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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.

The Instrumentality, episodes 25-26, and even [[Rebuild of Evangelion]] were just the results of Shinji going insane from his tormented mind.

* See the [[Surprisingly Similar Stories]] page for more.

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

== The reason why Seele wanted to get rid of those Angels is because the Angels are going to fuck up Instrumentality in a ''non-lethal'' fashion. In other words, the Angels are actually going to prevent the Apocalypse ==

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.

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

* So does this mean that the Lance of Longinus, with its anti-AT-Field is a stick of "cheer up, emo kid!"?

* 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]] 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.

**** Indeed that only proves that Japanese weapons cost more.

** Remember that this is an anime from, of all places, Japan. It makes sense that Japan is a world power, has the main NERV branch, and to boot, is the center of all the action. This is a common trope in most anime.

* Britain as one of the countries mainly running the EU? France and Germany sure, but not Britain. We're seen as too close to the US and not europhile enough (we're not in the single currency for example and are unlikely ever to be) and actually have very little influence.

** Little influence? Britain has round about same number of MEPs and council members as france, and so naturally has the same influence. Influence in the european government is roughly dictated by country size, not how much the media like you. We'd be truely stuffed if that was the case...not having the Euro was our governments choice, not the result of the rest of the continent telling us we couldn't be in their club.

*** You know, if all humanity has been merged into one giant puddle of Tang, then there is a chance that there may be glitching when individuals try to get back out...

*** That totally undermines anyone's individuality though. Its also highly derogatory that 3 aspects of the main 14 year old male character's crushes are embodied in this one person following the end. Especially considering the whole point if someone wants to enough, they can reject instrumentality as Shinji did. Misato was dead and Rei was the instigator, so if anyone had a reason to reject it, it was Asuka. I get the composite character thing, but that was probably a thematic choice, but the disgust is pure Asuka. I mean, It just makes sense!

* If the movies are a [[Peggy Sue]] -- that is, if one of the characters has arrived back at the beginning of the story with foreknowledge of the original series -- 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 -- the one major plot departure in the first movie from the series. This goes a long way to help motivate Shinji fight Ramiel...

* Alternatively Mari Illustrious Makinami is the Peggy Sue, and in fact Toji's little sister, who is often called Mari in fanon.

* That ''would'' also explain [[Neon Genesis Evangelion Gakuen Datenroku|Neon Genesis Evangelion: Gakuen Datenroku]]...

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

* So all the Evangelion fanfic was actually created by Shinji trying to make a better universe?

** Yes. The inspiration for this theory was, itself, one big [[Deconstruction]] of [[Fanfic Tropes]] in Evangelion. Also, as the author of this theory recently observed on another page, it's pretty much impossible to find a [[Fanfic]] that ''doesn't'' [[Fix Fic|arbitrarily improve ''somebody's'' lot in some way]], because it's not like it can get much worse.

[[How Did We Miss This One?]]? Anyway, enough people managed to separate from Mega-Rei (who went on to "seed" the colonies with humans and animals) to repopulate the planet using NERV's technology. The Colonies' gods are Rei's memories of her human friends and otherworldly enemies while the Cylon's god is a gender-shifted Rei (Rei = Dei = Deus = Zeus(?)). Either that or a variation of the first ''Watchmen'' theory: Dr. Manhattan's world's creation Rei tries to create her ''own'' world; [[Earthshattering Kaboom|Earth Shattering KaBooms]], deconstructed archetypes, and fucked-up love affairs ensue (apparently things would be ''worse'' if the blond [[Mad Scientist's Beautiful Daughter]] and the [[Tall, Dark and Bishoujo]] [[Lady of War]] were actually lovers; the [["Well Done, Son" Guy|Well Done Son Guy and Well Done Daughter Gal]] get off comparatively easy (which is to say they survive ...ish).

(note: horrifically superficial)

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

* Liir = Shinji ([[Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette]] boy with a dead mom and absent father who is ''desperate'' for human connection but is abandoned by virtually everyone while wearing his mother('s cloak))

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

* Trism = Kaworu (only male love interest, only one Liir has a real emotional (and physical) connection with, disappears not long after their meeting and is probably an enemy agent)

** Wait... does that mean that Rei's a [[Yaoi Fangirl]]?

* It would seem that this theory is [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7161235/1/My_Fantasy plausable.]

