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On page 10 of this transcript of Attack on Titan, we can see the following:
男子３: カモ に して やる！
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If you translate it literally it would be something like: I make you a sitting
duck/easy target/defenseless victim.

My problem in understanding is, that this remark is made before a fight were
the boy who says it is pretty sure it will be an easy win and a one sided
fight. Shouldn't he say something like "This guy is an easy target" instead of
"I will make you an easy target"?
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カモ に して やる！ I make you an easy target?
You shouldn't translate it literally. As it was mentioned in the comment
section, カモにする is a set expression that has an established meaning: _to easily
attain victory._

A slang term using the word 'duck' was born from the fact that it was easy to
catch them by taking advantage of the duck's habit of taking off for food at
sunset and returning to the place where it was in the daytime at dawn. Because
of their large size, taste and abundance in numbers (they are migratory birds
that migrate to ponds and swamps in Japan from autumn to winter) they were an
easy prey. Hence, that expression.
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