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1* CrazyIsCool:
2** The fic starts out pretty placid, with just a few moments of awesome and a bit of crazy in the prologue, then steadily increases both. By ch. 19, when canon!Eva has pretty much been left by the wayside, there's so much of ''both'' that it rivals ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' at times.
3** Shinji gets an especially large dose. Multiple personalities inspired by toy soldiers ''are keeping him functional''.
4* [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic Crowning Music of Awesome]]: Moments after Shinji proclaims, at the end of chapter one, that he will pilot the Evangelion for the first time, the author tells the reader to cue the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmtBzI3M4yM&feature=related theme]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvZygBUCcc0&fmt=18 song]] to ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion''... If one continues to do this at the end of each succeeding chapter, the effect might soon [[ManlyTears become overwhelming]]. "Cruel Angel's Thesis" ''does'' seem to fit more with this fic than with the original series, urging with the words, "Young boy, become a legend." The original Shinji was not very legendary. ''This'' Shinji, [[MessiahCreep however]]...
5* {{Fanon}}: More than a few reviewers of the work on Website/ThisVeryWiki have commented on it almost replacing the theoretically "correct" version of events, in their minds.
6* FandomSpecificPlot: [[TropeMaker This very fic started one]] where the FixFic works by [[WorldOfBadass making the world awesome.]]
7* FauxSymbolism: This shows up a ''lot'':
8** To Shinji's great annoyance, Asuka points out the obvious religious imagery when he begins teaching her how to do AT-field weirdness by walking on the surface of a swimming pool.
9** Shinji tries to convince himself that many of the symbols from ''Warhammer 40K'' he sees were just based off random things Games Workshop picked out because they looked cool, and him repeatedly running into them is mere coincidence. Doesn't quite work for the skull throne, though.
10** As if NNHIS's name sounding like "IN HIS" wasn't blatant enough, all their products get the designation "experiment #X, IN HIS NAME the Y". Asuka thinks it sounds like they're cult members. Really, they're doing it to tick Gendo off... [[MessiahCreep at first]].
11** According to Lama Feckeldraft, Asuka is supposed to be Thor. Or something. This has the effect of making Angels into ''Giants'' and Kaworu into '''Loki'''. What did Shinji lose in his first combat with an Angel? An ''eye''. What is it that the Imperial aquila lacks? An eye. This makes Mana, who lost her left arm, '''Tyr'''. And the Trident (T-Raiden-T) has been bastardized into a ''Werwulf''. 'Leavings of the wolf', indeed.
12*** "Achtung! Jotunn Morderkopf!"? Isn't that around the lines of "Giant Slayer"?
13*** "Ahem": Didn't Odin (Shinji) also have two ravens named Huginn and Muninn (a.k.a. '''J'''iro and '''K'''entaro) that brought him information and acted as his "eyes"?
14*** Thus it looks like that the pseudo-Jewish theology of Evangelion is replaced with Myth/NorseMythology through the help of Warhammer 40k.
15* FridgeLogic: Invoked by [=Bpen=], in one of the author notes: How exactly does ''[[Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya]]'' still exist in a world where the ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' anime was never made and thus (for example) the EmotionlessGirl trope would never have been established? Not to mention that it would've been written ''[[InSpiteOfANail after Second Impact]]''.
16* HilariousInHindsight: This fic uses the same reasoning for Gendou's behaviour towards Shinji and NERV's ultimate goals as in the [[Manga/NeonGenesisEvangelionCampusApocalypse Campus Apocalypse]] HighSchoolAU manga. The Rei/Asuka dynamic is also near-identical.
17* MemeticMutation:
18** "Pilot Sohryu, I am charging your laser."
19** "Halt!... Hammerzeit!"
20** [[AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs All Your Base]] reference in Uncertain space part 4.
21** "Dropping armament buildings meant left open shafts, not to mention the gaping hole left by the Ashino Lance Cannon. '''[[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment Obvious points of vulnerability were obvious]]'''."
22** "What '''is''' this I don't even."
23** There are several chapters built around weaving specific meme-laden dialogue into the story, be it the entirety of the AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs intro text, the lyrics to All Along the Watchtower or multiple instances of [[Franchise/{{Castlevania}} What Is A Man, A Miserable Pile Of Secrets]].
24* MoralEventHorizon:
25** Gendo [[spoiler:executes the second Rei after she learns how to use her AT-field offensively outside of her Eva]].
26** Kaworu is a sympathetic character up to the point he [[spoiler:stabs Rei and helps Iruel turn the Earth's Cradle, the self-sufficient, fortified final bastion of humanity, into grade-A, militarized horror]].
27* NightmareFuel:
28** The Angelspawn and the Black Moon's [[spoiler:Zombie Plague]].
29** Iruel emits a tone that's the literal form of this trope.
30** Makoto, while reading ''The Melancholy Of...'', reaches the obvious conclusion and proceeds to freak out for a little while.
31* StrawmanHasAPoint: The Government bureaucrats in episode 22 are portrayed like idiots concerned about their position and afraid of losing power and influence if people does not obey them. However their concerns were not unreasonable: give weapons to a teenager and allow him hoard them is a recipe for a disaster, moreover if he keeps them in his school.
32* UglyCute: The [[https://dl.dropbox.com/u/644231/bpen/render/magnos_kr.JPG Trident Land Dreadnought]] is an unsubtle walking tank covered with weapons and slabs of heavy armor. It also tends to waddle around with its arms waving and is only waist-high to an Eva, leading Misato to describe it as "like a deranged, homicidal puppy."
33* {{Wangst}}:
34** Happily averted as early as the prologue.
35--->'''Shinji''': What am I doing? This is so worthlessly dramatic. I'm brooding. ''Brooding'', damn it!
36** And possibly just as happily reacquired, for at-last-decent reasons, with his concerns that he might be destroying entire other universes through his exploits.

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