History Fanfic / LulusBizarreRebellion

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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Lelouch's plan to stop [[spoiler: Kewell]] by using [[spoiler: Viletta's memory-erasing powers to make Kewell forget himself]] actually made the situation even worse by [[spoiler:erasing his subconscious limitations and thus further empowering Kewell's shape-shifting powers]].
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: It's Mao's taunting that helps [[spoiler: Nunnally realize that her Ripple can harm the wild Stand he's sent after her and that she can use her Geass to stop it]].

* OutsideContextProblem: By the end of Act Two, all the major factions were prepared for Stands, understood Ripple, and were at least aware of the existence of Geass, but [[spoiler: Vampires, Flesh Buds, and the Cult of Kars]] came from so far out of left field that no one was even remotely prepared for them.

** [[spoiler: Shirley]] doesn't have the willpower to fully control her stand without the drive and direction provided by her role in the Black Knights. [[spoiler:She gets better at controlling it as the story goes on.]]

** [[spoiler:Ohgi]]'s Geass eventually goes out of control, leading to him not speaking much (and later using a text-to-speech program) to minimize the damage.

*** Almost Human's shapeshifting abilities grow gradually less precise and stable over time, causing [[spoiler: Kewell's]] body to break down.
*** [[spoiler: Anubis Requiem]]- The Truth was no more able to turn off [[spoiler: Mao's mind reading Geass]] than he was.

* RunningGag: See DramaticThunder [[spoiler: and CerebusRetcon]].
* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler: Darlton]] who, despite being just a normal soldier, goes toe to toe with [[spoiler: a Euphemia possessed by Anubis]] and gets cut down. It's implied that he did this, along with stunning Suzaku, to stop Suzaku from rushing into the battle and letting him see exactly what his opponent was capable of.
* SadisticChoice: [[spoiler:Mao]] forces this on the Ashford student council when he traps them with an uncontrolled Stand that poisons - and transfers itself to - anyone it bites. The only way to cure the poison is to kill the Stand...which means killing its current user. Of course, [[spoiler:Nunnally]] figures out how to TakeAThirdOption: [[spoiler: capture the Stand in a Ripple net mid-transfer (when it has no user) and Geass it into biting itself]].
* ShockAndAwe: Eventually revealed to be [[spoiler: Jeremiah's Stand power, which he uses to kill [=P2F=].]]

* TheStationsOfTheCanon: ''Seems'' to start this way with the story starting following the same events as the show. Then Lelouch gets a Stand instead of a Geass, the group Stand Out [[spoiler: threatens to kill one tenth of the total population of Area 11 if Clovis' killer doesn't reveal himself]] while also [[spoiler: revealing the plot to frame Suzaku]], C.C. [[spoiler: gives Lelouch's geass to Nunnally]], the Black Knights [[spoiler: are initially formed by Ohgi to fight Stand Out]] and ''Shirley'' [[spoiler: has a Stand is recruited by Lelouch to be the public Zero]] since Suzaku [[spoiler: is suspicious of Lelouch]]. And we find out that even the backstory is decidedly different, with Schneizel involved in Code-R, a ''human'' Dio working with Charles and ''[[spoiler: Jonathan Joestar is a vampire]]''. Suffice to say the story has well and truly gone [[OffTheRails off the rails of canon]]. [[spoiler:Which makes all the moments from canon that still occur ''very'' suspicious...]]

* TookALevelInBadass: Really it's probably easier to count the characters this ''hasn't'' happened to, but [[spoiler: Shirley and Nunnally]] really stand out. One has become a Stand-wielding leading figure of the Black Knights, the other has acquired a Geass and managed to take out Stands and Stand-users with Ripple while ''[[spoiler: still being crippled]]''. Both become proficient Knightmare pilots in their own right by the end of Arc 5.

* UndyingLoyalty: [[spoiler: Jeremiah to Nunnally once he discovers that she's alive. She's a little put-off by how he treats her like a goddess]].

* WideEyedIdealist: Shirley, as in canon. Which makes it extra tragic that [[spoiler: Lelouch is using her feelings for him to take advantage of her Stand and convince her to take the position of Zero]].

* ZeroApprovalGambit: [[spoiler:JOJO and his allies aim to initiate a much more extreme version of the Zero Requiem, dubbed Heaven's Requiem, which involves not only starting an AssimilationPlot using the collective unconsciousness, but also mentally enslaving the whole world through Nunnally's Geass. The few people who were already exposed to the Geass are expected to kill JOJO and undo the effects after a few months. Lelouch and his allies are able to stop it much earlier than that, but the secondary goal of convincing him not to do his own Zero Requiem is accomplished.]]

* AntiMagic: Once Stands become public knowledge, the Britannian military starts creating countermeasures to them. This includes upgraded factspheres that can see Stands, Gleipnir energy weapons that can harm them, and putting pilots through simulations for a wide variety of Stand powers.

* DoorStopper: Over 1.6 million words and 99 chapters long, and the story's still got a final chapter to go.

* BalefulPolymorph: The power of Lena Peisad's Stand. It can turn people into skeletons, mummies, ghosts, zombies, Frankenstein's Monster, a werewolf or even [[spoiler:a vampire]]. Since the individual monsters are smart enough to follow basic orders, this means she can hold anyone anywhere hostage, which is how she controls [[spoiler: Shirley's father.]]

* VillainousValour: Coupled with a DyingMomentOfAwesome. When the random terrorist [[spoiler: Jeremiah is framing for Clovis' murder]] is being transported to trial, Stand Out's [[MonsterMash CotN]] uses her [[BalefulPolymorph Stand]] to turn the poor guy into a monster, which proceeds to massacre all but one of the guards surrounding it. Knowing he's next, the last mook standing ''tackles'' the skeleton to the ground first. Unwilling to let the monster escape and/or kill even more of his comrades, the man wrestles with the thing while ordering his men to activate a hidden bomb [[WhyAmITicking planted inside the terrorist]] in case of a rescue attempt, ''blowing them both to bits''. [[PullingThemselvesTogether It doesn't work for long]], but even Todoh and the Four Holy Swords respect the man's willingness to sacrifice himself for his country.

* InSpiteOfANail: A surprising number of things still manage to occur from canon, despite the changes to the setting. [[spoiler:This is a plot point, as is the attempts of others to either play it straight or avert it.]]

** [=PtF=] is a powerful {{Technopath}}, but he can't control a device if he either doesn't understand it or doesn't know it's there, though he can learn through observation.

