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Shinji / Shinji Ikari / Ikari Shinji / Third Child / Pilot of Unit-01

Pilot of Unit-01. Deep navy plug suit with white and light blue accents.

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Asuka / Asuka Langley Soryu / Asuka Langley / Second Child / Pilot of Unit-02

Pilot of Unit-02. Red plug suit, orange neural connectors, yellow A10 clips.

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Rei / Rei Ayanami / Ayanami Rei / First Child / Pilot of Unit-00

Pilot of Unit-00. Pale blue hair, red eyes, white plug suit with black trim.

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Misato / Misato Katsuragi / Katsuragi Misato / Major Katsuragi

NERV operations director. Purple hair, NERV jacket with red half-cross.

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Kaworu / Kaworu Nagisa / Nagisa Kaworu / Fifth Child

Fifth Child / Tabris. Silver-gray hair, red eyes, light gray plug suit.

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Gendo / Gendo Ikari / Ikari Gendo / Commander Ikari

NERV commander. Dark suit, orange-tinted glasses, brown gloves.

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Ritsuko / Ritsuko Akagi / Akagi Ritsuko / Dr. Akagi

NERV chief scientist. Blonde hair, lab coat, signature cigarette.

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Toji / Toji Suzuhara / Suzuhara Toji / Suzuhara / Fourth Child

Shinji's classmate and the Fourth Child. Athletic, gruff, becomes the Unit-03 pilot.

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Yui / Yui Ikari / Ikari Yui

Shinji's mother. Lost to a contact experiment with Unit-01. Late-show reveal grounds the Ikari arc.

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Kyoko / Kyoko Zeppelin Soryu / Kyoko Soryu / Asuka's mother

Asuka's mother. Underwent the Unit-02 contact experiment and lost her mind; her soul fused into the unit. Hanged herself with a rag doll she mistook for Asuka. Surfaced in flashback only.

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Naoko / Naoko Akagi / Akagi Naoko / Dr. Naoko Akagi

Original Magi designer and Ritsuko's mother. Took her own life on the Magi launch day; her three personalities live on as Casper, Melchior, and Balthasar.

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Kaji / Ryoji Kaji / Kaji Ryoji

Special inspector and triple agent. Misato's ex, Asuka's guardian on the Pacific fleet, intelligence asset for SEELE / NERV / the Japanese government. Tends watermelons in his off hours.

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Fuyutsuki / Kozo Fuyutsuki / Fuyutsuki Kozo / Sub-Commander

NERV Sub-Commander. Yui Ikari's former metaphysical biology professor. Recruited to the Artificial Evolution Lab and stays Gendo's reluctant conscience.

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Maya / Maya Ibuki / Ibuki Maya

First Lieutenant. Bridge crew, Ritsuko's protege, mans the sync-ratio console. Dependable softie of the bridge trio.

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Hyuga / Makoto Hyuga / Hyuga Makoto

First Lieutenant. Bridge crew, intel analyst, glasses. Quiet crush on Misato.

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Aoba / Shigeru Aoba / Aoba Shigeru

First Lieutenant. Bridge crew, sensor officer, plays guitar between angel attacks. Long hair on the bridge.

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Pen Pen / Pen-Pen / PenPen

Misato's hot-spring penguin. Lives in the second fridge, drinks beer, judges Shinji silently.

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Hikari / Hikari Horaki / Horaki Hikari / Class Rep

Class representative for 2-A. Asuka's best friend, has an obvious soft spot for Toji.

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Kensuke / Kensuke Aida / Aida Kensuke

Shinji's classmate, military otaku, camera glued to his hand. Desperately wants to pilot an EVA.

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Keel / Keel Lorenz / Lorenz / Chairman Keel / SEELE 01

Chairman of SEELE. Dead-eyed cyborg in a visor; everything below his neck has been replaced by machine. Holds the Dead Sea Scrolls and runs the Instrumentality scenario from the orange 'SOUND ONLY' monolith. The hand at the very top of the chain Gendo answers to.

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Ikari

The Ikari family --- Shinji (Third Child), Gendo (NERV Commander), and Yui (lost to Unit-01). Color borrows Unit-01 purple, the family's defining vehicle.

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Ayanami

The Ayanami designation. Carried by Rei.

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Katsuragi

The Katsuragi family. Misato's surname.

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Nagisa

Surname carried by Kaworu (Fifth Child / Tabris).

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Akagi

The Akagi family --- Ritsuko, NERV chief scientist, and her late mother Naoko (Magi designer).

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Langley / Soryu

Asuka's German-American lineage --- Langley Soryu.

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EVA

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Unit-00 / Unit 00 / EVA-00

Rei's prototype EVA. Originally orange, repainted blue after the activation incident.

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Unit-01 / Unit 01 / EVA-01

Shinji's EVA. Iconic purple body, green chest plate, single orange horn.

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Unit-02 / Unit 02 / EVA-02

Asuka's EVA. Bright red body with orange shoulder pylons and four eyes.

