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Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Evangelion Tropes and Idioms [ O ]

GUYS : Read it of you have time .. ^^ It's interesting ..

NOTE : Tropes are devices and conventions that a writer can reasonably rely on as being present in the audience members' minds and expectations. On the whole,tropes are not clichés. The word clichéd means "stereotyped and trite". In other words, dull and uninteresting. We are not looking for dull and uninteresting entries. We are here to recognize tropes and play with them, not to make fun of them.

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Oedipus Rex (Shinji / Gendou.)
Omniscient Council Of Vagueness (SEELE is almost a caricature.)
Omniscient Morality License (The End Of Evangelion suggests that Yui Ikari has this; of course, also depends on where you rate the character on the 'innocent vs. manipulative' scale. Shinji's other two Spirit Advisors, Rei Ayanami and Kaworu Nagisa, may have this too. In the original ending, Gendou Ikari may have this at a more metaphorical level, seeing as he obviously represents God and more generally, the father archetype.)
Only Six Faces (So much that almost all the young characters have the same face shape and Maya looks like Shinji. In one commentary track, Tiffany Grant (English-language voice actress for Asuka) managed to confuse Misato with Shinji. And Misato was naked at the time.)
Only You Can Repopulate My Race (If Shinji and Asuka don't learn to at least like each other quick smart, humanity is doomed.)
- If no one else comes back, humanity's doomed anyway since two people can't feasibly repopulate a world by themselves.
Oracular Urchin (Borderline; Rei clearly knows more than she lets on, though she only rarely speaks.)
Ordinary High School Student (Shinji, at the beginning. On the other hand, his family past is such that he could never have had an ordinary life to begin with, which Kaji makes amply clear in the manga.)
Otaku (Shinji's friend Kensuke, who is a military otaku.)
Our Angels Are Different (And how! Ironically, these are a lot closer to the actual, very trippy angel descriptions in The Bible, such as "beryl-coloured wheel within a wheel, each rim covered with eyes" and the like.)
Out Of Clothes Experience (Especially Shinji and Rei, but it happens once or twice to Asuka too. And to manga Yui. Also, to humankind in The End.)

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