Clovis la Britannia

Clovis la Britannia is an antagonist in Code Geass. He is the Third Prince of the Holy Britannian Empire and the original Viceroy of Area 11.

First Season
Clovis la Britannia makes his first appearance making a "heart-breaking" speech which turns out to be an act, which he boasts to the nobles gathered where he transmitted from. He is however surprised when he receives pressing news and bursts of the "poison gas" stolen by the terrorists from General Bartley Asprius. Clovis orders all Knightmare Frame pilots to recover the missing cargo now in the hands of the terrorists. Earl Lloyd Asplund deduces that the military's mission is to track the terrorists back to their hideout and exterminate them, and offers his help to Clovis. Lloyd is then told by Bartley that the terrorists captured a poison gas capsule which may be used as a weapon against the Britannian Military. Clovis, believing that the terrorists have eluded them, orders the purge of the entire Shinjuku Ghetto. The young and elderly are killed indiscriminately in this massacre.

As a result of the counterattack from the rebels that destroyed most of the Britannian Military, Clovis was forced to allow the release of an experimental Knightmare Frame developed by the Special Envoys, the Lancelot, piloted by Suzaku Kururugi. Just as the Britannian Army corners the terrorists, Clovis orders an immediate cease-fire under coercion by Lelouch vi Britannia. Clovis meets his attacker at gunpoint and is shocked to discover that Lelouch is alive.

Lelouch, after using Geass on Clovis, learns that Clovis knows nothing concerning the death of Lelouch's mother, Marianne vi Britannia, though Clovis suggests that Princess Cornelia li Britannia and Prince Schneizel el Britannia are more likely to know who killed Marianne. After obtaining the information, Lelouch pulls the trigger on his brother and Clovis becomes the first casualty of Lelouch's revenge against the Britannian Imperial Family.