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Episode Shingeki no Kyojin Season 3 - Episode 54 discussion Spoiler

Shingeki no Kyojin Season 3, episode 54 (91)

Alternative names: Attack on Titan Season 3

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u/kingwhocares May 26 '19

Said it in the thread about the Female Titan slaughtering scouts that the purpose of the Female Titan was to show how OP Levi is. The Beast Titan just shows that he is completely untouchable.

He isn't only OP but uses his combat experience to its fullest to take more advantage for himself.

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u/[deleted] May 26 '19

I think that Isayama said once that Levi would be one of the strongest soldiers even if he wasn't an ackerman

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u/OtherHalfling https://myanimelist.net/profile/otherhalfling May 26 '19

To be fair it's way harder to write an extremely intelligent character, at least believably (unless you are extremely knowledgeable about everything the character you're writing is knowledgeable about), than it is to write an extremely strong character.

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u/[deleted] May 27 '19

Something that I once heard was that the last person to be at the pinnacle of every known field of knowledge was Aristotle, so, yeah, I can see how writing a super genius could be difficult given all the information that the writer needs to know,

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u/Dappington May 27 '19

To be fair that was a much lower bar for Aristotle back then.

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u/linearstargazer May 27 '19

It's not really needed nowadays is it? Everything on the bleeding edge of science and research requires such a significant time investment that it's almost impossible to be at the pinnacle of even 4-6 fields of study, let alone every field.

That's what collaboration is for, and the best writers will always get help from people more knowledgeable in a field that they want to write about.

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u/kalirion https://myanimelist.net/profile/kalinime May 27 '19

Yeah, you just can't write someone to be believable more intelligent than yourself.

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u/linearstargazer May 27 '19

But you can; if it's for specific knowledge about a certain subject, research and collaboration with people specialised in that field is something every good writer should be doing.

If it's for intuition/problem solving, the good thing about writing stories is that you don't have to do it in real time. You can take your time to figure out solutions for characters to present that you otherwise couldn't present yourself in real time. You have the time to brute force the problem you've set up, if you need to.

For example, I'm pretty sure the writers for Endgame have written Tony Stark to be smarter than themselves, with the help of people specialised in fields like engineering and chemistry.

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u/SSB_GoGeta Jun 01 '19

To be fair, it felt like Tony said "Fuck it I figured out time travel" rather than a coherent explanation.

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u/[deleted] May 27 '19

I mean Tony Stark just does whatever the hell he wants without any semblance of explanation or consulting needed other than he's smart enough to build this off screen because why not? so not exactly the most challenging smart character.

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u/OneirionKnight May 27 '19

I wouldn't say Zeke's dumb af. His only downfall was not knowing how strong Levi really is

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u/goodolvj May 26 '19

Was he referring to Zeke himself or his titan form?

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u/neobowman https://myanimelist.net/profile/neobowman May 27 '19

AOT SPOILERS

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u/[deleted] May 27 '19 edited May 27 '19

Who even comes close to him? Not even Mikasa could take on the beast titan with no problems alone.

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u/YusukeMazoku May 27 '19

No one. I would say that from what we've seen, Mikasa at best is as strong as Mike was, who was the next strongest after Levi if I remember right.

The gap between Levi and anyone else is massive.

The only one with potential to even get close is Mikasa but I doubt even if she dedicated herself to training, that'd she be able to match his combat ability.

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u/Crown4King https://myanimelist.net/profile/CabbageCat May 27 '19

Love how he has renown with the human Titans. Like Zeke KNEW it was Levi based on reputation.

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u/SpideyMGAV Jun 22 '19

I love how Zeke didn't take the warnings seriously until Levi decimated his arm in seconds. Then he instantly knew he was fucked.

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u/Crown4King https://myanimelist.net/profile/CabbageCat Jun 22 '19

It's a legit rivalry now, though. If they fight again Zeke will be better prepared. I can dig it.

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u/SpideyMGAV Jun 22 '19

This is what makes the show so fucking awesome. When Zeke and Levi meet again, Zeke is gonna be cautious and prepared to fight, but Levi is gonna be so pissed that he might fight even harder than before.

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u/wartortle87 May 29 '19

Late to the party but to add to this: after Levi dices the left arm and hooks back to make his next boost at Zeke, Zeke covers his nape which seems like the obvious next point of attack. But Levi blows right past the nape and makes purée Zeke's eyeballs as he tries to steal a glance back over his shoulder.

This was the moment in the fight where Levi's experience struck me as overwhelming and that he was one step ahead of Zeke's every move.

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u/leadabae May 27 '19

Imagine if he hadn't sprained his damn ankle. If Mikasa had just left Annie be then Erwin, Marlowe, Armin, Moblit, Hannes, Nanaba, Gelgar, Miche, and so many others probably never would have died.

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u/kingwhocares May 27 '19

The hardening of her body would still happen and they wouldn't get any information off her. It might be worse since Eren wouldn't get any experience from fighting her and would probably be beaten by the Armoured Titan.

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u/jaybirdtalonclaws May 27 '19

I remember reading that comment before watching the episode yesterday and out immediately came to mind the second that arm came apart.

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u/[deleted] May 27 '19 edited May 27 '19

But he still let him get away when he had him in the palm of his hand. How many more will die because of that? The suicide charge was so he could be killed and now those lives are wasted

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u/kingwhocares May 27 '19

That was down to the 4 legged shifter and Levi's moment of weakness humane where he wanted to at least save one and had Erwin in his mind. He didn't have horses to chase after them.

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u/hizeto May 26 '19

Could annie defeat beast titan in a one v one fight?

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u/ShimadaKai May 27 '19

Beast titan is no good for one-on-one combat

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u/3carus May 27 '19

But didn't beast titan and armored titan fight in part 1 to decide if they rescue Annie or not then the beast titan won? This means Reiner is only good at taking damage lol.

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u/hizeto May 27 '19

In episode 1 of this season he killed the scout who found him. Although a surprise attack and in the first episode of aot he destroyed a door.

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u/ShimadaKai May 27 '19

That makes more sense 😂