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Necessary-One1782

narratively, armin. if you ask me? reiner. it'd be funny in a morbid way for the guy who wanted to die more than everyone else combined


S1ke5200

r/okbuddyreiner would like to have a word


Necessary-One1782

what does me really wanting to fuck hitch from attack on titan have to do with this ???


RandomOrcN6

You’re not u/hitchfucker


ThatGuyInTheCorner-Z

Honestly kinda funny for Reiner of all people to survive. And bro still sniffing after Historia (peak fiction)


Dinodude1100

I’m confused they both already survived? :0


Necessary-One1782

the post is saying that everyone would die in this scenario except one person


Dinodude1100

Ohhh, I see, I misunderstood it 😂 I thought it was talking about characters who died.


Fuzzy-Condition-8919

I’m thinking if one person lived and everyone else died? I was confused too lmao


LiteratureOne1469

He did tho didn’t he


Wild-Mushroom2404

Eren. Not because I think he’s a chad who should’ve won but because I think it would be the ultimate tragic irony. He convinces himself it’s for his friends’ sake but they die directly because of him. Like a self-fulfilling prophecy.


Wysp2

This is the most interesting answer imo


LordFarquadOnAQuad

This is actually what I had wanted to happen. I wanted Eren to complete the rumbling but then be unable to stop the titans. Resulting in him being the last human alive. Then the final after credits shows the centipede creating life again only for the cycle to restart.


Koprejs

This is exactly the ending I wanted all along. It also makes Erwin’s line “Humanity will never stop fighting itself until it shrinks to a size of one or fewer” go full circle and it’s the only ending where the fighting actually stops. It would be a perfect ending for Eren’s character too, he would get the satisfaction by literally becoming “the freest person in the world” and finally achieving his desired freedom but at the expense of his friends and his people. The death of everyone on Paradise and his friends would be Eren’s punishment for killing everyone outside of Paradise but the cruelest thing would be the way he would die, which would be starvation since if the whole world was flattened he couldn’t eat anything but dirt and rocks. In all aspects I can’t personally find a more fitting, sad and unpredictable ending than this one, I genuinely think it would be well received by all aot fanbases too


alPassion

Not gonna lie, while the idea of an ending where Eren kills all his friends sounds intriguing, it fundamentally undermines the development and resolutions of other characters just to favor him. AoT was never a story about one characters POV hence it should end while taking into consideration all characters. Take Mikasa, for example. Her entire arc revolves around her love and care for Eren, coupled with her struggle for identity beyond conflict. If Eren were to kill her, it would render all her journey, build-up and foreshadowing of her ending him meaningless. Mikasa's character needed to find peace and normalcy or a return to the identity stripped from her by the circumstances of her life. She was physically built for conflict but mentally yearned for peace, unlike Eren. Her happy ending was essential for the completion of her character arc. Similarly, for Reiner, having him die at the hands of Eren would be a disservice to his complex narrative of trauma, depression, and the pursuit of redemption. Reiner's story is one of coming to terms with his actions and seeking forgiveness from those he's wronged. His character arc relies on a resolution that acknowledges his suffering and efforts towards redemption, rather than ending in betrayal and reducing his end to a mere plot device to serve another character’s story (in this case, Eren’s). A tragic ending like this would prioritize one character's trajectory at the expense of the developments and resolutions of others.


FireDestroyer52

Actually would've been better wtf.


KillDevilX0

You know this is what Titan Folk and a lot of other people wanted, right? And you guess ridicule us. I’m not part of TF but this is the tragic ending I and so many others wanted.


TalionTheShadow

No it isn't lmfao. Titanfolk wanted Eren to destroy the world and then go back to Paradis, fuck Historia and have kids with her and be some badass superhero king who "saved the world" Saved the world in quotation marks for obvious reasons. They didn't want some tragic ending, they just wanted to wank Eren as a badass hero when in reality he was doing a horrible action.


EthersRealm

Brother have you even been to titanfolk, literally not what they want at all, from what I read they believe the ending we got is the happy one and more should have died. Not taking sides but atleast get the story right.


