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| 2 | [-[[caption-width-right:349:Everybody's favorite FieryRedhead now with ComboPlatterPowers [[http://marcoasalazarm.deviantart.com/art/SWOE-LHOK-cover-2-Colored-211190091\ |
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| 5 | ->''Having been conceived by donor sperm, Asuka never knew who her biological father was, but she assumed he was someone extraordinary. She had no idea how right she was, but she's going to find out.'' |
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| 7 | Shortly before arriving on Tokyo-3, Asuka discovers that she is developing weird abilities: she has great strength, great speed, is all but invulnerable, has different kinds of vision... |
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| 9 | Initially the popularity of the superwomen of Tokyo-3 bothers her and drives her to create a superheroic identity with the intent of earning extra praise. However, things don't 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. She realizes many people--including her sperm donor's father--had great expectations placed upon her, and it feels as if she's letting them down. As if she needs to mature further and become a different, better kind of heroine... |
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| 11 | ''[[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 discovery of her powers, to her pitched battles against supervillains, and beyond...along with how she deals with her growing attraction towards Shinji Ikari. |
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| 13 | Compare with ''Fanfic/LastChildOfKrypton'', another story where an Eva character gains Superman powers, and with ''Fanfic/ChildrenOfAnElderGod'' and ''Fanfic/ThousandShinji'' (both darker takes on the concept of Evangelion characters gaining powers). |
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| 17 | !!Tropes: |
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| 21 | * AccidentalPervert: Asuka saw Shinji half-naked (while he was changing clothes) when she accidentally uses her X-ray vision for the first time. Cue her blushing brightly and looking away. |
| 22 | * 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 emerged, she had to choose between remaining a pilot or being a superheroine full-time. |
| 23 | * AchillesHeel: Being half-Kryptonian, Asuka is weak against Kryptonite, and she can't recharge her powers under the light of a red sun. |
| 24 | * 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. |
| 25 | * 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, along 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. |
| 26 | * AdaptationalCurves: Due to being half-Kryptonian and maintaining her exercise routine, Asuka’s body becomes more muscular, stronger and curvier. Shinji cannot take his eyes off of her because he thinks she is beautiful and gorgeous. |
| 27 | * AdaptationSpeciesChange: Asuka is half-Kryptonian. |
| 28 | * AliensSpeakingEnglish: Asuka, who [[spoiler:is half-Kryptonian]] is fluent in English, German and Japanese. Several alien enemies of ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' [[spoiler:like Brainiac]] show up and play the trope straight. |
| 29 | * AlmostKiss: Kaji ruins the moment. |
| 30 | * AllJustADream: In chapter thirteen'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 just as she's about to kiss him...Pen Pen wakes Shinji up. Shinji's reaction to realizing it was just a dream, and the penguin has woken him up from the best dream he's ever had, was...''not'' serene. |
| 31 | * AmazonChaser: Shinji feels is very attracted to Asuka, who is a superb fighter, an excellent HumongousMecha pilot, and ''[[Franchise/{{Superman}} a super-heroine who can not only pulverize a mountain with her bare fists, but is faster than a speeding bullet]]''. |
| 32 | * AmazonianBeauty: The story puts an emphasis on Asuka gaining an impressively muscular build, and Shinji being attracted to her partly because of it. |
| 33 | * AncientConspiracy: As Supergirl, Asuka must fight against giant monsters, alien beings, an evil cult, and a hidden secret cabal comprised of old madmen whose goal consists of killing everybody on the planet and merging their souls to give birth a new god. Said secret cabal is ''not'' happy with the unforeseen appearance of a super-powered girl coming from out of nowhere and interfering with their plans. |
| 34 | * 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]]. |
| 35 | * AnythingYouCanDoICanDoBetter: The whole reason Asuka becomes a superhero is so that she can upstage Wonder Girl in the headlines of the local tabloid. |
| 36 | * ApocalypseCult: [[spoiler:The Light of the Divine, who believe the Angels are God's judgment.]] |
| 37 | * AppropriatedAppellation: When Asuka started out her superheroic career, the ''Tokyo Tattler''--a tabloid--dubbed her ''Power Girl'', a name she took a liking to. Later in the story, she resolved to change her costume and hero name, and she asked Shinji what they were calling the new superwoman. Shinji told her that the ''Tokyo Tattler'' had given her the moniker of ''Supergirl'', and she decided to take that name for herself. |
| 38 | * AttentionWhore: At the beginning, Asuka becomes a superheroine to earn extra attention. However, her motivation gradually changes as she becomes a true heroine. |
| 39 | * 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 while also enduring all the 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...). |
| 40 | * AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: Although Asuka and Shinji argue a lot, after a certain point, Asuka starts to deliberately make it so that Shinji feels better (such as stopping to show off her superior strength, because he feels more enthusiastic when he thinks he is catching up to her). |
| 41 | * BadassCape: Asuka wears Supergirl's classic red cape. She looks more intimidating and more dangerous wearing it. |
| 42 | * BadassInDistress: In chapter 19, Shinji was captured by a terrorist group, and Asuka had to rescue him. |
| 43 | * BackToBackBadasses: Asuka and Rei (Wonder Girl) team up a few times in the story. |
| 44 | ** Once when fighting off Brainiac. |
| 45 | ** Again when facing down Parasite. |
| 46 | * BattleCouple: Shinji and Asuka, until [[spoiler:Asuka got taken out of the roster of active pilots]]. Up to that moment, they had fought many battles together against {{Eldritch Abomination}}s. |
| 47 | * BeautifulDreamer: In chapter 19, Shinji gazes at Asuka as she sleeps, and he marvels at how peaceful she looks, thinking he could spend hours watching her. |
| 48 | -->''Turning his head, he saw that he and Asuka were mostly still in the same position they'd fallen asleep in; her head wasn't on his shoulder anymore, but her arm was still draped across him.''\ |
| 49 | -->''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.'' |
| 50 | * BecomingTheBoast: Asuka often boasted about being the best pilot ever, and the greatest fighter against the [[{{EldritchAbomination}} Angels]]; 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}} superheroine]]'', and thanks to the personal growth she experiences along the way, she shows she can take down anything and anyone. |
| 51 | * BecomingTheMask: Asuka decided to pretend she was a superheroine...and throughout the story, she becomes one. |
| 52 | * BelligerentSexualTension: In 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 apologize for everything without meaning it. They also clashed due to the differing ways they used to deal with the very similar pains of their respective pasts. Throughout it all, deep down though they liked each other. However, as Asuka starts to try to live up to expectations her Supergirl role has placed upon her, her temper gradually softens, and Shinji becomes more assertive, allowing their relationship to progress. |
| 53 | * BeneathTheMask: During a heart-to-heart talk with Shinji, Asuka says she has worn so many 'masks' since she was a little child that 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 (both figurative and literal) of a superheroine; then, 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 much so that she asks Shinji to be her confidant, because he saw beneath her masks and did not run away. |
| 54 | * BetaOutfit: Asuka’s Power Girl costume was a preliminary design, and later on it was replaced by her final Supergirl outfit. |
| 55 | * BigDamnHeroes: |
| 56 | ** [[spoiler:Shinji]] when he uses an Eva power cord to rescue [[spoiler:Asuka and Unit 02 from Leiliel.]] |
| 57 | ** Asuka when she pulled [[spoiler:Touji out of Unit-03]] after [[spoiler:Bardiel hijacked it]]. |
| 58 | ** Asuka when [[spoiler:Armisael was about to kill Rei. She flew onto the battlefield, yanked the alien monster off of Unit-00, and blew it up]]. |
| 59 | * TheBigDamnKiss: Shinji and Asuka kissed for first time in chapter 19 after he confessed, while they were floating in the night sky above the city. |
| 60 | -->''Kaji didn't interrupt them this time, and their lips touched. The moment he'd dreamed about for what had felt like an eternity had finally come, in the night sky above Tokyo-3, and it was even better than he could've imagined.'' |
| 61 | * BioAugmentation: Asuka has increased strength, speed…thanks to alien genetics from her mother's sperm donor. |
| 62 | * 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. |
| 63 | * {{Blackmail}}: In chapter 8's omake, Touji tells Asuka he knows she is Power Girl, and that he'll tell everyone unless she puts on a skimpy bikini and models it while Kensuke takes pictures. However, Asuka did not react as he thought she would do (cue violence). |
| 64 | * BlackmailBackfire: In chapter 8's omake, Touji tells Asuka he knows she is Power Girl, and that he'll tell everyone unless she puts on a skimpy bikini and models it while Kensuke takes pictures. Touji thought the next step would be profit, but the only thing he received was a superpowered beating for being a pervert. |
| 65 | * BloodKnight: Asuka's battle lust is an important part of her character. Although she changes a lot after becoming ''Comicbook/{{Supergirl}}'', she still enjoys fighting (and her new powers allow her to take on giant aliens with her bare fists). |
