On the one hand he is a total alpha: enigmatic, a womanizer, the commander of a powerful organization, dutiful, disciplined etc...
On the other hand he is 100% only work without a private life. He doesn't give a shit about shinji and he can't let go. Instead of accepting the death of his wive and move on he tries to risk everything and sacrifice Shinjis happiness and the whole humanity just so he can see her again. It's not even about her or his family. It's about his ego. He sees his wive as a possession, instead of a grown individual.
Thoughts?
Leo Reyes
You're shit at analyzing things
Ryan Perry
Better than your mom.
Levi Thomas
His waifu is dead. He has no reason to go on outside of work.
Hunter Gomez
>He sees his wive as a possession, instead of a grown individual. interesting theory, but is there any specific evidence of this?
Tyler Johnson
Yui wanted that Shinji is happy. He knew that she loved Shinji. If he really cared about her, he would have been a better father. He ignored her wishes. It was only about him.
Brody Anderson
Is OP a criticism of heterosexuality?
His posts are presented as though they are respectable, but they are actually super gay.
It really makes you think.
Tyler Adams
Your mom is super gay.
Isaiah Ortiz
Oh and btw I want to see you after your mom died and your father just dropped you off when you were just fucking 4 at some uncle who treats you like shit. I want to see how you fare without parents and with a father who ignores you and only contacts you when he needs you to pilot his robots and be a pawn in his game.
Am I gay because I empathize with Shinji and dislike how Gendo treated him? Well if you think this way, sure, then I'm gay.
Jack Jackson
It's not. Anno said he was designed around his own distant father.
Brayden Gutierrez
you say it as though it's a possible scenario for anyone also >I'm gay
Austin Murphy
You explained his characteristics well but got into projecting at the end.
Andrew Brown
Gendo did literally nothing wrong, he was the only "good" character in evangelion.
Noah James
No, he's just a character.
Angel King
I doubt that's what Anno was going for, but I suppose it's possible. Analyzing his works are about as productive as trying to pick the man's head for answers desu.
Eli Morris
It's more general than masculinity. You left out his destruction of the reality of Yui vis-a-vis her photographs for a fantasy of her he was never so devoted to while she lived and the degree to which he anthropomorphized Eva-01.
Jaxson Garcia
There are no good characters in Eva. If you're looking for "good" and "bad" in Eva, you're missing the point.
Daniel Moore
It's interesting. Gendo escaped in a fantasy world, just like Shinji. In that regard they are both similar.
Elijah Wilson
Gendo is just what Shinji would've eventually become.
Jacob Gutierrez
NGE makes a point of every character doing it. Every contact between an angel and a human mind, the angel's mystified by the human consciously denying information they're aware of and the human smashing themself apart against their own brain.
Hudson Ortiz
You're talking about Gendo and Yui who before the series began were working on Human Instrumentality, a plan to merge all human souls and dissolve individuality to create a supreme being specifically so no one will ever feel pain from loneliness or insecurity.
I don't think you really put enough thought into the motivations and character dynamics, it sounds like you're moralizing from your narrow, personal perspective.