NAME

Shinji Ikari 
(Third  Children)

Misato Katsuragi
(NERV  Tactician)

Rei Ayanami
(First  Children) 

 Soryu Asuka Langley
(Second  Children)

Gendo Ikari
(NERV  Commander)

Ritsuko Akagi 
(NERV Technical  Expert)

 
Yui Ikari
(Mother and  Wife)

Kozo Fuyutsuki
(Sub-Commander of  NERV)

Ryoji Kaji
(Spy working for SEELE Main Branch,  Japanese Internal Affairs, and for Gendo's NERV)

 
Keel Lorenz
(Head of  SEELE)

Kaworu Nagisa
(Fifth Children  &
17th Angel)

Naoko Akagi
(Technical  Expert) 

Maya Ibuki
(NERV Computer  Operator)

Shigeru Aoba
(NERV Communications  Officer)

 Makoto Hyuga
(Assistant to Misato  as a NERV Tactician)

Toji Suzuhara
(Fourth  Children)

Hikari Horaki
(Class  Representative)

Kensuke Aida
(Military  Fan)

Pen^2
(Lovely  Penguin)

AGE

14

29

 14

 14

 48

 30

1977-
2004

 58

 30

 ?

 15

1964-
2010 

 24

 25

25 

 14

14 

 14

 3

 Characteristics and  Accomplishments

 Achild who feared to care for or be  cared by anyone. Afraid to live but even more afraid to die as he couldn't  even take his own life. He used to run away from any and all problems that  came his way until he was forced to pilot the Evangelion (Bio-Mecha) 01 by  his father.
  With the help of Misato Katsuragi, he had  learned to open himself up to the world and to others (even massive  "betrayals" like those by Kaworu Nagisa didn't set him back too far from  what he had learned). His choice to become his own self and not merge with  the rest of the world in the Third Impact was a drastic and major act  showing how far he had come in such a short time (this presumably happens  when he realizes that even though there is no "pain" in the final form,  there is no pleasure either. This makes existence vague and  pointless).

 Another emotional shut-in, Misato  refused to let others into her life while relying heavily on drinking and  her revenge on the Angels to get her though life. She was as scarred  outside (from the Second Impact) as she was inside (after losing her  father and Kaji).
  Although she was a very able officer when  she had to be, she prefered to live in dissorder and dirt.
  The sole survivor of the Katsuragi Expedition and the  Second Impact, she knows the truth behind what really happened in  Antarctica in the year 2000, and this left her in a catatonic state for  five years. Even though she never really loved her father, she dedicated  her life to destroying the angels who took him from her (the cross pendant  around her neck being her only keepsake of him).
  While  living with Shinji, she also learned how to open her heart to others, and  she also gave up beer. The greatest hurdle any character had  to face in the series!
  After her lover Kaji was gone, she  took up his quest to find the ultimate truth behind NERV and SEELE. In the  end she did, but the truth was too little too late.

 An albino with a personality as bland  as her skin. She is the result of an experiment that combined Angel DNA  with that of Shinji's mother, Yui Ikari. She is also quite literally the  backbone of the NERV Dummy Plug System.
  Rei was the guinea  pig in most of NERV's experiments having to do with Project E and the  Human Instrumentality Project. She was a good little  doll.
  By the end of the story, three "Rei's" had been  released into the world. The first was killed in 2010 by Naoko Akagi, the  second killed herself to save Shinji's life, and the third merged with  Lilith to finish the Third Impact. The first two clones showed signs of  affection toward Gendo Ikari, but the third one disobeyed him and  completed the Third Impact against his orders and his plans that he  carefully constructed from the very beginning of NERV  creation.
  It has also been hypothesized that her soul is  actually devired from Lilith too. This would help to explain her necessity  and ease for which she was able to merge with Lilith.
  It  must be tough knowing that even if you die there will be a  replacement.

 An emotionally overcharged powerhouse,  Asuka never learned to channel her energies properly. This was brought on  by the abandoning by her father and the suicide of her mother (after going  crazy from a failed Eva Synchronization test) early on in her life. While  the same things happened to Shinji (lost mother and a run-away father),  Asuka chose a far different way of coping.
  She hated Rei  for acting like a doll because of the fact that as her mother slowly  slipped into insanity she gave all her maternal attention to her  daughter's doll believing she was loving her own flesh and blood. She then  destroyed the doll in order to 'take her Asuka with her' before she hanged  herself.
  Asuka was a child genious who only learned what  she was missing and needed in life (human love and compassion) almost too  late as she died protecting NERV HQ and everybody that she cared for at  the hands of the Eva series 5-13 in End of Evangelion.

 Acomplex man. He loved his wife,  neglected his son, loved Rei like his wife, hated his lovers (Naoko and  Ritsuko Akagi), and loved/hated his job.
  He used people  throughout his life to get what he wanted and never thought twice about  it. He only cared about "the goal", and never about humanity as a whole or  as individuals. His only care after his beloved Yui vanished was to stop  the Angels and complete his own form of the Third Impact which would  reunite him with the only being that ever truly loved him.
 Only  when the world was ending did he feel any regret, when he whispered that  he was sorry to his son.

