Rebuild of Evangelion/Headscratchers

Why do people keep living in Tokyo3?
And what's more, why keep rebuilding the city when it's located above the Geo Front? I understand that that a lot of rebuttals to idiotic details is "It was predicted in the Dead Sea Scrolls/Seele planned it this way", but they can't honestly want millions of dollars worth of collateral damage every couple of weeks due to Angel attacks, especially when they complain about the cost of repairing Evas. And the city's population only finally moves out after Rei self destructs and floods half the city, even though at least 5 angel fights have actually taken place IN the city.
 * This is even worse in Rebuild 2.0 when Sahaquiel and Zeruel practically level the city.
 * Isn't it hinted in the teaser at the end of Rebuild 2.0, that they won't rebuild after Zeruel's attack?
 * It's not exactly a normal city, but a fortress-base used against Angels. Everybody who lives there either works for NERV or knows what they're in for. As for your average civilian... somebody needs to run the infrastructure.
 * Something that is often missed in Sahaquiel's attack is that there appears to be a gigantic dam against the tide of blood around the central (read: important) part of the city. Only the outskirts of Tokyo-3 got destroyed. Whoever was in charge of building that city was one of the most Crazy Prepared people in fiction, if they could predict and plan for a tidal wave of blood coming their way.
 * It seems like the safest place on Earth if you look at it one way. It has more defenses than any place on Earth probably, with the tradeoff that it holds the Macguffin that all the angels are trying to get to. If Tokyo-3 falls, everyone on the planet is fucked anyway, so why NOT live there?
 * Of course they also bring their children to the (very) dangerous city and even if the Angels do get beaten the damage caused means that you could very well get killed regardless.
 * But in Rebuild, we know for sure that angels are also attacking other places in the world. It's never made clear in the original series, but Marie was somewhere else fighting SOMETHING at the start of Rebuild 2. So just moving to another city doesn't mean you won't have to put up with angel battles.
 * Nope, the Third Angel was just trying to escape. They were experimenting on it. It didn't attack Bethany Base at all.
 * In the first movie it is mentioned by several civilians that people have been leaving. Apparently just not enough to close down things like schools or stores.
 * Just an interesting note... why did the jews stay in Germany until it was locked up even though they KNEW some shit was going down? Because it's their home.
 * To expand on this a bit, there are any number of practical and sentimental problems with leaving your home in long-term dangerous situations like this. The local housing market is presumably in the toilet (because nobody wants to move there), so you are gonna have to lose all the money you spent on the house and sell it for peanuts if you want to find a buyer at all. You lose your job. Your children are taken away from their school and into a new one, forcing them to adjust. You have to convince all your friends and family to come with you, or you have to decide to leave them behind to the horrors you are escaping. And so on. It wasn't just the Jews in Germany, look at any population in a dangerous place (like the Londoners during the blitz) and you will see that, while some may leave, a large number stay.
 * In fact, forget short-lived man-made crises; the fact that places like San Francisco, Tokyo, and New Orleans still have large populations despite being regularly hit by things like earthquakes and hurricanes prove that humanity in general is extremely hard to root out of a particular spot.
 * The shelters seem safe enough and the evacuation procedures seem to work given that there is no people on the streets by the time an angel comes. Also many of the new buildings are elevated and viceversa at will. You may risk loosing your car or losing your house but personal safety doesn't seem to be thaat low for civilians.
 * Remember in one of the earlier episodes in the series Shinji is reading a screen that talks about the wars that happened after Second Impact. The rest of the world may be a terrible place to live with parts of Japan being one of the only stable areas. Even if countries such as the USA and Germany are capable of producing Evas, they might be terrible places to live.

