History WMG / NeonGenesisEvangelion

However, they discovered that there is a forbidden way to violate the law of EquivalentExchange (by using souls, ala ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist'' or ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica''. The Dimension of Guf might be related to this, acting as the ''Eva'' equivalent of the Warp from ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}''). Thus the invention of the S2 Engine, the key to ascension as a true RealityWarper. They implanted this S2 Engine into an artificial TransHuman who would represent the pinnacle of their civilization: that who was referred to by the Kabbalah as "Adam Kadmon". However, [[{{Gotterdammerung}} what would happen to the FAR would be a tragedy]]. Adam Kadmon went berserk and blew up ("sinned", according to the Kabbalah), destroying FAR civilization. His [[PiecesOfGod inferior fragments (the "Adams")]] summoned more {{Eldritch Abomination}}s (the "Angels") to exterminate most of the surviving FAR. This was the true "First Impact", the downfall of the First Ancestral Race.

The dying FAR went on to find the Adams and created living weapon Lances to subdue them. The Lances of Longinus were the FAR equivalent of Evas. Fortresses were created to contain the Lance-hibernated Adams; these were the White Moons. Some of them created another Ark to preserve their legacy, and injected their souls and genetic code into these Arks to regenerate life. Modern humans refer to these arks as the Seeds of Life or Liliths. This is why Lilith was never found without a Lance; she never had one to begin with. Liliths were sometimes guided by other FAR ships, computers, information storage systems, surviving FAR, etc. telling about the FAR, their achievements, and their downfall. Some of these led to the development of civilization (ala ''{{Film/2001 A Space Odyssey}}'' and the AncientAstronauts trope) and some of these became the basis for various religions (e.g. Judaism, Kabbalah, UsefulNotes/{{Gnosticism}}, the Dead Sea Scrolls). Lilin at that time didn't know that the magic of the FAR was just advanced technology, and so referred to them as God. Liliths were never meant to be in contact with the deadly Adams, but due to bad luck (or manipulation by renegade FAR believing they can reclaim Adam Kadmon for themselves, ala "Lucifer" equivalents) ended up in the same planet.

A secret group of Jewish mystics, Kabbalists and Gnostics (probably guided by the aforementioned Lucifer-equivalents) found the lucky parts of the FAR Scriptures describing what Adam Kadmon is. They were the ones who assigned the biblical symbolism such as "Adam Kadmon" in the first place. The assigning of the daemonic name "Lilin" to the Arks and the human race as a whole is probably a Gnostic influence: the Gnostics believed that the material individual human body is just an inferior sinful Hell created by the False Creator ("Demiurge", which may be a representation of Humanity[=/=]Lilin themselves as a whole, with how their science elevated them to false creator status), while there is a higher version of existence inhabited by the true Gods (the Aeons, which may refer to the FAR, Adams and co. with the fall of the aeon Sophia aka Lilith[=/=]Rei being responsible for the creation of the Demiurge aka Lilin[=/=]Humanity). These neo-Gnostics considered the Adams and the S2 Engines as the sacred "Fruits of Life" that will lead to redemption from their Original Sin of material existence.

The secret organization went by many names, whether it's "TheIlluminati" or its modern incarnation, "Seele". Their central dogma that leads to the plot of ''Evangelion'' is the "Path to Adam Kadmon[=/=]God". To enslave the Aeons such as Adam and Lilith under their control (thus the creation of the Evangelions, Kaworu and Rei), restore Lilith using Adam so that she becomes useful as an Ark, use that Ark to redeem humanity from their inferior bodies, and in that Ark combine all human souls into a gestalt superconsciousness that shall seek out the other remaining parts of Adam Kadmon in the universe, completing the united Sacred Sephirotic Tree of Life aka "God" and succeeding where the FAR had failed. However, the Aeons (Rei aka Sophia and Kaworu aka one of the Adams), who learned and appreciated the joys of human individuality and culture, betrayed Seele and gave to Shinji the controls for this Path of God instead, leading to its failure.

