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Take the [[Cthulhu Mythos]], as seen through the futuristic, [[Hopeless War]] lens of ''[[Cthulhu Tech (Tabletop Game)|Cthulhu Tech]]''. Add in the supernatural horror of the ''[[First Encounter Assault Recon]]'' series, as well as various bits and pieces (most of them nasty) from ''[[Eclipse Phase]]'' and ''[[Alastair Reynolds|Revelation Space]]''. [[Fusion Fic|Now throw them all into a blender]], and [[Darker and Edgier|use the resulting nightmare of a setting to tell the already dark and apocalyptic story]] of ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion (Anime)|Neon Genesis Evangelion]]''.

[[Twenty Minutes Into the Future]], mankind stumbles across knowledge of [[HPH.P. Lovecraft (Creator)|the Mythos]], as the flaws in the old scientific models become evident. [[Magic Versus Science|The scientific method]] is promptly applied, and things turn out pretty well, with sorcery-as-a-science and reactionless engines transforming all aspects of our culture. Sounds nice?

It is now 2091. Space is controlled by the [[Starfish Aliens|Migou]], who are trying to [[Bug War|stomp]] mankind back into the Stone Age without waking up anything else that lives on Earth. The [[Half -Human Hybrid|Esoteric Order]] of [[Fish People|Dagon]] are trying to wake Cthulhu. A large percentage of Asia has become weirdly merged with Leng, where the Dead God, Hastur, resides, and there is a [[Black and Grey Morality|subtle war]] going between two sides of [[Humanoid Abomination|Humanoid Abominations]] and one side of [[Complete Monster|Complete Monsters]] inside the territory controlled by the [[One World Order|New Earth Government]].

But, don't worry! [[Manipulative Bastard|Gendo Ikari]], a senior figure in the Ashcroft Foundation (the world's largest [[Mega Corp]]) will save us from the monstrous, god-like threats called Harbingers (named after [[Mythology Gag|Canaanite deities]]) which are attacking on top of all of this. Apparently, he has some kind of [[Neon Genesis Evangelion|secret weapon.]]

''Aeon Entelechy Evangelion'' is a [[The Remake|2nd edition/sequel/rewrite]] of [[Tropers/Earth Scorpion|Earth Scorpion]]'s ''[[Aeon Natum Engel (Fanfic)|Aeon Natum Engel]]'' because ES [[Mythology Gag|ran out of ink]]... er, felt dissatisfied with the inconsistencies between the earlier and later chapters. As of February 23, 2012, a prologue and eighteen chapters have been published, currently in Book II. Naturally, so far it has turned out just as terrifying as ''[[Aeon Natum Engel (Fanfic)|Aeon Natum Engel]]''.

It has a [[Aeon Entelechy Evangelion (Fanfic)/Characters|Character Page]] that currently lists the differences between Canon EVA and AEE characters. It also has a [[Aeon Entelechy Evangelion (Fanfic)/Shout Out|Shout Out page]].

* [[Achilles' Heel]]: The joints of anyone with subdermal armor (which would necessarily include heels), whether NEG or Migou in origin, are less armored. Justified in that it is still necessary to move the joint, so of course they have to have less armor there, and it's still possible to kill them without hitting the weaker spot.

* [[Afraid of Needles]]:

** Xuan Do doesn't like needles, at least when they are used on her.

** Possessed by aliens, perhaps unsurprisingly.

* [[Alternate History]]: At the start of Chapter 1, there is an excerpt from ''[[HPH.P. Lovecraft (Creator)|The Shadow Out of Time]]'', which makes it clear that both the Elder Thing city in Antarctica and the Yithian city in Australia were historically discovered in the 1930s, putting the point of divergence quite a bit before now.

** [[Tropers/Earth Scorpion|Earth Scorpion]] has referred to a complete timeline of [[Alternate History]], but it has not yet been released.

* [[Alternate Universe Fic]]: AEE is one to ''Evangelion'' and ''[[FEARF.E.A.R.]]'', while ''[[Cthulhu Tech]]'' gets the dubious honor of having everything be a point-of-divergence right after ''Vade Mecum'' because ES had declared everything post-''Vade Mecum'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20110425082052/http://forums.spacebattles.com/showpost.php?p=4415150&postcount=661 unsourcebooks].

* [[Anti -Air]]: Anti-Orbital Defenses in Chapter 18.

