Shout Out / Nobody Dies

If Nobody Dies is known for anything besides being over-the-top and awesome, it's for its love of Shout Outs.

Multiple references:

Zero Wing

• All Your Base Are Belong to Us. Also, For Great Justice and How Are You Gentlemen.

Animaniacs / Pinky and the Brain

• Chapter 3: Yui and Gendo pull an "Are you pondering what I'm pondering?" exchange.
• Chapter 10: "I'm waiting for an interview." "Why?" "Because I want to work here." "Why?" "Because it is interesting work?" "Why?" "Because I studied it in college." "Why?"

Voltron

• Chapter 6: Shinji unlocking the Magoroku prompts Misato to say that Unit 01 "went Voltron on the enemy's ass," which is referenced again in the next chapter as "Form Blazing Sword."
• Chapter 55: The Ree start mixing Voltron quotes into the assembly sequence of Kei's Devastator knock-off. (Culminating with, "And I'll form the head.")
  • Apparently, Zyuu wanted their combiner mech to use lions, which is what they'll do "next time."

Terminator

• Chapter 1: Rei's first complete sentence in the story? "Come with Me If You Want to Live."
  • Again to Shinji and Asuka in Chapter 42 when passing through a post End of Eva universe.
• When Mana is revealed as a cyborg in Chapter 22, she is described as having a Terminator-like endoskeleton.
  • Comes back later as a Body Horror nightmare in Chapter 33, when she peels half her face off (losing the fleshy eye) over a sink in a direct Shout-Out to the first movie.
• Chapter 73: "Ah, our small army of A.I.s. When do we build Skynet, by the way?"
• Chapter 90: GLaDOS Naok00 is nicknamed Skynet by Mana.
• Chapter 93: Ichi's words when firing herself from the Eva launch chutes into an Angel, so she can try to punch it to death. "I'll be back." And she wasn't even in her Evangelion body...
  • ... and after catching fire and losing all her skin while doing so, her skinless avatar-body resembles the T-X.

Nextwave

• Rei's line in the Stuff Blowing Up entry on the main page. Also, there's Mana's Machine Man reference in ch. 33.
  "Death to the fleshy ones!"
• Chapter 62 reveals that Mana is "full of useful devices" which can, among other things, make other girls pregnant.

James Bond

• Chapter 19: Kei deliberately emulating Blofeld while on a hijacked television broadcast and stroking one of Ritsuko's cats. Her line at that moment is practically a stock quote in that it references numerous previous invocations ranging from As the World Turns to Austin Powers.
  "Rei, do you expect me to talk?" "No, Mr. Kaji, I expect you to die." *cue buzzsaw over table*

The Simpsons

• Chapter 14: "It's like I'm wearing nothing at all. Nothing At All. NOTHING AT ALL." "Stupid Sexy Maya." Said by Ritsuko of all people. Cue Squee from Maya.
• Chapter 17: "Can't sleep, ADAM will eat me."
• Chapter 50:
  Something Pieter realized about Kyoko years ago, and probably one of the things that drew him back to her after their years apart, is that the terminology gentle, cuddling, and half measure are foreign to her.
  With Kyoko, you strap yourself in and ride the Gees.
  • Chapter 71: Rei on Shinji becoming an unwilling Chick Magnet: "Every girl in 50 yards kinda wants to strap him in and make him feel the G's!"

Ghostbusters

• In Chapter 6, Unit-01 dances to Higher and Higher in what's described as a "sympathetic reaction", similar to the red slime in Ghostbusters II.
• Chapter 29: "(Yui) has given (Rei) strict instructions on what to do if her Eva asks her if she is a God."
  "YES! Yes, I am! Now go forth, my minion! Kill in my name!"
• Chapter 44: Evidently firing two Positron cannons in two different dimensions at each other at the same time through the Sea of Dirac causes a controlled total protonic reversal.
• Chapter 52:
  Mordin: Terrified. Beyond capacity for rational thought.
• Chapter 61: Pieter calls Lilith "marshmallow girl," and Mana calls her "Staypuff."

Doctor Who

• Chapter 29: "This was not battle. This was pest control."
• Chapter 44: After Junior swallows Kyoko, she notes that he's far, far Bigger on the Inside than the outside.
• Chapter 46: Rei brings home a decorative trash can with a plunger attached to it (and a dead Dalek inside).
• Chapter 52: The Doctor shows up in his TARDIS and reveals that he arranged for the team from Mass Effect to raid NERV looking for Tali just so he could get his sonic screwdriver back from Rei.
• Chapter 99: Bingle Bangle Dingle Dangle Yikkety Do Yikkety Da, Ping Pong Lippy Tappy Too Ta, Poopy Pa Pippy Pay, Bib Bab Bip Bap Bibbim Boobim Ba Ba Bang.

