History FanFic / ARSENAL

* DisproportionateRetribution: As utterly unsympathetic and monstrous as Shinji's adversaries have been so far, his retaliations and punishments for them can still seem like this.

* {{Determinator}}: Shinji fights Ramiel after receiving several blows, each the equivalent of a shotgun blast to the chest. He follows this up while still recovering by having a knockdown drag out brawl with Satsuki and essentially surviving on will alone.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Shinji's punishments for his adversaries can easily be seen as this.

* FateWorseThanDeath: [[spoiler:All three of the Black Bunnies are infected with nanomachines that play havoc with their nervous systems; each is then subjected to a particularly nasty punishment:]]

** [[spoiler:Satsuki is brain-damaged, and essentially turned into a dog; she wears a collar, beds down in a basket, is fed out of a bowl, and her only coherent thoughts are about Shinji showing her affection in similar ways that you'd treat a loved pet. Shinji also notes to Gendo that he uses her for sex.]]

* LaserGuidedKarma: Shinji's punishments for [[spoiler:the Black Bunnies]].

** Gendo, from authorizing the creation of the nanomachines to taking advantage of the Black Bunnies. Oh and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking he's a jerk too]].

** Aoi rounds us out with her MotiveRant, specifically [[spoiler:she got off sexually on the destruction wrought by Second Impact.]]

* DisproportionateRetribution: Shinji's punishments for his adversaries can easily be seen as this.

* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler:Gendo is shot repeatedly and left bedridden at the end of the coup. Later on, before he is moved to Terminal Dogma to remove all sense of time from him, Shinji returns and beats his invalid father with a hammer, shattering his jaw and rendering him incapable of speech.]] Also, arguably, [[spoiler:Satsuki's fate; she's a prisoner to her own body and will never be free again]].

* {{Determinator}}: Shinji fights Ramiel after receiving several blows each the equivalent of a shotgun blast to the chest. He follows this up while still recovering by having a knockdown drag out brawl with Satsuki and essentially surviving on will alone.

* FateWorseThanDeath:
** [[spoiler:Aoi's brain is hi-jacked by nanomachines which remove all her senses but sight and hearing. Rendered permanently numb, she is chained to a bench in a public area, where the citizens of Tokyo-3 have taken to marking her with graffiti in [[ColdBloodedTorture multiple ways]], as well as using her as a human toilet. It should be noted that she is restrained in a way that renders her [[ICannotSelfTerminate unable to commit suicide]] to escape.]]
** [[spoiler:Satsuki's fate, while seemingly the most benign of the punishments thanks to the [[FridgeHorror revelation]] that she is kept in minimal clothing and treated solely as a sex object. She will spend the rest of her life living in abject misery until Shinji comes around to make her feel good again. And, thanks to the same nanomachines as Aoi and Kaede, she can never actually raise a single protest, the lightest poke delivering a wave of crippling pleasure.]]
* ForTheEvulz: Shinji invokes this occasionally. He's been known to carry a baseball bat to big fight scenes just so he can beat someone to death with it, and he's keeping [[spoiler: Satsuki]] as his sex slave essentially ''because he can''.

* KickTheSonOfABitch: Shinji's punishment to Gendo is twelve shades of this. The Black Bunnies also qualify; they ''are'' {{Complete Monster}}s, so there is no debate.

* KickTheSonOfABitch: Shinji's punishment to Gendo is twelve shades of this. The Black Bunnies also [[YourMilageMayVary may]] qualify; they ''were'' {{Complete Monster}}s, but whether or not their [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel punishment]] was so horrific as to negate that monstrosity on their part is ultimately a matter of [[YourMilageMayVary viewer philosophy]].

* KickTheSonOfABitch: Shinji's punishment to Gendo is twelve shades of this. The Black Bunnies also [[YourMilageMayVary may]] qualify; they ''were'' {{Complete Monster}}s, but whether or not their [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel punishment]] was so horrific as to negate that monstrosity on their part is ultimately a matter of [[ViewersAreMorons viewer philosophy]].

