Evangelion Mark.06. The "probably one of the Four Adams but it's still up for debate until 3.0+1.0 comes out if ever" that was teased alongside Mr. Space Christ Kaworu Nagisa at the end of 1.0, and was being built for most of Evangelion 2.0 for it to show up in the after credits to stop Shinji and his Evil Robo-Mom of Doom from fucking up everything because his Father is an evil piece of shit who can't let go of the past to save his life. Going into 3.0 basically knowing nothing about the movie, I was super hyped to see Mark.06 get to do something. I mean, they were setting it up for 2 whole movies! They had to do something with it, and besides, you don't just impale Yui and get away with it. Oh no no no, Gendo ain't gonna let that slide! You gotta get a proper ass-whooping for that. I was wondering what it was gonna do, judging by the preview at the end of 2.0 (Oh past me, you poor naive fool...
), it was going to descend to Terminal Dogma, but for what? Was it going to fuse with Lilith and cause the proper Third Impact? Was there an Angel that was going to get to Lilith and Kaworu was sent there in order to prevent it? Did Unit 01 reawaken and was causing some fucking havoc down there for whatever reason (It's Yui, we don't know what's going on inside her head) and we were finally gonna get to see the Eva vs Eva match-up we've all (I think) been waiting for? That wasn't the only thing I was thinking of course, there was the thought of how we were gonna see all the characters react to how the kid they entrusted a death machine with ended up accidentally causing the near death of all of humanity, and of course how Asuka was gonna react to losing one of her eyes and possibly her humanity all together (good job, Shin-Man 
), but I won't lie when I say that Mark.06 was one of the main things hyping me up.So uh, needless to say, you can probably imagine that the movie we got had me feeling just a little bit disappointed. (Although judging by what we say of Dogma in 3.0 and the FOI looking like headless Unit 01 clones, maybe all three of those things happened all at ONCE? ...Wow, no wonder the Lilin are so bitter around Impact-Boy
)Excluding the fact that I'm still left pretty confused after watching it a second time and reading through some of the speculation online, including this forum (not that it wasn't worth it, I find a lot of the stuff that's been said here to be pretty fascinating all things considered), but seeing Mark.06's corpse floating around (did the 12th Angel eat it or something? Gross.) only to be decapitated by Evangelion Unit 00 2.0 Electric Boogaloo-I mean Evangelion Mark.09, REALLY left me scratching my head and wondering what the point of setting the thing up to be a big part of the Rebuild movies even was. Not only that, but it's role of being Unit 01's counterpart (it's evil twin you could say, it certainly looks the part) was pretty much taken over by Eva Unit 01 2.22 You Can (Not) Be Built Up, Unit 13, which is basically NGE Unit 01 with an extra set of eyes and arms and high heels. Don't get me wrong, I've warmed up to it over time, but compared to Mark.06 or even the Evangelion it was clearly made to look like, it looks rather...uninspired, honestly. Mark.06 not only has a more unique color scheme, but it's armor is more unique as well. Now, there's a very good argument to be made that Mark.09 is equally if not more uninspired considering it's literally just Unit 00 with some incredibly minor alterations, but I personally think the all-black form it takes near the climax of 3.0 makes up for it. (I also just realized that it has the same colors as Rei Q's plugsuit, Black Red and even Green... wow, these movies man.) Again, not to say that I hate Unit 13, but that's just how I feel about in comparison to Mark.06. It's not even piloted by Kaworu anymore considering he ditched it for, again, Unit 13. Judging by some old storyboards and I believe something said in 3.0, as well as speculation by Reichu (who's stuff I've been reading as well, also rather interesting) it was given to some bizarre combination of a Rei clone and autopilot??? Strange. And it doesn't look like it's gonna get to fight Unit 01 either, considering that roles being filled by, you guessed it, Unit 13.
See a trend here?
I know it may be starting to sound repetitive, but once again I wanna say that I don't hate Unit 13, I really don't. It's a fictional giant robot, what Am I supposed to do? Punch it? Yell at it? Yeah that'll do something alright, yelling at a stupid action figure. So no, I don't hate it.
