Characters: Code Geass Britannians |
Britannian characters in Code Geass (excluding the main characters), and the tropes they embody.
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- Lloyd Asplund
- "You must make a decision. Abandon science to preserve your heart or destroy your heart to pursue science".
An earl of the Britannian empire and the series' main Mad Scientist.
Lloyd Asplund embodies these tropes:
- Adult Child
- Arranged Marriage: Plans one, to Milly. Later, she calls it off.
- Aristocrats Are Evil: He likes to play the part, but it's really a Jerkass Facade.
- Asexuality: Possibly, as he loves his Mecha more than people.
- Ambiguously Gay: According to others.
- He has some Foe Yay with Rakshata.
- Badass Labcoat
- Blue Blood
- Blue Eyes
- Brutal Honesty: Never ever sugarcoates his opinions.
- Bunny Ears Lawyer: A brilliant and snarky engineer who's also a graceless misfit and loves pudding. See also Ditzy Genius, below.
- Catch Phrase: OMEDETO! (Congratulations!)
- Cloudcuckoolander: See also Ditzy Genius, below.
- Deadpan Snarker: Even in the midst of battles.
- Ditzy Genius: Far more genius than ditz, but he still has his ditzy moments. See also Bunny Ears Lawyer and Cloud Cuckoo Lander, above.
- Fan Nickname: In-universe example: Rival Mad Scientist Rakshata Chawla dubs him "The Earl of Pudding" — supposedly in honor of his favorite food.
- For Science
- Heroic Sociopath: Lloyd, of all people. He's actually a realistic version of this trope; as a true sociopath, he lacks any empathy for other people, but at the same he doesn't have some crazy torture fetish or anything.
- Hot Scientist
- Insufferable Genius: At times.
- Jerkass Facade: He doesn't want anyone to know how much he cares about those closest to him. See also Kuudere
- Jerk With A Heart Of Gold: At his best.
- Kuudere: See also Jerkass Facade and Deadpan Snarker.
- Lack Of Empathy: Happily and willingly divorced himself from his humanity so he will never again need to feel pain for suffering of others.
- Liam O Brien: His English VA.
- Mad Scientist: A mostly benign version. Not evil enough to be 100% Mad Scientist, but too young and far too quirky to be The Professor.
- No Social Skills: It would be an understatement to say he's not a people person.
- Not Good With People
- The Quisling: Along with Nina, Sayoko, and Cécile, Lloyd 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.
- Say It With Hearts: Lloyd often does this when talking to Suzaku in the manga.
- Slow Clap: When Suzaku was knighted by Euphemia, he was initially the only one to applaud. Notably, this didn't prompt applause from the rest (that happened when General Dalton started applauding as well).
- Tetsu Shiratori: His seiyuu
- Trademark Favorite Food: Pudding.
- True Neutral: He really can't be arsed to care about much of anything other than his work as a scientist and, occasionally, those close to him.
- You Gotta Have Blue Hair: In his case, light purple.
- Cécile Croomy
Lancelot, launch!
Cécile Croomy is Lloyd's subordinate in Camelot and one of the Lancelot's developers. She is a capable scientist in her own right, having designed the energy wing system used on the Guren Seiten and the Lancelot Albion. Cécile is a kind-hearted woman and a good friend to Suzaku, often helping him with homework. She also acts as Lloyd's conscience, scolding him for his unintentionally rude remarks or for treating Suzaku as a "part" for his Mechas. A recurring joke is that Cécile is a bad cook, though no one has the heart to tell her.
Cécile Croomy embodies these tropes:
- Absolute Cleavage: A rather surprising example.
- Alliterative Name
- Anti Villain
- The Beautiful People: Possibly. Or could just be an extreme case of Generic Cuteness.
- Bishoujo
- Blue Eyes: Blue, with just a hint of purple.
- Bunny Ears Lawyer
- Buxom Babe: Number seven on the list.
- Cool Big Sis: To Suzaku. (Although there are hints her feelings for him are, shall we say, not entirely Like Brother And Sister.)
- Cordon Bleugh Chef: Cécile isn't a Lethal Chef per se, but she seems to not have any concept of what normal taste is. See also Feminine Women Can Cook, below.
- Deborah Sale Butler: Her English-language voice actress.
- Feminine Women Can Cook: Inverted Trope, as although she's very feminine she's not a good cook. Justified in that she's busy being a scientist.
- Gadgeteer Genius
- Hot Librarian
- Hot Scientist
- Kikuko Inoue: Her seiyuu.
- Mission Control: To Suzaku
- Nerds Are Sexy
- Purple Eyes: Mostly blue, but there is a purple tint to them.
- The Quisling: Along with Nina, Lloyd, and Sayoko, Cécile 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.
