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== Shinji becomes an angel during the Zeruel battle ==

Think about it. Shinji's eyes turned red. Now both {{spoiler|Rei's and Kaworu's [[Red Eyes, Take Warning|eyes are red]] (and are the only people to have red eyes, which shows their part angel status)and when Shinji was pulling Rei out of Zeruel's core, his eyes changed to the exact same tint of red as Rei's and Kaworu's.}}

** No Shinji, you ARE the angels! [[And Then John Was a Zombie|And then Shinji was a zombie.]]

*** Actually, that makes a bit of sense, seeing as during the fight with Zeruel Shinji was pulling off stuff that only full-blown angels were supposed to be able to do such as [[Shinji and Warhammer 40 K (Fanfic)|weird crap with his AT field]] and shooting [[Eye Beams]].

* The loop is a result of the Angels [[Save Scumming]]. It will continue until one of them "wins."

* Sounds sensible. Also reminds me of a popular [[Radiant Silvergun]] / [[Ikaruga]] continuity WMG

* This troper thinks of this particular Wild Mass Guess as being the next step in a path to each character's "self-actualization," something he thought of after a 2-second-long segment of the scene in Rebuild 1.11 where Shinji runs away after fighting the flying alien... squid... thing. Shinji carefully walks down a "yellow line road." Let's think of the line in the middle of the road as being the "Yellow Brick Road" in ''The Wizard of Oz''. (Let's ignore the likely intentional original symbolism, being social commentary on the state of the United States near the end of the 19 century.) Based on Joey Greene's Buddhist interpretation of the Wizard of Oz, the yellow brick road is the path to self-actualization. This quote from a page on self-actualization adds more detail: "... the concept was brought most fully to prominence in Abraham Maslow's 'hierarchy of needs' theory as the final level of psychological development that can be achieved when all basic and mental needs are fulfilled and the "actualization" of the full personal potential takes place." Since each character is based on a subject in psychology, have each fix their respective psychological problems through one unified method... in an alternate universe; and, every time they fail, turn everyone into orange tang and start all over.

** It sounds like it could be a coincidence, but one of the battleships in the television series was called 'Over the Rainbow.' It was probably named after the song from the Wizard of Oz. Oz could also be simplified to Dorothy trying to escape from reality, which is mirrored in Shinji's desire to escape from reality.

* ''A Deconstruction of the [[Mary Sue]] /[[Moe]] Girlfriend'' The accusations of Mari Illustrious being a [[Canon Sue]] are correct… [[Parody Sue|in a way]]. [[Word of God|Kazuya Tsurumaki]] stated, citing Anno, that "Mari is the only character who isn't somehow dervied from Anno's psyche" and also that she is "meant to be wildly different from every other character". If she’s not from ‘’Anno’s’’ psyche, couldn’t she be from [[Fan Dumb|ours]]? She’s got everything a male fanfic author would want in an imaginary girl friend, and everything a female [[Self Insert]] writer is sure not to forget adding in: a gimmicky outfit (glasses, twintails, kneesocks), a weird [[Verbal Tic]], [[Manic Pixie Dream Girl|little sense of personal space or social etiquette]], a contrived [[Crash Into Hello]] with the male lead… that she has a [[Blood Knight]] battle mode isn't even much of a subversion. A seemingly sweet and cuddly girl has a psychotic mode is old hat to otaku who love to make [[Memetic Mutation|sweet characters into secret psychopaths]], and the sort of otaku silliness the writers would love to poke fun at. She even acts, on occasion, like myriad fan-portrayals of a vicious, [[Blood Knight]] Shinji! She seems to shrug off any damage inflicted on her as we would expect a Mary Sue to do, but this is deconstructed by making her some sort of bloodthirsty masochist. She acts in a sueish way, taking everything lightly, but then she does poorly in both her engagements, with her Evas badly damaged or destroyed. Her personal Eva unit 05 is "special," radically different from any of the others, but those differences cause it to be noticeably less effective in battle, not more. She talks about having plans she doesn't want adults getting in the way of, but she has so little connection to the actual main character that we still barely see her do anything. She even has what might be a Mary Sue token flaw in her glasses, though that too is deconstructed by making her completely [[Blind Without'Em]]. But, the problem with the [[Mary Sue]] is that she, herself, is surreal. Mari lives in a [[Crapsack World]] and enjoys every minute of it; and will not acknowledge her mistakes, how is that ''not'' insane? Like other [[Parody Sue]] s before her, [[Break the Haughty|eventually, the toll of not being as superior as she thought she was will take its toll…]]

