Talk:Lelouch vi Britannia/@comment-182.186.65.90-20180726175012/@comment-36317741-20180726221955

If only if it were beating a dead horse.

There's still a massive amount of people who believe that Lelouch is alive. To informed people it is beyond any doubt that he's dead, there's a massive amount of official statements which clarify that he's truly dead: interviews, live commentaries, the official guide book, tweets by the creators, the remade epilogue from 2009 (which almost nobody knows! https://streamable.com/d8dji ) And yet so many people believe he's immortal. In some cases it just plain denial, in other cases it's people unwilling to admit they have been wrong in the past and for a lot of people it's the enormous amount of disinformation and propganda which has been pushed by code conspiracy theorists, they believe that Lelouch was officially confirmed to be immortal, while it's the exact opposite. A lot of those people will be very confused and very very angry that the creators "betrayed the original canon" when they see that Lelouch starts as dead in "Lelouch of the Resurrection". That's why it's important to inform misguided fans at every possible opportunity that Lelouch is truly canonically dead. If not, we risk a huge backlash at the show, misguided fans who are angry because they, for some reason, believed their own headcanon was true canon.

There's a reddit post which compiled all of the official statements and which shows how and where the anime itself contradicts the code theory. Share it where you can.