... no. That sort of taunt only works if they have actual morals. These armed soldiers all answer to Gendo, and act as his eyes, ears, and fists.
There's a difference between being amoral and ruthless; and being stereotypical Saturday morning cartoon villains.
They know the kid with the WMD disobeyed orders. The fact this previous hero decided he could go off-ranch and have an attitude about it would make it all the more contemptible.
A difference you have yet to fully grasp. Pick up some books on how the NKVD ran or The Gulag Archipelago, you'll learn a few things. Like how that 'he went against the revolution' really is all the justification needed for common men to inflict the harshest cruelties on men, women, and children.
Except that we don't have the NKVD, but a security service. Would they beat down Shinji if it brought them anything? Probably. But it doesn't bring them anything, and they're actually professionals.
What part of
did you not understand?
They don't answer to her, she has no jurisdiction over them.
That is exactly the part. Gendo has nothing to gain, either. Gendo in particular is "merely" amoral and ruthless, not vindictive.
"Power grows out of the barrel of a gun."
Tell that to Naoko or Ritsuko.
And they have more guns than she does.
He also has nothing to lose, and if Gendo doesn't give a shit after all worse case is that Gendo has Shinji shot for you know utterly proving that Shinji 'cant' fallow orders, unlike last time Shinji really didn't need to get involved in the first place.
And look at that, Ritsuko ended up unbeaten! Gendo just wants to shove Shinji away because he endangered Yui. That's all. You know I really dislike fics who basically make Gendo do things "for the evulz". It's cliche and ridiculous, and I'm happy that this is not happening here. Gendo is an amoral bastard that would do everything to gain his goals, including mass murder and torture if it helps him. But he doesn't kick puppies for the hell of it. That's not how evil works.
The military could do shit all against EVAs. You'd have to wait for the MP series to finish. As for "internal guns", well, you couldn't start a coup d'etat without planning, that much at least is true.
Scoring one point when your opponent's up by three does not mean you win the basketball game.
Of course not. And Gendo does have a reason to be vindictive to Shinji here: He put Yui in harms way, against his orders. Misato made that pretty explicit.
Until their batteries run out, or they up the LCL pressure to knock the pilots out.
Someone hasn't seen the way he disposed of Naoko.
You'd have a point, if this exact same sequence of events hadn't happened in episode 19: Shinji disobeyed Gendo and put Unit-01 at risk. He got yanked out and Gendo had him arrested and thrown into the brig.
Like the one about Ritsuko you simply dismissed with a whimsical phrase?
The latter doesn't even work anymore, and could in any case only be done from the command centre. And the former isn't a concern as long as the Geofront is held.
Without beatings, one might add.
I'm not the one who's tunnel-visioning and refusing to give any ground.
Which NERV can't. At all.
And no teenage attitude from Shinji either.
Yeah. I'm just letting this stand here.
They're too professional to be provoked by teenage attitude. Of course your previous argument was all about Gendo ordering a beatup. So what now, he's ordering a beatup because Shinji gave lip to the security agents? Alrighty then...
ummm these are the same people who you know couldn't find or even keep track of Shinji more then once in canon who utterly put up no resistance to the Japanese forces and who are spotted by anyone bothering to pay attention to their surroundings makes me doubt that they are professional to the point of letting a teenager act like a highminded asshole after disobeying orders when the fate of the world is at state and you know never acted like a highminded asshole beforehand in addition to the whole wont get punished for it because Gendo really wont care to let anyone see Shinji anyway after their 'discussion'. Like the only reason I foresee shinji not getting killed is cause the author of the story wouldn't write it up.
You're rifle-butting Shinji Ikari.
All the times prisoners were in fact not beaten up in canon? And you say I need to argue with incidents in the show. Meanwhile you pull "they would totally beat Shinji up!" from your ass.
So now you're shifting goalposts! Great!
