>we've examined its DNA, and... it's 99.89% human!It's wondrous to think that just a handful of genes are the difference between you and me and a mile long hovering glass octahedron that shoots laser beams
>>219370811I'd hit that.
>>219370811Go back to /a/
>>219370811cast her
>>219370811Ikr
>>219371076>herbro, can you not see that massive dong drilling into the earth?
>>219371275Hunter Schafer it is then
>>219370811yeah,a big part of DNA was considered junk dna,but a big part of that "useless" DNA actually modulates how the rest of the genetic information works depending of ambient inducements.thats why we are so diferent from animals that have simillar dna to us.
>>219370811You're just mad your girlfriend can't shoot lasers
>>219371181>demographics of 4channel.webp.jpeg
Potatoes are more complex than humans, genetically
>>219370811guess who's gonna put the remaining 0.11% in her
Where do the Angels come from? Are they hibernating in Antarctica until something wakes them? Are they spontaneously birthed from Adam? I thought Adam was turned into an embryo and implanted in Gendo's hand? Why was one of the Angels found as an egg inside a volcano? Do all Angels hatch from volcanoes? Then why do several Angels come from space? Do the Angels pop into existence randomly, explaining why they are never detected until they threaten NERV? How was one detected as an egg in a volcano then? If the other Angels can detect Lilith and go after her (Ramiel is drilling directly into Terminal Dogma), and seem to not care that Adam is there too (Zeruel takes no interest in Gendo's hand), how was Kaworu fooled into thinking Adam is in Terminal Dogma?If Rei is a clone of Yui, but has Lilith's soul, whose soul do the Rei copies in the tank have, no one's? Were they created artificially and thus have no soul? How do they copy Lilith's (a giant, ancient alien) soul to put into Rei 2 and 3? Why can't they copy Yui's soul and put it into a Rei so Gendo isn't so emo? Did they split the soul into multiple pieces like a horcrux?
>>219372628No they aren't. gene quantity doesn't equal complexity
>>219371488Fucking hell.
>>219373811Its clearly a reference to those old kaiju films
>>219373811If the First Ancestral Race was hyper intelligent, how did they send out seven Eggs into the possibly trillions of planets in the Milky Way and have two land on the same planet? There's only supposed to be one to a planet - if the purpose of the Eggs was to create worthy successors to the FAR, and the path to achieving this was Instrumentality, was any race created by the Eggs supposed to go looking for a needle in an interstellar haystack? How were giant, mindless monsters supposed to do that? Does this imply humanity achieved Instrumentality way too early? They did totally fuck it up, so probably. If Instrumentality is achieved by Adam and Lilith fusing, why were the Angels trying to kill Lilith? To prevent humanity's ascension? Wouldn't that also prevent their own ascension? Lilith was in suspended animation, shouldn't the Angels have been trying to wipe out the Lilin, which they could have done easily if they weren't focused on a city that had three Evangelions? Didn't they read the Secret Dead Sea Scrolls?
>>219375210What does NERV even stand for? What exactly happens when the pilots reach an arbitrary definition of age that makes them no longer able to pilot their mombots? How exactly do scientists collect souls? How did a failed pharmaceutical researcher pivot to a wholly unrelated field overnight even semi-competently?
>>219375210If you're the same guy who made the other post, your questions are way worse and not plot holes at all>the Angels were all children of Adam>humanity are all children of Lilith>the Angels believed that humanity had captured Adam and imprisoned him in the big metal pyramid>they did not anticipate or guess at all that the giant creepy leaky magic monster that they could sense imprisoned in the pyramid was not Adam, but Lilith (perhaps it never crossed their minds that humans could be so cruel and psychotic as to imprison and mutilate our own divine creator)So the Angel plan (which was 100% flawed and based on the incorrect premise they were operating from)>rampage through Tokyo>pop open the big metal pyramid>free their tortured progenitor Adam and restore him to power>kill all of the Lilith fucking shits (humans) that had stolen their rightful possession (earth)
>>219375491>their rightful possession (earth)I missed the part where that's ever implied in Scripture, they're essentially Jehovah's slave workers >No you see, there is no God but everything else was right
>>219375491>>the Angels believed that humanity had captured Adam and imprisoned him in the big metal pyramidWhy? How? The Angels didn't know or care how humans thought until one of them mindraped Asuka. They attacked Lilith even before Adam was transferred to NERV HQ, do all Seeds give off identical signatures? The only Angel that attempted to attack Adam directly was Gaghiel >>219375449>What exactly happens when the pilots reach an arbitrary definition of age that makes them no longer able to pilot their mombots?Instrumentality was planned to be complete before they reached whatever age that would have been. Sachiel attacks in July 2015, Instrumentality commences on January 1st, 2016.>>219375598>their rightful possession (earth)Adam's Egg landed on Earth first, it was supposed to be the Angel's planet. Lilith landed second but her Spear was destroyed in the crash landing so Adam's Spear had no choice but to suspend him. So that part is correct.
