Line #100 Fanfic/AeonEntelechyEvangelion


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2	[[caption-width-right:225:[[CreepyChild Rei]], [[DeadpanSnarker Shinji]], and [[AcePilot Asuka]].\
3	50% more snark\
4	and 50% ''less'' sanity.]]
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6	->''"It is time."''\
7	''"Yes. It is time for Entelechy to begin."''
8	-->-- '''Aeon Entelechy Evangelion''', Prologue: ''The Words That Began The End of Everything''.
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10	Take the Franchise/CthulhuMythos, as seen through the futuristic, HopelessWar lens of ''TabletopGame/CthulhuTech''. Add in the supernatural horror of the ''VideoGame/FirstEncounterAssaultRecon'' series, as well as various bits and pieces (most of them nasty) from ''TabletopGame/EclipsePhase'' and ''Literature/RevelationSpace''. [[FusionFic Now throw them all into a blender]], and [[DarkerAndEdgier use the resulting nightmare of a setting to tell the already dark and apocalyptic story]] of ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion''.
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12	This is ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5834947/1/Aeon_Entelechy_Evangelion Aeon Entelechy Evangelion]]''. And odds are, it's not going to end well.
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14	TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture, mankind stumbles across knowledge of [[Creator/HPLovecraft the Mythos]], as the flaws in the old scientific models become evident. [[MagicVersusScience The scientific method]] is promptly applied, and things turn out pretty well, with sorcery-as-a-science and reactionless engines transforming all aspects of our culture. Sounds nice?
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16	It wasn't.
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18	It is now 2091. Space is controlled by the [[StarfishAliens Migou]], who are trying to [[BugWar stomp]] mankind back into the Stone Age without waking up anything else that lives on Earth. The [[HalfHumanHybrid Esoteric Order]] of [[FishPeople Dagon]] are trying to wake Cthulhu. A large percentage of Asia has become weirdly merged with Leng, where the Dead God, Hastur, resides, and there is a [[BlackAndGreyMorality subtle war]] going between two sides of {{Humanoid Abomination}}s and one side of inhuman fiends inside the territory controlled by the [[OneWorldOrder New Earth Government]].
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20	But, don't worry! [[ManipulativeBastard Gendo Ikari]], a senior figure in the Ashcroft Foundation (the world's largest MegaCorp) will save us from the monstrous, god-like threats called Harbingers (named after [[MythologyGag Canaanite deities]]) which are attacking on top of all of this. Apparently, he has some kind of [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion secret weapon.]]
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22	[[BlatantLies This can only have a happy ending]].
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24	''[[http://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/aeon-entelechy-evangelion-ane-rewrite.162079/ Aeon Entelechy Evangelion]]'' is a [[TheRemake 2nd edition/sequel/rewrite]] of Tropers/EarthScorpion's ''Fanfic/AeonNatumEngel'' because ES [[MythologyGag ran out of ink]]... er, felt dissatisfied with the inconsistencies between the earlier and later chapters. As of September 7, 2012, a prologue and nineteen chapters have been published, currently in Book II. Naturally, so far it has turned out just as terrifying as ''Fanfic/AeonNatumEngel''.
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26	[[RunningGag If not worse.]]
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28	[[WordOfGod Presently it is on hiatus]] in favor of ''[[FanFic/AGreenSunIlluminatesTheVoid other works]]'', and Tropers/EarthScorpion [[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/aeon-entelechy-evangelion-book-ii-the-thing-that-should-not-be.1328/page-5#post-4645672 stated that he is so disgruntled towards Cthulhutech]] that one of his backburner projects is to completely purge AEE of its distinctive Cthulhutech elements.
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30	It has a [[Characters/AeonEntelechyEvangelion Character Page]] that currently lists the differences between Canon EVA and AEE characters. It also has a [[ShoutOut/AeonEntelechyEvangelion Shout Out page]].
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32	See ''Fanfic/ChildrenOfAnElderGod'' for the other main Evangelion / ''Franchise/CthulhuMythos'' crossover.
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35	!!Specific tropes found in ''Aeon Entelechy Evangelion'':
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37	* AbandonedPlayground: There is a small patch of grass, with a swing hanging from the tree in the middle of it, in the middle of the abandoned {{arcology}} dome that Rei lives in. Notably, Shinji is smart enough that he finds it creepy. Note that [[spoiler:it looks almost exactly the same as Alma's HappyPlace in ''Project Origin'' at Still Island.]] That can't be a coincidence....
38	* AccidentalHero: Toja became one when he tried to find a missing ill girl during an evacuation of her school. A whole class of 10-year old girls ended up idolizing him for that.
39	* AchillesHeel: The joints of anyone with subdermal armor (which would necessarily include heels), whether NEG or Migou in origin, are less armored. Justified in that it is still necessary to move the joint, so of course they have to have less armor there, and it's still possible to kill them without hitting the weaker spot.
40	* TheAestheticsOfTechnology:
41	** [[OneWorldOrder New Earth Government]] designs are utilitarian and precisely designed for optimal performance, regardless of aesthetics.
42	** Migou designs are noted as "approaching techno-organic from the far side", in that they're machinery which looks organic, rather than lifeforms replacing technology.
43	* AfraidOfNeedles:
44	** Xuan Do doesn't like needles, at least when they are used on her.
45	** Toja's very uncomfortable when Imi gives herself an injection.
46	* AlienBlood:
47	** Possessed by aliens, perhaps unsurprisingly.
48	** Averted with both the Nazzadi and the Deep Ones, as the former are basically just human, and the latter are still terrestrial creatures that use hemoglobin.
49	* AlienGeometries: Everything related to the Harbingers, and especially so when Mot showed up; think ''Anime/{{Rebuild\|OfEvangelion}}'''s version of Ramiel, only as a multi-dimensional combined fractal/polyhedron. Aeon War Syndrome, where the mind breaks trying to comprehend the seemingly impossible geometries, is a constant threat.
50	* AlienKudzu: The Leng ecosystem is a combination of this and an alternative set of laws of physics; the change to physical laws spreads in areas where it is permitted to grow, and it grows in areas where the laws of physics are different enough that it can survive.
51	* AlikeAndAntitheticalAdversaries: The non-human sides are debatable, but the NEG-led humanity is heterogenous. This is something the NEG is trying to change to a homogeneous society through various social programs so that they could get rid of various things that lead to internal conflicts.
52	* AllThereInTheManual: As usual, extra information can be found at the [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/showthread.php?t=162079 AEE thread 1]] and [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/showthread.php?t=202110 AEE thread 2]] on Spacebattles.com. ''[[http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=521479 A Strangely Eclipsed Aeon]]'', The ''TabletopGame/CthulhuTech'' mod (well, ''AEE '' mod, see below) for the ''TabletopGame/EclipsePhase'' by the author also has some information.
53	* AlternateHistory:
54	** At the start of Chapter 1, there is an excerpt from ''[[Creator/HPLovecraft The Shadow Out of Time]]'', which makes it clear that both the Elder Thing city in Antarctica and the Yithian city in Australia were historically discovered in the 1930s, putting the point of divergence quite a bit before now.
55	** WordOfGod states that the discovery of the Elder Thing City shifted American interests out of isolationism; thus, the USA joined the League of Nations. Also, due to various political and military circumstances, the USA-Japanese war is considered almost completely separate from Europe's World War II; thus, the USA did not fight against Hitler until late 1942. This allowed him to use more resources against the USSR, prolonging the war to 1946, and Western allies nuked Berlin to prevent the Soviets from capturing it, thus making the foundations for two completely separate cities, Westberlin and Ostberlin.
