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Originally Posted by Kang Seung Jae
I'm just throwing out ideas now (not speculations), but the things is, does "killing" here actually mean taking the life? That's a question that we should consider.
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In the most common sense killing means to end life, to take life. In code geass, VV and Charles are conspiring to kill gods. What do the gods even mean. Do they want to kill immortals? Do they want to become gods themselves? What does it mean to have power? Does having power make you a god? If we can understand these questions we might be able to discern what these gods in gode geass are and possibly even why Charles and VV are working for their destruction. Bartley even says to Cornelia about how they'll be accomplices to the biggest crime in history. He says, "If that
hypothesis is correct, then we will become accomplices to the biggest crime in history..." What hypothesis? We can only guess this has something to do with the gods. And from the way Bartley talks of this as the biggest crime in history, would that make the gods (I don't want to say good) but not bad? Enough for Bartley and his research team to consider it a crime... Back to the original idea about what killing might actually mean in this context, it is hard to say anything for certain. Are we killing actual gods? Are we killing immortality? Or maybe are we killing the idea - the dream - hope itself?