what people who hated the aot ending thought was gonna happen

hey just to make things more clear, this is just made for fun and while i like the ending, i can understand why people don't lol.

WTF?! The Best Ending Ever!

THIS

I kinda thought and had low expectation that story was going to matter in the end, and that choices and actions of characters were going to change the status quo of the setting, for good or bad.

Instead of nothing really changing and status quo being preserved to the extent that these events are doomed to happen over and over again.

Hol on, were people angry that Eren didn't kill more people in the ending?
The only reason I disliked the ending was because at the start a theme of the anime was to stop humanity from going extinct/eaten but then at the end when eren kills more people than the Titans and all the wars to ever happen combined and threatens to make all non eldians go extinct the cast just effectively shrugs it off.

In short, perfect ending in my opinion, everything happens the Same way, but Armin punches Eren a second time for the rumbling, and everyone else is 3% more relieved about Eren being dead/ the rumbling being stopped.

The why are you black part is kinda messed up, typical of humans

People don't like the ending because it's an ending.
They want it to continue. I do, too.

People don't like the ending because, three hundred years later, nukes go off and war never ends.
They can't let go of the incredibly frustrating view of "Eren killed everyone off to establish peace and Eren managed to fail to make the world a perfect place."

Eren DID establish peace for a LONG time. LONG after his family died. Mikasa lived a full life and this was before the nukes went off. The post-war happens and the boy parallels Ymir perfectly.

Ymir > "Eren"
Fear and Sadness > Curiosity and possible excitement.
Dogs chasing > Chasing dog.
Seek protection from danger > Seek a new adventure[Good or bad] in the elder tree.
Primal entity > Probably nothing.

The ending wraps up three things.
Eren didn't take any chances with civilization, so he set civilization backwards, giving his friends the time they need to live out their full lives. If he took another route, such as making everything a police state[Titans in every city, to prevent conflict,] someone would develop a weapon, or an army, to kill the titans when Eren dies, regardless of whomever may succeed him. Eren's successor might not even be prepared to handle that situation and war will break out. Titans as a police.... would not be a peaceful solution, as it would make everyone tense and wary that everything they do is a thoughtcrime.

I still believe Eren had options, but I suppose narrowing the range of enemies increased the life expectancy of friends.

War still breaks out, which is a bad ending AFTER a bitter[The Eldians living full lives for decades, despite what happened] ending.
But then we're introduced to the kid and his dog and it's easily a wholesome ending.

Coping. Mikasa's life
V
Death. Eldia's oblivion
V
Innocence. A kid and their dog, exploring a ruined civilization. Interpret the happy ending like this:
The kid ends up discovering the creature[Let's call them a deity] and they end up being sent backwards in time, or maybe he simply restores the entirety of Eldia, bringing back the civilization that had been sleeping for time immemorial...

The happy ending? Kid "Goes on an ADVENTURE," or "Discovers what the people used to be like," an innocent curiosity, a normal thought in his heart, something that brings LIFE to such a dreary place. Kid might've ended up resurrecting 'War' as a concept, which is just another cycle of endless violence. He doesn't need to see timelines...

Now interpret the kid and his dog, darker.
Kid DOES get memories, he experiences every horrific event, down to the bombs... and this perpetuates war. He remembers what Eren did and he knows why.... but he doesn't understand, as he cannot get a vivid story from the fragments. The kid could very well be the cycle that repeats, or a cycle that often recurrs after. He could be a hero who learns what happened and seeks to prevent it, but how he prevents it could be less than peaceful.

definitely the better path

Hilarious! まじめっちゃオモロい

People saying it’s Disney like just because characters are trying to make a positive change at the end still and attempting to have some optimism is so tard-level intelligence dude. It’s not like Disney based off that one damn thing. All I think is the ending would’ve been better if the events had a harder mental and emotional effect on all the characters, but other than that, the ending was fucking great and I wouldn’t change a thing about it.

The ending we deserve

I mean, as an ending hater, I don't mind the fact that Eren was stopped, I just really dislike what happened to everyone's characterization, how the Alliance had the most insane plot armor, how several plot threads that seemed like obvious chekhov's guns were completely thrown to the wayside

Yeah, I would have preferred a 100% Rumbling, but not as some kind of sunshine and rainbows happy ending, but rather played straight as the atrocity that even the 80% one was, with Eren having to kill his best friends for it and not finding any happiness in it
I also don't inherently mind the Alliance stopping Eren, but again, it should have cost them something and Eren shouldn't have been planning on it like a half baked Lelouch.

