Secret Alignment chart Dossier

Compiled by D.A.D.O.O.F.E.D (Dungeons and Dragons official organisation for Earth's defence)
To be always kept top secret and confidential from those outside the organization.

Lawful good to chaotic evil

Lawful good

Ritsuko Akagi: Throughout the Evangelion Series, this kind scientist has always struck me as nothing less than a near ideal paragon of goodness even in the cruel world she lives and works in.
She's one of the few people to never harass, insult or undermine Shinji.
She always tries to see every situation rationally and objectively rather than jumping to a conclusion.
Her one drawback would have to be that she's a little too rule bound and not independent enough to stand against the evil rules enforced upon her by the corrupt NERV.

That and Shinji was unlucky enough to be placed under Misato's care and not hers.

Neutral good (The best)

Shinji Ikari: If there was just one character I would always root for, it would be this young hero. The one reason I watch the Evangelion series as dark as it is, is in the faint hope that he gets a happy ending at the end alive and well with enough of his friends left to keep him from going insane.
It's the one ending that could do this franchise justice at this point.
He really is the perfect balance of law and goodness. And considering that the world treats him like nothing but crap, he really is nothing less than a saint the way he acts.

He never gets angry at anyone except himself even when they do nothing good for him.
And for me at least, Shinji represents everything wrong with the Evangelion universe in general.

Cruel people like Asuka and Gendo get preferential treatment and medals while the one guy trying to improve the world while everyone else does squat, gets kicked in the face for doing nothing wrong.

People tell him, do this and when he does exactly as he's told, they beat him up.

Mari Makinami: The other character that I view as a saint among everyone.
I in fact believed when I first saw Evangelion 2 that she would actually be the main character (I never watched Evangelion 1). She also hasn't done anything wrong to Shinji and actively regrets having to deceive and kill which is very admirable.

She does jump from side to side, but is not actively trying to break the rules as long as they are good rules.
I feel that Evangelion 3's characterization of her didn't do her justice in the slightest.
She is reduced to little more than Asuka's lackey who would approve of Shinji being in an abusive relationship with a bully.

I in fact have a theory that at some point between Rebuild 2 and 3, Mari was captured by WILLE and brainwashed with a mind control device. It would explain why all the energy in her lines were so lacklustre in delivery and passion by then.

Sakura Suzuhara- Holds no grudge, is polite and is very forgiving from what little we see of her. Enough said.

Chaotic Good
Yui Ikari: If Gendo's depression over losing her is anything to go by, Shinji's mother was a good woman in life. Her methods of protecting the world however were very questionable since she did it while her infant son was watching and while knowing that losing her would cause Gendo to go crazy.

My guess is that Gendo didn't treat her well (would you put it past him) and that by the end of her life, she had lost the will to go any further.

She still wanted to help the world, but she was too far gone by then to think straight or want to continue living.

Lawful Neutral

Misato Katsuragi: As a NERV member she only cared about obeying the orders she was given. As a WILLE leader, she only cared about who she could assert her dominance over.
She never wanted to destroy the world, but she never wanted to improve it either.

She never actively antagonized Shinji but she also did nothing to protect him from Asuka.

For me, Misato is only slightly above being an evil villain.
She is a coward who can dish it out but can't take it. She will happily boss Shinji around but not do anything to discipline Asuka because Asuka is meaner and more domineering.

She shouts at Shinji because Shinji doesn't punch windows apart and Asuka does. That really is poor discipline.

Her choice to let Shinji escape in Evangelion 3 and a few genuinely supportive lines near the end of Evangelion 2 make me only just barely put her outside evil territory.

But I think she shouldn't be Shinji's adoptive parent and that she owes Shinji a big apology. She also needs to punish Asuka for assaulting a fellow pilot.

True Neutral

EVA's: Whether these machines rebuild or destroy the world is up to the few pilots able to connect to them. A pilot can just as easily become corrupted and turned into a monster as they become a hero driving one of these things.

Chaotic Neutral

Hikari - Asuka's close friend from school. She doesn't particularly want to improve or destroy the world. She just goes after the next impressive looking bad girl she finds and in this case Asuka, completely disregarding the fact that Asuka bullies Shinji.

Simply because Asuka looks cool and hip, Hikari chooses friendship with Asuka.

Lawful Evil

ASUKA LANGLEY SORYU- Need I say more? She punches Shinji and abuses him on a day to day basis while sucking up to her higher ups in NERV and later WILLE simply so she can have a higher rank and more reputation.
She of all people should know what Shinji is going through right now and be there to support him after he has saved her life countless times and shown that he would gladly die for her.

