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For the fic:

  • Ass Pull: An enormous spaceship capable of carrying five Evas to Planet DELTA (which orbits the Sun opposite the Earth) in a few days is thrown together in a few chapters. It even seemingly has artificial gravity, despite this not existing in Evangelion.
  • Designated Hero: Tom in Chapter 10, he gleefully guns down SEELE Soldiers without a second thought, but then lets Matt Yazama escape unharmed (and had more then enough opportunity to take him out.) Later in the same chapter, Matt and Tom fight, with Matt trying to kill Tom. Later, in Chapter 12, Matt goes on a second rampage, kills hundreds of innocent bystanders and tries to start the Third Impact. After his death, Tom feels genuinely bad for Matt, but doesn't express a hint of concern for his victims. At the same time that he lets Matt escape unharmed, Tom captures Keel Lorenz and then gleefully crushes him to death. Similarly, Justice's rampage in chapter 12 again left hundreds or thousands dead. Yet Tom gleefully reminisces about the fight and how "awesome" it was. Tom viciously verbally assaults his ex-girlfriend for dumping him, because Tom had left home and moved halfway across the world and, while there, begun a relationship with Asuka. Yet Tom's ex is singled out for leaving him.
  • Ensemble Dark Horse: John's brother Charles is introduced as a simple computer programmer, but proves to be quite the commando when SEELE attacks. He also seems to have the ability to take a four month holiday from his job with no repercussions. As noted by the MSTers, Charles is more useful than John. Charles also managed to clone himself in one episode.
  • Moment of Awesome: the final battle against Justice in chapter 12 actually approaches something resembling exciting and dramatic action, ditching a lot of the hallmarks of the goofy CurbStomp Battles that mark the rest of the fic. Of course, any drama is quickly lost via Moment Killer in a flood of Techno Babble (at the end of chapter 12) and Glurge (most of chapter 13).
  • Squick: Shinji and Rei have kids.


For the MST:

  • Funny Moments: The MSTings of this series contain some of Elmer Studios' best material, including:
    • The Random DELTA Invasion Episode Generator. Which returns in the Rebuild, possibly even funnier and more random then before.
    • The Monk.
    • Shinji's confrontation with Gendo. "You know, dad, you're... very mean."
    • The attempts to summarize John's past.
    • Charles cements his Memetic Badass status:
      "I don't think so!!!" yelled Charles
      Tsuneo: Watch Charles destroy an entire army with a single shot.
      as he shot one of the soldier's hands. The bullet made the grenade the soldier was holding explode wiping out most of the soldiers around.
      Tsuneo: I was joking.
    • From the Rebuild of Delta, John Barren's confrontation with Keel Lorenz and attempt to find the truth of his past. Or not.
  • Memetic Badass: Charles, as mentioned above.
  • Memetic Molester: Ritsuko has an unhealthy obsession with seemingly performing synch tests every five minutes, which saw her quickly turned into a depraved rubber fetishist.


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