| 66 | * BoisterousBruiser: A rare female example. Asuka is a super-strong heroine who loves fighting. She is also daring, loud, perky, and likes to gloat. |
| 67 | * BoldlyComing: Asuka (a half-Kryptonian) and Shinji (human) enter into a relationship. |
| 68 | * 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 behavior in interesting ways, or an enraged Shinji attempting to cook Pen-Pen. |
| 69 | * 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 from the author, or the author decides to address the characters directly. |
| 70 | * BreakTheCutie: In case that being an orphan whose surviving parent is a bastard and being forced to fight giant monsters before reaching age fifteen wasn't traumatic enough, Shinji gets targeted by all kinds of super-powerful thugs and terrorists who want to get him or the girl he is in love with. |
| 71 | * BreakTheHaughty: Asuka was a prideful, self-assured girl at the beginning (a mask to cover her weak self-esteem). When her powers emerged and she began her superheroic 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 immature child playing a game, that she was never a good pilot, and she was worthless. |
| 72 | * BroadStrokes: Asuka makes appearances in other stories by the same author, in both her Power Girl and her Supergirl personas, and she sometimes mentions events that 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 has said that they happened in a different way. |
| 73 | * 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 on her own, and all adults regarding her as basically a tool to make a weapon work. Similarly, when she is acting as Supergirl, people automatically think she's a formidable superheroine and a perfect paragon of morality and nobility, not knowing inwardly she is a broken ball of neuroses and pain. |
| 74 | * 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 realize that he never loved her--she thought nobody would care about her unless she was the best. |
| 75 | * BrokenPedestal: |
| 76 | ** [[spoiler:Kaji to Asuka]], when she finds out that he was willing to let himself get murdered after [[spoiler:discovering the secrets of Project-E]], and he never even thought about [[spoiler:Misato and Asuka's reactions to his death]]. After she calls him out on it, he apologizes for disappointing her. |
| 77 | ** Asuka finding out that she's very close to becoming one to Professor Hamilton (without him even knowing it) [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone is one of the factors]] [[ComesGreatResponsibility in her decision to become a heroine without looking for glory]]. |
| 78 | * 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's one of the first things Shinji notices about her when he sees her in chapter 9: |
| 79 | -->''Her tight blue shirt made her not inconsiderable curves very apparent, and the yellow and red shield emblem with the "S" inside it on her chest only served to draw the eye to that area.'' |
| 80 | * BruiserWithASoftCenter: Asuka is easily capable of bringing down a skyscraper with her bare fists. Throughout her superheroic career, she also learns to let her nicer, warmer side out, and to be more compassionate and more caring. So, she may be beating a thug one minute, and the next minute she'll be helping a little girl find her kitten. |
| 81 | * BullFightBoss: Supergirl and Wonder Girl defeat [[spoiler:Parasite]] using this tactic to cause a [[spoiler:PhlebotinumOverload.]] |
| 82 | * 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]]. |
| 83 | * BullyingADragon: Many people try to strike or hurt Asuka, despite knowing they are ''way'' out of her league. |
| 84 | ** 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. |
| 85 | * ButterflyOfDoom: [[spoiler:Because Jor-El takes a few extra seconds launching the rocket, baby Kal-El crash lands on Germany's Black Forest instead of Kansas. The crash also [[DeathOfAChild turns out to be fatal]]. SEELE ends up being a butterfly of its own when they decide to cut funding to STAR Labs as part of the plan to remove potential obstacles to the Scenario, turning it into a glorified sperm clinic, and thus Professor Emil Hamilton gets a very funny idea when Kyoko Sohryu walks in...]] |
| 86 | * ButtMonkey: |
| 87 | ** Shinji, in the omakes. In the story proper, he sometimes has problems befall him 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. In the omakes, he is often the victim of the pranks of the author (who is not above telling Asuka that Shinji stole her underwear). |
| 88 | ** Asuka also suffers from this in the omakes. Either the thugs she fights accuse her of breaking the fourth wall, or she has very embarrassing moments where she has to perform heroic deeds while wearing a ridiculously tiny outfit, or Shinji clings to her leg to keep himself from falling to the ground, which causes him to take an accidental peek at her underwear. |
| 89 | * CameFromTheSky: Kal-El's ship crash-landed in Germany, killing the infant inside, and his remains were found and taken to S.T.A.R. Labs for analysis. |
| 90 | * CanNotSpitItOut: After realizing he loved Asuka, Shinji didn't tell her right away because he wanted to wait for the right time to ask her out. Asuka didn't tell Shinji she liked him because she was in self-denial for a long time. |
| 91 | * TheCape: The real point of this story is Asuka growing out of being a self-centered girl and into this trope, as well as an IdealHero. |
| 92 | * CatapultNightmare: |
| 93 | ** In an omake, Asuka does this after having a nightmare where she is wearing a Supergirl outfit that can be described as a tiny bikini. |
| 94 | ** 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. |
| 95 | --->''Shinji jolted awake, finding himself sitting in his bed. Dazed, he cast his gaze around the room, soon finding Pen-Pen at the foot of his bed.'' |
| 96 | * CharacterDevelopment: Asuka gets this. Lots of it. In spades. |
| 97 | * CharacterOverlap: Asuka, as Power Girl or Supergirl, has showed up in other stories by the author, and a BroadStrokes version of Rei as Wonder Girl appears here. A couple of Original Characters from his (and OrionPax09's) other stories also appear (namely Section-2 Chief Chiron and his right-hand man, Sato). |
| 98 | * ChefOfIron: Shinji is good at making meals, piloting giant robots, and he can fend for himself in a fight to help Asuka or someone else in danger. |
| 99 | * ChestInsignia: Asuka's Power Girl costume had no insignia, but when she decided to turn into a better, truer superheroine, she made her Supergirl costume, which included a huge "S" emblem on her chest. |
| 100 | -->''Her tight blue shirt made her not inconsiderable curves very apparent, and the yellow and red shield emblem with the "S" inside it on her chest only served to draw the eye to that area.'' |
| 101 | * ChronicHeroSyndrome: Asuka gradually turns into this kind of hero when she becomes Supergirl. She then does feel horribly guilty about all the people she didn't help when she was starting out in her career. |
| 102 | * CityOfAdventure: Upon arriving in Tokyo-3, Asuka both encounters and fights everyday robbers, thugs, terrorists, super-powered villains, aliens, robots, time-travelers, {{EldritchAbomination}}s...And that is not counting the secret evil conspiracy to end mankind that her boss (and his so-called bosses) is concocting. |
| 103 | * ClarkKenting: Subverted. Asuka makes an effort to mask her identity, including using a blonde wig and a domino mask when she's in her superhero persona. [[spoiler: [[SecretSecretKeeper Misato and Rei may have figured things out, though]].]] |
| 104 | * ClarkKentOutfit: Asuka uses her regular school uniform and loose clothes to hide her muscular, sinewy physique. |
| 105 | * CleavageWindow: During her ''Comicbook/PowerGirl'' phase, Asuka's costume had a very large "cleavage cut" on her leotard and a cord stretching across her neck, both of which created a triangular cutout above her breasts. |
| 106 | * ClothesMakeTheSuperman: Rei--aka ''Comicbook/WonderGirl''--gets a lot of innate superpowers but others are a function of her Amazonian artifacts, most notably her InvisibilityCloak and her sandals/boots which allow her to. It came in handy when the Parasite drained her and Asuka's innate powers, since her artifacts were still functioning. |
| 107 | * ClothingDamage: |
| 108 | ** 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. |
| 109 | ** In the story's Final battle, [[spoiler:both Wonder Girl's and Supergirl's costumes are damaged by Doomsday's attacks. They are used as evidence of [[FanDisservice Doomsday beating the absolute shit out of Rei and Asuka]] (especially Asuka, who gets a very detailed description in am ironic juxtaposition to the first time Shinji sees her as Supergirl and further damage when two paramedics try to revive her after her MutualKill with Doomsday)]] with no titillation. |
| 110 | * 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 at them, but they "cheerfully ignored her". |
| 111 | * ColdBloodedTorture: Chiron, Section-2 Chief, loves doing this. He abducted Prof. Hamilton and tortured him for months using pain, drugs, sleep deprivation, sensory deprivation, and psychological warfare to worm all secrets of Supergirl out of him. |
| 112 | * ComboPlatterPowers: Asuka gets whole Kryptonian package, including: |
| 113 | ** EyeBeams |
| 114 | ** FlyingBrick |
| 115 | *** {{Flight}} |
| 116 | *** NighInvulnerability / ImmuneToBullets |
| 117 | *** SuperStrength |
| 118 | ** SuperBreath |
| 119 | ** SuperSenses |
| 120 | *** XRayVision |
| 121 | ** SuperSpeed: Faster than a speeding bullet, literally proven. |
| 122 | * 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.]] |
| 123 | ** The responsibility of being a superhero is also one of the major overarching themes of the story. |
| 124 | * CompositeCharacter: [[spoiler:Kaworu Nagisa ends up being a combination of himself and Bizarro, needing a specialized inhaler to maintain his biological stability.]] |
| 125 | * 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 its attack. Her surprise when she's able to lift it up is palpable. |
| 126 | * 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 from the destroyed planet Krypton. She then became Supergirl to try to become the hero her deceased father was destined to be. |
