Franz and Ulrich's names are of German origin. Aelita's is the most egregious, as her name is a direct reference to a fictional Soviet character. Alice Allusion : A rather odd example, but do you think Odd's Lyoko form is a "giant purple cat" just because? Do note the one episode where teleportation in-Lyoko causes cloning Maybe Mr. Cheshire can do that.
Aliens in Cardiff : A. All Deaths Final : The return to the past cannot bring people back from the dead. It's not explained why, but it does help maintain drama. All There in the Manual : A lot of the "game" mechanics in Lyoko are rarely if ever explained in the show itself and are often contradictory there ; we only know about them because of supplementary material.
And even then, despite figures given about every combatant's weapons and Life Points, everything defaults to the Rule of Drama. Any shot fired will either miss wildly , bring its target to a ridiculously low amount of Life Points, or inflict a one-hit kill.
The monsters' laser beam can be stopped by the Lyoko Warriors' defenses, though. In addition, it's stated elsewhere that Aelita loses half her life points every time she uses her Creativity, despite the fact that in-universe there's no evidence to suggest this is true. He can also deflect attacks like Odd , use telekinesis like Yumi , fire energy like Aelita , and use at least one form of Aelita's Creativity i.
On top of that, he can No-Sell the Digital Sea thanks to that ability. Real badly-timed Return to the Past, there. Alpha Bitch : Sissi has shades of this. She's the daughter of the school principal with a posse of friends who do whatever she says, and she's not afraid to abuse her connections and popularity to get what she wants. She's ultimately a downplayed example, though. Far from being the queen of the school, most of the other students and faculty don't really take her seriously at all.
She's also shown in a more sympathetic light, with multiple episodes showing that she can in fact be a genuinely kind person if she's treated respectfully.
She also starts dating Odd in the episode only to immediately start trying to push him away from his friends. This gets Odd temporarily banished from the Lyoko Warriors, and Brynja refuses to take responsibility for any of it. She then breaks up with Odd anyway when he decides to prioritize saving his friends' lives over hanging out with her. The Lyoko-Warriors' strategy to deal with every attack also is a rare justified example of this trope: protecting Aelita first is the wisest decision because as long as they can get her to the Tower before anyone gets killed, the attack will be stopped and any damage fixed by the Return to the past.
Still, characters tend to refer to XANA as "he" or "it". Animesque : Not especially in style, though some of the episodes' plots could have come from a Shounen manga. Art Evolution : Lyoko looks a lot different in Season 1 than from Season 2 onwards. In Season 2 they removed the lighting effects, made the colors a lot brighter and removed various background details.
The 2D animation changed too, in the earlier episodes the colors were darker and the movement and the design of the characters was different. In Season 2, the colors became lighter and the designs straightened, and in Season 3 the movement of the characters became sharper.
Subverted with Aelita, who turns out to have been a Human All Along. In reality, Nitrous Oxide is merely an analgesic that can also induce euphoria. Characters that were overdosed wouldn't start laughing, but experience symptoms like nausea and fatigue instead. And no, drinking water wouldn't make the analgesia go away either.
The arm then grabs the bar and twists it all to heck, while Odd is still holding it. Any time someone throws a skateboard ahead of them so that it starts rolling, while in the same motion jumping onto it legs offscreen. If Aelita disables a tower the instant before something hits something else in the real world, both somethings will come to an instant stop and the collision will be avoided by about half a centimeter. Art Shift : Some flashbacks mostly of Aelita's previous life are rendered with still frames in a graphic style more pronouncedly Animesque than the rest of the show.
As You Know Attack Reflector : The Slow Lasers of the monsters can sometimes be reflected by Ulrich's swords, Yumi's fans or Odd's shield and even by the landscape in the Ice Sector. Though not the most common tactic, it is occasionally used by the heroes most often Ulrich to destroy monsters, especially when they're out of immediate striking range.
Author Avatar : As noted on the fan forum Lyoko Freak, the SubDigital's members bear a striking resemblance to the executive producers of the show. The Bad Guy Wins : This show is an extreme example. Every season except the last ended with a victory for XANA, and the heroes spent most of the next season trying to undo their loss, only to be handed another crushing defeat at the end of that season.
But this was exactly what XANA wanted her to do, because if she had done so, Aelita's memories would have become exposed and easier to take. Fortunately, the team stops her in time, and gains Yumi's code back another way.
