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''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6040679/1/Code_Geass_Mao_of_the_Deliverance Code Geass: Mao of the Deliverance]'' is a [[Code Geass]] fanfic by [http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1955982/kleptographer_of_alternates Kleptographer of Alternates], which [[Perspective Flip|details the history of]] [[Ensemble Darkhorse|M]][[One -Scene Wonder|a]][[Base Breaker|o]] , beginning with his abandonment by [[Draco in Leather Pants|C.C.]]. It primarily focuses on his desperate search for her as he first [[Walking the Earth|wanders around]]<s> China</s> Beijing, supporting his operation through gambling and blackmail, though [[Exact Eaves DroppingEavesdropping|clues]] [[Telepathy|uncovered]] during his travels eventually bring him to Japan where his relation to early events in the series is revealed, shedding new insight on his subsequent actions.
 
Its portrayal suggests Mao to be a [[Teen Genius|brilliant]] [[Anti -Hero]] who's [[Love Makes You Crazy|love]] drives him to sacrifice everything (and anyone) in order to save [[One True Pairing|his beloved]] C.C. {{spoiler|from her [[Death Seeker|Death Wish]]}} so they can be together again. Forever. Whether or not he will actually succeed however...
 
Notable for several original ideas that [[Fanon|have begun to appear]] in later related works. Similar to ''[[The Draco Trilogy]]'', except that it has [[Base Breaker|a lot more justification]] for its [[Draco in Leather Pants|sympathetic portrayal]] of a [[Canon]] villain.
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* [[And This Is For]]: Mao whispers C.C.'s name when he shoots someone dead for the first time. Later shouts her name repeatedly as he massacres [[Squishy Wizard|a roomful of scientists]] with an [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill|assault rifle]].
* [[Anguished Declaration of Love]]: Mao gives one to C.C. in Chapter 23.
* [[Anti -Hero]]: Mao definitely qualifies. His stated goal is cursorily noble, but to accomplish it, however, he employs [[Moral Event Horizon|increasingly]] violent and exploitative methods.
** Complicated by the fact that the author undeniably takes the position that, ''in the show'', Mao is an [[Anti -Villain]]. In the work , told from Mao's [[Perspective Flip|perspective]], however, Mao starts off with the view that he is C.C.'s [[Knight in Shining Armor]], though later seems to admit he's become an something of an [[Anti -Hero]], viewing Zero as [[Ron the Death Eater]].
* [[Anti -Villain|Anti]] [[Villain Protagonist]]: Mao is either this or the [[Anti -Hero]].
* [[Attention Deficit Ooh Shiny]]: Several thoughts Mao overhears suffer from this.
* [[Badass Longcoat]]: Mao.
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* [[Batman Gambit]]: Because his [[Telepathy]] enables him to acquire intimate knowledge of anyone he wants, Mao often comes up with schemes that are dependent on people acting the way he predicts they will. He is ''very'' good at this. Unfortunately for him, his first attempt against [[Ron the Death Eater|Lelouch]] ends up failing, though just barely. Then later, Lelouch uses an even better one against him {{spoiler|though it actually fails as well}}.
** After Mao gives her an [[Anguished Declaration of Love]], C.C. {{spoiler|reveals that [[Manipulative Bastard|she’s been running a rather cruel one for some time, pitting Mao and Lelouch against each other in an attempt to pressure one of them enough to fulfill her contract]]}}. Ultimately, however, Mao ''still'' [[Love Martyr|doesn’t care]].
*** Also, Mao and C.C. come to realize that a [[What the Hell, Hero?]] speech Lelouch gave to C.C. earlier {{spoiler|was really an [[More Than Mind Control|attempt to manipulate her]] into killing Mao for him. Its [[Fatal Flaw]] is exposed when C.C. makes him think she’s deserting him, leading him to resort to another [[Batman Gambit]], [[Kick Them While They Are Down|using her presence to distract Mao]], in order to [[No One Could Survive That|make sure he’s dead]]. It ultimately [[Back From the Dead|fails]] as well, however.}}
* [[Be Careful What You Wish For]]: Nunally reveals that Mao’s Geass ultimately stems from his desire to understand people.
