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I would not say... that this nation is mine. It is the people's. Marleyans and Eldians. Now that I've taken the wheel... I can see why no one in times past has ever tried to turn it. It's too heavy! I'd like to let go if I could, even at this moment. But an age has come where I have no choice but to grip it firmly. It just happened to be me... It just happened that I was the man that fate turned to.
~ Willy accepts his role in the world and responsibility to his nation.
We may belong to different nations and races! But I ask any of you who do not wish to die to lend me your strength! Please... I want to ensure our future together!! I want you to fight with me!! Against the devils on Paradis!! [...] It is true. We have problems that keep the militaries of the world from joining hands. But I believe we can band together in the face of this powerful enemy. We should be able to overcome anything if only we can work as one!! As ambassador for the Marleyan Government, I, Willy Tybur... WISH FOR WORLD PEACE!! [...] AND SO I PROCLAIM ON THIS DAY!! TO THE ENEMY FORCES ON PARADIS ISLAND, THIS IS A DECLARATION OF WAR!!
~ Willy declares war, moments before his death.

Willy Tybur, hailed as the Savior's Descendant, is a major antagonist of the manga and anime Attack on Titan. He is the head of the noble Tybur family and the wirepuller behind the government of Marley. Willy seeks to unite the world's nations for a united global alliance to start a war attack on Paradis Island to destroy the Eldians living in it under the pretext, fear or assumption that Eren Yeager will destroy the world through the Rumbling, without any chance to negotiate peace.

His true objective and priority is to save the mainland Eldians from destruction and extermination and the Marleyans from losing their independence by the world's other nations, who threaten Marley's existence, and thus that of all the Subjects of Ymir in the world, due to the rest of the major nations hating them worse than Marley does. To prevent this, Willy wants to give the entire world a common enemy from the past, which is the Eldian Empire, to stabilize the global tensions and restore Marley as a nation of heroes once again. During a stage production in Liberio, Willy reveals the truth behind the Great Titan War that occured a century prior the beginning of the series.

From his marriage, Willy has five children; Fine, Alois, Bruno, Rico, and an unnamed girl. He has a younger sister, Lara, who at some point inherited the War Hammer Titan.

He is voiced by Kazuhiko Inoue, who plays Kars in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Battle Tendency, and Oboro (Gintama) in Gintama in Japanese, and by Jonah Scott in English.

Biography[]

Background[]

Willy was born into the influential Tybur family. Despite being Eldians, or by now mixed Marleyans and Eldians, the Tyburs enjoy privileges in Marley because they were the family that helped Marley to destroy the Eldian Empire a century ago. In reality, they teamed up with King Karl Fritz and in exchange were spared from Eldia's destruction. The Tyburs became the secret rulers of Marley after the Great Titan War but they didn't use their influence and allowed Marley complete freedom of governance as a sign of atonement. However, this led Marley to the path of aggressive nationalism, imperialism and militarism, resulting with the nation's warmongering, colonial policies and exploitation of the Eldians as war weapons. The Tyburs still own the War Hammer Titan in present day. They are extremely wealthy, live in luxury, and own numerous multiple estates and mansions throughout the continent and the world. The location of the Tyburs' primary residence in Marley is never told nor shown in the story, as during most of their appearances they are guests in Liberio.

In his youth, Willy befriended aristocratic children from many countries, which, in turn, would later become influential people in their respective countries. Thus, Willy has many high-ranking friends in several countries, including Ogweno, Nambia and Kiyomi Azumabito. As a grown man, Willy has become the patriarch of the Tybur family. The latest generation of the Tyburs expanded its influence throughout the globe, making even more powerful friends and having contacts with world leaders and all the world's most powerful newspapers and reporters, as well as many famous celebrities, government and military officials, aristocrats and businessmen.

Aftermath of the last war[]

After the end of the Marley Mid-East War, in which Marley and a coalition of multiple nations fought for 4 years over a territory dispute for resources, the Marleyan government realizes that the age of the Titans is coming to and end. All the world's newspapers talk about Marley's victory in the Marley Mid-East War, yet the results in the Battle of Fort Slava confirm the harsh truth for the Eldians; they will no longer be useful to the nation. In the not too distant future, the Titans will not be part of future wars, which will be fought with modern warfare with conventional weapons of human technology, especially from the sky through aerial warfare. This leads General Calvi to prepare for another strike on Paradis Island to finally gain control of the Founding Titan to use it as a deterrent against enemy nations, whilst Marley rebuilds its military and naval power and develops greater aerial power, all while also gaining control of Paradis' natural resources through colonial expansion.

