Lilith
| Lilith | |
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| Number | 2nd |
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| Appearance(s) | {{{appearances}}} |
| Defeated by | Evangelion Unit-01 |
Lilith is designated as the Second Angel 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.
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. 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 imbedded 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.
The Lance 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.
During Third Impact, Gendo forces his hand into Rei III, merging Adam with her. However, she rejected Gendo, and Rei/Adam proceeded to merge with Lilith in Terminal Dogma. The gestalt Rei/Adam/Lilith creature then initiated Third Impact and Instrumentality. However, Shinji Ikari ultimately chose to reject instrumentality, and Eva Unit 01 burst from the being's eye and broke the Lance of Longinus in two. The Rei/Adam/Lilith being then fell to pieces and died.
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