>>3010137>paraded around and conflated, sold as ReiBut it wasn't. Every character in the film correctly points out to Shinji that ReiQ isn't Rei. Kaworu even blatantly says that she doesn't have a soul. And all the promo-material billed ReiQ as "Ayanami Rei (tentative name)". She is one of those Rei-shaped things in a tank. Even the dumb-ass Shinji eventually realises that ReiQ is just a Rei-shaped vegetable.
>That's what happens when you ruin a character like 3.33 did.ReiQ no more ruined Pokanami than the Rei-looking things in the tank in episode 23 ruined Rei in NGE. They're literally _not Rei_. (Pokanami was always shit.)
