Why is Rod's 120 meter Titan so thick and extra juicy? So what's up guys Foxen
here! Time to fully explain what the hell happened to Rod. What gave birth to this
beyond colossal Titan? I'ma going depth into a lot of the questions you've been
asking. To start this off you had Rod Reiss that Historia had broken away
from. This guy was crawling like a roach over to the Spill Titan batter on the
ground. Somehow of this resulted in the 120 meter class Titan. What in the Titan
world happened? As we get deeper into this just know that you won't be getting
into the juicy details of the Titan lore. I'll try to avoid any unnecessary
spoilers specifically one major one. Before getting into the meat of this let
me address one popular question and confusion I seen about Rod's Titan form.
I've seen this so much. Rod's Titan form is twice or bigger than the Colossal
Titan. That means Ross Titan is the Titan shifter right?Ssorry to break it to
you but Rod is not a Titan shifter at all. There's actually nine special Titans
total, however Rod's Titan is not among them and
talking about the size, is this thing really twice the colossal Titan size? To
be honest they may look way bigger in the anime.
The official attack on Titan guidebook revealed this thing to be 120 meters
high by 40 meters wide. That 120 meters does come from when this monster is
standing upright as much as possible anyway. Next up a quick fun one. Why the
hell is Rod's Titan called the turkey Titan. if your anime only I totally get
your confusion. Usually there's been some fan name given to special Titans
especially when no official one has been given out. For example fans referred
to the Titan that crunched on Eren's mother as a smiling Titan. For Rod's 120
meter Titan fans named this the turkey Titan. The reason is due to his
Titan appearance in the first chapter and then you had a whole bunch of
fan art that followed. Rod's Titan has actually been known as a turkey Titan
for almost four years now although to be fair he doesn't really look like a
turkey anymore. You'll see the name sticks around! Next
question up why does Rod's Titan set stuff on fire?
To answer this recall that they have noted that a mindless Titan body does
have high temperatures. Recall from season one he saw Hange's brief
experiment on eren's Titan. She got a first-hand experience at just how hot a
skinless Titan really is. Now take the small burning Titan hand then multiply
it by a few thousand times. Suddenly you get this abomination from hell.
Rod's Titan is a crawling furnace. It's literally roasting itself. Next topic up
is an interesting one why can Rod's Titan move at night time? So far
throughout the series you seen Titan so far be more or less solar-powered. They
don't move at night time although this does vary from Titan to Titan.Tthe
one exception to this are Titans being commanded by the Beast
Titan. The Beast Titan has revealed later on that any Titan created by him are
not bound by this sunlight rule however his timers are only able to move
whenever there is a full moon. This is the key. Notice something quietly added a
few episodes ago? On their way to Rod's church they randomly cut to a full moon.
hmm Perhaps not so random after all. You may then be wondering what's the deal
with Rod then? Rod was not created by the beast Titan. For this there's two very
likely explanations. The first involves the fact that Rod was from the royal
blood family. There's been a popular theory for years a Titans born from the
royal bloodline are a bit abnormal. Without getting too deep into this just
know that the smiling Titan that killed Eren's mother Carla and then appeared
again at the end of season 2 this smiling Titan was born from the royal
bloodline. Rod himself being from the royalblood line could help trigger this
abnormal Titan trait. As for the second option which i think is much more likely
this get see deep into stuff about the Beast Titan. The human Zeke who controls
the beast Titan is from the royal blood family. You heard me mention how Titan
Zeke creates follow his command and are able to move under a full moon. The
explanation given to this in the manga is totally due to his royal blood. The
previous beast Titan holder did not have this ability. Now look back at Rod it's
almost guaranteed that their Titan syringes were made from their own Titans
in other words Titans with royal blood juices.
This means Titan created by the Reiss family would have had similar traits to
those created by the Beast Titan. One of those being able to move under
full moon. Next up time for the main course how did this beyond colossal Titan
even become a thing? For this I had to bring up the current popular explanation:
Oh this monster came about because Rod elected instead of injecting it that's
the reason he turned into this 120 meter Titan instead of a normal five to ten
mindless Titan. Let's think about this for a moment so you're telling me if you
slurp up some Titan juices then you magically become this Titan that's ten times
the normal size? Take into account that you get fewer of this liquid via this
tongue action. hmmSsome things about this just do not add up. Not for me anyway and
I'm sure a lot of you could feel that something is off here to an extension to
this is the huge thing. A lot of you are wondering Rod claimed that he shouldn't
be allowed to become a Titan in other words Rod knew that he would become
this Titan monstrosity. Alright so time to tear this apart here's the reality.
Rod was a freaking coward instead of inherent in the founding titan for
himself Rod was willing to sacrifice his children instead. You may be wondering
why? Rhis goes deeper into the secret regarding the Titan shifters. There's a
little something called the Curse of Ymir that affects every Titan holder.