This is the worst video I have ever seen. The ending was terrible, it was nothing, it was unsatisfying. I don't even really understand what happened? Mikasa killed Eren so all the Titans disappeared? What? Why? Where did that come from? If they actually built towards this ending in the series it could have been fantastic but the only emotion I felt after watching it was... Okay...what?

I love this show, until the very last episode I considered it the best written story I had ever come across. I don't think you realise how lucky you are that you're able to enjoy this ending. I had heard manga readers didn't like it and I didn't care, I was still going into this expecting the best and the entire last episode felt completely flat compared to everything that had come before it.

If you're able to believe this is some satisfying, beautiful storybook ending then good for you, but this video is borderline r*tarded. It does not explain in any way why I hated the ending, it's just the ramblings of someone who doesn't understand why other people have a different opinion to them. it may be a 'joke' but you still clearly feel this way.

There is a reason why SO MANY PEOPLE hated this ending, we are not 'all wrong' and we don't all view it like you would imply in this terrible video. The ending was mediocre, if you enjoyed it then wow you're lucky, unfortunately a lot of us did not, despite how much we wanted to.

Funny how accurate this is.

No i just thought the whole rumbling thing was stupid.

man i just wanted them to stop him at like 10% not 100

THIS IS A BRILLIANT IRONY ON THOSE WHO DIDN'T UNDERSTAND WHAT HAPPENED AND WHY!! 😂😂😂

armin calling eren a beta cuck 😂😂😂😂😂😂

That spoiler alert is so useless!!😤 it last only 0.5 seconds

The problem is that he went for the full scale rumbling in the first place, despite having 4 years irl, infinite time and all the brains of the previous shifters and the ability to change the past throughout 2,000 years. The only explanation for doing this is that he's a psychopath whose main aim was to kill all of humanity.

The problem afterwards becomes that everyone is revering him, crying for him and considering him tragic because who cares about the 80% of innocent people he killed. Their lives were wasted for no reason. The cycle of hatred not ending is nonsense to justify a lazy use of the rumbling for global genocide.

A strategic use would've done less damage and accomplished similar results.

This isnt even mentioning the disgusting twists of ymir causing global genocide for love and to see necrophilia. So much is wrong with the ending.

Alternate title: What people who heard the manga ending was bad were expecting to happen.

Yeah I’ve watched the last part three times, I liked it, even watched the whole series from the beginning again.

You forgot Eren having steaming hot sex with Historia.

I'm sorry but this isn't right.. the ending haters expected Eren to kill Armin, Mikasa, Jean, Levi and all of his close friends and to reunite with his new best buddy floch and his blonde pregnant queen...
and to somehow miraculously live a sane and proud life after killing every human and animal outside the walls

Everybody wants that Naruto plot armor. Fight a genocidal campaign and only Neji dies😂

This is the only story I've ever watched that I would give anything, even if the writing was awful, just for the ending to be happy.

Me when I strawman

TRRRRUUUUUEEEE!!!!!

People acting like we wanted a happy ending from AOT, but the ending we got WAS THE HAPPY ENDING!
Isayama bitched out at the end, killed off a lot of important, built-up storylines, shoehorned Mikasa into the ending, sidelined Historia, decided that somehow an 80% genocide is better than 100%, character flipped Annie & built up a nonsense romance between her & Armin, all of the Warriors & Scouts end up as famous ambassadors, like how is this not the happy ending?

LEVI'S FINGERS LMAOO

The ending was pretty bad though.

this is my fave ending!

Yes.

You know what would have been even more fucked up than the ending we got? Eren actually kills 100% of the world outside paradis, then uses the power of the founder to remove the titan curse and every memory of what happened except the fact that Paradis had walls and titans indeed existed, but they all died of starvation.
Eldians would start traveling the world outside paradis and think "damn, there were some really big titans out here. Turns out we got lucky with the ones on our island".
Also, eren puts a shit-ton of gay fantasies in Jean's memory just for shits and giggles.

