In retrospect, would it have been a better choice to make cordless Evas?

And how exactly would you have powered the Eva?

Giant battery packs still only gave them a few seconds of power.

Make it powered by an unprotected teenage sex. If you make your partner cum it triples an Eva's power for a short time.

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Ok, but a real answer this time?

Also, /m/ is already having a thread on how to power mechs in ridiculous ways.

But they've already made spineless protagonist.

>he doesn't know

Why would NERV call it an umbilical cable when it attaches to the Eva's back?
Umbilical refers to the naval specifically.

And why did they never use the super ultra Japan-energy powered positron rifle that killed Ramiel ever again? That thing would have one-shot anything that wasn't Zeruel and saved them a lot of trouble.
Actually do what said with the Positron Rifle, since a Jet Alone could handle a weapon just as well as an Eva.
Or just mount a bunch of them on buildings.

It's a reference to Ultraman's timed transformations you mong.

>power cables deliberately called umbilical cords
Nah man, that's absolutely not symbolic at all.

Because it provides power to the Eva, in the same way an umbilical cord provides nutrients, also if the cord was attached to the Eva's navel that would be retarded design

>needing a cord
Anno is a hack, Ultraman could do all that shit in 3 minutes.

>not wanting to hear AMBIRIKARU KEBORU
Homo

It's a metaphor for...spins the wheel...gasoline addiction.

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the evas have 5 mins?? of power with the battery. just keep switching batteries.
the cord has more symbolism than sense, since it would just get in the way and destroy everything else it touches.

In Rebuild 3 they actually do have swappable batteries.
No idea why it took them that long to figure out they could do that, it was the only bit of writing in that whole movie that actually made sense.

>just keep switching batteries
Doable in training. Not a viable option in actual combat though; there's no guarantee the EVA will be mobile and the pilot conscious at all times.

well, thats much worse than having batteries

Fucking retard

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We've tried sex-powered robots already, it made the show unbearable.

Evafags are the worst kind of fags. Absolutely delusional.

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Fucking fried chicken eating, menthol smoking, bike stealing, low iq gamer.

Post what you will, eventually the fact that only mothers' souls activate the mecha when their children are inside, LCL is the blood of the mother of humanity, only motherless kids can be mecha pilots etc is pretty symbolic.

Also, EVA being cord-dependant WAS a plotpoint.

Why would the mom need an umbilical cord?
Eva is silly, they need to take biology.

Mommyception

>And why did they never use the super ultra Japan-energy powered positron rifle that killed Ramiel ever again?
They use it against Arael. It doesn't do much.

Those ones seemed like weaker multi-shot variants.

There's NERV's positron rifle that Asuka uses, and there's the JSSDF's rifle that Rei uses.

It was a plot point, but incessant search for "muh symbolism" is pure autism and not cute at all.

Well to like NGE you have to be overweight like myself, which isn't cute.

Oh fuck sorry anons didn't know this is a brainlet thread

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If I rewatch is it worth watching subs? First time around I couldn't bear whiny, high pitched shinji so I switched to dub first episode.

This thread is fucking retarded, you know what is the reason we don't have giant mechas in the real world? Because there is not a sustainable energy to keep them functioning, the technology to do that is not a reality in our world so the approach of a giant energy cable keeping it moving this "armor"(because is not even a mecha in this case) makes total sense, this is the most realistic approach to a giant mecha we have gotten, simple as that, and the best part is that it not only makes sense but is also perfect for the entire setting and development of the story.

>That thing would have one-shot anything that wasn't Zeruel
False, forstarters one of the reasons it worked with Ramiel was because Ramiel NEVER MOVED from his place, without to mention that sending the entire city to the shit everytime you wanted to beat an angel wasn't a realistic solution, they did against Ramiel becaise it was their last option, and if another angel attacked after that they would had been fucked.

All things electric run more powerful with a cord. Leaf blowers, vacuums, etc. You just get more.

Energy isn't the problem, the issue with giant mechs in the real world is that they'd simply collapse under their own weight, and there is basically no material strong and light enough to support working limbs and joints at that size.

Energy is one of the problems dude, and like I already said, in this case they are not even mechas, they are armors.

Evas aren't electric, only the armor is.

So before Eva-01 got the S2 Engine, where did it get the energy for berserks from when battery power is dead?

From the cosmos

EVA was okay until the homo shit. Fuck Kaworu and fuck Anno's infatuation with that fag Ikuhara

I always just assumed that the Evas only needed power for the pilot to sync with them. Any other time they can operate on soul magic or some shit.

Fuck off fucking /pol/ obsessed zoomer.

>le /pol/ boogeyman

Fuck off this has nothing to do with politics

Cables are great from a writing perspective. They add limitations and intricacies. Every battle is more suspenseful because it can turn into a race against time at any moment and they are used as a part of battle tactics a few times to add variety. The loss of symbolic and lore elements that would occur if Evas didn't need cables would be negligible to the overall quality of the show compared to the impact the lessened tension, variety and groundedness, that would come with less restricted Evas, would have.

> complaining about homosexuals has nothing to do with politics
Wrong. Kaworu is important, his dialogues and interactions are important too. The fact you missed any of it and instead were just triggered by some intimacy between boys only proves that you are NPC militant in "culture war" only /pol/ shitheads care about.

>can't stand whiny high pitched shinji
>watches the dub

christ, yes watch the sub, it's a million times better. spike spencer's screams are god fucking awful

mommy rage

evas are living beings

Hey, I fixed your robot for you, bro

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>would it have been a better choice to make cordless Evas?
Seele were literally trying to handicap Nerv in any way possible. From cutting their defense budget every year, to giving their best weapons a power cord and a timer (that's why they lost their shit when Unit 01 got an unlimited power source). They knew that the second the last angel falls, they will have to storm the place, and that Gendo won't go down without a fight. Eva unit 02 fell victim to the time limit (and the lance). If there was no time limit, Unit 02 may have lasted longer, since Asuka could have planed out her moves better without rushing against time.

Best boy Jet Alone did nothing wrong.

>(that's why they lost their shit when Unit 01 got an unlimited power source)
Kinda ironic that this only ended up benefiting SEELE's instrumentality plan in the end, since Gendo also goes the step of disrupting their plan by having the real Lance of Longinus chucked to the moon. SEELE is able to take advantage of Unit-01's power by having it awaken to summon the lance back down, and just use Unit-01 in place of Lilith.

I've never quite bought that theory, since it's made very clear that SEELE needs all the Angels defeated. It's not like secret alien defence organisations struggling to obtain funding is a concept Eva introducedd...

>forced distinction
What an useless term

It makes sense to me.
SEELE had these 9 super hax lances made for the MP EVAs, and they couldn't spare any of them for NERV any sooner?

Fuyutsuki was surprised the MP-Evas were even ready, so SEELE had been keeping NERV in the dark on the exact details of their progress.

But why would they try to hinder NERV when they know full well that if it fucks up they're dead? Besides, we even know that they couldn't finish all the MPEvas in time, so it's not that much of a stretch to say that they would have been used against the Angels if they were finished in time. And circling around to the power point, it's fairly strongly hinted that Evas don't have S2 engines naturally, so they couldn't have had an Eva that didn't need power cords until after Shamshel at the earliest.