History AwesomeMusic / CodeGeass

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8CFuZ9MseQ&ab_channel=CrunchyrollDubs "COLORS"]] by FLOW, the very first opening of the series and also the first thing that pops up in terms of memorable tracks from ''Code Geass'' or referencing the anime. [[MemeticMutation Jibun wo~!]]

* [[https://youtu.be/cZ7zQbMxm28 "COLORS"]] by FLOW, the very first opening of the series and also the first thing that pops up in terms of memorable tracks from ''Code Geass'' or referencing the anime. [[MemeticMutation Jibun wo~!]]

* [[https://youtu.be/osKkMKolWQ8 "WORLD END"]] by FLOW, the 2nd opening for R2 and the last of the series, while not quite as good as "Hitomi no Tsubasa", deserves 2nd place. Also, R2's 1st Opening, [[https://youtu.be/Mrgcz2JKCTc "O2"]] by ORANGE RANGE and [[https://youtu.be/cZ7zQbMxm28 "COLORS"]] also by FLOW the very first opening of the series... [[MemeticMutation Jibun Wo~!]]

* For the 15th Anniversary rebroadcast of the first season, FLOW returns with [[https://youtu.be/VuOFPfxxmx4 "DICE"]], which contains plenty of nods to "COLORS."

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* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OH1TVnW--XU "Madder Sky"]] plays over the climax of the GrandFinale, lending great emotional catharsis to Lelouch's HeroicSacrifice[=/=]ThanatosGambit.
* In ''Code Geass R2'', the piano track that plays [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-2unJt7QdA here at 5:11 to 6:36 (Warning: Spoilers for R2 Episode 18)]]. Seriously, listening to the characters speak with that track being played just accentuates the epicness of the scene.
* The first season's soundtrack has quite a few gems, as well, with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apfOHi_dC_Y "Avalon"]] being among them; indeed, it seems to accompany a lot of the more intense scenes from Episode 19 onward.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfzu34cfw5E "All-out Attacks"]] is used on the moments were, well, there are [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin All-out Attacks]] on the fighting episodes.
* The opening of the S1 24-25 special, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xh_SoTWBVHU "Hitomi no Tsubasa"]], is quite possibly the most epic song in the series.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1ekWbs-4cY "Picaresque"]]. This is when they broke Toudou out from his prison. With THIS music blaring loudly in the background. It really can't get any more badass than that. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyC9Es_SCmY "Callin'",]] by the same artist, plays in Stage 20 when Suzaku and Lelouch as Zero work together to stop the Chinese invasion of Kyushu. Check the lyrics for these two songs and you'll notice that "Picaresque" can double as an ImageSong for Lelouch while "Callin'" could be one for Suzaku.
%%* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykpDQhWlrBQ All Hail Britannia!!!]]" indeed.

%%* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFrjhABGSN4 "Overwriting"]].

