Line #49 Fridge/CodeLyoko


1	'''"Fridge" reactions are defined as happening post-viewing, as such '''Administrivia/SpoilersOff''' ''applies to this page.'''''
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3	This page is for showcasing noteworthy moments of FridgeBrilliance or FridgeHorror in ''WesternAnimation/CodeLyoko''. Note that any FridgeLogic examples do NOT belong here -- put them on the series' Headscratchers page, instead.
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6	* The ProtagonistCenteredMorality in Season 1 is actually not ''entirely'' out of character when you take into account that the characters are Middle School students, often having centric moralities.
7	* Whenever the heroes activate the ResetButton, they are actually reverting the world to an earlier point in time - a restore point.
8	* Despite his first impression, XANA was not as stupid as the Lyoko Warriors assumed - the entire first season, as we find out, is basically spent powering up XANA every time the team uses a Return Trip. By the time the heroes realizes they can't simply rely on the ResetButton all the time, XANA became powerful enough to ''directly'' attack them when he could only attack them ''indirectly'' in the first season. NiceJobBreakingItHero.
9	* Franz not making himself known in Season 1 and most of Season 2 makes some sense as he was likely concealing himself from XANA within Sector Five, a sector Jérémie didn't know existed until "Uncharted Territory." The moment he activated a tower, two Megatanks tried to destroy it outright. Plus, it seemed his influence over Lyoko grew from the Return Trips doubling the Supercomputer's processing power, making him enough of an equal to XANA that the A.I. began to hunt down his creator through season 4.
10	* Sometimes when Aelita deactivates a tower, we see her doing a backflip as she ascends to the next panel. At first this seems to be [[RuleOfCool just for show]], but it turns out that it has a purpose after all. Think about it -- the second panel is directly above the first, and Aelita has to walk into the centre before she can ascend. If she didn't do a backflip, she'd smack into the bottom of the panel!
11	* Why do the uncontrolled towers in Lyoko glow blue earlier on, and white in later seasons? Simple: White is Franz Hopper's color. After Franz Hopper reveals himself, Lyoko recognizes its master.
12	* Yumi's status as the DesignatedVictim makes a bit of sense as she lives off campus compared to the other Lyoko Warriors, making her the easier target for XANA to pick on. If she goes missing? It's much ''much'' easier to cover since there can't be an easily-fashioned cover story explaining her absence.
13	* Jérémie forgetting the majority of "XANA Awakens" and how the Lyoko Warriors came together is not unlike how fans began the series with "Teddygodzilla" with the origin story completely glossed over until after Season 2.
14	* XANA sends Kankrelats to the real world: once in "False Start" and again in "Hard Luck". Their appearance in each bear a number of differences from the other, from the shape of XANA's eye to how their lasers are depicted firing. Since the episodes in question aired in Seasons 1 and 4, respectively, it could easily be explained as nothing more than ArtEvolution. But then consider ''how'' they were sent to Earth: the "False Start" Kankrelats were physically materialized through the scanners, while the "Hard Luck" ones were "translated" on site via polymorphic specters.
15	* A few from ''Ghost Channel''.
16	** Notably the problem on Mrs. Hertz's blackboard differs between the real and false Kadics. Odd and Ulrich, despite being sent back in time by the previous mission, wouldn't notice because they are BookDumb. The reason to change it is also fairly obvious: XANA was displaying intellectual superiority. He was going to kill Odd and Ulrich, no reason not to have some gloating in first. Having false Jim make the two do pushups while he watches is just another little means of showing off.
17	** The reason that Jim and Principal Delmas were so hung on Jérémie not giving them information is because Jim caught a bit of his conversation with Aelita. They know Jérémie has ''some'' sort of information, even though Jérémie isn't lying when he says he has no idea where his friends are.
18	** The reason Yumi's parents are so poorly programmed is because XANA had little information on everyone outside Kadic.
19	** Yumi being able to pick up XANA plots easier is not going to be a one off event: XANA proves in season 2 that he can possess Jérémie and Aelita and those their age are none the wiser. It offers a bit of a explanation for Yumi's designated victim status.
20	** Why did XANA not know about the events of ''Frontier'', beyond the fact that season 1 was not as tight on exact continuities? Simple, it wasn't XANA's fault that it happened. It was a typing error, and all XANA would know of the event was that the heroes were doing something and, after he established a pattern of what exactly they were doing, acted to stop them because [[EvilIsPetty why not?]].
