History FanFic / AndIfThatDontWork

** Combines with {{Brainwashing}} [[spoiler:for loyalty and obedience training too]].

* ElegantGothicLolita - Shinju is trending this way. Asuka also gets touched with this; see the BeehiveHairdo entry.

* ForScience - "Sciencier" Insana's motivation.

* LossOfIdentity - Shinju is unrecognizable as Shinji after a couple of chapters [[spoiler:and is picking up bits of Rei's.]] Odd, since Misako seems mostly herself.

* BodyHorror - [[spoiler:Asuka basically gets partially liquified by Matarael's acid attack in ch. 7.]]

* OCStandIn - Arguably what happens to Shinji.

* ShoutOut - ''TeamFortress2'', ''{{Firefly}}'', ''TheSpoonyExperiment'', ''VentureBrothers''

* WhiteVoidRoom - Where Mikki and the other Angels plot.

** A couple chapters later the cycle restarts with Asuka [[BookEnds seeing Shinju]] in her first scene. Apparently ItRunsInTheFamily.

* ShoutOut - ''TeamFortress2'', ''{{Firefly}}'', ''TheSpoonyExperiment''

* Main/BandOfBrothers - Used and Deconstructed. In ch 9, Shinju gives the Saint Crispin's Day speech from Henry V to invoke this trope as part of a plan to get the public to accept the [[spoiler:HollywoodCyborg, [[HalfHumanHybridhalf Evangelion]] Asuka/Kiko.]]

* ShovelStrike - The Evangelions have Spetsnaz style prog-shovels.

* Main/BandOfBrothers - Used and Deconstructed. In ch 9, Shinju gives the Saint Crispin's Day speech from Henry V to invoke this trope as part of a plan to get hte public to accept the [[spoiler: HollywoodCyborg, [[HalfHumanHybridhalf Evangelion]] Asuka/Kiko.]]

* ItsRainingMen - Nerv hard drops far more than often than canon. Such as the [[spoiler: Ramiel ]]battle. Unlike the canon this time the pilots regularly sing paratrooper songs. It's that kind [[RealRobot of fic.]]

* NightmareFuelUnleaded - [[spoiler:The result of Matarael attacking Asuka with ACID in chapter 7.]]

* HumansThroughAlienEyes - Ch. 5 has a scene from the Angel's perspective. Humanity is shown as {{Complete Monster}}s that consort with {{Eldritch Abomination}}s and [[BodyHorror perverted Angelic flesh]] to make war machines. Nuclear weapons are particular NightmareFuel to them, being machines capable of destroying souls.
** Includes heavy tones of HumansAreCthulhu in parts.

* YourMileageMayVary - The entire premise itself for some. Others think Chapter 7 [[RuinedFOREVER ruined the story forever]] with an overabundance of [[spoiler: CharacterDerailment / MindRape / UnwillingRoboticisation / Fetish Fuel done to Asuka by an [[OriginalCharacter OC]] Mad Scientist very close to being a CompleteMonster,]] and (in combination with everything else) completely reduced the story to be InNameOnly to the parent series.

Currently ''And If That Don't Work?'' clocks in at nearly two hundred thousand words over a mere 8 chapters; it was started in 2008 and is still going.

* YourMileageMayVary - The entire premise itself for some. Others think Chapter 7 [[RuinedFOREVER ruined the story forever]] with an overabundance of [[spoiler: CharacterDerailment / MindRape / UnwillingRoboticisation / Fetish Fuel done to Asuka by an [[OriginalCharacter OC]] Mad Scientist very close to being a CompleteMonster, and (in combination with everything else) completely reduced the story to be InNameOnly to the parent series.]]

* YourMileageMayVary - The entire premise itself for some. Others think Chapter 7 [[RuinedFOREVER ruined the story forever]] with an overabundance of [[spoiler: CharacterDerailment / MindRape / UnwillingRoboticisation / Fetish Fuel done to]] Asuka by an [[OriginalCharacter OC]] Mad Scientist very close to being a CompleteMonster, and (in combination with everything else) completely reduced the story to be InNameOnly to the parent series.]]

* YourMileageMayVary - The entire premise itself for some. Others think Chapter 7 [[RuinedFOREVER ruined the story forever]] with an overabundance of [[spoiler: CharacterDerailment / MindRape / UnwillingRoboticisation / Fetish Fuel done to]] Asuka by an [[spoiler: [[OriginalCharacter OC]] Mad Scientist very close to being a CompleteMonster, and (in combination with everything else)]] completely reduced the story to be InNameOnly to the parent series.

* GatlingGood - The YA11 Dreadhog has a nuclear powered one of these.

* YourMileageMayVary - The entire premise itself for some. Others think Chapter 7 [[RuinedFOREVER ruined the story forever]] with an overabundance of [[spoiler: CharacterDerailment / MindRape / UnwillingRoboticisation / Fetish Fuel done to]] Asuka by an [[spoiler: [[OriginalCharacter OC]] MadScientist very close to being a CompleteMonster, and (in combination with everything else)]] completely reduced the story to be InNameOnly to the parent series.

* YourMileageMayVary - The entire premise itself for some. Others think Chapter 7 [[RuinedFOREVER ruined the story forever]] with an overabundance of CharacterDerailment / MindRape / UnwillingRoboticisation / Fetish Fuel done to Asuka by an [[OriginalCharacter OC]] MadScientist very close to being a CompleteMonster, and (in combination with everything else) completely reduced the story to be InNameOnly to the parent series.

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel - [[spoiler:The result of Matarael attacking Asuka with ACID in chapter 7.]]

Currently ''And If That Don't Work?'' clocks in at a hair over a hundred and fifty thousand words over a mere 7 chapters; it was started in 2008 and is still going.

Shinji rapidly becomes either [[OCStandIn unrecognizable]] or [[YourMileageMayVary more]] [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation "natural"]]. A bit of a FanFicChopSuey with the [[AuthorAppeal militarization of NERV]] and the way [[FetishFuel a certain character dresses]]. The [[OriginalCharacter OCs]] are a lot of fun. By the same author is Fanfic/TheReturn, a Ranma/Sailor Moon cross which does much the same thing with those franchises.

!!Contains Examples Of:

* AsteroidsMonster - Israfel keeps splitting and doesn't stop until it numbers in the hundreds. Then they start using tactics, proving that, yes, the Angels are getting smarter.
** [[spoiler:Matarael uses a very similar tactic in its attack.]]

* ElegantGothicLolita - Shinju is trending this way.
** Asuka too? Just look at the BeehiveHairdo entry.

* FourIsDeath - This time Shinju is the Fourth Child.
** And to ram the point home after her fifth kill she's gains the nickname: [[IncrediblyLamePun "Ace of Spades."]]

* HumansThroughAlienEyes - Ch. 5 has a scene from the Angel's perspective. Humanity is shown as {{Complete Monster}}s that consort with {{Eldritch Abomination}}s and [[BodyHorror pervert Angelic flesh]] to make war machines. Nuclear weapons are particular NightmareFuel to them, being machines capable of destroying souls.

** Insana is after ch. 7 the undisputable king of this trope amongst the characters of this story.

* MildlyMilitary - NERV is seen as this by JSSDF and Azazel.
** More of less the whole point of this fic is NERV losing it's lack of transparency, forcing them to not be like this.

* TokenHuman: [[spoiler: Toji is currently the only pilot who is not partly Angel/Evangelion]].