- Misato in Q acts cold towards Shinji but is also shown on-screen as expressing forgiveness for his behavior when she refuses to pull the trigger.
- Asuka in Q acts like a dick towards Shinji but we know that Asuka is fighting for a good cause, even if it's against Shinji.
- Rei is lobotomized, and even so, she still expresses concern for Shinji just before he faints in NERV's abandoned base. She also reacts to Shinji when he dismisses Rei as not being the real Rei.
- Even Fuyutsuki goes out of his way to perform Gendou's duties in Q when he tells Shinji about his past. Regardless if this way Gendou's request or not, it was not Gendou who confronted him.
Not only is Gendou not concerned for Shinji. He wears a visor the entire movie. If you thought his eyes were hard to see before, now he doesn't even show the slightest of eye contact at all. His facial expression and tonality refuse to change through the entire movie. Fuyutsuki makes an on-screen note of it too, begging the question of whether Shinji would benefit to see how Gendou lives. He brings this question to Gendou and even so, Gendou refuses to acknowledge a response.
Gendou simply commands Shinji to pilot the Evangelion with Kaworu and disappears, leaving Shinji in a relic of a base with no one to be with. Rei Q is stoned for the entire movie as well - it makes me wonder whether they both have something to do with this. Fuyutsuki reveals to Shinji that Gendou is selling his soul to bring about his ends and we know Rei is all about the soul.
Speaking of Rei's soul though, even when Yui's head explodes, Gendou doesn't move a muscle. In fact, I have no idea how he even pays attentions to the events of ADAM's activation, since he sits inside of his basement base the entire time.
Compared to past movies of NTE, he's also a lot more unreactive. In 2, he is physically surprised when Asuka's Evangelion explodes from it's angel infection, when 01 rejects the dummy plug, and when Shinji returns to 01 to pilot it. In 1, Gendou phones Shinji and thanks him for piloting 01.
The only breaking points I can see where Gendou actually shows some sort of symbology for his actions is with his visor and when the giant Rei head explodes and blood is streaming down his face. In this scene, blood is pouring out of his visor too, resembling the image of bloody tears.