But tensions and rivalries between the world's major nations are growing stronger, and a global war might break out, so Calvi and the governmental party agree that Marley must renew its relationships and alliances before starting new plans. The Tybur family offers to the government to represent Marley in these hard times and speak to the rest of the world's major nations. Because of the Tyburs' positive reputation, friendships and charisma, as well their history and heroic background of having led the Marleyan uprising which finally ended the Eldian Empire during the Great Titan War, the government expects the rest of the world to listen to the Tyburs.

As Marley will no longer be able to use Titans in war, the existence of all the Subjects of Ymir in the world is threatened. Although the last generation of the Tybur family worked hard to improve the Eldians' social status in the world, most of the populations of every nation still support petitions to eradicate all the Subjects of Ymir and the Association to Protect the Subjects of Ymir does not have enough support, despite all its effort to advocate for the human rights of all the Eldians living in the internment zones, while redirecting all the hate to the Eldians on Paradis Island. Despite being more tolerant to them, the nation of Hizuru stays neutral and has no voice on the matter, due to its past association with the Eldian Empire, which leaves Marley as the only nation that keeps convincing the world to let them live in internment zones. But Marley's abuse of the power of the Titans throughout the last century has only kept the Eldians hated and/or feared by the majority across the globe. Since Marley gained many enemy countries with its aggressive expansionism and imperialistic policies, most of the world's major nations threaten to unite soon in a new war against the Tyburs' Motherland, making the existence of all the Subjects of Ymir threatened.

If Marley falls as a nation and its people are conquered, nothing will stop the other countries from doing as they wish to the Eldians. Willy Tybur plans to use General Calvi's decision to start a war against Paradis Island, by making it Marley's heroic quest against the Eldian Empire to save the world. He wants to remind to the world about the threat that the island is supposed to pose with its tens of millions of Colossal Titans that make the Walls of Eldia, a threat that has been forgotten by most after a century since the end of the Great Titan War and the Eldian Empire's fall. Willy plans to restore Marley as a nation of heroes who led the world against its common cruel enemy once more, whilst also portraying the Eldians living in the internment zones as victims of Paradis Island with no affiliation with them. Although it is unknown how he truly feels about the "devils" of Paradis Island, Willy chooses to sacrifice the entire population of the Walls to save the rest of the Subjects of Ymir in the world, especially those living in Marley, who have been abandoned by his predecessor family generations. By exterminating the island, Willy hopes that all his fellow Marleyan people will be saved; Eldians from extermination and Marleyans from conquest and losing independence again, which in his eyes will finally redeem the Tybur name from the negligence of the past family members.

Furthermore, to bring change to his nation and end its self-destructive imperialistic customs, Willy plans to replace Calvi and the whole main chain of command of the military dictatorship, and find more competent leaders to be led by a new General who is not a warmonger and worked and fought close to Eldians for years, enough to view them as humans undeserving of genocide. Willy hopes to bring change to his nation and give it a brighter future for its people, Marleyans and Eldians, as he views the Tybur family responsible for having thrown both into chaos and repeating the cycle of the past tragedies. Willy's intentions are known and likely supported by the adults of his family, who are his wife, his younger sister Lara, a male elderly member, and a female elderly one. If Marley changes its ways, Willy is convinced that many other nations will follow by example, especially if Marley becomes a country of heroes once more, with a "new Helos".

