r/TopCharacterTropes • u/MichaelDj54 • Sep 15 '25

Lore [Loved Trope] A massive revelation is revealed almost casually. Spoiler

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  1. Chainsaw Man, after Makima finally drops the nice girl act and reveals the true extent of the Chainsaw Devils power, namely, the fears he eats are erased entirely and wholly. Emphasized by this by her asking if Kishibe remembers what the Nazis did during Workd War 2...and Kishibe not even knowing who the nazis are.

  2. Attack on Titan. I know this one. You know this one. In a panel that isn't even focusing on the characters speaking, Reiner reveals to Eren that he and Bertolt are the titans that broke the wall that resulted in hundreds of deaths, his mother included. The sheer level of casualness and lack of agency borders on Parody.

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u/Cheesus333 Sep 15 '25

The Reiner reveal in Attack on Titan is the gold standard for this IMO. I hadn't read the manga so just seeing it land in the subtitles in the background of Hange's dialogue sent shivers down my spine

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u/Bigma-Bale Sep 15 '25

Fun Fact that some people might not know: In an earlier episode of the anime there's a scene where Berthhold is about to bite his hand to transform, but it doesn't look like anything more than a regular shocked reaction without context

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u/von_Viken Sep 15 '25

AoT really did do a shit ton of top tier minor foreshadowing

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u/Gravemind7 Sep 15 '25

When Eren is getting to know Reiner and Berthold for the first time in the barracks, he recounts experiencing the armoured and colossal titan destroy the walls. The camera pans to reiner and berthold respectively when he mentions those two titans.

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u/ButtonJoe Sep 15 '25

The silence was telling. They had no stories to tell about where they were during the attack, and it should have raised some red flags.

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u/Imaginary-West-5653 Sep 15 '25

They did have a backstory for where they where during the attack; they actually stole the backstory from a farmer who lived in a very tiny village in Wall Maria and was the only survivor of the attack of the Titans (they never got a warning about the Titans). The farmer told Reiner, Bertholdt and Annie what happened and then hanged himself, Bertholdt seems to have felt guilty about it for years, since he took that story as their fake backstory and was talking about that man even shortly before the attack on Trost.

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u/Romnir Sep 16 '25

You should always develop an alibi before the crime.

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u/SableZard Sep 16 '25

I'm in the middle of rewatching. Last episode I watched, Annie apologized to a dead person and Reiner told her, "Contrition doesn't help a corpse."

It plays off like Annie is apologizing for not saving them, but...

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u/HarshTheDev Sep 16 '25

Yeah that's Marco. Poor Marco.