History Fanfic / SOE2LoneHeirOfKrypton

* FlingALightIntoTheFuture: Jor-El sends his son to Earth, but a minor miscalculation on his part results in Kal-El's ship crashing in Germany, killing him. However, Emil Hamilton fertilizes the ova that will be Asuka with Kryptonian DNA because he thinks Earth needs a champion. Thirteen years later, Asuka listens to her paternal grandfather's message, and decides to become a proper hero.

* GirlishPigtails: Asuka usually wears this hairstyle, using her A-10 neural hairclips to braid her pigtails. She only undoes her pigtails when she is acting as Supergirl and needs to hide her identity.
* GirlOnGirlIsHot: Shinji thinks so in chapter five's omake. Due to radiation from a chunk of pink Kryptonite, Asuka suddenly behaves more Sapphic manner, comes on to Misato, and somehow manages to wrangle her into an impromptu make-out session. After seeing what they were doing, Shinji called his friend Kensuke and told him to get over here and, for the love of God, bring his camera.

* HeroicBuild: Asuka develops one in this story, partially because her developing powers (super-strength, super-speed) are altering her build and partially because of her training.
* HesBack: After [[spoiler:being {{Mind Rape}}d by Arael]] Asuka thinks she is a worthless failure and a bratty girl who never deserved to have powers, and decides to quit being a superheroine. However, when the next Angel attacks, she dons her Supergirl costume again, joins in the battle, and blows Armisael up. After that, she decides that she will never give up on herself again.

* HighAltitudeBattle: Asuka got one when she fought Brainiac's spaceship, located at the stratosphere.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Mere seconds after unveiling [[spoiler:Doomsday to Wonder Girl, as his final attempt to ensure at least one of his plans succeeds, the monster proceeds to attack its creator, Gendo Ikari, and reduce him to a bloody pair of glasses.]]
* HopelessSuitor: Asuka to Kaji. Gradually, she realizes he never got over Misato before finding out that he was not as wonderful as she believed him to be.

* HouseHusband: Shinji takes care of all domestic chores in the Katsuragi residence. It bothers Asuka, who thinks he is too committed to play the house-husband role and they are taking advantage of it.

* HumongousMecha: The Evas, giant cybernetic robots. Asuka pilots one to fight giant alien monsters. However, the superheroines of Tokyo-3--including Asuka herself--are kind of rendering the Evas obsolete, and villains like Brainiac actually have technology that can nullify their AT-Fields. As the story progresses, Asuka has to choose between being a mecha pilot and being a superheroine.

* InSpiteOfANail: Unit-02 is still torn apart by the Mass Produced Evangelions during the siege of NERV HQ in ''End of ''Evangelion'', [[spoiler:but it was piloted by the Dummy Plug. Asuka, who had been kicked out of the pilot roster earlier in the story, arrives as Supergirl and tears the Evas apart.]]

* TheKidWithTheRemoteControl: Asuka was the only one could pilot Unit-02 because her mother's soul was locked inside and could synch with her. For a long time Asuka clung to that fact to convince herself she was special and unique and worth of something, and so boosting her very fragile self-esteem. Throughout the story, though, she gradually loses her capability to synch with her robot, and piloting gradually feels less important or special than being Supergirl.
* KingpinInHisGym: A heroic version. Knowing that becoming stronger (even if she's holding back ''a lot'') and [[AmazonianBeauty the muscles she's developing]] because of her powers triggering will look suspicious otherwise, Asuka starts to spend a lot of time on NERV's gym, doing weights. Shinji starts to exercise alongside her for the company, and the results [[DistractedByTheSexy draw]] [[EatingTheEyeCandy Asuka's eye]] during some downtime.
* KryptoniteFactor: Asuka discovered she was half-kryptonian at the same time she found out about her weakness towards kryptonite. Shortly after [[spoiler:Gendo stole the piece of kryptonite and he threatened her with it several times.]]
* LastNameBasis: Section Two Chief Chiron is only known by his family name. Nobody refers to him by his name.
* LastOfHisKind: Asuka finds out she is half-Kryptonian since she was conceived by donor sperm, and her biological father was an alien from planet Krypton who died when his rocket crash-landed on Earth. She also finds out baby Kal-El wasn sent to Earth because his homeworld exploded. As the title says, she is the lone heir of Krypton.
* LegFocus: When Shinji saw Asuka's ''Comicbook/{{Supergirl}}'' costume for first time he noticed it showed off her gorgeous, muscled, long legs:

* LeotardOfPower: Asuka's uniform as ComicBook/PowerGirl (little change from the 'canon' design is Asuka having a V-shaped cut which shows her cleavage instead of the classic "[[CleavageWindow boob window]]"). As [[spoiler:Comicbook/{{Supergirl}}]] she uses the Pre-ComicBook/New52 "cheerleader" outfit, with plenty of midriffs exposed. Needless to say, both can be pretty {{Stripperiffic}} at times (and this is pointed out in the fic and the {{omake}}).
* LighterAndSofter: To canon. Asuka gets Kryptonian powers and starts out a super-heroine career. In the process she learns to be a better person, finds a cause to worth to fight for, hooks up with Shinji, and manages to avert some canon tragedies (such like [[spoiler:Touji getting maimed or Rei blowing herself up)]]
* LivingEmotionalCrutch: Shinji became this to Asuka. He had always tried to help her when she had any trouble or was going through a hard time, and he could understand her better than anybody due to being a pilot ditched by his parents when he was a kid. In chapter 19 she asked him if he could be the one she could lean on and rely on.

* LoveConfession: In chapter 19, after going through a considerable emotional turmoil, Asuka tells Shinji about her inferiority complex driving her to try to stand out, how she became ''Comicbook/{{Supergirl}}'', talks about her doubts and fears... and tells she would like him being her confidant, if he thinks he can stand it. Shinji answers of course he is willing to do that for her... and he would like be a lot more than a friend and confidant. Then he tells he likes her. They kisses and Asuka confesses she likes him in turn.

* LovelyAngels: Asuka and Rei piloted giant robots and fought giant alien monsters together... and in their secret identities of Supergirl and Wonder Girl -respectively- they fought some super-villains together, like the Parasite. It was in that battle in which they cooperated and fought back-to-back where Asuka gained a newfound respect by Wonder Girl.
* LoveTriangle: Shinji liked Asuka who liked Kaji who liked Misato. To hilariously complicate things further, Misato thought for a while that Shinji had a crush on her. Anyway Asuka gradually fell for Shinji and stopped to have a crush on Kaji.

* MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces: In chapter 12's omake Misato catches Shinji and Asuka having sex on the kitchen floor. She screams them stopping but they are not listening.
* MaleGaze: The narration notes several times that Asuka’s costumes inevitably draw the eye to her bosom cause the “boob window” of the first outfit and the “S” emblem of the second.

* ManipulativeBastard: Gendo tried to use his son's yearning for approval and Asuka's ego to use them as cannon fodder in the War. It didn't work quite right, though, because Asuka's powers gave her alternative means to validate her existence, and her growing confidence improved Shinji's self-esteem.
* ManOfSteelWomanOfKleenex: Asuka and Shinji have this trouble, since she's Kryptonian and he's human.
* MeaningfulRename: When people stop calling Asuka ''Comicbook/PowerGirl'' and start calling her ''Comicbook/{{Supergirl}}'' you know there's been a significant change in her character. Specifically, she has stopped using her powers to seek glory and she is using them to help people because it feels the right thing to do.
* MechaShow: Even if the fic focuses on Asuka being a super-heroine the mechas and are still a primary plot element.
* TheMenInBlack: NERV's Section-2 agents look and play the part: they wear black suits and black sunglasses and act as agents or bodyguards. However they are completely useless (Asuka can easily slip her so-called security detail, and Shinji's bodyguards were unable to prevent his kidnapping) or downright evil (they often harass people or torture witnesses, and their chief is experienced in torturing people to get information).
* MercyKill: [[spoiler: Done to Kaworu by Asuka at his request]].
* MindRape: [[spoiler: Happens like in canon, and [[BreakTheCutie completely smashes Asuka]]. Her worst nightmare becomes "true" as the Angel pulls an ''{{Film/Inception}}'' and [[DreamWithinADream has her think]] [[NotHisSled that she broke out of the canon]] MindRape by [[UnstoppableRage going berserk]] and [[TheseHandsHaveKilled killing]] [[NiceJobBreakingItHero everybody she loves (and the Angel]], [[HeroKiller and]] Wonder Girl) ''with her bare hands'', plus an appearance by ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' to give her [[WhatTheHellHero a rather scathing speech]]. Shinji also was affected, but turns out that what remained of his ExtremeDoormat tendencies gave him some amount of resistance.]]
* MissingMom: Asuka's mother dying when she was barely four is the main cause of her pain and her angry, bitter behaviour. Later she finds out Shinji's mother is dead, too.
* MomentKiller: Shinji and Asuka were alone in home and about to kiss for first time when Kaji ruined the moment by coming home dragging a drunk Misato, forcing both teenagers to move away each other hurriedly and pretend that nothing was happening.