Many other entries theorise that their series are Shinji's fantasies, but think about it: For Mesousa, Shinji's life would be a definite ''improvement'' over his own.

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

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

** So, Xellos and Kaworu are just manifestations of a singular greater meta being that is also incarnated at Itsuki? Does this mean every fictional universe has a bit of Kawollotsuki..., an Elder god name if I ever heard one?

* ''[[Super Robot Wars]]'', of all things, appears to run with this; in Alpha 3, Kaworu (never mind how he managed to survive SRW Alpha in the first place) makes references to the events of SRW F Final and SRW MX, both in entirely different continuities. The leading theory in SRW fandom is that he's a Time <s>Lord</s> Diver and travels between dimensions, and thus is the same being in every continuity (including canon and presumably Rebuild).

== [[Real Life]] is an [[Anime]] in the world of [[Neon Genesis Evangelion]] ==

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 40000]] 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.

* The alternative theory (far less likely, by the way) is that [[Neon Genesis Evangelion]] is an [[Anime]] in [[Real Life]], but that's too much of a stretch even for a WMG page.

** Nah, that's just too OBVIOUS. Why would Evangelion do something so completely unironic?

== Digimon Seasons 1 and 2 are a TV show in the [[Neon Genesis Evangelion|EVA]] world. ==

* 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.....

** Perhaps the mass-production perversity is Anno's point all along: instead of facing reality with all its pain and sexual anxiety like how Shinji rejects the false reality of Instrumentality and chooses to be with Asuka despite fully knowing how much of a [[Jerkass]] she is, the otakus and male chauvinists choose to replace the real female with something artificial instead. They are who will get tanged first when the real-life Instrumentality comes.

== Evangelion is about learning to drive ==

* Kaji is Misato's husband. He is convinced he is a double agent working for the CIA and Japanese Intelligence. He treats Shinji like a favorite cousin, filling in a paternal role.

* 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.

** Just another thought to throw in there: Do you think Shinji really decapitated him or was that just a delusion?

* Touji, Kensuki and Hikari were Shinji's friends before he was committed. At first they visited him as a sign of solidarity, but like his father they visit less and less often over time and eventually leave him as he becomes more detached with reality.

== The separate continuities are all part of an unstable time loop. ==

== In Rebuild, Mari and Asuka are also (modified) clones of Yui. ==

* That idea would make an awesome fanfic. Also, does it sound like [[Bokurano]] to anyone?

* 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.

** Although the representative concept can still work, think of the Angels and Evas as monuments.

* 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]] (aka Angels), and also serves as a filter to block unnecessary chaos, however, as a consequence, as a barrier, it has to separate humanity.

Ayato has come to the Rebuild-Eva-Verse to 'retune' it properly and fix what Second Impact did, as he did with his homeworld. Eva 06 is 'built differently' than the rest, because it's just the RahXephon in <s>a candy shell</s> armor plating and rubber. This is also why "Eva" 06 was able to get close to Near Third Impact, as it can warp reality itself and doesn't need to worry about a little thing like a godlike energy being. The big reveal in 4.0 will be 06 purging its armor and revealing its true form, and helping Shinji fight the [[Final Boss]], {{spoiler|A [[Brainwashed and Crazy]] TV-Series-Shinji in a godlike 01}}.

* This troper heard of SEELE uniting all humanity in death. That makes Instrumentality a Euthanasia program turned into a [[Suicidal Cosmic Temper Tantrum]].

** Yes, but if SEELE wants to euthanize humanity, why would they go to great lengths and summon Physical Gods instead of creating a virus?

