Characters: Code Geass Black Knights |
The character sheet for the Black Knights of Code Geass.
A mild-mannered Mad Scientist from India, Rakshata Chawla is a mostly-friendly rival to the team of Lloyd Asplund and Cécile Croomy.
Rakshata Chawla embodies these tropes:
Kaguya Sumeragi (皇 神楽耶, Sumeragi Kaguya), fourteen years old (fifteen in R2), is the young head mistress of the Kyōto House and a supporter of the Black Knights. She is also a close friend of Empress Tianzi of China. Despite her age and physique, she possesses a strong will and is highly influential amongst the Houses. Kaguya has admired Zero since his debut, and wishes to have his hand in marriage.
Kaguya embodies these tropes:
Shinichirō Tamaki (玉城 真一郎, Tamaki Shin'ichirō), twenty-four years old (twenty-five in R2), a is the leader of the second special squadron of the Black Knights. He is a hot-headed and carefree person, quick to cheer others on when not doing the fighting but rash and impulsive when he's on the front lines. His rashness is shown to border on recklessness, as he orders the execution of the Ashford Academy student council against Zero's wishes, though extenuating circumstances prevent his orders from being carried out. He pilots a standard Knightmare Frames during battles, though he rarely lasts long before being forced to eject.
Tamaki embodies these tropes:
Twenty-six years old (twenty-seven in R2), Ohgi used to be a school teacher before he became the leader of a Japanese resistance cell, having taken over after the death of Kallen Kozuki's older brother Naoto. Or at least, Ohgi was the leader, until Zero butts in.
Ohgi embodies these tropes:
Brittanian TV producer who joined the Black Knights not because he believed in their cause but because he worshipped Zero. He was in charge of the Black Knights information, espionage, and public relations.
- Tropes that apply to most members
- Anti Hero: Type III on average; they are usually not as extreme as Lelouch, but continue to use terrorism.
- Chaotic Good
- Dark Is Not Evil
- Good Is Not Nice
- La Resistance
- Rebellious Rebels
- Your Terrorists Are Our Freedom Fighters
The Black Knights
- Rakshata ChawlaVoiced by: Masayo Kurata (JP), Laura Bailey (EN)"I'm its mother."—In reference to the Guren
A mild-mannered Mad Scientist from India, Rakshata Chawla is a mostly-friendly rival to the team of Lloyd Asplund and Cécile Croomy.
Rakshata Chawla embodies these tropes:
- Bollywood Nerd
- Bunny Ears Lawyer: Loves to lounge around on sofas and tease people while smoking her pipe.
- Buxom Babe: She's number eight.
- Dark Skinned Blond
- Ditzy Genius
- Foe Yay: With Lloyd
- Gadgeteer Genius
- Green Eyes
- Hollywood Nerd
- Hot Scientist
- Laura Bailey: Voices Rakshata in the English dub.
- Mad Scientist: Like her rival Lloyd Asplund, Rakshata Chawla is a mostly benign version. Not evil enough to be 100% Mad Scientist, but too quirky and young to be The Professor.
- Masayo Kurata: Her seiyuu
- The Nicknamer: She gives Earl Lloyd Asplund his Fan Nickname "the Earl of Pudding," after his Trademark Favorite Food. I guess that makes her his Number One Fan?
- Smoking Is Cool
- Spell My Name With An S: Rakshata vs. Lakshata vs. Laksharta....
- Statuesque Stunner
- TV Genius
- Kaguya SumeragiVoiced by: Mika Kanai (JP), Stephanie Sheh (EN)"It's a matter of love!"
Kaguya Sumeragi (皇 神楽耶, Sumeragi Kaguya), fourteen years old (fifteen in R2), is the young head mistress of the Kyōto House and a supporter of the Black Knights. She is also a close friend of Empress Tianzi of China. Despite her age and physique, she possesses a strong will and is highly influential amongst the Houses. Kaguya has admired Zero since his debut, and wishes to have his hand in marriage.
Kaguya embodies these tropes:
- Arranged Marriage: Was to be engaged to her cousin Suzaku. See also Kissing Cousins, below.
- Big Eyes Little Eyes: Just look at those enormous peepers. In this regard, she almost rivals Wide Eyed Idealists Princess Euphemia and Shirley Fenette.
- Blue Blood
- The Chessmaster
- Every Girl Is Cuter With Hair Decs: Her diadem. (See also Everything's Sparkly With Jewelry, below.)
- Everything's Sparkly With Jewelry: Her diadem. (See also Every Girl Is Cuter With Hair Decs, above.)
