evangelion-wat happened to rei ayanami?

Question

i remember when that doc (the one with the blonde hair and hates rei) destroys all those rei like figures in the manga. she clicks a button on this remote thing and they all suddenly disintegrate-wat was that? does it mean theres heaps of rei? or just that whenever rei is injured badly, they can move her to another 'container'? or..? thx =]

Answer 1

rei is a copy of the wife of gendo ikari. so they have many copys of rei plus she is the core of the dummy plug system so her mind is backed up somewhere

Answer 2

Rei From Evangelion

Answer 3

Rei is a clone of Shinji's dead mother - which explains Gendo's affection for her. The Rei we see in the beginning of Evangelion in the 'second rei' clone. The first Rei clone was a little child which Ritsuko's mother choked to death in a burst of rage and jealousy. The 'third' Rei comes back with her memories lost after she pulls the self destruct plug on her Eva during a fight with an angel that began to destroy Shinji's mind. This was also the first time we saw her cry. Rei herself, physically was created in the same purpose of the 'dummy-plug' that is inserted into the Evas. Her body is merley a shell which houses a soul. Towards the end of the (anime) Dr. Ritsuko Akagi destroys the thousands of artificial Rei bodies (souless ones) that are floating around ina huge tnk near terminal dogma. This happens infront of Shinji and Misato who finally un-cover the truth behind the human instrumentality project. In the movies (which are just... whack lol) Rei basically like destroys the Earth... my memories a bit sketchy at this point. um, im pretty sure. ya'know that glove Gendo always wore? well he started wearing it originally for a burn from opening the dummy-plug after Rei's accident. But in the end he wore it because he had (adam) i think... on his gloved hand. He proceeds to find Rei and shove his hand through her chest. She reacts as (eve??), she basically obliterates everyone. and from there the movie gets loopy. i can't remember anymore.

Answer 4

Rei was the clone of Shinji Akari's mother. Shinji was the main character, at the end Rei realized that she was just a clone and nothing more....she was an expendable.....getting mad at this she sees all of her clones and by pressing the button it destroys all of the clones of her. No whats really going to boggle your mind is when you watch the final episode with Shinji and find out that hes stuck inside Unit 0 (oh btw all the evas are angels................shhhhhhh)

Answer 5

Seriously? Who knows. She's just a doll, re-created again and again with the same mind. They could have a backup (and they probably do) somewhere else. But Evangelion is supposed to be a surrealist mindtrip. Really, make up your own explanation.

Answer 6

They USED TO be able to put her in a new body. Remember that thing where she was in a big glass tube under what looked like a giant set of intestines? And Gendo told her it was time to come out? I think they periodically upload her memories so that if she was killed, they could down load them into a new body and have Rei all over again (except for the last memories of what killed her.)

So, if you think about it, by taking away the memories of what she feels is worth dying for (not recording those memories) they sort of take away what makes life worth living.

Rei is a clone of Yui Ikari, Gendo's wife who was absorbed by Unit 01 (the same way Shinji was for a month). So it seems clear that Gendo wants to bring his wife back and I guess eventually one of the Rei bodies would be for Yui.

Ritsuko, the doctor, resented Rei, because she saw that Gendo had some affection for her while he was only using Ritsuko (for her technical skills and for sex too, I gather.) That was the same way Gendo treated Ritsuko's mother, who strangled the first Rei. So Ritsouko hated and envied Rei, though Rei had done nothing.

It doesn't make sense to me that they needed to have a self-destruct button for the spare clones of Rei, but it makes for a dramatic image, doesn't it?

Ritsuko was striking back at Gendo to a certain extent. I guess she didn't dare destroy all of the Rei's (including the third one that replaced the one who sacrificed herself to save Shinji) but this way Gendo can't recklessly use Rei and risk her life to get things done, now that she's the only one left.

What Ritsuko doesn't seem to realize is that Gendo seems to always know what is coming next, due to knowing the prophecies in the Dead Sea Scrolls. (Notice how he is almost always away from the area whenever one of the angels attack...? He's no dummy!) So Rei is not really at risk. Ritsuko's attempt to manipulate Gendo failed.

There are hints later that Rei (the third one) remembers at least some of what happened between her and Shinji when they held hands after he was recovered from being trapped in Unit 01.

You also have to remeber that (at leastin the manga) at that point when Ritsuko destroyed all the spare Rei's, she had just been given to SEELE for questioning. They wanted to know how Rei could survive being blown up. Apparently they didn't know about the spare Rei clones, so that was a part of Gendo's personal agenda. He gave them Ritsuko to cover up so Rei would not be questioned herself. Then Ritsuko realized that she was less important to Gendo than Rei was. She was only a little jealous of her before, but now she hated Rei.

In the manga, Misato was getting suspicious about Rei, since it didn't seem possible that Rei survived with only a light degree of injuries. Kaji had already told her and shown her some things that were being kept secret from her. When Misato demanded that Ritsuko tell her the truth, Ritsuko agreed, on the condition that Shinji come with them. So Ritsuko struck at all of them in this way: she destroyed the spare Rei's, she tried to punish Gendo for loving Rei more than her, and she made Shinji suffer (made him realize that the Rei that saved his life was gone and the new Rei was not the girl that cared about him, that he cared about, but only an imperfect copy.) I think hurting Shinji was partly to punish Misato for forcing Ritsuko to tell the truth.

But if you look at the whole series, the entire thing seems to be to make Shinji suffer. Every time he thinks things are getting better, they get worse. He makes new friends, only to see them die or be hurt. He's re-united with his father, only tobe told to stand on his own feet and walk. He never gets to have the kind of loving relationship with his father that he was hoping for deep down. As he remarks at one time, he has to sacrifice all the things that are meaningful to him in order to fight to protect things that don't seem worth protecting.

Even Rei did not have a very close relationship with Gendo, and it was only her inexperience at life that kept her from realizing what she was missing. (As a clone, Rei never had an actual childhood with loving parents. Her ignorance was so total, she literally didn't recognize her own feeling, when she was lonely, when she was happy, when she was starting to like Shinji, etc. She didn't learn to recognize her feelings, how to respond to other people, by seeing the social interaction between her loving parents.)

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19 NOV 07, 1538 hrs, GMT.