Characters

Before Keith Shadis takes charge of the Survey Corps, this unnamed officer holds the top post as its eleventh commander. Remembered mostly for enduring the scorn of politicians who see his expeditions as wasted money and wasted lives, he…

Strapped-on goggles give Abel his identity long before he gets a name; for years fans know him only as the goggled soldier of Hange Zoë's Fourth Squad. Trusted on the Survey Corps' most sensitive operations, from the Female Titan's capture…

Abel Reiss is one of Rod Reiss's legitimate children, a twelve-year-old girl raised on the family estate inside Wall Sheena. Her short life touches the two defining rituals of her bloodline: watching Frieda inherit the Founding Titan, and…

Most Pure Titans lunge at any human in sight; the Abnormal breaks that pattern. These erratic Titans sprint, leap, ignore easy prey, and occasionally speak, making them the most dangerous variable in any battle plan. From the Smiling Titan…

Mikasa's father carries the Ackerman surname and none of the clan's fabled awakening. A cheerful hunter living quietly in the woods outside Shiganshina with his wife and daughter, he is murdered at his own front door by traffickers who…

The Ackerman clan is a dwindling Eldian bloodline whose members carry combat instincts far beyond ordinary humans. Bred long ago to guard Eldia's monarchs, the family was hunted for defying King Karl Fritz, and by the story's present only…

Alma serves the Reiss household as a maid until Rod Reiss makes her his mistress, and the daughter she bears him, Historia, becomes the burden of her life. Banished to her parents' farm, she shuns the child completely and dies under Kenny…

Alois Tybur belongs to Marley's most powerful noble family, one of Willy Tybur's sons. He surfaces only briefly in the story, arriving in Liberio with his relatives after the Marley Mid-East War, and his ultimate fate is never shown.

The Alpha Squad is a handpicked Garrison detachment created mid-battle at Trost District with one mandate: keep Eren Yeager alive long enough for his Titan to plug the shattered gate. Commander Dot Pixis staffs it with the best soldiers he…

Every order Dot Pixis gives passes near Anka, the Garrison aide who shadows the commander from the retaking of Trost through the Yeagerist uprising. Calm, sharp, and unafraid to slap her superior awake when he drinks on duty, she helps…

Annie Leonhart graduates fourth in the 104th Training Corps and slips into the Military Police, all while hiding her true assignment: she is Marley's Female Titan, sent to steal the Founding Titan. Captured after her rampage in Stohess,…

Armed with gear built to kill people rather than Titans, the Anti-Personnel Control Squad serves as Kenny Ackerman's private instrument inside the Military Police. Officially a counterweight to the Survey Corps, the unit's real work is…

April is a minor rebel in Attack on Titan: Before the Fall, one of the code-named dissidents who seize the Industrial City. His assignment to hold the city gate ends in seconds when the Military Police storm through and cut him down.

The Arlert family of Shiganshina District carries a quiet defiance: a hidden book about the world beyond the Walls and a homemade hot air balloon that cost two of its members their lives. Its last survivor, Armin, rises to inherit the…

The weakest body in the 104th Training Corps carries its sharpest mind. Armin Arlert dreams of the ocean beyond the Walls and thinks his way through battles he could never win by force. Burned nearly to death at Shiganshina, he inherits…

One of the Nine Titans, the Armored Titan wears interlocking plates of hardened skin that shrug off cannon fire, a living battering ram that Marley aims at enemy fortifications. Under Reiner Braun it smashes through Wall Maria and earns…

Sasha Blouse learns her values from her father Artur, a hunter in the mountain village of Dauper who preaches sharing the forest with refugees. Years after his words drive Sasha into the military, he faces her killer, Gabi Braun, with a…

The Attack Titan is the rebel among the Nine Titans, a power said to have refused to kneel to any king across two thousand years. Its defining gift is chilling: it receives the memories of inheritors who do not yet exist, letting its…

Descended from Hizuru's old Shogun line, the Azumabito family straddles two worlds: respected envoys abroad and a hunted bloodline inside the Walls, where its island branch is remembered as the Oriental clan. Kiyomi Azumabito's ambitions…

A one-scene parody soldier from the Volume 17 gag preview, Baggy-pants Leon charges into a Titan fight with his trousers sagging halfway down his hips. The joke Survey Corps veteran arrives late, apologizes, and asks his stunned comrades…

Bauduin Bernhart is a Before the Fall antagonist, a Military Police vice commander whose hunger for the brigade's top seat outweighs every family tie. He smiles his way through capital politics while quietly arranging the assassination of…

The Baumeister family is a wealthy noble house in Attack on Titan: Before the Fall, comfortable in the Walls' political circles until misfortune and arrest whittle it down to a single heir, the good-natured Cardina.