This may have elements of a Xanatos Gambit too. Taking Yumi's DNA gave her the same vulnerability as Aelita meaning she would vanish forever if her life points ran out so XANA likely targeted her specifically as part of a back-up plan to eliminate Yumi if the first plan didn't work.
After all, he had given a lot of attention to her before. See Designated Victim below. In "Franz Hopper", a polymorphic spectre convinces Yumi that she is suffering from cell degeneration due to repeated exposure to the scanners. A large part of his plan in Season 4 is a Batman Gambit. William seems determined to subdue Aelita and throw her into the Virtual Sea; the other heroes assume that this is simply XANA's way of eliminating her for good until he actually succeeds in "Distant Memory".
Franz Hopper appears to rescue her, at which point a mob of XANA's monsters springs out and attacks him. It is all part of a plot to lure him into an ambush, as XANA knows he would rescue his daughter. Fortunately, the heroes learns from this, and Aelita is even able to use her Decoy Getaway trick when William tries it a second time.
To force him to relinquish his grip on her, Odd shoots her repeatedly, until she is within an inch of her life. XANA surrenders, as he needs her alive as much as the children do. Berserk Button : Never question Milly when having an interview. Don't insult Odd with food. Yumi has two, both related to her roots: do not mistake her nationality, and do not trash-talk Japan Jim got a Death Glare from her when he called manga "Japanese mahn-goes".
Odd accidentally pressed this by doing nothing with it and still got yelled at. Insulting Ulrich's friends appears to be his, as he takes his father's insults passively until his friends are accused of being a bad influence. Do not refer to Lyoko as a video game. Every time a character learns about Lyoko and refers to it as a video game, expect one of the warriors to snap at them.
Big Eater : Odd. And he seems to have a metabolism like a blast furnace, because he never gains any weight. Odd sometimes uses Chinese when greeting Yumi which ticks her off because she's Japanese. Odd appears to be quite proficient in Italian as evidenced in "Attack of the Zombies". The names of the days in the time-skip episode appear in French on screen Lundi, Mardi, Mercredi William also gets his own, as he never got a chance to take his revenge on XANA.
Blade Brake : Ulrich does this in "Bad Connection" to prevent both himself and Yumi from falling in the Mountain sector. Odd in "TeddyGozilla" with Aelita, only with his claws in the Desert sector. Sometimes the errors are rather tame, like Ulrich saying "Super Hop" or "Super Propulsion" instead of Super Sprint, but then there are the episodes where characters talk as if XANA was a female human, or even worse, call Aelita a "he".
Bloodless Carnage : Seeing as most of the fighting takes place in a virtual world, this can be expected. When characters are injured in the real world, we typically see nothing more than minor Clothing Damage where a wound should be. Boarding School : Interestingly, the school the children go to is heavily visually based on real locations in Boulogne-Billancourt, France. It isn't a boarding school in real life though; the writers consciously changed that to keep the characters together even though one does live off-campus.
Aelita, to Odd and Ulrich's dismay. Body Horror : Don't put two living beings inside one scanner at the same time. Body Uploading : The "Virtualization" process lets the characters go into a supercomputer, and grants superpowers while in that world. In the Alternate Continuity of the novelizations, it only works on children, as adults, other than Franz Hopper, the creator of the system, using it Go Mad from the Revelation , due to the Lyoko form reflecting their inner, true self, with a child's innocence , a.
Rather than off him then and there, the spectre abandons the boy in a well that slowly fills with water, intending to have him drown. When its cover is exposed, Yumi has more than enough time to find and save her friend. An even worse one is in the episode "Franz Hopper". XANA's spectre has disabled the materialization program, destroyed the Lyoko warriors' weapons and apparently left Aelita stranded on the Desert Sector to have her memories drained. Rather than finish the boy off, XANA calmly sits down and starts taunting him about how he has lost Bottomless Magazines : Subverted with Odd.
He clearly does not have an unlimited supply of Laser Arrows, and ends up running out after only firing ten arrows. The trope is played straight in "False Start" where Jim uses a nail gun to fight Xana's monsters, and never has to reload it. It isn't much help on Lyoko, but learning to run faster and farther in the real world is quite helpful when faced with physical threats from XANA.
Butt-Monkey : Sissi. She's supposed to be the Alpha Bitch , but you would be hard pressed to find a character outside her cronies and father that doesn't enjoy constantly insulting her to her face. This gets awkward when the prequel comes around and it's revealed that she's basically involved in a kind of Vicious Cycle , acting like the Alpha Bitch in response to the bad treatment she gets from everyone else, which is essentially a response to her Alpha Bitch behavior.
