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** Kaworu's final words along with [[AllThereInTheManual supplementary materials]] provide some insight into their motivations: They wanted to merge with Adam (or Lilith) and wipe out all human life with the resulting Third Impact so they could survive and thrive as the planet's dominant lifeform. They can't coexist with humans because of their different natures,[[spoiler:even though they themselves are humans that gave up human form]].
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** The result of Armisael's choice method of attack.
** Bardiel does something similar when he tries to infect Eva 00's arm.
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** The result of Armisael's choice method of attack.
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** The result of Armisael's choice method of attack.
**BodyHorror: Bardiel does something similar and Armisael both appear to merge their tissue into whatever's touching them, causing vein-like growths under the skin. This is seen when he Bardiel tries to infect Eva Unit 00's arm.arm, and when Armisael attacks Unit 00 and merges with Rei inside the entry plug.
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* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Their motivations are unknown. All they seem to want is to be reunited with Adam.
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** "Evangelion" itself means "Good news" and it was applied to the Bible books about Jesus because they spread the news about the resurrection of the Lord and salvation for mankind.
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** "Evangelion" itself means "Good news" and it was applied to is the Greek word for the gospel[[note]]written in Greek as εὐαγγέλιον[[/note]], the Bible books about Jesus because they spread the news (evangelion literally means "good news", and gospel comes from "gōd-spell", an Old English word meaning the same) about the resurrection of the Lord and salvation for mankind.
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* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: While they want unite humanity into a single organism, they are also trying to rig the game so that they can raise themselves above over the rest of humanity and rule as gods.
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* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: While they want to unite humanity into a single organism, organism to end all its problems, they are also trying to rig the game so that they can raise themselves above over the rest of humanity and rule as gods.
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** Ramiel's design is lifted from the yellow, floating octahedron known as "Super X", in ''Anime/FuturePoliceUrashiman''.
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* StarfishAliens: With the exceptions of Adam, Lilith, Sachiel, and Tabris.
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[[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 [[spoiler:Kaworu Nagisa.]] For a size comparison, [[http://memberfiles.freewebs.com/67/27/45742767/photos/Charts/angel-size-comparison.jpg see here]].]]
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[[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 [[spoiler:Kaworu Nagisa.]] For a size comparison, [[http://memberfiles.freewebs.com/67/27/45742767/photos/Charts/angel-size-comparison.[[http://www.evacommentary.org/appendix/angel-size-comparison.jpg see here]].]]
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[[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. [[spoiler:Kaworu Nagisa.]] For a size comparison, [[http://memberfiles.freewebs.com/67/27/45742767/photos/Charts/angel-size-comparison.jpg see here]].]]
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* DemotedToExtra: In the later episodes. Justified in that Shinji is too guilty from recent events to want to see him.
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* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Toji and, eventually, Shinji.
* HiddenDepths: His camping trip with Shinji early on in the series shows him to be a lot more insightful and supportive than he may initially seem.
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* {{Muggle}}: While he's not quite ''normal'' ([[spoiler: no one at Shinji's school is]]), Kensuke is a perfectly regular guy who hasn't been forced to experience all of the horrors his friends do. To further emphasize this, he thinks being an Eva pilot, a job that each of the real pilots hate to varying degrees, is the coolest job you could ever have.
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* DemotedToExtra: After Asuka's breakdown she stops appearing altogether. Justified in that Shinji was only really friends with her through Toji, who he is intentionally trying to avoid.
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* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Canonically, his name is '''Keel''' Lorenz, but it's frequently spelled "Kihl".
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* CallBack: Upon learning that the Eva's are organic rather than mechanical, you realize the show ''told you this in episode 1'', where they're designated as "Synthetic Lifeforms."
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* SoulFragment: Unit-02 contains the part of Asuka's mother's soul that embodies her feelings for her daughter. It's also strongly implied that Unit-00 contains [[http://wiki.evageeks.org/images/e/e1/14_C062B_anim.gif part of the original Rei's soul]].
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** Ireul is a clear homage to ''TheAndromedaStrain''.
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** Ireul is a clear homage to ''TheAndromedaStrain''.''Literature/TheAndromedaStrain''.
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!!!Voiced by: {{Mugihito}} (JP), Richard Peeples (series), Tom Booker (movies), Josep María Zamora (Spanish, TV series), Eduardo Díez (Spanish, Movies)
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!!!Voiced by: {{Mugihito}} Creator/{{Mugihito}} (JP), Richard Peeples (series), Tom Booker (movies), Josep María Zamora (Spanish, TV series), Eduardo Díez (Spanish, Movies)
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* DiablosExMachina: The MP Evas. They show up out of nowhere in "End" after Asuka decimates the JSDF forces, and after she seemingly defeats them they just get back up as though nothing happened.
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* CurbStompBattle: Sachiel's fight with Unit 01 initially has it dishing this out since Shinji had almost no idea how to pilot it, but was on the receiving end of it after Unit 01 went berserk.
** Zeruel dishes this out to all the Eva Units that stood in its way till it receiving on from Unit 01 after it went berserk.
* DangerouslyGenreSavvy: Ramiel. When Unit 01 is sent out, it attacks it the second it hits the surface before it can even move.
** Zeruel dishes this out to all the Eva Units that stood in its way till it receiving on from Unit 01 after it went berserk.
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!!This is a partial character sheet for the {{Anime}} series ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion''. Visit [[Characters/NeonGenesisEvangelion here]] for the main character index.
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Pen-Pen is ''Evangelion'''s main non-ButtMonkey comic relief, and a mysterious character to boot. Gainax has never stated where he came from; all that is known is that he is Misato's [[TeamPet pet penguin]]. He is also superintelligent (for a penguin), being able to read and watch television, and has claws that are used for grasping objects. What anyone would need a superintelligent penguin that can grasp objects and live in warm temperatures for is not known, but he's [[EverythingsBetterWithPenguins both cute and funny]]. He is also one of the few characters not to undergo an emotional breakdown at some point...as far as we know.
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Pen-Pen is ''Evangelion'''s main non-ButtMonkey comic relief, and a mysterious character to boot. Gainax has never stated where he came from; all that is known is that he is Misato's [[TeamPet pet penguin]]. He is also superintelligent (for a penguin), being able to read and watch television, and has claws that are used for grasping objects. What anyone would need a superintelligent penguin that can grasp objects and live in warm temperatures for is not known, but he's [[EverythingsBetterWithPenguins both cute and funny]]. He is also one of the few characters not to undergo an emotional breakdown at some point... as far as we know.
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* BigBad: Being SEELE's Chairman, he is effectively the driving force behind the events of Second Impact and the subsequent global push towards [[AssimilationPlot human Instrumentality]]. However, the plot of the series centers around the events at NERV directed by [[TheHeavy Gendo Ikari]], a SEELE agent who effectuates the organization's will [[DragonWithAnAgenda while secretely pursuing his own agenda]]. Keel is seen only occasionally by the audience, and often in the form of a [[SinisterSilhouettes featureless black monolith]].
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* BigBad: Being SEELE's Chairman, he is effectively the driving force behind the events of Second Impact and the subsequent global push towards [[AssimilationPlot human Instrumentality]]. However, the plot of the series centers around the events at NERV directed by [[TheHeavy Gendo Ikari]], a SEELE agent who effectuates the organization's will [[DragonWithAnAgenda while secretely secretly pursuing his own agenda]]. Keel is seen only occasionally by the audience, and often in the form of a [[SinisterSilhouettes featureless black monolith]].
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* WalkOnWater: The unnamed Seventh Angel from ''Rebuild'', by flash-freezing everything its feet touch.
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* TheOtherDarrin: An eerie case. Creator/GregAyres had a role in the original series as Kaworu Nagisa as well!
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* HeyItsThatVoice: When Unit-01 goes berserk during the fight against Zeruel, her screams are provided by MegumiHayashibara (then modulated and reduced in pitch to make it sound more monstrous). Very fitting, since Hayashibara also does the voices of [[PoweredByAForsakenChild Yui Ikari]] and [[CloningBlues Rei Ayanami]]...
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[[folder: Keel Lorenz]]
!!!Voiced by: {{Mugihito}} (JP), Richard Peeples (series), Tom Booker (movies), Josep María Zamora (Spanish, TV series), Eduardo Díez (Spanish, Movies)
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->''The beginning and the end are one and the same. Yes... all is right with the world.''
