Shinji: So, where is my dream? Rei: It is a continuation of reality. Shinji: But where is my reality? Rei: It is at the end of your dream.
Kouzou: There's nothing more that we can do to hold them off. Our defeat has become inevitable. Gendo: Professor Fuyutsuki, take care of this, please. Kouzou: Yes, Commander. Please, give my regards to Yui.
Shinji: I... I want to die... Just leave me here. Misato: Stop talking like a stubborn, little brat! Like it or not, you're still alive! Get moving and do something! You can die later.
SEELE member: The fate of destruction is also the joy of rebirth!
Gendo: Death brings nothing.
The Japanese titles for episodes 25 and 26 are "Air" and "My Purest Heart for You" respectively. Episode 25's English title is "Love is destructive" while Episode 26's English title is "I need you".
The members of SEELE knew that opening Heaven's Chamber of Guf (a reference to the Kabbalah) would result in the annihilation and reincarnation of the human race, which goes back to the quote "the fate of destruction is also the joy of rebirth".
When Hugo says that the "pilot's destrado is beginning to manifest", destrado is the desire and energy to destroy everything, including ones self; it's the opposite of libido, which is the desire and energy to create life.
Due to fan outrage after the abysmal episodes 25 and 26, Studio GAINAX decided to make a remake of the final two episodes. This became the movie The End of Evangelion which is not really a remake, but an alternate version - and an alternate ending for the series.
It appears that there was another Angel after the 17th, the only one that would stop humanity from the "Constructive Impact". This was the human who pilots the Evangelion chosen as the path of humanity rejoining it's "mother". That Evangelion was EVA-1, the only Evangelion created from Lilith's body, making Shinji in a way the 18th Angel. Gendo's agenda was to make himself a living god, replacing Lilith in the Third impact. But Rei-3 merged into Lilith as her way of cheating Gendo out of his goal to have his wife be a part of him.
When Keel says "all is right with the world", he references the saying God's in His Heaven, All's Right With the World. It is the last line from the 1841 poem Pippa's Song, written by Robert Browning. More information.
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