Fanfic / Shinji Ikari Amazing Spider Man

"Though the world may mock Shinji ikari, the timid teenager… it will soon marvel at the awesome might of Spider-Man!"

Shinji Ikari: The Amazing Spider-Man by GainaxVel3o is a crossover between Neon Genesis Evangelion and the Spider-Man mythos. It follows Shinji Ikari's life from before and after arriving in Tokyo-3, after being bitten by a genetically-modified spider.

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Spoilers for the Kokoro Arc (Chapter 1-13) will be unmarked. You Have Been Warned!

Shinji Ikari: The Amazing Spider-Man provides examples of:

• Abusive Parent:
  • Tachiageru Yamagishi talks about Mayumi like she's a thing rather than a person; he even allowed his daughter to die. Makes sense, given he's the Holy Goblin.
  • Gendo obviously is aloof around Shinji, and so far has made no effort to bond with him.
  • Naoko Akagi gives her daughter a scathing "Reason You Suck" Speech, starting off with her admitting that she never even wanted to marry or have kids. This results in Ritsuko crying when alone.
• Adaptational Early Appearance: Kaworu joins Asuka in Tokyo-3 at the same time she arrives.
• Adaptational Name Change: Minor spelling change. Martin Li is instead Martin Lee.
• Adaptational Origin Connection: The origins of Spidey's powers once again are shared with several of his foes. Here, they are the result of HERZ & SEELE experimenting with Angel DNA.
• Adaptational Superpower Change: The Scorpion is an organic monster instead of a man in a suit like in most continuities.
• All for Nothing: Chapter 31 starts with Gendo in a cell, where he realizes that Yui has played him for a fool, and all he had left was Shinji, whom he absolutely destroyed his relationship with.
• An Arm and a Leg: Professor Inumaru lost his leg during Second Impact.
• Antihero Substitute: She-Venom touts herself as one to Spider-Man, but Shinji thinks she could go about it without the cruelty she displays.
• Armor-Piercing Question: Shinji gives one to his father when they visit Yui's grave together. Gendo admits that there is no body to bury, but it's important to keep memories close. This angers Shinji because he refuses to let him know what his mother looks like.
  Shinji: Why won't you share those memories with me?
• Ax-Crazy: Several of Spider-Man's enemies: I.E., Vulture, Doctor Octopus, and Holy Goblin.
• Awesome, but Impractical: The SHOCKER gauntlets are indeed impressive, but there are several flaws, such as the cost to make them.
• Bad Future: Leiliel shows Shinji a future where an older Spider-Man is shot down in the Kokoro graveyard by Misato and the police. According to the Angel, Misato found out that Shinji was Spider-Man at the worst possible time, and never forgave him for it. It's indicated she sold out to Alchemax for the means of getting revenge.
• Berserk Button:
  • Yashida doesn't like people snooping around in his personal things. For example, he killed a nosy guard who saw a picture of him and his brother when they were kids.
  • Naoko Akagi doesn't like to be called an "old hag".
  • When Naoko speaks poorly of Mayumi after her death, Shinji took major offense to this.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Downplayed with Tsuyoshi Kotei, the Flash Thompson Expy. To most people he's a widely popular student, but to Shinji, he's a rival and a bully.
• Blatant Lies: Shinji can tell that his father's lying about him being selected to pilot the EVA a week ago, when he was already called the Third Child months ago by Yamagishi.
• Boxed Crook: Naoko is forced back into NERV's employ after her rampage as Doc Ock. Not that she seems to care...
• Butt-Monkey: Shinji Ikari is Spider-Man. Of course, he's going to be this.
• Calling the Old Man Out:
  • Shinji calls out his teacher for how distant he is. The man listens to him and begins to truly bond with him. Needless to say the man becomes an Uncle Ben Expy and dies.
  • Shinji gives a more classic one to his father after Gendo insists he has no right to know about his mother.
  Shinji: The hell is that supposed to mean?! Of course I deserve to know! Do you really think you're the only one who loved her?! I grew up not remembering a thing about my own mother, while you disappeared into your work! Why are you like this? What did I do to deserve being treated like trash?!
• The Cameo:
  • J. Jonah Jameson makes a few unnamed appearances, usually seen calling Spider-Man a menace.