As the chairman of [[TheOmniscientCouncilOfVagueness SEELE]], Keel Lorenz is NERV's superior and commissioner of the Eva project. He possesses secret Dead Sea Scrolls that tell of a way to evolve all life into a perfect being with no cares, that lives in eternal bliss [[HiveMind inside this being's mind]]. Despite his "honorable" intentions, he is perfectly willing to force the issue when things don't go his way, up to and including [[KillEmAll causing NERV's extermination]].
!!Associated tropes:
* AssimilationPlot: Wishes to enact Third Impact as a means of merging all humanity's souls into one via Instrumentality to end all suffering.
* BigBad: Being SEELE's Chairman, he is effectively the driving force behind the events of Second Impact and the subsequent global push towards [[AssimilationPlot human Instrumentality]]. However, the plot of the series centers around the events at NERV directed by [[TheHeavy Gendo Ikari]], a SEELE agent who effectuates the organization's will [[DragonWithAnAgenda while secretely pursuing his own agenda]]. Keel is seen only occasionally by the audience, and often in the form of a [[SinisterSilhouettes featureless black monolith]].
** BigGood: Either a Subversion or Aversion. While he is the BigBad, a person outside the organization might see him as this because he heads the effort to stop the Angels, and therefore save humanity.
* {{Cyborg}}: Keel sports a heavy degree of state-of-the art biological implants and a visor to cope with dehabilating 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- [[FridgeBrilliance he wants to end his ''own'' pain.]]
* EvilutionaryBiologist: Of sorts. Worth noting is that Konrad Lorenz was an ''evolutionary'' biologist.
* KarmaHoudini: In ''End of Evangelion'', Keel and the rest of SEELE are the ones responsible [[KillEmAll for the actions of [=EoE=]]] but unlike [[KarmicDeath Gendo]], and although SEELE doesn't achieve their goal of ascending themselves to godhood, Keel is apparently content with the ultimate outcome of the human race being turned into a joint consciousness.
** This could be subverted entirely if Yui's words are correct; once people start escaping the LCL prison, [[AndIMustScream he would be completely alone]].
* TheManBehindTheMan
* 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 [[Franchise/{{Batman}} The Penguin]] is Russian.
* ThePhilosopher
* RoboticReveal: After reverting to LCL in ''End'', Keel is revealed to be a cyborg, from surgery done to fix damage caused by unknown injuries or a condition.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Canonically, his name is '''Keel''' Lorenz, but it's frequently spelled "Kihl".
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!!!Voiced by: TetsuyaIwanaga (JP), Kurt Stoll (EN, series, movies)
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->''This is SO COOL!!!''
Kensuke is, at the start of the series, Toji's best friend. He reveals to the class that Shinji is a pilot, and later bonds with Shinji after he runs away the first time. He is very computer savvy and a die-hard military {{otaku}}, constantly badgering Shinji to get him pilot clearance and practically salivating over the trip to the ''Over The Rainbow'' in episode 8. Also one of the only characters in the series who does not show any sign of serious psychological damage.
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* AscendedFanboy: He becomes an Eva pilot in the second ''Girlfriend of Steel'' game, and in ''[[FightingGame Evangelion Battle Orchestra]]''
* {{Expy}}: Of Jean from ''NadiaTheSecretOfBlueWater''
* IJustWantToBeSpecial: Kensuke ''really'' wants to be an Eva pilot, and remains constantly oblivious to how unhappy the actual Eva pilots are. He finally gets his wish in some AlternateContinuity games.
* NerdGlasses
** FourEyesZeroSoul: Strongly downplayed and quite subtle though. Whenever Kensuke is intensely obsessed about something his glasses turns [[OpaqueLenses opaque]], an effect that hides his eyes to show he getting distant from the world and people around him in these situations.
* {{Otaku}}: If it's something to do with the military, he's into it; he even goes out into the woods and plays army...by himself.
** Also a bit of SelfDeprecation on the part of Creator/HideakiAnno, who is himself a military geek.
* TheOtherDarrin: An eerie case. Creator/GregAyres had a role in the original series as Kaworu Nagisa as well!
* ThisLoserIsYou: A not too subtle reminder to the ''really'' Otaku viewers of [[TakeThat what they could or already have become]].
* YouthfulFreckles
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[[folder:Hikari Horaki]]
!!!Voiced by: Creator/JunkoIwao (JP), Carol Amerson (EN, series)
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->''Sit down, you guys!!''
Hikari is the no-nonsense ClassRepresentative of Shinji's class, and the second-born of three sisters. She later becomes Asuka's best friend, and tries to give her emotional support in the later episodes as Asuka becomes more and more distraught. She nurses a crush on Toji as well.
Her role in the manga is unchanged, but she gets more scenes with Shinji. However, near the end she has essentially shunned Shinji, feeling that having him around is a too-painful reminder of Toji's death.
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* AlliterativeName
* ClassRepresentative
* GirlishPigtails
* LightFeminineAndDarkFeminine: She's the light, with Asuka as the dark.
* ThemeNaming: She and her sisters are named after the Tokaido Shinkansen's three train services, with each sister's age corresponding to the increasing order of the services' speeds (Kodama -> Hikari -> Nozomi). Interestingly, the Hikari service was the first one out of the three to be introduced; no points for guessing which of the sisters was first seen in-series.
* ThroughHisStomach: To Toji.
* {{Tsundere}}: Possibly a Type B (deredere aka "sweet default mode"). She's polite and kind to everyone. Toji is just that good at getting under her skin.
* YouthfulFreckles
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[[folder:Pen-Pen]]
!!!Voiced by: MegumiHayashibara (JP), Creator/AmandaWinnLee (EN, series), Mandy Clark (Director's Cut)
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->''WARK!''
Pen-Pen is ''Evangelion'''s main non-ButtMonkey comic relief, and a mysterious character to boot. Gainax has never stated where he came from; all that is known is that he is Misato's [[TeamPet pet penguin]]. He is also superintelligent (for a penguin), being able to read and watch television, and has claws that are used for grasping objects. What anyone would need a superintelligent penguin that can grasp objects and live in warm temperatures for is not known, but he's [[EverythingsBetterWithPenguins both cute and funny]]. He is also one of the few characters not to undergo an emotional breakdown at some point...as far as we know.
Given that penguins were native to Antarctica, which was destroyed by Second Impact, there may also be some hidden significance in Pen-Pen's presence in Misato's life.
[[ShooOutTheClowns When he leaves the story, you know that a change in tone is imminent.]]
In the manga, he is a result of genetic experimentation, and was saved from being euthanized by Misato.
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* CrossDressingVoices
* {{Cyborg}}: He has some kind of apparatus grafted to his spine and retractable "fingers" and that's just what we can see. There's a popular fan theory that he was a test subject for the bionic technology that went into creating the Evas and his "backpack" is some kind of precursor to the intra-spinal Entry Plug system.
* EverythingsBetterWithPenguins
* ShooOutTheClowns: See below.
* ShooTheDog: Misato eventually sends him away to live with Hikari's family, where he'll be safer.
* TeamPet
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[[folder:SEELE]]
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[[caption-width-right:326:Top left: SEELE's logo; top right: a typical reunion[[note]]note the [[Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey 2001]] reference[[/note]]; bottom, left and right: the faces of SEELE's inner circle, the Human Instrumentality Committee, minus Keel Lorenz.]]
A mysterious, shadowy global power cabal with latent control over every government in the world, and NERV's benefactors.
!!Associated tropes:
* AncientConspiracy: They like to consider themselves one. Whether or not they actually ''are'' one never quite receives straight confirmation.
** The extracanonic 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.
* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: While they want unite humanity into a single organism, they are also trying to rig the game so that they can raise themselves above over the rest of humanity and rule as gods.
* CovertGroup: Downplayed. The organization's existence was semi-public knowledge, at least in academic circles, before Second Impact.
* GovernmentConspiracy: Although not exclusively, as it is implied that they have quite a few corporate sponsors.
* MilkmanConspiracy: Downplayed. In relation to their existence being semi-public knowledge, they were only known for giving grants to research and promising grad students. But they also had a shady reputation for dishonest and unethical conduct. Still, nobody thought of them as Illuminati-like schemers trying to cause the apocalypse.