The Lyoko kids do manage to break this cycle in the finale, and Sissi does prove that she's been a Jerk with a Heart of Gold all along. Odd gets little respect and is constantly failing at various goals he pursues, such as holding on to a girlfriend though, to be fair, it doesn't help that he dates multiple girls at the same time. He also is notoriously bad at school that even the teachers mock him for it publicly.
Let's not forget the constant dissing he gets from his friends, most infamously them stealing his own virtual pet toy and giving it to Yumi's little brother, who soon afterwards breaks it. And also, as he himself lampshades, he's the sole character whose Lyoko form "looks like a nitwit". In season 4, he is left defenseless against William twice because his arrow count suddenly dropped to zero.
In both cases, it ends badly for him. It also happens in Season 4, as he needed her alive to lure Franz Hopper , to the point of stopping a perfect attack because it was going to off Aelita as well.
She lapses into unconsciousness whenever the machine is turned off — and a too long interruption can make her heart stop. Given he has no true physical form, we only learn this via his actions the rare times he speaks through a polymorphic specter or XAN Afied William. He is well aware he is by human definition: evil; and he savors every sadistic second of his attacks. Casanova Wannabe : Odd.
He claims to be a ladies man, but every girl that he's dated which includes most girls in his age group at the school say otherwise. Cast from Hit Points : The bulk of Aelita's powers cost half her life points per use until she gains the Energy Field attack and wings both free. Catchphrase : Aelita: "Tower deactivated. Odd: " I'm not scrawny, I'm svelte. Character Development : Many characters on the show.
The never-seen XANA. Initially, all he tries to do is wreak havoc with little to no forethought. From season two onwards, he has clear objectives which he puts a lot of thought into fulfilling. In addition, he becomes more powerful with each season.
Sissi gets a lot as well. In "Frontier", she can't stand the thought of helping Yumi, and insists that Ulrich date her for several weeks. Later, in "Missing Link", she's prepared to help Yumi for no reward whatsoever. Her role in the two-part prequel further helps develop her character, her relationship with the heroes improves throughout the series, and by the end, her becoming an "official" friend just feels RIGHT.
William, even though it's more subtle. He starts out as Ulrich's rival for Yumi's heart, almost turns into a Stalker with a Crush to Yumi in Season 3 even though he doesn't actually stalks her who has trouble taking no for an answer, and matures in his few appearances in Season 4 as himself, actually able to take a no for an answer, and ready to seriously helps the Lyoko-warriors despite them rejecting him.
More subtly, the group as a whole becomes a lot closer throughout the four seasons. In earlier episodes especially before Aelita was materialized , the group are often very disjointed to the point where it's questionable if they even like each other.
By season four, they've managed to evolve into True Companions partly out of necessity , and while there are still frequent Teeth-Clenched Teamwork scenarios Rule of Drama at play , they always forgive each other in the end. Characterization Marches On : In the first episode, Milly was insecure to the point of coming across as psychotic, getting emotional at the drop of a hat, and talking to her teddy bear when she's alone.
For most of the series afterward, she's a perfectly normal girl. Jim was portrayed as slightly rougher around the edges in Season One compared to the rest of the series plus his "I'd rather not talk about it" catchphrase didn't exist. Sissi was never especially book smart early on, but most of her manipulation tactics the first season highly implied she, at least, had a fair amount of street smarts and was admittedly pretty crafty albeit underhanded.
Most of this vanished when Season Two came along, which turned her into more of a bumbling ditz whose strategies barely got off the ground before Ulrich or somebody else shot them down. Her vindictiveness was also toned down as she became a kinder person. Odd, while always portrayed as a jokester and bad at school, was, similar to Sissi, shown to have some basic street smarts and had a future-flash ability that implied he was a bit more complex than what the audience was meant to believe.
The first instance of it even had him be responsible for the event to occur i. Aelita almost plunging to her death. Yumi and Ulrich's feelings for each other was presented somewhat healthier in Season One on the count of Sissi being more unlikable and the absence of William Dunbar. They had their tense moments such as the tail-end of "Frontier" and most of "Routine", but more-often-than-not they seemed more understanding of each other and not so quick to assume the worst whenever Sissi was blackmailing Ulrich.
Aelita was initially characterized as a borderline saint and barely emoted beyond what was expected of an at the time A. These subtle shifts become understandable when you learn that Aelita wasn't originally planned to be human during Season One's production.
