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At the ending of Code Geass R2, the last scene showed someone whose face
wasn't showed riding a horse-pulling-cart with CC. I believe that it is indeed
Lelouch (who was previously stabbed by Suzaku wearing Zero's uniform as part
of their Code Zero plan to free Elevens), and that he had gained immortality
because of his frequent usage of his Geass.

Lelouch's Geass first leveled-up the episode when he accidentally ordered his
sister Euphemia to kill all Elevens. Then, his father King Charles was beaten
by him and I'm thinking that King Charles' immortality was transferred to him.

If that person was really Lelouch, then, has he already gained immortality by
that time?


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Was Lelouch the person driving the cart in the last scene of Code Geass R2?


Lelouch is really the cart driver at the end of Code Geass R2.

Quoting from [this blog post](http://animeotaku.animeblogger.net/2008/09/code-
geass-r2-25-so-is-lelouch-dead-or-not/):

> The most obvious reason would be CC calling to Lelouch in the closing scene
> of the episode. As we can assume CC to be still sane, she must be talking to
> someone, and that someone would most probably be the driver of the cart:
> Lelouch would have to be alive.
>
> Second, however, and this is where the others have thought things through,
> Lelouch is alive because he got his dad's code. He beckoned the World of C
> to lend him its powers, and he took Charles's code before Charles passed on.
> The reason why Lelouch still has his Geass is because he didn't take the
> Code from the same person who gave him his Geass: he took his Geass from CC,
> and he took his Code from Charles. Thus, he now possesses both immortality
> and a Geass. This is also a reason that the title is _**Code Geass:
> Lelouch** of the Rebellion_.
>
> To further corroborate this, however, remember that when Nunnally held
> Lelouch's hand he transferred his memories to her. CC also did it when
> Lelouch touched her accidentally back then, so it could be assumed that
> people with Codes are indeliberate telepaths. This leaves us with both
> immortals traversing the world for the rest of eternity.
>
> [...]
>
> Additional evidences:
>
>   1. Charles grabbed Lelouch with his right hand, which had the Geass sigil.
>   2. Lelouch needed the fully evolved Geass to transfer a code.
>   3. The code doesn't appear to activate until someone dies. Hence, why C.C.
> was wounded when she first inherited her code. Same happened with Charles in
> the World of C.
>   4. When Lelouch touched Nunnally, Nunnally got a flash of his memories.
> This ONLY happens when a high potential Geass user touches someone with the
> fully evolved Geass.
>   5. The title of the series is "R2″, which is similar to how "C.C" is
> pronounced. So Lelouch would be "R.R." which is Engrish (I presume) for
> L.L., Lelouch Lamprouge.
>   6. When C.C. is talking on the wagon, she says "the power of Geass brings
> loneliness…that's not quite right is it, Lelouch?" and nods her head in the
> direction of the wagon driver.
>

>
> [Furthermore,] Orange knew of Lelouch's and Suzaku's plan and helped them
> out by ordering his men not to fire on Zero, he even smiled when Zero
> (Suzaku) jumped on his shoulder.
>
> Now would Orange, a man who devoted himself entirely to Lelouche and threw
> away everything without a second thought be OK with a plan where the sole
> person he wants to protect in life is actually killed? The answer to that is
> NO, not even if Lelouch ordered him to accept the plan: he would not go
> along with it and would protect him with his life. There is only one way
> that Orange would be OK with a plan like that and that's if he knew about
> Lelouch's immortality, which I assume he did as he worked with V.V. in the
> Geass research base. Orange was OK with this plan as he knew Lelouch would
> come to no harm and would be able to start a new peaceful life with the
> woman he loves in a world which he himself had made peaceful.
>
> Even at the end, we see Orange on his orange plantation, completely content
> with the way things have panned out, he definitely could not be that happy
> had Lelouch actually died.

So Lelouch and CC lived happily ever after, literally.


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This seems to be a religious issue, judging by the amount of arguing I found
while I was searching for the information contained in this answer. At the
very least, xjshiya's answer is not universally accepted, and there are a lot
of people who flat out reject that theory. In my opinion the evidence against
the other theory is more compelling. I'm going to try to present said evidence
as impartially as I can.

* * *

First, no official source has ever claimed that Lelouch survives at the end of
R2. That alone doesn't answer the question, because it could be deliberately
ambiguous. Of course, Lelouch would need to be alive to be driving the cart.

