jjoss (talk) 21:00, July 18, 2013 (UTC)

Fixed. It couldn't be renamed because 'Bertholdt Fubar' still existed as a redirect so I just swapped the pages... 17:06, July 16, 2013 (UTC)

@Jjoss I don't have my own source, but I know the Japanese versions refer to him as Bertholdt Fubar, and the English manga translations took to "Fuber" or "Hoover" so as not to coincide with the American military acronym F.U.B.A.R., which if you don't know, stands for "Fucked Up Beyond All Recognition/Repair". Chris (talk) 23:05, July 18, 2013 (UTC)

I'm pretty sure Bertolt Hoover is the official, correct spelling. Cryssie (talk) 23:38, July 19, 2013 (UTC)

You can take that up with the admins if you like. Chris (talk) 02:06, July 20, 2013 (UTC)

That depends on what you consider 'official'. I believe that until it's proven that Isayama himself spelled it like that, it will be just 'another translation' even if it's done by Kodansha. 09:06, July 20, 2013 (UTC)

I opened the image file for his profile on the Japanese anime site and the file name is "Berutolt." If Kodansha and the anime's website spell it like that, then it's probably Bertolt. I haven't seen where it's been spelled Bertholdt aside from blogging sites. Both names are real names, but Bertolt seems to be more common. Also, TV Tropes says Bertolt Hoover is official, but they don't have any sources listed. I'm not trying to argue; I'm just sharing what I've found. Cryssie (talk) 02:21, July 24, 2013 (UTC)

The anime file for Levi spelled his name as 'Rivai' so I wouldn't count on these names being valid at all. 17:42, July 25, 2013 (UTC)

Trivia
He is the only Titan Shifter so far to be shown willingly eating a human. (Annie spit out her victims, while Ymir ate Berik while in a mindless state.)

Huh? I'm sorry but can someone elaborate when he ate someone willingly and for the sake of eating? Because the soldier he swallowed was only because he could get the 3DMG if that's what you mean.188.62.91.204 19:11, August 4, 2013 (UTC)

Hmm, I suppose you're right, this shouldn't be there 19:13, August 4, 2013 (UTC)

As the person who added that, I'm going to first and foremost point out that it says nothing about eating for the sake of eating. On the other hand, I do think it's an interesting tidbit, as it further illustrates how he's portrayed differently from the other Shifters in the story. We now know that Ymir did not eat anyone willingly, and she even spits after taking a chunk out of another Titan. Annie kills people by biting, but also immediately spits them out. On the other hand, Bertoldt is the only sentient and fully-in-control Titan so far in the series that has actually eaten someone. Even if his primary goal was stealing from the corpse later, it's an interesting little tidbit in that it's not something we've seen the Ape Titan or any of the other Shifters even attempt.

--Harostar (talk) 19:27, August 4, 2013 (UTC)

I think it became too long now, how about this?:


 * He is the only Titan Shifter so far to be shown willingly eating a human as he did so in order to obtain the victim's Three Dimensional Maneuver Gear.

I've also removed the fact about Annie and Ymir as the first sentence itself is enough to make it obvious that nor Annie neither Ymir willingly ate someone and since this is Berholdt's article, details about other characters are not necessary in this case, in my opinion. ;o 19:37, August 4, 2013 (UTC)

You're awesome, Miskos. I think that looks much better! Thanks.

--Harostar (talk) 19:40, August 4, 2013 (UTC)

Haha, glad to be of help 19:44, August 4, 2013 (UTC)