THE ANGELS

Adam - The First Angel

The keystone of the Human Instrumentality Project, Adam was the first Angel to be discovered. Adam was found in the continent of Antarctica in the year 1999, frozen, but still alive. It became the focus of a large research project involving many renowned scientists including Misato's father and Gendo Ikari. Some time in the middle of the investigation, the subject exploded, resulting in the immediate death of over half of the worlds population as well as the melting of the continent's ice, which caused water levels to rise world-wide. Also, because Adam had been 'awakened', the beginnig of the battle between the Angels was triggered. Apparently, this Angel is still alive, frozen and not much bigger than a human hand, Kaji delivered it to Ikari Gendo for use in the Human Instrumentality Project after the 6th Angels attack on the Navy fleet transporting Eva-02.

FATE
Adam remains frozen in an embroytic state somewhere within Nerv's headquarters.

Lilith - The Second Angel

Impaled by the Spear of Longinus (or the 'Spear of Destiny' used to pierce Jesus' chest durring his crucifixation), Lilith who is the mother of all life, remains stuck to a cross-like structure in Terminal Dogma. Lillith wears a mask with seven eyes (possiblly representing the seven eyes of God) on it. It is not known where Lilith came from. Because of the Spear of Longinus, her legs are unable to grow. At first, Lilith was the center for the Human Instrumentality Project, but when the Spear on Longinus was lost, Gendo considered replacing Lillith with Unit-01 to complete his plan to meet his wife, Yui again.

FATE
In the final episode of Evangelion, Rei decides not to help Gendo meet his wife and enters Lillith. Lillith's legs grow back completely and takes the form of Rei who falls from the cross structure and goes to Shinji, in Unit-01 to complete Instrumentality where Shinji will decide whether he wants a world with people or not, ending the world or bringing salvation like with Noah's Arc.

Sachiel - The Third Angel

This guy was the first Angel to appear in the series. It attacked Tokyo-3 just as Shinji had been 'recruited' by Nerv. Thinking the enemy would be no match for conventional weaponry, the UN launched an enormus attack against the beast, but failed when the weapons had no effect at all due to it's AT field. It's attacks included the ability to extend a charged rod from it's forearm, some sort of 'cannon' the caused cross-like explosions and the ability amass muscle strength in it's upper limbs. It met Shinji in Eva Unit-01 and nearly destroyed the two before Eva went into a breserk state, allowing it to regenerate it's damaged arm and break through Sachiel's AT Field.

FATE
After sending Shinji and his Eva into a berserk state and sustaing major damage, Sachiel self-destructed in an attempt to destroy Eva-01, but failed when Eva's armor withstood the blast.After sending Shinji and his Eva into a berserk state and sustaing major damage, Sachiel self-destructed in an attempt to destroy Eva-01, but failed when Eva's armor withstood the blast.

Shamshel - The Fourth Angel

Just as Misato said, the Angels are never considerate aboout the situation, Shamshel attacked only three weeks after Sachiel. It floated it's way into the city meeting only minor resistance from the defensive system put in place to defend the city. After floating into the main part of the city, Eva Unit-01 was dispatched, but appared to be no match for Shamshel's energy whips, that could easily cut anything in two; from buildings to Eva's. It managed to sever Unit-01's power cable, limiting the time Eva had left to operate. It also caused massive damage to the city destorying countless buildings and managing to leave Unit-01's impression in the side of a mountain after throwing him.

FATE
After severing Unit-01's power cable, Shinji, in Unit-01, defied orders in an attempt to finish off the Angel with only seconds of power left. Shamshel was defeated when Shinji's Progressive Knife destroyed the S2 core. Shamshel, unlike the last Angel, remained intact and was carefully studied by Nerv scientists.

Ramiel - The Fifth Angel

One of the best designed Angels in terms of defense is Ramiel. Described as a "Floating Fortress", the Fifth Angel glided to a spot directly over Geofront with hardly any resistance from the EVAs and Nerv. When there, it began drilling straight down to Nerv HQ. It would attack any object that came within several miles of it that might cause the slightest threat. It attacked Unit 01 and caused major damage to the Eva and its pilot when it appeared up from the ground.

FATE
Only the first cooperative Eva operation was able to destroy Ramiel, and only by using the combined electrical power of all of Japan to power a giant sniper canon fired by Shinji in Eva-01. Its body remained intact for the Nerv scientists to study.

Gaghiel - The Sixth Angel

Gaghiel was the first and only aquatic Angel. It attacked a UN fleet that was transfering Eva Unit-02 (the first real Evangelion - Units 00 and 01 were the prototypes respectively). Though Nerv members thought it was searching for Eva Unit-02, it was really searching for the embryo of Adam Ryoji Kaji was carring with him to Nerv HQ. It was easily able to destroy half of the UN fleet before Auska and Shinji were able to activate Unit-02 to battle the beast. After a quick brawl on the deck of the Supercarrier "Over the Rainbow," Eva Unit-02 and it's pilots were forced into the ocean to battle Gaghiel. Because Unit-02 was still using the B-Type equipment, they were unable to actually inflict damage on the Angel and were nearly swollowed by it.