- Sexy Secretary: She can count as Lloyd's.
- Shy Blue Haired Girl: Around Prince Schniezel.
- Subverted. Her demeanor around him changes when he tells her he ordered the air strike that almost killed Suzaku.
- Yamato Nadeshiko: On many levels, as she's gentle, softpoken and voiced by Kikuko Inoue aka the patron saint of YN charas; however, she has the habit of disciplining Lloyd with physical violence, something most don't do. And then there's her... special cooking.
- You Gotta Have Blue Hair
Britannian Imperial Family
- Emperor Charles zi Britannia
"All men are not created equal!"
Ruler of the Britannian Empire, father to Lelouch and his siblings, and the Big Bad for most of the series, Charles is introduced as a Darwinist who thinks that war is the best way to create social progress. It's eventually revealed that his true agenda is to use the Ragnarok Connection to create "a world without lies", a desire brought about by being raised in a royal family whose members killed and deceived each other for power. Ironically, Charles' actions only perpetuate the cycle of violence and result in Lelouch's campaign to destroy the empire his family built.
Charles embodies these tropes:
- Adipose Rex: Emperor Charles is quite portly.
- Anime Hair: So preposterous, even by the standards of Code Geass, that it gets lampshaded in the DVD Commentary.
- Archnemesis Dad
- Aristocrats Are Evil: Boy oy boy.
- Badass Beard
- Badass Cape
- Badass Grandpa: While not technically a grandpa, his age and actions are in line with this.
- Big Bad
- Big Eyes Little Eyes: Tiny eyes. As a kid, his eyes were rounder.
- Big Screwed Up Family: In no small part his doing.
- Blue Blood
- Creepy Twins: He and V.V. could fit the bill.
- Darwinist: Charles seems to be this. Subverted later when he tried to use Ragnarok to eliminate this, making him and Marianne very brutal Well Intentioned Extremists.
- Straw Hypocrite
- Also a bit of Blue And Orange Morality coupled with Magnificent Bastardry, since his empire is merely a tool to get the Thought Elevators.
- Deader Than Dead: Lelouch erases Charles and Marianne from existence in R2 episode 21. Using God.
- Disappears Into Light
- Disc One Final Boss: Lelouch manages to overthrow Charles and halt Instrumentality five episodes before the end of the series. Schneizel steps up to the plate to reveal himself as the true antagonist.
- Though it was pretty clear that Schneizel would be the bigger problem, since he had already ruined Lelouch's own plans.
- Doom Magnet
- Do Not Adjust Your Set: Charles does this to challenge Lelouch (as Zero) just as he's announcing his plan to join the UFN.
- Dropped A Bridge On Him: Killed offscreen by Schniezel as a way to frame Lelouch in Suzaku Of The Counterattack.
- The Emperor
- Establishing Character Moment: His speech at Clovis's funeral.
- Evil Laugh
- Evil Overlord
- Fake Memories: Charles' Geass allows him to induce these; he used it on Lelouch to erase his memory of being Zero, and on Nunnally to modify her memories of being present at Marianne's murder, giving her psychosomatic blindness in the process.
- Fan Nickname: At least one fan calls Charles "the Quaker Oats man" because of his resemblance to the corporate icon.
- When this troper was new to Code Geass, I thought he looked an awful lot like Igaram.
- I wasn't the only one, then. . .
- Other nicknames include "Emperor Curls", "Curly" or "Emperor Wakamoto".
- Sometimes "Chuck" or "Charlie" may be used very casually.
- When this troper was new to Code Geass, I thought he looked an awful lot like Igaram.
- Freudian Excuse: Being raised in the Big Screwed Up Family that ran the Britannian Empire was Charles' Start Of Darkness.
- Gonk: Quite possibly, considering how fat he is in comparison to the rest of the cast, and the fact that his hair looks just plain weird, even by their standards.
- Good Eyes Evil Eyes: Evil-looking eyes.
- High Octane Nightmare Fuel: Oh, God, his Instrumentality project. Reminiscent of Neon Genesis Evangelion.
- Not to mention his Geass.
- Hot Dad: Considering that he was good looking the time he made his children, then yeah.
- I Did What I Had To Do: Everything he's done to distract the world from his secret Instrumentality project, the Ragnarok Connection, not to mention what he did to Lelouch and Nunnally following Marianne's murder, in order to hide them away from V. V., yet still not caring whether they would be alive or dead in the end.
- I Have No Son
- I Was Quite A Looker: Yes, really.
- Instrumentality: Charles' "world without lies", which sounds like a good idea until Lelouch points out its flaws.
- Kick The Dog / Kick Them While They Are Down: Young Lelouch: "Hail Your Majesty! My mother the empress is dead." Charles: "Old news. What of it?"
