Monday, January 24, 2011

Characters: Code Geass part 6

    Britannian Army 
Villetta Nu
"I will not die like Jeremiah, stripped of power and honor., I will rise higher than ever!"
One of Jeremiah Gottwald's most devoted subordinates, Villetta Nu is a twenty-six-year-old Knightmare Frame pilot of African lineage. Like Jeremiah, she belongs to a segregationist group called the Pure Bloods, Britannians who believe that Elevens and other Numbers (i.e., people of Japanese or other non-Britannian descent) should be forbidden from serving in the Britannian military or otherwise contaminating Britannian society. Although Villetta does not hail from the aristocracy, she hopes to sufficiently distinguish herself in the service of her country as to earn her family hereditary knighthood.
After Zero uses his mind control geass to ruin Jeremiah's career and very nearly Villetta's as well, she does some quick thinking and realizes that he must have connections at Ashford Academy. She hopes that by capturing Zero, she can bring herself glory and simultaneously redeem Jeremiah. But fate, or luck, has some surprises for her.

Villetta Nu embodies these tropes:


Jeremiah Gottwald

"Orange-kun is the name of my loyalty!"
A soldier in the Britannian army who was initially not supposed to be in the series past his first few appearances, he winds up becoming a more important figure in season two, whose reappearance kicks off several important events as a result of the Applied Phlebotinum included in his reconstruction. Ends up making a Heel Face Turn to join Lelouch, becoming one of his loyal retainers, and is apparently so trusted that he was in on the final plot for the Zero Requiem.

