History Characters / CodeGeass

* [[Characters/CodeGeassBlackKnights Black Knights]][[note]]Rakshata Crawla, Kaguya Sumeragi, Shinichiro Tamaki, Kaname Ohgi, Diethard Reid, Kyoshiro Tohodoh, The Four Holy Swords, Kento Sugiyama, Yoshitaka Minami, Naomi Inoue, Toru Yoshida[[/note]]

* [[Characters/CodeGeassBlackKnights Black Knights]][[note]]Rakshata Crawla, Kaguya Sumeragi, Shinichiro Tamaki, Kaname Ohgi, Diethard Reid, The Four Holy Swords, Kento Sugiyama, Yoshitaka Minami, Naomi Inoue, Toru Yoshida[[/note]]

* [[Characters/CodeGeassMainCharacters Main Characters]]
* [[Characters/CodeGeassBlackKnights Black Knights]]
* [[Characters/CodeGeassAshfordAcademy Ashford Academy]]
* [[Characters/CodeGeassBritannians Britannians (Royal Family, Britannian Army, Knights of The Round)]]
* [[Characters/CodeGeassChineseFederation Chinese Federation]]
* [[Characters/CodeGeassEuropeanUnion European Union]]
* [[Characters/CodeGeassOthers Others]]

Important characters in the ''Anime/CodeGeass'' franchise, and the tropes they embody.

* [[Characters/CodeGeassChineseFederation Chinese Federation]]

* [[Characters/CodeGeassAkitoTheExiled Akito The Exiled]]

Important characters in the ''CodeGeass'' anime, and the tropes they embody.

* [[Characters/CodeGeassAkitoTheExiled]]

This is the character sheet concerning the main characters of ''CodeGeass''.

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I IS TEH EVUL!!!!!!
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** YES TEH BABA IS TEH BADASS
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->''"A victory gained through honest means is worthless."''

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->''"My wish is for a evuler world."''

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->''"I can't remember who I am. Nobody counts the number of times they pick their nose or take a crap. Same with this SO FUCK OFF!!!."''



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->''"I can't remember who I am. Nobody counts the number of times they pick their nose or take a crap. Same with this SO FUCK OFF!!!."''

->''"I can't remember who I am. Nobody counts the number of times they pick their nose or take a crap. Same with this SO FUCK OFF!!!."''

Important characters in the ''CodeGeass'' anime, and the tropes they embody.

Due to the [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters nature of the show]], there is now a separate page for all the following:

* [[Characters/CodeGeassMainCharacters Main Characters]]
* [[Characters/CodeGeassBlackKnights Black Knights]]
* [[Characters/CodeGeassAshfordAcademy Ashford Academy]]
* [[Characters/CodeGeassBritannians Britannians (Royal Family, Britannian Army, Knights of The Round)]]
* [[Characters/CodeGeassChineseFederation Chinese Federation]]
* [[Characters/CodeGeassOthers Others]]

<<|CharacterSheets|>>

Due to the [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters nature of the show]], there is now a separate page for all of the for the following:

* [[Characters/CodeGeassAshfordAcademy Ashford Academy Students]]

* [[Characters/CodeGeassBritannians Britannians (Royal Family, Britannian Army, Knights of Eleven)]]

* [[Characters/CodeGeassBritannians Britannians (Ashford Academy students, Royal Family, Britannian Army and Knight of Eleven)]]

* Characters/CodeGeassMainCharacters
* Characters/CodeGeassBlackKnights
* Characters/CodeGeassBritannians
* Characters/CodeGeassChineseFederation
* Characters/CodeGeassOthers

Due to the [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters nature of the show]], there is now a separate page for all of the [[Characters/CodeGeassBritannians Britannian characters]].

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::'''Lelouch Lamperouge/Lelouch vi Britannia'''

-->''"I am Zero! The man who destroys worlds -- and the man who creates them!"''

-->''"Obey me, world!"''

The central character of CodeGeass, Lelouch [[MeaningfulName Lamperouge]] is a [[MagnificentBastard Magnificent]] ChessMaster who was given the power of an EvilEye called a Geass that allows him to [[CompellingVoice compel anyone to obey him to do anything he demands]] -- although ItOnlyWorksOnce on any given person. Few even of his closest friends know that he is actually a [[FallenPrincess fallen]] WhitePrince of [[TheEmpire the Britannian Empire]]. He plans to rebel against his [[{{understatement}} estranged]] [[EvilOverlord father]], the {{darwinist}} [[TheEmperor Emperor]] [[MeaningfulName Charles]] zi [[TheEmpire Britannia]], who, he thinks, was unforgivably apathetic about his [[DeadLittleSister mother's death]] -- and may even have had a hand in it. Lelouch [[YouKilledMyFather demands vengeance]], and [[DisproportionateRetribution he'll settle for nothing less than the complete destruction of the Britannian royal line]].

Well, not the ''entire'' Britannian royal line: Lelouch wants to protect his [[IllGirl paralyzed and blind]] [[BigBrotherInstinct little sister]] [[MoralityPet Nunnally]] -- and not just to protect her, but to ''{{make a better world}}'' for her. [[TheDeterminator He'll do just about anything]] to accomplish his goals, and he doesn't mind if he has to be labeled "[[PayEvilUntoEvil evil]]" in the process. Especially if he gets to [[DracoInLeatherPants make being evil look]] ''[[DracoInLeatherPants damn]]'' [[DracoInLeatherPants good]] as he [[JumpedAtTheCall announces his new anti-Britannian movement.]]

As the series evolves, Lelouch finds a worthy opponent, his [[ForgottenChildhoodFriend buddy Suzaku Kururugi]], who eventually becomes the biggest obstacle to his plans.

