Rewatching Code Geass and wow Suzaku is more insufferable than I remembered for the first three quarters of the show
I unironically love Code Geass and its ending. Pump that corny shit right into my veins.
The show’s pretty liberal in its ideology and abusive of Deus/Diablo Ex Machinas too. It’s not a good show, even when I watched it as a teenager.
Wasn’t it the guilt of killing his father.
It isn’t his ideology that was annoying but his overpowered combat abilities in his mech suit and his hand-to-hand combat prowess that was frustrating. He was memed as Spinzaku for a reason.
Yeah it’s definitely not an objectively good show, but something about it makes it easy for me to turn my brain off and enjoy it for what it is at face value. It’s probably the fact that you don’t often see media justifying violent resistance against a country that’s somewhat of a stand in for both the United States and the British Empire. At the very least it has an anti imperialist slant
He’s a fucking scab prick fuck. Dude is a cop in the worst possible way. He’s a delta force operator child soldier for the evil fuckin empire. Everything about this guy sucks ass, but the main character gotta convince him to stop killing his own just to get anywhere anyway
Suzaku’s thing throughout most of the show is his idea that it’s not worth building a better world if you need to use violence and coercion to do it. And if he were just a regular guy with no stakes in any of this, that would be kind of an understandable take for him to have.
But the hilarious part is that he is continuously lecturing on about that as he fights as an elite soldier for the side also using violence and coercion, but with the actively stated goal of colonization and oppression of the numbered zones.
The only way to interpret this is to realize he’s one of those types who seem to think it’s not violence when the law says its legal and when the military does it. And in that sense he’s a pretty realistically written liberal
