History Fanfic / ShinjiAndWarhammer40K

Currently, there are 43 chapters released, with WordOfGod putting the story at about 75% completion at ch. 37.

* HandFistTap: Shinji does this in the prologue. The author's explanation for the Western audience is only slightly awkward.

** In DnD, [[spoiler: an aasimar is a human descendant of a Celestial, although too distantly to be considered half-celestial. An aasimar paragon is the embodiment of all that is good and noble, and full of light.]] There is also the NRX-044 Asshimar Mobile Suit.

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** Yeah, [[LegendOfGalacticHeroes Admiral Yang]] was born [[YouShouldKnowThisAlready ten centuries too early.]]

* DemocracyIsBad - The chapter twenty-one bureaucratic governmental inquisition into the activities of NERV and NNHIS paints this picture. Even ''if'' such activities ultimately involve Gendo [[spoiler:planning to [[YouShouldKnowThisAlready liquify the world's population]] into whatever the HiveMind actually is]], the panel's effective demands that they and their proxies maintain strict adherence to social institutions in the face of utter annihilation smacks as nothing less than suicidal fat-headedness on a national scale.

* SlidingScaleOfSillinessVersusSeriousness - The fic takes all of ''Evangelion'''s seriousness, gives Shinji four advisors in his head, and somehow manages to make it silly in a great way despite still having very serious moments. See ''TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' for a decent comparison. (YouShouldKnowThisAlready)

** "The conference hall had a missing fourth wall"

** "No fair! the opposition has the advantage of [[WhatsOperaDoc Spear and Magic Helmet]]!"

* HundredPercentAdorationRating - Even [[spoiler: the {{Yakuza}}]] eventually give tribute to [[strike:their future Emperor]] Shinji, no doubt at the [[ViolenceReallyIsTheAnswer gentle encouragement]] of Ayanami Rei.

* JediTruth - No, Shinji is not part-Angel, and no, he is not technically [[spoiler:a psychic]]. [[spoiler:Either status would imply limits to his potential]].
* {{Jerkass}} - Besides the canonical characters (* coughGendoucough* ) we have Rika Izuna, [[IntrepidReporter a reporter obsessed with finding dirt on Shinji]], and who almost takes his celebrated status as a personal insult.

* LesYay: ''The End of Evangelion'' indicated that Maya was in love with Ritsuko, when [[spoiler:Ritsuko's image makes her drop her AT-field.]] This series takes it UpToEleven...or should we say...''[[IncrediblyLamePun 40,000]]''.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters - So much so that even Bpen says he is in despair about never getting to those little side-stories he wants to write. Interesting new characters are introduced and after their arcs sadly ignored to make room for new plotlines. [[OrIsIt Or are they?]] Incidentally, this troper thinks that it adds to the illusion of depth, while the main cast decides the fate of the world we are occasionally given glimpses of how the the rest of the world would have to LIVE with it...or die for it.

* MadScientist - [[spoiler:Ritsuko]], of all people, is already very close since [[spoiler:[[GoMadFromTheRevelation she was exposed to too much crazyness.]]]] It remains to be seen if she starts embracing it after [[spoiler:Luftschloss Sturmbrand successfully took off.]]

* MeaningfulName - The Farseer refers to Shinji as her "young king," which any scholar of Eldar lore knows [[PropheticName isn't necessarily a great title to have]].

* MessiahCreep - Shinji is aware how his situation parallels the God Emperor of Mankind's, and spends a great amount of effort [[ScrewDestiny desperately trying to avoid it]]. [[BecauseDestinySaysSo So far, he hasn't been entirely successful]].