The First Ancestral Race were not omnipotent Gods, but rather a civilization of ancient humans [[ClarkesThirdLaw with technology so advanced it might just as well be "magic". ]] They did all kinds of experiments with their fancy Magitek, but they weren't completely omnipotent Reality Warpers, and they were still bound by the immutable laws of EquivalentExchange and Entropy, which they couldn't solve with their science (ala ''The Last Question'' by Isaac Asimov).

However, they discovered that there is a forbidden way to bypass the law of EquivalentExchange (by using souls, ala ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist'' or ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica''. The Dimension of Guf might be related to this, acting as the ''Eva'' equivalent of the Warp from ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}). Thus the invention of the S2 Engine, the key to ascension as a true RealityWarper. They implanted this S2 Engine into an artificial TransHuman who would represent the pinnacle of their civilization: that who was referred to by the Kabbalah as "Adam Kadmon". However, what would happen to the FAR would be a tragedy. Adam Kadmon went berserk and blew up ("sinned", according to the Kabbalah), destroying FAR civilization. His [[PiecesOfGod inferior fragments (the "Adams")]] summoned more {{Eldritch Abomination}}s (the "Angels") to exterminate most of the surviving FAR. This was the true "First Impact".

The dying FAR went on to find the Adams and created living weapon Lances to subdue them. The Lances of Longinus were the FAR equivalent of Evas. Fortresses were created to contain the Lance-hibernated Adams; these were the White Moons. Some of them created another Ark to preserve their legacy, and injected their souls and genetic code into these Arks to regenerate life. Humans refer to these arks as the Liliths. This is why Lilith was never found without a Lance; she never had one to begin with. Liliths were sometimes guided by other FAR ships, computers, information storage systems, surviving FAR, etc. telling about the FAR, their achievements, and their downfall. Some of these led to the development of civilization (ala ''{{Film/2001 A Space Odyssey}}'' and the AncientAstronauts trope) and some of these became the basis for various religions (e.g. Judaism, Kabbalah, UsefulNotes/{{Gnosticism}}, the Dead Sea Scrolls). Lilin at that time didn't know that the magic of the FAR was just advanced technology, and so referred to them as God. Liliths were never meant to be in contact with the deadly Adams, but due to bad luck (or manipulation by renegade FAR believing they can reclaim Adam Kadmon for themselves, ala "Lucifer" equivalents) ended up in the same planet.

A secret group of Kabbalists and Gnostics (probably guided by the aforementioned Lucifer-equivalents) found the lucky parts of the FAR Scriptures describing what Adam Kadmon is. They were the ones who assigned the biblical symbolism such as "Adam Kadmon" in the first place. The assigning of the daemonic name "Lilin" to the Arks and the human race as a whole is probably a Gnostic influence: the Gnostics believed that the material human body created by the False God (" Demiurge", which may be a representation of Humanity[=/=]Lilin themselves as a whole, with how their science elevated them to false creator status) is just an inferior sinful Hell compared to a higher version of existence inhabited by the true Gods (the Aeons, which may refer to the FAR, Adams and co. with the fall of the aeon Sophia aka Lilith[=/=]Rei being responsible for the creation of the Demiurge aka Lilin[=/=]Humanity). These neo-Gnostics considered the Adams and the S2 Engines as the sacred "Fruits of Life" that will lead to redemption from their Original Sin of material existence.

Shinji with his tendency to go berserk and kill everything is the representation of wrath. Asuka is the representation of envy because she quickly becomes jealous of Rei. Rei, with her squicky feelings for Gendo, the nudity tendencies and the [[MsFanservice Fanservice]] that revolves around her, represents lust. Misato is representative of gluttony with her alcoholism. Gendo is the representation of pride (his MagnificentBastard reputation among the fandom to the point that merely [[GendoPose clasping your hands]] can give you an aura of magnificence, and his ambition of turning everyone into a single soul and resurrecting his own dead wife is pretty prideful, think of the other widows who have to live without the wives they adore). Ritsuko is greed because she wanted Gendo and the Magi system all to herself. And Ryouji is sloth for obvious reasons. Feel free to move these around and mix up who is what sin because the only one I'm sure of is Gendo's pride and Shinji's wrath.
* You could make a case for Kaji=Lust and Rei=Sloth. Also, Shinji may have started out representing Sloth before being broken into a form more useful to NERV, which would make Asuka Wrath. Also fitting, wouldn't you say?