| 127 | * {{Crossover}}: Between ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' and ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion''. |
| 128 | * CrystalSpiresAndTogas: As with its Silver Age incarnation, Krypton is a world with huge, shiny cities, populated with people dressed with flowing robes and colorful suits, surrounded by crystal forests and firefalls. |
| 129 | * CurbStompBattle: Asuka's fights against human enemies used to be this, due to her being super-strong and virtually invulnerable. Special mention goes to the leader of a terrorist group who kidnapped Shinji. Suffice it say, it did not end well for him. |
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| 133 | * DeadpanSnarker: Shinji, in one {{omake}}. |
| 134 | --> '''Shinji''': "Oh, gee, I'm so sorry. I don't know why I'm reacting like this. It's not like I'm surrounded by beautiful women who are ''tearing their own clothes off'' or anything." |
| 135 | * DefrostingIceQueen: Shinji gradually defrosted aggressive, unsociable Asuka by being nice, being there for her, and proving he was dependable, honest, and that he could see her at her worst without looking away. |
| 136 | * DepletedPhlebotinumShells: Deconstructed. You can't make Kryptonite bullets because they would shatter. |
| 137 | * DesignerBabies: Asuka is born via artificial insemination from ''[[{{Franchise/Superman}} an unknown father]]''. She begins to figure out what her genetic makeup had been tinkered with when she starts bending titanium with her bare hands and seeing through walls. |
| 138 | * {{Determinator}}: Asuka hates giving up because, in her mind, it means she is worthless and useless. It did not matter how hard the fight was 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 superheroine because she thought herself unworthy, but she always returned to fight when she was needed. |
| 139 | * DistaffCounterpart: Deliberately to ''Fanfic/LastChildOfKrypton'' and other stories where Shinji Ikari gets powers and becomes a 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, the same enemies...but here, it is Asuka who gets Superman's genes in lieu of Shinji. |
| 140 | * DistractedByTheSexy: Happens to Shinji a few times during the fic, and ''to Asuka'' when she notices how much the weight training he's been doing has helped Shinji. |
| 141 | * 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]]. |
| 142 | * DominoMask: What Asuka wears as both ComicBook/PowerGirl and [[spoiler:ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}]] to prevent someone from figuring out who she is. Also [[DyeOrDie wears a blonde wig]]. |
| 143 | * 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 done too, because she believes she is unworthy. When Rei and Shinji try to help her, she replies she does not want their pity. |
| 144 | -->'''Asuka''':''"I don't want your pity,"'' |
| 145 | * DoomedHometown: Asuka has Kryptonian powers due to her biological father's alien genetics--said father's home planet being destroyed long before the events of the story. 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 fertilize the ova of Kyoko Zeppelin Soryu, and thus Asuka was born. |
| 146 | * {{Doorstopper}}: Twenty-three chapters, totaling 281,785 words. |
| 147 | * DreamSequence: In chapter thirteen's omake, Shinji dreams that Asuka and Misato are fighting over him before deciding on sharing him. |
| 148 | * DrivesLikeCrazy: Shinji does not like it when Misato drives him anywhere, because he is afraid of dying. Or at the very least vomiting. In chapter 17: |
| 149 | -->''Normally, a ride in Misato's car was a hair raising experience for the Third Child, who didn't have the strongest stomach and had discovered that he had a genuine aversion to the idea of dying when the possibility of it started to actually seem real.''\ |
| 150 | ''And that was when his guardian was just out for a leisurely Sunday drive or something. When she had to get somewhere as soon as possible—such as when she needed to get her two charges to NERV Headquarters so they could get into their Evangelions before an Angel bearing down on the city arrived—being a passenger in her car was a truly terrifying ordeal.'' |
| 151 | * DyeOrDie: [[FieryRedhead Asuka]] wears a blond wing while being Supergirl in order to protect her secret identity. |
| 152 | * EarnYourHappyEnding: Asuka must go through many hardships, face giant monsters, aliens, super-powered beings, criminals, an evil cult, ''and'' a secret conspiracy, all while maturing as a person and learning the true meaning of the word "hero" to have a happy end. |
| 153 | * EatingTheEyeCandy: In chapter 8, Shinji sees Asuka wearing her Supergirl costume, and he is stunned: |
| 154 | -->''He looked toward the source of the snickering, and his breath caught. Standing before him was one of the most beautiful girls he'd ever seen.''\ |
| 155 | ''She was blond, and wore a red mask that looked identical to the one Power Girl wore, through which sky blue eyes peeked out at him. Her tight blue shirt made her not inconsiderable curves very apparent, and the yellow and red shield emblem with the "S" inside it on her chest only served to draw the eye to that area. The long sleeves disappeared into the red gloves she wore, but the shirt left her toned midriff bare. A red miniskirt was held up with a yellow belt, and soon yielded to a pair of lithe legs that, from Shinji's perspective, seemed to go on forever. A pair of scarlet boots completed the ensemble.''\ |
| 156 | ''And she was holding the huge piece of concrete, which had to weigh at least a few tons in Shinji's estimate, above her head as if it was no heavier than a pebble.''\ |
| 157 | ''The combination of the superwoman's striking good looks and her display of strength left the Third Child stunned silent. He could only gawk up at her stupidly. The little girl he was still loosely clutching was apparently no more capable of speech than he was, because she kept perfectly quiet, too.'' |
| 158 | * EatingOptional: After discovering her powers and her Kryptonian origins, 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. |
| 159 | * EldritchAbomination: Asuka fights humongous alien monsters known as Angels, and during a story arc she also faces [[spoiler:the New Gods of Apokolips]]. |
| 160 | * EmotionlessGirl: Rei is calm, collected and cool. |
| 161 | * 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 gains a lot of respect for Wonder Girl on that day--time will tell if they become FireForgedFriends. |
| 162 | * EntertaininglyWrong: Thanks to the MomentKiller described below, Shinji becomes annoyed at Kaji and how he got together with Misato. Because of this, Misato comes to the logical but incorrect conclusion that he's annoyed because he has a crush on her. |
| 163 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: [[YesMan Fuyutsuki]] has several moments showing this throughout the fic, such as chewing out Gendo over not even ''trying'' to feign concern over his son, [[spoiler: and almost having a heart attack when Gendo tells him he's starting to crack the Scroll's intel on the Anti-Life Equation]]. |
| 164 | * ExpendableClone: Rei saw herself as nothing but Yui Ikari's clone, tailored to unleash the end of mankind. All of that changed when she became Wonder Girl. Later, she used what she had learned during her time as a heroine to cheer up a depressed Asuka, telling her that she was not useless or expendable, and she has extraordinary powers that make her special. |
| 165 | * EyeBeams: Asuka has heat eye-beams due to being half-Kryptonian. She discovers this when she is cooking and accidentally sets the eggs on fire. |
| 166 | * FanArt: [[http://marcoasalazarm.deviantart.com/ Marcoasalazarm]] drew the cover and more pictures of Supergirl Asuka. |
| 167 | * 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; teaming up with an Amazon; neeting space gods... |
| 168 | * FanDisservice: The narration's description of [[spoiler:Asuka's haggard, bloodied looks as a result of being damaged while battling Doomsday]] is meant to be an IronicEcho to [[spoiler:Shinji's [[MaleGaze surprise]] at first seeing her in her Supergirl outfit.]] |
| 169 | * {{Fanservice}}: The narration makes multiple mentions of how much of an AmazonianBeauty Asuka has become throughout the story. |
| 170 | * FanVerse: It is part of the Superwomen of Eva 2 universe, the "DC Comics" side of the overall ''Superwomen of Eva'' fan-metaverse. |
| 171 | * FemaleGaze: Asuka's point of view often focuses on Shinji's body, specially if he is half-naked, wearing a tight suit, or sweating. |
| 172 | * FieryRedhead: Although Asuka's character softens up as she matures, she keeps being a bold, hot-tempered and passionate redhead. |
| 173 | * FirstGirlWins: Asuka is the first girl who shows up in the story, and she is the one Shinji falls in love with and eventually hooks up with. |
| 174 | * FirstKiss: Shinji and Asuka kissed in chapter 19 after Shinji confessed. |
| 175 | * FixFic: To canon. As a result of giving Asuka Supergirl powers, she becomes a superheroine, 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. |
| 176 | * {{Flight}}: Asuka finds out she can fly when she springs upwards, smashes herself through a building accidentally... and doesn't come down. |
| 177 | -->She kept going up and up and up, feeling like she would never return to the Earth. Already, she was above the roofs of some of the smaller buildings and she was still going strong.\ |
| 178 | Her euphoria was not to last, however. Her eyes widened and her happiness was instantly snuffed out by terror as she realized that she was headed right for one of the taller buildings in the slums, a towering skyscraper that looked like it had been abandoned long ago.\ |
| 179 | She screamed, instinctively putting her arms up to shield her head and closing her eyes, for all the good it would do her.\ |
| 180 | There was a loud crash from all around her, and then suddenly everything was quiet. She could feel that she had stopped moving.\ |
| 181 | Silly though it was, Asuka was afraid to open her eyes. Part of her believed that she'd find herself grievously injured when she did, even though she was in no pain, or perhaps even that she'd discover she was dead.\ |