* [[Berserk Button]]: Mao’s apparently include Code-R. Prositutes. Zero.
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* [[Break the Haughty]]: Mao terrifies Lelouch after a single chess match and later brings him to his knees in {{spoiler|apparent}} defeat. Also inflicts this on [[The Dragon|Suzaku]].
* [[Broken Bird]]: Mao realizes C.C. is this, determining that she must need him just as much as he does her therefore.
* [[Brother -Sister Incest]]: {{spoiler|When Mao first uses his Geass on Lelouch, he learns, among other things, that he ''really'' loves his sister. When he kidnaps Nunnally later, he discovers that the feeling is ''intensely'' mutual. Luckily, no actual sex seems to have been involved}}.
* [[Bulletproof Vest]]: Mao has to work around these while fighting an army of [[Mooks]]. He also survives because of one after getting shot in the back.
* [[Bullet Sparks]]: Mao's shotgun has this effect when he turns it on [[Action Girl|Kallen's]] [[Humongous Mecha|Knightmare Frame]]. Justified as it's mentioned to be loaded with steel core ammunition, which would generate a spark.
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* [[A Day At the Bizarro]]: Chapter 20.
* [[Death Glare]]: Recipient's of Mao's include [[Dr. Jerk|Doctor Huai]], [[The Dragon|Rolo]], dozens of [[Too Dumb to Live|researchers]] at [[Government Conspiracy|Code-R]], Rupert Deneuvre, and [[Ron the Death Eater|Lelouch himself]]. Usually given just before he kills them in a [[Rain of Blood|particularly brutal way]], although in Denveuvre's case, he's already [[Extreme Melee Revenge|beyond dead]], and in Lelouch's, the best Mao can do is [[Scenery Gorn]] since Lelouch is communicating through a video screen at the moment. This is subverted in his treatment of Rolo, however, as he takes him down wearing a friendly smile.
* [[Death Seeker]]: C.C. reveals that {{spoiler|the contract she made with Mao is dependent upon him killing her so he can relieve her of her immortality.}} Mao refuses, arguing that he’s in love with her and needs her, which is why she abandons him. See [[Who Wants to Live Forever?]]. Mao later seeks to kill Lelouch, C.C.’s new ally, in order to prevent him from fulfilling the same contract.
** {{spoiler|Mao also learns that Suzaku is secretly one of these, due to guilt over murdering his own father as a child.}}
** {{spoiler|Mao also becomes one of these when he approaches C.C. and asks her to [[Thanatos Gambit|help him commit suicide]].}}
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* [[Drunk On the Dark Side]]: Both Mao AND Lelouch suffer moments like this.
* {{spoiler|[[Earn Your Happy Ending]]: Despite Mao's several failures and the [[Grey and Gray Morality]] conflict, he is finally reunited with C.C. in [[Spirit World|C's World]].}}
* [[Either or Title]]: Several of the [[Idiosyncratic Episode Naming|idiosyncratic chapter names]] have alternate titles included as well, most commonly [[Pun -Based Title|puns]] or [[Rule of Symbolism|symbolic allusions]].
* [[Elaborate Underground Base]]: The Geass Directorate is an entire city hidden underground beneath the Chinese Federation.
* [[Empathic Environment]]: The storm in the first chapter is the best example, but it appears fairly consistently afterwords as well if you watch for it.
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** In fact the already noted similarities become even more striking in the story--both are [[Teen Genius|geniuses]], both consider the [[I Want My Beloved to Be Happy|well being of a single individual]] their entire purpose in life, both [[Deal With the Devil|are given a Geass]] by C.C., both are extremely proficient in manipulating people, [[These Hands Have Killed|both express revulsion after shooting]] their first victim, both gamble to support themselves, and both excitedly revel when they realize they actually have the power to accomplish their goals. {{spoiler|And both make their exit with a [[Thanatos Gambit]]!}}
*** Their differences are complementary as well, however--Mao is physically superior while Lelouch is slightly mentally superior, Mao's intelligence is expressed through his skills in building, engineering, manipulating machines, and [[More Than Mind Control|almost hypnotic persuasion]] whereas Lelouch's is expressed through his prowess in strategy, tactics, and philosophy.
