History Awesome / RebuildofEvangelion

** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8TKtgnYyJs You want the other arm?]] Then take it! Just...FUCKING...DIIIIEEE!"

* The ending, where Shinji has a final conversation with Kaworu. The First Angel asks if Shinji will be fine with not turning the world back to what it was in the past, only for Shinji to say 'It hurts. But I think I'm fine with the pain.' After the abuse and sheer devastation the cast inflicted on each other and the world ,the young boy grows up and choose something his father admitted he never could: moving on.

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* Lots of fans disliked Rei-Q because she was a replacement for the [[CharacterDevelopment more likeable]] Rei of ''2.22''... Which is the same reaction Shinji had by the end of ''3.33''. Anno was able to create an IntendedAudienceReaction this time around, which earns him a Meta Moment of Awesome.
* [[strike:Gainax]] Khara earns one for [[JustForPun rebuilding]] Shinji into less of a wuss (and kind of a badass) compared to his series counterpart.
* Creator/FUNimation earns theirs for bringing back many of the major ''Evangelion'' dub [=VAs=] to reprise their iconic roles. Creator/SpikeSpencer was still doing voice work before ''Rebuild'', but worked out of Los Angeles, so no one could've expected him to reprise his role, let alone improve upon it with years of experience gained after his work on the series and ''End of Evangelion''. The most impressive return was Creator/AllisonKeith, the voice of Misato: She hadn't done any voice acting in a long time, having taken on a job as a teacher, but her ''Rebuild'' work is as great as--if not greater than--her ''Evangelion'' days.
* Furthermore, Creator/AmazonPrime and Creator/StudioKhara deserve praise too for the 2021 English dub of the Rebuild films, which not only brought back the same ADV voice actors as the Funimation Rebuild dub but many more role reprisals including Amanda-Winn Lee returning as the voice of Rei Ayanami. This is stark contrast to the Netflix dub of the TV series done in 2019 which changed the ENTIRE English voice cast, at Anno's request. They learned from their mistakes and gave us something even better to make up for it.
* For ''3.0+1.0: Thrice Upon A Time'', This movie gives the franchise a satisfying proper conclusion unlike the other two whose endings remain controversial.

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** Ramiel. Just...Ramiel. Until Operation Yashima, this Angel blows through anything and everything NERV tosses at it--without effort. It predicts Unit-01's arrival and shoots it in the chest. When a shield comes up, it simply shifts over to another, even more powerful beam, and blasts the shield apart. In an odd way, it almost seems to have a twisted sense of humor with its action...until it gets shot and ''melts away an entire damned mountain'' to get at Shinji. Adding to the coolness factor is its ability to [[StanceSystem change its shape to modify its defense and offense]], and the [[MostWonderfulSound distinctive 'CLANG']] it produces upon reforming into its iconic Octahedron configuration after unloading its WaveMotionGun.

** Ramiel. Just...Ramiel. Until Operation Yashima, this Angel blows through anything and everything NERV tosses at it--without effort. It predicts Unit-01's arrival and shoots it in the chest. When a shield comes up, it simply shifts over to another, even more powerful beam, and blasts the shield apart. In an odd way, it almost seems to have a twisted sense of humor with its action...until it gets shot and ''melts away an entire damned mountain'' to get at Shinji.

* For ''3.0+1.0: Thrice Upon A Time'', This movie give the franchise a satisfying proper conclusion unlike the other two whose endings remain controversial.

* Furthermore, Creator/AmazonPrime and Creator/StudioKhara deserves praise too for the 2021 English dub of the Rebuild films, which not only brought back the same ADV voice actors as the Funimation Rebuild dub but many more role reprisals including Amanda-Winn Lee returning as the voice of Rei Ayanami. This is stark contrast to the Netflix dub of the TV series done in 2019 which changed the ENTIRE English voice cast, at Anno's request. They learned from their mistakes and gave us something even better to make up for it.
* For ''3.0+1.0: Thrice Upon A Time'' ,This movie give the franchise a satisfying proper conclusion unlike the other two whose endings remain controversial

* The ending, where Shinji has a final conversation with Kaworu. The First Angel asks if Shinji will be fine with not turning the world back to what it was in the past, only for Shinji to say 'It hurts. But I think I'm fine with the pain.' After the abuse and sheer devastation the cast inflicted on each other and the world ,the young boy grows up choose something his father admitted he never could: moving on.

* In the original series, Unit-01 crushes [[spoiler:and cripples Toji]], and Shinji threatens to destroy NERV Headquarters after getting locked in the loading bay. In the manga, he tries to start his job at the docking bay before Gendo raises Unit-01's LCL compression. In ''Rebuild'', [[{{FridgeBrilliance}} Shinji manages to level a good chunk of NERV Headquarters]], set the fields around NERV HQ on fire, and start ''stomping on the pyramid'' (as he points out that he has at least four minutes on the clock--enough time to destroy half of NERV Headquarters) until Gendo raises Unit-01's LCL compression.
* In the series, Zeruel was a torso with toilet paper arms. In ''Rebuild'', Zeruel lives up to the title of "Angel of Might": it wraps itself in flattened tentacles, uses an AT-Field with DOZENS of layers, [[spoiler:survives an N2 bomb at point blank range without its AT-Field, and ''eats'' Rei and Unit-00 to transform into a [[HumanoidAbomination new and disturbing form]].]]

