History Fanfic / StrategicCyborgEvangelion

** Even ''the Angels'' have come far from the {{Kaiju}} By Any Other Name they used to be.
* AlienGeometries: The Spear of Longinus has a DiegeticInterface that combines this with MatrixRainingCode. Just ''looking at it'' turns out to be physically harmful for a human brain, as Kaworu finds out the hard way.

* BangBangBANG: Averted. Starship-caliber [[MagneticWeapons coilguns]] are loud enough to shatter windows and rupture eardrums in the general vicinity.

** [[WalkingTank Mark II battleframes]] are also noted as packing their own BFG as main weapon.

* CasualInterstellarTravel: Averted. Waygates have a [[MagicAIsMagicA maximum speed]] of 99.187856''c'', requiring weeks to get anywhere - a fact Toji refers to as "warp lag".
** Further reinforced later on by Shephard, who confirms that crewed courier ships are the most boring duty a soldier can possibly get.
* ChainsawGripBFG: Unit-00's assault cannon.
* ChestBlaster: Unit-00 and Unit-01 both have a pair of autocannons built into their chest and put it to use against multiple Angels. Rei even kills Sachiel with it.

* BuxomIsBetter: A source of envy by Asuka towards Mari and Rei.

* HandCannon: Rei has ''two'' [[RareGuns Mateba Model 6 Uniqa]] [[RevolversAreJustBetter revolvers]] chambered for .454 Casull.

* ExtendedDisarming: Rei of all people does this trope as part of her {{Xenafication}}. She produces two customized revolvers, two Micro Uzis, [[KnifeNut over three dozen knives]], a sword, four shurikens, two chakrams, a ''grenade launcher'' and all the assorted ammunition in the form of speedloaders, drum magazines and HE grenades. Above all that she possesses a [[{{BFG}} .50cal anti-tank rifle]] but doesn't usually carry it with her because it's [[AvertedTrope impossible]] [[{{Hammerspace}} to conceal]].

* MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness: 4. Everything is either an extrapolation of already-existing real-life technology or was [[ImportedAlienPhlebotinum copied]] from Combine technology.

* ChristianityIsCatholic: Averted with Rei, who is not part of any denomination because she wasn't baptized and her interpretation of the scripture isn't in line with any of the existing ones.

* DoorStopper: On the way to becoming one. The story is already over 180,000 words and according to WordOfGod, we're only about ''one-third'' into the plot.

* FasterThanLightTravel: Humanity has access to this in the form of Waygates, although it's anything but [[CasualInterstellarTravel casual]].

** Israfel and Sarafiel raise the bar even higher, explicitly pulling maneuvers anatomically impossible for human joints.
** [[spoiler:Zeruel and the white Eva]] then proceed to raise that bar ''even higher'', with the former outright doing a FlashStep and the latter ''dodging HomingLasers'' and kicking off the former's CombatTentacles during their aerial duel. Even ''Rei'' is unsettled by the latter, stating that even the Evas couldn't possibly do that due to neural interface lag.

* OffWithHisHead: Unit-00 gets messily decapitated by Zeruel stomping down on her neck.

* PresidentEvil: Keel is implied to be one.

''Strategic Cyborg Evangelion'' is a RealRobotGenre crossover between ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' and ''VideoGame/HalfLife''. Its basic premise is simple: what if the Black Mesa Incident and the subsequent Combine invasion was Second Impact? And what if it happened two years ahead of SEELE's schedule, massively interfering with their plans? Humanity recovered from this calamity and even managed to carve out a small interstellar fiefdom... only for the Angels to start attacking Earth in 2041, 23 years after the Combine occupation force was defeated. And the G-Man is definitely up to something as well.

Good thing then that the Artificial Evolution Laboratory secretly and illegally developed Evangelions, even if they're only prototypes and the pilots are {{Ordinary High School Student}}s... [[AdaptationalBadass or are they]]?

