History Characters / AttackOnTitanOthers

The father of Eren, a doctor who is highly regarded for his work in the past when he helped cure a plague. He was out of town on business when the Colossal Titan broke down the gates of wall Maria. While he vanished afterwards, Eren later remembers that beforehand, he forcefully injected Eren with a strange substance heavily implied to be what gave Eren the power to transform into a titan. [[spoiler: It may also be what gave Eren the power of the Coordinate, allowing him to control Titans]].

The supreme commander of the military, with authority over all three branches. He is the judge at Eren's trial, and holds absolute authority over his fate. He decides to give custody of Eren to the Survey Corps, and as such [[spoiler: does not appear to be involved in the AncientConspiracy within the capitol]].

A childhood friend of Reiner and Bertolt, who sacrificed his life to save Reiner from a Titan. [[spoiler: Ymir is revealed to have been the Titan responsible, though she claims to not remember it. The timing of his death suggests he may have been a fourth Titan Shifter but this is unconfirmed.]]

* PuppetKing: Hinted to be one, surrounded by those involved in an AncientConspiracy. The Wall Cultists have gained influence over him, helping the Reiss family protect the secrets of the Walls. [[spoiler: Confirmed by Sanes, who reveals during his torture that he is merely a puppet for the Reiss family]].

* FaceDeathWithDignity: Subverted. She makes a HeroicSacrifice, but quietly pleads for them not to leave her. She dies begging and screaming.

* EatenAlive

* PosthumousCharacter

* TakingTheBullet

* TheClan: Mrs. Ackerman hails from one, and passed her clan's emblem onto Mikasa, which is apparently carved onto her right forearm. What the emblem looks like is unknown, but it is traditional for the parent to personally pass it down to their children.

* DeceasedParentsAreTheBest: The fact that Mikasa is an adopted orphan is an important part of his character.
* GoodParents: From little could be seen of them, Mr. and Mrs. Ackerman were kind parents, raising their daughter lovingly.

* {{Unnamed Parent}}s

The instructor for the 104th Trainee Corps. He is a harsh, but effective commander that seems to have known Eren's father in the past.

* BaldOfAwesome

* DrillSergeantNasty

* DeathByOriginStory
* DeceasedParentsAreTheBest
* GoodParents

* PosthumousCharacter

The supreme commander of the military, with authority over all three branches. He is the judge at Eren's trial, and holds absolute authority over his fate. He decides to give custody of Eren to the Scouting Legion, and as such [[spoiler: does not appear to be involved in the AncientConspiracy within the capitol]].

* TheJudge

** StoicSpectacles

* AdiposeRex

* FatBastard:

The unwed parents of Historia, a HeroicBastard living under the alias Krista Renz -- Lord Rod Reiss, a prominent nobleman with connections to the [[GovernmentConspiracy dark secrets]] of the Capitol, and his beautiful mistress. They abandoned their daughter to be raised by her maternal grandparents on a ranch owned by the Reiss family, and were confronted by a mysterious group in the days following the fall of Wall Maria. They are the true royal family; the current king is a figurehead.

* MysteriousParent: Lord Reiss, the father she only met once when she was 10. He is hinted to be an important figure connected to the Wall Cult.

President of the Reeves Company, a merchant organization with many customers in Trost. First appeared blocking the exit of Trost with a massive supply of expensive items during the Titan attack, before Mikasa forced him to get out of the way. He recently became an ally of the Survey Corps and Garrison in their planned revolution.

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!!Pastor Nick
!!!Voiced by: Tomohisa Aso

An influential member of the Church of the Wall, which views the Walls as holy and opposes any form of alteration to them. [[spoiler: He is killed by corrupt members of the Military Police who were torturing him for information Hange and Levi suspects to be Eren and Historia's whereabouts. They deduce that he did not talk.]]

* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler: Found tortured and murdered. Hange and Levi both suspect he took not only the Wall Cult's secrets, but the secrets of what the Survey Corps know to his grave. Hange is visibly shaken by his death.]]
* TheAlcoholic: Was one before joining the Church of the Wall.
* ChekhovsGunman: Appears at the very beginning just as a zealous preacher in the streets. He becomes more prominent later.
* ColdBloodedTorture: [[spoiler:Hange notices [[{{Fingore}} evidence]] of him being tortured prior to his death, and suspects the Military Police Brigade were attempting to learn something from him. The severity of his torture leads them to suspect they were trying to get information from him concerning the Survey Corps]].
* CorruptChurch: Eren notes that the Church of the Wall makes it difficult to get important reinforcements to the walls. [[spoiler: He's also aware of how the wall is filled with Colossal Titans.]]
* CrisisOfFaith: Is deeply shaken by the reality of people suffering due to the Titan attacks. Not enough to make him reveal what he knows [[spoiler:but enough to reveal that there is someone else with the authority to reveal the truth.]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards: He's a callous {{Jerkass}} as a bureaucrat who refuses to divulge vital information to the Survey Corps, may not actually share the beliefs he constantly preaches to people, and vies for Eren's execution despite the fact that his titan powers resulted in the first major victory for humankind in its entire history. Yet he's clearly shaken when he sees the suffering that the people who have to escape the Titans go through, and [[PetTheDog he even attempts to help a child who's been separated from his family]].
* ExactWords: His oaths absolutely forbid him to give up any of the Wall Cult's secrets but saying that someone else knows them and doesn't have any such vows technically isn't included in that.
* HiddenDepths: He's introduced as a callous, ignorant bureaucrat, but we later see that he does deeply care for people besides himself. [[spoiler: He even dies protecting the secrets of both his religion and the Scouting Legion.]]
* HighAltitudeInterrogation: Hange does this to him on top of a Wall to get him to explain why there's a Titan inside the Walls. He'd rather die than break his oaths of secrecy... but she lets him go when he tells her about an another source of information that is more free to talk.
* InterrogatedForNothing: [[spoiler:When Hange and Levi speculate how much he told his captors before he died, they note that all his fingernails were torn off. Levi suggests that he didn't give up anything or only did at end, since "talkative" people give in after one nail but "non-talkative" people won't say a word after all 10.]]
* KilledToUpholdTheMasquerade[=/=]HeKnowsTooMuch: [[spoiler: Before he can reveal what he knows, he's found brutally murdered. Hange suspects the Military Police Brigade to have been involved.]]
* LoopholeAbuse: Refuses to tell the army any of the information he knows via his cult, but directs them to a source that can without breaking any vows of secrecy. [[spoiler:[[ColdBloodedTorture Alas, that was already too much for the higher-ups to let it pass.]]]]
* NotAfraidToDie: He'd rather die than reveal his cult's secrets. [[spoiler: He seems to have proven it, as he endured lengthy torture before being murdered.]]
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: As well as being a corrupt church preacher, Nick also advocated for Eren's execution, stating that his ability to transform into a Titan is evil by nature. His church is also the reason that the walls have barely been changed in over one hundred years since they claim that any modifications are a defilement.
* PetTheDog: Goes out of his way to help a refugee child, showing he's not completely indifferent to the people's plight.
* PreacherMan
* SinisterMinister: In his first appearance, he advocates for Eren to be executed. [[spoiler:It's later revealed that he knew about the Titans in the Wall, and has likely been withholding other secrets]].
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: His title has three different translations -- Pastor, Priest, and Reverend.
* TemptingFate: Is in the middle of preaching how the walls will always protect them ''exactly'' when the Female Titan crashes through his church.

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!!Historia's parents
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The parents of Historia, [[spoiler: Lord Rod Reiss, a prominent nobleman with connections to the [[GovernmentConspiracy dark secrets]] of the Capitol, and his beautiful mistress. They abandoned their daughter to be raised by her maternal grandparents on a ranch owned by the Reiss family, and were confronted by a mysterious group in the days following the fall of Wall Maria. They are the true royal family; the current king is a figurehead.]]