| 182 | Yet there was nothing to do but take a deep breath and face whatever it was that had happened. Asuka opened her eyes…and then gasped at what she saw.\ |
| 183 | For one thing, there was a large hole that went clear through the abandoned tower, which hadn't been there a few moments ago. Asuka had clearly created it by crashing through the building, and yet she didn't have a scratch on her.\ |
| 184 | And as if that wasn't shocking enough by itself, she was now floating in midair just outside the hole she'd made in the decrepit tower. Asuka looked down at the street far below, naked disbelief written all over her features. Part of mind dimly worried about people looking up her dress, even though she knew she was far too high up for anyone to see anything.\ |
| 185 | All of a sudden, her shock collapsed, and she again broke out into a broad smile. Throwing one arm up above her head, the Second Child suddenly took off, rocketing up into the sky.\ |
| 186 | "This is even better than the running!" she exclaimed as she broke through the cloud layer.\ |
| 187 | Once above the clouds, she allowed herself to hover for a few moments, just looking down at the world far below her and soaking in the unobstructed light of the sun. Asuka could feel that the air was cold up at this high elevation, but it didn't bother her in the slightest. Everything was silent save for the sound of the wind, giving her an almost profound feeling, as though she were in a cathedral or some other sacred place.\ |
| 188 | After a few moments, Asuka began to soar through the clouds again, and she remained up in the sky for a long, long time. |
| 189 | * 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 become 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. |
| 190 | * FlyingBrick: Asuka is ''Comicbook/{{Supergirl}}'', with all the role entails: she flies, she has super strength, super speed, invulnerability, heat vision and freezing/super breath. |
| 191 | * FlyingFirepower: Asuka has Kryptonian DNA, thus her powers include flight and heat vision. |
| 192 | * 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 S.T.A.R. Labs taking it in for analysis; the second one is S.T.A.R. 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, hence her coming to S.T.A.R. Labs to get an in vitro fertilization; and the fourth, and most important one, is her being good friends with Emil Hamilton, who performs 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. |
| 193 | * 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. |
| 194 | * FriendOrIdolDecision: |
| 195 | ** [[spoiler:Brainiac]] tempts Asuka with a knowledge orb of Krypton. [[spoiler:She doesn't give 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 instead save a knowledge orb with recordings of her mother Kyoko, back when she was still sane.]] |
| 196 | ** Later on, she has a similar moment when Leiliel 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. |
| 197 | ** Finally, when Armisael struck, she had to choose between [[spoiler:getting into her giant robot or donning her Supergirl identity to fight it. She had better odds of winning if she used her super-powers, but then she would be fired and thus stripped of her pilot status. She chose being Supergirl, effectively quitting being an Eva pilot for good.]] |
| 198 | * FusionFic: Between Evangelion and ''Franchise/TheDCU''. Asuka is ''Comicbook/PowerGirl'' and later ''Comicbook/{{Supergirl}}'', Rei is ''Comicbook/WonderGirl'', other Eva characters have the powers of DC superheroes, and several ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' villains show up, like Brainiac or Parasite. |
| 199 | [[/folder]] |
| 200 | |
| 201 | [[folder:G-I]] |
| 202 | * GeniusBruiser: Canonically, Asuka was out of college by age 14. Her powerset includes SuperStrength and genius-level intelligence. |
| 203 | * 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 being an average-sized human. In fact, she manages [[spoiler:to take Armisael down and survive, something no Eva could do]]. |
| 204 | * 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 Power Girl/Supergirl and needs to hide her identity. |
| 205 | * GirlOnGirlIsHot: Shinji thinks so in chapter five's omake. Due to radiation from a chunk of pink Kryptonite, Asuka suddenly behaves in a 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. |
| 206 | * GivingThemTheStrip: In the final battle, Asuka is forced to remove her costume's cape to solve the problem of Doomsday strangling her with it. |
| 207 | * GovernmentConspiracy: SEELE is supposedly an UN Committee created to oversee NERV. In reality, they control pretty much everything. |
| 208 | * GrewASpine: Shinji tries to be braver and more confident, especially after finding out that the love of his life is Supergirl. |
| 209 | * GunsAreWorthless: Reinforced--it's stated that Asuka can't be harmed by Kryptonite bullets because they're too fragile to withstand the stress of being shot from a firearm. |
| 210 | * HalfHumanHybrid: Asuka. Half-human, half-Kryptonian. |
| 211 | * HeldGaze: In chapter 12, when Shinji and Asuka come back home from their "not-a-date", they lock stares several times as they talk, before nearly kissing. |
| 212 | * 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. |
| 213 | * 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. |
| 214 | * HiddenHeartOfGold: Asuka used to wear the 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. |
| 215 | * HighAltitudeBattle: Asuka got into one when she fought against Brainiac's spaceship, located high up in the stratosphere. |
| 216 | * HighSchoolSweethearts: Asuka and Shinji went to the same middle school together. Shinji fell for Asuka because of her passion and bravery, and Asuka fell for Shinji because he was nice, caring and always there for her. After a talk where Asuka told him she needed someone she could rely upon and Shinji confessed, they got together. |
| 217 | * HoistByHisOwnPetard: Mere seconds after unveiling [[spoiler:Doomsday to Wonder Girl, as his final attempt to ensure that at least ''one'' of his plans succeeded, the monster proceeds to attack its creator, Gendo Ikari, and reduce him to a bloody pair of glasses]]. |
| 218 | * 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. |
| 219 | * 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 she mellowed out a bit. |
| 220 | * 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 that he's taking advantage of it. |
| 221 | -->''Honestly, the boy took to the task of playing nursemaid with far more gusto than she felt a man should.'' |
| 222 | * HowDoIShotWeb: Asuka's powers start to manifest following the battle with the Sixth Angel. The next couple of chapters feature rather comedic acts of destruction as Asuka tries to find out the extent of her capabilities. |
| 223 | * 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 a heroine and saves the world over and over again. |
| 224 | * 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. |
| 225 | * IHaveNoSon: [[spoiler:An illusion masquerading as ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' tells Asuka this during the MindRape illusion.]] |
| 226 | * IcyBlueEyes: Asuka is blue-eyed and initially is pretty cool and harsh. |
| 227 | -->''She was blond, and wore a red mask that looked identical to the one Power Girl wore, through which sky blue eyes peeked out at him.'' |
| 228 | * IdealHero: As she undergoes CharacterDevelopment, Asuka begins to truly try to live up to this lofty ideal. |
| 229 | * 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 that he's 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. |
| 230 | * IMissMom: In a battle, Asuka had to choose between rescuing a recording with the last remaining bits of data about Krypton, and saving another recording with her deceased mother's memories. She chooses the latter because she misses Kyoko, and those memories are more precious to her. |
| 231 | * InferioritySuperiorityComplex: As she told Shinji during a heart-to-heart talk in chapter 19, Asuka strove to be the best and boasted about it because she was a lonely kid who thought no one would care about her unless she was the best. |
| 232 | * InnocentBlueEyes: Shinji is a blue-eyed, innocent, naïve boy. |
| 233 | -->''"Maybe, maybe not," he said, his dark blue eyes meeting her brown ones.'' |
| 234 | * InSpiteOfANail: Unit-02 is still torn apart by the Mass Production Evangelions during the siege of NERV HQ in the story's ''End of ''Evangelion'' portion, [[spoiler:but it was being operated by the Dummy Plug at the time. Asuka, who had been kicked off of the pilot roster earlier in the story, arrives as Supergirl and tears the MP EVAs apart]]. |
| 235 | * InterspeciesRomance: Asuka is half-Kryptonian and half-human, while Shinji is fully 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 get together. |
| 236 | [[/folder]] |
| 237 | |
| 238 | [[folder:J-L]] |
| 239 | * TheJoyOfFirstFlight: Asuka accidentally finds out she can fly when she jumps higher than she intended, crashes through a building, and doesn't come down. Her shock swiftly gives way to overwhelming joy, and she remains up in the clouds for a long time. |
| 240 | -->And as if that wasn't shocking enough by itself, she was now floating in midair just outside the hole she'd made in the decrepit tower. Asuka looked down at the street far below, naked disbelief written all over her features. Part of mind dimly worried about people looking up her dress, even though she knew she was far too high up for anyone to see anything.\ |
| 241 | All of a sudden, her shock collapsed, and she again broke out into a broad smile. Throwing one arm up above her head, the Second Child suddenly took off, rocketing up into the sky.\ |
| 242 | "This is even better than the running!" she exclaimed as she broke through the cloud layer.\ |
| 243 | Once above the clouds, she allowed herself to hover for a few moments, just looking down at the world far below her and soaking in the unobstructed light of the sun. Asuka could feel that the air was cold up at this high elevation, but it didn't bother her in the slightest. Everything was silent save for the sound of the wind, giving her an almost profound feeling, as though she were in a cathedral or some other sacred place.\ |
| 244 | After a few moments, Asuka began to soar through the clouds again, and she remained up in the sky for a long, long time. |
