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!The Lyoko Warriors

[[folder:In General]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:From left to right: Ulrich, Yumi, Odd, Aelita, Jérémie, William and Kiwi]]

* BadassCrew: Even when not on Lyoko, Ulrich and Yumi possess advanced martial art skills (due to already being trained in it before Lyoko), Odd is athletic and relatively good at adapting to any social situation, William has shown both abilities, Jérémie is a prodigy kid with advanced knowledge and greatly helps without fighting, and Aelita is just as smart as he is ''and'' fights at the same time. It's saying something that they fought against XANA's attacks several times and still survived long enough for Aelita to deactivate the towers.
* ColorCodedCharacters:
** Ulrich: Green (in the real world)/ Yellow (on Lyoko).
** Odd: Purple.
** Yumi: Black (in the real world)/ Red (on Lyoko)/ Green (on eyecatch).
** Jérémie: Blue.
** Aelita: Pink.
** William: Black / Grey / Red.
* 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.]]
* {{Digital Avatar}}s: The way they go on Lyoko.
* EnsembleCast: The five main characters [[spoiler:(and later on, six)]] all get their share of focus and not one of them can be said to be ''the'' main character, though Aelita is the most central to the MythArc as she is a core part of Lyoko.
* FamilyOfChoice: A result of being FireForgedFriends. Given that Yumi is the only one with much contact with her family, Aelita is presumably an orphan, and Odd and Ulrich have strained relationships with their families, the Lyoko Warriors gradually form their own tight-knit family. William is the only one not included in the "family" both due to the fact that he was recruited for his abilities rather than his friendship with the heroes and later on, his xanafication that led to sour relations with the other Lyoko-warriors.
* FireForgedFriends: Later on, thanks to CharacterDevelopment.
* FriendlessBackground: A few of the Lyoko Warriors were this prior to meeting each other and turning on the Supercomputer. Jérémie and Yumi are both stated to have had no friends prior to forming their group. Ulrich also mostly kept to himself. In Jérémie's case, it's implied that his lack of friends was due to his [[NoSocialSkills lack of social skills]], his [[TeenGenius high intelligence]], and the fact that he was almost always [[GadgeteerGenius working with computers or technology]]. Ulrich and Yumi, in comparison, seemed to have no trouble socializing but preferred to be by themselves. Odd was very sociable, but had just [[NewTransferstudent transferred to Kadic]], while Aelita was an AI who lived by herself on Lyoko [[spoiler:and during her previous life on Earth, was homeschooled and not mentioned to have interacted with anybody besides her parents.]]
* HeroSecretService: Odd, Ulrich, Yumi and Jérémie are this to Aelita.
* ImmuneToMindControl: Their multiple travels on Lyoko and fight against monsters have allowed them to build a resistance to the Spectres' [[DemonicPossession XANAfying]] by the time XANA developed the ability. The only exceptions were Jérémie and [[spoiler:William]] likely due to both having been on Lyoko only once [[spoiler:(excluding XANA-William's 2 virtualizations)]] before being [[spoiler:Xanafied.]]
** Being through a cycle in the scanners also makes them immune to having their memories of what transpired erased when a Return To The Past is triggered. This also doubles as a [[RequiredSecondaryPowers Required Secondary Power]], as without it they'd just repeat the same day endlessly with no memory of having done the same thing before.
* KidHero: They're still in school.
* LimitedSocialCircle: The heroes are rarely shown socializing with people outside their group, although this is [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] as most of the group, sans Odd, are more introverted in personality, as well as the stress and time commitment of fighting XANA bringing them closer together while also isolating them from their peers.
* MediumBlending: Traditional animation in the real world, CGI-rendered 3D models in Lyoko.
* {{Ordinary High School Student}}s: When not fighting XANA, they are this.
* PajamaCladHero: On occasion, the Lyoko Warriors rush to the factory in their pajamas (shoes not included).
* PlayingSick: A regularly used method to escape school when XANA attacks.
* PowersAsPrograms: A literal example; the powers ''are'' programs.
* RecruitTeenagersWithAttitude: Justified; they weren't "recruited" by adults in the first place, Jérémie (who is himself a teenager) just happened to find the Supercomputer and assembles a bunch of comrades of his age for help because he is afraid adults would want to destroy the Supercomputer or shut it down without leaving him the time to find a way to materialize Aelita. Plus, [[AdultsAreUseless the one time they try to break the secret and ask adults for help,]] [[YouHaveToBelieveMe no-one believes them.]] Other times their secret has gotten out, adults, as expected, simply want to alert the authorities and take over themselves without hearing what the group has to say because they are children. [[spoiler:However, William was indeed recruited when they decided they needed a [[TheSixRanger six-ranger]].]]
* RippleEffectProofMemory: Courtesy of their memory being registered in the Supercomputer, they are immune to the Return to the Past memory-erasing effects.
* StealthHiBye: They frequently pull this kind of exit on any bystander whenever they hear about a XANA attack. Actually Lampshaded by William about Yumi in "Sabotage":
-->'''William:''' As usual, she couldn't wait to give me the slip...
* TeensAreShort: All of them are quite short, with the exception of Yumi and William.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: At their beginning, they had limited loyalty to each other besides keeping the secret and would often argue or be missing (in "Gravity", Ulrich flat-out refuses to help deal with the current attack so he can take part in a soccer match; and in "Marabounta", he ditches a mission out of embarrassment after receiving mouth-to-mouth from Jim in front of all his classmates), and once XANA started developing into a ManipulativeBastard, proved rather easy to turn on one another. They get better over the course of the series, especially as they form their true family bond. Except with William, who is flat out rejected when he tries to atone for what he did to them under XANA's control.
* ToTheBatpole: Reaching the HackerCave where the virtual action starts involves skateboarding (except Jérémie and William: the former rides a scooter and the latter travels on foot) through a sewer, rappelling down ropes in an abandoned factory, taking an elevator locked by impressive blast doors... and finally being dematerialized in [[AppliedPhlebotinum high-tech scanners]] with the obligatory {{Invocation}}.
%%%%* TrueCompanions: By season 3-4, they have grown into this.
%%%* TwoGirlsToATeam: Aelita and Yumi.
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[[folder:Ulrich Stern]]
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[[caption-width-right:200:[[TheHero Everybody's hero.]]]]
[[caption-width-right:200:Seasons 1-3 Earth appearances. [[labelnote:Click here to see his Season 4 appearance]] https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ulrich_300.png[[/labelnote]]]]
'''Ulrich Stern'''