Second, several official sources list Lelouch as dead at the end of R2.
[Here](http://forums.animesuki.com/group.php?do=discuss&gmid=38473) is an
interview with writer Ichiro Okouchi, taken from the Japanese magazine
Continue (vol 42, Oct 2008, translated into English (I have not yet found the
original so I can not confirm the accuracy of the translation). I've copied
the relevant part below:

> " \-----Still, isn't it possible that defeating the wise ruler Schneizel,
> the person who was supposed to have brought order to the world, might lead
> to some [viewers] interpreting it as a Bad End?
>
> **Okouchi** : That's true. There are probably a lot of people who think of
> it as a Bad End, a tragedy, considering the protagonist's, Lelouch's end as
> well. However, Lelouch says in the first episode: "Only those prepared to be
> shot are allowed to pull the trigger themselves." If you were to think of
> that as his pride, then I think his getting shot (killed) in the end was a
> logical end. Of course, I understand that not all of the viewers will accept
> this ending. There were people who wanted a happier ending, after all.
>
> \-----Was there a dispute among the staff members regarding the ending?
>
> **Okouchi** : No. It was decided fairly naturally. During the "Code Geass"
> script meetings, there are many cases in which there were a number of
> disputes, but there were barely any when it came to the scripts for (the
> previous series's) episode 25 and the final episode. I think everyone felt
> the same when it came to the end of the character that is Lelouch.
>
> \-----Why were you so bold as to choose this ending when the viewers might
> see it as a Bad End?
>
> **Okouchi** : Bold... yes, we were so bold as to chose this ending. Perhaps
> the show that is "Code Geass" ending up this way was decided the moment
> Director Taniguchi and I teamed up. I suppose you can call it our sense of
> aesthetics, or perhaps a part of our psychological makeup.
>
> ...
>
> \------I see. So Lelouch's decision was also your, Mr. Okouchi's, and
> Director Taniguchi's decision.
>
> **Okouchi** : Which is why I think of both our and Lelouch's decision as
> Happy Ends. I believe that there will be better things in the tomorrow
> awaiting Nunnally, Kallen and the rest who have been left behind. And surely
> Lelouch, who was able to make this into a reality, can only be happy [about
> this].
>
> ...
>
> \-----Some unresolved mysteries still remain.
>
> **Okouchi** : From the very beginning, [I/we] never planned on explaining
> everything. In fact, if you ask me, I think we might have overdone the
> explanations. While it's undeniable that Lelouch's story has ended with a
> full stop, the other characters' stories are still on-going, and it's not
> like the world [of Code Geass] itself has come to an end either. [I/we]
> didn't want to end it by closing it up for good."

That seems to pretty strongly confirm that at least Okouchi believes Lelouch
dies in the end. Of course, Okouchi, being a writer, doesn't have the final
say. The director is the one whose word we should ultimately be looking for,
but director Gorō Taniguchi has not said anything definitive either way. He
did say something ambiguous, to the effect that he "prefers to see the end as
a happy one," but Okouchi also claims it's a happy ending despite Lelouch
dying. Okouchi also didn't seem to have any difficulty speaking for the whole
team, and no one came out to correct him, so this seems reasonable.

The link above has a couple other relevant quotes which I will not repeat
here. I believe that this establishes that there's a pretty strong opinion
that Lelouch is, in some form or another, dead.

Here's a further confirmation of this. This image lists people who died in R2.
I've boxed the relevant entry for Lelouch.

![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/N9MkX.jpg)

The above was taken from the same issue of the magazine. This is an official
image. I don't think this really adds anything to the above except removing
some ambiguity.

There's some further evidence
[here](http://animeotaku.animeblogger.net/2008/10/code-geass-r2-another-nail-
in-lelouchs-coffin/) (I haven't really checked this translation but by a
cursory skim it seems to be accurate).

> C.C.’s profile has also been updated, and the final part of it now says:
> “Knowing that Lelouch does not hate her for giving him the Geass, she is now
> able to show her true feelings. With the realization of “Zero Requiem”, her
> time with Lelouch, who was able to forgive and accept her, came to an end,
> but the memories created with him has, without doubt, saved her from eternal
> loneliness.”

Given that the "Lelouch = Cart Driver" theory requires that Lelouch and C.C.
aren't separated at the end, this piece of information just doesn't make sense
unless we reject that theory.