21	*** Similarly the fact that Jérémie and Aelita are dismissive of a third space like what Jérémie was in during that time is because Aelita could contact and hear from him. If they were in the same space she'd be able to detect them the same way and would have mentioned it.
22	** Finally the fact that this isn't mentioned again despite Jérémie ''really'' ticking off the principal would be a result of an off screen return to the past.
23	** In the end of the episode, the Lyoko Warriors are fighting an army of Kankrelats. In previous episodes, the Kankrelats appeared in groups of five. But a similar scenario in the fourth season episode "Distant Memory" hints that XANA didn't summoned them the moment his Ghost Channel was destroyed, rather he placed them in the simulation as Kadic's student body and facility.
24	* In "Ultimatum," Odd warns XANA that humans can be killed by extreme cold. Well guess XANA's plan is in "Cold War," a mere four episodes later!
25	* ''Cold War'' notably have the factory not be a frozen doom-scape. XANA probably made sure that there was no risk of damage to the structure as to prevent Aelita from being able to enter Lyoko, let alone any possible damage to the super computer itself and thus XANA. How XANA did this... not sure.
26	* In ''Final Round'', William is shown having an ability similar to Ulrich's Super Sprint, even if it's used for only a second. It would be logical for him to have the Super Sprint, since Ulrich is his [[TheRival rival]].
27	** Heck, in the Social Game, William ''does'' have the Super Sprint as an ability.
28	* In "Final Round", after being virtualized, William excitedly asked Aelita how she fights on Lyoko. While he's portrayed as annoying, he does make a point: knowing your comrade's strengths allows better teamwork. Sadly, Aelita ignores his questions and he's later brainwashed into becoming XANA's [[TheDragon Dragon]]. On top of that, William is seen training before going to his first mission. In spite of his LeeroyJenkins behavior, [[DumbassHasAPoint a part of him took the fight seriously]].
29	-->'''William:''' Wow! ''(looks at his {{BFS}})'' That’s some pretty classy gear! And you? ''(refers to Aelita)'' No weapon? You fight with your bare hands? What’s your superpower?\
30	'''Aelita:''' This [[NotAGame isn’t a video game]], William. Let me remind you that we have an important mission to accomplish.
31	* At the end of the Season 4 episode "I'd Rather Not Talk About It", a Jim-centric episode, Jérémie accepts Jim's offer to attend his next boot camp despite being unfit for the first one. His friends don't understand why he would go through this tough training again. But it makes more sense if you take into consideration that while he and Aelita organized this session with Jim so the whole group would become physically better in the real world, in case of a potential XANA attack. But there is also the fact that Jérémie mentioned a few episodes early that XANA knows Yumi, Ulrich, and Odd barely make the Supercomputer work on their own has been targeting him, and Aelita, since they know its inner workings. Thus, Jérémie likely understood that he is the most physically weak of the group and thus the least capable of fending off a XANA attack in the real world, understanding he needs some physical training.
32	* In "Distant Memory", Odd gifts Jérémie a rubber duck as a Christmas present. Odd claims it's a nonsense gift and has no real use, but there's actually a term in coding and computer engineering called Rubber Ducking! Wherein a programmer might figure out where they went wrong in their coding and debug it by explaining it all to a small object. Most often, as the name suggests, a rubber duck! Whether it was intentional on Odd's part, it's a pretty thematically on point gift for someone like Jérémie.
33	* William being rejected in "Fight To The Finish" initially has some sense to it. With this being their last mission, the last thing the Lyoko Warriors need is someone only just freed from XANA himself and potentially being an Achilles Heel that'd give them trouble. If given time to build up an immunity to any future possessions (Scyphozoa not withstanding) like the others, they might've changed their mind of being too cautious but alas...
34	** However, it should be pointed out that with his sheer power and his new-found maturity, some fans argues that he learned his lesson and could have even saved Franz Hopper if he was virtualized. It remains up to debate whether or not it was a good idea not to virtualize him.
35	*** The Skid's destruction might've had a role in their hasty decision. The fourth extra Navskid was blatantly meant for William since they'd need all the help they could in destroying the Replikas, taking the fight to XANA itself. Without it, it left them with the Multi-Agent System which in itself was a gamble. All they needed was to start it up and it'd be, "Bye Bye, XANA" while they could leave William to return to his old life without the risk of XANA reclaiming him. They'd all be going back to their old lifestyle anyways so why drag him back into it? Pushing him away was harsh but likely something they felt was for his own good, not counting on even a simple specter.
