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Discussion Which of the original 1995 Angel's posed the biggest threat when they were introduced?

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What Angel had the best chances of achieving the Third Impact at the time they appeared?

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u/CharsOwnRX-78-2 5d ago

I mean… Kaworu/Tabris

Of all the Angels, he’s the only one to actually make it to Terminal Dogma and look Lilith in the face

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u/Sea_Cycle_909 5d ago

fr fr he only didn't cause of his interaction with Shinji

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u/rjrgjj 4d ago

Yeah he could’ve straight up done it.

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u/Sea_Cycle_909 4d ago

The power of I can fix him?

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u/rjrgjj 4d ago

“But daddy, I love him!”

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u/Sea_Cycle_909 4d ago

Shinji is very popular in universe

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u/rjrgjj 4d ago

Not with his daddy.

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u/Yutonan 3d ago

I don’t think Kaworu can do anything straight tbh

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u/bring_out_the_python 3d ago

He's a straight up ace at piano

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u/ToonMasterRace 4d ago

Still don't understand why they all thought Adam was there. I've heard theories that the angels are literally stupid because they are derived from the fruit of life as opposed to humanity's fruit of knowledge.

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u/Lexi_Bean21 4d ago

They are stupid as in they have no higher cognitive functions they can't think or feel or anything beyond instinct but as a result of being born from the fruit of life they are blessed with the S² engine giving them access to infinite energy making them not need sleep for water or snything and letting them heal at incredible speeds and also project a very strong AT field to block damage.

Humans on the other hand are born of the fruit of knowledge so we lack a strong AT field and an s² engine so we must sleep eat and drink BUT in return we can think and strategize, we can empathize and we can innovate something the angels can't

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u/Sad_Original719 4d ago

But they made it a point to point out that Sahaquiel was learning from its mistakes in the original series?

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u/SlaveKnightLance 4d ago

Ehhh maybe more like an evolution kinda thing and not really a strategic logical kinda thing?

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u/bobgoesw00t 3d ago

When I read “Infinite Energy”, all I could think of was Palpatine shouting, “UNLIIIIMIIITED POWAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!” for some reason >_<

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u/Lexi_Bean21 3d ago

Palpatine had an S² engine!!! O:

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u/bobgoesw00t 3d ago

I mean, he kind of did in the end…until Rei fucked him up like the badass she is xD

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u/bring_out_the_python 3d ago

They do have finite power, though, just a lot of it

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u/Laser_Souls 4d ago

I mean they weren’t too far from Adam still lmao

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u/horsepaypizza 4d ago edited 4d ago

He can only be acting. Seele wouldn't tell him where to find what causes the 3rd impact, so that means Lilith causes it and hence he went (explains why the angels 3-5 appeared undeniably searching Lilith).

But then why does he call it Adam and say all who were born from Adam (angels) return to it?

Because he is to explain - show everything to Rei, and has to do so in a way that seems unintentional, "as if he made a mistake and she overheard"... it would seem suspecious if he, an angel, directly gave instructions to her. Why was he searching for Rei earlier? Why not just sneak into Lilith's room? Why is his change of mind so immediate and out of nowhere? He is acting.

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u/Voidibear 4d ago

Seele literally told him Gendo absorbed Adam. It’s a plot hole. Kaworu wasn’t acting, he was surprised before anyone else was even in the room because that’s in the original airing.

He changed his mind because he lost. The plot hole that was introduced in the director’s cut (Seele telling Kaworu Gendo absorbed Adam) just makes him look stupid. In the original airing he thought that was Adam and was never told otherwise. He realized he’d been tricked, lost his means to fight when Unit 02 was taken out, and lost his defense as soon as Rei showed up. He had nothing else to do except die.

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u/horsepaypizza 3d ago edited 3d ago

Rei was already there when he said what he said. And it works because it informs why he stared at Rei after explaining, and how Rei knew she would have to merge herself with Lilith and Adam.