* MultinationalTeam: [[AllThereInTheManual Background material]] reveals each of the seen members to be respectively from France (Yellow), Germany (Keel), Russia (Blue), The United Kingdom (Red), and the United States (Green). It is also heavily implied that full SEELE council, i.e. the Monoliths, consist of a multitude of different nationalities.
* MysteriousBacker
* TheOmniscientCouncilOfVagueness
* YouAreNumberSix: When they meet as the SEELE council they appear as featureless monoliths, only distinguished by their numbers.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: The Angels / Seeds of Life]]
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[[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. For a size comparison, [[http://memberfiles.freewebs.com/67/27/45742767/photos/Charts/angel-size-comparison.jpg see here]].]]
The Angels are the monstrous adversaries that NERV is committed to battling. Little is revealed about them, except that the "molecular structure" of their DNA is ''very'' analogous to that of human DNA, their presence was predicted by the secret Dead Sea Scrolls in SEELE's possession, and that should an Angel make contact with Adam (one of the two Seeds of Life, the other being Lilith), it will cause a version of Third Impact that would annihilate humanity and leave the Angels (or just that particular Angel; it's unclear which) as the dominant life form on the planet.
!!Associated tropes:
* AdaptiveAbility: Ireul's superhigh-speed adaptation.
* AgonyBeam: Arael's attack, turned UpToEleven.
* AlienGeometries: Leliel is a nanometers-thick black void with a spherical shadow that's completely disconnected from it.
* AlienBlood: Subverted by most of the angels, who prominently bleed bright-red blood, but played straight with the angel in Terminal Dogma [[spoiler:which is the first sign that it is ''not'' from the same seed as the other angels that attack NERV.]]
* AllThereInTheManual
** Adam and Lilith's classification as "Seeds of Life", and the fact of their and the Angels' origin as artificial creations by [[SufficientlyAdvancedAlien extremely powerful extraterrestrial]] [[NeglectfulPrecursors mysterious precursors]], was only introduced in ''[[http://wiki.evageeks.org/Neon_Genesis_Evangelion_2 Neon Genesis Evangelion 2]]'''s [[http://wiki.evageeks.org/Classified_Information_(Translation) Classified Information]] files, which were [[WordOfGod based on interviews with the franchise' creator]], Creator/HideakiAnno.
** In spite of their alleged source, the canonicity of material in ''Evangelion 2'' is still the subject of some debate.
** In Episode 21 of the show, Gendo has a line of dialogue that alludes to a precursor race as being responsible for the Geofronts found under Japan and Antarctica. There is, however, no further elaboration on their nature.
** Recently, however, fans have come onto the [[http://wiki.evageeks.org/Neon_Genesis_Evangelion_Proposal original series proposal]] that Anno originally showed to Gainax, which also makes mention of said precursors and their role in the creation of the Angels.
** Sachiel's and Shamshel's genders, which were confirmed by Yoshitoh Asari as male and female respectively.
* ArchangelLucifer: In the roleplaying materials, one of the Angels is named Iblis.
* AsteroidsMonster: Israfel, though it only splits once.
* BeehiveBarrier: The AT-field defensive barrier for Ireul, which is hexagonal. The rest of the Angels (for the AT-field is a standard power for all Angels and Seeds of Life, whether or not it was actually shown on-screen), have octagonal fields. The AT Field projected by Gendo in the manga is octagonal as well.
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Their motivations are unknown. All they seem to want is to be reunited with Adam.
* BodyHorror
** The result of Armisael's choice method of attack.
** Bardiel does something similar when he tries to infect Eva 00's arm.
* CanonForeigner: Iblis and Baraqijal from the tabletop RPG, The Insubstantial Angel from the videogame ''Second Impression'' and Diemay, a fan design that won a contest Gainax held to get draw by the official artists on a single animation cell.
* DarkIsEdgy: Leliel
* EldritchAbomination: All except...
** HumanoidAbomination: Tabris
* EverythingsSquishierWithCephalopods: Shamshel resembles a squid.
* EyelessFace: Iblis, though he does have one on the end of his ''[[EyesDoNotBelongThere tongue]]''.
* FacelessEye: His "brother" Baraqijal, by contrast, is one big floating orange eyeball.
* FearfulSymmetry: "Hi. I'm Israfel-A, and this my twin Israfel-B. Will you dance with us?"
* FourIsDeath: Bardiel (Toji is the fourth child) and Zeruel (Fourteen is "death wish").
* GenderBlenderName: Adam is actually a female, as she is referred to as "our mother" by Kaworu in Episode 24.
** NoBiologicalSex: Considering that the Angels are capable of producing life by themselves, the other possibility is that they're this. It's very likely that Kaworu used "mother" because of all the mother symbolism in ''Eva''.
* GiantSpider: Matarael is shaped like [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opiliones an opilione]].
* HealingFactor: Another mostly standard Angel power.
* HollywoodAcid: Matarael.
* HumansAreCthulhu: Lilim, the 18th Angel, is humanity itself, if you take a line of Misato's dialogue in ''End of Evangelion'' at face value.
* InNameOnly
* KnightOfCerebus: Bardiel, and arguably Leliel.
* LightIsNotGood:
** Adam is occasionally referred as "the giant of light".
** Shamshel's name means "Sun of God". Angel of Day. Yeah.
** Ramiel is the Angel of Lightning.
** Arael's "heavenly" beam of light, considering [[MindRape what it does]]...
** Tabris: Albino.
* LivingShadow: A unique and essentially literal case with Leliel, as the "shadow" is actually its super-thin body, while the floating sphere is its three-dimensional shadow. Don't think about that last part too much; just chalk it up to higher-dimension quantum physics and leave it at that.
* LotusEaterMachine: Leliel, Arael (a more sinister version), and Armisael.
* MeaningfulName:
** Adam and Lilith are the first humans in certain unorthodox Jewish mythological texts and the progenitors of Mankind and the demons known as Lilim, respectively, while the eponymous Seeds of Life are the progenitors of the Angels and Mankind, respectively.
** Sachiel is the angel of water (guess where we first see him).
*** Sachiel also means "Covering of God" referencing it covering Unit-01 before self destructing.
*** His namesake is also one of the two Cherubs placed to guard Eden so that Mankind wouldn't take the Fruit of Life and become like God. Fittingly, he's the first Angel who appear when Mankind starts playing God.
** Shamshel ("Sun of God") is specifically one of the two Cherubs guarding Eden. After Sachiel's death, stopping Mankind's attempt at becoming like God was ''her'' job. Toji and Kensuke break the rules in order to see Shinji in action, gaining forbidden knowledge.
** Ramiel ("Thunder of God") is the angel of thunder; and while the NGE Angel does not [[ShockAndAwe control electricity]] or [[WeatherControlMachine weather]], its energy attack is a "thunderbolt" of destructive force.
** Gaghiel (or Gagiel) is the angel of fisherman (his defeat involves a tactic that resembles fishing).
** Israfel is the angel of music (its defeat involved dancing to a specific musical score).
** Sandalphon is the angel of embryos (discovered during a "larval stage", its "voice" is composed of electronically distorted baby wailing), among other things.
** Matarael ("Premonition of God") is the angel of rain (it "rains" acid).
** Sahaquiel is the angel of the sky (it appears in freakin' outer space).
** Ireul (Hebrew Yireuel, "Fear of God") is the angel of terror (the first Angel to penetrate almost every line of defense in the Geo Front, reached closer to Terminal Dogma than any other Angel save Tabris, hacked its way into NERV's database and the MAGI supercomputers with astonishing ease and speed, and was a fraction of a second away from activating NERV's self-destruct system).
** Leliel can mean "Angel of Night", and is associated primarily with shadows, black and white patterns, and an infinite pocket dimension with no observable properties.
** Bardiel is the angel of haze and hail (it infests Unit 03 while its cargo plane flew through a thunder cloud). Its name means "humiliated son of God", referencing the fact that it has no body of its own.
** Zeruel ("Arm of God") is the angel of power and strength (he takes out Units 00 and 02 in no time flat, devastates NERV headquarters, and very nearly destroys Unit 01). Also, Unit 01 [[LovecraftianSuperpower eats it, regenerating its arm]].
*** Zeruel is specifically the Angel that destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah with fire and brimstone.
** Arael is the angel of birds (no bonus points for guessing its general appearance), and means "Sight/Vision of God" referencing [[MindRape its desire to look into Asuka's mind to understand human psychology]].
