Attack on Titan: Shingeki no Kyojin

[DarthEnderX]

I've chopped an immeasurable amount of firewood with an axe, and I can tell you that there's a very good reason why an axe remained a weapon as well until firearms started to replace everything else, apart from ceremonial use. If you need to get through something tough and resilient, and stabbing isn't an option, I'd take an axe any day. There's also a reason beheading executions were performed with an axe, unless something like a guillotine was used.

This is a completely ridiculous statement, because you assume that an axe is just an axe.

There's a huge difference between a woodsman's axe, a battle axe, and an executioner's axe. They have different weights, different balances, and even different edge types. Yes, any one of them COULD be used for the other in a pinch, but it's not ideal.

Point is, humans have been designing weapons specifically to kill titans for seemingly centuries, and for whatever reason, they've determined that overgrown box cutters, and not axes, are the best way to do it.

As far as these two bring "natural" Titans, in their flashback with Ymir, neither were likely able to transform to save their friend, so the likelihood of there being some artificial titan-ification is strong for them, too.

That, or they simply weren't aware of what they were yet. Since transformation requires a very specific set of circumstances.

[Kraco]

Point is, humans have been designing weapons specifically to kill titans for seemingly centuries, and for whatever reason, they've determined that overgrown box cutters, and not axes, are the best way to do it.

Uhhuh. I was never saying axes would be better (although I do say they should work somewhat as well). I just have a problem with potato girl not being able to do anything at all with an axe, whereas that boxcutter sword only needs a single swing. Yet that same boxcutter sword couldn't behead these two fellows in their human form. Maybe you'll tell me next these super swords are so specialised that they only cut the titans impervious to anything else, and thus can't even behead a human? Can't cut a banana or paper either? I can't imagine how that works, but you can enlighten me.