Code Lyoko 855981 225945537 2008-07-16T03:43:54Z 65.101.104.125 /* Location */ {{sources|date=June 2008}} {{Infobox Television | show_name = Code Lyoko | image = [[Image:CodeLyoko logo.jpg|250px]] | caption = The ''Code Lyoko'' logo | format = [[Animated]], [[Action film|Action]], [[Comedy]] | runtime = 26 minutes approx. | creator = Tania Palumbo <br/> Thomas Romain | starring = [[Jodi Forrest]] <br/> [[David Gasman]] <br/> [[Matthew Géczy]] <br/> [[Mirabelle Kirkland]] <br/> [[Sharon Mann]] <br/> Barbara Weber-Scaff | theme_music_composer = Franck Keller and Ygal Amar | opentheme = "[[List of Code Lyoko media#Theme song|A World Without Danger]]" by [[Noam (band)|Noam]] | endtheme = | country = [[France]] | network = [[France 3]], [[Canal J]] | first_aired = [[September 3]], [[2003]] | last_aired = [[November 10]], [[2007]] | num_episodes = 97 | num_seasons = 4 | list_episodes = List of Code Lyoko episodes | website = http://www.codelyoko.com/ | imdb_id = 0417311 | tv_com_id = 26269 }} '''''Code Lyoko''''' is a [[France|French]] [[animated television series]] featuring both conventional animation and [[computer-generated imagery|CGI]]. It premiered on [[September 3]], [[2003]] on the [[France 3]] network, and was produced by [[MoonScoop Group#Antefilms Production|Antefilms]] during the first season and by [[MoonScoop Group]] for the remainder of the series, both in association with the [[France 3]] television network and Canal J. The series has been translated into various languages and is currently airing in over 160 countries. ''Code Lyoko'' was first broadcast in the United States as part of [[Cartoon Network]]'s ''[[Miguzi]]'' block on [[April 19]], [[2004]]. The series is currently on hiatus on Cartoon Network midway through the fourth and final season, though it was available in its entirety on the channel's video on-demand service. Three animated films are planned for release, and though the creators have expressed interest in making a fifth season, one has not been ordered. ==Synopsis== ''Code Lyoko'' is about a group of five [[boarding school]] students enrolled at Kadic Junior High School: [[Aelita (Code Lyoko)|Aelita]], [[Jeremy Belpois]], [[Odd Della Robbia]], [[Ulrich Stern]], and [[Yumi Ishiyama]]. The students travel to the virtual world of [[Lyoko]] — which is found in a supercomputer housed in the basement of an abandoned [[Factory (Code Lyoko)|factory]] near the school — to fight against a megalomaniacal digital entity named [[Xana (Code Lyoko)|Xana]]. == Plot == {{main|List of Code Lyoko episodes}} The [[artificial intelligence]] known as Xana is obsessed with world domination. Towards that end, he has taken over the supercomputer in charge of the virtual world of Lyoko, which he largely dominates. Xana is also able to attack the real world by activating [[Tower (Code Lyoko)|towers]] (usually one at a time), which act as links to the real world. When these towers are activated, Xana is able to seize control of other computers and electrical systems as well as occasionally possessing organic life-forms or generating copies of them. If the group is able to get Aelita to the activated tower(s) out of the forty scattered about Lyoko's four main regions, she can deactivate the towers and neutralize Xana's attack on the real world; then they can use the supercomputer to [[Code Lyoko#Time travel|return to the past]], leaving no one except themselves to remember any of the events that transpired. To complicate the situation, they must do this while ensuring their classmates and teachers are not killed (as going back in time cannot bring back the dead), and deal with the many clashes of personality at the same time. To undo any mistakes or unwanted damage caused by one of Xana's attacks, or any other unfavorable situation, Jeremy can use the supercomputer to go back in time roughly a day. Anyone who has been scanned in a scanner will also go back in time with their memories. On top of this, any injuries inflicted on them before the return trip will be healed. After traveling back in time, they can use their knowledge of the future to alter events in their favor or the favor of others. This usually entails taking steps to keep one of Xana's attacks from taking place, though they do use the knowledge to prevent other unfavorable events that might not be related to Xana, such as the destruction of Jeremy's Kiwi 2 robot in "The Robots". As a side effect of the return trips, the supercomputer gains a [[qubit]]. With each added qubit, the supercomputer's processing power doubles, along with Xana's processing power, capability, and attack magnitude. This is discovered in the second season, after he activates the return trip mechanism