->''"Who's the dork that pushed me into Sissi's arms?"''

->Voiced by: Marie-Line Landerwijn, (French) Barbara Weber-Scaff (English), Noé Velásquez (Latin American Spanish), Adolfo Moreno (European Spanish), Creator/MayumiAsano (Japanese)

A quiet and introverted person by nature, quite the opposite of his best friend, Odd. Headstrong and stubborn, he cares for his friends and would do anything for them. Ulrich is more athletic than academic and it shows when you compare his grades to his sports performance. He attracts the attention of many females of the school, but has obvious feelings for Yumi. He manifests in Lyoko as an unarmored samurai, with the ability to "Triplicate" into three of himself, and SuperSpeed. His katana can deflect XANA's creatures' energy attacks.
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* AbusiveParents: Ulrich has an emotionally abusive dad who only seems to care his son's grades, and, if Ulrich's talk is anything to go by, rarely even talks to him. (Ulrich even mentions in season 3 that his father hasn't spoken to him in ''a year''.) Not to mention his mother who acts as an enabler by simply sitting by and watching her husband harshly berate their son (even scolding Ulrich when he dares to talk back to him).
* AchillesHeel: He has vertigo, which flares up at rather inconvenient times. This is presumably the reason his vehicle is the only one with a wheel, whereas the other two can fly. His fighting style isn't much useful against flying enemies, to boot. He can throw his swords, but it doesn't guarantee that it will always hit, and he's left disarmed to boot.
* AchillesInHisTent: Wound up in the proverbial tent after being kicked off the team briefly in "The Chips are Down", and then again when he was sulking in "Marabounta".
* BadassNormal: Even in the real world, Ulrich is no slouch and had already been trained in martial arts before Lyoko and is an excellent fighter. He's also shown high skill with a sword. In the episode "A Bad Turn", he uses a katana dropped by Yumi's father to fight a materialized Krabe, and manages to cut one of its legs off and block several laser bolts, one of which was about to kill Yumi. He also defeated a ''xanafied'' Tamiya in "Music to Soothe the Savage Beast" by using a mirror to send Tamiya’s electric charge back at her.
* BadBadActing: He terribly plays Romeo in "Laughing Fit".
* BattleCouple: With Yumi, despite not actually being a couple. It is repeatedly mentioned how well he and Yumi fight in sync together (often hinting at their romantic connection). In season 4, they are often paired off for partner missions on the specific basis of their excellent fighting skill together.
* TheBigGuy: He is physically the strongest Lyoko Warrior [[spoiler: barring William (which is debatable as XANA gave him most of his known powers and William's original powers were unseen)]]. When XANA attacks using a Specter-possessed person or similar vessel, he is usually the one who fights it.
* BigManOnCampus: Considered handsome by almost every girl in Kadic, and a skilled soccer player to boot. Notably, he is not exactly happy with it, as it causes him to have Sissi as a StalkerWithACrush.
* BookDumb: Academically, that is. It's well known by everyone that his grades are bad, especially season 3 (though it's left ambiguous whether he really is bad at school of if he merely lacks time to review due to the time spent fighting XANA; in at least one episode, he manages to focus on his work for a while and actually gets decent grades). This is the major source of his tense relationship with his father.
* BringIt: Like Odd, he sometimes does the "bring it" Bruce Lee gesture.
* ByThePowerOfGreyskull: Transfer: Ulrich! Scanner: Ulrich! Virtualization!
* CallingTheOldManOut: In the season 3 finale, his father comes to Kadic to talk to him about his bad grades. At first, Ulrich silently submits himself to his criticisms; then his father suggests his friends are a bad influence on him, and Ulrich finally snaps:
-->'''Ulrich:''' [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech Give me a break! What do you know about them? Nothing! You don't know me either actually! We haven't talked for a year!]]
* CannotSpitItOut: [[EveryoneCanSeeIt He likes Yumi. A lot.]] But he never manages to articulate that -- even in the face of competition. The group often bugs him to just admit to Yumi how he clearly likes her, but he can't work up the nerve to actually say the words.
* CasualDangerDialog: Not as much as Odd, but when his friend isn't around he feels the need to take his place at making lame jokes.