Portal

• Chapter 19: Ritsuko mentions having an Orange Box in her office when the Ree escape.
• Multiple references in Chapter 57, including "The Cake is not a lie" and Naoko Akagi reciting GLaDOS' monologue from the beginning of Portal 2.
• Chapter 77: Naok00 sings a variation of "Still Alive" to Yui and considers not gassing her with neurotoxin.
• Chapter 83 is one long Shout-Out to Portal 2 as Shinji and Uri are put into a very Enrichment Center-like modular dorm system with Naok 00 watching over them until they can get along. Naok00 also keeps one of the Keiworu as an assistant after he passes through a live-fire course for androids. Naok00 reveals that everyone already calls her GLaDOS.
• Chapter 84: Shinji and Hikari get trapped in what appears to be a Portal 2 co-op level.
• Chapter 93:
  Rei: "An' just like Naok 00 says, when you got an experiment to run, you just keep on tryin' till you run out of cake."
• Chapter 95: Naok00 now has turrets.
• Chapter 95: Naok00 has an incredibly similar response to victims falling for her trap to GLaDOS in Portal 2, to the point where they both say that "If I’d known you’d let yourself get captured this easily, I’d have dangled a turkey leg on a rope from the ceiling.”
• Chapter 97: Naok00 uses the "deploying smooth jazz" line from Portal 2. Misato comments that she's been abusing her video game privileges.
• Chapter 110: Kokabel is pretty much a straight-up Expy of the Curiosity Sphere.

Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann

• Chapter 33: After Go-Kun's Dynamic Entry in the virtual sim, his description sounds like a certain blue-haired, hot-blooded badass.
• Chapter 38: Rei and Go-Kun defeat the Iruel-possessed Rampel with a "GIGA! DRILL! BUH-REAKAAAH!".
  • Chapter 45: Used again against the insane Unit 04 in the Dirac Sea.
• Chapter 64: S2 engines generate power "by using the power of perpetuating spirals to generate energy from nothing".
  • This is actually canon, if you count the N64 game.

Mega Man ZX

• Chapter 8: Jet Alone Prime's boot-up sequence: "Biolink established. Meta Encapsulated Granule Awareness System: Online."
• Chapter 14: Kaworu mentions a "Game of Destiny that his brethren must engage in."

Fallout

• Chapter 26: Evangelion Provisional Unit 05 ("Go-kun") is Liberty fucking Prime.
• Chapter 34: New Vegas apparently exists in the ND-verse. Becomes important in chapters 63-65.

Mass Effect

• Chapter 27: Mark 5:9. My name is Legion, for I am Many. This name is acceptable.
• Chapter 33: "Child, do you think you've accomplished anything? Your world is dying, and it's by human hands. We 'Angels' are your salvation through destruction. Each one of us is a harbinger to perfection. We are the only hope you deluded Lilim have."
• Chapter 41: "Limited creatures of blood and flesh. You are brought into my mind and you fumble in ignorance, incapable of understanding that which is before you. Unaware of what you have done."
• Chapter 48: Tali'Zorah vas Normandy's presence, due to the effects of Rei Ayanami Does the Multiverse.
• Chapter 65: Zeruel loves quoting this game: "You have FAILED. We will find another way. I am now assuming Direct Control."
  • This later gets re-used by Kaworu. And Zadkiel, Zeruel's son.
• Chapter 98: Khalisa Bin Al-Jilani? Gee, wonder where else I've heard that name.
  • "Ah yes 'SEELE' The supposed collective of old men who somehow manage to wield enough influence to manipulate the UN. We have dismissed that claim."
• From the forum thread:
  Lilith: ASSUMING COMPLETE CONTROL. ALL USERS VIEWING THIS THREAD MUST PROCREATE, BY THE ORDERS OF SUPREME COMMANDER LILITH. BABIESBABIESBABIESBABIESBABIESBABIESBABIESBABIESBABIESBABIESBABIESBABIESBABIESBABIESBABIESBABIESBABIESBABIES

Batman

• Chapter 14: Rei takes out Kaworu's bodyguards, leaving him screaming "Where are you?" She replies "Right here" as she hangs upside down behind him.
• Chapter 32: "What do you want?" "My face on the one dollar bill. But that's more of a long term thing."
• Chapter 44: "Well, that was fun! Who's up for Chinese?"
• Chapter 77: Makoto dresses as the Riddler to rob a bank.