* TheCameo: [[spoiler:Yoshikage Kira and Diavolo appear in flash-forwards in the final chapter, [[AntiClimax getting captured almost immediately]] by Zero and the Black Knights Anti-Stand Task Force. Rubber Soul also cameos getting caught at Ohgi and Viletta's wedding.]]

* TheCameo: [[spoiler:Yoshikage Kira and Diavolo appear in flash-forwards in the final chapter, [[{AntiClimax getting captured almost immediately]] by Zero and the Black Knights Anti-Stand Task Force.]]

* MythologyGag: Several characters note that [[spoiler: Jonathan Joestar]] and Lelouch have nigh-identical voices, which the former uses to his advantage. This is almost certainly a reference to both characters being dubbed by Creator/JohnnyYongBosch.

** Well, actually they ''did'' find [[spoiler:Lena's body]]. It just [[spoiler:went missing several seconds later. It is lampshaded that this is very fitting for someone themed around horror films]].
** This trope also applies to [[spoiler:Tamaki.]]
* NightmareFetishist: Lena Peisads, a member of the Stand Out terrorists ''really'' likes horror movies and killing people. Her flashback episode confirms that she was a serial killer long before she ever learned of Stands.

* NiceJobFixingItVillain: It's Mao's taunting that helps [[spoiler: Nunally realize that her Ripple can harm the wild Stand he's sent after her and that she can use her Geass to stop it]].
* NotBrainwashed: Several of [[spoiler:JOJO]]'s allies, such as [[spoiler:Cornelia, Milly, and Nunnally]], are going so far against their previous loyalties that people speculate some form of mind control must be involved.In reality, they're doing it of their own free will, having been persuaded by [[spoiler:JOJO showing them what happens if Charles and Dio aren't stopped]].

* OutsideContextProblem: By the end of Act Two, all the major factions were prepared for Stands, understood Ripple, and were at least aware of the existence of Geass, but [[spoiler: Vampires, Flesh Buds, and the Cult of K]] came from so far out of left field that no one was even remotely prepared for them.

** [[spoiler: Shirley]] doesn't have the willpower to fully control her stand without the drive and direction provided by her role in the Black Knights.

* RequiredSecondaryPowers

* SadisticChoice: [[spoiler: Mao]] forces this on the Ashford student council when he traps them with an uncontrolled Stand that poisons - and transfers itself to - anyone it bites. The only way to cure the poison is to kill the Stand...which means killing its current user. Of course, [[spoiler:Nunnally]] figures out how to TakeAThirdOption.
* ShockAndAwe: Eventually revealed to be [[spoiler: Jeremiah's Stand power, which he uses to kill Programmed To Fight]].

** Knight of the Round Monica Krushevsky gains [[spoiler: a Geass that makes anyone who hears her voice temporarily unable to perceive anyone other than her.]] Appropriately, this ability is called [[spoiler: [[VisualNovel/DokiDokiLiteratureClub Just Monica.]]]]

* TheStationsOfTheCanon: ''Seems'' to start this way with the story starting following the same events as the show. Then Lelouch gets a Stand instead of a Geass, the group Stand Out [[spoiler: threatens to kill one tenth of the total population of Area 11 if Clovis' killer doesn't reveal himself]] while also [[spoiler: revealing the plot to frame Suzaku]], C.C. [[spoiler: gives Lelouch's geass to Nunnally]], the Black Knights [[spoiler: are initially formed by Ohgi to fight Stand Out]] and ''Shirley'' [[spoiler: has a Stand is recruited by Lelouch to be the public Zero]] since Suzaku [[spoiler: is suspicious of Lelouch]]. And we find out that even the backstory is decidedly different, with Schneizel involved in Code-R, a ''human'' Dio working with Charles and ''[[spoiler: Jonathan Joestar is a vampire]]''. Suffice to say the story has well and truly gone [[OffTheRails off the rails of canon]].
* SupernaturalSensitivity: [[spoiler: Bartley]] possesses a Geass that specifically lets him see if a person has Stand potential. The Geass also allows him to determine what sort of powers the Stand would have if it awakened. Notably, it's revealed that [[spoiler: Suzaku's Stand would give him damage absorption, and Euphemia's Stand would create an area that prevents physical and psychological damage. Cornelia's Stand would have the odd ability to "reduce the size of any item by creating a circle around it with her body".]]

* TemporalParadox: [[spoiler:Something that should not be caused by a victim of the Stand Hey Jude. If it happens, the victim's mind is trapped in an AlternateTimeline while their present body becomes a carrier for the Stand.]]

* TookALevelInBadass: Really it's probably easier to count the characters this ''hasn't'' happened to, but [[spoiler: Shirley and Nunnally]] really stand out. One has become a Stand-wielding leading figure of the Black Knights, the other has acquired a Geass and managed to take out Stands and Stand-users with Ripple while ''[[spoiler: still being crippled]]''.

* TheVirus: The Stand Yesterday's Requiem[=/=]Hey Jude, spread by merely looking at the infected's eyes.
* WalkingSpoiler: It can be really hard to talk about later developments without mentioning the fact that Zero [[spoiler:is Shirley]], something that is revealed only eleven chapters into a story already more than eight times that long.
* WhamEpisode: By chapter 21 there are several: [[spoiler:Jonathan Joestar been revealed to be a vampire with ''The World'' as his stand, Dio apparently has been faking being old and decrepit and has, in addition to a Stand with unknown abilities, a Stand Arrow. Tamaki isn't dead and Jonathan was the guy behind Clovis, and a younger Joseph Joestar with Hermit Purple has just agreed to give the Black Knights the tentative aid of the Speedwagon Foundation, after Jonathan somehow extracting Joanna Joestar's Stand that was killing her just like Holly from JJBA part 3.]]

** Nunnally plays with this. [[spoiler:She initially agonizes over the moral implications of her Geass, but admits to herself that she would use it to protect the ideal life she has with her brother. She still wishes to make a gentler world, and has difficulty understanding why people would hurt one another.]]

* YinYangBomb: Geass and Stand cause anyone who are granted both to instantly die of a BrownNote, but get past that problem, whether by [[spoiler: being in a refrain coma]] or [[spoiler: being a Geass user possessed by Anubis]], and the resulting stand will be orders of magnitude stronger, and affect the mind in some way.
* ZeroApprovalGambit: [[spoiler:JOJO and his allies aim to initiate a much more extreme version of the Zero Requiem, dubbed Heaven's Requiem, which involves not only starting an AssimilationPlot using the collective unconsciousness, but also mentally enslaving the whole world through Nunnally's Geass. The few people who were already exposed to the Geass are expected to kill JOJO and undo the effects after a few months.]]

