Pacific Rim and Evangelion Similarities

When I saw the trailer for Pacific Rim, I looked at my brother and we both nodded and agreed that it was an Evangelion rip off.

Now that I've seen the movie? My opinion is still the same.

Let me just list off some of the similarities:

• Giant robots controlled through neural connections
• The idea of a sync ratio between the pilot and the robot: (In the case of pacific rim there's also the drift between pilots and how their minds meld into one. Sound similar to the end of eva? yeah.)
• In one of the first scenes with the pilots helmets, you see an orange liquid drain from the suits. LCL anyone?
• The pilots wear tight body suits that have connectors to hook up to the machines better.
• The quiet female character has blue hair (Rei has full blue, Mori has just blue tips)
• The Main character runs away for a period of time before coming back to save the day... after someone scolds them for running away.
• The male and female leads are in love and have a great sync ratio with each other (No flame bait for people who prefer Shinja x Asuka over Shinja x Rei, but come on, Shinji and Rei were more compatable when working together as clearly shown in the episode "Dance like you want to win" similarally, Rally in pacific ocean shares a better connection with Mori over any of the other hotheaded pilots he meets ) 
• There's a big council cutting off the budget to the organization with robots
• Big monsters tear apart the robots in inhuman rage and destroy everything
• monsters that spits acid that melts building http://wiki.evageeks.org/Matarael
• The chainsaw knife that deploys from the machines body and the prog knife from eva
• Fighting giant monsters in close hand to hand combat is more effective than long range weapons.
• Over bearing father figure controlling all the action (Marshall and Gendo)
• The red robot... and the four eyes on one of the other ones.
• The robot standing with no power while it's pilots are at the mercy of the monster in front of it (Asuka/Reis' eva's when fighting http://wiki.evageeks.org/Zeruel, which is killed brutally by the main character when he swoops in to save the day) 
• The hot headed pilot makes a noble sacrifice so the other pilots can go on (asuka in EoE)
• The protaganists machine has a dual core that allows it to operate when the other machines cant. Eva 01 has the s2 organ to do the same, and the Gipsy has a duel nuclear core.
• The main characters both lose their machine
• EoE ends with the ocean and not being able to breathe, so does Pacific Rim. And then, the series ends with clapping, so does Pacific Rim.
• Quirky scientists performing morally unsound experiments regardless of orders. 
• THIS http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCcFTeDdq_Q
• I'm sure there's plenty more. But those are the ones I can remember after seeing it once.