[142] Despite his reservations, Levi is convinced by his subordinates to allow them to drink wine imported from Marley while they are guarding Zeke in the forest. Erwin orders the soldiers to be wary of hidden Titans and then orders them to switch to vertical maneuvering equipment and begin the mission. Because of their hazardous profession and his personal values, he cares greatly for his subordinates' welfare. [74], Though the rest of his squad is upset by his behavior, Levi presents his worldview, where food, sleep, even the lives of companions are not guaranteed to be around tomorrow. They move into the old Survey Corps HQ inside Wall Rose. [65], After running their experiments, Levi receives a note from Erwin and asks those members of his squad "dumb enough" to trust the Commander to come with him. [102], Levi watches the Garrison's cannon attacks against Rod Reiss, noting how ineffective they are. The soldiers salute him in response and Levi returns the salute. [61], By contrast, Erwin smiles at the news, which disturbs Levi to the point he says Erwin is going to make him sick. After clearing the immediate area, Levi checks on the injured soldier, who is quickly succumbing to his injuries. This is confirmed by the fact that Reiner warned Zeke . [12][13] In the 36th Anime Grand Prix he was Best Male Character[14][15] In the 3rd BTVA Anime Dub Awards Matthew Mercer was nominated for Levi. The reason for this is that Eren now remembers a past memory where his father Dr. Yeager met Keith after the massacre in the Reiss family chapel. [58], Levi is briefly seen again at Trost District, still sidelined due to his injury. Hearing Zeke scream, Levi shouts at him to shut up, explaining that this has to be done to prevent him from becoming a Titan. Though he will not personally offer them any information, he agrees to reveal the identity of a person who is able to speak about the secrets of the Walls: Historia Reiss. ), often formally referred to as Captain Levi(Rivai Heich? Does Levi know his last name? As his allies disembark Falco to begin their objectives, Levi laments the fact that he is too injured to help. [63], However, Hange also wants to lay low because Minister Nick has been murdered. When she shakily says she is unfit, he grabs her and lifts her off the ground, choking her and telling her to fight back if she does not like it. [95], They arrive at the chapel and find the secret door leading underground. Realizing that the smoke is going to transform the Eldians present into Titans, Levi quickly orders Mikasa and Pieck to leave the fort with him on Falco so that they are not put in danger by the Titans. Connie suggests killing the source, but Levi insists that they have been left with no other option than to kill Eren. Metropolitan Area Outer Underground Discharge Channel, "Hiroshi Kamiya, Daisuke Ono, Romi Park Join Attack on Titan Cast", "Attack on Titan Cast Announcement Day 3", "Matthew Mercer Reflects on Voicing Attack on Titan's Levi Ackerman", "The Attack on Titan collab event starts on December 8th, and along with the previously announced Levi and Mikasa characters, they announced that Eren Yeager will be participating in the event "in his own way". Elsewhere around the stakeout, Keiji and the Abel are killed as well. One of his most defining characteristics is the great value he places on preserving human life; this is especially shown when it was revealed that all Titans might have once been human themselves. After the explanation finishes, Levi admonishes Zeke for his lack of guilt, and tells him that he clearly has no concern for human life. [60] Levi is initially skeptical because they have never found humans inside the bodies of Titans, even living ones, and is depressed to think that he could have been killing people this whole time. Jin Haganeya's visual novel Burning bright in the forest of the night has Eren and Levi as the leading characters. [100], Erwin meets up with them and Levi briefs him on the situation. So, that is Captain Levi Ackerman to you. The scene itself was quite harrowing as the . After the meeting is finished, Levi waits until all the other members have left and then shuts the door, intent on having a private conversation with Erwin. [136], He later participates in the infiltration into Marley and the ensuing Raid on Liberio. He is also said to be as valuable as an entire brigade, far outweighing all of the other soldiers. He rarely shows emotion, giving a cold impression to others. In what turned to be a deeply ironic situation, Levi did not foresee Zeke launching an attack on him. Dismayed to hear that his friends and comrades have essentially