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10The Rei Ayanami Expy is a character archetype common in JapaneseMedia, [[TropeMakers started]], or at least [[TropeCodifier codified]], by Rei Ayanami from ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion''.
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12Common characteristics of the archetype include:
13* {{Love Interest|s}} (usually female).
14* [[MysteriousWaif Mysterious and/or otherworldly]] origins.
15* DarkAndTroubledPast
16* Age 10-20.
17* Pale skin.
18* Short, [[SciFiBobHaircut usually bobbed hair]].
19* Unnatural hair color, often in cold tones like [[ShyBlueHairedGirl blue, purple]], green, [[MysticalWhiteHair silver, grey or white]] (also occasionally pink).
20* [[TechnicolorEyes Unnatural eye color]], often [[RedEyesTakeWarning red]], [[IcyBlueEyes blue]], [[SupernaturalGoldEyes yellow]], or even [[PurpleIsPowerful purple]], usually in a TsurimeEyes style.
21* Appears [[EmotionlessGirl emotionless]], [[TheQuietOne quiet]], [[TheStoic stoic]], or otherwise [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} odd]].
22* A tendency towards talking in SpockSpeak, [[CreepyMonotone Mono]][[MachineMonotone tone]], RoboSpeak, or a combination thereof.
23* Is {{not quite human}}, such as an ArtificialHuman, {{Transhuman}}, clone, [[HumanAliens alien]] or [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots robot]], explaining their [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} odd]] [[NoSocialSkills behavior]].
24* Suffers a major injury or illness, or at least is frequently hospitalized.
25* Occasionally has a strong connection to a parental figure, boss and/or antagonist, and may even display UndyingLoyalty to them. The protagonist might replace him after enough development.
26* [[DefrostingIceQueen Eventually becomes more emotional]], such as by [[BecomeARealBoy Becoming A Real Girl]] or turning out to have a SugarAndIcePersonality.
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28[[ShapedLikeItself Rei Ayanami herself exhibits every characteristic]], and [[FountainOfExpies many other characters]] have been created as variations on her. However, the [[FollowTheLeader popularity of this archetype]] has also led many of the variations to spawn {{Exp|y}}ies of their own.
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30A SubTrope of FountainOfExpies and ShyBlueHairedGirl. Compare to PhlebotinumGirl and CharClone. See also SugarAndIcePersonality, EmotionlessGirl and StoicWoobie.
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37* Rei Ayanami from ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'', the {{Trope Namer|s}}, {{Trope Maker|s}}, and a {{Deconstruction}} of the archetype itself (making this an UnbuiltTrope). Rei is an emotionally unexpressive [[TeenageTropes 14-year-old]] girl with pale skin, [[ShyBlueHairedGirl blue hair]] and {{red eyes|TakeWarning}} who serves as one of the protagonist's LoveInterests; however, before he gets closer to her, she only relates to his father, who also happens to be a weird and somewhat disturbing father figure for her. After being heavily injured during a battle at the start of the series, Rei slowly becomes [[DefrostingIceQueen more intimate with the protagonist]] as her [[NoSocialSkills stunted social skills]] improve. Her Angelic heritage and superpowers are first hinted at in episode 19 and explicitly displayed in episode 24. This eventually leads the main character, Shinji, to learn that [[spoiler:Rei is one of multiple clones made to house the soul of an EldritchAbomination that's the [[MysteriousWaif key]] to a planned AssimilationPlot... and is also partially made from the DNA of his dead mother]].
38* ''Anime/DotHackSign'':
39** Subaru. She has short, bright blue hair, brown eyes (close enough to red), is quiet and very soft spoken as well as showing signs of being shy in RL. Also, in real life, she is in a wheelchair from a terrible accident she keeps secret, and is a {{Meganekko}}. The series shared a character designer with ''Evangelion'', so it's plausible it was a deliberate reference between the two characters.
40** Tsukasa shows traits of this, as well, mostly being emotionless (though it's more an angry sort of apathy).
41* Kanade "Angel" Tachibana from ''Anime/AngelBeats''. She's presumed to be an angel working under God to oversee the afterlife. She's also seemingly emotionless, to the point where the other characters weren't even sure if she was sentient at first. [[spoiler: She's actually a human just like the rest of them. Her powers come from a computer program, and she seems blank because she'd given up on forming attachments to anyone. She displays some subtle humanity when Otonashi is getting to know her, and by the finale she's dropped the facade entirely.]]
42* Maia Tsukigane from ''Anime/AquarionLogos''. She's an overly serious girl with short white hair and NoSocialSkills who was trained by the BigBad ever since childhood in order to be his perfect enforcer. She's sent as an undercover spy to keep an eye on the main character, eventually falling in love with him.
43* ''Manga/ArpeggioOfBlueSteel'':
44** I-401, better known as Iona – especially in the ''Ars Nova'' anime. Being a silver-blue-haired [[TheStoic stoic]] robotic girl who finds that HumanityIsInfectious, and develops an affection with her Captain, Gunzou Chihaya. Oh, and while Rei was named after a warship, Iona sees Rei's bet and raises it by ''[[SpaceshipGirl being]]'' a warship.
45** Iona's sisters, I-400 and I-402, arguably count as well, especially in the manga, where I-402 also finds that HumanityIsInfectious.
46* Of all characters, ''Manga/AzumangaDaioh''[='=]s Sakaki is a subversion. She's directly based on Rei -- more specifically, Rei as she was depicted in the author's ''Neon Genesis Evangelion'' {{doujinshi}}, which were much DenserAndWackier. One of these comics has her [[https://koholint.tumblr.com/post/176236432053/part-of-ayanamis-fans-by-kiyohiko-azuma-from winning an award]] from her adoring fanbase, to which she responds with confusion and disinterest. While Sakaki doesn't have much of a physical resemblance to Rei (other than her TsurimeEyes), she does have the "stoic and monotone" aspect down to a T, and she's constantly bandaged up in [[AnimalsHateHim her pursuit of cats]]. Sakaki also gradually diverges from Rei over time as it's revealed she's simply a ShrinkingViolet rather than emotionless or inhuman, and later volumes show her as something of a ComicallySerious {{Cloudcuckoolander}} when she opens up to her friends.
47* R. Dorothy Waynewright from ''Anime/TheBigO'' fits the archetype to a T. She's a mysterious, emotionless android meant to replace her creator's deceased daughter. Her haircut is even similar to Rei's, although it's not blue.
48%%* [[SpellMyNameWithAnS Ondine/Undine]] from ''Manga/BirdyTheMighty'', though she doesn't last long.
49* In her human form, Nero from ''Manga/BlackClover'' has bobbed hair that's dark blue in the anime, pale skin, red eyes, and a calm, emotionless demeanor. It's revealed that she's a loyal servant of the first Wizard King, and for 500 years she has been trapped in an anti-bird form and watching over Asta's grimoire all this time. She's also no longer human after using Forbidden Magic.
50* Jo of ''Anime/BurstAngel''. Dead ringer, aside from a rougher appearance and personality and having a slight tan, making her a bit of a [[VideoGame/DevilMayCry Dante]] expy as well.. She's even referred to as an angel of death. Plus, they both pilot giant mechs. [[spoiler:And they are both {{Artificial Human}}s.]] Plus, Jo hangs around with Meg, who is a bit of an Asuka Langley Soryu Expy.
51* Tao from ''Anime/CaroleAndTuesday'' is a rare male example, though downplayed - his eyes and hair are normal colours and he's in his mid-twenties. He is, however, extremely cold and laconic, ''very'' pale-skinned, is crushed on by {{Deuteragonist}} Angela, has links to [[TheManBehindTheMan Valerie's backer Schwartz]], and [[spoiler:is one of two genetically-altered DesignerBabies made by a disgraced scientist]].
52* ''Anime/CodeGeass'':
53** Anya, a pink haired [[RedEyesTakeWarning red eyed]] 15 year old HumongousMecha pilot who [[TheQuietOne likes taking pictures of people more than talking to them]], [[spoiler:and is a SoulJar for the protagonist's mother]].
54** C.C. also has a number of these traits as well, though she is a ''lot'' snarkier than most. Also Rei was not a Pizza fanatic.
55* Tsubame Otorii from ''Anime/CyberTeamInAkihabara''. She's even being voiced by Music/MegumiHayashibara, Rei's seiyuu.
56* ''Manga/{{Dandadan}}'': The gang meets a female humanoid alien named Vamola who looks like an exact replica of Rei, and is initially pretty quiet and seemingly has a stoic nature. However, she actually turns out to be a subversion as she only comes off that way due to the [[TheUnintelligible language barrier]]. As the gang actually gets to know her and she becomes a member of the gang herself, Vamola's personality turns out to be very extroverted and upbeat.
57* Yin from ''Anime/DarkerThanBlack''. Her emotionless state is due to her being one of the setting's [[MeaningfulName Dolls]].