** Armisael is the angel of the womb (it's vaguely shaped like an umbilical cord, and attempts in some way to give "birth" to previously destroyed Angels using Unit-00).
** Tabris is a {{subver|ted trope}}sion, as neither are there any official Judeo-Christian source that lists an angel with that name (or one close to it), nor is the name's etymology clear; WordOfGod, however, is that he's named after the angel of free will, and the character exercises that free will to allow Shinji to kill him. Whether it's a HeroicSacrifice or not [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation is up to debate]].
*** [[SpellMyNameWithAnS Spell his name with two B's...]]
*** Tabris seems to come from ''bris'', which in Ashkenazi Hebrew means "covenant". "Covenant with God". Yeah.
*** Another possibility is the Iranian city of Tabriz, which has been suggested as a possible location of the Garden of Eden (the place where Man first demonstrated his free will and disobeyed God).
* MetamorphosisMonster: Both Sandalphon and the videogame exclusive Insubstantial Angel (one of whose forms is, like Kaworu/Tabris, a human teenager, but unlike him [[TomatoInTheMirror the poor girl has absolutely no idea what she really is]])
* MindProbe: Leliel, Armisael, and...
** MindRape: ... Arael, the TropeNamer.
* MonsterOfTheWeek: Naturally.
* Odd One Out
** Sandalphon is the only one of Adam's Children (minus Tabris) to not have his/her name end in "-el" or "-ul."
** Ireul is the only angel without a defined "form", as it is microbes. It is also the only angel to not be defeated by an Evangelion.
** Bardiel is the only angel to take form of an Evangelion.
* OurAngelsAreDifferent: Boy howdy.
* OurMonstersAreWeird: Some of them are ''really'' weird.
* PileBunker: Sachiel has one in its palms (when retracted, the spikes extend from the Angel's elbows). It pierces right through the Unit 01's eye, in a very painful-looking way.
* PlagueDoctor: Sachiel is designed to resemble one, which is fitting if you know the Angels' actual mission.
* PocketDimension: The nature of Leliel's main power, contained within and entered through its flat body and connected to its floating spherical shadow.
* PureEnergy: Energy blasts and beams; used by Sachiel, Ramiel, Israfel, Zeruel. And for specific forms of it...
** EnergyWeapon: Sachiel's "arm lances."
** EyeBeams: Used by Sachiel and Zeruel.
** WaveMotionGun: Ramiel's energy beam.
* RainOfBlood
** Leliel's quite graphic death - true to its physics-defying nature, the blood spurts from the floating sphere that is its shadow.
** Bardiel's also quite graphic death as Unit-03.
* ShockAndAwe: Ramiel.
* ShoutOut:
** For one, the eyes on Matarael (and to a lesser extent, Sahaquiel) are a deliberate allusion to the Atlanteans from ''Anime/NadiaAndTheSecretOfBlueWater'', another Gainax-made work.
** Ireul is a clear homage to ''TheAndromedaStrain''.
** Sachiel bears a striking resemblance to the Goons from ''PopEye''.
* TakingYouWithMe
** Sachiel's last-ditch move, which ultimately fails.
** Sandalphon attempts this with Asuka.
** Sahaquiel's default and only tactic -- it drops small portions of itself in order to refine its aim, then dive-bombs Tokyo-3 with its entire body.
** One interpretation is that Ireul may have been going for this with it activating NERV's self-destruct.
** Zeruel seems to have been gearing up for one before Unit 01 eats him up.
** Ironically, that's the exact move that Rei uses to defeat Armisael.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Some of the angels' names can be spelt differently, usually depending on the translation, i.e. Ariel vs Arael.
* TechnoBabble
** Part of the on-screen exposition on the (in-universe-wise presumed) mechanics behind Leliel's "Sea of Dirac," which is named after a real, [[ScienceMarchesOn though discredited]], hypothesis that otherwise bears little to no relation.
** Also applies for all the Angels, as the MAGI identifies them during each invasion as Blood Type: BLUE. What that means is anyone's guess, especially since none of them have actually blue blood.
*** Humans (and Evas) are Blood Type: ORANGE. LCL is orange. Hmmm...
* TheVirus: Ireul is a colony of nanites.
* ThemeNaming
** Aside from being named "Shito" (which can translated as either "Apostle" or "messenger"; "angel" is descended from the Greek word for "messenger"), all names are of Judeo-Christian Angels excluding two cases - Adam and Lilith (see MeaningfulName above).
** All of Adam's Childrens' names either end with -el or -ul, with the exception of Sandalphon.
* ThirteenIsUnlucky: And how! Bardiel arrives when the show really gets dark.
* TomatoInTheMirror: The 18th Angel is Lilim, the offspring of Lilith, more commonly known as [[AGodIsYou mankind]].
** Though mankind being classified as the 18th Angel may simply refer to the fact that the last enemy the Evas fought were humans (or at least man made in the case of the Mass Production Evas).
* TurtlePower: Iblis, from the obscure tabletop RPG, looks like a giant purple and white tortoise.
* WalkOnWater: The unnamed Seventh Angel from ''Rebuild'', by flash-freezing everything its feet touch.
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: "Human" is a loosely-defined term in the Evaverse. In light of this fact...
** ArtificialHuman: They (and by proxy, "Mankind"/Lilim) are creations of the First Ancestral Race.
** ImAHumanitarian: Both Zeruel (devoured) and Unit 01 (devourer) are technically "human," by the NGE universe's internal terminology.
* WhipItGood: Shamshel sports energized whips on its "arms".
* WhiteMaskOfDoom: Present on several Angels, including Sachiel, Gaghiel, and Zeruel.
* YouAreNumberSix: The Angels are always referred to by the characters according to their order of appearance (3rd Angel, 5th Angel, etc.), outside of the recap in Episode 14 which refers to the angels Sachiel to Sahaquiel by name and a quick recap in 23 which reveals all the rest.
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[[folder: The Evangelions]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:Counter-clockwise, from top-right: Unit-01, Unit-00 (post-refitting), Unit-02 and Unit-03.]]
[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Click here to see the Mass Production Evangelions.]]http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mpevas_2470.jpg[[/labelnote]]]]
!!!Voiced by: Hiro Yuuki (JP), MegumiHayashibara (JP), Matt Greenfield (EN, TV/Director's Cuts), Jason C. Lee & TaliesinJaffe (EN, movies)
The Evangelions are biomechanical mecha designed by GEHIRN, and later by NERV, as a means of fighting the Angels. Their effectiveness against the Angels is based on their ability to generate an AT field, the same form of defense that the Angels use. It's eventually revealed that the Evas are actually cloned Angels, all based on Adam except for Unit 01, which was derived from Lilith. The Evas have human souls bonded to them, and are piloted by select 14-year-old teenagers who can synchronize with those souls; in the case of Units 01 and 02, those teens happen to be the children of the women who were bonded to those Evas.
!!Associated tropes:
* AppendageAssimilation: Unit 01 attaching and then transmogrifying Zeruel's arm to replace her own, and later absorbing his S2 engine/organ.
* TheBerserker: Whenever you hear an Evangelion roar, someone is about to die messily. No exceptions.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Units 02 and 03 are both torn to pieces, by the MP Evas and Unit 01 respectively.
* CyberCyclops: Unit 00.
* ExtraEyes: Unit 02.
* EyelessFace: Mass Produced Evas.
* FlawedPrototype: Unit 00 is massively inferior to the later models, only getting deployed to achieve numerical advantage.
* FourIsDeath:
** Unit 04 explodes and takes a whole local branch of NERV and a chunk of the Nevada desert with it.
** The actual fourth Eva, Unit 03, is possessed by the Thirteen Angel.
* GuardianEntity: The Evangelions are less like mecha and more like Guardian Entities you control from the inside. Kaworu takes this a step further when he controls Unit 02 remotely, and it's implied he can do this with any Adam-type Evangelion.
* HealingFactor:
** Unit 01 exhibits some of this, restoring her broken arm during the battle with Sachiel and regenerating her [[EyeScream blown-out eye]] immediately after.
** The Mass Produced Evas in the manga regenerate after being curb-stomped by Shinji in Unit 01. Ironically, for years Fanon has mistakingly believed that MP Evas in ''End'' were capable of regenerating, while in reality they couldn't, they were just that determined to kill Asuka, wounds and missing limbs be damned.
