Gendo Ikari

The villain I will be talking about is a character that would be evil in nearly everyone’s eyes when they watch this anime, this anime being Neon Genesis Evangelion. Shinji’s dad or Gendo Ikari, as much as he was neglectable to his son, his actions make more sense when you actually finally understand the lore of Neon Genesis. A man who is so head-strung in his own wishes that he puts a bunch of kids through abuse may be evil to everyone but I think what his plan involved outweighed these small details for the benefits of humanity. Where he also wanted to be with his wife again as he made Rei from Lilith and his wife, in the end of evangelion he tries to merge himself with Rei/Yui and gets denied and admits he was afraid to confront his son. Gendo went through the trauma of his loss and his job, he became bad with people because of his focus on reconnecting with his wife, in the end I feel like he actually woke up from Rei rejecting him. In the end he wanted forgiveness and did his retribution. He sacrificed himself after his plans with his wife failed and died, not joining the singularity as a punishment. 

The human instrumentality project is passed over to the control of shinji where he is traumatised that he rejects the plan and decides to stay while everyone gets absorbed into Lilith as one body and soul. Gendo may have been too hindsight by work to help his son but he wanted to save everyone from the third impact and his wife. People who have the will to come back can come back to earth, however shinji kills asuka, and basically because of his own stubbornness kills the rest of humanity as some would interpret. As the end of Evangelion is very much vague and left up to the audience to understand, Shinji could very much be more evil accidentally than his father plus the hospital scene that Shinji did. I feel like everyone in the series has trauma and because of this everyone thought of themselves as the world was on the verge of ending. So I don’t think anyone is to blame but oh boy doesn’t the original series make you want to hate Shinji for being a little baby, but you can understand because of what he's been through and his age. Now this is my understanding of the story, you may completely disagree and that’s fine because that’s what NGE is about. It’s meant to be up in the air for you to make your own conclusions.

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