History Characters / CodeGeassBlackKnights

** TheLancer/ TheRenfield[[Spoiler: --> TheStarscream - Diethard]]

** TheLancer/ TheRenfield - Diethard

** TheHero - Zero
** TheChick - Ohgi
** TheLancer - Diethard

* TheStoc: Toudou

* ChainsawGood: Their knightmares' signature weapon.
* FiveManBand
* LadyOfWar: Chiba.
* NoodleIncident: The miracle of Utsushima.

-->''"I'm its mother."''--In reference to the Guren

-->''"It's a matter of love!"''

-->''"I'm Zero's best buddy!"''

-->''"Someone who feels hate must also feel sadness."''

-->''"Zero's arrival was like the arrival of a new age unfolding before my eyes!"''

* EnsembleDarkhorse

* CharacterDerailment: Arguably starts off as the most heroic and level-headed of all the Black Knights. [[spoiler: Come time when he turns against Lelouch, he makes a closed door deal with Britannia to free only Japan, even though other countries were involved in the dispute at that point.]]
** AntiHero: Type II ---> [[spoiler: Type IV]]

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Subverted. He ''was'' one until the second half of [[OddlyNamedSequel R2]], since he had a rather believable CharacterDevelopment in the first part. Then he got hit ''really'' hard with CharacterDerailment...
** More exactly: he gained something of a fan following in the first season for being the [[OnlySaneMan most level-headed and realistic]] of the Black Knights and the only one to consider that Zero is just as human as the rest of them. But in the second season, he was widely reviled [[spoiler: for his betrayal of Lelouch, ''presumably'' based on nothing more than the testimony of a woman who tried to kill him twice and told him to his face that the thought of them being together was disgusting]]. Resulted in the memetic mutation "Ohgi lied, [[spoiler: Rolo]] died" and the fan nickname "Ougly".)

* RonTheDeathEater: While he's NOT without his tremendous share of responsibility, some of his haters are painstakingly ''ferocious''.
* TheScrappy: Falls under the following two subtropes:
** SwissMessenger: Quite possibly a candidate for TropeCodifier for his role in R2 19 and the resulting fallout.
** TheWesley: And quite possibly this for the favorable focus he was given all the way up to the ending.

* ChaoticGood

** CharacterAlignment: NeutralGood / ChaoticGood --> [[spoiler: NeutralSelfish]]

* NeutralSelfish

* AntiHero: [[SlidingScaleOfAntiHeroes Type III]] on average; they are usually not as extreme as Lelouch, but continue to use terrorism.

* Jerkass

* SmugSnake

** CharacterAlignment: NeutralGood/ ChaoticGood --> [[spoiler: NeutralSelfish]]

** 8 Well, it is Clamp who did the character designs.

* RonTheDeathEater: While he's NOT without his tremendous share of responsability, some of his haters are painstakingly ''ferocious''.
** Much of the hate ''is'' more or less understandable, given the CharacterDerailment he underwent. Originally an EnsembleDarkhorse and a VoiceOfReason amongst the Black Knights, up until the moment [[LoveMakesYouDumb he met Villetta]], who he was willing to have his life taken by a few episodes before [[spoiler:the betrayal, which he and Villetta led the Black Knights against Lelouch, ditching him violently and siding with Schneizel. [[SwissMessenger It was his actions that prevented Lelouch from defeating Schneizel and indirectly spurred the chain of events that culminated in]] [[DespairEventHorizon Lelouch deciding to end his life]] [[ZeroApprovalGambit behind the pretext of a self-destroying peace plan]] [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds and taking even more people down with him than he otherwise would have]], and [[FridgeLogic said world peace being a questionable one built on lies]].]] And not only did Ohgi not die, but he [[spoiler:became the ''Prime Minister of Japan'' and was HappilyMarried to Villetta]], which many see as a KarmaHoudini given all the mistakes he committed.

** Much of the hate ''is'' more or less understandable, given that he started as an EnsembleDarkhorse and a VoiceOfReason amongst the Black Knights. That [[CharacterDerailment all changed]] the moment [[LoveMakesYouDumb he met Villetta]], who he was willing to have his life taken by a few episodes before [[spoiler:the betrayal, which he and Villetta led the Black Knights against Lelouch, ditching him violently and siding with Schneizel. [[SwissMessenger It was his actions that prevented Lelouch from defeating Schneizel and indirectly spurred the chain of events culminating in [[DespairEventHorizon Lelouch deciding to end his life]] [[ZeroApprovalGambit behind the pretext of a self-destroying peace plan]] [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds and taking even more people down with him than he otherwise would have]], and [[FridgeLogic said world peace being a questionable one built on lies]].]] And not only did Ohgi not die, but he [[spoiler:became the ''Prime Minister of Japan'' and was HappilyMarried to Villetta]], which many see as a KarmaHoudini given all the mistakes he committed.

* NeutralGood --> [[spoiler: NeutralSelfish]]: Arguably starts off as the most heroic and level-headed of all the Black Knights. [[spoiler: Come time when he turns against Lelouch, he makes a closed door deal with Britannia to free only Japan, even though other countries were involved in the dispute at that point.]]