Konja7 wrote:The problem starts when Mark-09 free the 12th Angel inside Mark-06. The 12th Angel seems to attack Shinji with illusions, which causes Shinji to panic and throws an Spear of Longinus at the angel (Kaworu doesn't expect Shinji to do this). The Spear of Longinus destroy the 12th Angel's core, which seems to be what starts the Fourth Impact.
Funny, the impression I got was that the 12th Angel taking the form of a spiral triggered a mental programming on Shinji that made him destroy it. In the image after Mark.09 decapitate Mark.06, Shinji is seen surprised, but not Kaworu, as if it was part of the plan. Also, I imagine that he should had known that the 12th Angel had telepathic powers, no? That would had also made Fuyustuki and Gendo's talk of brainwashing in Jo and Fuyu's mention to Shinji that his memories were erased in Q (assuming it also happened in this early version) as a foreshadowing of what they did to him beside messing with his memories, also it's a more solid plan to make sure that Shinji does what needs to be done to derail Kaworu's plan rather than bank on him managing to destroy the 12th Angel after its attack or him behaving in a very exact manner. (looking at you, final version of Q)
I guess it'll be impossible to know without the dialogue, maybe the 3.0 CRC will shed more light on it? Although I admit that the idea of the 12th actually being a mix of Armisael and Arael is a very interesting one, and an excellent "Oh shit" moment for the audience when they realize that this is not just Armisael 2.0, but also that infamous Angel.
On closer inspection, something that I didn't caught on at first was that Shinji throws the spears with 13's left hand, but Kaworu caught it mid-air with the right hand by dropping his spear, then Shinji catch the falling spear and throw it, good reflex Shinji! (also that implies that Shinji controls the left side of 13 and Kaworu the right side, that thing must be a bitch to pilot without complete synchronization between pilots)