The school that the three main characters of Neon Genesis Evangelion go to seems to be pretty normal, for a world that has been under consistent and sporadic attacks from massive alien belongs known as angels for more than a decade and may well be staring down the barrel of the apocalypse.
That is, until you get deep into the series, and suddenly realize that all of the secondary student characters come from broken families. Specifically, none of them have mothers.
This is significant beyond a certain macabre coincidence. The Eva units, skyscraper sized mechas that are the only human technology capable of defeating angels, can only be piloted by people who were conceived after the appearance of the first angel fifteen years ago. Each unit is powered by an anonymous human soul, which must be in synchrony with its pilot. It is heavily implied that the souls at the heart of each Eva unit belonged to the mother of its pilot.
And so, it can be extrapolated that, rather than a regular school with three extraordinary students, their school is actually just a place for students specifically selected for their suitability as Eva pilots. Should any of the three pilots be killed or deemed too unstable, one of the hapless kids from Tokyo-3 middle school will be chosen to replace them.
Well, except for Rei. They'd just pull another one of her out of the basement.
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