He also finds an [[BackFromTheDead unexpected]] ally, a beautiful and {{mysterious waif}} who usually goes by the "name" C.C. She isn't what she seems to be. But then, neither is Lelouch.
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* AbusiveParents: His father the Emperor. [[spoiler: Turns out his mother wasn't a saint either.]]
* AchillesInHisTent: During most of Turn 19. [[spoiler:Schneizel uses it to maximum effect.]]
* AffablyEvil: Certainly [[PlayingWithATrope plays with this trope]].
* AlliterativeName: If he's using his mother's surname.
* AloofBigBrother: As part of his JerkassFacade near the end.
* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Range from a JerkWithAHeartOfGold and AntiHero to even an egomaniac VillainProtagonist who [[ManipulativeBastard manipulates everyone around him and covers it up with a thin veneer of self-deluded ideals]], whose karmic backlash was not even half of what he deserved.
* AManIsNotAVirgin: Subverted so ridiculously hard that it's hilarious.
* AmbiguouslyGay: Almost every fan has to agree Lelouch gives this kind of vibe with his [[color:red:FA]][[color:orange:B]][[color:yellow:U]][[color:green:L]][[color:blue:O]][[color:purple:US]] Ham. And let's not get started about the whole thing between Suzaku and Lelouch. Please.
* AntiHero: [[SlidingScaleOfAntiHeroes Type IV (on average)]]: He is genuinely heroic and well meaning, but also [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope jumps off the slippery slope]] when, for instance, [[spoiler:he abandons his subordinates at the end of the first season to save Nunnally]] or when he [[spoiler:[[KickTheSonOfTheBitch massacres the]] [[AssholeVictim Geass Cult]]]].
** ByronicHero: A perfect example.
** HeroicSociopath: [[PayEvilUntoEvil Paying evil unto evil]] with a smile, particularly against his [[AssholeVictim worst]] [[LawfulEvil enemies]].
* [[spoiler: [[HeroAntagonist Antihero Antagonist]]: In the "Suzaku of the Counterattack" manga.]]
* [[VillainWithGoodPublicity Antihero with good publicity]]
* [[spoiler:TheAtoner: In the GrandFinale, the Zero Requiem is revealed to be an elaborate public performance intended to personally atone for his own sins by making the world hate him in death, even though his chosen method and leading circumstances make it appear he has [[DeathSeeker another hidden motive at that point]].]]
* AttractiveBentGender: The Picture Dramas and games are surely ''very'' fond of having him [[CrossDresser go]] [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Luluko.jpg around]] [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Lulu_pretty.jpg in]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UX3H2Lv4Uw drag.]] [[StupidSexyFlanders Stupid Sexy]] [[MemeticMutation Luluko]]!
* [[spoiler:AwesomeMomentOfCrowning / CrowningMomentOfAwesome: "ALL HAIL LELOUCH, 99th EMPEROR OF BRITANNIA!!"]]
* AwesomenessByAnalysis: He is about the only one smart enough to use Shinkiro's full combat potential.
* {{Badass}}: And ''HOW!'' To the extent one fan's dubbed him a walking CrowningMomentOfAwesome!
** Before you say [[SquishyWizard ''huh?'']], remember in the second episode where Viletta threatened him by blowing the walls around him? He. Didn't. Even. Flinch. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BR4P85eFu0w 2:50]]
* BadassBookworm
* BadassCape
* BaseBreaker: Doesn't just break it, but smashes it to atoms. See also DracoInLeatherPants and RonTheDeathEater, below.
* BastardBastard: Lelouch is the child of one of the the Emperor's recognized wives, who was killed before the series bagan. Lelouch was disowned and ultimately rises up in rebellion against his father. Lelouch certainly gets around in the Bastard tropes.
* BatmanGambit: He loves playing these. He's the victim of a few of them, too, but he usually prevails.
* BecomingTheMask: Several times, on several different levels. Luckily for him, it's a very [[DracoInLeatherPants becoming]] [[IncrediblyLamePun mask]].
* TheBeautifulPeople
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: His Geass. And his plans in general.
* BigBrotherInstinct: He only, you know, started a war for her.
* BigScrewedUpFamily: Where the whole mess starts.
* BookDumb: More precisely, BrilliantButLazy -- but the effect is that Shirley is always complaining that his grades should be much higher.
** Justified by him deliberately not trying so he can get average scores; as a [[FallenPrincess Fallen Prince]], he's trying not to garner too much attention.
* BornUnlucky: Oh so very much. See also ButtMonkey and CosmicPlaything.
* BrilliantButLazy: His school persona. Of course, he's anything but lazy.
* BrotherSisterIncest: Toward Euphemia (of whom he says, "You may have been the first girl I ever loved"), and even more toward Nunnally (his "reason for living"). His love for them is not sexual -- or at least not explicitly sexual -- but it's certainly [[{{Understatement}} unhealthy]].
* [[spoiler: ButNowIMustGo]] At the end of "Nightmare of Nunnally," [[spoiler: he says goodbye to his friends and loved ones before leaving to be Demon King]].
* ButtMonkey: Regardless of his karma meter -- [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation or maybe because of it]] -- he just can't catch a break.
* CallingTheOldManOut: Aside from his desire to make Nunnally's dream of a kind world come true, Lelouch's main reason for basically ''starting a world war'' was to do this to the Emperor. (Let it never be said that he does anything by half-measures.) When he finally gets his chance, it officially becomes a CrowningMomentOfAwesome.
* CannotSpitItOut: Lelouch has a habit of dodging questions even when he'd be better off answering them.
* [[spoiler:CartwrightCurse]][[SarcasticConfession He falsely confirms that he did]]]], but Suzaku catches him on the lie.
* CelibateHero: If only out of necessity thanks to his chosen profession. Strangely, the second season focuses heavily on Lelouch's love life -- especially the tragic ending of episode 13.
* CharacterAlignment: ChaoticSelfish, he Is much too ruthless as to fit to ChaoticGood, But also he is very heroic as to fit to NeutralEvil.
* CharClone: In fact, if you take this perspective, ''CodeGeass'' literally becomes ''MobileSuitGundam'' with the perspectives skewed, instead of following Amuro (Suzaku), you're following Char.
** He's an estranged son of an important political figure, he has a grudge towards a whole family of nobility, he has a fake name, he wears a mask, he has a younger sister, he's handsome, he's charismatic, he has no loyalty to anyone except himself, he has no qualms about killing people who were nice to him in the past. Definitely a Char.
*** The last part is debatable, though, as those he has killed without restraint he tends not to have any real connection to.
* ChessMaster: Literally and figuratively. (Although as a '''literal''' chess master, it's more of an InformedAbility, as no one in-universe really seems to know how the game works.)
* ChessMotifs: He's the king on the chess board; his Zero costume even resembles one. Although his physical combat skills are less than impressive, he's the one who commands the whole board. He's always on the battlefield with his troops, because, as he puts it, if the king won't lead, his subjects won't follow. Mind you, that doesn't usually work in actual chess, and certainly not as Lelouch applies it, but it is just a metaphor.
* ChickMagnet: An extreme example.
* ClarkKenting: ...Sort of. Lelouch does wear a mask that conceals his whole head and does tricks with voice recording to throw people off the trail. But the fact that his sister Nunnally--who is blind and therefore relies primarily on hearing--never recognizes him as Zero is a bit much. Not to mention the other people who are extremely close to him.
* ClaspYourHandsIfYouDeceive: As a common trait of the quintessential MagnificentBastard, Lelouch is fond of doing this.
* [[spoiler: ConspicuouslyPublicAssassination]]: It's a CallBack to when he rescued Suzaku in season 1 episode 4.
* CosmicPlaything: See BornUnlucky and ButtMonkey.
* CounterpartComparison: He is this of [[VForVendetta V]], the chaotic rebel ByronicHero, MagnificentBastard and [[HeroicSociopath sociopath]] utilizing morally dubious plans to bring down an oppressive dictatorship.
** Or even fellow angsty orphan chessmaster [[{{Yu-Gi-Oh}} Seto Kaiba]]. [[YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries He's Lelouch's and Light's secret lovechild!]]
** [[CharClone Char Aznable]] is another.
* CrucifiedHeroShot: [[spoiler:He dies at the bottom of a trail of his blood leading from the middle of the Britannian flag, the resulting visage being [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic reminiscent of the Christian cross]].]]
* CursedWithAwesome: Aside from some DiabolusExMachina, his Geass has virtually no drawbacks, and he can get around the ones that do.
* TheDandy
* DarkIsNotEvil: Perhaps it's unintentional, but Lelouch tends to invoke this trope. He seems to be a dark figure overall: he has black hair, purple eyes, wears dark-colored clothing, leads a double life, consorts with a witch, and gets compared to a demon on several separate occasions. And yet, he wants to make the world a better place and manages to remain a good person for quite some time, until [[TraumaCongaLine all the terrible, horrible things he goes through start catching up to him]]. Meanwhile, Mao and [[spoiler: Schneizel]], his two {{Evil Counterpart}}s are [[EvilAlbino albino]] and [[BlondGuysAreEvil blond]], respectively; and both play white against him in chess.
** That, and he only starts wearing ''white'' after he's established his evil persona.
* DarkMessiah: To the core.
* [[spoiler:DeathSeeker: Becomes this following both Nunnally's apparent death and the Black Knights' betrayal.]]
* DeceasedFallGuyGambit: For the first time, see XanatosSpeedChess. For the second, see XanatosGambit.
* DefeatMeansFriendship: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] [[spoiler:After Lelouch finally beats him in the second-to-last episode, he uses a Geass to force Schneizel to serve him. Or, more precisely, to serve '''Zero''' -- a distinction soon to become important.]]
* DefectorFromDecadence: His response to Charles' [[SomebodyElsesProblem cold indifference to Marianne's murder and Nunnally's crippling]] and declaration that the Britannia is defined by the strong ruling over the weak. He gets sent to Japan along with Nunnally for his troubles. The takeover of Japan by Britannia is what drives him to revenge.
* DespairEventHorizon: Goes over the edge [[spoiler:following Nunnally's apparent death and finally the Black Knights' betrayal, leading him to plan on isolating himself inside the Sword of Akasha with Charles, and later, the Zero Requiem. See also: DeathSeeker.]]
* TheDeterminator
* DiabolusExMachina: Sometimes, you'd be forgiven for thinking Lelouch's main opponent was called Murphy.
** Episode 22 of the first season in particular is the ''poster child'' for this trope.
* [[spoiler: DidNotGetTheGirl: The amount of ShipSinking in R2 was epic.]]
* [[spoiler:DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Lelouch's Geasses God itself to stop {{Instrumentality}} and kill his parents. In all fairness, however, he asked politely and didn't even include the second part, so it's more like Did You Just Ask Cthulhu For A Favor?]]
* [[spoiler:DingDongTheWitchIsDead: The reaction to his death. It causes his entire army (giant robots, tanks, and armed soldiers) to collapse and run away from an angry mob. Makes sense actually, since he has ZeroPercentApprovalRating and the only member of his army who isn't [[{{MindRape}} brainwashed to be his slave]] is in on the plan.]]
* DisproportionateRetribution: Sort of. To avenge the death of his mother, he wishes to bring about the destruction of the entire Britannian royal line -- with the notable exceptions of his beloved sister Nunnally, Euphemia, and himself. However, he has plenty of legitimate gripes against the Empire which do not involve those two things, mainly the Social Darwinism that drives the country to conquer the entire world and oppress everyone who isn't Briannitan, and the aforementioned members of the royal family are the only ones known to oppose said policies.
* DoomMagnet
* DontTellMama: He tries to keep his sister ignorant of his alter ego.
* DracoInLeatherPants: To avoid wank-age here, just check the main entry. See also BaseBreaker, above, and RonTheDeathEater, below.
* DudeLooksLikeALady: Oh yes. In one picture drama he was made to look prettier than the girls simply by putting on a wig and an ElegantGothicLolita dress.
* [[spoiler:TheEmperor: The 99th Emperor of Britannia, to be precise.]]
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Lelouch smiled after he ordered a whole army regiment to kill themselves in the 1st episode.
* EstrogenBrigadeBait: To a degree. He gets his shower and shirtless scenes.
* EtTuBrute: Happens twice, and with him getting sold out to the two baddest of the {{Big Bad}}s in the show (obviously barring V. V. [[spoiler:who gets offed in R2 14)]]). [[CosmicPlaything I do not envy this man.]]
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: Though whether Lelouch is really a "bad man" is [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation best left to the viewer]]. Then flipped around in ''R2'' episode 21: [[spoiler:not only does he come to hate her within one episode, after Marianne shows him her true colors, he also erased her from existence along with Charles]].
* EvilCostumeSwitch: [[spoiler: When he became Emperor]].
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Despite being a MagnificentBastard and HeroicSociopath, he really seems to regret the deaths of innocents.
* EvenTheGuysWantHim: Of course Milly, Shirley, Kallen and Kaguya are head-over-heels in love with him. (As well as 108 other girls. And C.C. Possibly.) But there's ''also'' [[{{Yandere}} Rolo]], and maybe even Suzaku.
* EvilEye: The Geass. It allows him to give direct commands to anyone he makes eye contact with (which they ''must'' obey, even if the command is explicitly suicidal or goes against every moral fiber of their being), but ItOnlyWorksOnce per person.
* EvilIsSexy: He is a MagnificentBastard and is Sexy.
* EvilGloating: Lelouch is fond of this. It's very lucky that all of his Geass victims are polite enough to listen to his monologues before he orders them to commit suicide, or whatever else they would really rather not ever do.
* EvilLaugh: Frequently, as Zero. Borders on self-parody.
* [[spoiler:EvilOverlord: Setting himself up as one is a requisite for his Zero Requiem BatmanGambit.]]
* {{Expy}}: Lelouch has been considered at least a partial Expy of any number of fictional and even historical figures, especially the Byronic heroes VForVendetta and TheCountOfMontecristo.
* '''[[LargeHam FABULOUS Ham]]''': Mostly in his Zero costume. Although he's possibly even ''more'' of a ham without it on, as seen in ''[[OddlyNamedSequel R2]]'' episode twenty. [[spoiler: Also rather scary. Which might be the point of the mask. Then he made himself the [[TheEmperor Emperor]] of [[TheEmpire Britannia]] and was as bad as his father.]]
* FacingTheBulletsOneLiner / FinalSpeech: When faced with [[spoiler: a firing squad made up of his own men, he takes off his mask, [[{{EvilLaugh}} laughs in their faces]] and tells them they are all fools who he was using like pawns]]. Subverted a second later when its revealed that he's only doing this to [[spoiler: [[ItsNotYouItsMyEnemies trick Kallen into leaving his side, rather then staying to die with him]]]].
* [[spoiler:FakeCompleteMonster: During the Zero Requiem.]]
* FakeMemories
* FallenHero: In some parts of the second season, he is [[{{WellIntentionedExtremist}} reasonably well meaning for a while]], but ultimately [[{{LaserGuidedKarma}} the results of his old sins catch up with him]] in a seriously [[DisproportionateRetribution disproportionate way]] and he falls back to his more [[ByronicHero tragically flawed]] ways.
* [[FallenPrincess Fallen Prince]]
* FanNickname: "[=LeDouche=]" (AdultSwim even gives him this name), "Leaplouche", "Baby Lulu" (derisive one), "Failouche", "FABULOUCH", [[spoiler: ''Christlouch'', and "[[EpilepticTrees Cart Driver]]" (for those who [[HesJustHiding buy]] that interpretation)]].
* FashionVictimVillain: [[spoiler:His Emperor outfit is awesome, but his NiceHat just pulls it over into {{Narm}} territory, leading to much snickering from the fanbase.]]
* FatalAttractor: ''Very'' bad things tend to happen to those he loves.
* FreudianExcuse
* GeekPhysique
* GenerationXerox: Not only having inherited the ManipulativeBastard gene from Chuck, his life story is playing out much like his father's, with the characters around him playing out similar roles to Chuck's earlier years.
* GoryDiscretionShot: Used when Lelouch kills his half-brother Clovis and whenever he employs his Geass to order mass suicides.
* GoodEyesEvilEyes: His eyes are ambiguous until he gets his Geass. Thereafter, they're fairly obviously evil.
* [[spoiler:GoOutWithASmile: He's smiling as he warns Suzaku (now Zero) about his FateWorseThanDeath, then manages to spare a last smile for the crying, shaken Nunnally.]]
* [[spoiler:HesJustHiding: C.C.'s enigmatic final line left much speculation that Lelouch had found a way to fake his death. Jossed later on by WordOfGod stating that [[{{KilledOffForReal}} Lelouch really is dead]].]]
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: He quickly starts demonstrating almost the same lack of concern for human life that he despises in [[TheEmpire Britannia]].
* [[spoiler:HeroicSacrifice: He dies for HIS SINS, and the sins of his family. In doing so, he also turns himself into the most hated person in the world, so that Britannians and Japanese will no longer hate each other.]]
* HiddenDepths: Well, in-universe anyway, since only a few people know he's actually an exiled Prince of Britannia, or that he's Zero, etc.
* HighCollarOfDoom: Zero, which is an early sign this isn't the hero Lelouch is making out this persona to be.
* HowDoIShotWeb: When he first gains his Geass power, he automatically understands the basics, namely that it allows him to give commands that cannot be refused. However, he discovers the hard way that his power has limitations, like requiring direct eye contact, and only working once on a particular person. After the first time this causes a problem for him, [[TheSmartGuy he uses a logical and scientific method to test his powers]] and determine obscure details like maximum range and duration of effect. However, [[spoiler: he also finds out the hard way [[ModeLock when his Geass become permanently active.]]]] Which sucks.
* [[spoiler:ICannotSelfTerminate / SuicideByCop : He asks Suzaku to kill him to conclude the "Zero Requiem", dying in Nunnally's arms, but justified in that just killing himself wouldn't have helped anyone.]]
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Lelouch whilst squaring off with [[spoiler:his father. Followed up by "Everybody lies to survive! No one is blameless!"]] Silly Lelouch.
* IWasJustJoking: Lelouch's denial of C.C.'s antics when Nunnally asks if C.C. is Lelouch's girlfriend.
** Also when Lelouch is cooking in episode 3 of R2
---> '''Rivalz''': He's even got a housekeeping book.
---> '''Lelouch''': How do you know!?
---> '''Rivalz''': Crap, you really do?
* IdiotBall: Has put Nunnally in danger several times due to temporary stupidity.
* IHaveTheHighGround: First season opening. Actually, he likes the high ground a lot.
* ImpossiblyCoolClothes: [[TheDandy As a civilian]], and also [[LargeHam as Zero]].
* ImprobableAge: How many seventeen-year-old paramilitary masterminds do ''you'' know? While CodeGeass has many examples of this trope, Lelouch is among its most extreme.
* InformedAbility: His skill at the actual game of chess (but ''not'' his skill as TheChessmaster). We see him win chess games, but the actual moves he plays tend to be ''[[{{understatement}} weird]]''. RuleOfCool and all, but in RealLife, weird moves don't win chess games against skilled opponents.
* InTheBlood: Lelouch has shown himself to be ''very'' prone to manipulating people (and letting them die) in order to get what he wants. Just like the old man he despises so much [[spoiler: and the mother he used to love and idealize]]. The major difference is that Lelouch is is aware of the nature of his acts and his self-destructiveness.
* ItOnlyWorksOnce: His Geass.
* ItsNotYouItsMyEnemies: Works with [[{{ActionGirl}} Kallen]], [[spoiler: but fails with [[{{UnluckyChildhoodFriend}} Shirley]]]].
* JerkassDissonance: The trope might as well be called the "Lelouch effect".
* JerkassFacade: Would have more friends if he didn't act like a complete dick at the most inappropriate times. Though some characters ''do'' like that about him, these people are insane and/or immortal, generally. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in most cases, though, as he's doing it on purpose for this exact reason.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: See above two tropes.
* [[JohnnyYongBosch Johnny Yong FREAKIN' BOSCH!]]: His voice actor in the English-language dub.
* JumpedAtTheCall: His declaration of the [[LaResistance Order of the Black Knights]].
* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: He takes a flying leap off it in episode fourteen of ''[[OddlyNamedSequel R2]]''. Several viewers consider it his MoralEventHorizon. YourMileageMayVary on some of the other things he did.
** To be fair, his mind was also more or less broken and he was directly ignoring his plans.
** What about the time in which the abandonment to his subordinates.
* JunFukuyama: His {{seiyuu}}.
* TheKirk
* KnightTemplarBigBrother: Virtually the TropeMaker.
* LaResistance: Initally irked by it, he soon decides he might as well lead it, as long as he gets a chance to avenge his mother.
* LaserGuidedKarma: See ButtMonkey entry.
* LaughingMad: Lelouch does this as well at the end of episode 17 in the first season.
* [[spoiler: LegacyCharacter - Zero]]
* LivingWithTheVillain: Lelouch and Suzaku attend the same school, and for a while, neither of them realizes that the other is their regular opponent. Inverted in ''R2'', where [[spoiler: both of them know who the other ''really'' is, but have to pretend to have no idea]].
* LoveMakesYouEvil: When Lelouch's resolve fails and he betrays his ideals and the Black Knights, he does it [[spoiler: (twice) because his sister Nunnally is held hostage]].
* MagnificentBastard/ ManipulativeBastard: [[spoiler:He even DIES happily in a fabulous way.]] As an example, Cornelia calls him a coward for attacking her from behind. He makes no attempt to deny it, but calls her one, too. Cornelia, the goddess of war who is always charging into battle in front of her knights and has just made the decision to fight to the last. As is pointed out in the commentary, he says this in such a way that ''we believe him'' anyway.
* ManchurianAgent: Lelouch does this several times with the [[{{MindControlEyes}} Geass]]. Once with [[spoiler: Syako, to make her play [[{{XanatosRoulette}} prerecorded messages]] over the phone.]] Again with [[spoiler: Jeremiah Gottwald, so he will let Zero and his gaggle escape with Suzaku]] while destroying his career without realizing it. As well as to the Britannian special forces [[spoiler: assigned to moniter him incase he regains his memories, which he does.]] Even [[spoiler: Gilford]] gets this done to him, making him think [[spoiler: Lelouch is Cornelia.]] Justified since it's MindControl.
* MaryTzu: An unfortunate side effect of him being an avid user of HollywoodTactics despite his [[InformedAbility supposed military genius]].
* MaskedPilot
* MeaningfulName: "Lelouch" is the French word for "suspicious", but that's probably just a coincidence.
* [[spoiler:MemoryGambit: How Lelouch defeats Mao when Mao is planning to blow up Ashford Academy.]]
* MichelleRuff: The English-dub VA for [[TimeShiftedActor ten-year-old Lelouch]] in the {{flashback}} sequences.
* MilkingTheGiantCow: Takes this to memetically ''Fabulous'' levels.
* MillionairePlayboy: Possibly.
* MisaimedFandom: "Lelouch [[spoiler: brainwashing and]] killing innocent people is awesome! Wait? [[spoiler: Why did he order his own death?]]" And on the opposing team, [[spoiler: (even after the intention and results of the Zero Requiem were revealed): "Hooray! Lelouch the [[CompleteMonster tyrant]] is dead!"]]
* ModeLock: At ''exactly'' the [[DiabolusExMachina worst possible second]].
* MoleInCharge: [[spoiler:As emperor.]]
* MoralDissonance: But at least Lelouch is capable of realizing that his actions are morally questionable.
* [[MyHeroZero My antihero zero]]
** [[spoiler:He could have went with a non self-sacrificing and less bloody method than the Zero Requiem, but [[DespairEventHorizon he had lost the will to continue living]]. Plays the hero card straight when he averts a second SAZ disaster and helps liberate the Chinese Federation]].
* NecessarilyEvil: Invoked during a discussion with [[KnightInShiningArmor Gilford]]
* NiceHat: Nice enough to have its own fan club.
* NobleFugitive
* NonActionGuy: This trope is [[PlayingWithATrope played with]] in sundry ways. Physically, Lelouch is at-best-mediocre compared to his comrades. Even ''Euphie'' can outrun him on foot. But he can more than hold his own on the battlefield, especially against {{mooks}}. For more details, see the [[NonActionGuy trope example]].
* [[spoiler:NoPlaceForMeThere: He dies to finish Zero Requiem and bring about world peace.]]
* NothingCanStopUsNow: Whenever he says, "All tasks at hand have been cleared," something's bound to go terribly wrong in a way that the poor guy couldn't have possibly expected. Borders on CosmicPlaything at times.
* NotWhatItLooksLike: Usually with [[BodyguardCrush Kallen]]. Usually witnessed by a [[ClingyJealousGirl fretful]] Shirley. Similarly -- as Zero -- with C.C., witnessed by a fretful Kallen.
* OminousOperaCape
* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent: The preferred mask Lelouch wears when not wearing his preferred mask.
* PaleSkinnedBrunette
* PayEvilUntoEvil
* ParanoiaFuel: You or the guy next to you is under Lelouch's control. All he has to do is "ask for a favor".
* ParentalIssues: While almost everyone on the show has these, [[{{understatement}} his prove more lethal than most]].
* PersonalityPowers
* PlayingAgainstType: Lelouch's {{seiyuu}} Fukuyama Jun usually plays as straightforward, naive heroes (such as Watanuki from ''{{XxxHoLic}}''). The English dub follows suit by picking JohnnyYongBosch (you might remember him as IdiotHero [[{{Bleach}} Ichigo Kurosaki]], soft-spoken [[ThePhilosopher philosopher]] [[SuzumiyaHaruhi Itsuki Koizumi]] or [[ObfuscatingStupidity goofy]] CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass [[{{Trigun}} Vash the Stampede]]... or, if you want to go even further back, [[PowerRangers the Green Zeo/Turbo Ranger and the second Black Ranger]]).
* PoweredArmor: In ''NightmareOfNunnally'', sort of (it's complicated). Zero can fight Knightmares hand to hand.
* [[spoiler:PowerIncontinence]]
* PsychicAssistedSuicide: Lelouch uses his Geass to do this at ''least'' four times. The first of which is at the end of the very first episode.
* PsychoticSmirk: Borders on SlasherSmile sometimes, but whenever he's just wiped out an enemy taskforce or thwarted one of their plans, Lelouch's typical alternating scowl/smug expression goes off into an awesomely evil smile. Often preceded or followed by an equally [[LargeHam entertaining EvilLaugh]].
* PurpleEyes: They become [[RedEyesTakeWarning red]] when he uses his Geass.
* [[spoiler:ReallyDeadMontage: Receives one of the longest death scenes in anime history, and yet a large part of the fandom [[{{Fandumb}} still insists]] that HesJustHiding]].
* RedEyesTakeWarning: When he uses his Geass. Otherwise he has PurpleEyes.
* [[spoiler:RedemptionEqualsDeath: It is kind of ironic that this applies straight to Lelouch but it is subverted with Suzaku.]]
** [[spoiler:Or not, considering that he could have come up with a more moral solution that wouldn't necessitate his death. Lelouch, having lost practically everything as far as he knew at the time he started the Zero Requiem, did so largely because [[DeathSeeker he wanted to die]].]]
* RedOniBlueOni: Evoked a few times, with a few different characters:
** Mao (red) and Lelouch (blue)
** Lelouch (red) and C.C. (blue)
** Suzaku (red) and Lelouch (blue)
** Lelouch (red) and Schneizel (blue)
* RichIdiotWithNoDayJob: His non-Zero persona. Then again it was all a front because he was in hiding, and therefore did things that did not call attention to himself.
* [[spoiler:RidMeOfThisPriest: The moment where ItGotWorse in season 1.]]
* RonTheDeathEater: Lelouch has as many utter detractors as he does {{fan girl}}s, dragging other characters allied with him down in the undertow, while opposing characters, not to mention [[EvilEmpire Britannia]] itself, score points by virtue of being against him. See also BaseBreaker and DracoInLeatherPants, above.
* RoyalBlood
* SarcasticConfession: To Suzaku in R2 17. Schneizel [[QuoteMine uses this against Lelouch]] in the worst possible way.
* SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: Lelouch with nearly any girl he can be paired with, due to his SquishyWizard nature. Only Nunnally, C.C. [[spoiler:not under amnesia]], and maybe Sayoko don't fall under this.
* [[spoiler:SelfMadeOrphan: After finding out what ''both'' of his parents truly believed in. Yes, after spending 90% of the series trying to find out who killed his mother, he winds up doing it himself.]]
* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: A {{deconstruction}}, through his and Suzaku's interactions.
** In more ways than one. When they first met during their childhood, Lelouch really was the sensitive one, while Suzaku was the ruffian. It was the subsequent occupation of Japan by Britannia that supposedly inverted things, with Lelouch becoming more vengeful and embittered, and Suzaku, [[spoiler:who was responsible for killing Genbu but never being punished for it]], becoming neurotic and attempting to be even more mild-mannered and chivalrous. Though of course, cracks in their respective facades would show throughout the series.
* ShieldSurf: During his duel with Guilford.
* ShootTheShaggyDog: One of the reasons [[spoiler:Lelouch started Zero Requiem was his loss of hope due to Nunnally's apparent demise. Nunnally turns up and declares herself his enemy when he's beyond the point of no return. D'oh!]]
* ShroudedInMyth: People thought Zero was a woman, Prince Clovis or a prince of another country.
* ShutUpHannibal: Twice. First, in season one, after Mao most unpleasantly discloses that Suzaku [[spoiler:was responsible for the death of his father, Prime Minister Genbu Kururugi, in order to put an end to the war between Japan and Britannia]] and then precedes to berate [[HeroicBSOD Lelouch's thoroughly traumatized friend]], Lelouch has clearly had enough, and commands him via Geass to never speak again. The second time is in R2, when confronted with Charles' [[spoiler:and Marianne's]] plan for Instrumentality with the Ragnarok Junction and the revelation that [[spoiler:their abandonment of Lelouch and Nunnally in Japan was all a XanatosGambit meant to protect them]], Lelouch rebuts and banishes Charles [[spoiler:along with Marianne]] to C's World with the assistance of the collective unconsciousness.
* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: unspoilable is the reason why they are popular among girls, although technically he is a HeroicSociopath, women really love his heroic part, but not part sociopath.
* [[spoiler:SilentScapegoat: Zero Requiem.]]
* [[spoiler:SlaveMooks: Gets an entire army of them in the final arc.]]
* [[SlouchOfVillainy Slouch of Antiheroic]]: He does these in the ''cockpit'' of whatever Knightmare he's riding in.
* TheSmartGuy: While CodeGeass has almost as many {{TV Genius}}es as it has idiots, Lelouch ''still'' stands out as among the very smartest.
* SmartPeoplePlayChess: Lelouch is introduced by having him win an unwinnable chess game. He's the second smartest person in the entire world of the series. Never mind that [[DidNotDoTheResearch no one in this series actually knows the rules of chess]], [[MST3KMantra just go with it]].
* SpannerInTheWorks: Lelouch's affection for his friends has scuttled his plans almost as many times as Suzaku has.
* [[spoiler:SparedByTheAdaptation: Suzaku of the Counterattack]]
* SquishyWizard: This trope is [[PlayingWithATrope played with]] in sundry ways. In physical strength, speed, endurance, and coordination, he's not ''remotely'' in the league with Kallen, Cornelia, or most of his other allies and adversaries -- much less Suzaku, whose CharlesAtlasSuperpower allows him to dodge machine-gun bullets. Even ''Euphie'' can outrun him on foot. He manages to power through when it counts, though.
* StarCrossedLovers: With [[spoiler:Shirley and Kallen]]. YourMilageMayVary.
* StopOrIShootMyself: Does this in response to C. C. pointing her gun at him to prevent him from going anywhere.
* StrawHypocrite: At first. He starts out using and manipulating [[LaResistance the Japanese liberation]] cause as a cover for his own personal revenge. Only to later on [[{{BecomingTheMask}} embrace it for real]].
* StudentCouncilPresident: Well, ''Vice'' President.
* SuperheroesWearCapes: As part of his hero identity.
* TakingTheBullet: He did this to save Rolo. [[spoiler: It was his ploy to get Rolo to come over to his side]].
* [[spoiler:TakingYouWithMe: Following the betrayal, he attempts to do this to his father by having them both sealed inside the Sword of Akasha.]]
* [[TallDarkAndHandsome Tall, Dark, Handsome]] ''and'' [[TallDarkAndSnarky Snarky]]
* TemptingFate: Constantly. See also NothingCanStopUsNow, above.
* [[spoiler:TenMinuteRetirement: After learning about Nunnally's plan to restore the Special Administrative Zone of Japan in Turn 7, then again after supposed death in episode 19 of ''R2'']].
* [[spoiler: ThanatosGambit: Dies for ''world peace''.]]
* TraumaCongaLine: The writers of ''CodeGeass [[OddlyNamedSequel R2]]'' traumatize Lelouch every two episodes like '''clockwork''' from episode thirteen on -- so much so that by his fourth trauma he could not even cry when he was told that [[spoiler:he had just inadvertently gotten Nunnally killed]].
* TroubledButCute
* {{Tsundere}}: Type A. He loves mocking his enemies and rivals, but god is he ''dere'' to those he loves.
* {{Ubermensch}}
* {{The UnFavourite}}s: Lelouch and Nunnally, apparently, as a side-effect of the rest of the court's disdain for their mother Marianne. [[spoiler:his is subverted when we find about the truth in episode 21 of ''R2''.]]
* TheUnfettered: Initially he did have [[BashBrothers a]] [[MindOverManners few]] [[MoralityPet fetters,]] but one by one they [[DespairEventHorizon disapeared]]
* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: Lelouch is willing to go to almost ''any'' lengths to create a perfect world for Nunnally. By the end of ''R2'', this includes [[spoiler: brainwashing numerous people, slaughtering noncombatants, deception, betrayal, self-inflicted public demonization, and assisted suicide. Though one can blame this on the events of the betrayal that led him over the DespairEventHorizon]].
* [[spoiler:VillainProtagonist: Arguably by the end of the series.]]
* [[VisionaryVillain Visionary Anti-Hero]]: Just wants to remake the world, is all.
* WakeUpGoToSchoolSaveTheWorld: Part of his non-Zero persona.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Towards the end of ''R2'' he seems to be more NecessarilyEvil, and in fact some of his recent actions are so severe and sinful that the only thing preventing him from being a CompleteMonster is the fact that he is aware of it [[spoiler:and intentionally playing the role of EvilOverlord]], as he continues onward in spite of his doubts.
** [[spoiler:Not to mention that said plan is a consequence of his despair and isolation that resulted from Nunnally's apparent death and the betrayal from the Black Knights, making him a WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds at worst]].
* WhatAnIdiot: When he [[spoiler:accidentally Geassed Euphemia to commit genocide]], and depending on your mileage several other incidence.
** Naming an action that you see as the most contrary to the entire nature of your partner in conversation as an example of what Geass can compel is a reasonable way of impressing how powerful it is. You can totally see, how Lelouch could have picked an example like that reflexively. Now, [[spoiler: sending Rolo to secure Nunnally, while knowing that he is AxCrazy Yandere who ''already'' killed one girl for being too close to Lelouch]] was unexcusably stupid.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: For an example, see WhiteHairedPrettyBoy, below.
* [=~What The Hell, Hero?~=]: Happens to him a few times -- perhaps most ironically, by [[JerkAssWoobie Mao]]. [[spoiler:The most significant probably come from Nunnally, in the final arc.]]
* WhiteHairedPrettyBoy: TheOtherWiki tells us this was [[WhatCouldHaveBeen originally in his character design]]. Along with a [[MaskPower mask]]. [[BlondGuysAreEvil Blond]] AntiHero [[TheRival rival]] with [[WellIntentionedExtremist great plans]]. Does this remind you of [[MobileSuitGundam anyone]]?
* WhitePrince: A fallen one.
* TheWoobie: Possibly a JerkAssWoobie. His mother was killed when he was 8, he was sent to Japan as a political hostage with his crippled sister (then left for dead when Britannia invaded). In ''R2'', Lelouch is traumatized every couple of episodes. After he regains his composure, he will react in a reckless and overly radical way to prevent such trauma to happen again. In a fit of irony, this new-found recklessness and radicalism is usually to blame for the next trauma.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Can be considered this [[spoiler:when he enacts the Zero Requiem, which he does as a DeathSeeker, a plan that ends up causing quite possibly more bloodshed than what he would have otherwise taken towards world peace]].
** What? [[spoiler: Zero's version of world peace involved the destruction of Britannia, and Emperor Lelouch's regime was established on mass MindControl and bloody purges. Compared to this the world of Zero Requiem is a lesser evil.]]
*** Incorrect. Lelouch as Zero only planned to overthrow the Britannian government, not completely destroy the nation and its people. The latter would have been nothing more than pure terrorism, which he himself claimed was nothing more than a nuisance.
* XanatosGambit and XanatosRoulette: ''Everything'' he does.
* [[XanatosPlannedThisIndex Xanatos Planned This Character]]
* {{Yandere}}: A possible interpretation of his character.
* YouKilledMyFather: Or mother, as the case may be.
* YouWouldntShootMe: Lelouch pulls this a few times. The first, when C. C. threatens to shoot him in episode 7 to prevent him from going off and putting himself in danger, which he counters by [[StopOrIShootMyself pointing a gun at]] ''[[StopOrIShootMyself himself]]''. A few episodes later, a few the Black Knights threaten to shoot him after he strands them, along with himself, on top of Narita, prior to the incursion of Cornelia's forces, and he defies them to find anyone else cunning enough to lead them. Finally, at the start of season 2, including walking up to her and [[TemptingFate pressing the gun to his chest]] before finally [[DefensiveFailure taking it away]]. At the same time, this is also a subversion of the trope on several levels. Kallen is his bodyguard and thus far from "helpless", and is confronting him to find out whether or not he used his geass on her to make her [[BodyguardCrush love him]]. She's also killed many times before before, and could Easily kill Lelouch with or without the gun. Lelouch also doesn't intimidate her into giving him the gun; rather, he simply tells her the truth and asks [[KillMeNowOrForeverStayYourHand whether or not she believes him]].
* [[spoiler: ZeroApprovalGambit: Zero Requiem, quite literally.]]
* ZeroPercentApprovalRating. [[spoiler: After Schneizel reveals Zero's true identity, the Black Knights turn on him and try to kill him. After he escapes and saves the world from the Emperor's plans, he claims the throne by force and strives for a literal ZeroPercentApprovalRating, hoping to unite the world ''against him'' as part of his master plan for world peace. '''It works.''']]
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::'''Suzaku Kururugi'''

-->''"A victory gained through dishonest means is worthless."''