56	** Tropers/EarthScorpion has referred to a complete timeline of AlternateHistory, but it has not yet been released.
57	* AlternateUniverseFic: AEE is one to ''Evangelion'' and ''F.E.A.R.'', while ''Cthulhu Tech'' gets the dubious honor of having everything be a point-of-divergence right after ''Vade Mecum'' because ES had declared everything post-''Vade Mecum'' [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/showpost.php?p=4415150&postcount=661 unsourcebooks]].
58	* AncientConspiracy: AHNUNG, who play part of SEELE's role. Oddly, the part of the Human Instrumentality Committee has been given to the Ashcroft Council of Representatives, who don't appear to be the same group (and, as a member, Gendo has quite a lot of influence on it).
59	* AndIMustScream: The self-aware souls of the cats stuck in their physical bodies, with no way to control them or alter reality, like they're used to, after they were cut off from the Dreamlands.
60	* AngryGuardDog: Cybernetically modified and armoured [=ArcSec=] guard dogs with their shoulders reaching up to average man's waist, with the chips installed in their brain to be more alert. Toja's neighbor has a retired guard dog who is [[BigFriendlyDog quite friendly]], though.
61	* AnOfferYouCantRefuse: Gendo "recruited" Shinji with the threat that not joining the Evangelion project will result in removal of protection that keeps Shinji from the hands of various R&D departments...and their [[TheyWouldCutYouUp saws]].
62	* AntiAir: Anti-''Orbital'' Defenses in Chapter 18.
63	%%* {{Anticlimax}}: The Harbinger-4 [[spoiler:false alarm]] in Chapter 4.
64	%%* ArcWords: "''It was time''" and any variation of it.
65	* ArmsDealer: Ghouls were seen scavenging what was left over from the fight against Harbinger-3, and selling munitions to various parties, including Eldritch Society.
66	* ArtificialGill: A variation with the "Eva EVA equipment", designed to keep the LCL in the body when exiting the entry plug in order to avoid complications of the sudden switching between breathing LCL and normal air when the normal supervised procedure is impossible.
67	* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: The Harbingers are well in excess of 50 feet, both Imperial and American Customary, in scale.
68	* AwakeningTheSleepingGiant: One of the main reasons of the Migou invasion is to prevent the awakening of the OmnicidalNeutral {{Eldritch Abomination}}s due to humanity playing with things it should not, while trying to avoid doing this themselves with excessive firepower.
69	* AwesomeButImpractical:
70	** Tank crews view mecha as this in-universe. They show their opinion by making sarcastic comments about stable firing platforms, optimized weight distributions, and low target profiles.
71	** The narration states that Chicago-2, while awesome-looking, is simply outdated for the Aeon War.
72	* BackpackCannon: Unit-00 got jury-rigged with missile launchers on its back when delaying the blind Mot.
73	* TheBait: Shinji's role against Asherah was to draw its attention while the conventional forces take it out. Maybe. And that seems to be a standard tactic now, after the incident in Chapter 4.
74	* BalanceOfPower: The Aeon War is currently in the six-year-long relative stalemate with no major victories or losses since the Fall of China, which is close to collapsing since Mot appeared on the Eastern Front.
75	* BeamSpam: Mot is apparently only capable of firing one beam from each face of its [[SinisterGeometry trapezoid form]]. When it takes an almost gratuitous amount of abuse from the NEG, its response is to [[spoiler:reshape itself into literally thousands of smaller trapezoids orbiting around each other - and each of ''them'' can fire a beam from their face.]] The resulting barrage of beams levels entire ''mountains''.
76	* {{BFG}}:
77	** London's capital-grade defenses include railguns that fire small nuclear warheads. Small, for a nuclear warhead, that is.
78	** The pallet rifle, so useless in canon ''Evangelion'', has been replaced by the Babylon, a hypervelocity, 155mm coilgun which is [[GunPorn lovingly introduced over several paragraphs]].
79	* BigfootSasquatchAndYeti: The real Migous, which are briefly mentioned to be a part of the Rapine Storm, are Yeti-like. The bugs in space are not actually Migou, but the name stuck.
80	* BioAugmentation: Genefixing your unborn children to remove diseases and make them smarter or tougher was entering common use before the First Arcanotech War; it was heavily restricted after the end of the war (the fake {{Rubber Forehead Alien}}s didn't like it, on account of being created that way), and there are currently in-universe debates over relaxing the restrictions. Asuka inherited a heavy amount of augmentations from her mother, which is one of the reasons that she finds things so easy.
81	* BilingualBonus: Quite apart from the puns or references often involved in the names of Ashcroft Groups and Projects, there is untranslated German poetry and Hindu scripture scattered throughout the story.
82	* BlackComedy: The story has elements of this, mostly as a result of a LemonyNarrator.
83	* BlackAndGreyMorality: The NEG and the Ashcroft Foundation do some pretty not-nice things in the name of survival (and that's even before we get into the ''Evangelion'' and ''F.E.A.R.'' bits), such as weapons that kill souls, or make destructive neural maps of living people.
84	** To be fair, the souls don't ''mean'' anything, if you're [[EldritchAbomination baseline human]]. ''Homo sapiens'' don't use them, and they don't convey any kind of immortality. For many of the NEG's opponents, though...
85	* BlessedWithSuck: The Sorcerers have the highest rates of cancer, and their children have a very high chance to get massive outsider taint.
86	* BondOneLiner: ''Just doing my job.''
87	* BrainUploading: WordOfGod says that Elite Loyalist Nazzadi (and probably the Migou themselves) got ''TabletopGame/EclipsePhase''-style backups.
88	* BreatherEpisode:
89	** Chapter 6 is unusually short and focuses on the rather cute and very curious 4-year old Asuka...a few days before her mother's scheduled Test with Unit-02. Ouch.
90	** Chapter 11 is more of the interlude between chapters.
91	** Chapter 13 is an epilogue to Rei-0X[=/=]Mot fight arc.
92	* BridgeBunnies: Ritsuko has lots of these. Unfortunately for her nerves, they tend to get into Tachikoma-like arguments.
93	* BritainIsOnlyLondon: Most of England turned into one big city before the {{Arcolog\|y}}ies were created. The Evangelion Project moved to London-2 after the Rapine Storm conquered China and got uncomfortably close to Japan.
94	* BrutalHonesty: A few characters, most notably Ritsuko.
95	* BulletproofHumanShield: Averted.
96	* BugWar:
97	** The NEG-Migou conflict is the main example of this, although this trope is partially inverted, because the Migou are the more technologically advanced, intelligent, tool-users, and in fact have very little in common with traditional sci-fi "bugs" apart from their appearance.
98	** The fight against the hatchlings of Harbinger-4, Eshmun, was a more conventional example of this trope, given that they were a bit insect-like, a bit squid-like, a bit crab-like, and had CombatTentacles.
99	* BuffySpeak: Sometimes, with [[Series/{{Firefly}} Simon]] (the temporary therapist assigned to Shinji) being the most blatant example.