* MoodWhiplash: [[spoiler:"JUST! AS! PLANNED!"]]
** [[spoiler:"Shinji being brutally beaten and Maya [[AttemptedRape almost getting raped]] by their kidnappers", you say in the GrimDark entry? TearJerker! Shinji being rescued, and waking up with him sandwiched between Maya and Rei, both naked, with Kensuke remarking that Shinji's a lucky bastard? Funny! [[EmotionalTorque The whiplash!]]]]
* MoodSwinger - "Inquisitor" Horaki: sweet schoolgirl, caring friend, and iron-fisted, (safe)bolt-shooting ClassRepresentative from hell. "[[AuthorityEqualsAsskicking By special order of the Tokyo-3 City Council and NERV Operations...]]"
** Maya notes that Rei has only two settings, "apathetic or ''violently'' happy," while Shinji oscillates between "I'm no one special, really" and "I pity the galaxy that does not know me."
* MoralEventHorizon - Gendo [[spoiler:executes Rei after she learns how to use her AT-field offensively outside of her Eva]]. 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 NightmareFuel]].
* MoreDakka - An aspect of Orkish philosophy wholly embraced by Rei. NNHIS is happy to provide.
** [[spoiler:...with Kensuke, and ultimately Shinji, as the original sources of the majority of the new designs]].

* MutantDraftBoard - [[spoiler:The Black Ships]]

* NoodleIncident - During the TimeSkip, Shinji apparently had some globetrotting adventures, and has alluded to a lost city in Egypt and an encounter with a [[TheFairFolk sidhe]] in England without going into too much detail. Then there's whatever happened in chapter 32...

** Clarifying chapter 32: Shinji's [[strike:harem of willing bitches]] closest female associates finally act on their cravings for him (and drag Asuka along for the ride) under the guise of trying to raise his abysmally low sync ratio. Hours later, [[spoiler:several buildings collapse without reason, thirty-six Terminators deploy, and portents of doom are sensed throughout the city]].
-->''[[spoiler:"Oh, come on." Misato turned to Shinji. "It was for your own good. So... what happened?"]]''
-->''[[spoiler:"Nothing happened. Ever." he replied. "It was exhausting, it was random, it was completely pointless, and you're never going to know."]]''

* OhCrap - This tends to happen a lot as each of the factions keeps on [[LensmanArmsRace one-upping each other]]. The whole planet reacts this way when Admiral Yang (Chinese tactician and war hero who won the "allegiance of the steppes") and Shinji Ikari (mecha pilot and adopted citizen of Greece who leads a private army of Macedonians in Terminator armor) start working together.

** Gendo actually has the most moments for a "villain", expressing pride in his son's manipulations after his [[spoiler: WoundedGazelleGambit]] and caring a fair deal for Ritsuko. [[supersecretspoiler: Particularly after she got paralyzed.]]

* ProphecyTwist - SEELE comes to realize that due to changing circumstances, the old Dead Sea scrolls now have a few possible interpretations. [[spoiler:Additionally, the ''words on the lambskin themselves'' have changed]].

* RapeAsComedy[=/=]RapeIsLove - Maya, Rei and Mana decide that the only way to get Shinji's [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything sync ratio up]] is to [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean resolve some typical pent up teenage stress]], and had even cleared it with the local (tantric) Buddhist priests. When Asuka tries to stop them, they figure they might as well include her as well, and bring her along against her will. They then invite Misato, who declines and only requests that they bring the two back in time for school.
** Maya's wink to Misato suggests that she was joking...probably. All we know for sure is that the night's events involved [[NoodleIncident several building demolitions and that psykers and terminators had to be deployed]].
** This troper hates the author because of this incident. It took days to stop thinking, "What the hell happened?!?"

* RefugeInAudacity - This fic wouldn't be quite as awesome if it weren't so incredibly, brazenly over-the-top.
** And [[InvokedTrope invoked]] as to why Shinji's HotBlooded speeches are taken seriously, rather than getting him institutionalized.

* RoaringRampageOfRevenge - [[spoiler: Actually ''averted'' when the Eldar Farseer convinces Rei not to level the city block by block as her method of searching for Shinji when he was kidnapped.]]

