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* [[And I Must Scream]]: {{spoiler|Gendo is shot repeatedly and left bedridden at the end of the coup. Later on, before he is moved to Terminal Dogma to remove all sense of time from him, Shinji returns and beats his invalid father with a hammer, shattering his jaw and rendering him incapable of speech.}}

* [[Anti-Hero]]: Shinji, an indisputable [[Sliding Scale of Anti-Heroes|Type V]].

* [[Brick Joke]]: Early into the story, Shinji mentions that he can kill someone with wet paper and a paper clip. {{spoiler|Guess what happens in chapter 10?}}

* [[The Chessmaster]]: Shinji constantly makes references to playing chess, and lives up to it by predicting everything that happens during the entire Black Bunnies arc. Notable in that none of them are part of his foreknowledge but he's able to recognize every single ploy they attempt to stop him.

* [[Curb Stomp Battle]]: Directly invoked in the fight between Sachiel and Unit 01.

* [[Death by Sex]]: {{spoiler|Mercutio}} suspects that this is going to happen to him after {{spoiler|Satsuki}} lays him and tries to defy it, but fails.

** His reveal that {{spoiler|the nanomachines had originally been developed by NERV as a means to control the pilots through sensory deprivation}} works as this for {{spoiler|Gendo}}.

* [[Little Miss Badass]]: Ai Suzuhara, Touji's sister who avoided injury thanks to the above-mentioned [[Curb Stomp Battle]].

* [[Meaningful Name]]: {{spoiler|"Roach" is the sole survivor of the SAS men.}}

* [[Motive Rant]]: A short one in chapter 11 is given by [[Omnicidal Maniac|Aoi]]

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