Willy Tybur personally brings his family out of the neutrality after a century and shows himself to the government to offer his aid, acting as the nation's main representative and one of its ambassadors along with other government officials and VIPS. In order to plan for stability between Marley and all the world's strongest nations, Willy reveals to the government his plan to use the next military campaign against Paradis Island to divert the attention of Marley's rivals. But first, the world must be reminded of the threat the island was said to pose, with the power of the Rumbling. One day, Willy brings his whole family in front of the press and makes a declaration to the world, stating that the Tyburs will finally send the War Hammer Titan in war and enemy territory, to fight for the Marleyan military for the very first time since the Great Titan War. Willy publicly declares that he is extending an invitation to all the world's nations to join Marley's cause in its incoming war campaign on Paradis Island. He offers friendship and coalition to all the world leaders, by inviting many powerful friends in the globe to Marley. Many countries, including all the world's major ones, accept Willy's invitation and agree to send VIPS and all the most important newspapers to Marley, where a festival will soon take place in the city of Liberio in a month. That day Willy will declare a promise to control Paradis Island within the year. To do so, the Marley Army's Warrior Unit is to team up with the Tybur family and fight beside the War Hammer Titan. The fate of both Marleyans and Eldians is expected to depend on this campaign for global stability, which will also make business flow.

Allying himself with Commander Magath[]

Days later, Willy and his family travel to Liberio and take residence in the Marley Army's Eldian Unit headquarters, which are located in the Marleyan city of the Liberio metropolis, outside the Eldian walled city. Arriving unannounced without giving notice, and accompanied by a whole host of the family's private royal guards, Willy's sudden arrival catches the military officers off guard, especially because that day the military leader of the structure is off somewhere else in another city. So upon his arrival, Willy cannot speak with that leader and meets instead the second person in charge of the place, which is Theo Magath, the Commander of the Eldian Unit and overarching leader of the Warrior program. As Magath and his second-in-command Koslow enter the Tybur's home residence in the headquarters' building, they are greeted by Willy Tybur who shakes Magath's hand and introduces himself as the family's patriarch. He also introduces the two to the rest of his family, who are present in the room as well.

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Willy meets Theo Magath.

To talk in quiet, Magath and Willy head out to the balcony where Willy asks whether Magath already figured out which member of his family is the holder of the Warhammer Titan. Magath admits that he has no clue and does not even know why the Tybur family has come to Liberio. Willy respects Magath's answer and reveals that even amongst the upper class Marleyans, the identity of the Warhammer Titan is known to only a few people. Magath mentions that the owner of the headquarters, who seems to be one of those few people, left the headquarters in a hurry after receíving instructions and Willy admits that he ordered the man to leave so that the two of them could speak alone. Willy also claims that he has come to see the statue of the hero Helos, who instigated the Great Titan War and freed Marley from Eldian oppression. Willy mentions that the hero was brave, handsome and strong, just as the spirit of Marley, and Magath adds that this is true because, like the spirit of Marley, the statue is hollow from the inside. Willy is amused by the answer and mentions that he heard that Magath plans to revive the Marleyan conscription system. Magath replies that the wars of Marley exist only in the newspapers and that it would be great if one could expand ones territory by simply reading those words.

However, Magath also admits that Marley will never stop fighting wars until it gets totally destroyed, painting a nihilistic view on the future of his country. In an accusing tone, Magath claims that if there is someone secretly controlling Marley from behind the scenes, it is already too late for them to save the country now. Willy understands the implication and reveals that - as Magath guessed - Marley is in truth under the control of the Tybur family. However, he adds that the path of militarism was chosen by Marley, not by the Tyburs, who have atoned for their former sins against Marley by allowing the nation to make its own choices; keeping away from the politics of the nation whenever possible. Magath wonders how Willy came to know all these things and Willy reveals that he inherited these memories along with the Warhammer Titan. He reveals that until now, the Tyburs have been simply observing Marley locking up Eldians and doing as they please. He claims that the result of that were both Eldia and Marley falling into darkness. Willy mentions that all this lies in the past know, and that - with rebellion brewing on Paradis - Willy plans to reveal the true history of the world and the Tybur's ancient secrets at the upcoming festival that will soon be held in Liberio.

Willy then tells Magath that he was not lying about having come to Liberio to see the statue of Helos. He claims that the time has come that Marley gets another hero. Holding his hand out for Magath to shake once more, Willy asks Magath whether he is ready to be this hero.