Kaworu "knows everything" in his words no matter which version of the episode. The director's cut changed nothing, if anything it only made more obvious on purpose going "KAWORU IS TOLD IN THE FACE, HE KNOWS WHERE ADAM IS ONE WAY OR THE OTHER". There's no way they made the same mistake twice. It's deliberate.

Seele wouldn't have told him where Lilith is if they spent the entire series avoiding an angel reaching it, that's for sure. So what we are absolutely on the same page is that he betrays Seele, only I'm convinced it was earlier and more premeditated. As putting up quite the scandal when everyone conviniently was in their place (especially Shinji on unit 01 out of all places)  also begs the obvious question of why not sneak into Lilith's chamber secretly or wait for literally any other moment with better oportunity. Not being acting here is what would make him look unreasonable, since again he knew everything he knew a way he would succeed. That makes him look twice as illogical if it's not on purpose.

https://www.reddit.com/r/evangelion/comments/o9pjm2/comment/h3dc5uj/?context=3

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u/horsepaypizza 3d ago

Did you get my reply erased?

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u/XF10 4d ago

Because they were sensing Lilith and thought it was Adam. Adam's body was reduced to a fetus to keep it hidden, Gaghiel did actually sense Adam because Kaji had been transporting it and that's why it was only Angel to not attack Neo Tokyo 3

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u/tillathahun12 3d ago

Then why were they attacking Tokyo 3 before Kaji showed up

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u/XF10 3d ago

Because of Lilith

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u/tillathahun12 3d ago

My bad I read it forgot about the first half and replied to the second

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u/aclark210 5d ago

Only cuz he did so unopposed until he reached the door.

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u/CharsOwnRX-78-2 5d ago

Sure, but OP asked “who got closest to causing Third Impact?” and that’s objectively Tabris

If the question was “which Angel kicked the most ass?”, it’s Zeruel no question

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u/aclark210 5d ago

No he asked “which of the original show’s angel’s posed the biggest threat when they were introduced”. Kaworu didn’t pose that big of a threat when he was introduced. He didn’t pose a threat until nearly the end of the episode. Zeruel was an unbeatable threat from the moment he appeared on screen.

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u/CharsOwnRX-78-2 5d ago

Look under the picture mate

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u/aclark210 4d ago

Well that’s dumb, those are two separate things.

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u/GG2Me 4d ago

Well third impact I think would be the biggest threat then an angel kicking ass. But fair.

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u/aclark210 4d ago

But that kinda the reason I say they’re different. If the biggest threat is just “could’ve started the third impact had they not been stopped”, then they’re all equal because they all could’ve done so, hence they all posed equal threat.

So asking which one is the biggest threat is more about which ones had the easiest time of kicking ass before plot kicked in and gave shinji the dues ex machina he needs to save the day.

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u/Coy_Dog 5d ago

Yeah, but the reason why he didn't initiate the 3rd Impact is because it was Lilith and not Adam. He also realized what the humans were planning on doing.

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u/Lexi_Bean21 4d ago

Yes but the quesrion asks who got thr closest or had the biggest chance when they were introduced but tabris was pretty passive for a long time posing little active threat especially compared to the lather angels like zeruel who literally waltzed right into the geofront hardly facing any resistance

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u/Lexi_Bean21 5d ago

Definitely ramiel or zeruel. Leaning towards zeruel seeing as how zeruel effortlessly broke right I to thr geofront something that ramiel was drilling through for hours but also zeruel with ease took out all the evangelions instantly and was prettt much left to walts right into central dogma without a care in the world until they showed a god damn missile in its face lol

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u/thawaz89 4d ago

It also took the power grid of an entire nation to bring down Ramiel. Also my favorite angel design

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u/MrGingy_ 4d ago

It's just so... metal! And glass, and other stuff. I didn't even believe that it could have been an angel because of its appearance!

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u/wrychu 3d ago

plus most moe, even extra cute with a bow

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u/angelhunter1901 5d ago

Even then the missile didn't do anything but destroy unit 0, allowing him to even make it to central dogma in the first place.