- Kick The Son Of A Bitch: Charles (to V. V.): "Brother, you have lied to me for the last time" * takes Code from V. V., leaving him to bleed to death *
- Knight Templar Parent: Charles subjects his children to a lot of pain, intentionally or otherwise, to achieve his goals.
- Large And In Charge: Incredibly bulky in appearance especially compared to the Noodle People character designs of others.
- Large Ham: Charles does everything in over-the-top, almost operatic style—a trait that Lelouch definitely inherited.
- Lawful Evil
- Like Father Like Son: Charles and Lelouch have more in common than either would presumably care to admit.
- Marc Anthony And Pussyfoot: Emperor Chuck and V.V.
- Michael Mc Connohie: Charles' epic voice in English.
- Missing Mom: Charles and V.V.'s Start Of Darkness took place when their mother, courtesy of other nobles, got a carriage dropped on her and in front of the not-older-than-10 twins, apparently as revenge for having her kids appointed as heirs to The Empire. Yikes.
- Moral Event Horizon: He crippled and blinded Nunnally, sent both her and Lelouch to Japan, and launched an invasion as a part of his plan to "remove the world's lies", not caring whether anyone lived or died, including his children.
- Narm: Responsible for a good amount of it, beginning with his own appearance.
- Necromancer / Night Of The Living Mooks: In Nightmare Of Nunnally, his Geass allows him to raise the dead. He does this with several of the Knights of the Round.
- Nigh Invulnerability: After killing V.V. and taking his "Code".
- Norio Wakamoto: Charles' epic voice in Japanese.
- Not So Invincible After All: Don't think he ever considered the possibility of being practically erased from existence by what is essentially God.
- Orcus On His Throne: The nobility only realized that he went missing because he wasn't in the throne room.
- Parental Abandonment: In Nightmare Of Nunnally, both his parents were assassinated.
- The Patriarch
- Royal Blood
- Royals Who Actually Do Something
- Start Of Darkness
- Ubermensch: A very good example, if you look deep enough. Check the trope page, section "Anime".
- Ugly Guy's Hot Daughter: As can be seen from the picture, despite his unexpected hawtness in flashbacks, he's not exactly attractive by the time of the main series. His kids, though, include Lelouch, Nunnally, Cornelia, Euphemia, and Schneizel. Yeah.
- Totalitarian Utilitarian
- Utopia Justifies The Means
- Villain With Good Publicity
- Well Intentioned Extremist: Like Lelouch, Charles uses reprehensible methods to achieve theoretically admirable goals, though it really doesn't come off that way at first.
- Nightmare!Charles is much more sympathetic, and engages in less villainy than canon Lelouch does.
- Xanatos Gambit: Charles' plan for the Ragnarok Connection.
- Euphemia li Britannia
"The hatred you must feel for us..."
The Third Princess of Britannia, Euphemia is a rarity among the royal family: kind-hearted, plucky, innocent and sweet. She wants everyone to be happy. Yes, that includes even the Elevens — among them, the man she loves, Suzaku Kururugi.
OUCH.
Princess Euphie (also spelled Euphy) embodies these tropes:
- Ascended Extra: While no way an extra, she does play a bigger part in the AU "Lelouch of the Rebellion" manga.
- Anime Hair: Although not as extreme as some in the series, including her own father Emperor Charles.
- Ax Crazy: Not intentionally, but to horrifying effect. Lelouch, in his first bout of Power Incontinence, accidentally geasses her "to kill all the Japanese." More than any other character in Code Geass, she fights against the order — both when he first commands her, and again in the end. But she succeeds in shaking it off only when she herself is dying, after she's already led to the deaths of thousands of innocent people — mostly Japanese, but some Britannians as well — and utterly ruined her
truly exquisite dresschance of bringing about peace between Britannia and the people of Japan. - The Beautiful People
- Beta Couple: With Suzaku Kururugi, whom she champions (a risky thing for her to do, given that he is an Eleven) and who 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.)
- Big Eyes Little Eyes: Huge eyes — second biggest, of the entire cast, after Shirley's.
- Big Screwed Up Family
- Bishoujo
- Blithe Spirit
- Blood Splattered Wedding Dress: Although not literally a wedding dress, the pink-and-white dress Euphie wears in the episode "Bloodstained Euphie" looks similar enough to qualify.
- Bodyguard Crush: On her knight, Suzaku Kururugi. Thoroughly requited. Horribly shot down in the end.
- Break The Cutie
- Buxom Babe: She's number ten on the list. (Of course they have a list.
) - Character Alignment: Lawful Good: Does everything in her power to bring justice to the people of Japan. Too bad about that whole Diabolus Ex Machina and all.
- Stupid Good - Surely everyone will get along in peace and harmony if I set aside a reservation for the Elevens!
