History Fanfic / NobodyDies

* InstantAwesomeJustAddNinja: As of Chapter [[spoiler:60. Played for laughs.]]

* [[FaceFullOfAlienWingWong Face Full Of Angel Wing Wong]]: Aoba just can't catch a break, even in something as innocuous as a PSA about Israfelim population control.

* ForMassiveDamage: ''Invoked'' by Rei.
--> '''Misato:''' ''The enemy is a Giant Crab!''\\
'''Rei:''' ''Hit its weak point for MASSIVE DAMAGE!''\\
'''Misato:''' ''Rei! Get off the damn channel!''

!!This fic contains examples of the following:

->''[[StealthHiBye "Heee~ey"...]]'')

* DateRapeAverted: [[spoiler:Hikari's sister hooks Asuka up with a blind date who turns out to be a total scumbag when he spikes her drink.]] This may be [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome one of the most epic examples of this trope in media]], because not two seconds later as the perp is preparing to leave with his comatose date, [[spoiler:[[BigDamnHeroes Shinji, Hikari, and]] ''[[BigDamnHeroes Gendo]]'' [[BigDamnHeroes sit down at the table with him.]] And they brought '''[[TheMenInBlack friends]]''' with them.]]

** After their respective defeats [[spoiler: Liliel and Sandalphon have openly thrown their lot in with humanity]].

* DefrostingIceQueen: When Shinji met Asuka she was very sheltered, insecure and shy due to her abusive parents. Slowly she warmed up to him, they fallen in love and she became more strong-willed and more self-reliant.

* DidWeJustHaveTeaWithCthulhu - While departing from the ANE!Verse, Rei flirts with and fist bumps ''Nyarlathotep.'' Nyarlathotep flirts ''back.''

* PrecisionFStrike: Played with; see TWordEuphemism below.

* {{Precursors}}: [[spoiler:apparently have noticed events on Earth and will arrive in 3 weeks to [[ApocalypseHow sort it out.]] ]]

** [[spoiler:It's also what eventually happens to Iruel.]]

* {{Reconstruction}}: From the general tone of the series down to the upgraded weapons and newfound "[[SuperRobot Superness]]" of the Evas, this series is a very deliberate attempt to merge ''Evangelion'' with the classic Super Robot formula. We've even gotten a RocketPunch, a [[Anime/GaoGaiGar giant golden progressive hammer]], and a '''''[[TengenToppaGurrenLagann GIGA! DRILL! BU-REEEEAAKAAAAAA!]]'''''

* {{Reconstruction}}: From the general tone of the series down to the upgraded weapons and newfound "[[SuperRobot Superness]]" of the Evas, this series is a very deliberate attempt to merge ''Evangelion'' with the classic Super Robot formula. We've even gotten a RocketPunch, a [[GaoGaiGar giant golden progressive hammer]], and a '''''[[TengenToppaGurrenLagann GIGA! DRILL! BU-REEEEAAKAAAAAA!]]'''''

Severe reader backlash from a certain WhamEpisode led to a ''massive'' CreatorBreakdown, and it seemed that the original version of ''Nobody Dies'' was, well, dead, but it's been more recently been confirmed that [[{{Metaphorgotten}} it's in a state best described as "hibernating"]], so updates are likely.

* ActorAllusion:
** Go-Kun, [[WordOfGod voiced by]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdY8XfsQ8T8 Peter Cullen,]] says [[{{Transformers}} "One shall stand and one shall fall" and "Life is the right of all sentient beings"]] in Chapter 41.
** President Creator/StephenColbert has an [[EyepatchOfPower eyepatch]]. Guess that makes him a One-Eyed Monster...
*** [[HarveyBirdman Cookies on dowels!]]
** Pieter Sohryu, played by [[Series/BabylonFive Bruce Boxleitner]], makes [[TalkingTheMonsterToDeath really great speeches]].
** WordOfGod says that Shinji's grandfather ([[spoiler:SEELE 06]]) is played by ChristopherLee.

* {{Defictionalization}}: There was talk that a fan and three friends would be {{Cos Play}}ing as Gendo, Kozo, Yui and Rei and re-enacting the Driver's Training scene from chapter 19 at Mechacon 2010. Unfortunately, Gregg announced that it fell through.

* [[DuelingShows Dueling Fanfics]]: With ''FanFic/ShinjiAndWarhammer40K'' to an extent. They have a lot of similar themes and came from similar [[ForWantOfANail nails]] ("Make Shinji's childhood better" vs "Save Shinji's mom") and the execution is similarly [[RuleOfCool over-the-top]] for both fics. The main differences between the two are that (1) ND's nail changed a good chunk of the Eva-verse's backstory while S&40K only changed Shinji's childhood and then went from there, and (2) 40K has a more consistently epic scope while ND tends to stick somewhat closer to the OriginalFlavor, invoking just as many Crowning Moments as 40K does but also balancing them with moments of shock and horror that could've been pulled right out of the source material.

