do you think hanges death is unnecessary? Considering some people were unsatisfied with her conclusion?
No, I don't think Hange's death was unnecessary at all. Beyond just the practical necessity for her death, buying the alliance time to get off the ground with the plane, and thus make it to the final battle against Eren, it also made thematic sense for Hange to sacrifice her life.
I understand people being upset at Hange dying, but given Hange's insecurity in her role as Commander, and her sense of failure as Commander, and also given the theme of duty and sacrifice that runs through the entirety of "AoT", and how Hange's ultimate sacrifice reflects and mirror's Erwin's, it makes perfect sense for her character to have gone out the way she did.
Levi specifically says to Hange that she "sounds like him" when she starts talking about whether their comrades are watching and whether they feel proud of them, and Levi delivers his line with an obvious sense of grief and despair. I think one of the main themes of "AoT" is the tragic aspect of duty and of how having a sense of duty to something often destroys people. It destroyed Erwin, with the way he was torn between his personal dream and his duty as Commander, creating in him a deep sense of self-loathing, and we see the same thing, tragically, happen to Hange, not because she's torn between a dream and her duty, but because she feels she's failed to live up to Erwin's example as Commander.
I think Levi is maybe the only one who realizes that tragedy, which is why he looks so sad when Hange makes her decision to die. I think Levi views the pressure to live up to the duty and expectations placed on oneself, either by oneself or by others, as something regrettable, again because it can destroy a person. I think Levi's ambivalent feelings about his comrades sacrificing their lives to the cause of the Survey Corps, because they felt it was their duty to do so, is rooted in that, too. Levi wished they could live in a world where nobody would have to feel like they needed to give their lives to any cause, because, after all, Levi values life above all else, and he wanted to see people able to live. That's also, I think, why Levi looks so despairing while the other members of the alliance are forced into battle against the Yeagerists on the dock, because they've been forced into this sort of duty to stop Eren, and it's forced them to have to kill people they once considered comrades and friends. It's a total tragedy. "AoT" often frames duty and obligation as such, as something tragic, and Hange's death falls right in line with that portrayal.
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