  • One of the patrons at Khara's Palace in Chapter 32 is not even subtle about being Stan Lee, making one of his obligatory Marvel Universe cameos, alongside Steve Ditko, the other creator of Spider-Man; both are indicated to be waiting for Ditko's succeeding artist, John Romita, Sr., to join them for lunch.
  • Also in Chapter 32, Kensuke shows Shinji and the rest of the 'Spider-Clan' a series of articles about sightings of mysterious, superpowered figures appearing across both Japan and America, including a green monster in the deserts of Nevada; a young woman named Noriko Takaya, who'd been freed from Arctic ice and returned to duty as Captain America; industrialist Rumiko Fujikawa unveiling a red-and-gold armored bodyguard named "Iron Lady" at a press conference; a fiery skeleton man on a motorcycle known as "Go-Devil", seen riding up the side of a building; a so-called "Squirrel Girl" who can summon an army of rodents; a woman named Kwannon, seen manifesting some sort of purple blade from her hands; and a short, hairy man with metal claws sprouting from his knuckles. Of all of these, Wolverine, Captain America, and Iron Lady appear in later chapters, with Logan playing a central role in the immediate following chapter.
  • Chapter 34's omake sees some of our cast sitting in a music club watching the band play. Said band consists of Kaworu on piano (doing a bit of Lampshade Hanging via sign), someone resembling one of the Ultraman brothers on bass guitar, a drummer resembling one of the many Kamen Riders, and Matt from Digimon on harmonica. Leading the band? A Westerner with long, curly brown hair, a loud Hawaiian shirt, jeans, and converse sneakers, playing the accordion. The song they play is a variation of "Ode to a Superhero", the lead singer's parody of Billy Joel's "Piano Man", which fittingly sang about the plot of Spider-Man.
• Composite Character:
  • Shinji becomes Spider-Man, and Naoko Akagi becomes Doctor Octopus.
  • Kiyoshi Amachi, as the Vulture, takes on the criminal background of the second comics Vulture, Blackie Drago, and the I Am a Humanitarian tendencies from the Red Vulture.
  • Mayumi is Harry Osborn meets Gwen Stacy meets Rei Ayanami.
  • Ryoji Kaji is the Chameleon.
  • Professor Inumaru takes inspiration from both Curt Connors/The Lizard and Miles Warren/The Jackal.
  • Tsuyoshi Kotei is a combination Expy of Flash Thompson and the Scorpion.
  • Maria Vincennes, from the Evangelion RPG The NERV White Paper, is the Black Cat.
  • Given their similar abilities, Bardiel is Venom...with Touji as the first host. And Asuka becomes She-Venom. Then Shinji himself gets possessed, going full-on classic Venom.
  • Asuka is a major case of this. She has the codename of the Scarlet Spider, the powerset of Miles Morales, the costume of the Marvel Mangaverse Spider-Woman, and a character arc similar to the Webb-Verse Spider-Man, while also having been She-Venom.
  • Mana Kirishima is, in addition to her normal characterization, the story's equivalent of Mary Jane Watson, with hints of Black Widow.
  • NERV computer tech Satsuki Ooi, later in the story, is revealed to be an undercover S.H.I.E.L.D. operative within NERV. And not just any—she's also the fic's version of Mockingbird.
  • Some of the omakes feature more instances of this, including Misato being She-Hulk (much like in another fanfic), Asuka donning a set of 'Iron Maiden' armor (complete with an onboard A.I. named "Shikinami"), Rei being Squirrel Girl, and Mari Makinami being Deadpool.
• The Conspiracy: When Shinji finds out Professor Inumaru was working with someone on the spider, he asks who they are. It's HERZ and SEELE.
  Professor Inumaru: I can't tell you.
• Creative Sterility: Kaworu feels Shinji is doing this as Spider-Man, pointing out that his motives are not his own, and his beliefs based on what the dead thought. Shinji later admits he has a point, but later states he wants to still do it to help people. Kaworu accepts his answer.
• Cut Lex Luthor a Check: According to Shinji, the genius it took for Kitagawa Moya/Mysterio to construct his suit is incredible, and asks him why he became a villain instead of using that intelligence for anything else. Moya answers that he was hoping to get attention and publicity.
• Death by Adaptation: Chapter 28 has the American Branch of NERV wiped out, including Mari Makinami and the Richards family. Though it's implied they might be coming back. Which does turn out to be the case.
