History Headscratchers / RebuildofEvangelion

* It's not a GBA, it's a UsefulNotes/{{Wonderswan}}. Look it up, it's a neat little game system from the inventor of the Game Boy that you can hold two ways.

** Or they would have looked UncannyValley. Also, those two are partially-human, and are supposed to be able to pass for human without incident. Making them CG would have totally defeated that purpose.

At first it seemed like it locked on, but then Kaworu just took it off Shinji like nothing, so did Shinji just not know how to take it off when he tried?

[[WMG:Why are the DDS Chokers so easy to take off?]]

* The main point was that even though Shinji stepped up to confront his problems head on in 2.0, the main issue is that the moment he finds out it didn't succeed or it didn't turn out the way he wanted to in 3.0, he immediately regresses back to his old self in an effort to avoid taking responsibility or admitting fault. This comes together in 3.0+1.0, giving us the message that while it is better to confront your problems head on, you have to be willing to admit your mistakes and take responsibility if something goes wrong, as can be seen with both Shinji and Misato coming to terms for their combined roles in Near Third Impact.

[[WMG:Spoilers galore, but this bit really just bugs me:]]
[[spoiler:Mari piloting Unit-02. No, I'm not talking about the fact that she could actually use it or knew the cheat code for "Beast Mode". Rebuild is a different kind of animal, so let's suppose that the Evas themselves work differently. No, my gripes are much more nitpicky. Namely: How the hell did she get into the Entry Plug? Who started up the nervous connections? Who started up Unit-02 itself, for that matter? Who flooded the cockpit with LCL? Who electrolyzed it? Last time I checked, these things were done by a large technical staff under the supervision of Ritsuko. And the pilots couldn't do these things from inside the entry plug. It's all an externally guided process. Further, how the hell did Unit-02 get put on that elevator platform that carried it out to the battlefield? The only person who might have done these things is Kaji... so he could do ALL this alone? Honestly, I have the creeping suspicion that the writers just didn't care. And to be frank, the lesser rules of the universe like logistics being ignored when something [[RuleOfCool cool]] needs to be done is one of the main MarySue indicators in my book.

*** In both those cases however 01 was already prepped for launch ahead of time. Gendo already had staff prepping but with a dummy plug that didn't want to function, so all he had to do was switch the plug. In End, (ignoring the fact that 01 had the S2 engine which mean it no longer needed to worry about any external power source or outside maintaniance) Misato orders both Eva units readied as soon as the attack begins, it just takes her about 20 minutes to actually get Shinji to it.

[[WMG:Why did Gendo have to maximize the LCL pressure after Shinji [[spoiler: threatens to destroy the headquarters?]] Why couldn't they just keep the Dummy Plug active until the power shuts down?]]

* Because Shinji was well, [[spoiler: threatening to crush HQ,]] and Gendo was trying to keep himself and his employees safe from Shinji's rampage, but whoever previously applied to this one is right, he was being rather cold about it.

*** It possibly has to do with avoiding a third impact until "when planned". In this continuity duing the second impact flashback we see four adams (or giants of light), which could mean that in this continuity to trigger the third impact four EVAs or something along are needed instead of the MP Evas (which would explain why gendo got impressed when [[spoiler:Shinji nearly triggered third impact for Rei.]] (I actually took this theory from Evageeks btw).
*** This troper also thinks that some of the other tropers in this conversation neglected the fact that the very characters that initially mention the Vatican Treaty in conversation [[LampshadeHanging also say that the law is poorly written]]. [[SarcasmMode Though, as we all know, there has never been a poorly written or otherwise ill-intended law in the history of the world.]]

So Mari [[spoiler:evajacks Unit 02 and has a high enough sync rate to control it.]] Then she enters [[spoiler:Beast Mode, which appeared to drive her further into Unit 02 and enhances the sync rate before fighting Zeruel]]. And then Zeruel went out on the town with her and [[spoiler:partially lobotomized Unit 02]]. Shouldn't she be dead?

** [[spoiler: It starts with Asuka and Mari recovering Unit 01 and its prison from space and fighting an Angel after a 14 year time skip.]]

*** Spoiler: [[spoiler: The third movie doesn't tell us either.]]

[[WMG: About Rei...]]
[[spoiler: Is Rei II truly dead? As far as I can tell, she is still stuck inside Unit 01. Yet, everybody makes it out that she is gone for good.]]
* [[spoiler: It has been 14 years since she disappeared. Given the circumstances, it is probably logical to assume she is gone for good.]]
* [[spoiler: Yet the same could be said for Shinji, yet after 14 years, he was retrieved. Why was he able to get out and not Rei?]]
* If we go by the rules set by the original series, [[spoiler:only one Rei can exist at a time because they share the same soul between them. Rei Q sees a brief vision of Rei II while in the LCL tank, further supporting this. As she experiences fear and self-doubt near the climax, she clearly isn't just an EmptyShell, so she definitely has the potential to develop a functional personality and perhaps even regain the memories of her former self.]]

*** Pretty much explained in the final movie: Rei is still kind of Yui's daugther, and Gendou is [[spoiler: utterly oblivious about the fact something of Yui resides in her offspring]]. Pretty much, Rei and even Shinji in his own ways are a living remainder of the fact Yui is no longer in this world and until he starts to move on, everything remembering her won't be a treasure to cherish but a living monument to his GreatestFailure.

* [[spoiler:The idea was to have Shinji trust him. By taking Shinji's sin onto himself, he showed Shinji that he did care for him as more than a tool like everyone else had. He was also aware of the possibility that the Fourth Impact could happen, with himself becoming the Thirteenth Angel, so in such a situation he would die to protect Shinji.]]

The [[spoiler:four armed EVA]] in 3.0 is numbered 13. Since they started numbering at 00 that means there's been 14 EVAs. But I only count 10, where were the other 4 and what have they been up to? Did they just die off screen?

*** Except that the final of the saga goes completely against these messages [[spoiler:by having Shinji reject the current (admittedly shitty) reality so hard that he rebuild it to a world where the entire ecosystem is good as new and the Evas and Angels are retconned out of existence and resurrects everyone who died (Rei, Kaworu and maybe even Kaji and Misato)... and then deciding that ''he'' was the problem in their life and then leave their life.]]
*** [[He's not deciding that ''he'' is the problem with their life, he is deciding to grant closure to his relationship with each of them so that they can ALL move on with their lives, as well as giving them the chance to move on in a world free from EVAs. It's a parallel to how Anno himself is getting closure for this series and moving on to other endeavors. Rebuild isn't making some grand statement for everyone, it's an intensely personal reflection of Anno's life and struggles with depression.]]

Okay, I get 3 Evas per country. Makes sense, these are powerful weapons of mass destruction. However, why hasn't other countries sent their evas piloted by their troops? I may be wrong here, but after WWII, America disbanded Japan's army, so they are responsible for them too. Why aren't there American evas running around? I'm kinda thinking about how in Stargate they had some Russian troops running around in the later series for political shenanigans.

*** Just an interesting note... why did the jews stay in Germany until it was locked up even though they KNEW some shit was going down? Because it's their home.