

Also subverted in that Rei has opinions and beliefs, reads and learns a lot, and her sense of right and wrong are strong enough to be noticed and for Ritsuko to be concerned what Rei might do if she knew the truth.
SOULLESS PEOPLE FULL
The other clones, held in a tank full of LCL deep inside NERV headquarters, all have perpetual smiles of mindless, vapid bliss, which makes them that much creepier to behold.

SOULLESS PEOPLE SERIES
While she more or less functions as a human being, she gives off strong Emotionless Girl vibes, and the emotions/feelings that she builds up throughout the series get somewhat reset when she dies and is replaced. One clone, however, had Lilith's soul fused with it as a part of Gendo's plan to be with Yui again, and became Rei Ayanami. These clones are Empty Shells which ended up being a part of the Dummy Plug system. Neon Genesis Evangelion: Gendo Ikari created a series of clones from a combination of the DNA of his beloved wife, Yui, and Lilith, the second Angel.Tragically, the old woman tries to tell him the truth when she learns he's been trying to bring her back to life all these years, but he refuses to believe her his true love was a beautiful young woman, not some ugly old lady. Because she isn't dead, she survived the accident but lost her beauty and was too ashamed to return to him. He doesn't understand why he can't bring her soul back. Eventually he's able to create a new body for her, but it's really just a puppet. There's also an early episode where an alchemist whose true love died when he was a young man has been trying desperately to resurrect her ever since.Tucker, who is at this point irredeemably mad, doesn't even realize he's failed and is last seen playing with the living doll. When he finally obtains one, he successfully makes Nina's new body 'live', but there is no soul to inhabit it and it is a shell without a consciousness. He creates a chimera likeness of Nina and flip-flops between different sides to get his hands on a Philosopher's Stone to re-bind her soul to the created body. Shou Tucker, now nothing more than a wrongly crafted chimera, goes to great length to attempt to resurrect his dead daughter Nina.Unusual in that the anime is generally Lighter and Softer than the novels. She reappears in the final novel, where she is living happily and owns a greenhouse. This is notably different from the original light novels, where Copy Rubia survives, but is regarded as a different person than the Rubia who died. He sets off a magical explosion that levels his mansion and kills them both, to finally bring them Together in Death. At the end, he actually succeeds, but she only comes back as an Empty Shell, possessing barely enough of a mind to beg him to kill her. His goal, as it turns out, is to resurrect his dead girlfriend, who died when one of his experiments went awry. In the first real Arc of Slayers Next, the heroes are fighting against a wizard who is conducting forbidden research into immortality.but this is after she cooked "my sister's favorite foods" for Azmaria, because "you remind me of her." She tells Satella that she isn't her sister, that she's just a soul made to inhabit the body.

In the manga, though, Fiore doth protest too much.