• Deconstruction: Of Yui Ikari. Most fanfics tend to portray her as a sort of Big Good, whereas this work argues that her hands aren't clean either. While initially seeming to be well-meaning and kind, Shinji swiftly discovers that his mother is a manipulative, abusive Narcissist obsessed with using Evangelion Unit-01 as a monument to her legacy. She's also envious of Shinji's powers and achievements, going so far as attempting a Grand Theft Me to replace him.
• Designer Baby: Tachiageru Yamagishi reveals to Shinji that he wanted a child, but found no woman he could really connect with, so he had Mayumi designed using the genetic material of a woman "He never bothered knowing the name of." Hearing this said so casually disturbs both Shinji and Mayumi. Turns out the 'mother' is an Angel.
• Diegetic Soundtrack Usage: During Chapter 13 stinger, Shinji is listening to his SDAT to pass the time and decides to listen to Track 1. It happens to be "A Cruel Angel's Thesis", Evangelion's OP. Considering he is listening to it while on the train headed to Tokyo-3, this counts as Foreshadowing.
• Disappointed by the Motive: Shinji is livid with the Rhino, who did the terrible things because he wanted to be a "big shot." He's just as disgusted when he discovers the same is also Yui's motive.
  • Asuka is unsympathetic to Naoko Akagi's motives at least, seeing her plan to start her own Third Impact as nothing more than being akin to a brat throwing a tantrum over some mean words.
• Disproportionate Retribution: Mayumi throwing a cup at him made the Vulture livid.
  Vulture: You worm...I'll BITE YOUR FACE OFF AND EAT YOUR CORPSE FOR THAT!
• Don't You Dare Pity Me!: After Naoko was made into a Boxed Crook, she shows Shinji the scars she got on her back thanks to SEELE. When Shinji shows concern, she tells him this.
• Doomed Hometown: Shinji's home city of Kokoro, thanks to the Holy Goblin. Many of the refugees end up in Tokyo-3 right on time for the Angels to start attacking
• Double Standard: Bardiel-infected Asuka starts spouting this line of thinking, yet is hypocritical about it when it's pointed out about herself, especially by Spider-Man.
• Enfante Terrible: In the final chapter of the story, Valeria Richards appears. She is six years old and seems to have read Gregory House's playbook.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Yashida loves his brother dearly. When he learns he was murdered, he becomes the Silver Samurai.
• Even Evil Has Standards:
  • Yamagishi does not hide his disdain for Instrumentality.
    Yamagishi: The old men disgust me...They think they have God's creatures under control. That the scenario they constructed will lead them to Heaven. What foolish piece of work man is...They do not understand.
    (...)
    Yamagishi: Ruined? I gave them purpose! You were but a weak-willed child before the spider made you who you are! My daughter wouldn't even exist without me! Amid the sands of time and fate, all people's lives are without meaning! SEELE understands that mankind is at an evolutionary dead end. It is the reason behind their scenario! But the old men made a crucial mistake...They believe Instrumentality will lead to the ultimate salvation of mankind...But they were WRONG! Mankind disrupted the cycle of life by stabbing Adam with the Lance of Longinus. The end of humanity is coming, and the Angels will see to its destruction. SEELE dares to plan to encase themselves in immortal bodies so they could control the destiny of the world through instrumentality...But they will fall, all the same!
  • Naoko may be the most dangerous villain of Shinji's Rogues Gallery, but she's certainly no pedophile.
    Naoko: I'm not that kind of monster.
• Everyone Has Standards:
  • Anyone who meets the Vulture is greatly disturbed by his I Am a Humanitarian tendencies.
  • Maria Vincennes may not like Asuka, but even she admits Asuka didn't deserve to be mind raped.
• Eviler than Thou: The End Of Evangelion sequence gets totally derailed from canon by Naoko, leading the Sinister Six and revealing herself to be the Master Planner, first by taking out all of SEELE, Gendo and even Yui and then going on an apocalyptic killing spree for kicks.
• Evil Is Petty:
  • Gendo Ikari starts dripping into this throughout the story, culminating in Chapter 26, where he bars Shinji from seeing an injured Rei for being "Unstable" after tackling him in the previous chapter.
  • Naoko Akagi won't just murder you, she will make sure the last words you hear on Earth are her insulting you (whether it be your smarts, your looks, whatever little thing irked her enough to decide you had to die) in a fashion similar to GLADoS.
• Expy: Quite a few Original Characters were designed to invoke Spider-Man characters.