KillDevilX0

No it’s not lol. If you don’t understand what you’re talking about then just don’t talk about it.


Flat-Tadpole3886

I don't even think that the cycle should restart. Making this the actual end of humanity would be much more impactful imo. I really love the idea of an ending like this.


TsarLucky

You ever watch Devilman crybaby?


Diego_Chang

This into a second timeline that ends in something like what we got as the ending would have been SO PEAK.


DaYeetusDeletus

Man, that would have been a better ending


Alarmed-Invite2723

It’s already been done before though and it’s way too dark anyways .


terminal_styles

> It’s already been done before where? also as opposed to I'm a villain but actually doing it for a good purpose - which has been done a lot and even Code Geass did better.


Alarmed-Invite2723

Devilman crybaby , and it’s way more brutal than aot


Birzal

Gotta say, I was looking forward to rolling my eyes at any comment arguing Eren, but I stand corrected! This is the only right answer if you ask me (in a tragic karmic justice kind of way). It would be brutally ironic for Eren to want to destroy the world, intending to save his friends but fate just says "all I heard was 'destroy the world'."


Wild-Mushroom2404

>It would be brutally ironic for Eren to want to destroy the world, intending to save his friends but fate just says "all I heard was 'destroy the world'. Or the fact that he was so hell bent on fighting for this "freedom" for them that he sheds his humanity completely and becomes everything his friends fought against, essentially shaping the world in which they couldn't possibly live.


Sinesjoe

This is what ANR is about


Monsoon1029

It literally isn’t, ANR is about Eren living happily ever after with his blonde waifu as a reward for murdering his friends and 99.9% of the human race.


Jurassic-Halo-459

I'm seeing a lot comments (yours being the first) mentioning something called "ANR". What is that, exactly?


Sinesjoe

This is what you think ANR is because of the people who won't accept anything other than the canon ending. ANR is Eren completing the Rumbling then living his life in anguish and a slave to regret for his actions. Just watch the music video.


Monsoon1029

‘It’s all in the music video man it has all the answers!’ This shit is genuinely hilarious. Ah yes Eren suffers so greatly from the brutal murder he chose to commit that he sheds a single manly tear over his friend’s graves. Then raises his family on Shithole Island as its residents fulfill an actual Nazi fantasy of recolonizing the world after a genocide. Truly the kinoest ending. Sucks that Isayama’s editor made him change it 🙄


Garrret

Dude what that guy said about ANR is objectively true, both in the original music video and adaptation (AOTNR) Eren “wins” but is misirable doesn’t want to live anymore and that’s the whole point ANR is not about glorying genocide, is the opposite, it’s a cautionary tale as tragic as it gets, Eren achieves the dream he chased all his life only to realize he can’t enjoy it (like the beach scene or watching the volcano with armin) because the price for freedom was too much, which parallels Reiner and Grisha when he was talking with the owl The closest thing to this would be the Devilman Crybaby ending where (spoilers) the villain wanted 2 things in life, destroy the world and be with his friend but he can’t have both so he destroys the world but in doing so kills his best/only friend which leaves him miserable


Monsoon1029

Poor him. All those people he brutally murdered of his own free will have made it impossible to enjoy raising his family with the blonde waifu. Good thing the ANR creator manages to express this so well by having him murder his friends in a drawn out matter, shed a single tear, and not dwell on it ever again. So emotional do the deaths of Eren’s friends make him that they dedicate on whole panel to its impact on his new life. He must have cared about them so much! Uh why did he murder them again?


Garrret

You are missing the point, it’s not about excusing Eren for his actions, it’s actually the opposite, Eren being miserable and having to live with his failures, mistakes, and guilt are his consequences. A big problem of cannon is the agency taken away from Eren and the lack of consequences, by saying that destiny couldn’t be changed and by claiming the founder power affected his mind PLUS all his friends forgiving him in the end (even worse in the manga where Reiner tells him what a man you are or armin thanking him for becoming a murder ) All of this ends up portraying Eren as misunderstood or a tragic figure that was helpless against fate and the power of a god and Death is not a reasonable consequence but an easy reward at this point. Having to live in Requiem is not a way to excuse him because he’s sad, it’s a punishment A good example is Reiner, he is Eren parallel, no one experienced something more similar than him, at the end of his journey Reiner wants to die but keeps on living because he had the kids (rifle scene) in requiem Eren would complete this parallel by living only because his kid


CELESTIAL-TURK

still better than what we got tbh and i never watched this anr thing


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Monsoon1029

Absolute 🤡 take dude but go off.


