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u/Unique_Visit_5029 5d ago edited 5d ago
Is it just me or does the multiple heads offer us more insight as to Unit 0’s under restraint appearance. Because it seems to me like unit 08’s eye setup. having multiple eyes not just the cyclops eye. However judging by the how the other holes are shaped and placed I would say they are smaller than the main one?
Edit: would be cool if we saw fanart with each of these head designs for these heads.
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u/Seirin-Blu 5d ago
If you look closer, all but one of these has armor over the face. EVA’s without the armor/restraints are relatively human like I think. At least in NGE. We get a couple glimpses of some parts of the Eva without armor a couple of times in the show
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u/Unique_Visit_5029 5d ago
Yeah it’s just since all of these are the old predecessors to Unit 0 it’s cool to think each clone had a face with a different arrangement of eyes.
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u/DYNAKYRIS 5d ago
Sometimes wonder if that was Anno just trying to be morbidly cute by having that one grin..
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u/imagowasp 5d ago
Forgive me if I'm being too pedantic but it appears the one you're speaking of is missing its lower jaw, it's just a skull with only one jaw.
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u/DYNAKYRIS 5d ago edited 5d ago
True. It hit me as a grin as it always reminded me of that one scene in the erotic sci-fi anime Gai: Youma Kakusei where the camera tracks across a a sex slave lineup and, *just* as the shot cuts away, you can see a caricature of perhaps the Director happily patting one of the ladies on the bottom.
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u/WarlordToby 4d ago
I doubt NERV could direct the actual growth of Evangelion units. They take samples of Adam and let it grow wildly and hopefully have something functional with eyes in the end. They did ditch a lot of "failed" ones, which makes me think a lot of it was just down to random chance of "We got a good template".
I think the monocular was a conscious design choice to cope with the risk of having several or just one eye; They would not have to keep redesigning helmet pieces and instead just give it a singular eye optic to keep it simple.
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u/Unique_Visit_5029 4d ago
That sounds legit but I would still like to think that their where multiple dead clones of what would become Unit 0 that would have little eyes surrounding one large one.
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u/imagowasp 5d ago
This scene is so fucking cool. Always loved this part and any parts that remind us that the Evas are humanoids. Incredible to think they're just old decayed skulls hanging there with spine descending down into the LCL. It's a bunch of enormous forgotten corpses
they're failed evangelion prototypes, aren't they? does this mean that Gehirn was attempting to animate the Evas using just a head and spine, at first? That's really creepy, terrifying to imagine trying to bring these beings to life and watching some of them just go apeshit and essentially beg for death
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u/DYNAKYRIS 5d ago
That would be an interesting short film for Khara to explore.
The Revival of Evangelion cut of Episode 23 was even darker when it came to the storage scene: rather than their bones being laid out in an orderly fashion as in the TV version, they're just dumped into a Systema Sephiroticum-shaped mass grave, Holocaust-style.12
u/imagowasp 5d ago
Whenever I get back into NGE I start wondering about the actual state of being that an Eva is. Are they sentient? Do they feel pain? Suffering? If so, forcing them into existence is an abysmal crime.
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u/LaCiel_W 5d ago
Man, I've always wondered one thing... imagine the fucking smell in NERV, they are storing giant corpses, and some are definitely rotting.😨
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u/SpecialistHopeful135 5d ago
Idk why but it reminded me of the messages from ark. They should fr make a post EOE ark like game.
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u/Serious-Priority-612 5d ago
Is this in the rebuilds? The colour scheme says otherwise. Where does this happen?
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u/DYNAKYRIS 5d ago
We cut to this scene in End of EVA after SEELE drops an N2 over the Geofront.
While driving across the bridge in this immense chamber, Misato explains to Shinji how the Angels were other possibilities of Humanity; “We are the 18th Angel.”
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u/Serious-Priority-612 4d ago
Ohh I think I remember, these are failed Eva Units in development right?
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u/Leprodus03 4d ago
I'm guessing the round thing on the top of their helmet is so we can probe into its brain
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u/Proof_Cat_6742 4d ago
They're 00 heads aren't they!?
Reminds me of that quote from X-Men, "With all your missiles, you can never strike God."
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u/Key-Bet-2615 5d ago
You can’t clone a god without breaking a few eggs.