Asuka Langley Sohryu

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## Base Breaking Character

### Powers/Skills

Skilled EVA pilot
Fighting
High intelligence
Minor tactical skills

### Family

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

### Allies

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

### Enemies

SEELE
Angels

### Goals

Protect the world from the threat of the angels
Save the world (all succeeded)

### Why Do Some People Hate The Character?

Some find her personality and treatment of Shinji annoying
They felt her tragic backstory does not excuse her overall behavior to the other characters

### Why Do Some People Love The Character?

Many find her personality fun and cute
Having a deeply tragic backstory, which explains much of her struggles

### Type of Base Breaking Character

Tragic Wrathful Hero

**Asuka Langley Sohryu** is one of the main protagonist of *Neon Genesis Evangelion* franchise. She marks her first appearance in the episode "Asuka Strikes" and is the pilot of Evangelion Unit-02. She protects the world from the alien threat known as angels with the help of Shinji Ikari and Rei Ayanami. Like Shinji, she is a mentally-ill child with issues relating to socializing with people and having inner struggles with her self. Asuka is incredibly insecure on herself and her anguish caused her to develop the fake outgoing personality as a way to hide her insecurities.

For English dub, she is voiced by Tiffany Grant and in the Japanese dub, she voiced by Yuko Miyamura. In Netflix dub, it's Stephani McKeon.

## What Makes Her a Base-Breaking Character?

### Why Do People Like Her?

* Many like her outgoing and confident personality as they find it cute.
* Asuka has a cute design from her school uniform to plug suit.
* Like Shinji, she has a deeply tragic backstory where her mother went through an accident from an experiment relating to Evangelion Unit-02. It effected her mind so drastically she develop an mental-illness and confuse her daughter for one of her dolls, leading Asuka to be neglected and receiving less attention from her mother. Her mother later commited suicide with the doll with Asuka witnessing it. These events lead Asuka to develop her current insecurities and inferiority complex.
* Many find her relationship with Shinji funny and interesting to the point of shipping her with him due to their many similarities and struggles.
* She is very popular in both Western and Japanese audiences to the point of being viewed as the biggest repressentive of the Tsundere archetype in popular media.

### Why Do People Dislike Her?

* Despite her deeply tragic background, many of her detractors feel that it does not excuse her overall arrogant behavior in the series including how she treats Rei and Shinji.
* Some of her detractors find her personality annoying due to the outburst and complaining she tends to have.
* Asuka is a victim of shipping wars as she has some detractors, who prefer Shinji to be with Rei or Kaworu.
	+ She is also a victim of waifu wars as well since many constantly fight over if Asuka or Rei is a better waifu. This earn her some detractors, who view her in such a light.

## External Links

* Asuka Langley Sohryu on the Evangelion Wiki
* Asuka Langley Sohryu on the Hero Wiki
* Asuka Langley Sohryu on the Heroic Benchmark Wiki