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Chairman Keel Lorenz (キール・ローレンツ, Kīru Rōrentsu?) is a fictional character from the Neon Genesis Evangelion franchise. He is the enigmatic leader of the mysterious SEELE organization.

Profile[]

Little is known of the SEELE organization, and even less is known about its leader, Chairman Keel, who also serves as the head of the Human Instrumentality Committee, the five-man subgroup of SEELE which directly oversees NERV's Evangelion project (as well as their secret Human Instrumentality Project), and functions by working through the UN, secretly pulling the strings of world governments.

What is known for certain is that Keel was active within SEELE's machinations before Second Impact, and was involved, along with Gendo, in the United Nations' cover-up of the true nature of the disaster involving Adam and the Katsuragi Expedition. Through SEELE, Keel secretly backed Gehirn and later its successor organization, NERV in their creation of the Evangelion project.

At some point between Second Impact and 2015, most of Keel's body, below the neck, was replaced with cybernetic implants. Although he uses a visor to see, Keel still possesses eyes (as indicated by production drawings). When the organic components of his body became LCL, the remaining mechanical components were left behind, and appear to include most of his spinal column.

Neon Genesis Evangelion manga[]

In the Neon Genesis Evangelion manga, Yoshiyuki Sadamoto depicts SEELE as having been around for centuries.

Voice Actors[]

  • Japanese: Mugihito
  • English: Rick PeeplesWP[NGE], Tom BookerWP[D&R][EoE], D. C. DouglasWP (Neflix)
  • French:
  • Italian:
  • Portuguese (Brazil): Luiz Laffey (Locomotion), Antônio Moreno (Animax), César Emilio (Netflix)
  • Russian:
  • Spanish (Spain):
  • Spanish (Latin America):
  • Catalan:
  • German: Horst Lampe
  • Hindi:
  • Korean:
  • Chinese (Simplified):
  • Chinese (Traditional):

Trivia[]

  • Keel was named after both KeelWP, the ship part and the Austrian biologist Konrad LorenzWP. In the Neon Genesis Evangelion Proposal, his name was actually going to be "Konrad Lorenz". Lorenz is best known for his work in the field of animals psychology.[1]
  • Lorenz's first name, "Keel", is actually spelled incorrectly. It should be "Kiel", as "Keel", in German. The word "Kiel" however is pronounced almost exactly like its English counterpart. However, due to the proliferation of "Keel" in canonical materials, this spelling is used. The German word "Kiel" means "keel" in English and is also the name of the capital city of the German Federal State of Schleswig-HolsteinWP.
  • Keel's age is unknown, although he appears to be no more than in his seventies in the Second Impact coverup photograph. He has visibly aged in the subsequent 15 years, but it's uncertain if the reception of extensive cybernetic implants has prevented him from aging as much as he otherwise would have. The Proposal provides Keel's (or Konrad's, rather) age as 67, although there is no way to know if this carried through to the final show.

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