- Complete Monster: At least, how the public views her after she ordered the genocide of thousands of innocent Japanese people & started killing them with a polite smile on her face.
- The Ditz: A mild example. Unless you compare her to her The Chessmaster relatives.
- Dropped A Bridge On Her
- Ermine Cape Effect
- Even The Girls Want Her: Especially Nina.
- Every Girl Is Cuter With Hair Decs
- Everything's Sparkly With Jewelry: The choker around her neck.
- Expy:
Lacus ClyneLacus Clone; also, of Relena Peacecraft/Darlian. - Fan Nickname: Lacus Clone anyone? There's also the Euphinator, Genocide-tan and Massacre Princess, the last one is actually used in the series.
- Fanservice
- Fix Fic: " Nightmare of Nunnally" seems to deliberately give her the opposite outcome of what happened in the main series... by making her The Empress of Britannia.
- To say nothing of the actual Fan Fics that fix her unfortunate fate.
- Foil: She has no shortage of foils — for a few examples, see Tomboy And Girly Girl, below. But there's an interesting foil whom she barely even meets: Shirley Fenette, who not only has a strikingly similar personality but also has many analogous plot points. In many ways, Shirley is set up to be for "Lulu" what Euphemia is for Suzaku. (Lucky them.)
- Friend To All Living Things
- Genki Girl: Somehow, even when It Got Worse — which of course just made the "worse" seem even worse.
- Giant Poofy Sleeves: Occasionally.
- Good Eyes Evil Eyes: Very wide, open eyes — second only to Shirley.
- Go Out With A Smile
- The Gwen Stacy
- Heroes Want Redheads: Or in the case of Euphie, pinkheads.
- Heroic Willpower: Manages to force herself not to follow Lelouch's Geass command and kill Suzaku (Japanese), though she was nearly dead at the time.
- Hero With Bad Publicity
- Hope Spot
- Impractically Fancy Outfit
- The Ingenue: Tied with Shirley as the most clear-cut example in the series. See also Wide Eyed Idealist, below.
- It Got Worse: In a hurry.
- Kill The Cutie
- Let Them Die Happy
- Meaningful Name: Where to start? Euphemia of Chalcedon was an early Christian saint. Moreover, several European queens have also been named Euphemia. And etymologically, "Euphemia" (Greek: "good speech") is closely related to "euphemism."
- Saint Euphemia was a martyr. And her martyrdom was REALLY ugly, according to her legend..
- Meet Cute: With Suzaku Kururugi. Not just their vertical Crash Into Hello (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. So you just know things are going to go well from then on.
- Meganekko: Part of her standard disguise.
- Lampshaded in the DVD Commentary, which someone says, "She's aggressively cute with the glasses."
- Mercy Kill: A regret-filled Lelouch does this, although he has a host of conflicting motivations, many of which have nothing to do with compassion for her.
- He already had those motivations (and plans, which he had been working on during the school festival prior to the SAZ announcement) in place before the fiasco took place, so he simply chose to fall back on them with no other alternatives in sight.
- The Messiah: Even moreso than Shirley.
- She has a tendency to throw herself into dangerous situation for the sake of protecting others.
- Michelle Ruff
- Moe
- Morality Pet: For Princess Cornelia. Also, tries to be this for Lelouch. Things do not go well.
- My God What Have I Done: Subverted, as she dies without learning my god what she has done.
- Omi Minami: Her seiyuu.
- Pimped Out Dress
- Plucky Girl
- The Pollyanna
- Princess Classic: Combined with plenty of Rebellious Princess.
- Princesses Prefer Pink: Even for hair color.
- Purity Sue: Treads the line on occasion. Horribly deconstructed in the end, as her biggest and kindest plan (which would've made her a 100% Purity Sue, had it worked)is one of the things that gets everything worse for her.
- Purple Eyes
- Rapunzel Hair
- Rebellious Princess: Combined with large helpings of Princess Classic.
- Requisite Royal Regalia
- Rose Haired Girl
- Royals Who Actually Do Something: Was about to be this — until Lelouch accidentally geassed her into her anti-Japanese killing spree and had to kill her himself.Nightmare Of Nunnally is kinder to her, though.
- Sacrificial Lamb
- Sibling Yin Yang: With Cornelia.
- Spell My Name With An S: As mentioned above, Euphemia's nickname is sometimes spelled "Euphie" and sometimes "Euphy."
- Spoiled Sweet
- Stuffed Into The Fridge: Euphemia's death made some fans turn away from the series as a whole, as they felt she was also killed off just for plot device reasons.
- Token Good Teammate: for Britannian
- Tomboy And Girly Girl: Perhaps even more than Shirley — who, after all, is on the swim team, and doesn't wear poofy dresses or jewelry — Euphemia is at the girly girl extreme of the Code Geass world.
