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Though virtually nothing is known about his childhood or young adulthood, there are vague hints that he may have grown up in a traumatic or emotionally straining environment. Gendo Ikari was born as Gendo Rokubungi ( 六分儀, meaning sextant). In the new Rebuild of Evangelion franchise his overall role and actions (at least concerning the first film) have remained consistent. Shortly after, in the surreal sequence Unit 01 is shown grasping Gendo in its hand before decapitating him, showing him reduced to LCL by the anti-AT Field. He was also afraid that his love for Shinji would instead hurt him and therefore distance himself from him. In essence, Yui's dreams and principles were violated to resurrect her. She intended to bring about a brighter future for their son Shinji, whom Gendo has sacrificed in order to bring her back. However, when Rei defies him he realizes that his efforts are in vain and that he ignored the real wishes of Yui. He intended to use Third Impact to become God and create the better future for humanity together with his wife Yui Ikari, whom he intended to rejoin at the conclusion of Instrumentality.
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His last lines in The End of Evangelion reveal his regret and the true motivations for his ruthless behavior. In some ways he's mean, he hardly cares about Shinji." He takes drastic and extreme measures, by fair means or foul, or by hook or by crook, in order to accomplish his own purpose. In other words, he'd do anything to succeed. "Gendo is the type of person who can see & think about the welfare of an organization as a whole. Gendo is a brilliant scientist and politician (the master of puppets in the series) who works diligently for his organization however, he is an extremely callous person and a cold and distant father towards his son, and has no qualms about using and discarding people to achieve his goals: At the start of the series, he is the only person having an effective connection to Rei Ayanami.
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He is the father of the Third Child, Shinji Ikari. In Nerv, Gendo is responsible for the research done on the Evas and the Human Instrumentality Project.