Nobody Dies/Trivia

Trivia about Nobody Dies includes:

• Actor Allusion:
  • Go-Kun, voiced by Peter Cullen, says "One shall stand and one shall fall" and "Life is the right of all sentient beings" in Chapter 41.
  • President Stephen Colbert has an eyepatch. Guess that makes him a One-Eyed Monster...
    • Cookies on dowels!
  • Pieter Sohryu, played by Bruce Boxleitner, makes really great speeches.
  • Word of God says that Shinji's grandfather (SEELE 06) is played by Christopher Lee.
• Ascended Fanon: Many, many elements of the story (usually minor gags, but sometimes whole plot points) are the result of suggestions in the Spacebattles.com discussion thread.
  • The major example would be President Colbert.
  • "Ahem. Gendo beating M. Bison in a bar brawl is now canon. That is all."
  • One of the reader's omakes involved the Ree giving Iruel a guided tour of 4chan as a form of torture. It's canon as of chapter 37.
• Audio Adaptation: Some readers have taken to making audio renditions of the Angels' Badass Boasts (Zeruel is a popular one). One reader even pulled out the pork products for a rendition of Iruel's dialogue (from Chapters 31, 32, 33, 37, and 38) A radio drama is being made by Spacebattles Forum.
• Defictionalization: There was talk that a fan and three friends would be Cos Playing as Gendo, Kozo, Yui and Rei and re-enacting the Driver's Training scene from chapter 19 at Mechacon 2010. Unfortunately, Gregg announced that it fell through.
• Dueling Fanfics: With Shinji and Warhammer 40 K to an extent. They have a lot of similar themes and came from similar nails ("Make Shinji's childhood better" vs "Save Shinji's mom") and the execution is similarly over-the-top for both fics. The main differences between the two are that (1) ND's nail changed a good chunk of the Eva-verse's backstory while S&40K only changed Shinji's childhood and then went from there, and (2) 40K has a more consistently epic scope while ND tends to stick somewhat closer to the Original Flavor, invoking just as many Crowning Moments as 40K does but also balancing them with moments of shock and horror that could've been pulled right out of the source material.
• Easter Egg: Chapter 96, just below the title card, note the bolded letters.

center cannot hold/it is coming/activate

• Lying Creator: Gregg. Word of God for this series is not very reliable. Exhibit A -- Ichi Ikari.
• Rouge Angles of Satin: Landsman is appallingly consistent in some of his errors, including a constant to/too confusion, "peak" for "peek", and numerous other misused homonyms.
• Shout-Out: From practically the first page, Nobody Dies is positively littered with shout-outs, both in-universe and out, to the point that we have an entire subpage for them.
• Troper Critical Mass: The fact that the author once had a folder devoted to examples from his fics on the Badass Boast page (now moved to the Quotes page), and this page's growing number of sub pages...yeah, we like this fic around here...