58* Due to their awkward habits, stoic natures, pale skin, and lack of proper people skills, L and [[spoiler: his eventual successor]] Near from ''Manga/DeathNote'' are rare male examples. This probably goes even moreso to Near due to his hair color and rivalry with Mello, who is a bit of an Asuka Langley Soryu Expy.
59* ''Anime/DeathParade'' give us a rare male {{Deconstruction}} in [[TheStoic Decim]], the main character. As an [[{{Psychopomp}} Arbiter]], he’s part of a species that can’t feel human emotions. However, while all the other Arbiters have [[FlatCharacter at least one defining character trait]], Decim’s defining characteristic is his virtual lack of personality. It’s only from working alongside his [[spoiler:human]] [[MoralityPet assistant]] that he eventually begins to display any sort of emotion, and even then, it’s very subtle. He is shown to be extremely confused and distraught when it comes to dealing with the more negative feelings that humans experience, and when he finally learns how to [[spoiler:understand and empathize with Chiyuki, he breaks down screaming and crying out of guilt and sorrow]]. Even though he returns to work, it’s heavily implied that the experience will ultimately ruin him.
60* ''Anime/DualParallelTroubleAdventure'' has the character D, who pretty much is a straight up {{expy}} of Rei (this show has been described as ''Evangelion'' [[JustForFun/XMeetsY meets]] ''Tenchi Muyo''), being a [[ArtificialHuman bio andriod]] who acts like a robotic EmotionlessGirl. She does however lack Rei's appearance, (which is probably because of legal issues).
61* Ren from ''Manga/ElementalGelade'' (her name is even one letter apart from Rei) has waist length blue hair, green eyes and speaks in a monotone voice. Not only is she an Edel Raid ([[LivingWeapon girls who can bind their soul with their Pledger and turn into a weapon]]) but is a Shichiko-hoji, one of the most powerful Edel Raids. Of course this means that [[PhlebotinumGirl everyone wants their hands on her]]. In the beginning of the show she's an EmotionlessGirl who hates Coud because he's a human, but later [[DefrostingIceQueen starts developing feelings for him]] and they become a couple at the end.
62* Lucy from ''Manga/ElfenLied'' could be considered an extremely ''dark'' take on the archetype. She has pale skin, unnatural hair and (in the anime) eye color, indeterminate origins, isn't entirely human, has a very cold demeanor (even after defrosting) unless she's killing someone, serves as a love interest to the main male lead Kouta, and is [[UndyingLoyalty single-mindedly devoted]] to him. However, her single-minded devotion to Kouta has led to deadly consequences for everyone involved. She also suffers a significant injury by getting shot in the head in the beginning, is the key to the BigBad's plans, and, closer to the original take, [[spoiler:serves as an ApocalypseMaiden in the climax]]. With all of those facts, she's one of the few examples who actually stays true to the original character's UnbuiltTrope nature.
63* Hyatt from ''Anime/ExcelSaga'' is more of a Rei Ayanami parody. She's got the blue hair and soft spoken demeanor, but her propensity for getting sick or injured is exaggerated to the point where she dies or passes out at least once an episode.
64* Eureka from ''Anime/EurekaSeven''. Very light turquoise hair, a {{Human Alien|s}}, very attached to her boss at first and is a sick and EmotionlessGirl as a result of her upbringing, prior to a traumatic event that would trigger her CharacterDevelopment, which then was accelerated much further by meeting her love interest. [[spoiler:Specifically, she was used by the government as a TykeBomb, and trained to kill almost remorselessly, until one day, when she was checking a pile of corpses looking for wounded people to finish off, she found three orphans, had a huge epiphany, and decided then and there to adopt them and defect from the military]]. Realistically enough, she could still slip back into emotionless behavior on occasion. [[EmotionalTorque The occasions presented themselves]].
65* ''Manga/FairyTail'':
66** Merudy, a young girl with short-cut pastel-coloured hair and a petite body, is very stoic and her voice in the anime is very soft. She even calmly starts to dispatch Erza and Juvia, claiming with a cold expression that it's her mission to do so. She's also fiercely devoted to her parental figure, Ultear, going as far as to wanting kill Gray, the person she hates for killing Ultear's mother. After the timeskip, her personality has completely changed and now is very cheerful.
67** Yukino Aguria, a shy, obedient girl with short silver/light blue hair.
68* ''Franchise/FullmetalAlchemist:''
69** Riza Hawkeye is an older, subtle example. She's a very disciplined soldier who's extremely proficient with guns, has a reserved strict stoic demeanor but "a gentle heart" shown with how she cares for her fellow soldiers, the Elric brothers and [[HeroesLoveDogs her dog Black Hayate]], and shows UndyingLoyalty to Colonel Roy Mustang to the point of promising to ''kill'' him along with herself if he strays too far down the path of darkness. Along with the PTSD she has from committing war crimes in Ishval, she also has a DarkAndTroubledPast with an abusive neglectful father who [[spoiler: [[HumanNotepad tattooed the secrets of flame alchemy onto her back]]]], and when Roy betrays her trust by using flame alchemy to commit mass genocide, Riza chooses to take the blame by [[spoiler:having him burn her back.]] Appearance wise, Riza has the large TsurimeEyes which are reddish in the first anime, and had short hair while in Ishval.
70** Lan Fan is another ActionGirl who has a BodyguardCrush dynamic with Ling [[AuthorAppeal very similar to that of Riza and Roy]], becomes furious whenever anyone remotely insults him and shows her undying loyalty during their fight with King Bradley when she [[spoiler: [[AnArmAndALeg cuts off her own arm]] and ties it to a dog]] in order to distract him. She's shown to be very shy and withdrawn without her mask and bashful around Ling.
71** In ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist2003'', the homunculus Sloth has traits of this, having the emotionless demeanor, devotion to the antagonist and identity issues down. The most notable similarity she has to Rei is [[spoiler: being a "clone" of the protagonists' mother (she's the result of Ed and Al's attempt to resurrect Trisha.)]]
72* ''Manga/FutagoNoTeikoku'' has Fa. She has short, blueish hair, is very reserved and stoic, has a strong attachment to Gaw, and has a magical curse placed on her.
73* Ledo from ''Anime/GargantiaOnTheVerdurousPlanet'', although a male example. White hair, pale skin, purple eyes, otherworldly origins, NoSocialSkills, stoic, and even a mecha pilot to boot.
74%%* Leele from ''Anime/{{Gravion}}'' fits nearly every requirement, though she's a less emotionally distant example.
75* [[IdolSinger Inori]] [[MysteriousWaif Yuzuriha]] from ''Anime/GuiltyCrown'' shares many traits with Rei, in both personality and situation. [[TheStoic Stoic]], seemingly [[EmotionlessGirl emotionless]]? Check. Red eyes? Check. [[UndyingLoyalty Deeply devoted]] to her boss, and, later, the main character? Check. [[spoiler:ArtificialHuman based on one of the protagonist's family members who nevertheless has boatloads of UnresolvedSexualTension with him? Um...check.]] The only way for Inori to be a more thorough example would be if she had blue hair instead of pink and piloted one of the show's mecha.
76* ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'' finally provides its first in-franchise example with Mikazuki Augus from ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamIronBloodedOrphans''. He's emotionless, short in stature, has short hair, is a ChildSoldier, has significant injuries, NoSocialSkills, UndyingLoyalty to Orga, and to top it off, a mecha pilot. As an added bonus, his name means "Crescent Moon", which has connotations with the cold (like Yuki and Rei), and was an Imperial Japanese warship. Unlike other examples, though, he rarely becomes more humanly expressive, and this lack of development is played for drama.
77%%* Kisaragi from ''Manga/HappyLesson''.
78* Ikaros from ''Manga/HeavensLostProperty''. An emotionless, obedient and submissive Angeloid who comes to slowly warm up thanks to the main character.
79* Kanna from ''Manga/{{Inuyasha}}'' by virtue of her white hair, pale skin, lack of emotions and the fact that she's an ArtificialHuman. She's also [[CreepyChild a little girl]].
80%%* Shimei Ryomou of ''Manga/IkkiTousen'' (Battle Vixens). Complete with bandage over one eye.
81* Sara from ''Anime/JewelpetTwinkle''. Blue hair, red eyes, pale skin, TheStoic with a SugarAndIcePersonality.
82%%* Nozomu Ezomori in ''Literature/{{Kanokon}}.'' Not surprising, since she shares the same VA with QB's Aldra, except being more slutty.
83%%* Anju Maaka from ''Manga/{{Karin}}''.
84* Ayuki from ''Manga/KashimashiGirlMeetsGirl'' matches to a degree. She's a slender {{Meganekko}} with a bob. While not exactly stoic, she's a quiet DeadpanSnarker who prefers science and learning over romance.