- Tragic Dream: She hopes to bring about peace between Britannia and the Japanese people. Oops.
- White Sheep
- Wide Eyed Idealist: Literally as well as figuratively: with the sole exception of Shirley, she has the largest eyes (and irises) of any major character in all of Code Geass. In the classic political sense, she is the most extreme Wide Eyed Idealist on the show, probably followed by Nunnally. (Shirley is out of the running because of her lack of interest in politics.)
- The Woobie
- Princess Cornelia li Britannia
"Sloppy, senile, corrupted. Where is Zero?! I want the enemy of the Empire caught! Get Zero!"
Twenty-seven-year old Cornelia — twenty-eight by the second season — is the Second Princess of Britannia and Area 11's Governor after the death of her brother Clovis. The brilliant, courageous, and widely-feared Commander-in-Chief of the Imperial Army, she is also strongwilled, xenophobic, and strict. Nevertheless, she harbors a deep and genuine soft spot for her little sister Euphemia.
Princess Cornelia embodies these tropes:
- Ace Pilot: The best Brittania has to offer.
- Aristocrats Are Evil: Specially at the beginning.
- Badass
- Badass Normal
- Badass Princess
- The Baroness
- Big Screwed Up Family
- Blue Blood
- Blue Eyes: Blue-purple.
- Break The Haughty
- Brother Sister Incest: Or sister-sister: her devotion to Euphemia. Not sexual, strictly speaking. So far as we know.
- Buxom Babe: Placed number five on the list.
- The Chess Master: She was the first enemy in the series to deliver Lelouch a defeat.
- Dark Action Girl: A little old for the trope, but not by that much.
- Defrosting Ice Queen: Starts off arrogant, proud and very racist. Through a series of defeats, humiliations and betrayals, by series end she is a bit more rational in thought and and has chilled out considerably.
- Disney Death
- Draco In Leather Pants: To a lesser degree than many of the others, but still.
- Evil Is Sexy
- Fantastic Racism
- Hand Cannon: She had this gun that she pointed at Zero when he offered to save the hostages of the JLF.
- Hollywood Atheist
- Impossibly Cool Clothes
- Junko Minagawa: Her seiyuu.
- Karma Houdini: She does suffer in various ways (dead little sister, messed up in the Black Rebellion, imprisoned for a while, shot by her brother), and does get better over time (see Defrosting Ice Queen), but shows no repentance and suffers no direct punishment for any of her actions, which include one on-screen massacre and doubtless many other reprehensible acts commited under the banner of Britannia, and would rightfully have her tried as a war criminal in real life.
- The Knights Who Say Squee:While normally stoic and ruthless, mention the late empress Marianne around and watch her bllush like a schoolgirl.
- Lack Of Empathy: towards the civilians, at least in the first season.
- Lady Of War
- Lawful Evil —> Lawful Neutral
- Les Yay: a lot of it in fanfiction, with Nonnette and Euphie
- Mary Elizabeth Mc Glynn: Her English-language voice actress.
- More Dakka: Did you see the payload on Cornelia's scavenged Frame in episode 14?
- The Ojou
- Princesses Prefer Pink: Cornelia prefers her pink-haired, often-pink-attired sister Euphemia to pretty much anyone or anything else in the world.
- Rebellious Princess: In the first part of R2. She drops the mantle when siding with Schneizel, but picks it up again — and almost gets a bridge dropped on her courtesy of him. She dodges it, barely, and after getting better she joins La Resistance.
- Purple Eyes: Blue-purple.
- Red Baron: "The Witch Of Britannia"
- Royal Blood
- Royals Who Actually Do Something
- Sibling Yin Yang: With Euphemia.
- Statuesque Stunner
- Taking The Bullet: A random soldier does this to save Cornelia from Todou during the Black Rebellion.
- Tall, Purple-Haired And Bishoujo
- Tomboy And Girly Girl: A true Lady Of War, Cornelia is the most tomboyish major character in season one of Code Geass. (Her closest rival would probably be Kallen in her warrior guise.) Cornelia is most commonly paired with Euphemia, who (along with Shirley) is at the show's extreme girly girl end of the spectrum. See this adorable pic from their childhood together.◊
- Tsundere: Tsun to her subordinated, dere to Euphie. At one point, Cornelia almost blushed when Schneizel was praising her.
- Tsurime
- You Gotta Have Blue Hair: Purple hair. To match her
carpeteyes and lips.
- Marianne Lamperouge, aka Empress Marianne vi Britannia
"Masks will vanish, then everyone can be exactly who they're supposed to be."