So we've confirmed that Lelouch is pretty dead at the end of R2, and that the
fan theory that he is the cart driver really isn't supported by the official
statements. There are a couple of ways to get around all of these facts. I
don't really regard them as anything but conspiracy theories and other ways
fans are trying to deal with the ending that isn't quite as happy as they were
hoping for.

  * Lelouch has at least two identities. Perhaps Lelouch vi Britannia died, but Lelouch Lamperouge lived on? Or maybe Lelouch abandoned his name, but he's still alive, and the sources list him as dead because his identity as Lelouch vi Britannia is dead? I can't really argue against the _possibility_ of this, but there is no evidence supporting it at all. It doesn't really make sense in light of the C.C. bio either.
  * While several people have confirmed that they believe Lelouch dies, director Taniguchi has been notably silent. Perhaps there was some disagreement among those in charge, and Taniguchi actually thinks Lelouch is alive? We can't ever know for certain what happened when they were writing the ending, but it seems reasonable to expect that if there were disagreements, Okouchi wouldn't have claimed that there were none, and if the disagreements were major someone else probably would have spoken up.

Again, I regard those as little more than conspiracy theories by disgruntled
fans who think the ending is somehow "unfair". There is no evidence supporting
either of them.

While the theories proposed in the other answer are good speculation, they
just don't fit with facts released later. The consensus of the production team
is that Lelouch is dead and not driving a cart at the end of Code Geass R2.
The cart driver is probably just some random guy. If this seems unfair to you,
then it's worth remembering that many other characters with far fewer crimes
died in the series, so in some sense it's poetic justice for Lelouch to also
die. And the interviews with everyone including the director do confirm that
in dying, he was successful at his goal of starting the world down a better
path.

Again, this seems to be something people view religiously. I'm not claiming
that the speculations that Lelouch survives are bad in-universe, but there's
simply no evidence for them either from the producers and a lot of evidence to
the contrary, so the better answer in this case is that **Lelouch is dead.**


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Well, actually, if you're going to offer that the official records pronounced
him dead. I'd like to counter by saying during the show, after freya was
launched by suzaku, the official records pronounced both nunnally and sayoko
dead, and we know what happened there.

I know it was to prevent spoilers for the show, but still. Unless there's
another season that adds on to it, we really can't definitively prove whether
Lelouch is either dead or alive. There's just too much circumstantial evidence
that he is alive, yet more solid evidence plus motive to say that he is dead.

It's inconclusive, really, but as a placeholder I think seeing him as passed
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## Lelouch is officially confirmed dead

Over the past 10 years the creators of the show have repeatedly explained that
Lelouch is truly dead. This was done in interviews, articles, tweets, live
commentary, the official guide book, the remade epilogue (from 2009) where
they dropped the misunderstood hay cart scene and replaced it with C.C.
explicitly narrating to the audience that Lelouch is dead, etc. There's a
[Reddit
post](https://www.reddit.com/user/GeassedbyLelouch/comments/8hklfr/evaluating_code_theory_main_body_index/)
where all these official statements can be found. This post also scrutinizes
the fan theory which assumes that Lelouch has the code and shows where and how
the anime itself contradicts the theory's points.

I will give a few examples from that linked post, for a full overview follow
the link above.

## The interviews from Animage 10
([October](https://matome.naver.jp/odai/2143969576830905201/2143972453355434003),
Okouchi) and 11
([November](https://matome.naver.jp/odai/2143969576830905201/2143972453355433703),
Fukuyama) from 2008.

In these interviews they explain that the death of Lelouch was a matter of
principle for them (their aesthetics, their psychology, etc.), it was a matter
of redemption and salvation in the eyes of Lelouch and Lelouch found peace
dying for the gentler world his sister wanted.

