The robots' designer, @paulreinwand, pulled on all kinds of sources to nail down that design, but Evangelion is definitely in the mix! Narratively Brendan and I had always planned for Clark to fight robots in the pilot, partly as a nod to Fleisher's Mechanical Monsters. https://t.co/HPQVHPFhmE pic.twitter.com/TGGgz1QOly

— jake_wyatt.fdx (@jakewyattriot) July 9, 2023