The former Empress of Charles zi Britannia and mother to Nunnally and Lelouch, she was first introduced as a Missing Mom killed by unknown assassins. It was due to this that caused her kids to be kicked out of the Britannian Empire, which in turns caused Lelouch to hate Britannia and begin his rebellion. To many people, she was known as Marianne the Flash, a powerful Action Momand a nice person overall that everyone adores (providing they are not snobbish nobles). Unfortunately, she happens to share her husband's viewpoint that the current world is beyond hope, turning out to be a Well Intentioned Extremist AND Knight Templar Parent thanks to her genuine, but REALLY twisted love for her children. .
Marianne embodies these tropes:
- Action Mom / Ace Pilot: Being a former Knight and one of the first Knightmare Frame pilots qualifies.
- Alas Poor Villain: In Nightmare Of Nunnally, she peacefully accepts Charles' decision and her own death, prompting Nunnally to tear up.
- Aristocrats Are Evil
- The Beautiful People
- Big Screwed Up Family: Where the whole mess starts.
- Bishoujo: Unless she's too old for this trope.
- Broken Pedestal / Lady Macbeth: You thought Marianne was a Friend To All Living Things? Turns out that she shares the opinion of the Big Bad.
- Buxom Babe: She has the second largest rack of all the women in the series, edged out by Milly.
- Dead Original Body: In Nightmare Of Nunnally she was idealistic and managed to convince Charles to abandon his plan until she got assassinated, which convinced her that she can't build a kind and gentle world with trust.
- Disappears Into Light
- Disposable Woman: Subverted HARD!
- The Dragon
- Evil Matriarch: Combined with Well Intentioned Extremist. Loving your kids but not being above atrocities because of them...
- Evil Is Sexy
- Genre Savvy: Keeps up a saintly Purity Sue facade and appears to get killed off while plotting with Emperor Charles the entire time. Essentially, she's playing the saintly-mother-as-Disposable Woman trope for all it's worth!
- Go Out With A Smile In "Nightmare of Nunnally."
- Grand Theft Me: Her Geass ability, which she used to transfer her soul to poor Anya.
- Hidden Depths
- Hime Cut: One of the less bizarre examples in the series.
- Hot Consort / Hot Mom / Hot Shounen Mom: She's REALLY, really hot.
- Informed Ability: She was supposedly excellent at piloting a Knightmare Frame.
- Kari Wahlgren: Her English voice actress.
- Knight Templar Parent
- Lady Macbeth
- Lady Of War: Check "Action Mom" and "Ace Pilot".
- Little Miss Badass: She * is* inside of 15-year-old Anya Earlstreim, after all. And who knows, she might have been one when young?
- Love Makes You Evil. Marianne's beloved children mean the world to her. So much that she will destroy and rewrite said world for them.
- Missing Mom: Marianne died eight years ago, at the hands of her own brother in law, V.V., out of jealousy. Turns out she managed to find a new home in the body of Anya Alstreim.
- Pale Skinned Brunette: She's got long dark hair, blue eyes and pale skin.
- Posthumous Character: Finding out the truth behind her murder is one of Lelouch's biggest motives for attempting to overthrow the Britannian Empire though it's eventually revealed that she's Not Quite Dead.
- Purple Eyes
- Purity Sue: Almost everyone who knew her seems to think she was tremendously wonderful and has sworn loyalty to her; those who weren't thrilled appear to be horribly wrong. However, this is massively deconstructed in the end..
- Rags To Royalty: A major plot point. Or Is It?
- Rapunzel Hair
- She Knows Too Much: The reason for her death at Schniezel's hands in Suzaku Of The Counterattack.
- Shipper On Deck: Ships Lelouch/C.C., even asking C.C herself directly if she fancied Lelouch. C.C just said "Uhm, He Is Not My Boyfriend".
- Showing Off The New Body: Shortly after she appears to Lelouch in ep 21 of R2. Technically, it was her old body, because she had been stuck in a loli for seven years prior, but the effect is kinda the same.
- Tall Dark And Bishoujo
- Trickster So good at lying and manipulating, that she managed to fool everyone with her saintly Purity Sue facade even after her physical death. Also very playful and almost child-like towards Lelouch during episode 21 of R2.
- The UnFavourite: Being born as a commoner certainly didn't help with the nobles ... or with her brother-in-law.
- Utopia Justifies The Means / Well Intentioned Extremist: More than being an Evil Matriarch, Marianne heartily believed that Instrumentality was the best way for the world to exist.
- Prince Schneizel el Britannia
"Mankind's history is war, peace is an illusion, to turn illusion into reality is an arduous task. It requires discipline."
