This article has a collection of images to further represent its content. To see its gallery, visit Rei Quatre/Gallery. Rei Quatre (レイ·カトル?) ("quatre" meaning "four" in French) is a fictional character from the Neon Genesis Evangelion: ANIMA novel. She is the primary pilot of Evangelion Unit-0.0 [Quatre].
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History[]
Neon Genesis Evangelion: ANIMA[]
Volume 1[]
Quatre and several other Ayanami clones appear forming an international Anti-Angel hunting task force known as the "Sword of Damocles" network; formed on behalf of NERV with Rei II and Rei No. Trois serving as leaders of the force. The later clones were produced at the same time and have nearly identical figures and appearances with the exception of Rei Six, who is physically only seven years old. To differentiate them, they were given different hair colors. Rei Quatre, the fourth clone, has silver hair. The Ayanami series clones produced at NERV were not made to develop self-awareness; but instead are remotely controlled by the original Rei Trois via a mental link (similar to a reversal of the Dummy System).
Quatre largely acts as Rei II's body while on field operations, whether with the task force or piloting her Unit 0.0, which features a two seated cockpit either with Rei No. Trois or Shinji Ikari. Despite claims these new clones lack self awareness two of them develop relationships and one shows signs of a strong personality, with Rei Quatre developing a close friendship with Shinji, though it was unclear if this was genuine or due to the mental influence of Rei II.
In Volume 1, Quatre and the other Rei clones begin undergoing "mental contamination" in which they develop self awareness. While Rei Cinq and Rei Six simply begin to develop personalities, Rei Quatre goes rogue for initially unknown reasons, forcing Shinji and Asuka to search for her.
After defeating the Angel Carrier Type-1 and Type-2, Quatre returns to NERV with the intent to aid Shinji and the rest of the Eva pilots against Armaros when it becomes clear that it's far too dangerous to be left alone.
Volume 2[]
After Quatre, Asuka, and an Evangelion task force established to battle Armaros on the Moon were defeated Quatre suffered far more intense mind contamination than before along with Rei Six and Rei Cinq. Six and Quatre were crippled by the contamination with Cinq being killed due to Armaros viewing her as a threat; being the only Rei clone shown to develop an actual personality in the face of the contamination rather than regress. Quatre then began to act independently once more (similar to Rei III in The End of Evangelion), immediately shooting Super Evangelion at point-blank range with EVA0.0 [Quatre] and then fleeing. She was later captured by a brainwashed Ryoji Kaji, a loyal leader of SEELE in the ANIMA continuity and the new commander of NERV JAPAN, succeeding Gendo Ikari after his failed Third Impact and Keel Lorenz in SEELE.
She later reappears after her capture by Kaji; verbalizing a deep hatred toward Shinji and repeatedly trying to kill him, yet despite her actions in combat toward him, when Shinji later meets Quatre (still under the effects of the Mind contamination) in person she embraced and kisses Shinji while promising him that she will kill him one day, much to this Shinji's visible confusion and resolute defiance to SEELE.
Volume 3[]
Volume 4[]
Volume 5[]
Trivia[]
- Despite it being stated in canon that only the hair of the Rei's is different, they are bodily very different from one another though still possessing more or less the same face.
- The way Rei Ayanami (Rei No. Deux) controls the other Reis with the help of Rei III (Rei No. Trois) may be a reference to the way Ruri Hoshino (popularly called a "Rei-clone") of Martian Successor NadesicoWP fame controls the eponymous battleship entirely by remote in conjunction with a clone first officer in Martian Successor Nadesico: Prince of DarknessWP
- Her love towards Shinji and mental instability in later volumes may also be inspired by the similarly named Four Murasame and Kamille Bidan's relationship in the mid to later half of Mobile Suit Zeta GundamWP, where both Kamille and Gundam Ace pilot Amuro Ray are often depicted to be good friends and mentors to Shinji in the Super Robot Wars video game series.
- Quatre and Shinji piloting Quatre's Unit-0.0 can be seen as similar to the way that Kaworu Nagisa and Shinji pilot Evangelion 13 in the Rebuild of Evangelion film series.
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