Asuka Langley Sohryu

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## Heroic Benchmark

* Normal
* Plugsuit

### Alias

Second Child
Second Children (original translation)
Asuka Langley Shikinami (Rebuild variant)

### Family

Kyoko Zeppelin Soryu † (mother)
Unnamed father
Unnamed stepmother
Misato Katsuragi (guardian)
Ryoji Kaji (former guardian)

### Allies

Shinji Ikari
Misato Katsuragi
Rei Ayanami
Ryoji Kaji
Hikari Horaki
Toji Suzuhara
Mari Makinami (Rebuild continuity)

### Enemies

SEELE
Angels

### Powers / Skills

High intelligence
Skilled Eva pilot
Minor tactical skill
Fighting

### Goals

Protect the world from the angels.
Save the world (both succeeded).

### Goodness Zone

Willing defended the world from the threat of angels
Defended NERVE headquarters from SEELE's mass produce Evangelions

### Type of Hero

Tragic Heroic Jerk

**Asuka Langley Sohryu** is one of the main protagonist of the *Neon Genesis Evangelion* franchise next to Shinji Ikari and Rei Ayanami. She is a skilled pilot of Evangelion Unit-02 and like Shinji and Rei, help defend the world from the invading aliens known as angels. Asuka first appears in the episode called "Asuka Strikes!" and is taken in by Misato. Despite having a rough relationship with Shinji, she has a crush on him and gets along with him in some moments in the series. But she nevers admits this to anyone and keeps it as a secret.

Like Shinji, Asuka is an mentaly-ill Eva pilot, who is very insecure on herself and has issues when it comes to socializing with people. Her anguish stems from the neglect she has face as a child from her mental-ill mother, who mistook a doll as her daughter. Her mother eventually commited suicide with the doll, which traumazied Asuka.

In the orginal anime, she is voiced by Tiffany Grant (English) and Yuko Miyamura (Japanese). In the Netflix dub, she is voiced by Stephani McKeon.

## Her Good Ranking

### Her Heroic Deeds

* She willingy saved the world from the alien threat known as angels.
* In the End of Evangelion movie, She tried to defend NERVE headquarters from SEELE, who tried to kill everyone inside in order to activate Human Instrumentality.
	+ While at that she fought against the mass produce Eva units, who were created by SEELE to destroy the facility.
* Forgave Shinji despite the fact that he had sexually assaulted her while unconscious and attempted to strangle him to death by offering him emotional compassion after he had been broken by everything he went through.
* Compared to Shinji, Rei and Kaworu, she lacks the intensely morally heinous actions that they took that made the former two Inconsistently Heinous when non-villains were allowed, and which the latter one still is.

### Why She Doesn't Stand Out?

* She fails the admirable standards when compared to Shinji Ikari, who achieved more acts of heroism within the series, and her deeds are standard in nature.
* Asuka is too wrathful as she tends to have some outbursts throughout the series and sometimes antagonize some characters mainly Shinji and Rei. With Rei, she complains about her emotionless behavior and could not understand her as a person and with Shinji, she has tendencies of bullying him at the beginning of the series. Though she was able build a friendship with him than she did with Rei.
* She has not done anything to help herself stand out compared to Shinji and Rei. This is due to the fact she was introduce later in the anime and was in life support for a considerable period due for attempting suicide.

## External Links

* Asuka Langley Sohryu on the Evangelion Wiki
* Asuka Langley Sohryu on the Heroes Wiki