History Characters / CodeLyoko

* MultiethnicName: Has an Anglo-Saxon first name (if Jim is short for James) and a Spanish surname (though weirdly spelled).

* TheGhost: A subversion. While he does technically have an onscreen appearance as his light ball avatar, there are no scenes of him as a human that aren't part of a flashback or an imitation by XANA. Given that the mentioned avatar is silent and without any traits, it can be truthfully said that the viewer never gets to see Hopper actually interact with the main cast.

* TheUnreveal: Each time he went on Lyoko, it either happened offscreen or had a specific condition that caused him to keep his normal appearance instead of an avatar. [[spoiler:Averted in the novels, where his avatar is finally described. It's an elf in green tights similar to [[Literature/PeterPan]].]]

* MsFanservice: Shares this role with Sissi. Yumi's had numerous risqué scenes including of dancing in a pool, bathing and kssing some boys.

* AnIcePerson: Blocks are able to fire beams of ice at the warriors that can be used to imobilize them or cause instant devirtulization.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: In the prequel, he is [[{{Jerkass}} much more antisocial]], being actively antagonistic toward Yumi just because she beat him in martial arts practice, treating Sissi with disdain especially after a misunderstanding between them which makes her an AlphaBitch, acting displeased by Odd now sharing his room, almost denouncing him to Principal Delmas when discovering he brought Kiwi in secret to Kadic, and even later [[KickTheDog attempting to use Kiwi as a test subject for Jérémie to see if the virtualization process works.]] Doesn't prevent him from coming to Jérémie's help twice when seeing him in danger, going on Lyoko to rescue Odd without hesitation when he gets virtualized instead of Kiwi and actually showing concern for Aelita's plight. Judging by [[TookALevelInKindness how he is portrayed in other episodes]], [[CharacterDevelopment it seems like teamwork eventually made him a better person.]]

** Giving Sissi the cold shoulder of something she can't even remember, causing her to become the AlphaBitch she is today.

* LoveAtFirstPunch: He's first checking her out as she passes by him to get a vending drink at school, showing [[LoveAtFirstSight an interest in her at first sight]]. But, he properly meets her as his sparring partner during a martial arts class. He makes a slight jab at her martial arts skills before she gives him a roundhouse kick to the face and pins him down, making him set up a re-match with her later on.

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* {{Seers}}: Future Flash gives him brief glimpses into the future. He loses the ability in Season 2.

* UnskilledButStrong: His default skillset is smaller or less useful than the rest of Lyoko warriors (being pretty much his arrows and Future Flash), but he surpasses them in agility and physical abilities by a good margin (bar William and Ulrich).

* WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway: Future Flash. Not only does this power have very limited scope (Odd is the only one unable to use his power at will, and it's worthless in a fight), but the power activating causes Odd to stop moving for a while, making him an easy target. Lampshaded when Odd mentions Jérémie erased it accidentally and never bothered reprogramming it because he felt it was useless. It's actually suggested that he is more effective without it.

* RedOniBlueOni: She's the emotional and quick to bite back red to Tamiya's more down-to-earth and rational blue.

* BynstanderSyndrome: Mrs. Stern's role is largely confined to the background watching Walter chew out their son, siding with her husband whenever Ulrich tries to defend himself or call his dad out.

[[folder:Walter and Mrs. Stern]]

* DarkIsEvil: Him, his specters, and some of his minions, most notably [[sopiler:William]], are heavily associated with darkness and the color black. At the end of Season 2 [[spoiler: his escape from the Supercomputer is represented by a giant vortex of dark energy going towards the sky.

->Voiced by: Raphaëlle Lubansu (French), Matthew Géczy (English), Gabriel Ortiz (Latin American Spanish), Jesús Pinillos (European Spanish), Hiroki Shimowada (Japanese)

->Voiced by: Mathieu Moreau (French), Creator/DavidGasman (English), Alexei Mayén (Latin American Spanish), Pablo Sevilla (European Spanish)

* VoluntaryShapeshifting: What sets them apart from XANA's other specters. They do not need a body or medium to work otherwise, and can change their appearance however they please.