- Genki Girl
- Green Eyes
- Hime Cut: (In this case, Hime Cute.) One of the least weird examples in the series. See also Rapunzel Hair, below.
- Improbable Age: She's the chairwoman of the United Federation of Nations at 15.
- Kissing Cousins: Was to be engaged to her cousin Suzaku. See also Arranged Marriage, above.
- Meaningful Name: Kaguya is the name of the eponymous character from an old Japanese folk tale "Princess Kaguya," also known as "The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter."
- Mika Kanai: Her seiyuu.
- Moe
- The Ojou: More traditionally Japanese example than most in the series.
- Older Than They Look: She's a teenager, but in many shots she could easily pass for a small child. It's ironic, since she's as smart and savvy as any of the adults around her.
- Pale Skinned Brunette: Beyond brunette, she actually has black hair; but yeah, the color contrast is there anyway.
- Pettanko: She's in the bottom of "the list," but we don't mind since she's cute anyway.
- Plucky Girl
- Rapunzel Hair: See also Hime Cut, above.
- The Smart Guy: See also Teen Genius and TV Genius and especially Wise Beyond Their Years, below.
- Stephanie Sheh: Her English VA.
- Teen Genius: See also TV Genius and especially Wise Beyond Their Years, below.
- Token Loli: Slightly old for the part, but then she's one of those Older Than They Look.
- Tomboy And Girly Girl: The girly girl when paired with tomboyish Kallen; the tomboy, when with the super girlish Tianzi.
- TV Genius: See Teen Genius, above, and especially Wise Beyond Their Years, below.
- Wise Beyond Their Years: On Lelouch's chart
◊ ranking the overall value of the top members of the Black Knights, she was second only to Toudoh despite having no combat ability. (Granted, most of it comes from full Charisma and very high Loyalty, but she still ties for second in Intelligence.)
- Shinichirō TamakiVoiced by: Kazunari Tanaka (JP), Michael Lindsay (EN)"I'm Zero's best buddy!"
Shinichirō Tamaki (玉城 真一郎, Tamaki Shin'ichirō), twenty-four years old (twenty-five in R2), a is the leader of the second special squadron of the Black Knights. He is a hot-headed and carefree person, quick to cheer others on when not doing the fighting but rash and impulsive when he's on the front lines. His rashness is shown to border on recklessness, as he orders the execution of the Ashford Academy student council against Zero's wishes, though extenuating circumstances prevent his orders from being carried out. He pilots a standard Knightmare Frames during battles, though he rarely lasts long before being forced to eject.
Tamaki embodies these tropes:
- Brick Joke: Remember when Tamaki was harassing Zero about giving him an official position in the Black Knights during R2? Well, it takes a few episodes of waiting and a sharp eye during the UNF ratification ceremony, but we finally find out what position he got: Internal Cleaning Supporter. Yup, he's a glorified janitor.
- Butt Monkey: In Lelouch's personal stats for the Black Knights, Tamaki comes out with the lowest rankings at 40, ten in each category (Intelligence, Combat Ability, Charisma, and Loyalty). Note that, with the exception of non-combatants, who have no Combat Ability score, and Nagisa Chiba, who ties for Loyalty, his scores are worse than any other member. Moreover, every other member ranks at least past 150, if just barely in some cases. While at first this might seem a joke at his expense, it fits if you take a look at his track record over the course of the show.
- Chew Toy
- Ensemble Darkhorse
- The Everyman: Played straighter in his case than in Ohgi's.
- Fetish Fuel: Evidently for some.
- Fiery Redhead
- The Fool: Oddly, this has made him an Ensemble Darkhorse and one of the few Black Knights who retain their popularity. He even manages to survive his direct, face-to-face encounter with Suzaku's Lancelot Albion in his grunt mech, even getting in a good line ("Even I have my pride, you know!") before he had to eject from his exploding Knightmare.
- Hot Blooded
- Perma Stubble
- Sarcastic Devotee
- Kaname OhgiVoiced by: Mitsuaki Madono (JP), Kirk Thornton (EN)"Someone who feels hate must also feel sadness."
Twenty-six years old (twenty-seven in R2), Ohgi used to be a school teacher before he became the leader of a Japanese resistance cell, having taken over after the death of Kallen Kozuki's older brother Naoto. Or at least, Ohgi was the leader, until Zero butts in.
Ohgi embodies these tropes:
- A Man Is Not A Virgin: Averted if you see the "Brown Agony" sound stage. Later averted.