died for nothing to protect Eren, Levi tells them they are altering the plan. More specifically, he does not get drunk. When the formation is suddenly attacked by a horde of Titans coming at their right flank, they change course toward the Titan Forest, and Levi's squad takes the central route. [98] Eren's Titan form then crystallizes, stabilizing the cavern around the squad, preventing them from being crushed. More posts you may like r/attackontitan Join 2 yr. ago Does Kenny / Levi know if Mikasa is an Ackerman 4 10 r/Supernatural Join 2 yr. ago SPOILER [134], Levi attends the military meeting to decide whether to cooperate with Zeke and the Anti-Marleyan Volunteers. Howev. Levi's popularity led him to win several awards and polls. After the Jaw Titan sneaks behind and jumps on the back of the Attack Titan, Levi takes note and goes to intercept it. Levi is skeptical, but Jean steps in and asks if he can handle this. She only knows that her father's family was persecuted, and not the reason why. [38] Levi tells Eren not to take their actions personally, and that they have good intentions. Rather than sleeping in a bed, Levi just sleeps in his chair. Levi questions a subordinate, asking if they are still not at the bottom of the mountain, worrying that it is almost dawn. 2. . [21] Levi's encounter with Kenny was also the subject of praise for the fight coreography and expanding more on Levi's backstory. Armin believes it is an abnormal since it is ignoring them and Levi tells everyone that they are going after it. She has to do it. At the same time, this helps him keep his energy up without wasting stamina and strength needlessly, enabling him to fight for longer periods of time and take multiple targets out simultaneously. I know the Ackerman's are byproducts titans and they have an awakening, but he had his awakening not when he saw his mom died. Levi stops Hange only long enough to tell them to dedicate their heart.[163]. He is averse to having either himself or his equipment soiled, and has been known to wipe down his blood-smeared blades while still on the battlefield. "[175] This also prevents him from having his memory wiped. Noticing the sudden arrival of Zeke Yeager's Beast Titan, Levi orders the surviving soldiers to regroup and stares down the Beast Titan. It was also confirmed that due to living in the Underground in an unsanitary state in his younger years, he longed for a clean home. As he watches Erwin, Levi recalls his order to Erwin to give up on his dreams and die with the rest of the Survey Corps' recruits, and the look of relief on Erwin's face at the order. He assumed Kenny was his dad so he makes an assumption about himself. Levi watches on as the citizens of the Trost District cheer for the Survey Corps and call out his name. She glares at Levi after the trial, seemingly unnerving him. They open the first book and within it they find an uncannily realistic portrait of Grisha standing beside a fair-haired woman and a child. [103] When the Titan reaches the Wall, Levi and his squad move forward with Erwin's plan to cripple Rod Reiss' hands with explosives and have Eren shoves barrels of gunpowder inside Rod's mouth, causing him to explode. [33], Three days later, after Eren wakes up in the dungeon beneath the courthouse, Levi assures him that the higher-ups will let him join the Survey Corpsand that he himself will make sure Eren does not get out of hand. Eren and Mikasa try to convince Levi of Armin's value, while Floch argues that Levi is correct to save Erwin, and a fight between them is only narrowly avoided by the arrival of Hange, who pulls Mikasa off of Levi. He is quickly urged on by Levi to get to the outer gate and the two take off. While on the expedition, Levi sees a soldier caught in the jaws of a nearby Titan and kills it. However, after he joined the Survey Corps, he came to greatly respect Commander Erwin Smith, whose orders he follows willingly because he trusts in Erwin's vision for the Corps. He also guesses that Nick did not reveal any information, as all his fingernails had been pulled out. In a private follow-up between the heads of the military, Erwin decides to entrust Levi with the Titan injection since he has the highest chance of surviving. [52] Levi then proceeds to attack the Female Titan, and after a series of successful attacks, he incapacitates her. Mikasa tries to protest, but Levi insists that they are no longer in a position where they can care about Eren's well-being. Unknown to Mikasa, the beating was an act in defense of Eren that gave the impression that despite Eren's fearsome Titan powers, Levi (and by extension, the rest of