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_I just started watching the anime and I haven't read much of the manga so I
don't know if it is explained further on._

We all know a Titan's body gives off extreme heat, from an encounter Eren had
with the Colossal Titan and an episode where they learned this in class.

In episode 6, when Mikasa killed a Titan, we saw the body still giving off
heat..

![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/t3ooM.jpg)

..and a few minutes later it was pretty badly burnt, unrecognizable in fact.

![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/louW9.jpg)

Later in episode 7 when Eren in his Titan form attacks another and beats it to
a pulp, we see that the process has somewhat accelerated? At first I thought
the body eventually burned away but this one was different than the first. All
of the Titan's flesh was gone.

![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/XSXwR.jpg)

![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/iP3Ou.jpg)

So, what _exactly_ happens to a Titan's body structure after it is killed?
Does the heat burn it up now that it cannot regenerate or what?


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What exactly happens to a Titan's body after it is killed?


In episode 15, "Special Operations Squad: Prelude to the Counterattack, Part
2" where Zoe Hange has those 2 captured titans (which she named "Sawney" and
"Bean"), she mentions that the Titans seem unusually light for how large they
are, and that a severed arm of one of the titans weighed nothing, which allows
such large bodies to move so quickly with great agility.

Though, at least so far in the anime and manga, there's no explanation to
their physiology or what exactly happens after they die, it's probably the
case that their solid state is being maintained by their mysterious "power
source" and that once the source of power is gone (and thus cannot
regenerate), their physical bodies (sans skeleton) return to the form of some
type of gas.

So, to summarize this completely unsubstantiated speculation:

  1. Titan's bodies are actually made up of some type of gaseous substance that weighs nothing
  2. While alive, with its "power source", the gaseous substance takes on the form of solid flesh-like material, but still incredibly light
  3. Without this "power source", the flesh returns to the gaseous state and evaporates.
  4. This may or may not have to do with the extremely high body temperature that the titans have.


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Titans actually get their power from sunlight. Major Zoe Hange says this as
when she deprives them of light they seem to deactivate and can't do anything.

Annie didn't want to go into the dark because she couldn't transform in the
dark area, and also Eren when he kept biting his hand but there was no
sunlight, he couldn't transform. Light shines when the titan shifters change,
and the light seems to come from the sky so my guess is that it is sunlight.

Also the nape seems to be a solar panel because when cut the titans go out
like light. Blow out a candle and see what happens smoke goes out; the titans
seem to be hard light manifestations.

So in conclusion titans are like fire and the nape is like were they get their
source. Titans fade away when they die like smoke.


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Because Titans are so big and they move with such speed and force they are
constantly producing enough heat to burn flesh (remember when Hanji touched
Eren's arm when he tried to pick up the spoon and it scalded her after a
second?) So when the Titans die, they stop regenerating and the heat begins to
damage the flesh resulting in them burning.

At least I assume so, it makes sense they are always repairing their bodies
and they're so hot they can burn people. Plus, in the last episode of the
anime,

> Eren bursts into flames increasing his body temperature to such a degree his
> Titan form is in overdrive, making him essentially a "Super Titan", but if
> you notice, he doesn't regenerate at all in this form because he's so hot
> his regeneration can't keep the damage at bay.

Just a guess, but it would fit the idea of the anime.


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