- Ambiguously Jewish: He has curly hair and wears the same badge as they wore in Nazi Germany.
- Character Derailment: Arguably starts off as the most heroic and level-headed of all the Black Knights. Come time when he turns against Lelouch, he makes a closed door deal with Britannia to free only Japan, even though other countries were involved in the dispute at that point.
- Anti Hero: Type II —-> Type IV
- Character Alignment: Neutral Good / Chaotic Good —> Neutral Selfish
- Dead Childhood Friend: Naoto Kuzuki.
- Elephant In The Living Room: Neither his affair with Villetta, nor his nearly allowing Kallen to be gunned down on account of the attempt to execute Lelouch, or that he might have been too rash about jumping to conclusions on Lelouch, are put into question.
- Ensemble Darkhorse: Subverted. He was one until the second half of R2, since he had a rather believable Character Development in the first part. Then he got hit reallyhard with Character Derailment...
- More exactly: he gained something of a fan following in the first season for being the most level-headed and realistic of the Black Knights and the only one to consider that Zero is just as human as the rest of them. But in the second season, he was widely reviled for his betrayal of Lelouch, presumably based on nothing more than the testimony of a woman who tried to kill him twice and told him to his face that the thought of them being together was disgusting. Resulted in the memetic mutation "Ohgi lied, Rolo died" and the fan nickname "Ougly".)
- The Everyman: A Deconstructed Trope, considering that his Everyman qualities in the midst of a war beyond his comprehension lead to his very questionable decisions and the disasters that result.
- Happily Married: To Villetta Nu, at the end of the series.
- Hollywood Homely: His design is not 100% ugly, but is still very plain in comparison to others. And go have a haircut, man, that Jewfro doesn't suit you.
- That only shows that he's not drawn-into-the-sky, drop-dead gorgeous the way the rest of the characters are. But he's handsome enough!
- Well, it is Clamp who did the character designs.
- Horrible Judge Of Character: Turn 19 of R2. Enough said.
- Hypocrite/Moral Dissonance/What An Idiot: Yes, all three. In a nutshell, the betrayal during R2 19. Just check the anime entry of the latter for more detail.
- I Got Better: He got stabbed by Sayoko's daggers and fell off a cliff in R2 turn 15. He comes back with no sign of injuries later. The incident is never mentioned again.
- Though it is inferred that he and Villetta ganged up on Diethard for sending Sayoko to spy on them, and then blackmailing Ohgi with Villetta.
- Inspector Javert: When he chases Lelouch all the way up to the latter's disappearance into the Sword of Akasha following the betrayal.
- Karma Houdini: He was Happily Married by the end of Code Geass — and was even elected Prime Minister, despite the numerous questionable decisions he made in the latter half of the second season. See above entries.
- Kirk Thornton: His voice actor in the English-language dub.
- Lima Syndrome: At first he intends to interrogate Villetta after she recovers from her amnesia, but he ends up falling for her.
- Living With The Villain: Lives with Villetta Nu for quite some time while she's lost her memory after being shot by Shirley.
- Love Makes You Dumb / Took A Level In Dumbass: Started out as the Only Sane Man, only to go south after he met Villetta.
- Mitsuaki Madono
- Nice Job Breaking It Hero: One might say he broke Zero.
- Ron The Death Eater: While he's NOT without his tremendous share of responsibility, some of his haters are painstakingly ferocious.
- The Scrappy: Falls under the following two subtropes:
- Swiss Messenger: Quite possibly a candidate for Trope Codifier for his role in R2 19 and the resulting fallout.
- The Wesley: And quite possibly this for the favorable focus he was given all the way up to the ending.
- Star Crossed Lovers: With Villetta.
- The Stool Pigeon
- Taking The Bullet: He saved Villetta from Sayoko by taking the daggers which were meant for her.
- Treachery Coverup: Attempts to cover up the betrayal against Lelouch.
- Ugly Guy Hot Wife: Villetta would normally be way out of his league.
- Diethard ReidVoiced by: Joji Nakata (JP), Jaimeson Price (EN)"Zero's arrival was like the arrival of a new age unfolding before my eyes!"
Brittanian TV producer who joined the Black Knights not because he believed in their cause but because he worshipped Zero. He was in charge of the Black Knights information, espionage, and public relations.
- Anti Hero (Type V): The only member with no little regard to righteousness.
- Blonde Guys Are Evil
- Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: Switching to whichever side entertains him the most, apparently.
- Heel Face Revolving Door
- Jerkass
- Neutral Selfish
- Token Evil Teammate
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