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Originally Posted by thundrakkon
The problem with Suzaku is simple. He continually preaches and condemns Zero, but does not preach and condemn Brittania the same way. Brittania tried to destroy 2 different 11's settlement, women and children included (and no, calling them collaboraters is a stretch when they are civilians who are not fighting and are not informants). Instead, he continually follows and obeys Brittania while condemning Zero. That is why he is hypocritical. He only says what is convenient for him, much like Shinn.
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Remember episode 4, where Zero said "Come to me. Britania is a worthless country that you cannot use." To which he replied, "That may be true, but that's why I'm going to change Britania into a worthwhile country from inside out." Thus from this we can gather that Suzaku does acknowledge that Britannia is a worthless country, and thus he
does not like nor condone the actions of Britannia one bit.
So why does Suzaku work in the Britanian military even if their ideals are not the same as his? Because Britania is a country ruled by the strong and the respected, and thus in order to become both for a number like him he has to be in the military. He is not fighting for Britannia because he is fighting for national pride or what not; he's doing it so that he can be recognized and thus gain a voice in Britannia. Suzaku is only in the military because to him its the best (or maybe the only) way he can think of changing Britannia from the inside without much or any loss of civilian lives.
So if one does not condone the actions of the country he is working for, does condemning similar actions done by another individual be actually called hypocrisy? Nope, that's called consistency. Suzaku does not like how Britannia acts, and thus he has every right to condemn Zero, who's actions are as bad and sometimes even worse than what Britannia actually does.
Remember, Suzaku is not fighting FOR Britannia, but rather he's fighting for the recognition one gets by fighting WITH Britannia. He might be very vocal against Zero's actions, but every move Suzaku has made ever since he became an honored brittanian was to change Britannia's 'evil' ways. So while he might not condemn Britannia verbally, he's still doing something that effectively says that he does condemn Britannian's way anyways. As they say, actions speak louder than words.
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Another thing that is hypocritical about him is his "I want to reduce the number of people killed." In that regards, he has killed Japanese people to save the lives of Brittanian soldiers. So in effect, he is truthful about saving the lives of Brittanian soldiers, but not so for the Japanese people, who he himself is trying to "protect" with his idealistic comments. He is upset when Brittanian soldiers are killed, but is perfectly fine killing people of his homeland to get promoted.
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Try to see it from his POV, so bear with me here.
While he does not verbally claim to be, one can conclude from his actions that Suzaku is a protector of the civilians, no matter if they are Britannian or Japanese. He protected Lelouch in the beginning because he thought that he was just an innocent civilian caught up in the mess. When he gets rescued by Zero later on, part of the reason why he comes back to Britannia was because 'If I don't go, the accusations against the Elevens and the honored Britannians will begin.' When he met Euphie for the first time, all she had to say to get him to help her was 'To tell you the truth, I'm being chased by bad people.' When the JLF decided to do terrorist like actions by taking the hotel hostage, he was eager to fight against them in order to save the people (mostly pure blooded Britannians). He doesn't care who they are or where they are from, as long as civilians are getting hurt, he will oppose or try to change those hurting them.
Thus, he is not fighting the Japanese rebels because he wants to save Britannian lives. Rather he is fighting the JLF for the same reason why he's opposed to Zero and the same reason why he's trying to climb up the Britanian social ladder: he is just protecting innocent civilian lives and try his hardest to improve their lives as well. If us viewers try to see it that way, then him fighting against the JLF is by no means hypocritical at all.
I think I already established that Suzaku does not like the way Britannia is right now, and I'm sure everyone knows that Suzaku does not like Zero. Why does he not like either of them? Because both treat civilian lives as an expendable tool to further their goals. Taking this further, he must not also not like the JLF because they too did the same at Narita.
And yet, why does Suzaku have such a pained expression in eps 13 at 11:49 (when he accepts his mission to eliminate the JLF) and at 17:04 (when he was shooting back at the 'surrendering' JLF), even though these people are the type of people he hates? Clearly he is not 'perfectly fine' killing them, so I don't know where it is implied that he was fine killing his own countrymen.
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Suzaku sprouting his beliefs and anger at the funeral was wrong. He should have been comforting and supporting instead of trying to fuel more anger and sadness in Shirley.
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Agreed whole-heartedly. Suzaku is... ummm, whats the word... insensitive? Crude? Whatever the word is, what Suzaku spouted then made him look like a real jerk. Just not the right place nor the right time to say those things.
Suzaku is just a whiny hypocrite, and the fangirls don't want him either. 
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