Jeremiah embodies these tropes:
  • Anti Magic: He gets armed with the Geass canceller.
  • Aristocrats Are Evil: Subverted. He comes off as very racist at first, but then he gets Character Development.
  • Anti Hero: Type IV
  • Ax Crazy: Temporarily. When he wakes up early from his first cybernetic surgery, the sound of Zero's voice over the broadcast system sends him into an Unstoppable Rage, leading him to steal the Siegfried prototype mecha and rush break out of a research facility to go earn his first Moment of Awesome.
  • Back From The Dead
  • The Beautiful People
  • Blade Below The Shoulder: He gains two of these, one embedded in each arm, after his second round of modifications.
  • Blue Blood
  • Body Horror
  • Bond Villain Stupidity: Done deliberately during the Grand Finale, when he lets Suzaku/Zero through the guards defending Lelouch by calling them off so he can "take Zero on himself". In truth, Jeremiah knows what Suzaku and Lelouch are up to, and he even encourages Suzaku to do his part in his mind.
  • Break The Haughty: When Kallen incinerates his Sutherland, nearly killing him as he ejects with massive wounds.
  • Breakout Character
  • The Brute: To Emperor Lelouch.
  • The Chewtoy: When he wasn't The Woobie.
  • Crispin Freeman: Plays Jeremiah in the English dub.
  • The Determinator: Can match (or possibly even beat) Kallen in this category, as nothing will stop him from carrying out his loyalty, Nothing, be it having his knightmare explode while he's still in it (twice), having a skyscraper dropped on him, being dragged underwater to crushing depth, or even geifun disturbers shutting down his cybernetics, he will not stay down for long. At first, Lelouch regards him with utter disdain ("Be crushed to dust, you relic!"), which later becomes grudging respect ("Your persistence is first-class."). Becomes an asset to Lelouch after the Heel Face Turn, right down to obeying orders to assist in making his assassination look good.
  • Draco In Leather Pants: Becoming the poster boy for Ensemble Darkhorse is a quite amazing career for a character who identified himself as blatant racist in his very first appearance and eagerly massacred unarmed civilians in the second. Yes, we know about the Trauma Conga Line, but it still doesn't 100% excuse him.
  • Ensemble Darkhorse: The original plan called for him to be killed at the end of his earliest appearance, but the sheer amount of love he earned from the fans caused the ending of the arc to be tweaked as to allow for survival, and he's enjoyed massive popularity in every appearance since, including three Crowning Moments of Awesomeand one of the happiest endings of the cast.
  • Evil Is Dumb: Only gets true respect after his Heel Face Turn.
  • Evil Is Sexy
  • Eyes Of Gold
  • Failure Knight: He was in charge of the palace guard the day Empress Marianne was murdered, therefore he has felt guilty for years because he couldn't stop or capture her assassins. And this triggers his Heel Face Turn.
  • Gratuitous English: A walking fountain of it, particularly in his first Crowning Moment Of Awesome. "ALL HAIL BRITANNIA!!", indeed.
  • Heel Face Turn
  • Hollywood Cyborg: Indeed.
  • Hot Blooded
  • Humiliation Conga: He gets one way early in the series, and not quite dies twice before he manages to regain his honor and dignity along with a Heel Face Turn.)
  • Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: For a time.
  • Inspector Zenigata: Probably part of his charm.
  • Insult Backfire: After his Heel Face Turn, when the his former comrades try to insult him with the name "Orange," he pretty much takes it as a compliment as it was a name given to him by Lelouch.
  • Karma Houdini: Very debatable from an outside viewpoint. In-universe, you'd think he'd be punished severely after all the things he'd done as Lelouch's lackey.
  • Ken Narita: Jeremiah's seiyuu.
  • Large Ham: Almost every appearance after episode four.
  • Lawful Evil -> Lawful Neutral
  • Leaning On The Fourth Wall: His 2nd season return. "Look out for me, Jeremiah Gottwald, with all you've got!" Sounds like he's addressing the viewers.
  • Made Of Iron: The very fact that he survived two particular incidents, and closer to literally after parts of his body are rebuilt using sakuradite.
  • Manly Tears: He cries in joy (Tears Of Blood included, in a sense) when he goes under his Heel Face Turn and joins Lelouch. And before this, he cries in the Picture Dramas when explaining his backstory to his subordinate Villetta Nu.
  • Memetic Badass / Undying Loyalty: Beloved by the fans for most of the second season, but especially after the series finale, Orange-kun has been elevated to theultimate symbol of chivalry and loyalty◊.
  • Mismatched Eyes: After he returns as a cyborg, he has one of his original orange eyes, and a green cybernetic replacement for the other.
  • My Master Right Or Wrong: Marianne's n°1 fanboy. Later, her son's n°1 supporter.
  • Parental Substitute: If he did become Anya's caretaker or father in the end
  • Phlebotinum Rebel: The point in his second cyborg upgrade was for him to take over Rolo's job of assassinating Lelouch. Instead, he joined him.
  • Retired Badass: After showing some insane awesomeness in the big final battle, the time skip at the end of the episode shows him having left the military to run an orange plantation, with Anya either as help or as family.
  • Tall Dark And Handsome: Well dark-blue.
  • Throw The Dog A Bone: After losing everything, including parts of his own body early in season one, things start looking up for him in season two.
  • Took A Level In Badass: After kicking total ass in the first season finale, he comes back with even more badassness. He's an essentially bulletproof cyborg, is more than capable of dodging melee attacks with sidesteps and flips, has fighting skills to rival Sayoko, has a sword that comes out of his arm, and Geasses don't work on him. If that fails to impress, he also manages to move his cyborg body despite the fact that he's standing right next to a Gefjun Disturber (EMP device that works against Sakuradite, a substance that is a part of his cyborg body) through sheer willpower alone.
  • Undying Loyalty: AND HOW!
  • Unstoppable Rage
  • We Can Rebuild Him: ''Twice'.'
  • The Woobie: When he isn't The Chew Toy.
  • You Gotta Have Blue Hair

Gilbert G.P. Guilford

"My justice is with my princess!"
Personal knight of Second Princess Cornelia li Britannia with unwavering devotion to his princess and piloting skill matching Kyoshiro Tohdoh.