85* ''Anime/KeyTheMetalIdol'' has one in the form of its titular protagonist, Tokiko "Key" Mima, a shy, emotionally constricted ArtificialHuman prone to fits of otherworldly rage, who seeks to become human before her battery runs out. Considering that the work was made before ''Evangelion'' came out, she could be considered a [[OlderThanTheyThink proto-example of this]].
86* Ria Iwamura from ''Literature/KingsGame'' is a 10-20 something, pale skin, red eyed, and white bobbed haired girl with a DarkAndTroubledPast and a calm and emotionless demeanor. She also gets ''immolated'' and she doesn't even bat an eye.
87* Lan from ''Anime/LagrangeTheFlowerOfRinne'' is a different take on the archetype. She has all of the characteristics that place her firmly in the category; blue hair, pale skin, purple eyes, TheStoic, [[NoSocialSkills strange behavior]], [[HumanAliens an alien]], and co-starring in a HumongousMecha series. She's different in that her stoicism doesn't work as well as she tries to and it soon becomes clear she's NotSoStoic. ''[[RunningGag Really]]'' NotSoStoic. She defrosts into more of an average emotional girl sooner than expected. Also, her odd greeting is the result of her being ''lied to'' about Earth culture.
88* Minami Iwasaki from ''Manga/LuckyStar'' is a subversion, and she can also be seen as a parody. She's a teenage girl with short, mint green hair who's very [[TheQuietOne quiet]] and reserved, and this makes most people view her as creepy. It turns out that she's really just a regular ShrinkingViolet, and the most angst she has is over her [[ACupAngst flat chest]]. She's also a normal human, being from a mundane SliceOfLife series.
89* There's [[DarkMagicalGirl Fate Testarossa]] from ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha''. A red-eyed stoic, the faithful servant of the BigBad, her mother Precia, [[spoiler:is viciously flogged by said mother, and eventually turns out to be an ArtificialHuman created to replace her ''real'' daughter, Alicia, who died in a tragic accident]]. Averted from [[Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAs the second season]] onward, after Nanoha [[WarriorTherapist does her thing]].
90%%* Miyu ([[spoiler:or, more correctly, M.I.Y.U.]]), from both ''Anime/MyHime'' and ''Anime/MyOtome''.
91* Ruri Hoshino of ''Anime/MartianSuccessorNadesico.'' Blue-grey hair, yellow eyes, odd origins, very stoic. Coming in 1997, she was the very ''first'' Expy of Rei Ayanami, and thus doesn't exactly mirror Rei in personality, being LittleMissSnarker instead.
92* The titular Anime/MissMonochrome. She is a white-haired, blue-eyed android aspiring to become an idol. She's pretty emotionless and so socially inept that her servant easily tricks her into giving her all her fortune and she can't tell the difference between a store manager and an idol manager.
93* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'':
94** Not the most obvious but Sai has shades of being an expy of Rei. He's a pale teenager with NoSocialSkills and a MysteriousPast, and is TheStoic.
95** A straighter example is Konan, [[TheSmurfettePrinciple the only female member of the Akatsuki]]. She is a blue-haired, orange-eyed woman who speaks little, but is loyal to the leader, Pain, with whom she shared a tragic life, including the death of a man she loved. Despite her cold exterior, she eventually lets emotions get the better of her, going down in an epic LastStand against the BigBad himself all so she can prevent him from dooming the entire world.
96* Fate from ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'' is a male example of the trope. White-haired, emotionless, ArtificialHuman created by the BigBad.
97%%* Mai from ''Manga/{{Nichijou}}'' has demeanor but she's TheGadfly personified.
98* Kirika Yuumura, from ''Anime/{{Noir}}'' is another brunette with similarities - Initially emotionless, although she does cry in episode one (although she's crying because she can't feel regret, not because of the dozen men she just killed), soft-spoken and created as a weapon. Her eyes are at the red end of brown, getting redder whenever there's an open fire around - used to great effect when her 'true self' comes out towards the end of the series. The series ends with her choosing between being human, or being a weapon.
99* Lala Ru from ''Anime/NowAndThenHereAndThere''. A mysterious blue-haired, blue-eyed girl with special water powers who claims to be thousands of years old. Due to her long and disillusioned experience with humans, she feels little to no emotions with them. Her relationship with Shu changes her to be more protective and open.
100* Echo from ''Manga/PandoraHearts''. She's a white-haired girl with a stoic personality who serves as the minion of the {{Yandere}} brother of one of the main characters. She also has a dangerous SplitPersonality named Noise. Eventually, the protagonist Oz befriends her and it's usually implied Echo might have feelings for him.
101* Isla from ''Anime/PlasticMemories'' is a [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots Giftia]] with silver hair and red eyes. She is highly serious and emotionally distant, due to being a ShellShockedVeteran of a job that involves retrieving and terminating her own kind. Yet she's very cute, dorky and eccentric. As the series progresses, she becomes more open thanks to her love interest. She is also in a decaying physical condition, since her 9-year lifespan is nearing its end.
102* Mytho from ''Anime/PrincessTutu'' is a male example. He's a white-haired, magical prince from a fairy tale. The shards of his heart, his emotions, were shattered throughout the land. As a result, Mytho is an emotionless shell and Duck spends much of the first season working to restore his emotions.
103%%* Aldra in ''Anime/QueensBlade'', but only in the original series, since in the sequel, her personality was [[ReTool retooled.]]
104* Anthy from ''Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena'', right down to [[spoiler:being a goddess stabbed by the villains to contain her power (remember, Rei has Lilith's soul.)]] Given ''Utena's'' original air date, she's probably the UrExample, as well as one of the few to stay true to Rei's UnbuiltTrope nature.
105* By [[Creator/NobuhiroWatsuki the mangaka's]] own admition; Tomoe Yukishiro from ''Manga/RurouniKenshin'' was designed after Rei. She may have dark hair, but personality-wise she fits surprisingly well: she's quiet, apparently cold yet kind-hearted, becomes Kenshin's love interest as she defrosts [[spoiler: and dies to protect him]]
106* Sailor Saturn from ''Manga/SailorMoon'' is another UrExample, given that she debuted in 1994, just one year before ''Evangelion''. She's an ApocalypseMaiden with short, dark purple hair, is DelicateAndSickly, and in the manga, [[spoiler:is a cyborg]].
107* ''Anime/SaintSeiyaOmega'' has the tiny, quiet, blue-haired Aria. Demure and shy? Check. Blue hair and eyes? Check. MysteriousWaif with a DarkAndTroubledPast? Check. [[DefrostingIceQueen Learns to express her emotions better through contact with the main character]]? Check. Has great and mysterious powers? Check. [[spoiler: Not entirely of human origin?]] Check. [[spoiler: Gets killed off]]? Check...
108%%* Mero Furuya from ''Manga/{{Sankarea}}''.
109* A rare male expy in the anime adaptation of the yaoi manga ''Sensitive Pornograph'' as the ExtremeDoormat character Aki. He has her hair, dark reddish brown eyes and even has his arm and right eye bandaged similarly by the end of it.
110* Lain from ''Anime/SerialExperimentsLain'' fits everything here. She has short hair, is emotionless, has a mysterious past, and turns out to be [[spoiler:a computer program]]. Except she has brown hair. Notably, the creators of ''Lain'' [[WordOfGod have said]] they didn't even watch ''Evangelion'' until they finished the fourth episode of ''Lain''.
111* Gowther from ''Manga/TheSevenDeadlySins'', also another male example but fits the bill perfectly. [[SupernaturalGoldEyes Golden eyes]], NoSocialSkills, completely {{emotionless|boy}}, [[BecomeARealBoy wants to become more human-like]], and to top it off, [[LivingToys a doll]].
112* Mamiko Kuri from ''Manga/ShadowStar''. A mysterious girl with pale skin and cold eyes whom Sudo took under his wing when he found out she had a shadow dragon. She tends to be rather quiet, and often considers the people around her to be inferior. It's later revealed that [[spoiler:Mamiko's shadow dragon is the earth itself and she is one of those who must judge this world and make the choice of what kind of world it will become. At the end of the manga, Mamiko destroys everyone and everything in the world except Shiina and herself. They begin the world over again, with Mamiko's son as the new Adam of the reborn world.]]
113* In ''Anime/{{Shirobako}}'', [[ShowWithinAShow the fictional series being worked on]] ''3rd Aerial Girls' Squadron'' has one in the protagonist, Aria. Tragic past. EmotionlessGirl. Bob Haircut (in pink).
114* Noël from ''Anime/SoundOfTheSky''. White-haired, pale skinned pilot and mechanic of the crew's SpiderTank that hardly speaks, when she does she uses a monotone and has a DarkAndTroubledPast coming back from when she was a ChildProdigy. More lively when drunk.