* AbusiveParents: [[spoiler: Historia's mother ''hated'' her daughter, avoiding her at all costs and reacting violently when Historia attempted to hug her. She only spoke to her daughter twice, and both times expressed how much she wanted her child dead. On the flipside, Historia's father flippantly seems to want ''both'' of them dead, but can't stand watching his daughter die.]]
* KickTheDog: [[spoiler: Lord Reiss gives up his mistress and watches her be murdered without a second thought.]]
** PetTheDog: [[spoiler: However, he's unable to let them kill his daughter and spares her at the last moment.]]
* MissingMom[=/=]DisappearedDad: [[spoiler: After Historia tried to hug her, she left the ranch for several years. Historia only met her father when she was 10 years old, when he tried to take his mistress and daughter to safety. However, he ended up abandoning one to die and forced the other to take an alias and go into hiding.]]
* TheMistress: [[spoiler: She is referred to as such at one point, though it remains unconfirmed whether or not Lord Reiss was really married. Prior to having Historia, she was a servant in his mansion and he callously throws her away when confronted by a mysterious group]].
* MysteriousParent: [[spoiler: Lord Reiss, the father she only met once when she was 10. He is hinted to be an important figure connected to the Wall Cult.]]
* OffingTheOffspring: [[spoiler: She ''wished'' she had killed her daughter, while Lord Reiss ultimately spares Historia and forces her to adopt a new identity and go into hiding.]]
* SlashedThroat: [[spoiler: Historia's mother is killed this way.]]
* ThatThingIsNotMyChild: [[spoiler: Historia's mother hysterically denies her daughter, while trying to save her own life. Considering how much she hated Historia to begin with, it's likely she always felt that way.]]
* UnnamedParent: The mother is never given a name.
* WalkingSpoiler

President of the Reeves Company, a merchant organization with many customers in Trost. First appeared blocking the exit of Trost with a massive supply of expensive items during the Titan attack, before Mikasa forced him to get out of the way. [[spoiler: He recently became an ally of the Survey Corps and Garrison in their planned revolution.]]

* ChekhovsGunman: Seemingly just a minor one-shot StrawCivilian, until he shows back up some time later. [[spoiler: He becomes a vital ally to the Survey Corps and helps them capture Djel Sanes]].
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: [[spoiler: Or not.]]
* AFatherToHisMen: [[spoiler: He appears to truly care about the wellbeing of his employees and the people of Trost who rely on his company.]]

* LaResistance: [[spoiler: His company has allied with the Survey Corps and Garrison against the Military Police and aristocracy.]]

* UnderestimatingBadassery: He underestimates Mikasa's fighting prowess and caves when she threatens to "remove" him, [[spoiler: in his second appearance he jokes that his men have no chance against the survey corp, and Mikasa alone could defeat all of them.]]

A woman who shares a mysterious connection with Eren. She befriended a young Historia, but used her powers to erase the girl's memory. Even so, Historia based her [[spoiler:"Krista Lenz" persona]] on the woman. Eren experiences a strange vision, looking through the woman's eyes at herself in a mirror.

* FakeKing: [[spoiler: The Reiss family is the true royal family. This guy is just a figurehead.]]

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: The lone supporter of the Survey Corps, providing them with funding and protection when most of the government wants them shut down. After the disastrous 57th Expedition, he's unable to shield them from the consequences.....but this quickly changes after [[spoiler: the Titan Shifters are revealed and kidnap Eren. He orders the Military Police Brigade to the front lines, to support the mission to rescue Eren]].

** [[spoiler: Chapter 55 has revealed that he is in fact the true king]]

* LooksLikeJesus: The real King died when he was 33. If he were 10-15 years older, he'd probably look a bit like this.

A woman who shares a mysterious connection with Eren. [[spoiler: She befriended a young Historia, but used her powers to erase the girl's memory. Even so, Historia based her "Krista Lenz" persona on the woman. Eren experiences a strange vision, looking through the woman's eyes at herself in a mirror]].

