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[[File:NGE_smaller.jpg|frame|Not pictured: [[Dysfunction Junction|Sanity.]]]]
{{quote|''"This is a giant robot saga the same way ''[[Twin Peaks]]'' was a cop show."''
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''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' (''Shin Seiki Evangelion'' "New Age/Era Evangelion", often mistranslated as "New Century Evangelion") is a 26-episode science fiction/action/drama [[Anime]] series which aired on Japanese television in 1995-96. In 1997, Gainax followed the series with the film ''Death & Rebirth'', a [[Clip Show]] revision of the series which condensed many of the series' episodes into an hour-and-a-half timespan (while also expanding a few scenes). ''Death and Rebirth'' also featured the first half-hour of ''The End of Evangelion'', a full-length movie that brought the story to a much more definitive (but by no means less controversial) conclusion than the television series did.
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* [[Description Cut]]/[[Ironic Echo Cut]]: Episode 11 sets up long chains of both. After all, the whole point of the episode is how the characters, while isolated by a power outage, still manage to think the same. The ''Death'' segment of ''Death & Rebirth'' is practically nothing but these.
* [[Determinator]]: [[Deconstructed Trope|Deconstructed]] by Asuka, since playing it straight leads to her breakdown when she is no longer able to keep up.
* [[Dive Kick]]:
* The seventh Angel, Israfel, needs to be killed by destroying its two cores. This requires a synchronized blow that comes in the form of Shinji and Asuka double dive kick after a synchronized sequence. The Angel was destroyed, but they didn't stick the landing.
* [[Downer Ending]]:
** Episode 26, depending on interpretation, especially seeing as, whatever the hell happened, at least Shinji ends it finally happy. Played ''very'' straight by ''The End of Evangelion'' though: although a brighter future is possible, the film ends with Shinji weeping.
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