Babylon 5

• Chapter 17: Misato borrows a bit from Susan Ivanova's Badass Boast as she faces down Adam.
  "I am the right hand of retribution and the last human being you will ever see."
• Chapter 32: "You will know fear. You will know pain. And then, you will die."
• Chapter 56: While looking for information, Uri knocks out everyone in a bar, and realizes that now he has to wait for someone to wake up. Most lines in the scene are a direct lift from the episode its referencing, with Kaworu even lifting a quote from Lennier.

Spaceballs

• Chapter 14: Evangelion DA FLAMETHROWAH.
• Chapter 34: "Engaging ludicrous speed."
• Chapter 88: Kihl's safe combination is "the sort of thing an idiot would put on his luggage".

How I Met Your Mother

• Chapter 34: "Did I ever tell you how I met your mother?"
• In ch. 54, Junior recites from the Bro Code.

Transformers

• Chapter 77: Go-Kun gets a Transformer avatar body, doubling as Misato's car. Misato makes him say, "Transform, and roll out."
  • Chapter 106: "Miss Katsuragi? Why does your car sound like Optimus Prime?"
• Several nods to the live-action movies:
  • Rei slides Go-Kun between the legs of a Trident and shoots it in the crotch.
  • During their Leliel-aided travels across several parallel universes, Go-Kun, who the author has stated would be voiced by Peter Cullen and who has uttered such lines as "Life is the right of all sentient beings", picks up some flame decals.
  • In ch. 55, Kei and the Ree turn a bunch of construction vehicles into Devastator.
  • Go-kun, ch. 78: "GIVE ME YOUR FACE!"
• And to the original franchise:
  • "Four-Chan" has multiple faces, each with a different expression, which rotate on his head to suit his mood. In other words, he's a Quintesson.
  • The N2 reactor installed in Go-kun is modeled after the Matrix of Leadership.
  • Direct quote from chapter 39:
    Prime, as they have come to call Jet Alone...
  • Also, from chapter 41: "Life is the right of all sentient beings", not to mention "One will stand. And one will fall".
  • Chapter 68, SEELE 06: "The Angel must be stopped, no matter the cost."

Fan Fiction

• Mana's battle prayer:
  Yea, though I walk through the Valley of the Shadow of Death, I shall fear no evil! For I am driving 35,000 tons of F_ YOU.
• The game of Exalted 40K that the pilots play in Chapter 30 is one long homage to Shinji And Warhammer 40 K.
• Chapter 41: "Stop tormenting Ikari, you kraut bitch" - along with the speaker and circumstances - is a reference to the author's own earlier works, Shinji Almighty and the original version of Walking in the Shadow of Dreams.
• Chapter 57: Rei is wearing a green and black plugsuit...just like another AU Rei does in Neon Genesis Evangelion: ANIMA.
• Chapter 63: The Eva convention features a nod to EarthScorpion, author of Aeon Natum Engel and Aeon Entelechy Evangelion.
• Chapter 63: "Of course, that doesn't help make up for the fact that she's running into a lot of cosplayers of herself, including one in Uri's plugsuit, with a lot of bandages who is pointing to random people and screaming that they're an Angel."
• Shateiel, Raziel and Turel are nods to unused Angel concepts from the original series.
• The author has mentioned that Rei's propensity for travel via air duct was inspired by a similar moment from Rei in Children of an Elder God's Christmas special.

Exalted

• Apart from the aforementioned game of Exalted 40K, anyone familiar with Exalted's backstory will find Kei's experiments in Chapter Two of The Kei Files to be quite familiar. She also hosts her vaguely threatening dinner party in what is clearly Malfeas.
• Hikari regularly GMs games of Exalted with Rei, becoming versed enough in the game to start making references to it by Chapter 84.
• Chapter 92: Annette's story of how she met the Keiworu in the MP Evas is called Epic Pony Saving Prana.

Final Fantasy

• Chapter 19: Drink Your God Damned Beer.
• Chapter 58: "I HATE YOU! I HATE YOU HATE HATE HATE HATE-"

Assassin's Creed

• "What. The. F____."
• Chapter 58: Gendo's avatar in the Ree-written game is based on the main character.
  • The "initializing" area where he selects his avatar resembles the Animus.

Battle Angel Alita

• The "little mechanical avatars" from chapter 19.
• In Chapter 56, one of the life-sized avatar units generates a plasma jet from its hand.

Bungie games

• Chapter 28: The opening speech of Shalgiel, the first "Cherubim", references the Prophet of Truth's speech at the start of the second mission of Halo 3.
  You are, all of you, Garbage. We shall burn the surface of this world until your carbon remains become like diamond glass.
• Chapter 57: While in the game, Kei describes the Narrator's bizarre behavior as the program having gone rampant.
• In chapter 100, Magi 28, 29, and 30 are named Durandal, Curtana, and Merchant, which are all AI's (or deliberate misspellings of them) from Halo and Marathon.

