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Plenty of the basic character archetypes are there: bottle fairy Misato, shy blue-haired girl Rei (who in a normal harem anime would eventually learn to love with Shinji's help), quirky school friends Toji and Kensuke, [[Tsundere]] Asuka, gag character Pen-Pen, etc. The problem is, real!Shinji has as much emotional problems as anime!Shinji, and as a result, his dream world also falls apart:

* Some scenes which are typically played for laughs in a romantic comedy anime (a good example is Shinji accidentally groping Rei) turn out incredibly awkward, decidedly unfunny and not sexy.

* Piloting the Eva is not a fun part-time job, it's a traumatizing experience that eventually leads to {{spoiler|the death of several of his friends and crippling injury to another}}.

* Gendo, Shinji's estranged father, isn't simply a wacky dad (think Ichigo's dad in ''[[Bleach]]''), he actively neglects Shinji and real!Gendo is the cause of much of his emotional problems in the real world as well as real!Shinji's fantasy.

== The Dead Sea Scrolls are really the lyrics to ''Imagine'' by [[John Lennon]]. ==

Expelling everything separating people for a perfect, unified peace is what ''Imagine'' is trying to say. Take it literally and way too far and that's essentially Instrumentality in a nutshell.

== ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' is just like ''[[Brazil (Filmfilm)|Brazil]]''. ==

== There is NO symbolism ==

The entire show is just Gainax loling at us. They just made massive money because we all despereatlydesperately scour the internet, searching for the answers to why ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' is so weird.

== By the time of ''End of Evangelion'', Shinji Ikari became an [[Omnicidal Maniac]] and a potential [[Nietzsche Wannabe]] ==

Seriously, he even exclaimed "Everyone just die" while simultaneously letting God kill off humanity and collect their souls, just because of his growing madness caused by his chains of [[Freudian Excuse]] after [[Freudian Excuse]], and the realization on how pointless his efforts are when it still leads to [[The End of the World Asas We Know It]]. And since this is a fucked-up Shinji, he might even continue to force God to annihilate the entirety of the universe through a [[Division By Zero]] ala ''[[Space Runaway Ideon]]'' (seriously, it explains the ep.26 [[Mind Screw]]). Yui, Rei and Kaworu, who realized that [[Even Evil Has Standards|this is wrong even by their eldritch standards]], eventually talked him out of it with lectures about [[Earn Your Happy Ending|earning our happy endings]], allowing Instrumentality to discontinue the world-annihilating process and make him come back from the LCL.

Well this speculation came into this troper's head when the so-called [[Assimilation Plot]] perpetrated by Seele turns out to be nothing more than a [[Suicidal Cosmic Temper Tantrum]] [[This Is Your Premise Onon Drugs|on drugs]]. Let's see what the Canon said: 1) If an Angel combines with Adam, everyone dies. 2) If Adam merges with Lilith, supposedly, a god is created. 3) At [[The End of Evangelion]], ''everybody still dies''. What? Also, if the Angels are after Adam, why are they horny for Lilith instead of the real Adams, Gendo, Kaworu, Evas 00/02 and possibly Antarctica? We might as well argue that Seele's entire myth of "the angels desperate to merge with Adam" might as well be that, a myth.

Also, all those ramblings about the Angels trying to understand humanity. Armisael, who complains on how Angels had to live massively lonely lives wandering the stars forever, and Kaworu, who appreciates Human art and culture despite being not Human, are pretty much lampshades on the Angels' plot of not trying to wipe out humanity, but actually trying to become humans.

So, where are we left? We can also say that whether it's Adam or Lilith, both end up in a [[Suicidal Cosmic Temper Tantrum]]. But, if Seele is just obsessed with a [[Suicidal Cosmic Temper Tantrum]], why not do it with letting the supposedly "[[Omnicidal Maniac]]" angels let it do the majority of the fuckup for them? Why not simply tie up Eva-01 with the Hand of Gendo and a Lance of Longinus up on the Empire State Building and let the angels take care of the business? Or even better, why need Evas at all? Why be such douchebags who screwed-up the mental and emotional life of innocent 14-year-olds? They can just fuse Adam and Lilith, create a god, and pretty much use the god's "omnipotent powers" to [[Deus Ex Machina]] the angels out of existence.

Well, besides the fact that if a god was created on the first try and then used against the Angels the plot would end up as either a boring [[God Mode Sue]] or a [[Space Runaway Ideon]] ripoff if the Angels are at least a challenge with truly Lovecraftian superpowers, we might as well assume that the Angels are going to fuck up Instrumentality so badly it instead prevents Instrumentality and leads to the Angels becoming Kaworu-esque humans. Seele, being the douchebags that they are, instead inverted the whole fact and said that "the Angels are going to annihilate us and the only pathway for humanity's survival is for us to strike first". It can be asked, why go to such lengths? There are like a hundred ways for the destruction of humanity, right? Answer: Human Nature. Sure, Seele might be [[Omnicidal Maniac]] [[Nietzsche Wannabe|Nietzsche Wannabes]]s, but when there's an Omnicidal Maniac there's going to be a bunch of heroes going to stop him in their will to survive. And no matter how convincing an Omnicidal Maniac's [[Hannibal Lecture]] may be, the majority will always be in the support of the heroes who "save the day". Asteroid Impact? No problem, we'll just blow it up. [[The Virus]]? We'll cure it. Nuclear bombs? [[Zombie Apocalypse]]? [[Nanomachines]]? [[Wave Motion Gun|Wave Motion Guns]]s? Ordinary waking up [[Eldritch Abomination|Eldritch Abominations]]s from the Great Beyond? [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|No problem with the power of the Human FIST!!!!]] And a bit of [[For Science!|Science]]. Basically, Seele's plot involved turning the Human Fist against those innocent Cthulhus out there whose only wish is to [[Become a Real Boy]] but cannot speak and thus are automatically [[Acceptable Targets]] by the [[Chewbacca Defense]], said punching out Cthulhu is merely a distraction designed to further Seele's real goal, which is actually backstabbing humanity to death in the form of a Yog-Sothoth who will eat humanity's souls once and for all. Which is fitting of an [[Evil Plan]]. Of course, that didn't prevent Instrumentality from still being fucked-up, since there is another backstabber by the name of Gendo Ikari. You may also ask, didn't Kaworu said something about him annihilating all of humanity? Yes he did, but since this is Kaworu he might as well be speaking parables, and his destroy all humans assumption is simply a metaphor for Shinji's solipsism and impending willingness to commit suicide. Also, since Kaworu is an agent of Seele rather than an actual Angel, he might be as well an actual Adam who simply made the decision of backstabbing Seele, like Gendo.

First, we don't know much of anything about what the First Ancestral Race actually were, except that they made Adam and Lilith. And if somehow those two merged, they essentially become a God that can mess with reality/create new reality/whatever the hell it wants. Unless the First Ancestral Race itself has power equal to that, how can it make something so utterly mindboggling? Because it made itself....IN THE FUTURE/ORIGINAL ALTERNATE DIMENSION! And the reason it keeps crashing into Earth and doing...whatever, is because the Shinji Part the Merger of it really, really, wants a world where someone who shares his Soul is happy.

And those Spectral Rei's are all the representations of the Rei/Shinji/Adam/Lilith Merger checking on each Earth/AU's progress.

It's obvious.

It's also obvious.

== Crazy, mentally broken people who are isloated from humanity are the only ones who can effectively pilot [[EV As]]EVAs ==

Since these isolated kids are the most singled out from everyone else, they are the only ones whose condition has passed a threshold where their lonliness mainfests as a strong AT Fields. The more disconnected from humanity these kids are, the more powerful their AT- Fields are. Remember that none of these kids can empathize (Asuka and/ are socially awkward (Rei). This goes along with the Hedgehog's Dilemma theory, as it explains why these kids are unable to connect with other; the fear of being hurt by getting closer to others. Fearing others, the kids form natural mental barriers to keep others out. The more barriers, the stronger AT-Field. Of course is the case of {{spoiler|the 5th pilot in Rebuild 2.0}} she is so detached from everyone, she has AT -Fields, of course hers aren't as powerful as the other 3 as their detachment from humanity is more extreme than her's; she's only uninterested in humanity while the rest reject it. * [[Haruhi Suzumiya (Light Novel)|Haruhi Suzumiya]], anyone?

* Uh...this one is true, in a way. The neural connection that controls the Evangelions is stated to be the "A10" nerve, which is known as the Ventral Tegmental Area of the brain. Said section of the brain is in charge of (among other things) providing the chemical reward system one feels for emotional social bonds, particularly that between a mother and child. The children who pilot the [[EV As]]EVAs are so socially stunted that they instinctually reach out for any sort of support at all...and the mother's soul bound into the EVA responds. Thus they can only actually pilot because they desperately need a mother's affection.

After Asuka's final line in the movie, Shinji wakes up with a start. The previous scene was a dream. Shinji and Asuka are still alone on the beach. However, things are slightly different. Shinji looks in one direction, and sees forests thick with vegetation. In the other direction, he sees Tokyo-3. The city appears to be empty, but the buildings are repaired and clean, and there are sounds coming from the city that suggests humans might already have returned. Shinji then looks at Asuka and stands up. He closes his eyes, clenches his fits, and remembers all of the speeches from the last two episodes of NGE and the parting words of Yui from ''EoE''. With courage in his voice, he says to Asuka, "Before you start screaming at me listen", and then proceeds to tell her that it was physically impossible for him to awake Unit 01 in time. He also tells her that he did not pull her out of the LCL, but that he is happy she is there, Because I wouldn't have anyone else by my side! Asuka gets up and tells Shinji she knows. She also says that she decided to leave the LCL herself. She then pulls in a shocked Shinji for a long and passionate kiss. As the two embrace, the camera pulls out, and Fly me too the moon plays.