> **Okouchi** : _"(...) That end is to Lelouch and to Suzaku both the
> punishment and the salvation at the same time. It's also connected to the
> words Lelouch said at the beginning: "Utte ii no wa utareru kakugo no aru
> yatsu dake da." The person who gave the punishment was punished themselves
> and if you want to get the salvation, give the salvation first. Of course
> it's also the same with Lelouch's decision to accepts the geass (wish),
> because he geassed many people, as he himself has said in the show. [He
> refers to the last episode when Lelouch says what the people of the world
> wish for]"_
>
> **Animage** : _"So this was the end, but was Lelouch happy?"_  
>  **Okouchi** : _"I think that the show had a happy ending, not a bad ending.
> Lelouch and C.C. talks about it in season 1 episode 7 - just living a life
> is meaningless. Lelouch saved his beloved sister and managed to create a
> kind world in his own way. His life wasn't meaningless. That's why in the
> end he is smiling."_
>
> **Animage** : _"So you accept the end of the show?"_  
>  **Fukuyama** : _"I think that before he reached that final scene, Lelouch
> had many possibilities to choose from. But he understood very well what he
> had done and had to pay the price for that. Suzaku choose to live as Zero
> and was awarded the opportunity to pay for his sins by this choice. And
> Lelouch got his salvation by choosing not the happiness of living on but to
> sacrifice his own life to create the situation for the world to move
> forward. If you think about his character, I don't think he would still be
> himself, if he chose other end."_

[![Animage
interview](https://i.stack.imgur.com/pUAvd.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/pUAvd.jpg)  
[![Animage
interview](https://i.stack.imgur.com/gRnIb.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/gRnIb.jpg)  
(Additional pictures of these interviews can be found
[here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/EN8sj.jpg) and in the [compilation
post](https://www.reddit.com/user/GeassedbyLelouch/comments/8hklfr/evaluating_code_theory_main_body_index/)
of all official statements)

## The interviews from Continue
([Vol.42](https://www.retromags.com/galleryimgs/monthly_2017_10/small.59f05755697f9_ContinueVol.42\(October2008\).jpg.f9ec262ce76541c515b3ea32e65060c8.jpg)).

In this interview they confirm that the decision to kill Lelouch was a
unanimous one, the entire show staff agreed:

> **Continue** : _Was there a dispute among the staff members regarding the
> ending?_  
>  **Okouchi** : _No. It was decided fairly naturally. During the "Code Geass"
> script meetings, there are many cases in which there were a number of
> disputes, but there were barely any when it came to the scripts for (the
> previous series's) episode 25 and the final episode. I think everyone felt
> the same when it came to the end of the character that is Lelouch._

They confirm that Lelouch's death was one of the first things they decided for
the show and that his death was a matter of principle to them ("their sense of
aesthetics"). This statement was confirmed yet again 10 years later in the
tweets (see below).

> **Continue** : _Why were you so bold as to choose this ending when the
> viewers might see it as a Bad End?_  
>  **Okouchi** : _Bold... yes, we were so bold as to chose this ending.
> Perhaps the show that is "Code Geass" ending up this way was decided the
> moment Director Taniguchi and I teamed up. I suppose you can call it our
> sense of aesthetics, or perhaps a part of our psychological makeup._

The following statements explain how they foreshadowed Lelouch's death from
the very first episode with his famous line "The only ones allowed to kill are
those who are willing to be killed" (exact phrazing will depend on the subs
you used, of course):

> **Continue** : _Still, isn't it possible that defeating the wise ruler
> Schneizel, the person who was supposed to have brought order to the world,
> might lead to some [viewers] interpreting it as a Bad End?_  
>  **Okouchi** : _That's true. There are probably a lot of people who think of
> it as a Bad End, a tragedy, considering the protagonist's, Lelouch's end as
> well. However, Lelouch says in the first episode: "Only those prepared to be
> shot are allowed to pull the trigger themselves." If you were to think of
> that as his pride, then I think his getting shot (killed) in the end was a
> logical end. Of course, I understand that not all of the viewers will accept
> this ending. There were people who wanted a happier ending, after all._

It is important to note that part of this last statement was often
misinterpreted by code theorists as him saying that people could see it as
open ended. It is clear from his words that this is NOT what he is saying. He
said that he understands that some people will see Lelouch's death as a bad
ending and that some people wanted a happy ending. Basically, what he is
saying is that people are free to interpret Lelouch's death as happy or sad,
but Lelouch's death itself was never open for interpretation, it was set in
stone as the rest of the article clearly demonstrates. The ending was never
meant to be ambiguous.  
It is also important to note the Lelouch's death can only be interpreted as a
true, final death and not something temporary until the code revives him,
especially the foreshadowing of his death doesn't make sense if we see it as
temporary death or faked death, but the later tweets will make this even
clearer, so I will go in further depth there. (see tweets below)

## The tweets

As part of the 10 year Code Geass anniversary, the creators of the show
started a series of tweets titled "Geass Memories" in which they reminiscence
about the days when they made the show, shedding light on the production
process, the way certain decisions were made, etc. Of particular relevance
here are the Geass Memories 77-83:

> "Before I started writing the story of a person called Lelouch, I confirmed
> with Taniguchi-director something. That thing was that **the end of Lelouch
> will be death**."  
>  "At least he is aware of his sins and pays for them with **his death**."  
>  "This man called Lelouch will pay for his sins by **his death**. The story
> follows him till he finally make this decision."  
>  "Probably this Lelouch we see in the first episode of the series wouldn't
> **choose death**. He would try something to avoid it. He couldn't **die** ,
> for Nunnally as well. But we see him changed in the last episode."