* ShowWithinAShow - ''Evangelion Fantasy Battles'', now a major motion picture!
** [[spoiler:And then video game, used by MAGI to try to anticipate Angel battle scenarios]].

* GenreSavvy - Mana ([[{{Homage}} perhaps appropriately]]) seems to know quite a few of the standard DatingSim tropes, and reacts in horror when she hears about two girls [[VictoriousChildhoodFriend Shinji knew]] [[FirstGirlWins back in Sendai]].

** Kaworu is also confirmed to be this in the author's notes. That's why in Chapter42, he decides to [[spoiler: take out Magnos Tancred FIRST even though it's the one that's least of an immediate threat.]]

* GodModeSue - The author has made it clear that he is trying to avoid this; thus, while Shinji has [[{{Understatement}} additional powers]] (and more importantly, a backbone), he is still beatable, makes plenty of mistakes, finds romance difficult, and is growing more and more disenchanted with his power. Whether or not the author succeeds (and [[TropesAreNotBad whether or not it really matters]]) is up to the reader.
** Subverted on, at least, a couple times, such as the transition into the Javaal arc. Shinji has somehow gained the ability to psychically manufacture antimatter as a weapon, the power to crack the planet if he wanted to, and near invulnerable toughness...but since this outward expression of power keeps him from syncing with his Eva, he spends the entire arc trying to ''get rid'' of it.
** This Troper has just realized that of all the other Chessmasters in the story, he's the only who does '''not''' want to ''become'' a God.
* GodwinsLaw: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] several times by German characters in chapter 37: The similarities between WWII and post-war Germany with their current situation is mentioned by several psyker Lamas who were also holocaust survivors. One of these psykers later shows a group of assembled German soldiers and leaders his barcode tattoo, stating that if they simply gave in, they would be no better than the ones who let the Nazi atrocities take place. A soldier responds by asking if they should keep paying for the sins of their fathers. Later, one of the colonels, who does not want to see all the people die in a war zone, confronts a group of soldiers who want to stay and fight to the end rather than leave many of the citizens to die and demand if fighting to the last man was really any better, by invoking Hitler's scorched earth policy and the destruction of Germany so that the allies would not be able to take control the country.

** What this troper finds interesting is that it is not written ''"... there is no real way of proving that THIS is NOT but a memory of Instrumentality being played out again and again..."'' In the original, it says that there was no way of proving it ''is'' an illusion and not reality. Usually it's the other way around.

* GunsAreWorthless- [[strike:Averted]] Annihilated by Kensuke's ''unspeakably'' righteous badassery during the Matariel attack.
** Played straight later on when most heavy bolters aren't powerful enough to hurt some of the creatures from [[spoiler: Earth's Cradle.]]

* ImaginaryFriend - As a child, Shinji talked to his four favorite figures: a Space Marine, an Eldar Farseer, an Ork Warboss, and a Chaos Space Marine. At some point, they started talking back. [[spoiler:[[SubvertedTrope Sometimes to other people]]]].
** The "friend" part may be subverted by the time it's all said and done, based on [[spoiler:the Chaos Marine's part in ch. 42.]] Or even [[spoiler:the "imaginary"!]]

*** Wilfred Jaeger manages to ''take out a cyber-Tyrannosaurus [[spoiler:by letting it ''eat'' him so he can ''kill it'' where there is less armor]]''. And he was just a [[strike:normal human]] lowly panzer driver a few hours ago...definitely channeling some Shinji there. Then again, his full name before adoption was [[spoiler:Wilfred Ingram Wulfenbach]].

* AllGirlsWantBadBoys - In his previous [[DoggedNiceGuy Good Boy]] incarnation, the most concern and/or interest he could get out of any grown woman, nevermind girl near his age bracket, was a few brief moments of motherly pity, if that. In his current All-Conquering history, the ''least'' he draws from any "female of the species" (to quote Asuka) is obsessive, if not mindless, {{Fangirl}}ism. [[spoiler:In the seemingly singular exception of Ritsuko, he causes her to be blatantly terrified over the future of humanity...fear that she tries to not think about via [[strike:dalliances with]] banging his psychopathic father.]]

