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Evangelion 13 is one of the two new Evangelion Units in Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo, piloted by both Shinji Ikari and Kaworu Nagisa in an attempt to fix the world.
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The Unit is deployed together with Evangelion Mark.09 by NERV, as a tool to aid Shinji and Kaworu to retrieve the Spear of Longinus and the Spear of Cassius.
It fights against Evangelion Unit-02 and Evangelion Unit-08.
Appearence
In terms of its overall appearence, Unit-13 is near-identical to its predecessor Evangelion Unit-01. However, it has several (if minor) aesthetical differences. While it mostly maintains the green, purple and black color scheme, the green highlights are much less prominent, replaced with a few pale yellow ones on its knees and forearms and a much higher spread of purple and black across its body. Also the entirety of its body has more detailed and segmented plates across it, and the armor in its legs has been completely redesigned, with slightly wider, almost square-shaped hips, larger knee pads and heel-like foot covers. Its helmet design still retains the ceratopsid dinosaur-like appearence, though in a much more detailed fashion, its horn is designed in crooked way and it has four glowing, bright yellow eyes, with equally colored lines coming from each eye. Another key difference, is the black, cross-shaped chest piece, with two red circles on top.
When entering in its Awakened state, its eyes and various highlights turn red, its center piece collapses and unveils a second set of arms and its pylons explode, revealing two crystalized wing-like appendages. It also assumes the appearence of a giant of light, similar to Unit-01 and the Adams, though it also manifests two Halos.
Features
Unlike other Evangelion units, Eva 13, has displayed several unique features. One of its more prominent ones is that it requires the use of two Entry Plugs (as two souls are necessary to wield this Eva and two Spears at the same time). Though it requires two pilots, it's control system can be changed to give full control to a single pilot. It's physical strength is also noteworthy, as it was able to overpower and toss Unit-02' around despite the fact that Shinji was fighting defensively against Asuka. Another interesting fact it that it does not appear to have any energy cable or battery of any kind, attached to it, implying that this unit must be powered by an S² Engine.
Also, unique to Eva 13 is that it does not possess any A.T. Field at all like the other Eva or the Angels (as demonstrated when Unit-08 shot it with a special anti-A.T. Field ammunition; Eva 13 deployed no A.T. Field and instead the bullets disintegrated on contact with its body). Instead, four drones housed in the containers of the Eva's shoulder pylons (two containers on each shoulder pylon) generate an energy barrier very similar to an A.T. Field. These jellyfish-like drones, called "RS Hoppers"[1], can either be used as either defensive or offensive weapons, depending on the situation. This unit also has an extra set of fully functional arms, kept locked across it's chest, that can be released and gives this Eva the physical strength required to wield two Spears of Longinus.
Much like Unit-01, Eva 13 is capable of entering an Awakened state, when consuming an Angel's core. This led Mari to theorise that this unit is in fact one of the surviving Adams. As a giant of light, its body temperature rises to extremely high levels, as when Unit-08 was trying to pull out Shinji's Entry Plug, its arms glowed red hot and its hands were severely burnt. The unit itself is much more resilient to damage, able to withstand a full assault from the AAA Wunder, Unit-02 and Unit-08, with virtually no damage. It's also much more difficult to stop the Eva in this state than it was with Unit-01, as it took it being stabbed with both Spears of Longinus, and having both its pilots disabled before it was finally de-activated.
Development
Unit-08 as seen during the 3.0 preview
While the Evangelion 13 itself was never shown in the preview at the end of Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance, the role of the Unit-08 seen in the preview as an awakening Evangelion has visibly been switched to the Eva 13 over the course of the writing of the final script for the movie.
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