History Characters / AttackOnTitanOthers

* CreateYourOwnVillain: [[spoiler:It was his abusive treatment of Zeke what lead the latter to side with Marley and come to the conclusion that Eldians are better off extinct.]]

* BadassBeard: [[spoiler:His Titan form has a thick, Viking-like beard that shrouds the whole lower half of its face.]]

!!!'''Mr. Ackerman voiced by:''' Daichi Endo (Japanese), Jarrod Greene (English)
!!!'''Mrs. Ackerman voiced by:''' Yuuka Hirose (Japanese), Creator/ColleenClinkenbeard (English)

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Kousuke Takaguchi (JP), Barry Yandell (EN)

!!!'''Roy voiced by''': Takashi Onozuka (JP), Ricardo Rocha (Latin American Spanish)
!!!'''Beaure voiced by''': Kenji Takanashi (JP), Eduardo Sánchez (Latin American Spanish)

* NotSoDifferent: Accuses Erwin of this soon after overthrowing the monarchy, since he also went through with it more for the sake of his personal goal than to protect humanity. Erwin agrees with him.

* HesitantSacrifice: Like many other [[HeroicSacrifice Heroic Sacrifices]] in this series, [[RealityEnsues she changes her mind right in the face of getting eaten.]] She muffles herself so that her children don't hear her.

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/HiroshiTsuchida (JP), Chris Hury (EN), Creator/JustinBriner (EN, Teenager)

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/YoshinoTakamori (JP), Jessica Cavanagh (EN)

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/TasukuHatanaka (JP), Creator/CrisGeorge (EN)

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Hiroshi Naka (JP), Jeremy Schwartz (EN)

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Nana Hamasaki (JP), Creator/LaraWoodhull (EN)

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Tomohisa Aso (JP), Francis Henry (EN)

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MichikoNeya (JP), Creator/HeatherWalker (EN)

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Kiri Yoshizawa (JP), Creator/MichelleRojas (EN)

** As well as being a fanatic church preacher, Nick 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. [[spoiler:The obstructionism against any change to the Walls turns out to have a much more valid reason, though, given that any modifications would risk revealing or even releasing the Titans contained in them.]]

* RedHerring: Many fans thought that the Farmer had some significance to the plot. Maybe he was a secret Yaegerist, or maybe he was just a fall guy and the real father of the child was Eren or even someone else. Turns out no, he's just Historia's boyfriend, later husband.

** He is one for Hange Zoe, who used to have a crush on him from when she was his subordinate.

* MuggingTheMonster: ''Levi'' is one of the people that he tries to pickpocket. He ''succeds''.

* PragmaticAdaptation: Given the nature of the medium and as described in AdaptedOut, she did not appear in the anime adaptation of Eren's dream because [[spoiler:it would have given away far too much in terms of future revelations down the line]]. The overhall of Eren's dream was done in order to to maintain it's cryptic nature.

A man chosen by Queen Historia Reiss to be the sire of her heirs.

* AmbiguousSituation:
** It's not quite known whether he is the father of Historia's baby indeed, as having a baby with her implies carrying an awful lot of political baggage. A Reiss baby is no joke, as Historia herself knows;
** It's implied that Historia might have allowed herself to become pregnant to avoid being Titanized, so she might have not done it for the virtue of it, or because she "loves" her consort. As previously exposed in the story, Historia [[AmbiguouslyBi might]] [[LipstickLesbian not swing that way in the first place.]]

* TheBully: When they were kids, towards Historia.
* ChildhoodFriendRomance: DownplayedTrope, when they were kids he used to tease and throw rocks at Historia, it's speculated that he was actually trying to get her attention back then; after going to work in Historia's orphanage she remembered him and recognized his hard work and plight, and thus chose him to be the father of her offspring.
* MamasBabyPapasMaybe: As stated in AmbiguousSituation, it's not known if he's the father of Historia's baby. As little to nothing is known about him, the possibility that another man is the father is significant.

* SingleMomStripper: It's implied that Alma was working as a prostitute during her time raising Historia. She's referred too as a whore by MPs, went off alone via carriage to the nearby city in flashy clothes and generated an income unrelated to her family farm.

* TheUnreveal: It's not known why she hated her daughter that much, but there are two possibilities:

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Nana Hamasaki (JP)

* {{Callback}}: [[spoiler:In Chapter 120, after Zeke catches Eren's severed head, multiple memory shards from Eren's perspective (along with a few from his predecessors) appear before transitioning to the "PATHS" realm. The largest memory shard happened to be of when Mikasa asked him why he was crying at the very beginning of the series]].
* CrypticConversation: Her single line of dialogue had no context to go with it, making it practically impossible to figure out what she was trying to convey to Eren before he woke up [[spoiler:until the full context is given in Chapter 138.]]

