WARNING ! The following goes with the assumption that the Rebuild continuity is a COMPLETELY separate continuity of the NGE/EoE one, i.e. everything known in the NGE/EoE continuity, including, in that case, the naming conventions for the Evangelions doesn't apply here.
Hello everyone ! As some of you may have seen, I recently began to make proper articles for the Rebuild versions of the Evangelions. Now, I wanted to ask everyone..
What name policy are we gonna have for those ?
That could be a dumb question at first sight. I also think I already talked about this with DE in the past. That pretty much means that I apologize in advance (especially to you, DE =P) for the fact that I can be really boring (not to say more harsh words here) when it comes to technical things like the ones which I'll explain in a minute, but I really want to make this Wiki the best and most precise Evangelion database possible. >_<
ANYWAY, back to the topic, my main argument for asking this question is the fact that the Rebuild Evangelions, both the "old" and the new designs I mean, are NEVER referred as "Evangelion Unit-XX" in official Rebuild materials (booklets, goodies, etc..) to my knowledge. This is in English only, of course. Excluding the "Mark.XX" series and Evangelion 13 from that, they're more referred as "Evangelion-XX" ("Evangelion-01" or "Evangelion-05", for example), Evangelion "Model Specification"-XX ("Evangelion Test Type-01" or "Evangelion Provisional Unit-05", for example) or simply "Eva-XX" ("Eva-01" or "Eva-05", for example).
That said, I have three propositions to make for the naming policy for the Rebuild continuity-Evangelions :
- 1) We stay with the current naming system and put "(Rebuild)" after the name of the corresponding (old) Evangelion. That means :
- Evangelion Unit-01 (Rebuild)
- Evangelion Unit-00 (Rebuild)
- Evangelion Unit-02 (Rebuild)
- Evangelion Unit-03 (Rebuild)
- Evangelion Unit-04 (Rebuild)
- Evangelion Provisional Unit-05
- Evangelion Unit-08 (note : maybe change to "(Rebuild)" here too, as the "old" Unit-08 is actually a MPE)
- Evangelion Mark.04
- Evangelion Mark.06
- Evangelion Mark.09
- Evangelion 13
- 2) We change to something with the full names for the Rebuild versions. That would includes both the old and new designs. That means :
- Evangelion Test Type-01
- Evangelion Proto Type-00
- Evangelion Production Model-02
- Evangelion Production Model-03
- Evangelion Next Gen Testbed-04
- Evangelion Provisional Unit-05
- Evangelion Production Model Custom Type-08
- Evangelion Mark.04
- Evangelion Mark.06
- Evangelion Mark.09
- Evangelion 13
- 3) We change to the "kinda-shorten-Rebuild-equivalent-of-the-Evangelion-Unit-XX-thingy" that is the "Evangelion-XX" naming system. That means :
- Evangelion-01
- Evangelion-00
- Evangelion-02
- Evangelion-03
- Evangelion-04
- Evangelion-05
- Evangelion-08
- Evangelion Mark.04
- Evangelion Mark.06
- Evangelion Mark.09
- Evangelion 13
(of course, there would be a lot of disambiguation pages to make for each propositions; I won't explain that right now as it would be really REALLY long and this isn't the right place nor the right time to do it, I think)
In my opinion (but then again, that's just me, the guy who wants to be the most boringly precise guy XD), the second proposition is the best. Why ? Well, the Evangelion franchise is about philosophical stuff, okay. But the mecha aspect of the show isn't something we should bypass. Rebuild is a bit more "realistic" looking compared to NGE/EoE (to a lesser extent, it's more or like ANIMA actually), cf. Eva-05 bootup sequence with the memory stuff for example, so why not going with the full designation of the Rebuild Evas ? They're also labelled like that on the official profiles of the booklets and, taking into account the fact that the Wiki is an encyclopedia, I think we should go with the full names, should we have them (which is the case for the Rebuild stuff).
Now, for the other propositions..
The first is, in my opinion, the worst. It makes the whole thing kinda schizophrenic. It uses the "Evangelion Unit-XX" naming system for every Evas but uses the "Evangelion Model Specification-XX" for Eva-05. Why ?
The third is the second best choice for me. It's kinda sufficient enough to differentiate them from their NGE/EoE counterparts and is also similar to the "Evangelion Unit-XX" naming system.
So now, I'd like your opinions and/or your advices about that. Which naming systems is the best, etc..
Thank you for reading this big block of text (and also my possibly bad grammar in the process !).