* This troper found a clue: the Human Instrumentality Project was a direct reference to the Instrumentality of Mankind, a possible future created by Cordwainer Smith. In Cordwainer Smith's Instrumentality, everyone has his responsibilities, but if a person commited wrong, it was different. For example, any Lord can put any Lord to death, but the Lord who put his fellow Lord to death was also put to death. While the Instrumentality government acts on "an eye for an eye" ideology, the lower classes were imposed with a fixed lifespan of four hundred years. The Human Instrumentality Project, therefore, was a plan to restore the "eye for an eye" ideology by dissolving the AT Field, and with it, morality.

* Or the Instrumentality was a situation very similar to that of [[The Matrix]]. Humanity was forced to live on an interactive world they can actually warp, while being oblivious to the fact that they live in a [[Crapsack World]]. Shinji, for rejecting Instrumentality, has a status of a Red Pill.

*** Keel Lorenz is {{spoiler|future moot}} then, after being corrupted by /b/. This leads to an alternate timeline where [[Memetic Mutation|TEH REI]] was a more lasting meme than she was in our world, leading to {{spoiler|moot}} turning into a [[Misaimed Fandom|misaimed fan]] of SEELE's goals after becoming like Anonymous and then watching Evangelion, followed by the events of Evangelion happeneing due to Anonymous interference and then sending back records as the Evangelion we know, creating a [[Stable Time Loop]] when Rei becomes a meme.

**** Adding to that, Project Chanology and its aftermath introduced {{spoiler|moot}} to Scientology, which inspired him to cause the outlawing of psychology post-Second Impact through his [[Ancient Conspiracy]] world control, allowing all of humanity to go mad enough that they might accept this crazy Instrumentality thing. This backfired when one of the most disturbed people on Earth (who was purposefully broken as part of the grand master plan!) was given control of the process, and he turned out to be analogous to [[So Bad It's Good]]: Shinji turned out so crazy by the end that he had a moment of powerful sanity, and in that very moment he rejected Instrumentality. {{spoiler|Future moot's}} plan to break Shinji into a justifiably emo warrior with an occasional berserker rage [[Gone Horribly Right|turned out too successful]], to the ruin of the plan, all because a bunch of Internet users protested Scientology.

****** The concept of {{spoiler|moot}} being {{spoiler|Gendo Ikari}} and the concept of {{spoiler|Xenu}} being {{spoiler|both the First Ancestral Race and Shinji Ikari}}, and Teegeeack being cursed to repeat the curse of Evangelion once again for eternity is kinda interesting, but it makes more sense if Seele, with their obsession with alien precursors, were the Scientology guys while Gendo, being the [[Memetic Mutation|Uber-Pimp that he is]], worked separately for Anonymous and against the scientology guys, leading to him and Teh Rei haxoring the entire Instrumentality plan and putting the Instrumentality less in favor of a crap imitation of psychoanalysis and more in favor of trolling us otakus for teh lulz.

***** Some of Anonymous' quotes are "We are everyone and we are no one" and "United as one, divided by zero". The Instrumentality is specifically described by Rei in ''End of Evangelion'' as "a place where you exist everywhere, yet you are nowhere, all at once" and "a world where we are all one". Coincidence?

As the ''Second'' child, she's got <s>[[Mass Effect|L2 biotic implants]]</s> an older model, one that had to be surgically implanted.

** They're not. She took them off in ''Rebuild 2.0'' before attaching the spherical green ones that came with the TEST plugsuit.

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

* [[Puella Magi Madoka Magica]]?

* This one seems a little bizarre, but it's not that far off from the "Neon Feminist Evangelion" entry above, which is pretty much true.

== Humanity is just a stage in the life cycle of [[Eldritch Abomination|Gods]] ==

Angels are essentially sperm: Third Impact is essentially conception. Humanity merges into a unified mind which is a new God. Gods, in turn, seed the tree of life, which creates ever-new variants on Adam, Lilith and Eve which will make new worlds into seedbeds of consciousness. SEELE hoped to create a distorted Third Impact (their own [[End of the World Special]]) so that rather than humanity merging into a common mind, they will become the "core" of the new divine consciousness, esentially becoming a God while everyone else is reduced to just thoughts running around inside their head. (Keel probably planned to double-cross his partners at some point, once he [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness|no longer needs them]]). Sometimes the cycle fails, and the new "zygote" disintegrates back into its component parts, although in most cases it simply sheds a percentage of unfit elements. What happens to them is of no importance: it's job done, the "seedbed" (terrestrial ecosystem) will die off before long.

