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At the height of its glory, DotS was sufficiently infectious that (as of this writing) its falsified status has not been universally dispersed. This effectively means the occasional poor soul shows up brandishing it, and has to be dealt with accordingly. "What? The Duel of the Seeds was disproven?!?" | At the height of its glory, DotS was sufficiently infectious that (as of this writing) its falsified status has not been universally dispersed. This effectively means the occasional poor soul shows up brandishing it, and has to be dealt with accordingly. "What? The Duel of the Seeds was disproven?!?" | ||
==Fem-Kaworu== | |||
At the height of her Revelations Madness (see below), Reichu had the outstanding epiphany that Kaworu was, in fact, a female. (The "logistics" are not important here.) Naturally, her sanity was brought into question, and absolutely no one took this idea seriously (except for maybe a small handful of misfits). Reichu eventually abandoned any hope of "fem-Kaworu" (as Dr. Nick branded it) gaining acceptance, although she couldn't quite let it go altogether. She and Mr. Tines subsequently made sure that no one could forget about fem-Kaworu, no matter how much as they might want to. While this was decidedly a forced meme at first, at some point or another the denizens of EMF began to make references to it completely on their own, to the point where it became the veritable "Godwin's Law" of EMF. As phrased in BrikHaus' signature (as of this writing), "On EMF, as a thread becomes longer, the likelihood that fem-Kaworu will be mentioned increases exponentially." Fem-Kaworu also makes periodic appearances at "THAT BOARD", though it seems to be considered more of an irritation than an in-joke. | |||
==Revelations Incident== | ==Revelations Incident== | ||
Revision as of 01:03, 4 September 2007
This is the home of things we'd rather forget. Not the same as Common Misconceptions, which are long standing and widespread falacies, but concepts that make one say, "What were we thinking?"
Akira
In early 2005, long-time ANFer Magami No ER had been working on a Kaworu fanfiction and created a thread for the purpose of exploring hypothetical questions. She planned to utilize the idea that Kaworu was a clone of Dr. Katsuragi, and, when pressed to give the man an actual name, Reichu proposed "Akira" (after Akira Ishida, Kaworu's seiyuu). About a year later, Reichu hijacked the thread to rather messily peddle her complete conviction that a connection between Kaworu and the Doctor went far beyond fanfiction. But, strangely, she referred to Dr. K. as "Akira" in most of her posts, claiming it was "as shorthand", and a couple of others joined in. In addition to outright confusing people (to the point that "Akira" made a brief appearance on Wikipedia), it helped brand Reichu's various proposals and wacky ideas with the stigma of being elaborate "fanfiction" (as opposed to just lousy fanwankage). While Reichu et al. eventually stopped using "Akira" in serious posts, the pet name remains blemished to this day.
Duel of the Seeds
The idea that the dominance of Lilith-based life on Earth was determined by the outcome of a primordial battle that took place between Lilith and Adam (with the name referring to the battle itself, as well). Now, this made perfect sense at the time. We know that Lilith is essentially an imposter on Earth, whose Black Moon collided into the planet (= First Impact) after Adam's own arrival, and that, obviously, the "true successors from the lost White Moon" (Adam's offspring) got the short end of the stick. The show contains an image of Adam being exhumated (see figure), wherein the tines of the Spear of Longinus are visible emerging from her back -- i.e., she's skewered on it -- and Shin-seiki offered, way back, that Lilith is the one who did the skewering[Source needed].
The concept of a full-fledged duel -- perhaps echoing that between Eva-01 and Eva-02 in Episode 24 -- gained further momentum early in 2006[Source needed], spurred on by initial glimpses into the NGE2 Classified Information (intimations that every Seed was sent with her own Spear, for example) and various theoretical dabblings. However, once the relevant parts of the CI were fully translated, this most excellent theory was drop-kicked down into "oh, if only it were true..." whimsy. "Adam, skewered by her own Spear? What the hell was Anno thinking?!?" (...Wait. Don't answer that.)