The rival and "best friend" of Lelouch. Suzaku is a rather controversial character. Instead of following Lelouch's ideals to crush Britannia to save Japan, Suzaku opted to "[[TheQuisling change Britannia from the inside, to help Japan]]," and he is willing to crush Japanese freedom fighters and terrorists in order to achieve this (even those that share his ultimate goals, such as the Kyoto Group). Speaking of that, he got chosen to pilot the HumongousMecha Lancelot, which enables him to do lots of [[MartialArtsDoNotWorkThatWay otherwise-impossible physical feats]]. He often tells people that "results obtained using the wrong means are meaningless," which means he opposes Zero for using terrorism to achieve his ends, but this is actually [[spoiler: a result of the fact that he killed his father, former Japanese Prime Minister Genbu Kururugi, to end Japanese resistance to the Britannian invasion, which has made him hate himself greatly and try to atone by attempting to get himself killed in battle]].

Later, he finds love in [[RebelliousPrincess Princess Euphemia li Britannia]], and got picked as her Knight, nonetheless. But after a certain incident that made him lose her ''very'' cruelly and messily, he blamed Zero for it and became more "honest", showing more brutality and less restraint. Even after the revelation that Zero is Lelouch, Suzaku did not falter and turned against his best friend.

In the second season, Suzaku becomes a Knight of the Round and hopes to advance to the rank of Knight the First, since it will grant him honorary rule of any area. He plans to take control of Area 11 (Japan) and use his position to help the Japanese people.

Not to be mistaken for [[TheFourGods The Phoenix]].

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Suzaku embodies these tropes:

* AcePilot: The most obvious example in all of CodeGeass.
* AlmightyJanitor: For the first half of the first season, Suzaku is treated like dirt because of his race, even though he's one of the best pilots in the series and pilots a nigh unstoppable SuperPrototype.
* AnimalsHateHim: Well, [[CatsAreMean cats]] do, anyway. Although eventually he seems to make his peace with TeamPet [[MeaningfulName Arthur]].
* AntiHero [[HeroAntagonist antagonist]]: [[SlidingScaleOfAntiHeroes Type IV]].
* AntiVillain: Suzaku is one for most of the series.
* ArrangedMarriage: He was engaged to [[KissingCousins his cousin Kaguya]] when they were children, but that was broken once Genbu died. Later, Lelouch toys with the idea of asking him to marry Nunnally so he could protect her.
* TheAtoner
* BadassCape: As Knight of Seven.
* BaseBreaker
* TheBeautifulPeople
* [[spoiler: BecomingTheMask: By becoming Zero and killing Lelouch for Zero Requiem. Even involves a literal mask.]]
* BetaCouple: With Princess Euphemia. She champions him (a risky thing for her to do, since he's an Eleven), and he becomes her official knight, both literally and figuratively. Suzaku / Euphemia sets up a nice contrast with Lelouch (for whom Suzaku is a {{foil}}) / Shirley (who is in many ways similar to Euphemia, or how Euphemia might have been if she had not grown up as royalty.)
* BewareTheHonestOnes: Part of the reason for his ChronicBackstabbingDisorder. Verges on HypocriticalHumor since he lies almost as much as Lelouch in spite of it.
* BigBrotherIsEmployingYou
* BigDamnHeroes: Suzaku just loves having these, but ''not'' just for the glory. (See DeathSeeker.)
* BigEyesLittleEyes: He has big eyes, to indicate his seeming innocence -- but not truly enormous eyes like Euphemia or Shirley.
* {{Bishounen}}
* BlueBlood: In a sense. His father was the Prime Minister of Japan, and there are those who want the family to retain power.
* BodyguardCrush: Towards Euphemia. Reciprocated.
* BreakTheCutie or BreakTheHaughty: While YourMileageMayVary on which is a better description for how Suzaku starts out, over the course of the series he gets fairly definitively broken.
* BrokenAce
* CallingTheOldManOut: Like Lelouch, he tried doing that to his father. [[spoiler: When that didn't work, he killed him, resulting in a failure even ''worse'' than Lelouch.]]
* CharacterDerailment or CharacterDevelopment: Trying to figure out where to place his actions from Turn 14 onward is a chore to say the least. His hypocritical behavior during that span may fall under the former, or it can be [[JustifiedTrope justified]] as the latter as Suzaku struggles to come to terms with his own actions until [[spoiler: FLEIJA, his HeelRealization, and finally teaming up with Lelouch again]]. Or course, this is somewhat [[{{IgnoredEpiphany}} undermined]] by [[spoiler: Lelouch starting to act like a CompleteMonster from that point on with Suzaku supporting him all the way]]. Usually, a [[spoiler: HeelRealization isn't suppose to make you act worse then you did before it, even if it was part of the plan.]]
** The licensed novels pull a bit of derailment in regards to Suzaku's past: [[spoiler:Officially, he killed his father in a childish fit of rage, which became a source of SurvivorGuilt and made him seek [[RedemptionEqualsDeath Redemption Via Death]]. In the novels, Genbu was a CompleteMonster who was planning on selling Japan out to the Emperor, and even planned on killing Lelouch and Nunnally, and possibly even raping Nunnally; here, Suzaku's killing him actually comes off as heroic, but completely undermines a fundamental element of his personality.]]
* CatsAreMean: Cats are mean ''to Suzaku.'' Arthur seems to hold no ill will toward any other members of the cast.
* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: For reasons pointed out but not fully explained in the anime, Suzaku is capable of performing athletic feats far beyond what normal humans are able to (like running along a wall and kicking off a machine gun with a 0.05 seconds time delay).
** In a presumably non-canon [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DufS2km03sE&feature=related Cd extra]] , Cecile remembers a time when she accidentally drops a chip under the Lancelot's foot. Much to her shock, Suzaku is able to lift the mecha's foot with his bare hands to allow her to grab the chip.
* ChessMotifs: The knight piece: Suzaku is the white knight and his strange movements let him take Lelouch by surprise.
* ChickMagnet: Very much so. Perhaps less so than Lelouch. Certainly less [[SelectiveObliviousness oblivious]] about it.
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: So much so that other characters [[LampshadeHanging draw attention to it repeatedly]]. Before the series starts, he betrayed Japan to Britannia by [[spoiler: killing his father]] and joining up with the Britannia army. [[spoiler: In the first season, he betrays Lelouch at the end of the season to the Emperor in order to become a Knight of the Round. (This is arguably a case of ItsPersonal, since Lelouch had just killed Suzaku's girlfriend and never explained why). In season 2, he first betrayed Nunnally's trust by using her to bait Lelouch (she found out and [[WhatTheHellHero called him on it]]), then inadvertantly betrays Lelouch to the Brtiannians again (though it's not ''his'' fault this time, he was followed because they suspected him of having ties to Zero), then betrayed ''the Emperor himself'' and sided with Schneizel to quickly rise in rank. (Knight of One Bismark Waldstein [[LampshadeHanging lampshades this very well]] in their first battle against each other.) In episode 21, he betrayed Schneizel by becoming Emperor Lelouch's Knight of Zero (this can be considered his HeelFaceTurn). In the end, he finally completed this by becoming Zero to kill his Emperor, making him a hero in the eyes of the world and the UFN. This is a subversion, though, as it was all part of his and Lelouch's plans.]]
* ConflictingLoyalty: A big reason for the above. During the course of the show, Suzaku tries to balance his loyalties to Japan and its people, the Britannian military he has sworn to serve, the people he cares about and wants to protect, and his personal moral code. At almost any given time in the series, at least two of these will be in conflict with each other. Lampshaded by Lloyd, who points out that it will get him killed someday. [[DeathSeeker That might have been the point.]]
* CoolShades: He only wears them on his days off.
* CounterpartComparison: As you can see he gets a lot of it from GundamSEED fans because he's similiar to [[EmoTeen Kira]].
* CrashIntoHello: How he meets Princess Euphemia. An unusual example, in that it's vertical rather than horizonal: Euphie falls (or possibly jumps) on top of him while climbing out her window. This begins a pseudo-RescueRomance that blossoms into a BodyguardCrush that might [[spoiler:-- in a world without Geass --]] have led to a real relationship and possibly even marriage.
* CursedWithAwesome: He uses Lelouch's "Live On!" command to his advantage.
* DeathSeeker and RedemptionEqualsDeath: Subverted BIG time [[spoiler: because for years he ''wants'' to die to atone for his murder of his dad, but not only do these suicidal acts become BigDamnHeroes moments, but then Lelouch geasses him into ''living'', so every subsequent attempt ends in failure, at one point horribly so for many people. Finally, in the GrandFinale he ''kinda'' gets his wish. Everyone ''thinks'' he perished in battle and his "tombstone" regards him as the greatest hero in the war - but Suzaku not only is alive, he has become * Zero* now that Lelouch is dead]]. Both tropes are [[TheReveal revealed]] and [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by Mao.
* TheDeterminator: [[spoiler: Although he's outmatched by Lelouch.]]
* {{Deuteragonist}}
* DisappearedDad: The aforementioned Genbu Kururugi, ex-Prime Minister of Japan who was heavily opposed to Britannia. [[spoiler: Suzaku killed him at the tender age of ten, after completely losing his shit because his old man was willing to [[HonorBeforeReason sacrifice himself and Japan to resist Britannia until the bitter end]]. When Premier Kururugi was out of the picture, Japan promptly surrendered.]]
* DracoInLeatherPants: To a lesser extent than Lelouch, but still.
* TheDragon: [[spoiler: As Emperor Lelouch's Knight of Zero.]]
* DualWielding: Suzaku's HumongousMecha Lancelot would frequently use two swords, but when it was upgraded into its Albion form, it started [[GunsAkimbo carrying around a rifle in each hand]].
* DynamicEntry: He does his ''Spinzaku Kick'' on his first appearance.
* EstrogenBrigadeBait: His Knightmare Frame-piloting uniform is really tight. He's pretty muscular, [[StupidSexyFlanders and he's got a]] [[BabyGotBack really cute butt!]]
* EvenTheGuysWantHim: His HoYay / FoeYay with Lelouch and Gino.
* EverythingsBetterWithSpinning: His "Spinzaku" FanNickname says it all.
* {{Expy}}: Of [[{{GundamSEED}} Kira Yamato]] with Euphie serving as an Expy of Lacus to round the pair up. Made even more clear later on when [[spoiler: he even gets a [[{{SuperMode}} SEED-mode]]]].
** If you ask people who don't like SEED, they will tell you he is a {{Deconstruction}} of Kira.
** He also resembles Syaoran from ''TsubasaReservoirChronicle'' a little bit. Considering the designs were done by CLAMP, this shouldn't come as a surprise.
* FailureKnight (Even when he ''does'' become Euphie's knight, [[spoiler: since she dies horribly. By the time his friend Nunnally is believed to be dead ''due to a nuke that Suzaku fired under influence of Geass'', the guy hits rock bottom.]]
* FanNickname: Several of them: "Uzaku" ('cuz some people [[TheScrappy don't like him]]), "Hax" (for pulling gravity-defying fighting moves), and "Spinzaku" (which is spreading through MemeticMutation). Read on for the episode-specific variations.
** There are also all the fan-ideated rewritings of his first name: [[spoiler: "Drugzaku"]] (after episode 14), "Doomzaku" & [[spoiler: "Nukezaku"]] (episode 18), [[spoiler: "Lolzaku" and "Crazyzaku"]] (episode 19), "Runzaku" (episode 20), "Roofzaku" [[spoiler: and "Winzaku"]] (episode 21), and "Deathzaku" (episode 22). Concluding with [[spoiler: "Zerozaku" (episode 25, when he takes Lelouch's place as Zero)]].
* FashionVictimVillain: [[spoiler: The actual outfits ''are'' actually pretty snazzy. They're just... ''really detailed''. With eyes all over them. Suzaku's outfit has ''skin-tight bare shoulders'', for instance.]]
* [[spoiler: FateWorseThanDeath: Suzaku's fate, which he voluntarily takes upon himself, can certainly be viewed this way. While his tombstone praises him as a loyal defender of Emperor Lelouch, given that Lelouch will be remembered as the worst dictator ever, it is likely that Suzaku will go down in history as TheQuisling where Japanese people (except for Kallen, and ''maybe'' Tohdoh) are concerned, and as TheDragon to a deeply evil ruler for everyone else. Also, throughtout the series, he always argues for change within the system rather than through revolution - while he gets to change the system from within, it is through ''becoming Zero'' who will be celebrated as a hero for working outside of the system. And to make matters worse, he will ''never be able to be anything but Zero for the rest of his life'', as only [[SecretKeeper a small handful of people know who's under the mask]], and they aren't stupid enough to spill the beans and ruin the plan.]]
** Then again, getting to [[spoiler: spend the rest of his life as The most beloved and admired person in history,]] kinda helps to take the edge off.
* TheFettered
* FoeYay: With Kallen, [[HoYay Lelouch]], and others.
* TheFool: A bit of a [[SubvertedTrope subversion]]. He tends to have incredible PlotArmor, [[BlessedWithSuck which he would rather not have]] [[DeathSeeker for particular reasons]]. Which also becomes [[{{Understatement}} a bit of a liability]] for [[CosmicPlaything Lelouch]].
* ForgottenChildhoodFriend
* FreakOut: After [[spoiler: nuking Tokyo under the effect of Geass]], Suzaku snaps and goes through one, EvilLaugh included. It radically changes his character throughout the rest of the anime.
** Also has one about one season earlier when Mao exposes his [[DeathSeeker deepest]], [[SelfMadeOrphan darkest secret]].
* FreudianExcuse: More [[OedipusRex Freudian]] than most examples.
* GreenEyes
* HeroesWantRedheads: Well, [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair pinkheads]], in the case of Princess Euphemia.
* HeroicBSOD: [[spoiler: After Mao reveals that Suzaku was the one to kill Genbu Kururugi. And an even bigger one after he fires the FLEIJA.]]
* HeWhoFightsMonsters
* HeyItsThatVoice: YuriLowenthal, who is also known as [[{{Naruto}} Sasuke Uchiha]] or [[Ben10AlienForce Ben Tennyson]]
* HonorBeforeReason
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Hates violence and discrimination. So why does he trust the very people who occupied his country?
* HoYay: With Lelouch and Gino.
* HumongousMecha: See AcePilot, above.
* HurricaneKick: The origin of "Spinzaku".
* {{Hypocrite}} / MoralDissonance: Preaches non-violence and working within the system, yet supports one that invaded and colonized his country, downgrading him along with all other natives to second-class status, and has no problems with violently oppressing them. Cranked up to 11 in R2 when [[spoiler:he becomes a Knight of the Round, and becomes part of Schneizel's anti-EU campaign among other things, including the opposition to UFN's '''legitimate''' fight of liberation for Japan itself]]. All of this of course is in hopes of Japan's well-being, but it turns out to me more self-contradictory and counterproductive than anything. Also qualifies as WhatAnIdiot.
* ICannotSelfTerminate [[spoiler: Unfortunate for him being a DeathSeeker, this happens to Suzaku when Lelouch geasses him to "Live!"]]
* IdiotHero: Played for ''drama'' (if not [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructed]]) as he ''painfully'' pays the consequences for his questionable decisions.
* InspectorJavert
* [[spoiler:InterruptedSuicide: Or BungledSuicide, depending on the situation. Happens quite a bit throughout the series.]]
* IronicHell: The whole situation with Lelouch and his dad.
* JadeColoredGlasses: What he acquires thorugh the series.
* JerkassWoobie
* KarmaHoudini: A case where the character thinks he is, and is arguably right. He gets away with killing his father, defies royal orders several times, yet is never really punished for it except for self-imposed ones. For much of the series, Suzaku's compulsion to atone for being a KarmaHoudini -- along with his consequent self-hated -- is his driving motivation. All this is [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] very [[{{Melodrama}} Melodramatically]] by Mao in episode 16.
* KidsAreCruel: Think he was a nice boy? [[http://randomc.animeblogger.net/image/CODE%20GEASS/CODE%20GEASS%20-%20Picture%20Drama%2001%20-%20Large%2004.jpg Think again.]] He's just more passive-aggressive these days.
** Well, while he does have a nasty streak, he does also ''get over it'' and becomes a genuinely good friend to Lelouch and Nunnally.
* KindheartedCatLover: He is said to love cats upon his first meeting with [[RebelliousPrincess Euphie]] (whom is playing with a cat he later takes in, named Arthur), but this also said to be a [[AnimalsHateHim one-sided love]] which becomes something of a RunningGag for the show. [[spoiler: Arthur is shown later watching over his "gravestone", though]]
** Or possibly Arthur ''does'' like Suzaku and bites him to show affection. Arthur even ''saves Suzaku's life'' by biting a Black Knight who's about to kill him when they take over Ashford. Heck, even the ''cats'' are {{Tsundere}} in this series.
* KissingCousins: With Kaguya. See ArrangedMarriage, above.
* KnightInShiningArmor: In the beginning. Later, he became a KnightTemplar.
* KnightTemplar: His intentions are noble in theory, but in practice they require ruthlessness to carry out. It also doesn't pan out so well for any country that isn't Japan or Britannia.
** It doesn't pan out well for Japan either.
* LawfulNeutral: While he aims to be LawfulGood, he ends up as this as he unquestioningly follows the orders of his Brittanian superiors, no matter how hypocritical they are, and even if he ''does'' disagree.
** LawfulStupid: He pays dearly for this on a number of occasions.
* LaughingMad: at the end of ''R2'' episode 19 (doubles as his HeelRealization).
* LauraBailey: Plays little Suzaku in the English dub.
* [[spoiler:LegacyCharacter - When he takes over the role of Zero at the end of the series.]]
* LoveMakesYouEvil: His descends into KnightTemplar status [[spoiler: after the death of Princess Euphemia]].
* MeaningfulName: [[TheFourGods Suzaku and his late father, Genbu.]] His Knightmare's name qualifies, too.
** A bit of FridgeBrilliance. ThePhoenix rises from its ashes (or lays egg before it burns), so it's, kind of, immortal. Lelouch geassed Suzaku to live on, with the same 'rise from the ashes' effect. [[DontExplainTheJoke Not literally, of course]].
* MeetCute: With Princess Euphemia. Not just their vertical CrashIntoHello (when she falls on top of him while "escaping" imaginary villains), but the whole sequence that follows, which is arguably the happiest and most unambiguously romantic sequence in the series. [[SarcasmMode So you just know things are going to go well from then on.]]
* MementoMacGuffin: His DisappearedDad's old pocket watch, which once saves him from death, as he's shot at ''very'' close range but the watch stops the bullet. [[spoiler: When he leaves it with Euphie's body, it's a symbol of him finally letting go of the past and his Wide Eyed Idealism.]]
* MemeticBadass: Courtesy of his "Spinzaku kick".
* MetaGuy: Becomes this in the Picture and Audio Dramas, especially those from the ''R2'' timeframe.
* TheMcCoy
* [[spoiler:MikeNelsonDestroyerOfWorlds: Accidentally triggers the destruction of the area he had sworn to protect. Whoops.]]
* MoralMyopia: Toward the second season (really, anytime after [[spoiler: Euphemia's death]]), he ultimately committed many of the same violent acts he decried earlier on. Arguably even before that, where he really has no problem with the massacre of every citizen in the Shinjuku ghetto, and even aids in it by removing the only thing keeping it at bay (the terrorists). In general, Suzaku seems to hold the belief that it's ok for Britannia to act this way because they're in charge, but no one else can no matter how justified it may be.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: He has three of these. [[spoiler: First, when C.C accidentally undoes his TraumaInducedAmnesia and he remembers that he murdered his father. Second, when he attempts to drug Kallen to get information out of her but stops himself from doing so at the last moment, realizing it's the kind of underhanded tactic he despises Zero for using. Third, when he fires the FLEIJA nuke while under the effect of his "Live" Geass, kills thirty million people (mostly on his side) and spends an ''entire'' episode [[HeroicBSOD brooding]] at the epicenter of the disaster.]]
* [[spoiler: MyHeroZero: After Lelouch becomes TheEmperor, he became the ''Knight of Zero''. Later in the story, as part of the Zero Requiem, he's required to drop "Knight of" from his title and wear a mask.]]
* PlayingAgainstType: Suzaku's {{seiyuu}}, TakahiroSakurai, is often typecast as an anti-hero, or an angsty loner (such as Cloud Strife in ''Advent Children''). The English dub follows suit by picking Yuri Lowenthal (who happens to play Sasuke Uchiha and Alvis of ''Naruto'' and ''MAR'' respectively). Obviously this only counts for the first season.
** Except that Yuri had played other straight heroes, most notably Superman in Series/{{Legion Of Super-Heroes}}.
* [[FallingIntoTheCockpit Put Into The Cockpit]]: In the beginning, he became the pilot of the Lancelot because he was the only soldier around. Everyone else was [[KickTheDog kicking lots of puppies]] in the Japanese Ghetto, so Lloyd and Cecile make him go out in the mecha.
* [[spoiler:PropheticName: His name can mean "phoenix". Guess who "dies" at the end of the series and is "reborn" as an entirely new person.]]
* TheQuisling: Ingratiates himself quite thouroughly into Britannian culture, particularly after [[spoiler: he becomes the Knight of Seven]].
* RedBaron: "The White Grim Reaper".
* RonTheDeathEater: For reasons similar to Lelouch. And especially, coming from the most rabid [[DracoInLeatherPants Lelouch]] fans.
* {{Ryu And Ken}} To Kallen
* [=~Screw The Rules, I'm Doing What's Right~=]: Up for debate. Suzaku, the pilot of a HumongousMecha, punched the mech's designer in the face when he didn't let him go out and fight, as they weren't given orders to delpoy. This is a big shift for pro-rules Suzaku. Now whether you consider his actions following this justice-driven or revenge-driven decides whether this belongs here.
* [[spoiler: SelfMadeOrphan: At the age of nine, he stabbed his own father to death, the prime minister of Japan, in order to put an end to the war. See also DisappearedDad, above.]]
* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: A {{deconstruction}}, through his and Lelouch's interactions. Although he's the tough fighter, Suzaku is actually more gentle than Lelouch... at least at first.
** Unless you're referring to their early childhood days, when Suzaku was a ragamuffin. As a matter of fact, it was through the example of Lelouch -- along with Nunnally -- that he learned to be kind and gentle. The aftermath of Genbu's death [[spoiler:-- for which he was never responsible but had never been punished --]] made him exceptionally neurotic, which later made him try even harder to be more well-mannered and chivalrous, though needless to say [[DeathSeeker he had a hidden agenda]]. Of course, especially in the case of R2, old habits die hard.
* ShutUpHannibal:
-->'''Lelouch (still in Zero persona)''': [[spoiler: Euphemia randomly murdered throngs of innocent Japanese people.]] You fight for a woman like --
-->'''Suzaku''': (interrupts) Your Geass power is quite convenient, isn't it? You get to hide in the shadows while others take all the blame for doing your dirty work. You're just an arrogant coward. That's your true nature, the real you.
-->'''* cue beatdown of ultimate righteousness* '''
* SpannerInTheWorks: Aside from the fact that he is usually the one to spoil Lelouch's XanatosGambit (including his "Live" Geass), [[spoiler: Suzaku wouldn't have appeared inside the Sword of Akasha if it weren't for the BatmanGambit of Marianne, who was probably counting on either his love for her stepdaughter Euphie or his friendship with her SoulJar Anya... which backfired when Suzaku sided with Lelouch regardless. If he hadn't been there, Charles and Marianne could have had a better chance of succeeding]].
* TallDarkAndHandsome: He's 5'9" (175 cms) which is just above average, but the rest checks out.
* TookALevelInJerkass: Quite a few levels in fact in R2. Though given [[TheWoobie everything that happens to him]] over the course of the series, it's sort of [[JustifiedTrope Justified]].
* TheUnfettered: Later in the series.
* UnwittingPawn: Suzaku is an earnest, well meaning lad with a healthy respect for authority stuck in a show filled to the brim with {{Magnificent Bastard}}s and {{Chess Master}}s. As a result, he ends up being ''everyone'''s pawn... and often [[SpannerInTheWorks ends up derailing as many gambits as he helps build.]]
* WakeUpGoToSchoolSaveTheWorld
* WellIntentionedExtremist: He is. This, in turn, subverts the trope where mandatorily ''[[ThereCanBeOnlyOne one and only one]]'' of the two arch-rivals is the WellIntentionedExtremist, since BOTH of them fit the trope.
* WhitePrince: A {{deconstruction}}.
* WideEyedIdealist: Initially, though this brutally changes over the course of the series.
* TheWoobie: [[spoiler: Killed his own father]] in hopes of bringing peace to Japan as a child and being stuck with the guilt all of his life, gets put down for being an Honorary Britannian on both fronts almost constantly by all but the likes of Euphemia, Darlton, Cecile, Lloyd and his Student Council friends throughout the first season, [[spoiler: loses his girlfriend in one of the worst ways EVER]], and [[spoiler: accidentally causes the destruction of Tokyo Settlement in season 2]] and loses the last vestiges of his sanity in the process.
* WouldNotShootACivilian: To the core. [[spoiler: At least at first.]] He fights the Japanese resistance -- or any attempt (legitimate or otherwise) to free Japan -- precisely because it endangers civilians. Even in the heat of battle, Suzaku goes out of his way not to harm civilians, even if it means disobeying direct orders. (For example, in the very first episode, he refuses to shoot Lelouch -- although in that instance he also has personal reasons, as he and Lelouch are long-time friends.) Of course, the tragic irony is that Britannia is just as likely to harm Japanese civilians as the terrorists are, sometimes more so, and Suzaku participates (albeit very indirectly) in the first episode's massacre. [[spoiler: At any rate, his previously iron-clad WouldNotShootACivilian position starts to crack after the first season, and it dissolves completely after the F.L.E.I.J.A. incident.]]
** But to put a little context on it, [[spoiler:Geass has pretty much stripped his free will at the critical aversions of this trope. It's a bit harsh to call him a hypocrite when Supernatural Phlebotinum makes the decision for him]].
*** Actually, [[spoiler:he still had responsibility for the F.L.E.I.J.A. incident, because chose to carry said weapon into battle, and chose to [[DeathSeeker remain and be killed by Kallen rather than retreat]] when he knew about said command and how it kept him from getting himself killed. At best, he had a monentary lapse of reason. All of that aside, the incident made him realize that no matter how hard he tried doing things the way he wanted to, he was continuously responsible for the deaths of many people, and the F.L.E.I.J.A. explosion made this brutally evident, leading him to abandon his pacifistic intentions, none of which had any potential for success in his position.]]
* YouAreNumberSix: Refers to Kallen by her prisoner number when he requests Nunnally, who is conversing with her, to allow him to interrogate her. A signal of [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope his further descent]], especially in that the nation and its people he is fighting for are Numbers.
* YuriLowenthal: Suzaku's English VA.
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::'''C.C.'''

