Lilith

Lilith
リリス
Number	2nd
Symbol	N/A
Appearance(s)	Episode 15, Episode 23, Episode 24, Episode 25', Episode 26'
Defeated by	N/A

Lilith (リリス) is designated as the Second Angel. Like Adam, Lilith is a Seed of Life, created by the First Ancestral Race billions of years ago. Thus, Lilith is actually a co-equal being to Adam. The other Angels are the progeny of Adam, but Lilith is the progenitor of the "Lilim": humans. Thus is is actually somewhat misleading that Lilith has been designated as the "Second Angel".

Billions of years ago, Lilith's "Black Moon" transport vessel collided violently with Earth in the event known as "First Impact", creating Earth's Moon. Her own Spear of Longinus is presumed to be destroyed (CI). Lilith spread the primordial ooze from which "normal" terrestrial life on Earth evolved over the course of billions of years, which culminated in the human race.

For ages, the Black Moon containing Lilith was embedded deep within the Earth underneath Hakone, Japan, forming the massive underground cavern termed the "GeoFront".

At some undetermined point in the recent past (possibly even before Second Impact) the Black Moon and Lilith were discovered by Seele. Gehirn (later, Nerv) headquarters and Tokyo-3 were built around her position. Lilith was kept crucified to a giant cross in the deepest and most secret level of Nerv HQ, Terminal Dogma, and used as a renewable source of LCL for the Evangelion Units (LCL in fact being Lilith's blood).

The Evangelion Units were created by making clones of Adam, with the exception of Evangelion Unit-01. Eva Unit 01 is the only clone of Lilith (hence it is the "Test-Type"). Still images in Episode 23 suggest that instead of merely taking genetic samples from Lilith, Evangelion Unit 01 was created by physically tearing away from the lower half of Lilith, forming itself from the body mass of Lilith's legs (explaining her legs' conspicuous absence) and tearing away from Lilith trailing tattered ropes of flesh, in a mockery of the natural birth process.

Biology

Lilith appears to be a vaguely-formed roughly Evangelion-sized humanoid upper torso with blubbery white flesh, of non-destinct gender. Lilith has no legs or hips when it is seen in the year 2015, its torso terminating in blobby masses with dozens of humanoid-sized pairs of legs growing out of it. Lilith is kept restrained in Terminal Dogma, crucified onto a giant red cross: large nails are driven through her palms into the cross from which she hangs. Lilith has five fingers on each hand (just like a human). Lilith remains totally immobile and unreactive, simply hanging limp on the cross it is nailed to and unresponsive to events around her.

The Spear of Longinus was impaled through Lilith's chest while she was restrained on the cross in Terminal Dogma, but after Eva Unit 00 removed the Lance in Episode 23, Lilith's lower-legs grew back (though her new legs still had dozens of pairs of humanoid legs growing out of them, from the region of her thighs).

LCL is actually Lilith's blood, a steady stream of it pouring down the cross, and she is the true source of the LCL used in Evangelion Entry Plugs. Indeed, the "LCL Production Plant" is really just a large artificial lake of LCL formed by it pooling in the space beneath Lilith's red cross.

Perhaps Lilith's most distinctive feature is the purple mask which covers her face. Lilith has seven eyes arranged in two vertical rows on her face, three on her right and four on her left, and the mask contains holes for each of the eyes. Etched onto the mask is a pointed-downwards triangle which intersects all of the eyes (except for the lowest eye on her left). It is not entirely clear if the mask is a natural part of Lilith (some form of bone-plate), or if it is another artificial restraint placed onto her. The symbol of the mysterious Seele organization is the face of Lilith: a pointed down triangle intersecting seven eyes arranged unevenly into two rows of three and four. Whether the mask is a restraint which Seele put its emblem on, or if the mask is part of Lilith's naturally occurring face and Seele copied it as their symbol, is unknown. The purple mask is roughly oval shaped, and is somewhat dinged and dented.

Lilith's blubbery/marshmallowy white flesh

Rei/Adam/Lilith Hybrid Being

In The End of Evangelion, Gendo forces his hand into Rei III, merging the Adam embryo in his right hand with her in an attempt to control Lilith and reunite with Yui. However, Rei rejects Gendo and with Adam's body and soul within her, she proceeds to merge with Lilith's body in Terminal Dogma. The gestalt Rei/Adam/Lilith being then initiates Third Impact and Instrumentality. However, Shinji Ikari ultimately chooses to reject instrumentality, and Eva Unit 01 burst from the being's eye and breaks the Spear of Longinus in two. The Rei/Adam/Lilith being then falls to Earth in pieces, presumably dead.

While there is no official name for this being, it is commonly referred to in the fan community as "Giant Naked Rei" or GNR. However, it's also common to consider this being primarily Lilith. Since Rei was essentially Lilith herself, and Adam (as Kaworu) only appears briefly it seems that Lilith has primary control over the being.

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Angels

Angels (general)

First and Second Angels (Seeds of Life): Adam | Lilith

Third to Seventeenth Angels (Adam's Children):

Sachiel | Shamshel | Ramiel | Gaghiel | Israfel | Sandalphon | Matarael | Sahaquiel

Ireul | Leliel | Bardiel | Zeruel | Arael | Armisael | Tabris

Eighteenth Angel: Lilin

Rebuild of Evangelion: ?Adams? | Lilith | 3rd Angel | 4th Angel | 5th Angel | 6th Angel | 7th Angel | 8th Angel | 9th Angel | 10th Angel | 11th Angel | 12th Angel | 1st/13th Angel

Other: Extracanonical Angels