Shingeki no Kyojin (Attack on Titan) Manga Chapter 46 & Theory

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Warning! Spoilers!!!!

Here is the chapter for Manga readers:

What's good guys, anyways, Attack on Titan manga 46 was released yesterday. There wasn't any action, instead it answered many questions and brought many different possibilities to the series. This will be a long read, but bare with me

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As we all know, Eren and Ymir have been captured and Eren wakes up with both his arms cut off (regenerating slowly), Eren looks worn out, so does Ymir who is recovering faster and was already awake before Eren, one arm is regenerated

The big thing that we found out now, is that there seem to be in fact 3 Factions!

There is Humanity, Titan-Shifters and the Titans.

Humanity:

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Titans:

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And Titan-Shifters

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The Shifters want to destroy Humanity & Titans, Humanity wants to destroy Titans and Shape-shifters and Titans want to destroy Humanity & Titan-Shifters. Mind f*ck isn't it?

Anyways, I will now go in-depth to my actual theory now, I have the link to Chapter 46, my theory isn't really spoiling for the actual chapters, but there may be some, so read the Manga chapter first.

The key part is the Ape Titan.

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My theory is titans were a biological experiment created in times of war, they could easily destroy a horde of humans with ease, thus the creation of Titans began. However, there were Titan's that managed to escape because Humanity accidentally made them incredibly smart, But there were so few of them but they are ridiculously intelligent. Because of their few numbers, they decided to create a subspecies using their DNA – shifters.

However, they could have also created Titan's by using Humans, as Connie saw a dead Titan lying on his house and looked just like his Mother

These experiments were mostly failures and retard titans were the result, the few successful ones became shifters. After the titan turned all of humanity into titans there weren’t enough humans left to experiment on.
The titans decided to colonize survivors inside the walls to breed them.

Shifters were hidden within the population to spy on humanity and the titans left humanity alone for 100 years so they would breed and multiply.

The ‘Real’ titans are many times more dangerous than the retarded ones we have seen so far, and the Ape titan is one of them. After 100 years, the ape titan returned to find out how humanity progressed, the recent attacks on the walls were done to test humanity, and toy with them to see if they were finally a threat. To see how they have progressed

I think there is some serious crazy shit going on, that the original titans’ sole purpose is to torment humanity, that their are pure evil, malevolent beings and the shifters obey out of fear because they are ridiculously powerful. I think the titans inside the walls are the originals and the Ape was tasked to wake them after 100 years.

Even though the shape-shifters seem so amazingly powerful, they were scared upon the mention of the Ape-Titan, these are the real things, the actual threat and so Eren's dad will play a big role in this. How did he know so much about the Titans? What was his real job? Is he still alive? Could there be something unique, different about Eren's powers?

Thanks for reading guys =D
 
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Nice theory. I hated Eren this chapter. He is definitely the worse character in the series. But anyways, I just think Titans are natural beasts who had a different evolutionary path. Shape shifters had their DNA injected into them.
 

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Let me add 3 important points:

1. I think the plague that Eren's father cured people from has something to do with this.
2. The 'religous' group are hiding an important piece of the puzzle (wall titans, etc...)
3. How do Ymir and Historia factor into this? (check pages 13-15 with official translation)
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Eren's father might be the descendent of the people who experimented on the humans to make them into titans and the information to how to make a titan might be passed on to him. He might have documented everything in his basement so the real disclosure will happen when Eren reaches the basement.
 

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Let me add 3 important points:

1. I think the plague that Eren's father cured people from has something to do with this.
2. The 'religous' group are hiding an important piece of the puzzle (wall titans, etc...)
3. How do Ymir and Historia factor into this? (check pages 13-15 with official translation)
)
Good find! I remember reading that and thinking who is ymir. I never though of this ymir because of her age. Revaille got her notebook right.

Humans are transformed into mindless titans, what happend with Connie hometown proofs that. I was shocked when we saw the titan in the wall, I really didn't saw that one coming. However this proofs that the founders of the walls were in controle of titans.

But what really got my attention was that Reiner called him self a warrior and not a soldier. Meaning he obeys another person, people who believe that protecting Crista is top priority. (Religious groups)

The ape titans can't be the boss, he didn't even know what a 3D gear was. Somebody who comands Reiner, Bertholdt, Annie and Ymir must know what a 3D gear is.
 
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Nice theory, I think the plague before the events of the series has something to do with it. Perhaps the cure Eren's father used is responsible for creating Titans? I'd imagine that those without the strength to control it would become the 'stupid' Titans that we see commonly in the series.
If that's true, then the 'humanity has always been hunted by Titans' lore could just be propaganda that the religious sect has preached as a cover-up for the experiments.

It seems like there might be two groups of Titans. One that Reiner and co follow, and the other is led by the ape-like Titan. Chances are they're at war with each other, or at least cautious about one another.
 