->Voiced by: Carole Baillien (French), Jody Forrest (English), Gaby Ugarte (Latin American Spanish, Seasons 1-2), Adriana Núñez (Latin American Spanish, Seasons 3-4), Cristina Yuste (European Spanish)

Daughter of Kadic Academy principal Jean-Pierre Delmas. She can have practically any boy at school -- but she wants Ulrich, who'd rather have nothing to do with her despite (or maybe because) [[UnluckyChildhoodFriend they'd known each other since childhood]]. To separate Ulrich from Yumi ([[JustFriends not that they're actually together, honest]]), Sissi makes a variety of attempts to undermine the bonds of friendship between the Lyoko Warriors. These often manifest as attempts to administratively separate them through her power as a one-girl AbsurdlyPowerfulStudentCouncil or the use of blackmail material to buy her way into the group. Either way, she has the potential to sow a greater division than XANA himself. The prequel two-parter "XANA Awakens" reveals that she had initially been in on the Lyoko Warriors' secret, but her memories of the Supercomputer's activation were wiped with a RTTP because she notified her father due to thinking her friends were in danger and a misunderstanding of betrayal occured. [[ShipTease Hints dropped]] from late Season 2 and through Season 4 seem to reinforce {{Fanon}} that Sissi could be perfectly content with Odd -- so long as she doesn't realize it's a Bohemian like him that she connects with.

* UnluckyChildhoodFriend: She knows Ulrich and has a crush on him since ''Nursery School''. Though the "friend" part remains unconfirmed, seeing how Ulrich didn't seem in good terms with her in the prequel.

->Voiced by: Bruno Mullenaerts (French), David Gasman (English).

* HopelessSuitor: To Sissi. Nothing he does ever catches her attention and makes him constantly jealous of Ulrich.

->Voiced by: Carole Baillien (French), Matthew Géczy (English).

->Voiced by: Mirabelle Kirkland (English).

->Voiced by: Barbara Weber-Scaff (English).

->Voiced by: Frédéric Meaux (French), David Gasman (English), Luis Alfonso Padilla (Latin American Spanish, Seasons 1-2), Jorge Ornelas (Latin American Spanish, Seasons 3-4), Cholo Moratalla (European Spanish)

* GoodParents: They worry about their children, but at some points this becomes a hindrance to the group due to said concern.

* StatusQuoIsGod: Yumi's parents sometimes get into disagreements, but in the end everything turns out fine; and when Takeho loses his job in "The Chips are Down", he finds a new one by the end of the episode.

[[folder:Mr. and Mrs. Stern]]

* AbusiveParents: As mentioned above in Ulrich's profile, Mr. Stern is constantly berating his son, only seeming to care about his grades, and not caring about the reason why they are so low by the time of seasons 3 and 4. He also immediately dislikes his son's friends despite not knowing them (As an example, he considers ''Jérémie'', known as Kadic's resident genius by staff and students alike, a good-for-nothing), and rarely contacts Ulrich. Mrs. Stern isn't much better, being an enabler that just sits by and watches her husband berate Ulrich.

* HateSink: Mr. Stern is, to put it simply a {{Jerkass}} of the highest order, being emotionally abusive of his son, a stark contrast from the parents of the other Lyoko Warriors, and is implied to be a nasty CompetitionFreak by Odd. Angry and irritable at the slightest provacation, the man only shows affection to Ulrich when he's on the verge of ''dying''.

* {{Foil}}: Mr. Belpois is one to Ulrich's abusive father. He's very understanding of his son, even letting him stay at Kadic in favor of a more advanced school since his son has made friends there, making it clear that he wants his son to be happy. Contrast to Walter Stern, who refuses to understand Ulrich's perspective and considers Ulrich's friends a gang of good-for-nothings.

* TheGhost: Odd's sisters are this, as they never make a physical appearence during the entire show. His parents were also this for most of the series, as their first and only physical appearence only takes place almost at the end of the final season.

* GoodParents: James frequently calls William and quickly worries about him when he doesn't calls him anymore. Upon visiting Kadic with his wife, both ultimately figure out Clone William isn't their son. The few interactions the real William has with his parents implies they're very close.

* DangerousForbiddenTechnique: The [[ResetButton Return to the Past]] becomes more or less this for them once they realize its side effects. Using it allows them to instantly reverse any damage XANA might have done with his attacks (save for actual death, but it ''does'' save people who are about to die) and cancel any breach to their secret without having to worry about witnesses. However, each time they use it gives XANA a permanent boost in power and intelligence. Once they learn about this early in Season 2, they make a strict rule of using it only as a last resort, to the point Ulrich nearly gets banned from the group when he tries to use it for a personal reason. [[spoiler:That being said, this only applied when XANA was still confined to Lyoko. Once he's in the network during the second half of the series and thus, no longer connected to the supercomputer, the Return to the Past becomes safe to use.]]

* IJustWantToBeSpecial: His rationale for not wanting to shut down the supercomputer, as he enjoyed being a hero on Lyoko. Given how his [[AbusiveParents father]] has such a powerful, and detrimental influence on his life, it's hard not to argue that his time in Lyoko was a ''major'' distraction and made him feel good about being a genuine hero literally saving the world.

