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* Shinji's decision to save Rei in ''Rebuild'' has a distributing implication, namely the fact that Shinji is ready to sacrifice the human race to be reunited with a woman whom he relies on emotionally. He has basically come to adopt his father's screwed world-view.
== [[Fridge Logic]] ==
* NERV cannot harm any angels aside from an N2 mine, before Shinji was introduced and EvasEVAs had enough pilots. However, when the only thing that can hurt Ramiel is a rail gun powered from the city's generators, Shinji is the only one that can fire it. He doesn't do anything (no [[Hand Wave]] that dispels the AT Field) other than FIRE THE GUN. Is it just the will of the EvasEVAs that kill the target (which may be [[Gurren Lagann|feasible given the animating company]]), or the gun being a Rail Gun, which can penetrate due to being electromagnetic? If not, the episode could've saved some budget if cut, even though it was a [[Tear Jerker]].
** The reason that gun worked was because it used up enough energy to power a small nation. If the angel had been more mobile, it would have been useless to try again because it would have dodged, as it did the first time. In other words, Huge Power = Huge Energy requirement.
*** A ''small'' nation? Try ''all the energy in Japan''.
** Guess that would [[Fridge Brilliance|explain]] the [[I Love Nuclear Power|Jet Alone]] project's goal: having a nuclear mecha able to hold the power of a city to take out the problems of the future. Turns out NERV [[Nuclear Weapons Taboo|had their own agenda,]] [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic|eh]]?
** Jet Alone still would've been useless, since it took all the power of a NATION to create a single shot powerful enough to penetrate an AT Field... just like overwhelming force can cause a person's mental barriers to crumble.
** This troper would just like to point out that Ramiel was stated to have one of the most powerful A.T. Fields of any Angel. Also, the primary reason the rifle was used was that Ramiel automatically targeted any hostile party within a certain radius with a highly accurate and destructive energy beam, making close combat virtually impossible. If every angel had such a strong A.T. Field, I doubt Unit-01 would've been able to tear through Sachiel's with its bear hands in Episode 1.
*** Unit-01 brought down Sachiel's AT-Field by eroding it using its own AT-Field, as is stated in the dialogue during that scene. The shot of it ripping the field apart with its hands was it tearing away the last shreds of the already-weakened field.