General Drummond, sir, there’s a committee of chaplains, sir, who insist on seeing you, and they’re very up tight about something, and I know how you feel about chaplains, but this seems to be something special, and I think you ought to see them.”

In Evangelion, Second Impact is prominently seen from the moon. Also, in a reversal of positions, the Sun is shown with the crescent moon under it, and Earth below, during Third Impact.The Wound” - 4 - Another favorite from the collection, but with a weak build up: A businessman is given the opportunity to invest in a new exciting way to extract oil from the planet by using nuclear bombs. He weighs the pros and cons and finally decides that the bombs being used against Mother Earth rather than against other humans is a good thing. What could go wrong? The Blue Water Crystal from Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water is a blue octahedron, although more elongated in shape than Ramiel. Arthur C. Clarke's novel, Childhood's End, which was published in 1953 features a concept similar to Instrumentality. In Childhood's End, a race of devil-like aliens called the Overlords land on Earth and immediately put a stop to all wars, creating a virtual utopia on Earth. Years pass and children start displaying telephathic abilities. The Overlords reveal that their true purpose for arriving at Earth was to prepare humanity for absorbtion into the Overmind, an entity that exists as a hive-mind of consciousnesses from numerous civilizations. As the novel comes to a close, all adults have died off and the telephathic children, all that is left of humanity is absorbed into the Overmind. Twenty minutes later the helicopter settled down into the encampment at Quen-to, and a stony-faced full general faced Captain Kelly and said: A shot that seemingly originates from 2001: A Space Odyssey and is used again in "spiritual predecessor" Ideon and once again in Evangelion, and in many other unrelated shows. However, this might as well be a case of a simple genre trope, since numerous mecha anime feature shots of the Earth from space, usually in their openings.

General Robert L. Robert of the Engineer Corps arrived with secret information that the whole thing was a put-on by the Russians and that the angel was a robot. The Mohawk” - 3 - A story that feels out of place in the collection: A Native Mohawk man decides to meditate on the steps of a Catholic church. The man simply wants to experience being. But a crowd forms around the man and it becomes a spectacle. The church has to decide what to do with the man on their property.In Episode 18, a scene from the Shoujo classic Oniisama E aka Brother Dear Brother is reconstructed almost shot-by-shot: Since Rabbi Bernstein represented the oldest faith that was concerned with angels, the others deferred to him. The Mohawk." Uh-oh... just what is Clyde Lightfeather up to, when he seats himself on the steps of St. Pat's? Although I think this would be a very difficult story to manage nowadays, it still makes an important point about the land on which we latecomers to North America reside.

Fast writes on the flyleaf: "The book is really not about a general who zapped an angel. Rather it is about the general childishness of man, the only form of life that refuses to grow up." Another Gerry Anderson reference: UFO was an early 1970's UK television sci-fi show [10], with UFO being archaically (and now comically) pronounced as " you-foe". According to Evangelion's character designer Yoshiyuki Sadamoto, the characters of Gendo and Fuyutsuki were modeled after UFO's Commander Ed Straker and Colonel Alec Freeman [11].

Get these two mothers the hell out of here, and when you assign a detail to me, I want men, not wet-nosed kids. Then he surveyed the angel, and even he was impressed.