| 245 | * TheKidWithTheRemoteControl: Asuka was the only one who 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, in other words ''worth something'', which was her way of 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. |
| 246 | * 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 emerging will look suspicious otherwise, Asuka starts to spend a lot of time at NERV's gym, lifting weights. Shinji starts to exercise alongside her for the company, and the results [[DistractedByTheSexy draw]] [[EatingTheEyeCandy Asuka's eye]] during some downtime. |
| 247 | * KryptoniteFactor: Asuka discovered she was half-Kryptonian at the same time she found out about her weakness towards Kryptonite. Shortly after, [[spoiler:Gendo acquired the piece of Kryptonite and he threatened her with it several times]]. |
| 248 | * LastNameBasis: Section Two Chief Chiron is only known by his family name. Nobody refers to him by his first name. |
| 249 | * 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 was sent to Earth because his homeworld exploded. As the title says, she is the lone heir of Krypton. |
| 250 | * LegFocus: When Shinji saw Asuka's ''Comicbook/{{Supergirl}}'' costume for first time, he noticed it showed off her gorgeous, muscular, long legs: |
| 251 | -->''A red miniskirt was held up with a yellow belt, and soon yielded to a pair of lithe legs that, from Shinji's perspective, seemed to go on forever. A pair of scarlet boots completed the ensemble.'' |
| 252 | * LeotardOfPower: Asuka's uniform as ComicBook/PowerGirl (with a little change from the 'canon' design being 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 midriff exposed. Needless to say, both can be pretty {{Stripperiffic}} at times (and this is pointed out in the fic and the {{omake}}). |
| 253 | * LighterAndSofter: To canon. Asuka gets Kryptonian powers and becomes a superheroine. In the process, she learns to be a better person, finds a cause that's more worth fighting for, hooks up with Shinji, and manages to avert some canon tragedies (such as [[spoiler:Touji getting maimed or Rei blowing herself up)]]. |
| 254 | * LivingEmotionalCrutch: Shinji became this to Asuka. He had always tried to help her whenever 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 own 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. |
| 255 | -->'''Asuka''':''"I think I can keep being the Supergirl that everybody believes in, the one that inspires people, but only if I have somebody I can show the real me to. Somebody I can talk to, and tell about the times when I was really tempted to do something cruel or selfish, without horrifying him, [...] You've seen the worst parts of me. You've seen me at my nastiest, and you've seen me as a broken mess. And you're still here, practically bending over backwards to help me through a rough time. Still caring about me. So, I'd like that person to be you, if you think you can stand it."'' |
| 256 | * LoveConfession: In chapter 19, after going through a considerable amount of emotional turmoil, Asuka tells Shinji about her inferiority complex driving her to try to stand out, how she became ''Comicbook/{{Supergirl}}'', her doubts and fears...and tells him that she would like him to be her confidant, if he thinks he can stand it. Shinji answers of course he is willing to do that for her...and that he would like to be a lot more than a friend and confidant. Then he tells he likes her. They kiss, and Asuka confesses she likes him in turn. |
| 257 | * LoveInterest: Shinji and Asuka are each other's. |
| 258 | * 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 supervillains together, like the Parasite. It was in that battle, in which they cooperated and fought back-to-back, where Asuka gained a newfound respect for Wonder Girl. |
| 259 | * 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 crushing on Kaji. |
| 260 | [[/folder]] |
| 261 | |
| 262 | [[folder:M-O]] |
| 263 | * MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces: In chapter 12's omake, Misato catches Shinji and Asuka having sex on the kitchen floor. She screams for them to stop, but they're not listening. |
| 264 | * MaleGaze: The narration notes several times that Asuka’s costumes inevitably draw the eye to her bosom because of the “boob window” of the first outfit and the “S” emblem of the second. |
| 265 | -->''Her tight blue shirt made her not inconsiderable curves very apparent, and the yellow and red shield emblem with the "S" inside it on her chest only served to draw the eye to that area.'' |
| 266 | * ManipulativeBastard: Gendo tried to use his son's yearning for approval and Asuka's ego to better utilize them as cannon fodder in the war against the Angels. It didn't quite work out, though, because Asuka's powers gave her alternative means to validate her existence, and her growing confidence improved Shinji's self-esteem. |
| 267 | * ManOfSteelWomanOfKleenex: Asuka and Shinji have this complication, since she's Kryptonian and he's human. |
| 268 | * 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 fame, and she is using them to help people because it feels like the right thing to do. |
| 269 | * MechaShow: Even if the fic focuses on Asuka being a superheroine, the mechas and are still a primary plot element. |
| 270 | * 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). |
| 271 | * MercyKill: [[spoiler: Done to Kaworu by Asuka, at his request]]. |
| 272 | * MindRape: [[spoiler: Happens like in canon, and [[BreakTheCutie completely smashes Asuka]]. Her worst nightmare comes "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]], while also [[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.]] |
| 273 | * MissingMom: Asuka's mother dying when she was barely four is the main cause of her pain and her angry, bitter behavior. Later, she finds out Shinji's mother is dead, too. |
| 274 | * MomentKiller: Shinji and Asuka were alone in the apartment and about to kiss for first time when Kaji ruined the moment by coming home while dragging a drunk Misato, forcing both teenagers to move away each other hurriedly and pretend that nothing was happening. |
| 275 | * MythologyGag: |
| 276 | ** [[Film/SupermanTheMovie Like]] [[ComicBook/TheManOfSteel many]] [[WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries versions]] [[Film/SupermanReturns of]] ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'', Asuka makes her debut rescuing a falling aircraft. |
| 277 | ** Later on, she saves a teenage girl from a mugger and then helps her find her cat. The cat's name? [[http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Streaky Streaky.]] |
| 278 | * NegativeSpaceWedgie: When black-and-white-striped sphere-shaped Leiliel 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 a thousand N2 warheads on it.]] |
| 279 | * 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. |
| 280 | * NiceJobFixingItVillain: |
| 281 | ** [[spoiler:Bardiel inadvertently shields Supergirl from the [[KryptoniteFactor Kryptonite radiation]] coming from Unit-01's K-reactor when Gendo engineers a slight radiation leak.]] |
| 282 | ** Arael fixes a lot of things. [[spoiler: Its MindRape and BreakingSpeech make Asuka abandon the rest of her negative character traits and inspire her to truly try to become TheCape and IdealHero.]] |
| 283 | * NighInvulnerability: Asuka soon realizes she is unusually tougher. |
| 284 | -->The huge hunk of what was now little more than scrap metal impacted the bottom of a tall stack of junked cars, which began to wobble dangerously. Recovering her balance, Asuka turned around… just in time to see an avalanche of metal and glass come falling down upon her.\ |
| 285 | The cascade of ruined cars soundly buried the Second Child, but the onslaught wasn't quite done yet. The gas tank of every old vehicle that was sent to the dump was supposed to be drained before it was consigned to a place where it could be left to rust until it was sold for scrap or parts. However, the dump happened to employ a few rather lazy individuals who didn't care if gasoline leaked out of corroded tanks and contaminated the land, and who didn't believe anything would ever set off the combustible liquid.\ |
| 286 | A tiny spark from all metal scraping against metal formed and, by sheer misfortune, happened to drift into an open gas tank. An orange fireball leapt up with a great woomph! sound, billowing inky black smoke into the air, and several similar blasts followed, in a cascade effect as explosion begat explosion. In seconds, the fallen stack of cars was a great pile of twisted, burning metal.\ |
| 287 | For several seconds, said pile lay there, smoldering undisturbed and looking about as serene as such a thing could possibly look.\ |
| 288 | Then a car was thrown into the sky as Asuka burst out of the great mess, flying into the air to hover a few feet about the pile of burning cars.\ |
| 289 | "Holy…" she breathed as she looked at the devastation she had emerged from, then looked down at her hands.\ |
| 290 | Despite the amount of punishment her too successful attempt at lifting the heaviest thing in the dump had put her through, there wasn't a scratch or a burn anywhere on her. She'd known she was tougher than normal humans—crashing through a building and not receiving the slightest injury had been enough to prove that to her—but this was beyond the pale. Having a pile of cars fall on top of her and then burst into flame hadn't even hurt in the slightest!\ |
| 291 | Hovering there, Asuka silently began to wonder if perhaps she could have survived if Shinji had never sent Unit One plunging into the molten lava of Mount Asuma. |
| 292 | * 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 who has been trained since she was four to pilot HumongousMecha and fight alien monsters...''and'' is Supergirl. |
| 293 | * {{Nosebleed}}: A geyser of blood erupted from Shinji's nose when he saw a scantily clad Asuka wearing a skimpy Supergirl costume: |
| 294 | -->''Shinji didn't reply. Instead, a geyser of red shot forth from his nose, and he promptly fainted due to the abrupt blood loss.'' |
