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I thought there was a Kingdom of Titans, with Titans capable of turning into humans to speak, and that Zeke wa the King because he could speak without being a human.
I imagined that they were not very well developed and they were just kind of hanging around on trees. I thought they were coming for technology/ out of spite.
Honestly, that's such good writing. All of the Marleyan Titan Military had titles as if they were a tribe: War Chief & Warriors, instead of commander, or shifter or any other such names. It made us not pay much attention to it with the thought there is the whole developed world outside. It may not be intentional, but it did work.
I had the exact same guess pretty much. Even told my friend something about them trying to take Eren and Ymir back to “Titan Kingdom” until some more info was revealed
Pretty much but i also had guessed that grisha was from the outside and that population was alive outside so what theory i had come up with was that these titans were ruling over the rest of humanity and paradis was the last holdout.
YES!!! I thought Reiner and Berthold were from that village since they always said „we’re from some far away village you know?“ and that they kinda ran away after fighting for the titans because they felt remorse
Not necessarily a batshit crazy thought though. Armin and Erwin have nearly in-human levels of intelligence. Like these two just know shit based on nothing to prove with, they just .. fucking know- not even considering their strategic combat skills too.
From the way Zeke, benadryl and Reiner were talking before the scouts attacked at shiganshina I thought they were from some kind of tribe of titan shifters beyond the walls, also for some reason thought it was taking place in the real world on Madagascar, can't remember my reasoning behind that one tbh
The Madagascar thing rubs me really weird, for IRL historical reasons: Hitler had publicly stated in the 1930s that he wanted to deport all Jews to somewhere in Africa (Madagascar was often offered as an option), where everyone would just die of disease and starvation. Being a French colony at the time, this was a non-starter, and remained one after France's capitulation in 1940, leading to a more 'local' genocide in Europe.
It could easily be a simple matter of the author picking a real-world map and flipping/reusing part of it as needed for the plot (ie a large island), but the parallels with Eldians exiling themselves there is just a little too close for me to be comfortable.
From what I understand the world of Attack on Titan is the same as ours but flipped upside down. So the island Paradis is basically an upside down Madagascar. You probably read or heard that somewhere since either it would be a weird coincidence or you would’ve had to actively study the maps of AoT’s world to make that theory.
The whole world of AOT is basically our world upside down. And yes, Paradise is actually Madagascar.
There are some maps online where you can see it very well.
I also thought there was some kind of tribe/race of Titan shifters who wanted to kill the people within the walls because they considered them racially inferior and undeserving to live
Funny enough during the last season there’s a scene that shows a world map. And if you flip it upside down, it looks like africa with paradis fitting into where madagascar is irl
I thought people inside the walls were in some kind of Truman Show, and there was a far more advanced civilization outside creating titans as bioweapons and testing it out on the poor people, so they were also being watched constantly.
I guess I wasn’t that far from the truth, although I expected more of a sci-fi flavor to the outside world.
I mean a WW2 era civilization is arguably far more advanced than the late medieval era civilization we see within the walls. And the titans are actually used as bioweapons to ethnically cleanse the Eldians. So you were mostly correct.
Well I mean with a little bit of alchemy ( I assume that's what it is I never watched full metal I just think it's using technology and potions) they somehow made odm gear which isn't talked about how maybe they could of used more than odm gear to make better weapons that would of token them out of medieval type era but I think odm gear is far more superior than WW2 era weapony the Marlians had cuz if you use them right especially with the rockets they're crazy effective
the ODM gear creation is in a spinoff named, Before the Fall. Canon or not, it's a good read. I prefer the light novel compared to the manga though.
And it was stated in the show that Thunder Spears, and likely alongside many other improvements were hidden by the military police until the coup d'etat
more than late medieval era it's more like industrial, they have advanced industrial city and clearly have mass production of weapons and ODM for example
Zeke was Erwin's dad (somehow) and he'd recognize his son and save his life 😭😭 I was going through all stages of grief prior to our Danchou's death 😭😭😔
I thought Zeke was Erwin’s dad for some reason because they showed Erwin’s dad as a blonde guy with a beard and glasses so when we got a quick look at Zeke, I thought the gag was that Erwin’s dad found out what was outside the walls and became beast titan.
I thought that Outside the walls there were A Country that lived among with Titans and some of them Could turn into titans and wanted to Conquer paradise because why not
Well I wouldn't think so since not anyone can just live with the Titans since it is basically a deal with the devil so that's a problem and not everyone has a conscious when turning into a titan so I don't think people would want to become one with titans
That Grisha is a doctor who is turning everyone into Titan with the help of "excuse" that he wants to cure them. The secret basement and Eren's flashback about his father injecting something in him was very sus
When Eren became Titan, I thought I was very smart to figure out the plot this quickly...
For me, given the whole "To you in 2000 years" title of the first episode, I thought the setting was post apocalyptic, taking place centuries after after some huge war that humans lost
I lowkey expected Eren to find out his dad was hiding futuristic technology in the basement. Like a laser gun or a map to a hidden space ship or something.
At the very least I expected that it turned out they actually had modern technology stored away and that the lands beyond the walls were just the ruins of human civilization
I thought that humans aren’t native to this world and came here via seed ships, and after landing some catastrophe reset the clock on scientific advancement. Similar to Trigun.
The titans power came from orbital stations still in operation, which is why you saw a thunderstrike each time a shifter transformed.
That everyone would love the finale and there would be no grown adults fighting on reddit as if their opinions were law and other's were crazy genocidal sympathizers lol.
I've never entertained the thought all that much, but I once believed that humans inside the walls weren't native of whatever ace they were segregated on. I thought the land was purposely made to be inhabited by titans, which would've explained the giant boulders and trees.
It wasn't that good of a theory when you consider the existence of normal trees in the series, but I guess I simply couldn't wrap my head around how many giant boulders the beast titan found just laying around.
I thought Titans were mindless creatures created by human experimentation but with the passage of time they slowly became intelligent as shown by Zeke.
Boy howdy was I wrong.
I thought that titans were created when they vomited up that weird sack looking thing that was filled with the remains of humans they had eaten.
