Evangelion Mark.09-A

Evangelion Mark.09-A appears in Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon A Time as a further development of the Mark.09, counted among the surviving Adams and holding claim as master of the AAA Wunder. It wears the frame common to the Vessels of the Adams in yellow and black, with one added line on the right of its face mask completing the Roman numeral IX and a small SEELE crest on the forehead. The mask can split open, and behind it sits a compressed shape resembling the second head the original Mark.09 once grew.

Its yellow markings match the Wunder's own livery, a visual statement of ownership over the ship, and the color has also been linked to Famine among the Four Horsemen as depicted in Viktor Vasnetsov's 1887 painting.

Like its sibling vessels, the Mark.09-A projects no A.T. Field. It levitates on a halo generated beneath or behind its body and can open its mask to discharge beams of light. Boarding the Wunder mid-flight, it registers as Pattern Blue and is classed by Ritsuko as an Opfer Type Evangelion. Repeating the original Mark.09's tactic, it floods the ship with blue ooze from its hands, overwriting the operating system and reverting the vessel to NHG Buße; the bridge physically descends, every lockdown disengages, and Shinji walks out of his cell.

With the ship surrendered to Fuyutsuki's command, the forced conversion of the Black Moon into spears begins, setting Fourth Impact in motion. Unit-08γ then ambushes the vessel, baring its true face to bite off the Mark.09-A's right arm, which it synthesizes into a replacement for its own, before chewing through the struggling unit's neck and consuming it entirely. Its last trace disappears inside Unit-08γ as part of the Final Evangelion when everything Eva is erased from the world.

Piloting falls to the Advanced Ayanami Series, the clone line NERV seats in every Vessel of the Adams. The Mark.09-A operates as one of a four-unit set alongside Mark.10, Mark.11 and Mark.12, each vessel bound to one of NERV's warships, with this unit tied to the AAA Wunder that WILLE took for itself.