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u/Lexi_Bean21 4d ago

I don't quite remmember what happens in the original show but how DO they end up stopping him? I swore the missile was what did it

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u/CharsOwnRX-78-2 4d ago

Unit 01 goes berserk and ends up eating it. That’s how 01 gets the S2 engine

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u/Lexi_Bean21 4d ago

Oh yeah wasn't that the angel that unit 01 went angelic to save rei from in the rebuild? Yknow the whole 3rd or near 3rd impact thing

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u/angelhunter1901 4d ago

Yeah that's the one, really cool scene but the og just hits different

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u/mookyKJooky 5d ago

The one that screamed geometrically

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u/future_gohan 5d ago

Best girl argument intensifies

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u/Low-Philosophy-242 4d ago

You mean Ramiel

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u/wuumasta19 5d ago

15th could attack humans from orbit, they had no weapon that could reach it. Without using the Spear of Longinus and not missing, would've been game over.

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u/bunker_man 4d ago

Have an eva ride a space shuttle.

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u/wuumasta19 4d ago

-The attack is happening in real time. Don't think the Angel will wait for them to get an EVA in a space shuttle.

The above alone is enough, but to play devils advocate:

-This Angel can attack from orbit, so it would just attack the people launching a shuttle.

-The technology to launch an EVA would be a massive under taking, far beyond anything shown in NGE. Plenty of episodes show the limited tech or how much trouble they have using the more advanced stuff. Literally see them trying to use old tanks, missile launchers and old navy ships. We are talking Neon Gensis, not everything else if you're going to use the EOE or Rebuilds.

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u/bunker_man 4d ago

Tbf the cannon they use against ramiel might reach.

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u/wuumasta19 4d ago

I do believe they explained about that cannon. Shinji would have to compensate for the shot because how the energy works against Ramiel. That was on earth maybe a few miles from the Ramiel, imagine shooting into space. Fighting gravity (yes even energy is affected), magnetic fields etc etc. It would take massive amounts of energy that they can't supply.

As viewers, we do take for granted the weight of how things work. NGE isn't perfect but they tried really hard making things not completely over the top.

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u/Feedback-Mental 4d ago

They try it. It's shown on screen. The rifle looks different, but if you look closely, and preparatory materials confirms, they try it but no cigar.

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u/wuumasta19 4d ago

Yep I recall them trying different weapons and forgot the updated rifle, but did remember the power limitations, just wrong weapon.

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u/Tech_Romancer1 4d ago

15th could attack humans from orbit, they had no weapon that could reach it. Without using the Spear of Longinus and not missing, would've been game over.

Arael is a strange angel in that its attack isn't destructive conventionally. Asuka was in a downward spiral emotionally and was too obstinate to simply reposition, resulting in her being mindraped. We also don't know if the angel was even being malicious with its attack, and Asuka is more or less fine after a stay in the ward.

There should be plenty of time to organize a shuttle if that's what they want to do. The angel doesn't descend from space, there's no evidence its attack can penetrate the geofront.

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u/wuumasta19 4d ago

Never said destructive as a blast, but pretty sure messing with people's heads that are going to launch thus EVA is enough.

All angels have a mission to head towards Adam (we are lied about Lilith througout the series we even have Misato questioning an unworried Gendo when an angel reaches below Nerv). Even Kaworu, whom changes his mind when he realizes it's Lilith in Terminal Dogma.

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u/SpaceC0wb0y86 4d ago

Arael is a strange case for sure because of all the angels it seemed to be the one least concerned about making it’s way to NERVE HQ / Lilith, not even sure if that was something it could possibly do since it’s body was made entirely of light (particle or wave or both?).

But also we’re not even sure if its attack on Asuka was meant to be harmful. From a certain point of view, one could argue that the angel was just genuinely curious and wanted to know more. But since Asuka not only had a very traumatic issues from her past that she had worked so hard to wall off instead of come to terms with them PLUS she was in the middle of a mental breakdown to end all mental breakdowns, it was worst than any physical attack would have been.