115* ''Anime/{{Vandread}}'' has Meia Gisborn, the leader of the starship ''Nirvana's'' pilot team. She sports short blue hair and pale skin and is clad in a LatexSpaceSuit not unlike Rei's outfit. She also starts off mostly stoic and silent but opens up over the course of the series. A whole episode is even dedicated to her being injured, flashing back to her [[HomosexualReproduction mother(s)]] and her personal tragedies while near-death in the infirmary.
116* Cheza from ''Anime/WolfsRain''. She looks like Rei Ayanami with pink hair. Being half-plant qualifies her as not fully human. She's also quite emotionless, although she does perk up quite a bit in the presence of wolves.
117* ''Manga/TheWorldGodOnlyKnows'': Dokuro, the girl who Keima meets in his time travel [[spoiler:and the past self of his teacher Yuri Nikaido]], has many characteristics of this trope. She's a powerful ArtificialHuman [[spoiler:and some kind of clone of the original Dokuro Skull]], has bobbed hair and purple eyes. When she's introduced, she's an EmotionlessGirl, but thanks to the main character she warms up and becomes very upbeat.
118* Nataku from ''Manga/{{X1999}}'', an [[NoBiologicalSex androgynous]] white-haired superpowered ArtificialHuman clone of a scientist's deceased daughter. They're said to be completely devoid of emotions and empathy, and blindly follow the BigBad because of his resemblance to their "father" (the father of the girl Nataku was based on.) During their fight, Karen opens up to them and realizes they have the innocence of a child, and Nataku ends up [[spoiler:doing a HeroicSacrifice for her.]] Oh, and Nataku was created ''before'' [[OlderThanTheyThink Evangelion debuted]].
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122* The ''Manga/MarvelMangaverse'' version of ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'' is, depending how you look at it, either a FusionFic or extended ShoutOut to ''Evangelion''. Each member of the team was heavily {{Revision}}ed to resemble a member of the ''Evangelion'' cast, with Sue Storm/The Invisible Woman ([[AdaptationNameChange renamed "Sioux Storm"]]) acting as the Four's cold, distant Rei equivalent.
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126* Chronicler from ''Fanfic/CitadelOfTheHeart'' is a rare male example of this trope. [[NoSocialSkills Lack of knowledge of the social norm]], bluish black hair, [[TechnicolorEyes eyes with silver pupils and red irises]], [[MysteriousPast generally mysterious with an other-worldly origin]], 18 years old at the time of his official introduction, pale skin, [[DarkAndTroubledPast an entire past of being abused by those who had some degree of power and or authority over him]], he's a HalfHumanHybrid so he's definitely NotQuiteHuman, and he's also a love interest for [[Literature/SwordArtOnline Suguha]]. It's also worth noting that his skin becomes more of a peach color later on, but it doesn't mesh with either his mother who has more traditional dark skin, or his father, who while having pale skin, has so due to an unnatural genetic disorder as opposed to having any sort of natural paleness to his skin tone.
127* Tsukuyomi from ''Fanfic/{{Infinity}}''. [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots Artificial]], [[TheStoic stoic]], [[TheSpock keeps her emotions suppressed]], exceedingly polite, intelligent and deadpan {{Cloudcuckoolander}} whose honesty extends to discussing her tactics with her enemies and openly [[MoreExpendableThanYou considering herself expendable]]. Like the rest of her siblings, she also has blue hair.
128* Krieger Female Model 68b #6345 from ''Fanfic/LoveAndKrieg''. She is an emotionless, highly indoctrinated cloned soldier (with short hair, although it's blond), and she does rarely enough express emotions, like affection towards her normal civilian boyfriend. It's surprisingly cute.
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132* ''Film/EdwardScissorhands'' has the titular character. While he lacks the more outlandish hair and eye colors, [[LooksLikeCesare his appearance]] still stands out from the rest of the population of Suburbia. Aside from that he ticks many of the boxes, as he's an ArtificialHuman who was created in a gothic castle by a MadScientist as his son, has pale skin, is largely stoic and quiet, appears to have shown affection for his long-dead creator, and becomes the LoveInterest for Kim Boggs. His bladed fingers due to his creator dying from old age right when he was going to give him regular human hands also adds to his otherworly character. Also his face is CoveredWithScars due to his bladed fingers. As the film came out five years before ''Evangelion'' debuted, Edward could be considered a proto-example of this.
133* ''Film/PacificRim'' gives us Mako Mori. While being older, having a rather more well-adjusted and sociable personality, and with nothing artificial about her origin, she's the only Japanese character in the film, is [[TheStoic stoic and reserved]], fiercely loyal to her adoptive father figure, and sports Rei's haircut as said above. It's even colored blue, though only at the tips. She also happens to be a HumongousMecha pilot. Popular fan consensus is that it's supposed to say, "We took ''some'' inspiration from ''Evangelion'' but didn't try to ape it." Explicitly invoked in the Japanese dub: instead of having Creator/RinkoKikuchi dub her own lines over in Japanese (which she would be perfectly capable of doing), Mako is voiced by the same person responsible for Rei -- Music/MegumiHayashibara. You can't get to be a bigger Expy than that!
134* ''Film/ShinGodzilla'' has Hiromi Ogashira, a [[YamatoNadeshiko quiet, polite]], stoic, introverted, [[PerpetualFrowner perpetually frowning]] civil servant/government scientist with a bob haircut not unlike Rei's (albeit with a natural color) who is portrayed as [[BettyAndVeronica the non-romantic Betty to Kayoko Ann Patterson's more bombastic Veronica]]. No points for guessing that Creator/HideakiAnno himself wrote and directed the film.
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138* Julie Sigtuna from ''Literature/AbsoluteDuo''. Silvery-white hair, red eyes, pale skin, petite, mysterious and troubled past, not a normal human, stoic and weird behaviour, eventually reveals a sweet and emotional side to her love interest.
139* Isuzu Sento from ''Literature/AmagiBrilliantPark'', with her upbringing as a soldier leaving her stunted in the social department, unemotive demeanor, otherworldy origins, and not being entirely human, as well as being the love interest to the main character. The only thing that separates her from the other examples is that she's taller than average, has long hair, normal hair, eye and skin color, and is quite endowed.
140* Mei Misaki, from the ''Literature/{{Another}}'' horror/mystery novel series most certainly qualifies. An EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette with emphasis on [[TownWithADarkSecret eerie]], dark short hair, skin so pale it is in a shade of grey, [[RedEyesTakeWarning red eyes]], an eye-patch resembling Rei's usual bandages, [[EmotionlessGirl a deeply stoic demeanor]] and the overall feeling of creepy cuteness/cute creepiness exhaled. Visually, she is basically Rei with pitch black hair.
141* ''Literature/TheAsteriskWar'' has Saya Sasamiya, a blue-haired, red-eyed teenage gunslinger. She's emotionally repressed and prone to oversleeping and getting lost, and is devoted to both her father, an eccentric Lux-maker derided by the professional community, and her childhood friend Ayato Amagiri (the main protagonist). She has an Asuka counterpart in Julis-Alexia von Riessfeld, a ([[KillItWithFire literally]]) FieryRedhead who is the other major competitor in Ayato's BattleHarem.
142* Sen Yarizui, "the Ice Witch", from ''Literature/BenTo'', though she's more of a very laid-back {{Cloudcuckoolander}} as opposed to being shy and emotionally repressed.
143* Felli Loss from ''Literature/ChromeShelledRegios'' is a silver-haired psychokinetic whose powers make her unable to express emotions the same way as others, but is slowly warming up to the protagonist.
144* Origami Tobiichi in ''Literature/DateALive''. She has short white hair, is TheStoic, and even has the ChildSoldier who drives Mecha vs PersonOfMassDestruction thing going. Unusually for the trope, though, she's also a StalkerWithACrush and one of the few characters listed who is a bit of a jerk at first.
145* Sf from ''Literature/TheEndingChronicle''. A silver-haired automaton created using technology from another world. She's the personal maid of the supervisor of Team Leviathan. She lacks emotions, but shows an extreme amount of loyalty and devotion for her master.
146* Aika from the Western novel ''Literature/EscapistDream'' is pretty much dressed up to be like this. Weirdly enough, she acts so much like Rei Ayanami that Jim suspects that she's not human, [[spoiler:which proved to be true since she's just an AI waifu created by Kaichou]].
147* Tabitha from ''Literature/TheFamiliarOfZero''. Bobbed light blue hair, very fair skin, quiet and deeply stoic demeanor, and speaks in strangely truncated, sentences with barely enough to get her point across, often single-word ones.
148* Lelei La Lalena from ''Literature/{{Gate}}''. A 15-year-old genius sorceress with short light blue hair and eyes. She's stoic and quiet, but a nice girl. She also forms part of the UnwantedHarem of the main character.