* NegativeSpaceWedgie: When black-and-white-striped sphere-shaped Leliel invades Tokyo-3 Asuka nearly falls into its shadow (a Sea of Dirac), [[spoiler:but she gets rescued by Shinji. To kill him the three Eva pilots surround it with their energy barriers while the army drops almost thousand nukes on it.]]
* NiceGuy: Shinji is the nicest guy in the story. In fact he is maybe the only nice guy in the cast. It is one of the reasons Asuka is drawn to him.

** [[spoiler:Bardiel inadvertently shields Supergirl from the [[KryptoniteFactor kryptonite radiation]] coming from Unit 01's kryptonite reactor when Gendo engineers a slight radiation leak.]]
** Arael fixes a lot of things. [[spoiler: Its MindRape and BreakingSpeech make Asuka abandon the rest of her negative character traits and to truly try to become TheCape and IdealHero.]]

* NonActionGuy: Shinji has no relevant fighting skills or combat training, he is a tad meek and sometimes he needed to be rescued. In contrast his LoveInterest is Asuka, an Ace Pilot has trained since she was four to pilot HumongousMecha and fight alien monsters... and is Supergirl.

* NoSocialSkills: At the beginning Asuka is the most popular girl in her school, but in reality she is frightened of other people, so that she uses her anger as a shield to keep and drive everyone away. However she changes during her super-heroine tenure, becoming a little more sociable with a bit of Shinji's help.
* ObliviousToLove: Shinji fits in the [[SelectiveObliviousness "deep, deep denial"]] variety. Although he spends half story thinking of ways to ask Asuka out he has no idea that she is falling in love with him. Likewise, Asuka takes a long while until she notices Shinji likes her.

* OfficialKiss: In chapter 19 Asuka talks Shinji about her doubts and fears and how she needs a friend whom she can talk, be honest with and show her real self. Shinji replies he would like being more than a friend. Asuka answers she likes him back and then they kiss.

** Touji got this expression when his “Let’s blackmail Asuka” plan went awry:

** So did the leader of the Cult Asuka was fighting when she showed up to save Shinji from them, the leader tried to persuade Asuka to join them and then she realized she had only got Asuka even angrier.
* OldFlame: Misato and Kaji got back together during the War.
* OneManArmy: Asuka. If she is riding her giant robot there is no conventional man-made weapon capable to hit her or stop her and she can trash whole armies easily without having even one scratch. If she is ''not'' riding her giant robot, she is the most powerful and most dangerous human being in the planet. Not even ''nukes'' would damage her.
* OnlyOneName: Sato, right-hand of Section-2 chief and minor antagonist, only goes by that name. He has not a full name.
* OriginalCharacter: Minor antagonists Section Two Chief Chiron and his right-hand man, Sato.
* OrphansOrdeal: Asuka's mother died when she was barely four and her father -who never loved her because she had been conceived by sperm donor- abandoned her straight after. Asuka grew up thinking she had to be the best at everything or nobody would ever care about her, and she strove to excel and become self-reliant, but she was a very lonely, scared child whom everyone regarded as a tool.

** Asuka, a. k. a. Supergirl, is this to both [[GovernmentConspiracy NE]][[BigBad RV]] and [[OmniscientCouncilOfVagueness SEE]][[TheManBehindTheMan LE]] and their beloved "[[AssimilationPlot scenario]]": a girl with powers beyond their understanding that appeared out of nowhere, has no allegiance to them and is more than capable to single-handily destroy their giant alien adversaries and the HumongousMecha used to fight them. The two organizations try to reign in a VillainousBreakdown and race to find ''[[KickTheDog some]]'' ''[[MoralEventHorizon way]]'' to put them out of the way ([[RightHandVersusLeftHand without showing their hand to the other group]]).
** NERV was made to fight the [[{{EldritchAbomination}} Angels]], not ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' villains. So what happens when Brainiac -a living, conniving humanoid super-computer that hails from a more technologically advanced alien civilization- comes along? They are completely helpless. His computers could hack into the Magi easily, his machines could nullify an A T Field, and his base was a space-ship that drifted out of NERV's reach. If ''[[Comicbook/{{Supergirl}} Asuka]]'' had not stopped him, he would taken everything he wanted and left.

* ParentalAbandonment: Asuka's father never loved her and abandoned her right after her mother's death. Her mother's doctor theorizes the man was resentful of not being her biological father since Asuka she was conceived by donor sperm. After arriving to NERV Asuka also was abandoned by his father.
* ParentalSubstitute: When Asuka arrived to Japan she thought Misato was replacing Shinji with her, but to her surprise Misato took him and her in. Formerly her guardian had been Kaji.
* PatchworkFic: The Superman aspects of the fic are taken from many different sources, including the comics, the ''Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse'', and the various live action films. The story also cherry picks from the ''Evangelion'' canon (Asuka being an In-Vitro baby is a manga-exclusive detail of her backstory, for example).
* PersonOfMassDestruction: Asuka is Kryptonian and world's most powerful woman. She can very easily lift skyscrapers and level whole cities.
* PervertRevengeMode: In one of the final Omakes of the story, [[spoiler:the battle against Doomsday turns from evenly-matched bloodshed to Asuka giving Doomsday a CurbStompBattle when he accidentally tears her entire top off and makes her mad. Misato lampshades it by saying making a {{Tsundere}} angry never ends well.]]
* PitbullDatesPuppy: Asuka is fiery, hot-blooded, aggressive, hard-headed, impatient... and she is ''Comicbook/{{Supergirl}}''. Shinji is a NonActionGuy passive, quiet and meek. However, Shinji fell in love with Asuka precisely because he admired her strength, willpower, courage and determination, and Asuka fell in love with him precisely because he was gentle, caring and dependable.
* PoliceAreUseless: When the Section-2 agents (the security detail tasked with watching and protecting the pilots) are not busy with harassing, torturing or assassinating witnesses, they are highly incompetent. Asuka can very easily slip her bodyguards, even without her superpowers. And a terrorist group was capable of abducing Shinji despite of them.
* PosthumousCharacter: [[spoiler:Baby Kal-El]] was dead fourteen years before the beginning of the story, but it is because him Asuka has powers and it is because him Asuka decides using them altruistically and in the latter chapters she wonders if her biological father would approve of her.
* PowerCopying: Asuka and Rei fought the Parasite, a mutated human copied his victims' powers and stole their memories and energies by touching them.
* ThePowerOfTheSun: Asuka's sun-empowered and able to lift skyscrapers or survive a conflagration.
* PowerParasite: Parasite, a mutated human stole their victims' powers and memories when he touched them, leaving them weakened and powerless. Since his power came with a time limit, he had to continuously drain a person's power to have it. So that [[spoiler:he kidnapped Asuka and Rei, intending to keep them locked forever, serving him as an endless power supply, but they managed to find a way to fight him withouh touching him.]]
* PowerPerversionPotential: When Asuka was still discovering her new powers her X-ray vision accidentally activated right when Shinji was changing clothes.
* PowersInTheFirstEpisode: In the first episode Asuka gains SuperStrength, accidentally ripping off her giant robot's control yokes.
* PrimaryColorChampion: Asuka’s pilot costume is red with orange and black parts. Her ComicBook/PowerGirl costume is white with blue and red parts. Finally, her Supergirl costume is blue and red and is based on Supergirl’s current outfit:

