Why did Rei inspire so many copycat characters when she's not even that pleasant?

Why did Rei inspire so many copycat characters when she's not even that pleasant?
She's just a quiet, autistic asshole for the entirety of NGE

Asuka pls go.

Genki girls were all the rage in the 90's. Rei was something new and different and it just caught on

she's hot

She's basically a god in a human body, which makes her feel wrong and longing for something beyond her limited existence.

Asuka has far more copies.

Quiet autistic assholes are kinda where a lot of weeaboos/otakus are at though. So it makes sense?

Not really, there are other tsunderes janking around but none quite like Asuka. You certainly don't see as many straight up Asuka clones as you do Rei clones

she was perceived as the submissive, shy and self-sacrificing girl she was meant to deconstruct

There was that one 90's H game that had carbon copies of Asuka, Rei, AND Misato, now that I think about it

You casuals really need to read a book or something.

Jesus how new can you be? Rei herself was just a carbon-copy of Yuki, right down the book reading and blue hair. Yuki is the original that everyone else was copying.

she's relatable

If Rei was a clone of Yuki, how would you explain Rei actually being a likeable and useful character?

sounds like the majority of the NGE fans

>Rei
>asshole
She's an angel, literally and metaphorically, She does what she does because she feels a bond with all people despite barely having enough life experience to know how to bond with them, and even though she ended up hating Asuka's guts because she's an actual asshole, she still tried to help her out and advice her when she saw her drawing in her problems only to be insulted and slapped by her.
Also, she's the only character that flourished rather than broke down the worst things got.

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Not just this, but her lack of a strong personality lets people throw all kinds of traits onto her so they can construct the ultimate waifu.

t. Asukonymous

>Yuki
If you're gonna criticize Reifags you should at least be right, It all started with Mikasa

>lack of a strong personality
Literally the strongest person in the show.

>inspired better characters who are initially quiet and emotionless but get actual development as the series progresses
I'm fine with this.

Give me 5 (five) rei clones.
Go

Rei I
Rei II
Rei III
Kaname in Angel Beats

I'll give you 5 more just for u
Yin from Darker than Black
Eucliwood
Glasses girl in Zero no Tsukaima
Ruri Hoshino in Nadesico
Anya in Code Geass (pink edition)

Also I was looking for pics of Rei clones on GIS found this lel

Last two should have been
>His mom's clone quantum state
>His mom's clone's clone

seems we're getting close to quints

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This: also she's an actually good character that does something more than just deliver deadpan dialogue, her personality means something to the story as well as the change.

The only problem with Rei, if there is any at all, is that she's too good. Rei's greatness inspired butthurt, hatred and jealousy from particularly Asuka fans who are forced to live with the fact that Rei is better. This creates self-delusion, bitterness and passive-aggressive behavior like shown here: .

Even though we all know Rei's popularity eclipsed Asuka's, and that Rei is credited for orginality in execution (whilst Asuka is not), these fans try to sow doubt and revise history.

Evangelion's fanbase has as such, destroyed itself. While large, it could never reach the unity of other large fanbases because of this. It'd be more correct to pin the blame on Asuka fans though.

Dont you know your normie memes? You need to end on that "you" otherwise you break it.

>The only problem with Rei, if there is any at all, is that she's too good.
>Rei's greatness inspired butthurt, hatred and jealousy from particularly Asuka fans who are forced to live with the fact that Rei is better.
Especially Anno, He will never forgive that.

pic related

>Dont you know your normie memes?
By the way, who the hell identifies with Q?

>t.deluded reifag

Betafaggots want either the girls that mocks them to actually like them (see asukafags) or are so beta that they want a puppet, someone shy that they can imagine perfect on the inside (rei).

Why do people think Misato wants to get in Shinjis pants?

Rei was created just so the ultimate kuudere could exist the future.

Try googling Misato and Shinji relationship? There's a lot of weird sexualized tension between the two and its implied she tries to have sex with him in Episode 23

Teenage had sexual fixation on maniatic pixel girl,just rei or girl from persona 5.

Just she fill role

Harooey is poop, and you're a poopyhead for liking it and any of its characters.

She tries to hold his hand in bed when shit starts going down, and then when he rejects her she says "is he afraid of women?"
Then in EoE she gives him an "adult kiss" and says they'll "do the rest later"

Ruri is not a Rei clone. She's just a smug know-it-all.