Instead she calls him stupid Shinji and does nothing but abuse him without once thanking him.

I think she only went to check on Shinji at the end of Evangelion 3 because she was confident there was no danger (if there was still an Angel she would left him to die) and because she knew he was the only one she could boss around and get away with it.
In other words, she wanted to keep him around as a punching bag and a slave and not because she cared a whit about him.

She obeys the laws set by NERV and WILLE because she wants a higher rank, but she will do anything outside these laws that she can get away with such as assaulting a fellow operative in the presence of an uncaring superior officer who is too apathetic to care.

It is implied that if the war against EVA's and Angel's one day ended, Asuka would go insane from having nothing else she could do well besides piloting and fighting in an EVA while Shinji, Mari and even Rei would be able to reintegrate back into society as productive and helpful rebuilders.

Asuka suffers from crippling overspecialization. The only thing she can do about well is to fight, and even in war fighting makes up only a tiny part of what must be done to win.

Shinji and Mari can negotiate well. And being able to negotiate well is useful in both peace and war.
You need to negotiate to make sure your army doesn't fight itself and you need to negotiate a peace deal with enemies after you've won so that another war doesn't happen.

In fact if people just negotiated well, there wouldn't need to be a war.

Asuka claims that Rei is the one who got in through nepotism, when she herself is the one sucking up to NERV even when she can plainly see what they were doing was morally wrong.

Her tragic past should only make her appreciate Shinji's kindness more.

Neutral Evil (The worst)
GENDO IKARI – This man is the epitome of selfishness. He claims that he cares about his wife but if that were the case then he would take better care of his son since he is an aspect of his wife.
He would also treat his employees at NERV better since his wife sacrificed her life to save them, and since he doesn't do that, he is spitting in his wife's face and disrespecting Yui in every way possible.

So many villains want to kill people to bring a loved one back to life, but here is the thing.
Their loved one sacrificed themselves so others could live so doing that is going against their wishes.
And the loved one in question loved the villain specifically because back then, they weren't a villain.

Even if Gendo were to successfully bring his wife back, do you think she'd like the things he did and the people he killed?

Gendo isn't generous enough to go down himself. He wants to drag the world down with him as he goes down to satisfy his sadism.

In fact he's too cowardly to even admit his mistakes so instead he continues being the unfit leader of NERV while ruining the world with his bad decisions.

If you look at how most characters in EVANGELION live in crummy apartments with beer and instant noodles, there is evidence that Gendo demands extraordinary taxes as a protection fee and is basically sucking the world economy dry.
Look at how fancy Gendo's office is and how fancy his limo is and how crummy, messy and small Shinji, Asuka and Misato's apartment is.

He enforces rules for others to benefit himself, while happily breaking every one of his own rules.

He loves Rei in a twisted way because she has Yui's genes, proving he only loves a picture of Yui rather than Yui herself. And if you really love somebody, you should continue being the good person you were to them long after they are gone.

Chaotic Evil.

The Angels – Their one instinct is to kill. A lot like zombies or killer robots really.
They are the punishment for mankind's past mistakes but they don't act out of their own malice.
They just do what they were programmed to do, to destroy everything.

They cannot be brought, bullied, reasoned or negotiated with. They just want to watch the world burn.

Final word: Shinji is probably the only likeable character in the entire series. He's polite, he doesn't bully others and he do as he is told even when the world is doing nothing but mistreating him.

I don't think Shinji should end up with Asuka or Rei.
Asuka's actions towards him are unforgivable and she is nothing but violent and unpleasant.
Rei is kinder but too shy and insecure to provide Shinji with the encouragement he needs in his life.

In a way, Asuka and Rei are two extremes which are both bad.
Rei cares too much about the little things in life to move onto anything bigger.
Asuka cannot bother with petty trifles, but fails to see that it's the little things in life which make up the big things (such as maybe being a bit nicer to Shinji)

As such, I believe that not only is Mari a viable romance option for Shinji, she is the only option in the show's own logic.

She's the only person who's both confident while not malicious.
She provides Shinji with positive energy and like Shinji she wants to improve the world and be there for her friends.

And if you read the supplementary materiel, Mari had close relationships with Shinji's mother Yui.

The shared love for a good woman is also another thing Mari and Shinji have in common.

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Catch you all next time!