* This could actually be very solid if one chose to use more ancient forms of the Seven Sins, back when they were Eight, for example: Gula (gluttony), Fornicatio (fornication, lust), Avaritia (avarice/greed), Tristitia (sorrow/despair), Ira (wrath), Acedia (acedia), Vanagloria (vainglory) and Superbia (hubris, pride). Rei in particular is practically the textbook definition of acedia, and Asuka is very much vainglory (but wrath could also work, with Ritsuko being vainglory). Gendo would then be hubris, Misato gluttony, Shinji would be despair, I'd say, but I'm not so sure about avarice and lust.

An alternate take of the above: Shinji is too late arriving at Tokyo-3. In the opening of the first episode, the shockwave that rocks the city is not from explosives, but from Sachiel (who is actually the only Adam-based life that exists in the ''real'' world) making psychic contact with and activating Lilith, thus initiating Third Impact. Vaguely supported by the appearance of soul-collecting Rei. Humanity doesn't realize this, and their combined delusion of continuing their lives forces Instrumentality to create an illusory world for all the souls within it. Only objects with a psychic presence (''id est'', an AT Field and therefore a soul) are given a non-illusory or functional form within this Intrumentality; thus, in this world human weapons are utterly ineffective against the Angels, whilst the Evas, which have souls, easily dispatch them. Shinji slowly goes mad as he realizes that he can [[The Matrix|See the Code]], so to speak; in-series "Instrumentality" occurs when he becomes "the One," takes control of Instrumentality through Rei and Unit 01, and breaks down the illusion for everyone. Both EOTV and EOE are valid endings, with the two conflicting desires in Shinji -- toShinji—to live in the real world he doesn't know, potentially ruined beyond recognition, or to continue life as the god of his own illusory world -- causingworld—causing him to split into two distinct personalities. The personality split may occur ''after'' his reappearance on "real" Earth, with Rei appearing once more to collect the unwilling portion and close the metaphorical book.

* Except that the Evas aren't robots, but cyborgs. Additionally, the various fins are consistent with the series' internals as shown in the scenes using them.

With the Angels done and the Evangelions now redundant, NERV was disbanded. The interactions in episode 25 allowed Shinji, Rei, Asuka and Misato to better understand each other and come to terms with their quirks -- mostquirks—most notably Shinji, who realized that being an Eva pilot is not the only possible future for him. This probably involved some memory wipes to remove the horrid memories that resulted in them growing so messed up in the first place. As for the movie? [[Fanon Discontinuity|Naaaah, no thank you, not today!]] Also, some people come back to life.

== The entire series is inspired by the infamous [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20121028185836/http://jimloy.com/games/freecel0.gif Game 11982 of Freecell.] ==

Those who play a lot of Freecell will understand the joy in how the field slowly progresses from chaos to order with each deliberate move, ultimately reaching the point where all the loose ends simply fall into place (so simply that most versions do it for you). Just like a typical action series. Now, Windows users set up that particular game, or any reader deal it out and play it yourself. If you had tried that, over and over again, before it became public knowledge that ''not'' all Freecell games are winnable, wouldn't you have written something like ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]''?

Proposed [https://web.archive.org/web/20110918070230/http://www.evangelion-not-end.ru/Portal/index.php?showtopic=1185&st=100 here] (Russian language), but it makes enough sense to be added here.

**** This editor had a hilarious corollary theory involving ''[[Wolfenstein 3D (Video Game)|Wolfenstein 3D]]'' that was lost in [[The Great Crash]], but he can't seem to reformulate it quite as eloquently.

** An alternate idea that comes to mind is that Shinji wished for a much lighter, less serious version of the world as suggested, but the similarities between this idea and the end of [[The Big O (Anime)|The Big O]] are staggering enough to suggest Yui Ikari is this universe's equivalent of Angel, all theme naming aside.

* If the movies are a [[Peggy Sue]] -- that—that is, if one of the characters has arrived back at the beginning of the story with foreknowledge of the original series -- theseries—the obvious candidate is ''Misato''. She acts differently from her original self, being somewhat more mature and treating Shinji as less of a child (though that could be because most of the "domestic" scenes were cut, leaving only her [[Badass]] commanding officer moments.) Most importantly, she knows about Lilith, and shows her to Shinji around 18 episodes ahead of schedule -- theschedule—the one major plot departure in the first movie from the series. This goes a long way to help motivate Shinji fight Ramiel...

== During his brief period as "God" in ''EoE'', Shinji created a large or infinite number of [[Alternate Universe|Alternate Universes]]s. ==

This is the central premise of a certain popular [[Doujinshi]], and accounts for Evangelion's numerous [[Elseworld|Elseworlds]]s such as ''Angelic Days,'' the ''Shinji Ikari Raising Project,'' the manga, and the ''[[Super Robot Wars Alpha]]'' and ''[[Super Robot Wars MX]]'' games. These alternate continuities are almost universally [[Lighter and Softer]], or at least cast Shinji in a better light: this is a result of Shinji's desire to avoid this whole mess or make himself feel better.

* It also accounts for several apparently mutually exclusive WMG theories involving Instrumentality, and may mean that Shinji is yet another face of Haruhi Suzumiya -- orSuzumiya—or, perhaps more likely, if you follow the first theory on the ''[[Suzumiya Haruhi]]'' page, Kyon.

* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! GX]] is one of them but the least stable'', which is why his counterparts' two female supporting characters are still named Rei and Asuka and why the [[Big Bad]] is still trying to initiate Instrumentality.

**** Or, it's the distant future, and the only people left are distant descendents of the least social skilled members of mankind, and the most individualistic.

***** Wait, are you saying that Mal is descended from '''''SHINJI?!?!?!?!''''' That might be going into [[Poison Oak Epileptic Trees]] territory there.

*** Oh no, I have some series for you. Mr. Rogers Neighborhood, Hellsing. Super Monkey Ball, and the Mickey Mouse canon.

*** Twilight: Vampires represent the Angels, "perfect" beings with imperfect conditions that prevent them peacefully co-existing with humans, werewolves are Evas (more animalistic beings, some of which [piloted [[EV As]]EVAs] live amongst humans despite the danger). Bella is Shinji, Edward is {{spoiler|Kaworu}} as Shinji wished they could be ([[Ho Yay|to be together]]), Renesme is Asuka (what happens with her is mostly a result of Shinji and {{spoiler|Kaworu}} screwing around and not doing their best to {{spoiler|defeat the evil Angels/vampires}} before {{spoiler|being imprinted/MindRaped by Jacob/the hypersynch}}). Gendo is Bella's mother, Misato is her father, Rei {{spoiler|and Lilith}} hasn't appeared yet since it's not quite the end of the series, and Pen-Pen simply doesn't feature in the {{spoiler|Instrumentality dream}}.

*** Evangelion is the future of {{spoiler|K-On!}}. Yui is obviously Yui, her guitar skills leading to Shinji's development of his Cello skills. Yui is a little bit of a Cloudcuckoolander in both, less obviously so in Evangelion but it's still an important part of her character. Her weirdness is best proven in her ungodly complex plan for Instrumentality, which she saw as a bit of a game.

(What? I actually find it more plausible than "''Rebuild'' is a sequel". ''Rebuild'' is supposed to be a retelling of the story "more accessible to non-fans" -- i—i.e. an [[Adaptation Distillation]] -- and—and so far, it succeeds at being exactly that.)

The worst thing going for the "Misato's father was the donor" idea is the simple fact that it lacks any concrete support in the end. On a thematic and character level, it is actually rather appropriate, and the basic setup is all there, but, regrettably, it was never taken advantage of.

First of all, consider: Misato is, on one level, participating in the Angels' extermination in order to avenge her father's death, but she told Shinji that is also, essentially, using them to '''take revenge on him''' and purging herself of his ghost, so to speak. Misato's tense, love/hate relationship with her father is directly paralleled with Shinji and Gendo -- andGendo—and, as it goes, Shinji is also using the Angels to sublimate the rage towards his father ("Enemy! Enemy! Enemy! My enemy!!!"). And, as it goes, both of Shinji's "enemies" end up literally fusing when Gendo does that creepy thing with Adam's embryo. Considering this aspect alone, it would have made complete sense within NGE's framework for Misato's father to have done something squicky with Adam, producing the fusion of Angel and Lilin that is Kaworu. And so Misato's "vendetta/revenge" would have come to a rather logical and ironic conclusion...

... But not in the way you were expecting. It's not in the generation shown on the show, for it is noted that the AntiSpirals did this before, and there were other people trapped forever, you see -- Shinjisee—Shinji is actually trapped in the Alternate Universes, things started out Normal, how the kid always wanted to live, not having to risk his life for others, but then, because it is apparent that true [[Lotus Eater Machine|Lotus Eater Machines]]s have conflict to give just the right amount of meaning to their victims' lives, the events of ''NGE'' occur.

No, [[Shinji and Warhammer 40 K (Fanfic)Warhammer40K|not]] [[Thousand Shinji|those]]. This is totally inspired by [https://web.archive.org/web/20110907032848/http://4chanarchive.org/brchive/dspl_thread.php5?thread_id=912853&x=neon+ ultima+ exterminatus this] 4chan thread. It makes an awful lot of sense though, especially if the Angels are simply Greater Demons of Chaos...

== ''NGE'' takes place on the world [[Watchmen (comics)|Dr. Manhattan]] intended to create after he left earth for good. ==

* They are both [[Deconstruction|Deconstructions]]s of things that are culturally similar; Giant robots are to Japan what superheroes are to America.

== ''[[Wicked (Literaturenovel)|Son of a Witch]]'' takes place in Instrumentality ==

* Elphaba = Yui (by default, unless they both really are the "[[JustAll As Planned|"all accordingAccording to plan"Plan]]" type)

* Dorthy = Rei ("disguised" as Asuka - TOW describes the traditionally [[Action Girl|Action Girlish]]ish Dorthy as "boring" and only a love interest because "she's there")

* Candle = Asuka ("disguised" as Rei, perhaps getting a little [[Dude, She's Like, in Aa Coma|revenge]]?)

