...or do they? I mean, "man and woman, woman being a proud German, trapped on an island together to repopulate humanity" *is* actually pretty fash, but I just can't see anybody thinking Shinji is an ubermensch
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I mean, there’s also the matter of the portrayal of Seele
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Something I noticed immediately the first time I watched, but then in the preview for their debut episode Asuka literally referred to them as a ‘cabal’ just so it was even more glaring
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And I mean, they’re a secretive group with tree of life imagery that controls the world from behind the scenes, covers up catastrophes, and plots to merge the globe into one unified entity. Come on
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and literally uses Kabbalah mysticism. Yeah, it's... not ideal
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They also use terminology like "Spear of Longinus" though
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Which still, to me, demands the answer of whether in the Evangelion universe, Jesus was an Angel and Longinus was using an ancient Roman Eva unit, or what
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I think it was more just named after the biblical artifact for symbolic reasons. Roman soldiers didn’t have mecha.
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My own headcanon is very much that actual literal Christian doctrine and mythology have nothing to do with the aliens The tragedy happens because delusional humans couldn't handle this shocking revelation that the truth of the origin of humanity was aliens
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So they took this alien incomprehensible thing and forced it into the filter of Christian eschatology, which is at its core delusionally suicidal, obsessed with wiping the slate clean to start over
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Remember Kaworu actually is an Angel and he disagrees with the plan, he sabotages it to try to keep Third Impact from taking place because he comes to believe it's wrong
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And honestly so might some of the more monsterous ones if they got a chance. All the ones that really fuck up the kids mostly just seem to trying to figure out humanity’s deal but the only way they can communicate (and the people they try to) aren’t good for that.
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