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| “ | The beginning and the end are one and the same. Yes, all is right with the world. | „ |
| ~ Keel's last words before turning into LCL during the Third Impact. |
Chairman Keel Lorenz is the secondary antagonist of the Neon Genesis Evangelion franchise.
He is the enigmatic leader of the mysterious SEELE organization and the chairman of the ominous Human Instrumentality Committee.
He was voiced by Mugihito in the Japanese version, while in English, he was voiced in the original ADV Films dub of the TV series by Rick Peeples, Tom Booker in their dub of Death andRebirth and The End of Evangelion, Bill Jenkins in the Funimation dub of the Rebuild movie series, and D.C. Douglas in the Netflix dub.
Appearance[]
Keel appears to be an older man with gray hair and eyebrows, presumably being around his sixties. He wears what appears to be a green long-coat with white ends on his collar and yellow around the middle edges of his coat. He also appears to wear a black belt around the middle.
Most notably, Keel wears a cybernetic visor on his head that covers his eyes, seemingly to help him see. After turning into LCL, its revealed that he had much more cybernetic implants than what one would have thought, seemingly having a replacement for his spine and other key organs. It is completely unknown why he got them however.
History[]
Little is known about Keel, but it is shown that he is the chairman of the five-man subgroup of SEELE, which directly oversees NERV's Evangelion project (as well as their secret Human Instrumentality Project), and functions by working through the UN, secretly pulling the strings of world governments.
Keel was active within SEELE's machinations before Second Impact and was involved along with Gendo in the United Nations' cover-up of the true nature of the disaster involving Adam and the Katsuragi Expedition. Through SEELE, Keel secretly backed Gehirn and later its successor organization, NERV, in their creation of the Evangelion project.
At some point between the Second Impact and 2015, most of Keel's body, below the neck, was replaced with cybernetic implants. Although he uses a visor to see, Keel still possesses eyes (as indicated by production drawings). When the organic components of his body became LCL, the remaining mechanical components were left behind, and appear to include most of his spinal column.
Keel is seen sporadically throughout the series, usually in meetings with both Gendo Ikari and Kozo Fuyutsuki on how the Human Instrumentality Project is coming along, usually being the head of either the Human Instrumentality Committee or SEELE. At some point, he orders Ryoji Kaji to take Fuyutsuki into custody for interrogation. However, Kaji would later betray them and return Fuyutsuki to NERV. This action and Kaji finding out about the Instrumentality project caused either Keel or Gendo to send a hitman to assassinate Kaji.
After the defeat of the 16th Angel Armisael, Keel sends Kaworu Nagisa to inflitrate NERV and complete SEELE's scenario for Instrumentality. However, once Kaworu found out that the being in Terminal Dogma was Lilith and not Adam, he allows Shinji Ikari to kill him to prevent Instrumentality.
After Kaworu's defeat, Keel orders the JSSDF to attack NERV and kill all its personnel, claiming that NERV wants to initiate Third Impact. When the Second Child, Asuka Langley Soryu, fights back within Evangelion Unit-02, Keel sends the Mass Produced Evangelions to eliminate her. Keel is last seen observing as Third Impact is triggered, saying all's right in the world as he's dissolved into LCL.
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