** Villetta manages to regain some respect in the final battle against Stand Out (although ''all'' the Purists get to experience Suzaku saving them, which probably helps take the heat off her a little), with a little support from Jeremiah. Tamaki's case [[spoiler: seems to take on a much grimmer tone during the fight with West... until it turns out that he's still alive]].

* DirtyBusiness: When Lelouch wonders why he isn't feeling more regret about manipulating Shirley's affections for him, he's reminded about how Stand Out is threatening to kill a huge chunk of Area 11's populace.

* GilliganCut: After Euphemia runs away from her guards at one point, Cornelia chews out the head of security, fearing what might happen if she fell into the clutches of Zero. Cut to Zero, [[spoiler:a.k.a. Shirley… giving lemonade to the princess while they’re sunbathing. Ironically, she ''is'' thinking about hurting Euphie, but out of [[ClingyJealousGirl jealousy]] from misunderstanding her and Lelouch’s relationship]].

** It's implied that someone is doing a very short term version of this:[[spoiler: Rakshata examines the Shinkiro Knightmare that attacked Lelouch in the Rebellion, and determines that it could only have been designed by her own future self.]] Certain tech advancements, such as Britannia's counters to Stands, also show up far too fast for a normal invention cycle to have taken place, and records are vague as to who actually developed them. This is made far more blatant in the Chinese invasion arc, where the Honglou Knightmare is a recolored version of [[spoiler: the Guren S.E.I.T.E.N]].

** [[spoiler: Kusakabe]] is beaten because he believed his Stand's effect would make Cornelia loyal to him. [[spoiler: She becomes loyal to Japan, but she still views Kusakabe as an idiot and a coward who insults Japan's glory. Thus, she defeats Kusakabe with her Franchise/{{Gundam}}.]]

* InSpiteOfANail:
** Unable to give Lelouch a Geass, C.C seeks out Nunally and gives her the exact same geass he received in canon.
** There is still a "Massacre princess" incident, but [[spoiler:it's caused by the rogue stand Anubis, not a geass]] and since the general public knows about Stands, none of the controlled people are considered at fault.
** Villeta still gets stuck in the persona of a woman named Chigusa, but its because of [[spoiler:vampire Kusakabe's Stand turning her Japanese.]]

** Villeta gets the Knightmare Lamorak, which can turn invisible.
* KarmicTransformation: [[spoiler:Kusakabe]]'s Stand slowly turns anything that offends him Japanese. Victims even believe that they always were Japanese, and have only a hazy memory of their original self.

** Humans still need to breath no matter how tough they are, so Kallen manages to defeat [[MadeOfIron Frederick]] by knocking him over a bridge, forcing him to drop his stone transformation to avoid being dragged down and drowning, allowing her to stab him. [[spoiler: This also plays into West's defeat]].

** Schizoid Man runs off of [[spoiler: Shirley's]] unconscious mind, so if a target is something she is reluctant to attack, it won’t be harmed, and so it protects the werewolf child Stand.

** [[spoiler: Kusakabe's]] Stand allows him to make things Japanese. [[spoiler: This does not translate into any loyalty to ''him'']]

** Dio's Stand, Voodoo Kingdom, lets him [[spoiler:transfer any damage he takes onto something else nearby, and it works even if Dio himself is unconscious]], which renders Dio NighInvulnerable. Several opponents try to exploit the obvious weak point of [[spoiler:inflicting damage that can’t be transferred, like suffocating him with smoke while no one else is around]], but Dio is canny enough to find a way around those situations. It’s [[spoiler:Shirley]] who figures out the real weakness; [[spoiler:by tricking Voodoo Kingdom into punching Dio while they're in a FreeFallFight, she puts Dio into a situation where the only thing he can transfer the damage to is Voodoo Kingdom itself, and as Stands reflect their damage onto the user, there’s no way for Dio to avoid the damage]].

* MergedReality: [[spoiler:Research into the Thought Elevators reveals that the setting isn't merely a FusionFic, but the result of some unknown incident fusing the canonical timelines of Code Geass and [=JoJo's=] Bizarre Adventure. Later on, this incident is revealed to be Pucci encountering [[Manga/CodeGeassNightmareOfNunnally Nemo]] while resetting his universe with Made in Heaven, with their subsequent fight merging the timelines into a new reality.]].

* MentalTimeTravel: [[spoiler: The effect of the Stand Hey Jude. Anyone who looks in the eyes of it's user is brought back to the worst moment if their life. They ''can'' change the future, but if they change something they know will happen their mind is trapped in an AlternateTimeline while their present-day body [[TheVirus becomes a new user of Hey Jude.]]]]

** Emperor Charles zi Brittania is indirectly responsible for Japan's suffering as head of the evil Britannian Empire, in addition to many other atrocities. He's largely an OrcusOnHisThrone for most of the story, but his rare in-person scenes make it clear that he's got a new long-term scheme, and his canon [[AssimilationPlot Ragnorok Connection]] plan is only one part of it. [[spoiler:In reality, Charles has abandoned the Ragnorok plan, as he'd seen a world where it succeeded and was horrified by the results. Instead, he aims to recreate the canon path to world peace by forcing Lelouch to undertake the Zero Requiem plan, with the threat of Ragnorok used as essentially blackmail to make Lelouch go through with the Requiem]].

** Opposing both of them is [[spoiler:the vampire Jonathan Joestar]], who quietly gathers allies and moves in the background before suddenly [[spoiler:taking over the EU]] and becoming a much bigger threat. His plan is to [[spoiler:use the collective unconscious, Nunnally's Geass, and the Brain Raid tech to mentally enslave the whole world for a time, in a variation on Lelouch's canon Zero Requiem plan]].
** Schneizel spends a long time simply observing things and figuring out the larger conflict, but eventually gets in on the action by [[spoiler:provoking war with JOJO via the FLEIJA]]. He has some [[BlueAndOrangeMorality very warped ideas]] about how to achieve world peace, and has decided against his canon Damocles plan in favor of a different endgame that he believes is far better: [[spoiler:This turns out to be giving the physical manifestation of the Collective Unconscious a Stand that non-lethally gives both Geass and Stand to everyone on the planet, but locks both off if a majority of humanity decides that someone is using them unethically... and perhaps more than just those two.]]
** The High Enouchs/[[spoiler:Cult of Kars]], on the other hand, for all their scheming and disruptive attacks, are ultimately a BigBadWannabe. They end up sacrificing most of their resources to initiate their endgame, [[spoiler:luring the Britannians and Black Knights away in order to take Kamine Island's Thought Elevator and retrieve Kars]], only for the actual assault to be easily beaten back by [[spoiler:C.C. and V.V.]].

