Gendo Ikari is a coward who ran away from his responsibilities as a father
and abandons his own son, his last remaining link to his wife, in favor
of delusions of wanting his wife by his side again to the point of
making a clone of her with angel DNA and uses a woman who was jealous of
said wife for satisfaction and uses her daughter for the same once the
mother is offed, he covers this up by acting like a strict and orderly
man leading an organization made for the sole purpose of saving the
world. He pretends to be a magnificent bastard who plays all the people
around him like pawns when in reality he's no more than a lying weasel
who has a way with words so that nobody can argue with him nor
comprehend his true nature, thereby only making his emotionally disabled
son even more confused when he either gives rare moments of
complimenting him or just plain doesn't care nor acknowledge that
Shinji's his own flesh and blood. But what really makes Gendo Ikari a
worse character by emotional standards is when he's finally denied his
chance in End of Evangelion. Now that he's lost everything he had of
ever seeing his wife again, he finally confesses that he ran away from
Shinji because he was afraid of hurting him and he didn't know what to
do without Yui by his side to raise Shinji. The kicker here is that if
Gendo got what he wanted at the very end, HE NEVER WOULD HAVE REALIZED
IT. Gendo is an utterly selfish man who never realizes his mistakes
until the last minute. Being so petty, he doesn't deserve the title of
Magnificent Bastard, much less the right to be the Big Bad of the
series.
Could not have said it better myself.
Credit goes to here: http://otakurevolution.com/content/in-defense-of-shinji-ikari
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