History Characters / NeonGenesisEvangelionOtherCharacters

[[caption-width-right:350:First row[[note]]Adam (1st) inside Gendo's hand, Lilith (2nd), Sachiel (3rd), Shamshel (4th), Ramiel (5th) & Gaghiel (6th)[[/note]]; second row[[note]]Israfel (7th), Sandalphon (8th), Matarael (9th), Sahaquiel (10th) & Ireul (11th) infecting the MAGI system[[/note]]; third row[[note]]Leliel (12th), Bardiel (13th) infecting Unit-03, Zeruel (14th), Arael (15th) & Armisael (16th)[[/note]]. For Tabris (17th), see Kaworu Nagisa's [[Characters/NeonGenesisEvangelionKaworuNagisa page here]].]]

[[Characters/NeonGenesisEvangelionTheChildren The Children]] ([[Characters/NeonGenesisEvangelionShinjiIkari Shinji Ikari]], [[Characters/NeonGenesisEvangelionAsukaLangleySoryu Asuka Langley Soryu]], [[Characters/NeonGenesisEvangelionKaworuNagisa Kaworu Nagisa]]) | [[Characters/NeonGenesisEvangelionNERVStaff NERV Staff]] ([[Characters/NeonGenesisEvangelionGendoIkari Gendō Ikari]]) | [[Characters/NeonGenesisEvangelionGEHIRNStaff GEHIRN Staff]] | '''Other Characters''' | [[Characters/NeonGenesisEvangelionExtracanonicalCharacters Extracanonical Characters]]]]-]]]

* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: Supposed to be from all over the world. No accents are attempted, neither in the English dubs nor the Japanese.

* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: Supposed to be from all over the world. No accents are attempted in both the dub and the original soundtrack.

* RealRobot: Subverted. They initially seem like they'd be this, seeing as they're cumbersome, hard to handle, and an enormous drain on resources when operating at full capacity, but then comes the reveal that they're cloned Angels encased in restraining armor and powered by human souls. Once that's made clear, the Evas begin displaying blatantly godlike abilities, such as reactivating despite being totally out of power and regenerating lost limbs using Angel flesh.(Evas use elements of both [[Main/RealRobotGenre Real]] and [[Main/SuperRobotGenre Super]] robot genres, this often makes them hybrid robots.)

* RealRobot: Subverted. They initially seem like they'd be this, seeing as they're cumbersome, hard to handle, and an enormous drain on resources when operating at full capacity, but then comes the reveal that they're cloned Angels encased in restraining armor and powered by human souls. Once that's made clear, the Evas begin displaying blatantly godlike abilities, such as reactivating despite being totally out of power and regenerating lost limbs using Angel flesh.

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/{{Mugihito}} (Japanese); Richard "Rick" Peeples [ADV], Creator/BillJenkins [films], Creator/DCDouglas [VSI] (English)[[note]]'''Other languages:''' Esteban Siller [Locomotion], Carlos Águila [Animax], Pedro D'Aguillón Jr. [VSI] (Latin American Spanish); Josep María Zamora [TV series], Eduardo Díez [films], Miguel Ángel del Hoyo [VSI] (European Spanish)[[/note]]

* ALoserIsYou: A variation. In another series, an affable military buff, and otaku who is friends with the main character might get drawn into the main plot. But he doesn't and remains a slightly odd but no means unpleasant side character.

* AncientConspiracy: They certainly like to consider and style themselves as one. Whether or not they actually ''are'' one never quite receives straight confirmation.
** The extracanonical material sets the organization to have existed in some form or another since the Dark Ages. But that same material also states that they first truly rose to power after the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls (which happened in 1947).

* {{Cyborg}}: Keel sports a heavy degree of state-of-the art biological implants and a visor to cope with debilitating injuries that would otherwise leave him frail, crippled, and nearly blind. When further inspected, those injuries he suffered and extensive, painful surgery could be an underlying reason behind his suffering and motivation for Instrumentality--he wants to end his ''own'' pain.

* MinorMajorCharacter: He's the DiabolicalMastermind behind almost all of the series' events, and strongly implied to be the ''de facto'' ruler of post-Second Impact Earth, but he's only in a few episodes, and most of his scenes are StockFootage (that picture up there comprises about 85% of his screen time). The rest of his cabal are even more minor than him, with only four of the twelve or so ever seen in non-monolith form, and they don't get names. They do, oddly enough, get ''nationalities'': the mustachioed one is American, the burly one is British, the weedy, bespectacled one is French, and the one that looks like ComicBook/ThePenguin is Russian.

* NonMaliciousMonster: Most of them actually. Only Sachiel made an effort to attack Tokyo-3 itself, the rest of the mostly seemed only focused on fusing with Adam, if even that, and they usually only attack the Eva units in self-defense.

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Canonically, his name is '''Keel''' Lorenz seeing how he is German, but it's frequently spelled "Kihl" or "Kiel". His name also sometimes flips, making "Keel" his last name, making it "Lorenz Keel".

** Tabris, being already unusual on his own, also sticks out name-wise as his name comes from a different branch of Judeo-Christian mythology (though it seems to be more frequently spelled as Tab''[[SpellMyNameWithAnS b]]''ris), wherein he is the angel of self-determination. Fitting for the angel who is the most human of them all and in the end chooses to rebel from both SEELE's plans for him as well his species' programming, willingly sacrificing his life in the process, so that mankind can continue to exist instead.

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Some of the angels' names can be spelt differently, usually depending on the translation, i.e. Ariel vs Arael.

[[folder: Suzuhara's Little Sister]]

[[folder:Langley]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ToshihikoSeki (Japanese)

Asuka's American father.

* SuperScream: Arael's beam apparently blasts out "Hallelujah!" (this may or not be an actual in-universe effect or just an out-of-universe sound design choice).

* MakeMeWannaShout: Arael's beam apparently blasts out "Hallelujah!" (this may or not be an actual in-universe effect or just an out-of-universe sound design choice).

* TheBusCameBack: In the original series, he abruptly returns during the now-iconic [[GainaxEnding "Congratulations!" sequence]] after Shinji rejects instrumentality.

* CallBack: Upon learning that the Evas are organic rather than mechanical, you realize the show ''told you this in episode 1'', where they're designated as "Synthetic Lifeforms."