Cart Titan

Four meters from ground to shoulder, the Cart Titan is dwarfed by the rest of the Nine Titans and moves on all fours, the stance that presumably inspired its name. That posture leaves its back free, so Marley fits the Titan with harnesses carrying cargo, machine gun turrets for a four-man crew, or a full anti-Titan artillery cannon. Wearing the form has consequences for the human inside: after long stretches as the Titan, Pieck Finger sometimes crawls out of habit around trusted company and leans on crutches to get around.

Stamina is the Cart's defining gift. Where its sibling Titans exhaust their users quickly, the Cart lets its inheritor hold Titan form through missions lasting far longer than any rival could manage, and by Pieck's own account it permits hundreds of back-to-back transformations before fatigue arrives. That persistence makes it Marley's tool of choice for trench clearing, deep operations in hostile territory, and any job where a Titan must simply keep working. Armaments strapped to its back expand Marley's tactical menu further, turning the Titan into a walking weapons platform.

The trade-off is fragility. Its defenses fall well below those of the other Nine, one severe hit can put it down, and injuries carried back to the human body knit together unusually slowly. Speed compensates. Pacing the Jaw Titan, the Cart snatched a dismembered Zeke Yeager away from Levi at Shiganshina and later plucked Reiner Braun from capture, blindsiding two of the Walls' most dangerous soldiers.

Like its eight siblings, the Cart Titan emerges from the splintering of Ymir Fritz's power after her death, passing among the feuding Eldian houses for seventeen centuries until Marley claims it during the Great Titan War. Around the year 843 Pieck Finger inherits it, hauling Bertolt Hoover into position during one of Marley's wars and staying home as a deterrent when the Warriors first sail for Paradis Island.

Pieck reaches the island five years into that mission, carrying supplies while Zeke and his escort turn the people of a small village into Titans. At the battle of Shiganshina District she tracks the Survey Corps' approach, ferries boulders and gear for the Beast Titan, and conceals Bertolt in a barrel on her back as a contingency weapon. When Levi cuts Zeke from his Titan, the Cart darts in and spirits him away, then rescues Reiner before the surviving Warriors flee home.

Four years later at Fort Slava she debuts the Panzer Unit, a quartet of machine gun turrets that scours the Mid-East Allies' trenches once Gabi Braun blows up the armored train carrying their anti-Titan artillery. The same rig ambushes the Survey Corps during the Raid on Liberio until Thunder Spears shred it and send the Titan crashing into the streets; Falco and Gabi drag the injured Pieck to safety. In the War for Paradis the Cart infiltrates the island, baits Eren Yeager into a Jaw Titan ambush, then carries General Magath and an anti-Titan cannon up Wall Maria to shell Eren's skull. A feigned death lets Magath shoot the Beast Titan from its back. After the Rumbling begins, Pieck sides with the alliance against Eren: she stages a fake raid to spirit away Jean, Onyankopon, and Yelena, scouts the occupied docks, restrains Falco's berserk Jaw Titan, and hauls explosives toward Eren's nape through the final battle, transforming over and over until her healing finally gives out. With Eren's death the Cart Titan vanishes along with the rest of the Power of the Titans.