36	* As pointed out in the main page, Lyoko is GratuitousJapanese for "travel." This makes sense when one thinks about it: Franz Hopper created Lyoko and XANA to stop Project Carthage. Lyoko was probably the program he used to let XANA ''travel'' into Carthage, as a sort of bridge to destroy the program. Even after Lyoko was repurposed as a virtual world, XANA's ability to use it as a means of sending spectres out into the real world seem to evoke this.
37	** Then there's what Lyoko (the code) does when Aelita enters it into a tower: preps the computer to travel back in time.
38	* Yumi's father asking if Aelita's friend is Japanese when Yumi tries to talk her parents into letting her stay over may come off as ethnically bias until you take into account the above point of Lyoko being GratuitousJapanese and that Yumi had just claimed Lyoko to be Aelita's last name. Takeho heard Yumi give a Japanese-sounding family name and made the logical assumption before checking to see if he was correct.
39	** Additional Fridge Humor from the same scene: when Akiko asks what Aelita's parents do, Yumi lies on the spot that they "work with computers". Given [[AccidentalTruth what we learn about Waldo and Anthea Schaeffer]] in [[HilariousInHindsight subsequent seasons]]...
40	* Why are there 3 scanners? It's because Franz Hopper intended to not only go to Lyoko with Aelita, but also his wife Anthea too.
41	* Ulrich, Yumi (her attempted possession wasn't shown on-screen), and Odd are able to resist being possessed. This could be because, when a human is possessed by a specter, [[NighInvulnerability their body becomes virtual]]. Ulrich, Odd, and Yumi can't be possessed by a specter because their bodies are used to being virtual from their trips to and from Lyoko!
42	* Fridge Humor: Jim's ExpansionPackPast makes less and less sense as time goes on, since the number of careers he could feasibly have done is much smaller than the extensive list he holds... ''unless'' he only spent a few days at each. No wonder he'd [[MemeticMutation rather not talk about it]].
43	** This also neatly explains why he's a gym teacher, instead of any of the cushier jobs he's mentioned in the past; it's the only job he could hold down for any appreciable length of time. The sheer range of things he does on campus alongside gym teaching may also be a side effect of his history. He can do a few, if not a dozen, other jobs while only paying for one guy.
44	** As to why few if anyone in the series calls him out for possibly exaggerating or lying about what he's done: because when you are known to have starred in a disco film ''and'' your nephew is a star drummer, you clearly do have enough things in your history that are interesting that it is hard to guess what is actually false and what is true.
45	* During ''Killer Music'' Ulrich commented that the titular song made by XANA is fairly unoriginal, as if 'made by a machine'. The virus could understand what commonalities were present in popular songs, but not innovate on them to make something truly unique. Now Aelita never had that problem with her own music endeavors. It's a bit of a underplayed foreshadowing to the fact Aelita is human.
46	* While shipping is and forever shall be controversial, ''Replika'' actually gives a pretty good showing as to why the OfficialCouple is Jérémie x Aelita and not Odd x Aelita: When Jérémie and Aelita get into a spat it is usually because Jérémie is too laser focused on fighting XANA to pick up on Aelita's interests (usually music, sometimes other things). Jérémie is always looking at the wider picture, even if often too widely, and he will near always, if not always, find a way to make it up to Aelita later (for example taking their time from going after a decoy activated tower in ''Aelita'' to let Aelita check for the information she wanted to find in Sector 5, or going to her music events/giving her music sample to the subdigitals ahead of time). Odd meanwhile got into a spat with her over not covering for him playing video games all night and never really apologized to her. They just worked past it under fire. Jérémie as Aelita once said is 'stubborn as a fool', but he's a fool with good intentions. Odd is also a fool, but not with the same intentions.
47	* The Skidbladnir's design. Aelita sits in the cockpit to control the ship, while the other Lyoko Warriors sit in small pods called "Navskids" which can be jettisoned and piloted remotely in order to fight against enemies in the virtual sea. Thing is, there's only three Lyoko Warriors aside from Aelita, yet there's four Navskids. The show never explicitly says why this is, but most likely Jérémie designed the ship with four Navskids as preparation for the eventuality of William being rescued and rejoining the team. Unfortunately by the time William gets rescued, the Skidbladnir has already been completely destroyed.