* Third Impact was the testing of the ultimate "Fuck The World" device, a la ''Boatmurdered.'' Originally, the Human Instrumentality Project was intended to create a more efficient way of taking care of goblin sieges, but more importantly, of elephants, carp, elves and the like. As a nice bonus, LCL is also actually a kind of booze. In fact, "Komm, susser Tod" goes pretty well with the last few installments of ''Boatmurdered,'' even.

** Nah, Sandalphon probably has the [FIREIMMUNE] creature token, at least.

== The entire series is a fantasy of [[Pani Poni Dash!|Mesousa]]. ==

Oh, wait -- thatwait—that was true.

True -- inTrue—in at least one [[Alternate Continuity]] now being published in Japan.

From a biological standpoint, female -- havingfemale—having an XX chromosome -- ischromosome—is the default sex. This is why asexual animals like worker ants and bees are considered female despite having no need for procreation. All animals are built on a female template, with males (XY) being a necessary deviation from that to facillitate reproduction (and males still have vestigal female traits, such as nipples). Thus it stands to reason that the Angels, being an asexual species, are all female as they have no need for males -- includingmales—including Adam, despite having a male name. Kaworu is biologically male, his body (I say "his" because that's what's used in the text) apparently being a clone of some unnamed Japanese man in the same way Rei is a clone of Yui Ikari, but his "soul"/psychic imprint/whatever is Adam's, and Adam is female. Thus it's possible that while Kaworu has the physical traits of a male human, "he" views himself as female.

*** The Angels did not evolve ''from'' humans, they evolved in a similar manner to humans (that is, being the top of the evolutionary chain and started from Adam, they are beings comparable to humans who are the top of the evolutionary chain and started from Lilith). This phenomenon is also known in science as "Convergent evolution" (Which means, creatures from different habitats can evolve similarly to resemble each other). This means they're not necessarily mammals-- inmammals—in fact, they're more likely to be a completely different taxonomical kingdom, maybe even a completely different ''domain'' (I mean, really, let's take that [[Eldritch Abomination]] that can change its appearance into a kaleidoscope of geometrical shapes and can shoot massive energy beams from its core and classify it as a reptile. Or the [[Eldritch Abomination]] which has a shadowlike antimatter body and casts a 3D shadow in the air and classify it as a mammal. Sure). Since the determination of sex varies by species and isn't even always genetic, there is no way of determining their sex. At most we can say they're homozygous from the fact that Adam most likely reproduced asexually, but there is no way to determine whether that makes them "male" or "female" (or both? None?).

* Can't even say if the Angels are homozygous. What if, for example, Adam used parthenogenesis? Or if the Spear of Longinus contains a plethora of genetic information and can double as an impregnation device? Far too many unknowns. Also, as far as classification goes, the Seeds (and the Evas by extension) obviously can't fit into any Terran slots, since they're from another planet, and quite possibly bioengineered god-versions of the FAR themselves. About all we can say is that Seeds/Evas and Angels (intrinsically) are highly convergent with hominids -- orhominids—or more like the other way around, by design. Don't forget: 99.89%!

** Angelic Days Rei wrote the original NGE? Kaworu gave her the * nudge nudge, hint hint*

* ...[[The Slayers/WMG|* cough* ]]...

** Holy shit! I just realized they've even got the same seiyuu. Wonder what this means for [[Saiyuki|Cho Hakkai]]?

*** The seiyuu that voices Kaworu and Xellos also voices [[Mahou Sensei Negima|Fate Averruncus]]. If we combine this with some other WMGs, and take this to its possible conclusion, we end up with Fate trying to enact a [[Gambit Roulette]] that will result in Shinji (as Negi) [[Everybody Lives|saving all of his friends]], and preventing [[The End of the World Asas We Know It]], allowing Shinji's mind to take another step towards heath.

Because Pen-Pen is awesome. And [[Everything Is's Better Withwith Penguins|Evangelion Is Better With Pen-Pen]]. And whoever kills the last angel gets All Their Powers Combined. Alternately, Pen-pen already ''is'' god, because becoming a god after Instrumentality was retroactive, and Instrumentality had to happen for Pen-Pen to become a god. Which he already was. [[Stable Time Loop|So it did and he did]].

* This is most definitely Sadamoto's take on it - in his version of the Beginning to the End, Gendou [[Hannibal Lecture|Hannibal Lectures]]s Shinji about this: Yui was his light, his only reason for living. As soon as Shinji was born he got all the love/attention. If Shinji is Oedipus, then manga!Gendou is definitely Laertes.

[[Everything Is's Better Withwith Penguins|The Penguins]].

In 1999, when the second impact occured, Earth became an interresting place to live, in the sense of the classic Chinese curse: "May you have an interesting life." Climactic extremes, finding out that mythology was true, conspiracies in every bush, etc. When something is interesting, it is most likely plagued by war and chaos (See [[Warhammer 4000040,000]] and try to see what this troper means). When something is peaceful, it is most likely plagued with boredom (That is why after the Nazis and Soviets the real world just got boring, and most of the interesting lives had to be transported into computers, which can simulate Nazis and Soviets). When you live in a dull world (for certain values of dull), you escape to interesting fiction ([[Neon Genesis Evangelion|khmmm...]]). When you live in an interesting world, you long for a boring peaceful world ([[Real Life]]). It makes sense: most people with interesting lives probably escape to a fantasy of dull farming.

* This [[A Date Withwith Rosie Palms|wanker]] is [[End of Evangelion|so fucked up]]. Hee hee hee.......

* NGE, an anime in real life! Don't be crazy! Real Life is exactly like [[Death Note (Manga)|Death Note]], have you ever ''looked'' at Zac Efron before?

Agumon's upper digivolutions look like EVA, and the light-hearted message of banding together with your friends, some of whom look weird and have self-esteem issues, to fight scary, evil monsters is meant to help the general public accept the existence of the [[EV As]]EVAs and NERV (someone's gonna ask where those big robot-things come from, right?) as part of the battle for good. Gendo is a fan of the Digimon Emperor, who he emulates by wearing glove and acting like a BAMF.

NGE is fundamentally a feminist work from a male perspective. It explores women’s spiritual, familial, and societal roles, as well as typical personal dilemmas they must face. Many of the male characters, including the protagonist and his [[Magnificent Bastard]] father, are largely dependent on their relationships with women (Especially the protagonist and the Bastard, see also [[Oedipus Complex]]). The females are often defined by the conflicts that they, as women, encounter (Particular examples are Asuka, Misato and Ritsuko).

* An Eva's armor, which constrains her body like a corset/bondage gear and makes her dependent on an external power source, symbolizes societally imposed restrictions on women. When Eva goes into berserker mode, freeing her from the restraint technology and strengthening her Ego Barrier (Absolute Terror Field), especially in times when she needs to protect herself and her child, you see woman's true, natural, powerful form, which from a misogynistic perspective is a disgusting, absolutely terrifying [[Eldritch Abomination]].

* In the Adam and Lilith mythology, Lilith is the first feminist, refusing to bow down to Adam. She is cast out of Eden, births the daemonic Lilim (the demons could symbolize how our society sees feminism as "daemonic", in [[AbuseDouble IsStandard Okay When ItsAbuse (Female Onon Male)|one]] or [[Horny Devils|another]] sense), and becomes the Serpent of the Tree of Knowledge.

* The Ikaris can also represent patriarchal rule. Gendo is the archetypal Patriarch. Yui and Shinji are the underlying weaknesses of this Patriarch's seemingly absolute totalitarian rule, with Yui being the dependence onto the opposite sex to maintain the basis for the Patriarch's power and Shinji as the agitating instability and [[Oedipus Complex|Oedipal rage]] that is waiting to collapse the entire power structure anytime (Gendo has Yui as his messiah and only reason to live which is why he does all this screwing-with-the-order-of-creation in the first place, and in ''End of Evangelion'' he even admits that he's afraid of his own son, making his true self behind his magnificent facade something very ''pathetic''). Not to mention that in many real life ancient empires that seem to be strictly Patriarchal from the outside, women usually assumed the role of [[The Man Behind the Man]]. <br /><br />Rei is the idealized woman, the Galatea that patriarchal regimes constructed: [[Extreme Doormat|silent, obedient, willing to do whatever the Patriarch says even at her own expense, and]] [[Moe Moe|exotically cute]] (see also: the [[wikipedia:Stereotypes of East Asians in the Western world#.22China doll.22 stereotype|"China doll"]] stereotype). Hideaki Anno tried to portray Rei as a unnatural mass-production clone straight out of the [[Uncanny Valley]] to parody objectification, but it fails in this area, since she ends up as the object of industrial-scale mass [[Perverse Sexual Lust]] of the otakus everywhere. And even then, what we see as this perfect Galatea is actually ''imperfect'', Rei herself gets [[Character Development]] where she grows from an [[Extreme Doormat]] into something capable of one's own volition, which (as EOE has shown) frightens Patriarch!Gendo indeed.....

Seriously, think about it:

* This theory also provides the simplest explanation of Shinji's mindscrew sequence inside the Sea of Dirac -- heDirac—he's given up and taken the train instead.

* Asuka and Rei are fellow patients whom Shinji befriends. Asuka is also a withdrawn, hikikimori-type girl who easily gets caught up in Shinji's world. Rei is made emotionally distant by the mood stabilisers she takes as she receives counselling for domestic abuse. Both hang out with Shinji for a while but leave his life after when they are released. Shinji's most vivid and violent imaginings see Rei and then Asuka 'killed off' as they leaves him to his fantasies, though he later fixates himself on the memory of Rei in his final days in treatment.

* Kaworu, a [[Sociopath|sociopathicsociopath]]ic genius (who resembles [[A Clockwork Orange (Filmfilm)|Alex]] in that he loves classical music, especially Beethoven's Symphony No. 9, while committing acts of ultraviolence), was institutionalised when he killed a kitten in a crowded street. He 'befriends' the vulnerable Shinji for his own amusement, taking Misato hostage with Shinji at his side. Emotionally torn, Shinji attacks Kaworu who goads Shinji into killing him.

