Strategic Cyborg Evangelion: Difference between revisions

** Unit-02 is the visual copy of Elvy's Vermillion from ''[[Rah Xephon]]''.

** Shephard is confirmed to be an expy of [[Stargate SG 1|Jack O'Neill]].

* [[Fire-Forged Friends]]: Asuka and Kaworu after the second battle with Israfel.

* [[Flawed Prototype]]: Unit-00 still has this distinction. The only reason it can keep up with the newer models is because the pilot is [[Ace Pilot|just that good]].

* [[Four Philosophy Ensemble]]: Kaworu is the Optimist, Shephard is the Realist, Yui is the Cynic. Rei is somewhere between the Cynic and the Apathetic.

* [[Frickin' Laser Beams|Frickin' Particle Beams]]: upon realizing conventional bullets don't have enough kinetic force to penetrate AT-fields, the AEL quickly equips their Evangelions with handheld Tau cannons. These ones ''do'' work... but not much better.

* [[Fuuma Shuriken]]: Rei has a collapsible one.

* [[Gatling Good]]: the Rheinmetall MK225 triple-barreled rotary autocannon, carried by Durandals; has a 20mm caliber and is designed to pierce synth armor. Kaworu pulls out an [[BFG|Eva-sized version]] against Shamshel but [[Beehive Barrier|as expected]], [[Immune to Bullets|it doesn't do squat]].

* [[Have You Seen My God?]]: the Angels directly mention that {{spoiler|they're no longer bound by God's will}}, whatever that means.

** Shephard and Yui directly invoke this trope: if there is a God, why didn't he prevent Second Impact?

* [[Hoist By His Own Petard|Hoist By Her Own Petard]]: {{spoiler|Shamshel, who took a headshot from ''her own [[Eye Beam]]''}}

* [[Humongous Mecha]]: earlier battleframe models. They're confirmed to be nothing more than [[Glass Cannon|assault guns]] on legs, as armoring them enough for frontline combat would be [[Awesome but Impractical|impractically expensive and heavy, not to mention slow]].

** [[Meta Mecha]]: F-type equipment, a powered armor ''for Evangelions''

* [[Imported Alien Phlebotinum]]: lots of Combine technology was abandoned when Overwatch fled the planet. Humanity put all that to good use...

* [[Insistent Terminology]]: whenever someone speaks Japanese, the author uses ''tenshi'' instead of the canon ''shito'' to refer to the Angels on purpose.

** It is a Period 8 transuranic element that cannot fit onto the periodic table of elements due to being exotic matter.

** There are four known isotopes, all of them solid at room temperature. The base isotope is a yellow crystalline material used in various utilities. The second isotope and the only other one occurring naturally is a light blue fluorescent crystal. The third is a chemically inert violet crystal. The fourth is the only one to have received its own name (xenite) and is being researched as a possible power source.

** It has an atomic mass of over 300 but due to the adverse reaction to mass spectrometers, its exact mass and atomic number cannot be determined.

** Waygates generate wormholes by using specially prepared crystals of the first isotope that contain artificial impurities of certain superconductors. These are capable of near-instantaneous wormhole generation across interstellar distances when electrically charged.

* [[The Chessmaster]]: {{spoiler|Sammael}}

* [[Obligatory Swearing]]: ''averted'' in an attempt to stay realistic. Touji is the only person who [[Cluster F-Bomb|swears a lot]] (much to Hikari's annoyance) with Kaworu adding a [[Precision F-Strike]] here and there but other than these, no one says so much as a "shit". Well, Shephard does but Yui is always quick to reprimand him for it.

* [[Oh Crap]]: {{spoiler|Asuka's reaction when she realizes that Kaworu is her new landlord}}

* [[Omniscient Council of Vagueness]]: SEELE, as usual.

* [[Organization With Unlimited Funding]]: ''averted''. The AEL had to become a PMC to avoid getting bankrupt after Kaworu racked up such an impressive collateral damage against Shamshel.

* [[People's Republic of Tyranny]]: pretty heavily implied that the Confederacy of Man is actually this: authoritarian government plus a not-so-[[Secret Police]] composed of [[Political Officer|Political Officers]]. And if you think Keel cares about civilian lives, you're wrong. [[We Have Reserves|DEAD WRONG.]]

* [[President Evil]]: Keel

* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: aside from the usual Asuka-Rei dynamic, several new ones were introduced.

* [[World of Badass]] - Kaworu's principle in life is striving to create this

* [[Year Inside, Hour Outside]] - the Barrier created by Second Impact is a giant dimensional anomaly that envelops most of North America, making time go at a factor of six, i.e. there's 2005 inside but 2041 outside.

* [[Zerg Rush]]: {{spoiler|the military tries this against Sachiel, doesn't really work}}

** In the second season, Kaworu challenges Israfel to single combat. {{spoiler|The Angel recognizes that it's outnumbered and responds by summoning a whole army of insectoid [[Starfish Aliens]].}}