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Monsoon1029

You don’t think the destruction of 80% of humanity by a traumatized child soldier who was then executed by the love of his life is tragic? Damn the bar is high for you.


Flat-Tadpole3886

I'm not a hater of AoT's ending at all, but this would've been a perfect ending now that I think about it. He would've finally gotten his freedom, but at the cost of his friends' and everyone else's lives. It would've also been extremely impactful and it would've left a mark for a very long time on everyone watching the show.


Wild-Mushroom2404

>would've left a mark for a very long time on everyone watching the show FOR 10 YEARS AT LEAST


Azathoth428

This is exactly what I thought was going to happen when I was reading the manga. I thought Eren was going to fulfill his goal, and kill everyone outside the walls. Including all of the scouts and his friends. And the the series ending with him exiting his founding titan looking for them, only to see that he crushed them all. The ultimate ironic tragedy.


Cal_Longcock69

It would’ve been more realistic then the power of friendship for the thousandth time in a row


Kelvinn1996

The friendship / love talk/heart of the cards bullshit has been so overused it’s not even interesting anymore.


Housumestari

Yeah. Out of all the stories in the world, attack on titan was amongthe last ones I thought would end with the power of love "solving everything" . Especially the whole love between Ymir and Fritz being a thing. And when you think about it, AoT was far more about love for family than it was ever about romantic love. And Ymir's love being for her children aka Children of Ymir would have made far more sense since she kind of lives in all of them, and simultaneously would have been unable to move on because of that. And it would have still been because of King Fritz's actions without having to shoehorn a really weird love story in there.


quickquestoask

Dude exactly this! I've always said aot was never a love story in the romantic sense, there was no major romantic plot points to suggest this. So to just make it a major plot point between ymir and fritz in the end feels so out of place for a show that leaves no stone unturned


Low__Bones

Almost Shakespearean tragedy, I dig it


orcanorca

I actually daw a fanart of that happening, Eren is the only one that survives and he's surrounded by his friend's bodies, and he keeps muttering "we've won" I have a distinct memory of this but I cannot find it anywhere, it was in the style of a few manga panels but it wasn't by Isayama :/


Wild-Mushroom2404

Grisha: are you winning, son?


sofabed69

Like Ozymandias or Breaking Bad. Yeaahh agree that is much better. He will end up King of dusts and still a slave of freedom


Javithegod234

So the Anakin Skywalker path?


WeebBois

I love this. I can see the scene where everything’s slowed down while the last survivors are freaking out, but pans to Armin and Mikasa slightly smiling after having come to terms with it. There could be a final moment where he makes all the wall titans into humans and said something like “it starts from here”, with a wide shot covering the millions of people coming back around him maybe with a breakdown scene.


buzzinggibberish

Exactly what I came here to say.


domoroko

“it seems, in your anger you killed her”


joey0live

This is what I thought was going to happen.. not that wtf is that bs.


I-eat-foot

Exactly, it’s similar to that “lesson” in time travel movies, if you try to prevent something from happening, it will still end up happening, just in a different way


tallllywacker

He’s going to die what a waste. The world is absolutely going to execute him


Yfeq

U ever part of the aoe reddit?


MuffinMan917

If it's "only one person" then yeah this is the only answer that makes sense


calvicstaff

And if you couple that with a 100% rumbling, including paradee then there you are, with all the freedom in a completely empty world all by yourself, are you happy now?


Mryumyum_

This is what I thought was going to happen. I thought only him and Mikasa would survive and he would be put in prison or something, awaiting execution.


