like in the anime, ritsuko tries to stop gendo but fails due to the magi system rejecting her command. gendo shoots ritsuko fatally and tries to merge with rei who however, remembering shinji rejects gendo by severing his hand instead of his arm and absorbs adam and merges with lilith on her own. however, instead of rei ripping him in half, ritsuko (who survived the gunshot) is able to shoot him in the throat. he falls to the ground on his knees shortly after. while he is dying, he is visited by yui. gendo asks if this is his punishment for causing shinji so much pain. yui explains that shinji will be the one to decide the future of the world and tells gendo the reason why they met was to bring shinji into the world. yui then explains that she remained inside eva-01 to protect shinji, and that gendo has violated that purpose. gendo realizes he has really never loved shinji and yui asks him to remember the first time he met his son. he then has another vision about the first time he met shinji and the first time he felt love for his son. he dies finally understanding yui's intentions. while all the other people on earth returned to puddles of lcl due to the global anti a.t. field, gendo's corpse alone remained intact as he died.