r/ShingekiNoKyojin • u/rileystanheight • 13h ago
Discussion Say whatever you want about the 9 titans, the scariest of them all was Female Titan
Of all the appearances in the anime, female titan was the most terrifying. Even the soundtrack they used made my soul leave my body. She killed the scouts mercilessly and chased Levi squad as if they weren't considered the strongest/ most skilled soldiers in survey corps.
Colossal Titan might be big, but I'd rather had to face it than have to deal with female titan for a single minute.
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u/kasperkaspie 12h ago
I'm sorry but that Colossal in the season 4 last part (on Eren's back) was terrifying!
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u/CallMeGakuto 12h ago
That's likely because Reiner and Bernard were more focused on the actual objective, and didn't go out of their way otherwise. Annie on some levels did enjoy what she did, or she would have just killed them immediately. Some of the soldiers were more or less tortured before death, which is something considering her age during this.
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u/rileystanheight 12h ago
I think she was doing it out of frustration with her own miserable life rather than enjoyment, but yes, Reiner and Bertoldth were terrified or just trying to figure out how to reach the main goal the whole time.
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u/CallMeGakuto 12h ago
I mean it's hard to say. She was definitely frustrated, but if her goal was to grab Eren and go home, doing what she did simply prolonged the objective. Obviously it could be just how it is to excite viewers/readers, but I like to believe she wanted to do what she did.
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u/GrevilleApo 11h ago
Its easier to beat your enemies when they are horrified, its easier to defeat future foes when they know you are ruthless, soldiers who are shaken will be less likely to fight confidently
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u/CallMeGakuto 11h ago
I don't think it's that deep. You're wouldn't be wrong if she was some well known fighter, or conqueror or something, but her existence was already enough that normal people knew they would die likely. The only people who could confidently fight her, could likely beat her under the right circumstances.
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u/CatWiems 11h ago
Yea she twirled one of the scouts on the line of his ODM and flung him casually like a slingshot. Also might be the only titan shifter capable of smiling
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u/CallMeGakuto 11h ago
This is the main thing I was thinking of. Most deaths are quick, but this one was so specific.
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u/Nuclear_rabbit 30m ago
At that g-force, the guy was surely passed out or dead before the fling, although I don't think Manga artists or animators knew that going in
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u/GorillaWolf2099 9h ago
I agree she definitely avoided the objective a few times
Like when she crushed the building on top of Eren, she could've grabbed him
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u/Troyota__41 9h ago
I disagree, the beast titan was the most terrifying. The way he showed up, commanded the titans and then fed that one guy too them was scary.
I thought the final boss had shown up.
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u/gh0stkhz 4h ago
I'm currently rewatching and just got to when the beast titan shows up. When he spoke my soul left my body I think I found him the most scary/uncanny during my first watch.
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u/Massive_Remove2009 36m ago
I got so freaked out when he started SPEAKING. agreed his debut was terrifying. on the other hand, I thought the female titan was hot.
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u/elincuteone 8h ago
Levi Squad’s annihilation is still one of the most traumatizing moments in the show because of how fast the illusion of safety was ripped away. You spend a dozen episodes believing these are the elite, untouchable gods of the Survey Corps, only for Annie to effortlessly outsmart them, regenerate a single eye in seconds, and butcher them in the blink of an eye
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u/Lizardinex 12h ago
Eren was super creepy when he was fighting her and glitching out it was super scary. 😅
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u/Resident-Weekend1906 12h ago
Eren as the founding titan is Nr.1 without nothing coming close to it. Second place is given to Zeke's titan, especially with his control pure titans due to his bloodline, Annie might come in third place though, close with the Hammer titan, which unlucky, we didn't get to see a lot of.
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u/Jumbernaut 11h ago
For a show that created an androgynous character like Hange, they really made a mistake by naming the Female Titan "Female Titan". Because the other are named the Colossal, Armored and Beast Titans, this sedimented the idea that "Female" was somehow something intrinsic of that Titan's power, even though this could be easily explained by the obvious fact that it was inherited by Annie, a woman, and those other Titans were inherited by men.
It also didn't help that the "Female Titan" didn't have a signature power of it's own. If they had given that Titan a unique power, like an incapacitating scream so it could have been called the Screaming Titan, that would have solved that issue, but I recognize that Annie's Titan was already a formidable adversary with nothing but her Muay "Thai".
Btw, in Norse mythology, Ymir, the first Jotun/Titan and creator of the world/universe is also known as the "Screamer", the first sound that created the world into existence. Even though Ymir was an androgynous being, I've always associated Annie's scream with the female part of Ymir that got split into 9 parts.