* ProfessionalKiller: A squad of NERV agents specialises in "target removal" and take care of people who knows too much. His chief, Chiron [[spoiler:tried to assassinate Kaji personally.]]
* ThePromise: When Touji got designated as the newest pilot, Hikari asked Asuka protecting him. Asuka promised her best friend she would do so, and when Touji's giant robot got hijacked by a {{Robeast}} she fought to save him. When [[spoiler:she managed to get him out of the cockpit alive, Asuka was relieved that she had fulfilled her promise.]]
* PsychoSupporter: Chiron is Gendo's subordinate and he's even more depraved, more blood-thirsty and pettier than his boss. Gendo is a Manipulative Bastard and an asshole, but he's pragmatic: he doesn't go out of his way to mess someone up and he may deem torture as necessary but not enjoyable. Chiron? Chiron enjoys it.

** In the first chapters' omakes the author, assisted by Asuka, tells their alternate ideas to turn her into a super-heroine (before settling on Supergirl). Unfortunately their discarded ideas go from unfeasible to dumb, getting Asuka thoroughly embarassed until she gets fed up with it and chases him angrily.
** In another omake the author decides a Jimmy Olsen analogue is needed, and Kensuke is picked. When Kensuke realizes that being Jimmy Olsen is NOT something great, he glares at the author.
* RedIsHeroic: When she is acting as HumongousMecha pilot, Asuka wears a red tight suit and red hair clips (and pilots a red robot). When she is acting as Supergirl she wears red cloak and boots and a red S-shield on her chest.

** Asuka was the Red Oni -passionate and temperamental- and Shinji the Blue Oni -meek and quiet-. Actually, Asuka liked Shinji -among other reasons- because he knew how to listen.
** When Asuka and Rei hang together and fight together, Rei -quiet and passive- is the Blue Oni.
* RelationshipUpgrade: In chapter 19 Asuka opened up to Shinji and came clean about her SecretIdentity. At the same time, Shinji confessed he liked her. In reaction, Asuka kissed him.
* ReplacementScrappy: After [[spoiler: Arael]] Asuka begins to see ''herself'' as this InUniverse to the dead Kal-El, thinking that he is far more deserving of their powers.
* TheRevealPromptsRomance: When Asuka finally came clean to Shinji about being Supergirl she said she would like that he was her confidant. He replied he would also like to be more than a friend because he likes her. Asuka admitted she liked him back and they kissed.
* RightInFrontOfMe: Shinji does this every time he talks about Power Girl or Supergirl in front of Asuka.
* RoaringRampageOfRescue: When [[spoiler:Shinji was kidnapped by a terrorist organization,]] Asuka went very, very mad. She searched, found and stormed into their headquarters, trashed everybody in there and pummelled the leader for daring to hurt ''and'' badmouth Shinji.
* {{Robeast}}: The Angels from canon -humongous {{Eldritch Abomination}}s-. Unlike than in canon, though, Asuka can fight them without her HumongousMecha thanks to her Kryptonian powers.
* RunningGag: Shinji is the ButtMonkey in the omakes, often being placed in highly embarassing situations where he seems a pervert.

* SecondSuperIdentity: Asuka created her Power Girl identity when se became a super-heroine for first time. Later she decided she had to become a different and better kind of heroine, so the she made a new costume and took a second secret identity as Supergirl.

** [[spoiler: Asuka reveals her identity to Hikari]].
* SecretSecretKeeper: During the Parasite arc [[spoiler:both Rei Ayanami ''and'' Misato Katsuragi]] figured out Asuka was Supergirl. [[spoiler:Misato]] because the Parasite barged into his apartment demanding to know where Asuka was and later he was defeated and fought by Supergirl. And [[spoiler:Rei]] because she fought the Parasite alongside Supergirl and did not miss how familiar was her face.

** In chapter 14 Asuka melts with her heat vision because she is tired of idiots checking she is bulletproof:

** Chapter 18 gives a different version: a thief is trying to cut Asuka over and again despite of doing nothing to Asuka (other than annoying her):

** The Omake of chapter 2 has Asuka accidentally sterilizing Shinji with her heat vision similar to what happens to Fry in ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}''.
** The Omake of chapter 5 has Asuka playing with action figures of Power Girl, Wonder Girl and Shinji and Shinji barging in on her playing and being threatened to give a SuspiciouslySpecificDenial about what he "didn't" see a la ''Film/{{Spaceballs}}''.
* SillinessSwitch: Many of the post-chapter omake are nuts, anything from retelling a scene in a more silly fashion to Asuka and other characters interacting with the author and complaining about him.
* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: Asuka states some of her reasons to like Shinji in chapter 19:

* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: The Eva setting is dark. So what happens when you throw elements of the Superman canon in the mix? A character was a BrokenBird and a ChildSoldier and whose AbusiveParents had broken her and turned into a terrified, lonely, fragile, angry little child that drove people away to not be hurt again and thought she was worthless unless she was the best at everything gained super-powers, learnt to be a real heroine and better person and set to make her world a better place.

* SociallyAwkwardHero: Asuka is an excellent mecha fighter and an overpowered super-hero. She can handle herself efficiently when she has to fight criminals, aliens or monsters. However she has absolutely NO social skills and she's massively frightened of other people.
* SoftGlass: At one point, a [[spoiler:Seele commando]] smoothly ''breaks a car window and knocks out the driver with the butt of a rifle in one stroke.''

* TheStationsOfTheCanon: The story follows canon faithfully, but changing several key details.
* {{Stripperiffic}}: Both of her superhero outfits. PlayedForLaughs in an {{omake}} where Asuka has a CatapultNightmare concerning wearing a Supergirl outfit that can only be described as a very tiny bikini (ItMakesSenseInContext).

* SuperheroesWearCapes: Asuka's Power Girl and Supergirl costumes include a cape. She invokes the trope because when she decided to become a super-heroine she automatically thought she needed to wear a cape.

* SuperHeroOrigin: This story details how Asuka finds out about her powers and heritage and becomes Supergirl.
* SuperheroParadox: Asuka started out her super-heroine career fighting robbers and thugs. Shortly after she was fighting terrorists and super-villains as Brainiac or the Parasite. Then Apokolips' New Gods and the time-travelling Legion of Superheroes came along. And THEN she started using her super-powers to fight giant alien monsters and {{Eldritch Abomination}}s.
* SuperheroPrevalenceStages: The setting falls between the Early and the Middle Stages: there're few super-heroes and they operate exclusively in Tokyo-3. There're no super-hero teams, and the two only named heroes -Supergirl and Wonder Girl- have only teamed-up once or twice. However, they're moving from beating thugs and crooks to fight alien gods and mythological creatures.
* SuperpowerfulGenetics: It kicks off the entire plot. Long story short, [[spoiler:baby Kal-El dies when his rocket crash-lands on Earth,]] and his DNA is used to fertilize one of the Kyoko's eggs when she got an in vitro fertilization. When Asuka was a teenager she started to develop kryptonian powers.
* SuperpowerLottery: Asuka has the Kryptonian full pack: she's a ''massively high-powered'' FlyingBrick with super-senses, EyeBeams and two kinds of BreathWeapon. There're some few other super-humans in the setting, but no one of them has so many powers.