humanity) could still control him. I like it because it is a brand that shows that he almost died but he was strong and stayed alive until he fulfilled his promise. A furious Hange tells him that he is not the one who decides if that information is valuable or not and reprimands him for not saying anything about it to the Survey Corps before, prompting Levi to tell Hange to stop. Despite the character's popularity, nobody in the staff knew about his backstory making him hard to approach. Yelena claims that Eren is going to Fort Salta, but Levi is concerned by her sudden cooperation. He kills one of the MPs before landing in Armin's wagon and orders them to stop following the hearse. He apologizes for losing Keiji, Nifa, and Abel, but Hange finds hope in the fact that their sacrifice enabled Levi to beat the First Interior Squad, to which Levi admits that their leader and his team are still out there. [157], As Levi is being transported, they cross paths with the Cart Titan and a Marleyan general. Was it Erwin? In the three years following the battle at Salta, Levi takes up residence in Marley. Before he can announce their fates, Hitch challenges him over the civilian deaths in Stohess District and berates his squad over the disappearance and presumed death of Annie, who she never really got to know. Pieck departs to help Reiner fight the centipede while Falco takes Levi and Mikasa directly to Eren. That may be the reason for his obsession with cleaning. [71], Rather than giving in to the torture, Sannes goads them into tormenting him further. [133], One year after the Battle of Shiganshina District, Levi and other members of the Survey Corps make contact with the Anti-Marleyan Volunteers, Yelena and Onyankopon, who rebel against the rest of the Marleyan crew on their ship. Port Mafia. He came to regard Levi as his favorite character, especially due to his moral ambiguity; According to Mercer, while Levi is known as the strongest fighter in mankind's fight against the Titans, he is often forced to take dark decisions in order to survive. Despite his preoccupation with cleanliness, Levi is not very approachable. The Shiganshina Trio offer to help locate her, and in describing her, Mikasa reveals the name of Ymirmuch to Hange's and Levi's surprise. Eren's Titans arrive as the repairs are being made and Hange volunteers to hold them off while the ship departs. Attack on Titan's complex and unbeatable Levi Ackerman is such a character, a virtuous person destined for tragedy akin to some of Shakespeare's greatest figures.A respected captain that becomes more ruthless as his journey goes along, he's easily one of the most interesting aspects of the Attack on Titan anime. He then orders that they and the rest of the Corps to go back to their quarters and go to bed. Replies. After the appearance of the Armored and Colossus Titans atop Wall Rose, a detachment of about 100 soldiers from all three military branches is gathered. [78], As he realizes this, Kenny Ackerman appears behind him, wearing vertical maneuvering equipment that is modified to work with guns for killing humans. If Levi had shown something I would take into count, I know every Ackerman is super strong, but in the end Mikasa is the one showcasing more physical strength by feats. [46] He and Mike attack her and try to cut her hands, only to discover her ability to harden her skin. [40], Once the Female Titan appears, his squad begs Levi to give them orders, but he continues to ride forward and look straight ahead. He ridicules Hange for failing to make friends with Pieck, but becomes concerned when his commander begins musing about their fallen comrades. [115] As per the plan, 100 soldiers covered by hoods rush to the outer gate to confuse any watching enemies, making sure they do not know which soldier is Eren. [72] This allows Sannes to overhear a staged conversation between Levi and Ralph, where Levi claims that Ralph told them everything and Ralph in turn pretends to have no care for Sannes, calling him a pain, and asking if there will be a bed in his cell. Levi is unbelievably adept at using the vertical maneuvering equipment, to a point that everyone says he is the best at it; even after losing several of his fingers, Levi was still able to utilize the equipment almost as easily as before. Levi attempts to apologize to Erwin for failing to kill the Beast Titan, but Hange informs him that Erwin has already died. Unfortunately they do not have the time for Historia to think this over, so he snaps and demands her answer immediately. Terrified, Zeke pulls the pin on the Thunder Spear lodged in his stomach; a shocked Levi is unable to