>>219375986>do all Seeds give off identical signatures?Absolutely.Kaworu is practically whistling dixie, all smug with himself that he made it into the pyramid and was gonna free Adam.He shit a brick when he realized the giant primordial magic monster imprisoned down there was the other one instead.
>>219375986>Adam's Egg landed on Earth first, it was supposed to be the Angel's planet.Why did they need a planet in the first place
>>219375986>>219375449There is no rule saying "The EVA pilot has to be a child"There is a rule saying "The EVA pilot has to have been born after Second Impact" and it so happened that Second Impact was 15 years before the series so that's as old as they could possibly be
>>219376208Right right rightSo, their moms' scientifically extracted souls placed I don't know where in the Eva units, how does this matter/work again?
>>219376383Was there a cleanup squad at the Langley's with some proton pack waiting to vacuum up her dead mom's soul? Did Gendo draw a chalk circle and summon it?
>>219376455Yui died from touching Unit-01 and yeeting her own soul into it (on purpose?) so they just had to grab her corpse, leave it in Gendo's office for half an hour and then burn it
>>219376455Everyone else considers their horns part of their plugsuit interface but Asuka never takes them off, is she supposed to do that?
>>219376512Didn't answer my question about Asuka's or Kaworu's moms
>>219376546Asuka's mom did the same thing as Yui except she didn't die, she just went insane from having most of her soul vored by Unit 02Kaworu's mom was Adam he gets his own unrelated super magic powersThey never do say what the deal with Unit-00 is but considering how they have a fishtank full of disposable Rei's laying around it's more than possible they just fed one to it and then dropped another one in its pilot chair
>>219370811So were a bunch of these things going to be flying around Earth if Lilith didn't crash into Adam? What was supposed to be the rulers of the Earth if Adam shit out his kids as intended?
>>219370811
>>219376604So they all had moms already working on the project (except Kaworu), was this a series of coincidences or did Gendo somehow know Evas had to be soul-powered
>>219376675Yes. It would have been paradise.
randomly remembered this song thanks to this threadhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfihonZlPFY
>>219376546Souls are collected through a magic science machine and stored inside the Eva's core>>219376604They can somehow clone Lilith's soul to put one inside every Rei copy, I bet they put a copy in Unit 00. Presumably the mass production Evas have copies of Adam's soul OR their fully-functional S2 organ provides a soul>>219376727Gendo would have known a soul was required
>>219370811Reminder that Anno is secretly a 33rd degree free mason
What happens when the orange LCL liquid evaporates? Does all of humanity die with it?
>>219376731But why did they need to come to Earth>They were already here in the volcanoesWhere did they come from then
>>219373811Some of them come from space. Some of them were survivors from the first Adam era.
>>219376891Eggs.Adam laid a bunch of eggs, and these things hatched from them. You see it in the Volcano episode.The question is why are they all just playing the part of monster of the week, and not attacking at once.
>>219376754How would a pharmaceutical engineer know any of that?
>>219376694fuckI never got it until right now
>>219376972>EggsLaid by…?
>>219376891because earth is supposed to be terraformed by either humans (fruit of knowledge) or angels (fruit of life)by they did a whoopsie and sent both to the same planet
>>219373811>>219375210the Prometheus video was their first I ever watchedi feel old now
>>219377254>theyWho
>>219370811You share 99.99% of your DNA with a black person.
