Gendo is almost as bad as chicken little’s dad

What’s amazing is how many people FORGET that the reason he was a monster was for love, and think he was just a straight-up nihilistic super villain. Some fans even go as far to suggest Yui was manipulating HIM.

Still dosnt justify being a dick to his son though.

@TexasUberAlles  
That’s what Twilight Sparkle should have said.

@Pagan  
I kinda figured “terrible husband” went without saying.

@TexasUberAlles  

 
Hahahaha. XD

@Background Pony #D112  
He was mostly just a terrible father and a colossal asshole; at the very least, he was trying to save as much of the world as he thought he could with the resources he had.

What I hate most is how people try to turn Gendo into an outright super villain, when he wasn’t. Yes he had a VERY twisted world view, and he only became dimly aware that he’d failed Shinji as a father right before his wife bite in two… but his reasons were a lot more sane than the people he was working for.

Gendou Ikari’s got all the women eating out of his hand. Yui Ikari, Naoko Akagi, Ritsuko Akagi, and now Purplesmart. He truly carries the pimp gene.

@Background Pony #8105  

@Ereiam  
But that’s still bullshit, and the character is still nothing more than a psychopathic asshole. Lovey-dovey intentions? Oh please, and that “reunion” thing was just retarded. Wish people would become more knowledgeable about actual science and realize how moronic the myth-promoting science fiction genre actually is. A nice dose of common sense would be good too.

GET IN YOUR FUCKING MOM, SHINJI

@Background Pony #8BFD  
His scenario for causing Third Impact and taking control of Instrumentality was all so he could reunite with his wife in the end. Rei was just a mean to this end until she screwed him over.  
@SquiggyBomb  
I’ve read a theory about how Yui specifically picked Gendo because he was so emotionally insecure and obsessed with her. She knew that, after losing her, Gendo would do anything to get her back and wouldn’t have time for their son. As for Shinji, she arranged him to witness her disappearance during the testing of Unit-01, giving him his deepest trauma which, combined with Gendo’s abandonment and emotional abuse, would make him the perfect catalyst for her version of Third Impact.

Wasn’t his wife basically Unit 01 after he got done using her in experiments? Oh, and also all the Rei clones. …yeah I don’t really think he was trying to help his wife >_>

I’m pretty sure his wife didn’t want him to emotionally and psychologically abuse his only son.  
Fuck you Gendo,