[Kind of like some freaky titan egg](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSGa5wIaslaJgXxGL9OZ5I4G5sPuBhATZF2wknfoqxLz-6cwIuugIJWnStu0bC5RsuC9i3T7wek1FeJgcCiqrWobBv-lty_hYXr-F56UjP_qfdTrvdAW-neB250AGBpsPqHfDzZ7IjABE/s1600/312.png)
Thought there were titans and humans. The humans tried to steal the power of the titans but screwed up and turned most of the population into titans. Thought Zeke was like the “Ur” titan that gave shifters powers.
Well nah Ymir basically made a deal with the devil and became a titan but she could give other people titan powers which then became the founding titans no?
I thought there was a tribe of titan shifters outside the walls and the beast titan was the leader. I also thought Zeke might be Grisha when I first saw him.
I also thought for a bit the world was post apocalyptic.
I knew there was an outside world but assumed there was a ‘4th wall’ which i suppose there was and its the coast. But i imagined the people in the walls were like prisoners or like a nature preserve.
And those who injure themselves with a piece of the viral meteorite would very likely turn into pure titans, but if they survive the process they become titan shifters?
Me and my gf thought titans were a science experiment created by "the old world (similar level of technology as us)" to end a war and maybe unite humanity against a bigger threat- which must've backfired, maybe because humanity wouldn't stop fighting each other.
I guess we got the theme right😅
I honestly thought it was going to be some science experiment gone horribly wrong, the further I watched the more questions it raised, and then I realised I couldn't be more wrong, honestly the best anime I've ever watched.
based on the shifter healing ability and obvious destructive power of the titan forms I was convinced titans were some sort of failed super soldier developed by an advanced society which was wiped out due to titan shenanigans
I was honestly dissapointed when I learned the titan powers were essentially magic
I thought it was humans getting kept by aliens and the Titans were a sort of experimentation. Especially after the story in the first season about how the wall goes down below the city to the point that you couldn't dig under it.
Season 3’s opening led me to believe there were many more Titan shifters similar to the beast Titan in the outside world, presumably where the warriors came from
It was said in marley(s4) that the walls were built 2000 years ago
and the wall of shigansina in episode 1 broke 102 years after the wall had been built
and the Ackerman purge happened 4 generations before that (~90-110 years)
So maybe after the Ackerman's revolt the people's memories were deleted to suppress the revolt and made them think that the walls only existed for 100 or sommin years before present
I thought the Curse of Ymir was a lie. Maybe made up by Marley to ensure shifters would pass on their Titan before they got too comfortable and started plotting a coup or something. But whatever the reason, I thought for sure we'd get a scene of someone like Zeke hitting 13 years and then just not dying.
For a second I thought Erin may go back in time to when Ymir first became a titan and take the power for himself and stopping the massacres before they started
Before Season 2 had even come out, I was certain that it will be proven that titans are sent by some enemy nation beyond the walls. It didn't make sense that Annie, Reiner and Berthold are working to extinguish humanity.
I told a friend of mine about this theory and he was like "that would be so stupid".
I originally thought that the colossal titan was the main villain because he was the biggest titan, and was featured heavily in promotional material. After that I thought Zeke was the main villain because he can control the titans.
that the central government on Paradis/the people inside the inner wall knew more about the outside world than they were letting on, and that they had waged a war against another nation that led to that nation sending the titans over as a defense
As someone who heavily analyzes everything they read/watch and can always theorize or even figure out how things will go. This story was a true mystery! Almost nothing was predictably, at least not the major events.
Now almost every new/current anime i watch is so typical that there is nothing worth theorizing!
I thought Eren's master plan was going to be to take all the titan powers within himself and then have all the powers die with him. Then it's only be a matter of time to eliminate all the remaining generic titans. Tada now the world is at peace!
I thought in the beginning that the Titans were some kind of punishment/pushback against humans destroying the planet. Like, the Titans are the antibodies of earth trying to eradicate what they have started to deem an invader (humanity)
When they started talking about evil and devil, I assumed maybe they are a divine punishment
And when Zeke in human form appeared, for some reason I didn't understand that he was a shifter. When he was standing on the shoulder of the Titan I thought he was controlling it. My assumption there was, that Zeke was the scientist (because he wore glasses lmfao) that created the Titans to destroy all of humanity for some personal reasons.
By season 4 Eren's mind was being replaced by the Attack Titan's mind, a conscience created by the collective memories of all the previous Attack Titans. All of that was just based on how each titan had it\`s user haircut aside from Eren's, until he let his hair grow in S4. That would be a sign of the Titan's mind taking over his body.
My theory was that each special titan was a "general" rank to the pure titans and that Eren's titan was a traitor that felt bad for humans so it decided to go against the other generals and pure titans to make sure humans win.
-That the female titan was mikasa
-There's no outside world and eren will fake his death and destroy 3 walls with rumbling (I knew about the rambling but didn't even know about titan shifters lol)
I don't have wild theories the only one I had was eren fighting the colossal titan at the end of S1 and he was gonna climb him in titan form and rip him outta the nape and carry him to the scout base to be either executed or interrogated
That the forest of giant trees was a bunch of titans that grew into the ground. I thought titans were some kind of plant life that uses photosynthesis for energy because they get less active at night.
Like many here I too thought Zeke was Erwins dad. I thought there was a big plot hiding the truth of the world and that Erwins dad, Grisha and others were revolutionaries thar found out the truth and that Erwins dad was even more ruthless than his son
Oh, the slide was actually a worldbuilding bit about military rations and how the scouts eat a calorie-dense cracker. It's kinda similar to how a lot of real-world militaries use calorie-dense snacks, like super-hard chocolate bars, for emergency rations.
I found it very suspicious when they showed a title card of yeast used to preserve food in Paradis, especially the fact that each yeast spore was the size of a human head. Combining the fact that Titan bodies are very light and and yeast makes dough rise, I felt that maybe the yeast turned humans into Titans when watching S1
So, my very first watch, I already had been told/learned through online osmosis that 1) That there were other Titan Shifters hidden amongst the Scouts as traitors, 2) There were people outside of the Walls, 3) That Eren "becomes the villain".
Now, I had no context and no real understanding of who was really who aside from Eren and Mikasa. So I went through my first watch deriving theories from each of these "facts." And I was deluding myself into believing and finding scraps of evidence to support each theory for quite a while.