* WalkingSpoiler: [[spoiler:In the penumulate chapter, it was revealed that the girl ''was'' Mikasa from an AlternateTimeline where she actually confessed her true feelings to Eren when they were in Marley. This led to them eloping and abandoning the conflict between Paradis and Marley along with all of their friends and allies to live in peace until the "Curse of Ymir" claimed Eren's life, leading to Eren's "dream" in Chapter 1]].

* CrypticConversation: Her single line of dialogue had no context to go with it, making it practically impossible to figure out what she was trying to convey to Eren before he woke up.
* DissonantSerenity: She seems to be smiling and doesn't appear to be distressed in any discernible way, yet Eren was crying after waking up from the dream, heavily implying a far darker situation that he subconsciously remembered.

* LaserGuidedKarma: After the uprising Zackly is shown to be incredibly sadistic with the wish to parade around his gross spectacles to the people for his own amusement. [[spoiler:Therefore it's rather appropriate that his death ends up being a gross spectacle that is witnessed by everyone when his blown apart body is scattered all over the courtyard. By his own "custom chair" even.]]

* {{Sadist}}: Once he gets to torturing the nobles, he can be seen shedding tears of joy and giggling like a maniac, claiming his way of humiliating them is ''art''.
** He later states wanting to publicly reveal his torturing of them, in spite of Pixis repeatedly telling him that no, it's horrible and would make the public distrust the military in the wake of their coup even more.

!!!'''Mr. Ackerman voiced by:''' Daichi End&#333 (Japanese), Jarrod Greene (English)

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* WalkingSpoiler: [[spoiler:In the penumulate Chapter, it was revealed that the girl ''was'' Mikasa from an AlternateTimeline where she actually confessed her true feelings to Eren when they were in Marley. This led to them eloping and abandoning the conflict between Paradis and Marley along with all of their friends and allies to live in peace until the "Curse of Ymir" claimed Eren's life, leading to Eren's "dream" in Chapter 1]].

* GirlOfMyDreams: Invoked. [[IdenticalStranger She's remarkably reminiscent of Mikasa]], but there are a couple of things that indicate that the girl might not be Eren's adopted sister. First, at no point did Eren meet Mikasa when she had that length of hair at that age (she never had it that short until after joining the military), and second, [[spoiler:the dream might have not been a "dream" in the first place, but a ''memory''; what makes this last point worse is revealed later in the story, as the girl might come from a memory that could very easily come from either Eren's past or future.]]
* OneShotCharacter: She only appeared in a single panel in the very first chapter, and doesn't appear again [[spoiler:until Zeke looks at Eren's memories in the Paths over a hundred chapters later, where he can see the instance of asking why he was crying]].
* WalkingSpoiler: She's ultimately bound to become one should her background ever be explained since [[spoiler:it could expose a great deal of information regarding the ethereal pathways of the Eldians, the access to ancestral memories, and Eren Yeager's overall role in the great machinery of history. Keep in mind, he dreamed of her ''before'' being turned into a Titan. Later in the story, (or earlier going by the timeline), Eren Kruger divulged memories of Mikasa and Armin who ''weren't even born yet'', so there's another wrench to throw at the gears...]]

* BackForTheDead: Murdered by Captain [[spoiler:Ackerman]], not long after allying with the Survey Corps.

** He also serves to illustrate Dot Pixis' attitude towards the nobility in the anime; this is further explained in the manga, when Erwin proposes the military coup to Pixis, who refuses to be directly involved in the planning because he refuses to leave the military without both of their two top commanders (referring to Erwin and himself), and just like Marquis Bart, he humors the nobility in the very same manner. In the end, the nobility ends up fucking up anyway, eliciting his participation in the coup.

* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: [[spoiler:His office is bombed, tossing the mangled upper half of his body into the courtyard for all to see.]]
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:He is blown in half via a bomb hidden in his "Fine Piece of Art", an instrument of torture that he himself devised for the purpose of humiliating "bullshitting men of power", which he, ironically had become himself.]]

* OneShotCharacter: She only appeared in a single panel in the very first chapter and hasn't been seen or mentioned since.

* TheAtoner: [[spoiler:Grisha eventually came to regret his abusive behaviour towards his first son Zeke, which is why he decided to become an OpenMindedParent towards his second son Eren and never tried to indoctrinate his nationalism into him. Grisha even apologises to Zeke in his sleep in Chapter 120, which notably shocks Zeke who is watching his memories at the time. In the next chapter, Grisha clearly perceives Zeke and embraces his son, begging him for forgiveness. Grisha reveals to Zeke that he saw the terrifying future of Eren and begs him to stop his younger brother, which Zeke tries to comply with.]]

* CannibalismSuperpower: [[spoiler:He ate Frieda out from her titan's nape, and then was eaten by Eren to grant his son Shifting powers and his memories, along with those of previous Shifters from the Reiss family.]]

