Second Angel Lilith

Lilith presents as an Evangelion-scale humanoid upper body of pale, blubbery flesh without any clear sex. As seen in 2015 the torso carries neither hips nor legs; it simply ends in swollen masses from which dozens of human-sized leg pairs sprout. Giant bolts driven through each five-fingered palm pin the creature to an enormous red cross in Terminal Dogma, an image that deliberately echoes the crucifixion, and it hangs there slack, registering nothing that happens around it.

The Rebuild redesign strips away the famous seven-eyed mask of the television series. In its place sits an ossified faceplate resembling the bone face the Fourth Angel grows after the N2 strike, with SEELE-emblazoned nails filling both eye sockets and a short beak protruding from the mask's lower edge. The Spear of Longinus stands buried in its chest, which also bears a long scar matching the one on Misato's body in placement and shape, along with a row of small cross-shaped pins. Its clustered legs twitch and sway while LCL drips steadily into the water beneath.

The giant displays nothing that could be called will. Restrained and dormant, it never resists, reacts, or moves beyond the swaying of its leg clusters. Whatever agency it possesses is expressed only through the arrangement Gendō and Fuyutsuki describe as a contract with SEELE.

In Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone it is Misato herself, not Kaji, who unveils the captive giant, showing it to Shinji to impress on him why the Sixth Angel must fall, and she identifies it as Lilith by name. Dialogue between Gendō and Fuyutsuki reveals a pact between SEELE and Lilith requiring the destruction of every Angel in service of the Human Instrumentality Project. A similar white being lying in a square pit beside Kaworu on the Moon is later shown in Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance to be Mark.06 under construction. During that film's aborted Third Impact, Lilith gives off a faint glow and sheds small white sparks, and Keel Lorenz speaks earlier of resurrecting it, hinting the events around Unit-01 touched it in some unknown way.

By Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo the body has swollen to vastly greater size and crouches, decomposing, in a pit strewn with giant skulls, run through by two Spears of Longinus and decapitated, Mark.06 standing in for its missing head. The severed head itself rests in the former command center, where it takes on Rei Ayanami's face. When Shinji wrenches the spears free of Evangelion 13, every part of Lilith dissolves into LCL. Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon A Time revisits the beheading in flashback during Misato and Ritsuko's conversation, and in Minus Space Gendō reveals the Evangelion Imaginary, which Shinji's mind renders as a Lilith colored black instead of white.

The redesign passed through several hands. Illustrator okama's early concept kept a version of the old mask, sliding half off to expose eyes dangling on optic nerves, with an umbilical cord, square cracks across the body, and secretions building stalagmites around the cross. Ikuto Yamashita proposed a torso opened by a long incision, six nails, and a centered SEELE emblem on the mask. Hideaki Anno simplified the final version toward the television design, moving the emblem onto the eye nails and closing the chest wound into surgical scars, though the square cracks and sprouting filaments of the discarded drafts resurface in 3.0.