| 295 | * NoSocialSkills: At the beginning, Asuka is the most popular girl in her school, but in reality she is frightened of other people, so much so that she uses her anger as a shield to keep and drive everyone away. However, she changes during her tenure as a superheroine, becoming a little more sociable with a bit of Shinji's help. |
| 296 | * ObliviousToLove: Shinji fits in the [[SelectiveObliviousness "deep, deep denial"]] variety. Although he spends half the 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. |
| 297 | * OfficialCouple: Shinji and Asuka. |
| 298 | * OfficialKiss: In chapter 19, Asuka talks to Shinji about her doubts and fears, and how she needs a friend with whom she can talk, be honest with and show her real self to. Shinji replies he would like to be more than a friend. Asuka, in turn, reveals that she likes him back, and then they kiss. |
| 299 | * OhCrap: |
| 300 | ** In one omake, Touji made this expression when his “Let’s blackmail Asuka” plan went awry: |
| 301 | --->''"Look, does it really matter how I know?" Toji asked smugly. "The fact is that unless you want everyone to know who Power Girl is, you'll have to do exactly what I say."''\ |
| 302 | ''"Which is?" she asked through clenched teeth.''\ |
| 303 | ''Toji withdrew a very minimal white bikini from somewhere and held it up. "Tomorrow after school, you're going to put this on, along with your mask, cape, and that wig you wear. Then you're going to model while Kensuke takes pictures, and the two of us are going to become obscenely rich."''\ |
| 304 | ''To the jock's surprise, Asuka's response was to grin. "What…?" he stammered.''\ |
| 305 | ''"Oh, stooge, you don't know much I've been waiting for a good excuse to hurt you," she said happily, cracking her knuckles.''\ |
| 306 | ''"Crap," Toji said.'' |
| 307 | ** 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 made Asuka even angrier. |
| 308 | * OldFlame: Misato and Kaji got back together during the war with the Angels. |
| 309 | * OneManArmy: Asuka. If she is piloting her giant robot, there is no conventional manmade weapon capable of hitting her or stopping her, and she can trash whole armies easily, without having even one scratch. If she is ''not'' piloting her giant robot, she is the most powerful and most dangerous human being on the planet. Not even ''nukes'' would damage her. |
| 310 | * OnlyOneName: Sato, right-hand of Section-2 chief and minor antagonist, only goes by that name. He is never given a full name. |
| 311 | * OriginalCharacter: Minor antagonists in Section Two Chief Chiron and his right-hand man, Sato. |
| 312 | * OrphansOrdeal: Asuka's mother died when she was barely four, and her father--who never loved her because she had been conceived by a 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. |
| 313 | * OutsideContextProblem: |
| 314 | ** Asuka, a.k.a. Supergirl, is this to both [[GovernmentConspiracy NE]][[BigBad RV]] and [[OmniscientCouncilOfVagueness SEE]][[TheManBehindTheMan LE]] and their respective "[[AssimilationPlot scenarios]]": a girl with powers beyond their understanding, who appeared from out of nowhere, has no allegiance to them, and is more than capable of single-handedly destroying 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]]). |
| 315 | ** 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 AT-Field, and his base was a spaceship that drifted out of NERV's reach. If ''[[Comicbook/{{Supergirl}} Asuka]]'' had not stopped him, he would have taken everything he wanted and left. |
| 316 | |
| 317 | [[/folder]] |
| 318 | |
| 319 | [[folder:P-R]] |
| 320 | |
| 321 | * 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 was conceived by donor sperm. After arriving at NERV, Shinji also was essentially abandoned by his father, with Gendo keeping a considerable distance between them, to say the least. |
| 322 | * ParentalSubstitute: When Asuka arrived in Japan, she thought Misato was replacing Shinji with her, but to her surprise Misato took the both of them in. Her previous guardian had been Kaji. |
| 323 | * 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). |
| 324 | * PersonOfMassDestruction: Asuka is Kryptonian and the world's most powerful woman. She can very easily lift skyscrapers and level whole cities. |
| 325 | * 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 that making a {{Tsundere}} angry never ends well.]] |
| 326 | * 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. |
| 327 | * 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 give her bodyguards the slip, even without her superpowers. And a terrorist group was capable of abducing Shinji despite their efforts. |
| 328 | * PosthumousCharacter: [[spoiler:Baby Kal-El]] was dead fourteen years before the beginning of the story, but it is because of him that Asuka has powers, and it is because of him that Asuka decides on using them altruistically; in the latter chapters, she wonders if her biological father would approve of her. |
| 329 | * PowerCopying: Asuka and Rei fought the Parasite, a mutated human who copied his victims' powers and abilities, as well as stole their memories and energy by touching them. |
| 330 | * ThePowerOfTheSun: Asuka's sun-empowered, and is able to lift skyscrapers or survive a conflagration as a result. |
| 331 | * PowerParasite: Parasite, a mutated human, who can steal their victims' powers and memories when he touches them, leaving them weakened and powerless. Since his power came with a time limit, he had to continuously drain a person's power to retain it. So much so, that [[spoiler:he kidnapped Asuka and Rei, intending to keep them locked up forever, him using them as an endless power supply. They managed to find a way to fight him without touching him]]. |
| 332 | * PowerPerversionPotential: When Asuka was still discovering her new powers, her X-ray vision accidentally activated right when Shinji was changing clothes. |
| 333 | * PowersInTheFirstEpisode: In the first chapter, Asuka gains SuperStrength, accidentally ripping off her entry plug's control yokes. |
| 334 | * PrimaryColorChampion: Asuka’s pilot outfit is red, with orange and black highlights. Her ComicBook/PowerGirl costume is white with blue and red elements. Finally, her Supergirl costume is blue and red, and is based on Supergirl’s most iconic outfit: |
| 335 | -->''She was blond, and wore a red mask that looked identical to the one Power Girl wore, through which sky blue eyes peeked out at him. Her tight blue shirt made her not inconsiderable curves very apparent, and the yellow and red shield emblem with the "S" inside it on her chest only served to draw the eye to that area. The long sleeves disappeared into the red gloves she wore, but the shirt left her toned midriff bare. A red miniskirt was held up with a yellow belt, and soon yielded to a pair of lithe legs that, from Shinji's perspective, seemed to go on forever. A pair of scarlet boots completed the ensemble.'' |
| 336 | * ProfessionalKiller: A squad of NERV agents specializes in "target removal", and takes care of people who know too much. Their chief, Chiron [[spoiler:tried to assassinate Kaji personally]]. |
| 337 | * ThePromise: When Touji got designated as the newest pilot, Hikari asked Asuka to protect 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]]. |
| 338 | * PsychoSupporter: Chiron is Gendo's subordinate and he's even more depraved, more blood-thirsty, and more petty 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. |
| 339 | * RageAgainstTheAuthor: |
| 340 | ** In the first chapters' omakes, the author, assisted by Asuka, goes into detail about their alternate ideas of which DC hero he'd turn Asuka into (before settling on Supergirl). Unfortunately, their discarded ideas go from unfeasible to dumb, making Asuka thoroughly embarrassed until she gets fed up with it and chases him angrily. |
| 341 | ** 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. |
| 342 | * RedIsHeroic: When she is acting as HumongousMecha pilot, Asuka wears a tight red suit and red hair clips (and pilots a red robot). When she is acting as Supergirl, she wears red cape and boots, and a red S-shield on her chest. |
| 343 | * RedOniBlueOni: |
| 344 | ** Asuka was the Red Oni (passionate and temperamental) and Shinji the Blue Oni (meek and quiet). (In truth, Asuka liked Shinji--among other reasons--because he knew how to listen.) |
| 345 | ** When Asuka and Rei hang out together and fight together, Rei--quiet and passive--is the Blue Oni. |
| 346 | * RelationshipUpgrade: In chapter 19, Asuka opened up to Shinji and came clean about her SecretIdentity. At the same time, Shinji confessed that he liked her. In reaction, Asuka kissed him. |
| 347 | * 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. |
| 348 | * 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. |
| 349 | * RightInFrontOfMe: Shinji does this every time he talks about Power Girl or Supergirl ''in front of Asuka''. |
| 350 | * RoaringRampageOfRescue: When [[spoiler:Shinji was kidnapped by a terrorist group,]] Asuka became very, very mad. She searched, found and stormed into their headquarters, trashed everybody in there and pummeled the leader for daring to hurt ''and'' badmouth Shinji. |
| 351 | * {{Robeast}}: The Angels from canon--humongous {{Eldritch Abomination}}s. Unlike in canon, though, Asuka can fight them without her HumongousMecha thanks to her Kryptonian powers. |
| 352 | * RunningGag: Shinji is the ButtMonkey in the omakes, often being placed in highly embarrassing situations where he seems like he's a pervert. |
| 353 | [[/folder]] |
| 354 | |
| 355 | [[folder:S-U]] |
| 356 | * SecondSuperIdentity: Asuka created her Power Girl identity when she became a superheroine for first time. Later, she decided she had to become a different and better kind of heroine, so she then made a new costume and took on a second secret identity as Supergirl. |
| 357 | * SecretIdentity: Asuka's is Power Girl and later Supergirl. Rei's is Wonder Girl. It is confirmed there are more superwomen, but Asuka never meets them and their identities are never mentioned. |
| 358 | * SecretKeeper: Emil Hamilton to Asuka. [[spoiler:Also Kaji. And now Shinji.]] |
| 359 | ** [[spoiler: Asuka also reveals her identity to Hikari]]. |