48	* We essentially have three episodes to get a feel for Jérémie's father. The later two have him appear on screen, but the first season had him mentioned in regards to the school Jérémie was at risk of being transferred to. A 'they would not pass up such a thing for him' description that never comes up again. It's never spelled out clearly but it is very likely that the Belpois got wind of Jérémie finally making friends, let alone a ''very'' special friend in Aelita, that kept them from ever pushing the issue. Jérémie would do well enough at Kadic but he wouldn't have friends if he left it.
49	* Many people complain about the way Aelita just calmly walks inside the towers in many episodes of season 1, many times in situations where some character is about to die in the real world. But it kinda makes sense if you consider the fact that Aelita at the time thought she was an AI, that she had no memories of living on Earth whatsoever, and that probably meant she couldn't exactly grasp the concept of death. From her point of view, she saw her friends getting devirtualized many times, but they would always be back the next time. Only in later seasons, when she's living as a human, she starts running like crazy towards the activated towers when XANA lauches an attack that puts people at risk. She's finally understanding what's at risk if she's not quick at stopping the attacks.
50	* There is a visible uptick in plots in later seasons about grade problems for the Lyoko Warriors, a problem that would not have existed in season 1. Many of the missed classes and assignments and lack of studying would come from the drop in use of return to the pasts to cover for these absences. Their peak was in Season 3, likely a trailing result from the drop off in time reversions in season 2 in particular, and the fall from said peak came as a similarly delayed reaction to the group being more liberal in using returns to the past after the events of ''The Key''.
51	* In ''Seeing is Believing'', Jérémie asks the power plant engineer if there's an atomic process for materializing virtual particles in the real world. This, of course, comes off as Jérémie desperate for potential solutions to Aelita's materialization problem. But given the second season reveals that the supercomputer is powered by a uranium battery, Jérémie may have known this at the time and wondered how the nuclear energy fueling the computer could be used to his advantage.
52	* For North American viewers, the fact that "The Satellite" depicted just about the ''entire'' school body as having cell phones. At the time, you basically had to be pretty rich&privileged to have a cell phone in ''middle school age''. Well, Kadic Academy is presumably a private school - and being a boarding school, it made sense to viewers in 2003-2004 for ''these'' kids to have cell phones.
53	* The origin episodes reveal that it was ''Sissi'' who found the factory, but XANA targeted her back then. So why doesn't XANA prioritize her as XANA would have "learned" that doing so will usually encourage a use of the ResetButton. Who's to say that XANA ''didn't''? Watching the first couple episode(s) of the first season, the kids have obviously done this a few times - that's just enough for XANA to learn he doesn't ''need'' to focus on Sissi, but could target just about anyone else who happens to be close by. [[RunningGag Doesn't stop him from picking on Yumi so much.]]
54	* The Megatanks get DemotedToExtra in Season 4, though they get a few name-drops outside of their ''two'' physical appearances. But why? Even if they're a StoryBreakerPower for the Replika plotline, it doesn't make sense that they don't even appear often in Lyoko... until you remember that XANA needs to capture Aelita and throw her in the Digital Sea. The Megatank's [[OneHitKill circular laser]] would devirtualize her before XANA-William could subdue her, hence the increased reliance on the Tarantula as XANA's main attack monster for this season, and the usage of weaker monsters such as Kankrelats or Bloks.
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57	* In the season 1 episode "Just in Time", Aelita gets deleted after deactivating the tower because of bugs in the system. However, they bring her back by virtualizing a strand of her hair (which Jérémie had successfully materialised at the beginning of the episode), which supposedly contains her entire genetic code. But if that's true, they wouldn't really be bringing back Aelita at all; rather, they'd be making an exact clone of her. Now, at the time, this wouldn't be such a big deal, but when we discover that she's really human, this opens up a lot of awkward possibilities...
58	** She was reformatted, not deleted. Scanning the hair simply allowed the computer to salvage her from the system, separating her from the data belonging to Lyoko itself.
59	*** Not to mention that you can actually salvage a lot of what you delete from your computer. Even if it says "permanently deleted", it's just been removed from the registry and cannot be retrieved ''easily''.
60	* Speaking of which, it has been stated that Aelita would have "disappeared forever" if she had been killed (which could have happened to Yumi too in "Missing Link" and possibly all of them when the scanners are disabled... Just what would that mean, exactly? [[RetGone think about it.]]
