Gendou Ikari

Gendou Ikari, also known as King of Lilims, is a character from the Neon Genesis Evangelion series.
== Charactah Account ==
Gendou is the secretive head of NERV and Shinji Ikari's estranged father. He is NERV's liaison to SEELE, and a member of SEELE's committee for human instrumentality, but in reality he is running his own scenario which runs counter to SEELE's plans. To see this plan succeed, he is more than willing to use and betray everyone around him without hesitation, from his own son to NERV's central personnel to SEELE itself.
Gendou is tall man with a wide broad shoulders. He has a short dark-brown hair and facial hair, and has brown eyes hidden behind his sunglasses.
Gendou often wears a black uniform jacket over a red turtleneck shirt tucked inside a black high-waist pants, brown leather shoes and white gloves.
== Appearance ==
=== Anime ===
* Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone
* Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance
* Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo
* Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time
* Japan Anima(tor)'s Exhibition
* Neon Genesis Evangelion
* Neon Genesis Evangelion: Death & Rebirth
* Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion
* Petit Eva: Evangelion@School
* Schick x Evangelion
=== Manga ===
* Neon Genesis Evangelion
* Neon Genesis Evangelion: Angelic Days
* Neon Genesis Evangelion: Campus Apocalypse
* Neon Genesis Evangelion: Comic Tribute
* Neon Genesis Evangelion: The Shinji Ikari Raising Project
=== Video Games ===
* Kai-ri-Sei Million Arthur
* Meitantei Evangelion
* Neon Genesis Evangelion: Shinji Ikari Raising Project
* Secret of Evangelion
* Shinseiki Evangelion 2: Evangelions
* Shin Seiki Evangelion: Ayanami Ikusei Keikaku with Asuka Hokan Keikaku
== Trivia ==
* His seiyu is Fumihiko Tachiki, who also portrays to Don Krieg in One Piece, Megatronus in Japanese dub of 2015 TV Series Transformers: Robots in Disguise Japanese dub and Kenpachi Zaraki in Bleach.
* "Gendou" means "illusion", Rokobunyi "sextant" and Ikari "anchor". The sextant and anchor are instruments of navigation. Probably not by accident many of the Evangelion's characters have names inspired form WWII's ships.
* His relationship with Rei might hint an Elektra syndrome.
* During the Giant Impact he admitted that the reason why he abandoned Shinji is because he feared the memories of Yui.
* His visors in Evangelion 3.0 are very similar to those of Keel Lorenz, leader of SEELE. This suggests that he is the new head of SEELE.
* Due to his actions, Gendou Ikari might be considered the main villain of the entire universe of Gainax anime (including that of Gurren Lagann).
** Additionally, Gendou is generally considered one of the worst fathers in all of fiction for forsaking his familial bond to Shinji Ikari.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Gendo Ikari at Evangelion
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