Accessible at:

* [[http://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/395229/ Alternate History Forums, ASB section]] (registered users only)

** Kaworu, in some ways. Although he's no longer an Angel like in canon, he's more than capable of holding his own in a fistfight against several other people at once if he's forced to.

* NextGenFic: Of ''Half-Life''. Chapter 8 reveals that [[spoiler:Barney is the Confederate army's Commander-in-Chief]].
** Adrian Shephard is also a regular cast member, being Asuka's father.

* BiTheWay: Asuka and Mari are both bisexuals but are hiding it from their parents. Hikari is a bit unnerved by it.
** In fact, Asuka seemingly has no problems with sexually fantasizing about other girls.

** Mari is the extroverted and [[BiTheWay sexually liberal]] Red to Hikari's rule-abiding "good girl" Blue.

* ActionPrologue: The first chapter opens with what appears to be a CurbstompBattle ending with a [[{{ApocalypseHow/Class4}} Class 4]] apocalypse via OrbitalBombardment.
* AdaptationalBadass: The ''entire damn cast''.
** Rei. Canon version: TheStoic and near-[[EmotionlessGirl emotionless]] girl with a SugarAndIcePersonality. ''SCE'' version: ActionGirl in a BadassLongcoat, applying generous amounts of WaifFu and GunFu with a side order of PsychicPowers. And that's still not considering what she can do [[ImprobableAimingSkills in her]] [[RocketJump Evangelion]]. Admittedly though, she's still [[StoicWoobie quite]] [[BrokenBird fragile]] [[TroubledButCute emotionally]].
** Kaworu as well, to a lesser extent. He goes from being a male ApocalypseMaiden and AntiAntiChrist who's never seen actually raising a single finger against anyone, to a BullyHunter CombatPragmatist who closes his first day as NewTransferStudent by delivering a CurbstompBattle while outnumbered three-to-one. Still [[NiceGuy just as friendly]], though.

* AlienGeometries: The graphical user interface of the Spear of Longinus. Kaworu's brain starts bleeding just from him looking at it.
** Israfel and Sarafiel briefly create a volume of space with extreme GravityScrew that freezes Unit-01's mapping subroutine and actually causes Kaworu to throw up a little from the disorientation.
* AllPlanetsAreEarthLike: Averted. It's specifically mentioned that Earth is the only planet where humans can survive without EVA equipment. Three other Goldilocks planets have been colonized but only Earth has natural surface water. Case in point is Polygonus: while being a Goldilocks planet, it has higher surface gravity, an unbreathable nitrogen-helium-[=CO2=] atmosphere and no surface water. The former two is being corrected via {{terraform}}ing.
* AMFMCharacterization: Rei listens to metal, which fits her AdaptationalBadass in this fic.
* AnArmAndALeg: Unit-01 loses an arm and both legs in the first skirmish against Zeruel.
* ApocalypseHow: Planetary societal disruption as per the Half-Life verse. Had the Combine occupation lasted another decade, it would've devolved to societal collapse.

* AxesAtSchool: Rei brings at least one knife to school, hidden in her boots.
* BangBangBANG: Averted. Kaworu gets a ruptured eardrum from standing too close to a ship-caliber coilgun going off, which also shatters every single window nearby.
* BeamSpam: Israfel and Sarafiel has two of these, one direct-aim and one that spreads out in a sweeping pattern.

* BinarySuns: One of the human-inhabited systems is a binary system with all the planets orbiting one of the stars[[note]][[ShownTheirWork which is actually possible]] if the stars orbit each other far enough[[/note]]. Also a case of AlienSky as every planet's night side experiences a midnight red glow from the smaller star for a full half year.

* BuxomIsBetter: Asuka is highly envious of girls with larger busts: both Mari and Rei.

** Further reinforced later on by Shephard, who confirms that crewed courier ships are the most boring post a soldier can possibly get.

