Arm Units are the swarming drone weapons that defend NERV headquarters in Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon A Time. Legless clusters of limbs, knives, and explosives, they exist to stall WILLE's two Evas, and their deeper purpose is pushing…
Aten's Hammer is the United Nations' orbital deterrent in the Neon Genesis Evangelion: ANIMA novels, a 6,100-ton asteroid parked behind the moon with nuclear pulse engines bolted to it. Officially a watchdog over the Spear of Longinus, it…
The Dummy System is NERV's answer to unreliable teenage pilots: an artificial mind housed in a modified Entry Plug that drives an Evangelion with nobody aboard. Modeled on the personality data of Rei Ayanami, it wins its battles with a…
A mobile particle cannon from the Plarail Shinkalion CW toyline, the ERDA Positron Rifle belongs to the crossover tying the Shinkalion: Change the World series to Evangelion. Built from NERV combat data, it trades raw firepower for freedom…
EVA-Impact is a bioengineered racehorse-weapon dreamed up for a 2012 promotional tie-up between the Japan Racing Association and the Rebuild of Evangelion films. Presented as a thoroughbred fused with NERV technology, it is ridden by the…
A transforming TAKARA TOMY figure, Evangelion Prime Unit-01 mashes Optimus Prime together with the Evangelion Test Type-01. Created for the EVANGELION 30th Anniversary x Transformers crossover under the SYNERGENEX line, it swaps between…
Evangelion Weapons covers the sprawling arsenal the Eva units carry across every continuity, from vibrating Progressive Knives and positron cannons to experimental A.T. Field blades. Most are simply human armaments scaled up to giant…
The EVA Special Long-Distance Transport Aircraft is a colossal flying wing that ferries Evangelion units across long ranges throughout the television series and its film finale. Operated under United Nations markings, these automated…
Jet Alone is the nuclear-powered walking robot that Japan Heavy Chemical Industries pitches as a cheaper, pilotless answer to the Evangelions in Neon Genesis Evangelion. Its one public demonstration ends in a runaway meltdown scare, an…
Jet Alone Kai is the second-generation JA robot from the Neon Genesis Evangelions game, the machine Shiro Tokita refused to abandon after his prototype's disastrous public debut. Swapping the original's nuclear reactor for N² power, it can…
N² Technology, short for Non-Nuclear, delivers atomic-scale destruction and power output without fission or fallout across the Evangelion franchise. Its weapons are humanity's heaviest conventional punch against the Angels, and its…
Shiryū is the dragon-like anti-Godzilla machine NERV fields in the GODZILLA vs EVANGELION crossover, a decisive weapon drawn by Metal Gear artist Yoji Shinkawa. Built on lessons from the JSDF's Kiryū program, it switches between an upright…
Oni EVA is a demon-shaped monster from Shinkansen Henkei Robo Shinkalion Z, born when the villain Valtom corrupts the real-world Evangelion Unit-01 statue standing in Kyoto's Toei Studio Park. The rampaging creature slips beyond even its…
Musha Unit-01 is a SENTINEL action figure that reimagines the Evangelion Unit-01 as a samurai, born of the EVANGELION x Takashi Okazaki tie-up. Takashi Okazaki's concept dresses the Eva in warrior armor and arms it with a long Ōdachi and…
The SEELE Reconnaissance Drone is a stealth scout aircraft from the Neon Genesis Evangelion: ANIMA novels, shaped after the B-2 bomber and guided by an organic artificial intelligence. It serves as the eyes of SEELE's surviving forces in…
Shinkalion 500 TYPE EVA is a transforming bullet-train robot piloted by Shinji Ikari in Shinkansen Henkei Robo Shinkalion THE ANIMATION. Built from the Evangelion-themed 500 TYPE EVA shinkansen, it wraps Unit-01's colors and silhouette…
The Plarail Shinkalion CW take on the 500 TYPE EVA reimagines the Evangelion-liveried bullet train as a compact transforming robot tied to Shinkalion: Change the World. Masked with Evangelion Test Type-01's face and piloted by Shinji…
Shinkalion 500 TYPE EVA Positron Form is the heavy-weapons configuration born when the Change the World version of the 500 TYPE EVA merges with the ERDA Positron Rifle. The rifle breaks apart into new legs, shoulder optics, and armor,…
Shinkalion Z 500 TYPE EVA carries the Evangelion crossover into Shinkansen Henkei Robo Shinkalion Z, debuting in the series' 21st episode. Operated by NERV and driven by Shinji Ikari, the transforming bullet train channels Unit-01 down to…
Shinkalion Z 500 TYPE EVA-02 answers a simple question: what would the 500 TYPE EVA look like themed on Evangelion Unit-02? The Asuka-flavored design exists purely as an original Takara Tomy action figure, released in December 2022 with…
Shinkalion Z 500 μSky TYPE EVA is the powered-up union of the Z 500 TYPE EVA and the Zailiner μSky TYPE EVA, unveiled in episode 21 of Shinkansen Henkei Robo Shinkalion Z. The added Zailiner brings a blade, a shield, and the throwable…
Shin Universe Robo is a colossal combining mecha built from four icons of Japanese cinema: Godzilla, Ultraman, Evangelion Unit-01, and Kamen Rider. Created for the S.J.H.U. PROJECT promotional video, it exists to showcase a Bandai…
The Spear of Cassius is one of the great spear artifacts of the Rebuild of Evangelion films, a dark red double-helix weapon distinguished from the Spear of Longinus by its defined head and green gem. Framed as the spear of hope, it halts…
The Spear of Gaius is humanity's answer to the god-made spears of Rebuild of Evangelion, forged from the spine of the AAA Wunder at the cost of Misato Katsuragi's life. Called the spear of WILLE, it embodies human will and delivers the…
