Guf (NTE)

For Guf as depicted in the Neon Genesis Evangelion continuity, please see: Guf.

Door of Guf Portals
The Door opened by Eva-01.	A view of the Door from above.
The Door opened during Fourth Impact.	Eva-13 with spears and halo, floating below the Door.

In Evangelion 2.0 and 3.0, the Door of Guf (ガフの扉, Gafu no Tobira) appears in the form of a black void surrounded by multicolored rings.

The events at the end of Evangelion 2.0 resulted in Near Third Impact, wherein Shinji's attempt to save Rei from the 10th Angel caused Eva-01 to open the Door of Guf. The Door formed from Eva-01's halo and was surrounded by slowly rotating red and white rings. The portal was dissipated when Eva-01 was struck with the Spear of Cassius, but it is unknown if the Door was fully closed after this event.

In Evangelion 3.0, an awakened Eva-13 opens the Door of Guf during Fourth Impact. This Door is larger than the previous version and surrounded by multicoloured rotating rings. It is closed after Kaworu impales Eva-13 with two Spears of Longinus, both pilots are removed, and the unit finally disabled.

Golgotha Object

Golgotha Object as it appears in 3.0

During Fourth Impact, an object is visible on the other side of the portal. It appears to be spherical, with large cross-like beams protruding out in the six cardinal directions. Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 reveals that this is the "Golgotha Object", a place where human perception is shaped by LCL and defined through memories and imagination. It is here that Gendo's ultimate goal is revealed - to start his own version of Instrumentality, as the Golgotha Object can change human fate.

The Object appears as a titanic six-pronged three-dimensional cross, dwarfing the size of an Evangelion Unit. It has countless white runes on its surface, which appear to be identical to the Angel-Sealing Hex Glyphs, only different in colour. Gendo and Shinji battle inside the Object using Eva-13 and Eva-01 respectively, across locations and backdrops created from their memories. It seems to contain the Evangelion Imaginary, a theoretical being whose existence was predicted by Dr. Katsuragi, as the epicenter of Instrumentality, with which Gendo attempts to rewrite the world through his perception. At the end of Instumentality, as Shinji is alone on a beach devolving into lineart and storyboards, Mari appears inside the Object in Eva-08+09+10+11+12 just before it is also erased by the reset of the world, and she and Shinji transition into the new world together