FATE
Only with some careful planning by Misato and the combined focus of Auska and Shinji, were they able to blow up Gaghiel. Misato orderd that two battleships be sunk in line with the Angel, while Eva Unit-02 opened it's mouth to allow for the ships to enter it's mouth and self-destruct after firing it's bow turrents. Gaghiel was completely destroyed, enabling Nerv to study it.

Israfel - The Seventh Angel

Israfel appeared off the coast of Tokyo-3 and was greeted by Shinji in Unit-01 and Auska in her Unit-02. After Auska's ego got the better of her, she used her spear to slice the Angle in two, but the fight was not over; Israfel split into two seperate Angels and made short work of Auska and Shinji, humiliating Nerv. After the battle, the Angel merged into one again and an N2 mine was dropped on the target which succeded in damaging the Angel badly enough that it would halt it's attack in order to regererate.

FATE
Israfel was defeated when the "dance" of the two EVAs split it and forcibly re-combined it with a powerful set of kicks. It exploded in a cross-shaped pillar of fire.

Sandalphon - The Eighth Angel

Nerv took a big risk with this Angel when they actually discovered this Angel in it's embroytic stage and decided to capture it, giving them the offensive. Found while performing tests on a local inactive volcano, scientists discovered something deep within the volcano. Soon there after, Nerv was called in to investigate, and sure enough, it was an Angel, but it was still in it's egg, waiting to hatch. Misato decided to take a big risk by attempting to capture the beast; failire could have resulted in an explosion much like the 3rd Impact. Auska was to dive into the depths of the volcano's lava pool in her specially outfitted Eva Unit-02 to capture the beast. The mission almost went as planned until the Angel began to hatch as Auska brought it to the surface.

FATE
Because Auska lost her Progressive Knife, she was forced to feed her coolant to the beast, eventually disintigrating it. This Angle was only an adult for 2.5 minutes.

Matareal - The Ninth Angel

Matareal couldn't have attacked at a worse time, as a power outage was created by defective personell at Nerv, leaving all of Tokyo-3 powerless and unable to launch the Evas. One of the more oddly shaped Angels, Matareal used it's spider-like legs to march it's way into Tokyo-3 as it positioned itself directly over Nerv HQ. Once in position, it began to excrete an acidic liquid from it's underside that started to melt it's way through the armor plates protecting Nerv. Finally, the Eva's were launched manually using the strenghth of many Nerv personell and a backup disel engine.

FATE
Trapped inside the only tunnel out of Nerv and with their weapons at the base of the tunnel, Auska came up with a plan to destroy the Angel; Auska would recieve the damage from the Angels acid, while Rei fetched a weapon from the bottom of the tunnel and tossed it to Shinji who would then instruct Auska to move out of the way as Shinji fired and destroyed the Angel. Amazingly, the weapon that never had any real effect on previous Angels, easily destroyed Matareal. It appeared that this Angel had not activated it's AT field.

Sahaquiel - The Tenth Angel

Sahaquiel was also one of the strangest Angels as far as looks. It arrived from deep space and took orbit over Earth. Once ready, Sahaquiel began to drop small parts of itself on the surface of the Earth, creating enormus tidle waves and deep craters as it slowly corrected it's aim (yet another example of how the Angels can upgrade their abilities through combat). After a few test drops, the Angel fell to the Earth towards Tokyo-3.

FATE
With all three Eva's operational, Rei, Shinji and Auska rushed underneatht he falling object and expanded their AT fields to stop it's descent. While being held in place just the height of an Eva above the ground, a prog knife was used by Auska to destroy the S2 core. Sahaquiel then fell atop the Angles, dead, and exploded, leaving yet another crater in the landscape.

Ireul - The Eleventh Angel

Ireul, a bio-computer made up of billions of virus-sized particles, attacked Nerv HQ directly while tests were being performed on the nude Eva pilots in their Entry Plugs. Slowly it began to attack the three Magi computers. It easily gained control over Melchior and Balthasar before it was temporaraly halted by Ritsuko's quick typing skills. After much thought, Ritsuko came up with a plan that would cause the Angel to evolve into it's death when faced with multiple problems from Caspar, the remaining Magi Computer being aided by Ritsuko.

FATE
As stated, Ritsuko, with the help of Caspar, caused the Angel to evolve into it's death, breaking the two other Magi Computers free of it's grasp and preventing any further damage to the Test Eva's.

Leliel - The Twelfth Angel

Out of nowhere, Leliel appeared as a rapidly growing shadow-ball over Tokyo-3. Eva's were dispatched to attack, but whenever shots were fired at it, Leliel would dissapear and reappear. Shinji, taunted by Asuka who had recently lost her place as the Eva pilot with the best sync ration, let his ego run amok. Shinji fired on the target, but the Leliel dissapeared, then reappeared underneath Eva Unit-01 swollowing him into a Dirac Sea. Running on minimal power, Shinji was left with roughly 15 hours to live. With no other choice, Nerv decided to drop all remaining N2 mines on the target (which was the shadow on the ground less than a tenth of a centimeter thick but many kilometers wide) regardless of the life inside.