The Spear of Junctionus is a crossover weapon from episode 21 of Shinkansen Henkei Robo Shinkalion Z, a javelin echoing the Spear of Longinus that Shinji Ikari summons for the Shinkalion Z 500 μSky TYPE EVA. A single throw of it settles…
The Spear of Longinus is Evangelion's ultimate artifact, a colossal red bident forged by the First Ancestral Race that pierces any A.T. Field and pins down beings of god-like power. From Lilith's crucifixion beneath NERV to the Impacts…
The Spear of Lucretius, also written Lance of Lucretius, is the spear artifact of the Neon Genesis Evangelion: ANIMA novels. Wielded by Shinji Ikari's Super Evangelion, it can pull an Eva back out of an energy state, inverting the role its…
Hovering behind the head of the colossal Armaros, the Sphere of Longinus ranks among the most fearsome weapons in the Neon Genesis Evangelion: ANIMA continuity. Armaros forges it from a stolen Spear of Longinus Replica, gaining a…
A transformable war machine fielded by the Japanese Strategic Self Defense Force in Neon Genesis Evangelion: ANIMA, the Akashima gives Japan an anti-Angel option that operates without Evangelion support. Built with help from NERV Japan, it…
Built on a Sukhoi Su-27 airframe, the Platypus II is the aircraft that pioneered graviton floater flight in Neon Genesis Evangelion: ANIMA. NERV Japan and the Japanese Strategic Self Defense Force develop it jointly, pairing an N² reactor…
Two experimental machines, the Raiden and the Shinden, share the T•RIDEN•T class name in the game Neon Genesis Evangelion: Iron Maiden. Weighing 3,000 tons and driven by teenage trainees of the Japanese Strategic Self Defense Force, both…
Toho's mechanical dragon crosses into the Evangelion universe as the Type 3 Kiryū, the Mechagodzilla adopted by the GODZILLA vs EVANGELION collaboration. Introduced to the crossover through the pachinko game Second Impact G, the machine…
Shinji's iconic unit lends its paintwork to Toho's robot kaiju in this GODZILLA vs EVANGELION variant, which coats the Type 3 Kiryū of Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla in the scheme of the Evangelion Test Type-01. Toys, plastic kits, game…
Mari's Evangelion supplies the palette for this GODZILLA vs EVANGELION recolor, which paints the Type 3 Kiryū of Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla in the scheme of the Evangelion Production Model Custom Type-08α. It exists as a 9cm Gekizo…
Rei's prototype unit colors the High Mobility configuration of Toho's Mechagodzilla in this GODZILLA vs EVANGELION variant. Based on the Type 3 Kiryū from Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla and finished in the scheme of the Evangelion Proto…
A collectible recoloring within the GODZILLA vs EVANGELION line, this design dresses the upgraded Type 3 Kiryū (Kai) from Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S. in the paint scheme of the Evangelion Proto Type-00. It reached shelves as a 9cm miniature in…
Asuka's signature palette spreads across Toho's mechanical dragon in this GODZILLA vs EVANGELION variant, which applies the colors of the Evangelion Production Model-02 to the upgraded Kiryū (Kai) from Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S. Nearly a…
Stationed on the ground outside the Hakone caldera, the Type-3 Prototype Maser Howitzer gives the Japanese Strategic Self Defense Force a mobile answer to Angel-class threats in Neon Genesis Evangelion: ANIMA. A shrunken N² Reactor drives…
Type F, sometimes styled TYPE-F, is a designation that recurs across the Evangelion franchise rather than a single object. Several Evangelion unit configurations from different continuities share the label, alongside a Bandai figure line…
A colossal flying-wing freighter flown by NERV's European branch in the Rebuild continuity, built for a single purpose: moving an Evangelion across continents. Its one moment in the spotlight comes when it hauls Production Model-02 to…
The tilt-thruster gunship of the Rebuild films, seen wherever soldiers, VIPs, or heavy cargo need to move fast. Squadrons of YAGR-3Bs throw themselves at the Fourth and Tenth Angels with predictable futility, and a WILLE-marked example…
The workhorse gunship of the original series, this hovering jet shows up whenever humanity throws conventional firepower at an Angel. Flown by the UN, NERV, and eventually the JSSDF, it opens the very first episode by pelting Sachiel with…
A winged booster module from the Neon Genesis Evangelion: ANIMA novels that frees an Eva from its power cable and carries it beyond the atmosphere. Docked to Unit-02 Type II it creates a winged centaur silhouette, and the words FLY ME TO…
A Takara Tomy figure crossing Evangelion with ZOIDS for the franchise's 30th anniversary: a mechanical beast in the colors of Production Model-02. Its backstory casts it as a weaponized metal lifeform from beneath Tokyo-3 that answers only…
The Evangelion and ZOIDS crossover figure that reimagines Unit-01 as a mechanical beast. Sold under Takara Tomy's SYNERGENEX banner for the series' 30th anniversary, it comes with a backstory as NERV's prototype beast weapon, resonating…
A tilt-thruster VTOL serving as NERV's executive transport in the Rebuild films. Gendo Ikari rides one back to headquarters after visiting his wife's grave, and once Near Third Impact reshapes the world, the type supplants the older…
An Evangelion-wrapped train from the Shinkalion Z crossover that doubles as an arm upgrade for a transforming robot. Modeled on the Meitetsu 2000 Series in Eva livery, merging with the robot Shinkalion 500 TYPE EVA, it completes the…
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