* EoE represents the last throes of Shinji's insanity and his re-admittance into normal society. The last two episodes of Evangelion show his personal journey towards coming to terms with his mental problems and rejecting the dream-world he has created to avoid dealing with them. Pronounced well enough to be released from the asylum to live in a special school with other released patients, he tries to get into the swing of a normal Japanese highschooler's life while he is still slightly out of touch with reality.

The alternate universe was the original universe. As seen in the main series, this world is a fairly perfect version of the NGE world. When the angels came to that world, it was much more of a shock and most of the cast were killed due to the absence of the [[EV As]]EVAs. At that point, Shinji became god, (like in EoE) rebooted reality, and hoped for the best. This produced the universe seen in the anime. Shinji is so depressed partly due to the fact that he subconsciously realizes that he's only made the world worse. This world progresses to EoE and he gets the power to reboot reality once again. Attempting to stabilize the loop, he takes the opportunity, causing Rebuild of Evangelion. The other continuities can easily be contained within this theory as separate steps within Shinji's time altering operation. [[Rah XephonRahXephon]] or Petit Eva are ideal timelines in Shinji's mind.

Now, assuming this is intentional and not just me reading WAY too deeply into Anno or whoever's ship-otaku-ness, this could be a hint that Rebuild Asuka and Mari are based on the same "template" as Rei--inRei—in other words that they are ALSO clones of Yui. Rei was presumably considered a failure due to lack of aggressiveness. So they modified the genetic template to compensate, and came up with Asuka. Except they overcompensated, and ended up with an egotistical borderline psychopath. Mari is the third attempt, and most successful so far--fairlyfar—fairly normal when she needs to be, but goes just as batshit (if not more so) as Asuka in combat.

"Seeds and Evas have no physical gender" is more like viewers' default assumption, with "they are physically female" being a rather idiosyncratic and statistically unpopular, however notorious, viewpoint. That said, there is no official word on the matter, so interpretation doesn't have to be rigidly enforced in either direction (female or sexless -- althoughsexless—although given the intense "mother" themes and female symbology, male is probably out). Perhaps this goes without saying, though.

Other items to note: Adam's method for producing the Angels is in fact completely unknown; the aforementioned "birthing" theory for Eva-01's creation actually does take the image from episode #23' into account; the biological status of being female is not actually as straightforward as this entry implies (e.g., if a species abandons its males and takes up parthenogenesis, its members do not suddenly stop being females); LCL coming from between Lilith's legs has rather straightforward implications that do not disappear because vulvae appear on heads and so forth elsewhere; Lilith's little legs probably have more to do with Rei than anything else; and the Spears could possibly be invoked to satisfy a "male role" if necessary (which they already do on a symbolic level),

* Of course the A.T. Field doesn't account for [[EVER Ything]], but it does account for a lot. The A.T. Field fundamentally isn't even a forcefield -- itforcefield—it's a projection of a being's soul, and the emanating, polygonal forcefield, while being the thing usually referred to as "A.T. Field", is but one manifestation the ATF can take. For unresolved reasons, the ATF is much more powerful in Angels, Evas, etc., than in "normal" lifeforms, to the point that it can essentially manipulate physical reality. That A.T. Fields have multiple uses is firmly established within both the show itself and supplemental materials and certainly is no invention of a deluded fandom.

== The Angels are [[Warhammer Fantasy Battle|Greater Daemons]] [[Warhammer 4000040,000|of Chaos]] ==

Shamsel (a GIANT FLYING PENIS) and [[Mind Rape|Arael]] are Slaaneshi. The ones with the most destructive and unsubtle capabilities, Sahaquiel and Zeruel, are obviously Khornate. Bardiel and Armisael, both of whom infect and corrupt an Evangelion, are creatures of Nurgle. Iruel and Tabris are Tzeentchian, the former almost pure mutation and the latter heavy on the subterfuge, also being essential for Shinji crossing the [[Despair Event Horizon]] (which was [[All According to Plan|Just As Planned]]). Which deity the others serve is less certain.

This WMG was initially postulated [https://web.archive.org/web/20110920065617/http://paste.lisp.org/display/84795 here].

* As far as we know, from supplemmental materials (informed by Anno himself) released after the show finished airing, the Secret Dead Sea Scrolls are merely manuals that contain details about the "workings" of the Seeds of Life (Adam and Lilith), and what happens when either is awoken. They contain no information regarding Instrumentality, since the concept of Instrumentality itself was developed by Seele, who used the information found in the S.D.S.S. as a sort of groundworks. The show itself contains almost no infromation about what is written in the S.D.S.S .

It makes no sense for creatures so large like the angels to become the dominant species -- thespecies—the earth doesn't have enough resources to support creatures that large and they don't look like anything seen on Earth. However, they are a similar size to the Evas, and many are similarly styled and shaped.

* Wait, that means that Leliel is the representative of [[Doctor Who (TV)|the Vashta Nerada!]]

* The "Earth can't support Angels" concept is pretty firmly [[Jossed]] by a couple of things. One, Angels don't NEED resources, they have infinite energy generators, as stated in series. Nor do they need the Earth to support them - the Angelic ecosystem has no plants. The CI in the video game also implies that Adam and Lilith are terraforming devices with their own ecosystems (just add water!) and thus the Angels are an ecosystem in and of themselves, and not extra dimensional. "Alternate evolutions" was just a descriptive term. The two sets of ecosystems are completely unrelated.

* The whole "alternate evolutions" thing seems to be memetic mutation stemming from bochan_bird's script translation of ''EoE'', which may have obscured the meaning of a critical line by, incidentally, not being literal enough! Misato seems to be essentially saying that "we humans" (18th Angel, Lilin) and the "Angels" (Adam's progeny) are two possible humanities, and, unlike us, the Angels abandon human form (see: Sandalphon). This interpretation seems to be affirmed by an info dump from an anonymous Seed of Life in ''Neon Genesis Evangelions 2'' (PSP), who reminds Kaworu that Seeds of Life served as "designers" for their progeny, and "either bestowed upon them shapes as any form of life, or acted as representatives and chose the form" (Angels vs. Lilin, anyone?).

* This idea is [[Older Than Radio]], and Schopenhauer called it the "Hedgehog's Dilemma". Schopenhauer's parable describes a number of hedgehogs who need to huddle together for warmth and who struggle to find the optimal distance where they may feel sufficiently warm without hurting one another. The hedgehogs have to sacrifice warmth for comfort. Remember, the hedgehog's quills evolved as a form of protection against predators. Why do we have this AT Field? It protects us, particularly from [[Cosmic Horror|Cosmic Horrors]]s (aka Angels), and also serves as a filter to block unnecessary chaos, however, as a consequence, as a barrier, it has to separate humanity.

== Rebuild-Kaworu is [[A God Am I|Ascended]] [[Rah XephonRahXephon|Ayato Kamina]], here to undo Second Impact ==

*** Maybe, SEELE already knew that the humans will remain ignorant and will have a fear of death, so if they create a pandemic, the world's scientists will just try to find a cure. That would make the euthanasia program similar to [[Death Note (Manga)|Light Yagami]]'s plan: a bitter failure. Other methods of Destroying The World, such as asteroids or Global Warming, will also fail because of the world's scientists continually finding solutions. By using the Tree of Life, they let God kill off humanity by stripping off their AT Fields, and with it their will to live. Schopenhauer theorized that the human world was made of the obsession of the will to live, and without that, the world will collapse like dominoes.

** Is it me or does this troper thinks that SEELE was somehow related to [[Four Chan4chan]]?

***** Or, the events of NGE was the possible result of the actions of both Scientology and Anon, as a response to the discovery of the AT Field and Adam. In this timeline, after the popularity of TEH REI, everybody discovered that AT Fields are real (see above WMG for example), as well as the existence of the aliens (Christians often called them Angels), but the factions who most exploited it was Scientology, which used the AT Field technology (and their abundance of money) to design "alien weapons", and Anon, who used the AT Field tech for [[Ghost in Thethe Shell|"ghost hacking"]] and being able to troll higher organizations in Real Life (such as the Japanese Government, the USA and the United Nations). When the UN decided to meddle, they accidentally activated Adam while the Angels invaded (it could be possible they were members of either Scientology or Anon), causing Second Impact, and Scientology used this as propaganda aka an invasion of "Xenu", as well as using their lawyers, allowing them to take control of the world for a while, changing the date to 2000 (when in fact it was the distant future, see also [[Nineteen Eighty-Four|1984]]) and outlawing psychology, hence why [[There Are No Therapists]] (Christianity is still the dominant religion, hence the title ''Neon Genesis Evangelion'', but the organizations are under control of Scientology). The world fell into grim darkness and despair, yet Anon still survived, and discovered if the AT Fields of all people are removed, it can still have the chance to bring teh lulz back to the world. The most effective way to break someone's AT Field to submission? [[Perverse Sexual Lust]], or as we say it, breaking the fourth wall and oneself's AT Field for promise of unconditional love. However, as seen in Japan, it alone cannot destroy the AT Field, but when combined with [[Memetic Mutation]], or as we say it, [[The Virus]], and psychically projected, it will be turned [[Up to Eleven]] and break down the person's ego like a corrupting virus. They try to start Instrumentality from Japan and chose TEH REI as the meme, because of the conditions listed above. Anon appointed {{spoiler|moot}} as Keel Lorenz (or Gendo Ikari, to keep with Anon's meme theme). By creating IRL Rei Ayanami, and psychically seeding her all over the world using a cyborg dubbed "Eva" to infect everybody with the memetic version of Perverse Sexual Lust, Instrumentality happened, but it went wrong when Eva's original pilot, Shinji Ikari, was so despaired he decided to retain his identity instead of joining Anon. With this a failure, Shinji assimilated some of Anon's god-like powers, ruling the galaxy and becoming {{spoiler|Xenu}} himself. Xenu (who is actually {{spoiler|future Shinji}}) then imprisoned souls of several races of aliens (particularly [[The Bible|angels from a planet that resembled our ancient culture]]) in a massive [[MacGuffin]] named Adam, which allowed the rebirth of Angelkind and humanity, while Anon, in [[V for Vendetta|vendetta]] (and [[For the Evulz]]) created Lilith (hence Lilith's mask) and crashed it on one of Xenu's planets named "Teegeeack", on the hopes of starting TEH REI and instrumentality once again. Then, on Teegeeack, with the discovery of Adam and the popularity of TEH REI in the distant future... Let's think of it as like a [[Stable Time Loop]].

