First up, a 'refresher course' on the extracanonical EVA ladies who haven't been gotten to by either author, along with who I turned them into.

1. Maria Vincennes - American EVA pilot introduced in the 1996 tabletop RPG The NERV White Paper. A blonde 'reverse' of Asuka in that she acts meek and polite around adults but is haughty and domineering around her peers. Of the two SWOE originators, only OrionPax09 began something with her in the story "Stormbringer", which turned her into the latest hammer-wielding thunderer of Asgard. In conversation with Mike313, he revealed he'd planned on making her a denizen of Apokolips saved by Mr. Miracle and Big Barda, who winds up on Earth due to a boom-tube accident; in honor of her rescuers, the young warrior takes up Big Barda's moniker. For my tribute series, I opted for a different approach: long story short, in my portrayal, Maria is the Superwomen of EVA version of Green Arrow. (Also, two words: progressive bow.)

2. Dr. Hitomi Kaga - NERV scientist introduced in the 2002 videogame The Secret of the Evangelion who, in addition to being a woman who wears her emotions on her sleeve, went to college with Misato and Ritsuko, and even is part of the latter's team that develops the Dummy System. For Orion's Marvel-based SWOE, I have her as Ms./Captain Marvel, gaining her powers in an accident akin to what Carol Danvers went through. Kenzaki Kyouya, the Section-2 agent also introduced in that videogame, is Hitomi's equivalent of Mar-Vell/Walter Lawson, making him the element that introduces the Kree-Skrull rivalry to the world of EVA. For Mike's DC-based SWOE2, Hitomi is instead a hero who's a composite of the Starman legacy, after stumbling upon the cosmic rod and research of the original Starman, Theodore 'Ted' Knight. (A wrinkle added to her character development is her discovery of Knight's part in the Manhattan Project, the results of which killed some of her family at the end of WWII.) Between both takes on Hitomi is the addition of Sumire Nagara from the Rebuild of Evangelion films as her best friend, and secretly being a costumed hero before Hitomi donned her own set of tights-for SWOE, Sumire is the equivalent of Photon/Monica Rambeau; for SWOE2, she's Dr. Mid-Nite (with a costume inspired by Beth Chapel's from Infinity, Inc.).

3. Aoi Mogami, Satsuki Ooi, and Kaede Agano - the bridge bunny trio introduced in the videogame and manga series The Shinji Ikari Raising Project. Aoi, the eldest, is short-haired and wears glasses; Satsuki, the middle, has long sandy-blonde hair; and Kaede, the youngest, also sports short hair and is a bit sprightly. They held the positions normally held by Hyuga, Maya, and Aoba, who in Raising Project are teachers at the kids' school. For Orion's Marvel-based SWOE, the three of them wind up being mysteriously given the research and equipment (in a sense, the legacy) of the late Dr. Henry Pym; each proceeds to take on a size-changing (and in two specific cases, bug-speaking) alter-ego, with Kaede as the Wasp, Satsuki as Stature, and Aoi as Yellowjacket (sans the mental breakdown usually associated with that mantle). For Mike's SWOE2, Aoi is exposed to a piece of rare white dwarf star matter, which she then puts to use by building a size-changing suit based on the research of Dr. Ray Palmer and her former college Professor, Dr. Ryan Choi; as a result, she becomes the Atom (which Mike did poke fun at in an omake from Ritsuko's story "Blue Defiance"). Meanwhile, around the same time, Kaede and Satsuki accidentally get caught in the explosion of an experimental reactor that fuses them together into a nuclear-powered being with matter transmutation powers. With Aoi's help in designing a containment suit and control device (based on research done by physicist Martin Stein and one of his students, Jason Rusch), as well as learning to fuse and de-fuse at will, the two dub their gestalt form Firestorm. Eventually, Kaede and Satsuki are able to fully separate themselves while retaining their powers, with Satsuki adopting the identity of Firehawk.

In addition to the above, while the non-Mike313-written SWOE2 story "Soaring High" exists (which sees Toji's sister Sakura become Hawkgirl), personally I'm pro-Sakura Suzuhara becoming the new champion for the wizard Shazam (as seen in a couple of stories, one of which being part of Cody Fett's "Superwomen of EVA Legacy" series). For Orion's Marvel-based take, I could see Sakura and Nozomi Horaki (Hikari's youngest sister) as a two-person Power Pack.

Finally, at some point, I'll probably come up with DC/Marvel character mantles for later extracanonicals such as Nene Matsukaze (from the visual novel Neon Genesis Evangelion Gaiden Vol. 2 ~ Feast of Dolls); and Kotone Suzuname and Hitomi Amagi (from the mobile game Evangelion Battlefields).

Now then-on to the new folks!