* ChristianityIsCatholic: Pointedly averted. Rei is not part of any denomination because she wasn't baptized, plus her interpretation of the scripture isn't in line with any of the existing ones.
* CrapsackWorld: Let's see... we have a WorldHalfEmpty ravaged in the past by two Type 1 alien invasions and ravaged now by the occasional NegativeSpaceWedgie, all of it run by a PoliceState that [[WithUsOrAgainstUs violently cracks down on anyone not sharing their views]], as well as ''yet another'' Type 1 AlienInvasion that will definitely happen sometime in the future.

** Rei vs. Sachiel, in the former's favor. Sachiel barely manages to damage the Eva at all.
** Kaworu vs. Shamshel, ''in both ways''. Shamshel completely and utterly dominates the Evas, only ever taking damage from sneak attacks. [[spoiler:Once he acquires the Spear of Longinus, the tables turn instantly.]]

* DoorStopper: On the way to becoming one. The story is already over 150,000 words and according to WordOfGod, we're only about ''one-third'' into the plot.

** In the second chapter, Kaworu saves a boy from bullies. Later that afternoon, the bullies ambush him outside school... only for Kaworu to fight them off with barely any effort, thanks to his [[HadToBeSharp streetfighting experience]].
** Chapter 6 has Rei's debut as a pilot. Unlike in canon where Rei's mediocre pilot skills result in her only ever taking down a single Angel via HeroicSacrifice, here she deploys the WaifFu and solos Sachiel in a spectacular display of acrobatics.

*** Another one is delivered in chapter 39 when Zeruel [[spoiler:suddenly shows up in the middle of the Israfel battle and casually throws Israfel away at suborbital speeds for not getting out of his way on the first warning]].

* FasterThanLightTravel: The Waygate system, created from a combination of human displacement and Combine tunneling entanglement technologies.
* FixedForwardFacingWeapon: In chapter 6, a frigate fires a spinal-mounted coilgun at Sachiel, almost deafening Kaworu in the process.

* {{Flight}} - Evas with A-type equipment are capable of this.
** So does Shamshel, Israfel, Sarafiel and Zeruel. In particular, [[spoiler:Zeruel is capable of flying at ''sub-lightspeed'']].

* GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: When Kaworu bemoans his uselessness [[spoiler:against Zeruel]], Asuka decks him hard enough to knock him on his back before giving him a DareToBeBadass pep talk.

* {{Heavyworlder}}: Averted. Children born on Polygonus are mentioned to have a noticeably higher risk of developing skeletal deformities as simply being born on a planet with 1.1g does not make a human adapted to it.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:Kaworu, upon immobilizing Shamshel by stepping on her head while she's lying on the ground to keep her from getting up. Shamshel immediately coiled her snakelike body around the Eva in a stranglehold, forcing him to let go and turning the tables.]]

* HumongousMecha: Earlier battleframe models. They're confirmed to be nothing more than [[GlassCannon assault guns]] on legs, as armoring them enough for front-line combat would be [[AwesomeButImpractical impractically expensive and heavy, not to mention slow]].
** MetaMecha: F-type equipment, a powered armor ''for Evangelions''

* ImportedAlienPhlebotinum: Lots of Combine technology was abandoned when Overwatch fled the planet. Humanity put all that to good use...
** The Evas themselves run on dark fusion reactors, the same technology that powered the Citadel's top reactor in ''Half-Life 2'' - and sure enough, Yui confirms that they can be rigged to blow in the same way.

* ItCanThink: Shephard realizes the Angels are intelligent after re-watching footage of the battle against Shamshel and notices her trying to keep Unit-01 away from the Spear of Longinus. Even during the battle itself, he immediately recognized Shamshel's use of the city buildings as hard cover against Rei's sniping for what it was.
* KineticWeaponsAreJustBetter: The Confederate Armed Forces use kinetic weapons exclusively.
* LampshadeHanging: Frequently delivered from various sources.
* LighterAndSofter: While the VideoGame/HalfLife universe is even more of a CrapsackWorld than the Evaverse, Kaworu doesn't have the same emotional baggage canon!Shinji does.
** On the other hand, he already came very close to death by aneurysm - ''in his first battle''.