* FaceHeelTurn: Heavily downplayed. He does not become evil ''per se'', but he does reveal the secret to his girlfriend Brynga in "Kadic Bombshell", leading to him being kicked out, and to Brynga's shenanigans on the supercomputer almost killing the heroes. Fortunately, he gets better when he sees that Brynga is little more than an AttentionWhore.

* TookALevelInJerkass: Even though she had her moments here and there, (in "Routine", she was angry at Ulrich for... talking to a girl) Yumi is a lot pettier and sensitive in Season 4. Highlights include her being extremely angry with Ulrich in "Lab Rat" for having forgotten about her birthday, disowning Hiroki in "Lost at Sea" for having stolen her diary, believing that Ulrich sold an EmbarrassingOldPhoto of Yumi to the Kadic News, despite the fact that Ulrich would never do that (granted, he did take the fall from Odd) in "Cold Sweat", and violently rejecting William's help in "Fight to the Finish". It's likely that this stemmed from the stress that battles against XANA had caused her over the series, as noted above in DesignatedVictim and IJustWantToBeNormal. It is doubtful that anyone can go through such traumatic events without becoming somewhat abrasive. It doesn't explain, however, why she chose to publish an embarrassing photo of Odd and Ulrich in the end of the aforementioned "Cold Sweat". While the former deserved it, the latter certainly did not. She did get better in the end, though: in "Echoes", where the group [[spoiler:shuts down the supercomputer]], she's more in-line with her CoolBigSis personality, being on better terms with William despite rejecting his help earlier, and comforts Ulrich about living without Lyoko.

* EverythingIsOnline: He can use the supercomputer to do a bunch of things that he really shouldn't be able to do. This is the only real explanation.

* FriendlessBackground: Prior to turning the computer on, he didn't have any friends. [[spoiler:This is one of the reasons why he doesn't want to turn off the [=Supercomputer=] in "Echoes": He's afraid his friends will abandon him without an enemy to fight.]]

* HandBehindHead: His standard pose when he's not hunched over the supercomputer's keyboard.

* RapidFireTyping: WildMassGuessing presumes the keyboard on the Lyoko supercomputer has a second Return key in place of the capslock key. That or Jérémie types at a ridiculously high WPM. Or both.

* CharacterizationMarchesOn: For Season One, putting her development aside, she is depicted as a borderline saint and barely emotes beyond being a helpful ally to Jeremie and the warriors, sometimes functioning as Jeremie's WarriorTherapist during times of stress. Season Two and onwards tones these qualities down slightly and gives her nuance such as playfully snarking/taunting Sissi or monsters on Lyoko and not above getting cross at her friends including Jeremie. Knowing that the [[WhatCouldHaveBeen original plan]] was [[spoiler:not to make her a real human]] makes this subtle shift more understandable.

* DamselInDistress: She plays this entirely straight in season 1 given that the team's goal is to get her out of the supercomputer, and is frequently Xana's target. The others have to play bodyguard because she has no weapon other than Creativity, and she dies for real if she loses all her life points. She gets a bit better in season 2, but still finds herself depending upon the other three most of the time. By season 3 she's upgraded to ActionGirl status.

** To Aelita too. While both are [[BadassInDistress powerhouses, must be rescued and materialized on Earth]] in a season (Aelita in Season 1, and William in Season 4), lack vehicles in the proper sense of the word and single-handedly started a plot (Aelita is critical to the entire story, being the reason Jérémie refuses to shut down the supercomputer, while William forced the heroes to adapt to a new threat) Aelita is a AllLovingHero, while William is a JerkWithAHeartOfGold. While Aelita is one of the smartest characters of the show, William is at best average in terms of smarts. Aelita's powers revolves around creation, while William's revolves around destruction. No wonder they had trouble getting along on Lyoko in ''Final Round'', even though they're friends on Earth.

* ReformedButRejected: In the finale. He isn't present when the supercomputer is shut down, but he seems to have at least managed to return to being on civil terms with Yumi. He is still bitter about being rejected, though.

** In "Nobody in Particular", he pulls a XanatosSpeedChess (see his entry) to melt the supercomputer, defeats Clone William by deactivating his tower, and only Aelita's last-minute intervention saves the supercomputer from destruction.

* XanatosSpeedChess: In "A Lack of Goodwill", when his clone defeats him and prevents him from directly destroying the supercomputer by sending him in the elevator and activating it, XANA-William goes to the computer room and instead attempts to melt-down the supercomputer by bugging its cooling system. He also pulls another one in "Down to Earth", when, at Ulrich's mercy, he uses his SuperSmoke to evade him just before the Kolossus steps on Ulrich and devirtualizes him.

