Dr. Strangelove wrote:Actually, IIRC, didn't Unit02's head get..seperated, from it's body, by Zeruel, or didn't Unit01 thrash Unit02 around, needing a new body eventually?
In the TV series, we see Eva-02 after she gets decapitated by Zeruel, and she still has her TV series look. In fact, there's even a short scene of her being "repaired", and it shows a pair of arms and head being put into place, so I would assume that the damaged parts were just reattached (unless they grew new arms and a new head seperately and then attached them to the body? But I can't see the reasoning behind that...). Given how resilient Evas' and Angels' bodies are, I'm sure they'd have no trouble healing their wounds once the body parts were put back into place, and the artifical components woul just be repaired or replaced by the Nerv crew.
She did get stabbed a bit by Eva-01 in episode 24, but I doubt that would require any more drastic repair than what Zeruel did to her, certainly not a whole new body with proportions that are completely different from the original, or a redesigned helmet. Either way, she does show up a couple times in TV episodes 25 and 26, and it's still with the TV design. So the design change for the movie doesn't really reflect any physical change in Eva-02 in the NGE storyline. It was probably just to make her more animator-friendly, or something.