Thousand Shinji

''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3946501/1/

Completed, with Mega Crossover sequel The Open Door currently on hiatus officially dead.

Tropes found in Thousand Shinji:
"Mmmm… remote viewing, it's a beautiful thing!"
 * A God Am I: At the end,
 * All Your Powers Combined: The MP Evas have abilities from all the Angels.
 * An Axe to Grind: A chain-axe for Unit 02, eventually replaced by
 * Anti Hero: This version of Shinji already starts off darker than the canon one, but eventually "descends" to effectively Type V Anti-Hero.
 * Eventually? He pulls a Palpatine in Chapter 15, while clad in a black robe.  "A pity you only learned this at the end. And now young, you die," Shinji stated before pouring lightning into the body of the  .
 * Anti Villain Protagonist: Shinji qualifies, depending on which side of the thin Anti Hero-Anti Villain line you see him as falling into.
 * Back From the Dead:  amongst others.
 * Badass: No doubts about it, this version of Shinji is one bad motherfucker.
 * Better Than Canon: Like with Shinji and Warhammer 40 K, debatable.
 * Big Damn Heroes: "I hate playing the Big Damn Hero."
 * Black and Grey Morality: Shinji will do nasty things in defence of his friends or as revenge for things done to them, but compared to Gendo or the SEELE men he looks a lot better.
 * Chainsaw Good: A chain-axe for Unit 02.
 * Chekhov's Boomerang: Shinji makes repeated use of the Rubric Marines within Khnemu's jars, but at the end it is.
 * Chekhov's Gunman: The soldiers who.
 * Cherry Tapping: is killed by
 * Complete Monster:
 * Creepy Child: Rei, of course, but Shinji gets in on the act too.
 * Crowning Moment of Awesome
 * Curb Stomp Battle:
 * Didn't See That Coming: "Despite all of our powerâ€¦ we got blindsided by something that fell out of the purview of the things we normally kept track of."
 * Draco in Leather Pants: Double Subverted for the forces of Chaos: At first, they seem positive and useful, making things turn out better for Shinji and co., The double subversion comes when it turns out
 * Enemy Civil War: "This went beyond a simple cluster fuck, this transcended into the realm where future generations of soldiers would refer to a situation this badly screwed up that they would have to call such scenarios "Tokyo-3"." Also, the only reason why  was because their inter-factional fighting allowed   to gain a vital advantage.
 * The phrase "Tokyo-3" really does survive, as a phrase for completely screwed up military events. Lars uses it in The Open Door.
 * Faster Than Light Travel: The explicit lack thereof due to  and the consequences of this is what forced   to work together.
 * Fate Worse Than Death: What happens to
 * Genius Bonus: The last few paragraphs become a lot funnier once
 * Gratuitous German: Naturally with Asuka.
 * Hand Cannon: The Rubric Marines' bolters are repeatedly noted as being more suited to crew-manning. Eva-scale ones are part of L-Type Equipment.
 * Heroic BSOD: Shinji goes into one of these after, but recovers shortly after, partly due to his desire to.
 * High Pressure Blood:  starts bleeding majorly just before
 * Hive Mind: The MP Evas are explicitly said to have this.
 * Holy Shit Quotient This sometimes goes straight to orbit, for example when
 * Hyperspace Arsenal:
 * Immune to Bullets: The Rubric Marines, justified due to the severe technological gap.
 * Magnificent Bastard: Shinji. OH MY GOD, SHINJI.
 * Meaningful Name:  definitely qualify.
 * Mecha Expansion Pack: L-Type Equipment for the Evas.
 * Mind Rape: The good guys do this.
 * Mind Screwdriver: A large part of the final chapter, following Academia Nut's Take That to the Gainax Ending.
 * Moral Event Horizon: If Gendo did not cross it when he made, he certainly did after we learn that
 * Nigh Invulnerable: The Rubric Marines, justified the same way as with their immunity to bullets.
 * Normally I Would Be Dead Now: It is explicitly noted that
 * Not What It Looks Like: Subverted in Chapter 8. Shinji and Asuka manage to tip over the chair they're sitting on while making out, ending up with Shinji's hands on Asuka's breasts. When Misato walks in on them, Shinji states that the situation is exactly what it looks like. She doesn't believe a word of it.
 * Nuke Em: N2 mines all over the place.
 * Omniscient Morality License: Why did  have the others send   back in time? So that Shinji would become emotionally mature and not.
 * One Winged Angel:  Yes.
 * One World Order: "Today there are no more nations, there is only humanity."
 * Power Echoes:  ends up using this.
 * Power Floats:  ends up using this.
 * Power Gives You Wings:
 * Power Perversion Potential: does this repeatedly with Asuka.


 * Psychic Powers: Wielded by Shinji amongst others.
 * Rouge Angles of Satin: Pick a tense and stick with it, will you?
 * Scars Are Forever:, although it may be deliberate.
 * Set Right What Once Went Wrong: The reason for.
 * Shout Out: Reference is made to the many NGE AUs created with Possession Sue Shinjis, including but not limited to a certain Peggy Sue fic.
 * As with the other well-known NGE/WH40K fic, the author seems to be a Troper, and refers to several tropes by name.
 * There's also a brief Shout Out to Buffy in Chapter 18: "Bored now."
 * In Chapter 15, Kaworu imitates Dio Brando by telekinetically throwing knives at Shinji, and then dropping a steamroller on him.
 * Squick :, as she goes down the path of the worship of  , eventually ending up  ; "...because they looked like corpses that had been left in a hot swamp for a month."
 * Strange Bedfellows: Nothing less than an overwhelmingly bad situation could possibly force  to work together.
 * No really? We're talking a reluctant agnostic/atheist turned God-Emperor of Man, the Four Ruinous Powers (whom are sufficiently powerful that the *only* reason they haven't taken over the world is because they A) *HATE* each other, B) like it just the way it is, and C) already have...), Gork & Mork (the deities of a bunch of genetically engineered fungal bio-weapon), and the Eldar Pantheon (and let's not talk about all the shit they got up to with each other! It's like the Olympians all over again! Er, I mean...).
 * Super Strength:  eventually develops this.
 * Take That: "For those of you prepared to rant at me, there is one more chapter to this story, so unlike Gainax, you will actually get an explaination (sic) as part of the denouement."
 * Tranquil Fury:  goes into one of these after learning about
 * Unstoppable Rage: Asuka
 * Wham Episode: Chapter 14, where flashback reveal Shinji's plans going badly wrong. Some reviewers claimed that he was screwed over even worse than in canon.
 * Xanatos Roulette: All of this was a plot by
 * You Just Told Me: When Kaworu shows up, he gives away his true nature to Shinji by