* InvincibleVillain: He doesn't get any real victories during the first two seasons aside from [[spoiler:binding Aelita to him via stealing her memories at the end of Season 1]], but thanks to the EnforcedColdWar, the Lyoko Warriors were in no position to CutTheJuice and actually ''defeat'' him. [[spoiler:He truly becomes this when he steals the Keys to Lyoko from Aelita, escaping the supercomputer and infecting the entire global network. His newfound power makes his attacks deadlier than ever, and the Lyoko Warriors have no way to stop him until the ''Skidbladnir'' is created in Season 4... and even then the discovery that XANA's resources far surpass their own makes their intended strategy of destroying his supercomputers impractical. Even the program specifically designed to kill him requires more energy than the supercomputer can supply, and it takes Franz Hopper [[HeroicSacrifice sacrificing himself]] to finally launch it.]]

*** The Megatanks got hit with this during Season 4, only appearing in two episodes. This was probably due to their OneHitKill lasers being a StoryBreakerPower concerning the Replika plotline, which was displayed in Episode 73, where their firepower was enough that Jérémie had to reroute energy from the supercomputer itself just to make sure that the ''[[CoolShip Skidbladnir]]'' wouldn't be instantly destroyed.

* ColorCodedCharacters: The towers and monsters under his control are marked by a white aura. His avatar is also marked with white on the supercomputer when it appears.

** She also goes through an arc of carving a life for herself in the real world. At first she clings to her friends, relying on them to provide her with knowledge she lacks. Over time, Aelita discovers an enjoyment of music, becomes skilled at mixing tunes, and stands her ground on pursuing this hobby. She even becomes a pre-performance DJ for the Subdigitals!

* DamselInDistress: She plays this entirely straight in season 1 given that the team's goal is get her out of the super computer, and is frequently Xana's target. The others have to play bodyguard because she has no weapon other than Creativity, and she dies for real if she loses all her life points. She gets a bit better in season 2, but still finds herself depending upon the other three most of the time. By season 3 she's upgraded to ActionGirl status.

* HopelessSuitor: To Sissi. Nothing he does ever catches her attention.

* BookDumb: In one episode he gets a zero on a test and Ms. Hertz has to tell him that a kilogram of mercury does not weight a ton.

* CharacterizationMarchesOn: 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.

The Gym teacher and dormitory supervisor at Kadic Academy. A bit overweight and prone to speeches full of [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment redundancies]] and [[{{Malaproper}} malapropisms]], he's most often the [[PluckyComicRelief comic relief]]. But when [[LetsGetDangerous things get dangerous]] he can prove [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass extremely courageous]] and [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold fiercely protective of the children]]. Jim is sometimes the [[ButtMonkey butt of the students' practical jokes]], and as a result can be [[DrillSergeantNasty overly severe toward them]]. He's very suspicious of Team Lyoko, and ends up discovering the Factory several times, to have his memory erased by the [[ResetButton Returns to the Past]]. Starting with Season 2, whenever appropriate to the situation, his shtick is to mention one of the many jobs or hobbies he's supposed to have done in the past, from sewer worker to astronaut.... Though [[NoodleIncident some of these might be true]], most are probably [[TheMunchausen wild exaggerations]], as suggested in the episode named for his CatchPhrase.

* CatchPhrase: "I'd rather not talk about it," when referring to the various jobs he had.

* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Most of time, he is portrayed as goofy, clumsy and a bit stupid, to the point even the students don't take him seriously. When given the chance, however, he can actually be competent.

* GratuitousDiscoSequence: His secret videoclip Paco, King of Disco.

* EmpoweredBadassNormal: When Jérémie used a Tower to gives him powers for a short amount of time so he could fight toe-to-toe with a XANA-possessed Yolande.

* FaceHeelTurn: Heavily downplayed. He does not becomes evil ''per se'', but he does reveal the secret to his girlfriend Brynga in "Kadic Bombshell", leading to him being kicked out, and to Brynga's shenanigans on the supercomputer almost killing the heroes. Fortunately he gets better when he sees that Brynga is little more than an AttentionWhore.

** In the ''Code Lyoko DS: Fall of XANA'' game, Jeremie refers to XANA as "Her" and "She."

* GenderLift: In ''Code Lyoko DS: Fall of XANA'', Jeremie refers to XANA as "Her" and "She."

* VillainousBreakdown: Has one toward the end of Season 1, in the episode "Ghost Channel", where the above quote comes from.