-->''"Snow is white because it's forgotten what color it's supposed to be."''

A [[DeadpanSnarker sarcastic]], green-haired girl first found inside an alleged 'poison gas bomb', sporting bondage gear and a [[BabyGotBack big butt]]. C.C. (pronounced "C2" -- or "[[GratuitousEnglish Shi-Tsu]]") grants the Geass power to Lelouch, who apparently can give her her mysterious greatest wish, and later stays with him to watch over him. It's later revealed that she gave another Geass to a man named Mao. She has been a close attendant to Zero and has helped him various times, leading him to ally himself with her: ''"If you're a witch, then I'm the warlock"''.

Speaking of witches, her past and her name both remain [[MysteriousWaif a mystery]]. Rumor has it that she's been living for many years dating back to the era of Kings, and ever since then she's been repeatedly [[ToThePain tortured or killed]] because of her powers (shot to the forehead, burned at the stake, put inside an Iron Maiden, etc.). She also has a penchant for pizza, and always orders some from [[ProductPlacement Pizza Hut]] using Lelouch's credit card (not a problem, since he's filthy rich, but it's still an annoyance to him).

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C.C. embodies these tropes:

* ActionGirl: Borderline. She doesn't do much actual fighting but she's perfectly capable of it; see WaifFu below.
* AlliterativeName: If those are indeed her initials.
* AndIMustScream: Very nearly, with Mao. Probably happened to her a lot, given her {{immortality}} and healing powers.
* AntiHero: [[SlidingScaleOfAntiHeroes Type IV]].
* BabyGotBack: And HOW.
* {{Badass}}: You know it!
* TheBeautifulPeople
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Her offering Lelouch and Mao their Geass powers. [[spoiler: And to a greater extent, her own wishes to be loved]].
* BelatedBackstory: We didn't learn who she truly was until the second season.
* BigEater: Her love of pizza, which she can frequently be seen eating.
* {{Bishoujo}}
* BlessedWithSuck: Her [[WhoWantsToLiveForever immortality]] and [[spoiler: her own "love me" Geass before that]].
* BodyHorror: See AndIMustScream, above.
** It actually ''does'' happen to her in the actual story, however; according to WordOfGod, when she sinks into the ocean at the end of the first season ''[[HighOctaneNightmareFuel she's crushed to pieces by ocean pressure]]'', and the pieces eventually resurface and come back together.
* BrokenBird: Due to her past, she came to not consider herself a human being anymore, and only now is starting to get her human feelings back thanks to Lelouch.
* CannotSpitItOut: Let's just say that the show wouldn't very interesting if [[spoiler: she told Lelouch from the start that ''both'' his parents were in on the same plan, and that there was no real reason to rage against his father or avenge his mother's death]].
* CounterpartComparison: There are those who see her as somewhat similar to [[NeonGenesisEvangelion Rei Ayanami]].
* CryCute: A cold-hearted, [[ManipulativeBastard manipulative bitch]] like C.C. only cries with good reason ... but when she does, the sheer warmth makes you wonder if you are looking at the same person.
* CursedWithAwesome: Oh, sure, she's got that [[WhoWantsToLiveForever immortality to worry about]], but she can do just about anything thanks to her powers.
* DarkIsNotEvil
* DeadpanSnarker: Lord, yes.
* DefrostingIceQueen
* DisneyDeath: In the first episode.
* DoomMagnet
* DracoInLeatherPants: People love to ignore that, despite her really terrible backstory, she's very, ''very'' morally ambiguous, and that many of her actions have her sitting on the fence of the MoralEventHorizon. (Just like Lulu, if you wonder)
** Also, Mao gives C.C. the DILP treatment ''in-universe''. He sees her as a perfect angel even though she ''robbed him of his life'' by giving him his Geass that ultimately ''completely destroyed him'' when he was ''a little boy under the age of '''eight'''!'' After he refused to fulfill her contract, C.C abandoned him thinking that he would hate her, but yeah, it didn't work out....
*** Nightmare of Nunnally removes her truly negative deeds, and implies that she has no choice about the rest.
* EvilIsSexy
* EyesOfGold
* FanNickname: Pizza Butt.
* {{Fanservice}}: Look up. She is also number twelve on the list. [[http://codegeass.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/1215838241974.jpg Yes, of course they have a list]]
* FemmeFatale
* FetishFuelStationAttendant: Her iconic costume is, to put it simply, a [[SensualSpandex form-fitting]] straitjacket suit covered with belts. She's also got quite the body ''and'' the booty, to which the suit [[FormFittingWardrobe "clings"]] very well. You do the math.
** And when she finally gets rid of that suit, she's seen sporting some quality ZettaiRyouiki.
* FishOutOfTemporalWater: After [[spoiler: she was mentally reset to the person she was at the age of ten, which complicated matters greatly since she was ReallySevenHundredYearsOld]].
* TheGadfly: Sometimes it seems as if she just likes to push Lelouch's buttons.
* GirlInABox: Or better said, Girl in a Poison Gas Tank.
* GratuitousEnglish: Her "name" C.C. is pronounced See-Two on the English dub but more or less Shi-Tsu in the original Japanese.
* HartmanHips: Curious variation: she's got a large butt yet doesn't actually have the disproportionately narrow hips. Yet if you see how thin CLAMP's designs are, the size of her ass varies depending on the animation and how much focus it's given. Let's not even talk about the CLAMP design sketches. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in the second half of this [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ac-2rC5VGcE audio drama]]
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: In some respects, if you consider the above AndIMustScream and BodyHorror examples. Not to mention her lack of touch with humanity and all the mystical images she conjures, some of which are very, very weird....
* HimeCut: Except green.
* HonestAdvisor: C.C. to Lelouch. Usually.
** Well...not so much considering she willfully withheld plenty of information from him, especially concerning her history with Mao and the ''true'' horrific nature of her contract. But at least she admitted to Lelouch that she wouldn't tell him anything she didn't want to.
* {{Immortality}}
* ImTakingHerHomeWithMe: [[spoiler: The child-like persona she regresses to when she loses her memories in R2 Episode was adorable enough to provoke this reaction from fans much the same as Nunnally below.]]
** Mao also tries to take her to a house he bought in remote Australia where they can live away from all the thoughts his Geass forces him to hear.
* JerkassWoobie: No doubt for [[YourMileageMayVary at least some]]. Especially once her past is revealed, [[NotSoDifferent for many of the same reasons as Mao.]]
* KateHiggins: Plays C.C. in the English dub.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: [[spoiler: ''R2'' episode 15 ends with C.C. losing all her memories to the point where she first acquired her Geass (when she was no older than 10, by the looks of things).]] Reversed when [[spoiler: Marianne in Anya's body invoked ForgotTheCall and "reset" her]].
* MagnificentBitch: Very much so. She's almost as ''fabulous'' as Lelouch, and she's every bit his equal in intelligence and badassery.
** Although C.C's plans for Mao backfire ''twice!'' The first one drives him insane. Then she abandons him and hopes he will come to hate her and forget about their contract. [[EpicFail This failed miserably.]] She then [[spoiler: [[MercyKilling kills him]]. This seems to work, though [[YourMileageMayVary]].]]
* ManipulativeBitch
* MayflyDecemberRomance: C.C. the ageless, deathless witch is romanced by Mao, a seventeen/eighteen-year-old boy.
* [=~What The Hell, Hero?~=][=/=]KickTheDog: YourMilageMayVary. But it's a bit difficult to look at her in quite the same way after the flashback to [[AxeCrazy Mao]]'s [[FreudianExcuse childhood]], as her treatment of him isn't any more excusable than his treatment of Shirley. Not only did she transform an innocent little boy into an insane, murderous animal; but she also in doing so created a major threat that comes back to drag both her and innocent bystanders down with him. Lelouch, for his part, calls her out when he learns about her and Mao because her carelessness in dealing with him indirectly led to Shirley's MoreThanMindControl. Then she ''apparently''[[MercyKilling kills]] Mao, which may be the only thing that prevents it from being a genuine MoralEventHorizon-crossing action.
** Also, [[JerkAssFacade she didn't abandon Mao just to be cruel.]] She thought that, in abandoning Mao, he'd come to hate her for it and get over the fact that she [[MoralDissonance asked him to kill her]]. Sadly, she underestimated Mao's obsession, and it turns out that he blames everyone ''but'' C.C for her deserting him and is perfectly willing to kill anyone else who she tries to make a contract with (like Lelouch).
* MysteriousPast: For a long time, we didn't know anything about her. This was reversed in ''[[OddlyNamedSequel R2]]'' episode 15, which describes her past in detail [[spoiler: but temporarily removes most of ''her'' memories after]].
* MysteriousWaif
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: That whole business with her and Mao. See also KickTheDog, WhatAnIdiot, and [=~What The Hell, Hero?~=].
* NighInvulnerability: Comes with being immortal.
* NoNameGiven: Lelouch is the only one who knows of her true name, and the dialogue is muted both times it is mentioned.
* NoOneCouldSurviveThat: [[TakingTheBullet Takes a bullet to the head for Lelouch]] in the very first episode. Shows up fine as the fourth episode's cliffhanger, and Lelouch comes home to find her playing with Nunnally.
* NotSoDifferent: Invoked with her and Mao. [[spoiler: Both of them received Geass at very young ages, under similarly desperate circumstances, and it proceeded to subsequently ruin their lives. C.C. was able to bounce back and take over the Code because her Geass was never as bad as Mao's and possibly also because she was slightly older than Mao when she received her Geass at first, in addition to the fact that [[LesYay she wasn't]] obsessively in love with the one who asked her to ''kill her'' and take her Code, [[WifeHusbandry unlike Mao]]. Whether she ever would have ended up like Mao if she hadn't taken over the Code when she did is never looked into.]]
* NotSoStoic: She's nearly always TheStoic, but CodeGeass being [[{{Melodrama}} Code Geass]], she does get emotional on several separate occasions.
* NotWhatItLooksLike: Kallen keeps walking in on C.C. and Zero "just talking."
* OlderThanTheyLook: Although she looks like a teenager, she's ReallySevenHundredYearsOld.
* PietaPlagiarism: C.C. in the first OP.
* [[spoiler: PowerIncontinence: It's implied that she originally took over the Code to get out of hers.]]
* PrettyFreeloaders: She gets to enjoy all the comforts of the academy on Lelouch's dime.
* PuritySue: How Mao sees her. [[MadLove But]] ''[[MadLove only]]'' [[LoveMartyr Mao]].
* RapunzelHair
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: She's been alive for centuries, after she [[spoiler: got her own Geass in the end of the Middle Ages, and was made immortal in the Era of Kings]]. She apparently even knew some of the masterminds behind the American Revolution on a personal basis.
* RedOniBlueOni: She could be the blue to Lelouch's red.
* RonTheDeathEater: Even after the [[spoiler:LoveConfession, MercyKill]] and obvious inner turmoil she showed over it, [[FanDumb some people]] just can't let the whole Mao thing go...
* SarcasmMode: Like there's some ''other'' mode.
* TheSpock
* StrangeGirl: Heck, it just happens to be the name of her theme song.
* TheStoic: Nearly always. But, on rare occasion, NotSoStoic.
* [[TallDarkAndBishoujo Tall, Dark, Green-Haired, and Bishoujo]]
* [[EstrogenBrigadeBait Testosterone Brigade Bait]]
* TimeDissonance
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Most often Kallen (tomboy) and C.C. (girly girl), but other pairings come up too. Like Kallen, C.C. herself is a mix of both types.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Pizza.
* TricksterMentor
* TrueNeutral
* UncannyValley: See also HighOctaneNightmareFuel above, since it amounts to the same thing.
* TheUnfettered: Moreso than just about any other character, since she's not bound by anything, including death.
* WaifFu: While not on the same level as Kallen, she is quite an adept Knightmare Frame pilot, serving as Lelouch's copilot and once able to hold her own with limited support in a chaotic air battle against Suzaku, amongst others. She's also skilled in hand-to-hand combat, although it comes up much less frequently.
* [[spoiler: WalkingTheEarth: She did this when she left the Britannian palace after Marianne's death. And what she does after the GrandFinale.]]
* WhatAnIdiot: Really, C.C.? After all Mao's been through, did you really think that after walking out on him he'd just let it go?
* WhoWantsToLiveForever: Revealed to be [[spoiler: her motivation in giving people the Geass in the first place]]; puts a whole new spin on "The Power of Kings will condemn you to a path of loneliness."
** WordOfGod turns this into a subversion after the GrandFinale, with the revelation that [[spoiler: knowing that Lelouch honestly cared about her, and didn't blame her for the bad things that happened in his life after accepting the Geass, allowed her to open up to her true emotions and gave her the strength to carry on despite still being immortal.]]
* WifeHusbandry: [[spoiler: With Mao.]] Not C.C.'s ''plan'', per se. ([[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation Probably.]])
* WomanInWhite: Though mostly when she's in her straitjacket.
* [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair You Gotta Have Green Hair]]: The Geass universe has quite different ethnic characteristics, with ''violet eyes'' common in the Britannian nobility, but even then C.C.'s green hair is unique. It might just be an uncommon trait like red hair, however, since it is never commented on in-show. [[spoiler: It's not a supernatural characteristic either, since she had the same hair color way back when she was just a normal girl.]]
* {{Yukana}}: Her seiyuu. In fact, this is one of the roles that got her RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap (the other being Teletha "Tessa" Testarossa from FullMetalPanic) after a rather unpleasant incident that mixed TheOtherDarrin and YokoOhNo.

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::'''Kallen Kozuki/Kallen Stadtfeld'''

-->''"If only you had justice on your side!"''


Kallen is an outspoken half-Britannian, half-Japanese girl who is damn proud of her Japanese heritage and opposed to the hostile takeover of Britannia. She has a [[StepfordSmiler rather frail]] [[YamatoNadeshiko and gentle Japanese mother]], whom she kind of despised at first, but eventually decided to make her the reason for fighting after directly witnessing how much she suffered for Kallen's sake. She also attends Ashford Academy with Lelouch, playing the IllGirl role to avoid suspicion of her involvement with the movement against Britannia. She also has [[MsFanservice a rather nice pair of boobs]].

Later, Kallen joins the Black Knights as the AcePilot of the Gurren Nishiki and becomes a bodyguard or sorts to Zero. She's one tough and tsun-tsun girl, but in front of Zero, she [[{{Tsundere}} gets gushy and dere-dere]].

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Kallen embodies these tropes:

