Code Lyoko
| Code Lyoko | |
|---|---|
| The main characters of Code: Lyoko. | |
| Created by | Thomas Romain |
| Starring | Matthew Géczy Sharon Mann Mirabelle Kirkland Barbara Staff David Gasman |
| Country of origin | France |
| No. of episodes | 26+ |
| Production | |
| Running time | approx. 0:26 (per episode) |
| Original release | |
| Network | Cartoon Network |
| Release | April 19, 2004 – present |
| Release | In 3-D, from left to right: Odd, Yumi, Aelita, Ulrich. In 2-D, from left to right: Jeremie, Ulrich, Yumi, Odd. |
| Release | In 3-D, from left to right: Odd, Yumi, Aelita, Ulrich. In 2-D, from left to right: Jeremie, Ulrich, Yumi, Odd. |
| Release | In 3-D, from left to right: Odd, Yumi, Aelita, Ulrich. In 2-D, from left to right: Jeremie, Ulrich, Yumi, Odd. |
| Release | In 3-D, from left to right: Odd, Yumi, Aelita, Ulrich. In 2-D, from left to right: Jeremie, Ulrich, Yumi, Odd. |
| Release | In 3-D, from left to right: Odd, Yumi, Aelita, Ulrich. In 2-D, from left to right: Jeremie, Ulrich, Yumi, Odd. |
| Release | In 3-D, from left to right: Odd, Yumi, Aelita, Ulrich. In 2-D, from left to right: Jeremie, Ulrich, Yumi, Odd. |
| Release | In 3-D, from left to right: Odd, Yumi, Aelita, Ulrich. In 2-D, from left to right: Jeremie, Ulrich, Yumi, Odd. |
Code: Lyoko is a French cartoon series (featuring both anime-style and Computer-generated imagery) produced by Antefilms about a group of four Kadic Junior High boarding school students named Jeremie, Odd, Ulrich, and Yumi, who are trying to help a benevolent digital being named Aelita leave the virtual world of Lyoko and enter the real world.
A megalomaniac virus bent on world domination has damaged X.A.N.A., the computer in charge of Lyoko. If the group is able to get Aelita to the tower X.A.N.A. is using, she can deactivate the tower and the supercomputer can revert time to just before X.A.N.A. started interfering, leaving no one except the group to remember any of the events that transpired. To complicate the situation, however, they must do this while ensuring their classmates and teachers are not killed (because going back in time cannot bring back someone whom was killed by X.A.N.A.) and deal with the various personality clashes they have with them at the same time. A further problem lies in that X.A.N.A. is a quantum computer, and in Great Day Jeremie theorized X.A.N.A.'s capacity to gain strength may come from reverting time's effect of increasing the base of X.A.N.A.'s calculation capacity.
In order to stop X.A.N.A., Odd, Ulrich, and Yumi are able to enter the virtual world to help Aelita get past X.A.N.A.'s guard monsters and deactivate the tower. Jeremie operates the computer to keep track of the situation in Lyoko and to monitor their health points. Since Aelita lives inside the virtual world, if she were to lose all of her health points, she would be lost forever. If one of the virtualized players loses their life points, they merely devirtualize.
Over time, Jermie has programed vehicles for the gang. Each member has their own transportation, exept Aelita. She uses any. Odd has a hoverboard, Yumi has an overwieght, and Ulrich has a motorcycle. All of which can fly. These are all used to give quick transportation and split-second advantage on enemies.
Recently, the gang has discovered a mysterious fifth sector of Lyoko known only as Carthage. It is accessed by traveling to the boundaries of any of the main Lyoko regions and entering the access code SCIPIO.
Eventually they manage to materialize Aelita, but X.A.N.A. infects her with a virus that prevents her from being able to survive if Lyoko is turned off. Aelita continues to live on Earth, but must still deactivate the towers. She can still only be devirtualized by Jeremie, not like the others if they are shot.
