>>4266494>Makes me wonder then how a confrontation with the MPEs with more pilots than just Asuka & Shinji would goPoorly, id imagine. Even in the manga Shinji got defeated by them pretty easily even with Asuka. No surprise since they had regeneration and the energy of the S2 engines, as well as the replica spears.
>Yeah I'd still kill for a look into the plug at what exactly happens to the pilot when Bardiel takes over. We got a glimpse of that in the Rebuilds but not enough to really see what he does. The original storyboards for 2.0 actually had a way more gruesome depiction where Asuka gets impaled by a bunch of spikes and then gets her face ripped off and used by Bardiel to talk back at her and taunt her. And in the final product she just gets cummed on and then it goes in her eye for 14 years until the events of 3.0 & Thrice.iirc some or all of the rebuild angels are a combo of two of the angels seen in the show, with Bardiel sharing traits with Arael (the one that made Asuka hallucinate seeing her worst flaws) so its possible that the face thing was a hallucination too. Though in the manga we do get a glimpse of what OG Bardiel did to Toji, and that he seems to have some kind of thing spread throughout his skin and body like a kind of body horror esque manner. We only see the beginning and the very end, but it looks like it spread everywhere, and the look in his eyes almost seems to imply that he was either being controlled or killed from when it started. Im wondering if it could somehow hop from one Eva to another if one got close though.
>Imagine the Pope or an emissary of the Vatican having to come and bless the Evas with holy water and perhaps it's explained that they have like uber secret holy water that's just like giga LCL or something.iirc Ritsuko mentions that LCL was known for a while and was in the dead sea scrolls, so it makes sense that anyone who knew of those could make or get LCL somehow.
