In that shot of yours, there's bare muscle right on the backside of the knee. Those armour slabs won't help if you cut there.
In that shot of yours, there's bare muscle right on the backside of the knee. Those armour slabs won't help if you cut there.
I just remembered that the collosal Titan ate yimr and another unnamed person; could that have been another potential Titan?
This picture above demonstrates joint armour at the elbow. See that it's a piece that overlaps with the underlying armour. It reduces range of movement, but provides protection against direct blows.
That's joint armour, and Reiner didn't have that. (he had brown over the extensor surface of his knee, which is weird. But nothing over the flexor surface). Shedding his calf armour would shed weight, and allow his muscles to possibly expand more. That's about it, and the last two reasons are kind of theoretical.
I don't think any living creature actually has such joint armour since it'd be a pain in the ass to give it blood supply.
Last edited by Buffalobiian; Tue, 05-16-2017 at 09:02 AM.
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His armor isn't armor in the first place, it's hardened flesh.
It grows out of him. Just because some red color is shown and surfaced doesn't mean it's his weakpoint.
That being said, what good would it do even if they are, you wouldn't be able to slash through it anyway because the armor segments are so close to gether, at best you could stab him, which would be completely useless.
The reason why Mikasa was able to cut him was because he lost his armor there
The screenshot I took is already post armor damage. You can pretty much see that his flesh armor is connected to his tissue and spun in a string-like pattern throughout his whole body in this epside. It even forms and curls itself up and then straightens itself again several times suggesting that he can make it super hard and/or flexible by choice.
I don't think it's far fetched to assume that his flesh is hardened wherever we see armor, which is why his neck looks like a horn is growing out of it.
Last edited by KrayZ33; Wed, 05-17-2017 at 05:49 PM.
He's called an armoured titan. Of course it's armour of some kind. Like bone. Try to cut a thick bone with a brittle blade for lols. Just wear some safety goggles so that the pieces of steel won't get to your eyes. Or that helmet from your avatar pic, it looks protective.
What I meant to say was that he is probably able to create his armor. Just like Annie could harden her fingers etc.
That's possible since he could drop specific pieces of armour, like he did from his legs to gain speed. If he can drop them, it would make sense he could grow them as well. However, if he wants to be able to move, he can't cover his joints completely with hard pieces like that. It was either poor writing or poor directing that Mikasa aimed at the hardest looking parts, not the softest ones. A better director would have made it so she simply couldn't hit the narrow gaps accurately.
I guess. But I think that is exactly what the "armor drop" was supposed to show.
"Look here folks, now it's gone, this titan is *now* vulnerable here"
It's pretty much a stuff-up of the Titan's visual design not being representative of what the storyline is trying to tell us.Originally Posted by KrayZ33
If the Armoured Titan had joint armour that made him invulnerable then he should look and move like a mummy (or at the very least, said above suit of armour). If they wanted to make him fairly mobile, they can't have experienced fighters missing easy armour gaps like that.
And if they wanted him to spontaneously harden sections of his skin at will, then it needs to be shown. Either way, the back of his knees were visually unguarded prior to his armour drop, but no one thought about cutting that until his calves were exposed. The distinction between the two isn't trivial. One may argue that animation accuracy is (trivial) however.
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S2 Ep 33
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I might as well have yawned and skipped straight to the preview. That was a fairly unexciting setup episode, even if it made sense to have one.
Still waiting to see who the random was that got swallowed along with Ymir earlier.
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I actually liked this episode more than most. It set things in motion. The entire season so far was relatively boring, because it was all reactive. Now, despite being a reaction, too, the story becomes proactive for the first time, leaving the walls behind to explore new occurrrings.
And Erwin is with them, so we can expect something important to happen, since he wonīt back down so easily.
"She's the only non-loli girl in the show, your honor!" will be my defense in court
Transition a necessary evil, here we come! Hype all the way. Good to know Ymir is still functional. I chuckled a bit when I saw that Erin's arms had been removed.
I'll take a ration bar...AND EAT IT!
Berdholt was only carrying Ymir, so whoever it was, they got left behind inside the remains of the colossal titan.
Last edited by DarthEnderX; Sat, 05-20-2017 at 01:00 PM.
That was a bloody furnace there. I find it hard to believe any non-titan surviving that, but this makes to most sense.
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They should build new gates using the colossal titan's bones and skull. Considering the skeleton can support such a size, the bones must be as tough as alloy steel but much lighter. The skull didn't break into pieces even when the whole thing dropped face first from the wall. It's material unmatched by anything these humans are capable of producing.
Just get Eren to learn how to harden and plug himself in any hole. Fix up those holes with even stronger materials.
Last edited by NeoCybercoin; Thu, 05-25-2017 at 04:28 PM. Reason: It's not Erin....but Eren. Whoops
Who the hell is Erin, people?
Peace.
Should I tell you how I read that?
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LOL, please do, doctor~
Peace.
Well...that was unintended but looking back at it now....okay. That does sound so...so wrong. Or right I suppose depending on your point of view.
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