Main characters
Aelita lived on Lyoko (as of season 2, she lives on Earth). She is close to Jeremie, finding his intelligence and knowledge attractive. They often spend time talking about the real world, of which she knows little about and finds fascinating. Aelita continues to live on Earth, but must still deactivate the towers. She is currently infected with a virus which will cause her death if X.A.N.A. is shut down or destroyed. She can still only be devirtualized by Jeremie, not like the others if they are shot. In the real world, she is plagued by visions and hallucinations, sometimes helpful, sometimes terrifying.
Weapons and Capacities Inside Lyoko
- Skills: can sense what is going on in Lyoko, can create things out of nowhere such as blocks of stone and barriers of ice
- Life Points: 100
Jeremie Belpois (original French name Jérémie Belpois)
Jeremie is the brains of the group. He is the only one that can operate the supercomputer. He is attracted to Aelita despite her virtual nature, finding her innocence charming.
His voice changed during the course of the show. Near the beginning, it was quite high, but by the middle of Season 1, it became a bit lower (not necessarily deepened) and developed a bit of an accent. This new voice carried into Season 2. The cause of change is unknown.
Jeremie has entered Lyoko three times so far, once in Frontier to apologize to Aelita because he thought she was mad at him, once in Ghost Channel to save his friends who were trapped in a copy of the school created by X.A.N.A., and again in A Great Day in order to build him up some resistance to X.A.N.A.'s possessing ghosts. None of these times is Jeremie shown onscreen in Lyoko in CGI (in Frontier Jeremie is shown in limbo between worlds, but he is still drawn in 2D). Odd and Ulrich said that Jeremie looked ridiculous in Lyoko.
Note: In some parts, Jeremie's name is spelled "Jeremy". This is especially prevalent in the small transition clips in the show.
Odd is, well, odd. He has a single shock of hair sticking out of his head and wears purple (even some locks of his hair are purple, though probably dyed). He is often hyperactive and never takes anything seriously. He wants to be a musician of some sort when he is older. He dislikes Herb and Nicholas and teases them constantly. He has a dog named Kiwi. Odd may be the only one in the group to receive sincere enjoyment from putting his life on the line in Lyoko.
Weapons and Capacities Inside Lyoko
- Skills: Anticipation (a precognitive power for "seeing" into the near future), enhanced agility.
- Life points: 100
- Weapon: arrow-throwing glove, a contraption capable of firing up to ten laser arrows in any one session; it is uncertain whether he has a glove on each hand, or only one which resides on his left. He also possesses clawed fingers and a tail in this virtualized state.
Though only an average student, he is very athletic and is very skilled at soccer and martial arts (the second is proven in A Great Day when he is practicing with Sissi). He is quite popular at his school. Despite his sternness, he has strong feelings toward Yumi, and is quick to judge/despise anyone to whom she seems attracted.
Weapons and Capacities Inside Lyoko
- Skills: super speed, Samurai-like skills, Triplication, and Triangulation
- Life points: 100
- Weapons: a digital katana
Originally from Japan, she is the only one of the group that does not board at the school, instead living at home with her mother and father. Yumi dresses in an all black Goth style. She is very mature for her age, but has more insecurities than she lets on. She obviously reciprocates Ulrich's feelings and can become very jealous of anyone else in whom he seems interested.
Weapons and Capacities Inside Lyoko
- Skills: Telekinesis (a talent for moving objects around, through thought alone)
- Life Points: 100
- Weapons: a fan similar to Kitana's – used for defense and as a thrown weapon capable of slicing through X.A.N.A.’s creatures as well as other objects. She begins using two fans, like Kitana, in Season 2.
X.A.N.A. is the supercomputer in charge of Lyoko and wants to take over the world with a strategy: destruction. He has yet to be shown, and the only way to recognize him is the eye on his monsters. Some Code: Lyoko tech fans theorize that X.A.N.A. is actually the virus corrupted operating system that controls the Super Calculator and events on Lyoko.
