History ReferencedBy / NeonGenesisEvangelion

* ''Manga/TheDangersInMyHeart'': In Chapter 142, Ichikawa's friend Kinoshita repeatedly does the [[FingerTenting Gendo-Pose]]. Something Moeko calls him out on.

* In ''Manga/HayateTheCombatButler'', Hinagiku was forced to sing A Cruel Angel's Thesis by the Student Council Trio.
* ''Manga/InterviewsWithMonsterGirls'' has a couple of references. Sakie getting drunk at home in a tank top and shorts is based wholesale on Misato getting drunk on beer, noises included; when German boy Kurtz is introduced as the "new weapon" against succubi, he's shown in an ImagineSpot in the same pose as EVA-01 coming out of the ground and getting ready for battle.
* In ''Anime/LittleWitchAcademia2017'', Lotte does the Gendo pose once, also some moments of the fight between Constanze's giant mecha and the monster in episode 18 are taken from the battle between EVA-01 and Sachiel.
* ''Manga/GreatTeacherOnizuka'':
** Noboru has the walls of his room plastered with Evangelion posters, and in the BeachEpisode he makes a sand pyramid similar to the one Shinji made in the "sandbox scene".
** Teshigawara is practically a walking reference to Gendo, what with his glove and constant ScaryShinyGlasses.
** When Miyabi dyes her hair blue, Onizuka assumes she did it to look like Rei Ayanami.
** Onizuka's biker scarf has the seven-eyed Lilith mask on it, as does one of the S&M tools in the scene where [[spoiler:Miyabi and her friends are kidnapped]].
** Onizuka has a poster of Death and Rebirth on his wall.
** When Onizuka bets on himself against Fukuroda, he says he wants to use his winnings to buy Evangelion trading cards.
* ''Manga/LoveHina'':
** When Naru goes into a cosplay cafe, Keitaro imagines her wearing Asuka's plugsuit.
** After an especially pathetic speech by Keitaro, Naru exclaims: "Hey, who told you to go all Shinji on me?!"
* ''Manga/The100GirlfriendsWhoReallyReallyReallyReallyReallyLoveYou'': In Chapter 56, Rentarou dreams that he is Evangelion Unit-01, and Meme is Rei.
* ''Manga/NoMatterHowILookAtItItsYouGuysFaultImNotPopular''
** In episode 6 of the anime, Tomoko chugs a can of soda and pops her face toward the camera in a way that's very reminiscient to how Misato drank her beer in episode 07.
** The OVA begins with a shot of Tomoko assuming the classic Gendo pose while wearing a pair of ScaryShinyGlasses. She meets with Yuu and Kii to revise the series and make it more popular in a place that looks like SEELE's meeting room, surrounded by locker doors hovering in empty space like the monolith-like holographs SEELE's members would commonly use while convening.
* ''Anime/BurnUp Excess''. Episode 8 has a scene-for-scene remake of the fight with the Third Angel featuring a giant Rio versus a giant CampGay transvestite.

* ''Anime/ScottPilgrimTakesOff'':
** One of the matte paintings carried by the film crew at Torontowood Studios is modeled after Giant Naked Rei from ''The End of Evangelion'', just with Scott in place of Rei.
** Even Older Scott reveals that he spiked Present Scott's drink with nanomachines while he was in the future to create an "Anti-Kiss Field" that prevents Scott from kissing Ramona. The way it's portrayed is similar to the AT Fields.

*** [[WhatCouldHaveBeen Originally, the Lance of Longinus one of the sharp things that was supposed to come out from Kirby when he used the Needle+Needle Combo Ability.]]

** WYVERN bears a strong resemblance to the angel Gaghiel, being a long fish-like creature with MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily. They even die the same way: [[DavidAndGoliath someone way smaller than him]] forces his mouth open so he'd stuff himself with missiles. The main difference is that, in WYVERN's case, [[HoistByHisOwnPetard the missiles were his]].

* ''VideoGame/KirbysDreamLand3'': One of the enemies, a spider-like monster called Mariel, shares some uncanny resemblances to the angel Matarael (sometimes translated as Matariel), with a body being a full head in a geometric shape and baring 4 extremely thin legs while being fullyblack at the same time.

* ''Anime/ScottPilgrimTakesOff'': One of the matte paintings carried by the film crew at Torontowood Studios is modeled after Giant Naked Rei from ''The End of Evangelion'', just with Scott in place of Rei.

* Whether intentional or not, [[BigBad Baion]]'s plans in ''{{VideoGame/Solatorobo}}'' can be seen as a WholePlotReference to ''Evangelion'', since his goals revolves creating that game's version of the Third Impact so he could help the world start from scratch after feeling that the latest generation of Caninus and Felinekos fell into the same trappings as humanity did years ago, not helped that he is also an ArchnemesisDad who's a spitting image for Gendo. And despite Elh being set up as a ReiAyanamiExpy, it's actually ''[[TheHero Red]]'' who's backstory closely resembles Rei's. In a more intentional note, the color palette for the DAHAK Type-Rx is the same as EVA Unit-01

** One of the [[Main/BonusBoss advent bosses]] of the game is called “Cruel Angel Clionel” in reference to the song “Cruel Angel’s Thesis”.