Did anyone else want to grow up to be just like Gendo when they were a child?

Did anyone else want to grow up to be just like Gendo when they were a child?

No, Gendo is ugly and a terrible person.

I thought he was really handsome and badass! I liked Shinji, but I wanted to grow up to be a sexy, grizzled middle-aged man like Gendo.

Alone, depressed and abusive of others? I didn't, but ended up like this anyway

Gendo is hardly Grizzled. Gendo was a rich kid who went to a rich school for rich fags, and used his credentials to get into a position of power so that he could manipulate other people.

He is a petty faggot with a god complex, and he did not deserve his wife. Also, he isn't handsome. If you want an example of a handsome NGE character, look no further than Kaji.

>Gendo was a rich kid who went to a rich school for rich fags, and used his credentials to get into a position of power
I'm fond of the theory that Yui is the rich one probably daughter of someone at SEELE and Gendo used her weath and status to futher his researsh

a lonely, bitter husk of man who emotionally abuses everyone around him? or just a sharply dressed neckbeard who gets to fuck a 14 year old girl and command badass robots?

>theory
Maybe not in Rebuild, but Rokubungi Gendo wasn't anybody before Yui.

I was refering to the theory that Yui was the daughter of someone at SEELE maybe even Chairman Keel, but I write like a retard sometimes

Well, she was backed up by seele, and it was a very secretive organization. She gotta have some ties.

Also, Ikari was yui's surname. Im not sure how common on Japan for the husband to adopt the wifes name, but i would change my own name if i ever married a Rothchild or a Rockfeller girl

Their background is visibly completely different in Rebuild. Whole name swap thing should prove how much.

I, too, wish to become 11/10 Father of the Year.

What's visible of their background. It wasn't obvious to them who'd join what family before Shinji was born and she took his, whatever that means for their connections. Fuyutsuki does still call Yui his student, though.

Still waiting for Japan to bioengineer my female sex harem

I've got a beard and I've increased my inner bastard. Still no Yui though.

So he was a gold digger?

this.
I even have the beard.

I still want to be like Gendo.

The glorious beard will never happen though.

Is it because boobies?

That's exactly what happened. That's why he took her name; he was a nobody.

Bad genetics.

He was an ambitious guy with no scruples or morals. In a world of the elite of the elite of the elite, he needed a way into the upper echelon of the secret society that controlled the world.

He approached Yui with the goal of seducing her and using her to get into their inner circle, but then he fell for the mark. She convinced him to join her secret plan to counteract Instrumentality, and thus Gehirn and later NERV were created.

I didn't want to grow up to be like Gendo, I wanted to grow up to be like Bando
>Bitter virgin who hates everyone
>Homeless with firearms soon maybe
I did it, Sup Forums!

His wife gladly sucked his cock because he is such a badass and not a beta like her university prof.

oddly enough i wanted gendo to be my dad when i was younger

But why

i had a really clingy father

No need to be redundant

Does that mean you'd just get in and pilot an eva no questions asked?

How?