Why do the powers need to be passed down so frequently? tThis is due to this curse.
The key important part is that anyone that becomes a Titan shifter will die 13
years after inheriting the power and just to be clear Rod did know about
this 13 year curse restriction. Since you know their whole Titan transfer ritual
took place every 13 years. Notice how conveniently he left this
part out when talking to Historia. So why did Rod not want to take the power?
His ass didn't want to die a decade or so later and to be honest I can't blame
him too much. On top of this Isayama has given more insight about this. In the
past attack on titan answer guidebook a question regarding Rod Reiss came up.
Isayama claimed that Rod thought that his mission on earth as a human was to
have more royal blood kids. Well Rod did get around so i guess he stayed true to
his name. Anyway for an actual explanation to the 120 meter size. This is going into
the attack on titan theory territory. i've actually had a theory for this for
a long time. To explain what exactly happened to Rod
there's a whole lot of factors that come into play here.
First off let's examine the Titan syringe that Rod picked out for Historia.
This was actually something that got cut out from the anime. The titan potion
bottle actually has some writings in the manga. This translated into "Saikyo no
Kyojin" which means the "Strongest titan" in japanese. Just know that there have
been other titan syringes in the manga so far the other has translated into
normal titan. Keep this in mind. So far no surprises here.
Rod did claimed he chose the titan for Historia most suited for battle or
fighting. This is another key. Fast-forward later use only get this
big-ass Titan twice the size of the colossal Titan. hmm Let's think about
this which Titan is the strongest and would be most suited for battle? Oh and
it has to be huge too? You might have thought of it. Bingo! The strongest Titan
that Rod was actually referring to is the Colossal Titan. Perhaps you may
not be convinced but there is a mountain of evidence. Now that Rod colossal titan
has appeared in the anime you could actually see his Titan
mid-transformation. The first key trait to notice is the red skin color. Which
other Titan has this red color? There's really only ever been one which has the
infamous colossal Titan. If you ever looked at a Titan 2 min transformation
for example young Eren's Titan, this thing clearly still has skin and a
normal skin color. It's not red. A second key thing to notice about Rod's mid
transformation it's is Titan lacking anything here? Rod was getting up there
in age although I highly doubt that was a toupee he was sporting. Every other
Titan has kept their old hairstyle from their human form. Once again if you look
at Eren mid-transformation his hair is kept in place. Now it back at Rod
mid-transformation. Suddenly completely bald.
I'm sure you notice it's a trait from the colossal Titans. You can be sure that the
wall Colossus of Titans are also hairless. It may be hard to tell from the
ones taking out from the wall however each reference in the manga about the
colossal Titan Stampede always shows them looking like the OG Colossal Titan
from episode 1. Next up Colossal trait number 3 which is those glowing Titan
markings on the huge long Rod. Doesn't that look familiar? It's actually
harder to tell from the original Colossal Titan from Season one since that
thing was hand-drawn. However compare this to the CG colossal titan from
season two. Bingo you got a perfect match. You can bet you'll see something similar
to this CG Rod Titan and done for the Colossal Titan later in season three.
Colossal key trait number four notice how Rod's Titan sets everything ablaze
just by being near. It this is actually something unique to the colossal Titan
that'll show up later in season three. Bet's colossal Titan was making things
lit simply by walking next to them. Colossal key number five keep in mind
that the walls are filled with millions of these so there's clearly a way to
mass-produce mindless versions of these. The creator of the Colossal titans and the
walls was originally the Reiss family. No surprise at all that they will have
leftover colossal Titan syringes however you might then be wondering does this
all reduce how special the Colossal Titan shifter is? To be fair the colossal
Titan is still quite powerful. Later on in the manga the Colossal Titan is
actually refered to as the "God of Destruction". Mindless colossal Titans
cannot nuke the area like the colossal titan shifter is able to. You could also
look at it in a different way. Just take a look at Eren's Titan, the jaws Titan
and Annie's Titan. Are these Titan is really that much more different that
similar sized mindless Titans? Without their certain special abilities like crystals
or claws or the jaws they're basically on the same level as mindless Titans give or
take. Recall back how Eren's Titan and the Jaws Titan almost got killed by mindless
Titan multiple times too. I see this being similar to the colossal Titan. Picture at
the Colossal Titan shifter versus a perhaps weaker wall one. You could bet
that the colossal Titan shifter wins but how about the Colossal Titan shifter versus
two three or more? Without calling on the nuke I'm not too sure about that. Anyway
I think at this point it is a confirmation that the strongest Titan
that Rod was referring to was a Colossal Titan. The question you might be asking
now is how the hell did that colossal Titan become that monstrosity? Now you're
getting into the actual Titan theory. A possible explanation for this goes back
to how the Titan syringe was used by Rod in the past. Youu have seen Eren, História
and Frieda become Titans via this armed injection. In Ymir's flashback they
also showed her getting injected in the back or neck area. Rod on the other hand
quickly slurped up some Titan batter then boom! iInstant Titan and double the
size of the colossal Titan at that. I do think that's weird way he into it
caused it but it wasn't everything. Rod's colossal Titan was mutated and
deformed. I actually think it could be due to Rod stopping mid Titan
transformation and then you got the sudden blowback that occurred. If you
look back at Grisha's titan transformation mid-transformation it
looks pretty similar to the rib cage ever you later see on Rod's Titan when
he's standing on the wal.l I know you could argue that Rod's Titan stomach
looks like this just due to itself being dragged on the ground however I really
think that Isayama made this shot like this on purpose. Isayama is a
master of the subtle details like this. Do you also notice how Rod's Titan even
has organs. This further fuels the theory that Rod's transformation got messed up.