* LyingCreator: Gregg. WordOfGod for this series is ''not very reliable''. [[spoiler:Exhibit A -- Ichi Ikari.]]

** Out of universe, the Kei/Kaworu pairing (which would be called "Keiworu", had that term not been taken for something else) is the most prominent [[spoiler:and is canon, thanks to Chapter 63]], but there are also other ones:
*** Mari/Wuffles ("Muffles") (this one's been {{Jossed}} in-story)
*** Mana/Wuffles ("Muffler")
*** Kensuke/various members of the Ree
*** Kensuke/Turnip (canon)
*** Turnip/Everyone

--> '''Rei:''' [[{{Nextwave}} Oh my God! They explode! My life has new meaning!]]\\

--> '''Rei:''' [[{{Nextwave}} Oh my god! They explode! My life has new meaning!]]\\

Additionally, Gregg has begun an open beta test of a rewrite of the fanfic, ''The Rebuild of Nobody Dies''. The first thread is found [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/showthread.php?p=7160504 here]], and the second thread is [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/showthread.php?t=216305 here]]. The first ''twelve'' chapters have been posted to [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/9033037/1/Rebuild-of-Nobody-Dies-One-Point-Zero fanfiction.net.]] It now has a [[FanFic/TheRebuildOfNobodyDies trope page]]. NeedsWikiMagicLove.

* WordOfGod: There's a lot of side information that isn't spelled out in the story but has been confirmed by Gregg in the discussion threads; a lot of ideas and theories have also been {{Jossed}} as well.

As of February 22nd, 2012, ''Nobody Dies'' has hit 110[[spoiler:/79]] chapters '''and counting''', [[Word Of God having just begun its fifth "season."]] Sections of each chapter are posted in the ''{{Spacebattles}}'' forum [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/nge-nobody-dies-update-and-stuff-thread.245668/ thread about the fic]] before the entire chapter is posted to fanfiction.net, if you want teasers. It should be noted that this is actually the '''''thirteenth''''' discussion thread for this fic; here are the links to the [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/showthread.php?t=159237 original thread]], [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/showthread.php?p=172408 the second]], a short-lived [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/showthread.php?t=185518 third thread]], the [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/showthread.php?t=185528 fourth]], [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/showthread.php?t=193216 fifth]], [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/showthread.php?t=202079 sixth]], [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/showthread.php?t=204404 seventh]], [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/showthread.php?t=206471 eighth]], [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/showthread.php?t=208658 ninth]], [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/showthread.php?t=210421 tenth]], [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/showthread.php?p=7098500 eleventh]], & [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/nobody-dies-5-somethingsomething.217213/ twelfth]] threads. It should also be noted that the original had become the largest discussion thread on the entire site, ''way'' past the point where threads are normally locked, and the second was one of a number of large threads that temporarily '''crashed''' Spacebattles' servers. The 3rd and every thread since, on the other hand, were locked before this could happen, and starting recently they've been getting auto-locked when they reach a length of 500 posts.

As of February 22nd, 2012, ''Nobody Dies'' has hit 110[[spoiler:/79]] chapters '''and counting''', [[WordOfGod having just begun its fifth "season."]] Sections of each chapter are posted in the ''{{Spacebattles}}'' forum [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/nge-nobody-dies-update-and-stuff-thread.245668/ thread about the fic]] before the entire chapter is posted to fanfiction.net, if you want teasers. It should be noted that this is actually the '''''thirteenth''''' discussion thread for this fic; here are the links to the [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/showthread.php?t=159237 original thread]], [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/showthread.php?p=172408 the second]], a short-lived [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/showthread.php?t=185518 third thread]], the [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/showthread.php?t=185528 fourth]], [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/showthread.php?t=193216 fifth]], [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/showthread.php?t=202079 sixth]], [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/showthread.php?t=204404 seventh]], [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/showthread.php?t=206471 eighth]], [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/showthread.php?t=208658 ninth]], [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/showthread.php?t=210421 tenth]], [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/showthread.php?p=7098500 eleventh]], & [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/nobody-dies-5-somethingsomething.217213/ twelfth]] threads. It should also be noted that the original had become the largest discussion thread on the entire site, ''way'' past the point where threads are normally locked, and the second was one of a number of large threads that temporarily '''crashed''' Spacebattles' servers. The 3rd and every thread since, on the other hand, were locked before this could happen, and starting recently they've been getting auto-locked when they reach a length of 500 posts.

** Starting with chapter 39, Leliel starts juggling characters around from various universes. So far, confirmed worlds include [[spoiler:''Nobody Dies''(obviously), the canon universe circa Leliel's attack, ''End of Evangelion'', ''FanFic/TakingSights'', ''FanFic/AeonNatumEngel'', and the ''Petit Eva'' universe by WordofGod]].