* '' A Re/Deconstruction of the standard [[Super Robot]] protagonist'' As Shinji was a genderswapped inversion of the standard teenage SR pilot when it was first created, Mari is the Badass, straight ahead, 1% into 100% version. Her [[Blood Knight]] status and cheery love of battle is vaguely reminiscent of [[Getter Robo|Ryoma Nagare]], she gets to pilot the primarily red Unit-02, and the color palette she's presented in ZA BEASTO mode is [[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann|a peculiar]] [[Getter Robo|green and red]]. Her introduction song in Provisional Unit-05 sounds like something out of Gunbuster, as does her pre-Beast code quip of "Sometimes you've got to risk it all to get that special something". She's basically a chimera of Studio GAINAX's previous [[Super Robot]] heroes with glasses. She's got Noriko's guts (and tits), Nono's weirdness, and Kamina's hotheadedness. The subversion of trope is the fact that she has come dangerously close to dying in both her fights; there’s even odds that her "problem" is either she's a [[Death Seeker]], and/or she ends up [[Anyone Can Die|mirroring Kamina in more ways that her fans would like]].

* ''A replacement for Asuka Langley '''Soryu''' '' What if she was designed to [[Replacement Scrappy|Steal Asuka’s “spotlight”, as it were ]]? The [[But Not Too Foreign]] child prodigy [[Fiery Redhead|Fiery Redheaded]] [[Tsundere]] with the [[Ace Custom]] Eva who showed up late seemed like she could pass for a Sue in her first few episodes, and we know [[Break the Haughty|what]] [[Faux Action Girl|happened]] [[Mind Rape|to]] ''[[Despair Event Horizon|her]]''.

* ''The [[Kid From the Future]]...'' [[Time Travel Tense Trouble|...or past. Something like that]]. Considering how too many Eva fanfics have done this, and how Rebuild seems to be pretty fanficcy, this becomes downright plausible. Bonus points if she pulls out Misato's cross that Shinji got from [[Eo E]] and announces [[Battlestar Galactica|Everything that has happened before...]]. Even more bonus points if they redo that [[All There in the Manual|official artwork which had Shinji and Asuka look at the giant Rei head]] to have her in it.

 

== ''Final'' will have a battle against ADAM. ==

 

== Mari is Evangelion Unit-07 ==

Consider: Before counterattacking, the EVA spews out a ridiculous quantity of blood, which could only attract the Blood God's attention. He granted Shinji the rage needed to get Rei back, demanding more blood to fuel it, which was given when Shinji entered the field, stripping his arms and face of skin.

 

 

== Unit 06 is the prototype or test type for the MP Evas ==

The boy damned near killed the planet to save her life. After what he's been through (and what's likely to come), finding out that "oh, BTW, your love interest is [[Brother-Sister Incest|your sort-of-half-sister]]" seems a relatively trivial thing. To be sure, there will probably be a stretch of time where he's shocked and confused, but he will get past it (in what will probably be another [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]]).

 

With Shinji and Rei trapped in Unit-01 and Asuka heavily injured and potentially insane, Mari and Kaworu are the only pilots in any shape to actually be doing things. Mari didn't get much development in 2.0 due to the other characters getting focus, but now they're out of the picture. (This may be very obvious to everybody else, but it only occured to me today.)

 

== Asuka is an Angel. ==

Probably,but not certainly, the Last Angel.

 

== All of the civilians are dead. ==

 

== Mari is this universe's version of Mana Kirishima ==

 

== FINAL / EOE ==

* Can't ''imagine'' how much fun she had with [[Fire Emblem]] 4, then.

 

And after [[Mangst|Mangsting]] about it for a while, he'll unleash all holy hell on all those who would see the end of his new, adopted race.