Preparations for the Festival[]

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Willy plots with Magath

Soon, preparations for the festival in Liberio's Eldian internment zone begin. Officials, ambassadors and leaders from all the different countries are invited to come to Marley to witness Willy Tybur's speech. As preparations for the festival are made, Willy meets once more with Magath, who has since been promoted to the general of Marley's armies. The two meet in the plaza of Liberio, where Willy is supervising the creation of the stage for the festival. Willy mentions the "home expansion" Magath is planning and Magath secretly hands him a black book containing information. Reading a few pages, Willy reads that Magath's plan requires large scale demolition and accepts it, handing the book to his personal guard. Willy then congratulates Magath on his promotion, claiming that Marley's military now belongs to Magath. Magath corrects him, claiming that it belongs to the nation. In their conversation, it is implied that Tybur is responsible for Magath's ascension.

Being basically in charge of the entirety of Marley, Willy states that, holding the wheel that steers the nation, he now sees why no one has tried to take it - it is too heavy. Willy claims that he would like to let go if he could but that an age has come where he has to keep holding on. He claims that it just happened to be him who had to take this role and now has to accept the consequences. He is severely shaking - presumably still by the contents of Magath's decoded message - but calms down. Magath, still using the code of "home expansion", claims that the home was on the verge of collapse but that there were some posts who were still usable. He claims that according to them, mouses have already snuck into their home. This information is correct, as Magath and the government are talking about enemies from Paradis Island and enemy traitors from within the Marleyan military, the Anti-Marleyan Volunteers, who brought the enemies from Paradis to the mainland. Unbeknownst to Willy and Magath, one of the rats in hiding is also Eren Yeager, the Usurper of the Founding Titan and Marley's main target.

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Willy meets the dignitaries from other nations.

In the evening, a gala is held for the foreign dignitaries who have arrived at Liberio for the festival. Several of Willy's old friends are among them and they jovially greet each other - he hasn't seen some of them since they were children. The conversation is interrupted when the Marleyan ambassador holds a dry and boring speech to welcome the guests, who do not even understand them as he is talking in the common language. Willy swiftly moves towards the stage and takes over from the ambassador. Willy holds a charismatic and eloquent speech, revealing to the assembled dignitaries that they have been invited to the Liberio Internment Zone, which is a compound filled with the demons who once tried to destroyed the world and massacred the people of many nations. He states that it is the home of Eldians and that the blood of Eldia runs through his veins as well. He states that Marley has been oppressed more than any other nation by the Eldians and that Marley in turn used Eldians to oppress other nations - repeating the tragedies of the past.

Willy claims that he understands that people want to exterminate the Eldians completely and that he himself has pondered over this question as well. Ending his speech on a high note, he reveals that he will reveal the conclusion he has come to on stage of the festival the next day. his speech is greeted by applause.

Revealing the truth[]

The next day, Willy prepares to head back to Liberio with his younger sister Lara and some of his personal guards. All the adults of the Tybur family are visibly saddened, as they are aware of the situation and Willy's plan and thus know that Willy is likely going to die. Knowing his enemies are expected to attack during his declaration, Willy refuses to bring any other family member with him, leaving them all behind to get away from what will become a warzone in the next hours. Willy bids farewell to his family as he prepares to depart. Despite the complaints of almost all his children, Willy insists that they cannot accompany him and entrusts his eldest daughter Fine to watch over her siblings. He bids his wife a final farewell and departs with his guards and Lara to the festival.

Willy and Commander Magath head to the Liberio Internment Zone in a carriage. During the ride, Willy tells Magath that the identities of the invaders from Paradis are not the main problem, instead complains to Magath that they have not yet found the moles in the Marleyan military, the non-Eldian traitors and conspirators who are working with Paradis. Willy surmises that if his enemies really meant to attack him during the festival, it would be in the middle of his speech. Magath confirms this, as the timing would be perfect - Willy and all of Marley's military executives are located in one place. Willy advises to put the army executives in special seats far away from the stage to keep them as far away from him as possible, should the enemy really strike. Seeing the worry in Magath's eyes, Willy explains that the Tybur family is not fooling around and that in contrast to the previous generations, his family has developed sincere exchanges with the upper classes all around the world. He claims that this helped improve the status of Eldians while also keeping an eye on the trend of Paradis Island. However, he claims that they should have looked at their feet instead because now, the enemy has crossed the ocean and arrived in Marley.