* ButtMonkey: Villetta has a bad time early on. Saved twice by ''Suzaku'', after coincidentally saving some Japanese children by [[spoiler: freeing Kewell from the effects of Lena's Stand]] they mistake her for a hero and give her a group hug and now the Purist faction is doubting her competence. By the second arc she's managed to [[spoiler: accidentally erase her own memories with her Geass and get caught by the Black Knights]]. Tamaki, of course, is fulfilling his usual role as this.

* CameBackWrong: As always, [=JoJo=] zombies. Seen on a very large scale when [[spoiler:vampires raise a significant portion of the Japanese people killed by Brittania over the course of the occupation and set them loose. They're entirely focused on getting vengeance on Britannia, and believe they're making Japan stronger by turning living Japanese into more zombies]].

* CerebusRetcon: Jeremiah's Lightning Gag [[spoiler: has an all-too-real effect on the outcome of the battle with [=PtF=], and it’s later confirmed to be a developing Stand.]]

* ContrastingSequelMainCharacter: [[spoiler:Shirley is a Joestar, descended from her mother's side and being the 'Jotaro' of this world. However unlike Jotaro, who was a badass AntiHero, Shirley is mostly a frightened teenage girl way out of her depth]].

* CovertPervert: Shirley's [[spoiler: Stand saying what she's thinking]] seems to imply this, and based on Lelouch's reaction to a costume suggested this certainly seems to be the case. He specifically compares it to [[spoiler: having Milly in one's head]].

* DoorStopper: Over 1.5 million words and 90 chapters long, and the story isn’t even complete yet.

** Has shown up a few times, most notably at the climatic battle of the first arc where [[spoiler: the Britannian military, the Black Knights and the JLF team up -unhappily- to fight West, Lena and Joseph Fenette]].

* FateWorseThanDeath: Fittingly, [[spoiler:V.V.]] is given the Kars treatment. [[spoiler:Specifically, he's left buried under ice and debris at the bottom of the ocean for eternity, and eventually stops thinking altogether.]]

** "Hey Jude" granted time rewinding regeneration to all its users, but its ability to exist in multiple users at once came from the Geass of its original user. [[spoiler: So when Kallen woke her up, the Geass interacted with the Stand, killing Mirai and ending the stand.]]

* MusicalThemeNaming: As in canon, the names of Stands follow rock music, mostly Music/TheMegas and Music/TheRollingStones.

* WorldOfHam: It's ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' crossed over than ''Franchise/CodeGeass'' with a LemonyNarrator, completely necessary exclamation marks, and all of the canonical {{Large Ham}}s are cranked UpToEleven. This insures a proper level of fabulousness needed for such a crossover.

* MergedReality: [[spoiler:Research into the Thought Elevators reveals that the setting isn't merely a FusionFic, but the result of some unknown incident merging the canonical timelines of Code Geass and [=JoJo's=] Bizarre Adventure. Later on, this incident is revealed to be Pucci encountering [[Manga/CodeGeassNightmareOfNunnally Nemo]] while resetting his universe with Made in Heaven, with their subsequent fight creating a new reality. Nemo also clarifies that the original timelines still exist, completely separate from this world]].
** Indeed, the [[spoiler:original timeline's Lelouch, complete with fully evolved Geass, is shown to have been working with JOJO and teams up with the merged timeline's Lelouch and Suzaku to face-off with Charles and Marianne]].

** PeggySue: According to WordOfGod, [[spoiler:Hey Jude]] is a TakeThat to Peggy Sue ''Code Geass'' fics, where [[spoiler:trying to change the future by fixing the past only makes the problem worse.]]

** Emperor Charles zi Brittania is indirectly responsible for Japan's suffering as head of the evil Brittanian Empire, and . He's mainly seen in flashbacks for most of the story, but those scenes make it clear that he's got a new long-term scheme, and his canon [[AssimilationPlot Ragnorok Connection]] plan is only one part of it. [[spoiler:In reality, Charles has abandoned the Ragnorok plan, as he'd seen a world where it succeded and was horrified by the results. Instead, he aims for world peace by forcing Lelouch to undertake the Zero Requiem plan, with the threat of Ragnorok used as essentially blackmail to make Lelouch go through with the Requiem]].

** Schneizel spends a long time simply observing things and figuring out the larger conflict, but eventually gets in on the action by [[spoiler:provoking war with JOJO via the FLEIJA]]. He has some [[BlueAndOrangeMorality very warped ideas]] about how to achieve world peace, and has decided against his canon Damocles plan in favor of a different endgame that he believes is far better: [[spoiler:Giving the physical manifestation of the Collective Unconscious a Stand that, while in theory granting both Geass and Stand at the same time, locks both off if a majority of humanity decides that they're unethical to possess... and perhaps more than just those two.]]
** The High Enouchs/[[spoiler:Cult of Kars]], on the other hand, despite all their scheming and disruptive attacks, are ultimately a BigBadWannabe. They end up sacrificing most of their resources to initiate their endgame, [[spoiler:luring the Britannians and Black Knights away in order to take Kamine Island's Thought Elevator and retrieve Kars]], only for the actual assault to be easily beaten back by [[spoiler:C.C. and V.V.]].

* TouchedByVorlons: [[spoiler:Kewell]] is injected with a concoction that includes Pillar Men blood. He becomes...something increasingly inhuman and insane.

** Schneizel spends a long time simply observing things and figuring out the larger conflict, but eventually gets in on the action by [[spoiler:provoking war with JOJO via the FLEIJA]]. He has some [[BlueAndOrangeMorality very warped ideas]] about how to achieve world peace, and has decided against his canon Damocles plan in favor of an unknown endgame that he believes is far better.

* TheFourGods: The three nightmares used by the Chinese invasion force to counter the supernatural powers of the defenders follow this theme. The are piloted by [[spoiler: the vampirized corpses of Japan's former champions; General Kusakabe as Seiryū,General Katase as Suzaku, and Genbu Kururugi as his namesake.]]
** Byyako, on the other hand, has no nightmare because [[spoiler:Kaguya is still alive, just controlled via flesh bud.]]

