He is also more verbally abusive towards Shinji and shows no regrets for mistreating him as he does in the anime, and in his last scene with his son he gives a him a combined Breaking Speech and Motive Rant that paints him as a borderline Straw Nihilist with a god complex, during which he admits up front that he outright hates Shinji for taking Yui's attention and affection.
Adaptational Jerkass: In the manga, Gendo's already-sparse Pet the Dog moments towards Shinji are completely absent. He orders Unit-00's Angel-infected arm explosively amputated while her neural synch was still turned on, and his usage of her as a ephemeral vessel for Adam and Lilith at End of Evangelion implies he was willing to sacrifice her as a means to an end. This becomes even more evident as time goes on. It is implied that Gendo in some ways sees her as a daughter, but he clearly doesn't want to get too emotionally attached to her and as such he is highly negligent towards her most of the time and evidently goes to some lenghts to keep her out of sight and mind. In the manga, he is more openly abusive, both verbally and emotionally. Furthermore, it's implied that his parents were little better, which could explain why he was an emotional mess and why he took his wife's last name in marriage. In a bit of cold Irony, he tried to distance himself from Shinji out of fear of hurting him and his final words before death was apologizing to Shinji for hurting him. He's emotionally neglectful and abusive to Shinji, being absent for most of his life and the times they do interact, it's cold and aloof, leaving Shinji wanting to please his dad while being mad at him. His villainous traits are more emphasized, while the glimpses behind his harsh façade are downplayed, to the point where his character has a hint of madness and willful cruelty to it, rather than emotional distance and calculating pragmatism, especially when it comes to his ultimate goal, which, as it turns out, is not quite the same as in the anime. Gendo's depiction in the manga differs somewhat from the original. What the story doesn't reveal until End of Evangelion is just how similar Gendo and Shinji really are under all their differences. He is Shinji's twisted and sinister mirror image, and it's obvious that on some level there is an Oedipal conflict taking place. He is merciless where Shinji is kind, confident where Shinji is fearful, calculating where Shinji is hopelessly naive. Indeed, Gendō and Shinji spend as much time opposing each other as they do fighting the Angels. Gendo's abandonment of Shinji shortly after Yui's death is one of the key factors behind Shinji's emotional problems, and over the course of the series, Gendo does little to bridge that gap. 
He also has a brief and thin friendship with Rei, which is a sore point with Ritsuko he shows more concern for Rei than he does for his actual son, but to Ritsuko (and the audience) the whole thing seems to have some unpleasant.
After Yui's death, he took Naoko Akagi as a lover, then her daughter Ritsuko after her death, although in both cases it's revealed that these trysts were solely to use them for their knowledge. First, Yui fell in love with him, and he with Yui.
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Everything that he does in the series is just step after step toward seeing this plan to completion.įor some, Gendō appears to be quite the ladies' man. After Yui's contact experiment with Unit 01, Gendo became focused on a plan to reunite himself and Yui through a modified version of SEELE's plans for Third Impact that would involve the Angel Adam and the Evangelion which now held Yui's soul. In college, he met and fell in love with Yui Ikari while it's possible that he had ulterior motives for approaching her initially, his love for her was genuine, so much so that he took her surname when they married. Yet, for all of this, the series gradually makes clear that Gendo's primary motivation for all of his bastardry is, in fact, love.
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