In the climactic battle, Unit-01 goes berserk. The armor is not armor—it is a restraint. The beast within tears the Angel apart with a primal, almost loving savagery, then howls at the blood-red sky. Shinji is not a hero. He is a witness to his own monstrosity.
Fourteen-year-old Ikari Shinji receives a summons. Not a call to adventure, but to a crucifixion. His father, the distant Gendo, commands him to pilot a “machine” called Evangelion Unit-01. But it is no machine. It breathes. It roars. It has teeth behind its visor. evangelion 1.11
Evangelion 1.11 ends with a quiet lie. Shinji decides to stay. The hills are green again. Misato smiles. For a single frame, you believe things might be okay. In the climactic battle, Unit-01 goes berserk