** The basic premise of this (that all or most of the characters are a reflection of Anno) is undeniably true; it's what lends the series its extraordinary sincerity and brutal honesty, the same qualities that fundamentally make it so enthralling to some and so alienating to others. However, the same could be said of any writer who goes to great lengths to flesh out his or her characters psychologically, and I doubt any of this was as calculated or literal as you propose. Anno was quoted a couple years ago as saying about ''Rebuild'' that Mari was the first character he's created who wasn't fundamentally "a part of him", or something to that effect.

Most peaple was changed to goo, rest rebuild civilisiation and create World of Goo Corporation. World start being less cynical and angsty , more cartoony and also some how mor realistic in case of phisic laws, but little Mind Srew remein

== There is no coherence in NGE whatsoever. Any appearance of actual cohesion or [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic|symbolism]] is purely coincidental. ==

[[As You Know]] NGE was produced as an attempt [[Springtime for Hitler|to utilize a loophole in Japanese tax laws, and it became a blockbuster completely by accident.]] The production crew was intended to have a loose grip on reality, and they just threw in as many random things as possible just because they sounded good individually. There is no [[True Art Is Incomprehensible|real meaning]] to any of it; the fans just assume that there must be, so they create [[Epileptic Trees]] to convince themselves that there is an actual plot and meaning to this story.

== NGE is set in the future of the [[Watchmen]]-verse ==

* [[FLCL]]: The events preceeding second impact or the Anti Spiral Invasion (Hard to tell which of the two it is).

* [[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]: The remnants of Neo Atlan reemerge as Seele. Several descendants of the Nadia cast reappear and are dragged into the plot. Yui (Shingi's mother) is the descendant of Jean and Nadia while Asuka's mother, of Marie and Sanson; Fuyutsuki, is somehow linked to Lord Gargoyle, as is Akagi to Electra. Third Impact occurs, and everyone turns into orange juice. Shingi's involvement foils Seele's plans and they loose control of their 'new world'

This is of course far from being a perfect chain, so feel free to adjust and expand on it.

** The Anti-Spirals are the Instrumentalized humans, led by a mind-raped Shinji. It may explain [[Moral Event Horizon|what he]] [[Naughty Tentacles|did to]] [[Dude Shes In A Coma|Nia.]]

** A Gainax crossover anime/game. I'd watch/play it.

It travels the universe and the spacetime continuum (hence the Instrumentality Reis at the very beginning and the end), and stays in one place (the Giant Naked Rei).

Well, if the Ultimate Question and Ultimate Answer are to ever reunite, something ''weird'' has to happen. It resembles the Instrumentality a lot: combine ultimate beings together, and a massive [[Mind Screw]] happened. Here's how it happened: The race of super-intelligent pan-dimensional beings called the First Ancestral Race already found out the Ultimate Answer, and it was 42. However, the problem is that the Ultimate Question cannot be found, and it needs an even more powerful computer to calculate the Ultimate Question. That computer was Earth. Angels and Humans were once part of Earth's computational matrix which was meant to calculate the Ultimate Question. However, instead of Earth being destroyed by Vogons, this Earth was set in an alternate history where the Seele council works for the First Ancestral Race, and Second Impact was deliberately initiated by them to activate the Earth supercomputer. Also, the reason why [[There Are No Therapists]] in the Eva-verse is because everyone knows the Ultimate Answer is 42, and Seele told humanity that the Ultimate Question was going to be found. However, Gendo and Yui tried to ruin the whole Instrumentality plan using Shinji and Rei so that humans would never find out their meaning in life, and when they never find out the absolute meaning in life, they will have the freedom to live. By the way, how many S2 Engines / Fruits of Life are there in the Universe? 42.

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 Its 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.

* Also, the AT Field is powered by existentialism and one's own choice. So, maybe, the entire point of NGE's history is that we must use our own AT Fields to be free to post Epileptic Trees in the Garden of Fiction.