• Foil: Yamagishi is Gendo Ikari, but WAY worse. For example, while Gendo may be distant, it's clear that he cares for Shinji (in his own messed-up way). Yamagishi didn't give a damn about his daughter.
• For Want Of A Nail: Naoko releases a computer virus that makes sure Jet Alone will not be working until well after the Angels are all dead.
• Frame-Up: Chameleon does this to both Maya Ibuki (making it look like she stole Adam), and Spider-Man (making it look like he murdered Kaji, who is the Chameleon). He's more successful with the second instance.
• Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: The Central Theme of the third arc seems to be that while a character's past can justify their present actions somewhat, they need to act more mature about it. An example is Maria confronting Bardiel-possessed Asuka, or Maya deciding to forgive Ritsuko for her actions.
• Fusion Fic: In this story, Shinji becomes Spider-Man, a few OCs become his rogues, and Naoko Akagi becomes Doctor Octopus.
• Gender Flip: Quite a few instances of this.
• Genre Savvy: Doctor Octopus points out that Professor Inumaru taking the spider to the school he teaches at was a negligible decision at best. So for whatever reason it was there, it was not there for professional reasons.
• Greater-Scope Villain: SEELE is this given their plans. Post-Kokoro Arc, there's a mysterious villain who released the Scorpion on Tokyo-3 that is revealed to be the Lizard. Even later, a new villain called the Master Planner takes his place.
• Guile Hero: True to Spider-Man standards, Shinji proves he is capable of tricking his opponents with jokes and quips.
• Guilt Complex: After Yamashiro's death Shinji starts blaming himself for every little thing.
• Hair-Contrast Duo: The fiery and passionate redhead Asuka eventually enters a romantic relationship with the calm and cool, blue-haired Rei.
• Half-Human Hybrid: Mayumi is a human/angel hybrid, not unlike Rei and Kaworu. However, she's biologically unstable.
• He Knows Too Much: The reason why The Conspiracy wants to get rid of Naoko Akagi.
• Hero with Bad Publicity: Spider-Man. Period.
• Hijacked by Ganon: The final arc sees Naoko Akagi kill the entire leadership of SEELE and lead the Sinister Six in a siege of NERV.
• Hypocrite: Shinji feels this way about his father. Gendo Ikari is dedicated to remembering the late Yui, but refused to let his son even see a picture of her.
• I Am a Humanitarian: The Vulture's been eating people since he was ''7 years old".
• I Let Gwen Stacy Die: This naturally comes up given it has to do with Spider-Man. Sadly, nobody could've predicted Mayumi and how she went.
• I Told You So: In Chapter 25, Kaworu says this about Spider-Man.
• Inferiority Superiority Complex: The Rhino just wants to be a big shot.
• It's All About Me: When Shinji found out Mayumi was meant to spy on him for her father, he gave her the cold shoulder. Kotei confronts him about it, pointing out to him that doing this is really selfish.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold:
  • Kotei may be a punk to Shinji, but he does get a few Pet the Dog moments, notably when he helps Mayumi.
  • Professor Inumaru may be against Shinji being Spider-Man, but that doesn't mean he won't help him.
• Karmic Death: Yamagishi, as the Holy Goblin, gets killed by his own statue of David and Goliath, thanks to Shinji and his own daughter. But then again, this ''is'' a Goblin we're talking about.
  • Yui Ikari, in Unit-01, dies not in combat against an angel, or even against her own son, but by being fed to the Mass Production Evangelions while completely incapable of moving or defending herself.
• Know When to Fold 'Em: Doctor Octopus may be willing to throw down with teenagers enhanced with spider powers, but even she knows better than to pick a fight with a pissed-off Kyoko Zeppelin Sohryu in her Evangelion.
• Large Ham: THE RHINO SPEAKS IN ALL CAPS AND BOLD!
• Locked Out of the Loop: Misato did not know Yamashiro died three months before she met Shinji, let alone that Shinji lived in Kokoro. This understandably disturbs her.
• Meta Guy: As usual, Kaworu remembers the events of the original anime series, and despite his misgivings towards Spider-Man, he's happy Shinji is more at peace with himself now.
• Multi-Armed and Dangerous: Doctor Octopus, natch.
• Murder Is the Best Solution: Doctor Octopus' life philosophy.