| 360 | * SecretSecretKeeper: During the Parasite arc, [[spoiler:both Rei Ayanami ''and'' Misato Katsuragi]] figured out Asuka was Supergirl. [[spoiler:Misato]] because the Parasite barged into her apartment demanding to know where Asuka was, only to later be fought and defeated by Supergirl. And [[spoiler:Rei]] because she fought the Parasite alongside Supergirl, and did not miss how familiar her face was. |
| 361 | * ShipTease: There was considerable teasing between Shinji and Asuka since the beginning until they got together, floating and kissing in the night sky. |
| 362 | * ShootingSuperman: It works about as well as you'd expect. |
| 363 | ** In chapter 8: |
| 364 | --->''Surprised, he let out a small cry and reflexively pulled the trigger. The noise was deafening inside the cramped alleyway.''\ |
| 365 | ''Kiku released a small shriek, the already terrified girl unable to keep herself from keeping quiet as the frightening sound filled her ears.''\ |
| 366 | ''For just a moment, one horrible, heart-pounding moment, the sixteen-year-old girl somehow managed to forget everything she knew about Power Girl, and she believed that the superwoman would die for trying to help her.''\ |
| 367 | ''From her position behind Power Girl, Kiku didn't see the slug that erupted from the barrel of the mugger's weapon strike the Girl of Steel right between the eyes. She didn't see the bullet crumple up upon impact like an empty soda can, and she didn't see how the force of that impact failed to so much as blanch Power Girl's skin.''\ |
| 368 | ''But when the bullet fell to the ground, landing with the distinctive tink! of metal hitting pavement, Kiku's shoulders slumped in relief.''\ |
| 369 | ''Unsurprisingly, the mugger was feeling anything but relief at the moment. He released a sort of strangled cry of surprise and terror. Then, acting out of sheer desperation, he reversed his grip on his weapon, grabbing the barrel, and struck the blond superwoman in the head as hard as he could with the butt of his pistol.''\ |
| 370 | ''There was a loud thump that made Kiku wince, but Power Girl's only response was to sigh in annoyance. The thug moved to hit her again, but the blond superwoman reached out, her movements inhumanly quick, and almost casually wrenched the weapon from his grasp. Then she squeezed down on it, the metal contorting in her gloved hand like it was no firmer than wet clay, leaving the gun quite worthless.''\ |
| 371 | ''"Honestly, why do you people do that?" she demanded of the mugger, exasperation coloring her voice. "You must be the tenth loser to try that. Do really think pistol whipping me is going to do anything when the bullets bounce off?"'' |
| 372 | ** In chapter 14 Asuka melts a gun with her heat vision because she was tired of idiots checking to see if she is bulletproof: |
| 373 | --->''Not that she gave him the chance; it was a lot easier for her to hit the weapon with a blast of her heat vision, and she was tired of seeing the shocked expressions on idiots' faces as they realized she really was bulletproof.'' |
| 374 | ** Subverted in chapter 15. A guy shoots once and gives up when he sees Asuka has caught the bullet with her teeth. Asuka praises his intelligence: |
| 375 | --->''Supergirl approached Nobu, picking up the gun from the floor. "You know," she began, as she absently crumpled the weapon into a ball as easily as he could've done the same to the newspaper she'd been holding a minute ago, "you're the first person who surrendered to me so quickly."''\ |
| 376 | ''"I am?" he asked, surprised. Did regular people actually try to fight the Girl of Steel?''\ |
| 377 | ''"Oh, yeah," she replied. "Usually when the bullets don't work, most crooks try pistol whipping me, believe it or not. You're much smarter than they are, obviously."''\ |
| 378 | ** Chapter 18 offers a different take: a thief is trying to cut Asuka over and again, despite doing nothing to Asuka (other than annoying her): |
| 379 | --->''"You do know that the definition of insanity is trying the same thing over and over again and expecting different results, right?" Supergirl asked.''\ |
| 380 | ''The would-be thief that the Girl of Steel had caught trying to mug a young woman in the middle of the night ignored her and continued trying to stab and slash her with the short but wickedly sharp knife he held.''\ |
| 381 | ''This was going about as well as could be expected.'' |
| 382 | * ShoutOut: |
| 383 | ** The Omake of chapter 2 has Asuka accidentally sterilizing Shinji with her heat vision, similarly to what happens to Fry in and episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}''. |
| 384 | ** 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, with him being threatened into giving a SuspiciouslySpecificDenial about what he "didn't" see a la ''Film/{{Spaceballs}}''. |
| 385 | * SillinessSwitch: Many of the post-chapter omakes are nuts, as they cover anything, from retelling a scene in a more silly fashion, to Asuka and other characters interacting with the author and complaining about his decisions. |
| 386 | * SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: Asuka states some of her reasons for liking Shinji in chapter 19: |
| 387 | -->''"That person you call scum is worth a thousand of you…and a hundred of me! [...] He's fought to protect everyone, all without any kind of super powers, even though he never wanted to! [...] And unlike some people, he doesn't hide behind anger, or a mask, or false bravado! [...] When he does come out of his shell talk to you, you know the person you're dealing with is really him!"'' |
| 388 | * SleevesAreForWimps: Rei's Wonder Girl costume lacks sleeves, and she only wears bracers on her arms. |
| 389 | * SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: The EVA setting is dark. So, what happens when you throw elements of the Superman canon in the mix? A character who was a BrokenBird ''and'' a ChildSoldier, whose AbusiveParents had broken her and turned into a terrified, lonely, fragile, angry little child that drove people away to avoid being hurt again, who thought she was worthless unless she was the best at everything, gained super-powers, learned to be a real heroine as well as a better person, and set out to make her world a better place. |
| 390 | * SmugSnake: Chiron is a vile and sadistic bastard who enjoys working to break prisoners through torture. [[spoiler:Almost as soon as Misato threatens to torture information out of him, he cracks and gives up his own secrets.]] |
| 391 | * SociallyAwkwardHero: Asuka is an excellent mecha fighter and an overpowered superhero. 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. |
| 392 | * 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.'' |
| 393 | * SourOutsideSadInside: Asuka tries to pretend she is tough, angry and bold so that nobody notices she is hurting inside and has many troubles, especially after [[spoiler:Arael’s MindRape.]] |
| 394 | * TheStationsOfTheCanon: The story follows canon faithfully, but changes several key details. |
| 395 | * {{Stripperiffic}}: Both of her superhero outfits. PlayedForLaughs in an {{omake}} where Asuka has a CatapultNightmare concerning her wearing a Supergirl outfit that can only be described as a very tiny bikini (ItMakesSenseInContext). |
| 396 | * SuperFic: Asuka Langley Sohryu and Rei Ayanami become superheroes and kick major monster butt. |
| 397 | * 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. |
| 398 | * SuperheroesWearTights: Rei's Wonder Girl costume has tights (a Leotard Of Power). |
| 399 | * SuperHeroOrigin: This story details how Asuka finds out about her powers and heritage, and becomes Supergirl as a result. |
| 400 | * SuperheroParadox: Asuka started out her superheroic career fighting robbers and thugs. Shortly after, she was fighting terrorists and supervillains such 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. |
| 401 | * SuperheroPrevalenceStages: The setting falls between the Early and the Middle Stages: there are few superheroes and they operate exclusively in Tokyo-3. There are no superhero teams, and the two only named heroes--Supergirl and Wonder Girl--have only teamed up once or twice. However, they're moving on from beating up thugs and crooks to fight alien gods and mythological creatures. |
| 402 | * 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 Zeppelin Sohryu's eggs when she got an in vitro fertilization. When Asuka was a teenager, she started to develop Kryptonian powers. |
| 403 | * SuperpowerLottery: Asuka has the full Kryptonian pack: she's a ''massively high-powered'' FlyingBrick with super-senses, EyeBeams and two kinds of BreathWeapon. There are a few other superhumans in the setting, but none of them has so many powers. |
| 404 | * SuperStrength: Asuka is inhumanly strong. People were aware of this since she started out her hero career, but they never suspected that she could lift a ''skyscraper''. |
| 405 | -->Then the building on the screen moved, trembling like it was caught in a mild earthquake. Which wouldn't have been hard to believe—Japan often experienced seismic activity, after all—except it was the only building to move like that.\ |
| 406 | She and the rest of the staff on the command center watched silently as the building trembled again, then began to rise up into the air. Bits of it fell off and struck the ground as it ascended, but an impressive amount of it remained intact. It had been designed to move after all, just not quite like this.\ |
| 407 | "No way," Makoto breathed. "Can it really be her?"\ |
| 408 | The faux skyscraper went higher and higher, slowly rising above all the other buildings in the area around it. As the dust and debris that had fallen from the structure as it had been brought upwards dispersed, one of the cameras NERV had around the city finally managed to capture the image. A blue and red blur was buzzing around the bottom of the structure, too quickly to ever see clearly.\ |
| 409 | Not that there was any real question as to what it was, of course.\ |
| 410 | "What in the world…?" Misato muttered.\ |
| 411 | "The structure's not designed to have all of its weight resting on one spot," Aoba spoke up, sounding dazed. "It would collapse. She must be moving from place to place on the building, pushing it up… and doing it at such extreme speed it's like she's supporting its entire base."\ |
| 412 | "I know Supergirl is fast and strong," Maya said quietly. "But this…?" |
