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A rainbow appears when the [[Zeruel|Tenth Angel]] falls in battle against [[Evangelion Unit-01|Eva-01]], in advance of its actual death. It's unclear what this deviation from the preestablished pattern means. | A rainbow appears when the [[Zeruel|Tenth Angel]] falls in battle against [[Evangelion Unit-01|Eva-01]], in advance of its actual death. It's unclear what this deviation from the preestablished pattern means. | ||
Eva-04's explosion in ''Evangelion 2.0'' tentatively included a rainbow earlier in production, but this was omitted for the final film. | |||
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Revision as of 18:06, 31 March 2011
A rainbow (虹, niji) is a phenomenon in the Rebuild continuity closely associated with the deaths of the Angels.
It is probably a reference to the rainbow that appeared after the Biblical flood:
- I set My bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a sign of a covenant between Me and the earth.
- It shall come about, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow will be seen in the cloud,
- and I will remember My covenant, which is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and never again shall the water become a flood to destroy all flesh.
- Genesis 9:13~15[1]
God's "bow" being a sign of a "covenant" between himself, Earth, and all living things recalls the mysterious Covenant with Lilith. It's been suggested that the rainbows appear in the wake of Angels' deaths (which unleashes "floods" due to their bodies dissolving into red fluid) as a sign that the covenant is being fulfilled.
A rainbow appears when the Tenth Angel falls in battle against Eva-01, in advance of its actual death. It's unclear what this deviation from the preestablished pattern means.
Eva-04's explosion in Evangelion 2.0 tentatively included a rainbow earlier in production, but this was omitted for the final film.
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Aside from rainbows themselves, rainbow motifs are scattered throughout both Rebuild and Neon Genesis Evangelion.
References
- ↑ New American Standard Bible
