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Shamshel is a supporting antagonist in the Evangelion franchise. It first appears in the third episode of the television anime series Neon Genesis Evangelion.

Biography[]

Original Canon[]

Shamshel made its appearance known as it passed over the ocean and makes landfall at Odawara before heading for Tokyo-3, easily passing through all defensive emplacements simply by having them strike its AT-Field alone and not retaliate against any of their attacks. This forces NERV to sent Shinji with his Eva, Unit-01, to intercept it. Shinji tries to shoot Shamshel with his Pallet Rifle, but much to Misato's frustration, he fails to neutralize its AT Field and only ends up obscuring the target with smoke. Just as he cease-firing, Shamshel immediately disarmed the Eva's Pallet Rifle by slicing both the weapon and the nearby building in two like a katana.

Because Shinji was overwhelmed by fear, which prevented him from taking another deployed gun and chooses to flee instead, the Angel immediately chased his Eva while slicing through anything that stood in its way. It managed to strike the Eva and sliced its power cable off, resulting in it deactivating in 5 minutes due to the loss of the power cable causing it to activate the emergency battery. Even worse, it tossed the Eva high into the air, right into a nearby mountainside where Kensuke and Toji are hiding to watch the battle. The Angel tries to deliver a final blow, but is stopped by Shinji by having his Eva grab its tentacle before allowing both boys to enter the cockpit plug and tossing Shamshel aside.

The Angel quickly recovers and prepares for a counterattack just as the Eva recklessly goes for it with a progressive knife brandished on the right hand. Shamshel tries to stop its reckless opponent by stabbing the Eva in the abdomen, only for it to unexpectedly have its core impaled, cracking it. The process ultimately resulting its death almost at the same time the Eva ran out of power. Shamshel's body was left behind as an almost fully intact specimen of an Angel.

Rebuild Canon[]

Aside from its re-designation to Fifth Angel, Shamshel is left unchanged in the first installment of Rebuild of Evangelion. However, instead of falling dead after being stabbed by Evangelion Unit-01 in the core, Shamshel explodes into rain of blood and leaves nothing but its whips stuck inside of Unit-01's stomach.

Personality[]

Shamshel doesn't have much personality like Sachiel before it due to it mostly focusing on searching for Lilith, the Second Angel within GeoFront. Even while being barraged by Tokyo-3's defensive emplacements, Shamshel simply ignored them and used its AT Field force field to protect itself. In spite of this, Shamshel would engage any lifeform that shared an identical essence with the Angels, but is not Lilith (namely Evangelions) in a more serious manner.

Compared to Sachiel however, Shamshel's approach when confronting Angel-based entities like Evangelion was more aggressive, like when it mercilessly whipped Shinji's Evangelion Unit 01 after the latter wasted its gun's ammo. The Angel also sliced nearby buildings into pieces that stood between it and Unit 01. It was also reckless; it overestimates Unit 01's more aggressive attempt to kill it with a Progressive Knife where it counteracted by trying to spear the Eva's abdomen, but forgot to increase the density of it's AT Field, which resulting in its demise due to its core being impaled.

Appearance[]

In appearance, Shamshel resembles a cephalopod-like creature around Evangelion-sized and normally seen in horizontally oriented posture whenever not engaged in any fight. When it goes for battle, it changed it's posture to a vertically oriented "combat mode" and it's arms transformed into a pair of energy-imbued whip tentacles which can stab, slice and dice virtually anything like katanas.

Its skin is mostly purple with some pink sections underneath its large "head". The Angel appears to have two false eye spots on the top of its head composed of an inner black circle and outer yellow ring, but is obviously not able to see through them. Also, the Angel's core is located on its torso just underneath its head with eight small, insect-like legs situated just below it.

Navigation[]

           Neon Genesis Evangelion Logo Villains

SEELE
Keel Lorenz | Kaworu Nagisa

NERV
Gendo Ikari | Kozo Fuyutsuki

Angels
Adam | Lilith | Sachiel | Shamshel | Ramiel | Gaghiel | Israfel | Sandalphon | Matarael | Sahaquiel | Ireul | Leliel | Bardiel | Zeruel | Arael | Armisael | Tabris

Godzilla vs. Evangelion
Godzilla | King Ghidorah

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