X.A.N.A. can control and manipulate anything using a smoke-like ghost that enters our world through electrical outlets or appliances. The ghost is possibly a doppelganger-like electrical entity, a small horde of nanobots (the least likely option), or simply an unexplainable physical entity. Anything under control has his symbol (the eye) on it somewhere. In an episode titled Ghost Channel, he imprisoned Odd, Ulrich, and Yumi in an alternate world to look like their world after a return trip to the past. He, too, was in that world disguised as Jeremie in an attempt to kill them, but Aelita and the real Jeremie were able to rescue them. Ever since Season 2, X.A.N.A has had the ability to actively possess humans, and this has been his preferred mode of attack for several recent episodes. When possessed, a person's pupils become the eye symbol, and there voice is demonically warped (apparently in the fashion of X.A.N.A.'s "real voice" as heard in Ghost Channel).
In Image Problem, he disguised himself as Yumi in an attempt to make her look bad at the boarding school, but became unsuccessful in destroying her after time was reverted. In A Great Day, X.A.N.A. possessed Sissi and attempted to kill Jeremie, but he suddenly disappeared and left her with no memory of her encounter. In Mr. Puck X.A.N.A. possesses Jeremie, the only member of the gang not immune to his ghost for some reason which may be related to his inexperience with fighting within Lyoko. In Saint Valentine's Day he possesses Aelita and makes her surrender to the Scyphozoa.
Other Students
Sissi (full name Elisabeth Delmas)
The daughter of the school's principal, she considers herself the most attractive girl in school. Undoubtedly snobbish (and somewhat spoiled), she has at times shown a more emphatic side, though not often. She is attracted to Ulrich and is jealous of Yumi. Ulrich does not feel the same way.
Nicholas Poliakoff and Herb Pichon (original French names: Nicolas & Hervé)
These two are Sissi's cronies. Herb may have a crush on her. They do whatever she says. Both of them dislike Ulrich, the refuter of Sissi's affections. They dislike Yumi, since Sissi dislikes Yumi, and dislike Odd, their own tormentor. Herb also has a personal vendetta against Jeremie, because Jeremie is his rival academically.
Tamiya Diop and Milly Solovieff
The school's two "newscasters," unofficially, are Tamiya and Milly. Milly has a big crush on Ulrich. Tamiya might also. They are in the seventh grade.
Teachers/School Staff
- Jim ("Jimbo") Moralés: Jim is Kadic's school phys-ed teacher and handy man. Rough around the edges and quite strict, he does actually like his charges, except for Aelita, whom he thinks is too weird to be in the school. He got involved with the Lyoko cause in False Start, but has no full memory of the experience after the time regression.
- Dorothy: The school nurse.
- Mrs. Suzanne Hertz: The science teacher.
- Sissi's father / the headmaster / Jean-Pierre Delmas: Every school has a Headmaster. Sissi's father is just that. He knows very little about Xana's powers, or about Lyoko.
X.A.N.A.'s Monsters
Hornets (French: Frelions)
Hornets fly high above Lyoko and attack with lasers from above. Fast, they are extremely hard to attack, and can overwhelm enemies in numbers. Their weakness is in the eye of X.A.N.A. on their "forehead": they are destroyed immediately after being touched. They usually are in groups of three, and if the leader is destroyed (fifty life points), its two mates are destroyed too (twenty life points). They bear a massive needle as a kind of "mouthparts" that can spit acid. Acid-bearing Hornets have thirty more life points.
Crabs (French: Krabes)
Resembling an overgrown crab, these monsters normally work alone or in duos. Equipped with two tri-lasers, the upper deals twenty damage while the lower (and more difficult to aim) levels with an incredible one hundred damage. The Crab can attack with its scythe-like, un-jointed four legs. It can climb very well, appears to bear a higher level of independence than most of X.A.N.A.'s monsters, and may have the best aim. Like other X.A.N.A. monsters, its weak point is the eye-like symbol on its back, though harder to reach than normal due to its height.
