Mari Makinami

Mari has a rather energetic and enigmatic personality, and is generally in a positive mood. She enjoys piloting her Evangelion, Evangelion Provisional Unit-05, and sometimes sings to herself in the entry plug. She is also very friendly, though in combat she is shown to be extremely aggressive.

Affiliation(s) IPEA WILLE Rank/Title Fourth Child Gender: female Age Unknown (14-62?) In addition, Mari is very noble in her fight against the Third Angel, being willing to sacrifice her life to destroy it by self-destructing her Eva. In the end, however, the entry plug ejected seconds before the explosion that would have killed her. In Mari's first engagement with the Third Angel, she used no tactics whatsoever. The fight instead featured her attacking the Angel head-on, chasing it outside of the base and pinning it down before self-destructing. She also appears to be aware of the EVAS' sentient nature to some extent, going so far as to directly addressing them in a compassionate tone and even whispering goodbye to Unit-05 after its destruction. This makes it unlikely that she was the one who sabotaged it, although her being an acquaintance of Ryoji Kaji is suspicious. When the Tenth Angel attacked Tokyo-3 at the end of the film, Mari launched Evangelion Unit-02 with IPEA assistance to engage in battle, intercepting the Angel inside the Geofront while dual-wielding pallet rifles. Unlike Asuka's repeated attempts at damaging the Angel in the series however, Mari quickly gave up on ranged attacks and went into a screaming charge with a GB-012 Evangelion Custom Electrical Discharge Portable Ordinance "Thunder Spear", When the Tenth Angel attacked Tokyo-3 at the end of the film, Mari launched Evangelion Unit-02 with IPEA assistance to engage in battle, intercepting the Angel inside the Geofront while dual-wielding pallet rifles. leaping onto the Angel and firing Unit-02's needle guns in an unsuccessful attempt to penetrate the Angel's A.T. Field with a point-blank attack. In the Funimation English dub, she is quite foul-mouthed, constantly taunting her opponents while piloting.