Why are there suddenly so many Evangelion threads on /tv/?
>>219377403The First Ancestral Race (FAR)
>>219377404I would call a flying, neon colored kamikaze satellite my brother before I said it to a black person.
>>219377427it's the best piece of media of all time?
>>219377510
>>219377427There's a new one coming
>>219377708
>>219377735>the recycled animation shows the Eva lunging forward at very hihg speed>the new animation shows the Eva gently jogging towards the Angelnot great
>>219377458Who laid eggs in volcanoes
>>219377708>And by new I mean rehash of the same plot and characters, as exciting and original as the next Batman live-action action series
>>219377735AFUCKINGSNAPOFFBOXKNIFE
>>219377708>>219377735Did the combat knife always look like a box cutter? I could have sworn it looked like a typical army knife in the OG anime.
>>219378149yes
>>219378149Unit 2's knife looked like a box cutter with a breakaway disposable blade. The other two were regular knives.
>>219378149>>219378011Unit 02's did, yesThey look different in Rebuild
>>219378245>>219378011Many such cases
>>219370811>>we've examined the drawing, and... it's 99.89% the same!
>>219370811When I watched this show for the first time I just thought it wasn't for me, but honestly the way its fans act, how genuinely dull Anno seems whenever you interview him, the commercialization, etc. have kinda made me hate it now. It just feels insulting to art itself.
>>219378617>how genuinely dull Anno seems whenever you interview himHis inability to produce anything else of value speaks volumes
>>219370811just out of interest, how much percent do black and white humans share.just wondering.is it more or less than 99.89
>>219375210This is so antithetical to the point of EVA. Stop asking questions. Lore is for faggots.
>>219378617This is only valid if you're looking at Rebuild and beyond
>>219379025>Thinking rationally, man, you're supposed to FEEL this showGet raped
>>219370811Cool
>>219373811Its not clear but it is seems most likely they were not a thing until Seele poked Adam and set off Second Impact. Seele is apparently aware of how many angels there is supposed to be due to the Dead Sea Scrolls.It’s possible that the other angels also thought Lilith was Adam’s body. But its not really clear why that matters or what Seele intended this trick to be for.Yes the Rei copies are soulless dolls that control the dummy plugs. Its not clear how Lilith’s soul is transferred between Rei’s but it does seem to require retrieving the dead Rei’s body ie Lilith’s soul is moved from Rei 2 into Rei 3.I dont think its ever implied souls can be copied and Yui’s soul is irretrievable likely by Yui’s own intent. Rei was seemingly originally made for the purpose of retrieving Yui's soul.>>219375210it is not clear what the FAR motive is nor can really even be said whether two seeds landing on a planet was ever a unintended result to begin with.The angels seem to operate off of instinctual drive focused on becoming the sole dominant species. whether it is by merging with adam or lilith is unclear but their goal is simply to wipe out humanity implicitly through another impact event. Instrumentality is a plan invented by humans and does not seem to be the intentional purpose of Lilith or Adam’s existence.>>219375449Nerv does not stand for anything, it is german word that means “nerve.” why the eva pilots need to be children is never explained in the show.
maybe this is a dumb question but the thread has me thinking, what would the angels do if they killed off all humans or whatever? just live on Earth as big towering creatures?
>>219379556They would be free to pursue their creative hobbies.
>>219379556Yes. The two types of seeded life grew in different ways. Angels grew larger and more powerful in solitude while humans dispersed and grew in numbers.Gendo was attempting to turn humanity into a single unified organism like the angels.
i havent watched any of the rebuilds, are any of the angels as good as the OG series? at first I loved the basic monster angels but as they got more and more abstract I found that even neater
>>219379556They would eventually evolve to a point they could send out one of their own eggs to a distant planet to spawn more life. It's how they got to Earth in the first place.
>>219380087>as they got more and more abstract I found that even neaterIf you loved that about the original series, you will hate the Rebuilds
>>219373811it's like this
>>219380248Oh, I see.
Isn't it wild that all of my cells are individually alive but with all of them working together I'm alive? So I'm like a higher level being that can only exist through smaller beings coexisting harmoniously? And countless cells of mine die long before I do but they still matter because I wouldn't have lived at all without their lives being laid down for mine. Perhaps my cells are like angels and I'm actually a lower level being than them.