* [[Exact Eaves DroppingEavesdropping]]: Justified because Mao not only hears every thought within 500 meters of him but can focus in on those that interest him. Subverted by the fact that much of what he overhears is at best completely random and [[Humans Are Bastards|at worst]] [[Squick]]. Humorously averted when gaps sometimes appear in his awareness, which Mao attributes to people speaking without thinking about what they're saying.
* [[Facing the Bullets One -Liner]]: When faced with Lelouch's [[Brainwashed]] police execution squad, Mao attempts to [[The Reveal|shout]] that Lelouch is the terrorist Zero. Unfortunately, his words get [[Incredibly Lame Pun|cut short]].
* {{spoiler|[[Fake Trap]]: In an interesting solution to the agonizing instance in the show where Suzaku [[You Fail Physics Forever|deactivates a motion sensitive bomb by simply jumping and cutting it]] with a knife, the author gives the explanation that it was really a [[For Want of a Nail|malfunctioning]] fake designed to deceive Lelouch by tricking him into thinking he had gone outside his Geass' radius, when he actually hadn't, and draw him into Mao's ''real'' trap. Turns out, it was actually a homemade smoke bomb hidden inside a larger hollow weight. While it should've gone off when any attempt was made to disable it, allowing Mao to show it to Lelouch on his video screen and thus make him think his sister Nunnally was obliterated so he could give Lelouch a decent [[Hannibal Lecture]] and shoot him dead, unfortunately the thing ended up malfunctioning to his surprise.}}
* [[Fantastic Drug]]: Refrain
* [[Flaw Exploitation]]: Mao uses this against others, including Lelouch, and ends up [[Laser -Guided Karma|taking it]] from Lelouch.
* [[Foreign Money Is Proof of Guilt]]: While not actually guilty of a crime, Mao is treated with suspicion when he tenders Chinese yuan inside Britannian Area 11, and one dealer even refuses to sell to him (until that is, Mao makes [[An Offer You Can't Refuse]]). Finally, Mao skirts the issue by playing to a clerk's racism and drawing attention to the fact that he won it ''gambling against'' a Chinese man.
* [[Foregone Conclusion]]: {{spoiler|Mao is going to lose C.C. to Lelouch and die.}}
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* [[Gadgeteer Genius]]: Mao displays a natural aptitude for making complex machines out of odd or scarce materials, as well as repairing broken ones. He apparently learned this while making devices to ease their chores when he and C.C. lived together in the wild.
* [[Gambit Pileup]]: In Chapter 23, Mao and Lelouch's {{spoiler|AND C.C.’s}} schemes come to light, and are shown to have become so intertwined at one point as to have actually {{spoiler|canceled each other out}}. Which makes Lelouch’s {{spoiler|on the fly victory}} in Chapter 21 all the more remarkable. [[Worthy Opponent]] indeed!
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: Though the story is rated “T”, after losing C.C. to Kallen, Mao [[Foreign Language Tirade|screams in Chinese]] (while he mutilates a corpse in frustration), “Cào nǐ māde! Cào! Cào! CAO!!! Wángbādàn! Sǐ pì yǎn! Gǔnkāi! Gǔnkāi!” Translation: “Fuck your mother’s cunt! Fuck! Fuck! FUCK!!! You bastard! You damned asshole! Go to hell! Go to hell!” Also counts as a [[Cluster F -Bomb]] with an [[Atomic F -Bomb]] thrown in.
* [[The Ghost]]: After her disappearance in Chapter 1, C.C. becomes this for a while, constantly referred to by Mao and mentioned during [[Flash Back|flashbacks]], but not actually encountered until much later, except for a brief cameo.
* [[Gorn]]: Chapter 12 is just full of it. And Chapter 20 will make you ''cringe''. Or [[Nightmare Retardant|laugh]].