Star Trek

• "I! Have had! Enough! Of YOU!"
• Kei regrets the Large Ham narrator of her VR game: "I'd pay good money if he'd shut up."
• Chapter 71: Nana has invented a device that disrupts fusion in a star.
• Chapter 72: Asuka and Mana duel over Shinji in a reference to the Kirk v. Spock fight from "Amok Time." Much earliner in the story, the music from said fight is hummed by most of the students in Shinji's class the day after Shamsel's defeat.
• "Activate weapons suite! Arm all weapons! Arm EVERYTHING!"
• Multi-vector assault mode.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

• Shinji's predicament in Chapter 71 is quite reminiscent of Xander's in the episode "Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered."
• Chapter 90. "Bored now."
• Rei's Catchphrase is also Dawn's, asking this of numerous characters throughout the series.

Dragon Ball

• Go-Kun pulls off a Big Bang Attack during a fight with ADAM.
• In Chapter 87, Go-kun uses a Kamehameha.

Iron Man

• Tali, when suiting up into her Cain armor in Chapter 51, uses a floor with moving parts and manipulator arms that put on the armor piece by piece. The suit also has a built-in chain gun like the War Machine suit.
  • Similarly, Mana's cyborg body is powered by an arc reactor, as is Jet Alone's hammer.

Scott Pilgrim

• Chapter 72: Asuka Sohryu v. the World — Asuka is challenged by the Ree in the same manner as the Seven Evil Exes.
  • From Nobody Dies: The Ayanami Sisters Fight Crime: "Oh no." "Oh no!" "Oh No!" "Oh Yeah!"

Alien

• Chapter 3: Rei prepares for a massive attack, then Shinji follows it up in the next chapter with a quip that they should "nuke it from orbit, just to be sure."
  Yui: Oh dear Lord, she's infecting him.
• Chapter 81 is titled "It's the Only Way to be Sure."
• Chapter 89: A Reego attacks Shinji like a Facehugger.

The Matrix

• Shinji's ability to see the programming code in the MAGI. (That's not air he's breathing.)
• Chapter 72: Asuka now knows Kung Fu.

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

• Chapter 52: Two visiting characters from Mass Effect confront an angry Zwei.
  "This reminds me of a line from a famous Earth movie done by a comedy troop from the British Isles."
  "Which is?"
  "RUN AWAY!"
• In Chapter 93, Mana and Zophael reenact the Black Knight scene.

Sonic the Hedgehog

• In chapter 14, Kaworu is forced by Rei to admit she's the ultimate life form. This gets a Call-Back in Chapter 93 when Rei does the same thing to Zophael.

Team Fortress 2

• Chapter 93. "The Cherubim is a Spy! And she's sapping our pilots!"
  • Also: "Cry some more!"
  • Also: "Sandwich restores all health!"

Red vs. Blue

• Chapter 54: "I am Mari Illustrious Makinami! And you will fear my LASERFACE!"
• Chapter 64: During the Cherubrim attack on New Vegas, Touji, Hikari and Rei face down Kei (who they believe just pulled a Heel–Face Turn). Touji's weapon of choice? An orange safety cone, referencing Grif's classic "Protect me, cone!" line.
  • And earlier, her utter manhandling of the Section Two agents starts in much the same way as Tex's.
• Chapter 93: "Oh, son of a Bi-"

The Man Your Man Could Smell Like

• Chapter 71 reveals that Zyuu sees Shinji as the Old Spice Guy.
• Chapter 97: "Is on a Horse".

X-Men

• Chapter 23: "Fastball Special!"
• Chapter 50 & 71: "OPTIC BLAST!"
• In the latest snippet of Rei Ayanami Does the Multiverse, Rei, Asuka, and Go-kun end up in the X-Men universe...where Go-kun promptly gets blasted by Cyclops.

One-offs:

Advertising

• "Kool-Aid!" *CRASH* "OH YEAH!"
• "Roaches check in. They don't check out."