* [[Attack of the 50 -Foot Whatever]]: The Harbingers are well in excess of 50 feet, both Imperial and American Customary, in scale.

* [[Awesome but Impractical]]:

** London's capital-grade defenses include railguns that fire small nuclear warheads. Small, for a nuclear warhead, that is.

* [[Bigfoot, Sasquatch, and Yeti]]: The real Migous, which are briefly mentioned to be a part of the Rapine Storm, are Yeti-like. The bugs in space are not actually Migou, but the name stuck.

* [[Blessed Withwith Suck]]: The Sorcerers have the highest rates of cancer, and their children have a very high chance to get massive outsider taint.

* [[Bond One -Liner]]: ''Just doing my job.''

* [[Breather Episode]]:

** Chapter 6 is unusually short and focuses on the rather cute and very curious 4-year old Asuka...a few days before her mother's scheduled Test with Unit-02. Ouch.

* [[Bug War]]:

* [[Buffy -Speak]]: Sometimes, with [[Firefly (TV)|Simon]] (the temporary therapist assigned to Shinji) being the most blatant example.

* [[Cats Are Magic]]: See below and [[Evil -Detecting Dog]].

* [[Cats Are Mean]]: Cats, as in the works of [[HPH.P. Lovecraft (Creator)|HP Lovecraft]], are intelligent and don't really like humans. Much of this comes from the fact that they are now their pets, when in the past the humans were basically servitors with the task to take care of the cats' bodies, which the cats considered to be useless, since they spent almost all their time soul-surfing in the Dreamlands doing things incomprehensible to human minds. Then the Dreamlands were eaten, and now suddenly they are mere pets to former servants, while others had [[And I Must Scream|worse fates]]. Oh, and their eyes are used for security systems.

* [[Cast Fromfrom Hit Points]]: This is the side-effect of using sorcery, since it's like forcefully using the machine (human body and mind) for something that it was not designed for.

* [[Clipped -Wing Angel]]: [[One -Winged Angel]] Mot, while still powerful, is structurally unstable and sacrificed its attack range for regeneration, which NEG uses to further delay it from reaching London-2.

* [[Containment Field]]:

** There are also containment wards used when Mot is causing Aeon War Syndrome.

* [[Couldn't Find a Pen]]: One prisoner tried to draw a summoning circle with her saliva before her hands were locked down by a straitjacket-type exoskeleton.

* [[Creepy Child]]:

** The two girls from the prologue.

* [[Curb Stomp Battle]]:

{{quote| '''Earth Scorpion''': Seriously. Sachiel is up there with Ramiel and Zeruel for destructive power. It's just that because it's the first to appear, that it tends to go down like a bitch in fanfics.}}

* [[Cybernetics Eat Your Soul]]: Blanks are made by creating a secondary artificial neural network in captured humans and xenomixes. Notably, this trope name is literally false; the presence of a soul is something which can be [[Doing inIn Thethe Wizard|quantified]].

* [[Doorstopper]]: There are young-adult novels shorter than chapter 1 of ''AEE''. Chapter 2 was longer. Chapter 5 was ''longer''.

* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: Maya getting overloaded with data.

* [[Don't Answer That]]: The Investigators tried to question Shinji, who is assumed to be a prime target of those infiltrators in the airport, but he had a high-level lawyer do the talking for him.

* [[Eldritch Abomination]]: Where to start? With the Harbingers, which are the [[Aeon Natum Engel (Fanfic)|Heralds]] but ''even more'' Lovecraftian? With the fungoid insects of the Migou? With the Deep Ones? {{spoiler|Rei? [[Tropers/Earth Scorpion|Earth Scorpion]]?}}

** Loyalist Nazzadi come in an Elite variety, who have extensive cybernetic and genetic enhancements, and are issued Migou-level weaponry and gear.

** Combat Blanks, reprogrammed humans, are more akin to a light suit of power armor even before they have equipment, and have small antimatter reaction chambers where their guts would be which are used to fuel their integrated weapons and enhancements.

* [[EverythingsEverything's Better Withwith Penguins]]: This Pen-Pen is a Antarctican Urbanised Albino Emperor Penguin, which means that he's descended from the giant albino penguins in ''At the Mountains of Madness'', resident in the Elder Thing city.