* GirlOfMyDreams: [[spoiler: A non-romantic example. Our first glimpse of her is when Eren has a vision, seeing her brushing her hair at her dresser]].
* HeadbuttOfLove: [[spoiler: Shares one with Historia prior to erasing her memory]].
* JediMindTrick: [[spoiler: She commands Historia to forget about her, instantly erasing the girl's memory. It's clear she's done this repeatedly, though some echo of the woman remains in Historia's subconscious]].
* LivingMacGuffin:[[spoiler: Like Eren, she possessed the power of the Coordinate. She regularly erased Historia's memories of their time together]].

* MysticalWaif: [[spoiler: She possesses the same Coordinate ability as Eren, but she can use it on ''normal'' humans]].

* OnlyFriend: [[spoiler: To a young Historia Reiss]].
* RavenHairIvorySkin: Dark-haired, and obviously a lovely young woman. [[spoiler: Eren initially thinks that she resembles Historia]].
* WalkingSpoiler: Oh, so very much.

The father of Eren, a doctor who is highly regarded for his work in the past when he helped cure a plague. We was out of town on business when the Colossal Titan broke down the gates of wall Maria. While he vanished afterwards, Eren later remembers that beforehand, he forcefully injected Eren with a strange substance heavily implied to be what gave Eren the power to transform into a titan. [[spoiler: It may also be what gave Eren the power of the Coordinate, allowing him to control Titans]].
%%Grisha was NOT eaten by Eren. This is only hinted by a faulty fan translation. Not the original japanese nor the official english translation hint this.

!!!Voiced by: Creator/YoshinoTakamori (JP)

!!!Voiced by: HiroshiTsuchida (JP)

!!!Voiced By: Tsuguo Mogami

!!!Voiced By: Hideaki Tezuka

* [[spoiler: FakeKing: The Reiss family is the true royal family. This guy is just a figurehead.]]

The parents of Historia, [[spoiler: Lord Rod Reiss, a prominent nobleman with connections to the [[GovernmentConspiracy dark secrets]] of the Capitol, and his beautiful mistress. They abandoned their daughter to be raised by her maternal grandparents on a ranch owned by the Reiss family, and were confronted by a mysterious group in the days following the fall of Wall Maria.]]

* PuppetKing: Hinted to be one, surrounded by those involved in an AncientConspiracy. The Wall Cultists have gained influence over him, helping the Reiss family protect the secrets of the Walls.

* {{Expy}}: Of [[Manga/FullmetalAlchemist Trisha Elric]]. They both have {{disappeared dad}}s as husbands, the same hairstyle, [[ActorAllusion same voice actress]], have similar natures, and both serve the same purpose in the plot.

* UnnamedParent: Krista's mother.

-->''Beware if you have not finished the anime or read past Volume 8, chapter 34.''

* EvenEvilHasStandards: He's a callous {{Jerkass}} as a bureaucrat who refuses to divulge vital information to the Survey Corps, [[spoiler:may not actually share the beliefs he constantly preaches to people]], and vies for [[spoiler:Eren's execution despite the fact that his titan powers resulted in the first major victory for humankind in its entire history.]] Yet he's clearly shaken when he sees the suffering that the people who have to escape the Titans go through, and [[PetTheDog he even attempts to help a child who's been separated from his family]].

* [[spoiler: KilledToUpholdTheMasquerade[=/=]HeKnowsTooMuch: Before he can reveal what he knows, he's found brutally murdered. Hange suspects the Military Police Brigade to have been involved.]]

* ObstructiveBureaucrat: As well as being a corrupt church preacher, Nick also advocated [[spoiler: for Eren's execution, stating that his ability to transform into a Titan is evil by nature]]. His church is also the reason that the walls have barely been changed in over one hundred years since they claim that any modifications are a defilement.

* TemptingFate: Is in the middle of preaching how the walls will always protect them [[spoiler: ''exactly'' when the Female Titan crashes through his church.]]

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!!Keith Shadis
!!!Voiced By: Tsuguo Mogami
The instructor for the 104th Trainee Corps. He is a harsh, but effective commander that seems to have known Eren's father in the past.