* AbsoluteCleavage: Just look at the damn pic!
* AcePilot: To match Suzaku.
* {{Action Girl}}
* AntiHero: Type II.
* AllIsWellThatEndsWell: It's surprising how quickly she's willing to forgive [[spoiler: Lelouch]] for everything he puts her and her friends through.
* AlliterativeName: Kallen Kozuki (or Kozuki Kallen), when she's using her mother's surname -- [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy which she does a lot]].
* AmiKoshimizu: Her {{seiyuu}}.
* AnimeHair: She has a typically CodeGeass crazy hairstyle when in her guise as a rebel. See ExpositoryHairstyleChange, below.
* [[ArmorPiercingSlap Armor Piercing]] {{Bright Slap}}: Used on both Lelouch and Suzaku.
* BabyGotBack: While C.C.'s is maybe more famous, Kallen's "back" is so awesome that the Guren's cockpit is [[{{MaleGaze}} designed to showcase it]].
* [[spoiler: BadassInDistress: She's captured in battle and becomes a POW for a while (actually part of her CharacterDevelopment, rather than an excuse for a RescueArc), but she makes a full recovery within moments.]]
* BadassNormal: Of the four main characters, Kallen is the one completely without any specific superhuman abilities -- yet she is arguably the best pilot in the series. (Lelouch has psychic MindControl powers; Suzaku has CharlesAtlasSuperpower; C.C. has {{Immortality}}.)
* TheBeautifulPeople
* BigBrotherComplex: Has one with her [[DeadLittleSister dead older brother]].
* BikerBabe: Each incarnation of her Guren comes with a motorbike seat.
* {{Bishoujo}}
* BlueEyes: Greenish blue, inherited from her mom.
* BodyguardCrush: Towards Lelouch.
* BuxomBabe: Comes in at number three on the list.
* [[spoiler:[[BreakHisHeartToSaveHim Break Her Heart To Save Her]]: Lelouch does this to her during the final arc. And since she figures out the truth later on, she doesn't even end up hating him for it.]]
* BrightSlap: Used on both Lelouch and Suzaku. See also ArmorPiercingSlap, above.
* BrokenBird
* ButNotTooForeign: Half Japanese, half Britannian.
* ChaoticGood
* CheerfulChild: Was [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/geassdaawww_9318.jpg fricken']] [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/geassdaawww2_3454.jpg adorable]] as a kid. [[ItGotWorse Then]] [[BreakTheCutie shit]] [[DeadLittleSister happened]].
* ChessMotifs: The queen. Starts off as a pawn but becomes the strongest piece on the board. Her code name, Q-1, is the old-fashioned (i.e., pre-algebraic) shorthand for the square the white queen begins the game on. However, unlike an actual chess queen, her primary role is to stay by the king's (Lelouch's) side and protect him; like a chess queen, she's perfectly capable of attacking should the need arise.
* CounterpartComparison: With [[GGundam Domon Kasshu's]] [[LukeIAmYourFather Daughter]]. SuperRobot fans have pretty much taken the idea of Kallen as Domon's shameless DistaffCounterpart and ''[[LukeIAmYourFather ran]]'' [[MemeticMutation with it]].
** Others see her as more like [[NeonGenesisEvangelion Asuka Langley Soryu Lite]].
* CustomUniform: For the Black Knights.
* TheDanza: Sorta, at least in the English-language dub. See KarenStrassman and SpellMyNameWithAnS, below.
* DeadLittleSister: In this case, a ''dead older brother'' (Naoto Kozuki), for whom she has a BigBrotherComplex. Heck, her Ashford hairdo is similar to that of Naoto.
* DefectorFromDecadence: To as big an extent as possible. Though she is of noble blood, she has rejected Britannia and strives to free Japan, but attends Ashford Academy as a cover, and to continue her studies.
* DefrostingIceQueen
* DemotedToExtra: In the AlternateUniverse spinoffs, her importance dramatically declined. Even in the ''Lelouch of the Rebellion'' manga adaptation, in which she actually has an even larger role than in the original anime, the equivalent of episode 9 of the first series (which focused on her past) is all but cut out except for a scene of her at home and with her mother in the hospital.
* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: Kallen used two different hairstyles ([[http://i34.tinypic.com/2djcq6t.jpg loose, straight and long-ish when she's at Ashford Academy]], [[http://i37.tinypic.com/2yor902.jpg spikier, slightly shorter and with a headband]] when with the Black Knights) during the series, to avoid having her cover blown. [[spoiler: After the GrandFinale, when Kallen returns to Ashford and lives peacefully with Mrs. Kouzuki, she's seen [[http://i34.tinypic.com/2lxxw14.jpg using her Black Knights hairstyle permanently]], now that she has no reason to hide herself.]]
* FacePalmOfDoom: her signature FinishingMove
* FanGirl: She could be considered one for Zero.
* {{Fanservice}}: Her breasts, mostly, but also her butt. In the non-sexual vein, she beats up Suzaku [[spoiler: when he apologizes for planning to inject her with drugs to get a confession out of her]]. Many fans enjoyed watching [[http://randomc.maximum7.net/image/CODE%20GEASS/CODE%20GEASS%20R2%20-%2016%20-%20Kallen%20beating%20up%20Suzaku.gif this scene]].
* FanserviceWithASmile: Early in the second season, as a part of her cover.
* FetishFuelStationAttendant: Uses ZettaiRyouiki in both her [[{{Joshikousei}} school uniform]] and CustomUniform for the Black Knights, has [[HeroesWantRedheads red hair]] aside of a wonderful body, is a {{Tsundere}}, gets suggestively BoundAndGagged more than once, dresses up as a sort-of pink PlayboyBunny Girl when doing FanserviceWithASmile, keeps her Guren's control in her [[VictoriasSecretCompartment cleavage]] during these Bunny Girl days.
** Also, certain shots, like the [[http://i384.photobucket.com/albums/oo283/CG-LOVER2/CG%20R2%20Turns/AnimePaperscans_Code-Geass_meimi-2.jpg first R2 ED]] and art from the [[http://kallen.stadtfeld.cc/img/713.jpg last ''R2'' picture drama]], suggest that [[{{VaporWear}} Kallen goes commando]].
*** Not to mention that her (already quite minimal) clothing under the cartoon character suit she uses to infiltrate the school festival in R2 [[http://i428.photobucket.com/albums/qq8/l33tm0nk3y/16.jpg clearly]] [[http://i428.photobucket.com/albums/qq8/l33tm0nk3y/18.jpg lacks]] a bra.
-->"[[LampshadeHanging Wait, hang on, why was I the one who had to wear]] [[PlayboyBunny the bunny suit]]?"
* FieryRedhead: In keeping with standard anime coloring themes about [[{{LawOfChromaticSuperiority}} ace pilots and the color red]], Kallen has red hair, wears a red plug suit (several different ones, ''all'' red) and pilots a Red mecha named the Guren (Crimson Lotus).
** But see YouGottaHaveBlueHair, below.
* FoeTossingCharge: Episode six of ''[[OddlyNamedSequel R2]]'', then again later in [[spoiler: episode twenty-four (twenty-three enemy units plus C.C.'s Lancelot, in 36 seconds)]].
* GoGoEnslavement: When Kallen is captured she is tied to a table for no apparent reason. Later on she gets the standard Britannian prisoner garb (which is in fact rather similar to C.C.'s) and then a fancy dress, though she probably got to put the latter on in private.
* GreenEyes: Greenish blue.
* [[spoiler: HeroAntagonist: In the final arc. Before that, she's TheDragon to the MagnificentBastard VillainProtagonist.]]
* HeroesWantRedheads: Yes. Still, see YouGottaHaveBlueHair, below.
* [[spoiler: HeroicBastard: The lovechild of a nobleman's affair with the Eleven woman that now works as the household's maid,]] but that's kept secret so she doesn't have to deal with all the troubles of an Eleven or honorary Britannian.
* HotBlooded: To the max.
* IllGirl: Part of her cover but makes her unable to participate in sports.
* HumongousMecha: See AcePilot, above.
* {{Joshikousei}}
* JusticeWillPrevail: The line next to her picture says it all.
* KarenStrassman: Plays Kallen in the English dub.
** Which arguably makes her TheDanza. See also SpellMyNameWithAnS, below.
* KnifeNut: She always carries her trusty pouch knife.
* LadyInRed: More sporty, HotBlooded version.
* LastKiss: Gives one to Lelouch.
* LesYay: With C.C., particularly in the {{audio drama}}s.
* LethalChef: Doesn't come up in-series, but AmiKoshimizu says it was in the [[AllThereInTheManual character notes]] she was given at the start of the series. It was said that if she tried baking bread, it would come out as charcoal.
* LoveMartyr: MagnificentBastard Lelouch has some [[SeriousBusiness major problems]]. Consider how many times Lelouch makes her cry during the course of the series...
* LovesMyAlterEgo
* TheMcCoy
* MemeticBadass / MemeticMutation: Two words: Badass. Mother.
* MomentKiller: Taken to ridiculous degrees in the second season when almost ''every single conversation'' she has with Lelouch seems to bring them closer only to be interrupted in some random way. (Causes of interuption range from a simple radio call, to someone walking in on them, to their walking into a deadly ambush.)
* MsFanservice: Doesn't have the personality, but she ''does'' have the assets. Is number three on the list.
** Also, her clothing, but more than that, the ''situations'' the series puts her in. How many times has she been "interrupted" during her showers?
* NotWhatItLooksLike: She keeps walking in on C.C. and Zero "just talking." Similarly, Shirley keeps seeing what she thinks are romantic encounters between Kallen and Lelouch.
* TheOjou: In fact, her ''own biological mother'' (who has been reduced to a servant in her house) calls her Kallen-[[JapaneseHonorifics ojou-sama]] -- or, more often, plain old Ojou-[[JapaneseHonorifics sama]].
** But Kallen only acts like TheOjou as part of her civilian cover, while her ''real'' personality, is very far from it.
* [[spoiler: TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: After Lelouch starts playing the role of EvilOverlord, [[ThisIsSomethingHesGotToDoHimself Kallen takes upon herself to be the one who takes him down]]]].
* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent: Part of her cover in the first season. [[spoiler: After the GrandFinale, she's reunited with her recovering mom and goes back to Ashford to complete her education (which is exactly what Lelouch wanted for her). Hey, from the looks of it she's even LateForSchool.]]
* PluckyGirl: When faced against the [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower now practically superhuman]] Suzaku, she fights him to a standstill, [[CombatBreakdown reducing * both* of their machines to scrap]] before finally [[spoiler: destroying Suzaku's machine with the very last blow she has left before her machine shuts down]]. Suzaku even wonders aloud how he can't beat her, even with his "live" Geass.
* [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Proud Warrior Race Girl]]
* {{The Rival}}: To Suzaku. Oddly enough, she remains as such even after [[spoiler: they both switch roles, with Suzaku as the one defending Lelouch and Kallen opposing him]]. Also, his {{Worthy Opponent}}.
* RocketPunch: Kallen's new and improved Guren can fire its radiation wave arm at the enemy, while still connected to the Guren through a cable.
* {{Ryu And Ken}} To Suzaku
* SheFu: Blatantly guilty of this at times, especially in the first episode of season two.
* ShowerScene
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Is it "Karen" or "Kallen"? She's called both by different people.
** Also, Kouzuki vs. Kozuki.
* SuperReflexes: Karen, being a combat mech pilot, has incredible reflexes, which tend to act up even when she is playing an IllGirl in school. In one episode, when Rivalz accidentally sends a champagne bottle cork right into her face, she notices it even before he does and deflects it with her hand.
* [[EstrogenBrigadeBait Testosterone Brigade Bait]]: So much so, it's even lampshaded a couple of times!
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Kallen is herself a mix of both types, which manifest themselves in her ActionGirl guise (tomboy) and her IllGirl guise (girly girl), complete with different wardrobes and hairstyles. In addition, she finds herself in numberous other pairings, including:
** Kallen (tomboy) and C.C. (girly girl).
** Kallen (tomboy) and Shirley (girly girl).
** Milly (tomboy) and Kallen (IllGirl guise) (girly girl).
** Kallen (tomboy)and Kaguya (girly girl).
* {{Tsundere}}: Tough and badass at one moment, sweet and vulnerable at the other. In season one, she thinks Lelouch is an arrogant JerkAss, but adores his alter ego Zero as a brave freedom fighter. [[spoiler: After learning his identity, at the very end of season one, it takes her a while to adjust to the concept, but eventually she goes deredere for him in both roles and basically falls in love with the man behind the mask.]]
* {{Tsurime}}
* UndyingLoyalty: Considering the extremes to which she goes for Lelouch, she can rival Jeremiah in the loyalty department. [[spoiler: At least, until Lelouch starts acting like a CompleteMonster and (intentionally) forces her to choose between her Loyalty for him and her sense of justice.]]
* WakeUpGoToSchoolSaveTheWorld: Part of her taking the '[[IllGirl weak persona]]' cover up.
* TheWoobie: Not just her childhood, but for everything that she goes through in the second half of R2.
* WorthyOpponent: To Suzaku. See also TheRival, above.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Her hair color is often described as "red." And it is. Mostly. But it's not any shade of red that humans would grow naturally in RealLife. It's a bit pink -- but not as outlandishly pink as Euphie's hair.
* ZettaiRyouiki
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::'''Nunnally Lamperouge/Princess Nunnally vi Britannia'''

-->''"My wish is for a gentler world."''

The daughter of Emperor Charles and his consort Marianne, as well as Lelouch's younger sister. The messy death of her mother left her not only contained in a wheelchair, but also blind out of the trauma of having her mom bleeding all over her and dying. She's shown as a sweet, gentle, IllGirl who attends Ashford Academy's middle school and serves as Lelouch's MoralityPet: she certainly doesn't know that her beloved and ''very'' overprotective big brother is willing to fulfill the promise of "making the world better before she can see" through bloodshed, [[XanatosGambit Xanatos Gambits]] and [[XanatosRoulette Roulettes]], and all that jazz.

In ''R2'', [[spoiler: after Lelouch is given FakeMemories and sent back to Ashford with TykeBomb Rolo in tow, Nunnally gets her Imperial Princess status back and is given the command of Area 11 aka Japan, like Cornelia and Euphemia. As the new Viceroy, Nunners works as hard as she can to make things better and ensure the Japanese are well treated, but with Lelouch recovering his memories and re-building LaResistance, it will NOT be easy.]]

In ''NightmareOfNunnally'', she is the main protagonist, who receives a Geass that allows her to see the future and an alternate personality derived from her anger and other negative emotions that can move and pilot a Knightmare Frame. She initially sets out to find Lelouch, but also expands her goal to stopping bloodshed between Britannians and the Japanese. At the end of the series, she [[spoiler: saves the world by rejecting Charles and Marianne's Instrumentality plan by coming to terms with her feelings, resulting in her regaining her ability to see and walk, and their being erased from existence. She becomes a goodwill ambassador to Japan under Empress Euphemia]].

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Nunnally embodies these tropes:

* AbusiveParents
* AllIsWellThatEndsWell
* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Similar to Lelouch. Genuinely sweet and friendly YamatoNadeshiko or [[spoiler: a tortured StepfordSmiler?]]
* ArrangedMarriage: Midway through the first season, Lelouch toyed with the idea of betrothing Nunnally and Suzaku, before he realized he and Suzaku were enemies.
** In the sound episode Stage 0.521, it's revealed that, before the war, the Japanese considered an engagement between Nunnally and Suzaku's ''father'' Genbu Kururugi. When Suzaku protested and offered himself instead, his dad pointed out that he was already spoken for -- engaged to his cousin Kaguya Sumeragi. It is revealed that Lelouch somehow dissuaded Genbu from an engagement to Nunnally, but it's not revealed ''how''.
* [[spoiler: AwesomeMomentOfCrowning: After Lelouch's "assassination", she takes over and becomes Empress.]]
* BigBrotherComplex
* BigScrewedUpFamily
* BlitheSpirit
* BlueBlood
* BreakTheCutie: Happens several times, but she bounces back each time. [[spoiler: Even after Lulu's death, since she becomes a fairly cheerful and sweet-tempered Empress.]]
* [[spoiler: BrotherSisterIncest: Reciprocated at Lelouch, if her final words to him are anything to go by.]]
* CallingTheOldManOut: In the climax of ''Nightmare of Nunnally'', calls out Charles [[spoiler: and Marianne]] for abandoning her and [[spoiler: trying to start Instrumentality]].
** [[spoiler:Heh [[{{Strange Minds Think Alike}} Like Brother Like Sister]] neh?]]
* ClingyJealousGirl: Just a very little bit, with her older brother Lelouch. Nonsexual example ... we think.
* CosmicPlaything: Hoo boy... [[TheUnFavourite I do]] [[BreakTheCutie not]] [[IllGirl envy]] [[DeadLittleSister her.]]
* CovertPervert: According to [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHWgYlOKTDo the Picture Dramas]] and the Lost Color games.
* DeadLittleSister: Strictly speaking, ''dead older siblings'', all of whom are killed by Zero. [[spoiler: Including Lelouch.]]
* DisabledHottie: Okay, so she's not "hot" exactly, but she is very beautiful. [[BigBrotherComplex But don't let Lulu hear that.]]
* DisabledMeansHelpless
* [[spoiler: [[TheEmperor The Empress]]]]
* [[spoiler: EvilCripple and HeroAntagonist]]: At the end of the series. She even gets a [[spoiler: "crawling on the ground helplessly"]] scene.
* {{Expy}}: Of the anime version of [[AngelicLayer Suzuhara Shuuko]], which Okouchi (co-creator) worked on as Series Composition. The original {{CLAMP}} version shares nothing in common with Nunnally.
** She also share's quite a bit in common with [[{{xxxholic}} Kohane Tsuyuri]] as well, to the point that [[http://gallery.minitokyo.net/view/367534 the two of them look like twins]] [[spoiler: when Nunnally has her eyes open.]]
* EyesAlwaysShut: As a symbol of her trauma-induced blindness. [[spoiler: She opens them in episode 24 of ''R2'', as the proof of her ''overcoming'' that particular side of herself ... through sheer willpower.]]
* FallenPrincess: Oh, so much.
* [[spoiler: GirlWithPsychoWeapon: How about a girl with a ''nuke detonator'', huh?]]
** [[spoiler: Arguably taken even further in "Nightmare of Nunnally" when she gets her own Knightmare Frame that she can summon out of thin air.]]
* FetishFuelStationAttendant - Boy howdy.... A [[GirlNextDoor old-fashionedly sweet girl]] who is [[YamatoNadeshiko kind and well mannered]], [[MoeMoe cute and huggable as a kitten]], [[DisabledHottie helpless]] and [[{{Lolicon}} skating on thin ice in legality]] with a [[{{Pettanko}} slim and young figure?]] Come to oniichan, little one!!
* HeyItsThatVoice: Voiced by RebeccaForstadt in the English dub, who also played [[GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex a somewhat adorable tank-thing]]. This eventually earned Nunnally the FanNickname "Nunnakoma".
* HimeCut: Kinda, but a bit on the shaggy and wavy side.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: A wee bit too trusting of Charles, and especially Schneizel. [[spoiler:That she is able to find out that Lelouch and Suzaku have both lied to her and not Schneizel, who used her in one of the most insidious {{Xanatos Gambit}}s in the entire series extending back to R2 18 and lasting the rest of the series against Lelouch (and ended up breaking him down), quite possibly makes her TooDumbToLive.]]
* [[spoiler:HowDareYouDieOnMe: Nunnally does this to Lelouch after the Zero Requiem plan is completed, partly because she figured out what Lelouch's plan was all along]]
* [[spoiler:IAmYourOpponent: To Lelouch and Suzaku at the end of Turn 22, after they have already started Zero Requiem.]]
* IllGirl: Unable to walk because of bullet injuries to her legs. Also suffers from psychosomatic blindness, evidently as a result of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
** Well, [[spoiler: It seems that way at first. But then we learn that the reason she never opens her eyes is because of her father's MindRape, which forced her to become blind.]]
*** In the end, [[spoiler: Nunners remains wheelchair-bound, but overcomes her blindness.]]
** In ''NightmareOfNunnally'', [[spoiler: both are psychosomatic, and both are reversed by the end]].
* ImTakingHerHomeWithMe: The reaction she often provokes in fans of both sexes.
* TheIngenue: For the first season. But this changes ''radically'' by the second.
* {{Joshikousei}}: Of sorts.
* KaoriNazuka: Her {{seiyuu}}.
* LawfulGood
* LivingLieDetector: She can tell, thanks presumably to being able to sense pulse rate, sweating, and/or body temperature changes, if someone's lying if she's holding their hand.
* {{Lolicon}}: No doubt for some. Again, [[KnightTemplarBigBrother don't let Lelouch know]].
* MeaningfulName: Nunnally is an English given name and surname, but in Japanese it can sound a bit like "nunnery," i.e., convent. Perhaps intended to even further heighten the sense of her innocence.
** [[EpilepticTrees Also]], in [[WilliamShakespeare Elizabethan]] slang, [[EpilepticTrees "nun" could signify a prostitute]], and thus a [[GetTheeToANunnery "nunnery" a brothel]].
* TheMessiah: To a degree.
* [[spoiler: MindRape: The source of her blindness. Inflicted to her by her ''father'' as a part of his and her mother's XanatosRoulette.]]
* {{Moe}}: Oh, she's such a cutie. [[http://danbooru.donmai.us/post/show/171050/absurdres-blue_eyes-blush-brown_hair-code_geass-dr As this picture shows.]]
* MoralityPet: For Lelouch, and to a lesser degree, for Suzaku and Cornelia.
* NoOneShouldSurviveThat: Some people ''still'' wonder how she survived [[spoiler: the F.L.E.I.J.A. blast in R2 Episode 18]], even though there arguably ''is'' a way to explain it. [[spoiler:Hint, count the planes.]]
* ObliviousYoungerSibling
* OlderThanTheyLook: She's a teenager but looks younger in several shots, and has a very youthful-looking hairstyle and school uniform.
* {{Pettanko}}: Then again, she's only fourteen.
* ThePollyanna: You'd think the little girl would be a bit less of an ingénue after having her mom ''shot to death in front of her and die in her arms'', causing her to go blind from apparent psychological trauma that has ONLY manifested as blindness, and having her mother's killers ''shoot her in the legs as well'', paralyzing her. Seriously, any sane person would think that Nunnally would be the bug-fuck crazy 'All Kill Britannia' sibling, but she remains sweet and cute ... [[spoiler: until Schneizel subjects her to MoreThanMindControl and gives her control of the Damocles]].
** Semi-justified when it was revealed that [[spoiler: said blindness and disability weren't caused by her mother's death, but by her parents modifying her memories and ''forcing blindness on her'' as a part of their XanatosRoulette]].
* [[spoiler: PrincessClassic: Deconstructed ''big time.'']]
* PurpleEyes: She used to have those before she became blind. [[spoiler: You can see them again more clearly later in the story.]]
* RapunzelHair
* RebeccaForstadt: Her voice actress in the English dub.
* RoyalBlood
* SpannerInTheWorks: On more than one occasion, Lelouch's love for her has scuttled his plans.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: In the ''Nightmare of Nunnally'' manga, she plays girly girl to ExtraordinarilyEmpoweredGirl Alice's tomboy.
** Nunnally is also arguably the tomboy when paired with Euphemia or Shirley (girly girls to the max). She is the girly girl when paired with Nina or Milly (not exactly tomboys, but still more physically active).
* TooDumbToLive: Seems to be completely oblivious to Charles' and Schneizel's true intentions.
* {{The UnFavourite}}s: Lelouch and Nunnally, apparently, probably as a side-effect of the rest of the court's disdain for Marianne.
** [[spoiler: This is subverted when we find about the truth in episode twenty-one of ''R2''.]]
* [[spoiler: WellIntentionedExtremist: Reveals in the finale that she planned ''something'' similar to the Zero Requiem plan, but doesn't go into more details than making the [[OminousFloatingCastle Sword Of Damocles]] the [[SilentScapegoat focus of the whole world's hate]]. It should be noted that she was making the best of a really bad situation, but whatever it is that it takes to piss off the ''whole world'' can hardly be small.]]
* [[spoiler: [=~What The Hell, Hero?~=]: She gave Lelouch one of these in the GrandFinale. When he tells her he's been doing everything for her, she yells at him that she ''never'' asked for him to change the world and was happy just being next to him in Ashford. Of course, it does fail to take into account a lot of the little reasons Lelouch did it. She does it to a lesser extent with Suzaku in Turn 16.]]
* WhiteSheep
* WideEyedIdealist: Despite her EyesAlwaysShut status, she's probably the second most WideEyedIdealist on the show, after her half-sister Euphemia. (Shirley doesn't make the cut because of her willful lack of interest in politics.)
* WiseBeyondTheirYears: This becomes ''abundantly'' clear after she takes a major role in the plot in R2. Well, with a couple of critical exceptions.
* TheWoobie
** WheelchairWoobie
* WorldOfCardboardSpeech: In chapter twenty-five of ''NightmareOfNunnally'', she admits that she has trapped herself in the past, refusing to move forward, and says that she now hopes for tomorrow.
* YamatoNadeshiko: Nunnally-chan is the most sweet, caring, considerate, well mannered and kind hearted little girl you'd ever meet. Ironically, she's British (well, Britannian), but otherwise she meets every YamatoNadeshiko criterion. The fact that she is [[{{Moe}} painfully cute and huggable]] really helps too.
* [[spoiler:YoungestChildWins: In the series finale she, the youngest of [[TheEmperor Charles]]' named children, inherits the throne. Technically, [[RoyalBrat Carline]] is the same age, but she was ahead of Nunnally in line to the throne while Charles was alive.]]
* ZettaiRyouiki: In ''NightmareOfNunnally'' she wears a Grade B, as it's a part of the Ashford middle school uniform.
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::'''Tropes that apply to most members'''

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

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::'''Rakshata Chawla'''

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

A mild-mannered MadScientist from India, Rakshata Chawla is a mostly-friendly rival to the team of Lloyd Asplund and Cécile Croomy‎.

