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The End of Evangelion is an alternate version of the final two episodes of Neon Genesis Evangelion. The first half of the movie is the alternate episode 25, which is called "Air". With all 17 Angels destroyed, NERV and Gendo Ikari now hold all the cards. Possessing Rei, Eva Unit 1, Lillith, and Adam, Gendo can now initiate his own version of Instrumentality (Third Impact). However, before Gendo can realize his dream, SEELE uses the Japanese Strategic Self-Defence Forces (JSSDF) to launch an assault on NERV itself. The second half of the movie is the alternate episode 26, which is called "My Purest Heart for You". Third Impact is initiated as Eva Unit 1 is put into use for the last time. As the pilot of Eva Unit 1, Shinji controls the fate of the world.moreless

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    • 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.

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    • 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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