Not a fucking Chance.
It's hard to make him seem tragic when he reveals he killed his own mom, only cares about flattening the earth, etc in the very same chapter. They gave him too many motives, his friends seem like after an afterthought.
I miss when villains could just be villains, and not be forced to have tragic backstories, or secretly turn out to be good guys. Or at the very least, not have them dwell on their backstories, and actually feel bad about what they're doing.
The thing is that he actually was tragic if you just looked at his character from start to finish. We've said this more than other thing in this entire thread: Eren has more than enough shit to make him a tragic character. The only problem is that the story fucking ignores it for no fucking reason.
I guess the burden of the Founder's abilities warping him is tragic, but isn't that what he sought?
No, I meant Eren's life in general is tragic. He's born with an innate bloodlust and lack of empathy that could've been dealt with if he wasn't traumatized left, and right, and constantly used, and treated as nothing more than a dangerous weapon.
Honestly the issue with Eren as a villain is due to the fact he is the main character and Isayama did not know what to really do with him. When he did, he didn't dedicate what Eren could be whether he was someone who had good intentions all along or an evil bastard. Like Isayama can sort of handle villains well (since I personally think he does good when writing other villains like Zeke
Honestly Eren could've easily been fixed in terms of writing with a few simple changes:
Before he made contact with Historia I don't think he had shown that bloodlust except toward Titans, same for lack of empathy. I remember one OVA showing Jean being just a huge fucking prick to his mom, and Eren was the only one who told him he should be nicer to her. Not sure those side stories are canon though.
He fucking stabbed two grown men to death when he was eight, and literally got aroused by the thought of worldwide genocide when he was a teenager.
Didn't he do that to save Mikasa or something? IIRC, it wasn't just a random, pointless joykill.
Dude, he was eight. Yeah, they deserved, but still. A normal child shouldn't be screaming like a lunatic as he stabs two grown-ass men to death with a broom.
You're making the assumption all fictionel male children are 21th Century white eunuched American.
I've never seen GoT, but given how much AoT has copied other Western media, I wouldn't doubt it.
I’ve never made that connection before, but you’re totally right, it’s an almost identical system for time/causality shenanigans that erodes the user’s humanity with its godlike extratemporal perspective.
What's more, with Bran's power (just remembered the name) he could have the ability to learn or even change the past. And yet he didn't used it and just let things happened even with thousands suffering or die. People were asking if this was his intention from the start, to allow himself become the new King
I dunno how they did it in the show, but in the books it’s heavily implied that Bran isn’t really Bran anymore, but was absorbed into the Three Eyed Crow/Weirwood hivemind and became its new human body. At this point he basically becomes like Dr Manhattan - mere thousands of human lives are beneath the concern of an earthly deity.
The end of Bleach was maybe the most rushed, incoherent thing ever. I didn't even know what the hell was going on, and worst of all, it was boring.
Wasn't that just Shonen Jump giving Bleach the axe and telling Kubo to wrap it up? Surely the anime will give the anime the love Thousand Year Blood War deserves and won't lead to more shipping centered desires for AOEs...right?
And how would they have dealt with that? It's not like therapy would make a difference when you're dealing with the possible end of humanity. If anything, you'd be called out for taking away a potential asset away.
Isn't that what Eren's fanboys already do?