Anime and Manga

• Chapter 9: Rei's plot to blackmail the school principal is very similar to Haruhi Suzumiya's method of computer acquisition.
• Chapter 19: The random schoolgirl who hits on Shinji is named Kaname Chidori.
• In chapter 31, Rei's finishing speech towards the virtual Sachiel is a direct rip of Domon Kasshu's Shining Finger Sword, ending with Rei using Go-Kun's left arm to grab hold of Sachiel's chest and fire its cannon point blank into its core, ending, naturally, with a Shining....FINGAHHH!!!!!. Fuyutsuki questions if Unit 5 was built for such a thing, while Pieter simply replies that anything Rei does is impossible to plan via paper.
  • Rei and Go-kun pull it off again in chapter 42 against ADAM.
  • Again with Go-kun in chapter 68, only this time it's the upgraded version, "Burning GOD FINGER!"
• Iruel's "Dating Sim" in Chapter 31, 32 and 41 has "Stick it in" as the fourth option in every dialogue choice. The dating sim in the fourth episode of Excel♡Saga has "Put it in" as the third option in every dialogue choice. It's also the title of chapter 94.
• Chapter 33: During the battle against Iruel, with some prodding from Asuka, Ichi turns into a 200' Pikachu (in her color scheme).
• Chapter 34: The bodies of the Reigo/Reichigoma bodies sound awfully familiar...
• Chapter 64 & 87: Go-kun opens its chest and uses a MEGA SMASHER attack.
• Chapter 72: Hatchi. "DIVINE... BUSTAH!!!"
• Chapter 74: Pieter and Yui watch Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt and wonder why they hired a studio filled with insane deviants.
• Mark-09's activation sequence at the beginning of Chapter 101 closely follows the ones used by Alucard.

Comic Books

• Chapter 8: Jet Alone Prime is code-named the Big Guy. (And its pilot is code-named Rusty!)
• The Badass Boast that Ramiel in Mari's body gives in Chapter 22 is a direct reference to Darkseid's Badass Boast in Final Crisis.
• Chapter 34: Rei was coached on how to explain her origin when she got on the Larry King live show. She proceed to instead talk about how she was separated from her brother in a plane accident over Alaska, and then trained to defend the human race so she wouldn't be persecuted for her unique abilities. And then a dying alien gave her a ring. Maya was just thankful Rei didn't say she was from Krypton.
• ND!Gendou's speech to canon!Yui in Chapter 42 is a reference to Batman's speech to Owlman in Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths:
  "I asked myself what it would be like if Yui went ahead with that damn experiment. And now I know what the difference is between you and my wife. The difference is, you both looked into the abyss. And when the abyss looked back... You blinked."
• Chapter 78: "Evangelion, Mark 09. RISE."
• Merrill the Murder Kitteh is an expy of Dex-Starr.
• "What's the capital of Latveria again?"
  • Victor. From Latveria.

Film

• In chapter 5, Yui mentions some potential weapons give to Shinji, all of which are from Godzilla: "Zero Point Cannon" ala Kiryu's Absolute Zero Cannon, "Dimension Tide" ala orbital weapon of the same name, and "Triple Heavy Maser" ala Kiryu's Hyper Maser Cannon.
• Chapter 8 & 77: Naoko, Kyoko, and Yui once had the nickname "The Bitches of Eastwick".
• Chapter 19: "Clever girl."
• Rei's driving lesson in 19 is insane enough, then she tells Aoba he should learn to relax, and puts on some Elvis...and then they enter a tunnel.
  • Go-kun does it again while engaging his jets in Chapter 106.
• Chapter 19: When Yui blows her top at the Ree, she screams, "I AM VERY DISAPPOINTED!"
• Chapter 25: Sandalphon "eats lightning and craps itself with thunder" when it dies.
• Chapter 27: Pieter Sorhyu dragging the "backup body" of Sandalphon all the way back to NERV: "And what the HELL is that smell?!"
• In chapter 29, Rei activates Go-kun's Death Blossom.
• Chapter 30: "Like. A. Glove."
• Chapter 32: Iruel admits to Shinji that he's pointlessly monologing.
  • Chapter 55: Kei catches herself doing it in her head.
• Chapter 33: "Hello," he says, "My name is Zwei, and I already love you."
• Chapter 40: "I'm makin' WAFFLES!"
• Chapter 42: Rei's response to the End of Evangelion universe:
  "You maniacs! You went and did it! You blew it all up! Damn you! Damn you ALL TO HELL!"
• Chapter 44: "A'right! REI FIGHT! Two Rei enter, one Rei leaves, and maybe some backups."
• In Chapter 49, when Lilly leads Shinji to the Reemobile and gives him Gendo's glasses via wormhole:
  Shinji: I'm hopped up on antibiotics and sedative. It's dark out, we've got an Angel in the city, a tank full of LCL... *Gendo's glasses drop onto his face* and I'm wearing sunglasses. Let's ride.
• Chapter 53: "Would you like to play a game?"
• Chapter 56: "No. Not without incident."
• Chapter 58: Gendo breaks the game program by using a rapier to make a few swishing cuts that cause Yui's dress to pool on the floor, just like Antonio Banderas in The Mask of Zorro.
• Chapter 59: At some point in the game, Shinji dies...and returns as Shinji the White, complete with an Ian McKellen voice mode.
  "So," the man says, clearing his throat, "I'm late."
• Chapter 60: Terrorists hijack a New Vegas casino where Fuyutsuki is vacationing in one long tribute to Die Hard with Fuyutsuki playing the role of John McClane (with a hint of Rei-ishness).
  *terrorist looks at note left on unconscious, former hostage guard* "It says...'Heee~ey, bitch. Thanks for the machine gun!'"
• Chapter 63: The cosplayer mentioned in the fan fiction section also ate a bug.
• Iruel says "Oh shit" and then explodes, like in the film version of Little Shop of Horrors.
• Touji describes the headlines of Shinji fighting the most powerful men in the world as "Until there can be only one".
• During the bar fight with the Isrefels, one of them blasts the jukebox with a shotgun from behind the counter.
• In Chapter 72, it's revealed that Asuka has programmed martial arts muscle memories into her plug suit, based on various movies. The good thing is that this includes Enter the Dragon. The bad thing is that this includes Kung Pow! Enter the Fist.
• Chapter 79: Shinji, while being chased by Tamiel: "Must go faster! Must go faster!"
• Chapter 80: Shinji's CLEAN GUN shoots its lasers just like the Death Star.
• Chapter 84: Shinji and Hikari discover a hallway full of chompters (sic) deep inside NERV.
• Chapter 86: "BUDDHA PALM!"
• Tremors 2: Aftershocks: In Chapter 88, after Shinji nearly causes the end of the world in the previous chapter: "I feel I was denied critical, need to know information."
• Chapter 90. Mana refers to the effects of being around Lilith as "the Sexytime aura."
• Chapter 94: Shinji is thankful to be fully clothed when meeting his teenaged mother in the past, having seen Back to the Future.
• Chapter 106: When Rei was fourteen she once tried a super coffee called "Black Blood of the Earth."
  • The Black Blood of the Earth is real. The name was given it by its creator, as the Shout Out referenced above.
• Chapter 109: "I feel the need... the need... to breed."
• Chapter 110: You have to come play with us! For ever and ever and ever-"