* MagneticWeapons: [[FixedForwardFacingWeapon Spinal]] coilguns are standard armament on Confederate warships. Rei also whips out a bolt-action sniper railgun later on.

** C-type equipment: LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe, the MightyGlacier. And it's definitely not PointDefenseless.
** E-type equipment: [[InvisibilityCloak active camouflage]] for sneaking about. As much as something of that size can sneak, that is.
** F-type equipment: PoweredArmor ''for Evangelions'', packing MoreDakka than what one can shake their fists at.

* MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness: 4. Basically, everything is either an extrapolation of already-existing real-life technology or was [[ImportedAlienPhlebotinum copied]] from Combine technology.
** There are however a few that stretch belief. Especially gravimetric sensors, Waygates, and of course the Evangelions themselves.
* MoreDakka: The military unleashed a helluva lot of firepower against Sachiel. [[DeflectorShields Naturally]], to no effect.
* MorphWeapon: The Spear of Longinus.

* MysteriousWatcher: The G-Man, as usual.

** Adrian Shephard is also a regular cast member, being [[spoiler:Asuka's father]].

* OffscreenTeleportation: The G-Man simply ''loves'' doing this, casually walking out from behind objects too small to hide behind or [[NoIAmBehindYou even the person he's talking to]].
* OffTheRails: As if the story's background wasn't off the rails enough for Evangelion canon, [[spoiler:Zeruel interrupts the Israfel battle to fight the Evas himself, with devastating consequences]]

** OffWithHisHead: Unit-00 gets messily decapitated by Zeruel stomping down on her neck.

* OrganizationWithUnlimitedFunding: Averted. The AEL had to briefly cryofreeze Unit-01 so that they can redirect its maintenance costs to finishing Unit-02's development.

** Chapter 8: [[spoiler:Breen was a member of SEELE and was using the Combine to expedite Instrumentality]]. Obviously, it didn't work out.
** Same Chapter: [[spoiler:The AEL already had Kaworu's genetic records and Yui knows who he is. The rewritten version of the chapter confirms that Kaworu's DNA is NotQuiteHuman]].

** Same: [[spoiler:The AEL already had Kaworu's genetic records and Yui knows who he is. The rewritten version of the chapter confirms that Kaworu's DNA is NotQuiteHuman]].

* {{Oneesama}}: Rei's attitude towards Lilith

** Kaworu is the UnskilledButStrong NewMeat to Asuka's WeakButSkilled AcePilot
** Shephard is the emotional and [[AFatherToHisMen forgiving]] Red to Yui's professional and goal-oriented Blue
** Mari is the extroverted and [[BiTheWay sexually liberal]] Red to Hikari's rule-abiding "good girl" Blue

** Chapter 16: [[spoiler:the Spear of Longinus was the Borealis' cargo]].
** Chapter 20: [[spoiler:Kaworu and Rei has a mutual past but neither remembers the other]].

** Rei's status depends on who she's being compared to. She's the Technician to Kaworu's Performer, having far more skill and expertise; at the same time however, she's also the Performer to Asuka's Technician as Rei does far more flashy stunts which she backs up with ImprobableAimingSkills.

* BinarySuns - One of the human-inhabited systems is a binary system with all the planets orbiting one of the stars[[note]][[ShownTheirWork which is actually possible]] if the stars orbit each other far enough[[/note]]. Also a case of AlienSky as every planet's night side experiences a midnight red glow from the smaller star for a full half year.
* BiTheWay - Asuka and Mari are both bisexuals but are hiding it from their parents. Hikari is a bit unnerved by it.

* BoomStick - The Spear of Longinus operates like this in the battle against Shamshel, first launching a {{Roboteching}} BeamSpam then a WaveMotionGun.
* BreadEggsMilkSquick - Kaworu's musings about a sleeping Rei.