** It's implied that someone is doing a very short term version of this:[[spoiler: Rakshata examines the Shinkiro Knightmare that attacked Lelouch in the Rebellion, and determines that it could only have been designed by a future her.]] Certain tech advancements, such as Britannia's counters to Stands, also show up far too fast for a normal invention cycle to have taken place, and records are vague as to who actually developed them. This is made far more blatant in the Chinese invasion arc, where the Honglou Knightmare is a recolored version of [[spoiler: the Guren S.E.I.T.E.N]].

** Emperor Charles zi Brittania is indirectly responsible for Japan's suffering as head of the evil Brittanian Empire, and . He's mainly seen in flashbacks for most of the story, but those scenes make it clear that he's got a new long-term scheme, and his canon [[AssimilationPlot Ragnorok Connection]] plan is only one part of it. [[spoiler:In reality, Charles has abandoned the Ragnorok plan, as he'd seen a world where it succeded and was horrified by the results. Instead, he aims for world peace by forcing Lelouch to undertake the Zero Requiem plan, with the threat of Ragnorok used as essentially blackmail to make Lelouch go through with it]].

* TheManBehindTheMan: ''[[spoiler:Jonathan]]'' of all people seems to have been this for [[spoiler: Clovis]]. Dio was this for [[spoiler: West]] and [[spoiler:Anubis]]. Most surprisingly, [[spoiler:Jonathan]]'s backer was none other than [[spoiler:the Emperor]].

* NotHisSled: Much like in canon, there's a late-story reveal that [[spoiler:C.C. was a past associate of Emperor Charles]]. ''Unlike'' canon, however, the big twist here is that [[spoiler:she never actually turned against Charles and Marianne; the immortal is still completely on board with their plans, and has been manipulating Lelouch the entire time]].

** Although not stated, [[spoiler:Kusakabe]]'s Stand turns a Knightmare into what seems to be the [[Anime/MobileFighterGGundam Shining Gundam]], complete with Shining Finger.

* ChekhovsGun: Throughout the Europe arc, Lelouch repeatedly drinks huge amounts of water, internally monologuing that all this hydration is ''crucial''. A few characters notice this and think he's merely staving off sleep deprivation, but [[spoiler:Shirley]] catches on that the exhaustion is just a side effect, and he's using the water for something else. At the arc's climax, when [[spoiler:Lelouch and Suzaku are fighting JOJO, it turns out that Lelouch actually absorbed some Ripple energy with his Stand back when he encountered Nunnally in the Coliseum, and needed all the water to keep the Ripple from burning him up. All that effort gave him a one-shot Ripple attack, which is enough to catch JOJO completely off-guard and kill him.]]

* NotHisSled: In a major late-story twist, [[spoiler:C.C. is revealed to have never actually turned against Charles and Marianne, and the immortal is still completely on board with their plans]].

* AceCustom: C.C. gets a modified Knightmare with cloth embedded throughout its limbs, allowing her to conduct Ripple on the battlefield without leaving the cockpit. It's later revealed that [[spoiler:Marianne's Ganymede]] had been similarly modified, and several nameless Ripple masters show up piloting similar Knightmares.

* AndIMustScream: C.C.'s backstory in this fic is much, much worse; she spends 200 years as an infinite food supply for a group of vampires before being rescued by Tonpetty.

* BadassNormal: Villeta, Kallen, and Suzaku are normal humans (Though Suzaku’s case is debatable) but they can defeat Stand users.

* BigBadEnsemble: The biggest threat to the world, as always, is Emperor Charles, with his [[AssimilationPlot Ragnorok Connection]] plan and other nefarious schemes. However, while Chancellor Dio Brando seems to be his {{Dragon}}, the major players are aware he has a separate endgame, later revealed to be [[spoiler:[[AGodAmI supplanting the collective unconscious with his own mind]]]]. Opposing both of them is [[spoiler:the vampire Jonathan Joestar]], who quietly gathers allies and moves in the background before suddenly [[spoiler:taking over the EU]] and becoming a much bigger threat. His plan is to [[spoiler:use the collective unconscious, Nunnally's Geass, and the Brain Raid tech to mentally enslave the whole world for a time, in a variation on Lelouch's canon Zero Requiem plan]].
** BigBadWannabe: The High Enouchs/[[spoiler:Cult of Kars]], for all their scheming and disruptive attacks, ultimately can't keep up. They end up sacrificing most of their resources to initiate their endgame, [[spoiler:luring the Britannians and Black Knights away in order to take Kamine Island's Thought Elevator and retrieve Kars]], only for the actual assault to be easily beaten back by [[spoiler:C.C. and V.V.]].

* DramaticThunder: Whenever Jeremiah says the word '''loyalty''', [[RunningGag a bolt of thunder appears out of nowhere]]. Even without a need of clouds in the sky. Even when doing a live broadcast over television (which causes some technological difficulties). [[RuleOfFunny People tend to ignore this]]. [[CerebusRetcon It's eventually revealed to be]] [[spoiler: his Stand, which he was initially unaware of]].
* EmotionBomb: Ohgi's Geass, which lets him inflict any emotion he says out loud on everyone around him. Since this includes himself, he mostly uses it to lead and defuse tense situations.

** Oghi is given a Geass that lets him force everyone around him to feel whatever emotion he chooses.
** After a great deal of reluctance, [[spoiler: Todouh]] finally accepts a stand, and gets the gravity-manipulating Beast Of Burden.

** Joseph Joestar seems to view this as what's going on during his questioning by Suzaku and views him as a WorthyOpponent. Suzaku, on the other hand, just thinks the two of them were trying to keep the military from learning about Nunnally and Lelouch and views Joseph as a frank and helpful man.

** Unable to give Lelouch a geass, C.C seeks out Nunally and gives her the exact same geass he received in canon.
** There is still a "Massacre princess" incident, but [[spoiler:it's caused by the rogue stand Anubis, not a geass]] and since the general public knows about stands, none of the controlled people are considered at fault.

* KarmicTransformation: [[spoiler:Kusakabe]]'s Stand turns anything that offends him Japanese. Victims even believe that they always were Japanese, and have only a hazy memory of their original self.

** [[spoiler: Joseph Fennette's]] attacks are in tune with his heartbeat, so he can't consciously alter his rate of fire, allowing a skilled foe to predict his attack pattern.

** It eventually revealed that [[spoiler: there is no 'Face of God'. Schneizel and Bartley deduce that Stands, as an aberration of the Code Geass world that should not exist, causes an immune system response-like reaction in elements of the world's native supernatural elements, with Stands being painful to use in the World of C and the 'Face of God' incidents being similar to a fatal allergic reaction from the collective unconsciousness.]] Each of the exceptions to this trope had a loophole protecting them, with [[spoiler:Anubis Requiem not being Mao's Stand, Hey Jude hiding Mirai's mind in alternate realities, and Dio simply transferring the effect onto others with Voodoo Kingdom until it stopped]].