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEDeLrR3XAk "Boku wa, Tori ni Naru (If I Were a bird)"]] plays during Rolo's RedemptionEqualsDeath moment, a ''massive'' TearJerker.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFNBpVmrT_g "Continued Story"]] plays after Lelouch's death, an ''even bigger TearJerker.''
* [[AlasPoorScrappy As hated as Shirley's death was]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACTmrDuHJXs "The ruins as they were"]] is probably the reason why most people cried during it, along with the scene itself.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osKkMKolWQ8 "WORLD END"]] by FLOW, the 2nd opening for R2 and the last of the series, while not quite as good as "Hitomi no Tsubasa", deserves 2nd place. Also, R2's 1st Opening, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mrgcz2JKCTc "O2"]] by ORANGE RANGE and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZ7zQbMxm28 "COLORS"]] also by FLOW the very first opening of the series... [[MemeticMutation Jibun Wo~!]]
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBhsDtFUgdM "Kaidoku Funou"]] is on par with the rest of the [=OPs=], if not better.
* For the 15th Anniversary rebroadcast of the first season, FLOW returns with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuOFPfxxmx4 "DICE"]], which contains plenty of nods to "COLORS."
* R2's first ending [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23xHdz4YzhM "Shiawase Neiro"]] by ORANGE RANGE.
* The first ending theme, ALI PROJECT's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTmQiCHKPHE "Yuukyou Seishunka"]]. Incredibly complex and infinitely listenable.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9n2loCkB9U "Mozaiku Kakera"]] or simply Mosaic by [=SunSet=] Swish, the 2nd ending for R1, is an absolutely beautiful albeit melancholic song. [[DownerEnding Fitting, given how R1 ends.]]
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRGdEBBKA-M "Innocent Days"]] by Hitomi, especially seeing how it was used for some of the most poignant scenes.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1b0n10Ytidg "Masquerade"]]. Look up the lyrics and be prepared to shed a single drop of ManlyTears when it plays just after Lelouch geasses Shirley to forget about him and Zero.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PUnLWSLBR0 "Stories"]] plays during Euphemia and Suzaku's initial meeting; you can tell something tragic is coming. Best used during the last episode of season one, to set up the true climax of the season.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AVRq6KPxF4 "Previous Notice"]], if you ever need to pull off something ''completely bullshit insane''. Lookin' at ''you'', Suzaku.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jm-WCSGW674 "Zero"]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlI8Gl9kanY "Nightmare"]]. They're practically RefugeInAudacity.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GI3coG58uo "Memory of 0"]], the perfect tune to gain (or regain) mind-control powers via contract with an immortal. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKyafFLW6fU "Memory Museum"]] is a similarly mystical piece.
%%* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a32NTUoy45k "Aura"]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gfkKlkKMuc "Eternal Separation"]].
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZY-UWKVVoHo "Blue Tiger"]], played during the Lancelot Albion's first flight and Jeremiah's spectacular desperation manoeuvre against Anya.
%%* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nXDxnlVFug "Le Repos Du Guerrier"]].
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvCLdJQfuJY "The Knight"]] lent considerable levels of awesomeness to the Shinkiro's (Lelouch's nearly-untouchable new Knightmare) debut scene.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpDiIwYbgog "Misconduct"]] plays when Lelouch and Suzaku fly directly towards a nuke.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pMVAKnIsBs "Beautiful Emperor"]] appears several times during some of the most epic scenes in R2.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2XDnBIkg1Y "Sub-Chairman"]] is wasted, but this is somewhat justified as a cheery song like it doesn't really fit too well with the WorldHalfEmpty (or AWorldHalfFull depending on your view) nature of the show.
%%* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pLkWC3JdjI "Birthplace"]].
%%* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMr-k8PGTCA "Black Knights"]].
%%* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cct9XRbaBFU "Sensibility"]].
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AN61Xlz01XQ "Lullaby of M"]] is just plain calming.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArjtnKFUVnM "What's Justice?"]] If a song is capable of being a LargeHam, this the perfect example.
%%* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slVb0KX09v0 "Across the Borderline"]].
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AH3-nPoFIfI "Siegfried"]] plays only once during the entire show (R2 Episode 21, starting immediately after Lelouch geasses GOD into stopping the Ragnarok Connection), but its awesomeness is beyond compare.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSiJ1rx2tFo "Desperation"]] is quite simply the perfect music for revealing one's WellIntentionedExtremist plan to their horrified sibling, as Schneizel does to Cornelia in Turn 23. It also recurs during the epic fight between Kallen's Guren and Suzaku's Lancelot in Turn 25.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOmsEJQlFH4 Check Mate]]. Lelouch and Suzaku breaking into the Damocles is totally awesome! Ironically this also plays when Anya pilots the Mordred to find Lelouch during the episode where everyone was chasing him.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54t2MYjEsDE Love is Justice]]. You can't get much more badass than firing a nuke, killing a few thousand soldiers, then proceeding for some equally badass monologue. They play it in the very last minutes of Turn 23, when the first FLEIJA is fired from the Damocles against Emperor Lelouch!

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8kFVGzk9ms NE:ONE]] by Survive Said The Prophet, at the end of the third compilation movie. The lyrics reflect on Lelouch's entire sacrifice to the world.
%%* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6FGaJ2OXl4 Kono Sekaide]], by Leo Ieiri, for the opening of the Re;surrection film, and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4a8CHD5_FA Revive]] by Unione, for the ending.
%%* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRIAw6LkqlE ALL HAIL BRITANNIA]] plays during Emperor Charles's epic speech.

* The opening of the S1 24-25 special, [[http://www.jpopsuki.tv/video/access---Hitomi-no-Tsubasa/9121cc1e6d446632fa845aec8c20ec80 "Hitomi no Tsubasa"]], is quite possibly the most epic song in the series.

* [[http://www.jpopsuki.tv/video/FLOW---WORLD-END/6d5230e1c77c835c28c5c23ce9cf905a "WORLD END"]] by FLOW, the 2nd opening for R2 and the last of the series, while not quite as good as "Hitomi no Tsubasa", deserves 2nd place. Also, R2's 1st Opening, [[http://vimeo.com/1742788 "O2"]] by ORANGE RANGE and [[http://www.jpopsuki.tv/video/FLOW---Colors/b231019180216057eb97ee95a871ce9f "COLORS"]] also by FLOW the very first opening of the series... [[MemeticMutation Jibun Wo~!]]
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LipEPV89S4Q "Kaidoku Funou"]] is on par with the rest of the [=OPs=], if not better.