* DropTheHammer: Jet Alone Prime came equipped with an Eva-scale warhammer; WordOfGod is that it's [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/showpost.php?p=5100518&postcount=479 a reference to one of the NGE video games]][[http://wiki.evageeks.org/File:Jetbutt.jpg]]. It gets put to good use more than once.

** [[@/LordArkea AmIADream]]: ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6061370/1/Nobody_Dies_The_Story_of_NERV_Alaska The Story of NERV-Alaska]]''. This story covers the events occurring at the NERV branch in Alaska, focusing on Evangelion Unit-04, R&D Heavy Weapons Director Dr. Mondschein, his son, and his son's girlfriend [[spoiler:Evangelion Unit-14]]. [[HotSkittyOnWailordAction Seriously]]. According to [[WordOfGod Gregg]], the entire story is canon.

*** Here is a [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/showpost.php?p=5138710&postcount=2165 list of stories that have been canonized]], and where in the Main Story they would best be read. WordOfGod is that, because of ''The Kei Files'', Kei will be much more prominent in the end of ''Nobody Dies'' than was originally planned.

** [[WordOfGod According to Gregg]], this is Lilith's thought process: Babies. Babies. Babies babies babies babies ''babiesbabiesbabiesbabies. '''BABIES!!''' ''

** Chapter 38 is the [[WordOfGod end of the second season]]. kreuzritter, a collaborator with the author, [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/showpost.php?p=4748719&postcount=5813 gave one of these]] on the forum thread. To summarize his "spoilers", [[spoiler:Misato slaps "Ikari", someone who can swear in German is disgusted that they kissed someone else, Uri's being shot at, Kaworu's on a date, Keel Lorenz of SEELE meets someone important, the Pilots go to America, Tokyo-3 is bombarded, Ichi attacks Go-Kun, Unit-03 is finally activated, Kaworu gets ANGRY, someone may be going insane, and Gendo questions who is the greater monster. Also, [[OhCrap Zeruel will come]]. Also, more fanservice.]] Of course, one or more of these might be [[BlatantLies misleading]].
** One was also done for [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/showpost.php?p=5135527&postcount=1997 what we can expect from Season Four]], [[WordOfGod straight from the author himself]]. To summarize, [[spoiler: Junior explains there is something ''greater'' than what they are fighting. Snippets include a supercarrier launching with a six-eyed Evangelion on its deck, the Seventh Child being found, Unit-04a flying along with the Harpies, Shinji confronting the Beast, and Unit-07. The snippet ends with Pieter asking Junior if he knows what exactly they're facing, and Uri and Zwei, in Australia, speaking with a pillar of light that addresses him as '''''Brother.''''']] Of course, one or more of these might be [[BlatantLies misleading]].

* DropTheHammer: Jet Alone Prime came equipped with an Eva-scale warhammer; Word Of God is that it's [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/showpost.php?p=5100518&postcount=479 a reference to one of the NGE video games]][[http://wiki.evageeks.org/File:Jetbutt.jpg]]. It gets put to good use more than once.

* EvilCounterpart: WordOfGod says that [[spoiler:part of the final battle will be a fight between our heroes and their evil opposites. This goes for both the pilots and their Evas, and will apparently include Go-kun facing down the Eva version of [[{{Transformers}} Megatron]].]]

* DropTheHammer: Jet Alone Prime came equipped with an Eva-scale warhammer; WordOfGod is that it's [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/showpost.php?p=5100518&postcount=479 a reference to one of the NGE video games]][[http://wiki.evageeks.org/File:Jetbutt.jpg]]. It gets put to good use more than once.

** By Word Of God, if the escalation continues, Tabris will be destroyed by having the Sun dropped on him. Given the levels of CrazyAwesome established so far, this doesn't seem that far-fetched.

* ActorAllusion:
** Go-Kun, [[WordOfGod voiced by]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdY8XfsQ8T8 Peter Cullen,]] says [[{{Transformers}} "One shall stand and one shall fall" and "Life is the right of all sentient beings"]] in Chapter 41.
** President Creator/StephenColbert has an [[EyepatchOfPower eyepatch]]. Guess that makes him a One-Eyed Monster...
*** [[HarveyBirdman Cookies on dowels!]]
** Pieter Sohryu, played by [[Series/BabylonFive Bruce Boxleitner]], makes [[TalkingTheMonsterToDeath really great speeches]].
** WordOfGod says that Shinji's grandfather ([[spoiler:SEELE 06]]) is played by ChristopherLee.

** By WordOfGod, anyone doing irrevocable harm to one of Rei's friends is ''dead''. Period.

* {{Defictionalization}}: There was talk that a fan and three friends would be {{Cos Play}}ing as Gendo, Kozo, Yui and Rei and re-enacting the Driver's Training scene from chapter 19 at Mechacon 2010. Unfortunately, Gregg announced that it fell through.

