So… Gabi. If you're an Attack on Titan (Shingeki no Kyojin) fan, this name alone might make you want to clench your fists. And if you were watching the series back when the 8th episode of the Final Season aired, we're sure you could feel the entire anime internet burning like the hottest circle of hell. But what is the reason for such a treatment and was all this outrage really necessary?
When the Final Season only started airing, Gabi was quite popular among anime onlys, they made memes and video edits about her, thought she was pretty cool and badass, and her sass seemed very fascinating. There was nothing about the girl to suggest that she was going to become the main subject of fans' resentment. But the manga readers knew…
There comes the "Assassin's Bullet" episode, and everything changes.
Gabi shoots Sasha, which results in the latter girl's death, and it feels like no one can forgive the younger girl for it. Due to her cheerful and weird personality, Sasha has always been among the fan favorite AOT characters, so her loss was very painful for the fandom.
The fans' minds were clouded by this tragedy, so everything about Gabi started pissing them off. Her sass became annoying, her badassery became stupidity, her constant screaming irritated the viewers to no end. This divided the fandom into two camps fighting over Gabi.
Gabi protectors claim that the major reason for all the hate is her being a girl. There have been many parallels between Gabi and Eren: the promise of revenge, the stubborn and sometimes unbearable demeanor, refusal to give up no matter what and see the other side. If these two are so alike, then why is one of them so beloved and another one is so detested? The main difference between these characters is one of them being a girl, so maybe that's the problem?
Attack on Titan has not always been about perspective, but the final season of the series changed a lot. We're introduced to new characters and their backstories as well as more information about the world and the events that we've followed in the first three seasons. Fans have been rooting for Eren and his friends for so many years, that thinking he might be wrong is not the easiest thing in the world for them.
No matter how much of the Marley warriors we see on the screen and what we learn about them, they're meant to be "the others", those who are in the way of our favorite characters. Such a reaction to the new cast addition has nothing to do with sexism, it's just an old conflict of "us" versus "them". At the end of the day, the wish to stick with the ones you fell for first is pretty natural.
Let's discuss the most hated character of Attack on Titan.
So… Gabi. If you're an Attack on Titan (Shingeki no Kyojin) fan, this name alone might make you want to clench your fists. And if you were watching the series back when the 8th episode of the Final Season aired, we're sure you could feel the entire anime internet burning like the hottest circle of hell. But what is the reason for such a treatment and was all this outrage really necessary?
When the Final Season only started airing, Gabi was quite popular among anime onlys, they made memes and video edits about her, thought she was pretty cool and badass, and her sass seemed very fascinating. There was nothing about the girl to suggest that she was going to become the main subject of fans' resentment. But the manga readers knew…
There comes the "Assassin's Bullet" episode, and everything changes.
Gabi shoots Sasha, which results in the latter girl's death, and it feels like no one can forgive the younger girl for it. Due to her cheerful and weird personality, Sasha has always been among the fan favorite AOT characters, so her loss was very painful for the fandom.
The fans' minds were clouded by this tragedy, so everything about Gabi started pissing them off. Her sass became annoying, her badassery became stupidity, her constant screaming irritated the viewers to no end. This divided the fandom into two camps fighting over Gabi.
Gabi protectors claim that the major reason for all the hate is her being a girl. There have been many parallels between Gabi and Eren: the promise of revenge, the stubborn and sometimes unbearable demeanor, refusal to give up no matter what and see the other side. If these two are so alike, then why is one of them so beloved and another one is so detested? The main difference between these characters is one of them being a girl, so maybe that's the problem?
Attack on Titan has not always been about perspective, but the final season of the series changed a lot. We're introduced to new characters and their backstories as well as more information about the world and the events that we've followed in the first three seasons. Fans have been rooting for Eren and his friends for so many years, that thinking he might be wrong is not the easiest thing in the world for them.
No matter how much of the Marley warriors we see on the screen and what we learn about them, they're meant to be "the others", those who are in the way of our favorite characters. Such a reaction to the new cast addition has nothing to do with sexism, it's just an old conflict of "us" versus "them". At the end of the day, the wish to stick with the ones you fell for first is pretty natural.
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