Bean was one of two Titans taken alive after the military reclaimed Trost District, a 7 meter specimen that Hange Zoë named after a notorious cannibal of legend. Experiments on the captive ended abruptly when unknown attackers destroyed…

The Beast Titan is the strangest silhouette among the Nine Titans, taking on animal features that change with every inheritor. In Zeke Yeager's hands the ape-like giant becomes a war-deciding weapon, hurling debris like artillery and…

The Bernhart family appears in Attack on Titan: Before the Fall as the household behind Military Police captain Gloria Bernhart. Only two members are ever named, an uncle and his adopted niece, and just one of them survives the spin-off's…

Bertolt Hoover carried the Colossus Titan for Marley's Warrior Unit and kicked open Wall Maria's gate in 845, setting the entire story of Attack on Titan in motion. Quiet, hesitant, and devoted to Reiner and Annie, he hid inside the 104th…

The Bizarre Titans are recolored boss versions of the Female, Armored, and Beast Titans that surface during Dire Subjugation missions in the Attack on Titan video game. Each one fights exactly like its story counterpart, though the Beast…

The Bizarre Titan is a recolored enemy class exclusive to the video game Attack on Titan 2. Wearing altered versions of the Nine Titans' bodies while keeping their combat skills, these giants surface during story and scouting missions as…

This unnamed team leader served under Hange Zoë in the Survey Corps' Fourth Squad and spent the branch's last funds treating his comrades to meat before the mission to retake Wall Maria. Bertolt Hoover's cataclysmic transformation at…

A hunting household from Dauper village in southern Wall Rose, the Blouse family sent its daughter Sasha into the military after a bitter family quarrel. Following her death in the raid on Liberio, her parents ran stables sheltering…

Tucked into the hunting village of Dauper, the Blouse stables shelter horses alongside children left without parents. The farm becomes a hiding place for two fugitive Warrior candidates from Marley, whose false identities begin unraveling…

Boris Feulner graduated in the top ten of the 104th Training Corps and took the reward most trainees dream of, a Military Police posting in Stohess District. Level-headed and blunt, he defends Annie Leonhart from her squadmates' teasing…

An Eldian household from the Liberio internment zone, the Braun family produced two of Marley's most driven soldiers: Reiner, who carried the Armored Titan for over a decade, and his young cousin Gabi, groomed as its next inheritor. The…

A son of Willy Tybur, Bruno appears only briefly in the Marley arc of Attack on Titan. He accompanies the rest of the Tybur household to Liberio following the Marley Mid-East War and settles with them into the family's headquarters there.

Marley's top military officer at the close of the Mid-East War, Calvi hears out Zeke Yeager's pitch to recapture the Founding Titan and promises to push it up the chain. The Attack Titan kills him at Liberio during Willy Tybur's…

A noble son turned political prisoner, Cardina Baumeister survives being thrown to the Titans and rebuilds his life inside the Survey Corps. As one of two deuteragonists of Attack on Titan: Before the Fall, he pairs a sharp analytical mind…

Carla Yeager is the mother whose death ignites Attack on Titan. A former bar waitress who married the doctor who cured her family, she is pinned beneath her ruined home during the fall of Shiganshina and eaten by the Smiling Titan while…

Carlo crewed the Cart Titan's mounted artillery as one of the four soldiers in Pieck Finger's Panzer Unit. After surviving Fort Slava, he fell during the raid on Liberio, picked off by a single long-range shot from Sasha Blouse.

Commander of the Survey Corps in Attack on Titan: Before the Fall, Carlo Pikale spends his career paying down one debt: the infant he cut from a regurgitated corpse and unwittingly branded the Titan's son. Years later that child, Kuklo,…

Among the Nine Titans, only the Cart runs on four legs. Small at four meters yet nearly tireless, it serves Marley as scout, pack animal, and mobile gun platform under its inheritor Pieck Finger, whose knack for surviving impossible odds…

Charlotte was the horse that carried Survey Corps veteran Dita Ness on expeditions beyond the Walls. Praised for returning to her rider unbidden after a Titan skirmish, she was left to wander the wilds when the Female Titan killed Ness…

One of the four ministers ruling from behind King Fritz's throne, this rotund noble ordered Wall Sheena's gates shut against refugees to protect his own comfort. The uprising led by Erwin Smith exposed the sham government and left him…

Claude Duvalier teaches new recruits in the Training Corps after a long career with the Survey Corps. He is best known as the voice behind the white paper, an off-the-record compilation of tactics and military knowledge written to push…

Sixty meters of steam and muscle, the Colossus Titan announces itself by kicking down the gate of Wall Maria and haunts Attack on Titan as its opening act of apocalypse. Marleyans call it the God of Destruction; under Bertolt Hoover and…

Colt Grice is an Eldian Warrior candidate raised in Marley's Liberio internment zone and the devoted older brother of Falco Grice. Chosen to inherit the Beast Titan from Zeke Yeager, he dies shielding Falco when Zeke's scream triggers his…

Connie Springer is a Survey Corps soldier from the farming village of Ragako who graduates 8th in the 104th Training Corps. Quick on maneuvering gear and quicker with a joke, he endures the loss of his village, his family, and his best…

Dan is a merchant working under the Reeves Company in Trost District. He appears during the Royal Government arc as one of the two men escorting Dimo Reeves at the staged handover of Eren Yeager and Historia Reiss, where the Interior…

Wealth is the only family Dario Inocencio truly loves. The esteemed Wall Sheena merchant of Before the Fall buys the child called the Titan's son as a punching bag to toughen his heir Xavi, plans to marry his daughter off for influence,…

Darius Baer-Varbrun is a Survey Corps team leader who rides in the 57th expedition beyond the Walls. His squad's doomed ambush of the Female Titan ends with the intelligent Titan running him down, and his memory later haunts Erwin Smith…

Darius Zackly is the supreme commander standing over all three branches of the Walls' military. Publicly a dispassionate judge who presides over Eren Yeager's trial, he privately nurses a lifelong hatred of the royal government and…