The fireside chat episode encapsulates the main message of Attack on Titan. A message I think most of the Yeagerist bros just do not understand. The entire message of Attack on Titan is that war only ends when we stop killing each other and talk. An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind. Retaliatory measures aren't solutions.

Eren was not a genius. He was a damaged kid whose only solution to things was violence. Armin even points out how Eren's methods won't fix anything. "All they will learn is that they must kill or be killed."

Isayama's theme in Attack on Titan is that violence begets violence. Hatred begets hatred. It only ends when we choose to empathize with and speak to each other.

They did gloss over the fact the wall titans themselves probably turned back human.

Imagine waking up buck-naked in the middle of some foreign country you just decimated after what feels like an 100 year slumber. Behind you is a wasteland of massive footprints. In front of you are the huddled masses of people shouting things at you in some foreign language you don't understand.

Fortunately for you're not alone. Besides you are millions of Eldians who appear to be in the same situation. And fortunately for your group, the crowd shouting at you is not armed and both crowds appear equal in size. Your body aches. You're in no condition to fight. But you can tell the foreign group has been running for their lives all day and can't exactly engage in violence either.

So what happens then? Racial riots to the last man? Or do they set aside their differences due to the fact that find shelter, food, and water have now become their most immediate priority. But if they find resources, do the racial tensions flare up again since both groups want them?

Galaxy Brain Take:

The ending was mid but acceptable.

It's funny that this is what you're joking about when most ending haters agree that the one we got is too happy. The anime really just brushes over the whole "80% of humanity being destroyed" part.

I didnt really like the ending but this was hilarious

Oh, you think this is what the haters wanted out of the ending? Oh boy, you could not be more wrong.

I was right in the middle of the controversy around the manga ending when it was released and the ending haters wanted similar but drastically different things to this.

Basically, they wanted Eren to complete the Rumbling, but they also wanted him to intentionally kill all his friends and the alliance, including Mikasa and Armin, because apparently he ’hated them both from the very begining’.

Oh, you think that’s stupid? Just wait, it gets even more brain dead.

After that, they wanted Eren to marry Historia, because apparently HE was ’supposed’ to be the father of her child.

Oh, but it gets even worse. They also wanted Historia’s child to be Ymir’s reincarnation.

I could not make this up if I tried😂 This is what they actually wanted out of the ending🤣

i really do think genocide was the answer because while i do get the point of "there will always be war etc etc" WELL AT LEAST THE OUTSIDE WORLD WOULDN'T BE APART OF IT??? that same world that caused paradis to suffer endlessly for years it was all they knew, terrorized by titans SENT from marley.

in the end paradis only knew the short term peace because it gave the outside world enough time to build up to retaliate. continuing the same cycle, he shouldve at least broke that but he just took away paradis trump card of having titans and exposed them to a set of ppl fuelled by rage and set on revenge.

but it was a cool show before it ended tho lol

Did not expect to hear Slap on Titan Pyxis here 😂

Honestly, i loved the ending. However, the biggest issue was definitely Eren. And not him crying in front of Armin, that actually felt real. No, the issue is his excuses and his abilities to see through time do not mix well at all. In fact, it's almost comical in a way.

What’s funny is people pointing out “inconsistencies” (that are mostly misunderstandings of the plot) as if it majorly takes away from the impact of the ending. No fictional show is ever going to have completely realistic events, nor are they ever going to have completely plausible and closed world building. The fact that people have to type 5 essay paragraphs, to describe why an ending is bad is telling of how specific and small most of the nitpicks are.

Lose of eren is not really the problem with the ending. The problem is how the lose happened.

The 1 vs 50 titans shifter + falco that can control maybe the more complexe titan in just 10 minutes are even more incoherent that your parodic ending

After watching the ending and learning that it wasn’t THAT much different from the manga I was so baffled that there even was controversy. It’s like ppl weren’t paying attention to the story as it unfolded lol

Okay but yall really seem okay with Paradis being genocided

An issue I have with the ending is that it feels too short for me. And even tho I thought for a while that Eren might live (until I was spoiled), I had never imagined Eren being in love with Mikasa, I thoight it was just a ine sided crush. I always rooted for Jean and Mikasa. And I never got to see what I like to call uncle Levi 😖

Tho I still enjoyed many parts of it.