*** Wilfred Jaeger manages to ''take out a cyber-Tyrannosaurus [[spoiler:by letting it EAT him so he can KILL IT where there is less armor]]''. And he [[strike:was just a normal human]] was just a lowly panzer driver a few hours ago...definitely channeling some Shinji there. Then again, his full name before adoption was [[spoiler:Wilfred Ingram Wulfenbach]].

** TookALevelInBadass - Besides his prologue power-up, Shinji eventually travels to [[ShamgriLa Javaal]] to better understand his abilities, returning with the power to [[spoiler:reduce an Angelspawn to vapor with a glance]]. Additionally, the secondary characters get their own upgrades: Toji, Hikari, Maya, Makoto, Mana, Kensuke...yes, '' Kensuke.'' Chapter 34 even has a [[spoiler:[[BigDamnHeroes Big Damn]] [[EverythingsBetterWithPenguins Penguin]]]] moment. On the other side, several of the Angels are '''much''' more dangerous than their original versions

**** Actually, his fellow high school students are the first to declare that he should be made Emperor; of either Japan, or Earth, take your pick.

* TheBerserker - Shinji in hand to hand combat, his Eva in Eva vs. Angel combat. By the second fight, though, he realizes brute force and bloodlust will only cause needless destruction and tries to clamp down.

* {{BFG}} - This being a crossover between a giant mecha story and Warhammer40k, it's no wonder there will be plenty. Highlights include the [[GreenRocks psychic supercondutor enhanced]] destroyer lasguns and Rei's Gargant Moonbiter.

* BigBookOfWar - Maya quotes from ''The Art of War''. Shinji, on the other hand...whose entire ''life'' would make Sun Tzu and Miyamoto Musashi [[SoProudOfYou very proud]] if not outright weep for joy...can not only quote every line from either author's work, but has had his own teachings on war, peace, compassion, honor and most every other possible subject get enshrined in "''Da Book''"...[[spoiler:an always-hand-written tome jotted down as HolyWrit by ''each and every single member'' of his worshipful, millions-strong yet publically-unknown national youth gang]].

*** BilingualBonus even more when you translate "impact" (which is more like "Einschlag" or "Aufprall" in German) somewhat loosely as "Fall" (as in "fall of a meteor"). This gives us "Schlagann Fall", and from there it doens't take much to arrive at "Schlaganfall" - German for "stroke".

* BrownNote - Somehow, Shinji managed to obtain [[spoiler: the Ark of the Covenant. Yes, ''[[IndianaJones that]]'' Ark of the Covenant]]...possibly because the previous owners were worried about the Cradle getting their hands on it. Whenever a normal person looks at it for too long, they freak out and just want to get away from it and are too busy panicking to explain why. The only people known to be immune to its effects so far are Shinji himself, [[spoiler: Raka]], and possibly Rei.
* BulletHell - "[[spoiler: Kaworu]] was in hell. It was made of bullets and beams and dragon-heads. He could not simply blink and begone. The writhing loops filled the sky against a backdrop of hostile gunfire. Airburst shape-charge artillery left fan-shaped trails and tracers stitched patterns in the air."

-->Asuka: "Again, with the not giving of the good feelings."\\

* CallingYourAttacks -- Asuka's "[[TengenToppaGurrenLagann GIGA DRILL BREAKER]]!"
** And Mana's combination [[FZero FALCON]] [[TengenToppaGurrenLagann DRILL]] [[MegatonPunch PAWNCH]]!! ...which leads us to...