* [[EverythingsEverything's Better Withwith Rainbows]]: Except they are either colorless or of colour out of space.

* [[Everyone Is Right -Handed]]: [[Word of God]] says that Nazzadi are primarily left-handed, since that part of human base was basically flipped by the Migou.

* [[Evil Is Deathly Cold]]:

* [[Evil -Detecting Baby]]: Infants are particularly sensitive to anything strange. There is a much better alternative in...

* [[Evil -Detecting Dog|Evil Detecting Cats]]: Cats are noted to be sensitive to anything abnormal, so they are used as detectors for that kind of thing, and are incorporated into the CATSEYE security system.

* [[Evil Tower of Ominousness]]:

** Mot transformed itself into the spire that kept extending both upwards and downwards in order to get inside the Geofront. After it was killed, Mot left behind a kilometer-tall spire-corpse for Ashcroft to clean up.

** Tsuchigumos are Lovecraftian, lobotomized [[Ghost in Thethe Shell: Stand Alone Complex|Tachikomas]]. One of the pilots of these things acted like a Tachikoma for good measure.

** Shinji is a [[Haruhi Suzumiya (Light Novel)|sarcastic bastard]].

* [[Failsafe Failure]]: Averted; most of the failsafe failures were the results of said failsafes being damaged or destroyed. Asuka complained on how they screwed things up when dealing with [[Subsystem Damage]], though.

* [[False -Flag Operation]]: {{spoiler|As done by the Migou operative in Chapter 7 to kill a senior NEG Army officer.}}

* [[Faster -Than -Light Travel]]: Averted; nobody has it, not even the Migou.

* [[Firing One -Handed]]: Subverted, as firing the Eva-scale Babylon rifle one-handed is a sure way to damage the Eva's arm, and hurt your own hand (and slap yourself in the face). Then again, one of Unit 01's arms was already crippled, so he didn't have much choice.

* [[Fusion Fic]]: In addition to merging ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'', ''[[Cthulhu Tech]]'' and ''[[FEARF.E.A.R.]]'', the ''[[Alastair Reynolds|Revelation Space]]'' and ''[[Eclipse Phase]]'' stuff that started to appear heavily in later parts of ''ANE'' are now featured more prominently.

* [[GaiasGaia's Vengeance]]: The old shoggoth systems waking up to battle the foreign Leng ecosystem.

* [[Go Mad Fromfrom the Revelation]]: Duh.

** Shinji nearly goes mad from almost being stepped on by Asherah while he was at the airport.

* [[Grievous Harm Withwith a Body]]: A Blank throwing what was left of her [[Human Shield]] at the enemy.

* [[Invisibility]]: One of DAEVA's (now rechristened as DAHACA) selling points.

* [[Irony]]: Director Khoury (named after the parents who never existed in the first place), a Nazzadi ex-soldier serving on the invasion fleet (which has no real history), currently holding a position of Director of Secret Services (which officially does not exist).

* [[Jerkass]]: A mild version with Ritsuko, who unlike in canon doesn't act nice, and is usually blatantly unemphatic, but she is so consistent about it that she comes off as less of jerkass she was in later parts ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' and as more of a person who tries to cope with her job that has a very real (and inevitable) risk of being driven to insanity.

* [[Law of Inverse Recoil]]: Averted, and the [[Firing One -Handed]] example below is one of the reasons why.

* [[LaymansLayman's Terms]]: Common, both in narration and by characters, usually Misato telling Ritsuko to repeat something, only in human language (figuratively).

* [[Little Hero, Big War]]: As important as the Evangelions and the Harbingers are, the Aeon War doesn't revolve around them.

* [[Lockdown]]: Heavy quarantine on the Budapest-infected locations. Certain [[Panty and& Stocking Withwith Garterbelt (Anime)|specialists]] were sent to deal with it.

* [[Losing Your Head]] and [[Helping Hands]]: The nervous system of the Combat Blanks (brainwashed, [[Cyborg|enhanced]] people) is modified to be autonomous, to the point where getting shot in the head won't stop them and severed limbs are still under their control.

* [[Magic From Technology]]: Because the Migou don't have Shoggoth heritage which enables humans to use magic, they have to rely on specific implants to reproduce it.

* [[Mind Probe]]: Used as a standard technique by the [[State Sec|OIS]]. There is even comparative discussion by OIS agents on the ease of probing dead brains (and how decomposition affects the procedure) as compared to live ones.