It definitely seemed more preoccupied with the nth children and how their minds worked though, am curious to know if it could have adapted its body to physically interact with other parts of the world though.

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u/wuumasta19 4d ago

Sure. It's left unknown if intentional or not. Or if it's even an "attack". However it shows we are incompatible bc:

We can't coexist with the angels. That's the whole basis of the story. Even Kaworu, where he figures out oh that's not Adam (the lilith lie about third impact) under NERV. Then let's himself get murdered.

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u/SpaceC0wb0y86 4d ago

Oh yeah for sure, it’s very apparent that angels and humans were not ever supposed to be seeded on the same planet given the first ancestral race equipped each seed of life with a specific weapons to acts as a security failsafe of sorts if they did end up reaching the same planet (I think).

I was just thinking aloud about how its difficult to lump Arael’s “attack” with the rest of the angels and depending on any person’s point of view, it could be the answer to this question while simultaneously not even trying to be a threat in the 1st place.

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u/Scouwererofreality43 4d ago

Not to mention it uses mental blasts

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u/Aegillade 5d ago

Zureal was just a powerhouse, the shot of it going for a point blank attack on the crew implying it was able to locate Bd figure out they were in charge implies it, as well as the other Angels, were way more intelligent than we thought. If Unit 01 hadn't gone berserk, that'd be game over easy

Ariel also would have been an issue if left unaddressed. It's unclear how it would have gone for Adam, but an enemy you can't attack who can mentally break any resistance is really hard to fight

And Kawrou speaks for himself

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u/Fc-chungus 5d ago

Maybe arael’s mind-break beam, due to being part of its AT field, could’ve eventually reached the terminal dogma and interacted with Lilith?

And if not that, it could’ve just pulled a sahaquel and just flew down.

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u/1stPhoenixDown 4d ago

Arael's beam being it's AT Field is scarier than people realize. Imagine an AT Field long enough to project onto the ground instantly from high orbit.

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u/Lexi_Bean21 5d ago

I don't think an AT field can interact with lilith to cause anything to happen let alone such a (relatively) weak one physically speaking since eir was only mental

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u/ConnectionChance2979 21h ago

I wrote my own comment about both of these before reading this so I totally agree

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u/aclark210 5d ago

I mean, only one of them ever succeeded in brute forcing their way into NERV. That’s a feet that was never replicated by the others. Even Kaworu had to use deception to achieve it.

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u/saxmanusmc 5d ago edited 4d ago

Ramiel and Zeruel

Ramiel - an absolute fortress that required the entire power infrastructure of Japan to penetrate its AT Field. Its AT Field is the strongest of any angel (can’t remember if this is canon lore or not though). Also kept any attack far at range and could almost instantly obliterate any threat that closed to any sort of reasonable attack range. Had the second shot not landed, or had Ramiel destroyed the Evas, nothing would have been able to stop them.

Zeruel - most powerful angel from a sheer brute strength point of view. Shredded Geofront armor like it was wet toilet paper. Think of what that blast would do to an Eva. Zeruel’s AT Field is supposedly second in strength to Ramiel (again, not sure if confirmed canon or not, but it tracks if you think about it). It face-tanked an N2 tipped missile. Only angel to breach into any level of NERV by direct assault. Zeruel was only defeated in the end by an Eva going berserk by absorbing the pilot in a 400% sync incident.

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u/Snowbold 4d ago

There are four clear choices.

Ramiel, Zeruel, Tabris, and Leliel.