* R2's first ending [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XY6Tourp_8 "Shiawase Neiro"]] by ORANGE RANGE.
* The first ending theme, ALI PROJECT's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRfox7CLt_k "Yuukyou Seishunka"]]. Incredibly complex and infinitely listenable.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDI1g6TU4BQ "Lullaby of M"]] is just plain calming.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1ofurC-Log NE:ONE]] by Survive Said The Prophet, at the end of the third compilation movie. The lyrics reflect on Lelouch's entire sacrifice to the world.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jm-WCSGW674 "Zero"]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfMFqCVtbwI "Nightmare"]]. They're practically RefugeInAudacity.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0Mxv8PP7R0 "Memory of 0"]], the perfect tune to gain (or regain) mind-control powers via contract with an immortal. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKyafFLW6fU "Memory Museum"]] is a similarly mystical piece.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNQKUkpvZwg "Siegfried"]] plays only once during the entire show (R2 Episode 21, starting immediately after Lelouch geasses GOD into stopping the Ragnarok Connection), but its awesomeness is beyond compare.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qcvq_Rb5JI "Siegfried"]] plays only once during the entire show (R2 Episode 21, starting immediately after Lelouch geasses GOD into stopping the Ragnarok Connection), but its awesomeness is beyond compare.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OH1TVnW--XU "Madder Sky"]] plays over the climax of the GrandFinale, lending great emotional catharsis to [[spoiler:Lelouch's HeroicSacrifice[=/=]ThanatosGambit.]]

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1ekWbs-4cY "Picaresque"]]. This is when they [[spoiler: broke Toudou out from his prison. With THIS music blaring loudly in the background. It really can't get any more badass than that.]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyC9Es_SCmY "Callin'",]] by the same artist, plays in Stage 20 when [[spoiler:Suzaku and Lelouch as Zero work together to stop the Chinese invasion of Kyushu]]. Check the lyrics for these two songs and you'll notice that "Picaresque" can double as an ImageSong for Lelouch while "Callin'" could be one for Suzaku.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1b0n10Ytidg "Masquerade"]]. Look up the lyrics and be prepared to shed a single drop of ManlyTears when it plays just after [[spoiler:Lelouch geasses Shirley to forget about him and Zero.]]

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpDiIwYbgog "Misconduct"]] plays when Lelouch and Suzaku [[spoiler:fly directly towards a nuke]].

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qcvq_Rb5JI "Siegfried"]] plays only once during the entire show (R2 Episode 21, starting immediately after [[spoiler:Lelouch geasses GOD into stopping the Ragnarok Connection]]), but its awesomeness is beyond compare.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSiJ1rx2tFo "Desperation"]] is quite simply the perfect music for revealing one's WellIntentionedExtremist plan to their horrified sibling, as [[spoiler:Schneizel does to Cornelia]] in Turn 23. It also recurs during the epic fight between [[spoiler:Kallen's Guren and Suzaku's Lancelot]] in Turn 25.
* [[https://youtu.be/Y_xF7BI29cA "Unleashed"]] is a sad LonelyPianoPiece that plays on four occasions, in chronological order:
** 1) Xingke's promise to Tianzi (a flashback)
** 2) The cut finger scene (between Lelouch and C.C.).
** 3) Ohgi's confession of love to Villetta.
** 4) And, of course, most notably, [[spoiler:Lelouch's last moments alive, and his final words before he dies.]]
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOmsEJQlFH4 Check Mate]]. [[spoiler:Lelouch and Suzaku breaking into the Damocles]] is totally awesome! Ironically this also plays when Anya pilots the Mordred to find Lelouch during the episode where everyone was chasing him.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54t2MYjEsDE Love is Justice]]. You can't get much more badass than firing a nuke, killing a few thousand soldiers, then proceeding for some equally badass monologue. They play it in the very last minutes of Turn 23, when the first FLEIJA is fired from the Damocles against [[spoiler:Emperor Lelouch!]]

* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfbAeMu6dfk sad piano music]] that plays on four occasions, in chronological order:
** 1) Xing-Ke's promise flashback
** 2) Cut finger scene (between Lelouch and C.C.)
** 3) Ohgi's confession of love
** 4) And, of course, [[spoiler:Lelouch's last words before he dies.]]

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9n2loCkB9U "Mozaiku Kakera"]] or simply Mosaic by SunSet Swish, the 2nd ending for R1 is an absolutely beautiful albeit, melancholic song. [[DownerEnding Fitting, given how R1 ends.]]