* HighPressureBlood
** The blood fountaining from Unit 01's eye socket and skull after getting impaled by Sachiel.
** Unit-02 when Zeruel cuts her arms off.
** Unit 03's destruction leads to blood-spattered ''buildings''.
* HeyItsThatVoice: When Unit-01 goes berserk during the fight against Zeruel, her screams are provided by MegumiHayashibara (then modulated and reduced in pitch to make it sound more monstrous). Very fitting, since Hayashibara also does the voices of [[PoweredByAForsakenChild Yui Ikari]] and [[CloningBlues Rei Ayanami]]...
* HolyHalo: Unit-00 in the ''Director's Cut/Renewal Version'' for episode 23. When [[spoiler:it self-destructs, taking Armisael and a huge chunk of Tokyo-3 with it, we see the Eva briefly turn into an all-white vision of Rei with an halo, right before she explodes.]]
* LivingWeapon: The Evas are a mecha version--mostly-organic creatures that can fight the Angels on their own terms because, in essence, they ''are'' Angels.
* MamaBear: The Evas are imbued with the souls of their pilots' mothers. Special mention goes to Yui Ikari/Eva Unit-01, who goes [[ExtremeMeleeRevenge berserk]] at the drop of a hat if Shinji is in danger.
* MeaningfulName:
** (Most) Evas are "made" out of the first Angel, Adam, akin to how the Biblical Eva (Eve) was made out of the first human of the same name.
** "Evangelion" itself means "Good news" and it was applied to the Bible books about Jesus because they spread the news about the resurrection of the Lord and salvation for mankind.
* MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily: Sported by an armorless, bandage-swathed [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Eva01NightmareFuelRight.png Unit-01]] while undergoing repairs after eating Zeruel.
* PoweredByAForsakenChild: They need to absorb human souls before they can function at all.
* PurpleIsPowerful: One of Unit-01's major colors is purple.
* RestrainingBolt: The "armor"'s primary purpose.
* SendInTheClones: They're essentially "clones" (by NGE's loose definition of the word) of the First Angel Adam, or the Second Angel Lilith in Unit 01's case.
* SlasherSmile: One of many creepy things about the Mass Production Models.
* SoulPoweredEngine: The Eva's cores contain the souls of their pilot's parents, or a SoulFragment in the case of Unit-02 and possibly Unit-00 as well.
* SniperRifle: A positron rifle was used by Unit 01 against Ramiel.
* SuperPrototype:
** Unit 01, kinda.
** Unit 04 might count as well, if we ignore the ExplosiveOverclocking part.
* TwinMaker: Freeze-frame play of the director's cut version of episode 23 reveals that '''''[[http://www.evacommentary.org/full-op/full-op_C237_comp.jpg Unit 01 is actually Lilith's missing lower half]]'''''.
* UnstoppableRage: Part and parcel of an Eva going berserk.
* VerticalMechaFins: The former TropeNamer ("Eva Fins"). Units 01, 02, and 03 come with the signature shoulder attachments from the get-go. Unit 00 gets them when its armor is replaced after the Ramiel battle. The MP Evas don't have them.
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: See the Angels' entry. Also, consequentially...
** ArtificialHuman: As "clones" of Adam (and Lilith, in Unit-01's case).
* WingedHumanoid: The Mass Produced Evas.
* {{Youkai}}: Not examples themselves, but from WordOfGod [[http://web.archive.org/web/20070613125248/http://www.aoianime.hu/evangelion/index.php?page=interanno here]], the physical appearance of the Evangelions are based off oni.
* YourSizeMayVary: No official heights have been given for them, and they seem to shift depending on what will look correct in a given scene.
** This is most noticeable in Episode 8 when after Gaghiel explodes, Unit-02 is launched out of the sea, lands on an aircraft carrier's deck, and collapses. Nothing wrong there, until you remember that just a few scenes ago she was playing "hopscotch" with a ship the exact same size, which means she has shrunk down to the size of her own shoe.
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[[folder: Keel Lorenz]]
!!!Voiced by: {{Mugihito}} (JP), Richard Peeples (series), Tom Booker (movies), Josep María Zamora (Spanish, TV series), Eduardo Díez (Spanish, Movies)
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->''The beginning and the end are one and the same. Yes... all is right with the world.''
As the chairman of [[TheOmniscientCouncilOfVagueness SEELE]], Keel Lorenz is NERV's superior and commissioner of the Eva project. He possesses secret Dead Sea Scrolls that tell of a way to evolve all life into a perfect being with no cares, that lives in eternal bliss [[HiveMind inside this being's mind]]. Despite his "honorable" intentions, he is perfectly willing to force the issue when things don't go his way, up to and including [[KillEmAll causing NERV's extermination]].
!!Associated tropes:
* AssimilationPlot: Wishes to enact Third Impact as a means of merging all humanity's souls into one via Instrumentality to end all suffering.
* BigBad: Being SEELE's Chairman, he is effectively the driving force behind the events of Second Impact and the subsequent global push towards [[AssimilationPlot human Instrumentality]]. However, the plot of the series centers around the events at NERV directed by [[TheHeavy Gendo Ikari]], a SEELE agent who effectuates the organization's will [[DragonWithAnAgenda while secretely pursuing his own agenda]]. Keel is seen only occasionally by the audience, and often in the form of a [[SinisterSilhouettes featureless black monolith]].
** BigGood: Either a Subversion or Aversion. While he is the BigBad, a person outside the organization might see him as this because he heads the effort to stop the Angels, and therefore save humanity.
* {{Cyborg}}: Keel sports a heavy degree of state-of-the art biological implants and a visor to cope with dehabilating 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- [[FridgeBrilliance he wants to end his ''own'' pain.]]
* EvilutionaryBiologist: Of sorts. Worth noting is that Konrad Lorenz was an ''evolutionary'' biologist.
* KarmaHoudini: In ''End of Evangelion'', Keel and the rest of SEELE are the ones responsible [[KillEmAll for the actions of [=EoE=]]] but unlike [[KarmicDeath Gendo]], and although SEELE doesn't achieve their goal of ascending themselves to godhood, Keel is apparently content with the ultimate outcome of the human race being turned into a joint consciousness.
** This could be subverted entirely if Yui's words are correct; once people start escaping the LCL prison, [[AndIMustScream he would be completely alone]].
* TheManBehindTheMan
* 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 [[Franchise/{{Batman}} The Penguin]] is Russian.
* ThePhilosopher
* RoboticReveal: After reverting to LCL in ''End'', Keel is revealed to be a cyborg, from surgery done to fix damage caused by unknown injuries or a condition.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Canonically, his name is '''Keel''' Lorenz, but it's frequently spelled "Kihl".
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[[folder:Kensuke Aida]]
!!!Voiced by: TetsuyaIwanaga (JP), Kurt Stoll (EN, series, movies)
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->''This is SO COOL!!!''
Kensuke is, at the start of the series, Toji's best friend. He reveals to the class that Shinji is a pilot, and later bonds with Shinji after he runs away the first time. He is very computer savvy and a die-hard military {{otaku}}, constantly badgering Shinji to get him pilot clearance and practically salivating over the trip to the ''Over The Rainbow'' in episode 8. Also one of the only characters in the series who does not show any sign of serious psychological damage.
!!Associated tropes:
* AscendedFanboy: He becomes an Eva pilot in the second ''Girlfriend of Steel'' game, and in ''[[FightingGame Evangelion Battle Orchestra]]''
* {{Expy}}: Of Jean from ''NadiaTheSecretOfBlueWater''
* IJustWantToBeSpecial: Kensuke ''really'' wants to be an Eva pilot, and remains constantly oblivious to how unhappy the actual Eva pilots are. He finally gets his wish in some AlternateContinuity games.
* NerdGlasses
** FourEyesZeroSoul: Strongly downplayed and quite subtle though. Whenever Kensuke is intensely obsessed about something his glasses turns [[OpaqueLenses opaque]], an effect that hides his eyes to show he getting distant from the world and people around him in these situations.
* {{Otaku}}: If it's something to do with the military, he's into it; he even goes out into the woods and plays army...by himself.
** Also a bit of SelfDeprecation on the part of Creator/HideakiAnno, who is himself a military geek.
* TheOtherDarrin: An eerie case. Creator/GregAyres had a role in the original series as Kaworu Nagisa as well!