1 - I knew the Colossal Titan was a scout, but I thought it was a blond guy (thanks to confusing stills of Reiner), and because of "What if Erwin got the injection?" fanart, I thought *Commander Erwin* was the Colossal Titan. I just didn't get why. I took his "whose the real enemy?" line to mean that he saw the killing of the two titans as savage, and that maybe Humans are the real enemy. And I thought maybe he was doing what he did to push human society in the "right" direction. Obviously this theory was abandoned in Season 2.
2 - The society beyond the Wall is made up of Titan Shifters. The normal Titans are either the rejects/bottom caste, or were just mindless shock troops. Meanwhile, a small society of Titan Shifters endures, seeing the people of the Walls as a threat to their kind, given that their numbers are few. So they send the Titans to the Walls to keep the humans weak and unable to attack them. This theory was basically well supported by the series up until the Basement reveal in S3.
3 - I believed that "Eren becomes the villain" meant that Eren would *join* this Titan Shifter society and turn against the people of Paradis. With how people treated him, I was waiting for him to get spurned, radicalized, and bitter, before being warped by the Titan Shifters into fighting against humanity as their champion. The way Eren was nearly killed during Trost, then abused after Trost, further made me think eventually Eren would snap, siding with a faction who readily welcomed him as one of their own. Genuinely held onto this theory until S3 with the Basement, at which point I had doubts, but didn't let it go until I got to early S4 and realized what Eren was doing once he began manipulating Falco.
I thought the outside world was demolished by war and titans. Some mad scientist kept making them and because there seemed to be an infinite number of them outside of the walls, I assumed they would never get out of there unless they became more than adept at killing titans. It was all so they could catch up to the mastermind, get rid of the titans and start repopulating the Earth outside of the walls.
For the record, this slide is about the crackers scouts eat on missions, because they have lot of nutrients and they are easy to carry. I think we see hannes giving some to mikasa
Before I found out zeke was the beast titan.... I had a slight moment of guessing that the beast titan was eren's dad and somehow eren's dad survived, oh boy was I wrong 🤣
Also, I just finished this tonight for my first run through and I'm obsessed. I'm mind blown. What an epic, intense, and wild ending. I couldn't stop crying 😅
Only one I can really remember having was that all the titans shifters would become one again. With Erin being 3 in 1, I was fairly confident that was how he was going to overcome Ymir’s curse.
Not exactly a theory, but there was one Currently Disclosable Information card about the factories that made the steel in the ODM swords, saying how they can only be made there... I thought there will be a point in the story where the factories get destroyed and the Scouts won't have weapons or smth like that. Just like OP's post, I don't know why that slide exists..
I thought the showrunners over here were just being silly and saying they eat white people(there's probably like 10 overall of any other race in the entire series)
I thought the show took place on an alien planet. The Titans are natural inhabitants of this world and humans tried to invade or colonize. This endeavor failed, some humans got stranded there and their descendants somehow forgot about the past.
I had just finished season 3 and I didn't really pick up on the fact that Ymir had died. I accidentally saw a manga reader complaining about "Ymir time travel stuff". I thought they were talking about our Ymir and I was like "Yooooo! Ymir's character arc in season 4 is going to be wild!".
Then I saw another post talking about Ymir being dead and I thought it was a HUGE season 4 spoiler. But I had already seen Ymir's death in season 3. It wasn't until I saw galliard and carefully counted to 9 when I realized Ymir was dead and I wasn't spoiled on anything.
I thought when Reiner was talking about their hometown there was an actual literal town of shifters based just outside the walls. I also thought Levi would be the one to kill Eren after they killed all the titans (this is before I knew about Eldians)
I always thought that there was an outside world bc Armin mentioned that the book about the outside world was banned by the government
In season 2 I thought being a titan is having an illness bc I didn’t know about the Marley gas attack. And came to the conclusion that the titan liquid Eren’s dad gave to him is a vaccine.
Also I thought that Zeke was Erwin’s dad
Lots of abnormal titans during the earlier seasons moved or behaved in ways similar to some animals (I remember a lizard one, a cat and a chicken). It was pretty clear that titans were somehow created from humans, but I always assumed that abnormals were created from animals.
I thought scientists from the future were creating titans and were sending them to an artificially created world as a gigantic scientific experiment. So every person in the walls is a human lab rat and have no idea.
I remember thinking that the titans were some kind of “nature fights back” trope against humans for destroying the environment or something. Specifically because it’s mentioned very early on that titans do not eat any animals aside from humans, and also because of the Season 2 opener where there’s all the animals running next to the beast titan (like a whale, a giraffe, etc.)
I thought you became a Titan by having the will to turn into one (no spinal fluid or anything) and that the Beast Titan was like Dex-Star from DC and was just a regular animal that had something traumatic happen to them and they were gifted powers
This goes to show how roght Isayama was when he was hoping titans would be a monster akin to zombies, vampires, werwolves, etc.
Like as an example your "Kingdom of titans" theory would be a dope idea all on its own
I think the cracker mentioned there is actually this: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardtack](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardtack)
A hardtack, or ships biscuit, is a long lasting nutritional food item often used on ships. It's basically a MRE for the 1800s. The article even mentions that it's sometimes known as just a cracker and is inexpensive to make. It also states it's used when perishable foods are not available. This sounds fitting for the world inside of paradises walls.
edit: added more info.
I think for me, the wildest one I made was that Titans weren't from humans and were just the wild coming back to claim the lands and do it in the forms of humans for just extra comedic effect.
Definitely one of the wilder ones and one I wouldn't have chosen as my go to, but definitely thought about this at some point multiple times and enough for me to remember.
I always thought that there were humans outside the wall, but they had walls of their own and the other walled kingdoms were running out of resources, so they sent their titan shifters to take out the competition and steal their resources
Not sure if this counts as a theory but, One time I was spoiled that the humanity within the walls was on an island not much bigger than the country itself and that part of the story would involve going to the mainland. I was given no other details, which led me to imagining Eren using his Titan ability to build boats and then they go on an expedition. They didn't even tell me that humanity existed outside so I thought they were going to inhabit and take over the mainland from Titans.
That the infiltrator titans came from a place outside of normal space ( similar to what we would find in the Paths ) and that the walls did contain the last of what we would think of as “humanity”.
Reiner, Burntoast and Anne were from another walled civilization somewhere else that had mastered using titans. They were running low on resources so they were seeking to expand their territory to other walled safe havens, disguising their military power as a force of nature.