* KickTheSonOfABitch: Shinji's punishment to Gendo is twelve shades of this. The Black Bunnies also [[YourMilageMayVary may]] qualify; they ''were'' {{Complete Monster}}s, but whether or not their [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel punishment]] was so horrific as to negate that monstrosity on their part is ultimately a matter of [[YourMilageMayVary viewer philosophy]].

* KickTheSonOfABitch: Shinji's punishment to Gendo is twelve shades of this. The Black Bunnies also [[YourMilageMayVary may]] qualify; they ''were'' {{Complete Monster}}s, but whether or not their [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel punishment]] was so horrific as to negate that monstrosity on their part is ultimately a matter of [[ViewersAreMorons viewer philosophy]].

[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5565307/1/ARSENAL ARSENAL]] is a Neon Genesis Evangelion fanfiction by the Sage of Toads and hosted by AndrewJoshuaTalon on fanfiction.net that is currently in progress.

** Shinji has probably crossed this, but YourMileageMayVary. Though it's worth noting he already views himself beyond redemption before he's done anything truly morally objectionable.

* ImprobableWeaponUser: Ai puts a belt sander and reciprocating saw among other tools to good use in Chapters 10 and 11.

* ImprobableWeaponUser: Ai gleefully puts a belt sander and reciprocating saw among other tools to good use in Chapters 10 and 11.

!!'''This fanfic contains examples of:'''

*AcceptableTargets: Gendo definitely. Possibly the Black Bunnies.
*AndIMustScream: [[spoiler: Gendo is shot repeatedly and left bedridden at the end of the coup. Later on, before he is moved to Terminal Dogma to remove all sense of time from him, Shinji returns and beats his invalid father with a hammer, shattering his jaw and rendering him incapable of speech ]]
*AntiHero: Shinji, an indisputable [[SlidingScaleOfAntiHeroes Type-V]].
*AxCrazy: Shinji's first official act in the story is to bash a pay phone in for failing to connect him to his father. Followed swiftly by him holding NERV hostage with a suitcase nuke. And that's just the beginning.
*BeyondTheImpossible: Operation Ride the Lightning, that is all.
*BigDamnVillains: Ramiel's arrival at the very end of Chapter 8 has been hailed as this.
*TheChessmaster: Shinji constantly makes references to playing chess, and lives up to it by predicting everything that happens during the entire Black Bunnies arc. Notable in that none of them are part of his foreknowledge but he's able to recognize every single ploy they attempt to stop him.

*CurbStompBattle: Directly invoked in the fight between Sachiel and Unit-01.
*{{Determinator}}: Shinji fights Ramiel after receiving several blows each the equivalent of a shotgun blast to the chest. He follows this up while still recovering by having a knockdown drag out brawl with Satsuki and essentially surviving on will alone.
*EvenEvilHasStandards: Gendo is disgusted by [[spoiler: Shinji's treatment of Aoi]], and even near-Villain-Protagonist Shinji is disgusted by the stuff Gendo and Seele are responsible for in canon.
*FateWorseThanDeath:
** [[spoiler: Aoi's brain is hi-jacked by nanomachines which remove all her senses but sight and hearing. Rendered permanently numb, she is chained to a bench in a public area, where the citizens of Tokyo-3 have taken to painting graffiti on her, as well as using her as a human toilet. It should be noted that she is restrained in a way that renders her [[ICannotSelfTerminate unable to commit suicide]] to escape]]
** [[spoiler: Satsuki's fate, while seemingly the most benign of the punishments thanks to the [[FridgeHorror revelation]] that she is kept in minimal clothing and treated solely as a sex object. She will spend the rest of her life living in abject misery until Shinji comes around to make her feel good again. And, thanks to the same nanomachines as Aoi and Kaede, she can never actually raise a single protest, the lightest poke delivering a wave of crippling pleasure.]]

*{{Gorn}}: Lots and lots of graphic violence. Special mention goes to Pen-Pen in chapter 11.