[Link to the tweets on his twitter
account.](https://twitter.com/ichirou_o/status/998739675895365633)

[![Screenshot of tweets in
Japanese](https://i.stack.imgur.com/FklXz.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/FklXz.png)
[![Translation of the
tweets](https://i.stack.imgur.com/H503o.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/H503o.png)

It is important to note that "death" here can only be interpreted as a "true,
final death" and not some temporary death until the code revives him, just as
was the case earlier with the explained foreshadowing. This is easily made
obvious by replacing the word "death" by "death for 2 minutes" or "faked
death". "Lelouch pays for his sins by being dead for 2 minutes". "Only those
who are willing to fake their deaths are allowed to kill". "Lelouch being dead
for 2 minutes was part of our aesthetics".  
It is immediately obvious that their words simply make no sense if we assume
Lelouch had the code and was immortal. The old argument "they said he's dead
but not that he stayed dead" with which code theorists try to dismiss the Word
of God simply does not hold water at all. (Also, who ever says something as
unnatural as "he died and after that he stayed dead"?)

## The Official Guide Book

The official guide book explicitly states several times that Lelouch is dead.
To avoid too much repetition I will only copy the explanation of the Zero
Requiem:

> "For those two who bear the heavy sin known as killing their fathers, they
> share the belief that they can forgive each other by imposing the greatest
> punishments on themselves. **Death for Lelouch** who wishes for a tomorrow
> with his sister, **life for Suzaku** who wishes to atone for his sins
> through death."

This explains that Zero Requiem was not only about creating a better world,
but also simultaneously redemption for both Lelouch and Suzaku for their sins
(as explained above in the tweets). Lelouch eternally boinking C.C. is NOT
redemption, as much as some fans might want that. It is undeniably clear here
that Lelouch is truly dead.

[![Guide Book, Lelouch's
page](https://i.stack.imgur.com/yrgj1.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/yrgj1.jpg)
[![Guide Book, explanation
ZR](https://i.stack.imgur.com/E8EFf.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/E8EFf.jpg)

## The New Epilogue (2009)

Unlike the fake fan made epilogue which is going around on the internet (and
which I will not give more attention by linking it!) where there's a fan edit
which zooms in on the face of the driver and reveals it to be Lelouch, there
is actually a real, new epilogue which can be found on the official release of
the Zero Requiem Blu-ray.  
While the fake ending was nowhere to be found except on shady YouTube channels
from people who were pushing their code theory narrative (If it were real how
did THEY get it? And why ONLY they?), the real new epilogue can be found all
over the web where you watch anime (look for Zero Requiem movie).  
Unlike the fake one where the image quality massively dropped during the
edited zoom, the TV logo suddenly disappears, and there is no music during the
edit, the real new epilogue has brand new, high quality art, music and
**narration by C.C.'s voice actress**.  
In this new epilogue, the often misunderstood hay cart scene is dropped and
replaced by a new scene where C.C. talks to the audience and explicitly
explains that Lelouch is dead, that she mourns his death, but that she finds
comfort in the thought that he died achieving his goals.

> _"A young man dies. He had the power to change the world, to create a new
> order. The world feared him, hated him. But, I know he died with a smile on
> his face. Only those who have realized their dream will truly understand
> that feeling of utter contentment. So, this is not a tragedy. And whenever I
> feel sad or cry at night, I sing a song. A song of man's making. Zero
> Requiem!"_

You can watch the new epilogue [here](https://streamable.com/d8dji).

## Nunnally Did NOT See Memories

As if all the official statements about his death aren't enough, the creators
even explicitly denied some of the core points of code theory, such as
Nunnally seeing memories/code visions.

In [Mook Animedia](http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/product/NEOBK-65848) (28 January
2009, p.89-90) there was an interview (see 2 pictures below) which explicitly
denied that Nunnally was seeing visions or that those images had anything to
do with codes or geasses.

