Monkey: The NPC scenes ARE canon over the original versions.
It does not surprise me, though, that they neglected to take the biofusion into EVA-01 into consideration when depicting her after Armisael's defeat... Lazy bums -- all you needed to do was Photoshop the original painting!
With regards to the stigmata, I was mostly pointing out that they appear on Shinji as merely shaded regions, whereas they are gaping, bloody holes on his mama. Indeed, the things are still there at the end of EoE:

Asuka's injuries in #25', at least the eye, definitely seem to be "real" and not a figment of her imagination, unless she is simply IMAGINING her eye bleed... I'm actually surprised that she's as feisty afterwards as she is, considering the Spear is going THROUGH Kyoko's head and brain; if Asuka's really supposed to be feeling her mama's pain, I would have expected her to be feeling a little more. In fact, depending on what parts of the brain those two tines are penetrating (one fellow got a railroad spike through his skull and lived), Asuka arguably ought to have been feeling a little dead as a result... Human brains don't handle punishment as well as an Eva's.
It's difficult not to conceed that this case is one of the ones that makes absolutely no sense, even within the logic established earlier in the show. The moment the Spear hits Kyoko, the power runs out. ALL SYNCHRONIZATION SHOULD HAVE DIED. Yet Asuka merrily continues whimpering and bleeding. And when the harpies violate Kyoko's body, Asuka somehow manages to feel it. ...Huh?
Like I've said, though, #25' is full of these stupid gaffs in general. The harpies mysteriously lose their injuries to rip Kyoko apart, only to have the damage reappear later. (And, even so, #26' is still inconsistent about exactly how to depict the injuries... The harpy that was cut in half is flying around without a lower body when EVA-01 is "crucified", but, after the harpies kill themselves, her lower body is mysteriously floating in alignment with the upper half, but isn't physically connected...) Another fun gaff I noticed recently is that in the disembowelment scene, you can see Kyoko's arms flailing in pain -- dur, I thought she hadn't "reactivated" yet?
About the holes being in her palms -- well, this is just another of those stupid things that has gotten muddled over the centuries (kind of like the "Lucifer is another name for Satan" fiasco

). An explanation for the palms vs. wrists is offered up
here.
Soluzar wrote:At other times, it would appear that a pilot really does get injured, but I would suspect that this is more down to physical damage to the Eva occuring in or around the area containing the entry plug.
I can't think of any instances of this happening anywhere in the show...
Originally posted on: 14-Nov-2004, 08:06 GMT