History WMG / NeonGenesisEvangelion

*** The seiyuu that voices Kaworu and Xellos also voices [[Manga/MahouSenseiNegima Fate Averruncus]]. If we combine this with some other [=WMGs=], and take this to its possible conclusion, we end up with Fate trying to enact a GambitRoulette that will result in Shinji (as Negi) [[EverybodyLives saving all of his friends]], and preventing TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt, allowing Shinji's mind to take another step towards heath.

[[WMG: Kaworu, Kazuhiro Mitogawa from Ga-Rei Zero, Nagi Homura from ''Anime/MaiHime'' and Full Metal Panic!'s Leonard Testarossa are all the same person]]

1. AT-field can only be breached with another AT-Field (excluding FrickinLaserBeams, NuclearOption and stuff).\\

[[WMG: The High-School AU scene from Episode 26 was originally part of the intended ending]].

At the end of End of Evangelion [[spoiler:every single Lillithian Life Form has been transformed into LCL. This is every organism on the planet. Then we're told that everyone with force of personality will come back, given that Shinji counted, we can assume that the definition of force of personality is pretty low. But probably not as low as say...a plant. You've got the entire human population of the world, probably a lot of animals but not a single plant which means there's nothing converting CO2 to Oxygen ]]

* Alternately, it wasn't Satan who was disgusted with God's damnation of humanity. It was Jesus Christ himself, who believed that humanity could still be saved. In the original Hebrew text, Satan was God's accuser, the prosecutor who always tried to prove that humanity is beyond redemption. He was on league with YHVH to damn humanity to Hell. On the opposite stood Jesus, who believed in the goodness of humanity. Khil Lorenz was just the biblical Cain, who simply wanted nothing more than to die after millennia of wandering the Earth, and for that reason, he cooperated with his grand plan. Jesus had descendants ala Da Vinci Code, and passed his consciousness amongst them, until his latest descendant, Yui Ikari, was born. She, who is in fact an incarnation of Jesus, sacrificed herself, letting herself be crucified again, into the eternal prison of the Evangelion to protect Humanity from God's wrath.

* Alternately, it wasn't Satan who was disgusted with God's damnation of humanity. It was Jesus Christ himself, who believed that humanity could still be saved. In the original Hebrew text, Satan was God's accuser, the prosecutor who always tried to prove that humanity is beyond redemption. He was on league with YHVH to damn humanity to Hell. On the opposite stood Jesus, who believed in the goodness of humanity. Khil Lorenz was just the biblical Cain, who simply wanted nothing more than to die, and for that reason, he cooperated with Jesus' grand plan. He had descendants ala Da Vinci Code, and passed his consciousness amongst them, until his latest descendant, Yui Ikari, was born. She, who is in fact an incarnation of Jesus, sacrificed herself into the eternal prison of the Evangelion to protect Humanity from God's wrath.

Second Impact occurred in 2000 because God was enraged with humanity, as they continued committing sins unabated, and worshipping false gods like Buddha, the Hindu pantheon, and Xenu. He decided that all of mankind was a mistake that had to pay the ultimate price: eternal damnation.

And if you like Gendo Ikari and Rei Ayanami, then Anno hates you. We all know how ''Evangelion'' is one big Fuck You to the audience and all of otakudom in general, culminating with the masturbation of Shinji on a comatose Asuka representing otaku PerverseSexualLust. This is You, who masturbates to dead girls without true consciousness. This is You, who would actually be afraid if those {{Moe}} girls became conscious and turned out to be feminists, and would denounce them as evil bitches. If Asuka approached you in Real Life, you would ''fear''. However, there is an even bigger Fuck You to the audience, because at least Shinji grew out of it. It's the guy with the [[ClaspYourHandsIfYouDeceive awesome pose]], whom everybody admires as a MagnificentBastard aka The "[[FanNickname Uber Pimp]]".

* Actually, This Troper actually ''[[BileFascination liked]]'' the Ode To Joy (which he always hated before since it's an EarWorm) ever since the episode about Kaworu Nagisa.
** You must have a very sick mind, then.

* You mean [[MagictheGathering Planeswalkers?]]

[[WMG:[[InternetBackdraft Now for one to piss off half the fanbase]]: Evangelions have no physical gender.]]

*** [[CaptainObvious You think]]?

* Except that: 1) the god-warriors were [[NightmareFuel clearly]] [[BodyHorror biological]], 2) [[YouFailNuclearPhysicsForever modern (and presumably future semi-post-apocalyptic) nuclear reactors do not poison the environment]], and 3) Jet Alone did not have DeathRays.

