Talk:Yui Ikari

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Disgust against Yui and her manipulation of others

I've finished with the manga, and it just makes me more disgusted with Yui. Everyone says she's a good person, but that's just stretching what's known about her a little too much.

I mean, look at the cons more than the pros: She left Shinji alone, made him watch the contact experiment, which traumatized him, didn't tell Gendo what she was planning, did nothing when Toji was either harmed or murdered (depending on which version of the franchise you prefer), and not once, not once when things got difficult for Shinji and company, did she do anything to remedy the trouble they were dealing with; she just stood by in the Eva and let everything go to Hell until Instrumentality, which didn't need to happen, happened.

It's only fanfiction stories that involve her that take her secrets to different extremes.

It's only my opinion, but Yui isn't as good as some people make her out as. What kind of mother leaves her child behind and say that she's always been with them? What kind of parent expects too much from their child/children when they're still very young to recall memories after a trauma so powerful that it damages them? What kind of person does what he or she does and in the end, never comes back to be their family?

--Aggression25 (talk) 06:51, September 28, 2015 (UTC)


 * I think one of the things i enjoy yhe most about Evangelion is its potential for interpretation. And this here is a case of such potential. Personally (enphasis on that)i always have thought that Yui was only partially in control during a good number of her actions, therefore, removing a lot of the possible guilt many of her actions could carry. Add to that the way different continuities add different layer of depth to her and you have one heck of a complex character.


 * By the way, if you like to discuss different aspects of the show/manga, feel free to sue the forums or blogs to express your opinions, maybe someone besides me would enjoy talking about this too. ~ The Maverick  013  02:43, September 30, 2015 (UTC)

Yui: Saint or Sinner?
Is Yui truly as good as what the article makes her out to be? A lot of her actions do result in making Shinji the mess he is at the start of the series. Not to mention how her interpretation of humanity and its potential/legacy seems to be awfully suspicious and warped given Eva 01's final state at the end of the film.

Yui is no better than Gendo or SEELE. She has done virtually nothing worth the hurt and despair that people find themselves in. --Traitor Hater 2000 (talk) 02:12, 21 October 2020 (UTC)