* BuxomIsBetter - Asuka is highly envious of girls with larger busts: both Mari and Rei.
* CasualInterstellarTravel - Averted. Waygates have a [[MagicAIsMagicA maximum speed]] of 99.187856''c'', requiring weeks to get anywhere - a fact Toji refers to as "warp lag".

* ChainsawGripBFG - Unit-00's assault cannon.
* ChestBlaster - Unit-00 and Unit-01 both have a pair of autocannons built into their chest and put it to use against multiple Angels. Rei even kills Sachiel with it.
* ChristianityIsCatholic - Pointedly averted. Rei is not part of any denomination because she wasn't baptized, plus her interpretation of the scripture isn't in line with any of the existing ones.
* CrapsackWorld - Let's see... we have a WorldHalfEmpty ravaged in the past by two Type 1 alien invasions and ravaged now by the occasional NegativeSpaceWedgie, all of it run by a PoliceState that [[WithUsOrAgainstUs violently cracks down on anyone not sharing their views]], as well as ''yet another'' Type 1 AlienInvasion that will definitely happen sometime in the future.
* CurbstompBattle - Kaworu vs. the bullies in chapter 2. He took all three down in a matter of seconds.

* DisasterDemocracy - How the Confederacy of Man started off [[spoiler:before being covertly overtaken by SEELE]].
* DoorStopper - On the way to becoming one. The story is already over 150,000 words and according to WordOfGod, we're only about ''one-third'' into the plot.
* EarthThatUsedToBeBetter - Earth's population is barely half of what it was before Second Impact, the ecosystem is in shambles due to the introduction of several invasive alien predators, the surface is being ravaged by {{Negative Space Wedgie}}s... as usual for something set in the source universes.

* FasterThanLightTravel - The Waygate system, created from a combination of human displacement and Combine tunneling entanglement technologies.
* FixedForwardFacingWeapon - In chapter 6, a frigate fires a spinal-mounted coilgun at Sachiel, almost deafening Kaworu in the process.
* FlawedPrototype - Unit-00 still has this distinction, revealed in chapter 15 to have a structural problem inside its cartilage tissue that causes the joints to degrade if subjected to high-strain activities like close combat.

* FourPhilosophyEnsemble - Kaworu is the Optimist, Shephard is the Realist, Yui is the Cynic. Rei is somewhere between the Cynic and the Apathetic.
* FramingDevice - According to the first chapter, the story is based on memoirs Kaworu wrote specifically to ensure the ''actual'' events will be known to later generations, not a version ShroudedInMyth.
* FromBadToWorse - As if the Evas' battle against Israfel and Sarafiel was not difficult enough already, [[spoiler:Zeruel suddenly enters the battle himself]].
* FullFrontalAssault - The famous Rei-exiting-shower-to-find-someone scene is repeated with a twist: Kaworu is on the receiving end and Rei attacks him when he asks her about [[spoiler:her tattoo]].
* FuumaShuriken - Rei has a collapsible one.
* GetAHoldOfYourselfMan - When Kaworu bemoans his uselessness [[spoiler:against Zeruel]], Asuka decks him hard enough to knock him on his back before giving him a DareToBeBadass pep talk.
* HandCannon - Rei has ''two'' [[RareGuns Mateba Model 6 Uniqa]] [[RevolversAreJustBetter revolvers]] chambered for .454 Casull.
* {{Heavyworlder}} - Averted. Children born on Polygonus are mentioned to have a noticeably higher risk of developing skeletal deformities as simply being born on a planet with 1.1g does not make a human adapted to it.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard - [[spoiler:Kaworu, upon immobilizing Shamshel by stepping on her head while she's lying on the ground to keep her from getting up. Shamshel immediately coiled her snakelike body around the Eva in a stranglehold, forcing him to let go and turning the tables.]]
* HomeworldEvacuation - Invoked. Millions of humans were relocated to self-sustaining colonies in other star systems so that another Combine invasion cannot find and kill them ''all''.
* HomingLasers - The Spear of Longinus is capable of firing these, as does Israfel, Sarafiel and Zeruel.
* HumongousMecha - Earlier battleframe models. They're confirmed to be nothing more than [[GlassCannon assault guns]] on legs, as armoring them enough for front-line combat would be [[AwesomeButImpractical impractically expensive and heavy, not to mention slow]].
** MetaMecha - F-type equipment, a powered armor ''for Evangelions''
** MiniMecha - The Mk-III/B Durandal, designed for urban combat. A FragileSpeedster in that it can shrug off small arms fire... but not much else, preferring to avoid being hit in the first place instead.
* ImportedAlienPhlebotinum - Lots of Combine technology was abandoned when Overwatch fled the planet. Humanity put all that to good use...