Kaworu is Jesus. The above theory says Yui is Jesus. If that's the case, then Kaworu is Yui. [[YouFailLogicForever Q.E.D.]]

[[YouFailLogicForever Ergo,]] [[DysfunctionJunction an army of depressed hikkikomori]] [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu can punch out an angel]].[[labelnote:Also,]]if all else fails, these depressed hikkikomori can be [[GrievousHarmWithABody shot at them]]. Just saying.[[/labelnote]]\\

*** This editor had a hilarious corollary theory involving ''VideoGame/Wolfenstein3D'' that was lost in Main/TheGreatCrash, but he can't seem to reformulate it quite as eloquently.

To preserve their legacy after the Angelic Deluge, the FAR instrumentalised themselves and injected their souls and genetic code into Arks to colonize untainted worlds and regenerate life after all the Adams are pacified and conditions are safe enough. Humans refer to these Arks as the Seeds of Life, Fruits of Knowledge or simply "Liliths". This is why Lilith was found without a Lance to hibernate her; why would you hibernate someone whose purpose is to spread and revive life? Liliths were sometimes accompanied by other FAR ships, computers, relics, FAR who chose not to be Instrumentalised, etc. preserving information about the civilization of the First Ancestral Race, their achievements, and their downfall. Some of these helped the development of modern human civilization (ala ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey'' and the AncientAstronauts trope) and some of these became the basis for various religions (e.g. Judaism, Kabbalah, UsefulNotes/{{Gnosticism}}, the Dead Sea Scrolls, legends of Atlantis, {{Alchemy}}). Humans have [[MistakenForGods mistaken the discovered archaeotech of the FAR for Magic or Miracles]], and [[CargoCult so considered them to be synonymous with God]].

[[WMG: Evangelion anime ''itself'' is ''Literature/TheUglyBarnacle''.]]

** The Anti-Spirals are the Instrumentalized humans, led by a mind-raped Shinji. It may explain [[MoralEventHorizon what he did to]] [[DudeShesInAComa Nia.]]

*** Almost everything you wrote is wrong. Not even getting into the fact that you have no idea what Superflat is and are projecting your own politics into it based on a flawed wiki article that the original writer admitted to me was some nonsense he wrote as a teenager, Hideaki Anno is a self-admitted fan of Strike Witches. Yes, THAT Strike Witches. The very embodiment of Objectively Evil Misogynist Pedophilic Moe Sexualization. The ex-Gainax director of SW wrote on his blog about how Anno proudly put a DVD copy on his desk at Studio Khara. Khara itself, which is run by Anno, creates tons of fanservice of both the underage girl and underage boy characters. I've spoken to Carl Horn, the director of the Eva manga, about the idea that Anno is against """"objectification"""" and he pretty much laughed it off; this is a man who has obsessively collected Anno quotes for longer than most of you critical theorist kids were even born.

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 SDarthWiki/oBadItsHorrible 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.

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 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.

Also, the theme seems to be more or less a dystopian staple: true Utopia is earned organically, not imposed synthetically. Though Shinji's fantasy-world is great, it cannot be had in reality, and thus he rejects it. Like many Utopias' failures, the cause of failure is the imperfection of humans and how they cannot tolerate boredom; before evolution such as Instrumentality would bring can take place, we must actually change by ourselves to the point where it is natural to reach that state. Shinji's realization that human's can't truly co-exist in harmony for real--and thus, a free, intelligent and interesting life must include the painful chaos of individuality--is the reason that Instrumentality failed miserably. For other examples of collectivistic transhumanist utopias which get deconstructed because human nature isn't ready for it, see ''Film/The Matrix'', ''Literature/BraveNewWorld'', and ''TheGiver'' If we were able to live in peace, BreadAndCircuses forever, there would be no more plot, our souls suffer death-by-boredom (which we may not notice superficially) and it would not be much different from an AndIMustScream state (hence why in dystopian literature fandom, the fates of the people living in "Brave New World" are compared with of all things those that live in the absolute DespairEventHorizon of all Dystopias, "Literature/NineteenEightyFour"). The idea that we can't cheat our way to peace is actually one that would be very important to remember in real life.

*** Wait, are you saying that Mal is descended from '''''SHINJI?!?!?!?!''''' That might be going into PoisonOakEpilepticTrees territory there.