History Main / ReiAyanamiExpy

* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'': Hunter/The Golden Guard is a downplayed male example. [[spoiler:Similar to Rei, Hunter is the latest in a line of red-eyed clones of the OmnicidalManiac BigBad's deceased loved one.]]

[[caption-width-right:350:NERV Cloning Division proudly presents...[[note]]Clockwise, from the top left corner: [[Anime/DarkerThanBlack Yin]], [[Literature/ShakuganNoShana Hecate]], [[Anime/SoundOfTheSky Noël]], [[Anime/AngelBeats Kanade]], [[VisualNovel/ChaosHead Ayase]], [[Literature/TheFamiliarOfZero Tabitha]], [[Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya Yuki]], [[Literature/HarukaNogizakasSecret Hazuki]]. [[TropeNamers Center]]: [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Rei]].[[/note]] ]]

* Lucy from ''Manga/ElfenLied'' could be considered an extremely ''dark'' take on the archetype. She has pale skin, unnatural hair and (in the anime) eye color, indeterminate origins, isn't entirely human, has a very cold demeanor (even after defrosting) unless she's killing someone, serves as a LoveInterest to the main male lead Kouta, and is [[UndyingLoyalty single-mindedly devoted]] to him. However, her single-minded devotion to Kouta has lead to deadly consequences for everyone involved. She also suffers a significant injury by getting shot in the head in the beginning, is the key to the {{Big Bad}}'s plans, and, closer to the original take, [[spoiler:serves as an ApocalypseMaiden in the climax]]. Will all of those facts, she's one of the few examples who actually stays true to the original character's UnbuiltTrope nature.

** The Murakumo Units, a series of {{Magitek}} cyborgs. There are three playable Murakumos and each of them have some of Rei's traits. As a whole, Murakumos are young women with light hair and skin, draw power from an EldritchLocation, were created by an abusive MadScientist father, are varying flavors of TheWoobie and are clones of Ragna's (the protagonist) long lost sister. Lambda-11 is curious, innocent, developing emotions, has red eyes and is forced into battle by her boss and sort of mother figure Kokonoe because there's just no other choice. Noel, aka Mu-12, didn't know she was a Murakumo for years and developed a proper (but meek) personality, initially serving the local StateSec to support her family but eventually breaking away from that to help save the world. Nu-13 has red eyes, silvery blue hair and pale skin and seems to be sick, and switches from being utterly emotionless to the definition of {{Yandere}} whenever Ragna shows up.

* Origami Tobiichi in ''Literature/DateALive''. She even has the ChildSoldier who drives Mecha vs PersonOfMassDestruction thing going. She's also a StalkerWithACrush and one of the few characters listed who is a bit of a jerk.

* Otonashi Ayana from ''VisualNovel/Wonderful Everyday: Down the Rabbit-Hole'', has the pale skin, short bobbed hair in an unnatural tone, quiet and odd personality, [[spoiler:isn't quite human, and has otherworldly origins]]. Her name is "Ayana, one syllable away from *Ayanami*.

* ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog''

** Sage from ''VideoGame/SonicFrontiers'' fits this trope better. While she may not have blue hair, she ticks most of the boxes, even having the same [[Creator/MegumiHayashibara Japanese]] and [[Creator/RyanBartley English]] voice actresses as Rei.

* Sf from ''LightNovel/TheEndingChronicle''. A silver-haired automaton created using technology from another world. She's the personal maid of the supervisor of Team Leviathan. She lacks emotions, but shows an extreme amount of loyalty and devotion for her master.

** Laura Bodewig. A white haired, a red eyed and yellow eyed, genetically-engineered ArtificialHuman [[TykeBomb raised as a]] SuperSoldier, and educated with just enough social skills to be able to function as a soldier, which left her with no idea of how to act like a normal girl and socialize normally. Initially, she hates the main character, but she later falls in love with him and chooses him as her "wife". She's got the long hair, short stature and temper.

* ''LightNovel/ThePetGirlOfSakurasou'': Mashiro is a strange girl with virtually NoSocialSkills, doesn't understand the concept of [[EmotionlessGirl emotions]] and [[InnocentFanserviceGirl nudity]] too well and has light hair, fairer skin than the rest of the cast and reddish eyes.

