* ActorAllusion:
** Go-Kun, [[WordOfGod voiced by]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdY8XfsQ8T8 Peter Cullen,]] says [[Franchise/{{Transformers}} "One shall stand and one shall fall" and "Life is the right of all sentient beings"]] in Chapter 41.
** President Creator/StephenColbert has an {{eyepatch|OfPower}}. Guess that makes him a One-Eyed Monster...
** Pieter Sohryu, played by [[Series/BabylonFive Bruce Boxleitner]], makes [[TalkingTheMonsterToDeath really great speeches]].
** WordOfGod says that Shinji's grandfather ([[spoiler:SEELE 06]]) is played by the late Creator/ChristopherLee.
* AscendedFanon: Many, many elements of the story (usually minor gags, but sometimes whole plot points) are the result of suggestions in the Spacebattles.com discussion thread.
** The major example would be [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/showpost.php?p=4687447&postcount=3592 President Colbert]].
** "[[http://forums.spacebattles.com/showpost.php?p=4866905&postcount=12780 Ahem. Gendo beating M. Bison in a bar brawl is now canon. That is all.]]"
** One of the reader's omakes involved the Ree giving Iruel a [[FateWorseThanDeath guided tour of 4chan as a form of torture.]] It's canon as of chapter 37.
* CreatorBacklash: The response that followed the reveal of the sort-of retcon of thirty or so chapters was [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/rebuild-revive-renew-eva-fic-ideas-pt-4.222333/page-46#post-9440180 quite unhealthy]] to the author's opinion of the story.
-->'''Gregg:''' I am hesitant to get back to Eva writing in the first place, as Nobody Dies needs to ''die in a fucking fire''.
* {{Defictionalization}}:
** There was talk that a fan and three friends would be {{Cos Play}}ing as Gendo, Kozo, Yui and Rei and re-enacting the Driver's Training scene from chapter 19 at Mechacon 2010. Unfortunately, Gregg announced that it fell through.
** Rei now has a [=GameFAQs=] account. Appropriately named Terrifying!Rei. [=GameFAQs=] shudders.
* LyingCreator: Gregg. WordOfGod for this series is ''not very reliable''. [[spoiler:Exhibit A -- Ichi Ikari.]]
* ReferencedBy:
** ''Fanfic/ACrownOfStars'': The codename of the campaign to liberate and rebuild Shinji and Asuka's world is ''Nobody Dies''. Asuka also uses "Flurgen" like a swear-word pretty every so often.
** ''Fanfic/OnceMoreWithFeeling'': During a quad bike race between the three pilots Rei used a car transporter as a ramp to jump onto a bridge ahead of Asuka and Shinji. Both promptly stop to stare after her in shock.
* ScheduleSlip: After ch. 110, the fic went into a months-long hiatus as Gregg first got distracted by ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'', then apparently getting caught up in planning out and writing the next section of the fic. He repeatedly said that it was not dead. In September 2012, seven months after chapter 110 was posted, Gregg said he knew how he wanted to proceed, but it would've apparently tied into the Rebuild!ND plot and readers would have had to wait for that one to get caught up first before new chapters would have been posted. After many years without one update, Gregg admitted that both ND and its rewrite were dead fics.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: As noted on the main page, had the story continued to its original planned conclusion, part of the final battle would've been a showdown involving evil counterparts of the pilots and their Evas. Considering Unit 05 had basically become Optimus Prime, his counterpart would have been an Eva version of Megatron.
* WordOfGod: There's a lot of side information that isn't spelled out in the story but has been confirmed by Gregg in the discussion threads; a lot of ideas and theories have also been disproved as well.

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