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Evangelion 2.22 FAQ

This is a compilation of frequently asked questions for the film Evangelion 2.0: You Can (Not) Advance.

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General/Setting Questions

What base is seen at the start of the film?

Bethany Base.

What is the huge landscape of graves Shinji and Gendo speak in?

Judging from what Misato said in the previous film about how half the worlds population was wiped out in the second impact. It is believed to be the graveyard of the all the deaths that occurred in that time frame (since Yui technically not only didn't die, but her disappearance was some time after the second impact).

Who orders Eva-02 to attack the Seventh Angel?

Probably NERV's Euro branch since they own Unit 02 throughout the film.

What is the Key of Nebuchadnezzar?

See main article Nebuchadnezzar's Key

What is the seaside facility that the children visit?

A research facility that works on restoring the ocean water back to blue. Kensuke mentions this when they first arrive.

What is the huge red circle Fuyutsuki sees from Space?

It's the vortex from Second Impact 15 years ago, situated at the South Pole, which for unknown reasons stayed opened even after Second Impact was stopped.

What is Rei eating during her dinner with Gendo?

Alimentary pills. Note that earlier in the movie she's seen taking similar pills in her room at night, just before the scene change to Shinji, Misato and Asuka finishing their diner, suggesting that Rei's diet is almost exclusively composed of these alimentary pills.

Why aren't Eva-00 and Eva-02 sortied alongside Eva-01 against Bardiel?

Unit 00 was put on standby, it wasn't completely ready as it was still recovering from the previous angel attack. Unit 02 was put into storage since there was a treaty put in place only allowing a country to own and operate three Eva's, and Unit 03 was still considered an Eva at the time the incident occurred.

Where is the train that Shinji speaks to Rei in?

The train doesn't physically exists, it's a place created by Shinji's psyche when he fall unconscious.

What is the Awakened Eva-01 doing with the Tenth Angel(Zeruel)?

It "dived" into it's core to retrieve EVA-00's core, with Rei absorbed inside it.

Character Questions

Why are Gendo and Shinji visiting Yui's grave?

It's the anniversary of Yui's disappearance. Gendo comes to her grave every year since them, It's implied Shinji did too until three years before the beginning of the story when he ran away and didn't came back to visit Yui's grave until that moment.

Why does Kaji say he feels like 'Tarō Urashima'?

Tarō Urashima is a Japanese legend about a fisherman(the eponymous Tarō Urashima) who rescued a turtle and is rewarded for this with a visit to Ryūgū-jō, the palace of Ryūjin, the Dragon God, under the sea. He stays there for three days and, upon his return to his village, finds himself 300 years in the future. Kaji has been out of Tokyo-3 for two years, but some much things have changed, probably due to the extremely rapid growth of the city, that he feels as if it's been since many more years that he left, hence the comparison with Tarō Urashima.

Why do Gendo and Fuyutsuki go to the moon?

Gendo and Fuyutsuki travel to the moon to view the production of Eva Mark. 06 after they learn about its creation from Kaji.

Why does Ritsuko argue with Misato about the attack on the Eighth Angel?

Ritsuko thinks that Misato's plan(to catch him with the Evas' A.T. Fields) is far too reckless and that the chances of success are almost null, and tells her that she should put Lilith and EVA-01 on a safe place instead of relying on what Ritsuko think is an insane plan, all because Misato has a personal vendetta against the Angels for the death of his father during Second Impact.

Why does Asuka want to handle the Angel on her own?

Asuka has always been one that prefers to solo her missions as she believes teamwork would just slow her down. It's all about her personality.

How were Shinji's hands injured?

When an Eva is damaged, the pilot feels part of the pain as a feedback of the synchronization with the Eva, at great plug depth, the pilots also starts to physically receive part of the damage sustained by the Eva. When stopping the Eight Angel, EVA-01 sustained very heavy damages to the hands due to the Angel impaling them by morphing his hands into spear-like appendages, made worse by the extreme pressure of the Angel's propulsion. That's why Shinji is later with bandaged hands.

Who is the woman that Gendo sees Rei as during Dinner?

That would be Yui, his wife.

What are Asuka and Rei arguing about in the elevator?

