Neon Genesis Evangelion

by Hideaki Anno / Gainax

In a devastated world still reeling from Second Impact, mysterious beings called Angels attack humanity. The only defense: the Evangelions, towering biomechanical constructs piloted by traumatized teenagers. Shinji Ikari, summoned by his estranged father Gendo, must pilot Unit-01 in battles that blur the line between saving humanity and destroying it. Behind the Angels and the EVAs lies a conspiracy reaching back to the Dead Sea Scrolls — and the truth about what humanity really is.

63 characters, locations, and items in this world codex.

Characters

• Adam — The First Angel and progenitor of all Angels — a Seed of Life that was awoken during the Katsuragi Expedition, causing Second Impact and killing half
• Arael — The Fifteenth Angel — a glowing bird-like entity in low orbit that wages war not with physical force but with a psychic beam that tears open Asuka's m
• Armisael — The Sixteenth Angel — a luminous double helix that tries to merge with Eva Unit-00 and forces Rei to make the first choice that is entirely her own: s
• Asuka Langley Soryu — Second Child and pilot of Eva Unit-02 — a prodigy who made herself the best pilot in the world to prove she doesn't need anyone, then broke when she d
• Bardiel — The Thirteenth Angel — a parasitic entity that infected Eva Unit-03 and turned Toji's first sortie into the moment NERV crossed a line it could never
• Gaghiel — The Sixth Angel — a titanic aquatic predator the size of a battleship that attacks the Pacific Fleet because NERV is transporting something it despera
• Gendo Ikari — Supreme Commander of NERV — a man who abandoned his son, manipulates everyone around him, and is willing to trigger the apocalypse to see his dead wif
• Hikari Horaki — Class representative of 2-A and Asuka's only friend — a responsible girl with pigtails who keeps order in a classroom full of future soldiers and is h
• Ireul — The Eleventh Angel — a nano-scale virus entity that infiltrates NERV's computer systems and evolves faster than Ritsuko can type, turning the battle i
• Israfel — The Seventh Angel — a humanoid that splits into synchronized twins when damaged, requiring Shinji and Asuka to learn to fight in perfect unison and pr
• Kaworu Nagisa — Fifth Child and the final Angel Tabris — the only person who ever told Shinji he was worthy of love, and who chose to die because he believed humans d
• Keel Lorenz — Chairman of SEELE — a cyborg zealot who has been steering human history toward Instrumentality for decades, using NERV as a tool and Gendo as a pawn h
• Kensuke Aida — Military otaku and Shinji's friend — the kid who desperately wants to pilot an Eva, cheerfully oblivious to the psychological devastation it causes ev
• Kozo Fuyutsuki — NERV's Sub-Commander and Gendo's only confidant — a former professor who followed his student's wife into the abyss and has spent fifteen years watchi
• Kyoko Zeppelin Soryu — Asuka's mother and key scientist at Gehirn's German branch — the contact experiment with Unit-02 split her soul, drove her insane, and left her daught
• Leliel — The Twelfth Angel — a reality-bending entity whose real body is a shadow and whose 'shadow' is a sphere, trapping Shinji in a pocket dimension for a p
• Lilith — The Second Angel and progenitor of all human life — a crucified giant hidden in Terminal Dogma whose blood fills a lake of LCL, and whose merger with
• Makoto Hyuga — NERV bridge technician — a quietly competent otaku who reads manga on break, harbors an unrequited crush on Misato, and is one of the few people at NE
• Maya Ibuki — NERV bridge technician and Ritsuko's devoted protege — an optimist in a bunker full of cynics who believes in science, recoils at violence, and will d
• Misato Katsuragi — NERV's Director of Operations and the children's guardian — a brilliant tactician who drinks too much, keeps a messy apartment, and is the closest thi
• Naoko Akagi — Creator of the MAGI supercomputers and Ritsuko's mother — a brilliant scientist who strangled a child, killed herself, and left her mind running NERV'
• Pen Pen — Misato's warm-water penguin — a genetically engineered bird of possibly near-human intelligence who lives in a dedicated refrigerator, drinks beer, re
• Ramiel — The Fifth Angel — a perfect blue octahedron that hums a single note, fires a beam that can melt an Eva in seconds, and has an AT Field so strong it re
• Rei Ayanami — First Child and pilot of Eva Unit-00 — a pale, quiet girl who might not be entirely human, obeys Commander Ikari without question, and is slowly disco
• Ritsuko Akagi — NERV's head scientist and the woman maintaining humanity's only weapons against extinction — trapped in her mother's legacy and her lover's lies, and
• Ryoji Kaji — NERV's inspector and triple agent — charming, unshaven, and digging into secrets that will get him killed because someone has to find the truth even i
• Sachiel — The Third Angel and first to attack after Second Impact — a tall, gaunt humanoid with a bone-white face and cross-shaped energy blasts that walks out
• Shamshel — The Fourth Angel — a cephalopod horror with glowing energy whips that forces Shinji to fight alone and make his first real kill.
• Shigeru Aoba — NERV bridge technician and closet nihilist — shreds air guitar at his station, dismisses Maya's techno-optimism, and when the end comes, he has no one
• Shinji Ikari — Third Child and pilot of Eva Unit-01 — an abandoned boy who fights apocalyptic monsters not out of heroism but because refusing to pilot means admitti
• Toji Suzuhara — Fourth Child and Shinji's friend — a tough kid from Osaka whose little sister was hurt when Eva Unit-01 fought its first Angel, and who gets repaid fo
• Yui Ikari — Gehirn bioengineer and Shinji's mother — absorbed into Eva Unit-01 during a contact experiment, she became eternal proof of humanity's existence and t
• Zeruel — The Fourteenth Angel and the most powerful direct combatant — a squat, armored nightmare that tears through Tokyo-3, demolishes Units 00 and 02, and p