61	* ''Code Lyoko'' has enough NightmareFuel as it is, especially regarding [[AndIMustScream falling into the Digital Sea]], but the show becomes even more horrifying when you consider how the five protagonists must feel about the whole thing, especially from season three onwards. After all, they're ''constantly'' at risk of being murdered by XANA -- he could attack at any moment at all, and they have to be ready to fight him. Consequently, they can never truly relax. Also, whenever the gang are exploring the network in the ''Skid'', there's always the considerable risk that something might go wrong with it, or one of them might become "lost at sea". If that happens, eventually the ''Skid'' would run out of energy, and then they'd end up in the Digital Sea, which as mentioned previously, isn't a good idea. And of course this is happening whilst the main characters are right in the middle of puberty, so you can imagine the turmoil they must feel. Just to finish all of that off, they also aren't allowed to tell anybody about XANA in the hopes of getting some help, because that would break the {{Masquerade}}. How they made it through the show without becoming mentally ill is a mystery...
62	** This opens up a bit of FridgeLogic: Given that they're probably been stressed horribly because they know that an evil computer that they can't shut off is trying to kill them, why is it that in the final episode, all but Yumi ''hesitated'' to turn off said evil computer when they were finally able to, after ''two years''.
63	*** Not necessarily; they all give perfectly good reasons to feel hesitant about it. Moreover, XANA, the real evil inside the computer, was gone at this point, making the Supercomputer technically harmless. Plus, would you really just go back to normal life after living that kind of SciFi adventure for two years and acting like all of this never happened ?
64	** It's not a mystery why that didn't happen. Aelita has uncontrollable flashbacks ''including seeing her mother kidnapped'', hallucinations, numerous suicide attempts, etc. She clearly at least has PTSD, Dissociation, and probably other mental problems. I always thought that Jérémie had Asperger's Syndrome, "not really a major mental problem, but the stress clearly brought out some symptoms." On top of that, Jérémie actually did suffer mental deterioration in one season 2 episode. There's how Aelita and William both reacted to seeing the scyphozoa after the first time, hello tentacle mind rape flashbacks. They DID have mental problems.
65	* Another one, only this time focused on a single episode rather than the show as a whole. At the end of "Bad Connection", Odd shows his latest mini-film, which reveals Sissi wrapped in a duvet, and emerging "as a beautiful butterly". That's cute and all... until you realise that in order to film that footage in the first place, he'd have to have stuck a camera in her room without her knowledge. Here's where the FridgeHorror comes in -- ''what else could Odd have filmed''? How do we know he didn't keep some of it for "personal use"? Oh, and considering [[KidAnova that Odd is a G-rated pervert]], who's to say that Sissi is the only girl he's done this too? (Oh, and on top of all that, Sissi's father was watching the film, and he just assumed that Sissi was OK with this? It's amazing that Odd didn't get expelled...)
66	** Similarly, in the Season 1 episode "Big Bug", the group tricks Sissi and Hervé into a compromising position together, taking a photo of it and joking about selling it to Milly and Tamiya to put in the school paper. Well, evidently they were just joking and didn't go through with that idea, because it is ''highly'' unlikely Hervé would still be at that school if they did, as the photo would make it look like he sexually assaulted Sissi... and since this is prior to her CharacterDevelopment, Sissi wouldn't hesitate to throw Hervé under the bus and agree with that outlook if she was questioned about it.
67	* The William Clone, being deleted at the end with no apparent remorse. Not to say it wasn't necessary; just changing his DNA would still leave a double or a stranger with an unusual personality roaming the campus. And fixing that would make it hard to shut down Lyoko if he chose to defend it. But it seems strange that Jérémie, Aelita, or even William don't give any thought to a being they created to resemble a person he could never actually become, in the form that Jérémie once thought Aelita was. Not to mention he helped Jérémie protect the supercomputer in "A Lack of Goodwill", either to save his creator (adds a sad note to the horror), save his data (which would mean he had a survival instinct), or to destroy the real William (emphasizing that his whole purpose is to become someone who already exists and is not him). And now for where the horror comes in: Jérémie updated the clone using some of the data used to make XANA's A.I. Emergent Qualities might not matter anymore if his capacity to learn is intact.
68	** Jérémie did update the clone, but after the Return to the Past, he confirmed that he had deleted the update to William's clone personality. The clone itself (in "Down to Earth") said "to be specific, I'm a digitally generated random polymorphic energy field controlled by a basic non-evolving behavioral program". Non-evolving meaning anything not programmed into its artificial intelligence would not be done or even considered, because it was a rigid program.