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Willy and Magath agree to continue with their plan.

Willy also reveals that they should worry about whoever inside Marley cooperates with the Paradis forces because as long as the mole is not found, no one is safe. He reminds Magath that Marley has many enemies and that the inside of the army is no exception. Accordingly, today's speech will serve as a way of luring the enemy into exposing themselves. Willy plans to accept the enemy's attack and make the best out of it but is also willing to listen if Magath has alternatives. Magath is worried, claiming that even if they really manage to trick the enemy, the bait is too big. However, Willy argues that they could just invite the incompetent army executives, which would mean that in case the enemy actually attacks the military, Magath would be the sole remaining leader and the Marleyan government would approve of him to rebuild the army however he choses. Magath mentions all the civilian lives that would be lost but Willy loses his patience and shouts that most of them will be Eldians - the descendants of the devil - and claims that his reaction is unexpected because Magath has sent numbers of Eldians in front of enemies machine guns during the wars. Willy claims that it is the same fate with or without the uniform and urges Magath to just keep doing what he has been doing so far.

Magath, however, reminds Willy that this is not war. He reveals that he is unsure of the identity, purpose and means of the enemies attack and that there will be crowds of civilians around the stage. Magath claims that he will likely not be able to protect Willy and that if they actually go on with the plan, it is likely that Willy will die. Magath claims that Willy is too important to be bait but Willy states that he is prepared. He claims that the world will not bee looking if Willy does not come out and stand before them. The gathering of army, reporters and ambassadors would not take place. Willy makes it clear that it is pivotal that the Eldians of Liberio, including himself, are the victims of the "unforeseen" attack because this would unite the world against the Eldians of Paradis Island when they see that Paradis is even willing to slaughter their own kind. Realizing the truth of Willy's words, Magath accepts to go on as planned but also states that while the Eldians might be the descendants of the devil, this plot makes Willy and Magath devils themselves. The two soon arrive at the plaza where Willy prepares for his play.

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Willy starts his play.

Behind the stage, Willy is informed that his time has come. Before he can walk onto the stage he is visited by Kiyomi Azumabito, the head of a clan from Hizuru, an eastern nation. She claims that she came to see Willy before the play and Willy admits that he looks like hell and is nervous. Indeed, he is sweating and shaking but Kiyomi tells him that he looks just fine. She claims that she hopes that he finishes his role safely and Willy thanks her. However, the Azumabito's then leave Liberio for good and do not wait for the play to start.

At the time of the beginning of the play, Eren has captured Falco Grice and Reiner Braun in the basement of the building directly behind the stage. Although Falco does not understand what is happening, Reiner realizes that Eren is blackmailing him into compliance by threatening to transform into a titan, which would kill all the people in the building above them listening to the play and Willy's speech. Eren forces both of them to listen to the play from the basement.

When the play starts, Willy walks onto the stage. He starts his play with recounting the story of the world, starting with the Eldians using the Power of the Titans to dominate and terrorize the other nations. While actors are acting out the scenes Willy narrates behind him, Willy speaks about the severe losses of human life and ethnicities and cultures in general that have all been destroyed by the Eldians. He states that the Eldians even started attacking themselves when they had no more enemies - the eight great families that controlled the titans conspired, betrayed and murdered each other all the time. Willy then announces that the Marleyan hero Helos saw the chance for victory and manipulated the Eldian empire. By alligning himself with the Tybur family, Helos succeeded in destroying the Eldian empire and forcing the Eldian king Karl Fritz into fleeing the mainland and taking refuge on Paradis Island.

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Willy reveals the true role of King Fritz.

Willy then reminds the assembled people that the king still had the power of the Founding Titan and tens of millions of titans that have the power to trample the world on his island. He claims that the sole reason that the world has not yet been trampled to death is sole chance. Willy then portrays the Paradis Island Operation - a mission of stealing the Founder and eradicating the people of the Walls- which resulted in Paradis recovering its history and reignited cooled-hostilities between Eldia and Marley as an attempt to protect the world.

Willy also reveals that in the past four years, 32 ships have been sent to Paradis but none returned. Thus, Willy concludes that the Eldian Empire still remains intact - thriving on Paradis Island protected by the threat of complete annihilation the Wall Titans would unleash if any enemy dared to attack Paradis.

