YMMV / Asuka Quest

• Growing the Beard: A player example; Spacebattles started taking the quest far more seriously after the Matariel battle/clusterfuck showed them how much of an impact they'd been making.
• Heartwarming Moments:
  • Asuka befriending the other pilots. They're True Companions now, not the Dysfunction Junction they were in canon.
  • The moment where, after getting off to a bad start, Asuka tells Kaworu that they're going to help him survive, because he's part of the family now.
  • Asuka and Rei's relationship.
  • Ritsuko and Maya start dating.
• Moe: Rei's still this, even after she quits being an Emotionless Girl. She's still awkward and very huggable.
• Moment of Awesome: Oh, where to begin...
  • The crazy physics vs. AT field shenanigans the community comes up with.
  • Asuka forking herself and taking advantage of a Reality-Breaking Paradox move in the sims to defeat Iruel.
  • Doing the nigh-impossible, and managing to fix NGE characters' mental issues.
  • Most of the Angel battles, after Asuka gets the hang of fighting and AT hax. The later angels have to seriously ramp up their game in order to stand a chance against her, and when she fights simulations of the angels that didn't, it's a Curb-Stomp Battle.
  • Defeating ramped-up Bardiel without physically harming the pilot, even under the threat of Dummy Plug hijacking.
  • Asuka defeating and devouring Zeruel.
  • The battle against Tabris. Asuka and Rei manage to beat an angel in hand-to-hand combat. They even save Kaworu's life while they're at it.
  • The battle against the Mass Production Evangelions.
  • Asuka and Mari vs Demi-Adam. Asuka comes up with a new AT field trick mid-battle to take advantage of her opponent's Logical Weakness.
  • Third Impact is averted. Not happened-but-sorta-negated, like in canon. It just never happens, as Gendo has a Heel–Face Turn and Asuka ruins SEELE's plans by destroying all their EV As.
  • Any scenario in the dreamworld is a combination of this and Funny Moments.
  • And of course, the undisputed king of all awesome moments: batting a home run on Sahaquiel.

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