** In chapter 7's omake Shinji catches Asuka playing with dolls:

** In chapter 11 Asuka thinks it is disgusting as Misato is taking advantage of Shinji's caring nature to get him taking care of her. She is angry because it and definitely not because Shinji is paying a lot of attention to Misato:

* TechnologicallyAdvancedFoe: NERV was made to fight the Angels, not Superman villains. So what happens when Brainiac -a living, conniving humanoid super-computer that hails from a more technologically advanced alien civilization- comes along? They are completely helpless. His computers could hack into the Magi easily, his machines could nullify an A T Field, and his base was a space-ship that drifted out of NERV's reach. If Asuka had not stopped him, he would taken everything he wanted and left.

* TenMinuteRetirement: After being mind-raped by Arael, Asuka quit super-heroing because she was convinced that she was an unworthy, stupid child playing hero. [[spoiler:However she became Supergirl again to save Rei from Armisael]].
* TheseHandsHaveKilled: Asuka was feeling awful with herself after getting forced to mercy-killing Kaworu.
* TheyWouldCutYouUp: Asuka kept quiet about her powers because she was afraid of losing her piloting job and getting poked and prodded.
* ThouShaltNotKill: [[AvertedTrope Averted]]. Asuka holds back when facing common criminals, but when going up against the Angels or a supervillain like Brainiac or Parasite she shows no compunctions about killing.
* ThreeWaySex: In chapter 13's {{Omake}} Misato and Asuka are fighting over Shinji. When it is evident Asuka has the upper hand, Misato talks her into "sharing" him, hinting she knows "things" and she can teach them both. Asuka agrees, and she is about to kiss Shinji... when Pen Pen wakes him up from his dream. Shinji was NOT amused.
* TookALevelInBadass: Asuka trained her whole life to become a fighter and HumongousMecha pilot. Then she developed strange powers and found out about her [[Franchise/{{Superman}} Kryptonian]] heritage. She went from beating giant aliens with her HumongousMecha to rip them apart with her bare fists.
* TookALevelInCheerfulness: Developing powers and becoming a super-heroine made Asuka a happier, more cheerful and more positive person who did not need to pilot a giant robot to feel her life was not worthless.
* TookALevelInIdealism: When she became Supergirl Asuka realized everyone expected her being a beacon of integrity, morality and courage. As she tried to live up to that ideal, Asuka gradually became more optimistic and less negative and bitter.
* TookALevelInKindness: This is in fact a plot point: When Asuka finds out about her powers and realizes what they entail, she strives to become a better, kinder person and be worthy of them.
* TrespassingToTalk: In chapter 8's omake Asuka walks into her apartment and finds Touji, unwelcome and uninvited, waiting for her in the kitchen to blackmail her.
* TripleShifter: Asuka is a thirteen-years-old kid goes to school, pilots mechas and at the night dons her super-hero costume and saves people.
* {{Tsundere}}: Asuka. Since she was a kid she fabricated a mask of a tough, self-reliant girl did not need anybody so nobody realized she was very vulnerable deep-down and hurt her. However, when she rooms with Shinji she starts trusting him and showing him her softer, nicer side gradually.

* UnresolvedSexualTension: Between Shinji and Asuka since they met in an aircraft carrier. Asuka was in very deep denial for a long while, whereas Shinji figured out his feelings after a while but he tried to find the right timing to ask her out (unfortunately other people kept ruining his attempts).

* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler:Upon Rei refusing to help Gendo complete Instrumentality and revealing herself to have been Wonder Girl all along, Gendo at first becomes furious, then furiously despondent as he decides he'd rather see the world burn than have none of his plans come to fruition, unleashing Doomsday upon the world.]]
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Officially Gendo leads NERV, an organization created to save the world from the Angels. Unofficially his goal is committing worldwide genocide.
* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: Hurting Shinji is not merely idiotic. It is downright suicidal. His girlfriend is a hot-tempered fiery red-head with ''[[Franchise/{{Superman}} Kryptonian powers]]''. Usually Asuka holds back, but threatens Shinji and you will find out how funny is being punched by someone strong enough to lift a mountain. [[spoiler:A cult's leader certailny found out;]] alas, he did not deem the experience funny.

** [[spoiler:[[AlienInvasion Brainiac attacking]]]] and her finding out about [[spoiler:Krypton.]]
** Going to meet [[spoiler:Emil Hamilton and [[ComesGreatResponsibility seeing Jor-El's message]] (and, oh yeah, Nerv kidnapping him for information on ComicBook/PowerGirl).]]
** Being attacked by [[spoiler:Kalibak from the future [[TerminatorTwosome and helped by]] the ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes, given an incentive by [[KidFromTheFuture one of her descendants]] to become a better superheroine (although [[LaserGuidedAmnesia the Legion makes her forget the details]]).]]
** [[spoiler:[[PowerParasite Parasite]] [[BroughtDownToNormal absorbing her powers]] and her destroying her ComicBook/PowerGirl outfit in the ensuing TenMinuteRetirement (the Supergirl outfit is too tough for her to destroy without powers),]] then [[EnemyMine teaming up]] with Wonder Girl on the second round and gaining more respect for the Amazon.
** The near-loss of [[spoiler:Unit-02 to the Dirac Sea [[FriendOrIdolDecision almost forcing her to abandon it so she could be Supergirl constantly]].]]
** Nerv obtaining [[spoiler:kryptonite and using it to power the Evangelions...]]
** [[spoiler: Asuka's canonical MindRape still happened, only that now Shinji got (mildly) affected... and oh, yeah, [[OhCrap Gendo now has information from the Dead Sea Scrolls concerning the existence of the Anti-Life Equation]]…]]
** [[spoiler: Asuka has quit being an Evangelion pilot for good, and ''was'' going to quit being Supergirl… except that The Light Of The Divine decided to kidnap Shinji, putting the snowball that would have her [[HesBack getting back on the Supergirl saddle for good]] rolling.]]

* WhatIf: In several omakes the author described several alternate scenarios where Asuka became ''ComicBook/TheSpectre'', ''ComicBook/{{Raven}}'', ''ComicBook/{{Etrigan}}'', a [[Franchise/GreenLantern Red Lantern]]...

** When Shinji smiles he makes Asuka's heart race.
** In chapter 16 Asuka beams at Shinji, and he feels his heartbeat speeding up:

* WolverinePublicity: Power Girl/Supergirl Asuka has done '''4''' guest appearances in other Superwomen of Eva stories and, more than any other superwoman. And she's been mentioned in several more [=SOE=] stories.
* WorldsStrongestMan: Being half-Kryptonian, Asuka is the world's strongest woman. Even though there're other super-heroines around, neither of them is so strong, not even Wonder Girl. During a battle, Asuka proves how unbelievably stronger she is when she lifts a whole skyscraper.
* XRayVision: Asuka has X-ray vision due to being half-Kryptonian. She discovers this power when she accidentally looks through several walls... and sees Shinji half-naked. Cue blushing.
* YouDidntSeeThat: In chapter seventh chapter's omake Shinji catches Asuka playing with dolls. She asks what did he see and he screams he did not see her playing with her dolls:

* YouWouldntShootMe: When Asuka is threatening [[spoiler:Chiron to tell her where Prof. Hamilton is]], he laughs and says that she, as Supergirl, wouldn't torture him. [[spoiler:Misato, who not only is a steadfast and determined soldier but despises Chiron, [[SubvertedTrope tells him that SHE is more than happy to torture him]] and even playfully asks him not to talk TOO soon.]] [[DirtyCoward He]] [[SmugSnake immediately]] [[{{Hypocrite}} cracks]] under these threats.

* PatchworkFic: The Superman aspects of the fic are taken from many different sources, including the comics, the ''Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse'', and the various live action films.

* ClothingDamage: In chapter twelve's omake, Asuka shreds her shirt to reveal she is Supergirl. Then Misato rips her clothes off, revealing she is Franchise/WonderWoman--of a sort. Then they realize Shinji's nose is bleeding while he stares at them. When he is called a pervert, he lampshades he is faced with two beautiful women who are tearing their own clothes off.

Shortly before arriving on Tokyo-3, Asuka discovers her body is developing weird abilities: she has great strength, great speed, is all but invulnerable, has different kinds of vision...