149* Yuki Nagato from ''Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya'', to the point where her name is a pun on Rei's--Rei can be read as "ice", Yuki as "snow", and both Nagato and Ayanami were Imperial Japanese naval warships. Curiously, Yuki is described in the novels as having black hair (since in the Haruhi universe people have normal hair colors) but in the anime and even in the novels' art, it appears of a purplish blue similar to Rei's (but much more pale). Her characterization, however, has some variance: She is a love interest only briefly, if that (though she is one in the spin-off where she's a normal human ShrinkingViolet); she neither is a MysteriousWaif nor does she have a DarkAndTroubledPast (if anything, she becomes more interesting the more we know her); and the becoming more emotional part is downplayed, in that her affect remains as flat as ever, but she seems to undergo significant CharacterDevelopment and emotional development under the surface (despite the fact she states her affect will always be flat, she nevertheless seems to become more expressive and animate in her own way as the series progresses).
150* Hazuki from ''Literature/HarukaNogizakasSecret'', though she doesn't have any dramatic plotline related to it, she is just weird.
151* Koneko from ''Literature/HighSchoolDXD''. Pale skin, short silver hair, golden eyes, petite, is not human, appears cold and soft-spoken and eventually warms up to the main character.
152* In ''Literature/HorizonInTheMiddleOfNowhere'', there's an amnesiac, emotionless [[RobotGirl automaton]] with silver hair and blue eyes known as P-01s. It's later revealed that she's Horizon Ariadust, a human girl who died in an accident years ago. After her death, her father put her soul in an android body and used her emotions to create WeaponsOfMassDestruction that will give her the power to save the world from an apocalypse. Horizon also serves as the love interest of the main character Toori Aoi.
153* ''Literature/InfiniteStratos'':
154** Laura Bodewig. A white haired, a red eyed and yellow eyed, genetically-engineered ArtificialHuman [[TykeBomb raised as a]] SuperSoldier, and educated with just enough social skills to be able to function as a soldier, which left her with no idea of how to act like a normal girl and socialize normally. Initially, she hates the main character, but she later falls in love with him and chooses him as her "wife". Unlike most examples though, she has long hair, a short stature and HairTriggerTemper.
155** Kanzashi Sarashiki. Red eyes, short aquamarine hair, shy and quiet personality, eventually warms up to the main character and falls in love with him.
156* Eucliwood Hellscythe from ''Literature/IsThisAZombie''. Light hair, pale skin, mysterious abilities and origins and a deeply quiet and stoic demeanor that makes her come across as emotionless, but still has a hidden caring side.
157* Nozomi from ''Literature/MayoiNekoOverrun''. A mysterious girl with blue hair and red eyes. She normally tends to be indifferent and emotionless, and also seems to be a little airheaded.
158* Furano Yukihira from ''[[Literature/MyMentalChoicesAre My Mental Choices Are Completely Interfering with My School Romantic Comedy]]''. Short white hair, red eyes, pale skin, overly serious and quiet, a little weird, has trouble expressing her feelings for her love interest.
159* Shiro from ''Literature/NoGameNoLife''. A young girl with light blue hair and red eyes. She's a {{Hikikomori}} {{Neet}}, but she's actually a genius with an almost supernatural intelligence. She also only shows emotion around her older brother Sora.
160* ''Literature/ThePetGirlOfSakurasou'': Mashiro is a strange girl with virtually NoSocialSkills, doesn't understand the concept of [[EmotionlessGirl emotions]] and [[InnocentFanserviceGirl nudity]] too well and has light hair, fairer skin than the rest of the cast and reddish eyes.
161* Fremy Speeddraw from ''Literature/RokkaBravesOfTheSixFlowers''. A stoic, cold young girl with white hair, pale skin, blue eyes and an eyepatch. Fremy is the first and only half human/half kyouma in the world and she was once the Six Flower Killer, an assassin who killed potential future heroes of the Six Flowers. She was chosen as a Brave after she was betrayed by the Kyouma who raised her, her own mother among them. At first, she doesn't want to trust anyone ever again, but Adlet gains her trust and she falls in love with him.
162* Hecate from ''Literature/ShakuganNoShana''. "The Priestess" of Bal Masqué, she has the appearance of a small blue-haired girl with blue eyes. A quiet and emotionless character.
163* ''Literature/SwordArtOnline'':
164** Shino Asada/Sinon. She has short hair, fair skin, a DarkAndTroubledPast, and an emotionally-distant demeanor that defrosts thanks to the main character. Her MMORPG counterpart Sinon even has the blue hair and eyes to go with it.
165** Alice is an even more quintessential example than Shino Asada/Sinon. While she lacks the outlandish hair coloring (at least in-game) and pale skin, she's also much more stoic than her (even after [[DefrostingIceQueen defrosting]]), is incredibly [[NoSocialSkills socially-inept]] outside of UW, and was an AI that got a [[RobotGirl robot body]]. She even gets an Asuka-esque counterpart with Asuna (who's not only spelled but look similary to her). Being also an expy of [[VisualNovel/FateStayNight Saber]] (who herself is one) probably helped.
166* Elena Arshavina from ''Literature/WorldBreakAriaOfCurseForAHolySwordsman'' is a stoic, silver-haired girl with a bobcut set up as one of the protagonist's love interests. She's also a child soldier that was raised and mentally abused to be effective on the field.
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170* ''Franchise/KamenRider'':
171** ''Series/KamenRiderZeroOne'': Naki is the first non-binary example of the trope[[note]]due to their actor, Satsuki Nakayama, is in fact asexual at that time; expressing their desire not to be defined as either male or female, before coming out as a transgender male a few years after the series ended[[/note]]. Naki is introduced as a rather aloof and emotionless Humagear who initially worked for [[ArcVillain Gai Amatsu]] before the events of the second arc; who eventually gets shot for questioning his methods. Their eventual HeelFaceTurn allowed them to reach Singularity, which makes Humagears feel emotions like humans, thanks to their connection with Isamu Fuwa, [[spoiler:when it was revealed that their AI chip being embedded in Fuwa's neural implants]].
172* Raven/Rachel Roth from ''Series/Titans2018'' hits most of important points of this archetype. She is a HalfHumanHybrid, acts like an EmoTeen with a very [[SugarAndIce moody disposition]], has bobbed dark bluish hair and [[IcyBlueEyes blue eyes]], is quite [[RavenHairIvorySkin pale]] and was created by her [[SatanicArchetype evil father]] to become an ApocalypseMaiden.
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176* Isabella/Catleia from ''[[VideoGame/NintendoWars Advance Wars: Days of Ruin/Dark Conflict]]''. She is a young girl, with blue-white hair and pale skin who is rescued from a building by the main character, Will/Ed, and becomes his love interest. She has no memory of who she is, though somehow knows detailed military information. Eventually, the heroes learn who she is: [[spoiler:one of the cloned children of Dr. Caulder/Stolos.]]
177%%* Sybill from ''VideoGame/{{Alundra}}''.
178* Creator/{{Atlus}} LOVES Evangelion, so within many Evangelion references in their games, of course there's several Rei Ayanami Expies. So far, there's six of them. That's already more than half of the number of Rei expies used to create the page image. [[SarcasmMode Maybe the day where we can make the page image using Rei expies from Atlus only will come. Maybe.]]
179** Gender flipped with Serph from ''VideoGame/DigitalDevilSaga'': an initially [[DefrostingIceQueen completely emotionless]] pale-skinned gray-haired [[HeroicMime almost totally silent]] [[InvertedTrope male lead]] who's [[spoiler: [[ArtificialHuman a digital clone]] of a sociopath scientist who nearly destroyed the entire world]], and is completely devoted to [[InvertedTrope female love-interest]] [[MysteriousWaif Sera.]]
180** ''VideoGame/DevilSurvivor'''s Amane Kuzuryu, a blue haired, blue eyed EmotionlessGirl [[spoiler:that serves as the host to both an angel ''and'' a demon.]] In [[MultipleEndings her route]], she reveals the reason for her behavior and wishes that she had been able to lead a more normal life.
181** ''Franchise/{{Persona}}'':
182*** In ''VideoGame/Persona3'', we have two! First is the Protagonist himself, who possesses blue hair and eyes that are either blue or silverish, and also appears emotionless but gradually becomes more human as he forms bonds. (His characterization in the first animated movie adaption mirrors Rei's in the first Rebuild movie, complete with a WhenSheSmiles moment!) Second is Aigis, with her robotic nature and exotic looks, but isn't quite as emotionless so much as initially single-minded. Her role only settles in when Ryoji, the Kaworu Expy, enters the story and she immediately becomes suspicious of him.
183*** ''VideoGame/Persona4'' has Naoto Shirogane, who has blue-bobbed hair and silver [[AdaptationalDyeJob (or blue)]] eyes, and usually has a calm personality with a mysterious vibe to boot. When first introduced, Naoto acts more aloof and apathetic towards the others, but warms up to them after joining their group.