Blocks (French: Bloks)
Blocks appear in groups of two and four. Stupid, these monsters have been known to jump off ledges to their own demise in an attempt to catch our heroes. Blocks can see and attack from the eyes of X.A.N.A. on their vertical sides. The front eye is the brain, the right eye is a laser (either a long blast or a Gatling burst), the left eye fires a freeze ray, and the rear eye shoots pulses of fire-rings. They rotate their head on an axis connecting the head to their legs.
Roachsters (French: Kankrelats)
Roachsters move in huge groups. They are not very fast, but they are excellent dodgers. The weak point of Roachster is on its carapace, in the eye of X.A.N.A. Roachsters are the only monsters capable of dematerialization, due to their small size.
Megatanks
Rarely seen, and terrifyingly dangerous, the Megatank has only made a few appearances. Rolling around as a black ball, and firing a massive elliptical laser, it is able to attack from far away while being safe from counter attack. Its only weak-point is the Lyoko eye in its casing, which is only seen when it is attacking. Fake eyes of X.A.N.A. appear around its equatorial axis before it opens, a sort of warning. Once they start rolling their own inertia can sent them over a plateau's edge into the void.
Guardians
A large, yellow sphere that X.A.N.A. can use to trap anyone he wants, but only if they are in Lyoko. The victim is rendered unconscious. The Guardian can easily be tricked into releasing its captive if an exact duplicate appears before it.
Tarantulas
Moving on four long, jointed legs and usually alone, the Tarantula is one of X.A.N.A.'s most powerful monsters. Its lasers, the strongest known, are on the tips of its forelegs. It fires them while sitting, disabling it from escape while firing, though once a Tarantula walked on its rear legs to fire two long-distance shots. With higher than average life points, apparently higher than average intelligence, and the eye of X.A.N.A. on the back of its neck, it is hard to destroy and can easily wipe the team out of existence without breaking a sweat.
Transport Orb
A white sphere with a blue X.A.N.A. eye on one side, it has the ability to take its riders to Carthage when the code SCIPIO is entered while standing at the edge of any region. It opens into a hemisphere, engulfs our heroes, then seals and shoots off to the fifth sector. Its classification as a "monster" is arguable.
Creepers
This monster has a humanoid, semi-organic upper body and a mechanical tail. It pulls itself on its two front legs. Its exceptionally powerful laser is within its flap-like "mouth," which in turn makes up most of its "head." The eye of X.A.N.A. is on the upper flap, though Creepers have so few life points it is not necessary to hit them there.
Schizozoa
This jellyfish-like monster is huge and incredibly tough to destroy. It has the ability to absorb the memories of anyone in its clutches. There seems to be only one. It is unknown why it is targeting Aelita, though it is most likely to find information encrypted in Aelita's subconscious that X.A.N.A. could use against our heroes or for his owns plans.
The name Schizozoa comes from the word schizophrenia: a type of psychosis characterized by loss of contact with environment and by disintegration of personality. Schizo is Greek meaning "to cleave or split".
Mantas
These manta ray-like creatures take up residence in Carthage, and appear to be X.A.N.A.'s last line of defense against intruders. Their eye of X.A.N.A. is rather large and on their backs. They shoot somewhat-powerful lasers while flying; nothing else is known of them. They are the only monster ever shown forming.
Sectors of Lyoko
Carthage (Sector 5)
A sector hidden deep within the depths of Lyoko, it is only accessible by the special password SCIPIO. This summons a Transport Orb on the edges of the other sectors to carry our heroes to Carthage. The sector itself is shaped as a giant orb with four data streams feeding from it to the four other sectors. Everything in Carthage is blue and geometrically shaped. The interior of the orb is an ever-changing maze, designed to act as a security feature to prevent intruders. Once accessing Carthage, a three-minute countdown begins, letting the users try to travel the labyrinth and disable the security system. Failure to deactivate the security device results in the user being trapped in Sector 5 and having to wait on someone else to reset the maze from the entrance hall. After exiting the maze, one must try to jump onto an all-directional elevator platform; once you are on it will travel straight to another platform in Carthage's outer spaces where there is an interface.
