![]() ![]() Her Angelic heritage and superpowers are first hinted at in episode 19 and explicitly displayed in episode 24. After being heavily injured during a battle at the start of the series, Rei slowly becomes more intimate with the protagonist as her stunted social skills improve. Rei is an emotionally unexpressive 14 year old girl with pale skin, blue hair and red eyes who serves as one of the protagonist's Love Interests however, before he gets closer to her, she only relates to his father, who also happens to be a weird and somewhat disturbing father figure for her. Rei Ayanami from Neon Genesis Evangelion, the Trope Namer, Trope Maker, and a Deconstruction of the archetype itself (making this an Unbuilt Trope).See also Sugar-and-Ice Personality, Emotionless Girl and Stoic Woobie. Compare to Phlebotinum Girl and Char Clone. ![]() However, the popularity of this archetype has also led many of the variations to spawn Expies of their own.Ī Sub-Trope of Fountain of Expies and Shy Blue-Haired Girl. Rei Ayanami herself exhibits every characteristic, and many other characters have been created as variations on her. Eventually becomes more emotional, such as by Becoming A Real Girl or turning out to have a Sugar-and-Ice Personality.Occasionally has a strong connection to a parental figure, boss and/or antagonist, and may even display Undying Loyalty to them.Suffers a major injury or illness, or at least is frequently hospitalized.Is not quite human, such as an Artificial Human, Transhuman, clone, alien or robot, explaining their odd behavior.A tendency towards talking in Spock Speak, Mono tone, Robo Speak, or a combination thereof.Appears emotionless, quiet, stoic, or otherwise odd.Unnatural eye color, often red, blue, yellow, or even purple, usually in a Tsurime Eyes style.Unnatural hair color, often in cold tones like blue, purple, green, silver, grey or white (also occasionally pink).Mysterious and/or otherworldly origins.The Rei Ayanami Expy is a character archetype common in Japanese Media, started, or at least codified, by Rei Ayanami from Neon Genesis Evangelion.Ĭommon characteristics of the archetype include: note Clockwise, from the top left corner: Yin, Hecate, Noël, Kanade, Ayase, Tabitha, Yuki, Hazuki. ![]()
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