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* [[Healing Factor]]: C.C. can quickly revive from ''any'' injury no matter how severe. Demonstrated poignantly in [[And I Must Scream|Code-R's experiments]], which included everything from [[Man On Fire|immolation]] up to [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill|disintegration]], as well as Mao's plan to ''[[Refuge in Audacity|make her more compact]]'' for a cramped plane ride, certain she would survive.
* [[Heel Realization]]: Manages to have one at the ''very'' end.
* [[Hell -Bent for Leather]]: The lengths Mao goes to in order to acquire his [[Man in White|white leather]] [[Badass Longcoat]].
* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: Although his [[Adult Child|Adult Childish]] [[Blue and Orange Morality]] makes his judgements questionable to begin with, Mao comes to consider his [[Jumping Off the Slippery Slope]] as this, pledging to do [[Necessarily Evil|whatever it takes]] to [[Love Makes You Evil|save C.C.]]
* [[Heroic Sociopath]]: A possible interpretation of Mao from the work.
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** Of course, he does shed those when {{spoiler|they get shot full of holes, after which he becomes something of a [[Rummage Sale Reject]] thanks to the quick thinking of a kind nurse.}}
* [[I'm Taking Her Home With Me]]: Mao reserves a ''single-bed'' cottage in deep Australia so he can take C.C. there.
* [[Indulgent Fantasy Segue]]: Turns out that {{spoiler|Chapter 20}} is this. [[Precision F -Strike|Fucking]] [[Hilarity Ensues|HILARIOUS!]]
* [[Indy Ploy]]: Mao travels to Shinjuku in order to liberate C.C. from the Britannian military. About the only thing he plans for, however, is a shoot out and when he gets there he just happens to find a guard on break. So he decides to shoot him and take his I.D. and uniform in order to get into the lab, leaving us wondering what he would have done if he had arrived just a little bit later…
** A really boring wait for the next shift to end.
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* [[Knight in Shining Armor]]: Mao fancies himself as one for C.C., though later begins to act like a [[Knight in Sour Armor]] when things become more difficult for him.
* [[The Last Dance]]: Chapters 24, 25, and 26 are this for Mao.
* [[Let Them Die Happy|Let Them Die Horribly]]: Mao's favored method seems to be to [[Mind Rape]] them, give them a [[Hannibal Lecture]] about [["The Reason You Suck" Speech|The Reason They Suck]] and then either kill them himself or [[More Than Mind Control|get them to do it for him]].
* [[Literal Genie]]: Lelouch's Geass. {{spoiler|Mao survives Lelouch's [[Batman Gambit]] because of his poorly phrased command to the [[Brainwashed]] police officers to "shoot" rather than "kill"}}.
* [[Living Emotional Crutch]]: C.C. for Mao and a somewhat dark example at that, considering [[Stalker With a Crush|the lengths]] he is willing to [[A Love to Dismember|go to]] in order to retain her. Just her voice apparently soothes him like nothing else.
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* [[Manipulative Bastard]]: Do we even have to tell you who?
** Also Lelouch attempts to be one in a desperate bid to win the already [[Brainwashed and Crazy|confused AND murderous]] Shirley over to his side in the midst of Mao's [[Batman Gambit]]. It doesn't work too well.
* [[Manipulative Bastard|Manipulative Bitch]]: Since leaving Mao, C.C. has been running a [[Batman Gambit]] in a bid to coerce either Lelouch or Mao to {{spoiler|[[Who Wants to Live Forever?|take her immortality]]}} through lies, manipulation and even pitting them against each other.
** Mao also accuses Shirley of being this, although he’s really just reading her mind and playing it back to her.
* [[The Messiah]]: Nunnally is kind to everyone, even the person holding her hostage. At gunpoint. In the sewer.
* [[Mind Rape]]: In a bizarre twist, {{spoiler|Nunally does this to Mao!}}.
* [[Mind Screw]]: Chapter 20! Signs inexplicably change, [[Ham and Cheese]] goes [[Up to Eleven]], a dismembered head carries on conversation, carousel horses ride ''off'' their carousel, people talk ''after their already ''[[No One Could Survive That|beyond dead]]''...and Mao becomes an [[Invincible Hero]] with [[Charles Atlas Superpower]]. All without warning. Cue [[Precision F -Strike|WTF]]!