Willy then moves on to the real topic of the day. He claims that the story he recounted so far is the story that is generally known to the public. However, he reveals that he will now reveal the true story, the one that has been inherited to the Tybur family along the Warhammer Titan. To general surprise, Willy reveals that neither Helos nor the Tybur family are responsible for the end of the Great Titan War, it was Karl Fritz, the King of Eldia. Willy explains that King Fritz lamented the cruel history of the Eldian empire and took pity on the downtrodden people of Marley. King Fritz aligned himself with the Tybur family and the two of them set up a plot. They invented the hero Helos and when the Eldian empire collapsed from civil war, he moved as many Eldians as possible to Paradis and sealed them within the walls he created from his millions of wall titans. He then left a message that he would retaliate with these titans if his peace was disturbed but in truth, he had taken a vow of pacifism which he forcefully passed on to everybody who inherited the Founding Titan. However, this vow of pacifism hinges on the successor being of royal blood.

Tybur reveals that if the Founding Titan had remained within the royal bloodline, there would be no problems because the Founding Titan could literally not be used to harm Marley or to unleash the wall titans. However, Willy then reveals to the people that a usurper is now threatening this peace because he stole the Founding Titan without being of royal blood. This means that the current Founding Titan is not bound to the vow of pacifism and that Eren Yeager - the usurper of the Founding Titan - could unleash the titans inside the walls and destroy the entire world.

Declaring War on Paradis[]

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Eren reveals himself.

Willy then reminds the people that this means that the Tybur family are no saviors at all, they joined hands with Karl Fritz under the condition that they welfare was guaranteed - selling out Eldia to Marley in the process. From then on, the Tyburs enjoyed the respect of the world despite being Eldians themselves. Willy claims that he learned this fact when he became the family's patriarch and that his legs trembled from nausea when he realized the truth. Willy claims that he considers the Tybur family to be nothing but petty thieves that desire honor that does not exist. Realizing that the enemy will soon strike, Willy takes a last look at his family who stand near the stage. He then moves on to the final part of his speech.

He once more reminds the audience of the colossal wall titans on Paradis Island. He claims that these wall titans are the threat he spoke about earlier. He reminds them that Eren could unleash these titans at any point and that the sheer power of all the titans combined would destroy anything in their paths, even the ecosystems. Nothing would endure if these titans were to be unleashed. Billy states that no weapon would be able to restrain them and that humanity could only tremble and watch on as their destruction drew closer, should the titans be unleashed.

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Eren murders Willy.

In a move that shocks the audience, Willy breaks out in tears and claims that due to his own resentment of his Eldian blood, he wished not to be born at all and hoped for the extinction of all Eldians. Realizing that his death is about to come, Willy admits that he doesn't want to die just because he was born into this world. Down in the cellar, Eren understands this feeling. The audience is also deeply moved and Willy then claims that although all their races and nations are different, the future is theirs to live together. He asks that they join him and lend him their strength so that they can fight together against the devils of Paradis Island. As Willy declares war on Paradis Island, the crowd rewards him with thunderous applause. However, the moment is cut short when Eren transforms into his Titan form and breaks out through the building behind Willy. In shock, Willy looks into the eyes of the giant titan behind him as Eren smashes him with his fist and throws his broken, mangled body into the air to devour whom he believes to be the Warhammer Titan.

After Eren devours Willy's corpse, his sister frees herself from under the ruins of the stage. Thanking his brother for his sacrifice and claiming that he did an outstanding job for the Tybur family, she transforms into the Warhammer Titan.