Literature

• Chapter 8: After Rei knocks out a chunk of its core, the dazed and about-to-be-blasted-into-pieces Ramiel gleefully yammers on in a monologue almost exactly the same as the one the whale gives in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
• Chapter 34: Kaworu's a sparkling supernatural prettyboy? Hmmm...
• Chapter 39: NERV has a Dirac ansible.
• Chapter 42: At the beginning, Zyuu is seen riding a three headed dog named "Fluffy".
• Chapter 46: "Sorry to disappoint you, Frollo."
• Chapter 58: In the game, Shinji's perfectly ordinary, unmagical sword that is nevertheless very good at cutting things.
• Chapter 100: The secret switch in Kei's office is a reference to Faust.
• Chapter 106: On Rei's was 14th birthday, she tried to stab a sperm whale to death with a peg-leg to reenact Moby-Dick "The Awesome Way."

Live-Action TV

• Chapter 30: Rei pulls a move while driving Gendo and the other pilots that's she's always wanted to try since she saw Knight Rider.
  • Chapter 77: Misato sets her heavily modded car to "Super Pursuit Mode."
• Chapter 34: Rei shows that a window can be opened with the proper password: "HIEEEE-KEEEEEEBA!"
• Chapter 34: Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart are the American President and VP, respectively.
• Chapter 40: Rei: Wanna play a game? Asuka: What's it called? Rei: Is there a God?
• Chapter 41: "AlterShinji"
• Chapter 50. Asuka raises her hand, parting her fingers in a V (1983). "We come in peace."
• Chapter 54: "I love it when a plan comes together." Complete with cigar smoking.
• Chapter 77: Yui announces the construction of Unit-07 by paraphrasing the introduction to The Six Million Dollar Man.
• Chapter 80: The reading of Kihl's will is a re-working of the "Boot to the Head" skit by The Frantics.
• All of this has happened before and can happen again.
• Chapter 103: Gendo pulls off his glasses and then puts them back on as he makes a pun.
• Chapter 106. Rei asks, "Who's the Stig?"

Music

• Iruel's lead-in to his Badass Boast is a takeoff of The Rolling Stones' "Sympathy for the Devil."
  Heh. Heh heheheh. Oh, what the Hell.
  Please allow me to introduce myself,
  I'm an Angel of wealth and taste
• Nena's "99 Red Balloons" is referenced as "a German pop song about the nuclear apocalypse."
  • This could also be a reference to the fanfic Taking Sights, which uses a very similar line and has Gendo and Fuyutsuki of all people singing it at a karaoke bar, which is exactly where this chapter of Nobody Dies takes place, complete with Gendo singing "99 Red Balloons", which the perspective character doesn't realize until it's too late. ^note Of course, depending on which fic wrote the scene first, the Shout-Out could be the other way around...
• Chapter 50: Israfel, the Angel of Song, is the enemy in this chapter, so... yeah.
  • Kaworu has heard that Shinji and Asuka are "doing it like the animals on the Discovery Channel."
  • "~Well the man in the back said "Everyone attack!" and it turned into a Ballroom Blitz-"
  • Also, "Everyone was Kung-Fu fighting," Asuka says, oblivious to the carnage...
• Chapter 53: The after-action report of the fight with Israfel reveals that Rei & Shinji had a dance battle with an army of Israfels to the tune of Thriller.