[[WMG: [[BigBad Keel Lorenz]] wanted [[AssimilationPlot the Human Instrumentality Plot]] as [[DeathSeeker a method of euthanasia.]] ]]
It is implied(and stated in certain continuities) that Keel is the WanderingJew, cursed to wander the Earth until [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt Judgement Day]]. Some say he was punished for mocking Christ on the cross, other interpretations theorise that the Wandering Jew is Cain himself, cursed to go into the Land of Nod (wandering) for murdering Abel. Wandering for centuries in an elderly body that cannot die [[WhoWantsToLiveForever is not something Keel wants]]. He knows that he can't die until Armageddon, so what's his solution? [[OmnicidalManiac Cause it.]] Interpreting Revelations as an AssimilationPlot (all would become one with God), [[PutThemAllOutOfMyMisery he would finally end his misery.]] All the other possible explanations for [[MindScrew whatever they were trying to do]] were the other members' motivations. Keel would've just let the Angels reach Lilith and initiate Judgement Day, but that would've messed up the other member's plans. The cybernetic parts when he gets [[MemeticMutation turned into orange tang]] were Second Impact reducing only parts of his body into LCL. [[BodyHorror This wouldn't kill him]], giving him [[FateWorseThanDeath even more motivation to end it.]]

[[Kaworu is Shinji from after the 3rd impact and is constantly resetting the timeline hoping for a better end that the last time.

Unit-00 was trying to kill itself hence it beating its head on the wall instead of trying to smash through the observation deck windows. This WMG also includes a little WMGing about Unit-00's soul. Unit-00 doesn't have a human soul, but rather the soul of an angle. We already know that the creation of an Eva involves cloning either Adam or Lilith, essentially lobotomizing it, cutting out huge chunks of its nervous system and replacing them with cybernetics including the entry plug, and then encasing it in armor before it has time to regenerate the excised parts of itself. Without a human soul being merged with it, Unit-00 is a sentient being who has been horribly mutilated with little or no understanding of why it was created. It's being forced to serve beings it hates. It wants to escape its captivity, but it can't survive on its own because it has no S2 unit so it tries twice to kill itself in the most destructive manner possible. It finally gets its wish when Rei self-destructs.

It is implied(and stated in certain continuities) that Keel is the WanderingJew. Those that are familiar with the story of The Wandering Jew know that he mocked Christ on the Cross (or was Cain himself, cursed by God for murdering Abel), and thus was cursed to wander the Earth until [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt Judgement Day.]] Wandering for centuries in an elderly body that cannot die [[WhoWantsToLiveForever is not something Keel wants]]. He knows that he can't die until Armageddon, so what's his solution? [[OmnicidalManiac Cause it.]] Interpreting Revelations as an AssimilationPlot(all would become one with God), [[PutThemAllOutOfMyMisery he would finally end his misery.]] All the other possible explanations for [[MindScrew whatever they were trying to do]] were the other members' motivations. Keel would've just let the Angels reach Lilith and initiate Judgement Day, but that would've messed up the other member's plans. The cybernetic parts when he gets [[MemeticMutation turned into orange tang]] were Second Impact reducing only parts of his body into LCL. [[BodyHorror This wouldn't kill him]], giving him [[FateWorseThanDeath even more motivation to end it.]]

It is implied(and stated in certain continuities) that Keel is the WanderingJew. Those that are familiar with the story of The Wandering Jew know that he mocked Christ on the Cross, and thus was cursed to wander the Earth until [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt Judgement Day.]] Wandering for centuries in an elderly body that cannot die [[WhoWantsToLiveForever is not something Keel wants]]. He knows that he can't die until Armageddon, so what's his solution? [[OmnicidalManiac Cause it.]] Interpreting Revelations as an AssimilationPlot(all would become one with God), [[PutThemAllOutOfMyMisery he would finally end his misery.]] All the other possible explanations for [[MindScrew whatever they were trying to do]] were the other members' motivations. Keel would've just let the Angels reach Lilith and initiate Judgement Day, but that would've messed up the other member's plans. The cybernetic parts when he gets [[MemeticMutation turned into orange tang]] were Second Impact reducing only parts of his body into LCL. [[BodyHorror This wouldn't kill him]], giving him [[FateWorseThanDeath even more motivation to end it.]]