What's with the red water?
"“This is what the LORD says: By this you will know that I am the LORD: With the staff that is in my hand I will strike the water of the Nile, and it will be changed into blood. The fish in the Nile will die, and the river will stink; the Egyptians will not be able to drink its water." — Exodus 7:17–18"
 * Second Impact flooded the entire world instead of just Antarctica in this continuity.
 * Some people consider it as evidence of the series being a continuation from Eo E, rather than just a retelling of the original series. Alternatively :

Spoilers galore, but this bit really just bugs me:

 * The process of entering the Eva and starting it up isn't that complex. Ritsuko was absent at the end of episode 19 and 2.0; Shinji got into the Eva and came in to save the day à la Big Damn Heroes fairly quickly. Save for location and the issue of the elevator platform, Shinji and Asuka did just about the same thing as Mari in episode 8, with Asuka issuing all of the commands from inside the entry plug. I agree that there's the issue of the elevator platform and transportation, but overall it's not that contrived.
 * It's not implausible that most of it can be done automatically too, in case the majority of the staff are indisposed somehow. Hell, Shinji got into his Evangelion in End without any support, and with the plug emplacement system completely non-functional.
 * ...wait, what are you complaining about? She didn't hijack the Eva, the NERV European branch took over control of Unit-02 and she was sent in to pilot it.
 * Indeed: she did have support staff, they just were on the other side of the globe.
 * In fact, it's a bit of a Chekhov's Gun. The only reason that Asuka got sidelined earlier was because the European branch still had complete control over the operation of Unit 02.

Another nitpicky bug... how is Kaworu supposed to pressurize/clingwrap/whatever his plugsuit IN SPACE?
Why does it even billow and baloon out when there is no air in or surrounding it? Unless that suit (and any other plugsuits for that matter) is made of Unstable Molecules I just can't see it happening on the Moon (and on lesser scale, on Earth... shrink-wrapping doesn't quite work that way).
 * I take it is because he is a angel,he is more or less a Demigod so he could if he want,grown the plug suit out of his body.
 * How do you know there's no air trapped in it? We don't know where he put it on, even if he's in vacuum right now.
 * Because the plugsuit is baggy, baggy means not a good seal, which means that the air in it should have escaped the moment that he hit vacuum. A possible explanation is that the plugsuit does not actually vacuum-wrap itself but does some sort of electro-shrinkage thing.
 * I agree with this; I think that they actually expand and contract rather than being filled with air. When they're put on in an environment with air, the air just wooshes out, and when they're put on in an airless environment they shrink to fit.
 * I always assumed that the plugsuits got rolled into the hardparts, such as at the wrists, neck, waist, etc.

Why did Gendo have to maximize the LCL pressure after Shinji Why couldn't they just keep the Dummy Plug active until the power shuts down?

 * Dummy Plug has limited activation time. They mention it before they activate it. That's how Shinji got control back.
 * Because he is shall we say, kind of a dick.
 * Also God only knows what the Axe Crazy dummy system might decide to do if it got bored waiting to shut down.
 * Because Shinji was well,  and Gendo was trying to keep himself and his employees safe from Shinji's rampage, but whoever previously applied to this one is right, he was being rather cold about it.