• Mythology Gag:
  • Shinji isn't the first Spider-hero to pilot a mecha.
  • Shinji has organic webbing as in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man Trilogy. Asuka builds a set of artificial web-shooters like the comic version's, which Shinji uses at one point.
  • The scene where Spider-Man battles Doctor Octopus on a train is taken straight from Spider-Man 2.
  • Kenichiro Yashida refers to how his sister Mariko left Japan with a Canadian; this becomes Foreshadowing when Logan shows up in chapter 33.
  • Yamashiro's deceased wife was named Mei.
  • The alternate futures that Leiliel shows Shinji are based on, respectively, the future seen in The Amazing Spider Man #500, and the Marvel Comics 2 setting (with Shinji's daughter as Spider-Girl).
  • Chapter 33 is titled Sins Past. (And thankfully has nothing to do with that particular story beyond the title.)
  • Among the names suggested for Asuka after she gets spider powers from Shinji's blood transfusion are Spider-Girl, Archne, Silk, and Spider-Woman, with Asuka taking the Scarlet Spider codename.
  • Maria mocks Bardiel's voice for being like a British guy's bad imitation of an American.
  • Shinji's Venomized self is based directly on the classic 'hulking' Venom design.
  • Asuka saves a little girl from a car hanging from a bridge, in a scene taken from The Amazing Spider-Man.
  • Asuka's final hero costume is based on the Marvel Mangaverse 's version of Mary-Jane Watson/Spider-Woman.
  • Rei dons Ben Reilly's classic Scarlet Spider outfit for the fight with Armisael in the mindscape.
• Named by the Adaptation: Takuji Yamashiro is the name of Shinji's guardian in this fic.
• Nerves of Steel: After a moment of surprise, Shinji activates Unit-01's Self-Destruct Mechanism and unblinkingly threatens Gendo with a Taking You with Me against Bardiel unless he deactivates the Dummy Plug.
• Never My Fault: Moya Kitagawa, Mysterio, goes into this realizing that he might be wanted for terrorism due to his first fight with Spider-Man.
• Not Afraid of You Anymore: After his fight with Venom/Bardiel, Shinji is disciplined by his father, who notes that it's the first time he's actually acknowledged him as his son, and figures out that he's just as insecure as he is, since he's made no effort to be with Shinji in the past. So he leaves and tells his father he's not scared of him anymore.
• Nothing Is the Same Anymore: Chapter 13 ends with Kokoro so throughly wrecked that people just outright abandon it. Kotei is missing, Mayumi is dead, every OC is a supervillain who will die or go insane at some point...Oh, and Shinji gets a letter from his father.
  Gendo Ikari: COME.
• Not So Similar: The Rhino tries to say that Spider-Man put on a costume to be a big shot like him. But it's obvious the reasoning is different, and Shinji beats him up for it.
• Oh, Crap!!: Shinji is not happy to run into Naoko Akagi again when he arrives at NERV HQ.
  • When Kotei crushes Rei under a sign, he swiftly finds out that Shinji had been holding back in their fight, eventually resorting to begging him to stop, as he was beaten to near-death.
• The Only One Allowed to Defeat You: Naoko Akagi/Doctor Octopus makes it clear to Shinji that only she will be the one to kill him.
• Parental Abandonment: In chapter 17, Shinji explains to Rei why he cannot truly respect his father.
  Shinji: Ayanami, I don't really know my father. I haven't seen him in years, even the few times we met there was hardly a conversation. As far as I know he left me for his job and never attempted to reach out in the years since. Except for one letter. One. What did it say? Come. Not an apology, no explanation, not even a freaking postcard. Like I was some kind of gopher at his beck and call. As a commander, he seems to do an okay job at not getting us all killed. As a person... what can I say about a person I hardly know? If he wanted trust, he should have said something sooner. If he wanted faith, he should have done something to earn it. Now it's too late. Far too late.
• Parents as People: Yamashiro did what he thought was best for Shinji, but since he had trouble expressing emotion, Shinji grew up thinking he never cared. The two had just gotten to a point where they were finally bonding when the burglar killed him.
• Pragmatic Villainy: Naoko decides to work with Shinji against SEELE, even telling him everything she knows about their plans, and says that they're a much more critical threat than he is. It doesn't stop her from admitting she wants to snap his neck.
• Race Lift: Naturally.