However, as shown by Shinji and Asuka, the new humans can return to their physical shapes, and presumably, others do as well. But they don't realize their abilities just yet. Instead, they do their best to rebuild their civilization. They do fairly well, even getting to the point of FTL travel for mining and the like (''Gunbuster''). They even fight off the Space Monsters, the result of another Moon of Angels that landed somewhere - but since they developed without humanity to oppose them, they became enormous and spread throughout the galaxy. Humans do their best to fight off the Space Monsters with conventional technology, but as a nod to their past, they build giant robots powered by black-box technology (repurposed tech from the Evangelion project, likely incorporating S2 organs or some purely technological equivalent) and eventually defeat them by turning Jupiter into a huge bomb. This continues on through ''Diebuster'', where the Buster Machines pull off impossible stunts thanks to unconscious use of tons of Spiral Energy.

Because Pen-Pen is awesome. And [[EverythingIsBetterWithPenguins Evangelion Is Better With Pen-Pen]]. And whoever kills the last angel gets All Their Powers Combined. Alternately, Pen-pen already ''is'' god, because becoming a god after Instrumentality was retroactive, and Instrumentality had to happen for Pen-Pen to become a god. Which he already was. [[StableTimeLoop So it did and he did]].

[[EverythingIsBetterWithPenguins The Penguins]].

As the ''Second'' child, she's got [[strike:[[MassEffect L2 biotic implants]]]] an older model, one that had to be surgically implanted.

* The Quintessons, the creators of the Transformers in the G1 show also experimented "transorganics" and created several [[EldritchAbomination Eldritch abominations]]

Pokémon are loveable creatures that come in all shapes and sizes with different powers that can be harnessed by humans. Angels are (mostly) hideous EldritchAbominations that come in all shapes and sizes with different powers that can be used to destroy humans. The Pokémon universe runs parallel to the Neon Genesis Evangelion universe, and so Pokémon can be regarded as "matter" and the Angels "antimatter".

Seriously, he even exclaimed "Everyone just die" while simultaneously letting God kill off humanity and collect their souls, just because of his growing madness caused by his chains of FreudianExcuse after FreudianExcuse, and the realization on how pointless his efforts are when it still leads to TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt. And since this is a fucked-up Shinji, he might even continue to force God to annihilate the entirety of the universe through a DivisionByZero ala SpaceRunawayIdeon (seriously, it explains the ep.26 MindScrew). Yui, Rei and Kaworu, who realized that [[EvenEvilHasStandards this is wrong even by their eldritch standards]], eventually talked him out of it with lectures about [[EarnYourHappyEnding earning our happy endings]], allowing Instrumentality to discontinue the world-annihilating process and make him come back from the LCL.

One would at least hope so, since there are no longer any plants or animals around for the newly formed humans to eat (apart from [[spoiler:the bloody chunks of the Giant Naked Rei]]. The world at the end of the series could be [[spoiler: a "Heaven" of sorts, with the newly immortal population sitting around keeping each other company for eternity. (Of course, that could equally be considered [[WhoWantsToLiveForever a Hell by cynics]], although one would imagine such people would choose to remain in the illusory pleasures of Instrumentality.)
* The immortality can also be due to said humans acquiring S2 Engines from the dead/instrumentalized Angels, Evangelions and Giant Naked Rei. That said, the immortals can be considered gods of sorts, having both the Fruit of Life (S2 Engine) and the Fruit of knowledge (Human Brain).)]]