 Almost as unfeeling as Rei, Ritsuko  based her life on logic and not emotions. Like all characters in  Evangelion, she did not love her parent(s), but she fell into the same  trap that her mother did. She was responsible for the Evangelion Project  and was enticed along by Gendo's faux love.
  This fake  blonde (to show how different she was from her mother) killed all of the  Rei clones to take out her revenge against Ikari Gendo for betraying her  feelings - just like her mother. Instead of killing herself (like her  mother) she tried to kill Gendo and the rest of NERV by self destructing  the MAGI. She failed and was shot to death by Gendo.

 Gendo's beloved wife and Shiji's mother  (and world), Yui disappeared while trying to synchronize with Eva-01. Her  spirit resides in the Test Type Model even through the Third Impact and  beyond where the Eva-01 begins its journey through  eternity.
  She protected her son numerous times as the man  made angel, and as the albino clone-girl Rei (who also contains some faded  memories of her life as Yui Ikari). As Rei, she was confused as to her own  identity and individuality. She loved Gendo but also hated him for what he  did to her. As Eva-01 she was one of NERV's most prized possessions, only  slightly behind Lilith and Adam.
  She helped Shinji to start  the Third Impact by bringing Longinus' Lance back from the moon (as  Eva-01), and by merging with him (as Rei) in order to help her son find  the happiness that he desired. 
  She was the one who  introduced Gendo to Gehirn and SEELE when she read the Dead Sea Scrolls  and found out what Keel Lorenz was planning for humanity. She was the  reason for Gendo's mad rush to beat Lorenz to the Third Impact and it's  also been hypothesized that her synchro "accident" was willfully planned  by her.

 He started out as a simple professor at  Kyoto University when he met Yui Ikari and her boyfriend Gendo Rokubungi  and his life (and history) changed forever. While he was fond of Yui (he  had a crush on her), he originally could not stand Gendo.
  Eventually, this quiet and logical man joined the Ikaris  in their UN sanctioned organization (Gehirn) in order to find the truth  behind the secret SEELE collective that was somehow responsible for the  Second Impact. He soon became Gendo's number one man, and only  friend.
  When Yui vanished, he took it just as hard as  Gendo.

 This laid-back, cool guy was a double  agent who pulled too many strings to get where he eventually got. He was  Misato's lover in college and again when he was transfered to NERV's main  branch in Tokyo-3.
  He was somewhat of Shinji's only father  figure and the main focus of Asuka's affections, and although he was in  love with Misato Katsugari and vice versa, they often fought like tigers  when they were together.
  He went too far in search of "the  truth" when he betrayed first NERV and then SEELE and was shot and killed  by Misato for his actions. He left all of his previous findings and all of  his still unanswered questions for his old lover to find out.

 Aruthless and dangerous man to cross,  Keel Lorenz made it his business to decide the fate of mankind. He started the mysterious world  organization, SEELE, in order to proceed with his Human Compliment Project  and lead mankind down its final path to the perfect unified form, whether  mankind was ready or not.
  He was the oldest human being  known to exist and was probably the "Wandering Jew" of Biblical legend  (the soldier who spit upon Christ at the Crusifixion and as punishment was  made to walk the earth until the Apocalypse), which might explain how he  was able to come to possess the Spear of Destiny (aka: the Lance of  Longinus). 
  He finally got his wish when the End of  the World came and man was artificially evolved into one being. He was  then able to rest.

 This mysterious child was sent to NERV  directly from SEELE to replace the then catatonic Second Children (after  her mind was attacked by the 15th Angel). Nothing was known about him  except he was born on Sept. 13, 2000 (the exact day of the Second  Impact).
  He became fast friends with Shinji and soon  excelled at the synchro-tests with the Eva-02. When it became clear  that he could synchronize with any Eva just by wishing it, Misato found  out that he was the last Angel. He was the same as Rei  in substance and in his existence (whose only purpose was to be a tool for  those in search of the ultimate power [becoming a god within the Third  Impact]).
  During his attack on Terminal Dogma he discovered  that the Angel hanging on a cross above the lake of LCL was not Adam, but  Lilith (Adam's runaway wife). He realized that if he came in contact with  her, mankind (as it was known) would foerever be gone (and Angels would be  compromised). He knew that it was not his decision to make (should man  live or evolve into an ultimate being?), so he allowed Shinji to kill  him.
  In the end it became clear why his eyes were always  filled with pity, the pity for man.
  He was also used as the  backbone of SEELE's Dummy Plug System in the Eva Production Models 05-13.  Even after his death he was exploited by Lorenz.

 Ritsuko's  mother was the genius scientist who created the Three Magi computers that  ran Gehirn and then later NERV. She was proud and full of herself as she  gave the three systems her personalities as a scientist, a mother, and a  woman (this proved to be Ritsuko's undoing).