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{{Rebuild Infobox
| japanese_title_k = ヱヴァンゲリヲン新劇場版:Q&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Quickening
| japanese_title_r = Evangelion Shin Gekijōban: Q&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Quickening
| japanese_title_e = Evangelion New Movie Edition: Q &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Quickening
| english_title    = Evangelion 3.0: You Can (Not) Redo
| image            = [[File:Evangelion 3.0 banner.gif]]
| written_by       = TBA
| directed_by      = TBA
| theatrical_release      = November 17, 2012
| video_release    = April 24th in Japan, International release TBA
| angels           = 11th, 12th, 13th
| eva_sorties      = Eva-02, Mark-06, Eva-08, Mark-09, Eva-13
| prev             = [[Evangelion 2.0: You Can (Not) Advance|Evangelion 2.0]]
| next             = [[Evangelion: Final]]
}}

'''Evangelion 3.0: You Can (Not) Redo''' (Japanese title: Evangelion New Movie Edition: Q&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Quickening) is the third film in the [[Rebuild of Evangelion]] movie series, released to Japanese cinemas on November 17, 2012. Initial press releases for the new film series announced that the third and fourth installments would be half-length and shown together{{fact}}. On January 1st 2012, the official Evangelion website revealed the movies would be released separately<ref>http://www.evangelion.co.jp/final.html</ref>.  

The working Japanese title was ヱヴァンゲリヲン新劇場版:急 (''Evangelion Shin Gekijōban: Kyū'', Evangelion New Movie Edition: Rush). With the preview included in ''Eva 2.0'', the ''Kyū'' was replaced with the identically-pronounced letter "Q" followed by the subtitle "Quickening", which has the same basic meaning as "Rush" with the added nuance of an unborn child's first movements. (Additionally, in Japan, the stylistic choice to substitute "Q" for the kanji 急 is not uncommon.{{fact}}) The full international title '''You Can (Not) Redo''' was announced on January 1st 2012<ref>http://www.evangelion.co.jp/news.html</ref>.

==Plot==

The storyline departs markedly from where ''Evangelion 2.0'' had ended. Very few of the story elements hinted at in the original preview from ''2.0'' remain in the final work. However, it is now under speculation if at least some of these events actually occurred ''prior'' to 3.0

<big>'''SPOILERS BEGIN HERE'''</big>

=== Operation US, Wille, and the AAA Wunder ===
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* Operation US
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The story begins 14 years after the events of the previous film. Most of Nerv's original adult staff, sans Gendo and Fuyutsuki, now belong to an organization called [[Wille]] (German for "will"), led by Captain Misato Katsuragi, and including Eva pilots Asuka (in Eva-02) and Mari (in the new Eva-08), [[Sakura Suzuhara|Toji's sister Sakura]], and several new characters. The Evas are used for the orbital mission [[Operation US]] in order to retrieve a giant tesseract-shaped "coffin" containing Eva-01, within whom Shinji has been absorbed all this time. [[Evangelion Mark.04]] units, a collection of autonomous orbital drones, go on the offensive, with one ultimately revealing itself camouflaged on the tesseract. When measures against it fail, Asuka pleads for Shinji to do something, and Eva-01 rouses briefly to destroy the Angel through a crack in its container. Eva-02 and the tesseract fall to Earth, as Kaworu watches and says, "Welcome home, Shinji Ikari. I've been waiting for you."

Events skip ahead to the [[AAA Wunder]] (Wille's giant battleship) and her fleet of warships and aircraft carriers, currently positioned in polar waters. The crew salvages Shinji from Eva-01 and equips him with the [[DSS Choker]], a collar device meant to monitor his activities and prevent him from piloting an Evangelion, specifically by terminating him if anything goes amiss. Once his identity and memories are confirmed, he is brought before Misato, Ritsuko, and the bridge crew of Wunder. Shinji is distraught over both the cold treatment he receives from everyone except Sakura, and the strange device on his neck. 

Before he can be debriefed any further, the [[Evangelion Mark.04|Nemesis Series]] attack the Wille fleet from all sides. Misato launches an initiative to activate the Wunder's main engine -- with Eva-01 serving as the power core -- that is carried out through via a cooperative effort between Eva-02, who prepares the engine and manually ignites it, and the bridge crew. The Wunder becomes airborne, and its main weapons destroy the Nemesis Series' four core blocks. 

After the battle, Shinji is given a formal debriefing, where he learns the purpose of the DSS Choker, along with the fact that fourteen years have passed since he initially merged with Eva-01. Shinji demands repeatedly to know Rei's whereabouts, firm in his conviction that he saved her, but Ritsuko claims that Eva-01 yielded no trace of her, and only produced Shinji and the SDAT player. Ritsuko returns the player to Shinji at this time. 

Soon after, Evangelion Mark.09 breaks through the hull of Shinji's cell in an attempt to retrieve him. Believing the Eva is the destroyed Eva-00, and hearing Rei's voice over its loudspeakers, Shinji readily steps into Mark.09's hand. Eva-08 engages the unit and manages to decapitate it with gunfire, but fails to prevent its escape. Misato cannot bring herself to detonate the DSS Choker before Shinji is out of range. 

