ASUKA:“What was that? You look like a drowned rat!
How lame!”
SHINJI:“Like you can talk!”
IBUKI (OFF):“At 11:03 AM, NERV abandoned the operation
and transferred command to
the UN secondary Force.”
UrsusArctos: The pilots stand right in front of the images of their respective Evas, causing the legs of the downed Evas to stick up like bunny ears. It might be a subtle way of poking fun at Shinji and Asuka, and it also provides a way to keep their humiliation in the background while both of them argue in the foreground.