react and is caught in the resulting explosion. [177], Levi does not seem to favor using Thunder Spears, since he does not carry them during the raid on Liberio, contrary to the other members of the Survey Corps's ground forces. Levi calls their bluff by inviting them to join the Survey Corps any day so they can go outside of the Walls to fight them, whereupon they back down. However, after Kenny reveals to him that he is his uncle in his final moments, Levi learns that he is an Ackerman. [112], The next day, just before sunset, Levi along with the other Survey Corps leaders salute the higher-ups of the brass, including Darius Zackly and Commander Pixis. [27][28] One day, in the subterranean city, Levi started a fight which he won easily. His role in the prequel No Regrets also attracted good response for expanding his backstory. He is voiced by Hiroshi Kamiya in the Japanese version of the anime, and by Matthew Mercer and Mikaela Krantz as a child in the . [18][19] Multiple types of merchandising have been developed with the fandom enjoying the facial expressions given to his figurines. Levi and his squad depart with one hostage who Levi interrogates about their location, but the MP refuses to talk, instead spouting off about how the Survey Corps will be lucky to survive and how Erwin and the other captured soldiers will be executed. Levi prepares to inject Erwin, but is given pause by Eren, who tries to sway Levi by telling him of Armin's dream to see the ocean. [vol. Levi is the squad captain of the Special Operations Squad within the Survey Corps, and is said to be humanity's strongest soldier. Levi reassures his team that Armin is unhurt, as he would have transformed otherwise, and begins devising a plan to act as bait for the Titans while the rest of the group tries to save him. In the manga, he's known as humanity's strongest soldier, since he has defeated so many titans and has been able to defeat some of the greatest antagonists in the series, such as Zeke and Kenny. His manner of speaking tends to be very blunt, even insulting, and his comments are often coarse or inappropriate. [172] This does not stop him from injuring himself though. The memory is enough to get Eren on his feet. [149] As Zeke butchers the final Titan and throws the bloody pieces at him, Levi dodges Zeke's attack while chopping up large tree branches to hide himself in mid-air. But when his friends are eaten by a weird looking titan then he has his awakening! [143], Zeke later tells Levi about the method he had used to turn the people of Ragako into Titans. [84], Levi and his squad trap Marlowe Freudenberg and Hitch Dreyse, who have been sent into the forest to look for Survey Corps soldiers. Seeing that the Female Titan is now helpless, Mikasa disobeys Levi's orders and attempts to kill the person inside the Titan. Whatever Eren chooses to do, Levi says, he should do it and believe he will not regret it. Levi is known as humanity's most powerful soldier and head of an elite squad in the Survey Corps. The Colossus disables Reiner's Titan and then throws it at the group, knocking them off Eren's Titan. Levi is unwilling to turn back so soon, is forced to concede when Erwin informs him that Wall Rose has possibly been breached. [59], Levi visits Erwin when he is well enough to talk and expresses sympathy for the loss of Erwin's arm. His biological father is . [113], Near dawn, the Survey Corps walk on foot through a forest on a mountain, leading their horses. [125], After injecting Armin, Levi watches as Armin's mindless Titan form devours Bertolt, and explains to a confused Floch that, after all he has given, it is time for Erwin to finally rest. Zeke weakly asks where his glasses are but Levi brushes it aside, stating he would no longer be needing them. [155] Before Floch can check, he is distracted by the sight of Zeke emerging from a nearby Titan, allowing Hange to grab Levi's body and dive into the river to escape. They find a trail left by a Titan crawling along the ground, and follow it until they reach the edge of Paradis Island. Their leader turns out to be Dimo Reeves, the merchant boss who was blocking the gate with his cargo the day Trost was invaded. So yes, both Mikasa and Levi know they are related, but it does not change their relationship with one another. Levi concludes that there must be something special about her bloodline. He participates in the final War for Paradis story arc, after which he is so heavily injured that he is wheelchair-bound, but he ultimately survives the events of the manga. Original Japanese version published by Kodansha. 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