* AIIsACrapshoot: XANA started off as a relatively simple A.I., but gradually became more intelligent and malicious as time went on. Indeed, it turned on his creator and tried to kill him [[spoiler: and her daughter]] the ''moment'' it became possible.

* AIIsACrapshoot: XANA started off as a relatively simple A.I., but gradually became more intelligent and malicious as time went on.

* VillainousRescue: He unexpectedly helps the heroes against the Marabounta in "Marabounta" and saves William from the Digital Sea in "Final Round" after Lyoko's destruction in order to turn him into his {{Dragon}}.

* NearVillainVictory: By the end of the series, XANA has successfully [[spoiler:destroyed the ''Skidbladnir'', and showed that with having hundreds of supercomputers all over the world, the Lyoko Warriors cannot manually destroy each one and hope to kill him. His robot army likewise, is almost completely operational and is pretty much ready to be mobilized.]] As such, the program specifically made to kill him is the Lyoko Warriors' last and only hope of really stopping XANA, and with the sacrifice of Franz Hopper, activates, moments before XANA can kill Ulrich and Yumi personally through William to boot.

** XANA doesn't go out of his way to kill bystanders; whenever his polymorphic specters encounter someone (ie Principal Delmas in "Double Take", Milly and Tamiya in "Opening Act") bumping into his plans, XANA merely scares them off or knocks them out (though, if they take a more active role, he ''will'' revoke this courtesy). He used to exhibit this same courtesy to Jérémie, like in "Final Mix", but that was before he grew to ''despise'' him.

* SealedEvilInACan: The Supercomputer being the Can. Though it only truly imprisons him when you shut it down; when active, it still prevents him from escaping, but not from wreaking havoc.

* HopelessSuitor: To Sissi.

* OddFriendship: With Hervé, as they seem to have very little in common.

* GirlishPigtails

* TookALevelInKindness: In Season 1, Jim would often angrily give the Lyoko warriors punishments for various reasons. It came to head during the last two episodes of that season, where he spent a considerable amount of time trying to find out what they're up to, which made him antagonistic to them in general, to the point of inadvertently causing Jérémie to fall down a flight of stairs. [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone This subsequently gets a horrified Jim fired]], but Jérémie decides to reveal the truth to Jim, as he was injured and needed Moralès to help. From this point forward, Jim seems to become a lot more lighthearted as a character, even after the ResetButton in the Season 1 finale. It's notable that Season 2 is what picks up on the "I'd rather not talk about it..." RunningGag.

* ColorCodedCharacters: The towers and monsters under his control are marked by a white aura.

* TheGhost: A subversion. While he does technically have an onscreen appearance as his light ball avatar, there are no scenes of him as a human that aren't part of a flashback or an imitation by XANA. Given that the mentioned avatar is silent and traitless, it can be truthfully said that the viewer never gets to see Hopper actually interact with the main cast.

* KnightOfCerebus: Make no mistake, he's most certainly the BigGood, but episodes that directly involve him (In particular, his past concerning Project Carthage and TheMenInBlack) tend to delve into darker plot lines than normal.

* PapaWolf: XANA knows it, and [[BatmanGambit exploits it throughout Season 4]].

* VirtualGhost: Franz never bothered taking a corporeal form on Lyoko.

* RobotMe: Kiwi has a robot duplicate built by Jérémie.

%%* BrattyHalfPint

* {{Foil}}: Mr. Belpois is one to Ulrich's abusive father. He's very understanding of his son, even letting him stay at Kadic in favor of a more advanced school since his son has made friends there Jérémie , making it clear that he wants his son to be happy. Contrast to Walter Stern, who refuses to understand Ulrich's perspective and considers Ulrich's friends a gang of good-for-nothings.

* GoodParents: They worry about their children, but at some points this becomes a hindrance to the group.

* AbusiveParents: As mentioned above, Mr. Stern is constantly berating his son, only seeming to care about his grades, and not caring about why they are so low by the time of seasons 3 and 4. He also immediately dislikes his son's friends despite not knowing them, and rarely contacts Ulrich. Mrs. Stern isn't much better, being an enabler that just sits by and watches her husband berate Ulrich.
* {{Foil}}: [[AbusiveParents Mr. Stern]] is one to [[GoodParents Jérémie's father]], made specially evident in "Distant Memory".
* NoNameGiven: We never learn their first names.

* {{Foil}}: Mr. Belpois is one to Ulrich's abusive father.
* TheGhost: Jérémie's mother never makes a physical appearance in the show, but dialogue implies that she's still alive and still married to Michel.
* GoodParents