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this is Attack on Titan, the final episode.
Our protagonist, Eren Yeager, has now become the final villain.
To protect his home, the island of Paradis, from the outside world,
He's unleashed the million Colossal Titans that made up the walls
to kill every other person on the planet.
But now all of our main characters from Paradis and Marley,
have banded together to stop him!
The last part ended as Eren's friends leapt from the plane
for a final fight on Eren's giant new skeletal body.
Plan A is to take out Zeke the Beast Titan,
so Reiner, the Armored Titan, transforms
and knocks out him immediately.
The hope is without Zeke's royal blood,
Eren will lose his control over the Eldian founder, Ymir.
Unfortunately, this wasn't the real Zeke,
it was just a construct, his real body is hidden from them.
So it's on to Plan B, where Armin will use the explosive power
of the Colossal Titan to nuke this whole thing.
But Eren planned for this, so whoa!
Armin is immediately swallowed and taken off the board.
So it's onto Plan C, where Pieck, the Cart Titan
will strap some dynamite to Eren's head
and blow it up the old fashioned way.
But oh! She's impaled,
by another titan construct Eren’s made.
Yeah he's got a whole army of them, every titan warrior that's ever lived,
including their old friends like Bertholdt.
Now for Plan D, there is no Plan D,
they're just desperately fighting to survive,
and very quickly, things look bleak.
But now who's this flying in?
Our gang is picked up by a giant bird titan!
Yeah remember little Falco just got the power of the Jaw Titan,
and for some reason, his manifested as a bird.
With a bird's eye view, Mikasa spots the weird cow titan that swallowed Armin,
so it's slingshot time as she's trying to get him.
And it's fight round two, where all our characters get their own hero moment.
But they're still just too outnumbered,
until, one of the construct titans turns on the others!
Wait, is that our old friend Ymir?!
While Armin’s unconscious, his mind is in the Eldian Coordinate,
where he hangs out with Zeke, who's basically given up on life.
But Armin convinces him humanity's worth saving,
without humans, you wouldn't have baseball.
And the spirits of our other titan warrior friends are here too,
so it's like, “I know you guys are dead, but we could really use your help.”
So all our dead titan friends wake up and switch sides,
and now Mikasa is able to rescue Armin!
And Zeke wakes up too, “Here I am, come kill me.”
And Captain Levi, who's killed the Beast Titan a dozen times,
finally puts him to rest for good.
And it works! The Rumbling stops.
But Eren himself is still a problem.
So it's Jean who swings in there, grabs the detonator,
blows Eren's head clean off!
Which reveals the weird jellyfish vertebrae thing
that is the founding Titan.
So now it's time for Eren's best friend Armin,
“Sayonara, Eren.”
Kaboom! Nukes the whole thing!
But of course it's not going to be that easy.
Eren reforms in a more normal titan body.
The jellyfish thing survived the blast too,
and now it farts out a bunch of titan-creating gas,
transforming all the Eldians into titans!
Leading the attack to reconnect with Eren.
So it's the final battle! Titan punch, hyah!
But Mikasa is sitting this fight out, she can't bring herself to kill Eren.
In fact she envisions the life they could have had,
if he didn't become a genocidal maniac.
But he did. So Mikasa accepts what she has to do...
Swings on in there, into this new titan's mouth to find Eren's prime body
and cuts his head off! Mikasa kills Eren!
She gently takes his severed head and gives it a smooch.
Yes, of course, she's always loved him.
But before Eren died, with the power of the Eldian Coordinate,
he’s able to have a final chat with his friends to explain his motivations.
And turns out he wanted his friends to kill him!
His real plan was to become an apocalyptic threat,
so Paradis and Marley could unite against a common enemy.
And with the island Eldians saving the world from him,
the rest of the world would accept them and they could finally have peace.
So Eren Yeager really was good all along!
...Well, his motivations at least.
He did in fact kill 80% of the world's population.
Armin’s like, “Man, I'm sure there was a better way.”
But our best bros talk it out,
realize both their hands are stained with blood.
So it's like, “I love you, man. See you in hell.”
So back in reality, Armin and Mikasa mourn their best friend Eren,
now that they understand his real intentions.
And with Eren’s death, the jellyfish monster disappeared.
It has something to do with the founder Ymir
getting over her abusive relationship with the old Eldian king Fritz?
Which means the power of the titans is gone from the world,
all our Eldians transform back!
And the original dream of the Scouts,
a world without titans, is finally realized.
Now they've just got humans to contend with,
and Marley might want to seek retribution.
But Eren's plan seems to work,
as Armin says, “Yo, we just saved your butts.”
“I think that proves we're not your enemies.”
So Eren Yeager caused a near apocalyptic event,
but humanity will eventually rebuild, and the future looks bright.
A few years later, our crew returns to Paradis Island,
which, still under control of the Yeagerists,
has become even more militaristic.
But Armin is optimistic that peace talks will work.
Mikasa is not with them, she went home earlier
to bury Eren's head under their favorite tree.
She bids farewell to Eren, the man she loved but had to kill.
And that's where Attack on Titan comes to an end.
Except for the credits scene,
which shows the world did go through an era of peace and prosperity.
But eventually it seems humans found another reason to kill each other.
And after seemingly destroying civilization again,
a young child finds Eren's tree, which has grown enormous.
In fact it looks similar to when Ymir found the jellyfish Founding Titan originally,
so maybe Titans will come back in the world? Who knows?
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