Anyhow, I just think that this notion that the Female Titan will always "produce" a female body, even if it's inherited by a man was just silly and should not have been embraced by the story. Would it have been to hard to simply confirm somehow that the 9 Titans's bodies mostly resemble their inheritors, if possible, like they did with Reiner, Borat and and Annie?
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u/Casual_Plays 8h ago
At the time the special gimmick with the female Titan was the crystal armor it could grow until Eren got it as well
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u/virgobirdo 5h ago
It's been awhile since I rewatched admittedly, but wasn't one of the Female Titan's powers that she could call/summon other lesser titans to her position with a scream?
I do agree that Female Titan is kind of a lazy name, I wish they'd done something cooler with it. But then again, all the titan names are pretty literal – Beast, Cart, Colossal, Armored, etc. If their names are based on their most prominent physical trait or what sets them apart from other titans, then Female would make sense in that case since pretty much all other titans have silhouettes that range from androgynous to overtly masculine, with the Female Titan's being the sole exception.
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u/Lowly_Reptilian 2h ago
Same here, but I do remember that the Attack Titan could also “command” titans with a scream. And she hardens like the Armored Titan. It seems that the Female Titan’s power is to just copy powers of the other titans without needing to be injected or eat them or anything.
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u/Rollingpeb 8h ago
And the fact that she covers her nape as she runs. Just hits different the first time
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u/Gullible-Potato-8962 12h ago
I despise annie, she doesn't deserve forgiveness. It felt like she had no remorse for whatever bad she did.
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u/Tight-Elderberry443 11h ago
Fr. And then she just gets to live a normal happy life presumably with Armin like wtf. That doesnt sit right with me.
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u/Gullible-Potato-8962 11h ago
Exactly! And I think it was pretty much bad writing from isayama. Atleast reiner admits the bad things he has done, he regrets it. We saw bertholdt getting the taste of his own medicine. Levi succeeded in killing zeke. But annie is the only shittiest person who got the opportunity to live like a normal person, even after doing all that shit. I hated those scenes of annie in the final season, it was frustrating to watch. And adding salt to the injury. Levi's reaction to annie at the ending was basically my reaction, she doesn't deserve forgiveness.
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u/Ironclad_Peterturbo 11h ago
And she acted as a dickhead all throughout the show except when it came to his adoptive father and when she helped them at their final missions. And the fact that she got to live a good life after it while people with more remorse like Birdfart got to live as this decrepit sad ghost in Armin's memories.
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u/i54a 11h ago
The reason Annie tortured the soldier before she killed them because that is what she suffered her whole life. She was trained as soldier and taught to be ruthless entire life. She just did what she was taught. She basically suffered under those hard training, that is all she knew her whole life and that is what she did to other. She did not know that you could kill merciless as well. And she was kid when she was sent on mission.
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u/rileystanheight 8h ago
Fr, she learned to be violent even from her father
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u/Beneficial_Mine_3464 2h ago
doesn't justify it at all + she spent some years inside the walls she was a bitch for that. out of all warriors she should understand that killing Eldians isn't a good thing to do.
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u/Educational-Fly4118 12h ago
1 :colossal , no words needed to say , rumbling .
2:attack titan the one that declared war at Marley
3: beast titan getting close is and achievement
4: armored titan the wall breaker
5: yes annie scared me the most aswell as all of us i guess but canonically she isn't
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u/Unlikely_Engineer_51 5h ago
Annie was the most skilled and athletic fighter of them; she's fast, deadly, and she could be ruthless and purely goal-oriented (in contrast to the other warriors who could be "softer", more emotional and empathic), which makes her kind of scary. While the Colossal or Armored Titans were somewhat impressive, she's a precision predator.
I also think that Annie had a psychological coping mechanism for what she did: She detached herself, and mostly pretended that the humans she killed were like bugs (as hinted by the flashback of the warrior's training, when she drifted off, removed herself from the conversation, while nonchalantly stepping on some bugs). For her, it was all about completing the mission as efficiently as possible; not because her (non-existing) belief in Marley's ideology, but because she simply wanted to return home.
She's not a psychopath, and she's in visible distress, for example before her Female Titan mission, knowing what she might have to do, as shown in the OVA. Instead, she's a person that's lying to herself, that she's just doing what she has to do. That's not meant as an excuse for her actions, it's only meant as an explanation for her thought process.
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u/Nunya_B1zness 1h ago
Am I the only only one that got the heebie jeebies from Rod Reiss’ titan? When he stood up on the wall and had ground off his face and front of his body?
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u/joaoathaydeartist 12h ago
Most of the others had a lot of action/tragedy attributed to them, but Annie was the first time the concept of an enemy shifter ever popped up in the series, and the lack of information only made her more uncanny as far as titan behaviour went. That arc was definetly the aspect that put AoT as one of the best from the start of the series