History Headscratchers / RebuildofEvangelion

[[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. This turned into something of a rant, but it really JustBugsMe.]]

* That alone might be reasonable, but why does she have so many cuts on her hands? If she was on HellsKitchen she'd be sent home, not out of anger but concern she'd kill herself. Did she try using the knife on herself or is she really that uncoordinated?

[[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 [[TheyJustDidntCare 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. This turned into something of a rant, but it really JustBugsMe.]]

* It's currently unknown, since they aren't even mentioned in the movie. Maybe they were deployed and destroyed during the time skip, or are deployed in other battle groups of WILLE or to protect important Lilin infrastructures, every possibilities are open.

* 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 definately has the potential to develop a fuctional personality and perhaps even regain the memories of her former self.]]

** In the dub, it's hinted that he knows. There are two lines. When stomping on HQ, Shinji yells "That bastard ''tried'' to kill Asuka, and he used my hands to do it!" And then, before Shinji leaves, Misato says "You haven't even asked about Rei or ''Asuka''. Apparently, FUNimation thought he should have known too. . .

* Remember in one of the earlier episodes in the series Shinji is reading a screen that talks about the wars that happened after Second Impact. The rest of the world may be a terrible place to live with parts of Japan being one of the only stable areas. Even if countries such as the USA and Germany are capable of producing Evas, they might be terrible places to live.

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

* Well, comparison between what we saw at the end of 2.0 and what Kaworu said about Third Impact suggest that another event happened after the end of 2.0 that left Tokyo-3(and maybe the rest of the world) in the nightmarish state we saw in 3.0 : when Kaworu stopped Near Third Impact in the Stinger of 2.0, the Moon was still intact and in orbit, and NERV's HQ still inside the Geofront and not floating above the landscape. Also Kaworu designed Lilith's Chamber in Central Dogma as the epicenter of Third Impact, and the 12th Angel's presence heavily imply that it had a part in whatever happened down there, while Shinji's Near Third Impact happened in the Geofront, kilometers above, and involved the 10th Angel(Zeruel). All of this suggest that Near Third Impact was stopped by Kaworu with the Lance of Cassius and EVA-01 put in lockdown, and that the 12th Angel managed to reach Lilith and start a "proper Third Impact" that what stopped by the two lances, but not before it had the time to heavily affect the surrounding landscape, and maybe the rest of the world. Since according to the preview for 3.0, Misato and all of NERV's staff was put into custody by the UN to be interrogated about the events surrounding Near Third Impact, then they were probably out of Tokyo-3 when Third Impact happened, therefor far from the worst effect of it, explaining how they could survive. That would also mean that none of the people still around the city when the Impact happened survived. Also, we're not even sure if most of mankind really died from Third Impact : Kaworu's words were very ambiguous, talking about mass extinction helping driving evolution in Earth and how mankind can't adapt themselves to the world and need a ritual of artificial evolution (Instrumentality) for that, but never outright confirmed that mankind outside of Tokyo-3 suffered mass extinction. Also, the numerous resources WILLE has at their disposition (huge fleet, giant flying flagship, advances in Evangelion technology, the big helicopter fleet carrying supplies for the Wunder fleet...) suggests that there's still a lot of humans and resources available. The meaning and implications of the discrepancy between what we saw in 2.0 and what Kawory told Shinji, and thus why are WILLE still so hateful and mistrusting of Shinji are yet to be revealed in FINAL.

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?