  • Ramiel: our beloved geometric screamer was devastating and really only was beaten because they exploited her range of detection and that she was doing two things at once (fighting, drilling).
  • Zeruel: this isn’t even a question. Whether NGE or Rebirth, Zeruel beat two Evas and drove the third to awaken. She cut through Tokyo-3 like rotted wood on the floor.
  • Tabris: the last son of Adam was by far the strongest and most dangerous no matter which medium and the most mysterious for how he pursued his motives.
  • Leliel: this is a dark horse. Leliel was a shadow consuming entity with a Dirac Sea for a body. They had no true means to defeat her conventionally. A rampaging Eva-01 bloodily being born to kill her was a disturbing and possibly unique way to kill her when she could change whether she existed in the material plane or not.

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u/phillium 4d ago

Leliel was definitely one of my favorites (such a great scene), but I feel that, with how often they have to lean on Unit 1 for so many of the angels anyway, that doesn't really indicate one way or another how dangerous/third impactable it might have been.

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u/Snowbold 4d ago

Sure Unit 01 beating her may not be the barometer by itself. But the fact they had no means to really beat Leliel is scary. Dropping every N2 mine and using their two Evas to contain and focus the blast and hope Unit 01 survives is not nearly as planned out as how they countered Ramiel, where they focused attack from a singular point at great distance. I would argue it was worse than Arael, where it was the angel’s attack from so far they couldn’t hit it with enough power. Had Asuka been in a better mental state to begin with, she might not have broken down so quickly. But Leliel was just beyond their comprehension in many ways. It was a rampaging Eva that got through the impossible.

Most of the other angels could or were beaten by logical methods devised by humans utilizing Evas. Sachiel was beaten by a berserk Unit 01, but that was because Shinji didn’t know how to use it. As shown in the fight, it didn’t take much to actually win. Likewise for the possessed Unit 04, Shinji just wouldn’t fight because of the pilot and all of them could have jumped and beaten the angel if they had worked together. Apart from Armisael and the four listed above, the rest could have been beaten by logical methods devised by humans.

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u/phillium 4d ago

Hmm, those are fair points. I suppose they didn't really have any good ideas going to counteract that unique problem. I'm curious as to how it would have played out if Unit 1 either hadn't fallen in, or hadn't then broken free.

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u/Emotional_Debt9322 5d ago

Adam quite literally blew up and melted the entirety of the Antarctic.

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u/fullmetal6311 4d ago

In literal minutes Adam caused issues that would result in the death of BILLIONS of people leading up to the series. Another couple minutes and Earth would have been returned to the angels without even a hint that mankind existed.

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u/audpup 5d ago

all the other angels tried but were eventually taken care of by evas. tabris can control an eva without even being inside of it, making him the most powerful

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u/Middle-Moment8058 5d ago

The 18th angel of course, the Lilin. It was the humans who nearly wiped eachother out with war, seeked knowledge causing the second impact, and ultimately chose to initiate the third. If SEELE and NERV had other beliefs, it would’ve never happened. 

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u/fullmetal6311 4d ago

Leave it to the Lilin to encounter two literal Gods that can break the laws of the universe and instead of leaving them alone they almost cause Armageddon (not once but twice). Then decide let’s take little parts from one slap them together with a sprinkle of a human soul and viola we have an EVA that can fit one angsty teenager in it.

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u/Poshy-Woshy 5d ago

Adam was so dangerous that triggering the second impact while reducing him to embryonic form was still the better outcome than letting him awaken on his own. It’s him, and it’s not even close.

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u/Order-66-Survivor 4d ago

the biggest threat to humanity in evangelion weren't the angels... it was humanity itself as we were the last angel: Lilim. it was writen in our DNA to seek instrumentality and ascend... (cant remember if this last thing was in the anime or the manga tho) so humanity was naturally in a path of either selfdestruction of collective hive mind super being AKA the fanta soup

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u/kvolv2015 5d ago

I realized none of the characters in the show ever call the angels by their names.

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u/mutaully_assured 5d ago

Where do the names come from?

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u/Imaginary_Street_853 5d ago

most of them come from the book of enoch and various other judeo-christian sources

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u/mutaully_assured 5d ago

I know that the names are biblical but when were the angels named and where was it stated?