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Rakshata Chawla embodies these tropes:

* BollywoodNerd
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Loves to lounge around on sofas and tease people while smoking her pipe.
* BuxomBabe: She's number eight.
* DarkSkinnedBlond
* DitzyGenius
* FoeYay: With Lloyd
* GadgeteerGenius
* GreenEyes
* HollywoodNerd
* HotScientist
* LauraBailey: Voices Rakshata in the English dub.
* MadScientist: Like her rival Lloyd Asplund, Rakshata Chawla is a mostly benign version. Not evil enough to be 100% MadScientist, but too quirky and young to be TheProfessor.
* MasayoKurata: Her seiyuu
* TheNicknamer: She gives Earl Lloyd Asplund his FanNickname "the Earl of Pudding," after his TrademarkFavoriteFood. I guess that makes her his Number One Fan?
* SmokingIsCool
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Rakshata vs. Lakshata vs. Laksharta....
* TVGenius

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::'''Kaguya Sumeragi'''

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

Kaguya Sumeragi (皇 神楽耶, Sumeragi Kaguya), fourteen years old (fifteen in [[OddlyNamedSequel R2]]), is the young head mistress of the Kyōto House and a supporter of the Black Knights. She is also a close friend of Empress Tianzi of China. Despite her age and physique, she possesses a strong will and is highly influential amongst the Houses. Kaguya has admired Zero since his debut, and wishes to have his hand in marriage.

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Kaguya embodies these tropes:

* ArrangedMarriage: Was to be engaged to her cousin Suzaku. See also KissingCousins, below.
* BigEyesLittleEyes: Just look at those enormous peepers. In this regard, she almost rivals {{Wide Eyed Idealist}}s Princess Euphemia and Shirley Fenette.
* BlueBlood
* TheChessmaster
* EveryGirlIsCuterWithHairDecs: Her diadem. (See also [[EverythingsSparklyWithJewelry Everything's Sparkly With Jewelry]], below.)
* [[EverythingsSparklyWithJewelry Everything's Sparkly With Jewelry]]: Her diadem. (See also EveryGirlIsCuterWithHairDecs, above.)
* GenkiGirl
* GreenEyes
* HimeCut: (In [[{{Moe}} this case]], [[IncrediblyLamePun Hime Cute]].) One of the least [[HairColors weird]] examples in the series. See also RapunzelHair, below.
* ImprobableAge: She's the chairwoman of the United Federation of Nations at 15.
* KissingCousins: Was to be engaged to her cousin Suzaku. See also ArrangedMarriage, above.
* MeaningfulName: Kaguya is the name of the eponymous character from an old Japanese folk tale [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tale_of_the_Bamboo_Cutter "Princess Kaguya," also known as "The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter."]]
* MikaKanai: Her {{seiyuu}}.
* {{Moe}}
* TheOjou: More traditionally Japanese example than most in the series.
* OlderThanTheyLook: She's a teenager, but in many shots she could easily pass for a small child. It's ironic, since she's as smart and savvy as any of the adults around her.
* PaleSkinnedBrunette: Beyond brunette, she actually has black hair; but yeah, the color contrast is there anyway.
* {{Pettanko}}: She's in the bottom of "the list," but we don't mind since she's [[{{Moe}} cute anyway]].
* PluckyGirl
* RapunzelHair: See also HimeCut, above.
* TheSmartGuy: See also TeenGenius and TVGenius and especially WiseBeyondTheirYears, below.
* StephanieSheh: Her English VA.
* TeenGenius: See also TVGenius and especially WiseBeyondTheirYears, below.
* TokenLoli: Slightly old for the part, but then she's one of those OlderThanTheyLook.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: The girly girl when paired with tomboyish Kallen; the tomboy, when with the super girlish Tianzi.
* TVGenius: See TeenGenius, above, and especially WiseBeyondTheirYears, below.
* WiseBeyondTheirYears: On Lelouch's [[http://www.atalude.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/cgr2_13-27.jpg chart]] ranking the overall value of the top members of the Black Knights, she was second only to Toudoh despite having no combat ability. (Granted, most of it comes from full Charisma and very high Loyalty, but she still ties for second in Intelligence.)

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::'''Shinichirō Tamaki'''

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

Shinichirō Tamaki (玉城 真一郎, Tamaki Shin'ichirō), twenty-four years old (twenty-five in ''[[OddlyNamedSequel R2]]''), a is the leader of the second special squadron of the Black Knights. He is a hot-headed and carefree person, quick to cheer others on when not doing the fighting but rash and impulsive when he's on the front lines. His rashness is shown to border on recklessness, as he orders the execution of the Ashford Academy student council against Zero's wishes, though extenuating circumstances prevent his orders from being carried out. He pilots a standard Knightmare Frames during battles, though he rarely lasts long before being forced to eject.

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Tamaki embodies these tropes:

* BrickJoke: Remember when Tamaki was harassing Zero about giving him an official position in the Black Knights during R2? Well, it takes a few episodes of waiting and a sharp eye during the UNF ratification ceremony, but we finally find out what position he got: [[spoiler: Internal Cleaning Supporter. Yup, he's a glorified janitor.]]
* ButtMonkey: In Lelouch's personal stats for the Black Knights, Tamaki comes out with the lowest rankings at 40, ten in each category (Intelligence, Combat Ability, Charisma, and Loyalty). Note that, with the exception of non-combatants, who have no Combat Ability score, and Nagisa Chiba, who ties for Loyalty, his scores are worse than any other member. Moreover, every other member ranks ''at least'' past 150, if just barely in some cases. While at first this might seem a joke at his expense, it fits if you take a look at his track record over the course of the show.
* ChewToy
* EnsembleDarkhorse
* TheEveryman: Played straighter in his case than in Ohgi's.
* FetishFuel: Evidently for some.
* FieryRedhead
* TheFool: Oddly, this has made him an EnsembleDarkhorse and one of the few Black Knights who retain their popularity. [[spoiler: He even manages to survive his direct, face-to-face encounter with Suzaku's [[MidSeasonUpgrade Lancelot Albion]] in his grunt mech, even getting in a good line (''"Even I have my pride, you know!"'') before he had to eject from his exploding Knightmare.]]
* HotBlooded
* PermaStubble
* SarcasticDevotee

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::'''Kaname Ohgi'''

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

Twenty-six years old (twenty-seven in ''[[OddlyNamedSequel R2]]''), Ohgi used to be a school teacher before he became the leader of a Japanese resistance cell, having taken over after the death of Kallen Kozuki's older brother Naoto. Or at least, Ohgi ''was'' the leader, until Zero butts in.

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Ohgi embodies these tropes:

* AManIsNotAVirgin: Averted if you see the "Brown Agony" sound stage. [[spoiler:Later averted]].
* AmbiguouslyJewish: He has curly hair and wears the same badge as they wore in Nazi Germany.
* [[DeadLittleSister Dead Childhood Friend]]: Naoto Kuzuki.
* ElephantInTheLivingRoom: Neither his affair with Villetta, [[spoiler:nor his nearly allowing Kallen to be gunned down on account of the attempt to execute Lelouch, or that [[KangarooCourt he might have been too rash about jumping to conclusions on Lelouch]]]], are put into question.
* 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".)
* TheEveryman: A DeconstructedTrope, considering that his Everyman qualities in the midst of a war beyond his comprehension lead to his ''very'' questionable decisions and the disasters that result.
* [[spoiler: HappilyMarried: To Villetta Nu, at the end of the series.]]
* HollywoodHomely: His design is not 100% ugly, but is still ''very'' plain in comparison to others. And go have a ''haircut'', man, [[FunnyAfro that Jewfro]] doesn't suit you.
** That only shows that he's not [[OneHundredYearsOfSolitude drawn-into-the-sky]], drop-dead gorgeous the way the rest of the characters are. But he's handsome enough!
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: [[spoiler:Turn 19 of R2.]] Enough said.
* {{Hypocrite}}[=/=]MoralDissonance[=/=]WhatAnIdiot: Yes, all three. In a nutshell, [[spoiler:the betrayal during R2 19]]. Just check [[WhatAnIdiot/{{Anime}} the anime entry]] of the latter for more detail.
* IGotBetter: He got stabbed by Sayoko's daggers and fell off a cliff in R2 turn 15. He comes back with no sign of injuries later. The incident is never mentioned again.
** Though it is inferred that he and Villetta ganged up on Diethard for sending Sayoko to spy on them, and then blackmailing Ohgi with Villetta.
* InspectorJavert: [[spoiler:When he chases Lelouch all the way up to the latter's disappearance into the Sword of Akasha following the betrayal.]]
* [[spoiler: KarmaHoudini: He was HappilyMarried by the end of CodeGeass -- and was even elected Prime Minister, despite the numerous questionable decisions he made in the latter half of the second season. See above entries.]]
* KirkThornton: His voice actor in the English-language dub.
* LimaSyndrome: [[spoiler:At first he intends to interrogate Villetta after she recovers from her amnesia, but he ends up falling for her.]]
* LivingWithTheVillain: Lives with Villetta Nu for quite some time while she's lost her memory after being shot by Shirley.
* LoveMakesYouDumb / TookALevelInDumbass: Started out as the OnlySaneMan, only to go south after [[spoiler:he met Villetta]].
* MitsuakiMadono
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: One might say he [[spoiler:[[IncrediblyLamePun broke Zero]]]].
* 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 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.
* 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.
* StarCrossedLovers: With [[spoiler:Villetta]].
* TakingTheBullet: He saved Villetta from Sayoko by taking the daggers which were meant for her.
* TreacheryCoverup: Attempts to cover up the betrayal against Lelouch.
* UglyGuyHotWife: Villetta would normally be way out of his league.

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::'''Diethard Reid'''

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

Brittanian TV producer who joined the Black Knights not because he believed in their cause but because he worshipped Zero. He was in charge of the Black Knights information, espionage, and public relations.

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* AntiHero (Type V): The only member with no little regard to righteousness.
* BlondeGuysAreEvil
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Switching to whichever side entertains him the most, apparently.
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor
* NeutralSelfish
* SmugSnake
* TokenEvilTeammate

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::'''Li Xingke'''

-->''"The crimson sky has perished.''"

A minor officer within the Chinese Federal Military, Li Xingke swore his loyalty and life to the young Empress Tianzi after she saved him from being executed for showing mercy to a prisoner. Now he has dedicated his life to climbing the ladder of the Chinese Military to gain enough power to overthrow the de facto rulers of the Federation, the Eunuchs, and grant the Empress her greatest wish: to see the outside world. Considering the fact that he is said, and has mostly proven, to have both the strength of Suzaku and the intelligence of Lelouch, this is very likely. [[spoiler: He succeeds with Zero's help.]]

[[spoiler: Xingke eventually becomes a key member of the Order of the Black Knights after the establishment of the United Federation of Nations and leads the first attack on Area 11, sustaining serious injuries at the hands of Bismark Waldstein...]]

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Li Xingke embodies these tropes:

* TheAce
* AcePilot
* BodyguardCrush: {{Fanon}} says he feels this way towards Tianzi.
* ChinesePeople
* DavidVincent
* EarlyBirdCameo: He first appears in season 1 episode 23. He had his back turned.
* HikaruMidorikawa
* IllBoy
* IncurableCoughOfDeath: [[BloodFromTheMouth Blood]] and all. In the end, [[spoiler: he ''doesn't'' die within the series, believe it or not. It's hinted he passed away ''after'' the Zero Requiem, but it's neither conformed nor {{jossed}}]].
** If you look closely at the [[spoiler: Ohgi/Villetta wedding picture, the Empress is there, but no Xingke.]]
** But the Shenhu Knightmare frame [[spoiler: appears in the background of the meeting of Nunnally/Zero/Schneizel and Ohgi in the Epilogue, implying his presence.]]
* InformedAbility: Very smart guy and a very good pilot? Yes. "As smart as Lelouch and as good a pilot as Suzaku?" Not even close.
** OTOH, he ''did'' give Lelouch a run for his money during the battle of China, and was one of the only other people smart enough to not fall for [[spoiler: Schneizel.]]
* IOweYouMyLife: The canon core of his devotion to Tianzi, who saved him from execution when he was a teenager.
* KnightInShiningArmor: Chinese version!
* {{Lolicon}}: See BodyguardCrush and BigBrotherComplex entry. Or heck, anything {{Fanon}} has for him.
* NeutralGood: His loyalty to Tianzi is absolute, but he is just as adamant in his opposition to tyranny.
* RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap: People believed he was a GodModeSue for a while, but after the China arc he went OutOfFocus and it all sort of went away.
* TallDarkAndHandsome
* TheWhitePrince

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'''Jiang Linhua aka Empress Tianzi'''

-->''"Someday, I want to see the outside world."''

The Empress of China, who appears in R2. Technically speaking, the Tianzi ("Child of Heaven") is supposed to be the leader of the Chinese Federation and the heir to the old imperial tradition. In reality, the current Tianzi is a teenage girl kept away from her people by her council, the Eunuchs, who rule the country as they wish. However, not everything is lost: Tianzi has a protector in Li Xingke, and even if she's powerless at the moment, she's touchingly determined to do what she can.

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Tianzi embodies these tropes:

* [[spoiler: ArrangedMarriage: The Emperor tries to marry his eldest son Prince Odysseus off to her, which Lelouch and the Black Knights use to their advantage.]]
* AChildShallLeadThem: Li Xingke's ultimate goal is to repay Empress Tianzi's kindness by giving her enough power to rule over the Federation, instead of being just a puppet of the Eunuchs.
* ChineseGirl
* DawsonCasting - [[AvertedTrope Averted for a change]] in anime voice casting, as the sweet little-girl who voiced Tianzi was ''nine'' years old at the time of recording, ''younger'' than her ''thirteen'' year old charater, mind. A stark contrast to the norm in which women in their mid-to-late twenties (if not '''early-forties''', in the case of MikiIto in {{Shuffle}}) voice young girls aged 12 to 17.)
* DistressedDamsel
* [[TheEmperor The Empress]]
* HeroicAlbino: She's more like TheWoobie than a heroine. She does as much good as a sheltered and shy thirteen year old can hope to do, though.
* TheIngenue: Go figure... Note well, though, that her whole plot line revolves around other characters effectively growing her out of it so she can be more like [[WiseBeyondTheirYears Nunnally and Kaguya.]]
* IOweYouMyLife: The canon core of Xingke's devotion to her, who saved him from execution when he was a teenager.
* JessicaStrauss: Her voice actress in the English-language dub.
* LesYay: Some people like to pair her up with her best friend, Kaguya.
* {{Lolicon}}: [[spoiler: One of Lelouch's and Xingke's gambits involves stopping a wedding between Prince Odysseus and [[{{Squick}} the thirteen-year-old Tianzi]].]]
** Seeing their Empress in trouble caused the downtrodden citizens of the Chinese Federation to spark a continent-wide revolt.
* LonelyRichKid: Tianzi might be the Empress of China, but otherwise she fits in very well as she's practically a prisioner in her palace.
* {{Moe}}: Aaaaawwww, Tianzi-chan! [[ImTakingHerHomeWithMe Can I take her home, Xingke? Pretty please?]]
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Z20hBkjXKw=related Listen to her image song]] and tell me you don't wanna {{Squee}}.
* NeutralGood
* OlderThanTheyLook: She's not eight years old, people. She's 13.
* PinkySwear: How she and Xingke sealed ThePromise of seeing the outside world.
* PrecociousCrush: Some interpret her feelings for Xingke this way. {{Squick}}.
** [[JustifiedTrope Understandable, though]]: he's the first person who was ever genuinely kind to her, so if she had a child-like crush on him it'd be no surprise. Besides, hey, ''[[TheAce it's]]'' ''[[TallDarkAndHandsome Li]]'' ''[[AcePilot Xingke]]''; almost ''any'' girl her age would fangirl him at least a bit. Can you blame her?
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Subverted, as she's a sweetheart. You might like to fear ''her overprotective guardian'' instead.
* ShrinkingViolet: With good reason, as the world pretty much screws her over.
* TamakiMatsumoto: Her {{seiyuu}} -- who's actually a ten-year-old child actress.
* TenderTears: Cries a lot. Considering her ''really'' shitty situation, we can't blame her.
* TokenLoli
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Sweeter, gentler counterpart to the also girly but more straightforward Kaguya
* WhiteHairedPrettyGirl
* TheWoobie: And ''how''.

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::'''Mao'''

-->''"C.C., I can't live without you!"''

-->::''"Let me into your mind!"''

-->::''"I know EVERYTHING..."''

A [[ChinesePeople Chinese]] orphan whom [[MysteriousWaif the immortal woman C.C.]] finds as a six-year-old boy and whom she "gifts" with the [[BlessedWithSuck Geass]] power of {{telepathy}}. As happens with Geass, [[PowerIncontinence he loses control of it]], forcing him to listen to everyone's thoughts constantly and involuntarily, without any possibility of blocking them -- except by avoiding human contact altogether. Thus his telepathy has the tragic side effect of rendering him completely, permanently, and irrevocably dependent on C.C. for ''all'' of his social needs. For a time, as part of her "contract" with him, she takes care of him, lives with him in the wild, and helps shield him from the intruding thoughts of the world, during which time he falls [[WifeHusbandry completely in love with her]]. But eventually [[{{Jerkass}} she abandons]] him for [[spoiler: refusing to [[WhoWantsToLiveForever kill her as per the contract]]]] and [[AdultChild his]] Geass drives him [[AxeCrazy insane]].

Now Mao's one desire is to [[LoveMakesYouCrazy find and keep]] his eternally beloved C.C. (see {{Yandere}})-- to hell with anyone else, ''especially'' anyone who gets in their way.

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Mao embodies these tropes:

