YMMV / Code MENT

• Adaptation Displacement: Although the aforementioned Soup Skit originates from this series, most people associate the joke with an SFM animation of said skit made by Krunkidile (of Team Service Announcement fame). The animation has a whopping 6 million more views compared to the episode it originated from.
  • That said, the Krunkidile animation does provide a link to the original in the description.
• Angst? What Angst?: Mao can still read minds, and implies that it's just as bad as in canon, but he just brushes it off by cheerfully saying, "Alright, let's just get this out here, I can read minds. Not as fun as it sounds." Then again, he's already been driven crazy.
• Awesome Music: A lot (if not all) of the music Purpleeyes uses for his Techno Remix/Music Video Segments/Action Scenes/Post credits bits is pretty damn good and/or catchy.
  • "Unbelievable sight (squig), indescribable feeling...".
  • If you love me let me go Back to that bar in Tokyo (Chorus) If you love me let me go Back to that bar in Tokyo Where the demons from my past Leave me in peace (ah ah ah anekatips ah) I'll be animating every night The grass will be greener on the other side And the Vampires and Wolves Won't sink their teeth (ah ah ah ah ah) I'm sick of dancing with the beast
  • ohmygodwhathaveidonedoitagain
• Crazy Is Cool:
  • Lelouch. He might be a complete moron who runs with a non-sequitur more than his objective, and has Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny! worse than anyone else in this series. But when he actually focuses on something, Lelouch is surprisingly deadly.
  • Suzaku at times, given how often he runs head-first into situations without any idea as to what's going on and manages to kick ass while doing so.
• Crosses the Line Twice:
  • The inevitable parodies (plural) of the "Nina X Table-kun" scene. One of which is soundtracked with "A Whole New World." Right after a random gag of Shirley generating a literal tsunami of pee.
    Lelouch: Gettin' kicked off the internet for this one.
  • Suzaku telling Lelouch it would suck to be blind. Then blind and crippled. Then blind and crippled because your mom got shot to death. All in the presence of someone who had all of that happen to her.
    Lelouch: Suzaku! (Beat) You're absolutely right.
    • And what Suzaku says before said flashback;
      Suzaku: Sup, Nunnally! You still blind and shit?
  • The civilians saying "Weeee!" as they get blown up in Episode 7.
  • When Lelouch tries to get Suzaku to save Nunally from a live motion sensor bomb (actually a monitoring system for anti-worm defenses), Suzaku starts coming up with increasingly absurd politically correct excuses for why he can't get directly involved. It starts off with him claiming it would be sexist because a male saving a helpless female promotes the Damsel in Distress trope, followed by Suzaku refusing to pretend Nunally is just a sexless cripple because "that would be denying her sexual identity" as a female, then Suzaku refuses on the grounds that he doesn't want to enable the belief handicapped people can't be as successful as able-bodied people.
    Suzaku: Think about it from my perspective! What do you see up there?
    Lelouch: My sister, and she's in trouble!
    Suzaku: Well, I see a handicapable girl up there. Sure, life's beaten her down a little bit, but that's not gonna stop her. Nothing's gonna stop her! She could be president of world one day!
    Lelouch: NOT IF HER HEAD EXPLODES!
• Fridge Logic: The series seems to run on the awareness that the characters are completely insane and the viewer will likely question every action they make when they actually sit back and wonder why they did that instead of practical choices.
  • Even the plot can end up as Fridge Logic at times. On first viewing, the behavior of the characters tends to make no sense, and on the whole each episode seems to be a random assortment of clips. But upon re-watching it a couple times, a coherent narrative begins to appear.
• Growing the Beard: Code MENT is fairly normal for an abridged series at the beginning with a hint of strangeness. It gets progressively weirder as time goes on, most definitely becoming the wacky series it's known for being around Episode 5.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • The ending of the first episode: "Well, look on the bright side... at least it can't get any weirder." It did get weirder, and it's all the better for it.
  • The "Crazy Psychobitch" joke on Kallen got funnier when her dub VA went on to voice Sola-Ui.
  • Turns out, there is a clothing store called "Soup". Amusingly, it seems to specialize in women's clothing.
• Memetic Mutation:
  • Call my therapist. Tell him he's a rich man.
  • In one episode, Diethard mentions that the underground Japanese Resistance Army location is one of the first things that comes up on Google. Thanks to the fans, it WAS around the time of the episode's release... and is still a pretty popular search evidently.
  • "I'm at soup!"^ExplanationThis scene from Episode 16 has become the Signature Scene of the series, despite showing up in the last episode (well, second last now). The back-and-forth of Lelouch and Suzaku trying to figure out why Suzaku is buying clothes at the soup store is emblematic of the humor of the series.
  • TEAM DEATHMATCH!^ExplanationIn Episode 2, several characters repeat "Team deathmatch!" over and over. Then, a guard engages in a long-winded but accurate explanation of the series and setting, which boils down to "team deathmatch". As such, "team deathmatch" is sometimes used to describe the series.
  • The "Your fucking moral compass is a roulette wheel!" line from Episode 16 is very popular to use for characters that have revolving/confusing moralities or keep switching up sides. Though the most common target of this line is Suzaku's canon self.
• Signature Scene: "I'm at soup!" The soup store skit has been considered by many to be one of the most iconic scenes in abridging history.
• This Is Your Premise on Drugs: Even by abridged series standards, the show is pretty weird and can only be described as Code Geass on crack. Almost everyone is crazy and/or stupid, a lot of comedy bits are completely random (e.g. the soup conversation), and Lelouch constantly stumbles his way to victory.

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