== In Rebuild, the Second Impact affected all the oceans in the world, so how can people breath? I mean, microscopic blue algae are the main generators of atmospheric oxygen (no, the Amazon Rainforest is not the lungs of the world), so if they all died, that means the oxygen supply in the entire world is comprised. And for that matter, how come the rivers and lakes weren't contaminated by the Second Impact, even if they have a direct link with the seas? ==
 * Kaji explains that there was a lot of work done off-screen just to make sure that humans could survive post-Second Impact. As for the second question, not all lakes have a direct link to the sea, and the rivers wouldn't necessarily be contaminated, for the same reason rivers are fresh water and the ocean is salt water.
 * Your second answer doesn't answer the question; freshwater algae isn't enough to keep the atmosphere oxygenated enough even for a post-second impact population size, only saltwater algae is enough to keep the earth breathing. So even if the rivers aren't contaminated, everyone should still be gasping for breath like they had just climbed the Himalayas all the time at the very least. Maybe what the answer is that the algae isn't affected by the red ocean water, or, if Rebuild is a sequel, LCL preforms the same function of oxygenating the atmosphere and somehow acts like a desiccant, but only for CO 2. Or something...
 * ... the second answer isn't to the oxygenation question. It's a response to why the rivers and lakes aren't red while the oceans are.
 * I'm literally going to guess this one got completely forgotten by our dear friends at Gainax. The best thing to do is to recite the MST3K Mantra if you can and try to enjoy it, though now I'll be staring at the red water too and going "that's not right."
 * ...Kaji explains that there was a lot of work done off-screen just to make sure that humans could survive post-Second Impact. There's also a few mentions about artificial food. It's all said during the field trip in 2.22.
 * Hey remember in the original series where they said Second Impact was caused by a meteor crashing into the earth, but we find out it really wasn't? Nerv has lied to the public before, perhaps there's really another reason for the oceans being red that they don't want the public to know about.
 * The red water is all angel blood. Given angels have similar molecular structure as humans (see neon genesis - DNA is a 99.9% match), and given the red water is bright red, rather than dark red, it's oxygenated blood. So although it killed all normal marine life, there's plenty or oxygen which can be released by decomposition (whether by humans or by wild organisms) of the blood. And even if oxygen levels drop to 10%, that's equivalent to living in Bolivia. Annoying to get used to, but perfectly survivable to humans in the long term. Only at 6% or so does it start to get deadly. Also note that blue algae absorb red light (using Phyococyanine), which is not absorbed by the red waters. Therefore they would be less affected than green plants in a red environment.
 * Another thing to note is that, after Second Impact, something like 90% of all life on Earth was annihilated. I dunno what that means in a strict scientific sense, but a hand-wavey explanation could be that there's less stuff breathing so they don't need as much oxygen in the atmosphere to survive.

The Vatican Treaty
Okay, I get 3 Evas per country. Makes sense, these are powerful weapons of mass destruction. However, why hasn't other countries sent their evas piloted by their troops? I may be wrong here, but after WWII, America disbanded Japan's army, so they are responsible for them too. Why aren't there American evas running around? I'm kinda thinking about how in Stargate they had some Russian troops running around in the later series for political shenanigans.
 * Unit 02 is European. The American Evas tend to have horrible things happen to them. Anyway, that's how Mari took over Unit 02, Europe sent her over as reinforcements. At least, that's one way to look at it, we haven't found out her deal yet.
 * Which, uh, just goes to show how nonsensically the Vatican Treaty was written into Rebuild 2.0. It's a law that allegedly exists so no single country can create a monopoly over Evas, yet it's implemented in such a way so Europe shuts down its only Unit so Japan can run the three that they fully own. The Vatican Treaty is really just a plot contrivance Studio Khara invented specifically so Mari would wind up in Eva-02's cockpit, and for no other reason. You guys did notice that, right? ...right?
 * ...what. The Europeans had seconded Eva-02 to the Japanese branch, which means that for all intents and purposes it's operating under the Japanese flag. When NERV HQ decided to attempt activation of Eva-03, they had to deactivate one. How is this difficult to grasp?
 * The movies also never make it clear how various nations have actually fared post-2nd Impact. For all we know, America could be a third world hellhole at this point.
 * It possibly has to do with avoiding a third impact until "when planned". In this continuity duing the second impact flashback we see four adams (or giants of light), which could mean that in this continuity to trigger the third impact four EV As or something along are needed instead of the MP Evas (which would explain why gendo got impressed when (I actually took this theory from Evageeks btw).
 * It's at least implied that, due to Second Impact, the destruction of Tokyo, and the resulting chaos that Japan gave up on the "War is abolished forever" clause in their constitution (the JSSDF seems to be its own branch of the JSDF and acts very much like a real military rather than the extension of the national police it serves as IRL). This is actually something that has been (very controversially) discussed at certain times in Japan. It may have taken an event like Second Impact to make it feasible, however. As well fanfics (based on logic) like to point out that some countries have the majority of their population on their southern shorelines facing Antarctica. This is why it's pretty much canon that India and Pakistan didn't recover by 2015 and that some fics joke that Australia isn't a country anymore. The initial tidal wave would've wiped them out before anyone realized what was happening. A new world order with old countries destroyed, new ones established, and many militaries and governments completely changed forever, that the geopolitics of the world may be very different from what we're used to IRL.