>>219375210>>219373811Here you go
>>219380299life is an illusion, it is all just chemistry
why did japan have an obsession with Kabbalah and Gnosticism in the 90's?
>>219380299Isn't it wild that 99.9999% of the universe is dead matter and empty space, but here on this floating rock, some of that matter connected together in just the right way to think about itself?
>>219370811Every time I hear a Tesla drive by I think it's Ramiel
>>219380364If life is an illusion then nothing is an illusion. Everything can't be an illusion or it negates the concept of illusions. In order for anything to be an illusion then some things must not be illusions and if our perception changes real things then it must not be an illusion. It's just naturally incomplete. And yet it is complete simply by not containing everything.
>>219380437they dint hav no kulcha ov dei ownso them stele
>>219379266Reference to old ass b/w Godzilla movies and their cardbox houses. It's been said and said.
>>219373811>>219375210>>219375449EVERYTHING IN NGL ANSWERED:>What are the angels?The primogenitor of Adam, one of the seeds of life set out into space by the First Ancestral Race (FAR)>What are the FAR?Ancient ayys who have since ascended to a higher plain of existence. They sent out moon-sized "egg" ships with a primogenitor organism inside of it to cultivate life on other worlds. The rule was 2 eggs couldn't exist on the same world as it their genetic material combining would fuck up all of reality.>What's Adam?The original/intended primogenitor organism for Earth. It had the "Fruit of Life" which meant supreme physical size/power but low intellect. Landed billions of years ago and started to grow life resembling angels.>What was 1st impact?Due to some sort of malfunction, Lilith's egg accidentally crashing into the earth. It created the moon from the debris. Happened long before the dinosaurs. Lilith's egg-shipped was so damaged that its control AI/mechanism (the lance of longinus) was destroyed. To prevent 2 seeds from co-existing on the earth, the control lance of longinus on adam's ship put it and its children (angels) into suspended animation to solve the problem. Thus Lilith's offspring inherited the earth by a fluke.>What was SEELE?a secret illuminati that has been controlling the earth for millennia, their goal was to elevate humanity into its highest possible form. The cult began sometime in ancient times when humans discovered Lilith buried underground (SEELE took her mask as their symbol). However Lilith’s control manual (dead sea scrolls) Were destroyed, so they had no idea what it was beyond a superior lifeform. NERV is their proxy agency.
>>219380745>What happened to Gendo at the end?For abusing Shinji and being a cunt, Yui/Rei/Lilith “condemned him to mu” (nothingness). He is the only person who doesn’t turn into tang/get elevated into the soul merger.>What’s the chamber of Guf they talk about?The alternate dimension created by the FAR where all potential souls exist. Every person to live/ever has lived/ever will live has their soul come from there. The FAR reincarnated themselves into the chamber to be reborn as lesser organism, having experienced all life had to offer as superior lifeforms. Rei-3 opens it at the end of EoE to combine all human souls that have since died into the soul merger (why people like Kaji and Misato are inside the soul merger).>What was with Shinji’s crazy mindfuck in EoE?Him inside Instrumentality, he eventually snaps at his vision of Asuka and loses himself in depression for a bit before coming to the same realization at the end of 25/26 and resulting in him breaking out of the soul merger>What was the deal with the ending of EoE?After Shinji breaks out of Instrumentality he’s alone on Earth for a very long time (Eva pilots age slowly and he had a sea of LCL to live off of). Eventually Asuka breaks out too and he’s so crazy from his experiences and isolation he thinks he’s hallucinating. He tries to strangle Asuka to see if he’s really still inside instrumentality, as inside instrumentality nobody reacts unexpectedly to you no matter what you do. Inside of just laying there like a dead fish like the first time he strangled Asuka she reacts in an unexpected manner, and Shinji realizes she’s real and breaks down and cries. Asuka remembers Shinji fapping to him and says it was gross.