* AmbiguouslyBrown: Likely a result of grilling trainees in the sun over several years.
* BaldOfAwesome
* BeardOfEvil: A neatly-groomed goatee. He's not evil, but he ''is'' a man to be feared.
* DeathGlare: The setting his eyes seem to be perpetually stuck in.
* DespairEventHorizon: Crossed it when he was commander of the Survey Corps, after a failed and fruitless expedition resulted only in the deaths of countless soldiers.
* DrillSergeantNasty
* MiseryBuildsCharacter: The whole point of his DrillSergeantNasty routine, breaking down the recruits and pushing them as hard as possible to make them into capable soldiers.
* PetTheDog: He spares victims of Titan attacks from his DrillSergeantNasty routine. It's explained by another officer that the reason for this is because the point of said routine is to break recruits down so that they can be rebuilt into soldiers. As the Titan attacks they survived would've already broken them down, giving them the DrillSergeantNasty routine would've been pointless cruelty.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: At least, enough to consider that Eren's problem was faulty equipment, and not him simply being incompetent. His job requires him to be harsh and brutal, but he's also able to recognize the potential in each of the trainees.
* RetiredBadass: Implied, as he survived in the Survey Corps long enough to become Commander in the era ''prior'' to Erwin's tactics improving survival rates significantly.
* VeteranInstructor: Keith served as a former commander of the Survey Corps. He was the despairing commander Eren saw as a child.
* UseYourHead: Headbutting seems to have been his standard method to punish recruits.

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!!Krista's parents

The parents of Krista Lenz, [[spoiler: aka Historia Reiss -- Lord Rod Reiss, a prominent nobleman with connections to the [[GovernmentConspiracy dark secrets]] of the Capitol, and his beautiful mistress. They abandoned their daughter to be raised by her maternal grandparents on a ranch owned by the Reiss family, and were confronted by a mysterious group in the days following the fall of Wall Maria.]]

* [[spoiler: AbusiveParents: Historia's mother ''hated'' her daughter, avoiding her at all costs and reacting violently when Historia attempted to hug her. She only spoke to her daughter twice, and both times expressed how much she wanted her child dead. On the flipside, Historia's father flippantly seems to want ''both'' of them dead, but can't stand watching his daughter die.]]
* [[spoiler: KickTheDog: Lord Reiss gives up his mistress and watches her be murdered without a second thought.]]
** [[spoiler: PetTheDog: However, he's unable to let them kill his daughter and spares her at the last moment.]]
* [[spoiler: MissingMom[=/=]DisappearedDad: After Historia tried to hug her, she left the ranch for several years. Historia only met her father when she was 10 years old, when he tried to take his mistress and daughter to safety. However, he ended up abandoning one to die and forced the other to take an alias and go into hiding.]]
* [[spoiler: TheMistress: She is referred to as such at one point, though it remains unconfirmed whether or not Lord Reiss was really married. Prior to having Historia, she was a servant in his mansion and he callously throws her away when confronted by a mysterious group]].
* [[spoiler: MysteriousParent: Lord Reiss, the father she only met once when she was 10. He is hinted to be an important figure connected to the Wall Cult.]]
* [[spoiler: OffingTheOffspring: She ''wished'' she had killed her daughter, while Lord Reiss ultimately spares Historia and forces her to adopt a new identity and go into hiding.]]
* [[spoiler: SlashedThroat: Historia's mother is killed this way.]]
* [[spoiler: ThatThingIsNotMyChild: Historia's mother hysterically denies her daughter, while trying to save her own life. Considering how much she hated Historia to begin with, it's likely she always felt that way.]]

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!!Marquis Bart
!!!Voiced By: Kousuke Takaguchi

A cowardly and selfish nobleman, on good terms with Commander Pixis. He thinks only of himself and his fortune, and serves to illustrate the corrupt nature of the nobility.