* CompleteMonster - Considering he's the DarkMessiah, it's no surprise that Kaworu fits this. He really doesn't show it until chapter 22 when he [[spoiler: plunges his fingers into a little girl's head and levels a facility of psychics in Russia.]]
* ConversationalTroping - Characters use terms like YouFailBiologyForever, BadassNormal, [[AuthorityEqualsAsskicking Authority (Not Necessarily) Equaling Asskicking]], or ImpossiblyCoolClothes in what are [[strike:almost certainly]] admitted shout-outs to TVTropes.

** Shinji has special compartments sealed in his safehouses for him to leave messages to himself or allies in case he travels back in time. Let me repeat that: '''Shinji has contingency plans in case of TimeTravel.'''

** Likewise, during the Matariel attack, Kensuke has already [[spoiler:put enough bolters and live ammunition in the school to stop a small army of Angelspawn, which, coincidentally, it does.]]

** Rei and Mana vs [[spoiler: seven out of twelve Mass-Production Evangelions]] At least, at first, since we have already learned how it will end in a previous chapter, [[spoiler: something's going to go horribly wrong...]]

* DefeatMeansFriendship: How 'Da Boys came into being.

* DestructiveSaviour - People know Shinji's back when there's massive destruction. Even despite trying not to, Shinji ends up causing more destruction than actual Angels.

* [=~Don't Look At Me~=]: Happened to Minase [[spoiler: after she was raped]].

** [[spoiler:Shinji and Kaworu have to do this to take down the invading MP Evas. So far it doesn't seem to be working...]]
* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Asuka (chapter 12).

** [[spoiler: She also has a seriously strong [[ZettaiRyouiki AT]][[IncrediblyLamePun field.]]]]

* FlashStep - [[spoiler: Used by Kaworu's ultimate Trident unit.]]

* FrickinLaserBeams: [[spoiler: Earth's Cradle has these, and fires them at Castle Sturmbrand, but not in BeamSpam fashion. They miss.]]

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic - 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.

** Every product from NNHIS gets 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, that is]].
**** Is it bad that it took me to getting to this to realize NNHIS sounds like "IN HIS"
** According to Lama Feckeldraft, Asuka is supposed to be Thor. Or something.
*** It seemed random to this troper, until he realized that makes 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. Oh wow.

* WhamEpisode - Chapter 18: [[spoiler:"Then hear my command. Send the assassins. Plant the evidence. All the things we talked about before...let it be done...Begin The Purge. Protect my city."]]

* {{Yandere}} - Due to the abusive nature of Asuka, especially after Rei provokes her, many people in Shinji's class suspect that she might well be this, commenting that she's like a {{tsundere}} and yandere rolled into one.

* YourMileageMayVary: despite all the above praise lavished upon it, this fic is not for everyone.

* [[spoiler:ZombieApocalypse - Iruel does this, in an insane homage to both the Necrons and the Tyranids.]]

[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin As its name suggests]], ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3886999/1/Shinji_and_Warhammer40k Shinji and Warhammer40k]]'' is a ''NeonGenesisEvangelion'' FanFiction that incorporates elements of everyone's favorite GrimDark sci-fi setting into brutal HumongousMecha. Shinji Ikari, the resident ButtMonkey of the ''Eva'' series, discovers a case full of ''{{Warhammer 40000}}'' miniatures and rulebooks at a very young age, with a ''[[{{Understatement}} profound]]'' affect on his personality, character, and relationship with his guardians. He somehow [[TookALevelInBadass takes a full 20 levels in badass]] as a result, becoming a BadassBookworm MagnificentBastard who knows no fear, charges headlong into combat without hesitation, exhibits nearly prescient planning abilities, and earns the [[strike:respect]] reverence and adoration of his people for his heroism.

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* JapanTakesOverTheWorld - Though, to be sure, with a huge influx of Latin words introduced into Japanese language.