[[WMG: Every person who [[spoiler:chooses to reform themselves and walks out of the Sea of LCL at the end of EoE, is functionally immortal from that moment on.]]]]
One would at least hope so, since there are no longer any plants or animals around for the newly formed humans to eat (apart from [[spoiler:the bloody chunks of the Giant Naked Rei]]. The world at the end of the series could be [[spoiler: a "Heaven" of sorts, with the newly immortal population sitting around keeping each other company for eternity. (Of course, that could equally be considered a Hell by some people, although one would imagine such people would choose to remain in the Sea of LCL forever.) And if the people in the Sea of LCL are functionally immortal as long as they remain there, it isn't a stretch to imagine that the people who leave the sea have immortal bodies as well. The immortality can also be due to said humans acquiring S2 Engines from the dead/instrumentalized Angels, Evangelions and Giant Naked Rei. That said, the immortals can be considered gods of sorts, having both the Fruit of Life (S2 Engine) and the Fruit of knowledge (Human Brain).)]]

[[WMG: Gendo just thought that Shinji really needed to get laid]]
So he came up with what he thought would be a surefire plan to get him laid. If Shinji pilots the Eva, he realised, then girls would swoon over this world saving hero with an awesome HumongousMecha and he'd practically have his pick of the women. However, Gendo, having not seen his son for 3 years or so failed to count on the fact that his son had in this time become shy, antisocial, and rather bicurious.
Gendo would leave Shinji in a position in which he would be surrounded by potential partners, including many of the unnamed girls in his class, Asuka (an angry girl who really just wants to be loved), and Rei, because IncestIsRelative and the world of Evangelion is incredibly [[AllPsychologyIsFreudian Freudian]].
As things came to an end Gendo notices Shinji's bicuriosity, and sends in Kaworu, a flamboyantly gay 15 year old who also happens to possess the potential to pilot Evas. However, it turns out Kaworu is the seventeenth angel, and things go downhill from there.
The simple fact relating to this WMG is that any of those kids in Shinji's class, and plenty of other kids his age too, could quite easily pilot Eva's, but Gendo's [[FanNickname Uberpimp]] tendencies combined with his deep, hidden desire for his son to be happy, combined with the convenient fact that Yui's soul was trapped within Eva Unit-01, made Shinji by far his preferred candidate.

This is why we consider brain death as legal absolute death itself because enough brain damage will result in complete and irreversible annihilation of a human's individual consciousness, reducing the brain-dead human into nothing more than a pile of meat, blood and organic compounds, like how destruction of the Core reduces an Angel into the primordial soup known as LCL. This is also why people who commit suicide using guns aim for the brain: because a BoomHeadshot at point blank will kill you before you can feel anything.

***** Or, the events of NGE was the possible result of the actions of both Scientology and Anon, as a response to the discovery of the AT Field and Adam. In this timeline, after the popularity of TEH REI, everybody discovered that AT Fields are real (see above WMG for example), as well as the existence of the aliens (Christians often called them Angels), but the factions who most exploited it was Scientology, which used the AT Field technology (and their abundance of money) to design "alien weapons", and Anon, who used the AT Field tech for [[GhostInTheShell "ghost hacking"]] and being able to troll higher organizations in Real Life (such as the Japanese Government, the USA and the United Nations). When the UN decided to meddle, they accidentally activated Adam while the Angels invaded (it could be possible they were members of either Scientology or Anon), causing Second Impact, and Scientology used this as propaganda aka an invasion of "Xenu", as well as using their lawyers, allowing them to take control of the world for a while, changing the date to 2000 (when in fact it was the distant future, see also [[Literature/NineteenEightyFour 1984]]) and outlawing psychology, hence why ThereAreNoTherapists (Christianity is still the dominant religion, hence the title ''Neon Genesis Evangelion'', but the organizations are under control of Scientology). The world fell into grim darkness and despair, yet Anon still survived, and discovered if the AT Fields of all people are removed, it can still have the chance to bring teh lulz back to the world. The most effective way to break someone's AT Field to submission? PerverseSexualLust, or as we say it, breaking the fourth wall and oneself's AT Field for promise of unconditional love. However, as seen in Japan, it alone cannot destroy the AT Field, but when combined with MemeticMutation, or as we say it, TheVirus, and psychically projected, it will be turned UpToEleven and break down the person's ego like a corrupting virus. They try to start Instrumentality from Japan and chose TEH REI as the meme, because of the conditions listed above. Anon appointed [[spoiler:moot]] as Keel Lorenz (or Gendo Ikari, to keep with Anon's meme theme). By creating IRL Rei Ayanami, and psychically seeding her all over the world using a cyborg dubbed "Eva" to infect everybody with the memetic version of Perverse Sexual Lust, Instrumentality happened, but it went wrong when Eva's original pilot, Shinji Ikari, was so despaired he decided to retain his identity instead of joining Anon. With this a failure, Shinji assimilated some of Anon's god-like powers, ruling the galaxy and becoming [[spoiler:Xenu]] himself. Xenu (who is actually [[spoiler:future Shinji]]) then imprisoned souls of several races of aliens (particularly [[Literature/TheBible angels from a planet that resembled our ancient culture]]) in a massive MacGuffin named Adam, which allowed the rebirth of Angelkind and humanity, while Anon, in [[VForVendetta vendetta]] (and ForTheEvulz) created Lilith (hence Lilith's mask) and crashed it on one of Xenu's planets named "Teegeeack", on the hopes of starting TEH REI and instrumentality once again. Then, on Teegeeack, with the discovery of Adam and the popularity of TEH REI in the distant future... Let's think of it as like a StableTimeLoop.

