The thing about the "all evil fictional women from myth and legend are misunderstood and in reality their story was retold to make them evil because men were afraid of their power" trend is that it's low-key also misogynistic to assume women are incapable of being terrible people purely due to being women.

I’ve asked this before but where is Theon getting money from to pay at the brothel? Is Ned giving him an allowance? For whores?? An all-whore-ance???

i personally like aot’s upending of the “monstrous other.” that twist is at the heart of it, including in terms of the zombie apocalypse premise and fiction’s reliance on externalizing evil. the whole thing gets gradually taken apart (clash, uprising) and then culminates with the basement reveal and the marley arc (and ymir’s backstory!), and it also cannot really be extricated from the ultimate trajectory of eren and the critique of his logic. it is also y i find it pretty integral for the story to understand that with the end to the "system" that is titans things are not all resolved and modern military weapons can fulfill their part in the equation