* ImpossiblyGracefulGiant - Despite their size, Evas are extremely agile. Unit-00 in particular pulls acrobatic maneuvers like mid-air flips, somersaults and barrel rolls, something Asuka (who has had experience with mechas before) lampshades.

* InsistentTerminology - The author specifically writes the designations of all Evas with a dash (eg. "Unit-00") to distinguish them from their canon counterparts, written without a dash ("Unit 00").
* IronicEcho - Kaworu taunts Shamshel about not paying attention at one point during their battle. Mere seconds later, the Angel regains the upper hand and taunts him right back.

* ItCanThink - Shephard realizes the Angels are intelligent after re-watching footage of the battle against Shamshel and notices her trying to keep Unit-01 away from the Spear of Longinus. Even during the battle itself, he immediately recognized Shamshel's use of the city buildings as hard cover against Rei's sniping for what it was.
* KineticWeaponsAreJustBetter - The Confederate Armed Forces use kinetic weapons exclusively.
* LampshadeHanging - Frequently delievered from various sources.
* LighterAndSofter - While the VideoGame/HalfLife universe is even more of a CrapsackWorld than the Evaverse, Kaworu doesn't have the same emotional baggage canon!Shinji does.

* TheLittleDetecto - Gravimetric sensors. They detect the minuscule spacetime distortions caused by the presence of mass and therefore cannot be confused by stealth. Lots of tightly-packed objects however WILL make them ineffective, hence the need for radars. AT-fields and dark energy are instantly spotted from a VERY long distance due to their spacetime warping properties.
* MagneticWeapons - [[FixedForwardFacingWeapon Spinal]] coilguns are standard armament on Confederate warships. Rei also whips out a bolt-action sniper railgun later on.
* MechaExpansionPack - The Evas have several. The ones mentioned so far:

* MindRape - The Spear of Longinus accidentally inflicts this on Kaworu the first time he uses it. He spends three days in a coma afterwards.
* MinovskyPhysics - Xenium, AKA the crystals from Xen in VideoGame/HalfLife.

* MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness - 4. Basically, everything is either an extrapolation of already-existing real-life technology or was [[ImportedAlienPhlebotinum copied]] from Combine technology.

* MoreDakka - The military unleashed a helluva lot of firepower against Sachiel. [[DeflectorShields Naturally]], to no effect.
* MorphWeapon - The Spear of Longinus.
* MysteriousProtector - [[spoiler:When the Evas find themselves on the receiving end of a CurbstompBattle courtesy of Zeruel, a white Eva shows up out of nowhere and engages him in battle, allowing Asuka and Rei to grab an unconscious Kaworu and retreat.]] Hints are dropped that [[spoiler:time travel is involved]].
* MysteriousWatcher - The G-Man, as usual.
* NextGenFic - Of ''Half-Life''. Chapter 8 reveals that [[spoiler:Barney is the Confederate army's Commander-in-Chief]].