* [[Mind Rape]]:

** Looking at a Harbinger, even through auto-censored video feeds, induces insanity and nightmares ''very'' quickly.

* [[Mini -Mecha]]:

** The Tsuchigumo, as befits their [[Ghost in Thethe Shell: Stand Alone Complex|heritage]].

* [[Minovsky Physics]]: Arcanotech, or as [[Word of God]] said it in the ''[[Nobody Dies (Fanfic)|Nobody Dies]]'' thread, a "Convenient [[Hand Wave]]". That doesn't stop rather in-depth discussion of the physics behind everything in the forum thread, of course.

{{quote| "They held their posts at the whim of the Senate and the President, they were not democratically elected, and they were technically speaking, [[Blatant Lies|nothing more than advisors]].<br />

* [[More Dakka]]:

{{quote| ''The tactics could be summarised as [[Team Fortress 2 (Video Game)|“Use A Gun. And If That Doesn’t Work, Use More Gun”]].''}}

* [[Mythology Gag]]:

** Post-Natum Modification Bill.

** Shinji thinking himself to be better than the prince in the fairy tale [[Sleeping Beauty]] (Shinji was familiar with the original, [[NSFW]] version.)

* [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot]]: The technical classification of the Evangelions, "''arcanocyberxenobiological organisms''" translates roughly as ''magic cyborg alien robots''.

* [[No -Holds -Barred Beatdown]]:

* [[Nuke 'Em]] : ...as a standard response. Harbinger-5, Mot, is hit by a 12 megatonne pure fusion device, to soften it up, before the Evas and the Navy attack from long range. {{spoiler|It doesn't go as planned.}}

* [[One Steve Limit]]: Averted. Shinji's foster little sister is named Hikary. Considering the number of people named either Hikari/y or Horaki in ''ANE'', [[Tropers/Earth Scorpion|Earth Scorpion]] is probably doing it on purpose.

* [[One -Winged Angel]]: Mot, going from the equivalent of Series!Ramiel to Rebuild!Ramiel.

* [[One World Order]]: [[Word of God]] says that the NEG (or at least the Unionist, rather than Federalist parts of it) is trying to systematically, and slowly, lessen the difference between the the former nations that make it up, with the goal of both sanitising the culture of harmful (like, say, Cthulhu-worshipping) influences, and preventing internal division which might weaken it. The NEG has explicitly been called a [[Stephen Baxter|proto-Interim Coalition of Mankind]], which is to say, like a secular, efficent [[Warhammer 40000 (Tabletop Game)40,000|Imperium of Man]].

* [[Only a Flesh Wound]]: Ritsuko after the [[Cast Fromfrom Hit Points]] ritual.

* [[Operation Blank]]:

** Operation Ankou, [[Nuke 'Em]] plan against Harbinger-5.

* [[Our Souls Are Different]]: For humans and their derivatives (or, at least, ''baseline'' humans), souls are useless evolutionary baggage that come from being Shoggoth-descended. That's an anomaly; most creatures, like the Migou, use their souls (which is to say, [[Doing inIn Thethe Wizard|higher dimensional parts of their body]]) to think. Shoggoths are meant to, but Earth-life is broken, and, against design, has managed to evolve sentience, then sapience, only using three dimensions. Parapsychics and sorcerers tap into this heritage to fuel their powers.

* [[Outgrown Such Silly Superstitions]]: Averted. While weakened, organized religion still exists and fares well. Some also proclaim that the empirical "soul" discovered by science is different from the spiritual soul.

** Played with when Misato suspects that Shinji, being Gendo's son, might be masterfully hiding his [[Thousand Shinji (Fanfic)|true intentions]] behind the mask of normalcy, until dismissing it as paranoia on her part.

** The almost undetectable Blanked Infiltrators are this for the NEG military.

* [[Path of Inspiration]]: Played with, for the Nazzadi religion/philosophy. It was fabricated by the Migou to maximize their efficiency, and also designed to be cult-resistant by encouraging people to be open with each other; the thing is that it ''works'', to the extent that some humans have begun to practice it, too.

* [[Pistol -Whipping]]: Xuan Do beats the Infiltrator Blank with the butt of her rifle.