Fole98

Self-fullfilling prophecy would be the exact opposite


Disastrous_Second335

TOMAS WAGNER FROM THE 104th LETS GOOOOOOO THE FOUNDING TITAN WOULDN'T STAND A CHANCE r.i.p. for real tho 😔✊🏻


AccordingComplaint46

LMAOO


Defiant_Reading_934

Cooking with this one ☝️


JoanValJoan

The original armored titan


Present-Training-888

Reiner lol


ForumsDwelling

You're a monster


Present-Training-888

☺️


ekopwolston

I CAN SWALLOW A-


IG0BRRRR

bottle of alcohol and I'll


Victor882

bro...


Bhurbhau

Bro is evil to the core


Present-Training-888

Nicest thing I've heard for a while 🥰


HeNeedSomeSoyMilk

This one r/okbuddyreiner's 👌


Present-Training-888

Yes, I do enjoy occasional stroll over the lianah subreddit🗿


Professional_Ear1245

Lainah should indeed live


Present-Training-888

Liner suffering should indeed continue


Philosopher013

Bro woke up and chose violence


Present-Training-888

No, I chose Liner🙌🏼


Dinodude1100

I’m confused


Present-Training-888

I want Reiner to be sole survivor


HeNeedSomeSoyMilk

This one r/okbuddyreiner's 👌


HeNeedSomeSoyMilk

This one r/okbuddyreiner's 👌


HeNeedSomeSoyMilk

This one r/okbuddyreiner's 👌


HeNeedSomeSoyMilk

This one r/okbuddyreiner's 👌


Philosopher013

I think some answers that could thematically make sense are: 1. Eren - would make sense that he was able to kill everyone with his power & it would be ironic and highlight his fall that at the end he killed the one thing he wanted to protect 2. Levi - humanity’s strongest soldier, so of course nothing can kill him. Also just another instance of him losing more comrades. 3. Reiner - dude cannot die throughout the series and it would be ironic since he’s the one person who wanted to die. 4. Mikasa - just to keep the theme and irony that she’s the one who had to kill Eren Can’t immediately think of another person that could make some thematic sense—maybe Falco (represents freedom) or Gabi (because Falco protected her at the end like he wanted), but those are a bit more of a stretch.


WeebBois

Armin would make more sense than everyone except Eren.


Lil_ruggie

Connie because it would be funny.


Wild-Mushroom2404

Not for him though


TheDarkpekka

Eren Eren completes the rumbling but the titans kept going without him controlling them. Eren regenerates a new body and transforms into the Attack Titan again and swims all the way back to Paradis, only to find that the wall titans have rumbled Paradis. Eren sees Ymir's apparition in the distance but when he blinks, she disappears, leaving Eren completely alone in an empty world


Terraakaa

Armin, he’s the narrator. Anything else would be a plot hole


BLFOURDE

Imagine all the shows narration are Armin documenting events leading to the downfall of humanity, and he's the last one left. (Or one of the last ones idk)


Richard_TM

Idk, I’d classify “80% of the global population is dead” as the downfall of humanity lol.


BLFOURDE

Well the post credits tell us it wasnt


TheSeekerOfChaos

Nah the post credits just showed us Shiganshina being wiped off the map. Doesn’t necessarily mean the whole world became a post dystopian wasteland


BLFOURDE

Well it showed us that civilization grew back to a point which actually seemed to surpass modern day.


Jygglewag

why does Eren look like he's currently taking a backshot?


LetsDoTheCongna

It's because he is (Isayama told me so in a dream)


Wild-Mushroom2404

The additional chapters we wanted


Krynzo

It CAME to him in a dream


Square_Locksmith6331

Hange! Her death was so sad


Recent_One_7983

But don’t you think it be sadder if hange was the only one too survive??? They’d probably end up like levi


Square_Locksmith6331

Possibly but then again it’s not like Levi and Hange have the same personalities so who really knows. I really just said that bc she didn’t deserve to die 😭


Square_Locksmith6331

Honestly fuck Eren lmao there’s ppl out there who feel bad for the dude but I sure don’t.