* Remember the part where Rei takes the form of people's desires? There is a clue that Instrumentality was intended to make all humans [[Voluntary Shapeshifter|Voluntary Shapeshifters]]s.

The fusion of Adam and Lilith (Muspelheim and Niflheim) basically killed off all life on the planet, allowing to bring forth a new creation story and a new myth altogether, while at the same time it brought forth the {{spoiler|Giant Naked Rei}}, who was retconned as the first living thing, Ymir (who later became the building material for the [[World Tree|Yggdrasil]]), while Eva-01 became the cow Audumbla. The cow Audhumbla licked on a salt stone. On the first day after this a man's hair appeared on the stone, on the second day a head and on the third day an entire man emerged from the stone. The man is Shinji Ikari, who emerged from the Instrumentality. Shinji [[Took a Level Inin Badass|got over his issues]] through the god powers he gained from the Instrumentality, and with Asuka he fathered Bor, the father of Odin, Vili and Ve. The rest of [[Norse Mythology]] (or [[Greek Mythology]], or [[Egyptian Mythology]], or [[The Bible]], what-have-you) takes off from there. Not to mention the [[Proud Warrior Race Guy]] attitudes of the Norse could be inherited from Asuka herself, and the emergence of Shinji during the creation process basically resulted {{spoiler|in the destruction of GNR / Ymir}}.

== Lilith is in fact the Sophia from [[Useful Notes/Gnosticism|Gnosticism]] ==

* Sophia means Wisdom, and Lilith is the Fruit of Knowledge. It does make sense. Also, the Demiurge is a lesser entity with a God complex and a celestial bureaucracy, which is most like modern Humanity.

* [[Azumanga Daioh (Manga)|If they get removed, she shuts down. And if they'd continued development, the A11 Nerve Clips would have let her fly.]]

== EVAs are a [[Deconstruction]] of [[Magical Girl|Magical Girls]]s. ==

They're [[Noodle People|slender females]] with an angelic/fetishistic nature that fight [[Eldritch Abomination|Freudian Horrors]] through dancing and (for the more powerful attacks) emotion (''especially'' [[The Power of Love|intimacy-related emotions]]). Since this is a [[Grimdark]] series after all, the [[Fridge Horror]] behind being a [[Magical Girl]] is revealed, struggling against Eldritch Horrors with incomprehensible sorcery is not healthy for your own sanity and the welfare of your loved ones, you're going to end up mostly alone, and no matter what you do you are inevitably cursed in the end (and of course, how the [[Applied Phlebotinum]] uses the user's energy, ego barrier and emotions, most especially [[Love Hurts|love, portrayed here as a tremendous source of Angst]], makes magical girl magic a case of [[Powered Byby a Forsaken Child]]). EVA-01 can be a [[Tsundere]], which tends to deconstruct or parody into [[Yandere]]. At the end of the series, the protagonist [[End of the World Special|gains divine reality-warping power]] but instead chooses to be normal and gives hope for the rest of humanity. I had more, but I'll need to figure out if any of it was written down or saved somewhere, or if the [[Data Vampires]] ate it while I was trapped offline.<br />And in case you [[Poe's Law|think this is a joke WMG]], [[Sincerity Mode|it's not]].

Inspired by [[Science Fiction]]: more specifically, by [[Arthur C. Clarke (Creator)]] 's "Childhood's End" and Tiptree/Sheldon's [[Kill'Em All|"A momentary Taste of Being"]]

== Kaworu, Kazuhiro Mitogawa from Ga-Rei Zero, Nagi Homura from Mai-[[Hi ME]]HiME and Full Metal Panic!'s Leonard Testarossa are all the same person ==

There are a few reasons why I thought up this. First, at the behest of a friend, I watched Mai-[[Hi ME]]HiME, and noticed Nagi, a [[White-Haired Pretty Boy|white haired relatively bishonen boy]]. Kaworu comparisons were automatic. Again at the behest of said friend, I watched Ga-Rei Zero, and saw Mitogawa, a white-haired relatively bishonen boy. While thinking this over, Leonard Testarossa from FMP came into the mix. The only difference with him is that he's older. Now, these four have moe similarities than just appearance. A simple place to start is between the first two I compared: Kaworu to Nagi. First point? They have the same seiyuu. Yep, Akira Ishida voiced both Kaworu and Nagi, two remarkably similar characters. Both characters are quite the tricksters. Even though Kaworu did understand Shinji (at least from Shinji's perspective), his goal was pretty much to {{spoiler|cause Third Impact by coercing Shinji into letting him get to Adam (but this gets messed up a bit)}}. Simply put, he was manipulating Shinji. Keep that in mind, as it's very important to link these four characters. Now, let's move on to Nagi. He starts out as more of an observer type guy, albeit with a creepy air to him, most likely due to the visual similarities to Kaworu. Later, it's revealed that he {{spoiler|was behind the Orphan attacks on the Academy}}, though admittedly, he is not entirely behind everything that goes on, which actually makes his identity as a manipulative trickster, despite his trickery being much less harmful than the other three in this WMG. He is also {{spoiler|[[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]] (give or take)}}, adding to the supernatural theme shared by all four. But, time to move onto perhaps the most evil of the four, Kazuhiro Mitogawa. This guy, nicknamed "Evil butterfly dude" by myself and some others, manages to place himself in situations where he can manipulate characters into being corrupted by their own hatred and dark desires. He, like the others, is quite enigmatic and does his work on the sidelines. Due to his manipulation, {{spoiler|the main character, Yomi, kills her 'sister', who usurped her place as head of her adoptive family branch, and also critically wounds Yomi so that she has major temptation to accept his offer of dark power}}. Pretty important stuff. To add to the connection between Mai-[[Hi ME]]HiME and this series, Ga-Rei Zero has a character named "Natsuki Kasuga" who appears in the first two episodes, rides a motorcycle, and has a similar appearance to Mai-[[Hi ME]]HiME's Katsuki Kuga. It's pretty much a given that she's an expy, leading to other possible connections betweent Mai-[[Hi ME]]HiME and Ga-Rei Zero. And unlike Kaworu and Nagi, Mitogawa has pretty much no shreads of goodness in him. Which leads nicely into Leonard Testarossa, who also happens to be a not very nice guy. To be honest, Leonard doesn't have as strong a connection to Kaworu as the other two. He could be seen as an adult version of the younger three. To keep with the somewhat supernatural nature of these characters, Leonard {{spoiler|is a Whispered, having knowledge of powerful technology}}, much like his sister. He is a manipulative (yet definitely not Magnificent) bastard, though. And FMP can be loosely connected to Eva in that they're both non-standard Mecha series, giving each of these series a general connection to one another, some stronger than others. In the end, though, given this evidence, it's very likely that these four characters could be the same person, just hopping from 'Verse to 'Verse. If anything, this merits some closer attention, which I'll try to give it in the future. I'm totally on to something here, mark my words.

== Shinji is the [[Warhammer 4000040,000|Immortal God-Emperor of Mankind]] ==

No, not just [[Shinji and Warhammer 40 K (Fanfic)Warhammer40K|Shinji and Warhammer 40 K]]. Why did Yui plan to grant Shinji a bright future, when it actually turns out to be one of the biggest [[Grimdark]] [[Nightmare Fuel]] he ever experienced? Answer: it was to make him the God-Emperor of Mankind. The Sea of LCL / Instrumentalized Humanity evolves into the Warp. Shinji, being able to draw powers from LCL / Warp, became an immortal powerful psyker, and being the only surviving man, decides he can finally strip off his [[Butt Monkey]] tendencies and unify humanity (his descendants) as more of a Ubermensch this time, molding history form millenia and finally leading to the creation of the Imperium of Man. This of course would also make a good [[Freudian Excuse]] for the Imperium's actions. Alternatively, both Shinji And Warhammer 40k and Warhammer 40000 canon are Alternate Universes Shinji created during Instrumentality with him placing himself into the role of the possible God-Emperor.

* Asuka = The "ideal" life. Active, boisterous, a tinge of exotic. Shinji becomes more like her as the original series progresses. Wavers between good and traumatized as Anno waves back and forth over if the "ideal" life is worth it.

== World after End become [[World of Goo (Video Game)|World of Goo]] ==

* Nothing is said about Lilin being any less human than the other human entities in the show (Evas, Angels, Seeds of Life, etc.). "Lilin" is most straightforwardly a reference to our status as Lilith's offspring; that the Lilin are traditionally Lilith's demonic spawn has more to do with subtext and irony than us literally being "demons".

== Neon Genesis Evangelion is a sentient [[MeMemetic MeMutation]]. ==

* The [[Springtime for Hitler]] story is an [[Urban Legend]] (albeit an amusing one), and the series has an awful lot going on thematically for something that was intended to be meaningless. If you're looking for something that's completely (and intentionally) incomprehensible, though, Gainax still has you covered; just check out ''[[Dead Leaves]]'' or ''[[Panty and& Stocking Withwith Garterbelt (Anime)|Panty and Stocking With Garterbelt]]''.

Ozymandias could be as well [[The Man Behind the Man]] of SEELE. He had a base where the first Angel was found (Antarctica), the necessary highly advanced technology to develop the [[EV As]]EVAs & Co., the moral that anything justifes the result and most of all, the motive, the wish to unite humanity.

