User blog comment:BlackWizardZeref/Chapter 376: Wendy vs Ezel/@comment-183.171.169.82-20140320170111/@comment-7418318-20140320230158

When they had all the heroic music and the typical pumped up youth take over situation going, seeing Thomas die in a split seconds followed by everyone of Eren's squad was a big surprise.

That was really nicely set up. Exactly like the usual "here comes the young ones and mop up" only to swing into a one-sided slaughter done by the enemy.

But that was the only time any deaths in SnK (AoT) have surprised me.