***** Or, the events of NGE was the possible result of the actions of both Scientology and Anon, as a response to the discovery of the AT Field and Adam. In this timeline, after the popularity of TEH REI, everybody discovered that AT Fields are real (see above WMG for example), as well as the existence of the aliens (Christians often called them Angels), but the factions who most exploited it was Scientology, which used the AT Field technology (and their abundance of money) to design "alien weapons", and Anon, who used the AT Field tech for [[GhostInTheShell "ghost hacking"]] and being able to troll higher organizations in Real Life (such as the Japanese Government, the USA and the United Nations). When the UN decided to meddle, they accidentally activated Adam while the Angels invaded (it could be possible they were members of either Scientology or Anon), causing Second Impact, and Scientology used this as propaganda aka an invasion of "Xenu", as well as using their lawyers, allowing them to take control of the world for a while, changing the date to 2000 (when in fact it was the distant future, see also [[Literature/NineteenEightyFour 1984]]) and outlawing psychology, hence why ThereAreNoTherapists (Christianity is still the dominant religion, hence the title ''Neon Genesis Evangelion'', but the organizations are under control of Scientology). The world fell into grim darkness and despair, yet Anon still survived, and discovered if the AT Fields of all people are removed, it can still have the chance to bring teh lulz back to the world. The most effective way to break someone's AT Field to submission? PerverseSexualLust, or as we say it, breaking the fourth wall and oneself's AT Field for promise of unconditional love. However, as seen in Japan, it alone cannot destroy the AT Field, but when combined with MemeticMutation, or as we say it, TheVirus, and psychically projected, it will be turned UpToEleven and break down the person's ego like a corrupting virus. They try to start Instrumentality from Japan and chose TEH REI as the meme, because of the conditions listed above. Anon appointed [[spoiler:moot]] as Keel Lorenz (or Gendo Ikari, to keep with Anon's meme theme). By creating IRL Rei Ayanami, and psychically seeding her all over the world using a cyborg dubbed "Eva" to infect everybody with the memetic version of Perverse Sexual Lust, Instrumentality happened, but it went wrong when Eva's original pilot, Shinji Ikari, was so despaired he decided to retain his identity instead of joining Anon. With this a failure, Shinji assimilated some of Anon's god-like powers, ruling the galaxy and becoming [[spoiler:Xenu]] himself. Xenu (who is actually [[spoiler:future Shinji]]) then imprisoned souls of several races of aliens (particularly [[Literature/TheBible angels from a planet that resembled our ancient culture]]) in a massive MacGuffin named Adam, which allowed the rebirth of Angelkind and humanity, while Anon, in [[VForVendetta vendetta]] (and ForTheEvulz) created Lilith (hence Lilith's mask) and crashed it on one of Xenu's planets named "Teegeeack", on the hopes of starting TEH REI and instrumentality once again. Then, on Teegeeack, with the discovery of Adam and the popularity of TEH REI in the distant future... Let's think of it as like a StableTimeLoop.