Shinji becomes {{spoiler|obsessed with reversing the effects of Instrumentality. While he doesn't invent any breakthrough scientific devices, he does become obsessed with science...he goes to the lake where Rei's corpse is and run "experiments" using fanatical devotion to the scientific method to try and revive her/retake control of her. He succeeds (walks through her shown-to-be not entirely solid body? I dont know) to revive the hybrid}}. There is a tremendous, trippy psychological fight within the {{spoiler|creature (this is eva after all) between the snarker in Shinji and the manic, mad scientist personality he has developed. Realizing he cant win, he decides the best gift he can give his friends is to bring back everyone, but scrub their minds of everything that happened after second impact...basically, everyone will think its the year 2000, and live their lives from there, although he will make sure the members of Seele remember nothing of eva, the dead sea scrolls, and will not be in control of the world. Shinji realizes that this means he will lose his memories as well, but he is fine with that. With the knowledge that everything will be alright, Shinji symbolically dies, content and at peace with himself at last..}}.

As Lilith she exists as YHWH / Adam's equivalent, is our Mother, and was crucified by the Lilin. As Yui she becomes a parental figure to Shinji, with some Philosopher tendencies, and was crucified in Unit 01 for the protection of humanity. As Rei, she exists to protect Shinji, even though Shinji keeps rejecting her, and as seen in the fight against Armisael, she died for his (mankind's) sins. She rose again as The Third (Rei III), became our universal Companion both in Fiction and [[Perverse Sexual Lust|Real Life]], brought Armageddon (Instrumentality), and died again for Shinji.

The idea is that Satan is always vying for the throne of God, and as such, [[A God Am I|attempts to make himself a god]]. Humanity are pawns in this cosmic game, and the Angels are the attempt at stopping SEELE (Satan's) attack. SEELE attempts to obtain unholy power through screwing with the order of creation, triggering the Apocalypse (Second Impact) and Tribulation (the following years.) This brings the wrath of god in the form of the Angels to earth--theyearth—they didn't bother us until we forced second impact. Not in line with biblical chronology, after this Jesus (Yui) is [[And I Must Scream|crucified to the Evangelion]] for the sins of man, collectively represented by Shinji Ikari, who's being continually tempted to succumb to [[Despair Event Horizon]] and join SEELE in destroying the world. She returns on Judgment Day (As incarnated in ''EoE''), helps with how Shinji questions whether it is really worth it to kill off human life just to be a god, gives him hope in humanity thus allowing him to reject Instrumentality, and in the end spends the rest of eternity in space as an individual symbol to humanity's existence. Granted, this is more of a heavy borrowing of concepts from christianity than an allegorical fulfillment of them; the series is not allegorical event-wise, but in a general, thematic sense: Those who attempt to become God both destroy the world and [[Lonely Atat the Top|lose anyway]]. None of the correlations I've mentioned likely hold, but the theme seems reasonable. It's the old tale of [[Hubris]], with religious overlays.

Also, the theme seems to be more or less a dystopian staple: true Utopia is earned organically, not imposed synthetically. Though Shinji's fantasy-world is great, it cannot be had in reality, and thus he rejects it. Like many Utopias' failures, the cause of failure is the imperfection of humans and how they cannot tolerate boredom; before evolution such as Instrumentality would bring can take place, we must actually change by ourselves to the point where it is natural to reach that state. Shinji's realization that human's can't truly co-exist in harmony for real--andreal—and thus, a free, intelligent and interesting life must include the painful chaos of individuality--isindividuality—is the reason that Lilith/Rei dies and Instrumentality goes kablooie. For other examples of collectivistic transhumanist utopias which get deconstructed because human nature isn't ready for it, see "The Matrix", "Brave New World", and "The Giver." If we were able to live in peace, [[Bread and Circuses]] forever, there would be no more plot, our souls suffer death-by-boredom (which we may not notice superficially) and it would not be much different from an [[And I Must Scream]] state (hence why in dystopian literature fandom, the fates of the people living in "Brave New World" are compared with of all things those that live in the absolute [[Despair Event Horizon]] of all Dystopias, "[[Nineteen Eighty-Four]]"). The idea that we can't cheat our way to peace is actually one that would be very important to remember in real life.

* As someone said that [[Lost]] had an ending similar to [[Neon Genesis Evangelion]] (there's a theory on that on the "Lost" page), it is only fair someone do the same to NGE. The [[Lost]] ending was at least more comprehensible than NGE's.

== Being screwed up is a ''requirement'' for being an Eva pilot. ==

* ''[[Abenobashi Mahou Shoutengai (Anime)|Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi]]'': Well decades after the series anyway. The now adult Sasshi, who was assimilated during the Third Impact, emerges and begins reconstructing the world, creating the Spiral Universe.

* ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann (Anime)|Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]'': The Anti Spiral becomes avare of Sasshi's multiple recreations of the universe and declares war on it and wins. Naota (or his reincarnation - depending on where you place FLCL) becomes Lordgenome, and seals humanity beneath the surface. Sanson, reborn as Kamina initiates the uprising against Lordgenome and the surface is retaken, leading to the final confrontation with the Anti Spiral.

== Rei Ayanami is a [[Doctor Who (TV)|Tardis]]. ==

== The Human Instrumentality Project is actually an attempt to finalize [[The HitchhikersHitchhiker's Guide to Thethe Galaxy|The Ultimate Question To Life The Universe And Everything]] ==

There was once an earlier WMG here which says that it is a [[Springtime for Hitler]] designed to deliberately fail and any actual cohesion or symbolism in NGE was purely coincidental, and fans create [[Epileptic Trees]] to convince themselves that there is an actual plot. The question is, why did it became successful? Answer: Eva is a massive Epileptic Tree garden. Its inherent meaninglessness and lots of [[It Just Bugs Me|circumstances which confuse and bug the audience]] makes it a fertile land for epileptic trees to grow. And remember, If there's something that most kinds of fans from intellectual critics to the [[Fan Dumb|dumbest of the dumb]] love, it's farming Epileptic Trees. Fans come and go into the Eva-verse to post their own [[Fan Wank]] and pet wild theories, some silly, some [[Contemplate Our Navels|philosophical]]. If Fans lost their ability to create their own theories, then Eva would be the [[So Bad ItsIt's Horrible]] flop it was intended to be. It wasn't just Hideaki Anno's art, It was the Epileptic Tree which helped push Eva to the top tiers of anime fame.

* In a less reality-grounding and more imaginative WMG, Shinji, Anno, Seele, and all of Nerv are actually servants to a race of [[The HitchhikersHitchhiker's Guide to Thethe Galaxy|super-intelligent pan-dimensional]] sapient plants called ''[[Canis Latinicus|Arbor Epileptus]]'', aka the Epileptic Trees, which are obsessed with tropes, [[Time Lord/WMG|Time Lords]], [[It Just Bugs Me|media infested by confusion-causing bugs]], [[Fridge Logic|fridge-chilled logic]], [[Mind Screw|mind-penetrating screws]], [[Freud Was Right|screws]], [[Everybody Is Jesus in Purgatory|Jesus in Purgatory]] and [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic|other things you think are symbolic]], and reproduce by [[Fan Wank|forcing fans to masturbate]]. The creation of the entire Eva-verse is a plan for the Epileptic Trees to take over our world, spreading their [[Multiversal Conqueror|multiversal empire]] of [[Tropes Will Ruin Your Life|life-ruining tropery]]. The End Of Evangelion? It's just a plan to terraform the Earth into an Epileptic Tree homeworld, perfect for growing lots [[Mind Screw|and lots]] ''[[Running Gag|and lots]]'' of Epileptic Trees. [[Grand Unifying Guesses|They are planning to invade other fiction]], even [[Real Life|Real]] [[Tropes Will Ruin Your Life|Life]], and TV Tropes is their headquarters / mothership. Oh, and [[Stock Epileptic Trees|Shinji is a Time Lord in Purgatory.]]

No, this does not make any sense at all. I just wanted to see what would happen if you mixed a [[Tastes Like Diabetes]] [[Slice of Life]] anime from [[Kyo Ani]] with a [[Nightmare Fuel|deeply disturbing]], super-[[Mind Screw]] anime from Gainax. I hope I don't get flamed for this.

Though, if you think about it, this could happen, since [[K-On!]] Yui had [[Sickeningly Sweethearts|Sickeningly Sweetheart]] parents, which could realistically translate into adult Yui (both K-On! and NGE) being kind and caring, which, from what little characterization we get for Shinji's mother, she seems to be. A more complete comparison/description can be found at the [[K-On! (Manga)/WMG|K-On! WMG.]]

We all know the princess and dragon stories, where the [[Damsel in Distress]] was kidnapped by the [[Big Bad]] using [[The Dragon]], and the [[Knight in Shining Armor]] try to rescue the beautiful princess from [[The Empire]]. This is also known as a manifestation of [[The Dulcinea Effect]]. Let's see, how do we deconstruct the whole premise? When you look at the whole setting, it seems that the Angels are trying to rescue Lilith from the civilization that is Humanity, but their instincts made them lose to Humanity's super science. Add fairy tale tropes, and you get the whole premise! The Angels are actually [[Knight in Shining Armor|Knights In Shining Armor]] who are trying to rescue the hapless, imprisoned princess Lilith from [[The Empire]] that is Humanity, but their Don Quixote attitudes made them lose to Humanity's superior wizardry. Evangelions are obviously, [[The Dragon]]. The Instrumentality? It's maybe because Lilith is actually someone who resembles [[Magic Knight Rayearth|The Pillar Of Cephiro]]. The reason why angels look like ''them [[Eldritch Abomination|Eldritch Abominations]]s'' is either because the angels possess magic of their own, which makes this somewhat an [[Elves vs. Dwarves]] conflict (as evidenced by the S2 Engine), or because Humanity was so angsty and grimdark, they reject all forms of idealistic premises and caricature them as ugly. Or because it's a [[Take That]] and Deconstruction.