Initially the popularity of the super-women of Tokyo-3 bothers her and drives her to create a super-heroine identity and earn extra praise. However, things do not go as planned: her vast powers are a huge burden and a great responsibility; she earns praise and admiration but it feels hollow and undeserved, and she hates getting something without working for it; and she realizes many people -including her donor sperm- had great expectatives upon her. And it feels as if she is letting them down. It feels as if she needs maturing further and becoming a different, better kind of heroine...

''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5061292/1/Superwomen_of_Eva_2_Lone_Heir_of_Krypton Superwomen of Eva 2: Lone Heir of Krypton]]'' by [=Mike313=] is a ''Fanfic/SuperwomenOfEva'' story that casts everyone's favorite boastful and brash FieryRedhead, Asuka Langley Soryu, as the FlyingBrick ''Comicbook/PowerGirl'' and later ''Comicbook/{{Supergirl}}''. The story follows Asuka from her first discovery of her powers, her pitched battles against supervillains, and beyond... as she deals with her growing attraction towards Shinji Ikari.

Compare with ''Fanfic/LastChildOfKrypton'', another story where an Eva character gains Superman powers, and with ''Fanfic/ChildrenOfAnElderGod'' and ''Fanfic/ThousandShinji'' (darker takes on the concept of Evangelion characters gaining powers).

* AccidentalPervert: Asuka saw Shinji half-naked when her X-ray vision activated accidentally while he was changing clothes. Cue she blushing brightly and looking away.
* AcePilot: Asuka was the best and most rigorously trained pilot in the squad, and she got a good number of kills under her belt. However, as the story progressed and her powers surfaced she got to choose between remaining a pilot or being a super-heroine full-time.
* AchillesHeel: Being half-Kryptonian, Asuka is weak to Kryptonite and she can't recharge her powers under light of a red sun.
* ActionGirl: In this story Asuka becomes ''Comicbook/{{Supergirl}}'' and Rei is ''Comicbook/WonderGirl''. They kick {{Robeast}} butt when they are piloting their giant robots and slap criminals, aliens and {{Eldritch Abomination}}s around when they are off duty.
* AdaptationalBadass: Asuka was the best HumongousMecha pilot in the original story, but she was still a physically fit fourteen-years-old human. In this story she has kryptonian DNA with all it entails: she is super-strong, faster than a speeding bullet, nearly invulnerable... and she can fight giant {{Eldritch Abomination}} with her bare fists.
* AdaptationalCurves: Due to being half-kryptonian and exercising Asuka’s body becomes more muscular, stronger and curvier. Shinji can not take his eyes off her because he thinks she is beautiful and gorgeous.

* AliensSpeakingEnglish: Asuka, who [[spoiler:is half-kryptonian]] talks English, German and Japanese. Several ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' alien enemies show up [[spoiler:like Brainiac]] and play the trope straight.

* AllJustADream: In chapter thirteenth's omake Asuka and Misato are fighting over Shinji. Since Asuka has the upper hand, Misato talks her into a threesome. Asuka demands getting Shinji's first kiss and she is about to kiss him... when Pen Pen woke Shinji up. Shinji's reaction to realize it was a dream and the penguin has woken him up from the best dream he has ever had was... not serene.
* AmazonChaser: Shinji feels is very attracted to Asuka, who is a superb fighter, an excellent HumongousMecha pilot, and ''[[Franchise/{{Superman}} a super-heroine can pulverize a mountain with her bare fists and is faster than a speeding bullet]]''.
* AmazonianBeauty: The story makes an emphasis on Asuka gaining an impressive muscle build and Shinji being attracted to her.
* AncientConspiracy: As Supergirl, Asuka must fight against giant monsters, alien beings, an evil cult and an ancient secret society comprised of old madmen whose goal consists in killing everybody and merging their souls to give birth a new god. Said secret society is not happy with the unforeseen appearance of a super-powered girl coming along out of nowhere and interfering with their plans.
* AngerBornOfWorry: Shinji is on the brunt end of this from Asuka after [[spoiler:instinctively running to try and save a little girl from a collapsing building, only to be saved by Supergirl.]]

* AppropriatedAppellation: When Asuka started out her super-heroine career, "Tokyo Tattle" -a tabloid- called her ''Power Girl''. She liked that name. Later she resolved to change her costume and heroine identity, and she asked Shinji what they were calling the new superwoman. Shinji told "Tokyo Tattle" had baptized her ''Supergirl'', and she chose that name for herself.
* AttentionWhore: At the beginning Asuka becomes an heroine to earn extra attention. However, her motivation gradually changes as she becomes a true heroine.
* AudienceSurrogate: This is one of main roles of Shinji, showing the reader what it would be like living with a super-heroine who you are in love with, witnessing her heroic deeds but also enduring all complications and trouble such a relationship entails (her being in danger constantly, her enemies breaking into your apartment or kidnapping you, being her confidant and support...)
* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: Although Asuka and Shinji argue a lot, after a certain point Asuka starts to deliberately make things so that Shinji feels better (such like stopping to show off her superior strength because he feels more entushiastic when he thinks he is catching up to her).
* BadassCape: Asuka wears Supergirl's classic red cape. She looks more intimidating and more dangerous as wearing it.
* BadassInDistress: In chapter 19, Shinji was captured by a terrorist group and Asuka had to rescue him.

* BattleCouple: Shinji and Asuka till [[spoiler:Asuka got taken out of the roster of active pilots.]] Until that moment they had fought many battles together against {{Eldritch Abomination}}s.
* BeautifulDreamer: In chapter 19 Shinji gazes at Asuka as she sleeps and he marvels at how peaceful she looks and thinks he could spend hours watching her.

''She looked so peaceful, a far cry from her state during most of her recent waking hours. He felt like he could've watched her for hours.''
* BecomingTheBoast: Asuka often boasted about being the best pilot ever and the greatest fighter against the [[{{EldritchAbomination}} Angels]], but in reality [[InferioritySuperiorityComplex her confidence and her self-esteem were very fragile]] and she was not sure her skills and training were good enough. However ''[[Franchise/{{Superman}} she gradually discovers she has powers she was unaware of]]'', becomes a ''[[Comicbook/{{Supergirl}} heroine]]'', and thanks to personal growing she shows she can take down anything and anyone.
* BecomingTheMask: Asuka decided to pretend she was a super-heroine... and throughout the story she becomes one.
* BelligerentSexualTension: At the beginning Shinji and Asuka argued due to their clashing personalities (Asuka was temperamental and strong-willed, and Shinji meek and wimpy. Often Asuka got angry with Shinji because he would not stand up for himself and apologized for everything without meaning it) and different ways to deal with their past very similar pains, even though they liked each other. However, as Asuka starts to try to live up to expectations her Supergirl role placed upon her, her temper gradually softens, and Shinji becomes more assertive, and their relationship progresses.
* BeneathTheMask: During a heart-to-heart talk with Shinji, Asuka says she has worn so many masks since she was a little chlid sometimes she is not sure of what her real self is: when she was a scared, lonely child she created a mask of an arrogant, hostile genius and fearless pilot to protect herself; later when she became Power Girl she wore the mask of an heroine; and a short while later she became Supergirl and tried to be a real heroine. However it drives her crazy trying to be the paragon of morality and virtue everyone thinks she should be, so that she asks Shinji becoming her confidant because he saw beneath this mask and did not run away.

** [[spoiler:Shinji]] when he uses an Eva power cord to rescue [[spoiler:Asuka and Unit 02 from Leliel.]]
** Asuka when she pulled [[spoiler:Touji out of Unit-03]] when [[spoiler:Bardiel hijacked it.]]
** Asuka when [[spoiler:Armisael was about to kill Rei. She flew into the battlefield, yanked the alien monster away Unit-00 and blew it up.]]
* TheBigDamnKiss: Shinji and Asuka kissed for first time in chapter 19 after he confessed, as they were floating in the night sky above the city.

