Evangelion Unit-08/Unit-08β

Evangelion Production Model Custom Type-08β (汎用ヒト型決戦兵器 人造人間エヴァンゲリオン 正規実用型（ヴィレカスタム） 8号機β) is an Evangelion customized unit introduced in the Rebuild of Evangelion tetralogy.

It first appears in Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo, the unit is piloted by Mari Makinami Illustrious and is part of the WILLE organization, alongside the repaired Evangelion Unit-02', in their fight against NERV.

Profile
Evangelion Production Model Custom Type-08β (汎用ヒト型決戦兵器 人造人間エヴァンゲリオン 正規実用型（ヴィレカスタム） 8号機β) is not shaped like a typical production model. It is bulkier in hips, shoulders, and most notably in the torso. The plating on the chest, abdomen, and legs is far bulkier as well, and does not match the thin, sleek plating seen on the earlier Evangelion units. Unlike Unit-08α, it also has large, pink guards around its forearms and wrists which add significantly to the bulk of the arms. Its coloring is similar, the most notable difference being that the pink portions of the shoulder pylons on Unit-08α are now white, as well as the arm colors being switched to a different order. Its head is identical to that of Unit-08α, and the remaining body (sans the arms) largely resembles the design of Unit-02'γ, using essentially the same model.

In Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon A Time, it was later customized as Evangelion Production Model Custom Type-08 β-ICC (汎用ヒト型決戦兵器 人造人間エヴァンゲリオン 正規実用型（ヴィレカスタム）8号機β 臨時戦闘形態), (ICC standing for Improvised Combat Configuration) which grants the damaged Unit-08β two rotating machine guns around its bandaged chest while being linked with the controls in the AAA Wunder as it fights against the Evangelions sent by NERV (Rebuild). The differences in design are compared to the earlier customization are the coloring of the knee guards, now sporting a black strip dividing it between the pink color and the black. The feet is altered too, now using metallic parts around the feet unlike the earlier customization which had black armor, enabling the Unit to step on the red coreized land without coreizing the Unit.

Features
It is seen to be compatible with support weapons like the pistol or the sniper rifle. It also uses a portable battery system like Unit-02'y apart from the umbilical cable. It was seen when Mari explains why Asuka should give up wasting ammo on the Twelfth Angel.

In Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon A Time, the damaged Unit-08β has its torso covered in white bandages. Unit-08β is now equipped with a yellow additional structure, which encircles the chest of the unit in a rail system and a shave connected to AAA Wunder allowing it to glide with the assistance of the Wunder. The structure consists of two long machine guns mounted on each of its yellow "arms" which are used to destroy the multiple Mark.44A's. The new configuration is assigned as Unit-08 β-ICC (Improvised Combat Configuration) (汎用ヒト型決戦兵器 人造人間エヴァンゲリオン 正規実用型（ヴィレカスタム）8号機β 臨時戦闘形態).

Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo
Later on, a customized Evangelion Unit-08β is deployed during Evangelion Mark.09's raid on the AAA Wunder in an attempt to bring Shinji to WILLE. Unit-08β attempts to stop it, equipped with a handgun, and succeeds in destroying Mark.09's head, but fails to prevent it from carrying out its mission successfully, with Mari realizing that Mark 09 is possibly a surviving Adams.

It is deployed once again as support fire for Unit-02'γ inside Central Dogma, engaging Evangelion Mark.09 again, as well as the recently activated Evangelion 13. Unit-08β fails to destroy Mark.09 and Evangelion 13 with the Anti-AT Field ammunition shows ineffective to the later. Following Evangelion 13's pseudo-evolution and Kaworu's subsequent sacrifice to stop Fourth Impact, Evangelion Unit-08β helps to eject Shinji's Entry Plug from the unresponsive Evangelion 13 before falling to the landscape below, partially turning the arms of Unit-08β into Core in the process.

The Evangelion is last seen being carried away by WILLE's fleet alongside the critically damaged remains of Unit-02'γ.

Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon A Time
In the Unit-08β is seen deployed as Unit-08 β-ICC (Improvised Combat Configuration), against NERV's multiple Evangelion Mark.44A, Evangelion Mark.44B and a single Evangelion Mark.4444C. Unit-08 β-ICC is able to annihilate the first waves of Mark.44A with its machine guns, but they eventually get overheated and Mari is forced to discard them. Unit-08 β-ICC continues to fight the remaining waves of Mark 44A with its legs. Eventually, Mari activates a magnet system which attracts all Mark.44As towards Unit-08 β-ICC and destroys them.

Later, some Mark.44B and a Mark.4444C engage Unit-08 β-ICC and the Mark.44Bs charge the latter's positron cannon immediately. Nagara succeeds in blocking the first strike with some destroyer ships' fitted with Enchanted Shields of Virtue, but the Mark.44Bs recharges the positron cannon once again. WILLE's crew worry that the whole fleet will be unable to survive the next strike. Mari in Unit-08 β-ICC grabs the remains of The Eiffel Tower and charges against Mark.4444C, while prompting Misato to issue a bait on the Eva. However, Mari's attempt has failed as Mark.4444C grabs Unit-08 β-ICC with one of its tentacles right on time. Mari then activates Unit-08 β-ICC's booster and finally destroys Mark.4444C's positron cannon. Mark.4444C is defeated, swirling its tentacles among the multiple Mark.44Bs, and they all explode with Unit-08 β-ICC leaving the area.

Development

 * In a design revealed by Ikuto Yamashita, the design dated to 2017, the design was shown to be a structure similar to the rail system, but with a more humanoid arm instead of claws and the other arm would be holding a gun. The great difference is the concept of a captured Evangelion Mark.04 by WILLE, that would be used as a carrier to things by being tied by cords.
 * In a design revealed by Ikuto Yamashita, the design dated to 2017, the arms have two concepts similar to being bound to the wheel around the torso. One is a similar Evangelion arm and the other is a cybernetic implant of arms similar to the ones of Fourth Angel with some modifications that would appear in the final design like cylinders around the shoulders.
 * In another design revealed by Ikuto Yamashita, the design dated to 2018 had a different set of weapons and a system developed to store the ammunition, there is also the different structure in the right claw. There was also a different booster attached to the rear that is absent from further designs. According to Yamashita, the design was changed since it would be difficult to reproduce it in 3DCGI. Evangelion Unit-08β ICC Trailer Version Front and Rear Big.png
 * Different designs of Evangelion Unit-08β ICC were designed. In the earlier trailer, the version had different color arms, being the same as the rest of the arms, instead of red. The structure that fixes it around the torso was also changed, being bulkier in the later revisions of the design.