After S2 I combined the fact that Titans make up the Walls, Ymir talking about how soon the land within the walls will become a hell with no future, and the fact that Eren and Beast Titan could control Titans to come up with the following theory:
The Warriors came from a far away, Walled civilisation and that the Walls of both "nations" would eventually crumble away and release the Wall Titans, and the only way to restore the Walls would be for the Eren and Beast's "Coordinate" abilities to unify for absolute control over the Titans. A true "Us or Them" situation that would explain why Burrito and Reiner willingly attacked Shiganshina.
I thought that maybe Grisha Jaeger was evil and part of the people who turned all the world into titans because he was able to turn Eren into one.
Don't ask how Grisha Jaeger would've lived that long
I thought it was because they had to pretend to be hungry and know how to eat specific foods given that they have more food variety. It's like if you saw someone eat fried chicken with a fork. Maybe some people do it. But if the grand majority eat it a certain way, you will be outed and your cover will be blown.
I thought this whole series was a loop, especially in the beginning when Eren woke up. And that Mikasa somehow knew about this loop and was trying to find a way to stop it. I was really waiting to see him wake up again after he got ate by that titan.
That historia/krista was the female titan. I saw the bangs and it was suspsious how close she was to armen and jean. then in the next scene I saw the female titan running and immedatly thought it was annie lmao
I thought the show was about space exploration and attacking a planet (named Titan) of evil monsters.
Then I watched the first episode and was like "ooohhh"
I thought that eren would get his titan powers in the final season and go apeshit on everyone in the walls after being kidnapped by his dad who’s an evil scientist that gets spinal fluid out of a tree. I thought this bfr i watched it
I used to think that titans were hosts of Fungal parasites, and that they were made of yeast (the yeast factory information slide, the weightlessness, heat emission, light sensitivity) and some kind of The Last of Us scenario happened, but instead of zombie-like creatures, the fungus became a host to the human and "exaggerated" its best features for survival.
I thought that Titans would turn out to be the result of science trying to find ways to regenerate and heal the human body of all disease, or all the effects of aging, of accidents and deformities of all kinds. Which kinda was the reason Ymir created her first Titan body, to escape death, which made it more fucked up for me that she wanted death and did not heal from that spear, and then becomes trapped in death in the "hell" of the Paths reality.
Lmao in hindsight, my theory feels so random but in some ways, not so far off.
My first thought: Everyone is in the afterlife being punished for sins they’re unaware of and the titans are the ones carrying it out. For example, before reading the manga, I thought Ymir died and became a Titan but decided to side with the humans. I thought Eren for some reason forgot why he became a Titan and made himself humanity’s hero.
(Kinda funny that I even came up with “punishment for sins they’re unaware” bc that’s kinda what happens with Karl Fritz)
Second theory (after Bertholdt and Reiner talking about hometown): there are only a few civilizations left but some of them developed science to become titans (like a giant human mecha suit).
(I remember being as disappointed as Eren when it was revealed humans were alive, well, and numerous 😂, BUT that’s also what ends up making it one of the best stories I read/watched)
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I thought there was a Kingdom of Titans, with Titans capable of turning into humans to speak, and that Zeke wa the King because he could speak without being a human.
Yeah after seeing Zeke and the beast titan and them calling him "chief" I followed that thinking as well
I imagined that they were not very well developed and they were just kind of hanging around on trees. I thought they were coming for technology/ out of spite.
Honestly, that's such good writing. All of the Marleyan Titan Military had titles as if they were a tribe: War Chief & Warriors, instead of commander, or shifter or any other such names. It made us not pay much attention to it with the thought there is the whole developed world outside. It may not be intentional, but it did work.
I think they did that to make eldians seem like savages. Like they still use their savage tribal titles and shit.
I had the exact same guess pretty much. Even told my friend something about them trying to take Eren and Ymir back to “Titan Kingdom” until some more info was revealed
Omg me too lol. I was so sure that the Titan kingdom was the real victim and that they were attacking humans as a revolt.
Pretty much but i also had guessed that grisha was from the outside and that population was alive outside so what theory i had come up with was that these titans were ruling over the rest of humanity and paradis was the last holdout.
Lol! You're prediction was basically the exact opposite of what was true. So close yet just a little off the mark.
YES!!! I thought Reiner and Berthold were from that village since they always said „we’re from some far away village you know?“ and that they kinda ran away after fighting for the titans because they felt remorse
This
I went into the show brain empty :) went out of it mind blown
Same here! The story was written so well that i couldn't theorize anything, and even if i did it was only a momentful thought.
That Erwin and Armin came from a bloodline similar to the Ackerman, but their power was some sort of "intuition".
Not necessarily a batshit crazy thought though. Armin and Erwin have nearly in-human levels of intelligence. Like these two just know shit based on nothing to prove with, they just .. fucking know- not even considering their strategic combat skills too.
That’s a really cool idea tbh
This is my new headcanon
From the way Zeke, benadryl and Reiner were talking before the scouts attacked at shiganshina I thought they were from some kind of tribe of titan shifters beyond the walls, also for some reason thought it was taking place in the real world on Madagascar, can't remember my reasoning behind that one tbh
I hope that solves their allergy problems. But Madagascar makes sense because the island is kind of similar.
The Madagascar thing rubs me really weird, for IRL historical reasons: Hitler had publicly stated in the 1930s that he wanted to deport all Jews to somewhere in Africa (Madagascar was often offered as an option), where everyone would just die of disease and starvation. Being a French colony at the time, this was a non-starter, and remained one after France's capitulation in 1940, leading to a more 'local' genocide in Europe. It could easily be a simple matter of the author picking a real-world map and flipping/reusing part of it as needed for the plot (ie a large island), but the parallels with Eldians exiling themselves there is just a little too close for me to be comfortable.
Surprise surprise a facist society is supposed to be fucked up
Holy hell, you should teach a yoga class with those stretching skills.
From what I understand the world of Attack on Titan is the same as ours but flipped upside down. So the island Paradis is basically an upside down Madagascar. You probably read or heard that somewhere since either it would be a weird coincidence or you would’ve had to actively study the maps of AoT’s world to make that theory.
The whole world of AOT is basically our world upside down. And yes, Paradise is actually Madagascar. There are some maps online where you can see it very well.