** Those who watched the series first probably assumed Shinji [[spoiler:had lost consciousness]] as he did in the original--and for good reason, since the EVA has gone berserk and it's wiping the floor with the Angel's ass. Then [[spoiler:the camera shows the entry plug...and we can see Shinji is both still conscious and still ''piloting the EVA''. On top of that, he delivers probably the most epic BadassBoast in the entire series: "''I don't care what happens to me! I don't even care what happens to ''the world''! I am bringing Rei back--'''even if it's the last thing I ever do!'''''"]] At that point, the JustForFun/HolyShitQuotient ''went off the charts''.
*** If you believe Shinji still controls Unit-01 at this point (and he hasn't willed it into Berserk Mode), you can consider what he accomplishes in this scene as nothing short of miraculous. Acting purely on instinct, Shinji becomes the first person to [[spoiler:wield the full power of an Evangelion ''at will''. He uses Unit-01's AT Field to create a replacement limb for the one Zeruel blasted off, blocks another blast from Zeruel's EyeBeams at point-blank range, and unleashes EyeBeams that only the Angels had used up until this point. Unit-01's beams annihilate Zeruel's entire multi-layered AT Field '''in one shot''' and nearly slice the Angel in half.]] If you ever wanted to see what the Evangelions can do beyond hitting, knifing, or shooting things, Shinji answers all of your prayers.
** In all honesty...[[MemeticMutation Shinji is like a panda in this world]]. What do pandas do? They look sad--right up until [[BewareTheNiceOnes you piss them off]]. Shinji isn't ''just'' a badass [[MemeticMutation sad panda]], though--he became ''so'' badass that he [[spoiler:''turned his EVA into a god '''by willing it to happen'''''.]] There is a reason [[FanNickname some fans call him]] [[Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann Simonji]] now, and this scene is that reason.

* The moment before Unit-01's [[spoiler:ascension to godhood]], this exchange happens between Shinji and Rei:

* [[spoiler: As Asuka tries to retrieve Unit 01 from the Tesseract its entombed in, she is attacked by the an Evangelion Mark.04, which uses mirrored threads to reflect light and attempts to cook her alive, not unlike a magnifying glass.]] Just as it looks like she will perish, Asuka angrily demands Shinji get off his ass and do something.[[spoiler: Shinji then subconsciously activates Unit 01 in response to her calling and lasers the shit out of the enemy before falling silent again.]]
* The [[spoiler: Launch of Wunder. Misato kills an angel this time!!]]
* The final battle outdoes ''everything'' up to that point in both the series and the ''Rebuild'' films: [[spoiler:Unit-02 and Unit-08]] versus [[spoiler:a godlike Unit-13 assisted by the Mark.09]].\\
Shinji, sitting in Unit-13 for the first time (and otherwise being more or less a complete rookie), [[spoiler:goes up against Asuka in her Unit-02'. Asuka has over a decade-and-a-half of piloting experience...and Shinji still {{No Sell}}s everything she throws at him until she runs out of power]]. Even then, Asuka seems more pissed over [[WouldHitAGirl him actually hitting her]] than about him completely kicking her ass.\\
[[spoiler:Unit-13 eats the Twelfth Angel and immediately goes into the [[SuperMode same state]] Unit-01 was in during Shinji's UnstoppableRage against Zeruel: It turns completely white, grows a pair of wing-like protrusions from its VerticalMechaFins, and two(!) halos]]. You can see the [[OhCrap fear]] on Asuka's face when this happens; Mari's reaction is more along the lines of ThisIsGonnaSuck. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxgY_gP7IuU The music during the scene]] [[{{AwesomeMusic/NeonGenesisEvangelion}} doesn't help, either]].\\
As Shinji [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone realizes the true magnitude of his actions]], [[spoiler:the Wunder ''rams into the EVA'' and fires a point-blank barrage...that fails to cause any damage. At this point, the Mark.09 flies in with its own halos, {{Eye Beam}}ing the ship several times before it latches on and almost manages to hijack it from its own crew--until Asuka rejoins the fray. After an ineffective ranged attack, the Mark.09 retaliates with an EyeBeam, which Asuka dodges. She uses the beam's blast wave to throw herself at the Mark.09, engages Beast Mode ''in mid-air'', catches another beam with Unit-02's ''mouth'', slaps aside a third one, and ''rips out the enemy EVA's throat with Unit-02's teeth''. The Mark.09 immediately regenerates and tries to do the same with Unit-02--only for Asuka to apologize to Unit-02 and arm the self-destruct before ejecting.]] Oh, and the music during this entire sequence? [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YI82vaqdVyI "The Wrath of God in All Its Glory"]].
** And before Asuka does that, she manages to snap [[spoiler: Rei-Q]] out of her identity crisis ''in the middle of the fight'':
-->[[spoiler:'''Rei-Q''': [[LossOfIdentity What would Rei Ayanami do?]]]]\\
'''Asuka''': Like I'd know, [[BeYourself what would ''you'' do]]?\\
[[spoiler:''Cut to Rei-Q ejecting from the Mark-09'']]
** And Asuka doesn't [[spoiler:sacrifice Unit-02 because she's worried about losing to the Mark.09--she does it only because ''she doesn't have the time to kill it the normal way''.]]
* Kaworu [[spoiler:snaps out of his HeroicBSOD by stabbing Unit-13 (and Shinji and himself by extension) with both spears, then [[HeroicSacrifice allows the]] [[ExplosiveLeash DSS Choker]] [[YourHeadAsplode to decapitate him]]]]. When that doesn't stop Fourth Impact, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5t3H6Y73G9w "God's Gift"]] kicks in as [[spoiler:Unit-08 leaps off of the Geofront into a sixteen-plus kilometers drop, physically tears Shinji's entry plug out of Unit-13, and singlehandedly stops Fourth Impact]] as the song reaches the choral part about the world's creation.
** A more subtle CMOA comes from Mari's lines here: She doesn't get mad at Shinji for anything more than not standing up for himself. Third Impact, Shinji abandoning the Wunder, and even his re-entering the EVA are all seemingly forgiven. She also spares his life--something no other character in the movie likely would have done. The act is immediately followed by [[spoiler:the Geofront crashing back down onto the Earth, overshadowing Mount Fuji by several orders of magnitude]].