69	* In "Ghost Channel", Aelita proves able to, more or less, do exactly what XANA did in the first season if she wanted to, and she has the ''potential'' to be far deadlier if she had the same lack of morals he did. (She has no need for the towers, meaning she could do so unopposed. Combine this with the fact that Aelita was ''incredibly'' powerful during the "Valentine's Day" episode, where she was possessed by XANA (likely just as powerful as William eventually would become.) The Fridge Horror here is when you consider what she and XANA might have been able to accomplish if he had been able to control her more often.
70	* It's mentioned several times throughout the series that returning to the past won't revive anyone who has died. How did the main characters figure THAT one out?
71	** It could have been no one they knew; a report over a news network or newspaper or the like.
72	*** OR they didn't know it'd leave people dead, and just didn't want to take the risk.
73	*** Maybe it was mentioned somewhere in Franz Hopper's notes?
74	*** The reason is kind of self-explanatory if you are to believe the techno-babble explanation of the physics for the return to the past program, in extremely simple terms they are not traveling through time, they are reverting the universe back to the way the computer recognizes it prior to the attack up to 24 hours. In other words time hadn't technically changed, they just rebuilt the preexisting environment therefore if someone dies they "literally" are still are dead.
75	*** It has also been suggested that the supercomputer keeps a backlog of everything that happened since it had been turned on in order to do so, therefore it can be assumed that when the return to the past program is implemented the Lyoko Warriors aren't actually capable of remembering but it is the computer that helped them retain their memories when it activated. This brings across a kind of Fridge Horror when you think about the fact that anyone is capable of programming the computer to reinsert their memories, proven to be true in Code Lyoko Evolution.
76	* The Replikas are generated from lab supercomputers infected by XANA all over the world. Of all those labs, only the one generating the Forest Replika had its (xanafied) original workforce shown. ''What'' exactly did XANA do with the workforces from the other labs ? Even worse, when Odd and Yumi visited the lab in Russia, they find out XANA is experimenting on what appears to be ''brains''.
77	** Even worse when you consider the fact XANA can activate towers in his Replikas without any interruption, since the Lyoko-Warriors are miles away. The people inside the labs probably went through the same NightmareFuel the Lyoko-Warriors live with everyday... except with no virtualization, no way to fight back, no way to deactivate the towers, and no return to the past to fix the mess.
78	* Aelita's fate if she and her father ''had'' succeeded in living safely on Lyoko. Sure, she and her father would be safe from the threat of the government, but think about it: She would live forever, in an empty world with only her father, with no chance of returning to Earth. She would never age, and, more tragically, never have a normal life, being forever locked in another world with her dad. Basically a case of AndIMustScream when you think about it.
79	** That being said, Aelita and Franz both had a [[RealityWarper substantial measure of control over the world of Lyoko]], either by using the [[MasterComputer supercomputer]] or just being present in Lyoko itself. XANA, [[EvilCounterpart who has just about the same control as Aelita]], created monsters, made specters (AND said monsters) in the real world, and even took over William for quite a while. Franz has, from my knowledge, [[MindControl taken over XANA's monsters]], protected his daughter from death with NO form of virtual generality, and even changed things in Lyoko while living on the World Wide Web. (I think I am getting that last one wrong, though.) Like a comment I saw above, Aelita doesn't require a tower like XANA, she could have made millions of Clone!William-esque people without having to lift a finger. This way, she wouldn't technically be lonely. She wants a boyfriend? Boop! [[EnterStageWindow He's sneaking in the tower at night]]. This does, however, add to the Horror. She felt lonely so she MADE a boyfriend, wanted some fun with people her age so she MADE friends, and even MADE a [[AlphaBitch mega-bitch rival/bully]] to feel at least little like a normal girl. Side note: an above comment said that there were three scanners because Franz planned on bringing Anthea. If it all went the way Franz wanted, Aelita would have the two of them with her. If not, that would mean that she would probably make an virtual fill-in of her own mother. I guess that adds even more.
80	** She also could've made/have her father make a Simulation Bubble like in "Ghost Channel" and "Distant Memory", to live in a proper replica of her old life. That however wouldn't be much of an improvement, she'd simply live in a simulation of how things are, and would encounter glitches and rewinds, as well as having some things never appear, she'd only pretend to live like a normal person, but in reality she'd be stuck in a fake world where the only real people would've been her parents.