* NiceJobBreakingItHero - The US government nuking Black Mesa is what started Second Impact this time around.
* NighInvulnerable - [[spoiler:The Spear of Longinus]], having ''"ruined over three dozen diamond saws, shrugged off shaped charges and plasma cutters, completely ignored every single acid and solvent it was subjected to and not even industrial-strength lasers could heat it even a millionth degree above ambient room temperature"''.
* NotOfThisEarth - [[spoiler:Ditto.]] Yui outright confirms it.
* NotQuiteDead - [[spoiler:Shamshel]].
* NotWorthKilling - [[spoiler:Zeruel]] declares Kaworu as such after [[spoiler:brutally tearing Unit-01 limb for limb]].
* ObligatorySwearing - Averted, Yui and Hikari being quick to reprimand anyone who swears in earshot of them.
* OffscreenTeleportation - The G-Man simply ''loves'' doing this, casually walking out from behind objects too small to hide behind or [[NoIAmBehindYou even the person he's talking to]].
* OffTheRails - As if the story's background wasn't off the rails enough for Evangelion canon, [[spoiler:Zeruel interrupts the Israfel battle to fight the Evas himself, with devastating consequences]]
* OhCrap - The bullies' reaction in chapter 2 upon finding out that the weird albino-looking guy voicing his displeasure at what they're doing was [[BadassBystander expelled from his previous school for fighting]].

* OmniscientCouncilOfVagueness - SEELE, as usual.

** OffWithHisHead - Unit-00 gets messily decapitated by Zeruel stomping down on her neck.
* {{Oneesama}} - Rei's attitude towards Lilith
* OrganizationWithUnlimitedFunding - Averted. The AEL had to briefly cryofreeze Unit-01 so that they can redirect its maintenance costs to finishing Unit-02's development.
* PaperFanOfDoom - Hikari has one and whacks anyone with it if they act out of line. Which usually happens to be Toji.
* PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny - Heavily implied that the Confederacy of Man is actually this: authoritarian government plus a not-so-SecretPolice composed of {{Political Officer}}s.
* PortalNetwork - The Waygate network, linking an unspecified[[note]]at least five[[/note]] number of systems together. It's pretty slow (less than a parsec per day) and can't operate in gravity wells, an issue the Sol gate dodges by being anchored inside the Earth-Moon [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrangian_point#L1 L1 Lagrangian point]]).
* PresidentEvil - Keel is implied to be one.
* RedOniBlueOni - Aside from the usual Asuka-Rei dynamic, several new ones were introduced.

* RollerbladeGood - The Durandals are users of this trope, Franchise/CodeGeass-style. B-type equipment has a larger version with a spiked circumference for greater traction... not that it actually does much good in the battle against Israfel and Sarafiel, where Unit-01's set quickly gets clogged with snow and jammed.
* SchmuckBait - ''Subverted.'' Yui tells Kaworu where Unit-01's self-destruct switch is located and upon insisting that [[DontTouchItYouIdiot he is not to touch it]], Kaworu asks back [[LampshadeHanging why is she even telling him where it is if she doesn't want him to touch it]]? Her answer is so that he doesn't [[WhatDoesThisButtonDo find and activate it without knowing what it does]].
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight - [[spoiler:Zeruel threatens to kill his direct superior if said superior sends Shamshel on a potential suicide mission again.]]
* SiblingTeam - Israfel and Sarafiel.

* SquareCubeLaw - Lilith invokes it by name in her explanation about how Sachiel [[EldritchAbomination cannot be of natural origin and in fact shouldn't even exist]].
* SuperSpeed - [[spoiler:Zeruel's first physical appearance has him approaching Earth at ''0.8% the speed of light''. And once he actually engages in battle, he does so with a FlashStep right in Unit-01's face.]]
* SwissArmyWeapon - The [[spoiler:Spear of Longinus]] turns out to be one, being capable of [[spoiler:shapeshifting between its canonical bident shape and a six-pronged "Bombardment Mode" that can unleash devastatingly powerful ranged energy attacks, in addition to already possessing DeflectorShields]].
* TechnicianVersusPerformer - A strange three-way dynamic is present between the pilots.