...However, it really feels like they gave Mark.06's role to Unit 13 and basically had to write Mark.06 off (aka, kill it), and THAT? That I hate.
I'm not a writer at all (I'm 17, if anything I'm gonna write Fanfiction.
) so maybe I don't understand, but killing things that you're done with or don't know what to do with feels like a really cheap and lazy way to use something. Think of it like this: You're a writer, a creator. You've created these two cool characters and you're setting up that the two of them will have a showdown. However, something happens in the story that changes everything for both of them, leaving the second character's role in question. You should be able to find a unique and creative way to be abel to still use that character in a way that feels satisfying and ends up making up for them losing the role that they were originally supposed to have. That wasn't what happened in 3.0, at least not in my opinion. They should've done something with it that gave it a satisfying role to play in the movie, even if it's role had to end with it losing it's head. Again, not a writer here, I don't know how they would've been able to do that, so maybe there's something I'm not seeing. Let me know.Someone could say "Well, Rei is dead in 3.0 so why aren't you mad at that?", and normally, I would agree, that sucks too and feels equally as cheap, especially considering the same thing happens in the original series. That is dumb, yes. But the thing is, Rei isn't "dead", she's inside Unit 01 and Shinji is most likely gonna communicate with her once he gets inside (even if we don't have a fucking clue how THAT'S gonna happen.) and her presence is felt throughout the movie. She probably isn't getting out of Unit 01 anytime soon (poor girl) but she's clearly gonna play some sort of role in the final film, even if we don't know to what extent. I'm not sure I can say the same for Mark.06, unless there actually is time travel in the movie (god forbid), in which case, *ahem*, PLEASE ANNO, I'M BEGGING YOU, PLEASE HAVE MARK.06 SHOW UP DURING UNIT 01 AND UNIT 13's SPEAR BATTLE AND HAVE IT STAB UNIT 13 AND HELP Shinji THIS TIME, THAT WOULD AN AMAZING CONTRAST TO WHAT HAPPENS IN 2.0.
*cough* *cough* Sorry, I don't know what came over me there.
Anyways, just to conclude this whole post because it feels like I've been writing forever, I feel like Mark.06 really ended up being wasted in the Rebuild movies. I feel like they could've done a lot more with it then they did, and it felt like the build up was ultimately for nothing. We don't even have that much artwork of it, at least not from what I've seen. Come on man, it's too cool of a design to just leave in the basement! At least it's getting a cool looking model kit soon. Can we get more please? (And whoever makes Evangelion Merch [I don't really pay attention to this stuff as you can tell LOL], PLEASE, make a statue or poster or whatever of Awakened Unit 01 facing off against Mark.06, I will sell my soul if I have to to get that.)
So...yeah, that's all I have to say really. This post ended up being longer than I had expected it to be, and I do feel like I get distracted with other stuff a bit so I apologize for that in advance, but please, tell me what you guys think. I'm really curious to see what you all have to say, and I hope I didn't waste your time with this topic. If so, and if you disagree with any (if not all) of my points, feel free to dunk on me all you want.
EDIT: I also apologize if I swear a bit too much. I'm used to being in convo's (and Discord servers) where we swear like a sailor, so if you guys want me to dial it back, I gladly will.
I hope you're right about it showing up again someway, though. Be it flashback or explanation. Honestly, I'm surprised that Mark.06 is the second most popular EVA in Japan, and I'd like know where this was stated, if you don't mind me asking. I'm only hearing about this now. It makes me happy knowing that I'm not the only one who likes it though, Mark.06 is honestly my favorite Rebuild exclusive Evangelion despite it's limited appearances. 
I'm super excited for it, it looks really cool. I wonder if Bandai will also give Unit 13 the RG treatment too so we can get (3 of) the supposed Four Adams in action figure form. This part is mostly wishful thinking, but maybe if that happens, later down the line they'll package them all together with The Key of Nebuchadnezzar? 
) I want to watch them grow into the characters they are now, dammit!