100	* CatsAreMagic: When the Dreamlands still existed, cats were skilled and proficient dreamers who spent the majority of their time sending their souls out to travel in unimaginable realms, and relied on their human servants to tend to their physical bodies. In the present, they are still very sensitive to abnormal influences, and are used as detectors for supernatural influences.
101	* CatsAreMean: Cats, as in the works of Creator/HPLovecraft, are intelligent and don't really like humans. Much of this comes from the fact that they are now their pets, when in the past the humans were basically servitors with the task to take care of the cats' bodies, which the cats considered to be useless, since they spent almost all their time soul-surfing in the Dreamlands doing things incomprehensible to human minds. Then the Dreamlands were eaten, and now suddenly they are mere pets to former servants, while others had [[AndIMustScream worse fates]]. Oh, and their eyes are used for security systems.
102	* CannonFodder: For the most part the NEG Military is this as far as both the Evangelion Project and the Harbingers are concerned.
103	* CastFromHitPoints: This is the side-effect of using sorcery, since it's like forcefully using the machine (human body and mind) for something that it was not designed for.
104	* ChestBlaster: An improvised one, [[spoiler:with the magically enhanced nuclear warhead placed inside a hole made by Mot in Unit-01's chest, just meters away from the Entry Plug. Spatial-distortion magic is used to ensure that the blast travels in a straight line as opposed to the [[UsefulNotes/NuclearWeapons normal behaviour of nuclear detonations]].]].
105	* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler:Misato checking on a space-based project in chapter 4. In chapter 12, a nuke from that project was used to kill Mot.]]
106	* ChildSoldiers: This is {{Lampshade}}d and deconstructed, as might be expected. Project Evangelion is called on it by the Ashcroft Representative of Research, while the Representative of [[HypocriticalHumor Ethics]] brushes over it. Shinji isn't too happy about it either, nor are Misato and Ritsuko. Neither is Asuka, but for entirely different reasons.
107	* ChunkySalsaRule: The Babylon Hypervelocity Rifle simply shreds the lesser Eshmun spawns.
108	* TheCityNarrows: The Old London underground. The logistical and security nightmare that is a post-Harbinger battle cleanup certainly helps for those who wish to remain hidden.
109	* ClippedWingAngel: OneWingedAngel Mot, while still powerful, is structurally unstable and sacrificed its attack range for regeneration, which NEG uses to further delay it from reaching London-2.
110	* LesCollaborateurs: The Migou "cultists", who work for the Migou out of their own will. They're dangerous because, by and large, they're ''not'' cultists in the Lovecraftian sense. They may be fanatically devoted to the Migou, but within that frame of reference, their actions are fully sane.
111	* CollateralAngst: Toja's angst about failing to protect his sister is the main focus of that subplot, while his sister herself is rarely featured.
112	%%* CombatPragmatist: Almost everybody, considering the nature of the fic.%%ZCE
113	* CompetenceZone: Justified; it matches with real life. With the exceptions of Rei and Asuka, who were trained to pilot the [=EVAs=] from early age, everybody below 18 is about as competent as might be expected for their age, including Shinji, who survives because of raw talent, sheer luck and Unit-01's berserking. Everybody who is above 18 but not competent at what they're meant to do is an idiot, (about to go) crazy, or both.
114	* ConLang: Nazzadi appears to be an internally consistent language incorporating vocabulary from the Romance languages, but with a more Germanic grammatical structure.
115	* ConstantlyCurious: "Leli" is this and her sister Iry is an older version.
116	* ContainmentField:
117	** This is mentioned a lot of times when Arcanotech is involved, particularly in weapons.
118	** There are also containment wards used when Mot is causing Aeon War Syndrome.
119	* CosmicHorrorStory: It's a Mythos story. It has added ''Evangelion''. What else '''would''' it be?
120	* CouldntFindAPen: One prisoner tried to draw a summoning circle with her saliva before her hands were locked down by a straitjacket-type exoskeleton.
121	* CreepyChild:
122	** The two girls from the prologue.
123	** '''Rei'''. In-universe, she creeps out ''Gendo'', and he seems to be fond of her.
124	* CriticalAnnoyance: They didn't had time to reprogram Unit-01's LITAN AI to ignore some modifications, [[spoiler:namely the nuclear bomb in its chest]].
125	* CrypticConversation: Along with the whole prologue, pretty much all conversations that don't refer to immediate events (and sometimes those too) can be extremely cryptic.
126	* CultureClash: This leads to various issues regarding the Nazzadi and Xenomixes, especially in mixed families. There are also issues with the Nazzadi and Xenomixed among the older generation, to whom they're immediately associated with an unwinnable war.
127	* CurbStompBattle:
128	** Asherah, the re-skinned Sachiel, owning everything that NEG throws at it...and being smug about it.
129	---> '''Earth Scorpion''': Seriously. Sachiel is up there with Ramiel and Zeruel for destructive power. It's just that because it's the first to appear, that it tends to go down like a bitch in fanfics.
130	** The introduction of Asuka and Unit-02 is pretty much this. The music it is set to is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICdZZVD48Uo appropriately named]].
131	* CyberneticsEatYourSoul: Blanks are made by creating a secondary artificial neural network in captured humans and xenomixes. Notably, this trope name is literally false; the presence of a soul is something which can be quantified.
132	* {{Cyborg}}: The Military personnel are modified for war, starting with eye modifications as noted below, to serious modifications that fighter pilots undergo in order to be able to compete with the Migou air force.
133	* DeadpanSnarker: Almost every character shows some elements of this, most notably Shinji.
134	* DeathOfAThousandCuts: Lampshaded in the Mot fight with the Migou.
135	* {{Deconstruction}}: If one concept defines ''Aeon Entelechy Evangelion'', it's this. Insofar as reality applies in a setting with sorcery and lobotomized god-monsters, it has a tendency to rise from the depths, roaring, and slide its tentacles into any scene from the source material that it can.
136	* DecontaminationChamber: Used by naked Gendo in the beginning of Chapter 12.
137	%%* DelayingAction: Done against Mot.
138	* DepletedPhlebotinumShells: ''Colour''-boosted warheads. ''Magic'' Colour... that kills souls.
139	* DesignerBabies: The first Nazzadi were this. Continued by the Migou with the new-and-improved and most importantly ''loyal'' elite loyalist Nazzadi.
140	* DesolationShot: Old London. Steadily getting more desolate, too, it should be noted, even before the collateral damage from the Harbingers is taken into account.
141	* TheDeterminator: Gendo, as seen during the Unit 00 incident, is one. Likewise, throughout the entire Harbinger-3 incident, he was on just enough painkillers to allow him to think through the pain of his hands, without showing any sign of discomfort.
142	* DidntSeeThatComing: Discussed in Chapter 10. When the TITAN is reporting what is known about Mot, Misato remarks that at least they knew the Known Unknowns.
143	* DiscontinuityNod: It is noted that, in-universe, the Nephilim technology evolved from the useless ''Mortal Remains''-style [[{{Mon}} leash dogs]] (who are also nearly-guaranteed to go out of control and will always try to kill their handler first) to, among other models, the spider-like Tsuchigomos (which put the squishy human pilot inside a safe armour-plated pod, and are more like mini-Engels). The Loyalist Nazzadi seems to be a nod to the elf-life Nazzadi of the canon ''Cthulhu Tech''.
144	* DisasterScavengers: Non-AfterTheEnd variant with ghouls scavenging left-over munitions after the Asherah battle.