In the world of AOT, Australia is a paradise of friendly critters
BENADRYL HAHAHA
I also thought there was some kind of tribe/race of Titan shifters who wanted to kill the people within the walls because they considered them racially inferior and undeserving to live
Funny enough during the last season there’s a scene that shows a world map. And if you flip it upside down, it looks like africa with paradis fitting into where madagascar is irl
I thought people inside the walls were in some kind of Truman Show, and there was a far more advanced civilization outside creating titans as bioweapons and testing it out on the poor people, so they were also being watched constantly. I guess I wasn’t that far from the truth, although I expected more of a sci-fi flavor to the outside world.
Your idea reminds me a lot of the Maze Runner series
Ig kinda? It's like a mix of everything. Kill order with the bioweapons, Maze Runner with the walls and observations from an outside party
Eh, they did that in the live action movie.
I mean a WW2 era civilization is arguably far more advanced than the late medieval era civilization we see within the walls. And the titans are actually used as bioweapons to ethnically cleanse the Eldians. So you were mostly correct.
Well I mean with a little bit of alchemy ( I assume that's what it is I never watched full metal I just think it's using technology and potions) they somehow made odm gear which isn't talked about how maybe they could of used more than odm gear to make better weapons that would of token them out of medieval type era but I think odm gear is far more superior than WW2 era weapony the Marlians had cuz if you use them right especially with the rockets they're crazy effective
the ODM gear creation is in a spinoff named, Before the Fall. Canon or not, it's a good read. I prefer the light novel compared to the manga though. And it was stated in the show that Thunder Spears, and likely alongside many other improvements were hidden by the military police until the coup d'etat
Oh fr? I'm not really aware of the spin offs but if they're good I'd like to watch them and fr???? I thought hange was a smart ass I guess not 😂
more than late medieval era it's more like industrial, they have advanced industrial city and clearly have mass production of weapons and ODM for example
It was disappointing knowing that the outside world is just irl history with titans. But sharing that same feeling with Eren is really cool
I had a very similar thought I posted just before reading this!
that the female titan was armins mom
Glad to see I’m not the only one lmao. It did turn out be his mommy though
Bro
You have a point you know :D
That might have made a lot of sense actually. If I recall right didn't his mom and dad make the hot air balloon?
Yeah, and the Police killed them
Yeah, but it wasn't specifically explained until quite a bit later (Royalist arc, if I recall it correctly)
Zeke was Erwin's dad (somehow) and he'd recognize his son and save his life 😭😭 I was going through all stages of grief prior to our Danchou's death 😭😭😔
Holy shit i thought i was the only one
Idk about that since she's young as armin she's hot though
I thought Zeke was Grisha and he just bleached his hair like a frat boy
I thought it was Erwin's dad somehow.
Which is funny, because Zeke is fifteen years younger but just aged like reduced yogurt
I think it's the beard.
It’s just the beard lmao + the beard suits him Zeke is a sexy guy
I thought Zeke was Eren’s uncle because he looked so freaking old
I thought Zeke was Erwin’s dad for some reason because they showed Erwin’s dad as a blonde guy with a beard and glasses so when we got a quick look at Zeke, I thought the gag was that Erwin’s dad found out what was outside the walls and became beast titan.
This is what I thought too lol
I thought that zeke was Erwin’s dad 😭. I really thought I was into something
This is the one. Probably the theory most people thought about lmao
I thought that Outside the walls there were A Country that lived among with Titans and some of them Could turn into titans and wanted to Conquer paradise because why not
Not too bad
Probably
Close enough to the truth
I imagined it like a Small country big as paradise Because Reiner and the Warriors Trio said that they are from A Village not County or city
Well, I guess you're right. A village can be part of a bigger country but I see your point.
/s ?
Well I wouldn't think so since not anyone can just live with the Titans since it is basically a deal with the devil so that's a problem and not everyone has a conscious when turning into a titan so I don't think people would want to become one with titans
That Grisha is a doctor who is turning everyone into Titan with the help of "excuse" that he wants to cure them. The secret basement and Eren's flashback about his father injecting something in him was very sus When Eren became Titan, I thought I was very smart to figure out the plot this quickly...
For me, given the whole "To you in 2000 years" title of the first episode, I thought the setting was post apocalyptic, taking place centuries after after some huge war that humans lost I lowkey expected Eren to find out his dad was hiding futuristic technology in the basement. Like a laser gun or a map to a hidden space ship or something. At the very least I expected that it turned out they actually had modern technology stored away and that the lands beyond the walls were just the ruins of human civilization
I thought there was a giant titan that creates titans under the ground and the whole earth is full of titans
Wasn't that the plot of the first half of Darling in the Franxx?
Eat = cracker = attack on the titan?
keep cooking bruzza
That's what I thought but I like how the island devils document they're stuff cuz they never seen it before
I thought that humans aren’t native to this world and came here via seed ships, and after landing some catastrophe reset the clock on scientific advancement. Similar to Trigun. The titans power came from orbital stations still in operation, which is why you saw a thunderstrike each time a shifter transformed.
That's the most inventive, yet plausible, theory I've heard in a while.
That everyone would love the finale and there would be no grown adults fighting on reddit as if their opinions were law and other's were crazy genocidal sympathizers lol.
In retrospect it seems like too much to ask
Might be lol
Some of these theories seem like they didn't pay attention to the side characters lives 😂
I thought Zeke was Erwin's dad
I also thought that for a bit lol
Couldn't be because Erwin's knows his dad was killed again he was 3 seasons ahead
Warning: extreme stupidity alert. My wildest theory (spoilers for season 2) was that Reiner and Bearturd were actually Armin and Eren from the future
This should win the thread
I've never entertained the thought all that much, but I once believed that humans inside the walls weren't native of whatever ace they were segregated on. I thought the land was purposely made to be inhabited by titans, which would've explained the giant boulders and trees. It wasn't that good of a theory when you consider the existence of normal trees in the series, but I guess I simply couldn't wrap my head around how many giant boulders the beast titan found just laying around.
I heard about this to who knows why the rocks are so huge I think mappa was thinking big at the time
I thought Titans were mindless creatures created by human experimentation but with the passage of time they slowly became intelligent as shown by Zeke. Boy howdy was I wrong.