FATE
After much thinking and 'communicating' with the Eva he was piloting, Unit-01 went berserk (this time with no power) and broke free of the Angel, destroying it in a bloody display of the Evas power over Tokyo-3.

Bardiel - The Thirteenth Angel

What was supposed to be Unit-03, the fourth addition to the Eva army, turned out to be an Angel when it's test activation sequence started. Soon after breaking free, an explosion occured, destroying the secondary test site and headed for Tokyo-3. On it's way it was met by Units 00 and 02. Nither of the two stood a match for the Angel, and were quickly removed from battle. Shinji, now alone and struggling with the idea of attacking something that might have a human in it, was nearly destroyed durring combat, until Gendo Ikari (who was commanding the operation) ordered that the Dummy Plug program be activated.

FATE
With the Dummy Plug Program activated, Shinji could no longer take control of his Eva as it savagely ripped Unit-03 to pieces, covering much of the area with blood and interal body parts. Also, Unit-01 smashed the Entry Plug for Unit-03 in it's hand, nearly killing Touji Suzahara, the new pilot.

Zeruel - The Fourteenth Angel

Probably the most destructive Angel up to that point in the series, Zeruel came crashing into Tokyo-3, firing a cannon much like that of Sachiels (in that fact that the explosions resembled crosses), only stronger, breaking through 18 of the armor layers protecting the Geo Front. Once it penetrated the armor, it began it's decent into the Geo Front where Auska waited to fire on it. Unfortuantely, the weapons had little effect and Auska soon found her Eva armless thanks to Zeruel. Asuak lost control of herself as she knew she had been defeated once again, and made a mad dash twards Zeruel, who removed Unit-02's head. In a desperate attempt to destory the Angel, Rei, the only remaining pilot (since Shinji quit and Touji was injured), made a mad dash for Zeruel with and N2 Mine. She forced it past the AT field and detonated it, but it had no effect. After seing the destruction that Zeruel was causing and realizing he had to do something, Shinji ran to HQ and took control of Unit-01.

FATE
It appeared that Shinji's attempt to save Nerv and the residents of Tokyo-3 was in vain as he was being tossed around like a play thing by Zeruel, when suddenly, the Eva 'awakened'. In the third reactivation of Unit-01, Shinji's synchronization ratio jumped to over 400% and the Eva took control of the situation by destroying the Angels arms and eventually eating it. Unit-01 took Zeruel's S2 core into itself at the end of the battle and broke free of the bindings Nerv had to it.

Arael - The Fifteenth Angel

Arael, slightly resembling the tenth Angel and mimicing some of it's atcions, came from deep space and took up orbit over Earth. Here it remained, motionless, keeping a safe distance away from Nerv. Eventhough Nerv was unable to hit the Angel using long range weapons, they launched Auska in Unit-02 with a rifle, ready to attack the Angel, should it come into firing range. Soon after Auska's launch, the Angel attacked with a soft light that penetrated Asukas mind and began to analyze it in an attempt to learn how the human brain functions. Rei in Unit-00 was launched and another long range shot was attempted, but failed.

FATE
When all appeared to be lost, Commander Ikari orderd that Rei fetch the Spear of Longinus from Terminal Dogma. Rei returned to the surface, Auska's mind almost broken, and threw the Spear at Arael, penetrating the AT Field and destorying the Angel, but leaving the spear of longinus in space.

Armisael - The Sixteenth Angel

A shape shifitng Angel, Armisael appeared and began to hover over Tokyo-3. It originally appeared as a double helix in the shape of a circle, but as soon as Unit-00 was launched, attacked in the form of an anormus whip and began to fuse with Rei and Unit-00. Auska was launched to combat the problem, but could not help Rei because her Syncronization Ratio was below 10%. She was removed from combat. Finally, Shinji was launched and began to battle Armisael.

FATE
Rei, knowing what she had to do, self-destructed her Eva, destroying the Angel and much of the surrounding area. Strangely, she appeared at Nerv the next day, with minor injuries.

Tabris - The Seventeenth Angel

Really the Fifth Child Kourow Nagisa, and appearantly a homosexual (gross :Þ), made his way to Unit-02's holding cell and activated his AT field as well as Eva-02 and it's AT filed. There was no entry plug inserted and no power cable. Tabris made his way through the tunnels of Nerv on his way to Terminal Dogma, in an attempt to touch the being he thought was Adam (really Lilith). Shinji was ordered to stop him, but resisted less than with his previous mission against Unit-03, the thirteenth Angel. Angered with the fact that in just a few hours he had opened up to Kaworu and shared confidences with him, he disregarded all respect he had for human life and attempted to stop him. He was confronted by Unit-02 as he made his way down to Terminal Dogma, and evetually defeated him, but still had Tabris, the Angel with the strongest AT field yet, to destroy before he had a chance to touch the creature many thought was Adam.

FATE
After making his way to Terminal Dogma and finding Lilith, not Adam, Tabris who discovered the good in mankind, came to the conclusion that they should be the ones to live, not him, and wished Shinji to end his life by crushing him in the hand of Unit-01. Shinji, after a minute long pause, crushed him in Eva's hand.

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