over and over to quickly build up the supercomputer's power. After this point, Jeremy tries to limit return trips to where it's absolutely necessary. Each return trip manifests itself as a pillar of white light, emitted by the supercomputer. The pillar then expands into a bubble-shaped wave that engulfs everything in sight. The distance the wave is tracked to varies from episode to episode. The furthest it has been tracked to is the distance of a satellite in Earth's orbit in the episode "[[Satellite (Code Lyoko episode)|Satellite]]". Though anyone not scanned into the supercomputer is supposed to be unable to remember events after a return trip, [[William Dunbar (Code Lyoko)|William Dunbar]] seems to have been able to recall events related to the supercomputer and the factory despite never having been scanned. However, these memories only surfaced in dreams, and he dismissed them as such until Yumi told him otherwise. ===Pilot=== {{main|Garage Kids}} The five-minute pilot of ''Code Lyoko'', titled ''Garage Kids'', was released in 2001. Though similar in concept, it differs in execution, such as the protagonists possessing their powers in the real world. === First season === The first season of the show has very little plot development. The only major plot developments are made in the two-part finale. The rest of the episodes are mostly [[filler (media)|filler]]. Until the finale, each episode consists of the group discovering an attack, stopping the attack, and resetting time to cover it up. Other subplots are included, such as their relationships with one another and other students and teachers at the school. Usually the interaction with their classmates and teachers early in each episode contributes to Xana's attack. Throughout these events, Jeremy works on a program to materialize Aelita in order to shut down the supercomputer safely. He eventually develops the program in the two-part finale, but Xana takes measures to keep Aelita linked to the supercomputer, preventing the group from shutting it down without killing her in the process. === Second season === The second season, in contrast to the first, is much more plot-focused, though a decent portion of the episodes are still filler. The animation is more realistic and detailed, and [[Jim Moralés|Jim]] and [[Elisabeth Delmas|Sissi]]'s personalities have changed significantly, though some traces of their old personalities exist in some form. Aelita lives on Earth in the second season. In the first episode of the second season, she enrolls at Kadic under the name of Aelita Stones. She poses as a cousin of Odd, using a forged [[birth certificate]] created by Jeremy. Jeremy's new super scan program also means that Aelita doesn't need to stay on Lyoko to check for Xana's activity. Aelita also begins having visions of a life she supposedly never lived, and a man named [[Franz Hopper]] is shown to have connections to Lyoko. Also adding to the group's troubles is a new student named [[List of primary characters in Code Lyoko#William Dunbar|William Dunbar]], who has begun to take an interest in Yumi. Each member of the group now has vehicles to quickly transport them in Lyoko: [[Odd Della Robbia|Odd]] gets a hover skateboard called an "Overboard," [[Ulrich Stern|Ulrich]] gets a one-wheeled motorcycle called an "Overbike," and [[Yumi Ishiyama|Yumi]] gets a hover scooter called an "Overwing." Aelita can ride any vehicle by herself if necessary, but usually rides with another person. A fifth sector, [[Lyoko#Carthage|Carthage]], is discovered in Lyoko and turns out to be Xana's home sector, from which all of his data can be accessed, so the group goes on several journeys into this sector to do so. At the same time, Xana begins sending the [[List of monsters in Code Lyoko#Scyphozoa|Scyphozoa]] after Aelita to steal her memories, and has created three other new monsters, as well. The operations of the supercomputer are also somewhat demystified. Return trips are fewer (though still common) now, because it makes [[Xana (Code Lyoko)|Xana]] stronger. Eventually, Xana's true purpose is revealed, as are the origins of the supercomputer, Lyoko, and Aelita herself. === Third season === In the third season, Xana has been strangely quiet in both the real world and Lyoko, having done nothing during the group's [[summer vacation]]. It still needs a computer to exist, but is no longer limited to a specific one, instead being free to roam the internet at will. Jeremy has developed a new scanning program capable of tracking Xana, which reveals that Xana appears to be residing in the [[United States]], but lacks the means to strike against Xana. Jeremy's current goal at the moment is to find a way to