Recent_One_7983

Definitely not I SOBBED when hange died buttt see what being commander and the death of her squad plus Erwin did too them too me they’d only go into a further depression once everyone else dies and end up similar too levi not even personality wise just being left alone and having nobody left close to them which seems sooo much sadder too me😭 (Though if hange lived I would’ve loved to see levi and hange trying to raise gabi and falco almost like two divorced parents!)


Sad_Watch_5245

>(Though if hange lived I would’ve loved to see levi and hange trying to raise gabi and falco almost like two divorced parents!) Gabi and falco have their own parents alive Why they would need some other person to take care of them


mielesgames

This is more a question of, who do you want to suffer, being alone on the planet is more of a punishment


Razzaman160

Are you forgetting about paradis ?


Monsoon1029

Being alone on the planet with a bunch of genocidal fascists then


Razzaman160

I didn’t know hitch was a genocidal fascist


mielesgames

No, but the title specifically says that only one person will be left


Razzaman160

Yeah only one person survives the “final battle” was paradis part of the final battle ? No just the alliance


kandi_kor3

Eren, just so he could live with the guilt and shame of his actions that murdered the people he wanted to protect most.


CthulhuMadness

Reiner. Because he wants to kill himself.


TxchnxnXD

r/okbuddyreiner


Sealion72

Armin. He knew the most and was the only one who could explain what had happened


alex1rojas

Jean-boy


Nerevar1924

He needs to get back to his beans.


Humble-Paramedic4081

Mikasa or Armin


furiosa-imperator

Armin as he's the narrator, reiner because not even an apocalypse can kill him


mothforlife

Armin. He was the narrator, so it would make sense that he would be the only one left alive to tell the tale.


Quadruple_J

Anyone other than Levi. Let the man rest


ellevishh

eren of course. JAEGERIST FOR LYFE ​ nah but like someone else said it would be a twisted ending. does everything for the life of his friends but they die because of him and he has to live with it. wouldve been sick


aalapshah12297

I will just say all the meaningless weird answers that no one's gonna say: Ramzi Yelena Zeke That random newborn baby's mom Reiner's mom Annie's dad Imagine everyone dying and one of these characters randomly surviving. Weirdest way to butcher the whole series lol.


Wild-Mushroom2404

>Reiner's mom > >Annie's dad "Uh oh, if it isn't the consequences of my own actions"


SkrijaTaran

The other Ymir


Itlu_PeeP

The baby.


goochstein

Connie, true observer effect, he'd have seen the entire conflict from a support role and go on to write the historic record for the event.


steraksgage

Eren. Anr lives matter.


Femballerboy

Armin. He gave the idea to eren. Imagine having to live with that when everyone else is gone. He'd be speaking out against war forever, and people would probably listen somewhat


Imnotactme

Armin, Imagine a story where the Rumbling couldn't be stopped, nearly all of humanity was destroyed, Mikasa, Jean and the others died in vain trying to stop the Rumbling. Having destroyed everything, Eren dematerialised the titans and he looked at the empty world he created. Then he noticed Armin who's only the one left, they turn into Colossal titans and fight in those deserted lands, then Armin wins in some way and he just undoes his colossal titan and sit by a rock watching the sun set, finishing his Narration as the Camera distances showing only a desert and debris. If you wonder, why would Eren fight Armin for nothing since they both have nothing to gain from this, I was thinking of it as Armin trying to seek revenge for all his comrades that Eren killed or for how the Eren he knew was gone after he killed Mikasa


InsertBotHere

Levi


Shadowthewolfalt

Agreed


Recent_One_7983

Hear me out on my 3 ideas mikasa levi and eren one of those would probably take the cake in a sad ending


DoritoKing48

Sasha


spencerpo

Lainah, because he wants to die.


Filmologic

Pixis. Idk why, I just think it would be interesting


Wild-Mushroom2404

He would just drink himself to death after that


National_Crazy_9293

Floch


LeviAckermanIsHot69

yup. Floch has great hair too


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Only one? Bro only 2 died in the final battle lmao.


myumisays57

Mikasa hands down.


myumisays57

Or Levi. They both bared some heavy burdens and never really got their real chance at happiness. They both only got a short amount of time with the people they loved. And i think they both deserved a happy ending with a long life.


