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* The Japanese title of the last episode, "The Beast That Shouted "I" at the Heart of the World," is a clear reference to [[Harlan Ellison]]'s classic short story (and the anthology named for it) [[wikipedia:The Beast that Shouted Love at the Heart of the World (short story)|"The Beast that Shouted Love at the Heart of the World"]], especially given the "I"-"''ai''" ("love" in Japanese) pun.
* Toji and Kensuke are allusions to characters from Ryu Murakami's ''Ai to Gensou no Fascism'' (''The Fascism of Love and Fantasy''), from which Anno borrowed much of the psychological material.
* Keel Lorenz is an allusion to the ethologist Konrad Lorenz. He was originally named Konrad, too.
** Konrad Lorenz developed the concept of ''imprinting'' in terms of mother/child relationships. For example, say you've got a duck's egg in an incubator, and it's ready to hatch. The eggshell cracks, and the chick's head pops out. It sees you, and thinks, "Mother!"
* Interestingly, this series is the one most referenced by later Gainax works, and possibly anime in general. Yes, even ''[[Gurren Lagann]]'', although it can be looked at as a [[Take That]] at NGE overall.
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** Misato mutters "I have a bad feeling about this" in the episode with Jet Alone.
* One of the [[Scenery Porn]] shots when Shinji first runs away alludes to a small sanctuary in ''[[My Neighbor Totoro]]''.
* Kaworu Nagisa's last name is a Shout Out to filmmaker Nagisa Oshima -- best known in the West for the infamous ''[[In the Realm of
* "Komm, Susser Tod", the title of one of the soundtrack's most infamous pieces, is a reference to another piece by Bach, although the song itself bears little resemblance.
* Several of the English episode titles (chosen by Anno, not [[ADV Films]]) make reference to psychological concepts ("Oral Stage", "Ambivalence", "Introjection"), films ("[[The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951 film)||The Day Tokyo-3 Stood Still]]"), literature ("[[
* The style of the opening is based on the classic sci-fi show ''[[UFO]]''.
* The Seele Monoliths are straight out of ''[[
* The title of the latter half of ''The End of Evangelion'', "Magokoro wo, Kimi ni," comes from the Japanese title of the movie ''Charly'', which was [[The Film of the Book|based on]] the short story/novel ''[[
* ''[[
* A blink-and-you'll-miss-it one comes in form of one of Shinji's t-shirts, which has the logo of the British [[New Wave]] band [[XTC]] on the back. Seeing as quite a few of XTC's songs revolves around some of the same themes as ''Evangelion'', the reference is likely more than just a superficially one.
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