Shinji and Asuka were both screwing around during Instrumentality, and the hospital scene sort of implies that Shinji ''had sex with'' [[Dude, She's Like, in Aa Coma|his comatose friend]] and pulled out at the last minute. It would also explain both interperetations of the final line ("I feel sick" could refer to morning sickness and "How disgusting" could refer to her feeling of disgust towards her 'husband'). In addition, it reinforces the feeling of their (and subsequently, humanity's) uncertain future. [[Tiffany Grant]], Asuka's VA, seems to believe this theory, according to [[The Other Wiki]].

* Oh god, this one originated from an essay by Sean [[Mc CoyMcCoy]], a prominent Eva fanboy from the late 90's/early 2000's so dedicated he was actually brought in by ADV to do commentaries for several episodes showcasing his [[Fan Wank]] theories. It's pretty out there, although you have to admire the guy's ability to read meaning into EVERYTHING. I never got the impression that Grant believed this herself, although since she's obviously met and talked to [[Mc CoyMcCoy]], who knows?

That's right, you heard me. And the "humans" are insects, either ants or termites. Sachiel? He's just a police officer. The EVAS? Owners of the house, or environmentalists fighting for insect rights. Lilith? A dead hooker buried under the lawn. Israfel? Two kids playing piggyback. Gaghiel? He's just someone on the swimming pool. Sandalphon? A baby. Sahaquiel? An aeroplane seen from the distance. Zeruel? Probably an exterminator. Arael and Armisael? They're both entomologists ([[Mind Rape]]? That's just dissection). Instrumentality? A can of Raid. The octahedral one? A tiller. The one shaped like bacteria? A lawnmower.

Two explanations: Take this literally, and the AT Field is simply some kind of force field that is utilized by beings made of particle-wave matter (Angels, Evas) and isn't related to the extroversion and introversion of people. Take this metaphorically, and the AT Field is what makes people lie to each other (which sounds like [[Code Geass]] ' own version of Instrumentality).

The First Ancestral Race made at least two kinds of seeds: Black Moons with Lilith, who create "normal" terrestrial life that can eventually develop into sentient beings (they might also contain the original form of the First Ancestral Race), and the White Moons with Adam, who create the Angels which command great destructive power but have no real will of their own.

The First Ancestral Race was not alone in the universe, but the "life" they encountered was so alien and malignant that they designated some worlds (such as Earth) as guardian worlds or some such, to be populated by Angels which would fight against such beings as they encountered them. However, when Lilith was knocked off course for whatever reason, Earth's case went pear shaped. The reason the Angels wish to reunite with Adam and cause Third Impact is so they can wipe Earth clean and set it up as a guardian world as originally intended.

Rei appears at the beginning and end because Shinji is looking at her when he takes the hit, and she's shaking him back to consciousness at the end. As for why Asuka and Rei are in his his room while he's snorting some weird combination of drugs, it's because they're going to have a bit of a [[A Party - Also Known Asas an Orgy|party]] with their friends, who haven't shown up yet. This is also why Shinji is having sex with Asuka during the Instrumentality section of EOE, because ''he actually is.'' That was why he took the drugs. He just got a bad dose. '''And yes, I know it doesn't make any sense, but hey, it's a possibliity'''

** Alternatively, it was actually Keel Lorenz's hallucination of what he wanted to happen after he took [[This Is Your Premise Onon Drugs|lots and lots of drugs]], but after regaining consciousness, he saw how actually [[Rebuild of Evangelion|a few different things happened]].

And [[Butt Monkey|Minoru]] is Shinji. Hey, there are more than enough WMG's linking ''[[Haruhi Suzumiya (Light Novel)|Haruhi Suzumiya]]'' and ''Evangelion'', especially via Instrumentality. Why not go one step further? Tsundere Kagami makes a good Asuka, Tsukasa has the short hair ([[You Gotta Have Blue Hair|almost the same color]]) and slightly pushover personality. The fact that Kagami and Tsukasa are twins and Asuka hates Rei makes things deliciously [[Ironic Hell|ironic]] (although [[Annoying Younger Sibling|Tsukasa]] occasionally provokes the same reaction in Kagami). Miyuki is frequently judged by Konata to be the penultimate in [[Moe]]...a perfect definition of an Angel if there ever was one. And [[Otaku]] Konata seems to be adored by most of her peers, as opposed to most stereotypes of otakus. She's also athletic and a [[Genius Ditz]] when need be--hencebe—hence a higher being in the eyes of most otakus.

How else do you explain a Snowdrop named [https://web.archive.org/web/20140625003449/http://www.galanthus.co.uk/catalogue_product.php?productID=32 Galanthus] '''Ikari'''ae?

== The White and Black Eggs (Adam and Lilith) are [[Lost Technology|Lost Logia]] from [[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha|Al-Hazard]]. ==

Basically, there's no good reason to build a city over top of something that is ''sure'' to be attacked, no matter how much of a 'fortress' said city is. Building said city into a massive underground cavern is also a bad idea in Japan; an area well-known for seismic activity. However, there can be an explanation for this: While power calculations done by fans have shown that a megaton-yield thermonuclear device could feasibly kill an angel, you wouldn't want to detonate one of those over a city, especially a city where "cave in" is a legitimate threat. The construction of Tokyo 3 in that specific location may be a deliberate ploy by SEELE to prevent the use of the only non-eva weapon theoretically capable of harming an angel. (Okay, there was that one plan involving 992 N-2 devices but, given the N-2 mine's calculated yield, that would hardly equal a 20mt nuke. To put that in perspective, 25mt weapons were commonly deployed by the US Air Force during the Cold War and Tsar Bomba, the largest thermonuclear device ever created, had a whopping 50mt yield -- atyield—at half-power.) This forces humanity to rely on the Eva units, which is exactly what SEELE wants.

2) The AT Field is used to isolate the true self/soul from others.

Drawing from these facts, This Troper proposes (insane smile here) that Angels have such a strong AT Field BECAUSE they are completely afraid, isolated, and alone. Completely. This means that the Angels' desire to cause 3rd Impact isn't out of any sort of maliciousness. They are genuinely terrified of EVERYTHING in reality. They want to cause 3rd impact to STOP being so isolated and afraid. This theory would go some way to explaining why Angels never work together. They feel more isolated and terrified of even others of their species than Shinji on a very very very bad day. Possibly they would even view it as a kindness. If they thought that every living thing was like then maybe they think that it would be an act of generousity to make everybody one without doubts or fears.

== The First Ancestral Race are the aliens who preceded/created the universe in the [[Stargate Verse]] and the [[Stargate Universe (TV)|Destiny's]] mission has some relation to Instrumentality ==

== [[The World Ends With You (Video Game)|Joshua]] and Kaworu are the same person. ==

== Not only are Kaworu and [[The World Ends With You (Video Game)|Joshua]] the same person, Joshua came first and he's everywhere. ==

Enter Evangelion, a reality way more screwed up than his home reality. After he was done with that, he decided to do research into what other people are like. Shinji and Neku were similar, but Shinji was a much worse case. So he decided to insert himself into another reality. As Izaya Orihara of [[Durarara (Literature)|Durarara!!]].

He then became [[Haruhi Suzumiya (Light Novel)|Itsuki Koizumi]] to research humans more. Until he realized that Haruhi had pretty much the same power as him. Except, she didn't know it. This is where Joshua discovered that if Haruhi willed it, everything woould dissapear. Never before had he met someone with the same, if not greater, power as himself.

* You mean [[Magic: theThe Gathering|Planeswalkers?]]

== The Episode26!AU Pen-Pen is a celebrity with a massive merchandising empire. ==

Hey, mysterious god aliens can have more than one [[Eldritch Abomination]] creation, can't they? And the Reapers have an [[Assimilation Plot]] somewhat similar (though very different in the details) to Seele's plan of instrumentality.

* Maybe the First Ancestral Race also created the [[HPH.P. Lovecraft|Great Old Ones]], the [[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann|Anti-Spirals]] and all our mythological gods.

== The human race makes it through Third Impact only to suffocate to death. ==

At the end of End of Evangelion {{spoiler|every single Lillithian Life Form has been transformed into LCL. This is every organism on the planet. Then we're told that everyone with force of personality will come back, given that Shinji counted, we can assume that the definition of force of personality is pretty low. But probably not as low as say...a plant. You've got the entire human population of the world, probably a lot of animals but not a single plant which means there's nothing converting [[CO 2]]CO2 to Oxygen }}

Described in detail [[http://forum.evageeks.org/viewtopic.php?t=1653 here]. Obviously, like with all theories, it has problems, but why not?

This theory goes as follows; instrumentality failed because not all conciousnesses were combined. In his hatred for Gendo, Shinji prevented Gendo from joining instrumentality. Without Gendo something was missing from instrumentality. This is why instrumentality did not 'feel right' to Shinji resulting in him reversing the process.

When [[Final Crisis|Darkseid fell backwards through time]] his death manifested in the Evangelion timeline as Third Impact and the Second Impact that preceded it. Everyone on Earth was merged into one being, one life, one will that is [[Darkseid|DARKSEID]]. ''End of Evangelion'' is so depressing and bleak because it's the Anti-Life Equation trying to manifest in our world. Give in.

It explains all of the mind screw stuff and where the angels come from. The Earth in Evangelion universe is a planet cut off from outside contact by a Warp storm eons ago (perhaps during the Age of Strife), yet unlike most other planets engulfed by the Warp, the Earth entered into the period of relative stability, until the Second Impact came along. And Adam and Lilith? They may be Greater Demons, the new Chaos Gods, or something unimaginably horrible from another galaxy...

Well, Human Instrumentality Project is basically getting rid of AT field and merging all souls of humans into one so that one human's weakness is complemented by other's strengths. As a result, the humans as a whole become a god, no longer subject to loneliness and suffering and all those nasty stuffs. Humans have massive, fundamental issues, so we may need a drastic measure of apocalypse for such a drastic problem.