* AbusiveParents: C.C. is not literally Mao's parent, at least not genetically. But he was orphaned as a young child, and when he was six, C.C. took him under her wing, and under her spell. For [[ItGotWorse more details]], see WifeHusbandry, below.
** It's AllThereInTheManual that when he was with C.C. she would take him out in public, [[PowerIncontinence Geass and all]], for various reasons; and as time went on and he got older do nothing (or almost nothing) to prevent him from using his power to commit [[EscalatingWar increasingly]] [[MoreThanMindControl twisted acts]].
** It's also somewhat suspicious that C.C. claims he has "never known the love of a parent." His parents/all his potential guardians can't literally have died when he was born because babies and toddlers can't raise themselves. One explanation could be that his biological parents (or his caretakers at the orphanage, or whoever) weren't the nicest people in the first place. Or C.C. could be exaggerating, or speaking out of ignorance.
* AccentuateTheNegative: Basically the core of his various MoreThanMindControl attempts. He doesn't lie, but he does focus on the worst possible interpretation, although he's merely reading their mind.
* AdultChild: More literally, a Teen Child. But he's incredibly childlike. How could he not be? He was raised by C.C..
* [[spoiler: AlasPoorVillain: Apparently his death was enough to make some fans cry.]]
* AllThereInTheManual: Additional information about his backstory.
* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: AntiVillain? CompleteMonster? TheWoobie? JerkAssWoobie, for those who'd rather TakeAThirdOption? No wonder he's a BaseBreaker.
* AnimeHair
* AxCrazy: Although maybe it should be [[ChainsawGood CHAINSAW crazy!]]
* [[spoiler: BackFromTheDead]]
* {{Badass}}
* BadassLongcoat: And a great coat no less!
* BaseBreaker: Welcome to ''CodeGeass''! Consider the [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation Alternative Character Interpretations]] and [[SeriousBusiness borderline-argumentative viewpoints]] in this entry alone.
* BatmanGambit: With Shirley to kill Lelouch, although it [[ThatCouldHaveBeenMessy just barely fails]]. Unfortunately for him, Lelouch responds with an [[MemoryGambit even better]] BatmanGambit later on.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: His Geass. ''So so much!''
* BerserkButton: He ''really'' wanted to know C.C's real name didn't he?
* BewareTheHonestOnes: Well, he at least evokes it. Although a dangerous villain he's one of the most staunchly honest characters in a series where ''just about everyone'' puts up a front of some sort and keeps secrets from one another at least to some degree. See also WillNotTellALie and VillainsNeverLie.
* BigEyesLittleEyes: Well, his eyes ''are'' actually pretty wide, though they don't look that way in all shots. This becomes especially true when he interacts with C.C., though they're still small in comparison to Lelouch's or Suzaku's.
* BiggusDickus: Err ... there's an injoke that he has one of these, thanks to the VisualInnuendo shot of him and his chainsaw.
* {{Bishounen}}: Hence his role as DracoInLeatherPants.
* BlessedWithSuck: The series' MostTriumphantExample. Holy HELL is he BlessedWithSuck!
* BookDumb: Well, perhaps. Although he's a TeenGenius who manages to pose a serious threat to Lelouch, he's never been to school and possibly isn't even literate (note that C.C. specifically states that he couldn't read or write when she first found him; whether she ever did anything to correct that is never explained).
** He ''was'' spending his time in a library though at one point so...
* BreakTheCutie: In his {{flashback}}. Evidently he was just an innocent little boy until his Geass started getting to him. He's probably the most hopelessly and irreparably broken character in the entire story (well, at least until ItGotWorse for the entire cast, though he still manages to be one of them anyway) See also FreudianExcuse and CryForTheDevil.
** He also ''inflicts'' plenty of BreakTheCutie, [[MoralEventHorizon very deliberately]], to [[TheIngenue Shirley]] and (to a somewhat less extreme degree, but still very painful) [[spoiler: [[SelfMadeOrphan Suzaku]]]].
* BrutalHonesty: He tells the other characters exactly what he thinks all the time. See also BewareTheHonestOnes, WillNotTellALie and VillainsNeverLie.
* CatsAreMean: See MeaningfulName, below.
* ChainsawGood: See MemeticMutation.
* TheChessmaster: Although not as good as Lelouch, except at actually, you know, playing chess, where he easily defeats him ''twice''.
* ChessMotif
* ChildrenAreInnocent: And apparently, so are [[PsychopathicManchild Psychopathic Manchildren]]! He manages to twist this trope in odd ways: when he was still with C.C., he would actually ''kill'' people whose evil impulses he sensed, because he worried they might try to hurt her, and he wanted to protect her. [[SarcasmMode Um ... awwww?]]
* ChinesePeople: A subversion, in that he's Chinese but doesn't fit the trope description.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: A particularly [[PsychicPowers nasty]] [[PsychopathicManchild example]].
** Even by the standards of a {{Cloudcuckoolander}}, his grip on reality is tenuous. He manages to convince himself C.C. loves him too much to be able to shoot him, when really she can't shoot him ''because he's already shot her''.
*** Well since the alternative is to believe that C.C., staring at him with her finger on the trigger, [[TooSlow somehow wasn't fast enough]] to stop him from taking a gun out of his pocket and shooting her arm, the only plausible implication is that C.C. ''did'' hesitate. After all, if she was able to coldly shoot someone who she had spent so much time with and who she [[spoiler: [[LoveConfession later admitted]] she did love]] for no other reason than her [[spoiler: selfish [[DeathSeeker death wish]]]], then she would be a CompleteMonster.
* CoolShades: Perhaps. See also MakingASpectacleOfYourself and SinisterShades, below.
* [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming Crowning Moment Of Heartbreaking]]: The scene of him as a little boy, playing with C.C. [[spoiler: There's also his death scene, more [[YourMileageMayVary subjectively]].]]
* CryForTheDevil: Poor, poor guy. Sure he's an AxCrazy maniac. But all because of [[FreudianExcuse circumstances]] ''[[ParentalAbandonment beyond]]'' ''[[NoSocialSkills his]]'' ''[[BlessedWithSuck control]]''!
* CuteShotaroBoy: When young, though [[AllThereInTheManual supplementary materials]] reveal he was more TroubledButCute.
* DealWithTheDevil: His acceptance of Geass, given what it ultimately turns him into....
* [[spoiler: DeathByIrony: He gets shot by C.C. with a silenced pistol. After Lelouch uses his Geass to silence him.]]
* DeathTrap: Makes at least a few.
* TheDeterminator: In his quest to reunite with C.C. and [[{{Squick}} make her his own. Forever.]]
* DisappearedDad: He was orphaned as a young child.
* [[supersecretspoiler: DisneyDeath: The first time. The second time, he's KilledOffForReal via InstantDeathBullet. Maybe.]]
* DoomMagnet: But mostly of his own deliberate do(om)ing.
* DracoInLeatherPants: Mao embodies ''several'' tropes commonly associated with being a DILP. {{Badass}}? Check. {{Bishounen}}? Check. CryForTheDevil? Check. JerkassWoobie? Check. StalkerWithACrush? Check. WhiteHairedPrettyBoy? Check. But oh, God, the sheer number of people who [[{{Facepalm}} turn him into a total Moe teddy bear]] just because of his childishness and FreudianExcuse or actually ''enjoy watching him torture [[TheScrappy Shirley]] just because they don't like her!'' See also: BaseBreaker above, and JerkAssWoobie and MisaimedFandom below.
** Also, in Mao's eyes, ''C.C.'' could be an in-universe DracoInLeatherPants, since he sees her as ''far better'' than she really is (this becomes abundantly clear in the [[AllThereInTheManual light novels]]). Then again, his appearance forces C.C. to actually face her mistakes, arguably making her more considerate in an [[YourMileageMayVary possible]] case of LoveRedeems.
* EnsembleDarkhorse: See also BaseBreaker and DracoInLeatherPants above, and MisaimedFandom and especially OneSceneWonder below.
* EvilAlbino: Complete with the white hair ''and'' the pink eyes! See RedEyesTakeWarning and WhiteHairedPrettyBoy, below.
** See the RedEyesTakeWarning note, though; it's possible they actually ''got his eye color right'' and invoked [[strike:[[RedEyesTakeWarning Red]]]] ''[[RedEyesTakeWarning Pink]]'' [[RedEyesTakeWarning Eyes Take Warning]] deliberately.
* EvilCounterpart: At the time of his appearance, he's the closest thing Lelouch has to one. Several of his interactions with Lelouch are also very similar to those that [[spoiler: Schneizel]] goes on to have with Lelouch in ''[[OddlyNamedSequel R2]]'' (when ''he's'' his EvilCounterpart!).
* EvilIsSexy: Well, he doesn't have much in the way of ''obvious'' sex appeal (except for, you know, what whole BiggusDickus thing). But he ''is'', after all, a WhiteHairedPrettyBoy with ImpossiblyCoolClothes and nice long fingers and ''[[{{Squee}} oh my God just look at his beautiful, beautiful face!!]]''
** There's also his voice, which at least in English sounds even sexier than ''Lelouch's.''
* EzraWeisz: His VA in the English-language dub.
* {{Fanboy}}: For C.C.
* FateWorseThanDeath: ''MAO! NEVER SPEAK AGAIN!'' [[spoiler: Thankfully, C.C. kills him right after this.]]
* FeigningIntelligence: He isn't; he actually ''is'' very intelligent. But on the other hand, his WickedCultured manner of speaking, as well as his status as a WhiteHairedPrettyBoy, most of which are classy and cool, give him an air of sophistication and self-satisfaction that he doesn't actually possess. So while he seems like a very high-functioning SmugSnake in his early interactions with Shirley and the like, he's really ''just'' an insane (and deeply hurt) PsychopathicManchild, and accordingly. See HiddenDepths.
* {{Flashback}}: To his FreudianExcuse. One of the things that keeps him from being a CompleteMonster.
* FlawExploitation: He both uses this against Lelouch and company and takes it from Lelouch.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: The state of his Geass, and his many [[TheReveal reveals]], turn out to be important later on in the show ([[spoiler: especially the ultimately uncontrollable nature of Geass, Suzaku's being a DeathSeeker, and the true nature of C.C.'s contract]]).
* FreudianExcuse: An exceptionally good one.
* FreudWasRight: See BiggusDickus above, and WifeHusbandry and VisualInnuendo below.
* GadgeteerGenius: Implied. Given his isolation, he couldn't exactly go bargain-shopping for a bomb of the exact specifications he wanted.
* GoodEyesEvilEyes: You can tell just by looking at him that he's a villain.
* HannibalLecture: He delivers quite a few of these.
* HarmfulToMinors: Once he reached the age when his Geass got out of control, he had to hear the thoughts of everyone around him, no matter how mature or gross they were. It did ''not'' bode well for his psyche.
* HeadphonesEqualIsolation
* HiddenDepths: Wouldn't you know that the SmugSnake was all along just a poor boy who couldn't bear the world around him and only wanted to be with the one person who truly made him happy.
** See also FeigningIntelligence, above, for more of the same.
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: He brings it to a series that had had relatively little before he came along.
* HormoneAddledTeenager: [[FreudWasRight Sort of....]]
* ILoveYouBecauseICantControlYou: Part of what turns him into a {{Yandere}} for C.C. is that he doesn't have to hear her every thought, unlike with [[BlessedWithSuck just about everyone else]].
* ImpossiblyCoolClothes: Just look at his picture.
** Granted, he does shed those after [[spoiler: they get shot full of holes and becomes something of a RummageSaleReject.]]
* [[ImTakingHerHomeWithMe I'm Taking Him Home With Me]]: Some fans ''undeniably'' [[MisaimedFandom feel this way about him]]. Just check anywhere there's fan media of him lying around.
* [[spoiler: InstantDeathBullet: A rare example for a fairly major character in the series. YourMileageMayVary on whether or not he's ''actually'' dead though, with slight justification from his earlier [[strike:uncanny]] impossible survival and C.C.'s cryptic comment.]]
* InstantExpert: At chess. (If you believe him that he's never played it before.) A mostly JustifiedTrope, in that he defeats Lelouch simply by reading his mind. (Whether reading the mind of a chess expert could really allow anyone to play * better* than said expert is another matter -- after all, Chess Is Not Poker -- but that's another trope for another day. Then again, he had the advantage of playing white.)
** Consider the possibility that most good chess players automatically work out what strategies the opponent might best use against any considered move and Mao doesn't even need to know how to play, he could just wait for Lelouch's mind to supply him with the best strategy.
* InsufferableGenius: Not merely insufferable, but [[PsychopathicManchild deeply repellant]].
* {{Irony}}: It's a very strange moral track, given their respective roles in the show, when Lelouch TheHero is a [[GreyAndGrayMorality deeply conflicted]], [[DarkIsNotEvil shady figure]], and Mao is [[PureIsNotGood innocent]] and [[BewareTheHonestOnes honest]].
** There's also the fact that nobody screwed him over more than C.C.... and yet he treats her like an angel and ''[[NaiveEveryGirl Shirley]]'', of all people, as a bad guy!
*** He only [[InnocentBystander used Shirley]] in order to attack Lelouch though...
* ItGotWorse: You'd think losing your family would be a bad enough trauma for any childhood. Then he meets C.C. Oh boy.
** Later, he also ''provides'' plenty of ItGotWorse.
* ItsAllAboutMe: And C.C...
* JerkAssFacade: He is undeniably putting on one of these when dealing with his opponents, as he becomes very different when he's alone with C.C.
* JerkAssWoobie: He's too much of an asshole to be fully pitied, but his FreudianExcuse is quite well-done.
* KarmicDeath: He thinks that the deaths of Shirley and Lelouch would be this, owing to his [[MoralMyopia misunderstanding of her situation]] and his desire to protect C.C. [[spoiler: from her contract with Lelouch]]. [[spoiler: Ironically he himself never truly gets one. The first time around it's subverted as he [[NoOneShouldSurviveThat doesn't die]]; and when his time to die finally does come, it's made into a MercyKill because at that point his FreudianExcuse has been fleshed out and he's [[YourMileageMayVary arguably]] shown to be [[CryForTheDevil as much a victim as a villain!]]]]
* KickThemWhileTheyAreDown: [[spoiler: With [[NaiveEverygirl Shirley]],]] of course. He also ends up on the receiving end of this from Lelouch.
* KidsAreCruel: As are [[PsychopathicManchild Psychopathic Manchildren.]] His torment of other characters always manifests itself in fairly childish ways.
** As an actual child, though, he was apparently pretty nice... until his Geass started making his life hell.
* [[supersecretspoiler: KilledOffForReal: See also InstantBulletDeath, above.]]
* KnightInShiningArmor: Seems to fancy himself as one for C.C.
* LetThemDieHappy: [[spoiler: C.C. arranges this for him, more or less.]]
* LightIsNotGood: White hair, light-colored clothing, {{Telepathy}} in a world where the DarkIsNotEvil protagonist relies on keeping himself shrouded in mystery and a borderline KnightTemplar.In addition, episode 14 features a chess game between him and TallDarkAndHandsome Lelouch. Predictably enough, Mao plays white, whereas Lelouch plays black. (Note: Choosing white in this case was also a very practical decision. In chess, white always plays first, and between sufficiently strong opponents, white has a small but statistically significant advantage (although for the vast majority of players, the advantage is extremely small). Thus if [[strike: Light]] Lelouch is even half as good a player as [[InformedAbility we're told he is,]] getting white is important.)
** But see ChessMotif above: he practically ''looks like'' the show's white king!
* LoveMakesYouEvil: ''Everything'' he does, including ''all'' his evil deeds, lead back to his feelings for C.C.
* LoveMartyr: [[BaseBreaker How some fans see him]]. A ''very, very'' touchy AlternativeCharacterInterpretation of him that depends on how much you buy into his FreudianExcuse. On the one hand, it's honestly very sad that his only option for love is the one made him that way in the first place and abandoned him so thoughtlessly (whatever her motivations were) that it starts to look a bit [[http://cats.about.com/library/guest/ucfeature25a.htm "How Could You"]]. Since he's [[{{Understatement}} no angel himself,]] however, the amount of actual sympathy that he's awarded for his pursuit of C.C. [[YourMileageMayVary varies]] among fans, with some treating it as a completely legitimate OneTruePairing and others as a CompleteMonster.
* MadLove: For C.C. Played for heavy, heavy drama and comes with a side order of {{Squick}}.
** He possibly sees Lelouch's and Shirley's relationship as this as well, given some of the things he says to Shirley ('''''"He's a bad, bad man.... And you like it!"''''')
* MakingASpectacleOfYourself
* ManInWhite: At least when he's wearing his ImpossiblyCoolClothes....
* ManipulativeBastard: Naturally.
* MayflyDecemberRomance: Mao is supposed [[OlderThanTheyLook to be around 17]] while C.C. is ReallySevenHundredYearsOld, and has known him since he ''was six''.
* MeaningfulName: Possibly. [[{{Understatement}} For some]], [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mao_Zedong Mao]] is [[{{Understatement}} not a name]] [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast that brings to mind the warm fuzzies.]]
** It's also the Chinese word for "cat"; make of [[CatsAreMean that]] what you [[EverythingsCuterWithKittens will]].
* MemeticMutation: Mao [[http://mao-plz.deviantart.com/art/Mao-98530833 loves]] [[http://i314.photobucket.com/albums/ll432/Reignfire/My%20Motivators/MaosStorageService-CodeGeass.jpg his]] [[http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3502/3186609136_517404190b.jpg chainsaw]]. [[AxCrazy =D]]
** Also, his SarcasticClapping.
** "Let's go to Australia!"
* MemeticSexGod: How [[FanDumb some]] fans see him.
* [[spoiler: MemoryGambit: Lelouch's leads to his downfall.]]
* [[spoiler: MercyKill: C.C. does this to him. Complete with LetThemDieHappy and a rare instance in CodeGeass where a non-{{mook}} gets an InstantDeathBullet.]]
* AMindIsATerribleThingToRead: An extreme example.
* MindRape: His specialty, which he inflicts upon [[spoiler: Shirley and Suzaku]] to devastating effect.
* MisaimedFandom: He has a pretty major DracoInLeatherPants problem on one side of the equation, forgetting that even with his FreudianExcuse, he's still an Jerkass, although see JerkassFacade and AlternativeCharacterInterpretation. But some get carried away in the other direction and treat him as a true CompleteMonster or else a useless disgusting freak who [[{{Filler}} "stole air time"]]. The reality lies somewhere in the middle.
** Also, his relationship with C.C. is [[MindGameShip unhealthy]] to say the least: he's [[MadLove insanely obsessed]] with someone who [[WifeHusbandry practically raised him]].
*** Although C.C.'s [[spoiler: LoveConfession]] can be seen as the payoff in this regard, with fans treating them as a legitimate pairing complete with a [[http://photobucket.com/images/mao%20and%20cc/?&userinit=true&source=header whole]] [[http://www.fanfiction.net/anime/Code_Geass/10/0/0/1/0/8938/3811/0/0/1/ host of]] [[http://kouji-alone.livejournal.com/34175.html fan]] [[http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=mao+and+c.c.&aq=f media]].
** Additionally, some fans who don't like [[NaiveEveryGirl Shirley]] see Mao as an awesome AntiVillain [[DracoInLeatherPants at the very least]], due to the terrible MoreThanMindControl he inflicted on her, which they treat as a well-deserved [=~What The Hell, Hero?~=] speech. While there are plenty of legitimate reasons to dislike Shirley (and like Mao), his claim that Shirley took advantage of Lelouch's sympathy for her is not only exaggerated, but also a MoralEventHorizon.
* MissingMom: He was orphaned as a young child. From the age of six, he was raised by C.C. Then she , too, abandoned him.
* MoralEventHorizon: [[spoiler: His MoreThanMindControl of [[NaiveEveryGirl Shirley]].]] Even if you think he's TheWoobie, you ''cannot'' ignore this.
** However, it ''might'' be negated seeing as [[spoiler: Lelouch makes Shirley forget all of it afterwards.]] As horrible as it was, the damange wasn't permanent.
* MoralMyopia: He seems to have this mindset when dealing with Shirley and Lelouch, although he's more concerned with getting to C.C. than actually caring about the world. Taken to extremes, thanks to his [[PsychopathicManchild childishness]] as he berates the characters for doing (or thinking, or remembering doing or thinking) things that he sees as bad... even though he needs to MindRape them to do it. (And he's also probably ''murdered'' several people.)
* MoreThanMindControl: His Geass gives him the ability to do this.
* NearVillainVictory: Mao successfully MoreThanMindControl's Shirley into killing Lelouch for him, while he has his only escape covered with his own gun. Not only that, but they're all in a secluded area and Mao is immune to Lelouch's Geass at the moment. Only Shirley's HeroicBSOD foils it, but then Mao simply retreats and primes his shotgun, ready to kill them "the old boring way". In the end, Lelouch is only spared a BlastOut by the timely and unexpected arrival of C.C. who is able to divert Mao without him detecting her.
* NietzscheWannabe
* [[spoiler: NoOneShouldSurviveThat: If people remember one thing about him, it's probably the time he comes back for Lelouch after being '''riddled with bullets''' in the previous episode.]]
* NotGoodWithPeople: ''NOT AT ALL!'' It makes sense, though, in that owing to his Geass he really can't interact with them normally at all; and that for years he's been raised away from them by C.C., a very self-centered person in her own right who probably never cared what his relations to them were.
* OneSceneWonder: Consider how long this entry is. Then consider that Mao only appears in the anime for a few episodes.
** To say nothing of all those fanclubs he has scattered over popular websites. And the sheer amount of fanmade media of him. And the [[MemeticMutation memes]] associated with him. And his status as an EnsembleDarkhorse and a DracoInLeatherPants. And [[http://mao.lamperouge.net his own fanlisting]]. And [[http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=mao=2 his appearance in URBAN DICTIONARY]]. And then there are all those {{fan girl}}s who still demand more of him, and at least one critic has compared him with Lelouch and found '''Lelouch''' wanting. [[http://vacerious.xanga.com/711892212/3-minor-characters-of-generic-modern-anime-i-venerate/ Scroll down]] (maybe not an official critic ''per se'', but still). In fact, one of his fans has now written a PerspectiveFlip version of CodeGeass with Mao as [[BreakoutCharacter the protagonist]], the aptly named Fanfic/CodeGeassMaoOfTheDeliverance.
** Mao's also something of an in-universe OneSceneWonder. [[spoiler: After his death, he still gets mentioned on several occasions, because he serves as the show's MostTriumphantExample of how destructive the Geass "gift" can be to its recipient.]]
* ParanoiaFuel: Here's a guy who can read your mind. In fact, he if he wants to, he can dig through your mind right down to your subconscious. And see any thoughts, including ones you never wanted anyone to know. And given his ''[[MoralMyopia immature]]'' sense of morality, get the idea from them that you're a bad, bad person who needs to die! Scared yet? You can't feel him reading your mind. So you have '''no way of knowing''' how much he saw until he confronts you.
* ParentalAbandonment: He was orphaned as a young child, no older than six. [[ItGotWorse Then]] C.C. -- his only possible human contact in the world -- abandoned him.
* PersonalityPowers: According to supplementary materials his mind-reading is an extension of his uncommonly good perception of people.
* PowerIncontinence
* PsychicPowers
* PsychopathicManchild
* PsychoticSmirk: Apparently his default expression. Which he wears ''[[EvilIsSexy very,]]'' [[EvilIsSexy very well]].
* PureIsNotGood: So pure, innocent, and utterly unsullied by the world that he's willing to MindRape people who may have done or thought of bad things, and destroy them; all with no apparent idea he's doing anything wrong. See also ChildrenAreInnocent, LightIsNotGood, and MoralMyopia.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: More like pink eyes -- he's an EvilAlbino -- but they have a red hue from his Geass.
** As a matter of fact, you ''do'' get to see his eye without Geass very briefly as [[spoiler: he dies.]] It's actually ''blue.'' [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic Makes you]] [[DyingAsYourself wonder....]]
* RedOniBlueOni: He could be considered the red to Lelouch's blue.
* TheReveal: Not surprising, given the nature of his power and his personality. Most especially, he reveals that [[spoiler: Shirley attempted to kill Viletta to protect Lelouch and Suzaku is a DeathSeeker who murdered his own father]], the latter a fact that had thus far only been very subtly hinted at.
* SadisticChoice: He presents several. Sometimes his victims manage to TakeAThirdOption.
* SarcasticClapping: Reached MemeticMutation status.
* ScaryShinyGlasses: Well, [[TheIngenue Shirley]] seems to think so, anyway....
* SelectiveObliviousness: He's so perceptive he can ''read people's minds,'' and yet he completely ignores or argues against any attempts C.C. makes to distance herself from him. To wit:
-->'''Mao (* is holding the gun he used to shoot C.C.* ):''' I knew you couldn't pull the trigger! That's cause you really love me, C.C.!
-->'''C.C.:''' [[CassandraTruth You're wrong; I was just using you right from the start!]]
-->'''Mao:''' What are you saying? [[CassandraTruth You shouldn't tell lies like that, you really shouldn't! Lies are very, very wicked!]]
** Well since C.C. herself [[spoiler: gives a LoveConfession]] to him before [[spoiler: his death]] and in [[OddlyNamedSequel R2]] we learn the ''real'' reason she left Mao in the first place, they were [[TakeAThirdOption ''both'' telling the truth]].
** He also only managed to notice that Shirley kissed Lelouch after confessing to him that Zero had killed her father. He presumably could have read her mind to learn the whole story, but didn't get his head around it.
*** He didn't care what the whole story was, all he wanted was to use Shirley in order to kill Lelouch to end his contract with C.C.
* ShutUpHannibal: [[spoiler: Lelouch used his Geass power to inflict a ''permanent'' one -- soon before Mao's death at C.C.'s hands.]]
* SingleTargetSexuality: For C.C. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in that he has no other options outside of her.
* SinisterShades
* SmartPeoplePlayChess: Borderline case, as he at least claims he's ''never played chess before'', and he defeats Lelouch at chess only because he can read Lelouch's mind. See also InstantExpert, above.
* SmugSnake: Played '''completely''' straight -- until we learn his FreudianExcuse. Then he also takes on aspects of TheWoobie, at least [[BaseBreaker for]] [[YourMilageMayVary some]].
* {{Squick}}: His MoreThanMindControl of [[TheIngenue Shirley]]. Then, his attempted [[ChainsawGood chainsaw]]-[[AxCrazy assisted]] dismemberment of C.C.
** Or even the nature of his relationship with C.C. in the first place. Think about it: she practically raised him, and he's in love with her. He's essentially in love with his ''foster mother!'' And then there's that whole WifeHusbandry thing....
*** Not really considering the fact the C.C. is [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption Doomed To Fail]] by this standard. Think about it: She's ReallySevenHundredYearsOld, so ''anybody'' she fancies is going to be impossibly younger than her anyway.
* StalkerWithACrush: He [[TheDeterminator relentlessly]] searches for her while listening to her voice constantly in his headphones.
* StalkingIsLove: Seems to think so. And so is listening to your love interest on your headphones. And so is attempting to '''mutilate''' said love interest! Although [[FanDumb some fans]] [[MisaimedFandom will be quick to agree]] (believe it or not)!
* StepfordSmiler: He could be, on some levels. When he first confronts Shirley he looks extremely cool, confident, and self-satisfied. It's only after that it becomes clear just how screwed-up and miserable he really is. See also HiddenDepths and FeigningIntelligence, above. Although, in an unusual variation, he doesn't seem to play this part deliberately.
* TakeshiKusao: His {{seiyuu}}.
* [[spoiler: TearJerker: His death! [[YourMileageMayVary For some.]]]]
* TeenGenius: In this series, that's almost a given. (He gets outsmarted by Lelouch, but who doesn't?)
* {{Telepathy}}: His Geass power.
* TVGenius: Possibly -- see GadgeteerGenius above.
* {{Ubermensch}}: Seems to see himself that way.
* TheUnfettered
* UnhappyMedium: Very, very unhappy. And became one when he was only about six years old.
* UnluckyChildhoodFriend: To C.C. Except whereas '''he''' really was a kid, '''she''' was already ReallySevenHundredYearsOld.
* UsedToBeASweetKid: Implied. AllThereInTheManual: Oh, he's so perceptive of other people! Oh, he's so innocent! Oh, he likes [[PetTheDog playing with little puppies!]]
* VillainsNeverLie
* VisualInnuendo: A famous -- and ri[[IncrediblyLamePun dic]]ulous -- one involving his shadow and the shadow of his chainsaw. See also BiggusDickus and MemeticMutation, above.
* WhatAnIdiot: [[spoiler: If your power ''only'' works to radius X, and you ''need'' your power because you're in the midst of a battle against TheChessmaster, then for heaven's sake ''don't'' use a bomb that not only ''forces'' you outside radius X but lets your enemy ''know'' you must be outside radius X. Duh. Next time, use a smaller bomb and hide it inside the hollow shell of the bigger "bomb," thus tricking your enemy into ''thinking'' you went outside radius X when in fact you didn't.]]
* [=~What The Hell, Hero?~=]: He gives Lelouch one of these. Actually, a [[MoralEventHorizon cruel]] version of this is a core aspect of each his {{Mind Rape}}s. See MoralMyopia above, for further details.
* WhiteHairedPrettyBoy
* WifeHusbandry: C.C. met him when he was six and made him dependent on her for ''all'' his social needs, causing him to develop a PrecociousCrush on her which later becomes [[SingleTargetSexuality full fledged love]]. See Yandere.
** There's also the statement by C.C. that she became his "best friend ''and lover''". Fans have [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6129393/1/Kisses_and_Wishes already]] used this line to [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean it's full potential]].
* WillNotTellALie: Probably. Because '''"Lies are very, very wicked!"''' Also, he's so used to relying on his mind-reading skills, which tend to render lies pointless. Not that he won't bend the truth, mind you, or practice SelectiveObliviousness to an insane degree. He's not quite right in the head, after all.
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: Technically. It's what the power allows him to do that drove him mad, not the power in and of itself.
* TheWoobie: In {{flashback}}s. Otherwise, YourMilageMayVary to the point that he might be a BaseBreaker.
* WorthyOpponent: One reason why he was met with so much fanfare was that some fans of the show were glad at the time of his appearance to see another Geass user who could beat Lelouch up.
* {{Yandere}}: Obsessively fixated on C.C.
* YoungerThanTheyLook: He's only seventeen. Looks like he's in his twenties (for those of you keeping track, this all means he's a seventeen-year-old who looks like a twenty-one-year-old but who acts like a [[PsychopathicManchild six-year-old]]!).
** If he puts on [[http://media.photobucket.com/image/code%20geass%20mao/sesshoumarulover2/code%20geass%20CP/gakuensai.jpg?o=29 a nice conservative school uniform]] rather than [[ImpossiblyCoolClothes that crazy getup]] he usually wears, he actually ''does'' look more his age (of course the picture isn't really official).
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::'''Rai'''

