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Neon Genesis Evangelion

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Commonly refered to as Neon Genesis Evangelion, Evangelion, Eva, "Ee-Van-Jelly-Un", or sometimes What the hell did I just watch? The show is about an emo kid and named Shinji Ikari who is under the care of a drunken sleazy woman, Misato Katsuragi.

1 Plot (Such as it is)
2 Dealing with Evangelion fantards
3 Evangelion Shtuff
4 See also
5 External Links

Plot (Such as it is)

Constant themes deal with Shinji subconsciously wanting to bang his dead mom, his problems having a vital life affirming relationship with his father, and his having to pilot an alien/robot life form (that's secretly his dead mom in disguise) in order to attempt to defeat nearly invincible alien life forms who are hellbent on awakening the final angel Lilith (Shinji's dead mom) so she can turn the planet's inhabitants into a huge ball of cherry Kool Aide for no readily apparent reason.

Earth's defenses send Shinji's mom to fight the giant alien whatevers and she gets eaten alive because Shinji is too busy curling up in a corner and crying. The show is also about a penguin who lives in a refrigerator and Rei Ayanami, who is a clone of Shimji's dead... Really, except everything that goes unexplained just turns up to be Shinji's mom.

Evangelion is notable for having countless final episodes, not to mention the alternate, alternating endings to its movies. In the last episode, we find out that Shinji's Dad is, in fact, Shinji's Mom. Go Figure. By the end of the series, Shinji is so emo that he single-handedly causes his clonemom Rei to ruin the world, causing every person on it to turn into a mysterious liquid.

Cheer up, emo Shinji

Dealing with Evangelion fantards

Since the targeted audience of angsty teenage males was reached by the show, spinoffs of the series were produced in game and manga form and sold for high prices.

Evangelion is extremely popular with useless nerds who think that throwing random Christ imagery into a cartoon about giant robots is deep and meaningful and who think that it is perfectly acceptable for a director to get 50 hours of screentime and still not be able to tell a story. The best way to troll Evangelion fans is to refuse to see the movie. This makes them butthurt.

Definitely the best thing that has come out of Neon Genesis Evangelion is the classic Gendo pose.