To an extent. Eva is all about the psychological impact of dehumanizing mech pilots.
What do you mean with subversion and deconstruction? I read it here a few times, mostly when it came to Worldbuilding
Gabriel Gomez
Carson Perry
Yes, and there is a reason for it too.
This is also what makes it a deconstruction. Unlike most teenage mech pilots, these pilots are fucked up, stupid, and ultimately doomed children - often simply because no one bothered ~ever~ telling them the truth, which is a rarity in mecha shows (here is the truth, go kick ass; ot here is the lie, but they find out the truth anyways and kick ass still).
Brody King
It's a huge question, but is eventually answered.
It's generally implied they're after NERV itself (the organization built into a giant hole under tokyo-3)
Of course, there's been a few discovered elsewhere. But the general feeling behind the angels was that they were strange lifeforms, attacking Tokyo-3 to get underneath it.
But as for a deconstruction, many of the clichés deconstructed may not be as memorable now, such as:
>The absent father who made a giant mech for his son. (Previously it'd be more of a happy event, "oh hey, he's been doing this. It's great to see him again." While in Eva it was about Shinji's abandonment issues.)
>The young boy with the fate of the world on his shoulders. (Shinji's fucked up from it.)
And of course, two of the cliché archetypes intended to be deconstructed, the yandere and the emotionless girl (Asuka and Rei) have instead become their archetypes. (Asuka was meant to be showing how a yandere pushes everyone away, how their attitude doesn't get them the affection they want. While Rei was meant to be freaky and not attractive at all.)
So, Eva was meant to be a deconstruction. I guess if you wanted to be fancy you could liken it to The Merchant of Venice. Meant to be a major eye opener and culturally transgressive. But now it's neither of those.
Hunter Garcia
Let's take the old cliche of a sheet of glass being taken across the street during a car chase.
If the car swerves to avoid it, or if it smashes into it but knocks it flat without putting a scratch on it, then it's a subversion. You expect it to shatter but it doesn't happen.
If the glass shatters, and the shards spray into the face of whoever is driving the car, blinding them, or otherwise causing injury to others, it's deconstructed as it follows through but it shows the potential consequences of smashing into a glass pane at 60mph. Burst tyres are also an example of this.
Joseph Morales
So a deconstruction is basically thinking logically about the situation?
Charles Edwards
Yeah, you take a common cliché or trope, and then go "what would actually happen in the real world."
So as an example in fantasy rpgs:
>Cliché: Orcs are vicious raiders.
>Subversion: Orcs are a highly stratified society who live in peace.
>Deconstruction: Orcs are a nomadic people who raid human cities because their lifestyle gives no opportunity for agriculture.
Logan Miller
William Moore
>2018
>still using tvtropes
Kill yourself
Robert Reyes
Funny how Rei was supposed to show how unsettling the "emotionless girl" archetype was, but instead basically became the inspiration for every emotionless girl waifubait that came after her.
In the words of Miyazaki, "otaku are stupid fucking niggers"
Bentley Cooper
>In the words of Miyazaki, "otaku are stupid fucking niggers"
Did he really say that?