For whatever reason the process stopped Midway producing this mess. The question
now becomes why did this Titan stop Midway? Even if this wasn't the case
entirely why was this colossal Titan so horribly mutated? This is where the Titan
syringe could be a factor. Whether you injected yourself in the wrong spot,
in took the Titan juices the wrong way, just like how Rod did, or whether you took
too much, not enough or just had a bad batch, this is very likely a factor to
producing a screwed up mutated Titan. However there's even more things to
consider. How about whether the human was from the royal blood family. Surely this
would affect the resulting Titan in some way. There was that popular theory from
earlier that I mentioned about royal blood humans producing abnormal Titans.
And how about the physical state of the person? Just before Rod's Titanization
his lovely daughter Historia broke Papa's back. The resulting Titan just
happened to not be able to walk on two legs. Coincidence? Perhaps. Even if you
ignore Rod's back problems manga Rod actually had his hands sliced up thanks
to Kenny which he had over the Titan juices before his transformation. This
goes back to the idea of taking the Titan liquids incorrectly and talking about
physical state how about a person's mental state? This is a theory I touched
on before about how a person's final influence the resulting Titan and this
is pretty similar to how Eren needed a goal for his Titan transformations. So what
exactly is the reason? Since Isayama hasn't revealed all the Titan mysteries
for now you could only be sure that it's a mixture of all of the above. Anyway
back to Rod's mutated Titan consider the case that Rod used the normal Titan
syringe on himself. Without any issues he would have become a normal Titan up to
15 meters however there have been two notable examples of deformed Titans. One of
these has been Connie's mother from season 2. The second was this poor
crawling Titan the survey corps found outside of Wall Maria.
Notice how both of them has small limbs and quite the huge midsection. Flip both
of these over like flapjacks then suddenly they start to resemble Rod's
deform colossal Titan now consider Rod taking in the strongest Titan syringe
without any problems. He would have gotten this mindless colossal Titan
similar to the ones inside of the walls. Unfortunately for Rod the result ended
up being something similar to the other 2 deformed mindless Titans only in jumbo
colossal Titan form. You may now be wondering why the hell did Rod want
Historia to become a colossal Titan? At this one in a story the founding Titan
had been stolen by some mysterious man from beyond the walls. The warriors were
also breaking down each of their walls. The time line between the Colossal Titan
busting down walls Rose gate up until now has only been a couple weeks at most.
Rod was sweating freaking bullets. He had to do something. Combine this with how
ignorant Rod truly was about the Titans and just their world overall. Think about
all the things that Rod toward Historia. If you're a manga reader you know how
much rRd did not know you! As a manga reader you know more than Rod ever did.
You even heard Kenny drop a line about how Rod didn't know crap about the Titans! I
really don't think this was Isayama randomly throwing it in either. All right
so let's piece everything together. Why did Rob become this colossal Titan
mutation? A desperate Rod was overjoyed that he finally got the founding Titan
back. The cherry on top was that he still had one royal blood child to sacrifice.
His ass didn't have to do the honors himself. After Rod heard about the
rebellion within wall Sina combined with the Warriors latest attack
only a few weeks ago he's getting super worried. Why not use the
strongest Titan on Historia to teach them a lesson?
Rod Titan ignorance meant he had no idea that the strongest titan was
actually a huge 60 meter class Titan. One that you wouldn't only want appearing in
this crystal cave, however after Historia rejected him Rod
was the desperate as he ever been in his life. Rod was about to be killed or
captured by Eren's Titan, Kenny's dagger Historia's bodyslam, or the incoming
survey Corps or worse Rod would have been strapped into the one-way ticket
into Zachary's gift to humanity. This is why Rod's tongue action kicked in.
Unfortunately due to the strange combination of various factors Rod
didn't become a colossal Titan but this deformed mutated colossal Titan instead.
So thanks Rod now the survey Corps have more of a mess to clear up but hey that's just an
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