History Recap / NeonGenesisEvangelionEpisode26INeedYou

*** As with ''Evangelion: Death(True)[[superscript:2]]'', the scenes that were recycled from the TV series reuse some of the previously-recorded audio clips. One of the most notable instances is the scene where Asuka asks, ''"Hey, Shinji, do you want to try a kiss?"''.

** Rei's betrayal of Gendo. Ikari has become so used to Rei being an obedient little puppet durign the series that he ''never'' anticipated that she or any her clones could go rogue and reject him -- and at literally the ''worst'' possible time.
** The return of the Spear of Longinus. Given it had been definitively taken off the board by Gendo in Episode 22, ''nobody'' foresaw Shinji and Unit-01 being able to summon it back from the Moon. SEELE in particular goes from shock to delight, since the Spear's return means their original planned method for triggering Third Impact's now unexpectedly back in play.

* AmbiguousSituation: Asuka's first scene during Instrumentality implies that she had sex with Shinji, or at least attempted to, at some point. Whether or not this is just a case of various memories from other people blending in with the two of them in the midst of their conversation, or they actually did sleep together, is never made clear.

** Subverted in the Netflix Latin American Spanish dub, as all the screams, barring a few ones from random nameless characters, were dubbed.

* GoMadFromTheIsolation: Visual clues in the ending sequence [[ImpliedTrope imply]] that Shinji was alone in the post-Third Impact world for at least some days before Asuka appeared. Considering what he just had gone through and [[SceneryGorn the state of the environment]] he was alone in, it is no wonder that he appears to be a bit...unstable.

** Averted in the Netflix Latin American Spanish dub, as all the screams, barring a few ones from random nameless characters, were dubbed.

* TheDogBitesBack: After spending the entire series being yelled at, criticized, and mistreated by Asuka, Shinji finally loses it and tries to strangle her to death.

* DidntThinkThisThrough: Gendo was so determined to trigger Third Impact and reunite with Yui that he never stopped to consider how his wife might react to her husband disowning their son after her 'death' -- to say nothing of emotionally and verbally abusing him after dragging Shinji back into his life. Really, Yui rejecting him (by refusing to accept Rei and the Dummy Plugs in Unit-01 during Episode 19) ''really'' should've been a warning to Gendo as to how this reunion was actually going to turn out.

* GoMadFromTheIsolation: Visual clues in the ending sequence [[ImpliedTrope imply]] that Shinji was alone in the post-Third Impact world for at least a few days before Asuka appeared. Considering what he just had gone through and [[SceneryGorn the state of the environment]] he was alone in, it is no wonder that he appears to be a bit...unstable.

* BelligerentSexualTension: [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed.]] Shinji and Asuka's UnresolvedSexualTension, her anger at him for many justifiable reasons, and Shinji's sheer desperation to receive affection from ''anyone'' at his lowest point and being rejected, all result in him ending the world instead of ThePowerOfLove prevailing at the last minute.
* BittersweetEnding: The movie ends with the bitterest version happy ending imaginable, if you could call it that. On one hand, Shinji rejects Instrumentality after choosing to accept that he can live in a world where he can love even if it means that he'll be hurt. People can also come back to life if they choose to, as he learns with Asuka, who had been violently murdered (and despite his attempt to strangle her again, she caresses his face, causing him to stop, with the canonical promotional art indicating that the two will stick together despite everything). On the other hand, the world is completely wrecked beyond recognition, and Shinji and Asuka will have to spend the rest of their lives living with the knowledge of their failure to stop Instrumentality before it could start, and both are clearly shaken by the events of what happened, and there's no guarantee that anyone else will come out of Instrumentality.

* BackFromTheDead: Asuka explicitly comes back from being dead as a result of Instrumentality. The souls of other recently-killed characters are part of the experience as well, but only Asuka is seen in the world after Instrumentality ends.

* BelligerentSexualTension: [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed.]] Shinji and Asuka's UnresolvedSexualTension, her anger at him for many justifiable reasons, and Shinji's sheer desperation to receive affection from ''anyone'' at his lowest point and being rejected, all results in him ending the world instead of ThePowerOfLove prevailing at the last minute.

* BookEnds: The mysterious ghostly Rei and "Kimochi warui" have their pay-off in the last minutes.

* DarkerAndEdgier: The original ending was more or less Shinji's personal journey to self-acceptance. Here, Shinji basically gives up on humanity, reducing them to a collective, [[AssimilationPlot assimilated]] HiveMind out of spite. While he (arguably) gets better, his neuroses still remain, leading him to strangle Asuka when the two reform from LCL.
* DeathByIrony: Gendo has been protective of EVA-01 throughout the entire series (and with good reason as it houses Yui's soul). Now, at the very end, Gendou is killed at the hands (or rather the jaws) of a savage manifestation of EVA-01.

* LaughingMad: When Shinji is strangling Asuka in the kitchen, he’s shown to be laughing similarly to when he was [[Recap/NeonGenesisEvangelionEpisode19Introjection when he was trying to rip Zeruel’s face off.]]

* SuicidalCosmicTemperTantrum: A heroic example by Shinji, though much of the process was orchestrated by the others. By the virtue of Shinji having a breakdown inside Instrumentality, concluding the world is not worth living for, he involuntarily triggers Third Impact and his death wish melts everyone into LCL.

In the coldest possible voice, she says, "How disgusting."

-->''"[[TheStinger How disgusting]]."''

-->''"[[TheStinger Disgusting]]."''

In the coldest possible voice, she says, "Disgusting."

* LyricalDissonance: "Komm, süsser Tod", a song heavy reminiscent of "[[Music/TheBeatles Hey, Jude]]", but with lyrics pertaining to suicide, heartbreak, and regret, is perhaps one of the most infamous examples ever, at least in anime.

* SoundtrackDissonance: "Komm, Süsser Tod" is perhaps one of the most (in)famous examples of this in anime. Musically, it is a pretty upbeat sounding light pop-rock number somewhat in the style of "[[Music/TheBeatles Hey, Jude]]", but it is set as the background music to a TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt sequence. And then there is the song's lyrics, which sounds eerily like a suicide note, making it double as LyricalDissonance.

* ConvenientlyClosePlanet: At its closest to Earth, the moon is still ''well'' over two hundred thousand miles away. For Lilith's blood to splash against the moon's surface, either this trope is in effect or her HighPressureBlood is taken UpToEleven (and then some).

* VisibleSilence: Taken UpToEleven. Shinji's question of "Is it okay for me to be here?" is answered by a textual response of "silence" in the Manga release and "no response" in the Netflix release.

** Gendo's final scene as Third Impact gets underway. We get our first, and last, unfiltered glimpse into the ''real'' Gendo Ikari...and in one of the shoe's biggest twists, he's ''not'' an ice-cold badass at all. Instead, Gendo's a broken, self-loathing wreck of a human being. He admits he's been a terrible person and a terrible Father to Shinji and that he doesn't deserve to be loved. His final words are a plea to his son to forgive him.

** Gendo's final scene as Third Impact gets underway. We get our first, and last, unfiltered glimpse into the ''real'' Gendo Ikari...and he's ''not'' an ice-cold badass at all. Instead, he's a broken, self-loathing wreck of a human being. He admits he's been a terrible person and a terrible Father to Shinji and that he doesn't deserve to be loved. His final words are a plea to his son to forgive him.