The PlayerCharacter of the VisualNovel ''Lost Colors'', Rai is a mysterious young man who enters the story (approximately around Episode 8) when Milly finds him wandering around Tokyo with [[EasyAmnesia amnesia]] and takes him to Ashford Academy. He quickly learns that he has a Geass power of his own, effectively identical to Lelouch's except that Rai's is auditory rather than visual. From there, he meets the central cast, and can choose whether to become Zero's right-hand man in the Black Knights, or Suzaku's partner in the Britannian military (or, in a PSP-exclusive storyline, he can revive the Japan Liberation Front and oppose both the Black Knights and Britannia).

[[spoiler:Eventually Rai learns exactly why he had amnesia: he comes from an unspecified time in the past, where he became leader of a small nation thanks to his charisma, leadership, and his Geass. After accidentally Geassing his people (including his mother and sister) into charging into battle and dying, he sealed himself away in the ruin at Kaminejima, eventually being awoken by V.V..]]
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Rai embodies these tropes:

{{AFGNCAAP}}: Averted; while the player can name the character (Rai being the default and "canon" name), he's got a set physical appearance, personality, and backstory.
* AttractiveBentGender: See him dress up as a girl.
* {{Bishonen}}
* CharlieDog: [[spoiler:Part Japanese and part Britannian]]
* CompellingVoice: A more literal version than Lelouch.
* ContinuityCameo: Rai, or at least someone looking a lot like him, appears in ''R2'''s second School Festival Episode.
* [[spoiler:DeadLittleSister]]: [[spoiler:And mother, while we're at it.]]
* EasyAmnesia
* EvenTheGuysWantHim
* GaryStu: Sit down, we'll be here a while.
** BlackHoleSue: He stops short of taking over as Zero, but just barely; C.C.'s ending for the Blue Moon Festival has her forming a contract with Rai, with absolutely no mention of Lelouch, suggesting that they "split up".
** CopyCatSue: Can be considered one for much the same reasons as Xingke (the awesome parts of Lelouch and Suzaku rolled into one person); made worse since he lacks any drawbacks like Xingke's IncurableCoughOfDeath or his going OutOfFocus. Unless you get his Bad Endings, but still, uh.
** FixerSue: Rai can actually stop the [[spoiler:Euphinator]] tragedy even after it's already begun. (And many people actually ''do'' like that development)
** GodModeSue: Really, with a GaryStu entry this extensive, is it any surprise?
** RelationshipSue: You can end up in a romance with just about anybody in the main cast thanks to the PS2-exclusive Blue Moon Festival; furthermore, you can actually break up canon love interests by romancing Euphemia, Shirley, Kaguya, Kallen, and C.C. [[JustifiedTrope This one's a little more understandable:]] the game ''does'' have DatingSim element, so having the main kid romance others IS a given.
* MyGreatestFailure: [[spoiler:Just like Lelouch, an unintentional Geass command caused everything to go to hell for him.]]
* [[spoiler:PowerIncontinence]]: [[spoiler:The reason he destroyed his nation.]]
* [[spoiler:SealedGoodInACan]]
* SuperPrototype: The Gekka Pre-Production Test Type, Rai's HumongousMecha on Japanese story routes, obviously. The Britannian equivalent, the Lancelot Club, is believed by {{Fanon}} to be the prototype for the Vincent from ''R2''.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Rai is pretty much halfway between Lelouch and Suzaku in terms of personality and abilities. Of course, this creates some problems (see GaryStu, above).
* TheBeautifulPeople: You only see his face in the official strategy guide, but yup, he qualifies.
* WhiteHairedPrettyBoy
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Tropes embodied by other miscellaneous characters:

* AmazonBrigade: The entirely female Irregulars.
* AmbiguouslyJewish: The number of Jewish-sounding last names is noteworthy (i.e., Gino ''Weinberg'', Bismarck ''Waldstein'', etc.). It's not played completely straight since most of them don't have any other such traits worth speaking of.
* AristocratsAreEvil: Usually (but not always) played straight -- especially within the Britannian royal family, but elsewhere as well.
* BadassNormal: Everyone who isn't a Geass user, Code Holder or generic background character really. Any exceptions are blatantly obvious.
* TheBeautifulPeople: ''Most of the cast!'' Good luck weeding out any characters who aren't [[TallDarkAndBishoujo beautiful]], [[GenericCuteness cute]], [[{{Bishounen}} handsome]], [[FetishFuel hot]], etc.
* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Applicable to just about everyone (see TheBeautifulPeople above). Even when characters get grievously injured or do something that should make them completely gross and icky they never lose their good looks.
* BigOlEyebrows: Kyoushiroh Todoh.
* BigScrewedUpFamily: The entire royal family of Britannia.
* BlessedWithSuck: Practically any Geass power eventually develops certain drawbacks for its respective user, typically in the form of the user becoming unable to turn it off.
* BlondGuysAreEvil: Averted with Gino Weinberg and Prince Odysseus eu Britannia.
* BlueEyes: Prince Clovis la Britannia. Gilbert G.P. Guilford. Various members of the royal family. Various Britannians. The occasional Eleven -- including Kallen's mother (Mrs. Kozuki).
* BreakTheCutie: Kallen's mother (Mrs. Kozuki), and too many minor characters to count.
** Nina Einstein deserves mention, she starts off as a harmless kind of mousy girl even with her huge flaws, then rather quickly shifts to mousy panicky racist, then with the death of her idol, goes completely over the end. First she tries to nuke (literally) her school, even pushes the trigger, but fails due to poor design. In S2, she finally perfects the device, it gets used and while she didn't pull the trigger this time (she was willing to), she ends up being directly responsible for at least 35 MILLION dead.
* BridgeBunnies: The Black Knights got some after acquiring their CoolShip.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Gino Weinberg, the Knight the Third, acts like a complete clown whenever he's not fighting. Kanon Maldini is an ex VillainousCrossdresser who couldn't find a stable workplace for this very reason despite his competence, until he met Schneizel.
* ChessMotifs: Pawns: just about all of the Black Knights (except Kallen).
* ChinesePeople: The Chinese Federation.
* ChivalrousPervert: The sixth Picture Drama suggests Prince Clovis la Britannia was one. Just look at the swimsuits he designed. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] when Cornelia doesn't want to let Euphemia wear one of them.
* TheDanza: Nagisa Chiba is played by SaekoChiba.
* DarkIsNotEvil: The Black Knights.
* DarkSkinnedBlond: In ''NightmareOfNunnally'', Dalque, who comes from an unknown conquered area.
* DisneyDeath: [[spoiler: Sayoko and Guilford.]]
* {{Dojikko}}: Kallen's mother (Mrs. Kozuki) is a tragic example. Her clutziness ''[[EpilepticTrees could]]'' be a result of [[spoiler: her addiction to an in-universe drug called Refrain.]]
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler: Most of the Knights of Rounds -- except Anya Alstreim, Gino Weinberg, and [[IsntItSad Miss Not-Appearing in a Speaking Role This Series]] Nonette. Particularly Dorothea Ernst aka Knight the Fourth, with all the UnfortunateImplications it brings, and Bismarck Waldstein aka Knight the First, who gets utterly WTFPWNED by Suzaku just as he was becoming a genuinely interesting character. Cornelia was THIS close to get a bridge on ''her'', but she managed to dodge it somehow and survived after being shot by Schneizel.]]
** Minor character Governor Calares got a ''skyscraper'' dropped on him.
* DullSurprise: Crown Prince Odysseus' default expression. No wonder he was [[FanNickname nicknamed]] "[[{{Spaceballs}} Prince Valium]]"
* EnsembleDarkhorse: While not actually a ''character'', Lelouch's [[NiceHat AWESOME hat]] he has [[spoiler: as Emperor]] has developed quite a fan following.
** Urabe went from "that ratty-looking member of the Holy Swords" to Darkhorse when he displayed incredible levels of BadAss [[spoiler:and pulled a HeroicSacrifice]] early in R2.
* {{Expy}}: Miss Romeyer, Nunnally's caretaker in ''R2''. Clearly, an expy of Miss Rottenmaier from the novel ''{{Heidi}}'', in particular the extremely popular anime adaptation ''AlpenNoShoujoHeidi''.
* ExtremeDoormat: Kallen hates her biological mother (Mrs. Kozuki), thinking she was this for her Britannian father. [[spoiler: Turns out she was one for ''Kallen''. After learning this, Kallen has a change of heart.]]
* FiveManBand: Tohdoh (TheHero) and the 4 Holy Blades (Asahina=TheLancer, Chiba=TheChick, Senba=TheBigGuy, Urabe=TheSmartGuy)
* HiddenDepths: No one in this series is ''quite'' who they seem to be at first. Many characters play the trope deliberately, though not all do.
* HotMom: Kallen's mom, Mrs. Kouzuki.
* IdiotBall: Various characters throughout the series but Sayoko and Anya take it to RalphWiggum level during the Cupid day episode.
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: Almost every character in the wedding photo, including Cornelia, most of the Black Knights who followed Ohgi into betraying Lelouch in favor of Schneizel, and of course, the happy couple, Ohgi and Villetta. Compare and contrast to Lelouch and Suzaku who both paid the ultimate atonement in order to bring about the peace that everyone else among the living enjoys.]]
* ImprobableAge: Where to start? It might almost be easier to list counterexamples.
* LadyOfWar: For the Black Knights: Nagisa Chiba (Todoh's girlfriend).
* TheLibby: Katherina Sforza from the ''NightmareOfNunnally'' manga. But after [[KickTheDog throwing Nunnally off her wheelchair]] for refusing to endure her bullying, Katherina finds herself on the wrong side of Nunnally's classmate Alice [[spoiler: whose Geass-like ability grants her SuperSpeed]]. Alice punishes Katherina and her GirlPosse by [[HumiliationConga stealing their skirts -- out in the open]].
* LightIsNotGood: The Britannian military especiall the higher ups.
* MissingMom: [[spoiler: V.V. and Charles's StartOfDarkness took place when their mother, courtesy of other nobles, got [[DroppedABridgeOnHim a carriage dropped on her]] and in front of the not-older-than-10 twins, as revenge for having her kids appointed as heirs to TheEmpire.]] Yikes.
* MoralEventHorizon: ''Several'' people on ''both'' sides cross it. Distubingly often.
* MoralityPet: For Lelouch, the Ashford students, but especially those on the Studen Council (and of course Nunnally most of all, at least in theory...).
* PurpleEyes: Diethard Reid. Most of the royal family. Many Britannians. The occasional Eleven.
* QuirkyMinibossSquad: The Valkyrie Unit accompanying Luciano. Or rather, they ''would'' have been one, if they didn't have the misfortune of facing Kallen.
* [[spoiler: TheQuisling: Along with Nina, Lloyd, and Cécile, Sayoko pretends to be this under Lelouch direction; they assisted Lelouch's Zero Requiem to achieve world piece, but as Lelouch would be eventually hated as the most tyrannical ruler in history, Lelouch has them defect to the Black Knights after they've accomplished their tasks to preserve their name after the war.]]
* RapunzelHair: Several females in the series have quite long hair that goes down to their hips.
* RedBaron: Todoh is sometimes referred to as "Todoh of miracles"
* SacrificialLamb: Clovis was there just to get killed.
** Nonnette, who only appeared in a couple of still shots during R2, though it arguably works out in her favour as she was one of the few Knights of the Round that weren't killed off. This is probably because she was more relevant to ''Lost Colors'' than the anime.
* {{Seppuku}}: Suzaku's father, to public knowledge, did this out of protest for the war. [[spoiler:Suzaku actually just happened to stab him rather convieniently.]] Urabe did this to save Lelouch from Rolo. With a Mecha.
* SiblingTeam: The Glaston Knights, composed of Andreas Darlton's adopted sons.
* SixStudentClique: Lelouch=The Head, Suzaku=The Muscle, Rivalz=The Quirk, Shirley and Kallen=The Pretty Ones, Nina=The Smart One, Millay=The Wild One.
* SmugSnake: In a show full of [[MagnificentBastard magnificent bastards]], Diethard Reid serves this role.
* SoleSurvivor: Claudio Darlton of the [[SiblingTeam Glaston Knights]].
* SpannerInTheWorks: Arthur, a ''cat'', very nearly manages to expose Lelouch as Zero simply by getting its head stuck inside his helmet and carrying it around Ashford. In addition, if it weren't for Arthur, most likely Suzaku would've been [[spoiler: killed by Tamaki]] in the Season One finale.
* TheThreeFacesOfEve: Zero's "Three Courtly Ladies"; C.C (his mentor but thought of as his mistress), Kallen (dresses seductively but acts more like the obedient daughter) and Kaguya (the child who styles herself as his "wife")
* TokenEvilTeammate: Diethard for the Black Knights and Luciano for the Knight of Rounds.
* {{Tsundere}}: Arthur the ''cat''.
* UnwittingPawn: The Order of the Black Knight in general, who first ended up in Lelouch's hand before becoming Schneizel's pawns. Some Troopers even guessed that Lelouch expected Schneizel to use schemes to get them to be the 2nd prince pawns and act based on that, so in the end black Knights will always be Lelouch's pawn, directly or indirectly.
* VillainousCrossdresser: Kanon Maldini, according to [[AllThereInTheManual supplementary materials]].
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler: Kanon and the Brittania siblings.]]
* TheWoobie: Many.
* YamatoNadeshiko: An adult subversion/{{deconstruction}} of this trope would be Kallen's birth mother. Mrs. Kouzuki got the looks and the devotion, but [[BreakTheCutie ended up real screwed]]. [[spoiler: In the end of ''R2'', we see that she's getting better. Hooray!]]
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Almost everyone -- although not necessarily blue. (Characters who are fullblooded Japanese are sometimes exempt. Or ''mostly'' exempt.)
** It's amusing to note that the show's resident WhiteHairedPrettyBoy and WhiteHairedPrettyGirl are both ChinesePeople and don't fall in line with common assumptions about those tropes.
* YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters: For the core Black Knights before they joined up with Zero. One wonders what they were planning to do with a huge canister of poison gas, even if Kallen protested using it in a civilian area.
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* EvilIsSexy: Another example of PlayingWithATrope.

* CharacterAlignment: ChaoticSelfish[=/=]WildCard, he Is much too ruthless as to fit to ChaoticGood, But also he is very heroic as to fit to NeutralEvil.

Kallen is an outspoken half-Britannian, half-Japanese girl who is damn proud of heritage and opposed to the hostile takeover of Britannia. She has a [[StepfordSmiler rather frail]] [[YamatoNadeshiko and gentle Japanese mother]], whom she kind of despised at first, but eventually decided to make her the reason for fighting after directly witnessing how much she suffered for Kallen's sake. She also attends Ashford Academy with Lelouch, playing the IllGirl role to avoid suspicion of her involvement with the movement against Britannia. She also has [[MsFanservice a rather nice pair of boobs]].

* AdultChild: More literally, a Teen Child. But he's incredibly childlike. How could he not be? He was RaisedByWolves.

* CryForTheDevil: Poor, poor guy. Sure he's an AxCrazy maniac. But all because of [[FreudianExcuse circumstances]] ''[[ParentalAbandonment beyond]]'' ''[[RaisedByWolves his]]'' ''[[BlessedWithSuck control]]''!

* RaisedByWolves: A good portion of Mao's problems relate to the fact that C.C. ([[JerkAss of all people]]) is the only thing even remotely resembling a parent figure he's ever had. He might have been better off literally raised by wolves.

* PurpleEyes

* AffablyEvil

* AntiHero: [[SlidingScaleOfAntiHeroes Type IV ]] or a Type V with moments of the PetTheDog (YMMV),He is genuinely heroic and well meaning, but also [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope jumps off the slippery slope]] when, for instance, [[spoiler:he abandons his subordinates at the end of the first season to save Nunnally]] or when he [[spoiler:[[KickTheSonOfTheBitch massacres the]] [[AssholeVictim Geass Cult]]]].

* EvilIsSexy

* CounterpartComparison: He is of [[VForVendetta V]], the chaotic rebel ByronicHero, MagnificentBastard and [[HeroicSociopath sociopath]] utilizing morally dubious plans to bring down an oppressive dictatorship.

* AntiHero: [[SlidingScaleOfAntiHeroes Type IV ]] or a Type V with moments of the PetTheDog (YMMV): He is genuinely heroic and well meaning, but also [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope jumps off the slippery slope]] when, for instance, [[spoiler:he abandons his subordinates at the end of the first season to save Nunnally]] or when he [[spoiler:[[KickTheSonOfTheBitch massacres the]] [[AssholeVictim Geass Cult]]]].

* AristocratsAreEvil: With a few exceptions, he thinks this of the Britannian leadership. Thing is, not including the exceptions, he's entirely right.

* CounterpartComparison: He's just like {{Batman}}.
** [[VForVendetta V]] is probably a more apt comparison - the chaotic rebel ByronicHero, MagnificentBastard and [[HeroicSociopath sociopath]] utilizing morally dubious plans to bring down an oppressive dictatorship.
** And don't forget [[DeathNote Light Yagami]] since he has one thing in common with him: [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans making the world a better place by a godly superpower]].

* {{Expy}}: Lelouch has been considered at least a partial Expy of any number of fictional and even historical figures. Not just one of [[DeathNote Light Yagami]], [[LegendoftheGalacticHeroes Reinhard von Lohengramm]] or [[CharClone Char Aznable]] but also of famous Japanese writer and actor YukioMishima who attempted a coup against the Japanese government before [[spoiler: committing suicide]] as a form of protest or perhaps NapoleonBonaparte, who as every schoolchild knows sided with a rebellion against the French monarchy and took advantage of the political situation to declare himself emperor.

* AffablyEvil: Certainly [[PlayingWithATrope plays with this trope]].

* AntiHero: [[SlidingScaleOfAntiHeroes Type IV (on average)]]: He is genuinely heroic and well meaning, but also [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope jumps off the slippery slope]] when, for instance, [[spoiler:he abandons his subordinates at the end of the first season to save Nunnally]] or when he [[spoiler:[[KickTheSonOfTheBitch massacres the]] [[AssholeVictim Geass Cult]]]].

* EvilIsSexy: Another example of PlayingWithATrope.

* CharacterAlignment: ChaoticSelfish[=/=]WildCard, he Is much too ruthless to fit to Chaotic Good, But also he is very heroic to fit to Neutral Evil.

* WildCard