Adam and or Eve: Difference between revisions

Writers like to use the names Adam and/or Eve symbolically. Maybe they're the first of their kind, or the last; maybe they are the definitive uber-example of whatever it is they are; maybe they represent some kind of genesis or important change; or maybe it's not entirely clear what the symbolism is meant to be. Note that such naming may occasionally be coincidental; "Adam" is still a relativity common English-language name, though "Eve" is less so.

The names mean "From the Ground" (or "man") and "living"/"life," respectively, in Hebrew.

* The Seeds of Life, more commonly (and erroneously, including [[In -Universe]]) known as the First and Second "Angels", from ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'', are named "Adam" and "Lilith" respectively. Additionally, the Evangelion mechs are usually referred to with the shortened designation "Eva", a variation of "Eve". {{spoiler|As the majority of known Eva were apparently cloned from Adam, this invokes the myth of Eve's creation from Adam's rib}}.

* There was a play about this in ''[[Black Cat (Mangamanga)|Black Cat]]'' (anime only).

* Adam Blade and Eve Neuschwanstein in ''[[NeedlessNEEDLESS]]''.

* ''[[One Piece (Manga)|One Piece]]'' has the Treasure Tree Adam (has the most durable wood in the world) and the Sunlight Tree Eve (enormous mangrove tree that canalizes sunlight to the sea floor). It's speculated in-universe whether or not the two of them are related, but not confirmed.

* A weird example: in the second year of the ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog (Comic Bookcomics)|Sonic The Hedgehog]]'' comic book, a one-shot villain called E.V.E. ('''E'''xceptionally '''V'''ersatile '''E'''volvanoid) was introduced. Created by Dr. Robotnik, E.V.E. was shape-shifting mass of what basically amounted to nanomachines, and there was little to suggest that the name was chosen by Dr. R with the biblical character in mind...until several years later, when Dr. Eggman came up with a mostly unrelated artificial intellicence called A.D.A.M.

* It may just be a coincidence with everyone's favorite [[The Dark Age of Comic Books|90s gimmick character]] and [[X -Men]] footnote Adam-X the [[Xtreme Kool Letterz|X-Treme]], but he ''is'' the only known human/Shi'ar [[Half-Human Hybrid|hybrid]] and therefore the first of his kind.

* After centuries of solitude, [[Wall E|WALL-E]] meets a fellow robot; she is named EVE. The symbolism is doubled when we realise that she represents a new start on Earth for the human race. Also, she looks vaguely like a dove and returns to an 'ark' of survivors carrying a plant.

* In ''[[Being There]]'', the first person Chance, the gardener gets to know at length outside of his old homehome—and -- and garden -- isgarden—is a woman named ''Eve'' Rand. In the novella, this symbolism was inobvious; her full name was Elizabeth Eve Rand, and she was usually referred to as "EE". In the film, this was changed, probably because [[Pragmatic Adaptation|"EE" would have sounded weird onscreen]] -- though—though the [[Rule of Symbolism]] likely played a part in ''which'' name she would use.

* In [[Narnia]], men are called "sons of Adam" and women are called "daughters of Eve." Ironically, Adam and Eve never even ''existed'' in Narnia--theNarnia—the nicknames were probably brought over by the first human settlers, who were from our universe.

* In ''[[Good Omens (Literature)|Good Omens]]'', by [[Terry Pratchett (Creator)|Terry Pratchett]] and [[Neil Gaiman]], [[The Antichrist]] is named Adam by his human father. The idea is that the boy is neither intrinsically good nor intrinsically evil, just intrinsically ''human''.

* In ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)|Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', the Frankenstein-like monster who is the [[Big Bad]] of season four is named Adam.

** The spin-off, ''[[Angel (TV)|Angel]],'' features Eve, Angel's liason to the demonic Senior Partners. Since her admitted job is to tempt the cast into evil, she [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshades]] her own name while mockingly offering Angel an apple.

* In ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'', Adam Monroe is (at least) 400 years old, and his superpower is immortality with healing factor. It is implied by the comics that he may be the ancestor of all the people on the show with powers.

* ''[[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined (2004 TV series)|Battlestar Galactica]]'''s Commander Adama and the rest of the Adama family.

* In ''[[Robin Hood (TV series)|Robin Hood]]'' one of the Sheriff's spies is called Eve, who tries to seduce one of the outlaws. In a [[Subversion]] of expectations, she ends up performing a [[High Heel Face Turn]] out of love for him.

* ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'' has both an Adam and an Eve, though the two have nothing to do with each other. Sam and Dean have a half-brother named Adam Milligan, who is introduced in season 4 and later becomes a makeshift vessel for the [[Archangel Michael]] in season 5. Season 6 gives us the [[Mother of a Thousand Young|Mother of All Monsters]], who calls herself Eve. Given that she claims to be even older than angels, it's more than likely just an ironic alias rather than the actual Eve.

* ''[[Being Human (TVUK)|Being Human]]'': At the end of the first episode of Series 4 we find out that George and Nina's baby -- thebaby—the first child born of two werewolves -- iswerewolves—is named Eve.

* A woman named Eve Moonlit kick-starts the events of [[Mothy]]'s Evillious Chronicles series in ''Moonlit Bear'' by stealing two apples ({{spoiler|actually babies}}) from a bear ({{spoiler|their mother}}). Then in ''Tale of Moonlit Abandonment,'' she and her husband, Adam Moonlit, are {{spoiler|murdered}} by her now 14-year-old adoptive children when she attempts to get rid of them by leaving them in the forest, and her {{spoiler|death}} releases the Seven Sins to the world.

* In older editions of ''[[Gamma World (Tabletop Game)|Gamma World]]'' (and the first d20 adaption, Omega World), pure-strain (unmutated) humans were often known as Adams and Eves for reasons that supposedly no one remembers.

* Although not a character, ''[[BioshockBioShock (Video Gameseries)|Bioshock]]'' features a substance which can grant you new physical and mental abilities, and another substance which acts as a sort of fuel for those abilities, named ADAM and EVE respectively.

* In ''[[Trauma Center (Video Gameseries)|Trauma Center]]: Under the Knife/Second Opinion'', the leader of Delphi is named Adam; GUILT was incubated inside him.

* The titular antagonist of ''[[Parasite Eve]]'' takes her name from [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitochondrial_Eve:Mitochondrial Eve|Mitochondrial Eve]].

* In [[Girl Genius (Webcomic)|Girl Genius]], the promethean constructs Punch and Judy live as regular people under the names Adam and Lilith Clay. In this case, every part of both names are significant. Lilith was traditionally (in [[Canon Dis ContinuityDiscontinuity|Apocrypha]]) the first woman, and made from clay like Adam, instead of from Adam himself. This makes the two constructs equal to each other.

* Real-life example: Scientists have named the human race's matrilineal and patrilineal most recent common ancestors, respectively, [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitochondrial_Eve:Mitochondrial Eve|Mitochondrial Eve]] and [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/:Y-chromosomal_Adamchromosomal Adam|Y-chromosomal Adam]]. Of course these are titles, so the person who holds them can and has changed over time.

** It's a bit of a misnomer, though, since it is probably not the case that they were the first humans, knew each other or even lived at the same time. Mitochondrial Eve is simply the latest woman who is a common matrilinal<ref> Going solely from mother to daughter, so having sons but no daughters would end the matrilinal line.</ref> ancestor to everyone now living, but when she lived and earlier there were lots of other human women; it's just that their children (or their children's children, or...) were male or died without reproducing. Same for Y-chromosomal Adam on the patrilineal<ref> The line going from father to sun, not running through daughters at all.</ref> and female descendants.

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