Talk:Lelouch vi Britannia/@comment-45.124.227.185-20190119060140/@comment-36317741-20190119122254

Nothing can be liked by everyone and it's fine if you didn't enjoy the anime, but that doesn't make it "bad writing". You not liking Code Geass is just your own personal taste and not some general truth.

If you think Lelouch's goal was revenge you didn't get the character. Early on Lelouch wanted 2 things: the knowledge of what happened to his mother and a gentler world where his sister could live happily and safely. Revenge was never part of it. Later down the series Lelouch realized his own personal wishes are not the highest good and he genuinely wanted to create a better world for the people in general. In the end he was willing to kill Nunnally if she became an obstacle for the Zero requiem (his own words!).

The Zero Requiem also has nothing to do with "defeating evil" or something like that. Evil cannot be defeated, Lelouch knows that. The Zero Requiem was about creating a better world and about redemption for the atrocities he has commited. A better world does not mean a world without evil, evil actions can be used for the greater good and Lelouch is very aware of that because he did that himself and even explicitly said that to Guilford during his duel.