Carthage has also been revealed to be X.A.N.A.'s own sector, where he essentially exists. Full access to the super calculator and Lyoko can be had at the interface on the final platform. While Lyoko is being controlled from Carthage, the user controls in the lab are locked out. This territory is not connected to the regular materialization program, which means that if the characters lose their life points there, they will not be automatically return to Earth unless the proper program is run. This place also seems to be X.A.N.A.'s monster-building unit.
- The password SCIPIO comes from Scipio Africanus who defeated Hannibal of Carthage.
Desert
Just like any desert worth its name, this one is dry, yellow and sandy, as far as the eye can see. Even the oases, dotted about the place, do not have much greenery. Our heroes particularly have to take care not to run into any of its needle-like rocks. The biggest danger is falling off the edge (plateaus are rather small here) and into the void.
Digital Void / Sea
The void that surrounds the territories of Lyoko is something of a death trap - once you fall in, you are made into a virtual character forever, like Aelita, and your only escape would be Jeremie's materialization program.
Forest
Mystery reigns in this enchanted-looking forest. Graceful trees, suspended in mid-air, let their roots dangle into the void. The Forest sector may be the most beautiful. It also has paths rather than plateaus, though the chance of falling into the void is less than in the desert. The trees also provide excellent cover, though can also lead to traps.
Ice Barrier
Composed of large glaciers and thin paths around the edge, the Ice Barrier is just as slippery as ice in the real world. The towers are very well hidden here, and are often only accessible through tunnels one must "surf" down. In the tunnels, stalactites and stalagmites pose a serious threat at higher speeds.
Mountain
Its peaks craggy and its stones sharp, one false move and our heroes topple off the rocks into the gaping void beneath. The Mountain sector is full of moving platforms and tricky obstacles, and is known for having further platforms underneath the "cloud cover" obscuring the digital void in areas; these clouds make it difficult to aim oneself unto the lower plateaus, and even if you land properly twenty life points are lost on impact.
Episodes
Season 1
- Teddygozilla
- Seeing Is Believing
- Holiday in the Fog
- Log Book
- Big Bug
- Cruel Dilemma
- Image Problem
- End of Take
- Satellite
- Girl of the Dreams
- Plagued
- Swarming Attack
- Just in Time
- The Trap
- Laughing Fit
- Claustrophobia
- Amnesia
- Killer Music
- Frontier
- The Robots
- Zero Gravity Zone
- Routine
- Rock Bottom?
- Ghost Channel
- Code: Earth
- False Start
Season 2
Season two of Code: Lyoko came out Monday September 19, 2005 in the United States at 6:00 pm EDT. The second season came out Wednesday August 31, 2005 in France.
- New Order
- Unchartered Territory
- Exploration
- A Great Day
- Mister Pück
- Saint Valentine's Day
- Final Mix
- Missing Link
- The Chips are Down
- Marabounta
- Common Interest
- Temptation
- A Bad Turn
- Attack of the Zombies
- Ultimatum
- A Fine Mess
- X.A.N.A.'s Kiss
- Vertigo
- Cold War
- Déja Vu
Show Changes From Season to Season
Season 1 → 2
- New monsters will be frequently added, as happened in Season 1.
- According to the commercials, the Lyoko gang will expand a bit to include new members.
- The gang receives vehicles. Yumi and Aelita both get hover scooters, Ulrich gets a one-wheeled motorcycle, and Odd gets an "overboard."
- Aelita spends much more time in the Material World in Season 2. She even becomes enrolled at Kadic in the first Season 2 episode, New Order.
- Jeremie has a new super-scanner that detects infected towers instantly.
- The CG quality improves noticeably in Lyoko. Even the 3-D versions of Yumi, Odd, Ulrich, and Aelita look more up-to-date.