History Fanfic / NeonExodusEvangelion

* RecapEpisode: Episode 3:0, ''The Big Show''. The narration by the [=SportsCenter=] hosts turns this into a CrowningMomentOfFunny.

* AscendedFanboy: Kensuke, who does not pilot an Evangelion, but instead pilots [[spoiler: Jet Alone]].

* ShownTheirWork: In the space episode, the Apollo 13 book is referenced. SpaceDoesNotWorkThatWay is thus massively averted.

* SmiteMeOhMightySmiter

* RunningGag: The EPU "Taco Night" gag makes a mandatory appearance; a repeated riff on ''NGE'''s "unfamiliar ceiling" line

* ''AhMyGoddess''

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* ''{{WipeOut}}''

* FanficChopSuey: Large amounts of it.
* FridgeBrilliance: Rei, Ichi, San, and so forth for the Ayanami clones.
** The point/mark tactical system used by the Evangelions is a weird departure from how the show handles it... until it is revealed that NERV is descended partially or wholly from X-Com. Spotter/Sniper is one of the major tactics advocated by veteran players of ''X-Com: Enemy Unknown''.

* CouncilOfAngels: Straight from InNomine.

* OurAngelsAreDifferent: The Angels NERV fights are fairly standard for ''NGE''; however, later ones are more like angels from ''InNomine''.

* ''InNomine''

* AdaptationDecay or AdaptationDistillation: YourMileageMayVary, oh so very much.

** MIB agent '''J'''im Edwards wields "a deceptively tiny concussion blaster", which is a reference to the Noisy Cricket from Film/MenInBlack.

* ''MenInBlack''

** MIB agent '''J'''im Edwards wields "a deceptively tiny concussion blaster", which is a reference to the Noisy Cricket from MenInBlack.

* ''DoctorWho''

* YourMilageMayVary: It also tends to go in the opposite direction that your opinion on ''NeonGenesisEvangelion'' goes. If you think the latter is anime's answer to ''CitizenKane'', you will hate this. If on the other hand you regard it as overrated self-important pretentious garbage and HideakiAnno disappearing down his own asshole, you will think this is the best thing ever.

->''"But what the hell d'you need -me- for?" [DJ Croft] asked, running a hand over his thick black thatch of hair. "I mean, granted, I -am- the world's most handsome and sophisticated fourteen-year-old boy, but what good is that to NERV?"''

* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler:Natlateth]] tries this ''twice''. [[spoiler:And [{EpicFail fails epically]] both times.]]

* ActionMom (Lara Croft)
* AdaptationDecay or AdaptationDistillation (YourMileageMayVary, oh so very much)
* AIIsACrapshoot (SHODAN, Durandal)
* AllThereInTheManual (The Terminals, basically blog posts about the progress of ''Apotheosis Now'', contain plot points that might be missed by just reading the fic itself. Also, a number of revelations are made on the Eyrie forum.)
* AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs (SEELE's invasion forces NERV to move from Worcester-3 to Halifax.)
* AnimatedActors (Several of the "Bonus Theatre" segments purport to show the reader what goes on "backstage" at the EPU studios; plus there's at least one "interview" with a "performer".)
* AndIMustScream ([[spoiler: Gendo was fully aware of all the dickish things his demon handlers made him do while he was under their control.]])
* ArcWords ("I have been Roland, Beowulf, Achilles, Gilgamesh." Later expands into an IHaveManyNames BadassBoast.)
* {{Area 51}} (given a throwaway mention as an {{X-COM}} base they are forced to abandon)
* ArmCannon (on [[spoiler:the upgraded Jet Alone]])
* ArtificialHuman (Jon Ellison; Rei Ayanami [[spoiler:is thought to be one but is really something quite different]]; their clones)
* AscendedFanboy (Kensuke, who does not pilot an Evangelion, but instead pilots [[spoiler: Jet Alone]])
* AuthorAvatar (Inverted with John Trussell, whose avatar shows up in the series before he became a co-author.)

* BadassBoast (DJ's speech in his last moments on screen in the last episode of season three)
* {{BFG}} (the Positron Cannon; Zashchitnik's antimatter beams; and on a more personal scale, the Blaster Launcher from X-COM)
* BookDumb (DJ is not very good at algebra or computer programming.)
* BrainwashedAndCrazy ([[spoiler:Jon Ellison]])
* ButtMonkey (Poor Jon Ellison.)
* ChandlersLaw (Invoked in 3:4, and mentioned by name in Gryphon's annotations for that chapter.)
* CharacterDevelopment (Croft getting a dose of this around the Leliel fight boots him out of MartyStu status and kicks off the series [[GrowingTheBeard growing its beard]])
* ChekhovsBoomerang (the Positron Cannon gets used again in The Motion Picture)

