Neon Genesis Evangelion/Characters: Difference between revisions

 

She is in many ways the polar opposite of Asuka, and is compared to Yui Ikari, implicitly and explicitly, on multiple occasions.

 

* [[Action Girl]]: She has her moments.

* [[Unresolved Sexual Tension]]: With Shinji.

* [[Unusually Uninteresting Sight]]: Justified, since everybody except Shinji knew her for years, and the strangeness of her blue hair and red eyes are nothing special by the start of the series.

* [[Warrior Therapist]]: Rei plays this to Shinji, Asuka, and in the manga, Ritsuko, and demonstrates that the world is so effed up that it's better [[There Are No Therapists]].

* [[Weak but Skilled]]: The lowest synch rate and the worst EVA, but she makes up for it with piloting ability and capacity to follow the plan.

* [[Yamato Nadeshiko]]: Her second incarnation gains some shades of this after she [[Defrosting Ice Queen|defrosts]]. She is quite serious, never shows any animosity towards anyone (even to Asuka, whose dislike of Rei is very evident) unless they insult the Ikaris, either of whom she would die for at any given moment. She also reacts with a [[Luminescent Blush]] to being told that she'd [[Lampshade Hanging|would make a good housewife]]. It's more obvious in ''Rebuild of Evangelion'' where she tries to get Shinji to get along with Gendo by inviting them to a home-cooked dinner.

* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]: Rei's unrealistic, icy blue hair is one of her defining character traits, to the point that it got its own paint color.

 

=== '''Asuka Langley Soryu/[[Alternate Continuity|Shikinami]]''' ===