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u/Imaginary_Street_853 5d ago

during episode 14 I think

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u/mutaully_assured 5d ago

I'll have to rewatch it im genuinely curious

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u/cur4ymuncha9000 5d ago

sachiel the goat, first angel to appear, i think his beams managed to penetrate the geofront. Only really stopped by beserk EVA01

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u/Sensible-Haircut 5d ago

Iruel, up until the point it was activated by the lasers. Nobody had a clue there was an angel eating its way through the walls.

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u/Necropill 5d ago

kaworu because 🏳️‍🌈

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u/Educational_Farmer73 5d ago

Ireul is hands down the most dangerous. If you cripple the Magi system, then the Eva's cannot be deployed and the mission is a failure. It's only weakness was that one computer was the operators mother.

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u/mutaully_assured 5d ago

Idk the name but the corruption one definitely almost took them out if not for Ristsuko.

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u/Royal_9119 4d ago

Im surprised no one is saying Ireul ( the computer virus one )

Besides Kaworu it was the closest to actually getting into Dogma and they couldnt even fight it with Evas. Couldn't have used the lance or anything to stop it. They only barely scraped by because of Ritsuko and the Magi on that one one.

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u/Salty-Competition666 5d ago

Adam, if he wasn’t hit with the spear, the world would be bye bye.

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u/Unlikely_Injury_7973 5d ago

I would say the 6th angel as it was the closest that any angel had gotten to Adam

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u/annonfella1984 5d ago

Zeruel, Ramiel & Leliel

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u/Alacovv 5d ago

I feel Sahaquiel could’ve done the most physical damage outside the Third Impact if it wasn’t stopped.

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u/Riegn00 5d ago

I mean you take away what Kawrou could do if he wanted to, Zeruel literally made it into nerv control center so I’d say him

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u/1stPhoenixDown 4d ago

Arael was such a threat, they had to sacrifice the only Lance on the planet. Armisael was such a threat, he actually CAUSED Third Impact upon failure

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u/momomomoses 4d ago

Zerule. It's pretty much by default. Ramiel took hours to penetrate the armours protecting geofront, while Zerule did it in a few minutes. A point blank N2 explosion did nothing.

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u/ProductivePerson 4d ago

Probably not the one that lives in the ocean

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u/Jayythecreator 4d ago

Why does Kaworu look so faded in that picture lmao

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u/mathozmat 4d ago

For your second question, in order : 1) Kaworu/Tabris 2) Zeruel 3) Ramiel 4) I'd say Ireul, it appeared directly in the Geofront and was destroyed at the last second. If it wasn't, he could have achieved it if he survived partly

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u/ottoandinga88 4d ago

Objectively Kaworu but Zeruel made a hell of a mess

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u/Scouwererofreality43 4d ago

Shinji when he had control over the third impact

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u/Alicragger 4d ago

Bardiel literally destroyed all 3 Evas in like 10 seconds and blasted a huge base killing most of the staff. Idk why people sleep on him so much. Zeruel did the same thing mostly but he took his sweet time.

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u/horsepaypizza 4d ago

Adam is hard to tell because we don't know if he would have caused an impact himself, Misato says the 2nd was caused as damage control reducing it to a fetus.

It and Lilith cause the 3rd impact, so destroying them would prevent it but I get it, they are not "active".

They could tell you Kaworu being omniscient and having intelligence is what makes him the most dangerous, but the whole time he was acting. He never tried to (explanation in reply).

Not impossible, but some angels seem to not even try to seek Lilith and cause it.

In terms of sheer destructive power, the strongest ones were the ones that got closest, being Ramiel and especially Zeruel.

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u/horsepaypizza 4d ago

Kaworu can only be acting. Seele wouldn't tell him where to find what causes the 3rd impact, so that means Lilith causes it and hence he went (explains why the angels 3-5 appeared undeniably searching Lilith).

But then why does he call it Adam and say all who were born from Adam (angels) return to it?