* [[DuelingShows Dueling Fanfics]]: With ''FanFic/ShinjiAndWarhammer40K'' to an extent. They have a lot of similar themes and came from similar [[ForWantOfANail nails]] ("Make Shinji's childhood better" vs "Save Shinji's mom") and the execution is similarly [[RuleOfCool over-the-top]] for both fics. The main differences between the two are that (1) ND's nail changed a good chunk of the Eva-verse's backstory while S&40K only changed Shinji's childhood and then went from there, and (2) 40K has a more consistently epic scope while ND tends to stick somewhat closer to the OriginalFlavor, invoking just as many Crowning Moments as 40K does but also balancing them with moments of shock and horror that could've been pulled right out of the source material.

* LyingCreator: Gregg. WordOfGod for this series is ''not very reliable''. [[spoiler:Exhibit A -- Ichi Ikari.]]

* ScheduleSlip: After ch. 110, the fic is in a months-long hiatus as Gregg first got distracted by ''Mass Effect 3'', then apparently getting caught up in planning out and writing the next section of the fic. He has repeatedly said that it is '''not''' dead, though.
** Gregg has recently[[note]]September 2012, seven months after chapter 110 was posted[[/note]] said he now knows how he wants to proceed, but it will apparently tie into the Rebuild!ND plot and we will have to wait for that one to get caught up first before many new chapters get posted.
** This has been put on hold due to excessive spamming in the beta thread.

*** Mari/Wuffles ("Muffles") (this one's been {{Jossed}} in-story)

** By WordOfGod, if the escalation continues, Tabris will be destroyed by having the Sun dropped on him. Given the levels of CrazyAwesome established so far, this doesn't seem that far-fetched.

* WordOfGod: There's a lot of side information that isn't spelled out in the story but has been confirmed by Gregg in the discussion threads; a lot of ideas and theories have also been {{Jossed}} as well.

* WordOfGod: Tying into SureWhyNot above: There's a lot of side information that isn't spelled out in the story but has been confirmed by Gregg in the discussion threads; a lot of ideas and theories have also been {{Jossed}} as well.

* SureWhyNot: Many, many elements of the story (usually minor gags, but sometimes whole plot points) are the result of suggestions in the Spacebattles.com discussion thread.
** The major example would be [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/showpost.php?p=4687447&postcount=3592 President Colbert]].
** "[[http://forums.spacebattles.com/showpost.php?p=4866905&postcount=12780 Ahem. Gendo beating M. Bison in a bar brawl is now canon. That is all.]]"
** One of the reader's omakes involved the Ree giving Iruel a [[FateWorseThanDeath guided tour of 4chan as a form of torture.]] It's canon as of chapter 37.

* TakeThat: The "Convention Time" chapter is one long series of attacks against the parts of EVA fandom Gregg has issues with, including [[MisaimedFandom obsessive Rei fans]], [[EverybodyHasLotsOfSex oversexed]] and [[NaughtyTentacles disturbing]] FanFiction , and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Shinji/Rei shippers]].

* NaughtyTentacles:
** Parodied in [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5579457/63/NGE_Nobody_Dies Ch. 63]] during a discussion about horrible NERV fanfiction.
** Referenced in Ch. 103 when Shinji fights [[spoiler:the creature that once was Go-kun's ANE imported arm]]:
--> "Hoo boi," Shinji says, "I've seen enough Hentai to know where this is going."
--> And on a hill nearby, there is a squeal of delight as Kensuke Aida aims his video camera. It's an Evangelion fighting a Tentacle Monster. His life is fulfilled.

*** ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5965920/1/NGE_Nobody_Dies_Demonic_Cannon_Girl_Nana Demonic Cannon Girl Nana]]'' details the attempts of the Ree to make a MagicalGirl show. Given that Nana (and her BFG, [[Franchise/MassEffect Cain]]) are the main characters of the show, it resembles ''MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha'' rather more than it does ''SailorMoon''.

Additionally, Gregg has begun an open beta test of a rewrite of the fanfic, ''The Rebuild of Nobody Dies''. The first thread is found [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/showthread.php?p=7160504 here]], and the second thread is [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/showthread.php?t=216305 here]]. The first ''twelve'' chapters have been posted to [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/9033037/1/Rebuild-of-Nobody-Dies-One-Point-Zero fanfiction.net.]] It now has a [[FanFic/TheRebuildOfNobodyDies trope page]]. NeedsMoreLove.

** President StephenColbert has an [[EyepatchOfPower eyepatch]]. Guess that makes him a One-Eyed Monster...

* EyepatchOfPower: Of all people, the American President: ''Stephen Colbert''. Yes, [[StephenColbert that one]].