I get Eren is like suppose to have this revenge mentality but its definitely sad seeing hi...

I can't say that he brought that to himself. I have the feeling that whatever Eren saw in those 4 years gap made him realize of his own options or lack of them.
He himself said, that he couldn't change anything, so regardless of being him the author of this global genocide, things were already in the process of happening. Before the got the Attack titan power, others were being massacred already by the marleyans or any other group. it was just a matter of time.

The moment Ymir got trapped after her death, and her descendants passed over Frith's ideals, everyone was doomed. At least that's how I see it.

Unfortunately, they all receiving and paying karma that some of them or others started.

I meant the fact that whether how depressed or disgusting he feels about himself or how others will result in feeling about him, he ended up choosing it. Intead of telling his friends and potentially avoiding misunderstandings he could have saved so many people but he chose not to.

And if you wanna go down The we don't know what he saw route. It still doesn't justify his actions, revenge or not. He could have killed only the bad people if he really wanted to but he chose not to. Whether he had many options its still one of the worst options and he has to face the consequences in some way.

He's also being hypocritical knowing what trauma he went through as a kid and putting even worse trauma on more kids that are completely innocent.

And revenge doesn't matter here, its a full on genocide which is just a massacre whether the people are innocent or not. I don't understand how people are defending eren like wtf did yall not see those two kids get squashed by the titans even tho they were in an even worse situation than eren was as a kid? Like um srry but thats brutal and disheartening to see.

Ofc it could be the pass predecessors feelings taking a mind of their own and forcing eren to eradicate humanity. Especially since they hated everyone for their betrayals and want them to suffer as well, at least that's the best outcome in this situation. I hope that's what's happening and its not actually erens will but his predecessors ideals and hatred affecting him.

Idk if that makes sense but I hope u get my point. Thank you ♡

This is how life is. In every war there is always pure babys and people to die. THIS IS REALTY not some kind Of fairy tale. Never been. Remember the first chapters? Remember how many people and baby died in over 1000 years? No?? YES COUSE SOME FUCK DID STARTED THIS FUCK and eren just tryes to finish it. To end it. He knows that, if He not end it it will continue. Whatever the politicans do, it will continune. The promises will be broken. He is going to end it all. Thats the best way.

Lmao ok I mean irdc I'm over it at this point. Obviously war is real and fucked up things happen but he's literally committing genocide which is completely different from war. Genocide is just killing because of discrimination while war is for land and benefits. Plus he had the choice Rememeber to stop change things and he chose not to, so whatever. Anyways thanks for staying civil. Peace!

I don't understand how half the people in this comment section do not understand Eren's character or what Isayama is trying to do with him.

Eren is NOT doing this out of revenge. He had let go of his hatred with Reiner. In fact this is an ironic character development. He goes from a brat wanting to kill titans out of hatred and vengeance and is the hero, to a man doing what he's doing to ensure his friends' survival and is now the villain. Eren literally says that Marleyans were just like his own ppl. He breaks down crying in front of a child. Yea idk how more obvious it can get that he's not doing this because he WANTS to.

You guys are aware that Eren is just doing exactly what Reiner and the warriors are doing right? Trying to kill everyone in order to protect their own people (will not really in the warriors case, they were moreso doing it for validation and to go back home). I don't see anyone raging over the fact that babies and innocents were slaughtered and eaten alive during the wall breaches, but now that it's just made more obvious because the target is a larger group of people its just NOW wrong? The irony.

Eren did not have another option. He literally saw the future. He gave the scouts many chances, and he tried over and over to cheat fate. He asked the scouts if they had another solution, one better than "lol let's talk it out even though the entire world literally declared war against us and sent over kids to kill like half of our population for no reason". Eren waited until the very last moment to attack- which is why he isn't shocked or angry at Willy's declaration of war. Just sad, and disappointed, because that was the moment Eren gave up on humanity, gave up on trying to cheat fate.

You guys are aware that without Eren all eldians would die right? Because Zeke's plan would go through and the world would've annihilated Paradis. "Kill only the bad people", the whole point of SnK is that there is no bad or good people so that doesn't make much sense. And how is he supposed to do that? tell the colossal titans to skip around or smth? Also he is trying to entirely erase the cycle of hatred. Which means that as long as there are people who hate Eldians, the cycle will continue and Paradis's demise is inevitable. So it's all or nothing. So please tell me another solution that would peacefully ensure Paradis's survival.

Note: I am NOT agreeing with Eren's plan, but rather understanding why he was forced to do it. By villainizing Eren, and saying the he's a jerk just because, you are missing the entire point of SnK and its philosophical undertones. Everyone in the aot world is morally gray, Eren is no exception.

You sir, just wrote my thoughts.
Thanks for commenting!!

haha ofc, i just rlly love this manga and Eren's character ;-;