* ThisLoserIsYou: A not too subtle reminder to the ''really'' Otaku viewers of [[TakeThat what they could or already have become]].
* YouthfulFreckles
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[[folder:Hikari Horaki]]
!!!Voiced by: Creator/JunkoIwao (JP), Carol Amerson (EN, series)
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->''Sit down, you guys!!''
Hikari is the no-nonsense ClassRepresentative of Shinji's class, and the second-born of three sisters. She later becomes Asuka's best friend, and tries to give her emotional support in the later episodes as Asuka becomes more and more distraught. She nurses a crush on Toji as well.
Her role in the manga is unchanged, but she gets more scenes with Shinji. However, near the end she has essentially shunned Shinji, feeling that having him around is a too-painful reminder of Toji's death.
!!Associated tropes:
* AlliterativeName
* ClassRepresentative
* GirlishPigtails
* LightFeminineAndDarkFeminine: She's the light, with Asuka as the dark.
* ThemeNaming: She and her sisters are named after the Tokaido Shinkansen's three train services, with each sister's age corresponding to the increasing order of the services' speeds (Kodama -> Hikari -> Nozomi). Interestingly, the Hikari service was the first one out of the three to be introduced; no points for guessing which of the sisters was first seen in-series.
* ThroughHisStomach: To Toji.
* {{Tsundere}}: Possibly a Type B (deredere aka "sweet default mode"). She's polite and kind to everyone. Toji is just that good at getting under her skin.
* YouthfulFreckles
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[[folder:Pen-Pen]]
!!!Voiced by: MegumiHayashibara (JP), Creator/AmandaWinnLee (EN, series), Mandy Clark (Director's Cut)
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->''WARK!''
Pen-Pen is ''Evangelion'''s main non-ButtMonkey comic relief, and a mysterious character to boot. Gainax has never stated where he came from; all that is known is that he is Misato's [[TeamPet pet penguin]]. He is also superintelligent (for a penguin), being able to read and watch television, and has claws that are used for grasping objects. What anyone would need a superintelligent penguin that can grasp objects and live in warm temperatures for is not known, but he's [[EverythingsBetterWithPenguins both cute and funny]]. He is also one of the few characters not to undergo an emotional breakdown at some point...as far as we know.
Given that penguins were native to Antarctica, which was destroyed by Second Impact, there may also be some hidden significance in Pen-Pen's presence in Misato's life.
[[ShooOutTheClowns When he leaves the story, you know that a change in tone is imminent.]]
In the manga, he is a result of genetic experimentation, and was saved from being euthanized by Misato.
!!Associated tropes:
* CrossDressingVoices
* {{Cyborg}}: He has some kind of apparatus grafted to his spine and retractable "fingers" and that's just what we can see. There's a popular fan theory that he was a test subject for the bionic technology that went into creating the Evas and his "backpack" is some kind of precursor to the intra-spinal Entry Plug system.
* EverythingsBetterWithPenguins
* ShooOutTheClowns: See below.
* ShooTheDog: Misato eventually sends him away to live with Hikari's family, where he'll be safer.
* TeamPet
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[[folder:SEELE]]
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[[caption-width-right:326:Top left: SEELE's logo; top right: a typical reunion[[note]]note the [[Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey 2001]] reference[[/note]]; bottom, left and right: the faces of SEELE's inner circle, the Human Instrumentality Committee, minus Keel Lorenz.]]
A mysterious, shadowy global power cabal with latent control over every government in the world, and NERV's benefactors.
!!Associated tropes:
* AncientConspiracy: They like to consider themselves one. Whether or not they actually ''are'' one never quite receives straight confirmation.
** The extracanonic 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.
* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: While they want unite humanity into a single organism, they are also trying to rig the game so that they can raise themselves above over the rest of humanity and rule as gods.
* CovertGroup: Downplayed. The organization's existence was semi-public knowledge, at least in academic circles, before Second Impact.
* GovernmentConspiracy: Although not exclusively, as it is implied that they have quite a few corporate sponsors.
* MilkmanConspiracy: Downplayed. In relation to their existence being semi-public knowledge, they were only known for giving grants to research and promising grad students. But they also had a shady reputation for dishonest and unethical conduct. Still, nobody thought of them as Illuminati-like schemers trying to cause the apocalypse.
* MultinationalTeam: [[AllThereInTheManual Background material]] reveals each of the seen members to be respectively from France (Yellow), Germany (Keel), Russia (Blue), The United Kingdom (Red), and the United States (Green). It is also heavily implied that full SEELE council, i.e. the Monoliths, consist of a multitude of different nationalities.
* MysteriousBacker
* TheOmniscientCouncilOfVagueness
* YouAreNumberSix: When they meet as the SEELE council they appear as featureless monoliths, only distinguished by their numbers.
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[[folder: The Angels / Seeds of Life]]
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[[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. For a size comparison, [[http://memberfiles.freewebs.com/67/27/45742767/photos/Charts/angel-size-comparison.jpg see here]].]]
The Angels are the monstrous adversaries that NERV is committed to battling. Little is revealed about them, except that the "molecular structure" of their DNA is ''very'' analogous to that of human DNA, their presence was predicted by the secret Dead Sea Scrolls in SEELE's possession, and that should an Angel make contact with Adam (one of the two Seeds of Life, the other being Lilith), it will cause a version of Third Impact that would annihilate humanity and leave the Angels (or just that particular Angel; it's unclear which) as the dominant life form on the planet.
!!Associated tropes:
* AdaptiveAbility: Ireul's superhigh-speed adaptation.
* AgonyBeam: Arael's attack, turned UpToEleven.
* AlienGeometries: Leliel is a nanometers-thick black void with a spherical shadow that's completely disconnected from it.
* AlienBlood: Subverted by most of the angels, who prominently bleed bright-red blood, but played straight with the angel in Terminal Dogma [[spoiler:which is the first sign that it is ''not'' from the same seed as the other angels that attack NERV.]]
* AllThereInTheManual
** Adam and Lilith's classification as "Seeds of Life", and the fact of their and the Angels' origin as artificial creations by [[SufficientlyAdvancedAlien extremely powerful extraterrestrial]] [[NeglectfulPrecursors mysterious precursors]], was only introduced in ''[[http://wiki.evageeks.org/Neon_Genesis_Evangelion_2 Neon Genesis Evangelion 2]]'''s [[http://wiki.evageeks.org/Classified_Information_(Translation) Classified Information]] files, which were [[WordOfGod based on interviews with the franchise' creator]], Creator/HideakiAnno.
** In spite of their alleged source, the canonicity of material in ''Evangelion 2'' is still the subject of some debate.
** In Episode 21 of the show, Gendo has a line of dialogue that alludes to a precursor race as being responsible for the Geofronts found under Japan and Antarctica. There is, however, no further elaboration on their nature.
** Recently, however, fans have come onto the [[http://wiki.evageeks.org/Neon_Genesis_Evangelion_Proposal original series proposal]] that Anno originally showed to Gainax, which also makes mention of said precursors and their role in the creation of the Angels.
** Sachiel's and Shamshel's genders, which were confirmed by Yoshitoh Asari as male and female respectively.
* ArchangelLucifer: In the roleplaying materials, one of the Angels is named Iblis.
* AsteroidsMonster: Israfel, though it only splits once.
* BeehiveBarrier: The AT-field defensive barrier for Ireul, which is hexagonal. The rest of the Angels (for the AT-field is a standard power for all Angels and Seeds of Life, whether or not it was actually shown on-screen), have octagonal fields. The AT Field projected by Gendo in the manga is octagonal as well.
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Their motivations are unknown. All they seem to want is to be reunited with Adam.
* BodyHorror
** The result of Armisael's choice method of attack.
** Bardiel does something similar when he tries to infect Eva 00's arm.
* CanonForeigner: Iblis and Baraqijal from the tabletop RPG, The Insubstantial Angel from the videogame ''Second Impression'' and Diemay, a fan design that won a contest Gainax held to get draw by the official artists on a single animation cell.
* DarkIsEdgy: Leliel
* EldritchAbomination: All except...
** HumanoidAbomination: Tabris
* EverythingsSquishierWithCephalopods: Shamshel resembles a squid.
* EyelessFace: Iblis, though he does have one on the end of his ''[[EyesDoNotBelongThere tongue]]''.