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Unit-03 / Unit 03 / EVA-03

Toji's EVA. Black body, possessed by the 13th Angel Bardiel on activation.

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Unit-04 / Unit 04 / EVA-04

Silver prototype. Lost with the Nevada branch in the S2 engine experiment.

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Mass Production Eva / MP Eva

End of Evangelion white-bodied series. Identical clones with rictus grins.

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NERV

UN special agency. Iconic red half-leaf emblem on black background.

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SEELE / Seele

Shadow committee. Numbered red triangular monoliths, Sound Only orange screens.

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GEHIRN / Gehirn

NERV's predecessor. UN-funded research body that became NERV after the Magi launched and the Evangelions moved into prototype. Yui, Naoko, Gendo, and Fuyutsuki all worked here.

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JSSDF / Strategic Self Defense Force

Japan Strategic Self Defense Force. Deployed by SEELE to seize NERV HQ in End of Evangelion. The reason most NERV staff don't survive the finale.

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Marduk Institute / Marduk

The committee that 'selects' the Children for the EVA program.

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Japanese Government / Government of Japan / Department of Home Affairs

Civilian government of Japan. Quietly investigating NERV behind the UN cover; runs Kaji as an intelligence asset.

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NERV HQ / NERV Headquarters

NERV's underground headquarters beneath Tokyo-3, set inside the Geofront cavity.

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Tokyo-3 / Tokyo 3 / Tokyo3

The fortified replacement city built around the Geofront after Second Impact. Buildings retract underground when the alarm sounds.

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Geofront / Geo-Front

Cavernous green-tinted void beneath Tokyo-3. Houses NERV HQ; revealed late in the show to be the upper hull of the Black Moon.

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Terminal Dogma

The deepest level of NERV. Lilith hangs crucified on a giant cross above an LCL pool. Off-limits to almost everyone --- the Lance is here too.

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Central Dogma / Command Center

NERV's command bridge. Misato calls the angel ops, the bridge bunnies man the consoles, and the Magi vote on every tough call.

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Antarctica / South Pole

Site of the Katsuragi Expedition's 2000 contact experiment with Adam --- the trigger of Second Impact. Now a frozen red sea.

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Mt. Asama / Mt Asama / Mount Asama / Asama Caldera

Active volcano in Honshu. The Eighth Angel, Sandalphon, gestates inside the magma chamber; Unit-02 in heat-resistant Type-D armor abseils into the caldera in Ep. 10 to retrieve it.

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Matsushiro / Matsushiro Test Center / Second Branch

NERV's Second Branch in Nagano Prefecture, repurposed as the Unit-03 activation test site (Ep. 18). Bardiel's possession of Unit-03 begins here, and the cages around it become the kill site moments later.

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Pribnow Box / Sigma Unit

Test facility deep inside NERV HQ that houses the Evangelion simulation bodies and their plug controls. Iruel infiltrates NERV through a contaminated 87th protein wall installed here in Ep. 13. Named after the prokaryote DNA promoter site --- biology nerds, not theologians.

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NERV-2 / Nevada Branch / US Branch / NERV 2nd Branch

NERV's Second Branch in the Nevada desert, USA. Where Unit-04 was test-fitted with an experimental S² engine in 2015 and was lost --- the entire branch and a Mojave-sized crater of land vanished with it. Unit-03 ships to Matsushiro from here in Ep. 17.

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MAGI

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Casper / Casper-3

Magi node carrying Naoko Akagi's woman personality. Default terminal green.

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Melchior / Melchior-1

Magi node carrying Naoko Akagi's scientist personality.

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Balthasar / Balthasar-2

Magi node carrying Naoko Akagi's mother personality.

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ANGELS

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Adam

First Angel. Source of the Second Impact.

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Lilith

Second Angel. Crucified at the bottom of NERV in Terminal Dogma.

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Sachiel

First Angel encountered on screen. Defeated in Tokyo-3 by Unit-01.

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Shamshel

Tendril-whip angel. Defeated by Unit-01 in close combat.

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Ramiel

Giant blue octahedron with a positron beam. The Operation Yashima sniper episode.

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Gaghiel

Underwater angel. The Pacific fleet engagement with Unit-02.

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Israfel

Splits into two. Defeated by Shinji and Asuka in the choreographed dance.

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Sandalphon

Embryonic angel pulled out of Mt. Asama by Unit-02.

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Matarael

Spider-shaped acid-rain angel. Defeated during the blackout.

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Sahaquiel

Orbital angel that body-checks Tokyo-3. Caught by all three EVAs.

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Iruel

Nano-machine angel that infiltrates the Magi system. Defeated by Ritsuko.

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Leliel

Shadow / Dirac sea angel. Swallows Unit-01. The introspective bottle episode.

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Bardiel

Possesses Unit-03 with Toji aboard. Forces Unit-01 into a brutal fight.

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Zeruel

Paper-ribbon angel. Tears through Tokyo-3. Triggers Unit-01's berserk feeding.

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Arael

Bird-of-light angel. Mind-attacks Asuka. Defeated by the Lance of Longinus.