>>219380745sounds like non-canon
>What's Rei?A clone of Yui with the soul of Lilith implanted. A creation of Gendo to both achieve his ends and cope with losing Yui. There were 3 clones as they kept dying. The 1st one was strangled to death by Gendo’s lover Naoko Akagi after it insulted her (the spiteful side of Yui becoming bitchy at seeing Gendo with another woman) and its soul was put into Unit 00 (hence why when Unit 00 went berserk it went after Dr. Akagi’s daughter Ritsuko). Rei-2 is the version we see throughout the series till it gets killed. Rei-3 is a new clone made after that. Each version of Rei has the “Lilith” inside her take over more>What was Kawrou? What was his deal?A physical clone of a researcher from the 2nd Impact expedition who fused with Adam while trying to stop it (name unknown). The soul of Adam was inserted into him by SEELE as a way to potentially combat Rei/Lilith if Gendo went rogue. After Gendo stops cooperating with SEELE they send Kawrou to initiate 3rd Impact, hoping that Kawrou would be tricked and not realize it’s Adam’s body underneath NERV but Lilith. When Kawrou realizes this he realizes hes been played and lets Shinji kill him. After his death SEELE no longer has any options but to attack NERV directly to do what they wanted>What’s the deal with Shinji’s mom?Yui was the driving antagonist of the series and probably a sociopathic manipulator who loved Shinji but nobody else. Her goal was to apparently initiate Rei’s version of 3rd Impact, while also keeping herself inside Unit 01 as a reminder to the physical universe that mankind ever existed. She fully manipulated Gendo throughout all of it and set up Shinji as a sacrificial lamb. She intentionally initiated her “Accident” that had her combine with Unit 01 for the purpose of achieving her goals. At the end of the series she floats through the void of space inside Unit 01 for all eternity. As for her origins, all that is known is that she was a daughter of a SEELE member.
So are there other planets with humans on them, or are humans not really what the children of Lilith were supposed to be, but just a product of the crash?
>>219371275that's her clit
>What’s the deal with Asuka’s mom?She was a researcher at NERV who tried to repeat the “accident” that Yui had just gone through. Hers also went wrong, except rather than disappearing fully into Unit 02 only her matronly side did and she went insane. She eventually hung herself with a doll she played with, but her loving side still existed in Unit 02 (which Asuka discovers in EoE).>What happened to Kaji?Killed by either SEELE or NERV goons for being a triple agent. It’s not relevant who and it’s not a named character>Why did Aoba see little naked Rei’s instead of a loved one like everyone else during Instrumentality?This is the default version of what you say if you really weren’t connected to anyone truly. He lived an empty life and kept others at a distance.>What was the deal with the SEELE leader? Why was he a robot?He was an ancient being kept alive through advanced cybernetics, when he got tang’d it revealed his non-organic parts>What was that thing in Gendo’s hand?The devolved physical form of Adam that Kaji was able to steal from SEELE. He implanted it into himself to combine himself with Rei and initiate his version of 3rd Impact.>What did Gendo say to Ritsuko Akagi before shooting her“I needed you”, same thing the ghost of Ritsuko writes on the laptop of maya before tanging her
>>219376175>need>Implying It's a symbol of belonging.