* FacelessEye: His "brother" Baraqijal, by contrast, is one big floating orange eyeball.
* FearfulSymmetry: "Hi. I'm Israfel-A, and this my twin Israfel-B. Will you dance with us?"
* FourIsDeath: Bardiel (Toji is the fourth child) and Zeruel (Fourteen is "death wish").
* GenderBlenderName: Adam is actually a female, as she is referred to as "our mother" by Kaworu in Episode 24.
** NoBiologicalSex: Considering that the Angels are capable of producing life by themselves, the other possibility is that they're this. It's very likely that Kaworu used "mother" because of all the mother symbolism in ''Eva''.
* GiantSpider: Matarael is shaped like [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opiliones an opilione]].
* HealingFactor: Another mostly standard Angel power.
* HollywoodAcid: Matarael.
* HumansAreCthulhu: Lilim, the 18th Angel, is humanity itself, if you take a line of Misato's dialogue in ''End of Evangelion'' at face value.
* InNameOnly
* KnightOfCerebus: Bardiel, and arguably Leliel.
* LightIsNotGood:
** Adam is occasionally referred as "the giant of light".
** Shamshel's name means "Sun of God". Angel of Day. Yeah.
** Ramiel is the Angel of Lightning.
** Arael's "heavenly" beam of light, considering [[MindRape what it does]]...
** Tabris: Albino.
* LivingShadow: A unique and essentially literal case with Leliel, as the "shadow" is actually its super-thin body, while the floating sphere is its three-dimensional shadow. Don't think about that last part too much; just chalk it up to higher-dimension quantum physics and leave it at that.
* LotusEaterMachine: Leliel, Arael (a more sinister version), and Armisael.
* MeaningfulName:
** Adam and Lilith are the first humans in certain unorthodox Jewish mythological texts and the progenitors of Mankind and the demons known as Lilim, respectively, while the eponymous Seeds of Life are the progenitors of the Angels and Mankind, respectively.
** Sachiel is the angel of water (guess where we first see him).
*** Sachiel also means "Covering of God" referencing it covering Unit-01 before self destructing.
*** His namesake is also one of the two Cherubs placed to guard Eden so that Mankind wouldn't take the Fruit of Life and become like God. Fittingly, he's the first Angel who appear when Mankind starts playing God.
** Shamshel ("Sun of God") is specifically one of the two Cherubs guarding Eden. After Sachiel's death, stopping Mankind's attempt at becoming like God was ''her'' job. Toji and Kensuke break the rules in order to see Shinji in action, gaining forbidden knowledge.
** Ramiel ("Thunder of God") is the angel of thunder; and while the NGE Angel does not [[ShockAndAwe control electricity]] or [[WeatherControlMachine weather]], its energy attack is a "thunderbolt" of destructive force.
** Gaghiel (or Gagiel) is the angel of fisherman (his defeat involves a tactic that resembles fishing).
** Israfel is the angel of music (its defeat involved dancing to a specific musical score).
** Sandalphon is the angel of embryos (discovered during a "larval stage", its "voice" is composed of electronically distorted baby wailing), among other things.
** Matarael ("Premonition of God") is the angel of rain (it "rains" acid).
** Sahaquiel is the angel of the sky (it appears in freakin' outer space).
** Ireul (Hebrew Yireuel, "Fear of God") is the angel of terror (the first Angel to penetrate almost every line of defense in the Geo Front, reached closer to Terminal Dogma than any other Angel save Tabris, hacked its way into NERV's database and the MAGI supercomputers with astonishing ease and speed, and was a fraction of a second away from activating NERV's self-destruct system).
** Leliel can mean "Angel of Night", and is associated primarily with shadows, black and white patterns, and an infinite pocket dimension with no observable properties.
** Bardiel is the angel of haze and hail (it infests Unit 03 while its cargo plane flew through a thunder cloud). Its name means "humiliated son of God", referencing the fact that it has no body of its own.
** Zeruel ("Arm of God") is the angel of power and strength (he takes out Units 00 and 02 in no time flat, devastates NERV headquarters, and very nearly destroys Unit 01). Also, Unit 01 [[LovecraftianSuperpower eats it, regenerating its arm]].
*** Zeruel is specifically the Angel that destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah with fire and brimstone.
** Arael is the angel of birds (no bonus points for guessing its general appearance), and means "Sight/Vision of God" referencing [[MindRape its desire to look into Asuka's mind to understand human psychology]].
** Armisael is the angel of the womb (it's vaguely shaped like an umbilical cord, and attempts in some way to give "birth" to previously destroyed Angels using Unit-00).
** Tabris is a {{subver|ted trope}}sion, as neither are there any official Judeo-Christian source that lists an angel with that name (or one close to it), nor is the name's etymology clear; WordOfGod, however, is that he's named after the angel of free will, and the character exercises that free will to allow Shinji to kill him. Whether it's a HeroicSacrifice or not [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation is up to debate]].
*** [[SpellMyNameWithAnS Spell his name with two B's...]]
*** Tabris seems to come from ''bris'', which in Ashkenazi Hebrew means "covenant". "Covenant with God". Yeah.
*** Another possibility is the Iranian city of Tabriz, which has been suggested as a possible location of the Garden of Eden (the place where Man first demonstrated his free will and disobeyed God).
* MetamorphosisMonster: Both Sandalphon and the videogame exclusive Insubstantial Angel (one of whose forms is, like Kaworu/Tabris, a human teenager, but unlike him [[TomatoInTheMirror the poor girl has absolutely no idea what she really is]])
* MindProbe: Leliel, Armisael, and...
** MindRape: ... Arael, the TropeNamer.
* MonsterOfTheWeek: Naturally.
* Odd One Out
** Sandalphon is the only one of Adam's Children (minus Tabris) to not have his/her name end in "-el" or "-ul."
** Ireul is the only angel without a defined "form", as it is microbes. It is also the only angel to not be defeated by an Evangelion.
** Bardiel is the only angel to take form of an Evangelion.
* OurAngelsAreDifferent: Boy howdy.
* OurMonstersAreWeird: Some of them are ''really'' weird.
* PileBunker: Sachiel has one in its palms (when retracted, the spikes extend from the Angel's elbows). It pierces right through the Unit 01's eye, in a very painful-looking way.
* PlagueDoctor: Sachiel is designed to resemble one, which is fitting if you know the Angels' actual mission.
* PocketDimension: The nature of Leliel's main power, contained within and entered through its flat body and connected to its floating spherical shadow.
* PureEnergy: Energy blasts and beams; used by Sachiel, Ramiel, Israfel, Zeruel. And for specific forms of it...
** EnergyWeapon: Sachiel's "arm lances."
** EyeBeams: Used by Sachiel and Zeruel.
** WaveMotionGun: Ramiel's energy beam.
* RainOfBlood
** Leliel's quite graphic death - true to its physics-defying nature, the blood spurts from the floating sphere that is its shadow.
** Bardiel's also quite graphic death as Unit-03.
* ShockAndAwe: Ramiel.
* ShoutOut:
** For one, the eyes on Matarael (and to a lesser extent, Sahaquiel) are a deliberate allusion to the Atlanteans from ''Anime/NadiaAndTheSecretOfBlueWater'', another Gainax-made work.
** Ireul is a clear homage to ''TheAndromedaStrain''.
** Sachiel bears a striking resemblance to the Goons from ''PopEye''.
* TakingYouWithMe
** Sachiel's last-ditch move, which ultimately fails.
** Sandalphon attempts this with Asuka.
** Sahaquiel's default and only tactic -- it drops small portions of itself in order to refine its aim, then dive-bombs Tokyo-3 with its entire body.
** One interpretation is that Ireul may have been going for this with it activating NERV's self-destruct.
** Zeruel seems to have been gearing up for one before Unit 01 eats him up.
** Ironically, that's the exact move that Rei uses to defeat Armisael.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Some of the angels' names can be spelt differently, usually depending on the translation, i.e. Ariel vs Arael.
* TechnoBabble
** Part of the on-screen exposition on the (in-universe-wise presumed) mechanics behind Leliel's "Sea of Dirac," which is named after a real, [[ScienceMarchesOn though discredited]], hypothesis that otherwise bears little to no relation.
** Also applies for all the Angels, as the MAGI identifies them during each invasion as Blood Type: BLUE. What that means is anyone's guess, especially since none of them have actually blue blood.