Tabletop Games

• Nana, one of the Ree, repeatedly uses the phrase "Boom for the Boom God!".
• Jet Alone Prime's High Impact Acceleration Hammer is named "Sigmar" after Sigmar Heldenhammer.
• Chapter 105: Hikari plans on using ideas from a conspiracy theorist classmate for her Shadowrun game.

Video Games

• Chapter 3: From the fight with Shamshel.
  "The enemy is a Giant Crab!" Misato yells.
  "Attack its weak point for MASSIVE DAMAGE!"
  "Rei! Get off the damn channel!"
  • Chapter 76: The Beach Episode is crashed by a Shamshelim.
  Yui: "It's a Giant Enemy Crab!"
  Rei and Zyuu: "CRAB BATTLE!"
• Chapter 8: Rei, after being consumed by Ramiel along with Kensuke, attacks the core with an AT Field-boosted Megaton Punch that blasts a quarter of the core clear out of Ramiel's body. The last word we hear her say before impact (and before the scene changes) is "FAAAALCON-"
  • Rei pulls off a FALCON PUNCH in several later chapters too. 45, 58, 73, etc.
• Chapter 13: Rei's ringtone is the opening theme to Katamari Damacy.
• Chapter 43: Half-Life's Gravity Gun makes an appearance.
• Chapter 48: The Israfelim discover DanceDanceRevolution.
• Chapter 49: "Wa-I feel fine, dOOd!"
• As part of the aforementioned sims, Kei also built Rapture, complete with Evangelion-esque Big Daddies, and red-eyed, blue-haired Little Sisters.
• Given that President Colbert has an eyepatch, the author has taken to calling him 'President Big Boss'.
• Chapter 71: "Shinji's been kidnapped by some girls. Are you a bad enough girl to rescue your boyfriend?"
• Chapter 71: "Pants. Off. Now."
• Oh, Shin~ji? Are you dead yet?
• Chapter 83: The AI of Naoko knows everyone calls her GLADoS. Ritsuko says she's lucky they don't call her SHODAN.
• Chapter 85: After gearing up to take Unit 00 into battle, Mari ponders what her Epic Mount should be.
• As of Chapter 86, Unit 01 (now Mark 01), now has Zero Shift.
• In Six A.I.s, One Continent, the Baraqielim are Tiberium. And it's strongly implied that Subject Kappa is Kane.
• Chapter 87: "Go for the eyes, Tres! Go for the eyes!"
• Chapter 94. "SHORYUKEN!"
  • Chapter 49. "You have come expecting a pilot, but instead you find a GOD!"
• Chapter 48 tells us Rei is a fan of Touhou Project. Just watching the first stage of some random game in that series caused Shinji to have a seizure and pass out!
• At the end of Chapter 53, the Wuffletron whips out 4 Heavy Mazers and says "Suck it down."

Web Original

• Chapter 29: "Boom! Headshot!"
• In EVA communications transcripts, Junior/Sandalphon is referred to as [REDACTED].
• During the Beach Episode: CRAB BATTLE!
• The Reego make Shinji play Wolf Pack with them.
• Chapter 79: "Jesus Christ it's an Angel...GET IN THE CAR!" Again in chapter 108.
• The Ree and the Reego constantly make references to the I'M CHARGIN MAH LAZER meme.
• Ivy's war cry in Chapter 87 is "LEEEEEEEEEEEEROY JEEEEEENKIIIII-".
• Chapter 89: 00-EM is asking Shinji about how to be manly and tells him of his research on it:
  "You even have a web page about you on the internet with all sorts of facts about you. Is it true the AT Field isn't supposed to keep the Evas out, but you in?"
• Chapter 90. "What is this I don't even..."
  • From the same chapter: Responsible Rei is Responsible.
• Chapter 92: Ichi learns how to punch an Israfim in the soul.
• Chapter 94: "It's an Angelic Bee. My God."
  • Chapter 98. "I am a man!"
• Chapter 97: "What is this I'm four."