* Nozomi from ''LightNovel/MayoiNekoOverrun''. A mysterious girl with blue hair and red eyes. She normally tends to be indifferent and emotionless, and also seems to be a little airheaded.

* Mashiro from ''LightNovel/ThePetGirlOfSakurasou'' is an odd girl, with virtually NoSocialSkills, [[EmotionlessGirl doesn't understand the concept of emotions too well]] and has very light blond hair, a really fair skin and reddish eyes. Although, her behaviour is usually taken to be the effect of an AmbiguousDisorder.

* Naki of ''Series/KamenRiderZeroOne'' is the first non-binary example of the trope[[note]]due to their actor, Satsuki Nakayama, is in fact asexual; expressing their desire not to be defined as either male or female.[[/note]]. Naki is introduced as a rather aloof and emotionless Humagear who initially worked for [[ArcVillain Gai Amatsu]] before the events of the second arc; who eventually gets shot for questioning his methods. Their eventual HeelFaceTurn allowed them to reach Singularity, which makes Humagears feel emotions like humans, thanks to their connection with Isamu Fuwa, [[spoiler:when it was revealed that their AI chip being embedded in Fuwa's neural implants]].

[[caption-width-right:350:NERV Cloning Division proudly presents...[[note]]Clockwise, from the top left corner: [[Anime/DarkerThanBlack Yin]], [[Literature/ShakuganNoShana Hecate]], [[Anime/SoundOfTheSky Noël]], [[Anime/AngelBeats Kanade]], [[VisualNovel/ChaosHead Ayase]], [[LightNovel/TheFamiliarOfZero Tabitha]], [[Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya Yuki]], [[LightNovel/HarukaNogizakasSecret Hazuki]]. [[TropeNamer Center]]: [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Rei]].[[/note]] ]]

%%* Nozomu Ezomori in ''LightNovel/{{Kanokon}}.'' Not surprising, since she shares the same VA with QB's Aldra, except being more slutty.

* Chronicler from ''Fanfic/CitadelOfTheHeart'' is a rare male example of this trope. [[NoSocialSkills Lack of knowledge of the social norm]], bluish black hair, [[TechnicolorEyes eyes with silver pupils and red irises]], [[MysteriousPast generally mysterious with an other-worldly origin]], 18 years old at the time of his official introduction, pale skin, [[DarkAndTroubledPast an entire past of being abused by those who had some degree of power and or authority over him]], he's a HalfHumanHybrid so he's definitely NotQuiteHuman, and he's also a LoveInterest for [[LightNovel/SwordArtOnline Suguha]]. It's also worth noting that his skin becomes more of a peach color later on, but it doesn't mesh with either his mother who has more traditional dark skin, or his father, who while having pale skin, has so due to an unnatural genetic disorder as opposed to having any sort of natural paleness to his skin tone.

* Sen Yarizui, "the Ice Witch", from ''LightNovel/BenTo'', though she's more of a very laid-back {{Cloudcuckoolander}} as opposed to being shy and emotionally repressed.
* Felli Loss from ''LightNovel/ChromeShelledRegios'' is a silver-haired psychokinetic whose powers make her unable to express emotions the same way as others, but is slowly warming up to the protagonist.

* Tabitha from ''LightNovel/TheFamiliarOfZero''. Bobbed light blue hair, very fair skin, quiet and deeply stoic demeanor, and speaks in strangely truncated, sentences with barely enough to get her point across, often single-word ones.

* Hazuki from ''LightNovel/HarukaNogizakasSecret'', though she doesn't have any dramatic plotline related to it, she is just weird.

* ''LightNovel/InfiniteStratos'':

* Eucliwood Hellscythe from ''LightNovel/IsThisAZombie''. Light hair, pale skin, mysterious abilities and origins and a deeply quiet and stoic demeanor that makes her come across as emotionless, but still has a hidden caring side.

* ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'':
** Mikasa Ackerman [[PlayingWithATrope plays with her status as one]]. She fills some qualities of a Rei Ayanami expy quite well (fairly emotionless, dark and troubled past, short cut hair, teenager, named after IJN Dreadnought), [[DoubleSubvertedTrope double subverts others]] (her hair color, appearance and skin tone are all considered unique, but that's merely because she's the only Asian woman alive, [[spoiler: which also gives her immunity to the Coordinate]]), [[DefiedTrope and defies others]] (is never injured thanks to her phenominal combat skills, is the lead protagonist's adopted sister [[spoiler: and had no idea that she was related to Kenny Ackerman]]). She's also definitely not emotionless, rather she doesn't express her feelings the same way other people do and she can perform under pressure instead of panicking ([[spoiler:which is a common trait of the Ackerman family]]).
** Annie Leonhardt also plays with this. She has pale skin, IcyBlueEyes, and is even more emotionless and cold than Mikasa. [[spoiler: She also happens to be part of a group of titan shifters that have some kind of evil agenda in mind, and is revealed to be the deadly Female Titan, to everyone's great shock. She does end up showing emotion, but unlike other examples, it's disturbing rather than a good sign.]]

A SubTrope of FountainOfExpies and ShyBlueHairedGirl. Compare to PhlebotinumGirl, CharClone and ShanaClone. See also SugarAndIcePersonality, EmotionlessGirl and StoicWoobie.

* Felli Loss from ''LightNovel/ChromeShelledRegios'' is a silver-haired psychokinetic whose powers make her unable to express emotions the same way as others, but is slowly warming up to the protagonist. She's also a rare example of this character type mixed with ShanaClone.

** Laura Bodewig. A white haired, a red eyed and yellow eyed, genetically-engineered ArtificialHuman [[TykeBomb raised as a]] SuperSoldier, and educated with just enough social skills to be able to function as a soldier, which left her with no idea of how to act like a normal girl and socialize normally. Initially, she hates the main character, but she later falls in love with him and chooses him as her "wife". She's also another example of this mixed in with ShanaClone as she's got the long hair, short stature and temper.

* Lampshaded in NGE Abridged:
-->Rei: I am the result of Hideaki Anno failing to make my character unsettling, and instead my very archetype copied repeatedly. Rei Ayanami. Salutations.
-->Shinji: Well, I would say it’s more inspired…
-->Rei: Copied... Copied… I don’t even think they were trying with this one.

* Isuzu Sento from ''Literature/AmagiBrilliantPark'', with her upbringing as a soldier leaving her stunted in the social department, unemotive demeanor, otherworldy origins, and not being entirely human, as well as being the love interest to the main character. The only thing that separates her from the other examples is that she's taller than average, has long hair, normal hair, eye and skin color, and is [[GagBoobs quite endowed]].

** In the [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist first anime]], the homunculus Sloth has traits of this, having the emotionless demeanor, devotion to the antagonist and identity issues down. The most notable similarity she has to Rei is [[spoiler: being a "clone" of the protagonists' mother (she's the result of Ed and Al's attempt to resurrect Trisha.)]]

* Koneko from ''LightNovel/HighSchoolDXD''. Pale skin, short silver hair, golden eyes, petite, is not human, appears cold and soft-spoken and eventually warms up to the main character.
* In ''LightNovel/HorizonInTheMiddleOfNowhere'', there's an amnesiac, emotionless [[RobotGirl automaton]] with silver hair and blue eyes known as P-01s. It's later revealed that she's Horizon Ariadust, a human girl who died in an accident years ago. After her death, her father put her soul in an android body and used her emotions to create WeaponsOfMassDestruction that will give her the power to save the world from an apocalypse. Horizon also serves as the love interest of the main character Toori Aoi.

* Furano Yukihira from ''[[LightNovel/MyMentalChoicesAre My Mental Choices Are Completely Interfering with My School Romantic Comedy]]''. Short white hair, red eyes, pale skin, overly serious and quiet, a little weird, has trouble expressing her feelings for her love interest.
* Shiro from ''LightNovel/NoGameNoLife''. A young girl with light blue hair and red eyes. She's a {{Hikikomori}} {{Neet}}, but she's actually a genius with an almost supernatural intelligence. She also only shows emotion around her older brother Sora.

