angel (evangelion)

使徒

A set of seventeen (possibly eighteen) varied, generally antagonistic, very powerful and very bizarre looking alien beings in Neon Genesis Evangelion.

In real life they serve as monster of the week for the original animated TV series. Most of their designs are based in the original scary and very bizarre depictions of Angels in the Christian Bible. As the series progresses it is revealed that the Angels are artificially engineered lifeforms created by ancient intelligent alien beings to become the top dominating species in the different inhabited planets of our galaxy.

List of Angels

1st - Adam
  • A giant being of light (roughly EVA-shaped with dark spots where its eyes and core would assumed to be).
  • An embryonic form, typically set either subdermally in a person's palm/hand or in a solid, orange, transparent material.
  • Its remains were studied by Ikari Gendou and served as basis to develop the Evangelions.
2nd - Lilith
  • A large, pudgy, white being with a seven-eyed mask over its face and a lower body composed of several human-sized (lower) bodies, crucified to a red cross by the Lance of Longinus.
  • If the Lance is not present, then the lower body may feature full legs, but still with smaller bodies poking out.
  • A form of Ayanami Rei, marked by being giant, naked, white, and winged; sometimes seen as large body parts in the background, most notably a giant face.
3rd - Sachiel
  • Vaguely humanoid creature with large bony structures on its shoulders and torso and a distinctive beaked face.
4th - Shamshel
  • Vaguely arthropod-like creature, with a long cylindrical body, a roughly shovel-shaped head with two eyespot-like markings.
5th - Ramiel
  • A hollow, translucent blue octahedron.
6th - Gaghiel
  • An aquatic being with a massive body and long jaws filled with sharp teeth.
7th - Israfel
  • Has the appearance of a massive, vaguely humanoid creature, its most notable weapon is its ability to split itself into separate, twin Angels.
8th - Sandalphon
  • Looks similar in form to a flatfish, but with two arm-like appendages and two knobs on its "top" side.
9th - Matariel
  • Has the appearance of a massive arachnid-like creature with numerous eyes.
10th - Sahaquiel
  • A massive and bizarrely-shaped creature. It has an elongated body, with three eye-like markings.
11th - Iruel
  • A nano-scale entity, the Angel seems to simply spread by rapidly reproducing at the cellular level.
12th - Leliel
  • Appears as a large, floating, black-and-white patterned sphere. A transdimensional being, the shadow below the sphere is the actual form of the angel.
13th - Bardiel
  • Since it inhabits EVA 03, it looks like it as well, only with a dark blue body, and longer arms.
14th - Zeruel
  • A floating creature as large as the Evas but lacking humanoid limbs, and possessing folding foil-like "arms" and a malformed "skull" as a face.
15th - Arael
  • The form of a massive, glowing winged creature.
16th - Armisael
  • Appears as a large glowing floating torus (3 dimensional circle).
  • A double helix structure.
  • Or a single thread.
17th - Tabris
  • Appears to be a pale human male with white hair, red eyes, and dressed in typical school attire; often smiling.
  • A genderswap of the above, with no pants, twintails, and a set of six feathered wings.
  • Nagisa Kaworu
18th - Lilin
  • The spawn of Lilith, also known as Homo Sapiens. Mankind/Humanity as a whole is the final Angel.
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