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Let me add 3 important points:

1. I think the plague that Eren's father cured people from has something to do with this.
2. The 'religous' group are hiding an important piece of the puzzle (wall titans, etc...)
3. How do Ymir and Historia factor into this? (check pages 13-15 with official translation)
)
Great points! I believe the titans inside the walls are the intelligent ones that created the walls to breed the humans, the religious people are definitely hiding something
 

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Nice theory, I think the plague before the events of the series has something to do with it. Perhaps the cure Eren's father used is responsible for creating Titans? I'd imagine that those without the strength to control it would become the 'stupid' Titans that we see commonly in the series.
If that's true, then the 'humanity has always been hunted by Titans' lore could just be propaganda that the religious sect has preached as a cover-up for the experiments.

It seems like there might be two groups of Titans. One that Reiner and co follow, and the other is led by the ape-like Titan. Chances are they're at war with each other, or at least cautious about one another.
That seems to be it.

3 factions

The story is getting interesting
 

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Humans are transformed into mindless titans, what happend with Connie hometown proofs that. I was shocked when we saw the titan in the wall, I really didn't saw that one coming. However this proofs that the founders of the walls were in controle of titans.

But what really got my attention was that Reiner called him self a warrior and not a soldier. Meaning he obeys another person, people who believe that protecting Crista is top priority. (Religious groups)

The ape titans can't be the boss, he didn't even know what a 3D gear was. Somebody who comands Reiner, Bertholdt, Annie and Ymir must know what a 3D gear is.
That's true, but in my theory I said that the Intelligent titans were tasked to create the walls 100 years ago, so they can breed more humans because of their population running dry

I don't think humans had invented the 3D gear 100 years ago, that's why the ape titan didn't know.
 

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This could be the truth, if not at least to a certain extent, nice job !

I think you should have thought of Eren's dad, and made for him a position in your theory, cuz to me he looks like he has a hand in all of the Shifters, so i think when Eren goes to the basement of his home, we will find out a lot to answer a sh*tton of questions.
 

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This could be the truth, if not at least to a certain extent, nice job !

I think you should have thought of Eren's dad, and made for him a position in your theory, cuz to me he looks like he has a hand in all of the Shifters, so i think when Eren goes to the basement of his home, we will find out a lot to answer a sh*tton of questions.
Thanks.

Eren's dad does have a big role to this and he has some major explaining to do.
 

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Based on???
Do you think anyone can become a Titan shifter? We've seen Annie and the others are good at hand to hand combat, physically strong and can take average titans with ease

It's not like someone like Armin can get Titan powers lol, you also need a clear goal
 

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Great theory...just got caught up! Just started the other day XD!


Anyways, yeah there are deffinatly 3 factions in total war (how cool).


One thing to point out is the Ape Titan seems like Kabuto. He's basically the reliable task manager to whoever is in charge of the Shifter Titans' equivalent to Orochimaru. This Ape Titan seems to be extremely smart, but not very talented in actual combat. Part of me wondered if it may have been self experimentation of Eren's father....but that's unlikely.

Anyways, Ymir apparantly decided to join the Shutters via blackmail....and he also seems to be an ex-Shifter soldier based on when Reiner and Bertolt's flashback of Ymir's Titan form eating someone important to them.
 

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Great theory...just got caught up! Just started the other day XD!


Anyways, yeah there are deffinatly 3 factions in total war (how cool).


One thing to point out is the Ape Titan seems like Kabuto. He's basically the reliable task manager to whoever is in charge of the Shifter Titans' equivalent to Orochimaru. This Ape Titan seems to be extremely smart, but not very talented in actual combat. Part of me wondered if it may have been self experimentation of Eren's father....but that's unlikely.

Anyways, Ymir apparantly decided to join the Shutters via blackmail....and he also seems to be an ex-Shifter soldier based on when Reiner and Bertolt's flashback of Ymir's Titan form eating someone important to them.
Thanks! And yeah, she is most likely an ex shifter, she had a change of heart, she wants to escape using Eren so it's clear that she doesn't no longer have ties with them

The Ape titan is definitely incredible smart, we haven't exactly seen him in combat, but he threw the giant boulder at Reiner and the others when they were on the tower with perfect accuracy from far away
 

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Thanks! And yeah, she is most likely an ex shifter, she had a change of heart, she wants to escape using Eren so it's clear that she doesn't no longer have ties with them

The Ape titan is definitely incredible smart, we haven't exactly seen him in combat, but he threw the giant boulder at Reiner and the others when they were on the tower with perfect accuracy from far away
Yeah I mean on top of the blackmail, that special chapter where the retard Titan believes that Recon chick is Ymir, and that punishment that seems to be death that Reiner hinted out kinda says Ex-Team Shapeshifter.


And yes, I think the Ape Titan would naturally have physical strength, but note his only action has been long range "sniping". The Horse and the Rocks were always thrown out of harm's reach. My guess is it shows his intelligence as far as good judgement in accuracy....feels kind of like a pro-physics professor lol!

As the saying goes...only time will tell!
 
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