* BioAugmentation: Asuka has increased strength, speed… thanks to genetic manipulation.
* BizarreAlienSenses: Asuka's first hint that her senses were not normal either was when she accidentally saw through her home's walls... [[AccidentalPervert right when Shinji was changing clothes]]. Later she discovered her senses were exceptionally sharp and she had many different kinds of vision... including heat vision.
* {{Blackmail}}: In chapter 8's omake Touji tells Asuka he knows she is Power Girl and he will tell everyone unless she puts a skimpy bikini on and models while Kensuke takes pictures. However Asuka did not react as he thought she would do (cue violence).
* BlackmailBackfire: In chapter 8's omake Touji tells Asuka he will tell everyone she is Power Girl unless she puts a skimpy bikini on and models while Kensuke takes pictures. Touji thought the next step would be profit, but the only step was him getting beaten by being a pervert.
* BloodKnight: Asuka's battle lust is an important part of her character. Although she changes a lot after becoming ''Comicbook/{{Supergirl}}'', she still enjoyes fighting (and her new powers allow her taking on giant aliens with her bare fists).
* BoisterousBruiser: A rare female example. Asuka is a super-strong heroine who loves fighting. She is also daring, loud, perky and likes gloating.
* BoldlyComing: Asuka -Kryptonian- and Shinji -human- get into a relationship.
* BonusMaterial: Nearly every chapter has extra scenes or omakes where the author explains some of his decisions, the characters break the fourth wall constantly, or someone -often Shinji- is the ButtMonkey. Comedic omakes include Touji trying to blackmail Asuka (and then finding out it was a spectacularly bad idea), a chunk of kryptonite altering Asuka's behaviour in interesting ways, or an enraged Shinji attempting to cook Pen Pen.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: The characters frequently break the fourth wall in the omakes: the author and Asuka talk about his discarded ideas, Asuka complains of a thug breaking the fourth wall when he accused her of doing blatant shout-outs, Shinji gets a present of the author, or the author decides to address the characters.
* BreakTheCutie: In case that being an orphan whose surviving parent is a bastard and being forced to fight giant monsters before being fifteen was not traumatic enough, Shinji gets targeted by all kind of super-powerful thugs and terrorists want to get him or the girl he is in love with.
* BreakTheHaughty: Asuka behaved as a prideful, self-assured girl at the beginning (a mask to cover her weak self-esteem). When her powers surfaced and she started out her superheroine career, though, she changed gradually, becoming less self-centered and more altruistic. At the same time her performance with her giant robot suffered, and she started questioning herself. Then she [[spoiler:went through Arael's MindRape. The {{Robeast}} played with all her fears, doubts and insecurities, and broke her down.]] For a while she was utterly distraught and depressed, thinking she was never a heroine but an inmature child playing a game, she was never a good pilot, and she was worthless.
* BroadStrokes: Asuka makes appearances in other stories of the same author in her Supergirl identity, and she sometimes mentions events happened in those stories. Since the events of those stories are incompatible with each other, they are described in a very loose fashion, and the author said they happened in a different way.
* BrokenAce: Asuka comes across how as beautiful genius and mecha pilot. However she is deeply traumatized due to her mother's madness and suicide, her father leaving her and all adults regarding her as a cog to make a weapon working. Similarly, when she is acting as Supergirl, people automatically thinks she is a formidable super-heroine and a perfect paragon of morality and nobility, not knowing inwardly she is a broken ball of neuroses and pain.
* BrokenBird: During a heart-to-heart talk Asuka tells Shinji she strove to be strong-willed and excel at everything because after her mother went insane and died and her father abandoned her -making her realizing that he never loved her- she thought nobody would care about her unless she was the best.

** [[spoiler:Kaji to Asuka]] when she finds out that he was willing to let himself get murdered after [[spoiler:discovering the secrets of Project Eva]] and he never ever thought about [[spoiler:Misato and Asuka's reaction to his death.]] After she calls him out on it he apologises for disappointing her.
** Asuka finding out that she's very close to becoming one to Hamilton (without him even knowing it) [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone is one of the factors]] [[ComesGreatResponsibility in her decision to become a heroine without looking for glory.]]
* BroughtToYouByTheLetterS: When Asuka ditches her ComicBook/PowerGirl identity and becomes Supergirl she makes a new costume with an “S” emblazoned on her chest and another on her cape. It is one of the first things Shinji notices about her when he sees her in chapter 9:

* BruiserWithASoftCenter: Asuka is easily capable to bring down a skyscraper with her bare fists. Throughout her super-heroine career she also learns to let her nicer, warmer side out and be more compassionate and more caring. So, she may be beating a thug and the next minute helping a girl to find her kitten.

* BulletCatch: Asuka does it several times -one of them with her ''teeth''- but she finally proves that she truly is faster than a speeding bullet by [[spoiler:going from flying above the city, through all of the Geofront's armor layers, and into the Geofront to save Kaji in the time it takes for the bullet to get from Chiron's gun to him.]]
* BullyingADragon: Many people try to strike or hurt Asuka despite of knowing they are way out of her league.
** In chapter 8’s omake Touji finds out Asuka is ComicBook/PowerGirl and tries to blackmail her. He realized it was a stupid idea when he saw her grinning and cracking her knuckles.

** Shinji, in the omakes. In the stories proper, he sometimes suffers problems and is a NonActionGuy outside of the Evangelion, but he is useful either by fighting with or without his giant robot or by giving Asuka emotional stability and a sympathetic ear. On the omakes, he is often the victim of the pranks of the author (who is not above to tell Asuka Shinji stole her underwear).
** Asuka also suffers from this in the omakes. Either thugs accuse her from breaking the fourth wall, or she has very embarassing moments where she has to perform heroic deeds as wearing a ridiculously tiny outfit or Shinji clings to her leg to prevent herself from falling to the ground and takes an accidental peek at her underwear.
* CameFromTheSky: Kal-El's ship crash-landed in Germany, killing the baby, and his remains were found and taken to STAR Labs for analysis.
* CanNotSpitItOut: After realizing he loved Asuka Shinji did not tell her right away because he wanted to wait for the right time to ask her out. Asuka did not tell Shinji she liked him because she was in self-denial for a long time.
* TheCape: The real point of this story is Asuka growing out of being a self-centered girl and into this trope and as well as an IdealHero.

** In an omake Asuka does this after having a nightmare where she is wearing a Supergirl outfit that can be described like a tiny bikini.
** Subverted in chapter 14's omake. Shinji is actually having an excellent dream (Asuka is about to kiss him right after she and Misato have agreed to share him), and all of sudden Pen-Pen warks and he jolts awake. He did not take the penguin's interruption well.

* CharacterOverlap: Asuka as Power Girl or Supergirl has showed up in other stories of the author, and a BroadStrokes version of Rei as Wonder Girl appears here. A couple of Original Characters of his other stories also appear (namely Section Two Chief Chiron and his right-hand man, Sato).
* ChefOfIron: Shinji is good making meals, pilots giant robots and he can fend for himself in a fight to help Asuka or someone else in danger.
* ChestInsignia: Asuka's Power Girl costume had no insignia, but when she decided to turn into a better, truer super-heroine she made her Supergirl costume, placing a huge "S" emblem on her chest.

* ChronicHeroSyndrome: Asuka gradually turns into this kind of hero when she becomes Supergirl. Then she does she feels horribly guilty about all people she did not help when she was starting out her career.
* CityOfAdventure: Upon arriving on Tokyo-3, Asuka finds and fights everyday robbers, thugs, terrorists, super-powered villains, aliens, robots, time-travellers, {{EldritchAbomination}}s... And that is not counting the ancient evil conspiracy to end mankind her boss is concocting.
* ClarkKenting: Subverted. Asuka takes an effort into masking her identity, including using a blonde wig and a mask when she's in her superhero persona. [[spoiler: [[SecretSecretKeeper Misato and Rei may have figured things out, though]].]]

