History WMG / NeonGenesisEvangelion

There was once an earlier WMG here which says that it is a SpringtimeForHitler designed to deliberately fail and any actual cohesion or symbolism in NGE was purely coincidental, and fans create EpilepticTrees to convince themselves that there is an actual plot. The question is, why did it became successful? Answer: Eva is a massive Epileptic Tree garden. Its inherent meaninglessness and lots of [[Headscratchers/HomePage circumstances which confuse and bug the audience]] makes it a fertile land for epileptic trees to grow. And remember, If there's something that most kinds of fans from intellectual critics to the [[FanDumb dumbest of the dumb]] love, it's farming Epileptic Trees. Fans come and go into the Eva-verse to post their own FanWank and pet wild theories, some silly, some [[ContemplateOurNavels philosophical]]. If Fans lost their ability to create their own theories, then Eva would be the DarthWiki/SoBadItsHorrible flop it was intended to be. It wasn't just Hideaki Anno's art, It was the Epileptic Tree which helped push Eva to the top tiers of anime fame.

* Jet Alone, having an independent power source, would actually have turned out to be pretty freakin' powerful if combined with an AT-piercing Positron Rifle (or even a Lance of Longinus) and unleashed. With just one command, "Walk, Slow", it was enough to give trouble to an Eva. Jet Alone might be able to defeat an Eva or an Angel in a serious fight with its abilities. "Jet Alone Kai" appears in a NGE video game and kicks serious Mass-produced Eva Series butt thanks to its [[DropTheHammer Hammer]] and Shocking Grasp, the original Jet Alone might have been just as successful. Perhaps not against the likes of powerful angels like Ramiel or Zeruel without help, but against Angels with weaker AT field such as Iruel, meeting with more success.

* The Red water in ''Rebuild'' was caused by [[VideoGame/{{Siren}} the Forbidden Siren]]

However, they discovered that there is a forbidden way to violate the Law of EquivalentExchange, probably by experimenting on A.T. Field quantum physics and/or [[PoweredByAForsakenChild sacrificing souls]] (Philosophers' Stones from ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' or [[spoiler:Soul Gems]] from ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica''. The Dimension of Guf might be related to this, as the ''Eva'' equivalent of the [[TabletopGame/Warhammer40000 Immaterium]], a chaotic dimension of psychic energy where all souls are stored and where neither time nor matter has any meaning). And without that pesky Law interwoven into the very fabric of causality, the use of RealityWarper abilities such as TimeTravel (as demonstrated by God-Rei's quantum magic appearing everywhere both in the beginning and the end simultaneously) or the [[NoConservationOfEnergy genesis of matter, energy, space and time out of nothing]]; {{Omnipotence}}, the power of God, becomes conceivable. A common theme with limited and technological beings is the desire to create or become gods, to have an existence that is timeless and extremely powerful and so forth, as with {{Transhuman}}ism and the TechnologicalSingularity. This would play some role in their motivation to experiment with CreatingLife and invent a prototype S2 Engine connected to the power of God, to enable them to enjoy an Omega Point of existence, at the expense of the unique individual existence that accompanies limitation. [[AndManGrewProud And of course, with this discovery, they became hubristic.]]

AsYouKnow NGE was produced as an attempt [[SpringtimeForHitler to utilize a loophole in Japanese tax laws, and it became a blockbuster completely by accident.]] The production crew was intended to have a loose grip on reality, and they just threw in as many random things as possible just because they sounded good individually. There is no [[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible real meaning]] to any of it; the fans just assume that there must be, so they create EpilepticTrees to convince themselves that there is an actual plot and meaning to this story.

It's no secret that Rei was born in a [[CloningBlues test tube]], which includes traits of BizarreAlienBiology like being able to fight off a controlling parasite before committing kamikaze, [[TheSoulless loss of identity]], and being able to merge with Lilith. In fact, a more fitting term to describe Lilith (and by extent, Rei, since she bonds with it to become a PhysicalGod) would be [[IAmLegion Legion]]: [[AssimilationPlot for they are one who are many]]. By this method, she is psychically linking with whatever brain the [=EVAs=] have left (for the case of 00), which can be prone to failure. For Unit-01, bonding with it nearly caused Third Impact in ''Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion'', [[InSpiteOfANail which puts a new light of the possibility if she got into Unit-01 in the first episode.]]

** We know that she is a DeathSeeker, and has CloningBlues. Her determination to put her life at risk in regards to defeating the Angels is without question. But what if it's also so that she she cannot be used to begin Instrumentality?

NGE is fundamentally a feminist work from a male perspective. It explores women's spiritual, familial, and societal roles, as well as typical personal dilemmas they must face. Many of the male characters, including the protagonist and his MagnificentBastard father, are largely dependent on their relationships with women (Especially the protagonist and the Bastard, see also OedipusComplex). The females are often defined by the conflicts that they, as women, encounter (Particular examples are Asuka, Misato and Ritsuko).

* The Ikaris can also represent patriarchal rule. Gendo is the archetypal Patriarch. Yui and Shinji are the underlying weaknesses of this Patriarch's seemingly absolute totalitarian rule, with Yui being the dependence onto the opposite sex to maintain the basis for the Patriarch's power, and Shinji as the agitating instability and [[OedipusComplex Oedipal rage]] that is waiting to collapse the entire power structure anytime (Gendo has Yui as his messiah and only reason to live which is why he does all this screwing-with-the-order-of-creation in the first place, and in ''End of Evangelion'' he even admits that he's afraid of his own son, making his true self behind his "invincible magnificent dictator" facade something actually very ''pathetic''). Not to mention that in many real life ancient empires that seem to be strictly Patriarchal from the outside, women usually assumed the role of TheManBehindTheMan (such as Cleopatra, Alexander's wife, many Chinese Emperors' mothers, and such). \\