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Lelouch's plan to stop [[spoiler: Kewell]] by using [[spoiler: Viletta's memory-erasing powers to make Kewell forget himself]] actually made things even worse by [[spoiler:somehow empowering Kewell's shape-shifting powers even more]].

* OutsideContextProblem: By the end of Act Two, all the major factions were prepared for stands, understood ripple, and were at least aware of the existance of geass, but [[spoiler: Vampires, Flesh Buds, and the Cult of K]] came from so far out of left field the no one was even remotely prepared for them.

** Wake the Snake was supposed to be a weak stand that could do nothing but switch users and make people slightly sleepy, but [[spoiler: Sophie Wood]] did not have enough willpower to control it at all, causing it to go on a rampage.
** [[spoiler:Ohgi]]'s Geass eventually goes out of control, leading to the user not speaking much (and later uses a text-to-speech program) to minimize the damage.

*** Yesterdays Requiem - Hey Jude granted its invulnerability and MentalTimeTravel to everyone it affected, but a single misuse of that power put its users into a coma.
*** Almost Human's shapeshifting abilities grew gradually less precise and stable over time, causing [[spoiler: Kewell's]] body to break down.

** Man on Fire renders the user immune to the heat from the flame it produces, though apparently oxygen is still an issue.

* SadisticChoice: [[spoiler: Mao]] forces this on several characters when he traps them with an uncontrolled Stand that poisons - and transfers itself to - anyone it bites. The only way to cure the poison is to kill the Stand...which means killing its current user. Of course, [[spoiler:Nunnally]] figures out how to TakeAThirdOption.

* TheUnmasquedWorld: The battle with Stand Out shows undeniably supernatural powers on live television, with the military subsequently admitting the existence of Stands to the whole world. Society at large quickly develops rampant paranoia about Stands, given that [[TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse anyone could secretly be]] a PersonOfMassDestruction who can go on a rampage at a moment's notice. The Black Knights use this status to their advantage by positioning themselves as partially an anti-Stand group, giving them wider support from both Brittanians and Japanese. However, the existence of Geass is still kept top-secret, as knowledge of mental manipulation could lead to far more chaos since there's no way to know if people are being influenced or not.

** Joseph Joestar seems to view this as what's going on during his questioning by Suzaku and views him as a worthy opponent. Suzaku, on the other hand, just thinks the two of them were trying to keep the military from learning about Nunnally and Lelouch and views Joseph as a frank and helpful man.

* InstantExpert: Suzaku figures out how to [[spoiler:use Spin]] after seeing it once. Even more impressively, he was hit with LaserGuidedAmnesia right after that, so he didn't even consciously remember seeing it at all.

** Joseph Joestar, master of [[IndyPloy making tactical plans on the spot]], is hard countered by [[spoiler: Mao's mind-reading Geass. Joseph only manages to escape by acting without thinking.]]

** [[spoiler: Joseph's]] attacks are in tune with his heartbeat, so he can't consciously alter his rate of fire, allowing a skilled foe to predict his attack pattern.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Lelouch's plan to stop [[spoiler: Kewell]] by using [[spoiler: Viletta's memory-erasing powers to make Kewell forget himself]] actually made things even worse by [[spoiler: somehow empowering Kewell's shape-shifting powers even more]].

* NotHisSled: [[spoiler:In a major twist, Suzaku ''didn't'' kill his father, but only thinks he did due to FalseMemories. The real culprit was V.V.]]

* CameBackWrong: As always, JoJo zombies. Seen on a very large scale when [[spoiler:Vampires raise a significant portion of the Japanese people killed by Brittania over the course of the occupation and set them loose. They're entirely focused on getting vengeance on Britannia, and believe they're making Japan stronger by turning living Japanese into more zombies]].

** Colonel Breedington is [[spoiler: killed by a backdraft ripping apart his Knightmare caused by his own powers]] and his son Frederick [[spoiler: is forced to change back into his regular human form after falling into an ocean he's too heavy to float in]] leaving him [[spoiler: vulnerable to Kallen's attack]].

* ImpossiblyMundaneExplanation: For a given value of mundane, at least; at one point, one faction shows the ability to have their Knightmares seemingly appear out of nowhere, somehow bypassing all of their opponents' early-warning systems. Many characters speculate that this is some sort of powerful supernatural ability, like a space-warping Stand. In reality, it's [[spoiler:Europe's [[Anime/CodeGeassAkitoTheExiled Apollo's Chariot]] technology (basically an ICBM turned into a transport)]], which, while advanced, is entirely unrelated to all the supernatural developments that came before.

** [[spoiler:Lena's]] monsters have the classical weaknesses associated with their archetypes (the vampire is weak to the Ripple, the Frankenstein's Monster is averse to fire, etc.). Also, since it's an Automatic Stand, she has no direct way to control it.

** Dio's Stand, Voodoo Kingdom, lets him [[spoiler:transfer any damage he takes onto something else nearby, and it works even if Dio himself is unconscious]], rendering Dio NighInvulnerable. Several opponents try to exploit the obvious weak point of [[spoiler:inflicting damage that can’t be transferred, like suffocating him with smoke while no one else is around]], but Dio is canny enough to find a way around those situations. It’s [[spoiler:Shirley]] who figures out the real weakness; [[spoiler:by tricking Voodoo Kingdom into punching Dio while they're in a FreeFallFight, she puts Dio into a situation where the only thing he can transfer the damage to is Voodoo Kingdom itself, and as Stands reflect their damage onto the user, there’s no way for Dio to avoid the damage]].

* MergedReality: [[spoiler:The Thought Elevators reveal that the setting isn't merely a FusionFic, but the result of some unknown incident merging the canonical timelines of Code Geass and JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. Later on, this incident is revealed to be Pucci encountering [[Manga/CodeGeassNightmareOfNunnally Nemo]] while resetting his universe with Made in Heaven, with their subsequent fight creating a new reality. Nemo also clarifies that the original timelines still exist, completely separate from this world]].
** Indeed, the [[spoiler: original timeline's Lelouch, complete with fully evolved Geass, is shown to have been working with JOJO and teams up with the merged timeline's Lelouch and Suzaku to face-off with Charles and Marianne]].