** Mari goes full-on OneManArmy against a swarm of [[AttackDrone Evangelion 44As]] as WILLE attempts to restore Paris while being protected by [[CoolBoat literal flying battleships]]. When she seems to have won, [[spoiler:the [[EldritchAbomination Evangelion]] [[FourIsDeath 4444C]] appears and near-completely wrecks WILLE's shit. How is it defeated? The Wunder throws a downed battleship towards the 4444C for a distraction, while Mari finishes it off with ''the upper half of the [[MonumentalDamage Eiffel Tower]]''.]]
* WILLE [[spoiler:restoring Paris and its old NERV branch to retrieve Evangelion parts and munitions. Features gorgeous amounts of SceneryPorn as the red core material is removed.]] Also doubles as a SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoment.

* Lots of fans disliked [[spoiler:Rei-Q]] because [[spoiler:she was a replacement for the [[CharacterDevelopment more likeable]] Rei of ''2.22'']]...which is the same reaction Shinji had by the end of ''3.33''. Anno was able to create an IntendedAudienceReaction this time around, which earns him a Meta Moment of Awesome.

* Furthermore, Creator/AmazonPrime and Creator/StudioKhara deserves praise too for the 2021 English dub of the series, which not only brought back the same ADV voice actors as the Funimation Rebuild dub but many more role reprisals including Amanda-Winn Lee returning as the voice of Rei Ayanami. This is stark contrast to the Netflix dub of the TV series done in 2019 which changed the ENTIRE English voice cast, at Anno's request. They learned from their mistakes and gave us something even better to make up for it.

* Furthermore, Creator/AmazonPrime and Creator/StudioKhara deserves praise too for the 2021 English dub of the series, which not only brought back the same ADV voice actors as the Funimation Rebuild dub but many more role reprisals including Creator/Amanda-Winn Lee returning as the voice of Rei Ayanami. This is stark contrast to the Creator/Netflix dub of the TV series done in 2019 which changed the ENTIRE English voice cast, at Anno's request. They learned from their mistakes and gave us something even better to make up for it.

* Furthermore, Creator/AmazonPrime and Creator/StudioKhara deserves praise too for the 2021 English dub of the series, which not only brought back the same ADV voice actors as the Funimation Rebuild dub but many more role reprisals including Creator/Amanda-Winn Lee returning as the voice of Rei Ayanami. This is stark contrast to the Creator/Netflix dub of the TV show done in 2019 which changed the ENTIRE English voice cast, at Anno's request. They learned from their mistakes and gave us something even better to make up for it.

* Furthermore, Creator/AmazonPrime and Creator/StudioKhara deserves praise too for the 2021 English dub of the series, which not only brought back the same ADV voice actors as the Funimation Rebuild dub but many more role reprisals including Amanda-Winn Lee returning as the voice of Rei Ayanami. This is stark contrast to the new dub of the TV show done in 2019 which changed the ENTIRE English voice cast. They learned from that mistake and gave us something even better to make up for it.

* For ''3.0+1.0: Thrice Upon A Time'' ,This movie give the franchsie a satisfying proper conclusion unlike the other two whose endings remain controversial

Awesome moments in ''Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion''. Keep in mind that many of the original moments of awesome of the original series are kept, especially in 1.0. For those, see the [[Awesome/NeonGenesisEvangelion original series page]]

And remember: '''''There's still a fourth film coming.'''''

Keep in mind that many of the original moments of awesome of the original series are kept, especially in 1.0. For those, see the [[Awesome/NeonGenesisEvangelion original series page]]