AKA my first impression of Human Instrumentality Project. Either Keel is a [[Complete Monster]] out to enslave the souls of every human being, or Human Instrumentality Project is doomed to failure (either [[Gone Horribly Wrong]] or [[Gone Horribly Right]]) to begin with.

== The First Ancestral Race were the [[Halo|Prec]][https://web.archive.org/web/20120702152011/http://www.halopedian.com/Precursor ursors]. ==

The AT Field is the barrier that all living, feeling things have, their emotional personal space if you will. As referenced on the [[Mind Rape]] page, the Angels' external fields could be interpreted as a sign that they are the most lonely, frightened beings in the universe. They came to reconnect with their progenitors, who had been separated from them for billions of years, only to find that not only did their sibling actively not want them there, but that said sibling was willing to violate the Angels' boundaries, destroying them, in order to keep their way of life from being changed. Eventually, the Angels used [[Mind Rape|such]] [[Combat Pragmatist|tactics]] to fight back on the terms that their opponent set, Sahaquiel paving the way for later Angels. {{spoiler|Kaworu}} tried a different tactic: Love, embracing Lilim. It didn't work. The last we see of Lilim? {{spoiler|Lilith/Adam/Rei remove the Lilim's ability to separate themselves from other beings, leaving only the two most emotionally stunted, separatist humans ''on the planet'', who (in at least Shinji's case) couldn't even form a meaningful connection when their parent(s)/sibling/emotional lover [[Mind Rape|Mind Raped]]d them to be unable to ''not'' form whatever connection was available}}.

Footnote 1: I'm not saying that {{spoiler|[[Humans Are Bastardsthe Real Monsters]]}} any more than the series already does (which is to say, not entirely but certainly more than a little, and everybody else is just as screwed up), but if you look at it this way, it really does reinforce every aspect of the main point that the series made. Footnote 2: Yes, I know I'm implying a weird {{spoiler|pluralization}}. It's ''[[From a Certain Point of View|technically]]'' correct (whether or not that is [[Futurama|the best kind of correct]]), but I preferred that over spoiler marking nearly every noun in the guess.

What's golden-orange in colour, a liquid, and contains every member of a race essentially merged into one, when they revert from solid individual bodies into a formless unity? LCL? Or...[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine|the Great Link]]? The characters in Evangelion are Founder Changelings who forgot, over a great expanse of time, how to shapeshift or link effectively. Hence they experienced crippling loneliness. The Rei clones are a product of the same technology that clones the Vorta, complete with the previous clone's memories. And when it comes to designing organic fighting machines, who better than the people who created the Jem'Hadar? What we have here is a lost colony of Founder Changelings cut off from the rest of the Dominion, who are having difficulty living as solid individuals and seek to recapture the lost Link. With the evas and Rei, they seek to incorporate their hazy recollections of the wider Dominion into this plan. Even their self-conscious use of "Child" as an official label for their young, socially-crippled heroes is a memory of their origins; it's connected to the idea of the Hundred; the young changelings sent out into the galaxy, thus to be the loneliest of changelings but upon whom the future supposedly depends.

1. AT-field can only be breached with another AT-Field (excluding [[Frickin' Laser Beams]], [[Nuclear Option]] and stuff).<br />2. AT-fields come from the desire for isolation.<br />Ergo, [[Dysfunction Junction|an army of depressed hikkikomori]] [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|can punch out an angel]].<ref>if all else fails, these depressed hikkikomori can be [[Grievous Harm Withwith a Body|shot at them]]. Just saying.</ref><br />You can start your "Evangelion without Evangelions" fic now.

the effects of the second impact aren't adressed suggesting that it never happened, or at the least not with the same magnitude as with the NGE second impact.

If the "rebooted" elements are true, the angels aren't related to humankind's origin and destiny,then, there wouldn't be a reason for the NERV to build the evangelions, or in general, for this earth to follow the steps of NGE earth.

Her energy source depeleted, it went into sleep mode, and got buried under the ice sheet of Antartica. But The wake of her dimensional leap had left open a small dimensional rift.

Millenias later, the EVA had recharged itself with the help of its S2 engine and reawakened temporarily, triggering this earth version of the "second impact", but at a much smaller scale.it attracted the angels, which are in this reality higher-dimensional beings that lives in other levels of existence, to earth and came there via the rift.

The SEELE was puzzeled by the second impact and sent a team of scientists to investigate the phenomenon. They retrieved the EVA 01 at ground zero desactivated. They brought it back to the NERV HQ and stored it at Terminal Dogma, a high-security containement warehouse.

Afterwards, a young scientist named Yui ikari and her husband Gendo became the head scientists of the project evangelion. the goal of this project was to discover the nature and origin of the alien artifact(the EVA 01), and reverse-engeneer its technology for pratical uses.

Meanwhile, the angels began to appear on earth searching for the cause of the dimensional rift wrecking (non-maliciously) amok. The SEELE turned the situation to its advantage by using the angels' appearances as an excuse to turn the evangelion project from fundamental research to armement R&D, thus creating the first prototypes of fully functional real robot mechas.

== ''[[Solaris (Literature)|Solaris]]'' takes place in the far future of {{spoiler|Shinji Ikari Raisng Project Earth after the discovery of the far future alternate Earth of ''EoE''}} ==

After the defeat of the angels on Earth, the SEELE gained enough technology and data from EVA 01 and the angels to bring a new golden age to the world.

With the nigh-unlimited energy source given by the S2 Engine and the force field tech brought by the science of the AT Field, [[Man Kind]] conquered space and flourished between the stars in relativistic spaceships.In the same time, interdimensional travel has been perefected, enabling those high-tech spaceships to achieve FTL speed and travel through the multiverse.

Eventually, an interdimensional exploration ship stumbled on an earth-like world covered by a single sentient ocean and named it Solaris, unknown to them that this world is {{spoiler|EOE Earth}} from where came EVA O1, and that the ocean contain the collective consciousness of what was once called [[Man Kind]], thus closing the loop.

It would fit the religious motif. Plus one interpetation of Heaven ends up with "all of humanity becoming one with God", eerily similar to {{spoiler|everyone becoming one with [[Eldritch Abomination|Adam/Lilith]], the creator of all life on Earth.}} Going by this, it may actually ''be'' Armageddon. Thus either Kaworu (who decided not to destroy humanity) or Shinji {{spoiler|(who triggered Instrumentality)}} is the Second Coming of Jesus. It also ties with Keel being the Wandering Jew: the Wandering Jew is destined to live forever until the End of Days. Keel [[Who Wants to Live Forever?|is tired of living forever]], so he decides to [[Suicidal Cosmic Temper Tantrum|end]] [[The End of the World Asas We Know It|it]] [[Death Seeker|all.]]

== Shinji is just a normal kid, being tortured by [[Hellraiser (Film)|Pinhead]]. The Neon Genesis Evangelion franchise and fanfiction [[Everyone Is Jesus in Purgatory|is his personal hell, and the other characters are other damned souls who were chosen to share in it]]. ==

The anime, especially EOE and Episode 23, was so nightmarish that those who saw it died from shock and heart attack, became catatonic, began to murder anything that moves, or were [[Driven to Suicide]]. To make matters worse, [[The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You|the Giant Naked Rei popped out from the movie screen and forcefully fused with the remaining living beings.]] Thus, in the universe of [[SpongebobSpongeBob SquarePants]], all terrestrial life is extinct. However, the Giant Naked Rei soon gave birth in the Sea of LCL to the walking talking intelligent marine lives and told how she destroyed a dystopia and remade the world into the cheerful (but still dystopic) Bikini Bottom. However, the story now is largely forgotten, and Patrick Star is the only one who remembers the story, albeit in a heavily deformed way.

* Sandy is actually the Giant Naked Rei disguised as a squirrel.

* Or, a handful of human beings hid deep under the sea and formed the Bikini Bottom.

Humanity returned to form from the Tang and rebuilt its society...however, their capacity for arrogance, pride, [[Humans Are Bastardsthe Real Monsters|bastardry]] and schadenfreude remained, creating Madoka's cruel world where {{spoiler|idealism and belief in man's better nature ''only'' ever comes at a horrible cost}}.

He got them as frozen embryons (like Adam) while first Antarctic expedition.

Actually, SEELE were OK with that position until Ayanami use Longinius Spear on Arael.

{{quote| Sachiel stabs EVA-01 in the head with his Adamantine Spear!<br />

It is mangled!<br />

The right eye is torn out!<br />

EVA-01 is propelled away by the force of the blow!<br />

EVA-01 slams into an obstacle!<br />

EVA-01 stands up.<br />

EVA-01 has entered a martial trance!<br />

EVA-01 grabs Sachiel by the head with his left hand!<br />

Sachiel grabs EVA-01 by the upper body with his right hand!<br />

Sachiel breaks the grip of EVA-01's left hand on his head!<br />

Sachiel throws EVA-01 by the upper body!<br />

EVA-01 charges at Sachiel!<br />

EVA-01 misses Sachiel!<br />

Sachiel bashes EVA-01 in the upper body with his AT-Field!<br />

It is bruised!<br />

EVA-01 grabs Sachiel by the AT-Field with his right hand!<br />

EVA-01 grabs Sachiel by the AT-Field with his left hand!<br />

EVA-01 locks Sachiel's AT-Field with his left hand!<br />

Sachiel misses EVA-01!<br />

EVA-01 cripples Sachiel's AT-Field!<br />

EVA-01 grabs Sachiel's left hand with his left hand!<br />

EVA-01 grabs Sachiel's right hand with his left hand!<br />

EVA-01 punches Sachiel in the left hand with his right hand!<br />

The left hand flies off in an arc!<br />

EVA-01 punches Sachiel in the right hand with his right hand!<br />

The right hand flies off in an arc!<br />

EVA-01 charges at Sachiel!<br />

EVA-01 punches Sachiel in the head!<br />

It is smashed into the body, an unrecognizable mass!<br />