81	* Literally the only reason that the Warriors are endangering ''the entire world'' is to save one human being.
82	** Which becomes a horrible form of FridgeBrilliance when you think about how that probably explains Aelita's MartyrWithoutACause tendencies. The rest of the gang has decided that [[AMillionIsAStatistic it's perfectly acceptable to put the world at risk to save one person they know and care about]], but Aelita hasn't. She becomes less impulsively selfless as time goes on because she's no longer connected to the supercomputer and no longer feels indirectly responsible for the XANA attacks.
83	*** Let me top that: they're endangering the entire world to save what they thought it was ''an artificial being''. Again, this explains even further Aelita's MartyrWithoutACause: since she thought she was an artificial being, she thought her existence wasn't worth a "true" human being, and wasn't willing to let the others to take so many risks for her. For example, remember the episode when XANA pulled a BatmanGambit by stealing Yumi's DNA code?
84	* Going to Lyoko is treated as a form of travel. But Lyoko is a computer generated world made of data. You can't travel to data, you can only add a virtual copy of your consciousness to perceive it. So every time the Lyoko Warriors are virtualized, a virtual copy of themselves is placed on Lyoko. Fair enough. But when the scanners open afterward, it shows their bodies ''are not there''. So it appears that every time someone goes to Lyoko, a copy of themselves is placed on Lyoko while their body is destroyed, and every time they are devirtualized, that copy is deleted while their body is rebuilt in the scanners. It seems to work out for the Lyoko warriors, but it's kind of unsettling that they're pretty much killed and brought back to life every time they go to Lyoko and back.
85	* In "Echoes", Jérémie reveals that he had no friends before Lyoko; sad but understandable. Then he follows it up with explaining his fears that the rest of the gang will abandon him once the Supercomputer is no longer part of their lives. How badly was he bullied to believe that the kids who would risk their lives for his sake (and have proven it numerous times) would drop him like a rock the minute XANA was out of the picture?
86	** Makes sense. The relationships between the main characters were often strained throughout the show. Jérémie might have felt that the only reason they were friends were to fight XANA and without that, they would drift apart.
87	* In "Claustrophobia", it was ''pure luck'' that Jérémie and Yumi left the cafeteria before it got sealed off. If they hadn't, there would have been no one to stop XANA.
88	* Picture this scenario: you get a text message from someone asking you to meet them in the woods alone. Do you go? If you're Odd Della Robbia, yes. Let me repeat that; even knowing that someone who wants him ''dead'' can control electronics to do whatever he darn well pleases, Odd gladly walked into a scenario that even if it hadn't been XANA, could have ended with him injured and unable to call for help, sexually assaulted and again unable to call for help, injured and unconscious (which could have meant bleeding out), sexually assaulted and unconscious (which again could have meant bleeding out) or worse, ''dead''. How exactly does a 13-year-old manage to completely ''miss'' the importance of stranger danger?
89	* According to Website/TheOtherWiki, the RTTP has a limit of two days. Now, imagine if a XANA attack lasted for 3 days or more... Hopefully, the Lyoko warriors are able to spam the RTTP.
90	* If XANA destroys the Earth, that means it'll (likely) destroys itself in the process. [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds Does XANA not want to live anymore?]]
91	* In "Ultimatum," Jérémie and Aelita have a fight about whether or not Aelita should sacrifice herself to the Scyphozoa to save Odd and Yumi from XANA. When Jérémie is stubborn, what does Aelita do? She ''gets Sissi to knock him unconscious!'' Jérémie is fine because it was just a TapOnTheHead, but think about this for a second. Aelita is willing to cause serious physical harm to Jérémie when they have a disagreement. She doesn't do this again in the series, but she's already crossed that line once. Is she going to think this is an acceptable means of conflict resolution in the future? Oddlita shippers may very well have it backwards; Aelita has the potential to become an abusive partner to Jérémie.
92	** That is an example of a borderline situation as usually couple disputes do not contain borderline decisions to save the lives of your only friends from an artificial abomination, if Aelita and Jérémie have a couple dispute it will be over a less serious issue and could be resolved in a more mature way.
93	* Often when coming out of the scanners after being devirtualized due to losing all life points the teens will look like they're in pain or shock: Yumi curled up on the floor, Odd grasping the scanner door while gasping for air, or Ulrich slumped against the wall, etc. It's likely these kids actually feel something akin to ''death'' every time they get devirtualized via life point loss.

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