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humanoid · prototype · fiction

Evangelion Unit-01 (Test Type)

Gehirn, Hakone branch (later NERV) · Japan · 1995

Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995)

Piloted biomechanical humanoid grown from an angelic host, held in restraint armour and prone to going berserk without its pilot.

Specifications

1. [1]EvaWiki (EvaGeeks.org) — Evangelion Power Sources · canon · retrieved 2026-08-14“In emergencies, it can switch to an internal battery, with an active life of one minute at full power, and no more than five minutes in the minimal activity gain mode.”

Specifications drift. Each retrieval date is shown so a stale number is visibly stale rather than quietly wrong.