   is a fictional character and antagonist in the neon genesis evangelion franchise. he is the commander of nerv. while all of the english versions romanize his given name as gendo, gainax's website romanizes it gendoh, and some fansites romanize his name as "gendou". during takaaki mitsuhashi's 2010 campaign for the house of councillors, he cosplayed as gendo ikari.politician cosplays as evangelion's gendÅ for election ==overview== in nerv, gendo is responsible for the research done on the evangelion project and the human instrumentality project. he is the father of the third child, shinji ikari. at the start of the series, rei ayanami only reliably interacts with him. gendo is a brilliant scientist and politician (the master of puppets in the series) who works diligently for his organization; however, he is an extremely callous person and a cold and distant father towards his son, and has no qualms about using and discarding people to achieve his goals: "gendo is the type of person who can see & think about the welfare of an organization as a whole. in other words, he'd do anything to succeed. he takes drastic and extreme measures, by fair means or foul, or by hook or by crook, in order to accomplish his own purpose. in some ways he's mean, he hardly cares about shinji."from hideaki anno's anime expo '96 interview, pp20-3 in the november 1996 newtype, as translated by miyako graham in issue 43, pages 40-41 of protoculture addicts and as quoted by lawrence eng  his last lines in the end of evangelion reveal his regret and the true motivations for his ruthless behavior. he intended to use third impact to become godlike and create a better future for humanity together with his wife yui ikari, whom he intended to rejoin at the conclusion of instrumentality. however, when rei defies him he realizes that his e
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