== Based on the theory above, Neon Genesis Evangelion is set in the same world as [[Lost]] ==

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.

* Jossed, Ikari is her true family name and Gendo's one was Rokubungi, he takes Yui's name.

* Perhaps Yui Hirasawa eventually has a daughter who marries a guy named Ikari and joins SEELE. She decides to name ''her'' daughter after her famous rock star grandmother. So Shinji is Yui's great-grandson.

== Asuka is pregnant with Shinji's child in the last scene of the movie. ==

* Oh god, this one originated from an essay by Sean [[Mc Coy]], 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 Coy]], who knows?

* Toji and Kensuke are Shinji's friends from school, and Hikari is Toji's girlfriend. They like partying with Shinji because he gets the best stuff.

== The sequel to Evangelion is... [[Real Life]]. ==

== [[Lucky Star|Konata and Miyuki]] are Angels, Kagami is Asuka, and Tsukasa is Rei. ==

== Neon Genesis Evangelion was {{spoiler|only the fruit of a complex interaction between the mind of Shinji with a new technology of therapeutic virtual reality technology à la [[The Cell]]}} ==

It was originally made to troll the people who hated the original ending, so why not.

(Sorry, I just happen to love Stargate and Evangelion, so I had to do something like this.) Think about it... Most of the other aliens they have encountered in Stargate (with the exception of the Wraith and the Jaffa, who are basically derived from humans, and the Goa'uld, who may be ralted in some way to one of the other angels) are vaguely humanoid due to being spawned from Black or White Moons that were placed on other worlds. Being descended from Adam or Lilith copies, this makes some sense. And, of course, ascension is basically a superior version of Instrumentality. Or Instrumentality is a (premature and somewhat flawed) attempt at ascension. Whichever you prefer. And, as I mentioned earlier, Destiny's mission (the stuff about cosmic background radiation) is related to the First Ancestral Race, who are the same beings who created "Eden" and brought back Caine and the others left behind. They lack the ability to bring back souls, however. To be honest, though, I mostly just like the idea of a Stargate Verse/Evangelion crossover. What can I say?

* It can also be said that the AT Fields are the manifestation of the Dark Side of the Force. Think about it. While Jedi try to keep using the Force for peaceful purposes and the Light side of the Force is based on calm, meditation and universal harmony, on the other hand the Dark Side is based on passion, hatred and powerful emotions, those things that determine the strength and isolation of AT Fields, which in turn are of course simply a metaphor for the individual personality. <br /><br />To understand the effect of the Dark Side on AT Fields, we must fundamentally know the Dark Side causality: Fear is the path to the Dark Side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering. Suffering leads to the dark side. (It also helps to know the [[DC Universe|Anti-Life Equation]]: loneliness + alienation + fear + despair + self-worth ÷ mockery ÷ condemnation ÷ misunderstanding x guilt x shame x failure x judgment n=y where y=hope and n=folly, love=lies, life=death, self=dark side) Now what powers AT Fields? What are the dominant emotions that control the world of Evangelion? What are the major factor in our personality and [[Character Development]]? Fear. Intense, raw or negative emotions. Suffering, which influences behaviour. Self, the dark side. <br /><br />Such powerful emotions are how the AT Field manifests itself onto the world, why Shinji is nearly omnipotent in his AT Field abilities, etc. It is also accepted that one has to be fearful and/or mentally deranged enough to manifest powerful emotions and AT Fields if he or she is to become an Evangelion pilot. One of the more obvious of these is the hedgehog's dilemma, the fear of becoming mutual enemies with oneself and others. The stronger the fear is, the stronger one wants to protect and isolate oneself from the rest of humanity, and thus the person is more and more seduced by the Dark Side to acquire more energy for his AT Field. For example, the stronger Shinji's wrath is, the more he manifests the Dark Side energy, which he uses to convert into AT Field energy. What if Shinji did not fear or is a normal person? Besides suffering from lack of character development, he is ignored by mother and gets defeated by the Angels. It was his dark side which allowed him to become an [[Eldritch Abomination]] altogether in End Of Evangelion. Not to mention AT is known as "Absolute Terror", which the Dark Side is supposed to bring upon the world when it manifests. <br /><br />But why do our personalities have to be an extension of the Dark Side, rather than the Light Side? Even though The Light Side is as effective in manipulating the universe as the Dark Side could, the reason why the Light Side is not effective for powering AT Fields is because the Light Side is based on living in harmony with the universe, which of course results in the AT Field being neutralized rather than strengthened. This also meann that the Light Side is the Anti-AT Field used to bring about Instrumentality, or should we say Nirvana. <br /><br />Heck, Psychoanalytical, Jungian or even Hindu and Buddhist metaphors can even be shoved into this: The Force represents the collective unconscious of Brahman, the Light Side represents the path to Nirvana, the AT Field represents the Ego or Individual, while the Dark Side of the Force represents the Id, the personal subconscious desires on which the Ego draws power.<br /><br />This is just an elaboration, but I can see that both the philosophy of the Jedi and the psychology of Evangelion would make an interesting model of metaphysics.