Locations

• Antarctica — Ground zero of Second Impact — once an ice-covered continent, now a lifeless red ocean where three billion people's grave marker is the absence of ice
• Central Dogma — NERV's primary command section — the nerve center where bridge operators monitor Angels, direct Evas, and pretend they have any control over what happ
• Class 2-A Classroom — A Tokyo-3 middle school classroom where Eva pilots sit alongside children who don't know they're all pilot candidates — normalcy as thin as the glass
• Dummy Plug Plant — A hidden chamber in NERV where rows of Rei Ayanami clones float in illuminated tanks — the most disturbing room in a facility full of disturbing rooms
• Eva Cages — The vast underground bays where the Evangelions are stored, maintained, and readied for launch — LCL-filled chambers where biomechanical giants stand
• GeoFront — A colossal subterranean cavern beneath Tokyo-3 — publicly explained as a natural formation, secretly the Black Moon that carried Lilith to Earth billi
• Low Earth Orbit — The void above the atmosphere where the Fifteenth Angel hovers unreachable, beaming psychological warfare down on a girl who can't fight back.
• Matsushiro Secondary Testing Facility — NERV's secondary Eva testing facility — where Unit-03's activation test went wrong and Bardiel's infection turned a routine procedure into a nightmare
• Misato's Apartment — A disaster zone of beer cans and instant food containers where three traumatized people and a genetically engineered penguin attempt something resembl
• NERV Headquarters — A labyrinthine military complex buried under Tokyo-3 — part war room, part laboratory, part cathedral to humanity's desperation, crowned by a black py
• NERV Third Branch (Germany) — NERV's German branch — where Unit-02 was built, where Asuka was raised, and where her mother lost her mind in a contact experiment.
• Old Tokyo — The ruins of the original Tokyo — nuked seven days after Second Impact, now a half-submerged monument to how quickly civilization eats itself when the
• Pacific Ocean — The vast ocean where the UN Pacific Fleet escorts Eva Unit-02 to Japan — and where Gaghiel attacks because someone on that fleet is carrying the embry
• SEELE Monolith Chamber — A dark room where twelve numbered monoliths speak with the voices of old men who have been steering humanity toward extinction since before most peopl
• Terminal Dogma — The deepest secret of NERV — a cathedral-like chamber two kilometers below Central Dogma where a crucified god bleeds a lake of amber and the clones o
• Tokyo-2 — Japan's current capital — a functional replacement for the nuked original, built in Nagano Prefecture while the real resources went to the fortress ci
• Tokyo-3 — A fortress city built to defend humanity's last hope — skyscrapers that retract into the earth, weapons hidden in every block, and the constant knowle

Items

• Absolute Terror Field — A barrier of the soul made visible — every Angel and Eva generates one as a shield, but every living thing with a soul has one too, and its dissolutio
• Dummy System — A system that pilots an Evangelion using a dead girl's thought patterns — removing the need for a living child's consent and reducing the Eva to a bar
• Entry Plug — A cylindrical coffin that doubles as a cockpit — inserted into an Eva's spine, flooded with blood-scented LCL, and serving as the umbilical cord betwe
• Evangelion Unit-00 — The Prototype Evangelion — the first successful Eva, originally yellow and temperamental, piloted by Rei Ayanami, and the only unit whose resident sou
• Evangelion Unit-01 — The Test Type Evangelion and the series' central weapon — a purple-and-green giant born from Lilith with a mother's soul trapped inside, a tendency to
• Evangelion Unit-02 — The first Production Model Evangelion — red, built for combat, piloted by the most aggressive pilot alive, and housing the fractured soul of her dead
• Evangelion Unit-03 — The second Production Model Evangelion — a black-armored unit built in America that never saw legitimate combat because an Angel infected it during it
• LCL — An amber liquid that smells like blood, fills the cockpits of giant war machines, and is literally the blood of a crucified god — the most casually ho
• MAGI Supercomputer System — Three supercomputers imprinted with a dead woman's personality — the scientist, the mother, and the woman — that run every system in NERV and vote on
• Mass Production Evangelions — Nine white, eyeless Evangelions built in secret by SEELE — pilotless, self-powered, carrying replica Spears, and designed to force humanity's evolutio
• Progressive Knife — An Evangelion-scale combat knife with a vibrating molecular blade — the weapon of last resort when the giant robot has to kill something up close and
• SEELE — A shadow organization that has been steering human civilization toward deliberate extinction and rebirth for decades — using prophecy, money, and pati
• Spear of Longinus — An extraterrestrial artifact that can penetrate any AT Field — the only weapon that can kill a god, and the most dangerous thing NERV possesses after

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