*** Humans (and Evas) are Blood Type: ORANGE. LCL is orange. Hmmm...
* TheVirus: Ireul is a colony of nanites.
* ThemeNaming
** Aside from being named "Shito" (which can translated as either "Apostle" or "messenger"; "angel" is descended from the Greek word for "messenger"), all names are of Judeo-Christian Angels excluding two cases - Adam and Lilith (see MeaningfulName above).
** All of Adam's Childrens' names either end with -el or -ul, with the exception of Sandalphon.
* ThirteenIsUnlucky: And how! Bardiel arrives when the show really gets dark.
* TomatoInTheMirror: The 18th Angel is Lilim, the offspring of Lilith, more commonly known as [[AGodIsYou mankind]].
** Though mankind being classified as the 18th Angel may simply refer to the fact that the last enemy the Evas fought were humans (or at least man made in the case of the Mass Production Evas).
* TurtlePower: Iblis, from the obscure tabletop RPG, looks like a giant purple and white tortoise.
* WalkOnWater: The unnamed Seventh Angel from ''Rebuild'', by flash-freezing everything its feet touch.
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: "Human" is a loosely-defined term in the Evaverse. In light of this fact...
** ArtificialHuman: They (and by proxy, "Mankind"/Lilim) are creations of the First Ancestral Race.
** ImAHumanitarian: Both Zeruel (devoured) and Unit 01 (devourer) are technically "human," by the NGE universe's internal terminology.
* WhipItGood: Shamshel sports energized whips on its "arms".
* WhiteMaskOfDoom: Present on several Angels, including Sachiel, Gaghiel, and Zeruel.
* YouAreNumberSix: The Angels are always referred to by the characters according to their order of appearance (3rd Angel, 5th Angel, etc.), outside of the recap in Episode 14 which refers to the angels Sachiel to Sahaquiel by name and a quick recap in 23 which reveals all the rest.
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[[folder: The Evangelions]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:Counter-clockwise, from top-right: Unit-01, Unit-00 (post-refitting), Unit-02 and Unit-03.]]
[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Click here to see the Mass Production Evangelions.]]http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mpevas_2470.jpg[[/labelnote]]]]
!!!Voiced by: Hiro Yuuki (JP), MegumiHayashibara (JP), Matt Greenfield (EN, TV/Director's Cuts), Jason C. Lee & TaliesinJaffe (EN, movies)
The Evangelions are biomechanical mecha designed by GEHIRN, and later by NERV, as a means of fighting the Angels. Their effectiveness against the Angels is based on their ability to generate an AT field, the same form of defense that the Angels use. It's eventually revealed that the Evas are actually cloned Angels, all based on Adam except for Unit 01, which was derived from Lilith. The Evas have human souls bonded to them, and are piloted by select 14-year-old teenagers who can synchronize with those souls; in the case of Units 01 and 02, those teens happen to be the children of the women who were bonded to those Evas.
!!Associated tropes:
* AppendageAssimilation: Unit 01 attaching and then transmogrifying Zeruel's arm to replace her own, and later absorbing his S2 engine/organ.
* TheBerserker: Whenever you hear an Evangelion roar, someone is about to die messily. No exceptions.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Units 02 and 03 are both torn to pieces, by the MP Evas and Unit 01 respectively.
* CyberCyclops: Unit 00.
* ExtraEyes: Unit 02.
* EyelessFace: Mass Produced Evas.
* FlawedPrototype: Unit 00 is massively inferior to the later models, only getting deployed to achieve numerical advantage.
* FourIsDeath:
** Unit 04 explodes and takes a whole local branch of NERV and a chunk of the Nevada desert with it.
** The actual fourth Eva, Unit 03, is possessed by the Thirteen Angel.
* GuardianEntity: The Evangelions are less like mecha and more like Guardian Entities you control from the inside. Kaworu takes this a step further when he controls Unit 02 remotely, and it's implied he can do this with any Adam-type Evangelion.
* HealingFactor:
** Unit 01 exhibits some of this, restoring her broken arm during the battle with Sachiel and regenerating her [[EyeScream blown-out eye]] immediately after.
** The Mass Produced Evas in the manga regenerate after being curb-stomped by Shinji in Unit 01. Ironically, for years Fanon has mistakingly believed that MP Evas in ''End'' were capable of regenerating, while in reality they couldn't, they were just that determined to kill Asuka, wounds and missing limbs be damned.
* HighPressureBlood
** The blood fountaining from Unit 01's eye socket and skull after getting impaled by Sachiel.
** Unit-02 when Zeruel cuts her arms off.
** Unit 03's destruction leads to blood-spattered ''buildings''.
* HeyItsThatVoice: When Unit-01 goes berserk during the fight against Zeruel, her screams are provided by MegumiHayashibara (then modulated and reduced in pitch to make it sound more monstrous). Very fitting, since Hayashibara also does the voices of [[PoweredByAForsakenChild Yui Ikari]] and [[CloningBlues Rei Ayanami]]...
* HolyHalo: Unit-00 in the ''Director's Cut/Renewal Version'' for episode 23. When [[spoiler:it self-destructs, taking Armisael and a huge chunk of Tokyo-3 with it, we see the Eva briefly turn into an all-white vision of Rei with an halo, right before she explodes.]]
* LivingWeapon: The Evas are a mecha version--mostly-organic creatures that can fight the Angels on their own terms because, in essence, they ''are'' Angels.
* MamaBear: The Evas are imbued with the souls of their pilots' mothers. Special mention goes to Yui Ikari/Eva Unit-01, who goes [[ExtremeMeleeRevenge berserk]] at the drop of a hat if Shinji is in danger.
* MeaningfulName:
** (Most) Evas are "made" out of the first Angel, Adam, akin to how the Biblical Eva (Eve) was made out of the first human of the same name.
** "Evangelion" itself means "Good news" and it was applied to the Bible books about Jesus because they spread the news about the resurrection of the Lord and salvation for mankind.
* MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily: Sported by an armorless, bandage-swathed [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Eva01NightmareFuelRight.png Unit-01]] while undergoing repairs after eating Zeruel.
* PoweredByAForsakenChild: They need to absorb human souls before they can function at all.
* PurpleIsPowerful: One of Unit-01's major colors is purple.
* RestrainingBolt: The "armor"'s primary purpose.
* SendInTheClones: They're essentially "clones" (by NGE's loose definition of the word) of the First Angel Adam, or the Second Angel Lilith in Unit 01's case.
* SlasherSmile: One of many creepy things about the Mass Production Models.
* SoulPoweredEngine: The Eva's cores contain the souls of their pilot's parents, or a SoulFragment in the case of Unit-02 and possibly Unit-00 as well.
* SniperRifle: A positron rifle was used by Unit 01 against Ramiel.
* SuperPrototype:
** Unit 01, kinda.
** Unit 04 might count as well, if we ignore the ExplosiveOverclocking part.
* TwinMaker: Freeze-frame play of the director's cut version of episode 23 reveals that '''''[[http://www.evacommentary.org/full-op/full-op_C237_comp.jpg Unit 01 is actually Lilith's missing lower half]]'''''.
* UnstoppableRage: Part and parcel of an Eva going berserk.
* VerticalMechaFins: The former TropeNamer ("Eva Fins"). Units 01, 02, and 03 come with the signature shoulder attachments from the get-go. Unit 00 gets them when its armor is replaced after the Ramiel battle. The MP Evas don't have them.
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: See the Angels' entry. Also, consequentially...
** ArtificialHuman: As "clones" of Adam (and Lilith, in Unit-01's case).
* WingedHumanoid: The Mass Produced Evas.
* {{Youkai}}: Not examples themselves, but from WordOfGod [[http://web.archive.org/web/20070613125248/http://www.aoianime.hu/evangelion/index.php?page=interanno here]], the physical appearance of the Evangelions are based off oni.
* YourSizeMayVary: No official heights have been given for them, and they seem to shift depending on what will look correct in a given scene.
** This is most noticeable in Episode 8 when after Gaghiel explodes, Unit-02 is launched out of the sea, lands on an aircraft carrier's deck, and collapses. Nothing wrong there, until you remember that just a few scenes ago she was playing "hopscotch" with a ship the exact same size, which means she has shrunk down to the size of her own shoe.
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