* CleavageWindow: During her ''Comicbook/PowerGirl'' phase, Asuka's costume had a very large cleavage and a cord stretching across her neck, shaping a triangular cutout above her breasts.
* ClothesMakeTheSuperman: Rei -a. k. a. ''Comicbook/WonderGirl''- gets a lot of innate superpowers but others are a function of her Amazonian artifacts, most notably her InvisibilityCloak and her sandals which allow her flying. It came in handy when Parasite drained her and Asuka's innate powers, since her artifacts were still functioning.
* ClothingDamage: In chapter twelveth's omake Asuka shreds her shirt to reveal she is Supergirl. Then Misato rips her clothes off, revealing she is Franchise/WonderWoman -of sorts-. Then they realize Shinji's nose is bleeding as he stares. When he is called a pervert, he lampshades he is surrounded by two beautiful women who are tearing their own clothes off.
* CoitusUninterruptus: In chapter twelve's omake Misato and Kaji step inside the former's apartment and find Shinji and Asuka making love on the kitchen floor. Misato started screaming them, but they "cheerfully ignored her".
* ColdBloodedTorture: Chiron, Section-2 Chief, loves doing this. He abduced Prof. Hamilton and tortured him for months using pain, drugs, sleep deprivation, sensorial deprivation and psychological warfare to worm all secrets of Supergirl out of him.

* ComesGreatResponsibility: [[spoiler:After being shown [[Film/SupermanTheMovie Jor-El's message]] Asuka strives to live up to the ideal of hope that Kal-El could have been.]]

* CompositeCharacter: [[spoiler:Nagisa ends up being a combination of himself and Bizarro that needs an inhaler to stay in his normal Nagisa form.]]
* ContinuityNod: An interesting one: When Asuka is testing her powers, she comes across the scrapped wreck of the [[{{BFG}} rail-mounted mortar]] that the Fifth Angel destroyed during his rampage. Her surprise when she's able to lift it up is palpable.
* ConvenientlyAnOrphan: Asuka was conceived by donor sperm. Her mother's husband hated her for it, and when Kyoko died, he remarried and abandoned Asuka, who devoted her life to pilot mechas to try to overcome her abandonment issues. She never knew who her biological father was but she always assumed he was someone extraordinary. Ten years later when she starts to manifest strange, formidable powers she realizes she was very, very right, and her father was an alien of planet Krypton. So she became Supergirl to try to become the hero her deceased father was destined to be.

* CrystalSpiresAndTogas: As its Silver Age version, Krypton is a world with huge, shiny cities, populated with people dressed with flowing robes and colourful suits, surrounded by crystal forests and fire falls.
* CurbStompBattle: Asuka's fights against human enemies use to be this due to her being super-strong and virtually invulnerable. Especial mention goes to the leader of a terrorist group who kidnapped Shinji. Suffice it say, it did not end well for him.

* DefrostingIceQueen: Shinji gradually defrosted aggressive, unsociable Asuka by being nice, being there for her and proving he was dependable, honest, and he could see her on her worst without looking away.

* {{Determinator}}: Asuka hates giving up because in her mind it means she is worthless and useless. It did not matter how hard the fight is or Whether she is fighting as a mecha pilot or as Supergirl. She grits her teeth and fights on. Sometimes she was tempted to stop being a super-heroine because she thought herself unworthy, but she always returned to fight when she was needed.
* DistaffCounterpart: Deliberately To ''Fanfic/LastChildOfKrypton'' and other stories where Shinji Ikari gets powers and becomes badass. More specifically, both stories merge the same universes and share many themes (two traumatized kids growing into the IdealHero) and both leads share the same powers, same enemies... but here it is Asuka the one gets Superman's genes in lieu of Shinji.
* DistractedByTheSexy: Happens to Shinji a few times during the fic, and ''to Asuka'' when she notices how much the weight training has helped Shinji.
* DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength: Naturally, Asuka has no clue how strong she is once she starts developing her powers. Her first attempt to ''find out'' ends in fire and destruction. And that's ''before'' she gets [[EyeBeams heat vision]].

* DontYouDarePityMe: In chapter 19 Asuka has just been {{Mind Rape}}d, her career as pilot (which has defined her whole life since her mother's death and was all she had lived for) is pretty much over and her career as ''Comicbook/{{Supergirl}}'' might be gone too because she believes she is unworthy. When Rei and Shinji try to help her, she replies she does not want their pity.

* DoomedHometown: Asuka has kryptonian powers due to her biological father's planet exploding. Before Krypton blew up, Jor-El sent his son to Earth, but due a miscalculation on his part, the baby died when his rocket crashed. Later his DNA got used to impregnate one of the eggs of Kyoko, and thus Asuka was born.
* {{Doorstopper}}: Twenty-three chapters totaling 281,785 words.
* DreamSequence: In chapter thirteenth's omake Shinji dreams that Asuka and Misato are fighting over him before deciding on sharing him.
* DrivesLikeCrazy: Shinji does not like when Misato drives him to somewhere becaude he is afraid of dying. Or at the very least vomiting. In chapter 17:

* DyeOrDie: [[FieryRedhead Asuka]] wears a blond wing as super-heroing to protect her secret identity.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: Asuka must go through many hardships, face giant monsters, aliens, super-powered beings, criminals, an evil cult, an AncientConspiracy, mature and learn the true meaning of the word "hero" to have a happy end.
* EatingTheEyeCandy: In chapter 8 Shinji sees Asuka wearing her Supergirl costume. And he is stunned:

* EatingOptional: After discovering her powers and her Kryptonian origin Asuka realizes she has never been hungry and thinks she probably does not need to eat because she is sun-powered. However she likes food so she keeps doing it.
* EldritchAbomination: Asuka fights humongous alien monsters known as Angels, and during an arc story she also faces [[spoiler:the New Gods of Apokolips.]]

* EnemyMine: The first time that Asuka and Wonder Girl are on the same battlefield is during the Brainiac crisis. The first time they have to ''work together'' is when Parasite kidnaps them both to use as "power chargers". Asuka finds a lot of respect for Wonder Girl on that day-time will tell if they become FireForgedFriends.

* ExpendableClone: Rei saw herself as nothing but Yui Ikari's clone tailored to unleash the end of mankind. All of it changed when she became Wonder Girl. Later she used what she had learnt to cheer a depressed Asuka that she was not useless or expendable, and she had extraordinary powers made her special.

* FantasyKitchenSink: This is a crossover between a SuperRobotGenre show and ''Franchise/TheDCU''. You have a genetically engineered HalfHumanHybrid superheroine and HumongousMecha pilot that fights {{Eldritch Abomination}}s, {{Robeast}}s, aliens, super-computers, has teamed up with an Amazon, has met space gods...
* FanDisservice: The narration's description of [[spoiler:Asuka's haggard, bloodied looks as a result of being damaged battling Doomsday]] is meant to be an IronicEcho to [[spoiler:Shinji's [[MaleGaze surprise]] at first seeing her in her Supergirl outfit.]]

* FanVerse: It is part of the Superwomen of Eva 2 universe.

* FirstGirlWins: Asuka is the first girl shows up in the story, and she is the one Shinji falls in love with and eventually hooks up with.
* FirstKiss: Shinji and Asuka kissed in chapted 19 after Shinji confessed.
* FixFic: To canon. As a result of giving Asuka Supergirl powers, she becomes a super-heroine, learns her existence is not worthless without Eva, evolves into a better person and has a real chance to avert the end of the world.