Asuka believes she's only worth being an Eva pilot. Rei tries to tell her that there's more to life than being an Eva pilot, Asuka finds this insulting as it's coming from someone who only pilots the Eva as well.

Who is the boy that Shinji sees on the train in his dream?

A child version of Shinji when Gendo abandoned him.

Why does Rei have Shinji's SDAT with her in Eva-00?

When Shinji resigned from being an Eva pilot after the fight against the Ninth Angel, he threw is SDAT(an old possession of Gendo) in a bin. Rei found it and kept it for her. She brought it with her probably for the same reason she brought Gendo's old glasses in her entry plug during the fight against the Sixth Angel : as a talisman from someone close to her to give her courage.

Why does Gendo ask why Yui is rejecting him?

He probably thinks that as the control system of EVA-01, she's the one that's making the Eva reject the Dummy System controlled entry plug. Since Gendo is the one who ordered the use of the Dummy System as a replacement for Shinji, who resigned for piloting, he feels that as a sign that Yui is rejecting him personally.

Where does Shinji pull Rei out of?

The Tenth Angel's core.

Eva/Angel Questions

How Many Angels appear in the film?

Five in total.

How did the Ninth Angel (Bardiel) get into Eva-03?

When Unit 03 is flown out of the U.S. base it enters through a storm. It is believed that the storm infected Unit 03 by the Ninth Angel.

What are the four figures seen in the Second Impact flashback?

Four giant of light that were present at Second Impact. In the preview for Eva 2.0 at the end of the first movie, the term ADAMs is used to describe them, suggesting that collectively those four giant are the undeclared 1st Angel, instead of NGE's Adam.

Why is Eva-05 so different?

It was a provisional Unit. It's possible that EVA-05 wasn't finished yet by the time of 2.0, but was deployed on urgency to stop the Third Angel, explaining the unit lack of arms and legs, replaced by four wheeled limbs and two mechanical pincer arms respectively.

Why wasn't Eva-02 at Nerv HQ from the beginning?

EVA-02 was built by NERV's Third Branch in Germany, and during the first meeting we saw between Gendo and SEELE in 1.0, the former said that EVA-02's activation tests began at the same time that EVA-01's first sortie(against the Fourth Angel), meaning that by the time of the beginning of the story, EVA-02 wasn't ready to be deployed yet, and thus was still in NERV's Third Branch.

What is the Vatican Treaty?

The Vatican Treaty is law by all nations the prohibits any region from owning and operating more than three Eva's at a time.

What happened to Eva-04?

It "vaporized" along with NERV's Second Branch in the United States during the testing for a new internal power unit for the next generation of Evangelions. During Fuyutsuki's conversation with Gendo(spied by Kaji) the former implies that what happened wasn't an accident, but a sabotage. The potential perpetrator is unknown.

What is the "True Evangelion" Seele wish to create?

SEELE want to transform an Evangelion into a godly being to use it as the catalyst for the Human Instrumentality Project. They planned to use Evangelion Mark.06 for that task.

Why is Eva-02 sealed by the IPEA?

The U.S. Government gave Unit 03 to Japan and the Japanese Government agreed. With Unit 00, Unit 01, and Unit 03, they have three Eva's and can not sortie with Unit 02 as that is a fourth Eva and that would be a violation of The Vatican Treaty. Furthermore, Euro still technically owns Unit 02.

What is Eva-02's Beast Mode?

A special mode that remove all of the physical restraints of the Evangelion to make is "lose it's humanity" and transform it into a giant beast entirely specialized for combat. It's a sort of "controlled" Berserk mode where the Eva is still under the pilot's control.

Why does Eva-01 reject the Dummy System?

It's implied that it's Yui inside EVA-01's core that reject the Dummy System.

What is the Evangelion Kaworu uses at the end of the film?

That would be a completed Evangelion Mark.06.

Weapon/Technology Questions

What is Eva-02's giant crossbow?

A Super-Electromagnetic Crossbow MM-144, written in German as "Überelektromagnetische Armbrust MM-144" on the weapon.

Where is Golgotha Base?

It's unknown.

What is the spear Kaworu using to stop Eva-01?

That would be the Spear of Cassius.