145	* {{Doorstopper}}: There are young-adult novels shorter than chapter 1 of ''AEE''. Chapter 2 was longer. Chapter 5 was ''longer''.
146	* DividedWeFall: The Ashcroft Foundation and the military have a little bit of internal conflict when it comes to Harbingers.
147	* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Maya getting overloaded with data.
148	* DontAnswerThat: The Investigators tried to question Shinji, who is assumed to be a prime target of those infiltrators in the airport, but he had a high-level lawyer do the talking for him.
149	* {{Dramatization}}: The in-universe movie about the Migou "First Strike" on Antarctica.
150	* DreamingOfThingsToCome: The German student from the 1920's dreams of the times of Aeon War. Maybe.
151	* EasyLogistics: Averted in general. It's also the reason why the NEG can't use strategic conventional nukes as mines against Mot again and why Unit-02 won't be in time transferring from Chicago to Europe.
152	* EldritchAbomination: Where to start? With the Harbingers, which are the [[Fanfic/AeonNatumEngel Heralds]] but ''even more'' Lovecraftian? With the fungoid insects of the Migou? With the Deep Ones? [[spoiler:Rei? Tropers/EarthScorpion?]]
153	* ElectronicEyes:
154	** Those who serve in the military are offered to replace their organic eyes with artificial ones (or harcontacts, hard permanent contact lenses, for those who refuse) due to things on the battlefield, mostly lasers, that tend to fry the eyeballs just by looking at them.
155	** [[spoiler:Asuka apparently lost her organic eyes due to looking at a nuclear detonation.]]
156	* EliteMooks:
157	** Loyalist Nazzadi come in an Elite variety, who have extensive cybernetic and genetic enhancements, and are issued Migou-level weaponry and gear.
158	** Combat Blanks, reprogrammed humans, are more akin to a light suit of power armor even before they have equipment, and have small antimatter reaction chambers where their guts would be which are used to fuel their integrated weapons and enhancements.
159	* EmergencyBroadcast: Broadcasted in English and Nazzadi languages.
160	* {{Epigraph}}: Every chapter starts with one. Some of the quotes have been appropriated from real-life sources, while others are thinly veiled {{Infodump}}s.
161	* EverythingsBetterWithRainbows: Except they are either colorless or of colour out of space.
162	* EverythingIsOnline: Averted. Since the Migou are the masters of hacking, the Grid is heavily protected, segmented into regional parts, and contact between them is allowed only at specific times through specific heavily monitored channels.
163	* EvilIsDeathlyCold:
164	** Mot, as a passive effect, appears to draw energy in from its surroundings.
165	** [[spoiler:Yam brought a sizable chunk of alien ocean with it, enough to flood the whole of Chicago-2. Said flood is extremely cold, enough to kill instantly anything unprotected.]]
166	* EvilDetectingBaby: Infants are particularly sensitive to anything strange. There is a much better alternative in...
167	* [[EvilDetectingDog Evil Detecting Cats]]: Cats are noted to be sensitive to anything abnormal, so they are used as detectors for that kind of thing, and are incorporated into the CATSEYE security system.
168	* EvilTowerOfOminousness:
169	** Gendo has one. In fact, he practices sorcery in a tower, which looks over a city, which is in a hidden cavern underneath another city composed largely of {{pyramid\|Power}}al {{arcolog\|y}}ies. That man has serious style.
170	** Mot transformed itself into the spire that kept extending both upwards and downwards in order to get inside the Geofront. After it was killed, Mot left behind a kilometer-tall spire-corpse for Ashcroft to clean up.
171	* {{Expy}}:
172	** Tsuchigumos are Lovecraftian, lobotomized [[Anime/GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex Tachikomas]]. One of the pilots of these things acted like a Tachikoma for good measure.
173	** Shinji is a [[Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya sarcastic bastard]].
174	** A remarkable number of Shinji's classmates seem to be (sometimes genderflipped) expies of various other anime characters.
175	* {{Expospeak}} and {{Infodump}}: Well done actually.
176	* EyeScream: Hollow socket variant with Rei. In the battle against Asherah, it [[spoiler:rips Unit 01's eye out with lamprey-like hands]].
177	* FailsafeFailure: Averted; most of the failsafe failures were the results of said failsafes being damaged or destroyed. Asuka complained on how they screwed things up when dealing with SubsystemDamage, though.
178	* FalseFlagOperation: [[spoiler:As done by the Migou operative in Chapter 7 to kill a senior NEG Army officer.]]
179	* FanDisservice: Chapter 14.
180	* FasterThanLightTravel: Averted; nobody has it, not even the Migou.
181	* TheFederation: The New Earth Government, of which the political branches are currently infighting on [[SlidingScaleOfLibertarianismAndAuthoritarianism the subject of regional autonomy and/or centralization]].
182	* FictionalDocument: Excerpts used as epigraphs for chapters and the diary from Chapter 14.
183	* FiringOneHanded: Subverted, as firing the Eva-scale Babylon rifle one-handed is a sure way to damage the Eva's arm, and hurt your own hand (and slap yourself in the face). Then again, one of Unit 01's arms was already crippled, so he didn't have much choice.
184	* FishOutOfTemporalWater: The German's experience with the Dream future.
185	* FieryCoverup: Asherah and the NEGA pretty much destroyed most of the clues and evidence of the unidentified agents in the airport by fighting each other (well, the former pwning the latter to be more accurate).
186	* FisherKingdom: Leng.
187	* ForensicDrama: Has elements of this, usually when the side-characters get the limelight, such as the forensic OIS team.
188	* {{Foreshadowing}}: All the time. At some points, it seems that dropping plot hints is something the author is actually addicted to.
189	* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: The visual autocensors reduce {{Eldritch Abomination}}s to a form that can be understood. Mostly. For a while. Then you go mad.
190	* {{Flanderization}}: In-universe, Theresa Ashcroft is treated as the sole inventor of arcanotechnology, while she was actually just the first to combine the various inaccuracies in the Standard Model and Quantum Mechanics into a single scientific field.
191	* ForegoneConclusion: It's a rewrite of an {{Elseworlds}} FusionFic following the canon storyline of a TV series set in a Mythos universe. The ''exact'' details are unknown, but details have a nasty tendency to drive people mad.
192	* ForgottenBirthday: Shinji's birthday, on top of a really bad day.
193	* FriendOrFoe: [[spoiler:The newly restarted network consisting of unmatured [=TITANs=] saw no difference between Unit-02 and Yam when firing the anti-orbital defenses.]]
194	* FunctionalMagic: Broadly categorized into Occult (old school magic), Empirical Sorcery (magic after applying the scientific method) and Theoretical Sorcery (the logical extreme of MadMathematician).
195	* FusionFic: In addition to merging ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'', ''TabletopGame/CthulhuTech'' and ''VideoGame/{{FEAR}}'', the ''Literature/RevelationSpace'' and ''TabletopGame/EclipsePhase'' stuff that started to appear heavily in later parts of ''ANE'' are now featured more prominently.
196	* GaiasVengeance: The old shoggoth systems waking up to battle the foreign Leng ecosystem.
197	* GiantFlyer: Harbingers 2 and 6.
198	* GhostTown: Rei lives in an otherwise abandoned {{arcology}} dome. It's all clean, and tidy [[spoiler:well, apart from her room]], and...empty.
199	* [[GiantWallOfWateryDoom Giant Wall of Spacetime-Violating Madness]]: Asherah turns into one.