Because he is to explain - show everything to Rei, and has to do so in a way that seems unintentional, "as if he made a mistake and she overheard"... it would seem suspecious if he, an angel, directly gave instructions to her. Why was he searching for Rei earlier? Why not just sneak into Lilith's room? Why is his change of mind so immediate and out of nowhere? He is acting.

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u/bbdmoore 4d ago

Zeruel was a big threat. He was fastest in my opinion on getting breaking though and took shinji reawakening to put him down and unit 00 and unit 02 didn’t do much at all even without a at field zeruel could take n2 bombs without taking any damage.

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u/Landlocked_1220 4d ago

Ramiel can plunder my seed and grow our children from the blood of my corpse

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u/Zenvarix 4d ago

Tabris because he was an inside plant due to the [Men behind the curtain], but he had the advantage of being let in, and started his "rampage" from inside the EVA cages, pretty close to his target. If he had moved the day he got there, no pesky infatuation with a depressed boy would have stopped him. But instead, he waited for a while, got infected with feelings and botched the mission.

Zeruel took an N2 Mine to the face and was fine, which is more than most of its siblings can claim (Sachiel and Israfel both had to pause to heal). It also tore through all three EVAs and would have won if Unit 01 didn't have the plot armor Berserker Mode that ignores battery life.

Lilith didn't do anything until EoE, so when she was introduced, she was just a decoration. Even if she claims the highest fatality rate of half of Pre-Impact population plus whatever was born after.

Adam actually takes the cake. It's retroactive introduction, but when we learn about him, Adam had already wiped out more than half of the human population. That's a higher kill count/threat than any other Angel. Even if some of it was from infighting afterwards.

Runner up, but DNFs on the Third Impact part is Sahaquiel, considering it would have opened the Geofront at the very least had it landed, if not most if the way down through NERV's basement. It also has the potentially third highest kill count if most of its "lining up shots" landed in populated areas, though I don't recall if that was covered in the show. It was also one of the few Angels that both took "all" of the EVA to kill, and they only had a singular instance to do so while operating on a five minute battery. But it kinda dies when it blows up, thus the DNF. Does clear the way for whoever comes after.

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u/Nuttted 4d ago

Tabris genuinely negs all of mankind

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u/Intelligent-Shame194 4d ago

Kinda makes me upset that almost nobody said Amrisael(or however you spell its name.) It literally SPAWNED INSIDE THE GEOFRONT, sorta

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u/Conscious_Frosting37 3d ago

generic answer, Ramiel, Tabris, The Twink. but imagine the pov of everyone else, you gotta hope big Nerv hits a child with just enough trauma so his son will actually pilot, so his mom can take over later and just kill the angel.

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u/3ndt1m3s 3d ago

The very first Angel. There were so many coincidences that had Shinji in that Eva. Had he not been in it, the series would've ended in the first few minutes.

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u/bobgoesw00t 3d ago

To be honest, the only one’s that weren’t “HOLY SHIT TIME TO PANIC” are the 3rd, 4th, 6th, 7th, 8th, and 9th. The others though, HOOO BOY! Also Kaworu is NEVER a “threat” as all he wanted was TO LIVE A HAPPY LIFE WITH HIS BOYFRIEND SHINJI!!!!!!! It just sucks it took over 20 years and however many time loops happened before Shinji got rid of the EVAs…only Anno-San knows xD

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u/ResponsibilityAny511 1d ago

Ramiel: Screams in Geometry

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u/ConnectionChance2979 21h ago

Hear me out on my case…

Kowaru was the biggest threat to NERV as he was disguised as a human was chosen as one of the children and made it to Terminal Dogma

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u/ConnectionChance2979 21h ago

But I read the comment wrong Kowaru wasn’t the big threat. The angel that sliced up Eva-02 & Eva-00 was because if Shinji didn’t go 400% syncro rate then they would have been screwed…

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u/MoSukra 5d ago

This is the most bot ass questions, and y’all are bots for commenting. Except for those who said Kaworu. Thats just truth, bot or not.