184** ''VideoGame/DevilSurvivor2'' has Miyako. She just appeared in Record Breaker, but it's no doubt that Miyako is a Rei expy too. She has short hair and eyes in color shade similar to Rei's hair. Okay, initially she is not that emotionless, but she does [[DefrostingIceQueen eventually become more emotional]], later becomes one of the protagonists' main love interest, [[spoiler: isn't exactly human. Rei is the soul vessel for Lilith and Yui clone, when Miyako is the mix of Fourth Triangulum and Yamato clone, later fight against her own kin other than human.]]. Also, she is noticeably less polite and wary of Alcor, the Kaworu expy in said game.
185** Even games Atlus simply published get in on this. Enter Ryoko Shinnonome from ''VideoGame/ThirteenSentinelsAegisRim'': a blue haired IllGirl with a DarkAndTroubledPast who pilots a giant robot and takes orders from an aloof leader she has an emotional connection with and [[spoiler:is a clone, just like almost everyone else in the story.]] Unlike most cases of this archetype however, [[spoiler:her DefrostingIceQueen act isn’t of her own volition, as her memories and original personality end up wiped clean from a mix of grief, tampering and the disease she unwittingly afflicted on herself.]]
186* ''VideoGame/{{Blazblue}}''
187** The Murakumo Units, a series of {{Magitek}} cyborgs. There are three playable Murakumos and each of them have some of Rei's traits. As a whole, Murakumos are young women with light hair and skin, draw power from an EldritchLocation, were created by an abusive MadScientist father, are varying flavors of TheWoobie and are clones of Ragna's (the protagonist) long lost sister. Lambda-11 is curious, innocent, developing emotions, has red eyes and is forced into battle by her boss and sort of mother figure Kokonoe because there's just no other choice. Noel, aka Mu-12, didn't know she was a Murakumo for years and developed a proper (but meek) personality, initially serving the local StateSec to support her family but eventually breaking away from that to help save the world. Nu-13 has the characteristic red eyes, silvery blue hair and pale skin and being seemingly DelicateAndSickly, and switches from being utterly emotionless to the definition of {{Yandere}} whenever Ragna shows up. She also takes the darker aspects of Rei's UnbuiltTrope nature to much darker extremes, effectively turning her into a CorruptedCharacterCopy of Rei.
188** Their genetic template, Saya, was pretty similar to Noel before becoming the Imperator [[spoiler:and being made a vessel for Izanami, the Goddess of Death.]] When Ragna meets an adult Saya for the first time, her appearance and personality took a huge change. She is absolutely devoid of emotion, ruthless, nihilistic and hateful towards the world. Her golden locks have become purple, and her previously jade eyes are now crimson. [[spoiler:All of this can be attributed to her being possessed by Izanami, and Saya's consciousness apparently struggles for control, resulting in the Imperator showing some sympathy towards Ragna and despising Terumi.]]
189%%* Lydia from ''VideoGame/ChroniclesOfInotiaChildrenOfCarnia''.
190* ''VideoGame/CodeVein'': Io. She not only has the pale skin, bobcut, and is a [[TheStoic stoic]] MysteriousWaif ArtificialHuman (among many clones) to boot, but over the course of the story, Io develops feelings for the beyond obeying the orders of the Successors. She was created by Cruz only to absorb the relics (pieces of Cruz's body) similar to how Rei was created from Lilith's DNA. Her fate in the three endings also reference The End of Evangelion as well: In ''To Eternity'' her body [[TakenForGranite is petrified]], in ''Heirs'' [[NoBodyLeftBehind she disintegrates and crumbles]], and in ''Dwellers in the Dark'' she absorbs legendary relics to form a sacred tree and AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence, though she maintains a presence to the protagonist. For bonus points, she [[Creator/BrinaPalencia shares an English voice actress with Rei from the Rebuild of Evangelion continuity as well]].
191* [[MeaningfulName Eva]] from ''VideoGame/CrushCrush'' has green hair and gold eyes, but otherwise is a very clear expy of Rei as a mecha pilot you save from dying who's an emotionless, [[SpockSpeak Spock-like]] MysteriousWaif until you gradually teach her how to smile. She even mentions wearing bandages to a party at one point and says that [[{{Tsundere}} Cassie]], another girl in the game, reminds her of one of her colleagues.
192* Orchis/Orchid from the shared universe games of ''Creator/{{Cygames}}'' such as ''VideoGame/RageOfBahamut'', ''VideoGame/GranblueFantasy'' and ''VideoGame/{{Shadowverse}}''. Among these games, ''Granblue'' gave her an extended backstory, a MeaningfulRename (Orchid, as she was named Orchis in ''Bahamut'') and is tied to the main plot. She is blue-haired, red-eyed, terse, monotone speaking, very mysterious and displaying little emotion to those around her. [[spoiler:She also turns into a Golem, whose limbs are attached using ball joints, just like a doll. Lastly, she is very loyal to the Black Knight, but gradually opens up to her other friends as the story progresses.]]
193* Amara Minakushi from ''VideoGame/{{Devadasy}}'', a franchise already strongly inspired by ''Eva'', is a stoic, green-haired artificial human girl who strikes a mysterious bond with the male protagonist.
194* ''Franchise/FireEmblem'':
195** ''VideoGame/FireEmblemGenealogyOfTheHolyWar'' has Deirdre and her daughter [[spoiler:by Arvis]], Julia for the first and second generations. While they don't fit every trope, they do fit quite a few -- Deirdre is Sigurd's wife, and Julia acts as a bait and switch love interest for Seliph, who turns out to be her half-brother through Deirdre's relationship with Sigurd. They have silvery hair, and oddly light colored eyes. They have very stoic demeanors due to their respective childhood situations of how they were raised. While they are human, they are the only ones with major Naga holy blood, which makes them unique among the other humans and instrumental to the plot.
196** Thea, the middle sister of the Pegasus Knights from ''VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBindingBlade''. She looks the part and has the SugarAndIcePersonality down pat.
197** The dancer Ninian from ''VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBlazingBlade''. Though she lacks the short hair, it ''is'' blue (a shade of teal, to be exact), and she has red eyes, an unusual color even for ''Fire Emblem'' standards, as well as pale skin, and is pretty frail both in cutscenes and in combat. She's also notably shy and reserved but can open up to all three of her support options (one of which is a possible love interest), and hides a dark secret; [[spoiler:she's a half-dragon born from a human father. Her tragic family history is revealed in Hector's story, in which the player learns that her father is the main antagonist, Nergal, who sent her and her brother through the Dragon's Gate for their own protection during the Scouring, a massive human/dragon war. Their mother, Aenir, was killed, and Nergal, seeking to reunite with his children after the war was over, began experimenting with unscrupulous dark magic that [[TheDarkSideWillMakeYouForget warped his mind and made him forget his original purpose]]. Centuries later, in an ironic twist of fate, he manages to call his children back through the Gate, but they don't remember him, and he doesn't remember he had children in the first place, only wanting to use the siblings to further his own goals of obtaining power.]] Worst of all, [[spoiler:he actually laughs when Eliwood accidentally kills her.]]
198** Katarina of ''VideoGame/FireEmblemNewMysteryOfTheEmblem''. Hard to spot early in the game, but she fits the trope as her backstory gets revealed. Physically she's got light purple hair in a bobcut, [[ShrinkingViolet is extremely shy, jumpy and reserved]], and even confesses [[DarkAndTroubledPast to being an orphan and suffering a lot of abuse in her childhood]]. [[spoiler:She shows an UndyingLoyalty towards her caretaker, Eremiya, for giving her a home, even though she's fully aware of being raised to become a TykeBomb to kill Marth. While she's fully human, over the story she's constantly compared to a puppet, and she sees herself as such. Her time with the 7th Platoon and especially her developing feelings for [[PlayerCharacter Kris]] cause her to become conflicted, to the point she prefers [[DeathSeeker to die to atone for her sins]] until Kris and Marth talk her out of it.]]
199* Vanilla H from ''VideoGame/GalaxyAngel'', a red-eyed, pale-skinned young girl who controls nanomachines by suppressing her emotions. She's otherwise a normal human, but her stoic persona actually makes a character mistake her for a robot once.
200%%* Mari Ming Onette from ''VideoGame/GrandChase'' can be called one.
201%%* Leen from ''VideoGame/Grandia1'' has almost every trait of it, and is maybe the first one.
202%%** In turn, Diene from ''VideoGame/GrandiaXtreme'', who is [[ShoutOut an intentional reference to Leen]] - though she's less reserved and a lot more pragmatic.
203* Ramlethal Valentine from ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear'', albeit a dark-skinned blonde case[[note]]Though her dark skin could be [[HadesShaded the result of originating from the Backyard]][[/note]], but otherwise plays this to a T. Emotionless though she warms up later, platinum blonde hair, not human, and was created by [[spoiler:St. Maximus Ariels]].