At the height of its glory, DotS was sufficiently infectious that (as of this writing) its falsified status has not been universally dispersed. This effectively means the occasional poor soul shows up brandishing it, and has to be dealt with accordingly. "What? The Duel of the Seeds was disproven?!?"
Fem-Kaworu
At the height of her Revelations Madness (see below), Reichu had the outstanding epiphany that Kaworu was, in fact, a female. (The "logistics" are not important here.) Naturally, her sanity was brought into question, and absolutely no one took this idea seriously (except for maybe a small handful of misfits). Reichu eventually abandoned any hope of "fem-Kaworu" (as Dr. Nick branded it) gaining acceptance, although she couldn't quite let it go altogether. She and Mr. Tines subsequently made sure that no one could forget about fem-Kaworu, no matter how much as they might want to. While this was decidedly a forced meme at first, at some point or another the denizens of EMF began to make references to it completely on their own, to the point where it became the veritable "Godwin's Law" of EMF. As phrased in BrikHaus' signature (as of this writing), "On EMF, as a thread becomes longer, the likelihood that fem-Kaworu will be mentioned increases exponentially." Fem-Kaworu also makes periodic appearances at "THAT BOARD", though it seems to be considered more of an irritation than an in-joke.
Revelations Incident
Right around Christmas 2005, Reichu woke up one morning convinced that the Gainax Gods had bestowed upon her the key to all of NGE's deepest mysteries — Evangelion was like a puzzle, and she at long last had the Solution in sight! She proceeded to bombard ANF with her "revelations", shattering the forum's extended period of dormancy with more posts than anyone could keep up with. This was all received fairly well … at first. Eventually, however, those annoyed with Reichu's increasingly bizarre ideas and escalating sense of dramatics began to mount, and a grand flame war (or something like one) broke out. The blaze, fortunately, snuffed itself out quickly. After a couple of months of madness, everything gradually began to return to normal, although it would take Reichu much longer to recover her reputation.
Sarai
A fictional character concocted by Tbozfan at AnimeNation Forums whom he used to answer all controversial questions. Whose soul is in Eva-00?: Sarai! Who shot Kaji?: Sarai! Who caused the Episode 11 blackout?: Sarai! I wish I could say that Tboz was just tired of the same questions over and over, but I'm afraid he was just being a pain. Once again, for some reason some people played along with this gag.
The Spear of Longinus = Adam's S² Engine
HAH HAH HAH HAH.
The Tree of Life at Second Impact
Note: In most of these images it's hard to see what we're talking about if you don't click to see the full sized image.
The theory that the Tree of Life tried to form in Antarctica during Second Impact; it was originated by Shin-seiki.
One day, while watching Death, he noticed something curious: a group of wavy lines in the upper left hand corner of the screen as Adam's wings emerge. He checked, and this did not appear in the scene as originally presented in Episode 12, so he concluded that it had been added along with the red soul dots. He then took a closer look to try and figure out just what it was supposed to be. The more he looked, the more he thought that it looked like the twiggy end of the Tree of Life.
When he posted this conclusion, some of the leading lights of Anime Nation and Eva Monkey Forums were incredulous at first, until Reichu compared a flipped version to a sketch of the Tree of Life from the Groundwork of Evangelion. She was convinced and became a champion of this theory. Most of the old timers, thewayneiac for example, then followed suit. Much accolades and back-pattings were directed at Shin-seiki for this important discovery.
Unfortunately, a party-pooper extrodinaire with the handle "Kaysow" proceded to decisively demonstrate that what we were looking at was just a flaw in the cell, by posting screencaps of several other instances in Death where the same phenomenon occurs. He posted about 20 or 30 examples, but two should suffice here. He also pointed out that it always occured in either the first or last frame of a cut, and thus was probably a flaw in the splicing process.
Faced with this evidence, Shin-seiki was forced to to say, "Never mind."
