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Adam is the First Angel and one of the two overarching antagonists (alongside Lilith) of the Neon Genesis Evangelion franchise.
Biography[]
The Original Canon[]
Created billions of years ago by the First Ancestral Race, Adam was sent in the White Moon to Earth in order to create life on the planet. However, one of the other six Seeds of Life, Lilith, had accidentally crash-landed on the planet in the Black Moon. Because two Seeds of Life are not meant to co-exist on the same planet, the Spear of Longinus, which every Seed of Life is accompanied by, was used to deactivate one of them. Since Lilith's Spear of Longinus was apparently destroyed in the crash, Adam was the one put dormant by Spear of Longinus by default in order to comply with this rule. This allowed Lilith to populate the planet with their own kin, including humanity, known as the Lilin.
At the end of 20th century at the South Pole, Adam was discovered by expedition known as Katsuragi Team inside of an iceberg. Unaware of its origins and properties, the Spear of Longinus was removed from Adam's body, whereas Adam's core became an object of studies. Due to a Contact Experiment in which human DNA was fused with Adam's, the Giant of Light was awakened on September 13th, 2000. Killing all members of the expedition, Adam triggered a global catastrophe known as Second Impact, which resulted in irreversible climate change and wiping out over half of humanity's population, before Adam himself had exploded and reduced into a fetus.
Fifteen years later, Adam's DNA would be utilized as a template to create cybernetic monsters known as Evangelions to combat Adam's offspring, Angels. The fetus itself was eventually stolen by Ryoji Kaji for Gendo Ikari, the Commander of NERV, who fused it with his hand in order to execute the Third Impact. However, during the attempt to fuse with Rei Ayanami, the Vessel of Lilith, Adam had been absorbed, tearing off Gendo's hand. First Angel would later manifest as Kaworu Nagisa as the Third Impact was initiated.
Powers and Abilities[]
Seed of Life physiology: Adam is a member of artificial, extraterrestrial organic beings created by First Ancestral Race, race of aliens with godlike abilities. As such, First Angel possesses highly adaptive biology, allowing it to survive in any environment and manipulate life. His powers include:
- Climate manipulation: Adam can alter planetary axis and change climate on the subjected planet to make it more habitable to its offspring. The Second Impact had permanently shifted Earth's rotation field, resulting in a gargantuan tsunamis across the globe, namely in coastal regions and islands, as well as catastrophic shift in global weather patterns. The Antarctica was completely sterilized, to the point where even the simplest forms of life like bacteria and viruses could not survive. In Rebuild of Evangelion, the Second Impact appears to have converted all oceans worldwide into blood, killing all of marine life in the process.
- Life manipulation: Much like Lilith, Adam is capable of generating primordial ooze and sustaining life. However, organisms created by the First Angel possess various supernatural abilities, such as self-sustenance and ability to project their AT-Fields as a form of force-field. Adam can also destroy LCL-based lifeforms through its Anti-AT Field, which take form of massive photon-based wings and can corrode AT-Fields of other beings, essentially robbing them of their souls and melting them to primordial ooze.
- Body manipulation: Thanks to its rubber-like body structure, Adam can morph its body and fuse it with other beings, especially other Seeds of Life. It can also adapt its soul to inhabit body of genetically modified humans, like Kaworu Nagisa, being able to use its AT-Field and control Adam-based Evangelions.
Trivia[]
- Unlike the TV show and the manga, in the movie series Rebuild of Evangelion, Adam is portrayed as multiple beings, commonly known as "Adams" or "Giants of Light". They first appear in the second installment of the series, Evangelion 2.0: You Can (Not) Advance. It is revealed that Adams created four crosses above the center of the South Pole during the Second Impact, which continues to exist even fifteen years later.
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