Reichu wrote:The films have included callbacks to the original MP Evas starting with 1.0. If any resemblance is intended, it doesn't mean that Mk.10 is going to literally be the MP Evas of 3+1, if that's what's being implied. In addition to the hints already posted that it's the Second Adams' Vessel and has some kind of connection to Eva-01, there is also this:



This is from the part of Fuyutsuki's expodump in Q that didn't make the final cut. I did my best to reconstruct what got hidden by the "missing number" sticker. The left hand column is the Rei's serial number, right hand is the Eva she was assigned to. (Rei Q's number being 6 is in the cut dialogue. Matching 7 to 7 is just intuition. Rei 00 is probably not really a "Rei" as such and instead refers to the weird facility, hence the "O.K" next to it. Both it and Rei 1 are sectioned off from the remaining lineup, interestingly.) There's so much information here that it probably deserves its own thread, but... me lazy. As for the topic at hand...

We can see at the end of the Rei lineup that there is "Infinity" pointing to what looks like a "JOIN" symbol with two circles around it. The script reveals that the Rei heads behind Fuyutsuki are part of a factory -- Rei heads are being mass produced. These being "Rei Infinity" gives me super bad vibes, considering the skulls in Central Dogma are also said by the script to belong to the Failures of Infinity, and they are obviously Lilin- rather than Eva-shaped. (This is not an accident, since unique non-Lilin skulls were designed for Seele, and these can't even be detected in a casual viewing!)

The mass-produced Rei are assigned NOT to Mk.10*, but to... I have no idea how one would pronounce "JOIN with two circles around it", so I'll just say JOIN for now to keep it simple. JOIN is pretty obviously our actual MP Evas, and if you think that this element got dropped and replaced with "lots of Mk.10", a version of the symbol actually does appear in Q on the Black Moon's surface.



This probably still won't be enough to lay the "10 = MP Eva" thing to rest, but a girl can only do so much, I suppose.

* (Mk.10 in fact seems to be currently missing an assignment altogether -- even though 11 and 12 already have pilots -- suggesting there is something unusual about it. Will the pilot be Rei 6 after her inevitable return to HQ? Will 13 get assigned to Eva 13 -- that feels pretty logical -- or will 13 instead get to pilot Mk.10? 6's preexisting importance makes either one possible IMO.)

Reichu wrote:

Mr. M#896404 wrote:What was supposed to be? A blackboard? Hand-written documents or something else?

Image of the deleted cuts here. The storyboard phase had planned for a shot of a "different factory" (to be shown behind Shinji), showing a bunch of capsules on a conveyer belt, possibly empty. In the foreground of this shot, there was to be a display showing the statuses of the various Reis. Then there would be a close-up of this display.

And there is a reason for cutting this out of the movie?

My uncle doesn't work at khara; how am I supposed to know? But if you're asking me for a guess, presumably it's because it revealed far too much, and any still-relevant content will be recycled into Fuyutsuki's upcoming scene with Rei instead.

Arcadia's legacy wrote:Huh. And here i was thinking they were just regular craters

Like, there are plenty of normal craters on the Black Moon in the last act of the movie, and you probably have to be some kind of obsessed maniac who takes way too many screenshots ( ) to realize that something funny is going on during a very specific time frame in that sequence. But yeah. I found that by accident a while ago, and I still have no good idea what it's really supposed to be. (Outer rim of crater looks like eyelids, and the inside looks vaguely like... the pupil of the eye, except it has a chromosome coming out of it, and also the iris is a magnetic field, and there's an axis line as if the inner part of the eye is Earth or some shit? WTF???)

But anyway... When I pulled out the Rei listing again, the "JOIN" symbol immediately gave me a flashback to the thing in the craters. All this INFINITY and JOIN stuff feel faintly ominous, does it not? And what's the deal with the double circle? I'm a complete moron when it comes to math, but according to this, "Concentric circles demonstrate that twice infinity is the same as infinity". Oh boy. Now if only I knew how to pronounce "JOIN symbol inside concentric circles".

EDIT: Asked Prim-kun about the MP Eva symbol and he said

I would say "Rei :infinity: is assigned to a natural join of the Eva's within the set defined by the concentric circles" so if they imply infinity then "Rei :infinity: is assigned to a super-Eva which consists of the natural join of all Eva's"
so I guess in an eva context, this would mean something like a super-Eva that has within it all the attributes that are common to all of the Evas from which the super-Eva is formed

Cue jokes about the MP Evas being like the Buster Legion and forming a giant Eva around the Black Moon. (The Black Moon is the entry plug and core, you see.) This Eva will then go Eva-13 on the now-completely coreified Moon, shrink it down to bite size, eat it, and then... who the fuck even knows.

Of course, emulating Diebuster won't be enough, and the entire planet will have to turn into an Eva and do something weird before the movie is over.