* [[More Than Mind Control]]: Mao excels at this, sometimes so much that he seems like a [[Magnificent Bastard]].
* [[My Hero Zero]]: Subverted in that the daring terrorist [[You Should Know This Already|Zero is really Lelouch]], a [[Smug Snake|calculating bastard]] who becomes Mao's [[Evil Counterpart]].
* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]: Doctor Huai. “Huai” means evil in Chinese.
* [[Necessarily Evil]]: When Mao ponders his [[Moral Event Horizon|morally questionable]] actions, such as [[Break the Cutie|Breaking The Cutie]] Shirley or [[Chainsaw Good|deciding to chainsaw]] C.C. to fit her on his plane and escape to Australia, he concludes that their necessary for the [[Protagonist -Centered Morality|greater good]]--protecting C.C. from her own [[Death Seeker|Death Wish]] and [[Ron the Death Eater|Lelouch]] so they can continue their [[Mayfly -December Romance|romance]].
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: C.C. abandoned Mao with the hope that he would hate her and blame her for all his problems. Needless to say, [[What an Idiot!|it didn’t work]] ''[[Yandere|at all]]''!
* [[No Holds Barred Beatdown]]: When the terrorists escape the containment facility with C.C., Mao delivers one of these to the head conspirator Rupert Deneuvre ''after'' shooting him.
* [[Non -Action Guy]]: Lelouch is easily physically inferior to Mao, whose rugged life in the wild has apparently made him quite fit.
* {{spoiler|[[No One Should Survive That]]: Just like in the show, he comes back after being ''riddled with bullets'' in the previous chapter. [[Literal Genie|It's explained]] ''much better'' than it was in the show though.}}
* [[No Place for Me There]]: Notably, C.C. says this to Mao at one point ''of him''. He, predictably, disagrees.
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*** Not only that, but he plans to find and murder the ones that escape later.
* [[Persona Non Grata]]: After winning particularly large sums of money all night, Mao is kicked out from a luxury casino--and the order is enforced by submachine guns to boot!
* [[Precision F -Strike]]: When Lelouch boasts how easy it was to deceive Mao with the monitor trick while [[Batman Gambit|he was distracted by C.C.]], Mao retorts in disbelief, “Don’t fuck with me brat!”, the only (English) use of the word so far. Justified as it’s a direct quote from the show's subtitle script.
* [[Properly Paranoid]]: Mao [[Lampshades]] plenty of schemes that he could perform to secure his goal along the way, but fears that many of them will expose C.C. to danger, especially when he finds her in the company of the highly-sought after terrorists, [[Badass Army|the Black Knights]]. Given the Code-R affair, he's got a point.
* [[Protagonist -Centered Morality]]: Despite the increasingly violent and exploitative acts Mao engages in as his quest becomes more desperate, he continues to excuse them by considering C.C. to be the only person that ''really'' matters.
** Lelouch is revealed to operate with the same basic outlook in regards to Nunnally though. He's a little more compassionate towards others, as pointed out by Nunnally - he puts himself at great risk to rescue Suzaku and the Student Council, though it also furthers his plans.
** C.C. also seems to have this for...um...[[The Unfettered|herself]].
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* [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]]: C.C. Well, she's at least 717 according to the intro.
* [[Refuge in Audacity]]: The airplane Mao swindled is a bit too small to fit both him, his beloved C.C., his [[Briefcase Full of Money]], [[Wall of Weapons]], and [[Gun Accessories]]. After seriously pondering the issue, Mao comes up with the [[Sarcasm Mode|ingenious]] plan to use a friggin chainsaw to make said [[Healing Factor|immortal]] love interest ''more compact''.
* [[The Reveal]]: Not surprising, given the nature of Mao’s power and his personality. Most especially, he reveals that {{spoiler|Lelouch and Nunnally are [[Brother -Sister Incest|in love]] and Suzaku is a [[Death Seeker]] who murdered his own father}}, something that was only very subtly hinted at in the show.
