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>Shinji is portrayed as a kid who cannot grow up (the second half of Rebuild cannot be more on the nose about it), and he keeps being portrayed as such because he's someone who refuses to shoulder responsibilty for his actions.
Well there's the problem; it's "his actions". The movies do attempt to portray Shinji as "in the wrong" by virtue of outcome, not by reason. It's effective for some kinds of people, but entirely ineffective for some. Whichever, it completely breaks down under scrutiny.
The movies very plainly involve powers way beyond Shinji and even the adults, the consequences aren't as much of his actions as much as of theirs. When Shinji decides to "fix" things in 3.0+1.0, that is also entirely unfounded and without reason.
>All the kids from Shinji's class are candidates to become eva pilots, they do not have parents, they all come from the same place. Shinji's refusal to take responsibility is all on him and only him can make the choice to fix himself (which he eventually does in the last movie).
That's info from the TV-series, but running with that, Kensuke still didn't go through any of what Shinji did. He survived and went along with it all.
The problem with Rebuilds is that it remains believable and logical for just two movies, then it breaks down into moron-land where it's all about service and pushing characters the writers like with cool action scenes. It simply doesn't have any moral grounding to pin either Shinji or Kensuke as opposites or even good/bad.
I don't think either are bad in the Rebuilds. Kensuke is just a normie, isn't he?
