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Favorite crazy Evangelion theories

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Postby BeoX2 » Fri Jul 23, 2010 11:01 pm

Post your favorite crazy Eva theories here. Even though they're most likely not true, which one is your favorite?

I always liked the "Keel is the Wandering Jew" theory. It just seemed really original and funny. Who knows, maybe he is.
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Postby child of Lilith » Fri Jul 23, 2010 11:26 pm

The entire show is just a flasback Shinji is having.
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Postby BeoX2 » Fri Jul 23, 2010 11:35 pm

View Original Postchild of Lilith wrote:The entire show is just a flasback Shinji is having.


Yeah, that's up there on my list too.
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Postby Sachi » Sat Jul 24, 2010 1:53 am

I believe it was NAW who discovered that Pen Pen was actually the most tragic character of the show, and was actually in love with Shinji the whole time.

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Postby child of Lilith » Sat Jul 24, 2010 1:57 am

lol I had totally forgotten about that until you brought it up.
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Postby jiynovelo » Sat Jul 24, 2010 2:51 am

Everything is just a dream, then Shinji wakes up at, like, on the alternate dimention on episode 26

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Postby AuraTwilight » Sat Jul 24, 2010 4:38 am

In the TV Ending, Shinji and everyone else upload to a Singularity utopia.
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Postby thewayneiac » Sat Jul 24, 2010 10:49 am

There was a guy over at the A.N. Forum who claimed that the endings were contradictory but they still both happened in the same continuity. He believed that all of EoTV happened after EOE. Apparently sometime after Asuka said "Kimochi Warui" Shinji had Rei re-start Instrumentality, resulting in EoTV. :headscratch:

I once saw a thread on Usenet where a poster was insisting that the "real reason" Shinji tried to throttle Asuka on the beach was he was angry that she wasn't Kaworu. :???:
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Postby Eva Yojimbo » Sat Jul 24, 2010 11:12 pm

Wow, no Duel of the Seeds mention yet?
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Postby MugwumpHasNoLiver » Sat Jul 24, 2010 11:18 pm

That the Harpies have Shinji's classmate's souls in them. The idea is so deliciously morbid, it makes me want to do filthy and degrading things with a lolipop.
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Postby esselfortium » Sat Jul 24, 2010 11:38 pm

View Original PostSachi wrote:I believe it was NAW who discovered that Pen Pen was actually the most tragic character of the show, and was actually in love with Shinji the whole time.

That was Lucretius's, actually. That revelation completely changed the meaning of the entire show for me.

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Postby NemZ » Sun Jul 25, 2010 12:19 am

some good ones here... and one that made me :rei_meh:

I think I'll go with a wacky NGE = religion theory: 2I was actually the rapture and the entire series is an anime retelling of the book of revelations.
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Postby Merridian » Sun Jul 25, 2010 12:31 am

My favorite is the one where Shinji was given powers to warp reality somehow thanks to 3I/GNR/Instrumentality, and that everyone in the Evangelion cast is actually a time-traveling (and genderbent, as the need may apply) Shinji Ikari from post-3I, and that no matter how hard he tries to change things, everything remains exactly the same upon countless attempts to change the future. Amnesia might play into this as well.

Second favorite is the "TINES-END" lolphysics GNR head tsunami & related post-apocalyptic events, though on some level I seriously believe it.

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Postby Bomby von Bombsville » Sun Jul 25, 2010 12:46 am

I always liked the Shinji is Gendou, Rei is Ritsuko, and Asuka is Misato Fight Club theory.
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Postby jiynovelo » Sun Jul 25, 2010 3:39 am

My new theory: The whole thing is just a Play for a certain festival.
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Postby Mr. Tines » Sun Jul 25, 2010 3:42 am

I have a certain fondness for this little gem and its take on the Adam-and-Eve ending

http://web.archive.org/web/20041206153315/http://www.eltonalteco.net/En/historiaev.php

So Shinji and Asuka take bad, just as Adam and Lilith; and however Shinji and Rei were loved, although they never got it to express freely
(Well, Rei says in "The end of Evangelion"). Then Shinji must kill and kick Asuka from the "paradise" so tha Rei can enter,
who waits for the expulsion of Lilith.
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Postby Halicat » Sun Jul 25, 2010 9:11 am

View Original PostBomby von Bombsville wrote:I always liked the Shinji is Gendou, Rei is Ritsuko, and Asuka is Misato Fight Club theory.


Never heard that one. How's that go?

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Postby thewayneiac » Sun Jul 25, 2010 9:35 am

View Original PostEva Yojimbo wrote:Wow, no Duel of the Seeds mention yet?


It doesn't qualify. It was a perfectly legitimate theory until the C.I. came out and explicitly contradicted it. It wasn't crazy at all.

Now if you want to bring up TOL at 2I.................
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