* TheUnmasquedWorld: With Stand Out openly using clearly supernatural powers on live television and the military forced to admit the existence of Stands, even though the full ramifications have yet to be seen, it's clear this trope is in effect now.

* CovertPervert: Shirley's [[spoiler: Stand saying what she's thinking seems to imply this]], and based on Lelouch's reaction to a costume suggested this certainly seems to be the case. He specifically compares it to [[spoiler: having Milly in one's head]].

** Joseph Joestar seems to view this as what's going on during his questioning by Suzaku and views him as a worthy opponent. Suzaku, on the other hand, just thought the two of them were trying to keep the military from learning about Nunnally and Lelouch and viewed Joseph as a frank and helpful man.
** Used to [[spoiler: finally stop Kewell and Mao]]. Because of the [[spoiler: [[PowerIncontinence always-on nature]] of Mao's telepathy]] both are [[spoiler: rendered unable to stop reading the other's thoughts]], paralyzing them long enough for an airstrike to take them out.
* ImpossiblyMundaneExplanation: For a given value of mundane, at least; at one point, one faction shows the ability to have their Knightmares seemingly appear out of nowhere, somehow bypassing all of their opponents' early-warning systems. Many characters speculate that this is some sort of powerful supernatural ability, like a space-warping Stand. In reality, it's [[spoiler:Europe's [[Anime/CodeGeassAkitoTheExiled Apollo's Chariot]] technology (basically an ICBM turned into a transport)]], which is entirely unrelated to all the supernatural developments that came before.

* TheManBehindTheMan: ''[[spoiler:Jonathan]]'' of all people seems to have been this for [[spoiler: Clovis]]. Dio was this for [[spoiler: West]] and [[spoiler:Anubis]]. Most surprisingly, [[spoiler:Jonathan]]'s backer was none other than [[spoiler:Emperor Charles]].

* MergedReality: [[spoiler:The Thought Elevators reveal that the setting isn't merely a FusionFic, but the result of some unknown incident merging the canonical timelines of Code Geass and JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. Later on, this incident is revealed to be Pucci encountering [[Manga/CodeGeassNightmareOfNunnally Nemo]] while resetting his universe with Made in Heaven, with their subsequent fight creating a separate, new reality that was an amalgamation of both timelines]].

* ChekovsGun: Throughout the Europe arc, Lelouch repeatedly drinks huge amounts of water, internally monologuing that all this hydration is ''crucial''. A few characters notice this and think he's merely staving off sleep deprivation, but [[spoiler:Shirley]] catches on that the exhaustion is just a side effect, and he's using the water for something else. At the arc's climax, when [[spoiler:Lelouch and Suzaku are fighting JOJO, it turns out that Lelouch actually absorbed some Ripple energy with his Stand back when he encountered Nunnally in the Coliseum, and needed all the water to keep the Ripple from burning him up. All that effort gave him a one-shot Ripple attack, which is enough to catch JOJO completely off-guard and kill him.]]

* ComicallyMissingThePoint: A Running Gag with Rolo is that some innocuous conversation with a high-ranking Brittanian is interpreted as coded suggestions to kill someone (he never goes through with it, thankfully).

* ImpossiblyMundaneExplanation: At one point, one faction shows the ability to have their Knightmares seemingly appear out of nowhere, somehow bypassing all of their opponents' early-warning systems. Many characters speculate that this is some sort of powerful supernatural ability, like a space-warping Stand. In reality, it's [[spoiler:Europe's [[Anime/CodeGeassAkitoTheExiled Apollo's Chariot]] technology (basically an ICBM)]], which is entirely unrelated to all the supernatural developments that came before.

** Needing to breathe is this, so Kallen manages to defeat [[MadeOfIron Frederick]] by knocking him over a bridge, forcing him to drop his stone transformation to avoid being dragged down and drowning, allowing her to stab him. [[spoiler: This also plays into West's defeat]].

* TheStationsOfTheCanon: ''Seems'' to start this way with the story starting following the same events as the show. Then Lelouch gets a Stand instead of a geass, the group Stand Out [[spoiler: threatens to kill one tenth of the total population of Area 11 if Clovis' killer doesn't reveal himself]] while also [[spoiler: revealing the plot to frame Suzaku]], C.C. [[spoiler: gives Lelouch's geass to Nunnally]], the Black Knights [[spoiler: are initially formed by Ohgi to fight Stand Out]] and ''Shirley'' [[spoiler: has a Stand is recruited by Lelouch to be the public Zero]] since Suzaku [[spoiler: is suspicious of Lelouch]]. And we find out that even the backstory is decidedly different, with Schneizel involved in Code-R, a ''human'' Dio working with Charles and ''[[spoiler: Jonathan Joestar is a vampire]]''. Suffice to say the story has well and truly gone [[OffTheRails off the rails of canon]].

* TheseHandsHaveKilled: Kallen has this reaction some time after [[spoiler: stabbing Frederick Breedington]].

* AceCustom: C.C. gets a modified Knightmare with cloth embedded throughout its limbs, allowing her to conduct Ripple on the battlefield without leaving the cockpit. It's later revealed that [[spoiler:Marianne's Ganymede]] had been simarly modified.
* AdaptationDeviation: In the backstory, the events of Phantom Blood happened ''much'' differently than in canon. [[spoiler:Dio succeeded in framing Jonathan for poisoning his father, leading to him being exiled to Australia. [[InSpiteOfANail Still]], Jonathan ended up befriending Speedwagon, learning Ripple from Zeppli, and marrying Erina, but a confrontation with Dio years later led to Jonathan becoming a vampire, with Dio once again getting away scot-free. As a result, JOJO has spent many years trying to control his undead urges, while [[KarmaHoudini Dio]] climbed to nearly the top of the Britannian political world.]]
* AndIMustScream: C.C.'s backstory in this fic is much, much worse; she spends 200 years as an infinite food supply for a group of vampires before being rescued.

* AscendedExtra: The Fenette family get a larger role in this story, [[CosmicPlaything but this doesn't prove to be a good thing for them.]]