204* Bronya Zaychik from ''VideoGame/HonkaiImpact3rd'' was initially a child soldier trained as a ColdSniper before being picked up in an orphanage by a woman named Cocolia, where she could finally live a semblance of a normal life and make friends. However, said orphanage also used children who had special properties in dangerous experiments; after Bronya's friend Seele became trapped in another dimension because of one such experiment, Bronya proposed herself to take part in it. As the experiment failed, she largely lost the ability to feel emotions, as well as the use of her legs. This is notably marked by her becoming a ThirdPersonPerson; as a playable character, her speech is always formal and technical. Her silver hair doubles as a PhenotypeStereotype, since she was born in Siberia. The cherry on the cake? In version 4.5's {{Crossover}} event with ''Evangelion'', Bronya ''literally'' plays the role of Rei in a recreation of ''Eva'''s story set in the ''Honkai'' universe.
205* ''VideoGame/HorizonForbiddenWest'': [[spoiler:Beta does meet a ''lot'' of the requirements. Namely, pale skin, short bobbed hair, unnatural existence (clone), young age, often needs to rescued, DarkAndTroubledPast and connection with the protagonist ("sister" to Aloy), antagonists (creation of Far Zenith) ''and'' figure from the lore (''daughter'' to Elisabet). She also undergoes CharacterDevelopment where she becomes more emotional and well-adjusted. However, she is not anyone's love interest and if anything is a [[NervousWreck overemotional]] MotorMouth instead of stoic or robotic.]]
206* Ryūsei Haruna from ''VideoGame/LaCordaDOro Starlight Orchestra'' is a high-school first-year (15-16 yrs) {{Bishonen}} with short, sleek cyan hair, robotic stoicism and a frightening level of BlindObedience.
207* Fie Claussell from ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsOfColdSteel'' fits the archetype to a T. She's a quiet, stoic 15-year-old with exceptional combat capabilities who is eventually revealed to be [[spoiler: [[ChildSoldier a former Jaeger from the Zephyr Jaeger Corps]] and adoptive daughter of the corps's boss, The Jaeger King.]]
208* Stern the Destructor of the ''VideoGame/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAsPortable'' games. She's an ancient, alien, {{Magitek}} program that copied Nanoha's appearance, with a few changes such as her hair being cropped short and her eyes being an unnaturally light color of blue. As the Material of Wisdom, she has little to no emotions and is completely logical. However, she starts gaining some emotions after she met and [[DefeatMeansFriendship lost to]] Nanoha, even gaining her own personal desire to improve herself in the hopes of [[TheRival one day beating Nanoha]] in a LightheartedRematch.
209* The eroge game ''Makai Tenshi Djibril'' :
210** The New Angelic Gaia Interface is a wholesale expy of Rei Ayanami, from the fact she's got blue hair and pale features, she's also a artificial angel, of the holy kind, whose whole purpose is to go into battle and get maimed, and she does in fact shrug off a lost arm at least once.
211** Also, the mark of a transformed Devil Angel when working for Heaven was, for the first three games, that their hair took on a pale color, as close to light blue as possible.
212* Franchise/MegaMan:
213** Sera in ''VideoGame/MegaManLegends2''. Appearance-wise she fits the trope to a T, with the sole exception of having dark skin as opposed to pale. After she's awakened, she spends the game guiding the protagonists to uncover the mystery of the Mother Lode, only to reveal that she's planning to activate the Elysium's Carbon Reinitialization Program, which would wipe out the populace on earth.
214** Pandora from ''VideoGame/MegaManZX''. An [[EmotionlessGirl Emotionless]], green-haired, [[RedEyesTakeWarning red-eyed]] [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots Reploid]]. She and her brother Prometheus act as CoDragons for the BigBad and their origins remain a mystery until their DarkAndTroubledPast is revealed late in ''ZX Advent''.
215* [[Franchise/{{Metroid}} Samus Aran]] became this trope in ''VideoGame/MetroidOtherM'', with characteristics from both Rei and Shinji. She speaks in a stoic monotone, seems to suffer from low self-esteem like Shinji, and lots of emphasis is placed on her loyalty to Adam (much like Rei's loyalty to Gendo) and her DarkAndTroubledPast, both of which are the cause of most of her [[NotSoStoic emotional breakdowns]] throughout the game (such emotional breakdowns were a staple of ''Evangelion''). A flashback scene even gives her a bobbed haircut similar to Rei's.
216%%* Angel of ''VideoGame/OneMustFall 2097'' fits the trope to a T.
217%%** She also happens to predate Rei by a year. One Must Fall came out in 1994. Evangelion first aired in 1995.
218* Kagura from ''VideoGame/Onmyoji2016'' is a stoic little girl who's painfully loyal to her caretaker, has immense powers and [[spoiler:is an ArtificialHuman with the fragment of a god embedded in her]].
219* Melphonshina from ''VideoGame/PhantasyStarOnline2'' more or less falls straight into this trope, minus being a love interest. Her DarkAndTroubledPast being that [[spoiler: she was envious of the relationship between [[BloodKnight Gettemhult]] and his partner, and wished to be in her place]]. After she's [[spoiler: used by Gettemhult to release [[EldritchAbomination Dark Falz Elder]]]], she gets seriously injured. [[spoiler:After Dark Falz Elder [[HeroicSacrifice sacrifices himself]] two Episodes later,]] she breaks out of this to a degree.
220* Courtney from ''[[VideoGame/PokemonRubyAndSapphire Pokémon Ruby]]'' is [[PlayedWith re-imagined along those lines]] in the remake, ''[=OmegaRuby=]'', with robotic [[TerseTalker mostly short]] speech patterns (though she does speak full sentences at certain points, though with Creator/WilliamShatner levels of pauses), [[CurtainsMatchTheWindow violet hair and eyes]]. Ironically, different traits, such as short hair and an attraction to a protagonist are only apparent in the ''Ruby and Sapphire'' chapters of ''Manga/PokemonAdventures'' which is based on the original games and thus is not an EmotionlessGirl there (or in the original games for that matter). In both cases she does have a connection to the antagonist, being a member of Team Magma and one of its CoDragons.
221* ''VideoGame/PuyoPuyo'' gives us a child-friendly version in Sig. He's the closest the series has to an official love interest for anyone (Amitie is confirmed to have a crush on him, and unlike with [[AllLoveIsUnrequited every other display of such feelings in the series]] he doesn't seem bothered by it), he's a mysterious transfer student with inhuman body parts and powers even he doesn't understand, has cyan hair in a bobbed style, TechnicolorEyes, speaks in a CreepyMonotone because he can't express emotions well, has demonic blood and a demon soul to match, is [[UndyingLoyalty undyingly loyal to his friends]], and slowly becomes more aware of his own wants as the series goes on.
222* ''VideoGame/SamuraiShodown''
223** Shiki is older than the average, but otherwise fits the bill nicely (the whole TechnicolorEyes thing being derived from DemonicPossession, but she has heterochromia meaning she's not ''completely'' being controlled).
224** Her daughter Mikoto from ''Samurai Shodown: [[DistantFinale Warriors Rage]]'' not just has [[StrongFamilyResemblance the same personality as her mother]] (but less cold than her), her age (19yo) and her hair and eyes colors ([[ShrinkingViolet a light-violet tone]] and {{red eyes|TakeWarning}}) fits this trope to a T. And not to mention she has [[spoiler:an inner fight with her good and evil sides, being the latter the new incarnation of the Demon "Yuga the Destroyer", the BigBad from ''64'' series.]]
225%%* ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'': Sage from ''VideoGame/SonicFrontiers'' fits this trope much better. While she may not have blue hair, she ticks most of the boxes, even having the same [[Creator/MegumiHayashibara Japanese]] and [[Creator/RyanBartley English]] voice actresses as Rei.
226* VideoGame/{{sora}} Has Nath, the boss of stage 5 and playable character in ''Acceleration Of Suguri 2'' and ''VideoGame/OneHundredPercentOrangeJuice'', and she exhibits most of the traits. She lost her arms at the hands of the military to become a NotQuiteHuman part-machine with no free will, and has the bobbed light blue hair, blue TsurimeEyes, and quiet, monotone voice acting.
227* The Kritya from ''VideoGame/TalesOfVesperia'' are an entire ''race'' of strange, blue-haired nonhumans who... [[EmotionlessGirl don't quite]] [[CloudCuckooLander have it all together]]. The party's [[TheBigGirl Big Girl]], Judith, is considered weird by their standards for being a [[TheTease flirtatious]] BloodKnight who will offer to show off [[MsFanservice even]] ''[[MsFanservice more]]'' [[MsFanservice skin]] [[{{Stripperiffic}} than she usually does]] and devise battle strategies that involve ''being eaten alive by monsters and then ripping them open from the inside'' in the same emotionless tone of voice that everyone on this page has.
228* ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' has Hata no Kokoro, a pink-haired [[AnimateInanimateObject tsukumogami]] based on a set of 66 noh theater masks with a close connection to an antagonist from the previous game in the series. Kokoro is simultaneously a LargeHam, MoodSwinger and EmotionlessGirl, "[[BossSubtitles The Expressive Poker Face]]" who expresses herself through her {{Floating Mask}}s, but after some character development she learns to handle and display her feelings more naturally.