* DarkAndTroubledPast: [[spoiler:Turns out that even in his prosperous "home country," he was little more than a glorified slave, as were all the people "descended from Ymir."]] [[spoiler: And then manipulated by ''his own son'' to kill innocent women and children and compel him to feed himself to his son.]]
* DeadAllAlong: He went missing shortly before the Colossal Titan's attack on Shinganshina. It was unknown whether he was still alive until it's revealed that [[spoiler:he made Eren devour him in order to imbue the boy with the Attack and Founding Titan powers]].

* {{Foil}}: Him and Keith Shadis are foils and mishmashes to Erwin Smith and Nile Dok. Erwin and Grisha have revolutionary and restless minds, while Shadis and Dok are rather conservative. On the contrary, Grisha and Dok are family men who won the girls from Shadis and Erwin, who chose their military careers as a result; as family men, Grisha and Dok are contraries to one another, as Griesha put his family in harm's way [[IfYouThoughtThatWasBad (both families, by the way)]] for his ideals , while Dok has made every effort necessary to keep them safe. Both Erwin and Griesha [[spoiler:died for their ideals]], while Shadis and Dok have put their past behind them. Shadis and Dok are also quite different from one another as military men, as Shadis is a hard-nosed drill instructor who deeply cares for his students, while Dok is known for his conformity and hands-off approach to command.
* GoodParents: He's shown to be very protective of Eren, particularly the time where he nearly got killed saving Mikasa, and we get a brief shot of him with BrokenTears after hearing of the Titan conquest of Shinganshina, pleading for the safety of his family. He treated Mikasa like she was his own daughter as well. [[spoiler:It was repentance for his AbusiveParents behavior with Zeke, which made the Eldian resistance movement suffer a tragic end. Note that with Eren, he acts casually and even personally helped him know and understand the outer world as best as he can.]]

* HeroOfAnotherStory: [[spoiler:He singlehandedly gave the Eldians inside the Three Walls the means to fight the Titan Shifters that the Kingdom of Marley sent against them. That was an '''enormous''' feat, especially considering that no one realized what the hell he was doing or how he kept it under wraps. His actions directly prevented the Marleyans from gaining the Coordinate Titan power for their own ends, and halted their potential exploitation of the natural resources of the Island of Paradis. For better or for worse, Grisha Yeager is, by far and wide, one of the most important Eldians that has ever lived.]]

* HeroicSpirit: [[spoiler:Eren Kruger tells him that he didn't choose him for the cause of restoring Eldia out of his accomplishments (which were many), but rather because of his indomitable desire for freedom.]]

** [[spoiler: Turns out Grisha found out about the Coordinate Titan years ago, and ceased his efforts to wrest the Titan in order to spend his remaining years with his new family. The attack by Marleyan Shifters and Eren's manipulations sped things up.]]
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: During the flashback to his [[spoiler:slaughtering of the Reiss family and the stealing of the Foundation Titan's powers, just before he transforms]] he is sporting a notable grimace. [[spoiler:Considering killing Freida and the Reiss kids is necessary for liberating the Coordinate from the Reiss family (since they can't use it properly due to the MoreThanMindControl effect of the First King's Will), it's safe to say he was not happy with what he needed to do.]] [[spoiler: And once it was revealed that ''Eren'' ordered him to do so, in order to end the War for good, [[DespairEventHorizon well]]...]]
* {{Irony}}: [[spoiler:He tried to mold and indoctrinate his firstborn son, Zeke, into his political beliefs only for him to go completely against his wishes and betray him; by contrast he was a more OpenMindedParent with his second son, Eren, never revealing anything about his past or his ideology, and as a result Eren ends up fully embracing his father's main goal by his own volition.]] [[spoiler: And then revealed Eren from the future was silently manipulating him all along to ensure the Coordinate doesn't remain with the Reiss family.]]
* ItsAllMyFault: He realizes he was wrong in forcing his beliefs onto Zeke, and knows he has the blame for his son's resulting betrayal.
* JerkassHasAPoint: [[spoiler:During the negotiations between Paradis and the Marleyan military rebel faction, Lady Azumabito states that Zeke had withheld his royal blood from the Marleyans once he realized that what Grisha and Dina argued regarding Marley rang more truth than what he initially thought, having surmised way too late that he sacrificed them for the wrong cause.]]

!!Artur Braus

* SingleMomStripper: It's implied that Alma was working as a prositute during her time raising Historia. She's referred too as a whore by MPs, went off alone via carriage to the nearby city in flashy clothes and generated an income unrelated to her family farm.

* ChildhoodFriendRomance: DownplayedTrope, when they were kids he used to throw rocks and tease at Historia, it's speculated that he was actually trying to get her attention back then; after going to work in Historia's orphanage she remembered him and recognized his hard work and plight, and thus chose him to be the father of her offspring.