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Armisael

Helix angel that fuses with Unit-00. Forces Rei to self-destruct.

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Tabris

Final visible angel. Identity reveal is a major spoiler --- gated until unlocked.

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Lilim

Humanity itself, the Eighteenth Angel. Revealed as the Instrumentality conclusion.

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AT Field / AT-Field / Absolute Terror Field

Absolute Terror Field. Hexagonal red barrier projected by every soul.

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LCL / Link Connect Liquid

Link Connect Liquid. Orange amniotic fluid filling the entry plug.

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Third Impact / Tang / Instrumentality

Instrumentality. Pink-orange tang of dissolved humanity.

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Hedgehog's Dilemma / Hedgehog Dilemma

The closer two people draw, the more they hurt each other --- the central interpersonal motif framed in Episode 4.

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Trauma

The unhealed wounds the cast carries --- Shinji's father, Asuka's mother, Misato's father, Rei's nature.

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Rejection

The fear and the act --- Shinji's reflexive 'I mustn't run away' braided with the dread of being pushed away.

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Abandonment

Parents who left, parents who are absent in the room --- the through-line under every Ikari and Akagi mother arc.

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Depression

Shinji's defining affliction. The 'I mustn't run away' as a depressive command, the bathwater stillness, the LCL passivity, the closing 'show me your truth' surrender.

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Lance of Longinus / Lance

Twin-helix golden spear. The only weapon that pierces an angel's AT field. Asuka throws it into Arael, then it's lost in lunar orbit.

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Dummy Plug / Dummy System

Autopilot module that runs an EVA on a captive copy of someone's psyche. Unit-01 under Dummy Plug control crushes Unit-03 with Toji aboard --- the Bardiel kill.

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S² Engine / S2 Engine / Super Solenoid Engine

Super Solenoid power organ --- the angels' inexhaustible energy core. Unit-01 absorbs Zeruel's S² and goes off-grid: an EVA that no longer needs an umbilical.

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Entry Plug

The cylindrical capsule a pilot rides in. Slots into the EVA's spine, floods with LCL, transmits the pilot's nerves to the unit's giant body.

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Human Instrumentality Project / Instrumentality Project / HIP

SEELE's endgame --- collapse every AT field at once and merge all souls into a single being. Different actors have different motives; the result is the same Tang.

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Progressive Knife / Prog Knife

Vibrating monomolecular blade stowed in each EVA's shoulder pylon. The default angel-killing tool when the rifle and the lance are out of reach.

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Black Moon

The egg-shaped vessel buried under Tokyo-3. The Geofront is its hollow upper shell; Lilith was its passenger.

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White Moon

The Antarctic counterpart to the Black Moon. Adam's vessel; the Katsuragi Expedition cracked it open and triggered Second Impact.

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Dead Sea Scrolls / Secret Dead Sea Scrolls / Scrolls

The prophecy SEELE runs the world by. They predict the angels in numerical order, name the two Moons, and lay out the scenario that ends in Instrumentality. Keel keeps the only complete copy.

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Sound Only / SOUND ONLY / SEELE Monolith

The orange 'SOUND ONLY' monolith. SEELE's twelve members appear to Gendo as numbered red triangles plus this one black-on-orange slab; nobody on the bridge ever sees a face. The most stylish committee meeting in anime history.

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Berserk / Berserk Mode / F-Type / berserker

What happens when the umbilical detaches and Yui decides she's had enough. Unit-01 enters this state in Eps. 2 (Sachiel), 16 (Leliel), and 19 (Zeruel) --- it bites, it screams, it eats S² engines.

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Yebisu / Yebisu beer

Misato's drink. A 500ml gold-label can opened over the head, drained in three seconds flat, followed by the most theatrical 'PUHAAA!' on Japanese television. Basically a load-bearing structural element of the Katsuragi apartment.

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Watermelons / Watermelon / Kaji's watermelons

Kaji's hobby. He is a triple agent running ops for NERV, the Japanese government, and SEELE; on his off days he tends a NERV greenhouse plot of striped melons. A man who runs three jobs wants something that grows back.

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the viewer / audience-as-Lilim

The viewer. Tabris names humanity itself the 18th Angel; the audience IS Lilim. Surfaces only after End of Evangelion.

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First Impact / Giant Impact

Pre-history collision that formed the Moon and stranded the White Moon (Adam's vessel) in Antarctica. Backstory only; the show drips it out across the late-teens episodes.

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Second Impact

September 2000. The Katsuragi Expedition's contact experiment with Adam in Antarctica triggered a global cataclysm --- billions dead, sea levels reshaped, the seasons gone. The show's pre-cause for everything.

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Operation Yashima / Yashima Operation

Ep. 6. Every spare watt of electricity in the Japanese archipelago drains into a single positron rifle so Unit-01 can shoot the Fifth Angel through the head from outside its AT field. Rei in Unit-00 holds the heat shield. The first time the show stops being about the giant robots and starts being about the kids.