229* Honebami Toushirou from ''VideoGame/ToukenRanbu'' fits ''every'' criteria except love interest [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld and age]] (though he appears as a teenager): He has white bobbed hair and purple eyes; is not human, but a [[{{Youkai}} tsukumogami]] personification of a centuries-old weapon; has a tragic past from battles and suffering from a fire that damaged the blade, caused him to have to be reforged and left him with amnesia which he can't get over; is aloof, shy and HatesBeingTouched; takes orders from and is loyal to the [[PlayerCharacter saniwa]]; after Kiwame, heads towards the DefrostingIceKing path after he realizes being loved by his family and master is more important than being preoccupied with his past.
230* Vastista from ''VideoGame/UnderNightInBirth'' qualifies. Has the hair, skin tone, aloofness, obligations, and relationship with a boy.
231* The Character KOS-MOS in the ''VideoGame/{{Xenosaga}}'' Series is a female blue haired, red eyed [[EmotionlessGirl Emotionless]] Robot which becomes more humane/defrosting. [[spoiler:Like Rei, she and her successor Model "T-elos" have got something to do with the plan of the antagonist/government organisation.]] Amusingly, an AlternateUniverse version of KOS-MOS appears in ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles2'', which introduces a fairly blatant Asuka expy in Mythra who has a few moments that play off her.
232* [[MeaningfulName Kuu Dere]] from ''VideoGame/YandereSimulator'' and ''Kuu Dere Simulator'' is based on Rei Ayanami and has the standard short blue hair and red eyes. Her bio in-game states that no student has ever seen her show emotion, something which is an InformedAbility currently because she'll run away in terror like anyone else if she sees Yandere-Chan commit murder and will threaten her to tell anyone what she has done if she tries to speak to her the following days, as well as damage her reputation. However, in the future she'll have the "Apathetic" persona, which will literally show no emotion.
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236* Kyoko Kirigiri of ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc ''. Purplish white hair, purple eyes, stoic and mysterious (even her talent is just listed as "???"), unnervingly calm interacting with corpses ([[spoiler:including doing CrotchGrabSexCheck on a dead body]]), she [[spoiler: is the estranged daughter of the school headmaster and was also secretly amnesic the whole time]], wears gloves [[spoiler:to hide her horrifically burned hands (best described as looking like bacon)]]. She also gradually warms up to the main character, [[spoiler:becomes one of the main three characters out of the six survivors, and becomes the implicit love interest]] in ''Anime/Danganronpa3TheEndOfHopesPeakHighSchool''.
237* Saber from ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight''. Fair hair and skin, not completely human even when she was alive, and an emotionally cold demeanor that comes to defrost thanks to the protagonist's actions.
238** ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'':
239*** Mash Kyrielight is perhaps an even more quintessential example in the Nasuverse than even Saber herself, if you look at the checklist. Though she is nicer than Rei, she is an artificial being who gets taught how to be human by the protagonist. Said protagonist sometimes wears a plugsuit.
240*** In the crossover event with ''VideoGame/FateSamuraiRemnant'', Yui Shousetsu is an artificial being who wears a plugsuit in First Ascension, and in the climax of the event, [[spoiler:the villain unleashes endless clones of her, which resembles Third Impact.]]
241* Mio Nishizono from ''VisualNovel/LittleBusters'' has short blue hair and amber eyes and is stoic.
242* Haqua Jormungandr from ''VisualNovel/MarcoAndTheGalaxyDragon'' is a soft-spoken, pale-skinned waif with short white hair and golden eyes. She rarely raises her voice and rarely shows any emotion beyond a mild frown, though she is ''not'' an EmotionlessGirl and her stoicism begins to crack toward the end of the game. Her behaviour has less to do with being an [[HumanAliens alien]] and more to do with the fact that her father, [[BigBad Astaroth]], is a cruel despot who thinks emotions are a weakness and is grooming her to rule the galaxy one day.
243* Kei Ayamine from ''VisualNovel/MuvLuv'', a short-haired purple eyed [[SugarAndIcePersonality kuudere]]. Bonus points for her name. The only thing that sets her apart from other examples is that she's also quite TheGadfly.
244* Ein from ''VisualNovel/PhantomOfInferno'', including the haircut (but not the hair color.) She even winds up laying impassively under TheHero by the end of the first episode of 2009 anime adaptation.
245%%* And of course, Ruri Shiromizu from ''Season of the Sakura''.
246* Primula of ''VisualNovel/{{Shuffle}}''. A young EmotionlessGirl with very light purple hair and pale skin. In the anime, emotions cause her magical powers to go haywire. In the visual novel they're hoping she can gain emotions to show the program she's part of is a success, putting her into a human environment is part of the program, her magic has little to do with it. In both she is an artificial lifeform.
247* Es, from ''VisualNovel/XBlaze'', has shades of this as well. She's emotionless (granted, she's a [[RobotGirl robot]], so it's understandable); [[InnocentFanserviceGirl has no functioning concept of decency norms]]; and, once she [[BecomeARealBoy becomes human]], has a similar scene to [[TropeNamers Rei]] where she floats naked in a tube of fluid.
248* Kanna Hatano from ''VisualNovel/YuNo'' is a prime example - not surprising as the game was released within the same year as ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' finished airing. Let's see: She's a teenage student, acts emotionally detached and tends to speak bluntly and distantly if you do manage to get a word out of her, has blue hair complete with a HimeCut (although the remake and 2019 anime altered her hairstyle), has some odd behaviour such as not being bothered being seen naked, is one of the romanceable girls and opens up more during her route, actually is [[spoiler: a descendant of a race from a different dimension and is [[ImmortalityBeginsAtTwenty really about 50 years old]]]], constantly suffers from feverish fits and must be tended to, [[spoiler:has a DarkAndTroubledPast where her mother died and she lived decades alone with money gained via prostitution]], and has an attachment both to her mother and the protagonist's father.
249* Otonashi Ayana from ''VisualNovel/WonderfulEverydayDownTheRabbitHole'', has the pale skin, short bobbed hair in an unnatural tone, quiet and odd personality, [[spoiler:isn't quite human, and has otherworldly origins]]. Her name is "Ayana," one syllable away from *Ayanami*.
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253%%* Freelancer Agent Texas from ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue'', specifically after her past is revealed in Seasons 9 and 10.
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257* Iriana Estchell from ''Literature/IlivaisX'', offering nearly every aspect. The one place she differs is that she's trying to ''avoid'' [[BecomeARealBoy becoming more humanly expressive]].
258* Lampshaded in ''WebVideo/EvangelionAbridged'':
259-->'''Rei:''' I am the result of Hideaki Anno failing to make my character unsettling, and instead my very archetype copied repeatedly. Rei Ayanami. Salutations.\
260'''Shinji:''' Well, I would say it's more inspired...\
261'''Rei:''' Copied... Copied... I don't even think they were trying with this one.
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265* Despite being quite outgoing and sociable, the titular character of ''WesternAnimation/GetEd'' bears many hallmarks of this trope, from eyes which glow red when he is angered, the blue color scheme of his suit and the fact that he was [[spoiler: genetically engineered by Ol'Skool from an ancient artifact]]. He is also plagued by 'visions', a lack of knowledge of the outside world and strong desire to know about his past. Sadly, due to the creator of the series passing away we never fully see the resolution to this.
266* ''WesternAnimation/NeoYokio'': Helena, a monotone and aloof woman with purplish-blue hair and purple eyes. After [[spoiler:being possessed by a demon and falling down a flight of stairs]], Helena dons a hospital gown and head bandage for most of the series. Giving up her former life as a fashionista, Helena becomes reclusive and rarely shows any emotion besides her annoyance towards Kaz. She even [[spoiler:steals and pilots Charles the mech-butler to escape Neo Yokio at the end of episode 6.]]
267* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'': [[Characters/TheOwlHouseTheGoldenGuard Hunter/The Golden Guard]] is a downplayed male example. [[spoiler:Similar to Rei, Hunter is the latest in a line of red-eyed clones of the OmnicidalManiac BigBad's deceased loved one.]]
268* Blue Pearl from ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' has pale (blue) skin, is [[RubberForeheadAliens definitely not human]], has never been heard to speak above a near-whisper, and sports short pastel blue hair cut into the bangs frequently seen on members of Blue Diamond's court. In a platonic variation on the usual protagonist relationship, being around Steven allows her to open up more as he encourages her and all gems to express their true interests and talents, letting her display her aptitude for drawing.
269* The version of Raven in ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'' is modeled after the archetype. [[AdaptationDyeJob They even change her black hair from the comics to blue-purple]]. However, even before her character development comes into play, Raven is [[TheSnarkKnight notably snarkier]] than most examples.
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