Does Eren Die in Attack on Titan? How & Who Kills Him?

Eren Yeager is one of the protagonists of the manga Attack on Titan created by Hajime Isayama. Eren is a teenage boy who has vowed revenge on huge creatures called Titans, who devoured his mother. In order to exterminate them, he enlists in the Army and joins the Exploration Battalion, a group of soldiers who fight against the Titans outside the walls. As the story progresses, Eren learns that he has the ability to transform into Titan, “the Attack Titan.” It then becomes a major tool to help humans get rid of their enemies. In this article, we will tell you whether Eren dies in Attack on Titan.

Eren Yeager dies during the final moments of the War for Paradis arc, as he is decapitated by Mikasa. Eren had become the world’s enemy sometime before this final confrontation, having become mad from his pursuit. Eren wanted to eradicate a big portion of humanity and since he had gone mad, there was no way of reasoning with him, which is why Mikasa ultimately had to kill him in a move some interpreted as Eren’s sacrifice for peace.

Eren Yeager’s story is one of the scariest and saddest issues in the Attack on Titan series, and we will reveal and explain what happened to him. We know everything that happened and how it happened, so we will bring you all the details about Eren Yeager’s death in Attack on Titan. For those of you that are not up-to-date with all the events, this article is going to have numerous spoilers.

Did Eren die in Attack on Titan?

As we have explained in the introduction, Eren Yeager is one of the protagonists of Attack on Titan, and a character that was, by most, viewed as the ultimate hero of the franchise, someone who would end the dystopian tyranny of Isayama’s world. And while his path was, for the most part, heroic, it had a tragic turn towards the end.

This hasn’t been shown in the anime, so we have to warn the readers who have not read the manga that a lot of spoilers lie ahead, so if you don’t want to know all the circumstances surrounding Eren’s death, don’t read the text that follows. In this section, we will confirm that Eren Yeager does die in Attack on Titan, which happens in the manga’s and anime’s final arc. The sections that follow are going to explain the circumstances of his death in more detail.

How did Eren die in Attack on Titan?

Now, in order to properly understand how and why Eren died in Attack on Titan, we have to tell you his whole story since his character evolution plays a crucial role in understanding what happens to him. Because of his tragic development, you cannot simply comprehend all the events from the final chapters of the manga without understanding what happened before.

Eren Yeager is introduced as a ten-year-old boy who lives in the city of Shiganshina and dreams of joining the Exploration Corps to explore the outside world beyond the walls. A year before the events of the story, accompanying his father, Grisha, to meet his relatives, Eren helps Mikasa dispatch her kidnappers while developing his ideology at a young age.

Eren, who is forced to witness his mother being attacked by a Titan during the Titans’ invasion of Shiganshina, makes a lifelong commitment to annihilate the Titans. Then Eren joins the army. Eren makes the ultimate sacrifice during his first mission on Trost in order to save his friend Armin from being sucked up by a bearded titan. Eren succeeds in becoming a titan, demonstrating that his new force is capable of defending humanity.

Eren is accepted into the Survey Corps’ Special Operations Squad, which is led by Levi. Levi and Mikasa intervene to save Eren from a Titan’s pursuit. His classmate Annie Leonhart, who is vanquished by Eren but ends up frozen in ice, is subsequently revealed to be the Titan. Eren wakes a force referred to as the Founding Titan as he is being hunted by Annie’s remaining allies.

Not long after these events, when plans are being formed for a campaign to restore Wall Maria, Eren and his friends are transferred to a remote village. The foundation formerly belonged to Rod Reiss’ family for years when his ancestor Karl Fritz built the walls, and he says that the Reiss family used it to dominate until it was hijacked by Grisha. Rod Reiss then captures Eren.

We soon find out that Grisha, who once unknowingly swallowed his son, is to blame for Eren’s transformation into a Titan. Krista Lenz, a classmate of Eren’s and Rod’s daughter, declines to assist her father and releases Eren. To retake Wall Maria and take down Zeke, the Beast Titan, and his minions Bertolt and Reiner’s army of Titans, Eren and the Survey Corps set out towards Shiganshina.

Eren and his friends discover Grisha’s past after Shiganshina has been safely captured. Zeke is revealed to be Grisha’s first child and Eren’s half-brother; it is also revealed that they are both from a different country known as Marley. They discover that Marley is their real enemy while residing on the island of Paradis, where they are a race known as Eldians (more precisely, the “People of Ymir”), descendants of the first Shifting Titan Ymir.

Fritz, and that in the past, when his power was divided among the Nine Titans who would eventually become his people, it was used to subjugate and conquer a variety of races and nations, including Marley, who overthrew Eldia and seized control of Seven of the Nine Titans before oppressing and degrading the Eldians. The Eldian Empire had previously employed people who had remained on the continent as possessors of the titanic powers to overthrow succeeding nations.

Due to the fact that two of Nine Titans’ powers are in his possession, including those of the Attack Titan and the Founding Titan, Eren discovers that he has a limited lifespan. Four years later, when Marley has defeated the Allied Forces of the Middle East, Eren leads the Scout Corps on a Zeke extraction in Liberius while protecting himself against Marley infiltrators with the Colossus Titan Armin. Eren assumes the guise of Mr. Kruger, a former Marley military commander, after his leg has been amputated. Willy Tybur holds a conference and declares war on Paradis, but Eren reacts quickly and charges at Willy, killing him after which he swallows his sister to obtain the Warhammer Titan’s power.

Eren is detained as a result of his acts, but he escapes with a group of “Jaegerists,” members of the Loyalist Scout Corps, and continues his quest for Zeke. When Eren introduces himself to Armin and Mikasa, a squad of troops led by Reiner ambushes him. Gabi almost kills Eren as he tries to get to Zeke to activate the power of the Founding Titan. Zeke saves his brother, but it turns out that he is in charge of the Founding Titan’s power because Ymir Fritz, the source of the Founding Titan’s power, was bound as a slave to the first king of the walls’ descendants, and because he is a member of the royal family who is not descended from the latter.

After providing Ymir the chance to choose for himself, Eren persuades him to assist him. When Eren is resurrected, he sets the Titans behind the walls free and swears that he would wipe out all life outside of Paradis in order to defend the population from him, turning become the enemy of the entire planet. Before a group lead by Armin kills Zeke, ends the Rumble, and severes Eren’s connection to the Titan’s source, the Titans decimate a large portion of Marley. Eren is ultimately beheaded by Mikasa following a series of fights.

Who kills Eren in Attack on Titan?

The funny thing about Eren’s death is that he is killed by the only person that actually cared enough to protect him this whole time – Mikasa Ackerman. She truly loved Eren and cared for him deeply, which is why it was so heartbreaking that she had to be the one to kill him in the end. Nothing else would have made sense, but it was still a heartbreaking moment and one of the saddest scenes in the whole series.

In what episode does Eren die?

Eren dies at the very end of the Attack on Titan manga. Since the anime is not yet done, his death hasn’t been shown in the anime series yet, but we have no doubt that it will appear towards the end of the anime’s final season. We just don’t know the exact episode number. His death is probably going to happen in the ultimate or penultimate episode. Still, seeing how the producers prolong the ending with each new “season”, we’ll just have to wait to see the exact episode number.

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