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* [[Fandom Gank]]: The series' finale left vast swaths of the fandom puzzled ''and'' angry at the complete non-sequitur ending.
* [[Fandom Rivalry]]: Given how it's one of the most (in)famous series in the anime world, it's bound to run into competition.
** Since the 90's, several fans
** ''Evangelion'' and ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica]]'' fans have formed rivalries over which entry is the better [[Genre Deconstruction]] (respectively of [[Humongous Mecha]] and [[Magical Girl]]). The same rivalry occurs between ''Evangelion'' fellow mecha deconstruction '[[Bokurano]]''. Although Hideaki Anno himself is a ''huge'' fan of ''Madoka'', praising it for the same kind of ruthless [[Deconstruction]] of a popular genre that he was trying to do.
** ''Evangelion'' and ''[[RahXephon]]'' fans are rather contentious towards each other given how much ''RahXephon'' borrows from ''Evangelion''. This of course is rather ironic given how their respective directors are good friends who worked on many projects together.
* [[Fan Dumb]]: Massive amounts; come in multiple different varieties.
* [[Fan Hater]]: Ditto.
** Most notably the mecha fanbase absolutely ''can't stand'' a sizeable portion of the ''Evangelion'' fandom that attacks other shows just because somebody dared to claim "Eva" is not the "greatest anime ever".
* [[Fan Myopia]]: Due to the amount of critical praise the show has received, the fandom has a tendency to overestimate itself. It's gotten to the point where it's seen very frequently on this wiki.
* [[Fanon]]: A general note: so many things about the series and its mythos are implied and left open to interpretation, rather than explicitly stated, that drawing the line between canon and fanon can in some cases be extremely difficult, if not downright impossible. As a rule of thumb: if you heard it from somebody on the Internet (including [[This Very Wiki]] and even [[The Other Wiki]]), or in a magazine, or at a convention, or even in the freaking DVD special features... don't assume it's canon. Hell, even the [[Word of God|CREATORS]] [[Shrug of God|tend to make contradictory statements about the series]], so you might not want to trust them so much either.
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