*HeWhoFightsMonsters: Shinji's monstrous behavior comes down to fighting people ruthless and efficient beyond measure, meaning he has to be willing to hold nothing back in order to win. He [[YourMilageMayVary arguably]] becomes the monster when he [[spoiler: subjects the Black Bunnies to [[FateWorseThanDeath Fates Worse Than Death]]]] for petty reasons (revenge, getting a new bodyguard, etc), none of which contribute to stopping Third Impact in any way.
*HighOctaneNightmareFuel: Shinji's fever dream at the start of 11, Aoi's FateWorseThanDeath
*ICallItVera: Shinji names all of his weapons. Sterling example: Hiroshima-kun for his suitcase nuke.
*KickTheSonOfABitch: Shinji's punishment to Gendo is twelve shades of this. The Black Bunnies also [[YourMilageMayVary may]] qualify; they ''were'' {{Complete Monster}}s, but whether or not their [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel punishment]] was so horrific as to negate that monstrosity on their part is ultimately a matter of [[ViewersAreMorons viewer philosophy]].
*LaserGuidedAmnesia: [[spoiler: The ultimate fate of Kaede. The overwhelming pain caused by the nanomachines leaves her in such a state that she refuses to even try and remember what happened before she became a bodyguard for the Suzuharas.]]
*LittleMissBadass: Ai Suzuhara, Touji's sister who avoided injury thanks to the above-mentioned CurbStompBattle.

*MoralEventHorizon:

** Both Satsuki and Kaede gleefully cross over the line at the very start of Chapter 8, when [[spoiler: they slaughter the families of three of Shinji's classmates and have one of them repeatedly raped and tortured]].
** Aoi rounds us out with her MotiveRant, specifically [[spoiler: she got off sexually on the destruction wrought by Second Impact.]]

*MotiveRant: A short one in chapter 11 is given by [[OmnicidalManiac Aoi]]
*NauseaFuel: [[spoiler: A man urinating on Aoi as she begs for death. Notable in that even [[CompleteMonster Gendo]] is disgusted by it.]]
*NightmareFuel: [[spoiler: Satsuki's fate, while tame, crosses this line once you realize that she's a prisoner to her own body and will never be free again.]]
*NightmareFuelStationAttendant: Ai Suzuhara, again, when she is introduced in Chapter 9.
*NumberTwo: Misato is this or TheDragon depending on what side of the Moral Event Horizon Shinji's on.
*OnlySaneMan: Hikari and Maya both qualify as this. Fuyutsuki as well, but he's playing along.
*PayEvilUntoEvil: Cited specifically as the reason for the Black Bunnies' torturous fate.
*RefugeInAudacity: The only reason most will be able to take most of the events as they unfold without screaming in horror is simply because it's too outrageous to believe- ''even in-universe''.
*ShoutOut: Ai is a Warhammer40k fan.

*TakeThat: Some, mostly aimed at [[ShinjiAndWarhammer40K one fanfic in particular]].
*TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Shinji's answer to Aoi's MotiveRant
*WellIntentionedExtremist: Shinji, emphasis on the "extremist" part.
*XanatosGambit: Chapter 8. By Shinji, of course.

*CrazyAwesome: For example, Operation: Ride the Lightning involves [[spoiler: Shinji using the shuttle shield to surf Ramiel's beam]]

*FateWorseThanDeath: [[spoiler: Aoi's brain is hi-jacked by nanomachines which remove all her senses but sight and hearing. Rendered permanently numb, she is chained to a bench in a public area, where the citizens of Tokyo-3 have taken to painting graffiti on her, as well as using her as a human toilet. It should be noted that she is restrained in a way that renders her [[ICannotSelfTerminate unable to commit suicide]] to escape]]

*FetishFuel: Shinji's [[VillainousCrossdresser dressing as a nurse]] can be this for some, in story for Ritsuko
**Stop and contemplate the fates of the Black Bunnies. Satsuki is the ever-willing sex slave, a "pet" if you will. She'll do whatever you want if it means you'll spend a little bit of your time with her and show her some affection. And that's just the tip of it.