Second son of Emperor Charles, this blond man in his late twenties is one of the main antagonists of the series. While he starts out an Anti Villain and rather pleasant person, his more ruthless and deadly intelligent side comes to the fore in season two, as he starts rising in power and embracing his role as Lelouch's counterpart. What he lacks in typical Britannian royal theatrics, he makes up for in efficiency, cunning, and sheer ruthlessness.
In Suzaku Of The Counterattack, Suzaku becomes his knight. Schneizel turns out to be the main villain, killing his father and framing Lelouch for it. He tries to use C.C. to gain immortality and take over the world, but Suzaku manages to kill him.
Schneizel embodies these tropes:
- A God Am I: Who commands a floating battle station with has orbital nuclear capability.
- Furthermore, in ''Suzaku Of The Counterattack" he tries to become immortal and take over the world.
- Aloof Big Brother
- Always Someone Better: Schneizel is the only character who can consistently outstrategize even Lelouch.
- Amoral Attorney: Not in profession, but fits the archetype perfectly.
- Anti Villain: Subverted. He was foreshadowed as a Big Bad and Lulu's Evil Counterpart since the first Opening Title Sequence but, for a long time, he had yet to do anything evil. However, after R2 episode 19, he definitely proves himself to be Not So Harmless, having shown his Magnificent Bastard true self. And then he got his very own floating doom fortress.
- He already started showing his dark side a good ten episodes earlier the way he was leading and almost brainwashing the already crazy Nina to believe FLEIJA would be what Euphie would want.
- Aristocrats Are Evil
- The Beautiful People
- Big Bad: In Suzaku Of The Counterattack.
- Big Screwed Up Family
- Blond Guys Are Evil: I mean, c'mon, you didn't seriously believe he is up to anything noble and good?
- Character Derailment: In the final arc, he goes from being an Affably Evil Anti Villain who attempts to solve things diplomatically at every turn, to an Omnicidal Maniac withdelusions of godhood who expresses little concern at the prospect of killing billions.
- Alternate Character Interpretation. Is it really derailment, or was Schneizel simply that good at hiding his true intentions and his megalomania? He wouldn't be the first one to do so, see Aizen in Bleach or Rau Le Crueset in Gundam SEED.
- The Chessmaster
- Consummate Liar: Of the Truth Twister sort. See also False Reassurance.
- Divide And Conquer: One of his many ruthless stratagems.
- Draco In Leather Pants: Why, manipulating an already mentally fragile Teen Genius into building the biggest bomb EVER by constantly telling her for more than a yearthat the girl she loved and horribly lost would've wanted that, turning Suzaku and Lelouch against each other by setting up a trap during their reconciliation, giving the former use of previously mentioned bomb into battle while fully counting on it being used because of Suzaku's Lawful Stupidity, hiding away the fact that the apparently dead in the blast Nunnally is still alive, turning the Black Knights against an emotionally unstable Lelouch with a conjecture-laced testimony, and then [[spoiler: turning the now also emotionally-broken Nunnally against him, revealing her presence to Lelouch only after he began his Thanatos Gambit and is already beyond the point of no return are absolutely not morally questionable action, since Schneizel is oh so hot and stylish and what not. His victims are the idiot ones! Hate them, haaaaaate them!
- Disturbingly enough, some viewers believe Schneizel was being 100% honest in the testimonial that led to the betrayal, and that in general he's an honest, reasonable man.
- Dragon Ascendant
- Early Bird Cameo: He is first seen at Clovis' funeral.
- Even Evil Has Standards: Unlike his dad, he does not react well to mind controlled Euphemia massacering Elevens.
- Evil Counterpart: To Lelouch.
- Evil Mentor: To Nina.
- The Evils Of Free Will: His Damocles plan, in a nutshell.
- False Reassurance: This might as well be Schneizel's non-Geass power.
- Hey Its That Voice: Norihiro Inoue, better known as Kazuma Sohma.
- Ho Yay: With his aidé, Earl Kanon Maldini. Who apparently helps him out in his public AND private affairs, If You Know What I Mean.
- Humiliation Conga: Got a really spectacular one in the Grand Finale. See the main page for details.
- Kick Them While They Are Down: A master at this, too. The dick.
- Lack Of Empathy: when he nukes Pendragon, or at least that's what he wants you to believe.
- Lawful Evil
- Light Is Not Good
- Magnificent Bastard and Manipulative Bastard: And HOW. He lacks the theatrics, but god damn he's efficient,
- Meaningful Name: Schneizel kind of fits the "evil German" stereotype, once he's revealed to be a ruthless killer. Also, the Real Life British Royal family is German. They changed their name to Windsor during WW 1, but until then it was Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.
- This German troper has never heard the name Schneizel in her entire life.
- His name has "sch" in it, it resembles the word schnitzel and he's blonder than blond. Most people will think of him as German, if for no other reason ( insert Johan Liebert comparison) than stereotypes.