* Gowther from ''Manga/TheSevenDeadlySins'', also another male example but fits the bill perfectly. [[SupernaturalGoldEyes Golden eyes]], NoSocialSkills, completely {{emotionless|boy}}, [[PinocchioSyndrome wants to become more human-like]], and to top it off, [[LivingToys a doll]].

* Isuzu Sento from ''LightNovel/AmagiBrilliantPark'', with her upbringing as a soldier leaving her stunted in the social department, unemotive demeanor, otherworldy origins, and not being entirely human, as well as being the love interest to the main character. The only thing that separates her from the other examples is that she's taller than average, has long hair, normal hair, eye and skin color, and is [[GagBoobs quite endowed]].

* ''LightNovel/TheAsteriskWar'' has Saya Sasamiya, a blue-haired, red-eyed teenage gunslinger. She's emotionally repressed and prone to oversleeping and getting lost, and is devoted to both her father, an eccentric Lux-maker derided by the professional community, and her childhood friend Ayato Amagiri (the main protagonist). She has an Asuka counterpart in Julis-Alexia von Riessfeld, a ([[KillItWithFire literally]]) FieryRedhead who is the other major competitor in Ayato's BattleHarem.

* ''Manga/ArpeggioOfBlueSteel'' features I-401, better known as Iona – especially in the ''Ars Nova'' anime. Being a silver-blue-haired [[TheStoic stoic]] robotic girl who finds that HumanityIsInfectious, and develops an affection with her Captain, Gunzou Chihaya. Oh, and while Rei was named after a warship, Iona sees Rei's bet and raises it by ''[[SpaceshipGirl being]]'' a warship.
** Iona's sisters, I-400 and I-402, arguably count as well, especially in the manga, where I-402 also finds that HumanityIsInfectious.

* ''VideoGame/PuyoPuyo'' gives us a child-friendly version in Sig. He's the closest the series has to an official love interest for anyone (Amitie is confirmed to have a crush on him, and unlike with [[AllLoveIsUnrequited every other display of such feelings in the series]] he doesn't seem bothered by it), he's a mysterious transfer student with inhuman body parts and powers even he doesn't understand, has cyan hair in a bobbed style, TechnicolorEyes, speaks in a CreepyMonotone because he can't express emotions well, has demonic blood and a demon soul to match, is [[UndyingLoyalty undyingly loyal to his friends]], and slowly becomes more aware of his own wants as the series goes on.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'': Hunter/The Golden Guard is a downplayed male example. [[spoiler:Similar to Rei, Hunter is the latest in a line of red-eyed clones of the OmnicidalManiac BigBad's deceased loved one]].

* Ramlethal Valentine from ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear'', albeit a DarkSkinnedBlonde case[[note]]Though her dark skin could be [[HadesShaded the result of originating from the Backyard]][[/note]], but otherwise plays this to a T. Emotionless though she warms up later, platinum blonde hair, not human, and was created by [[spoiler:St. Maximus Ariels]].

** Sage from ''VideoGame/SonicFrontiers'' fits this trope better. While she may not have blue hair, she ticks most of the boxes, even having the [[Creator/MegumiHayashibara same Japanese VA]] as Rei.

* ''Anime/DeathParade'' give us a rare male {{Deconstuction}} in [[TheStoic Decim]], the main character. As an [[{{Psychopomp}} Arbiter]], he’s part of a species that can’t feel human emotions. However, while all the other Arbiters have [[FlatCharacter at least one defining character trait]], Decim’s defining characteristic is his virtual lack of personality. It’s only from working alongside his [[spoiler:human]] [[MoralityPet assistant]] that he eventually begins to display any sort of emotion, and even then, it’s very subtle. He is shown to be extremely confused and distraught when it comes to dealing with the more negative feelings that humans experience, and when he finally learns how to [[spoiler:understand and empathize with Chiyuki, he breaks down screaming and crying out of guilt and sorrow]]. Even though he returns to work, it’s heavily implied that the experience will ultimately ruin him.