• Rage Breaking Point: Naoko Akagi is publicly humiliated by a crowd who calls her "old hag" or insult her decision to sleep with her boss. This leads to the creation of Doctor Octopus.
• Related in the Adaptation: Mariko Yashida is Akihiro/Daken's mother here.
• Replacement Goldfish: Doctor Octopus accuses Shinji of this with regards to Rei following Mayumi's death. He denies it, saying he just wants to get to know her.
• "Reason You Suck" Speech: Naoko gives Ritsuko a scathing one, admitting she only got married and had a daughter out of peer pressure, and is deeply disappointed that all said daughter did was simply copy her mother, all the way down to which men she slept with. This shakes Ritsuko to the point of crying when she's alone.
• Rogues' Gallery Transplant: In this universe, the Yashida clan from Wolverine are more closely associated with battling a now-Japanese Spider-Man. However, Logan does show up to settle his old score with them.
• Samus Is a Girl: Sandman is Sandwoman!
• Satanic Archetype: Yamagishi turns himself into "Satan, the Angel of Temptation." In other words, the Holy Goblin.
• Second Love: Mana Kirishima becomes this for Shinji, going on a date with him in the "Date Night" chapter.
• Secret-Keeper: Touji and Kensuke find out Shinji's secret identity as both an Evangelion pilot and Spider-Man.
• Secret Secret-Keeper: Thanks to Yamagishi, Shinji is made aware of HERZ and SEELE and their actions involving Adam and Lilith. Once he sees the Third Angel and EVA Unit-01, he realizes that they must be a result of said actions.
• Sequel Hook: A fragment of Bardiel survives his destruction and is implied to evolve into Anti-Venom.
• Shout-Out: In Chapter 17, after finding out his identity, Kensuke starts asking a ton of questions and how he can help, straight out of Spider-Man: Homecoming.
  • The future Shinji quotes Rorschach's declaration to never compromise. Even in the face of Armageddon.
• Spared by the Adaptation: Naoko Akagi doesn't commit suicide—she becomes Doctor Octopus instead.
• The Stations of the Canon: Despite the changes to the EVA timeline, here Shinji still answers his father's summons to Tokyo-3...though in this case, this is also due to Kokoro's destruction.
• The Stinger: Chapter 13 has one after the Author's Notes, where Shinji is on a crowded train heading to Tokyo-3.
• Suicidal Cosmic Temper Tantrum: Asuka accuses Doctor Octopus of this during their fight, and going by the villain's reaction to it, she's not wrong.
• Superhuman Transfusion: After Asuka is shot, she is in need of a transfusion to survive. But her bloodtype is O, and the only one around with that bloodtype is Spider-Man, who is nervous about undergoing this.
• Take That!: Kaworu makes a jab at The End of Evangelion, where Shinji masturbates over a comatose Asuka.
• Taking You with Me: Shinji activates the Self-Destruct Mechanism of Unit-01 to Blackmail Gendo with this if he didn't deactivate the Dummy Plug during the Bardiel fight.
• There Are No Therapists: Averted. After Asuka is shot, Misato has her taken off the active duty roster and prepared to see a therapist, given her possession by Bardiel is what resulted in the incident.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: After being possessed by Bardiel, Asuka's snippy personality grows to an insanely grating level, that even strangers can't put up with her anymore. This actually bites her in the ass because her friends are noticing and connecting the dots.
• Villain Respect: Doctor Octopus has this for Spider-Man. It's the only reason she hasn't revealed his true identity.
• Villain with Good Publicity: The Yashida Company helped build Kokoro, so they are not looked at as the source of the city's supervillains.
• "Well Done, Son" Guy: Shinji can face down supervillains, monsters, and flames of death, but he's still nervous around his father.
• Wham Line: When Professor Inumaru is kidnapped, he's brought face to face with the Big Bad of the Kokoro Arc and reveals his name in bold.
  Professor Inumaru: Yamagishi.
• Whole Episode Flashback: Chapter 33 is set after the devastation of Kokoro but before Shinji leaves for Tokyo-3, and wraps up the fate of Kenichiro Yashida/Silver Samurai.
• Worthy Opponent: Doctor Octopus/Naoko Akagi feels this way about Shinji after he saves the train full of people.
• Your Answer to Everything: By the time of the End of Evangelion battle, Shinji makes it very clear that he is sick and tired of the Vulture yelling almost nothing but threats of eating him (and anybody else who pisses him off).

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