200	* AGlassOfChianti: A MysteriousWatcher [[spoiler:who might be Nyarlathotep]] at the end of Chapter 12 had it until he dropped it (off-screen) and then squashed it further with his bare foot.
201	* GodzillaThreshold: Misato's second plan against Mot would have been rejected if the situation was less desperate, and meanwhile the Migou are deploying their actual battleships.
202	* GoMadFromTheRevelation: Duh.
203	** Shinji nearly goes mad from almost being stepped on by Asherah while he was at the airport.
204	** Auto-censors are not perfect.
205	* GrammarNazi: Kensuke does this to Toja in chapter 13.
206	* GratuitousGerman: Surprisingly good, accurate, untranslated German. Most of the time.
207	* TheGreatFlood: [[spoiler:Chicago-2 suffers a localized version.]]
208	* GrievousHarmWithABody: A Blank throwing what was left of her HumanShield at the enemy.
209	* HalfTruth: A lot of these are thrown around.
210	* HazmatSuit: Usually seen in Colour-contaminated areas.
211	* HeavilyArmoredMook: The Combat Blanks.
212	* HomeschooledKids / CorruptionOfAMinor: NEG has forbidden homeschooling on the basis that cultists would use it to their advantage, basically legally training the next-generation of cultists. Played with when Shinji complains that the high brass made him go to school when homeschooling would be much more efficient in his case, considering that breaking the no-homeschooling law is nothing compared to him being drafted as a ChildSoldier.
213	* HugeHolographicHead: Gendo does this in the Father/Son reunion scene, although it's actually just rendered onto Shinji's Augmented Reality-glasses.
214	* HumanAliens: The Nazzadi are so human compared to the other sentient beings that you will forget that they were aliens in the first place, especially the younger generation. Because...well, genetically, they're an artificially-created HumanSubspecies.
215	* HumansAreMorons: How almost everybody non-human views humanity in general and the NEG in particular. This view is especially held by the Migou (and @/EarthScorpion).
216	* HumansAreSpecial: Subverted. We're an species descended from out-of-control Elder Thing hypertech on a world which is important because it's claimed by much more powerful species than us, and we're the idiots mucking around with technology we don't understand.
217	* HumanShield: A Blank swiftly uses a captured medic to protect herself from enemy fire. NEG soldiers are trained to ignore human hostages.
218	* HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace: As seen in the one big dimensional rip in the sky near Chicago-2, courtesy of Harbinger-6.
219	* InertialDampening: Aircraft pilots are heavily modified with cybernetics so that they could tolerate high [=Gs=] in order to compete with their Migou counterparts...and they still can't cope with Misato's driving.
220	* InstantDeathRadius: Mot is a Ramiel expy, so it's a given. It gets a little bit more literal after the NEG's initial assault.
221	* InstitutionalApparel: With the built-in straitjacket.
222	* {{Invisibility}}: One of DAEVA's (now rechristened as DAHACA) selling points.
223	* {{Irony}}: Director Khoury (named after the parents who never existed in the first place), a Nazzadi ex-soldier serving on the invasion fleet (which has no real history), currently holding a position of Director of Secret Services (which officially does not exist).
224	* ItAmusedMe: Nyarlathotep's agenda for almost everything.
225	* JawBreaker: [[spoiler:Asuka rips off Yam's jaw while falling down from near-orbit.]]
226	* {{Jerkass}}: A mild version with Ritsuko, who unlike in canon doesn't act nice, and is usually blatantly unemphatic, but she is so consistent about it that she comes off as less of jerkass she was in later parts of ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'', and as more of a person who tries to cope with her job that has a very real (and inevitable) risk of being driven to insanity.
227	* JigsawPuzzlePlot: ...with just about the right ratio of answers to new questions. Note that unlike the fic's source material, the picture the pieces make when put together actually makes sense...appropriately, in a very horrifying, Lovecraftian sort of way. Also, even knowing what the hell was going on in ''Evangelion'' won't help you much here.
228	* KansasCityShuffle:
229	** With everyone's attention focused on Mot and the AWS it generates, various agencies and factions make moves in both open warfare and the SecretWar.
230	** Rei in Unit-00 acting as a decoy for Mot, along with lots of sports cars.
231	* LampshadeHanging: Really quite common, in the form of:
232	** LemonyNarrator
233	* LawOfInverseRecoil: Averted, and the FiringOneHanded example below is one of the reasons why.
234	* LaymansTerms: Common, both in narration and by characters, usually Misato telling Ritsuko to repeat something, only in human language (figuratively).
235	* LegoGenetics: Averted. Gene fixing is a very complicated process with its own share of problems, like a genetically-enhanced math genius being unable to recognize faces, including her own in the mirror.
236	* LetNoCrisisGoToWaste: A lot of people use the chaos caused by the Harbingers showing up (and the immediate aftermath) to further their own goals.
237	* LittleHeroBigWar: As important as the Evangelions and the Harbingers are, the Aeon War doesn't revolve around them.
238	* {{Lockdown}}: Heavy quarantine on the Budapest-infected locations. Certain [[Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt specialists]] were sent to deal with it.
239	* LockedOutOfTheFight: Asuka and Unit-02, locked out of the Mot fight with the very untimely transfer.
240	* LostColony: The Nazzadi fake memories have Earth as one of the renegade colonies as a result of slower-that-light travel.
241	* LosingYourHead and HelpingHands: The nervous system of the Combat Blanks (brainwashed, [[{{Cyborg}} enhanced]] people) is modified to be autonomous, to the point where getting shot in the head won't stop them and severed limbs are still under their control.
242	* LovecraftLite: Has surface elements of this.
243	* MadScientist: As before, Ritsuko is slowly creeping toward this...and is all too aware of it.
244	* MagicFromTechnology: Because the Migou don't have Shoggoth heritage which enables humans to use magic, they have to rely on specific implants to reproduce it.
245	* MarshmallowHell: Subverted. Unfortunately for Shinji, Misato was wearing thick, hard, and above all, non-squishy armour.
246	* MassTeleportation: [[spoiler:Asuka accidentally tore a hole in reality while trying to locate Yam's core]], and as a result [[spoiler:both Unit-02 and the Harbinger were displaced far up in the atmosphere]].
247	* MechanicalEvolution: In the very round-about way, Humanity is the result of the still-functional Shoggoth machinery trying to work without its now-dead masters.
248	* MeleeATrois: The NEG, Migou, and Mot were engaged in this before the first two backed off to lick their wounds.
249	* MeaningfulRename
250	* MindProbe: Used as a standard technique by the [[StateSec OIS]]. There is even comparative discussion by OIS agents on the ease of probing dead brains (and how decomposition affects the procedure) as compared to live ones.
251	* MindRape:
252	** Looking at a Harbinger, even through auto-censored video feeds, induces insanity and nightmares ''very'' quickly.
253	** Used by various groups to get information, or just to inflict torment.
254	* MiniMecha:
255	** The Tsuchigumo, as befits their [[Anime/GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex heritage]].
256	** The Recon mecha are described as being borderline PoweredArmor.
257	* MinovskyPhysics: Arcanotech, or as WordOfGod said it in the ''FanFic/NobodyDies'' thread, a "Convenient HandWave". That doesn't stop rather in-depth discussion of the physics behind everything in the forum thread, of course.
