Evangelion Mark.44B

Evangelion Mark.44B is another of NERV's autonomous mass-production designs from Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon A Time. Two standard Evangelion bodies stripped of their arms are bound together by machinery built to generate, store and transfer energy. The housing carries the words 44B PROJEKT EVANGELION above a NERV logo, and four of the six available slots on the main body run cables into the central system. A dome above the torso shows twelve holes per side, circled by a red and white diagonal stripe, over a dirty-green and red scheme with spring-green highlights.

The type exists to power the Mark.4444C's positron cannon. Armless and never observed operating alone, it almost certainly has no standalone combat value or onboard weaponry. At Paris the Mark.44B formation hides alongside its cannon platform behind a Camouflage Cocoon, revealing itself once the Mark.44A wave has been destroyed. When feeding power, an orange element on each unit's crown first links the charge to neighboring Mark.44Bs, then passes it into the ultra-high voltage system that lets the cannon fire. After the opening shot is deflected by ships carrying the Enchanted Shields of Virtue, the lower generator sections immediately begin building the next charge, shaking each Evangelion violently; Midori observes that energy is accumulating in the high power emission system. Before a second transfer completes, Unit-08γ wrecks the cannon with the broken-off top of the Eiffel Tower, and the toppling Mark.4444C sweeps the generator units over with its tentacles. The whole cluster is engulfed and destroyed by the platform's explosion, and the design's last trace vanishes when the Spear of Gaius unmakes all Evangelions.

No pilots exist for the type; every Mark.44B runs autonomously. Designer Ikuto Yamashita's early drafts trace the concept through a 2009 proposal called Unit-7, already close to the final look, and a 2017 design labeled Mark.4 that placed the energy-transfer dome above the torso and drew inspiration from the synchronized movement and posture of ballerinas. The finished unit essentially fuses the 2009 body with the 2017 generator base under a new transmitter. As with its siblings, each 4 in the name is read as counting one of the two Evangelion bodies inside.