> Q: _"How did Nunnally managed to realize Lelouch true intention, when she
> touched his hand at the end?"_
>
> Staff member K: _"The way Nunnally can tell that someone is lying, just like
> she was able to tell that Lohmeyer was lying to her, is that she can feel
> the hand of the person she is talking to is sweating or lightly trembling.
> It's nothing like Geass or some special ability like that."_
>
> Staff member Y: _"Yes. So, she simply came to conclusion [Lelouch was lying]
> by herself, because of this ability."_
>
> Staff member K: _"She is Marianne's daughter and Lelouch's little sister.
> Two months have passed since that defeat of Schneizel and for this two
> months she's been wondering constantly about what had happened, like "why it
> happened?" and so on. So when she touched Lelouch's hand at the end she felt
> that he is calm, she put the two and two together and realized the truth. Of
> course, we know that in anime, it's hard to explain things like that, but
> yeah, please accept it like this kind of romantic idea we had."_

[![Mook Animedia
p.89](https://i.stack.imgur.com/mJmrU.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/mJmrU.jpg)
[![Mook Animedia
p.90](https://i.stack.imgur.com/HNmru.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/HNmru.jpg)

## Codes Do NOT Need To Be Activated

The release of the Code Geass movies was accompanied by various Code Geass
related events, some of these were, obviously, live interviews and live
commentary. The following are excerpts from commentaries given by Okouchi,
Taniguchi-producer and two other producers when they talked about the scene
where Lelouch attempted to geass his father. This was documented by people who
were present at these events. To protect the privacy of these people, I have
removed all information which would allow them to be identified.

This [tweet](https://i.stack.imgur.com/wIQYa.jpg) reads
パパんにギアス掛けるシーンも、「これギアス掛かってないのに死んだふりするんだよ」「息子を驚かせようと」「ルルーシュくんかわいそう」「これ一番ショックなタイミング計ってるよね」「絶対笑いこらえてるよ」って色々言われてて笑った。

Translation: About that scene Lelouch geass his dad I laughed because they
said like "He isn't geassed, just pretends he dies!" " He tries to surprise
his son!" "Poor Lelouch" "He tries to choose the most shocking timing, doesn't
he" "I'm sure he tries hard not to laugh"

This [blog post](https://i.stack.imgur.com/uqtjW.jpg) talks about various Code
Geass things, the relevant part is highlighted in red and reads
コウジロウさん「この人、ギアスかかってない じゃないですか。よく我慢してますよね。こことか 絶対笑い堪えてますよ」

Translation: "He isn't under an influence form Geass, is he? He's good with
pretending, sure. I'm sure he tries his hardest not to laugh right now."

The creators are saying Charles is immune to geass already, that means Charles
already had an "active" code, which means that codes are never not active and
thus don't need activating.

## Conclusion

There's is a mountain of official statements which all repeat the same thing
**Lelouch is truly dead**.  
When you put all these things next to each other, you see this conclusion is
inescapable, consistent and waterproof.

Some people will argue that the fact that a sequel is coming with Lelouch as
the officially confirmed protagonist is proof that he's alive/immortal, but it
is, in fact, the exact opposite. The official name of this sequel is "Lelouch
of the **Resurrection"**. when you combine all the official statement about
him being truly dead, him returning for the sequel and the sequel's name, it
is obvious that Lelouch will start as dead in the sequel and will somehow be
resurrected, he'll return from the grave somehow.

Some people will argue that the sequel is an AU (alternate universe) which
somehow must mean Lelouch is immortal. It is indeed true that the sequel will
follow the movies and not the original series, and these movies have 1 BIG
difference with the original series which makes it an AU. However, this change
does not directly involve Lelouch, Zero Requiem still happens, Lelouch still
dies, so as far as the movies show, all of the statements about R2 also apply
to the sequel.

This answer was based on a [compilation
post](https://www.reddit.com/user/GeassedbyLelouch/comments/8hklfr/evaluating_code_theory_main_body_index/)
from reddit. The compilation post consists of 2 parts, part 1 gathers all the
official statements, part 2 shows how the anime itself contradicts code theory
because code theory violates the rules established by the anime's canon.  
That post is very long (even linger than this answer), but it is thorough and
complete, and an absolute MUST READ for all Code Geass fans.


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