=== New Nerv Headquarters ===
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* Arrival with Rei
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Shinji wakes up in a hospital bed with Rei standing by silently. She takes him to New Nerv HQ, and Shinji catches a brief glimpse of the ruined pyramid. HQ itself appears abandoned, with large parts of the base in ruin. They walk for a time, passing familiar landmarks, including an Eva cage (apparently Eva-01's) now open to the sky. On the floor of the cage, Shinji sees Kaworu Nagisa playing on a Yamaha piano, and is seen in turn when Kaworu looks up.

Eventually, Rei leads Shinji a huge area housing a biomechanical "womb" containing the under-construction [[Evangelion 13]]. Gendo appears, wearing a new set of glasses, bluntly orders Shinji to pilot the Eva with Kaworu when the time comes, and just as quickly vanishes. Shinji calls after his father, but is ignored.

Shinji is given quarters at New Nerv HQ and is left to freely bide his time. Processed food substances and clothes are provided by automated system through a portal in the wall. He wanders the grounds looking for Rei, finding no traces of human life, although there are abundant signs of past conflict and evidence that Evangelions are being mass-produced at the facility. Eventually, he happens upon Rei's special LCL-immersion facility, where she lives in a makeshift room containing little more than a sleeping bag and a lamp. Shinji attempts to engage Rei in conversation, but finds her unusually unresponsive, similarly ignorant of what is occurring at the base and having no memory of her past life. She does nothing but wait for orders.

Gendo and Fuyutsuki are shown observing now Seele monoliths, which are now silent. Fuyutsuki says that he will continue to follow Gendo's plans.

Shinji attempts to use the SDAT, but discovers that it's broken. He ruminates upon words he's recently heard from others -- Misato, Asuka, Sakura, Gendo, Rei -- which produces visible distress, due to his current state of ignorance and alienation. Hoping to assist Rei's memory, Shinji tries to encourage her to do something Rei once enjoyed: read. He selects books from Nerv's disheveled library and stacks them neatly outside Rei's room. But with nothing else to do, he loiters around the Eva-01 cage. 

Here, Kaworu invites him for a chat at the piano and encourages Shinji to attempt playing piano, because trying new things is an important part of living. Despite initial hesitations, Shinji quickly shows talent, and he and Kaworu play a duet. Afterward, the two exchange names for the first time. Shinji checks in on Rei with more books, but finds that she is absent from the facility, and the original pile of books remains untouched. He then returns to the Eva cage for more piano training with Kaworu. Over the course of a montage, Kaworu shares various kernels of wisdom, and Shinji learns to play duets with him on the piano.

The next time they talk, Shinji asks Kaworu if he can fix the SDAT player, to which Kaworu obliges. The two end up staying at the cage until nightfall and watching the stars. Here, Shinji shares that he finds the starry sky reassuring because it's the only thing in his world that's remained constant, from which Kaworu deduces Shinji's fear of change. Kaworu eventually tells Shinji, "I really was born to meet you." The day after, the automatic dispenser gives Shinji a shirt that he notices is too large, only to find Toji's nametag sewn to the inside; this comes as an enormous shock.

That morning, Kaworu returns the now working SDAT, but notices that Shinji looks sullen. Shinji reveals that he is worried about what has happened to Tokyo-3 and his friends who lived there. Kaworu asks if Shinji wants to know, and Shinji accepts. The two travel down a precarious stairway outside of New Nerv HQ, with Shinji wearing an environment suit. They eventually reach a platform, and the clouds around HQ part to reveal the landscape.

Shinji observes the post Third Impact world: The moon now appears enormous, orbiting far closer to the earth and spinning rapidly about itself. It's surface is covered in new bloodstains, and a strange pulsing red grid. The landscape itself fares even worse, having been turned completely red, the ground covered with crevices, one of which has somehow morphed into a collosal mouth complete with teeth. Enormous red crosses are scattered all over the landscape, as far as they eye can see. Nerv HQ itself now sits thousands of metres above the plain atop its old main shaft, with Kaworu and Shinji now sitting above the clouds. In the ruins of the cities below, everything is coated in core-like material, and headless red creatures resembling Eva-01 stand frozen among the buildings, all reaching out and upwards for something.

Kaworu explains that this is the result of the Nerv's Human Instrumentality Project, and tells Shinji that he began the process when he rescued Rei from Zeruel 14 years ago. Shinji is stunned, expressing disbelief and denying any involvement. Kaworu says that the rest of humanity thinks otherwise, but that no sin is beyond forgiveness.

=== Eva-13, Spears, Impact ===


(more to come)

==Updated Next Time Preview==

The TV edition of Eva 2.0 which aired in Japan on August 26th 2011 revealed an updated Next Time Preview for Q, which gave a tentative theatrical release for Fall 2012. The updated (16 second) Next Time Preview included images of a bandaged and eye patch wearing Asuka flying through space in her slightly altered Eva-02. During this preview, Misato says: "Shinji Ikari awakens. Beside him stands a mysterious boy. And then, a new world waits for him."

[[Image:Eva2.0 TV Ver Q Preview.jpg|left|300px|thumb|Asuka in the 2.0 TV Next Time Preview.]]

===Q posters===

After the piano motif theme revealed on the Evangelion website in August 2012, October 2012 saw the release of new posters for 3.0.

[[Image:Vlanime082934.jpg|left|300px|thumb|Shinji and Kaworu in a 3.0 Poster.]]

==References==
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