Up untill now I could identify with Lelouche, but why did he have to blow up the JLF boat? (episode 14) It was cruel and unnecessary. Maybe he was trying to show too much that he was OK with the victims his dream would cost, but I still think it was a mistake.
shareThe mass deaths of the JLF was a predecessor to the Geass Order massacre in R2, I agree. It's a bit cut and dry to say Lelouch is having a temper tantrum here, but basically he is overreacting to the hotel jacking from earlier, possibly in an attempt to purge himself of the guilt over the death of Shirley's father.
shareOr maybe Lelouch was eliminating other leaders of Japanese resistance against Britannia. Maybe he wanted to be the only possible leader and savior of the Japanese so instead of working with other leaders he eliminated them.
I think that Lelouch wanted to be really respected so he eventually created TWO identities for himself that would be remembered for centuries and millennia to come. Emperor Lelouch, the most powerful tyrant since Morgoth, as the saying goes, hated by billions but feared and respected by the unethical for his power-grabbing abilities and ass-kicking, and the noble hero Zero, the rebel who saved the world from Britannia.
Only Lelouch could be an evil tyrant quite easily but found it impossible to actually be a noble hero instead of tricking people into believing he was a noble hero. His fear that his fame would be eclipsed by someone else led him to eliminate all rivals in order to be seen as the only hope to save the world from Britannia.