* CouncilOfAngels (Straight from InNomine.)
* DefectorFromDecadence ([[spoiler:San Ayanami]])

* DissonantSerenity ("[[spoiler:Shinji]]. You were actually ''listening''. I'm... I'm proud of you.")
* DoingInTheWizard (Followed by DoingInTheScientist, regarding the origins of [[spoiler:the Angels, and later the X-Com aliens]].)
* DomedHometown (San Francisco is described as having a dome over it.)
* DoomedHometown (Worcester-3)
* DrivenToSuicide ([[spoiler:Ritsuko, though DJ manages to stop her.]])
* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt (Subverted; believed to be the goal of the Angels, but is actually the goal of NERV/SEELE.)
* FanficChopSuey (large amounts of it)
* FridgeBrilliance (Rei, Ichi, San, and so forth for the Ayanami clones.)
** The point/mark tactical system used by the Evangelions is a weird departure from how the show handles it...until it is revealed that NERV is descended partially or wholly from X-Com. Spotter/Sniper is one of the major tactics advocated by veteran players of ''X-Com: Enemy Unknown''.
* FunWithAcronyms (the [[{{MIB}} Military Intelligence Bureau]])
* GreenRocks (Elerium.)
* TheGreys ([[spoiler:They are revealed to actually be minor demons.]])
* HalfHumanHybrid (The {{Artificial Human}}s are revealed to be these; also, [[spoiler:Shinji]].)
* {{Hatedom}} (With a rather large member count, much to the exasperation of the fic's legitimate fans)
* HateFic (Created in response to Gryphon's disgust with the "pointless nihilism" of ''NeonGenesisEvangelion'')
* HeelFaceTurn: ([[spoiler: GENDO friggen GENDO, after he was revealed to have spent the entire series up to that point, and over a decade before, under [[strike:Ethereal]] demonic mind control.]])
* HeroicSacrifice ([[spoiler:Kaori Yamashita, near the end of ''Apotheosis Now''. Also DJ, to a lesser extent, in the final episode of the third season, allowing himself to be left behind so that everyone else can escape; [[IGotBetter he gets better]], though.]])
* HilariousOuttakes (Seen in the Bonus Theater.)
* HumanPopsicle (the Jon and Rei clones, [[spoiler:the real Ryoji Kaji and apparently Fox Mulder]] are stored this way)
* HumongousMecha (the Evangelions, Jet Alone, Zashchitnik, [[spoiler:the Archangelions]])
* IHaveManyNames ("I have been Roland, Beowulf, Achilles, Gilgamesh. I have been called a hundred names and will be called a thousand more before the world goes dim and cold."}
* IKnowMortalKombat (Ken Alda)
* KillSat (Sahaquiel, and later, [[spoiler:Babylon-2]].)
* TheLegionsOfHell (They make their appearance at the end of the Motion Picture.)
* LockAndLoad (Before raiding a SEELE installation, DJ tosses Shinji a pistol and is a little surprised to see Shinji do the full badass guncheck routine.)

* MetaFic (Some of the Bonus Theatre segments)
* {{MIB}}s (Both X-COM and SEELE have them)
* MindlinkMates (Rei and Jon have this.)
* MissingMom (Subverted: [[TombRaider Lara Croft]] was only trapped off-screen for the first few episodes.)
* TheMole ([[spoiler:Agent Wasdin and Tycho]]; on the other side, Derek Bacon)