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Trivia[]

  • Along with Zeke, Willy started the foundation the Global Alliance, which was created as a result of the Raid on Liberio, which proved fears against Eldia's return correct. While Willy believed the attack was being decided by the Eldian military of Paradis, the real mastermind behind it was Zeke, who worked with fellow perpetrators Eren and Yelena to provoke the world into a war against Paradis Island, a plan that backfired after Eren's true intentions were revealed later.
  • Willy's wife is presumably a "pure" Marleyan, or from any other country; someone who is not a Subject of Ymir. This is due to the fact that there was never any evidence of the Tyburs practicing inbreeding throughout the past century after the Great Titan War, that Eldians from the internment zones are legally forbidden from breeding with the rest of the global population, and that humanity always viewed the Tyburs as equals.
  • While four of his children have official names, his younger girl remained unnamed. His wife and his two elderly relatives are still unnamed as well.
  • Unlike all the other Eldians in the world outside the Walls of Paradis, Willy's family is not segregated in the internment zones. The Tyburs are actual Marleyan citizens, are extremely wealthy, powerful, influential across the globe, and owns numerous large and elegant mansions and similar estates. They also do not wear armbands, while even the Army's Warrior Unit and their direct family members, who are also considered "honorary Marleyans," do not have this privilege.
  • In the story, a total of 10 Tyburs were featured, during their visit in Liberio, but it was never confirmed this was the whole extended family. As the Tyburs are said to own multiple estates across the globe, it is possible that there are many more Tyburs other than the members who appeared.
  • The status of Willy's family members after the Rumbling was never confirmed to the viewer and left ambiguous. It is only known that the human population evacuated their settlements to escape the Rumbling, using any vehicles they had to leave their lands, such as ships and airships. It is not impossible for the Tyburs to have escaped successfully, given their advantages such as status, wealth and power, and the fact that they knew of the incoming Rumbling in advance from being Subjects of Ymir and having heard Eren Yeager's declaration of omnicide.
    • Besides the Tybur's status, it was confirmed in the ending that the political Global Alliance remained active after the Rumbling, and took the control over the world to keep humanity united and rebuild the world.
  • While the PS gate guards of the Liberio internment zone reacted with denial and hostility upon hearing the warnings of the Eldian population, resulting in a riot, the world was successfully alerted of the Rumbling before it reached the Marleyan continent. It is possible that Willy's family gave the alarm, as well as the reserves of the Marleyan Military who escaped Paradis Island on two airships to inform the world, and even the authorities of other Marleyan cities and the other countries heeding the warnings of their internment zones, which gave enough time for the Global Alliance to hastily assemble a united fleet in a failed attempt to stop the Rumbling.
  • Willy's family name "Tybur" appears to be a variant spelling of the name "Tiber," which is itself a variant of the Latin name "Tiberius." "Tiber" is also the Latin and English name of the river "Tevere" which runs through Rome, the third largest river in Italy. Willy's surname is not the only nomenclature with Latin and Italian inspiration for Marley.
    • Although the Tyburs used to be one the most powerful ruling families of the Eldian Empire, as holders of the Nine Titans, it is unknown if the family originated from Eldia. Given their name, it is possible their ancestors originated from one of the old incarnations of Marley, and managed to rise into power after becoming Subjects of Ymir, which was seen as a symbol of superiority, power and status in the days of Eldian domination. If the Tyburs have Marleyan ancestry, this might have been one reason for the Tyburs during the Great Titan War to seek to revive Marley and lead the uprising against Eldia with the War Hammer Titan.

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Eldian Warriors
The Hunters

Paradis Island
Eldian Military: Darius Zackly
Nobility: Aurille | The Puppet King Fritz | Lord Xavi Inocencio
Military Police Brigade: First Interior Squad (First Interior Squad Commander, Djel Sannes, Ralph) | Anti-Personnel Control Squad (Kenny Ackerman, Traute Caven)
Yeagerists: Eren Yeager | Floch Forster | Daz
Religious factions: Church of the Walls | Titan Cult
Civilians: Dimo Reeves | The Kidnappers

Marley
Tybur Family
Willy Tybur

Marleyan Military
Governmental Party: Theo Magath | Calvi
Public Security Authorities: Sergeant Major Gross
Warrior Unit: Zeke Yeager | Reiner Braun | Bertolt Hoover | Annie Leonhart
Soldiers: Airborne Unit (Paratrooper Unit Commander) | Gas Weaponry Soldiers

Anti-Marleyan Volunteers
Yelena | Griez

Eldian Restorationists
Eren Kruger | Grisha Yeager

Civilians
Cult Leader

Other
Kubal | Shikishima | Devil of All Earth | Source of all living matter | Okapi Titan | Snake Titan

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