transfer the group into the internet. Because Aelita had her memories returned by Franz Hopper, she can be devirtualized normally. She even has a new power to defend herself within Lyoko — [[energy blast|energy field]]s. Also, Yumi has decided against having a relationship with Ulrich, preferring to remain just friends. In Carthage, the group finds Lyoko's core, which Xana wants destroyed. Being free of the supercomputer, Xana's attacks are far more powerful. Tower activation is still required to initiate them, but Xana can perform attacks on levels far beyond what he could when imprisoned. Xana can possess mass numbers of people at once, making it that much more difficult for the group to make their way from the school to the factory. In the hopes of isolating the group from Carthage, since destroying Lyoko directly would prove difficult, Xana has turned his sights to Lyoko's sectors, hoping to remove their ability to access Carthage by deleting the sectors they use to get there. By using the Scyphozoa to possess Aelita, Xana can use her to enter the code "Xana" in a passage tower. This gives Xana full access to the sector, after which he can delete it. Despite their best efforts, Xana eventually succeeds in deleting all four sectors. Luckily, Jeremy finds a way to access Carthage directly. Seeing that their numbers aren't enough against Xana's increasing power, the group decides to add [[List of primary characters in Code Lyoko#William Dunbar|William Dunbar]] to the team to balance things out. However, a chain of events lead to only Aelita and William being able to make it to his first trip to Lyoko. Once they arrive, the two are separated, and Xana uses the Scyphozoa to possess William. Using William, Xana is easily able to overpower the other Lyoko warriors and destroy Lyoko's core. The act renders the supercomputer useless. Within the empty supercomputer, William is transformed into a dark version of himself, now possessed by Xana to an even greater degree. Afterwards, Jeremy gets a coded message from the internet from none other than Franz Hopper, who has somehow survived the destruction of Lyoko. === Fourth season === In the fourth season, Lyoko is recreated, allowing the group to continue tracking Xana. Travelling into the digital sea in Jeremy's latest creation, a submersible ship called the Skidbladnir, the group finds a number of "Replikas", which are single-sector recreations of Lyoko. Each of these Replikas is controlled by another supercomputer, which is in turn controlled by Xana. To stop Xana once and for all, Jeremy devises a way to materialize his friends at the site of these supercomputers with their Lyoko abilities intact, giving them the necessary firepower to dismantle them, all while continuing to battle the evil William. The group has new outfits (in both Lyoko and the real world) and weapons to accompany the new season.<ref>{{cite web | title = Manga Kids ''Code Lyoko'' articles | work = | url = http://codelyoko.fr/index2.php?page=lirenews&id_news=286 | accessdate = 2007-01-20}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title = Preview video for ''Code Lyoko's'' fourth season | work = | url = http://www.codelyoko.net/ENG/medias/4s_spoiler_cl-com.htm | accessdate = 2007-01-20}}</ref> William is still helplessly possessed by Xana, and Xana uses him as a barrier in Lyoko, the Digital Sea, and the Replikas. He is eventually freed, and in the penultimate episode, Franz Hopper gives up his life to help in stopping Xana. Xana is destroyed, and the group finally turns off the supercomputer. <!-- Please DO NOT add something about a Season 5, as it will be removed, unless you can prove it (which you probably can't). --> == Characters == === Primary characters === {{main|List of primary characters in Code Lyoko}} [[Image:Code lyoko.jpg|thumb|The show's main characters- from left to right: Aelita, Ulrich, Yumi, Odd (holding Kiwi), and Jeremy.]] The main characters are [[Aelita (Code Lyoko)|Aelita]], [[Jeremy Belpois]], [[Odd Della Robbia]], [[Ulrich Stern]], [[Yumi Ishiyama]], [[William Dunbar (Code Lyoko)|William Dunbar]], and [[Xana (Code Lyoko)|Xana]]. There are also several supporting characters that appear in most of the episodes. These two groups make up the primary cast for the show. === Secondary characters === {{main|List of secondary characters in Code Lyoko}} There are many characters in ''Code Lyoko'' that do not contribute much, if anything, to the overall plot of the show. Several of them have played major roles in single episodes, though. All of the various characters are sorted by their current grade. === Monsters === {{main|List of monsters in Code Lyoko}} There are many types of monsters in [[Lyoko]]. [[Xana (Code Lyoko)|Xana]] creates them in order to keep the [[Tower (Code Lyoko)|towers]] it activates safe. Some are a mere nuisance while others are a major threat. The ones that can be considered a nuisance make up for this fact by travelling in packs. All of them, however, try to impede the group. The monsters remain until they are destroyed or a return trip is activated. Xana has eleven types of monsters so far. [[Odd Della Robbia|Odd]], [[Ulrich Stern|Ulrich]] and [[Yumi Ishiyama|Yumi]] each have special weapons in Lyoko in order to destroy the monsters. [[Aelita (Code Lyoko)|Aelita]] mostly relies on the protection of the others when it comes to dealing with the monsters in the first two seasons, but gains a weapon in the third. Other monsters exist that don't fall into the same category as Xana's monsters. One is a monster [[Jeremy Belpois|Jeremy]] produced, called the [[List of monsters in Code Lyoko#Marabounta|Marabounta]]. It appears in only one episode. There is also an entity known as the [[List of monsters in Code Lyoko#Transport Orb|Transport Orb]]. It's a giant white sphere with an Eye of Xana printed on it, like all of Xana's monsters. Unlike the other monsters, however, its only purpose is to ferry passengers from the edge of any region to the center of the fifth sector, Carthage, and back again. Both Jeremy and Xana can access it at will. This entity's classification as a monster is arguable, but it is included for the sake of completion. Also, there are [[List of monsters in Code Lyoko#Digital sea monsters|monsters]], located in the [[Lyoko#Digital sea|digital sea]]. These monsters must be destroyed using torpedoes shot from the Skidbladnir or Nav Skids. == Location == The show is set in France, which can be seen in various scenes through the series. The episode "Satellite", for instance, shows a military satellite zooming in on France to target the school. Despite this, the English dub of the series occasionally confuses this fact. For example, in the episode "Attack of the Zombies", [[List of secondary characters in Code Lyoko#Milly Solovieff|Milly]] asks [[Elisabeth Delmas|Sissi]] what her feelings are about her father starting a [[language-exchange]] program with France despite them already being in France. The English version also tends to use American terms in place of the French equivalent, further confusing this fact. == Reused scenes == Many scenes in the program are [[Stock footage|reused]], particularly transitional scenes. Because of this, there are often slight [[continuity error]]s — characters might change expression when entering the factory lift, or traveling scenes might show Odd hopping on his skateboard only to have Yumi riding away in the next scene. The intro sequence changes in the transition from the first season to the second, but not in the third. In the third season, the logo in the final scene is merely recolored green. The fourth season intro is done in the same style as the last two seasons, but using new clips. CGI scenes are also reused occasionally, though with different backgrounds in some cases. == Other media == {{main|List of Code Lyoko media}} Several ''Code Lyoko'' products have been or are being planned for release, including DVDs, a series of cine-manga based on the episodes, several video games, and a collection of toys. A collection of apparel and other accessories is also in development. In July 2007, [[Carl's Jr.]] had a kids' meal toy promotion for ''Code Lyoko''. == References == {{Reflist}} == External links == {{wikiquote}} *[http://www.codelyoko.com/ Official website] *[http://www.codelyoko.net/ CodeLyoko.net] - Unofficial fansite {{en icon}} / {{es icon}} / {{fr icon}} *[http://www.codelyoko.fr/ Codelyoko.fr] - Extensive fansite with clips, episode guides, and galleries *[http://pagesperso-orange.fr/fredleew/fredleew.com/codelyoko.html Official website] of lead background painter Frédéic Perrin *[http://www.kabillion.com/codelyoko/ Entire first season of Code Lyoko] - Kabillion.com {{Code Lyoko}} [[Category:Code Lyoko| ]] [[Category:2003 television series debuts]] [[Category:2007 television series endings]] [[Category:Animated television series]] [[Category:Anime-influenced animation]] [[Category:Computer-animated television series]] [[Category:French television series]] [[Category:Funimation Entertainment]] [[Category:Time travel television series]] [[Category:Virtual reality in fiction]] [[Category:YTV shows]] [[ca:Codi: Lyoko]] [[de:Code Lyoko]] [[es:Code Lyoko]] [[fr:Code Lyoko]] [[gl:Código Lyoko]] [[nl:Code Lyoko]] [[no:Code Lyoko]] [[pl:Kod Lyoko]] [[pt:Code Lyoko]] [[simple:Code Lyoko]] [[fi:Code Lyoko]] [[vi:Mật mã Lyoko]] [[zh-yue:至Net奇兵]] [[zh:至Net奇兵]]