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** In a comical scene from the second season involving LesYay to Mily a secondary character said \\\"Now it\\\'s not the time to come out of the closet.\\\" Then, in the English dub \\\"Get back in the closet please\\\"... That was so offensive that they made a second version with \\\"Why do you have to be so different?\\\"
** TokenEnemyMinority Diethard also doubles as the Black Knight\\\'s TokenEvilTeammate [[spoiler:especially when he later abandons the Black Knights to work with Schneizel, who is technically allied to them, and ultimately dies in shame. He is the only member of the Black Knights to not have a happy ending, as opposed to his Japanese counterparts]].
*** In fact, pretty much all named Britannians that were ever affiliated with the Black Knights were shown to be at least partially evil in some way. The aforementioned Diethard is the resident TokenEvilTeammate, Rolo is a cold-blooded {{Tykebomb}} assassin, [[spoiler:Jeremiah was formerly a very racist noble, and Gino served the Knights of the Round by killing a number of Japanese prior to teaming up with them.]] Even Lelouch, who is arguably one of the more noble characters in the series, also has many {{Byronic|Hero}} tendencies. With a couple of exceptions like Tamaki, who is presented as an uneducated brute capable of various questionable acts despite being from Japan, it seems you must be non-Britannian to be an either purely or perceivably good member of the organization.
*** This apparent cultural bias with the Japanese Black Knights and the portrayal of [[TokenEvilTeammate Diet]][[StrawFan hard]] can be especially jarring, considering that when he joined it was stressed that The Black Knights were supposed to be a MultinationalTeam fighting for justice, and \\\'\\\'your ethnic and cultural background are not of importance\\\'\\\'.
*** This is debatable, but that may have been deliberate on the part of the show\\\'s team to show the Black Knights aren\\\'t above issues like racism, cultural bias, etc. It\\\'s only ever Zero himself who preaches about equality, not the Japanese members, since even Kallen has issues with seeing Britannians as anything other than evil (though she grows out of it early on), in order to show that they aren\\\'t white but grey, especially later on in R2 where their actions have dire consequences. Still, it can be jarring to some viewers that most of the Black Knights never get explicitly called out on their flaws while Lelouch does suffer for his own actions.
** [[PsychoLesbian Nina]]. Her character embodies pretty much every negative stereotype associated with lesbianism [[spoiler:(insanity, attempted murder-suicide, obsession with her crush to the point of {{yandere}}-ness)]] and a few new ones (when was the last time you saw a PsychoLesbian [[spoiler:indirectly kill 40 million people due to her grief?)]]. She does eventually get better towards the end, but only after causing a lot of harm to other people.
** Ohgi. Some fans consider him AmbiguouslyJewish [note]Keep in mind that this is based off of a joke based on his jacket with a Hexagram on it, not to mention the hairdo, so take the flimsy evidence with a grain of salt[/note], and he turns out to be the key member of the Black Knights who sells out Lelouch, [[spoiler:who in the end [[CrucifiedHeroShot dies in a fashion more or less suggestive of a Christ figure)]]]].
** There are plenty of people who think the show is some Nationalistic mouthpiece used to portray the Americans as villains. Let\\\'s ignore the fact that Americans did not get to exist in this universe and that American-styled democracy is seen as a good thing.
Removed these, as citation is required for Unfortunate Implications.
** TokenEnemyMinority Diethard also doubles as the Black Knight\\\'s TokenEvilTeammate [[spoiler:especially when he later abandons the Black Knights to work with Schneizel, who is technically allied to them, and ultimately dies in shame. He is the only member of the Black Knights to not have a happy ending, as opposed to his Japanese counterparts]].
*** In fact, pretty much all named Britannians that were ever affiliated with the Black Knights were shown to be at least partially evil in some way. The aforementioned Diethard is the resident TokenEvilTeammate, Rolo is a cold-blooded {{Tykebomb}} assassin, [[spoiler:Jeremiah was formerly a very racist noble, and Gino served the Knights of the Round by killing a number of Japanese prior to teaming up with them.]] Even Lelouch, who is arguably one of the more noble characters in the series, also has many {{Byronic|Hero}} tendencies. With a couple of exceptions like Tamaki, who is presented as an uneducated brute capable of various questionable acts despite being from Japan, it seems you must be non-Britannian to be an either purely or perceivably good member of the organization.
*** This apparent cultural bias with the Japanese Black Knights and the portrayal of [[TokenEvilTeammate Diet]][[StrawFan hard]] can be especially jarring, considering that when he joined it was stressed that The Black Knights were supposed to be a MultinationalTeam fighting for justice, and \\\'\\\'your ethnic and cultural background are not of importance\\\'\\\'.
*** This is debatable, but that may have been deliberate on the part of the show\\\'s team to show the Black Knights aren\\\'t above issues like racism, cultural bias, etc. It\\\'s only ever Zero himself who preaches about equality, not the Japanese members, since even Kallen has issues with seeing Britannians as anything other than evil (though she grows out of it early on), in order to show that they aren\\\'t white but grey, especially later on in R2 where their actions have dire consequences. Still, it can be jarring to some viewers that most of the Black Knights never get explicitly called out on their flaws while Lelouch does suffer for his own actions.
** [[PsychoLesbian Nina]]. Her character embodies pretty much every negative stereotype associated with lesbianism [[spoiler:(insanity, attempted murder-suicide, obsession with her crush to the point of {{yandere}}-ness)]] and a few new ones (when was the last time you saw a PsychoLesbian [[spoiler:indirectly kill 40 million people due to her grief?)]]. She does eventually get better towards the end, but only after causing a lot of harm to other people.
** Ohgi. Some fans consider him AmbiguouslyJewish [note]Keep in mind that this is based off of a joke based on his jacket with a Hexagram on it, not to mention the hairdo, so take the flimsy evidence with a grain of salt[/note], and he turns out to be the key member of the Black Knights who sells out Lelouch, [[spoiler:who in the end [[CrucifiedHeroShot dies in a fashion more or less suggestive of a Christ figure)]]]].
** There are plenty of people who think the show is some Nationalistic mouthpiece used to portray the Americans as villains. Let\\\'s ignore the fact that Americans did not get to exist in this universe and that American-styled democracy is seen as a good thing.
Removed these, as citation is required for Unfortunate Implications.
