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* BaitAndSwitch: A comment about Aelita's hair in the review of "X.A.N.A. Awakens".

** Taken UpToEleven with this rant: "Some people ask why XANA immediately tried to Kill Jeremie in this episode, given that Jeremie really isn't a threat. I think I figured out why XANA tries to exterminate humanity. When XANA was first created, the very first person he met was Franz Hopper, a man so crazy that even Aelita pointed it out at one point. The next person he met was Aelita. Since XANA has at least a peripheral understanding of the outside world, he can sense what's going on in the factory. That means that he can sense the horrors of french engineering. He can also sense the school, which means that he can sense the amazing incompetence of a school that hired Jim, hired a man as crazy as Franz Hopper, keeps open containers of toxic waste near children, and is run by a man so spineless that Sissi can manipulate him. He can also sense the hospital, and the horrors of the french mental healthcare system. Based on all these things at once, my guess is that XANA encountered all of these horrors of humanity, and it's first reaction to a species that consistently produced such horrible things was, "AHH! KILL IT! KILL IT WITH FIRE! actually, SCREW FIRE, KILL IT WITH FIRE, ORBITAL BOMBARDMENT, DEATH LASERS, CAPTAIN JANEWAY'S CYBERNETIC SPIDERS, ARMIES OF ROBOTS, THE POWER OF STEPHEN KING NOVELS, WEATHER, ELECTRIC TAR, AND ANYTHING ELSE THAT COMES TO MIND!" XANA is not evil. It's just trying to save itself and all other species from the horrors of humanity. Given that the main and secondary cast includes Yumi, an implied domestic abuser; Ulrich, a disturbed stalker; Jim, a person who smiles at the thought of rubbing himself with poop; Jeremie, a necrophile; Aelita, a pedophile; Odd, a manwhore moron; and other horrors, I kind of have to side with XANA on this one."

* EasyAmnesia: Pointed out, and treated as DarthWiki/DethroningMomentOfSuck.

* DarthWiki/DethroningMomentOfSuck: Amnesia is portrayed this way.

** The most extreme case was probably when the writer portrayed Aelita and Jeremie as child murderers.

* DethroningMomentOfSuck: Amnesia is portrayed this way.

* EasyAmnesia: Pointed out, and treated as DethroningMomentOfSuck.

* GenreSavvy: Yumi is portrayed this way.

** CodeLyokoEvolution gets some lighthearted mockery.

** Series/SFDebris

Deadcoder's Reviews is a blog series where episodes of CodeLyoko are individually reviewed on a scale of 0-10. Basically, it's a blog version of SciFiDebris, as applied to Code Lyoko. The blogs can be found here: http://codelyoko.wikia.com/wiki/User_blog:Deadcoder . Note that spoilers aren't hidden on this page. The following tropes are present in the blog:

* ArtisicLicense-Physics: Pointed out.
* BaitAndSwitch: A comment about Aelita's hair in the review of "X.A.N.A. Awakens"
* BreadEggsMilkSquick : Played straight "We had some good Sissi moments, a decent fight scene, Drama without the midair-halting laser beam, and two people murdering what was effectively their child"

* FantasticMeasurement: See AbstractScale

* Lampshade: pointed out

* Narm: complained about.

* RunningGag: Several

* TokenBlackCharacter: parodied
* UnfortunateImplications: pointed out: "Then again, that kind of isolating technique is also common to domestic violence abusers and cults."
* VillainHasAPoint: pointed out with the scanners: "Franz is horrified that they used the Scanners on humans, claiming that they're not safe for that. When I first saw this episode, I thought that made sense. You're literally turning people into data via what is probably controlled radiation, and dumping them in a computer which has major reliability problems. "

* WhatTheHellHero?: used several times
** The most extreme case was probably when the writer portrayed Aelita and Jeremie as child murderers.

* HappyFunThingOfDoom: "THE DISCO BALL OF DOOM COMMANDS THAT THEY WILL NOT SURVIVE!"

* DoWrongRight: "Why did the moon flicker? Even Minecraft can maintain a consistent moon X.A.N.A.!"

* NaughtyTentacles: mentioned.

* MainCharactersDoEverything: Pointed out with Jim.

* OnlySaneOne: Yumi has this role most of the time, but Jeremie had it early on.

* ShowingTheirWork: appreciated.

* GenreSavy: Yumi is portrayed this way.

* BrickJoke: One blog complained about two of the characters killing what was essentially their child. A couple of blogs later, an abortion joke was made.