<br />Actually, I thought that the Star Wars Universe is an Instrumentality by Iruel and midichlorians are all him and the Force is an AT Field.

Think about it. Joshoru got bored with being Composer after Neku and the gang were returned to life, so he hopped on over to an alternate universe, which we know as Neon Genesis Evangelion. In that universe, his powers were converted to something like the angels while still retaining his human form. For some reason or another, he started calling himself Kaworu and started to mess with Shinji, porrbably because he somehow reminded him of Neku. When he got bored of being in the NGE-verse, he convinced Shinji to kill him. From time to time, he pops into the NGE-verse to check in on everyone and possibly wreak havoc.

Expanding on the above and a number of previous WMGs, Kaworu has the power to not only transcend continuities, but to show up in any work of fiction he desires in [[Expy]] form.

It was proven in Another Day, the alternate universe bonus chapter in The World Ends With You that Joshua can transport himself to alternate dimentions. Therefore, we can asume that after The World Ends With You ended Joshua decided to try another reality.

As Izaya he decided to take a much more direct approach in researching humanity. He also tried a new look, something he didn't think of when he was Kaworu. He eventually pissed of Shizuo Heiwajima which led Joshua to partially abandon this reality, as he would still slip back in from time to time to do more research.

So he formulated a plan. He would need to have access to a vast ammount of power if he was to stop Haruhi if he ever needed to. Therefore he decided to enter more realities.

To this day Joshua is living out these, and more, lives. At first it was due to boredom, but now, it was to prevent a fourth impact if you will. One that would consume all realities. That is what has happened, and there are more people who can traverse the realities as well.

== 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.

* This means that, naturally...

== The Anti AT Field generated by Lilith during Third Impact that turns everyone to orange goo is the [[Darkseid|Anti-Life Equation]] ==

== The world of Evangelion is part of the Dominion, from the [[Star Trek]] universe ==

== Humanity does not need Evas to defeat the angels ==

== Shinji ikari raising project is a version of evangelion without the biblic influences or the mindscrew/angst elements ==

They used it to fight the angels officially, but in fact they were testing the breakthrough technologies developped through their studies of EVA 01 since the ninities, and loot the corpses of the angels after the battles for analyse and autopsie, therefore amassing more and more of knowledge, which leads us to the conclusion that....

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.

== Seelee is a religious cult trying to bring Biblical Armaggedon. ==

* Shinji was basically just a normal kid. In fact, he was so average that he had no self-esteem or any real goals in life and sought the Lament Configuration to end his boredom. He ended up being dragged to Leviathan's Labyrinth, where his darkest fantasies are used to craft ever new forms of twisted entertainment. This also allows every single other WMG to be true, as they are all different worlds in his dreamworld/personal hell. All the other characters are just ordinary people who also discovered the Lament configuration and were chosen to share in Shinji's hell. In fact, Shinji is considered one of Hell's crowning works of art for the sheer ecstatic agony.

== Evangelion anime ''itself'' is [[The Ugly Barnacle]]. ==

* [[Butt Monkey|Squidward is Shinji, duh.]]

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