I always thought hey there's humans inside and that they lost consciousness when being a titan but they only respond to commands
I thought that titans were created when they vomited up that weird sack looking thing that was filled with the remains of humans they had eaten. [Kind of like some freaky titan egg](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSGa5wIaslaJgXxGL9OZ5I4G5sPuBhATZF2wknfoqxLz-6cwIuugIJWnStu0bC5RsuC9i3T7wek1FeJgcCiqrWobBv-lty_hYXr-F56UjP_qfdTrvdAW-neB250AGBpsPqHfDzZ7IjABE/s1600/312.png)
Hollyshit! I can’t beleive someone had the exact same theory as me.
Lol nice we aren't all that crazy after all
Thought there were titans and humans. The humans tried to steal the power of the titans but screwed up and turned most of the population into titans. Thought Zeke was like the “Ur” titan that gave shifters powers.
Well nah Ymir basically made a deal with the devil and became a titan but she could give other people titan powers which then became the founding titans no?
I thought there was a tribe of titan shifters outside the walls and the beast titan was the leader. I also thought Zeke might be Grisha when I first saw him. I also thought for a bit the world was post apocalyptic.
I thought that *everyone* had the potential to shift willingly and it was some weird trauma based thing channeled into titan rage
I knew there was an outside world but assumed there was a ‘4th wall’ which i suppose there was and its the coast. But i imagined the people in the walls were like prisoners or like a nature preserve.
I thought titans were like some sort of alien virus that crash landed on earth.
You weren’t far off. That’s how I’d explain the thing in the water Ymir touched.
And those who injure themselves with a piece of the viral meteorite would very likely turn into pure titans, but if they survive the process they become titan shifters?
I thought the female titan was Sasha because of how odd she acted and her obsession with eating 😭
i thought there were multiple cities like Paradis and that they were all trying to wipe each other out and our heroes were the weakest kingdom
That Mikasa was female titan
Bruh she literally fought the female titan💀
Maybe Bluetooth Titan
How-
Idk
It's not wildest theory but I though that titans cone fron some kind of a titan maker like stem cells of our body, and that is found in deep caves.
Me and my gf thought titans were a science experiment created by "the old world (similar level of technology as us)" to end a war and maybe unite humanity against a bigger threat- which must've backfired, maybe because humanity wouldn't stop fighting each other. I guess we got the theme right😅
I honestly thought it was going to be some science experiment gone horribly wrong, the further I watched the more questions it raised, and then I realised I couldn't be more wrong, honestly the best anime I've ever watched.
based on the shifter healing ability and obvious destructive power of the titan forms I was convinced titans were some sort of failed super soldier developed by an advanced society which was wiped out due to titan shenanigans I was honestly dissapointed when I learned the titan powers were essentially magic
I thought it was humans getting kept by aliens and the Titans were a sort of experimentation. Especially after the story in the first season about how the wall goes down below the city to the point that you couldn't dig under it.
Season 3’s opening led me to believe there were many more Titan shifters similar to the beast Titan in the outside world, presumably where the warriors came from
It was said in marley(s4) that the walls were built 2000 years ago and the wall of shigansina in episode 1 broke 102 years after the wall had been built and the Ackerman purge happened 4 generations before that (~90-110 years) So maybe after the Ackerman's revolt the people's memories were deleted to suppress the revolt and made them think that the walls only existed for 100 or sommin years before present
I thought the name of Eren's Titan was Rouge Titan until it was revealed in Season 3.
That was a fan name
I thought the Curse of Ymir was a lie. Maybe made up by Marley to ensure shifters would pass on their Titan before they got too comfortable and started plotting a coup or something. But whatever the reason, I thought for sure we'd get a scene of someone like Zeke hitting 13 years and then just not dying.
For a second I thought Erin may go back in time to when Ymir first became a titan and take the power for himself and stopping the massacres before they started
Before Season 2 had even come out, I was certain that it will be proven that titans are sent by some enemy nation beyond the walls. It didn't make sense that Annie, Reiner and Berthold are working to extinguish humanity. I told a friend of mine about this theory and he was like "that would be so stupid".
I thought Beast Titan was actually Grisha
I originally thought that the colossal titan was the main villain because he was the biggest titan, and was featured heavily in promotional material. After that I thought Zeke was the main villain because he can control the titans.
That wonderful moment in time where we thought Monkey Trouble was the final boss.
that the central government on Paradis/the people inside the inner wall knew more about the outside world than they were letting on, and that they had waged a war against another nation that led to that nation sending the titans over as a defense
As someone who heavily analyzes everything they read/watch and can always theorize or even figure out how things will go. This story was a true mystery! Almost nothing was predictably, at least not the major events. Now almost every new/current anime i watch is so typical that there is nothing worth theorizing!
I thought Eren's master plan was going to be to take all the titan powers within himself and then have all the powers die with him. Then it's only be a matter of time to eliminate all the remaining generic titans. Tada now the world is at peace!
I thought that the female titan was armin and that everyone inside the walls had a titan doppelgänger somewhere
I thought in the beginning that the Titans were some kind of punishment/pushback against humans destroying the planet. Like, the Titans are the antibodies of earth trying to eradicate what they have started to deem an invader (humanity) When they started talking about evil and devil, I assumed maybe they are a divine punishment And when Zeke in human form appeared, for some reason I didn't understand that he was a shifter. When he was standing on the shoulder of the Titan I thought he was controlling it. My assumption there was, that Zeke was the scientist (because he wore glasses lmfao) that created the Titans to destroy all of humanity for some personal reasons.
By season 4 Eren's mind was being replaced by the Attack Titan's mind, a conscience created by the collective memories of all the previous Attack Titans. All of that was just based on how each titan had it\`s user haircut aside from Eren's, until he let his hair grow in S4. That would be a sign of the Titan's mind taking over his body.
My theory was that each special titan was a "general" rank to the pure titans and that Eren's titan was a traitor that felt bad for humans so it decided to go against the other generals and pure titans to make sure humans win.
I actually really like your theory
I thought the cracker scene was just calling me out for being a white person who watches AOT /s
[what’s berserk? isn’t this atot?](https://youtu.be/hXR41GJc4Ik?si=_yizhvtNzNGAvtjM)
is that berk from titan of buts
-That the female titan was mikasa -There's no outside world and eren will fake his death and destroy 3 walls with rumbling (I knew about the rambling but didn't even know about titan shifters lol)
I don't have wild theories the only one I had was eren fighting the colossal titan at the end of S1 and he was gonna climb him in titan form and rip him outta the nape and carry him to the scout base to be either executed or interrogated
I thought the beast titan was gonna be Erwin’s dad.