William, in Season Two, is shown to be an adequate swimmer during trips to the pool, but come Season Three when he's hanging off a bridge with Yumi over a canal, he confesses that he can't swim period despite the prior outings.
This event is referenced by Odd in the season four episode "A Space Oddity" when he questions Hiroki's fitness to dogsit Kiwi. He might seem like a bumbling gym teacher, but anyone who threatens his students is going to have a bad day. Cultural Translation : Despite Euro coins floating about, hacked military databases emblazoned with derivatives of the French flag, and even a frigging zoom in from a satellite showing exactly which country they are in, the English dub is adamant about the show taking place somewhere other than a French suburb.
The euros are called dollars. Hilariously, in "Attack of the Zombies", Milly mentions a foreign exchange program with France. Curb-Stomp Battle : The first Tarantula to show up beat the whole team at once. When the group fights Xanafied William the first time, he devirtualizes them easily. In the start of Season 4, he still curb-stomp them, and even after his first defeats, he can still put up a fight and even win. The first time Ulrich and Aelita encounters the Kolossus, they are devirtualized within seconds.
And all it does to take them out is swing its arm. Cut-and-Paste Translation : In the Subdigitals CD, all but three or four of the songs had their lyrics junked and rewritten for English release. Darker and Edgier : If compared to the more idealistic song, "Un Monde Sans Danger", the closing credits for the later seasons come off as this.
Deadly Dodging : Before Season 3 Aelita has no proper attack power, and the only real way she can damage the monsters when not counting on the Lyoko Warriors is by Deadly Dodging. In Episode 39, "A Bad Turn", alone on Lyoko, Aelita manages to get rid of a whole swarm of Frelions by flying on the Overboard and having them ram the mountain or each other.
This is the main tactic used against the Megatanks. They're invulnerable to the Lyoko Warriors' attacks as long as their two half-shells are closed, but a fall in the Digital Sea will readily dispatch one. Thus, pushing them past a cliff or letting them fall victim to their own momentum whenever possible is the favored option. Decoy Getaway : Aelita has used this trick more than once, creating an illusory clone of herself or Yumi, in one case to fool an enemy. Decoy Protagonist : Sissi in the two-part prequel.
While not as extreme as most examples she is still a major supporting character , it should be noted that she is introduced before Yumi and has more plot importance and scenes than her in the first episode.
Deflector Shields : Odd gains a personal shield in Season 2. In Season 4, the Skidbladnir and Navskids are protected by deflector shields. Aelita also creates a Beehive Barrier in "Replika".
Demonic Spiders : invoked From the group's perspective, Megatanks. Tarantulas started this way, but as the Lyoko Warriors gained experience with them, they stopped being so threatening. Depending on the Writer : The level of sympathy Sissi is treated with changes from episode to episode.
She was mostly sympathetic throughout Seasons 2 and 4, while mostly unsympathetic in Seasons 1 and 3 though she still had noteworthy moments in Season 1. Whether or not the gang find Odd's jokes funny. When the scanners are offline, losing all your life points either: a does nothing, and you remain virtual OR b leads to your death. All of the heroes except Aelita falls victim to it at least once, and it happens to poor Odd twice.
The first time, he compares it to being run over by a steamroller. Season 2: Cracking her Neuro-Vault for the Lyoko keys. Yumi too, for no plot-related reason. It runs throughout the entire series, but it's most obvious in the first half of season 1 a batch of five consecutive episodes of her being targeted was dubbed "Pick on Yumi Week" and season 3.
Of course, maybe XANA does have a logical reason for wanting to "pick on Yumi": she is the Cool Big Sis figure of the team, the most mature of the group, Ulrich's crush and nearly as good at fighting as him , the least enthusiastic about fighting XANA she was reluctant to do it in the pilot, and was the most willing to shut down the computer in season 4 finale and an isolated target due to her living with her parents whereas the others are all boarders at Kadic.
This not only makes her a much easier target than the others, but also means something happening to her will easily crush the morale of her teammates. Given the manipulator XANA is , it makes sense.
Diegetic Soundtrack Usage : The end credits song beginning season 2 is an in-universe song by the Subdigitals. Subverted with William in "Final Round". As far as the Lyoko-warriors know, he kicked the bucket in the Digital Sea. Mainly used as a minor distraction in season 1, but a power-up from the second season makes the clones just as powerful as him.
Aelita can also create clones of herself, but they're used as a diversion. He runs in a triangle super fast, creating afterimage clones. Guess who wins Both while still making minor appearances are replaced by William in Season 4, though he's Not Himself. Dreaming of Things to Come : Aelita in the penultimate episode.
