Code Geass: Mao of the Deliverance: Difference between revisions

* [[Bilingual Bonus]]: In one chapter Mao starts shouting obscenities in romanized Chinese. Also an example of [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]], given the T rating. See also [[Foreign Language Tirade]] and [[Foreign Cuss Word|Foreign Cuss Words]].

** Later when Mao witnesses Suzaku outrun and disable his sentry gun he remarks in disbelief, “Cào nǐ zǔzōng shíbā dài!”. Translation: “Fuck your ancestors to the eighteenth generation!”, a ''particularly'' insulting Chinese curse.*

* [[Blessed With Suck]]: His Geass gives him the ability to know other's thoughts. [[Power Incontinence|No matter what. All the time]]. [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity|Without fail]].

* [[Bloodier and Gorier]]: Starting with Chapter 12.

* [[Blown Across the Room]]: Mao's shotgun tends to have this effect on its victims. Oh, that and backside [[Gorn]].

* [[Blue and Orange Morality]]: Mao's moral compass begins and ends with C.C. He starts his journey perfectly willing to do ''anything'' for her and his actions often seem inexplicably insane in the sheer [[Psychopathic Manchild|innocence of their brutality]], all the while [[Unreliable Narrator|seeing himself]] as a paragon example of a [[Knight in Shining Armor]] engaged in a struggle of [[White and Black Morality]]. It becomes muddled near the middle, however, as Mao seems to acknowledge that his recent actions ''are'' evil (at least [[Adult Child|as far as he can grasp the concept]]) ''but'' [[Necessarily Evil|necessary]], revealing the [[Grey and Gray Morality]] underlying the story. Regardless, his status as a [[Cloudcuckoolander]] often causes him to do things normal people would balk at [[Refuge in Audacity|without impunity]], such as his [[Memetic Mutation|famous]] attempt to [[A Love to Dismember|chainsaw]] his [[Healing Factor|immortal]] beloved in order to make her ''more compact'' for a cramped plane escape.

* [[Break the Cutie]]: Revealed in several [[Flash Back|flashbacks]] that Mao was just a [[Troubled but Cute]] little boy until his Geass slowly drove him insane.

** He also [[Moral Event Horizon|deliberately]] inflicts plenty of [[Break the Cutie]] to [[Naive Everygirl|Shirley]].

** Also C.C.'s (intended) posthumous recording. Fragments that play often seem to relate somehow to Mao's present circumstances.

* [[Combat Pragmatist]]: In the epic shootout from Chapter 12, Mao displays a fast and brutal attack style, a poignant illustration of his single-minded focus. [[Mook|Mooks]] with [[Bulletproof Vest|Bullet Proof Vests]]? No problem. Just shoot them in the neck.

* [[Cool Shades]]: Mao wears these.

* [[Cradling Your Kill]]: C.C. does this ''in a way'' to Mao at the end of Chapter 26.

* [[The Determinator]]: Mao gambles, blackmails, steals, does drugs, flies through ''a frickin hurricane'', takes on soldiers and terrorists and gets shot repeatedly all in his quest to save C.C. and be with her forever. What’s incredible is that, for many of them, it’s ''his first time attempting to do so!''

* [[Disappeared Dad]]: Shirley's father is killed as a consequence of Lelouch's terrorist activities. Also Mao was orphaned at an early age, {{spoiler|though it's been hinted a few times that he was of noble, [[Wild Mass Guessing|possibly even royal]], birth}}.

* {{spoiler|[[Doppelganger Replacement Love Interest]]: C.C. takes Mao to [[Spirit World|C's World]] while he is unconscious and leaves him there with the mental version of herself so he can be happy. Mao's reaction, however, is a [[Subverted Trope|subversion]] as he, while grateful for the gesture, is ultimately NOT satisfied and [[Sequel Hook|determined to return]].}}

* [[The Dragon]]: Rolo to V.V. Mao also determines [[Action Girl|Kallen]] to be this for Zero.

** {{spoiler|Mao does lose to Lelouch and die}}

** {{spoiler|C.C. actually [[He's Just Hiding|takes Mao to C's World]]}}

* [[Freudian Excuse]]: Dr. Huai was [[Rape As Backstory|sexually abused by his mother since he was little]]. And essentially, this whole story is Mao's [[Freudian Excuse]], laid out in detail!

* [[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!

* [[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.

* [[Love At First Sight]]: Averted as a [[Flash Back]] reveals that Mao shouted that he hated the world and everyone in it, including C.C. (whom he had never met till then!).

* [[A Love to Dismember]]: Mao attempts to make C.C. ''more compact'' for a cramped flight to Australia. In the preceding chapter, we get to see Mao actually do this to a ''willing'' C.C. And then C.C.'s severed head talks to him and ''blows him kisses'' afterward! Thankfully, it was {{spoiler|[[All Just a Dream]]}} though.

* [[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]]''!

* [[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.}}

* [[Sentry Gun]]: Mao hooks up one of these to guard the hallway leading to the underground level where he has Nunnally trapped. Apparently, he forced the military to give it to him. Rendered pretty much useless when [[The Dragon|Suzaku]] [[You Fail Physics Forever|defies gravity]] and [[Charles Atlas Superpower|outruns it]], delivering a [[Hurricane Kick]] to disable it. Cue [[Foreign Cuss Word|Chinese Swearing]] by Mao.

* [[Sequel Hook]]: The author includes one at the end.

* [[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.}}

** {{spoiler|Also apparently true of Lelouch for Nunnally, and ''almost'' as [[Big Brother Instinct|severe]]}}. Canonically, it never comes up, but it's not hard to accept that Lelouch wouldn't be able to say no if asked.

* [[Smug Snake]]: Mao's opinion of Lelouch.

** The first few chapters also contain the lyrics to songs that C.C. apparently [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|sang to Mao when he was young]] to soothe the effects of his Geass when they still lived in the city.

** Several [[Either or Title|alternate chapter titles]] are allusions to various songs as well.

* [[The Soulless]]: Rolo is portrayed this way, interrupted by flashes of [[Stepford Smiler]], which genuinely [[Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth|creeps Mao out]]!

* [[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]].

* [[Villainous BSOD]]: Mao inflicts one upon Lelouch in their last encounter. Also gives one to Suzaku.

* [[Walking the Earth]]: Mao's chief mode of transportation, only subverted once when he flies an airplane

* [[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.