* [[Post Cyber Punk]]: The arcologies, and the New Earth Government in general. Even more so than in ''[[Aeon Natum Engel (Fanfic)|Aeon Natum Engel]]'' with deeper fusion of ''[[Alastair Reynolds|Revelation Space]]'' and ''[[Eclipse Phase]]''.

* [[Power Creep, Power Seep]]: The reason why [[User:Earth Scorpion]] didn't completely replace ''[[Cthulhu Tech]]'' with ''[[Eclipse Phase]]'' is that the latter's elements break a lot of NGE's story pillars. With the [[Brain Uploading|digitizing of the mind]] and [[Body Surf|resleeving]], Shinji and Asuka are completely unnecessary when Gendo could just [[MesMe's a Crowd|fork]] Rei to fill in the gaps.

* [[Pyrrhic Victory]]: {{spoiler|Yam is killed, but Chicago-2, the capital of NEG, is a flooded, unrecoverable mess, with millions of casualties. Three of the Ashcroft board of representatives who were in the capital are killed. And more personally, Asuka's first official Harbinger kill will be forever overshadowed by the above.}}

* [[The Remake]]: of ''[[Aeon Natum Engel (Fanfic)|Aeon Natum Engel]]''.

* [[Sadist Teacher]]: Ms. Sweet-Corazon, the physics teacher. Of course, considering [[Discworld (Literature)/Going Postal (Discworld)|her name]]...

* [[Self -Destruct Mechanism]]: The Migou biologically dissolve very fast, seemingly as a part of this trope. The Combat Blanks also explode upon death, and the Migou used infiltrator-Blanks with implanted antimatter capsules to decapitate the North American NEG command.

* [[Shaped Like Itself]]: Description of more mundane (and sometimes not so mundane) objects tend to be like this, using [[Buffy -Speak]] most of the time.

* [[Shield -Bash]]: {{spoiler|Rei stabbing Mot with the melted piece of spaceship hull.}}

* [[Shown Their Work]]: The author is a physics student, and it shows.

* [[Shout -Out]]: [[Aeon Entelechy Evangelion (Fanfic)/Shout Out|All the time]].

** Various [[Eldritch Abomination|Eldritch Abominations]], both active and sleeping.

* [[Somebody Set Up Us the Bomb]]:

* [[Soul Power]]: The [[Psychic Powers]] and Arcane magic seems to be this.

* [[Spoiled Brat]]: According to Hikary, most of the school is like this as a result of them being children of Ashcroft elite. She also claims that it's averted with the Horaki sisters, where their father made sure that they understood that being a part of Ashcroft elite is no reason to be become snotty. Of course, she might be an [[Unreliable Narrator]] for that...

* [[Square -Cube Law]]: One of the points the Author mercilessly lampshades on when the Mechas are present, EVAs included.

* [[State Sec]]: Although cracks do exist, on the whole Earth Scorpion's interpretation of ''[[Cthulhu Tech]]'' [[State Sec]] in the Core and Vade Mecum basically makes them something that not even [[Metal Gear|Solid Snake]] will sneak by, and also making it impossible for the Damnation View's [[Fanon Discontinuity|"Everything is Falling Apart" scenario]] to happen.

* [[Tracking Device]]: {{spoiler|A few of the spikes Asuka fired at Yam have tracking devices in them, tagging it so they could track in the murky waters.}}

* [[Urban Warfare]]: We see a glimpse of it in chapter 7.

* [[Viral Transformation]]: The Leng ecosystem, a combination of [[StarcraftStarCraft|Zerg Creep]], [[Sid MeiersMeier's Alpha Centauri]] xenofungus, [[Command and& Conquer|Tiberium]] (of the really bad ''Tiberium Sun'' variety) and god knows what else, spreads out in Storm-controlled territory.

* [[Weakened Byby the Light]]: Places that are designed and illuminated in such way that are no shadows, as a security measure to prevent [[Casting a Shadow|shadow-using entities]] from infiltrating.

* [[We Will Have Perfect Health in Thethe Future]]: Courtesy of Genefixing. Except for those who get the short end of the stick by having side-effects caused by said genefixing, like Imi who is in constant pain and has to use painkillers.

* [[X Meets Y]]: It's as if [[HP Lovecraft (Creator)|HPH.P. Lovecraft]], [[Alastair Reynolds]], and [[Stephen Baxter]] got drunk together and watched all of ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' in one sitting, then plotted out the setting.

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