- This German troper has never heard the name Schneizel in her entire life.
- Mighty Whitey: As with his younger half-brother, Lelouch.
- Misaimed Fandom: The belief that he is an honest man of peace. Where have I heard that one before?
- Moral Event Horizon: When he led an emotionally-imbalanced Nina on to believing that FLEIJA was what Euphemia would want, it quickly became clear that Schneizel wasNot So Harmless.
- More Than Mind Control: His preferred approach to people who can be useful to him, including Nina and even Nunnally.
- Not So Harmless: He's obviously not up to something, right? ...Right?!
- Overlord Jr
- Playing The Victim Card: His remark that he himself could be under the Geass command of Lelouch when meeting with the Black Knights.
- Quote Mine: Schneizel pulls this one on Lelouch and his Sarcastic Confession to Suzaku of deliberately geassing Euphie and then killing her, and uses it to implicate him in front of the Black Knights, leaving out the rest of the conversation, including Suzaku calling out Lelouch for lying. With a little extra suspicious yet cursory evidence, it's incredibly effective.
- Red Herring: Set up as a suspect for killing Marianne. It turns out to be V.V.
- Red Oni Blue Oni: He could be the blue to Lelouch's red.
- Royals Who Actually Do Something
- Sensitive Guy And Manly Man: If you replace "Manly Man" with "Magnificent Bastard", then Kanon and Schneizel fit to a T.
- Smart People Play Chess
- Totalitarian Utilitarian: Runs in the blood, more than he would care to admit.
- Troy Baker
- Utopia Justifies The Means
- Villains Never Lie: Subverted. See Manipulative Bastard.
- Villain With Good Publicity
- The White Prince
- V.V.
"We made a solemn vow. If there was ever a God that made men fight each other. We must kill him and his divine rule."
V.V. (pronounced V2) is a mysterious boy with blond hair longer than his body. He is the twin brother of Charles zi Britannia, but looks much younger because he has gained the power of immortality through a Geass contract like C.C. He can grant Geass contracts like her, having given both his brother and Rolo Lamperouge their Geass abilities, among others in the Geass Directorate. He succeeds C.C. in becoming leader of the Geass Directorate, a secret organization that studies and produces Geass users. He is one of the main antagonists in the series.
V.V. embodies these tropes:
- Alliterative Name: If those are indeed his initials.
- Asshole Victim
- Big Screwed Up Family: Seeing this trope in action and suffering horribly because of it is his Freudian Excuse.
- Blond Guys Are Evil
- Blue Blood
- Cindy Robinson: His English-language voice actress.
- Complete Monster: Rivals Luciano Bradley in being the most despicable character in the series.
- Creepy Child: Although not technically a child, he's one of the creepiest characters in the series.
- Creepy Twins: He and Charles could fit the bill, but him more so.
- Cross Dressing Voices: Subverted in the Japanese original: Kazato Tomizawa, his seiyuu, is a male child actor.
- Doom Magnet
- Enfant Terrible: Subverted: He's a man in his 60's, but he got his Code at an early age so his physical growth was stunted.
- Godiva Hair: despite being male.
- Hair Of Gold: Subverted too. See Blond Guys Are Evil.
- Hannibal Lecture. Tries this on Cornelia. Does NOT work.
- High Octane Nightmare Fuel: Oh, YES!
- Hoist By His Own Petard: In more ways than one. Sending Marianne's n°1 fanboy Jeremiah to assassinate Lelouch backfired, resulting in Jeremiah committing an about face and leading Lelouch to his doorstep, but not in the way V. V. anticipated at all, leading to the latter's defeat. V. V., still recovering from his internal injuries, made the mistake of seeking refuge in the presence of his brother Charles, who he had not bothered to inform that he had sent an assassin after Lelouch. Charles, still seething from V. V.'s earlier lies in violation of their pledge and contract to liberate the world from them, has had the last straw. Since Charles had a fully evolved Geass, you can probably guess what happens next...
- Karmic Death: The best example in the series by a longshot, for all the crap that he caused.
- Kazato Tomizawa: His seiyuu.
- Marc Anthony And Pussyfoot: With his twin brother Emperor Charles.
- Neutral Evil
- Nice Job Fixing It Villain: When you send out an assassin, make sure he has no unrequited loyalties to the matriarch of the target. You just might have a Heel Face Turnin the works. And had V. V. not murdered Marianne, Lelouch may have never stumbled upon his parents' Ragnarok Connection plan.
- Older Than They Look: He looks even younger than Nunnally, but really he's Emperor Charles' twin brother.
- Purple Eyes: Pink-ish purple.
- Rapunzel Hair
- Royal Blood
- Uncanny Valley: Oh, so very, very much.
- Yandere
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