Web Comics

• Chapter 60: "Do not presume I do not have ninjas at my command."
• After filming the PSA in Chapter 68: "Like a face full of angel wing wong."
  • Chapter 97: "Freakkin' beautiful."
• The "lever exercise" described by Yui in chapter 93 is suspiciously similar to this xkcd strip.
  • Chapter 98 & 105: "It's a Kitty!"
• Chapter 97 & 105: Mana uses a meme spawned by defunct webcomic Horribleville, which is mostly famous for the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic version: "Jesus Christ. How horrifying."

Western Animation

• Many, many chapters: "What'cha doin'?"
• Chapter 8: The acronym of Jet Alone Prime's startup sequence: MEGAS.
• Chapter 24: Mana keeps SpongeBob SquarePants looping in her head to keep out mental invasion.
• Chapter 25: "The Angel's already gone down the hooole!"
  • Chapter 50: Don't let him get us! We don't wanna go down the hole!
• In Chapter 29: Mana's line "And What the Hell is Kwanzaa, anyway?!" is a reference to "The Futurama Holiday Spectacular."
  • In Chapter 50, Shinji and Kaworu have almost verbatim the same conversation about talking to women as Fry and Zoidberg in the episode "Why Must I Be a Crustacean in Love?"
• Chapter 38: "Hello my baby, hello my honey, hello my Ree-time gaaaaal..."
• Chapter 42: "What's up, Doc?"
• Chapter 50: The Israfels' habit of pointing accusing fingers.
• Chapter 59: During Gendo and Hideaki Anno's fight, they smash into a vegetable stand whose owner bemoans the loss of his cabbages.
• Chapter 67: 2025. Island of Dr. Rei, off the Jersey Shore...
  • And seven chapters before that, Dr. Akagi spouts the same line Dr. Weird gave when his "present" attacked Steve: "Oh, yeah! Take it to the bank, Daddy!"
• The title of Chapter 80: "Asuka's Sister is a Big Fat Bitch".
  • Chapter 98. Ichi is the Avatar.
• Chapter 100. A certain MLP DVD is used as a clue to find the secret entrance of Kei's lab.
• Chapter 105. One of Shinji's classmates' observation of Lilly: "She's so fluffy I could die!"

Combined References

• Chapter 21: Pieter and Kyoko Make a Porno.
  Yui: This is your Idiot Tax. This is the price you pay for having a quickie in the broom closet when you are supposed to be watching the Children and your Daughter.
  • And Kensuke puts it on YouTube. Yui not only refuses to take it down, but says she'll unleash Rei on both of them if either of them try.
• Asuka's transformation in Chapter 31 is a two-in-one bundle: "Alexstrazha! Full Drive!"
• Chapter 38: Parts of Iruel's dialogue while he's confronting Asuka are takeoffs of AM's signature quote and Batman's last words to Superman in Batman: The Dark Knight Returns.
  "Let me tell you how much I've come to hate you Lilim over the past week."
• Chapter 42: "IZUNA DROP!" The original reference is the 60's manga Kamui Den, but many, many fighting game characters use the move as a Shout-Out of their own, and it's more likely he was referencing one of them. Followed up later with Diebuster's "INAZUMA KICK!" and Vegeta's "BIG BANG ATTACK!"
• Chapter 63: Shinji wanders past a group of cosplayers in a Storm Trooper v. Klingon general melee.
• Chapter 72: Asuka fights Shinji's Seven Evil Half-Sisters like Mega Man bosses. Complete with exploding. And Spikes of Doom. Said Evil Half-Sisters also give themselves names according to the Metal Gear Solid name scheme (or possibly Mega Man X, considering how they also give Asuka weapons as she defeats them).
• Also in ch. 72: Gendo is one of the mini-bosses, and gifts Asuka with a gun, belt, and holster using the classic "It's dangerous to go alone, take this" line.
• Chapter 80: The Ree take up fighting crime, with identities based on Sailor Moon, Batman and Robin, Captain America, and Iron Man.
• Chapter 97: The group plays Exalted 40K again, with the charms Holy Wrath of Malfeas and For the Emprah coming into play.

Real Life

• In chapter 1, Rei refers to Ritsuko as a friend of Gendo's "in a Ugandan way". (Funnier, because she's not in this continuity.)
• During chapter 30, Misato notes after a long night of drinking that the devil on her shoulder is bigger and taking food orders, a reference to Larry Miller's classic "Five levels of drinking" stand-up routine.
• The robot avatar of Unit-02 is the Big Dog.
• In chapter 81, the robot that serves drinks and then falls down the stairs is a reference to the Honda Asimo and its infamous press conference.
• Chapter 98: The Roswell incident was a cover-up of Xavier Spencer's dad crashing an experimental jet fighter, which was just done to avoid embarrassment.
• Chapter 108: Part of Mana's problem synching with JA-tan is OS incompatibility. The fix for this is to install Boot Camp.

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