>What's 2nd Impact?After finding the dead sea scrolls (in truth an alien operation manual for how the egg-ships worked, made easy to read by the FAR) they decided this was the best way to achieve their goal. They were able to track down Adam's resting place in Antarctica and sent a ignorant research team about discovering new alien life when SEELE/inner circle members like Gendo and Yui knew what it already was. Gendo/Yui set up the expedition then left.When Adam woke up he was made that Someone in the expedition (implied to be the guy that Kwarou’s body is based off of) sacrificed themselves by plunging into Adam with the lance of longinus, putting it back into suspended and stopping the process halfway. However, it fucked up the earth greatly and also had the result of waking up the angels, who would take years to rise as they’re big dumb slow monsters>What is the purposed 3rd Impact/Human Instrumentality Project?Depends on the faction. The Angels wanted to meet Adam (who they thought was under Tokyo when it was actually Lilith, Angels are stupid) and begin his process of wiping out all human life so they could inherit the Earth. Gendo wanted to use it to fuse with Yui inside Unit 01 for eternity (who knows what happened to the rest of the world). SEELE wanted to use it to have all human souls “power” the mass-produced evas, each of which would be controlled by one of their members (Mass produced Evas = same number of SEELE members) that would transform them into god-like beings and the pinnacle of human existence.>What actually happened with 3rd Impact at the end?Rei (a clone of Lilith/Yui, more on that later) ended up defying Gendo’s orders and initiating her own version, which is all human souls combining into 1 to eliminate insecurities and negative emotions. People who still want to truly experience bonds while also being separate beings capable of feeling rejected could break out of it if they wanted (As seen with Shinji and Asuka)
>What was the deal with episodes 25/26 of the anime?It’s basically Shinji inside instrumentality coming to the conclusion that bonds are worth it even if you experience hardships (see the ultimate message answer below). He is congratulated by the “perfect” reality inside Instrumentality for reaching this epiphany.>What was with the Christian imagery?Looked cool>Which ending really happened? EoE or episodes 25/26?Generally, it’s accepted EoE is what happened in the real world while episodes 25/26 were inside the various characters heads while they were in Instrumentality. Why Anno did the original ending is still a matter of debate, from his depression to hating the fans to running out of animation money/time.>What is the ultimate message of Eva?Human interactions were worth it, even if you experience pain along the way. That’s it. Thank your for reading my posts
>>219370811>>219371314If you've ever played synths you'll get this.
>>219380476I mean I'd be annoyed about it but I'd feel like a kind of a hypocrite since I already enjoyed parts of it. I don't know if God is simply indifferent about us or if God simply hasn't been born yet. Or maybe God has been born and died and will be born again someday. We exist now through forces beyond our comprehension so even though I suspect I will die a mostly uneventful death someday I can't say whether or not I will be brought into existence again later through other forces beyond my control. This is all very surreal though either way.
>>219381077>and then one day, for no reason at all, the hydrogen atoms formed together and thought to themselves, "This is all very surreal though either way."
>>219380882>>What is the purpose 3rd Impact/Human Instrumentality Project?I know the answer to that one
>>219381286The fact that it might not matter at all makes it even more surreal because if nothing matters objectively then that would mean things only matter as much as I say they do. But I'm only able to say anything because reality is objectively structured in a way that lets me say things matter so then my existence does objectively matter but only while I'm here deciding what matters or while others are considering my existence as a factor in their own choices. So things matter and they don't.
>>219381606That's a lot of words to say the very basic concept that "life is what you make of it".
>>219381655You like to see homos naked?
>>219381678And when our AT fields go down, you will see the homos naked too, big boy
>>219370811angels ate from the tree of life and men ate from the tree of knowledgethats why they are immortal and rely on massive biological power, while we have to use our intelects and technical power.2deep4you
>>219382051We'll all be like that guy who did LSD and thought he was a glass of orange juice and that he spilled himself.
>>219382098I don't know how intentional it was (who else but the master Anno.jpg) but overall it's surprising how doomed the Angels are, that in spite of our hubris and self-destructiveness we basically mog them with technology the entire timeMost of the Angels are the 300 foot tall equivalent of the first mammoth to catch a flint arrow in his brain
>>219380745>The rule was 2 eggs couldn't exist on the same world as it their genetic material combining would fuck up all of reality.Then why have 2 separate kinds in the first place>the control lance of longinus on adam's ship put it and its children (angels) into suspended animation to solve the problemWouldn't killing them instead solve it permanently instead of prolonging the matter>>219380811I struggle to recall anything indicating Kaworu was a clone of a previous researcher other than his comment to Shinji about being born to meet him.
>>219380860Nice tautology bro
>>219380940>Human interactions were worth it, even if you experience pain along the way.If you need a cartoon to explain this to you, you should probably be euthanized
>>219380476>Isn't it wild that nucleic acids formed when experiments reproducing the conditions reproduced them in the late 1970sRead more
>>219371181everyone but homo sapiens and the neanderthal should be wearing a "protect trans kids" t-shirt
why are japs so obsessed with killing God? what goes through their rotten minds that some highschool retard has a chance against an omni-powerful-present etc. God? furthermore, how come they (the japs) have no qualms about shitting on Christianity but not one of their shitty gods?
