Impact

Impact is a term used to refer to several defining events across the Evangelion franchise. These events often involved beings with both the Fruit of Life and the Fruit of Knowledge, such as an Evangelion absorbing an Angel.

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Neon Genesis Evangelion

 * First Impact was caused by the impact of the Black Moon containing Lilith on to what would eventually become Tokyo-3. As a result of two Seeds of Life landing on one planet, the Spears of Longinus activated the First Ancestral Races' contingency plan by deactivating one of the Seeds. Lilith's Spear was destroyed during the landing, so Adam was put into stasis by his own Spear, allowing humans to populate the Earth.


 * Second Impact was intentionally orchestrated by SEELE, the impact was caused by a Contact Experiment performed on Adam at the North Pole causing him to turn into an embryo. This impact also turned the Southern Ocean red, misaligned Earth's orbit leading to the ending of seasons and killed over half of the human race.


 * While the effects of Third Impact can be seen throughout episodes 25 and 26 of Neon Genesis, it is most clearly demonstrated during the events ofThe End of Evangelion. The impact began when Adam and Lilith's bodies and souls merged resulting in a massive Anti-A.T.-Field being formed reverting life on Earth to LCL leading to the completion of theHuman Instrumentality Project. This impact and the project were ended by Shinji Ikari who chose to reject instrumentality in favor of individuality.

Rebuild of Evangelion

 * In Rebuild Continuity, the First Impact is the same as NGE. As for the Second Impact, it appears mostly the same except there are four Adams and the Doors of Guf remained open.


 * Near Third Impact was unintentionally triggered by Shinji through awakening of Evangelion Unit-01 after trying to save Rei Ayanami from the core of Tenth Angel. This impact is stopped by Kaworu Nagisa in the Evangelion Mark.06 through the use of the Spear of Cassius. Although the scope of the damage caused by this impact is unclear, the damage caused by this impact was minimal as life in Tokyo-3 was able to continue without much issue.


 * Some time after Near Third Impact stopped, Third Impact was triggered by Mark.06 (under the influence of the Twelfth Angel) when it beheaded Lilith. This impact was stopped by sacrifice of Ryoji Kaji however despite his sacrifice, Third Impact was still a nearly extinction level event which caused the world to turn red and eliminated almost all of humanity by transforming them into the Failures of Infinity.


 * Fourth Impact is triggered by the awakening of Evangelion 13. This impact was stopped by the piercing of Evangelion 13 by two Spears of Longinus, the death of Kaworu by the DSS Choker and the force ejection of Shinji from the unit by Mari Makinami Illustrious in the Evangelion Unit-08/Unit-08β.


 * Additional Impact is the sixth and final impact in the rebuild series caused by Gendo Ikari through the use of Evangelion 13, Nebuchadnezzar's Key and the Adams to open the Minus Space and cause instrumentality. Shinji controls this impact using the Spear of Gaius and reforms the world into one without Evangelions.

Neon Genesis Evangelion (manga)

 * While the manga shares the same impacts as Neon Genesis Evangelion, Third impacts ending is quite different as instead of being ambiguous on what the future of the world looks like, in the Manga, Shinji chooses to recreate the world without Evangelions leading him to live an uneventful life as a regular student.

Other Media

 * | Shave Impact is an impact from the Schick x Evangelion razor promotion. It is caused by Gendo Ikari after he uses a Schick razor to get a very clean shave.

Trivia

 * In the rebuild continuity, each impact was done to cleanse an aspect of the planet to prepare for instrumentality. Those aspects are the earth, the air, the sea and humanity.