| 413 | * SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: |
| 414 | ** In chapter 7's omake, Shinji catches Asuka playing with dolls: |
| 415 | --->'''Asuka''':''"What did you see?!"''\ |
| 416 | '''Shinji''':''"Nothing! [...] I didn't see you playing with your dolls!"'' |
| 417 | ** In chapter 11, Asuka thinks it is disgusting how Misato is taking advantage of Shinji's caring nature to get him to wait on her. She is angry because of it and ''definitely'' not because Shinji is paying a lot of attention to Misato: |
| 418 | --->''Not that he minds, Asuka thought dourly. Honestly, the boy took to the task of playing nursemaid with far more gusto than she felt a man should. It was almost sickening how Misato was taking advantage of Shinji's caring nature while she was ill. Asuka wasn't the least bit jealous of attention he had been lavishing on Misato.''\ |
| 419 | ''Really.'' |
| 420 | * SweatDrop: Asuka does this in one of the omakes when the author reveals his discarded ideas: |
| 421 | -->Asuka's sweat drop grew larger. |
| 422 | * TalkingInBed: In chapter 19, while they are resting on her bed, Shinji and Asuka talk about the latter's mental state after her battle against Arael. |
| 423 | * TechnologicallyAdvancedFoe: NERV was made to fight the Angels, not Superman villains. So what happens when Brainiac--a living, conniving humanoid supercomputer 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 AT-Field, and his base is a spaceship that can drift out of NERV's reach. If Asuka had not stopped him, he would have taken everything he wanted and left. |
| 424 | * TemptingFate: During a power outage, [[BridgeBunnies Bridge Bunny]] Makoto has this to say: |
| 425 | --> '''Makoto''': "And I thought it couldn't get any worse than having to pick up Misato's dry cleaning for her. Honestly, could this day possibly get any worse?" |
| 426 | * TenMinuteRetirement: After being mind-raped by Arael, Asuka quit superheroing because she was convinced that she was an unworthy, stupid child playing hero. [[spoiler:However, she became Supergirl again to save Rei from Armisael]]. |
| 427 | * TheseHandsHaveKilled: Asuka was feeling awful with herself after getting forced to mercy kill Kaworu. |
| 428 | * TheyWouldCutYouUp: Asuka kept quiet about her powers because she was afraid of losing her piloting position, as well as getting poked and prodded. |
| 429 | * 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. |
| 430 | * ThreeWaySex: In chapter 13's {{Omake}}, Misato and Asuka are fighting over Shinji. When it is evident that Asuka has the upper hand, Misato talks her into "sharing" him, hinting she knows "things" and that she can teach them both. Asuka agrees, and she is about to kiss Shinji...when Pen Pen wakes him up from what turns out to be a dream. Shinji was NOT amused. |
| 431 | * 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 soon went from beating giant aliens with her HumongousMecha to ripping them apart with her bare fists. |
| 432 | * TookALevelInCheerfulness: Developing powers and becoming a superheroine made Asuka a happier, more cheerful and more positive person, who didn't need to pilot a giant robot to feel that her life was not worthless. |
| 433 | * TookALevelInIdealism: When she became Supergirl, Asuka realized everyone expected her to be some 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. |
| 434 | * 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. |
| 435 | * TrespassingToTalk: In chapter 8's omake, Asuka walks into her apartment and finds Toji, unwelcome and uninvited, waiting for her in the kitchen to blackmail her. |
| 436 | * TripleShifter: Asuka is a thirteen-year-old kid who goes to school, pilots mechas, and by night dons her superhero costume and saves people. |
| 437 | * {{Tsundere}}: Asuka. Ever since she was a kid, she fabricated a mask of a tough, self-reliant girl who didn't need anybody, so no one ever realized she was very vulnerable and hurting, deep down. However, when she begins living with Shinji, she starts trusting him and showing him her softer, nicer side gradually. |
| 438 | * UndignifiedDeath: Of the many ways Gendo Ikari has gone out in the ''Superwomen of Eva'' series, [[spoiler:"[[GoombaStomp stomped flat]] by Doomsday"]] surely is an awful one. |
| 439 | * UnresolvedSexualTension: Between Shinji and Asuka, ever since they met on 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.) |
| 440 | [[/folder]] |
| 441 | |
| 442 | [[folder:V-Z]] |
| 443 | * VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler:Upon Rei refusing to help Gendo complete his Instrumentality plan 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, leading him to unleashing Doomsday.]] |
| 444 | * VillainWithGoodPublicity: Officially, Gendo leads NERV, an organization created to save the world from the Angels. Unofficially, his goal is committing worldwide genocide. |
| 445 | * ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: Hurting Shinji is not merely idiotic, it's downright suicidal. His girlfriend is a hot-tempered fiery red-head with ''[[Franchise/{{Superman}} Kryptonian powers]]''. Usually Asuka holds back, but threaten Shinji and you ''will'' find out how funny it is being punched by someone strong enough to lift a mountain. [[spoiler:A cult's leader certainly found out;]] alas, they did not deem the experience funny. |
| 446 | * WhamEpisode: Several. |
| 447 | ** [[spoiler:[[AlienInvasion Brainiac attacking]]]] and Asuka finding out about [[spoiler:Krypton.]] |
| 448 | ** Going to meet [[spoiler:Emil Hamilton and [[ComesGreatResponsibility seeing Jor-El's message]]. (And, oh yeah, NERV kidnapping him for information on ComicBook/PowerGirl).]] |
| 449 | ** 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]])]]. |
| 450 | ** [[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 warrior. |
| 451 | ** The near-loss of [[spoiler:Unit-02 to the Dirac Sea [[FriendOrIdolDecision almost forcing her to abandon it so she could be Supergirl full-time]]]]. |
| 452 | ** NERV obtaining [[spoiler:Kryptonite and using it to power the Evangelions...]] |
| 453 | ** [[spoiler: Asuka's canonical MindRape still happened, only that now Shinji got (mildly) affected by it...and oh, yeah, [[OhCrap Gendo now has information from the Dead Sea Scrolls concerning the existence of the Anti-Life Equation]]…]] |
| 454 | ** [[spoiler: Asuka quits 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.]] |
| 455 | * WhatTheHellHero: Unintentionally given by [[spoiler:Jor-El's recording]] to Asuka. [[spoiler: Superman, of all people, gives her a much more brutal and direct one during her MindRape illusion, which [[BreakTheCutie completely breaks her]].]] |
| 456 | * WhatIf: In several omakes, the author described several alternate scenarios where Asuka became the host of ''ComicBook/TheSpectre'', ''ComicBook/{{Raven}}'', the host of ''ComicBook/{{Etrigan}}'', a [[Franchise/GreenLantern Red Lantern]]... |
| 457 | * WhenSheSmiles: |
| 458 | ** When Shinji smiles, he makes Asuka's heart race. |
| 459 | ** In chapter 16, Asuka beams at Shinji, and he feels his heartbeat speeding up: |
| 460 | -->''Then, to his considerable surprise, she smiled at him, something she hadn't done since before the last Angel battle. Shinji felt his heartbeat accelerating as he looked at her.'' |
| 461 | * WolverinePublicity: Asuka, as Power Girl and Supergirl, has made '''4''' guest appearances in other ''Superwomen of Eva'' stories, more than any other superwoman. And she's been mentioned in several more [=SOE=] stories. |
| 462 | * WorldsStrongestMan: Being half-Kryptonian, Asuka is the world's strongest woman. Even though there are other superheroines around, neither of them are as strong, not even Wonder Girl. During a battle, Asuka proves how unbelievably stronger she is when she lifts a whole skyscraper. |
| 463 | * 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. |
| 464 | * YouDidntSeeThat: In the seventh chapter's omake, Shinji catches Asuka playing with dolls: |
| 465 | -->'''Asuka:''' "What did you see?!"\ |
| 466 | '''Shinji:''' "Nothing! [...] I didn't see you playing with your dolls!" |
| 467 | * YouWouldntShootMe: When Asuka is threatening [[spoiler:Chiron into telling 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. |
| 468 | [[/folder]] |
| 469 | |
| 470 | ---- |
| 471 | ->'''Asuka''':''"You know, I tried to live my whole life being the best at everything and never showing weakness to anybody, [...] I thought nobody would ever give a damn about me if I wasn't always top dog."''\ |
| 472 | '''Shinji''':''"Asuka—"''\ |
| 473 | '''Asuka''':''"Then I became Power Girl and Supergirl after that. I enjoy being a superwoman a lot; it's great to be able to help people. But at some point I realized that everyone expected me to be this…moral paragon. In fact, everybody thought I just naturally was one, and if I ever showed them otherwise, tons of people would be disappointed. [...] I was trying to be perfect all the time, and it was exhausting, [...] Even without the Fifteenth Angel, I think it might have eventually shattered me. Just driven me crazy or something."''\ |
| 474 | '''Shinji''':''...''\ |
| 475 | '''Asuka''':''"I picked being Supergirl over being an EVA pilot, [...] I'm sorry that I'll probably never use Unit Two again, but I'm glad that I finally made the decision, and I can definitely accept it. But the part where I have to constantly be this perfect symbol of justice and morality… I don't want to disappoint any of the people who look up to Supergirl, but that's a really tall order."''\ |
| 476 | '''Shinji''':''"Of course, [...] It would be for anybody."''\ |
| 477 | '''Asuka''':''"I think I can keep being the Supergirl that everybody believes in, the one that inspires people, but only if I have somebody I can show the real me to. Somebody I can talk to, and tell about the times when I was really tempted to do something cruel or selfish, without horrifying him, [...] You've seen the worst parts of me. You've seen me at my nastiest, and you've seen me as a broken mess. And you're still here, practically bending over backwards to help me through a rough time. Still caring about me. So, I'd like that person to be you, if you think you can stand it."'' |
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