* [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]]: Played straight when Mao goes on one after watching several recorded experiments carried out by [[Government Conspiracy|Code-R]] on [[And I Must Scream|C.C.]], accomplished by [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge|obliterating]] several roomfuls of scientists and culminating in the [[Unstoppable Rage|mutilation]] of a corpse with the handle of a pistol (he already used up all the bullets!)
* [[Sadistic Choice]]: Mao presents several. Sometimes his victims manage to [[Take a Third Option]].
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* [[Sequel Hook]]: The author includes one at the end.
* [[Shout Out]]: Contains several, including to ''[[The Matrix]]'', ''[[The Truman Show (Film)|The Truman Show]]'', ''[[The Terminator]]'', ''[[X-Men]]'', ''[[The Patriot]]'', ''[[Firefly (TV)|Firefly]]'', ''[[Fruits Basket]]'', ''[[Labyrinth (Film)|Labyrinth]]'', ''[[Pokémon (Franchise)|Pokémon]]'', ''[[Scanners]]'', ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]''.
* [[Shut UP, Hannibal]]: {{spoiler|Lelouch uses his Geass to make Mao mute when he's distracted by Suzaku in a vivid case of [[A Fate Worse Than Death]].}} {{spoiler|When he awakes in C's World with C.C., however, he's [[Applied Phlebotinum|conveniently able to overcome it by sheer indomitable willpower]].}}
*** Actually, C.C. {{spoiler|used her vague assortment of abilities to break Lelouch's Geass}}.
** {{spoiler|C.C. also gives a playful one to Mao in C's World.}}
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** Several [[Either or Title|alternate chapter titles]] are allusions to various songs as well.
** Finally, the author has the audacity to recommend that certain instrumental pieces be played while reading, from as varied sources as ''[[Code Geass]]'' (of course), the ''[[The Bourne Series]]'', ''[[Gundam Seed]]'', ''[[Death Note (Manga)|Death Note]]'', ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'', ''[[Fruits Basket]]'', ''[[Mai Hi ME]]'', ''[[XXX Holic]]'', and ''[[Advent Children]]''.
* [[The Soulless]]: Rolo is portrayed this way, interrupted by flashes of [[Stepford Smiler]], which genuinely [[Too Spicy for Yog -Sothoth|creeps Mao out]]!
* [[Spell My Name With an "S"]]: C.C.'s name is accurately rendered "C.C." throughout but a [[Shout Out]] to the dub version "C2" occurs with Mao's luxury hotel suite: "Floor C, Suite 002".
* [[Stepford Smiler]]: Mao is a combination of Type A and C. When he confronts his enemies, he acts extremely cool, confident, and self-satisfied, even though he's really [[Troubled but Cute|severely messed up]] and miserable without C.C. See also [[Hidden Depths]].
** Rolo appears to be a [[The Soulless|Type B]].
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* [[Teen Genius]]: Mao not only has a natural aptitude for [[Gadgeteer Genius|engineering]] and building, from repairing broken machinery to devising elaborate [[Death Trap|Death Traps]], but demonstrates excellent deductive reasoning skills as he traces C.C.'s movements, evaluates geopolitical changes within Japan, and investigates Zero's identity. Of course, his Geass helps.
* [[Telepathy]]: His Geass power. In this interpretation, it <s> allows</s> forces him to penetrate the mind of anyone within 500 meters, including thoughts, sights, sounds, memories and presumably tastes, feels and smells as well, all the way down to the subconscious.