** EmpoweredBadassNormal: [[spoiler: Villeta acquires geass, Kallen gets a stand, and Suzaku learns spin.]]

* BigBadEnsemble: The biggest threat to Lelouch, as always, is Emperor Charles and his [[AssimilationPlot Ragnorok Connection]] plan. However, while Chancellor Dio Brando seems to be his {{Dragon}}, the major players are aware he has a separate endgame, later revealed to be [[spoiler:[[AGodAmI supplanting the collective unconscious with his own mind]]]]. Opposing both of them is [[spoiler:the vampire Jonathan Joestar]], who quietly gathers allies and moves in the background before suddenly [[spoiler:taking over the EU]] and becoming a much bigger threat. His plan is to [[spoiler:use the collective unconscious, Nunnally's Geass, and the Brain Raid tech to mentally enslave the whole world for a time, in a variation on Lelouch's canon Zero Requiem plan]].
** BigBadWannabe: The High Enouchs/[[spoiler:Cult of Kars]], for all their scheming and disruptive attacks, ultimately can't keep up. They end up sacrificing most of their resources to initiate their endgame, [[spoiler:luring the Britannians and Black Knights away in order to take Kamine Island's Thought Elevator]], only for the actual assault to be easily beaten back by [[spoiler:C.C. and V.V.]].

* BreatherEpisode: Chapter 46 (48 on FF.net) is pretty much a pure comedy chapter, inspired by Code Geass' infamous "pizza festival" episode. It comes after [[spoiler: Lelouch throwing away his reputation as pro-Japanese in order to inflame revolutionary sentiment and the reveal that Kaguya has a flesh bud]] and ends with [[spoiler: the beginning of the Black Rebellion]].

* EmpoweredBadassNormal: As holder of the stand arrow and ally of a code bearer, Lelouch makes good use of this trope to prepare the Black Knights for the many new supernatural threats.

** Oghi is given a geass that lets him force everyone around him to feel whatever emotion he chooses.

* TheFourGods: The three nightmares used by the Chinese invasion force to counter the supernatural powers of the defenders follow this theme. The are piloted by [[spoiler: the vampirized corpses of japan's former champions; General Kusakabe as Seiryū,General Katase as Suzaku, and Genbu Kururugi as his namesake.]]

** "Hey Jude" granted time rewinding regeneration to all its users, but its ability to exist in multiple users at once came from the geass of its original user. [[spoiler: So when Kallen woke her up, the geass interacted with the stand, killing Mirai and ending the stand.]]

** Once they encountered each other, the combination of The Truth's AwesomenessByAnalysis and Almost Human's PowerCopying would have made them invincible [[spoiler: If Almost Human hadn't copied Mao's powers, which caused them to hear the other's thoughts perfectly, including the thoughts about them hearing each other's thoughts. The resulting feedback loop held both in place long enough for them to be fatally bombarded by artillery.]]

** Used to [[spoiler: finally stop Kewell and Mao]]. Because of the [[spoiler: [[PowerIncontinence always-on nature]] of Mao's telepathy]] both are [[spoiler: rendered unable to stop reading the other's thoughts]].

** Villeta still gets stuck in the persona of a woman named Chigusa, but its because of [[spoiler:vampire Kusakabe's stand turning her Japanese.]]

** Joseph Joestar, master of [[IndyPloy making tactical plans on the spot]], is hard countered by [[spoiler: Mao's mind reading Geass. Mao is only prevented from winning by Joseph acting without thinking.]]

** Vampires, not being human, are unconnected to the collective unconsciousness, and thus are immune to Geass. However, Geass can still affect them in certain situations by [[spoiler:targeting a vampire's Stand, since whatever happens to a Stand is reflected onto the user.]]
** Dio’s Stand, Voodoo Kingdom, lets him [[spoiler:transfer any damage he takes onto something else nearby, and it works even if Dio himself is unconscious]], rendering Dio NighInvulnerable. Several opponents try to utilize the obvious weak point of [[spoiler:inflicting damage that can’t be transferred, like asphyxiating him with smoke while no one else is around]], but Dio is canny enough to find a way around those situations. It’s [[spoiler:Shirley]] who figures out the real weakness; [[spoiler:while in mid-air, she tricks Voodoo Kingdom into punching Dio himself, meaning the only thing Dio can transfer the damage to is Voodoo Kingdom itself, and as Stands reflect their damage onto the user, there’s no way for Dio to survive]].
* TheManBehindTheMan: ''[[spoiler:Jonathan]]'' of all people seems to have been this for [[spoiler: Clovis]]. Dio was this for [[spoiler: West]].

** PeggySue: [[spoiler: According to WordOfGod, Hey Jude is a TakeThat to Peggy Sue ''Code Geass'' fics, where trying to change the future by fixing the past only makes the problem worse.]]

** It eventually revealed that [[spoiler: there is no 'Face of God'. Schneizel and Bartley deduce that Stands, as an aberration of the Code Geass world that should not exist causes an immune system response-like reaction in elements of the world's native supernatural elements, with Stands being painful to use in the World of C and the 'Face of God' incidents being similar to an allergic reaction.]] Each of the exceptions to this trope had a loophole protecting them, with [[spoiler:Anubis Requiem not being Mao's Stand, Hey Jude hiding Mirai's mind in alternate realities, and Dio simply transferring the effect onto others with Voodoo Kingdom until it stopped]].
* MythologyGag: Several characters note [[spoiler: Jonathan Joestar]] and Lelouch have nigh-identical voices, which the former uses to his advantage. This is almost certainly a reference to both characters being dubbed by Creator/JohnnyYongBosch.

*** [[spoiler: Anubis Requiem]]- The Truth was no more able to turn off [[spoiler: Mao's mind reading geass]] than he was.

* SadisticChoice: [[spoiler: Mao]] forces this on several characters when he traps them with an uncontrolled Stand that poisons - and transfers itself to - anyone it bites. The only way to cure the poison is to kill the Stand...which means killing its current user. Naturally, [[spoiler:Nunnally]] figures out how to TakeAThirdOption.

* WalkingSpoiler: It can be really hard to talk about later developments without mentioning the fact that Zero [[spoiler:is Shirley]], something that is revealed only eleven chapters into a story already more than seven times that long.
* WhamEpisode: By chapter 21 there are several: [[spoiler:Jonathan Joestar been revealed to be a vampire with ''The World'' as his stand, Dio apparently has been faking being old and decrepit and has, in addition to having a stand with unknown abilities, a Stand Arrow. Tamaki isn't dead and Jonathan was the guy behind Clovis, and a younger Joseph Joestar with Hermit Purple has just agreed to give the Black Knights the tentative aid of the Speedwagon Foundation, after Jonathan somehow extracting Joanna Joestar's stand that was killing her just like Holly from JJBA part 3.]]

* YinYangBomb: Geass and Stand cause anyone who are granted both to instantly die of a BrownNote, but get past that problem, whether by [[spoiler: being in a refrain coma]] or [[spoiler: being a geass user possessed by Anubis]], and the resulting stand will be orders of magnitude stronger, and affect the mind in some way.