History Headscratchers / Neongenesisevangelion

* In Episode 13, Rei, Asuke and Shinji need to shower 17 times in a row in order to enter a "super clean" room for special Eva tests. When they exit the shower stalls, Asuka complains that they're walking in front of a surveillance camera naked, but she is assured that the visual is turned off and it's just a voice they're hearing. Right before the scene changes, they begin to walk out, and the red light flashes on the camera as a closeup shot. Does this mean they were being lied to and have no such privacy? Or was the camera on UNTIL this red light flashed? A red light flashing on, to me, means ON, as in RECORDING.

** The animals and trees come back too if they chose to, so food is covered. Not everything is destroyed; Tokoyo-3 is not the entire world, just because it got turned into a warzone in EoE doesn't mean that all of Japan is a wasteland. Where they end EoE is where Shinji is standing at the start of episode 24 in the series which had been decimated by all the previous angel fights, the rest of the world should be more or less the same as it was before. The ocean was already contaminated so GNR's corpse resting in it wouldn't make much of a difference, whilst inland water sources wouldn't have been touched (and even if they were, Lilth's blood is just LCL, which the pilots spend the entire series getting submerged in on a daily basis with no side-effects).

** The animals and trees come back too if they chose to, so food is covered. Not everything is destroyed; Tokoyo-3 is not the entire world, just because it got turned into a warzone in EoE doesn't mean that all of Japan is a wasteland. Where they end EoE is where Shinji is standing at the start of episode 24 in the series which had been decimated by all the previous angel fights, the rest of the world should be more or less the same as it was before. The ocean was already contaminated so GNR's corpse resting in it wouldn't make much of a difference, whilst inland water sources wouldn't have been touched (and even if they were, Lilth's blood is just LCL, which the pilots spend the entire series getting submerged in on a daily basis with no side-effects).

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** The animals and trees come back too if they chose to, so food is covered. Not everything is destroyed; Tokoyo-3 is not the entire world, just because it got turned into a warzone in EoE doesn't mean that all of Japan is a wasteland. Where they end EoE is where Shinji is standing at the start of episode 24 in the series which had been decimated by all the previous angel fights, the rest of the world should be more or less the same as it was before. The ocean was already contaminated so GNR's corpse resting in it wouldn't make much of a difference, whilst inland water sources wouldn't have been touched (and even if they were, Lilth's blood is just LCL, which the pilots spend the entire series getting submerged in on a daily basis with no side-effects).

*** They probably wanted to make sure Bardiel was completely dead, considering the implication that Bardiel IS the EVA, or something close to that. SuperRobotWars has it where Bardiel is the SOUL of the unit itself, and you can recruit Touji in it by basically [[DefeatMeansFriendship Friendship Through Superior Firepower]]. And SRW tends to use a lot of AllThereInTheManual.

* At the end of the EoE, when everyone comes back, how exactly are they supposed to survive? No access to food - all organic life was absorbed back into tang together with all humans, after all. Even safe drinking water is probably not available any more. Everything is destroyed - there is little shelter from the elements in the broken structures. And I am not even going to mention anything beyond the most basic needs, such as culture and technology, in case they somehow manage not to starve without succumbing to cannibalism. So it seems to be a very pitiful and cruel existence - to go from being part of one single eternal consciousness back to mortality, only to die for real this time within maximum of a week. (And, really, that's how I see TV ED and EoE tie together - how Shinji rejects instrumentality with hope for future, realizes how well and truly everything humanity is screwed, completely snaps and tries to kill Asuka)

** It's not really rational. However I suppose you could look at it as Shinji being insensitive towards (read: not having any clue about) Asuka's issues regarding sucess and proving herself, so him syncing up to Rei with no difficulty showed he could do it and the fault lay with Asuka, which is proven to be the quickest way to hit her where it hurts. It's completely unintentional and you'd have to stretch it to lay the blame on him, but that's the teenage logic behind it.

**** The Angel himself was stupid too. He had to rely completely on intercepting Unit-03's transport. And if he misses it?[[hottip:* :Humorously lampshaded in a fanfic where he became a "very sad cloud" due to Unit-03 being ferried via ship. It also effectively defeated him since he couldn't do shit without a host.]]

** ...What is it supposed to mean?! Seriously, is it a lampshade on the Freudian imagery in the series?[[hottip:*:Yes]] Or was something lost in translation?

** The short version is that the Positron Sniper Rifle is AwesomeButImpractical. The long version is that Episode 6/Evangelion1.0 showed there was a lot of setup involved. They had to pick the best spot, they had to lay down miles of cables, they had to do all sorts of preparations, all of which took hours before Operation Yashima even began. Even if you only count the setup involved after the operation began, that's still approximately 3-6 minutes of setup. And keep in mind, the 5th Angel wasn't moving at all during this. It is infinitely harder to hit a moving target, like most of the other Angels are.

* Why isn't the Positron Sniper Rifle ever used again? They later show a lower power version of the weapon, but it lacked the tremendous punch of the original. It can't be just because the power requirements, as defending the world from extinction would justify blacking out Japan for some minutes.

** Well Lilith is bleeding a sea of LCL, plenty of DNA to scoope up. But Angels aren't immune to normal weapons, they just can't be put down for good by them. Most of the time N2 mines are deployed the Angel is visibly damaged, and in theory if there is no AT protecting their cores conventional weaponry could kill one. Since Lilith is inactive and not pumping out an AT field there's nothing stoping them from using the tools they had to deal with her (although considering there's a shot showing that the missing half of Lilith is actually Unit 01 there's the question of just how they managed to seperate the two of them).

** There's a fairly good theory on EvaGeeks that says his words were "I needed you."

* If the angels are immune to normal weapons how did they get the DNA from Lilith?

** To show that she didn't think it was gross. She just said that 'cause she was embarrassed about the idea of liking him.

* In episode 22 during Asuka's MindRape sequence what's that scary sound after Asuka spots Shinji behind Kaji and says "Why are you there damn you?!/What are you doing there?!" Just wanted to know so I could put it under the NeonGenesisEvangelion entry on the HellIsThatNoise page.

* If Asuka was so grossed out by kissing Shinji that once it ended she ran to the bathroom to wash out her mouth, then why did she keep the kiss going for so long?

* If Anno really didn’t want people to fetishize Rei and Asuka why did he sexualize them in the first place? I know blah blah FanDisservice blah blah FreudianExcuse but when you have a shot of Rei with nothing but a towel covering her breasts or a shot down Asuka’s shirt you have to admit you might have given people a reason to see them as a sex symbol. Did the plug-suits ''really'' need to be that tight? Or emphasize their breasts? Did that have some deep psychological meaning too?