Guilford embodies these tropes:
  • Anti Hero: Type IV.
  • Anti Villain: He doesn't have good thoughts about Zero's supporters, but he learns to accept Suzaku and he is one of few Britannian officers above any personal ambitions.
  • Bodyguard Crush: On Princess Cornelia.
  • Brainwashed And Crazy: Sort of, Lelouch uses his Geass to make Guliford believe that he is Cornelia, this makes him fight against Britannia.
  • Earn Your Happy Ending: Despite his personal traits, he deserved that something good finally happened to him.
  • Ensemble Darkhorse
  • Failure Knight: In R2.
  • Heroic Sacrifice: Believing that Lelouch is Cornelia, he pushed him out of FLEJA range.
  • Honor Before Reason: Used against him by Zero. He even states that he would continue to use honorable means even against evil that cannot be defeated by them.
  • I Got Better: After the FLEIJA incident.
  • Iron Woobie: He got separated from Cornelia, tricked by Zero into defecting to the Black Knights and got himself almost killed. He only gets to cry after he is reunited with his princess.
  • Karma Houdini: Possibly. He was a willing accessory to the tyranny and corruption of Britannia and many of the associated conflicts within the show, thus serving as an obstacle to freedom, even if it was all strictly in the service of the crown. Nonetheless, he survives and gets to enjoy that very same freedom at the end of the show with the princess he serves, Cornelia, even though things became rough near the end.
  • Knight Templar: He is not kind for those who he consider as terrorists. And judging from the second SAZ where he suggested gunning down the Japanese civilians in the case of a rebellion, he can also be downright ruthless.
  • Lawful Neutral
  • My Country Right Or Wrong
  • My Master Right Or Wrong: To the core. When Geass forced him to believe that Lelouch is Cornelia he attacked Britannians to protect him.
  • Stoic Spectacles
  • Sunglasses At Night
  • Tall Dark And Handsome
  • Unwitting Pawn: His honorable traits were twice used against him by Zero.
  • You Shall Not Pass: His personal Crowning Moment Of Awesome during the first Black Rebellion.

Andreas Darlton

A general in the Britannian Army and one of Cornelia's most loyal followers.

Dalton embodies these tropes:
  • Arrogant Kung Fu Guy: Challenges Suzaku to a duel to prove his superiority in Nightmare Of Nunnally, which leads to Suzaku evading all his attacks, as he considers him not worth fighting.
  • Chivalrous Pervert: Quite excited by the prospect of seeing Cornelia in a swimsuit, but doesn't try to peek on her.
  • Good Scars Evil Scars: Has a diagonal scar on his face.
  • I Can Still Fight: Despite having been shot by Euphemia, when he tried to stop the SAZ massacre, he continues to the battle for Tokyo. It helps that he's been Geassed.
  • Lawful Neutral
  • My God What Have I Done: His last words, after attacking Cornelia from behind so Lelouch can capture her
  • Pet The Dog: Is the adoptive father of five orphaned boys.
  • Travis Willingham: His English voice-actor.
  • Trouser Space: Hides a gun in his swim trunks while escorting Cornelia to the opening of Clovis Land. It ends up looking... awkward, to say the least.
  • You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Killed by Lelouch after disabling Cornelia's Knightmare frame.
    • Lelouch probably killed him to keep him from interfering with him, given that the geass command to disable Cornelia was completed.


Alice

A character unique to Nightmare Of Nunnally, in which she's Nunnally's best friend. She is also one of the Irregulars, a group of pilots with Geass skills who came from the numbered areas. Her mission is both to observe Nunnally and to capture the mysterious Mark Nemo — unaware that Nunnally is its pilot.

Alice embodies these tropes:

    The Knights of the Round 

Left to right; Bismarck, Monica, Luciano, Nonnette, Anya, Gino.

The most powerful members of the Brittannian army, answering to the Emperor alone.
General tropes:

Sir Bismark Waldstein

I am the only Knight of One!
The Knight of One, recognized as the strongest soldier in the Britannian Empire.


Gino Weinberg

Shake time!
The Knight of Three, and one of the youngest Knights of the Round besides Suzaku and Anya.


Dorothea Ernst

No way! I'm already killed?
The Knight of Four. Not much else is known about her, since she is killed in her only scene.


Anya Alstreim

"Memories are unreliable. There is no reason to believe in them"
A young noblewoman from Britannia, Anya Alstreim — the Knight of Six — is a fifteen-year-old girl with prodigious piloting skills, a staggering lack of common sense when off the battlefield, and quite a bad case of emotionlessness in regards to almost anything aside from fighting. In addtion, Anya suffers from memory problems, so she keeps a blog wherein she stores thousands of photos, in an attempt not to forget anything anymore. Little does she know that the cause of her memory problems is that the "deceased" Empress Marianne has actually found a way to cheat death — by using her as a Soul Jar.

Anya embodies these tropes:


Nonette Enneagram

The Knight of Nine. She only appears a few times in the Code Geass anime, and mainly appears in Lost Colors.


Luciano Bradley

"Kill a man off the battlefield and you're a criminal! Kill a man on it and you're a big hero!"
The Knight of Ten and the "Vampire of Britannia", who participates in battle so that he can deprive people of what he believes they value most- their lives.


Monica Kruczewski

The Knight of Twelve.
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