* NoOneGetsLeftBehind ([[spoiler:Why the Angels are ''really'' attacking Worcester-3 -- to rescue the comatose Lucifer from the (unwitting) agents of Hell and complete his Redemption]])
* NuclearWeaponsTaboo (Averted. According to WordOfGod, N2 mines are "next-generation nuclear" weapons, not "non-nuclear" ones. Also, Zashchitnik carries a nuclear cruise missile.)
* {{Omake}} (Bonus Theatre segments. ''[[http://www.eyrie-productions.com/Forum/dcboard.cgi?az=read_count&om=210&forum=DCForumID5&viewmode=threaded All Those Stars]]''. Plus, arguably, the ''NXE'' "apologia", ''[[http://www.eyrie-productions.com/NXE/TMP/encounter.txt Encounter at Shamrock House]]'')
* OurAngelsAreDifferent (The Angels NERV fights are fairly standard for ''NGE''; however, later ones are more like angels from ''InNomine''.)
* OverNineThousand (Averted; the highest synch ratio is 100%.)
* ParodySue (Claimed for DJ)
** ParodyRetcon (What most people suspect the above is)
* {{Phobia}} (DJ Croft is claustrophobic, This comes back to bite him in his battle against Leliel.)
* PsychicNosebleed ([[spoiler:Gendo Ikari]] gets one of these when [[spoiler:he's]] trying to shake off alien mind control.)
* RealPersonFic (Jeff "[=YaK=]" Minter, the creator of {{Tempest}}, plays an unexpectedly large role. Also, the late Derek Bacon, a college friend of the authors, appears in the last episode of season three and plays a large role in ''Apotheosis Now'')
* RecapEpisode (Episode 3:0, ''The Big Show''. The narration by the [=SportsCenter=] hosts turns this into a CrowningMomentOfFunny.)
* {{Reincarnation}} (DJ turns out to be the reincarnation of [[spoiler:Longinus]].)
* RunningGag (The EPU "Taco Night" gag makes a mandatory appearance; a repeated riff on ''NGE'''s "unfamiliar ceiling" line)
* [[spoiler:SatanIsGood]] ([[spoiler:Lucifer's and Moloch's attempt to repent starts everything off.]])
* SequelSeries (''[[http://www.eyrie-productions.com/Forum/dcboard.cgi?az=read_count&om=202&forum=DCForumID5&viewmode=threaded Neon Generation: Exodus 2035]]'', a teaser for which was posted in the EPU forums in late 2005. Gryphon didn't promise it would be soon, but did promise it would appear ''someday''.)
* SeriesContinuityError ([[spoiler:Although early in the third "season" Misato was completely briefed on what's actually going on, complete with demons running NERV and Rei being a genuine angel right out of Heaven, she seems to have forgotten this entirely in a later episode where Rei and Moloch go to town on a SEELE base and reacts with disbelef when she is told ''again''.]] Acknowledged by WordOfGod.)
* ShownTheirWork (In the space episode, the Apollo 13 book is referenced. SpaceDoesNotWorkThatWay is thus massively averted.)

* TakingYouWithMe ([[spoiler:Natlateth]] tries this ''twice''.)
* ThemeNaming (Rei's clones are named in numerical order: Ichi, Ni, San... ("rei"="zero", "ichi"="one" and so on); NERV Security personnel are often named for Red Sox pitchers; similarly, SEELE security personnel are named after ice hockey players.)
* TheyMightBeGiants (In addition to Gryphon and Truss's out-of-story observation that Shigeru and Aoba look like the guys in the band, there is a moment in 2:2 when Rei quotes a line from "Birdhouse in Your Soul".)
* TheUndead (The first two [=EVAs=] are [[spoiler:the corpses of Moloch and Lucifer. Except Lucifer is NotQuiteDead...]])
* VillainousBreakdown and VillainDecay (These go hand in hand for [[spoiler:Natlateth]] at the end of the motion picture)
* VillainWithGoodPublicity (SEELE has this for about half the civilized world.)
* YouShallNotPass (DJ does this at the end of the regular series.)
* YourMilageMayVary: It also tends to go in the opposite direction that your opinion on ''NeonGenesisEvangelion'' goes. If you think the latter is anime's answer to ''CitizenKane'' you will hate this. If on the other hand you regard it as overrated self important pretentious garbage and HideakiAnno disappearing down his own asshole, you will think this is the best thing ever.

* HeroicSacrifice ([[spoiler:Kaori Yamashita, near the end of ''Apotheosis Now'']])

*** If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck & walks like a duck then chances are what you're looking at is indeed a duck. This fic quacks so hard that [[EvangelionTheGoodLife Isamu Mitsurugi]] [[BeyondTheImpossible got stepped on by his own Eva.]]

* GrowingTheBeard (Those who've read the story the whole way through generally agree that it gets better the more it diverges from the source material. In particular, Croft's MartyStu status gets ripped to shreds during the battle with Leliel, when his claustrophobia kicks in and [[HeroicBSOD reduces him to a quivering wreck]], forcing Rei to jump into the Dirac Sea and bail him out)

* MartyStu (DJ Croft, possibly; Jon Ellison, most likely not.)
** YourMilageMayVary (Opinions on Croft's MartyStu status seem to be split between [[LoveItOrHateIt those who hate the series and those who like it]]. This is ''still'' a hotly-debated issue among Eva fans years after the series ended and bringing the series up in an Eva community is very likely to result in InternetBackdraft)

** Despite accusations that DJ Croft and Jon Ellison "disguised avatars", WordOfGod says no. But that never stopped anyone.

* AuthorAvatar (It's arguable whether DJ Croft and Jon Ellison are these. Inverted with John Trussell, whose avatar shows up in the series before he became a co-author.)
** WordOfGod says no. But that never stopped anyone.

* YourMilageMayVary: It also tends to go in the opposite direction the NeonGenesisEvangelion goes. If you think the latter is anime's answer to CitizenKane you will hate this. If regard it as overrated self important pretentious garbage and HidekiAnno disappearing down his own asshole. You will think this is the best thing ever.

* HateFic (Created in response to Gryphon's disgust with the "pointless nihilism" of ''NeonGenesisEvangelion''