* {{spoiler|[[Thanatos Gambit]]: Mao secretly approaches C.C. asking her to help him commit suicide. After she finally agrees, he attacks Lelouch unbeknownst to her by abducting Nunnally and holding her hostage with a [[Fake Trap]]. Unexpectedly, however, Lelouch gets a chance to use his Geass on him and, as Mao flees, C.C. appears, ''seemingly'' to fulfill her earlier promise. But he wakes up in C’s World, however, and she reveals that she merely injected him with a chemical to deceive Lelouch into thinking he was dead because she [[Aw, Look -- They Really Do Love Each Other|really does love him too]]. Mao then reveals the entire thing was all a [[Xanatos Gambit]] to prove to C.C. that she loved him, take revenge on Lelouch, ''and'' be free of his Geass, with the understanding that [[Sadistic Choice|either outcome]]—(1) losing to Lelouch and thus in all likelihood being killed, perhaps by C.C. which would mean she really didn’t love him after all but would free him from his Geass, (2) defeating Lelouch but getting killed by C.C. anyway, thus sparing C.C. from being killed by Lelouch later by their contract ''and'' still being freed from Geass, (3) losing to Lelouch but being spared by C.C., proving her love for him and thus giving them a chance to be honest with each other about their relationship, or (4) defeating Lelouch and being spared by C.C.’s love, ensuring safety for the both of them and the ability to resume their [[Mayfly -December Romance|relationship]] without a rival contract. The second is what actually occurs, though to Mao it initially appears that the first has. The whole scheme also counts as a [[Thanatos Gambit]].}}
* [[These Hands Have Killed]]: Mao stares at his hands in horror after slaughtering ''almost'' an entire laboratory of scientists.
* [[Thinking Out Loud]]: Mao does this to differentiate his own thoughts from the others he has to hear. Played for laughs when several side characters question his sanity or he accidentally reveals information he didn't intend to.
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** Justified somewhat because Mao's Geass allows him to know exactly what obstacles his enemies are hiding behind, when they have to reload, where they are aiming, and what their tactical strategies are.
* [[Trauma Conga Line]]: Pretty much the entire story. And it progressively [[It Got Worse|gets worse]] for Mao.
* [[TV Tropes Will Ruin Your Life]]: In a display of their savvy familiarity with the site, the author gives a humorous warning about specific tropes to be encountered in the work as part of the introduction.
* [[The Unfettered]]: Mao, C.C. and Lelouch ''all'' consider themselves this way. Problem is...they're not.
* [[Unhappy Medium]]: Mao. Very, ''very'' unhappy. And became one when he was only about six years old.
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* [[Walking the Earth]]: Mao's chief mode of transportation, only subverted once when he flies an airplane
* [[Was It All a Lie]]: Mao begins contemplating this possibility after his reunion with C.C. in Chapter 21 fails to be as umm...'wonderful' as he imagined.
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: Mao gives a scathing one to C.C. in Chapter 23, confronting her on slowly doing to Lelouch the very same thing she did to him.
** Lelouch gives Mao one of these when he abducts Nunnally.
* [[When All You Have Is a Hammer]]: Subverted. While Mao uses his Geass for a lot of [[Exact Eaves DroppingEavesdropping]], [[More Than Mind Control]] and [[Batman Gambit|Batman Gambits]], he also relies on his [[Teen Genius|Teen]] [[Gadgeteer Genius]] and [[Took a Level In Badass|acquired]] [[Combat Pragmatist|Combat Pragmatism]] to solve his problems.
** And don't forget his [[Briefcase Full of Money]] (he carries around eight ''hundred thousand'' in cash at one point!), [[Wall of Weapons]] (alright it's a closet but still), [[Gun Accessories]] and [[Cool Plane]], which is actually a light craft that he modified for transpacific travel.
* [[White -Haired Pretty Boy]]: Mao, though actually he’s described as "platinum" haired.
* [[Who Wants to Live Forever?]]: Most of C.C.’s actions result from weariness of her immortality.
* [[Wide Eyed Idealist]]: Nunnally, who fervently declares that "everyone can be redeemed”, despite the fact that Mao has imprisoned her in the Ashford sewer and threatened her if she doesn’t comply with his scheme.
* [[Wife Husbandry]]: [[Gender Flipped]]. Because Mao and C.C. lived together in the wild for several years while he grew up, sleeping and bathing together without impunity, Mao becomes [[Precocious Crush|so attached to her]] that, as [[She's All Grown Up|his love matures]], he comes to treat her as his lover. {{spoiler|Strongly implied that she had sex with him at some point ''too early'', fueling his obsessive attachment to her}}.
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