* FlingALightIntoTheFuture: Jor-El sends his son to Earth, but a minor miscalculation on his part results in Kal-El's ship crashing in Germany, killing him. However, Emil Hamilton fertilizes the ova that will be Asuka with Kryptonian DNA because he thinks Earth needs a champion. Thirteen years later Asuka listens to her grandfather's message and decides to become a proper hero.
* FlyingBrick: Asuka is ''Comicbook/{{Supergirl}}'', with all it entails: she flies, she has super strength, super speed, invulnerability, heat vision and freezing/super breath.
* FlyingFirepower: Asuka has kryptonian DNA, so that her powers include flight and heat vision.
* ForWantOfANail: Several nails influence this fic: The first one is a minor miscalculation on Jor-El's part, which results in Kal-El's ship crash-landing in Germany, killing him, and STAR Labs taking it for analysis; the second one is STAR Labs's funding being cut heavily by Seele as part of their EvilPlan, eventually turning it into a glorified sperm bank; the third one is Kyoko Zeppelin Sohryu wanting to have a baby and so going to STAR Labs to get an in vitro fertilization; and the fourth and most important one is her being good friends with Emil Hamilton, who does the procedure... and as the former head of the Kryptonian retrieval project and knowing how powerful Kal-El would have become (and seeing [[CrapsackWorld how screwed up the world is becoming]]), takes a brief dip in the (benevolent) MadScientist pool and fertilizes the ova that will be Asuka with Kryptonian DNA.
* TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: In the third chapter's omake Asuka gets mad and fed up with the author's antics and chases him angrily to beat him.

** [[spoiler:Brainiac]] tempts Asuka with a knowledge orb of Krypton. [[spoiler:She doesn't gives as much of a damn about it as Brainiac thought she would have, but she does try to save it when Brainiac's ship starts to explode. She fails to but manages to save a knowledge orb with recordings of Kyoko when she was sane, instead.]]
** Later on she has a similar moment when Leliel starts to swallow Evangelion Unit-02 and she tries to decide whether to eject from the Eva and be [[spoiler:''Comicbook/{{Supergirl}}'' all the time or not. Shinji saves her before her Evangelion completely falls into the Dirac Sea,]] rendering it (temporarily) moot.
** Finally, when Armisael struck she had to choose between [[spoiler:getting into her giant robot to or donning her Supergirl identity to fight it. She had got better odds of winning if she used her super-powers, but then she would be fired and stop being a pilot. She chose being Supergirl, quitting being an Eva pilot for good.]]
* FusionFic: Between Evangelion and ''Franchise/TheDCU''. Asuka is ''Comicbook/PowerGirl'' and later ''Comicbook/{{Supergirl}}'', Rei is ''Comicbook/WonderGirl'', another Eva characters have powers of DC super-heroes, and several ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' villains show up such like Brainiac or Parasite.

* GeniusBruiser: Canonically Asuka was out of college by age 14. Her powerset includes SuperStrength and computer-strong intelligence.
* GiantEqualsInvincible: Subverted. The regular army is useless when it is time to fight [[{{Robeast}} Angels]] or even [[HumongousMecha Evas]]. No weapon of theirs can damage them. However, Asuka -who in this setting is ''Comicbook/{{Supergirl}}''- can fight them more effectively with her bare hands than with a giant robot despite of being an average-sized human. In fact she manages [[spoiler:taking Armisael down and surviving, something no Eva could do.]]
* GirlishPigtails: Asuka usually wears this hairstyle -using her neural hairclips to braid her pigtails-. She only undoes her pigtails when she is acting as Supergirl and needs to hide her identity.
* GirlOnGirlIsHot: Shinji thinks so in chapter five's omake. Due to radiation from a chunk of pink kryptonite, Asuka suddenly becomes gay and seduces Misato ,and both women start making out. After seeing what they were doing, Shinji called his friend Kensuke and told him getting over there and for the love of God, bring his camera.
* GovernmentConspiracy: SEELE is supposedly an UN Committee created to oversee NERV. In reality they control pretty much everything.
* GrewASpine: Shinji tries to be braver and more confident, especially after finding out that his life’s love is Supergirl.
* GunsAreWorthless: Reinforced; It's stated that Askuka can't be harmed by Kryptonite bullets because they're too fragile to withstand the stress of being shot from a firearm.

* HeldGaze: In chapter 12 when they come home back from their no-date, they lock stares several times as they talk, before nearly kissing.
* HeroicBuild: Asuka develops one in this story, partially because her developing powers (super-strength, super-speed) altering her build and partially because her training.
* HesBack: After [[spoiler:being {{Mind Rape}}d by Arael]] Asuka thinks she is a worthless failure and a bratty girl who never deserved to have powers and decides to quit being a super-heroine. However, when the next Angel attacks, she dons her Supergirl costume again, joins the battle and blows Armisael up. After that, she decides that she will not give up again.
* HiddenHeartOfGold: Asuka used to wear a mask of an irritating, ever-angry, unapproachable girl because she was afraid of people hurting her. Throughout the story and as her powers grow and her character develops her mask gradually falls apart, especially around Shinji.
* HighAltitudeBattle: Asuka got one when she fought Brainiac's space-ship located at the stratosphere.
* HighSchoolSweethearts: Asuka and Shinji went to the same middle-school together. Shinji fell for Asuka because her passion and bravery and Asuka fell for Shinji for he was nice, caring and was always there for her. After a talk where Asuka told she needed someone she could rely upon and Shinji confessed, they got together.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Mere seconds after unveiling [[spoiler:Doomsday to Wonder Girl as his final attempt to ensure at least one of his plans succeeds, it proceeds to attack its creator, Gendo Ikari, and reduce him to a bloody pair of glasses.]]
* HopelessSuitor: Asuka to Kaji. Gradually she realizes he never got over Misato before finding out that he was not as wonderful as she believed him to be.
* HotBlooded: Asuka was impulsive, prideful, short-tempered and hot-headed, but when she became Supergirl she realized she had to keep her emotions under control (or else bad things would happen) so that she mellowed down a bit.
* HouseHusband: Shinji takes care of all domestic chores in Katsuragi's residence. It bothers Asuka, who thinks he is too committed to play the house-husband role and they are taking advantage of it.

* HowDoIShotWeb: Asuka's powers start to manifest during the battle with the Sixth Angel. The next couple of chapters feature rather comedic acts of destruction as Asuka tries to find out her capabilities.
* HumansNeedAliens: [[spoiler:Asuka was conceived by donor sperm, and her biological father was ''[[Franchise/{{Superman}} Kal-El]]''.]] She is half-kryptonian, and thanks to her alien heritage she gets inspired to become an heroine and saves the world over and again.
* HumongousMecha: The Evas, giant cybernetic robots.Asuka pilots one to fight giant alien monsters. However the super-heroines of Tokyo-3 -including Asuka herself- are kind of rendering the Evas obsolete, and villains like Brainiac actually have technology can nullify their force fields. As the history progresses, Asuka has to choose between being a mecha pilot and a super-heroine.

* IdealHero: As she undergoes CharacterDevelopment Asuka begins to truly try to live up to this lofty ideal.
* ImaginaryLoveTriangle: Misato and Kaji are dating. At the same time Shinji is in love with Asuka and completely oblivious to her loving him back. Misato misunderstands Shinji when he remarks he is in love with a girl and wrongly thinks Shinji has fallen for her. She spends several chapters trying to let him down gently every time he asks for relationship advice to win Asuka over. Misato's reaction when she finally finds out the truth is priceless.
* IMissMom: In a battle Asuka had to choose between rescuing a recording with the last remaining information about Krypton and saving another recording with her deceased mother's memories. She chose the latter because she misses Kyoko and those memories are more precious to her.
* InferioritySuperiorityComplex: As she told Shinji during a heart-to-heart talk in chapter 19, Asuka strove to be the best and boast about it because she was a lonely kid who thought no one would care about her unless she was the best.

* InterspeciesRomance: Asuka is half-kryptonian half-human and Shinji is human. Shinji really liked her and Asuka gradually fell in love with him due to Shinji being always there for her. Finally in chapter 19 they got together.

%%* HeroesWantRedheads: Shinji is infatuated with Asuka.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: An author note makes mention that the story won't have the villains packing [[DepletedPhlebotinumShells Kryptonite bullets]] because of this. Kryptonite is often portrayed as a very fragile crystal and trying to shape a bullet out of it would just result in the bullet shattering from the stress of a gunpowder explosion (same with placing it within a hollow-point).