258	* {{Mockumentary}}: ''Instructional Lessons For the Youth of Today and Stuff'', the TV show that Misato watches in Chapter 4, is styled like one.
259	* MobileMaze: Implied to be one of the security measures under London-2. Misato still got lost even though it was off.
260	* TheMole: Besides the Infiltrator Blanks, there are also willing followers who truly believe that surrendering to the Migou is a good idea.
261	* [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Morally Dubious Corporate Executive]]: The Ashcroft Foundation and their representatives, compared to the altruistic shining knights of canon ''TabletopGame/CthulhuTech''.
262	-->"They held their posts at the whim of the Senate and the President, they were not democratically elected, and they were technically speaking, [[BlatantLies nothing more than advisors]].\
263	And if you believed that, then you might be interested in purchasing some prime real estate in [[DeathWorld Tibet]]."
264	* MoreDakka:
265	** The NEG high command's plan against Eshmun.
266	--->''The tactics could be summarised as [[VideoGame/TeamFortress2 “Use A Gun. And If That Doesn’t Work, Use More Gun”]].''
267	** Unit 02 is positively covered in dakka-causing devices, and [[BeamSpam lasers]].
268	** It has been noted that while tanks follow a "One Big Gun" school of design, mecha tend to be more based around multiple low-recoil weapons like lasers and missiles.
269	* MythologyGag:
270	** Post-Natum Modification Bill.
271	** Shinji thinking himself to be better than the prince in the fairy tale "Literature/SnowWhite" (Shinji was familiar with the original, {{NSFW}} version.)
272	** When Shinji is learing to properly pilot Unit-01, it sports the original purple/green paintjob specifically made for testing purposes.
273	** The show Misato was watching in ch. 4 ruthlessly (and hilariously) deconstructs ''Evangelion'''s "hedgehog dilemma" theme.
274	** A medic dies not long after he is introduced. His name is Marek [[VideoGame/FirstEncounterAssaultRecon Janckowski]].
275	** After being submerged in blue LCL used in what may have been the memory-backing up procedure, Rei's hair was temporarily dyed blue.
276	** The "recreation area" where Rei lives is a ten by ten patch of grass with a tree (trans)planted in it, with a [[VideoGame/FirstEncounterAssaultRecon swing]] on it.
277	** As both the Evangelion and Engel Projects are researching the corpse of Eshmun, a doctor from the Engel Project said that they have codenamed the Engel design based off its offspring "Shamshel".
278	* MySignificanceSenseIsTingling: Harbinger-based Aeon War Syndrome usually does this region-wide, with Mot's presence making various sensitive people go crazy, and the Children seems to have more "natural" version of this when Harbingers are about to show up.
279	* MysteriousWatcher: Near the end of Chapter 12.
280	* NeckLift: Done by the Heavy Combated Infantry Blank, in Chapter 7.
281	* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: The technical classification of the Evangelions, "''arcanocyberxenobiological organisms''" translates roughly as ''magic cyborg alien robots''.
282	* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown:
283	** Shinji on Eshmun after the former snapped.
284	** Corporal Xuan Do on the Blank in chapter 7.
285	* NoTranshumanismAllowed: Like in ''Cthulhu Tech'', thanks to Nazzadi leaders any research into anything transhuman was stopped (at least officially). Unlike in ''Cthulhu Tech'', the influence of those old Nazzadi leaders is starting to fade.
286	* NothingIsScarier: In Chapter 17 when Asuka used the camera feeds to figure out the situation with the Harbinger attack, she finds out that the Harbinger was nowhere in sight and that everything was way too calm.
287	* NuclearOption: Arcanochromatic nukes. Not used because of the risk of possible Migou response with strategic orbital bombardment. Conventional nukes are fair play, though, as the...
288	* NuclearWeaponsTaboo: ...is thoroughly, thoroughly averted from the source material. Although the nuclear weapons used aren't (always) conventional ones, that's just because the use of [[MinovskyPhysics variant r-state electrons]] (which act like muons) make the reaction easier to achieve, to the extent that ''tanks'' can fire small nukes. Which leads to...
289	* NukeEm : ...as a standard response. Harbinger-5, Mot, is hit by a 12 megatonne pure fusion device, to soften it up, before the Evas and the Navy attack from long range. [[spoiler:It doesn't go as planned.]]
290	** Nuclear weapons are then used against it ''again'', [[spoiler:in the form of a nuclear warhead mounted inside Unit-01's chest, with spacetimed warped so that all directions point away from the Eva. For once, it actually works]].
291	* OneSideOfTheStory: After reviewing the Harbinger-4 battle, Asuka criticizes Shinji's dismal performance under the assumption that he also had at least had 8 years of training.
292	* OneSteveLimit: Averted. Shinji's foster little sister is named Hikary. Considering the number of people named either Hikari/y or Horaki in ''ANE'', Tropers/EarthScorpion is probably doing it on purpose.
293	* OneWingedAngel: Mot, going from the equivalent of Series!Ramiel to Rebuild!Ramiel.
294	* OneWorldOrder: WordOfGod says that the NEG (or at least the Unionist, rather than Federalist parts of it) is trying to systematically, and slowly, lessen the difference between the the former nations that make it up, with the goal of both sanitising the culture of harmful (like, say, Cthulhu-worshipping) influences, and preventing internal division which might weaken it. The NEG has explicitly been called a [[Creator/StephenBaxter proto-Interim Coalition of Mankind]], which is to say, like a secular, efficent [[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}} Imperium of Man]].
295	* TheOnlyOne: Averted; everybody who are expected to be competent at their jobs will be competent. There is a little of this trope with Asuka, who feels that most of the higher ups are compromising her piloting, though she knows better.
296	* OnlyAFleshWound: Ritsuko after the CastFromHitPoints ritual.
297	* OperationBlank:
298	** Operation Xerxes, a MoreDakka plan against Harbinger-4.
299	** Operation Ankou, NukeEm plan against Harbinger-5.
300	* OurGodsAreDifferent: Now renamed to Harbingers, with the term Herald being a supercategory for the former.
301	* OurSoulsAreDifferent: For humans and their derivatives (or, at least, ''baseline'' humans), souls are useless evolutionary baggage that come from being Shoggoth-descended. That's an anomaly; most creatures, like the Migou, use their souls (which is to say, [[DoingInTheWizard higher dimensional parts of their body]]) to think. Shoggoths are meant to, but Earth-life is broken, and, against design, has managed to evolve sentience, then sapience, only using three dimensions. Parapsychics and sorcerers tap into this heritage to fuel their powers.
302	* OutgrownSuchSillySuperstitions: Averted. While weakened, organized religion still exists and fares well. Some also proclaim that the empirical "soul" discovered by science is different from the spiritual soul.
303	* {{Overheating}}: [[spoiler:Asuka does this deliberately so that Unit-02 won't freeze in the water.]]
304	* ParanoiaFuel: A few In-Universe examples:
305	** Played with when Misato suspects that Shinji, being Gendo's son, might be masterfully hiding his [[Fanfic/ThousandShinji true intentions]] behind the mask of normalcy, until dismissing it as paranoia on her part.
306	** The almost undetectable Blanked Infiltrators are this for the NEG military.
307	* {{Pastiche}}: Chapter 14. One massive Lovecraft-homage, written in his style. And then finished by a preview where Misato promises more {{Fanservice}} in Book II.
