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| “ | I just want the weak who get swept along with the flow to be considered human, too. | „ |
| ~ Annie to Marlowe Freudenberg. |
Annie Leonhart is a major antagonist in the Attack on Titan franchise. She originally served as a supporting character until she was revealed to be one of the three people responsible for the Fall of Wall Maria, during which she used her Titan's screams to lure in a massive horde of Titans to be used for their attack on the Walls.
She is a Marleyan Warrior and the true identity of the Female Titan, having infiltrated the Walls alongside her fellow Warriors Reiner Braun and Bertolt Hoover in order to reclaim the Founding Titan for Marley and eradicate the people of Paradis Island. Annie was particularly known for her exceptional skill in martial arts and her "lone wolf" persona, which made it difficult for her to work with others. Unlike her two comrades, she also never truly cared about their mission and only carried out her orders so that she could return home to Marley and reunite with her father.
During the first five years she spent inside the Walls, Annie spent most of her time investigating the whereabouts of the Founding Titan on Reiner's orders until it was discovered that Eren Yeager, one of her comrades in the 104th Cadet Corps, possibly possessed the Founding Titan that they were looking for. Seeking to finally complete her mission, Annie then made two attempts to capture Eren, but was defeated in battle both times and ultimately forced to crystallize herself using her Titan's hardening abilities to avoid being apprehended. For the next four years, she would remain inside her crystal shell in a coma until she was unintentionally freed when Eren activated the Founding Titan and initiated the Rumbling, during which she would help with stopping the Rumbling and killing Eren before he could wipe out all human life beyond Paradis.
In Japanese, she is voiced by Yū Shimamura. In English, she is voiced by Lauren Landa.
Appearance[]
Annie has a small yet well-built stature and has naturally-blonde hair that ends near her eyes. Annie's eyes are blue and she usually has a stoic face and rarely smiles, she wears the same uniform as everyone else.
In Annie's Titan form, she is noticeably different but still keeps her redeeming qualities. Annie still retains her blond hair and blue eyes and stands at a very tall height, unlike other Titans Annie doesn't retain much of her skin and is down to revealing muscle tissue with a little skin around her midriff. Lastly, Annie has a very well-endowed muscular body with her biceps and triceps along with her thighs being bulky.
Personality[]
Annie is considered to be an isolated, glamorous, and exclusionary type; friendships do not come to her easily. She is rarely seen smiling and often has an emotionless expression. She is lazy, indolent, unresponsive, apathetic, callous, lethargic, dispassionate, quiescent, wimpy, and somnolent, with little desire to put in any effort into meaningless disciplines or activities, and instead focuses exclusively on making it into the Military Police Brigade to obtain an easy life. Yet, she somehow does seem to hold a strange fascination and even feelings of respect towards people that have a deep sense of duty and righteousness - in those people who do care and who can devote their lives and even die for causes they believe in.
Annie is genuinely selfish, due to having been abandoned at birth and being used as a tool by everyone she has ever known, even by her adoptive father who wanted a better life for himself through her. She has no interest in protecting strangers due to being unattached to most of humanity to an absurdly high degree.
While other Warriors have grand goals of improving life for their people or protecting the world, Annie only cares about seeing her father. She equally despises both Eldia and Marley as nations, deeming them both selfish and inconsiderate for human lives, and feels the same way for every other nation. In fact, she believes almost everyone in the world is rotten and selfish, and sees it as normal human nature, which is why she only pursues small-scale goals, as they solely gratify her immediate desires. Perhaps her admiration for people devoted to a cause than themselves stems from a knowledge that her small goals will not fulfill her, unlike the feelings drawn from pursuing justice, morality or nearly unattainable dreams.
Annie genuinely smiling as she expresses her interest in teaching Eren her techniques.
Despite Annie's usually cold, ruthless, bloodthirsty, unpleasant, violent, and calm demeanour, she is shown to emote her feelings in various ways. She was clearly vituperative and angered when Reiner teased her about her constant avoidance in hand-to-hand combat training. Despite her seeming callousness, she has expressed a level of guilt and shock, most notably when apologizing to a certain corpse after the battle of Trost. Annie is also known to be very enthusiastic, dedicated, and loyal in her mission as a Titan shifter, to the point that she killed many innocent people to reach her goal (also attempting to kill many of her former comrades), and shed tears when she failed to capture Eren. Though she is seemingly indifferent and imperturbable towards her capability as a competent hand-to-hand combat fighter, she remains proud of her skills and even seems to enjoy the very notion of fighting as deduced by Eren. The only time that she is seen as genuinely smiling in a caring, positive, and thoughtful manner is when she expressed a curious interest in teaching Eren how to fight in her unique fighting style.
Victims[]
- Previous holder of the Female Titan (Pure Titan)
- Numerous counts of Shiganshina District citizens (Caused)
- Carla Yeager (Caused)
- Marco Bott (Caused)
- Ivan (Caused)
- Luke Siss
- Dita Ness
- Darius Baer-Varbrun
- Gunther Schultz
- Eld Jinn
- Petra Ral
- Oluo Bozado
- Female Wall cultist (Unintentional)
- Several unidentified Survey Corps soldiers
- Numerous counts of Stohess District citizens (Caused)
Trivia[]
- Like all of the three Titan-Shifter moles, Annie acts as a foil and counterpart to one of the main characters. In her case, she is one to Mikasa; both are very skilled fighters who rarely show emotion and are very withdrawn, but Mikasa lives for Eren and Armin, while Annie shuts everybody out due to trust issues. Also, Mikasa is quite tall, has black hair and fights mainly on instinct, while Annie is short, has blond hair and relies on complex techniques. However, Annie and Mikasa are only similar when looking at their superficial aspects. In terms of character, personality, and reasoning, the two are nothing alike.
- Despite her ruthless, callous and objectionable nature, she genuinely cares about her comrades, for example when she confronted Armin twice as a Titan in the field and let him live both times, and seemed hurt when Armin used emotional blackmail to expose her because she respected him. She also sobbed when Reiner manipulated her to help him kill Marco instead of having Bertolt do it for him, as Reiner had noticed she was starting to feel too much compassion towards humanity in the walls.
- Annie, Reiner and Bertolt don't work well together like Eren, Mikasa, and Armin do. They are dysfunctional and there's no good communication between them, with Reiner having to do most of the job as he doubts Annie's loyalty to Marley (rightly, given she holds no true loyalty to Marley, only her father) and considers Bertolt unreliable. Annie and Reiner don't seem to get along much, even if the latter is concerned about her safety. However, later in the story Annie makes peace with Reiner and shares a hug with him.
External Links[]
- Annie Leonhart on the Attack on Titan Wiki
- Annie Leonhart on the Heroes Wiki
- Annie Leonhart on the Magnificent Baddie Wiki