What does Kaworu mean with "the third again"?
Seriously. It's been bugging me since I watched 1.11. It ended with him saying "the third again" or something along those lines, as if this is actually a reset version of the original Neon Genesis Evangelion. It would fit, if you watch End of Evangelion, because the oceans have turned red by the end of Eo E, and there's a white outline of an MP EVA in the beginning of 1.11. Is this going to turn out like Battlestar Galactica ("All this has happened before, and all this will happen again.")?
 * It certainly is possible, and it wouldn't surprise me to find out that time had reset itself (at least to some extent) after the events of End of Evangelion. Though it's impossible to be sure. For all we know this could be an Alternate Universe too.
 * This also might be something of a Canon Immigrant deal, as in the Super Robot Wars games Kaworu is hinted to be some kind of dimensional traveler that moves between the various SRW parallel universes.

Why weren't Rei and Kaworu made with Conspicuous CG?
That would have fit with the other Angels and looked freaky cool.
 * Or they would have looked Uncanny Valley. Also, those two are partially-human, and are supposed to be able to pass for human without incident. Making them CG would have totally defeated that purpose.

How is Mari still alive?
So Mari Then she enters. And then Zeruel went out on the town with her and. Shouldn't she be dead?
 * Asuka was pretty damn into it in the original series against Zeruel, though Unit-02 didn't go berserk. And 02 got dismembered and decapitated after she failed. Her shots of rage cut off after the decapitation, so sync ratio comes into it - however, it's probably only the massively-high sync ratio Asuka managed to achieve against the MP-Evas in End and Shinji's own saving of Rei in 2.0 that would cause literal physical damage to the pilot, and note just 'phantom' pain or the illusion of suffering the same damage as the EVA.
 * That's true, and I didn't really think about EOE and Asuka. But I'd still expect the "phantom pain" of getting patially lobotomized/de-eyed would be pretty damn shocking. Plus, if I remember corectly, Mari's eye was bleeding. And have you ever heard how some people die in dreams due to the shock that their brain actually thinks they're dying? I'd assume the same could happen to the pilots.
 * Err... it's not possible for a healthy person to die from a dream. And I've gotten the impression that Mari is insane and a bit of a masochist, so the phantom pain wouldn't be that terrible, but maybe that's just me. Why her eye was injured and not anything else? I don't know. Maybe she cut her eye on something in the entry plug? Maybe her eye had gotten injured before and the wound... reopened? I'm just guessing though.
 * When she pushed the berserker mode, her glasses shattered. I always assumed she got cut by shards flying around/floating in the lcl in the cockpit.

How is Evangelion: 3.0 going to start?
For all the people who've never watched 2.22, but only 2.0, it's going to cause a lot of confusion if suddenly, Shinji is no longer on the verge of annihilating mankind. If I recall correctly, 2.0 didn't have the 30-second round-up that 2.22 had, where Kaworu descends and throws a lance at EVA-01, so odds are they will have to start 3.0 with these 30 seconds.
 * It'll probably start with a flashback from Misato or Ritsuko or something. If not, it'll definitely be referenced by a flashback at some point during the movie, or explained while Shinji and Rei are being "saved".

What is Mari doing?

 * She shows up in Japan, jacks Unit 02, and fights that Angel, then brings Shinji to his Eva. Why is she doing this? Why did Euro Branch send her to Japan, and order her to enter the country covertly?
 * Would you like us to tell you how the next two movies are going to end as well?