308	* PathOfInspiration: Played with, for the Nazzadi religion/philosophy. It was fabricated by the Migou to maximize their efficiency, and also designed to be cult-resistant by encouraging people to be open with each other; the thing is that it ''works'', to the extent that some humans have begun to practice it, too.
309	* PeopleJars: The medical variation with Rei inside [[spoiler:and then Shinji]].
310	* PhlebotinumAnalogy: When Ritsuko explains what they found out researching Eshmun's corpse to Misato, the latter mentions "classical" waves and particles. This annoyed Ritsuko.
311	* PistolWhipping: Xuan Do beats the Infiltrator Blank with the butt of her rifle.
312	* PlayingPossum: What a Migou cultist ends up doing in Chapter 7, completely by accident.
313	* PointDefenseless: Averted. Those laser point-defense systems on the Evangelions are good at their jobs.
314	* PoisonedWeapons: Poisoned tiny hair-like carbon-fibre syringes are used [[spoiler:by a Migou agent to assassinate a Marshal]].
315	* PostCyberPunk: The [[Main/{{Arcology}} arcologies]], and the New Earth Government in general. Even more so than in ''FanFic/AeonNatumEngel'' with deeper fusion of ''[[Creator/AlastairReynolds Revelation Space]]'' and ''TabletopGame/EclipsePhase''.
316	* PowerCreepPowerSeep: The reason why @/EarthScorpion didn't completely replace ''TabletopGame/CthulhuTech'' with ''TabletopGame/EclipsePhase'' is that the latter's elements break a lot of NGE's story pillars. With the [[BrainUploading digitizing of the mind]] and [[BodySurf resleeving]], Shinji and Asuka are completely unnecessary when Gendo could just fork Rei to fill in the gaps.
317	* PowderKegCrowd: The people at the airport panicked; some fled, some attacked the police. Of course, the fact that [[EldritchAbomination Harbinger-3]] was currently attacking might have had something to do with how volatile they were. And the [[StateSec OIS]] sub-storyline seems to suggest that it was an arranged cover for some other group.
318	* PrecociousCrush: Toja got himself at least one such crush from a 9-year old (or a whole class of them, depending on how you interpret the scene) because he tried to save one of his sister's classmates.
319	* PropheticFallacy: Implied when Mot shows sooner than expected, not to mention more powerful than expected. As of Chapter 18 this is questioned even further.
320	* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: The Loyalist Nazzadi, though the new Elite dropped this. Some of the Traditionalist families are also like this.
321	* {{Pun}}: "Eva EVA equipment"; it got a chuckle out of Ritsuko.
322	* [[PunchedAcrossTheRoom Punched Across The City]]: Harbinger-3 does this to Unit 01.
323	* PurpleProse: Avoids the usual shortcomings associated with this style...most of the time.
324	* PyrrhicVictory: [[spoiler:Yam is killed, but Chicago-2, the capital of NEG, is a flooded, unrecoverable mess, with millions of casualties. Three of the Ashcroft board of representatives who were in the capital are killed. And more personally, Asuka's first official Harbinger kill will be forever overshadowed by the above.]]
325	* RaceLift: Several characters were Type-1 uplifted to Nazzadi or xenomixes, to represent the demographics of the setting.
326	* RapidAging: Involved in Project Herkunft Replica training.
327	* RealRobot: The non-Eva mechas are this, and the Evas themselves are more closer to this when the AT-Fields are not involved. In fact, this appears to be a setting element; Asuka criticizes Shinji for failing to use Unit 01's AT-Field to get away with firing the Babylon one-handedly, with a strong implication that she ''could'' do it.
328	* RealityWarper: The AT-Fields, and anything with the ability to produce one.
329	* RealityWarpingIsNotAToy
330	* ReligiousAndMythologicalThemeNaming: The Harbinger codenames are based off Canaanite mythology; this might be considered a MythologyGag, in both senses of the phrase, because the Caananite faith was, like Judaism, a semitic religion.
331	* TheRemake: of ''FanFic/AeonNatumEngel''.
332	* RightHandVersusLeftHand: Implied with the OSS, better known as Secret Services.
333	* RitualMagic: Imported from ''Cthulhu Tech'', this is the only type of magic humanity can use. Used to [[spoiler:revive Shinji]].
334	* TheRoaringTwenties: The events described in the Chapter 14 Diary take place in the post-WWI Germany.
335	* RobotWar: The execution of Operation Xerxes is heavily coordinated by TITAN AI network; something that the NEG military normally restricts more, due to the threat of Migou hacking. It has also been stated that a lot of vehicles feature the human crew monitoring and guiding the Limited AI systems that actually control them.
336	* RoomFullOfCrazy: Rei's home, at least from Shinji's perspective.
337	* RougeAnglesOfSatin: Averted, mostly. It's rather well edited, with only a slight tendency to [[SesquipedalianLoquaciousness excess verbosity]], especially when the author is expositioning, and very few grammar/spelling gaffes.
338	* SadistTeacher: Ms. Sweet-Corazon, the physics teacher. Of course, considering [[Literature/GoingPostal her name]]...
339	* SadlyMythTaken: The invading aliens were mistakenly identified as a Migou, a species that are actually a part of Rapine Storm, but this late in the war the correction is hardly practical.
340	* SanitySlippage: For obvious reasons.
341	* SceneryPorn: Chapter 5 has ''higher dimensional non-Euclidean'' scenery porn, where detail is lovingly lavished over a metaphorical description of the higher dimensions close to Earth.
342	* SecretTestOfCharacter: Calvin likes to make these for Asuka, to the point that Asuka is almost starting to think that all of her interactions with "Uncle Cal" are these.
343	* SelfDestructMechanism: The Migou biologically dissolve very fast, seemingly as a part of this trope. The Combat Blanks also explode upon death, and the Migou used infiltrator-Blanks with implanted antimatter capsules to decapitate the North American NEG command.
344	* ShapingYourAttacks: Making the nuke explode in one specific direction without destroying everything else, like the Evangelion where said nuke is housed.
345	* ShapedLikeItself: Description of more mundane (and sometimes not so mundane) objects tend to be like this, using BuffySpeak most of the time.
346	* ShieldBash: [[spoiler:Rei stabbing Mot with the melted piece of spaceship hull.]]
347	* ShootTheHostage: Standard NEG Military policy is to ignore {{Human Shield}}s.
348	* ShownTheirWork: The author is a physics student, and it shows.
349	* ShoutOut: [[ShoutOut/AeonEntelechyEvangelion All the time]].
350	* ShowWithinAShow: Misato watches a scene from ''[[Film/HammerHorror Doom of the Revenge of the Baroness of the Darkness of the West]]''. Later on, Shinji, Toja and Kensuke see a bad patriotic film depicting the events of the Migou "First Strike" on Antarctica, obviously [[MythologyGag based on]] the similarly overacted "Second Impact" film in the Evangelion series.
351	* SlidingScaleOfRobotIntelligence: Various, starting with dumb [=LAIs=], moving up to muses, a form of personal assistant programme, and ending with TITAN networks, although nobody has a idea of the latter's level of sapience or if it even exists.
352	* SlidingScaleOfVillainThreat:
353	** While waking up Cthulhu is probably the worst thing that can happen to everybody, on their own the Esoteric Order of Dagon is the weakest player in the Aeon War. Their resources and manpower are limited, and the only reason they aren't wiped out is that the big boys of Aeon War are too busy killing each other.