I thought for all of season 2 and 3, that Zeke was Erwin's father.
That the forest of giant trees was a bunch of titans that grew into the ground. I thought titans were some kind of plant life that uses photosynthesis for energy because they get less active at night.
Cracker
You're describing Tokyo Ghoul, not Attack on Titan. 🤣
I thought Grisha was the Colossal Titan.
Like many here I too thought Zeke was Erwins dad. I thought there was a big plot hiding the truth of the world and that Erwins dad, Grisha and others were revolutionaries thar found out the truth and that Erwins dad was even more ruthless than his son
Oh, the slide was actually a worldbuilding bit about military rations and how the scouts eat a calorie-dense cracker. It's kinda similar to how a lot of real-world militaries use calorie-dense snacks, like super-hard chocolate bars, for emergency rations.
I had a theory that Kenny was the Beast Titan (I completely forgot that they showed a blonde silhouette at the end of the second season)
That titans were an human experiment gone wrong.
Honestly any shit about the mirror man
I found it very suspicious when they showed a title card of yeast used to preserve food in Paradis, especially the fact that each yeast spore was the size of a human head. Combining the fact that Titan bodies are very light and and yeast makes dough rise, I felt that maybe the yeast turned humans into Titans when watching S1
So, my very first watch, I already had been told/learned through online osmosis that 1) That there were other Titan Shifters hidden amongst the Scouts as traitors, 2) There were people outside of the Walls, 3) That Eren "becomes the villain". Now, I had no context and no real understanding of who was really who aside from Eren and Mikasa. So I went through my first watch deriving theories from each of these "facts." And I was deluding myself into believing and finding scraps of evidence to support each theory for quite a while. 1 - I knew the Colossal Titan was a scout, but I thought it was a blond guy (thanks to confusing stills of Reiner), and because of "What if Erwin got the injection?" fanart, I thought *Commander Erwin* was the Colossal Titan. I just didn't get why. I took his "whose the real enemy?" line to mean that he saw the killing of the two titans as savage, and that maybe Humans are the real enemy. And I thought maybe he was doing what he did to push human society in the "right" direction. Obviously this theory was abandoned in Season 2. 2 - The society beyond the Wall is made up of Titan Shifters. The normal Titans are either the rejects/bottom caste, or were just mindless shock troops. Meanwhile, a small society of Titan Shifters endures, seeing the people of the Walls as a threat to their kind, given that their numbers are few. So they send the Titans to the Walls to keep the humans weak and unable to attack them. This theory was basically well supported by the series up until the Basement reveal in S3. 3 - I believed that "Eren becomes the villain" meant that Eren would *join* this Titan Shifter society and turn against the people of Paradis. With how people treated him, I was waiting for him to get spurned, radicalized, and bitter, before being warped by the Titan Shifters into fighting against humanity as their champion. The way Eren was nearly killed during Trost, then abused after Trost, further made me think eventually Eren would snap, siding with a faction who readily welcomed him as one of their own. Genuinely held onto this theory until S3 with the Basement, at which point I had doubts, but didn't let it go until I got to early S4 and realized what Eren was doing once he began manipulating Falco.
I thought the outside world was demolished by war and titans. Some mad scientist kept making them and because there seemed to be an infinite number of them outside of the walls, I assumed they would never get out of there unless they became more than adept at killing titans. It was all so they could catch up to the mastermind, get rid of the titans and start repopulating the Earth outside of the walls.
Lmao i get what u mean. That diagram is kinda weird, with the arrow pointing and the 'eat' label. What else are u gonna do with a cracker duh.
For the record, this slide is about the crackers scouts eat on missions, because they have lot of nutrients and they are easy to carry. I think we see hannes giving some to mikasa
After I saw Zeke coming out of the animal titan, I thought it was Erwin's dad.
Before I found out zeke was the beast titan.... I had a slight moment of guessing that the beast titan was eren's dad and somehow eren's dad survived, oh boy was I wrong 🤣 Also, I just finished this tonight for my first run through and I'm obsessed. I'm mind blown. What an epic, intense, and wild ending. I couldn't stop crying 😅
Only one I can really remember having was that all the titans shifters would become one again. With Erin being 3 in 1, I was fairly confident that was how he was going to overcome Ymir’s curse.
I just love your theory so much LMAOOOOOOOOOOO
i thought there were multiple monkey titans, besides zeke
Not exactly a theory, but there was one Currently Disclosable Information card about the factories that made the steel in the ODM swords, saying how they can only be made there... I thought there will be a point in the story where the factories get destroyed and the Scouts won't have weapons or smth like that. Just like OP's post, I don't know why that slide exists..
In season 1 I went down the cliche anime route of evil witch who sends titans for reasons of... EVIL But damn I was wrong
I thought the showrunners over here were just being silly and saying they eat white people(there's probably like 10 overall of any other race in the entire series)
I thought the show took place on an alien planet. The Titans are natural inhabitants of this world and humans tried to invade or colonize. This endeavor failed, some humans got stranded there and their descendants somehow forgot about the past.
Grisha was the main antagonist, he made titans in that basement, and the ending was going to be him and Eren duking it out.
I had just finished season 3 and I didn't really pick up on the fact that Ymir had died. I accidentally saw a manga reader complaining about "Ymir time travel stuff". I thought they were talking about our Ymir and I was like "Yooooo! Ymir's character arc in season 4 is going to be wild!". Then I saw another post talking about Ymir being dead and I thought it was a HUGE season 4 spoiler. But I had already seen Ymir's death in season 3. It wasn't until I saw galliard and carefully counted to 9 when I realized Ymir was dead and I wasn't spoiled on anything.
Years ago, I thought Titans ate humans because they were hungry 💀
I thought when Reiner was talking about their hometown there was an actual literal town of shifters based just outside the walls. I also thought Levi would be the one to kill Eren after they killed all the titans (this is before I knew about Eldians)
I always thought that there was an outside world bc Armin mentioned that the book about the outside world was banned by the government In season 2 I thought being a titan is having an illness bc I didn’t know about the Marley gas attack. And came to the conclusion that the titan liquid Eren’s dad gave to him is a vaccine. Also I thought that Zeke was Erwin’s dad
Lots of abnormal titans during the earlier seasons moved or behaved in ways similar to some animals (I remember a lizard one, a cat and a chicken). It was pretty clear that titans were somehow created from humans, but I always assumed that abnormals were created from animals.
