“You bastard…! He's taken every Britannian here hostage… and he's done it without them even knowing!”
Jeremiah Gottwald Quotes
2 quotes from Code Geass, each with commentary on what it means and why it stuck.
Rebuilt twice around the question of who he serves, and ends up devoted to the man who ruined him. His loyalty needed a machine because nobody would take his word for it.
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“That machine was made so that I could prove my loyalty.”
Said by a man who has been rebuilt, twice, around the question of who he serves. Jeremiah begins as a purist officer humiliated by Zero, is remade as a cyborg by the Empire he worships, and ends up devoted to the person who ruined him. Read across those three positions, the sentence is not about hardware. It is a man explaining that his loyalty needed a machine because nobody would take his word for it.
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Somebody in the scene has to explain the trick or the trick does not land, and the series hands that job to the officer least equipped to admire it. What Jeremiah is describing is the show's actual thesis about power: the winning move is not the gun, it is arranging matters so that other people's guns cannot be used. He is the first character to say out loud that this is what he is watching.