She has a vision of her father being killed by a group of Mantas. Dumb Muscle : Nicolas, albeit with more emphasis on the "dumb" part of the description. Early Installment Weirdness : Not only is Season 1 almost completely different to the rest of the series, complete with a Strictly Formula format for all but the two-parter at the end of the season note On the DVD release, the episodes are out of order despite being numbered in the title cards , but the very earliest episodes also feature some strange nuances.
The Italian Dub of Season 1 exclusively referred to the Supercomputer as "Supercalcolatore" supercalculator , later seasons dropped this entirely and simply referred to it as Supercomputer. They also seem to have had some early trouble figuring out Odd's moveset. The first episode has him use the move Impact to damage an enemy at point-blank range without expending ammo, but this move was later given to Ulrich.
Another early episode has Odd repeatedly call out the phrase "Laser Flash" when using his Laser Arrow move. And then there's his " Future Flash " ability which gave him glimpses of future events, which sounds useful until you realize he couldn't control it, and it immobilized him for several seconds while he had his vision making it useless in combat.
Megatanks: after season one, all of them get upgraded to having one-shot-kill lasers. Art Shift : Some flashbacks mostly of Aelita's previous life are rendered with still frames in a graphic style more pronouncedly Animesque than the rest of the show.
As You Know Attack Reflector : A tactic sometimes used against the monsters and their laser beams, especially by Ulrich. Badass Teacher : Jim. The man has apparently had just about every job in the world and is more than capable of fighting off XANA's monsters when they got into the real world by using a nail gun.
He also knows how to survive just about any situation you can throw at him, period. And Odd for some reason, although he wears a second shirt underneath that covers him up, unless there are coloring errors To force him to relinquish his grip on her, Odd shoots her repeatedly, until she is within an inch of her life.
XANA surrenders, as he needs her alive as much as the children do. Berserk Button : Never question Milly when having an interview, and don't insult Odd with food. BFS : William's big fragging sword.
Big Eater : Odd. Odd: Uh, you missed an episode, Ulrich. Remember Aelita's carrying Face Palm : Ulrich's first reaction to Odd. Mind Over Matter : Unlike in the series, Yumi can use her telekinesis in the real world. Reused throughout Season 1 of the main series.
The Voiceless : "I go. Zeroes and Ones : Ulrich's katana is made of these. The games provide examples of: Camera Screw : The first DS game is very bad about this, especially since you can fall off nearly any platform and have a quarter of the health of that character lost for the effort.
While battling a boss, one weak spot they show is a rather large golden sack-like thing hanging off the monster Clearly they took cues from the Gonarch in Half-Life. The novel series provides examples of: Adaptation Expansion : Yes, it can be this and Compressed Adaptation at the same time! The story focuses more on the backstory that was only touched on in the show. Alternate Continuity Ax Crazy : Eva.
Being an incarnation of XANA will do that to a person. In the "Mysterious City" flashback, he was a token cutie, while in the present, he is clearly already broken. Most of them are featured for a chapter, then disappear. Everything else in the show is erased and replaced with the plot that ties those three together, occurring in maybe half the time.
The major plots of Seasons 2, 3, and 4 are solved in one battle. Pink Haired Girl : Played with. Aelita has pink hair on Lyoko Move around the campus buildings using the D-Pad or stylus. But, in the virtual world of Lyoko, you move around the 3D platformer on a guided track. Use weapons and abilities that are unique to each character as you move in and destroy the towers that X. Switch mid-mission to take advantage of the different talents each character has. So it's a kids' game based off a kids' TV series.
Code Lyoko should be a fairly straightforward game with simple puzzles, tasks, and challenges. So what makes this game so frustrating and hard? The map system. What should be an easy system of "you are here" and "go here" is complicated by an obscure set of shoulder-triggered map coordinates. You are constantly being blocked from advancing in areas you should be able to walk past. Stationary maps do not show up in any recognizable orientation.
It is really frustrating to head toward the guiding marker only to not be able to pass through an area that would seem to be clear. We have come a long way in the geography of games.
I though we had gotten past invisible walls and impassable areas. The strictness of exploration makes this a difficult and frustrating game experience. With the ability to play on two planes in Code Lyoko , and with the mixing of the classic point and click adventure with a 3D Platformer, you have a nice delineation and sensation that you are really playing in two worlds.
The restrictive maneuverability of the real world gameplay is a real disappointment. This is a problem that is a throwback to a bygone age of early gaming.
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