History YMMV / NobodyDies

** 00-Em has seen all his "siblings" deleted by SEELE, his sister is thinking herself to death, he's growing more aware of just how broken he and his sister really are, and [[spoiler:as of the end of the story, he's seen his sister seemingly die, then transform into a monstrous Grigori/Angel/Nephilim hybrid, seemingly die ''again'', and then be trapped inside the remnants of said monstrosity in a near-death state]]. If you don't feel a little bit sorry for him, then you have no heart.

--> '''Gregg''': Rei isn't just a nephilem, she's of a batch of Nephilem created for the purpose of killing. Basically, she's a Nephilem super-soldier that Naoko made to murder two people and a lot of collateral. What Yui and Gendo have done is taken what's basically homicidal mania and focused it into being crazy awesome.

* AuthorsSavingThrow:
** There are two versions of Chapter [[spoiler:71]]. Only one is canon.
** Chapter [[spoiler:102]] is either this or an AssPull, but either way it was definitely [[WhamEpisode something]].

** The Ree are like Rei, but with [[UpToEleven an extra helping]] crazy.

*** Mari/Wuffles ("Muffles") (this one's been {{Jossed}} in-story)
*** Mana/Wuffles ("Muffler")
*** Kensuke/various members of the Ree
*** Kensuke/Turnip (canon)
*** Turnip/Everyone

* UncannyValley:
** The main reason why [[FanNickname "Terrifying!Rei"]] is so terrifying, despite her general cheerfulness and friendliness. Well, that and the destroying-cars-with-squeaky-mallets thing. That and she's also [[spoiler:an artificial being created by Naoko Akagi to kill Shinji...at least, according to Yui.]]
** The Ree, or at least most of them, take this a step further through their behavior and personalities, which are even more outrageous than Rei's.

* WhatAnIdiot: Shinji gropes Asuka in order to get Uri to punch him, which would reset his core. It works, but Shinji expects Uri to calm down... which he doesn't.

* FoeYay:

* DorkAge[=/=]SeasonalRot: Season 4 is...not regarded well by longtime readers.

** This version of Rei has been titled "Terrifying!Rei", as contrasted with ''FanFic/AeonNatumEngel'' 's "Creepy!Rei" or ''FanFic/ShinjiAndWarhammer40K'' 's "Apocalypse!Rei". Additionally, Terrifying!Rei's sisters are referred to as the ''Ree'', through an [[GrammarNazi exceptionally dubious]] application of the English rules for pluralisation. Each has her own name.

* FridgeBrilliance: When Mari [[spoiler:gets resurrected from the MAGI and is revealed to be the remnants of Ramiel, she is called Rami by other Angel-spawn, which is an anagram of her name.]]

** Kei has a [[MindGameShip weirdly sadomasochistic relationship]] with Kaworu. Mixed with both parties being awkward when they're not being adversarial, and a non-trivial amount of mutual [[WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove fumbling of social cues]].

--> '''Gendo''': [[spoiler:I don't know if this means anything since I'm not, technically, your father...but I am proud of you. I don't know if I could turn down paradise]].

** It has been [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/showthread.php?t=159237&page=169 suggested that]] Shinji would become an in-universe example after the events of chapter 35 due to [[spoiler:being the only one conscious after the Function Brawl]].
*** ...which has led to him starting to collect his own set of Chuck Norris facts...which [[spoiler:got him clobbered by Hikari]].

* MagnificentBastard / GuileHero:
** Rei and [[spoiler:Hikari]] show signs of being heroic-examples-in-training of this with their ''awesome'' plot to blackmail the school principal and bolster Asuka's self-confidence simultaneously.
** As of ch.35, Gendo has revealed his Magnificence. After all, one does not simply [[spoiler:start a BarBrawl at a state function, fight the President of the United States to a mutual KO, and then [[IndyPloy BS a convincing enough explanation]] to not only stave off death via angry wife, but actually ''get her in the sack'']], unless one is a true MagnificentBastard.
---> '''Gendo''': (''to Shinji'') Watch and learn.
** Misato has proven quite nicely that she can make a plan come together.
** Comments by canon!Rei after talking with her counterpart indicate that T!Rei would have Asuka in her sights as well as Shinji were it not for her self-imposed restraint...for however much that counts. She also [[ScrewYourself lays a huge kiss on]] [[Fanfic/AeonNatumEngel Creepy!Rei]], although that may have been more for shock value than anything.

** Rei -- A CrazyAwesome CloudCuckoolander, or a sociopathic EldritchAbomination with a worryingly weak grasp of the concept of "consequences"?

* CrazyAwesome: ''Several'' characters:

* HolyShitQuotient:
** Present in almost every chapter, but one of the ''biggest'' would have to be the end of chapter 42:[[spoiler: [[FanFic/AeonNatumEngel "Welcome to the Ashcroft Foundation."]]]]
** And then in chapter 66: [[spoiler:Shinji is a nephilim -- complete with the blue hair and red eyes. In other words, he has ''become'' '''''[[Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann Kamina]]''''']].
** Misato, at the end of Chapter 106, when everyone explains the full situation to her, realizes that in the last half of the chapter, she figuratively mooned her HSQ as she went by, going at an appreciable fraction of lightspeed.
-->''"I fucking raced the fucking Stig and blew him up with my transforming super car which has a jet engine and an Evangelion AI."''

* DorkAge[=/=]SeasonalRot: Season 4 is...not regarded well by longtime readers. If it reached full JumpingTheShark status is a bit up for debate.

* HypeBacklash: Season Four saw an increasing number of complaints in the forum about various issues with the fic, mainly due to the opinion that the things which made it awesome in the first place were getting completely out of hand.
* IKnewIt: Not an uncommon reaction to [[spoiler:Ichi turning out to be Shinji's little sister]].