* AdiposeRex
* AristocratsAreEvil: {{Downplayed}} example, since he's just a selfish, cowardly prick. There are a few, more minor characters who are high-ranking businessmen whose priorities are on themselves.
* DirtyCoward: He begs Pixis to abandon the people of Trost, and instead defend his estate.
* FatBastard:
* TheHedonist: Shown to be eating pastries by the handful, and drinking fine wine while most people are going hungry. He doesn't particularly care about anyone but himself.
* IdleRich: He doesn't seem to do more than play chess with Pixis, eat food most would never see in their whole lives, and drink plenty of wine.
* ILetYouWin: [[ObfuscatingStupidity Pixis throws his chess games against him]] and he's quite perturbed to be informed that this is the case.
* ItsAllAboutMe: He tries to get Pixis to have his men guard his own estate instead of, you know, Wall Rose which is protecting ''the rest of humanity'' from getting eaten.
* StrawCharacter: Really only exists to show how selfish and useless the ruling class are.

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!!Dimo Reebs

President of the Reebs Company, a merchant organization with many customers in Trost. First appeared blocking the exit of Trost with a massive supply of expensive items during the Titan attack, before Mikasa forced him to get out of the way. [[spoiler: He recently became an ally of the Survey Corps and Garrison in their planned revolution.]]

* BaldOfEvil: [[spoiler: Though it may yet become a BaldOfAwesome.]]
* TheBusCameBack: He reappears in chapter 54, after being absent since the invasion of Trost.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: [[spoiler: Or not.]]
* [[spoiler: AFatherToHisMen: He appears to truly care about the wellbeing of his employees and the people of Trost who rely on his company.]]
* {{Jerkass}}: He was obstructing the evacuation of hundreds of civilians before Mikasa threatened to kill him.
** [[spoiler: JerkWithAHeartOfGold.]]
* [[spoiler: LaResistance: His company has allied with the Survey Corps and Garrison against the Military Police and aristocracy.]]
* SmarterThanYouLook: Seems to have this opinion of Levi.
* UnderestimatingBadassery: He underestimates Mikasa's fighting prowess and caves when she threatens to "remove" him, [[spoiler: in his second appearance he jokes that his men have no chance against the survey corp, and Mikasa alone could defeat all of them.]]

* UnderestimatingBadassery: He underestimates Mikasa's fighting prowess and caves when she threatens to "remove" him, [[spoiler: in his second appearance he jokes that his men have no chance against the survey corp, and Mikasa alone could defeat all of them.

* SmarterThanYouLook: Seems to have this opinion of Levi.

* [[spoiler: AlasPoorVillain: Found tortured and murdered. Hange and Levi both suspect he took not only the Wall Cult's secrets, but the secrets of what the Survey Corps know to his grave. Hange is visibly shaken by his death.]]

* [[spoiler: BusCrash]]

* [[spoiler: ColdBloodedTorture: Hange notices evidence of him being tortured prior to his death, and suspects the Military Police Brigade were attempting to learn something from him. The severity of his torture leads them to suspect they were trying to get information from him concerning the Survey Corps]].
** [[spoiler: Fingore: All of his fingernails were torn off.]]

* [[spoiler: HighAltitudeInterrogation: Hange does this to him on top of a Wall to get him to explain why there's a Titan inside the Walls. He'd rather die than break his oaths of secrecy... but she lets him go when he tells her about an another source of information that is more free to talk.]]
* [[spoiler: InterrogatedForNothing: When Hange and Levi speculate how much he told his captors before he died, they note that all his fingernails were torn off. Levi suggests that he didn't give up anything or only did at end, since "talkative" people give in after one nail but "non-talkative" people won't say a word after all 10.]]

* [[spoiler: GirlOfMyDreams]]: [[spoiler: A non-romantic example. Our first glimpse of her is when Eren has a vision, seeing her brushing her hair at her dresser]].

* [[spoiler: JediMindTrick]]: [[spoiler: She commands Historia to forget about her, instantly erasing the girl's memory. It's clear she's done this repeatedly, though some echo of the woman remains in Historia's subconscious]].
* [[spoiler: LivingMacGuffin]]:[[spoiler: Like Eren, she possessed the power of the Coordinate. She regularly erased Historia's memories of their time together]].

* [[spoiler: MysticalWaif]]: [[spoiler: She possesses the same Coordinate ability as Eren, but she can use it on ''normal'' humans]].

!!President Reebs

* YouGotSpunk: Seems to have this opinion of Levi.

* StrawCharacter: Really only exists to show how selfish and useless the ruling class are.