* TheQuietOne - [[spoiler:Tabris]].
* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill - In ''The present'', [[spoiler:Rei headshots a thug with over a dozen bullets]].
* TranslationConvention - ''Averted.'' Non-English dialogue is deliberately left unsubtitled - and in the case of Japanese, non-romanized. The latter part is excused with Kaworu not knowing Japanese himself.
* UniversalUniverseTime - Averted. Upon arriving from another system via FTL, the ''CSS Odessa'' is asked to synchronize their chronometers by local flight control. Also, Shephard specifically tells Asuka to set her clocks to a 24-hour day.
* VigilanteMan - Kaworu was expelled from his previous school because he helped a younger boy being bullied by the principal's son. As in, sent the bully to the hospital. And he almost did it again in the second chapter, until his would-be victims realized who they're dealing with and backed down.
* WakeUpCallBoss - [[spoiler:Zeruel makes an early appearance in the Israfel battle and pounds the Evas into the ground]], which prompts the AEL to realize how outmatched they really are against the Angels and start making arrangements to remedy that.
* WaveMotionTuningFork - [[spoiler:The Spear of Longinus in Bombardment Mode.]]
* WeWait - SEELE's up to no good, as usual.

* {{Yakuza}} - After Rei mentioning early on that Tokyo-2 is the local criminal underworld hub, she and Kaworu acquire money from a yakuza-affiliated loan shark in chapter 34.
* ZergRush - The military tries it against Shamshel. [[CurbstompBattle She massacred over half of them before the rest ran away.]]

* ActionPrologue - The first chapter opens with what appears to be a CurbstompBattle ending with a [[{{ApocalypseHow/Class4}} Class 4]] apocalypse via OrbitalBombardment.
* AdaptationalBadass - The ''entire damn cast''.

* AlienGeometries - The graphical user interface of the Spear of Longinus. Kaworu's brain starts bleeding just from him looking at it.

* AllPlanetsAreEarthLike - Averted. It's specifically mentioned that Earth is the only planet where humans can survive without EVA equipment. Three other Goldilocks planets have been colonized but only Earth has natural surface water. Case in point is Polygonus: while being a Goldilocks planet, it has higher surface gravity, an unbreathable nitrogen-helium-[=CO2=] atmosphere and no surface water. The former two is being corrected via {{terraform}}ing.
* AMFMCharacterization - Rei listens to metal, which fits her AdaptationalBadass in this fic.
* AnArmAndALeg - Unit-01 loses an arm and both legs in the first skirmish against Zeruel.
* ApocalypseHow - Planetary societal disruption as per the Half-Life verse. Had the Combine occupation lasted another decade, it would've devolved to societal collapse.
* ArtificialGravity - Averted. All space scenes have the characters free-floating in zero G.
* AttackDrone - Ramiel has these. [[spoiler:Tabris also confirms that the Ramiels themselves are drones.]]
* AxesAtSchool - Rei brings at least one knife to school, hidden in her boots.
* BangBangBANG - Averted. Kaworu gets a ruptured eardrum from standing too close to a ship-caliber coilgun going off, which also shatters every single window nearby.
* BeamSpam - Israfel and Sarafiel has two of these, one direct-aim and one that spreads out in a sweeping pattern.
* {{BFG}} - Unit-00's assault cannon, a [[ChainsawGripBFG hip-fired]] weapon whose barrel alone is ''22 meters'' long. Caliber-wise, it packs shells roughly equal in size of those used by the main guns of real-life ''Iowa-class battleships'', with a lower muzzle velocity to make the recoil manageable.

** Zeruel delivers an utterly ''brutal'' one to Unit-00 and Unit-01 when he unexpectedly shows up in chapter 40.

** Israfel and Sarafiel raise the bar even higher, explicitly pulling maneuvers anatomically impossible for a human.

* ChainsawBFG - Unit-00's assault cannon.

** Chapter 6 has Rei's debut as a pilot. Unlike in canon where Rei's mediocre pilot skills result in her only ever taking down a single Angel via HeroicSacrifice, here she deploys the WaifFu and solos Sachiel in an insane display of acrobatics.

* SuperSpeed - [[spoiler:Zeruel's first physical appearance has him approaching Earth at ''0.8% the speed of light'']].