Kaworu Expies

[Someone]

I fear that nobody here played The World Ends With You...
(its the best DS game ever made)
But a certain character from it STRONGLY reminds me of Kaworu.
Picture:

While he is not an "angel" in the game, he is in contact with some.
Of course the angels from that game are different from the ones in NGE.
Could Joshua be based of Kaworu?

Oh, he has a jesus beam too.

[Shogo-Kun]

Well, considering how influential EVA was in Japan, having expies of EVA characters is to be expected. Hell, even I made a character based on Kaworu.

[Cody MacArthur Fett]

Kaworu? As Joshua? I don't see how in the world you can possibly mistake the successor of Moses for . . . Oh! Video game Joshua, that makes much more sense.

Well, considering how influential EVA was in Japan, having expies of EVA characters is to be expected. Hell, even I made a character based on Kaworu.

Yeah, pretty much what he said.

[Kendrix]

Well, the picture looks EXACTLY like Kaworu with slightly longer hair...

His expies really ARE everywhere, tough. I even admit having produced one myself. XD He's called William Michaelis, but isn't really that supernatural or angelic - He is an artificial human, but there are five of those in that particular work, four of which are relevant main characters.

Expies of the EVa cast are very prominent, Rei and Shinji copies are also all over the place - then again, the EVA characters were half-based on previously existing stereotypes, so perhaps it's more accurate to say that EVA has influences/tweaked/ impacted those already existing stereotypes so that they post-EVA use will either resemble EVA or remind people of it. EVa sorta changed the rules - it is as widely known in Japan as Star wars/Star Trek in the US or Doctor Who in Britain, as far as I know.

[Someone]

Never expected a reference in an awesome game like this.

[AshPhoenix]

Kaworu's personality also strikes me as similar to Joshua's. Both are quite laid-back and speak in calm, soothing voices. They both also serve to mentally support their respective series main characters (Well, Shinji more so than Neku, but still...), so I would say Kaworu is similar to Joshua.

[Trajan]

Yawn*

Trust me, there are DOZENS of Kaworu clones out there.

[Ironfoot]

Probably.

[gatotsu911]

Behold, my friend, the art of the Expy. Evangelion has spawned legions of them. (TV Tropes is fun!!)

On a semi-unrelated note, am I the only human being on the planet who hated The World Ends With You?

[Number 44]

Hmmmm. Should we have a topic to list Eva rip off characters in?

Update: An idea starts to form...

[Trajan]

The thread would probably be at least twenty pages.

[Stryker]

Lets begin!

I propose Orochimaru from Naruto.

[Reichu]

That guy in Mai-Hime. If you've seen Mai-Hime, you know the one. They wanted him to be Kaworu so bad, they got Akira Ishida to do the voice.

EDIT: Ah, here he is. I'm surprised I managed to forget his name, considering they went for something as obvious as Nagi Homura. (...Get it?)

[Sachi]

That guy in Mai-Hime. If you've seen Mai-Hime, you know the one. They wanted him to be Kaworu so bad, they got Akira Ishida to do the voice.

Same with the androgynous angelic antagonist of Mnemosyne, Apos.

[Reichu]

I wonder how many times Ishida-san has contemplated suicide for having one of the most type-cast careers in international acting history.

[Ornette]

You can just go through the char-list here: http://myanimelist.net/clubs.php?cid=17403

[Reichu]

Can a white-haired bishounen list that's missing Kaworu Nagisa be trusted?

[Shogo-Kun]

@Reichu: No. No it cannot.

@Topic: You could add Itsuki Koizumi from Haruhi Suzumiya to the list of Kaworu expies.

[Sachi]

@Topic: You could add Itsuki Koizumi from Haruhi Suzumiya to the list of Kaworu expies.

A good half of the main cast are Eva rip-offs.

In fact, I ought to leave this here before we go anywhere else:

[chaosakita]

N from Pokemon reminds me a lot of Kaworu. Maybe that's just me.