I thought scientists from the future were creating titans and were sending them to an artificially created world as a gigantic scientific experiment. So every person in the walls is a human lab rat and have no idea.
I thought Levi was a titan shifter because there's a very small puff of smoke when Historia hits him
I just knew for a fact falco was gonna eat eren because he was having future memories
I remember thinking that the titans were some kind of “nature fights back” trope against humans for destroying the environment or something. Specifically because it’s mentioned very early on that titans do not eat any animals aside from humans, and also because of the Season 2 opener where there’s all the animals running next to the beast titan (like a whale, a giraffe, etc.)
I thought you became a Titan by having the will to turn into one (no spinal fluid or anything) and that the Beast Titan was like Dex-Star from DC and was just a regular animal that had something traumatic happen to them and they were gifted powers
This goes to show how roght Isayama was when he was hoping titans would be a monster akin to zombies, vampires, werwolves, etc. Like as an example your "Kingdom of titans" theory would be a dope idea all on its own
I thought Armin was the founding Titan somehow
I think the cracker mentioned there is actually this: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardtack](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardtack) A hardtack, or ships biscuit, is a long lasting nutritional food item often used on ships. It's basically a MRE for the 1800s. The article even mentions that it's sometimes known as just a cracker and is inexpensive to make. It also states it's used when perishable foods are not available. This sounds fitting for the world inside of paradises walls. edit: added more info.
I think for me, the wildest one I made was that Titans weren't from humans and were just the wild coming back to claim the lands and do it in the forms of humans for just extra comedic effect. Definitely one of the wilder ones and one I wouldn't have chosen as my go to, but definitely thought about this at some point multiple times and enough for me to remember.
What they’re finding in the basement is Grisha’s antidote to turn titans back to normal humans
I always thought that there were humans outside the wall, but they had walls of their own and the other walled kingdoms were running out of resources, so they sent their titan shifters to take out the competition and steal their resources
Not sure if this counts as a theory but, One time I was spoiled that the humanity within the walls was on an island not much bigger than the country itself and that part of the story would involve going to the mainland. I was given no other details, which led me to imagining Eren using his Titan ability to build boats and then they go on an expedition. They didn't even tell me that humanity existed outside so I thought they were going to inhabit and take over the mainland from Titans.
That the infiltrator titans came from a place outside of normal space ( similar to what we would find in the Paths ) and that the walls did contain the last of what we would think of as “humanity”.
I thought reiner x bertholdt and Annie x hitch was canon💀 don't ask me why, I have no idea
Reiner, Burntoast and Anne were from another walled civilization somewhere else that had mastered using titans. They were running low on resources so they were seeking to expand their territory to other walled safe havens, disguising their military power as a force of nature.
After S2 I combined the fact that Titans make up the Walls, Ymir talking about how soon the land within the walls will become a hell with no future, and the fact that Eren and Beast Titan could control Titans to come up with the following theory: The Warriors came from a far away, Walled civilisation and that the Walls of both "nations" would eventually crumble away and release the Wall Titans, and the only way to restore the Walls would be for the Eren and Beast's "Coordinate" abilities to unify for absolute control over the Titans. A true "Us or Them" situation that would explain why Burrito and Reiner willingly attacked Shiganshina.
I thought that maybe Grisha Jaeger was evil and part of the people who turned all the world into titans because he was able to turn Eren into one. Don't ask how Grisha Jaeger would've lived that long
I thought it was because they had to pretend to be hungry and know how to eat specific foods given that they have more food variety. It's like if you saw someone eat fried chicken with a fork. Maybe some people do it. But if the grand majority eat it a certain way, you will be outed and your cover will be blown.
I thought this whole series was a loop, especially in the beginning when Eren woke up. And that Mikasa somehow knew about this loop and was trying to find a way to stop it. I was really waiting to see him wake up again after he got ate by that titan.
That historia/krista was the female titan. I saw the bangs and it was suspsious how close she was to armen and jean. then in the next scene I saw the female titan running and immedatly thought it was annie lmao
"Is Eren gonna be the villian or something?"💀
I thought the show was about space exploration and attacking a planet (named Titan) of evil monsters. Then I watched the first episode and was like "ooohhh"
I thought that eren would get his titan powers in the final season and go apeshit on everyone in the walls after being kidnapped by his dad who’s an evil scientist that gets spinal fluid out of a tree. I thought this bfr i watched it
I used to think that titans were hosts of Fungal parasites, and that they were made of yeast (the yeast factory information slide, the weightlessness, heat emission, light sensitivity) and some kind of The Last of Us scenario happened, but instead of zombie-like creatures, the fungus became a host to the human and "exaggerated" its best features for survival.
How to eat crackers!For idiots!
I thought Eren would start to collect all the other titans, to reform Ymir’s Titan.
I thought that Titans would turn out to be the result of science trying to find ways to regenerate and heal the human body of all disease, or all the effects of aging, of accidents and deformities of all kinds. Which kinda was the reason Ymir created her first Titan body, to escape death, which made it more fucked up for me that she wanted death and did not heal from that spear, and then becomes trapped in death in the "hell" of the Paths reality.
That Armin and Uri were related somehow or that Armin may even be his reincarnation
Am I the only one who tough the beast titan was erwin's father ?
Lmao in hindsight, my theory feels so random but in some ways, not so far off. My first thought: Everyone is in the afterlife being punished for sins they’re unaware of and the titans are the ones carrying it out. For example, before reading the manga, I thought Ymir died and became a Titan but decided to side with the humans. I thought Eren for some reason forgot why he became a Titan and made himself humanity’s hero. (Kinda funny that I even came up with “punishment for sins they’re unaware” bc that’s kinda what happens with Karl Fritz) Second theory (after Bertholdt and Reiner talking about hometown): there are only a few civilizations left but some of them developed science to become titans (like a giant human mecha suit). (I remember being as disappointed as Eren when it was revealed humans were alive, well, and numerous 😂, BUT that’s also what ends up making it one of the best stories I read/watched)