* Well, comparison between what we saw at the end of 2.0 and what Kaworu said about Third Impact suggest that another event happened after the end of 2.0 that left Tokyo-3(and maybe the rest of the world) in the nightmarish state we saw in 3.0 : when Kaworu stopped Near Third Impact in the Stinger of 2.0, the Moon was still intact and in orbit, and NERV's HQ still inside the Geofront and not floating above the landscape. Also Kaworu designed Lilith's Chamber in Central Dogma as the epicenter of Third Impact, and the 12th Angel's presence heavily imply that it had a part in whatever happened down there, while Shinji's Near Third Impact happened in the Geofront, kilometers above, and involved the 10th Angel(Zeruel). All of this suggest that Near Third Impact was stopped by Kaworu with the Lance of Cassius and EVA-01 put in lockdown, and that the 12th Angel managed to reach Lilith and start a "proper Third Impact" that what stopped by the two lances, but not before it had the time to heavily affect the surrounding landscape, and maybe the rest of the world. Since according to the preview for 3.0, Misato and all of NERV's staff was put into custody by the UN to be interrogated about the events surrounding Near Third Impact, then they were probably out of Tokyo-3 when Third Impact happened, therefor far from the worst effect of it, explaining how they could survive. That would also mean that none of the people still around the city when the Impact happened survived. Also, we're not even sure if most of mankind really died from Third Impact : Kaworu's words were very ambiguous, talking about mass extinction helping driving evolution in Earth and how mankind can't adapt themselves to the world and need a ritual of artificial evolution (Instrumentality) for that, but never outright confirmed that mankind outside of Tokyo-3 suffered mass extinction. Also, the numerous resources WILLE has at their disposition (huge fleet, giant flying flagship, advances in Evangelion technology, the big helicopter fleet carrying supplies for the Wunder fleet...) suggests that there's still a lot of humans and resources available. The meaning and implications of the discrepancy between what we saw in 2.0 and what Kawory told Shinji, and thus why are WILLE still so hateful and mistrusting of Shinji are yet to be revealed in FINAL.

* [[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 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.]]

* How exactly did Kaworu get demoted from the 1st Angel to the 13th? As far as I know, Angels have never had a ranking system, and they certainly never interacted with each other enough to do so. Plus, if there is a system, it certainly isn't by power if the clock Angel was any indication.

* When Shinji triggered unknowningly the Third Impact by saving Rei, by which circumstances did the majority of humanity die? They couldn't have been turned into orange goo, otherwise Misato and the others, which were far closer to the ascending Eva-01 would have died as well.

* How exactly did Kaworu get demoted from the 1st Angel to the 13th? As far as I know, Angels have never had a ranking system, and they certainly never interacted with each other enough to do so. Plus, if there is a system, it certainly isn't by power if the clock Angel was any indication.

[[Kaworu's demotion]]

When the Wunder launches, it is soon attacked by the Nemesis Evangelions (whatever the hell they are). The Wunder moves upwards and pulls them out by their tendrils. The Wunder then spins around, dragging the Nemesis with it, and sharply brakes. At this point, the Nemesis ram into each other, making them a prime target for the Wunder's cannons. How did they end up going in opposite directions? Shouldn't they have wound themselves around the Wunder before colliding with it at the center of their rotation?

*** This also might be something of a CanonImmigrant deal, as in the ''SuperRobotWars'' games Kaworu is hinted to be some kind of dimensional traveler that moves between the various ''SRW'' parallel universes.

* Some people consider it as evidence of the series being a continuation from EoE, rather than just a retelling of the original series. Alternatively[[hottip:*:And this fits ''perfectly'' with the above troper's explanation]]:

* The process of entering the Eva and starting it up isn't ''that'' complex. Ritsuko was absent at the end of episode 19 and ''2.0''; Shinji got into the Eva and came in to save the day à la BigDamnHeroes fairly quickly. Save for location and the issue of the elevator platform, Shinji and Asuka did just about the same thing as Mari in episode 8, with Asuka issuing all of the commands from inside the entry plug.[[hottip:* :It raised the question of how the hell ''Shinji'' managed to sync with 02--considering that it's said to be the first Eva made specifically for combat, it's ''possible'' that it doesn't have the same mess with souls and synchronization as 00 and 01. Maybe this was 2.0's way of getting that point across?]] I agree that there's the issue of the elevator platform and transportation, but overall it's not that contrived.

* [[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 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.]]

* Probably the fleets of NEMESIS drones hunting them before Wunder's final activation. I doubt the Wunder was just flying around and doing nothing during the Geofront incursion mission either. Also, don't underestimate whatever that inverted pyramid is made of; it appears to be part of the Black Moon's structure and ''survived Fourth Impact entirely unscathed''. It's also unknown if New NERV HQ is the sole industrial base NERV has.

For what reason would Kaworu need to put the DSS choker on in Shinji's stead instead of disposing it besides to symbolically back up his words? If it was for failsafe for whatever disaster that might happened, given his ability to manipulate technology (ie. removing the choker and controlling Eva in the series), he could have taken control of Unit-13 operating system even if it was dual-piloted to stop its movement or escape or eject the entry plug.

** Yui might have set something up as she did in the original series. Fuyutsuki here may be in on it, and working towards some other goal by trying to help Shinji along a little.