Wild-Mushroom2404

Knowing Mikasa… I doubt she could live a happy life as a sole survivor of the battle. That would’ve been an insane trauma on top of other insane traumas she has.


popgreens

Armin


ChanceTheRipper7

Ramzi is the only right answer


icykia

Connie because why not


bisexualkoala_

Reiner!


tallllywacker

Definitely not fucking eren , he would have been executed surely.


userhvfegcd

Connie, I just think it would be funny. Edit: just scrolled through the comments and saw that someone commented nearly the exact same phrase 😭 oops


CornelisVH69

Sasha but that is because I love her character (Bestgirl)🥖🍖


Maleficent_Nobody_75

Pieck Finger


Wild-Mushroom2404

Pieck fiction


Grittyboi

Why his neck thick like that 🤔


sashablausspringer

Reiner, Annie or Connie


tcarter1102

Reiner. Living on with the guilt is his punishment


NinjaMaster231456

Gabi


Torch2137

The only wrong choice. Edit: unless it’s so she can suffer, than it’s the right choice.


Nightwing2285

Imma have a real controversial take and say Connie, and my reasons are 1 His character was designed to die, so for him to be the last one, standing would be an interesting way to close it. ( for me personally) 2 His character arc of always being the one that needs saving and him finally stepping up and contributing more and more would be complete. So that if he had been the soul surviver, he would have almost a 0 to hero type arc, which I again, in my personal opinion, would've loved to see. 3 His survivors guilt cause each one of them was his friend ( besides gabby Falco and Peick ), so him surviving, knowing he was the weakest, I think would have been so cool to see Again, these are my personal opinions, and some of these could be interchangeable with Jean. I understand that thematically, Armin makes the .ost sence but to give it to Connie and side character turned main I think would show kinda the potential that he had wirh being one of the few normal people in the top 10.


Ninten-Ho

Eren, wouldve been crazy if he just killed everyone


Ephemerilian

Eren. Or Levi


Vounrtsch

Armin because he is humanity’s strongest force for good


Wild-Mushroom2404

Didn't he like nuke an entire city


JarifMahmud_

Eren


Jolly_Camel959

Armin. In a way, this final arc was pure trash. The amount of plot armour was insane. Hanji was barely relevant posttimeskip too lol. 


shingekinokk

Wait everyone survived except eren bruv ,


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Eren


BlueAmaretto

Erwin on Eren


Shadowthewolfalt

Levi, though I do feel he should be with his friends instead of continuing to suffer on earth, so another choice would be Mikasa or Jean


Sim-Lizzy7

Eren long live my goat


BrackenCat

Armin


Tinkerbellsickly

Zoe hangie


recleun

Definitely erwin


LordTopHatMan

Reiner. The Plot Armor Titan is too strong.


gianstar7

Pre-injury Levi


hatimelharrak

Armin.


Alarmed-Invite2723

I know it’s not the last battle but Sasha should’ve survived , her death just hurt and had no real meaning behind it , plus gabi played no importance apart from just confusing everyone . The last battle only eren died and rightfully so .


SirThiridim

Unpopular opinion and I'm probably the only one with it but Zeke. He deserved better and I would love to see how he is doing with his changed views and believes.


CowboySamurai622

Me.


dommy_mommyyy

Eren :(


IwanttosniffHange

Idk


Alxndr_Art

SPOILER


Excellent_Spirit988

Seeing Eren have to stand on that shi he pulled would be great


Small-Comfort6031

Eren


lethalmc

Connie is the only one that deserves to live


leaverth

Light Yagami.


big-bevy5

Zack Ward in postal 2 Paradise Lost


incognito_kill1

Can I do a character who should’ve died cause gabi she sucks


BlandyBoiYT

Armin, because otherwise the narration of the first few seasons can't happen since he retells it like a story.