Though the fic's title is simply ''Shinji and Warhammer [=40K=]'', there are numerous other influences at work. The story loosely follows ''Evangelion'''s established sequence of major events, but anything else that's strictly canon is pretty much kicked to the curb around the end of chapter nineteen. Shinji himself evolves into some amalgamation of [[{{Dune}} Paul Atreides]], {{Batman}}, [[MetalGear Big Boss]], CiaphasCain, [[{{Discworld}} Carrot Ironfoundersson]], [[TengenToppaGurrenLagann Simon The Digger]], [[CodeGeass Lelouch vi Britannia]], [[EndersGame Ender Wiggin]], and unless he's careful, The [[GodEmperor God-Emperor of Mankind]]. The story oscillates between pitched battles that manage to top the fight scenes from ''Eva'' and domestic comedy worthy of ''TenchiMuyo'', the mood between the bleak despair resulting when you add GrimDark to ''Evangelion'' and HotBlooded defiance in the face of imminent defeat. Cast members are developed in [[{{Understatement}} interesting]] ways but not to the point of being warped beyond recognition, while the realities of Second Impact and the implications of such an event are explored to a greater extent than the source material. The author has managed to write an ''Eva'' 'fic that replaces the {{Wangst}} and [[ContemplateOurNavels navel contemplation]] with BeyondTheImpossible, the RuleOfCool, and [[ChainsawGood chainswords]], understanding and respecting the source material but doing something completely different with it. The result is something that both ''Eva'' and ''[=40K=]'''s fanbases can enjoy, while acting as a bridge between them and a gateway beyond. The author has also acknowledged TVTropes as an aid to the fic. Be aware, though: [=~Chekhov's Armoury~=] is ''very much'' in effect, and continuity can be tricky to follow as a result.

Though the fic's title is simply ''Shinji and Warhammer [=40K=]'', there are numerous other influences at work. The story loosely follows ''Evangelion'''s established sequence of major events, but anything else that's strictly canon is pretty much kicked to the curb around the end of chapter nineteen. Shinji himself evolves into some amalgamation of [[{{Dune}} Paul Atreides]], {{Batman}}, [[MetalGear Big Boss]], CiaphasCain, [[{{Discworld}} Carrot Ironfoundersson]], [[TengenToppaGurrenLagann Simon The Digger]], [[CodeGeass Lelouch vi Britannia]], [[EndersGame Ender Wiggin]], and unless he's careful, The [[GodEmperor God-Emperor of Mankind]]. The story oscillates between pitched battles and domestic comedy. Cast members are developed in [[{{Understatement}} odd]] ways, while the realities of Second Impact and the implications of such an event are explored to a greater extent than the source material. The author has also acknowledged TVTropes as an aid to the fic. Be aware, though: [=~Chekhov's Armoury~=] is ''very much'' in effect, and continuity is tricky to follow as a result.

** In Chapter 32, Shinji's [[strike:harem of willing bitches]] closest female associates finally act on their cravings for him (and drag Asuka along for the ride) under the guise of trying to raise his abysmally low sync ratio. Hours later, [[spoiler:several buildings collapse without reason, thirty-six Terminators deploy, and portents of doom are sensed throughout the city]].

'''Rei''': "It was an accident, Sohryu."

** Dirac Sea comics: [[http://illuminati-fiction.net/bpen/out_of_context.GIF Out of Context 1]] and [[http://illuminati-fiction.net/bpen/out_of_context2.GIF Out of Context 2]].

* GodEmperor - Shinji is ''the'' MemeticBadass in a universe where [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve belief is power]]. SoYeah. Meanwhile, by chapter nineteen, Hikari becomes the first to reference Shinji with [[spoiler:a deity honorific]], and Rei [[spoiler:outright suggests to Asuka that he could in fact be a [[PhysicalGod living god]]]].

* TokyoIsTheCenterOfTheUniverse - Or Tokyo-3, technically. Justified far better than in the [[NeonGenesisEvangelion source material]], given Shinji's...[[SoYeah existence]].

** [[DeadpanLoli Ruri]] [[MartianSuccessorNadesco Hoshino]] could've started it.