*MagnificentBastard: How magnificent you ask? So magnificent he used a cane just so could sneak a tracker into his captivity, knowing that they would take it from him, assuming he needed it to walk.
**And further evidence: Rei Clone Shock Troopers.
* MartyStu: Averted by a hair's breadth. In the space of about two chapters, Shinji puts Gendo in the hospital, conducts a hostile takeover of NERV, wins Misato's loyalty, has Rei virtually eating out of his hand and makes Ritsuko cream her panties and become his willing sex toy. However he does all this while taking RefugeInAudacity and cranking it UpToEleven while crossing ''[[CrossesTheLineTwice numerous]]'' lines via [[HeroicSociopath Heroic Sociopathy]] and generally leaving the reader both awed and disgusted by his tactics. In the meantime, [[OnlySaneMan Maya]] is thoroughly disgusted with him, Gendo isn't completely out of the equation just because he's been hospitalized, and SEELE has their own contingency plans in the works, all of which prevents him from invoking [[BoringInvincibleHero Boring Invincible]] VillainProtagonist.
*MoralEventHorizon: Gendo, from authorizing the creation of the nanomachines to taking advantage of the Black Bunnies. Oh and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking he's a jerk too]].
**Both Satsuki and Kaede gleefully cross over the line at the very start of Chapter 8, when [[spoiler: they slaughter the families of three of Shinji's classmates and have one of them repeatedly raped and tortured]].
**Aoi rounds us out with her MotiveRant, specifically [[spoiler: she got off sexually on the destruction wrought by Second Impact.]]
**Shinji has probably crossed this, but YourMileageMayVary. Though it's worth noting he already views himself beyond redemption before he's done anything truly morally objectionable.

*XanatosGambit: Chapter 8.
**By Shinji of course.

*CompleteMonster: Gendo, and Shinji descends into this territory rapidly.
** The Black Bunnies uniformly qualify.

*EvenEvilHasStandards: Gendo is disgusted by [[spoiler: Shinji's treatment of Aoi]], and even near-Villain-Protagonist Shinji is disgusted by the stuff Gendo and Seele are responsible for in canon. Which one of these fits the trope better [[YourMilageMayVary depends on you]].

*KickTheSonOfABitch: Shinji's punishment to Gendo is twelve shades of this. The Black Bunnies also [[YourMilageMayVary may]] qualify; they ''were'' {{Complete Monster}}s, but whether or not their [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel punishment]] was so horrific as to negate that monstrosity on their part is ultimately a matter of [[ViewerAreMorons viewer philosophy]].

*KickTheSonOfABitch: Shinji's punishment to Gendo is twelve shades of this. The Black Bunnies also [[YourMilageMayVary may]] qualify; they ''were'' {{Complete Monster}}s, but whether or not their [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel punishment]] was so horrific as to negate that monstrosity on their part is ultimately a matter of viewer philosophy.

*KickTheSonOfABitch: Shinji's punishment to Gendo is twelve shades of this. The Black Bunnies qualify, that is all.

*KickTheSonOfABitch: Shinji's punishment to Gendo is twelve shades of this. Whether the Black Bunnies also qualify or not depends on whether you think they deserve their Fates Worse Than Death. ''[[EditWar AND THAT IS ALL THAT WILL BE SAID ON THE MATTER]].''

*RefugeInAudacity: The only reason most will be able to take most of the events as they unfold without screaming in horror is simply because it's too outrageous to believe.

*EvenEvilHasStandards: Gendo is disgusted by [[spoiler: Shinji's treatment of Aoi]]. Consider that statement for a moment.

*KickTheSonOfABitch: Shinji's punishment to Gendo is twelve shades of this. The Black Bunnies especially qualify as this, being built up as having ''even less of a FreudianExcuse for their atrocities than Gendo''.

*KickTheSonOfABitch: Shinji's punishment to Gendo is twelve shades of this. The Black Bunnies especially qualify as this.

*KickTheSonOfABitch: Shinji's punishment to Gendo is twelve shades of this. The Black Bunnies may also qualify, but [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil the nature]] and [[FateWorseThanDeath the severity]] of the kick makes them [[YourMileageMayVary a much more subjective case.]]

*AcceptableTargets: Gendo definitely. Possibly the Black Bunnies.

*KickTheSonOfABitch: Shinji's punishments to Gendo and his Contingency are twelve shades of this.