Chernobyl - Evangelion similarities

[Duke]

I noticed this while I was reading about Chernobyl and the Chernobyl disaster and whatnot last night. I don't know if it's intentional or if I'm just subconsciously making it fit.

At Chernobyl, nuclear reactors 1, 2, and 3 all worked fine. Reactor 4 exploded, and reactors 5 and 6 were being built but never finished after 4 exploded. After reactor 4 exploded, the entire area around the plant had to be evacuated.

In Evangelion, the first three evas worked fine, Eva unit-04 more or less exploded, taking the entire NERV base around it with it. If I remember correctly, Misato says that evas #05 and #06 were under construction but later scrapped when she's talking about the mass production evas.

D'you think this was intentional or am I just stretching it to make it fit?

(also, I'm not sure if this belonged in Evangelion Discussion or Evangelion chit-chat. Oh well, so sorry if it's in the wrong forum.)

[Stallard]

Probably just coincidental. No effort was made to maintain the similarities in the Rebuild of Evangelion movies.

[Hirdy]

I don't think it be some they put in on puppose, cause well they have more than six evas to oppose the six reactors... apart from that, it seems pretty unusual to say the least

[Kendrix]

That's just four being an unlucky number in Japan (and, apparently, in real life as well)

[ReiAyanami25]

The similarities are visible, but they do not seem to be significant enough to be actual references.

[Reichu]

Actually, the fourth Eva (Eva-03) got a fungal infection and had to be put down. Eva-04 didn't explode, either; it was sucked into another dimension and took its surroundings with it.

I'm still not completely sure what Misato was implying, if anything, about Eva-05 and -06. I have to ask symbv about that line when he gets back.

[TehDonutKing]

That's just four being an unlucky number in Japan (and, apparently, in real life as well)

So Japan isn't real?

[Hyper Shinchan]

So Japan isn't real?

I'm not sure but maybe she wanted to say that it's an unlucky number in both Japan's folklore and real life.

I'm still not completely sure what Misato was implying, if anything, about Eva-05 and -06. I have to ask symbv about that line when he gets back.

Personally I think that removing 3 arms to repair Eva-00 and Eva-02 would just delay the completion of those units, why would they have to scrap them?

[TehDonutKing]

I'm not sure but maybe she wanted to say that it's an unlucky number in both Japan's folklore and real life.

[Warren Peace]

I starting to hate that Fuyutsuki emoticon. It's only used when people want to be condescending.

[Hyper Shinchan]

I starting to hate that Fuyutsuki emoticon. It's only used when people want to be condescending.

Well, people knows countless ways to be condescending, for example they can play bad jokes with your nickname, that emoticon doesn't make much of a difference.

[TehDonutKing]

I wasn't trying to be condescending. Also, the name thing was just me messing around with FireFox's spellcheck out of boredom.

[valshon]

I can see a connection between the destruction and inhospitable conditions, but we are comparing a small region of the Ukraine to 2I which is world wide. Also people died from a tsunami and military conflicts versus radiation and cancer. IMO the strongest argument for similarities are government commissions trying to cover up the events.