354	** After their initial success in China, the Rapine Storm progress was halted and the new quarantine measures (the no-man's overkilling zone) nearly guarantees that no Storm army will pass, and due to their insanity they keep wasting resources trying and failing to breach the quarantine.
355	** The Children of Chaos (Nyarlathotep) and Death Shadows (Hastur) cults. Their goal is to subvert humanity from the inside, and even with the NEG's infamously strong security, these guys keep finding holes in it.
356	** The Migou are the main enemies of humanity. They have enough firepower to easily defeat NEG and bomb humanity to the stone age. The reason they haven't done that already is that they are afraid of waking up something worse in the process.
357	** Various {{Eldritch Abomination}}s, both active and sleeping.
358	* SoapboxSadie: Sad to say, quite a few members of the class seem to consider Hikary one of these.
359	* SomebodySetUpUsTheBomb:
360	** The Migou successfully conquered most of northern parts of North America thanks to the infiltrator blank with a built-in anti-matter bomb that killed most of regional command stationed in Alaska just as the attack started. Since then, NEG security has become even tighter.
361	** In chapter 12, this happens [[spoiler:during the Mot fight, with the bombs that were set up during the evacuation chaos earlier]].
362	* SophisticatedAsHell: A noted element in the narration. It seems to be some by-product of mixing SesquipedalianLoquaciousness and {{Deadpan Snark\|er}}.
363	* SoulPower: The PsychicPowers and Arcane magic seems to be this.
364	* SpiderTank: The Tsuchigumo model of Nephilim, a kind of lobotomised EldritchAbomination based on a spin-off from the original Evangelion Project, are rather arachnid.
365	* SpoiledBrat: According to Hikary, most of the school is like this as a result of them being children of Ashcroft elite. She also claims that it's averted with the Horaki sisters, where their father made sure that they understood that being a part of Ashcroft elite is no reason to be become snotty. Of course, she might be an UnreliableNarrator for that...
366	* SpySatellites: A few remaining satellites that were not shot down by the Migou. Their usefulness is hindered by Migou's orbital superiority.
367	* SquareCubeLaw: One of the points the author mercilessly lampshades on when the Mechas are present, [=EVAs=] included.
368	* StarfishAliens: The Migou.
369	* StateSec: Although cracks do exist, on the whole Earth Scorpion's interpretation of ''TabletopGame/CthulhuTech'' StateSec in the Core and Vade Mecum basically makes them something that not even [[VideoGame/MetalGear Solid Snake]] will sneak by, and also making it impossible for the Damnation View's [[FanonDiscontinuity "Everything is Falling Apart" scenario]] to happen.
370	* SufficientlyAnalyzedMagic: With magic being just a very special form of physics (one that drives people insane), the scientific method is naturally applicable and consequently applied. Scientists just have a tendency to die, a lot, from handing [[ThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow phenomena men (and women) don't quite know the real danger of]] (just like radiation science in its infancy, only with more insanity and less people being run over by horses).
371	* SummoningRitual: One asylum prisoner tried to make a summoning circle under the influence of Mot before being restrained. One of the military suggested that Mot is a result of Migou's botched summoning.
372	* SuperPrototype: The Evangelions to Engels, in the sense that the Cray supercomputer was a prototype for a gaming desktop. From a strategic standpoint against conventional enemies like the Migou, the Eva aren't worth very much either, as the Engels can be mass-produced and don't require {{Child Soldier}}s as pilots. From a tactical standpoint, on the other hand, an Evangelion will tear a formation of Nazzadi Loyalists a new one. On the other hand, from a strategic standpoint against enemies like the Harbingers, the Evas are indispensable.
373	* SupernaturalSensitivity
374	* SuperSoldier: The Replicas, Combat Blanks and the Loyalist Elites.
375	* SuperSpeed: Harbinger-4 is capable of traveling at super-sonic speed, but it's unclear if it was responsible for the anomalous signal in Chapter 4.
376	* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: Maya's report about not screwing up taking care of Ritsuko's cats while she is away.
377	* SwitchingPOV: Alternate [=PoV=] characters tend, on the whole, to have nasty things happen to them.
378	* TankGoodness: While there are still mecha, especially Engels, they have been toned down in favor of hovertank-like land-hugging gunships and tanks.
379	* {{Techno\|Babble}}-{{Magibabble}}
380	* TechnologyPorn: The technologies used in the story tend to get explained, even when they're using purely fictional laws of physics to operate, and, of course, certain things (like, say, the [[TabletopGame/EclipsePhase Total Information Tactical Analysis Networks]]) get rather loving descriptions of their operating principles.
381	* {{Thememobile}}: Ritsuko at one point calls Misato's car "Misatomobile." Misato is not amused.
382	* ThemeNaming: The Space-Combat Project has a spear theme, with the facility in Germany named after one of three divine spears of Japan.
383	* ThereAreNoTherapists: Averted, thanks to the story's ''Cthulhu Tech'' heritage. Shinji is actually subjected to mandatory counseling, to prevent him from going crazy.
384	* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: Seems to be the general policy of the military.
385	* TheyWouldCutYouUp: What Gendo says that various R&D departments would do to Shinji to find out why he can pilot the Evangelion. And Gendo is completely honest, right?
386	* ThinkNothingOfIt: Xuan Do's ''Just doing my job'' [[spoiler:just right before and immediately after she assassinates a Marshal on the Eastern Front]].
387	* TimTaylorTechnology: Mocked in chapter 12.
388	* TooHappyToLive: Chapter 6 is pretty much this.
389	* TrackingDevice: [[spoiler:A few of the spikes Asuka fired at Yam have tracking devices in them, tagging it so they could track in the murky waters.]]
390	* TranslationConvention: Averted with the sections of untranslated Nazzadi language. However, you can normally work out the meaning from the context, and some fans have tried to build a basic translation guide.
391	* UnfriendlyFire: Done by TheMole.
392	* UrbanWarfare: We see a glimpse of it in chapter 7.
393	* ViewersAreGeniuses: Hey, guys, let's spend a paragraph or two explaining how what the Harbinger is about to do is impossible, before it does it anyway. And, of course, the author much prefers ''implication'' to actually stating plot elements (while loving to {{Infodump}} on technological matters).
394	* ViralTransformation: The Leng ecosystem, a combination of [[VideoGame/{{Starcraft}} Zerg Creep]], VideoGame/SidMeiersAlphaCentauri xenofungus, [[VideoGame/CommandAndConquerTiberianSeries Tiberium]] (of the really bad ''[[VideoGame/CommandAndConquerTiberianSun Tiberian Sun]]'' variety) and god knows what else, spreads out in Storm-controlled territory.
395	** The old shoggoth machinery is now turning the Earth native ecosystem into something more...efficient, in order to counter the Leng ecosystem.
396	* WhatWeNowKnowToBeTrue: Real-life modern science is treated like this whenever it gets mentioned.
397	* WeakenedByTheLight: Places that are designed and illuminated in such way that are no shadows, as a security measure to prevent [[CastingAShadow shadow-using entities]] from infiltrating.
398	* WeWillHavePerfectHealthInTheFuture: Courtesy of Genefixing. Except for those who get the short end of the stick by having side-effects caused by said genefixing, like Imi who is in constant pain and has to use painkillers.
399	* WorldBuilding
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403	''I have a bad feeling about this...''
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Context Fanfic / AeonEntelechyEvangelion