* CharacterDevelopment: Starts from being a big JerkWithAHeartOfGold to becoming more grounded and mature than Yumi in Season 4, coming to accept their JustFriends relationship (even though everyone knows that is far from the case). He's also the one to [[spoiler:mend fences with Sissi in the finale.]] He doesn't ''quite'' get past his rivalry with William however, [[spoiler: criticizing him for his LeeroyJenkins attitude that got him caught by the Scyphozoa despite Odd being ''much'' worse in that department.]]
* ChickMagnet: Yumi, Sissi, Milly, Émilie, and most fans have all wanted a piece of him at some point or another.
* CrazyJealousGuy: He doesn't take kindly to the idea of other guys being interested in Yumi. It gets especially bad when William enters the picture. A good chunk of the B-plots in Seasons 2 and 3 are caused by him being this. When Johnny comes to him for advice in season 3 over his PrecociousCrush on Yumi, what does Ulrich do? [[KickTheDog Give him advice that'll embarrass him and irritate Yumi]], even though Johnny's [[HopelessSuitor hardly any competition]] at all. Thankfully, by season 4, he largely [[CharacterDevelopment grows out of this.]] But he still carries a scowl when he sees her with other guys.
* CreateYourOwnVillain: His unwarranted rejection of Sissi after her "betrayal" of him and the group is what sets her off to become the school AlphaBitch and a thorn in the group's side. He eventually seems to realize this and by Season 4 is nothing but polite to Sissi even when annoyed by her, culminating in him [[spoiler: inviting her back into the group as a friend.]]
* DeadpanSnarker: Mainly toward Sissi and Odd, but the others also get their part of it.
* DesignatedVictim: Not as much as Yumi, but he's often used by Jérémie in his experiments, such as in "Nobody in Particular". Not only that, but he's also, with Yumi, William's most frequent victim (he devirtualized them seven times each), which doesn't help.
* GreenEyedEpiphany: He's been deeply in denial about his feelings towards Yumi since the beginning. This stops immediately when William becomes a legitimate competitor for Yumi's affections.
* GreenEyedMonster: Ulrich can be ''especially'' jealous when it comes to Yumi. Even Odd lampshades how bad his jealousy can get and has to call him out occasionally. He gets better, though.
* 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.
* InterchangeableAsianCultures: It's stated he likes Japanese culture (and he respects a few customs for Yumi's sake), which is presumably the reason his Lyoko avatar is a samurai. However, the martial art he practices is pencak silat, which is Indonesian. Might be justified in real life, as pencak silat was somewhat of a fad in France and Netherlands around TheNineties and the TurnOfTheMillennium.
* 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 ratting him out 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.]]
* JustFriends: With Yumi. At first, the idea of this leaves him frustrated, but by season 4, he seems to have made peace with it.[[spoiler: But by the end of the show, it's left unclear if their relationship is solved or not as they hint at wanting to re-explore their romance again.]]
* KickTheDog:
** Giving Sissi the cold shoulder for something she can't even remember, causing her to become the AlphaBitch she is today.
** In Episode 58, Johnny asks him for help with [[PrecociousCrush his feelings]] for Yumi. Ulrich does [[SarcasmMode what any reasonable person would do to a ten-year-old]] and offers him advice that'll both embarrass him and make Yumi hate him.
* LoveAtFirstPunch: He's first checking Yumi 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.
* MadeOfIron: In one episode, he takes ''two'' full-on electrocutions from a Spectre-created doppelganger of Jérémie.
* MeaningfulName: "Stern" for TheStoic.
* MrFanservice: InUniverse. He also qualifies out of universe too, as the writers seem to have went out of their way to have him provide {{Fanservice}} every now and then.
* MultiethnicName: His first name is distinctly German, while his surname may be French, German or Anglo-Saxon without trouble.
* SarcasticDevotee: Never misses a chance to snark about Odd's [[SmallNameBigEgo ego]] and [[KidAnova love life]], but the two get along like the best of friends.
* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend:
** In regards to Yumi, especially when Odd or someone else teases the clear romantic connection between them that they just won't fully act on.
** Even more so to Sissi, but in this case, he doesn't really like her that way to begin with. Even with amnesia during one episode, when Sissi tries to take advantage of this to make him think they're dating, he says he feels zero connection and she isn't his type.
* StalkerWithACrush: Tends to lapse into this when Yumi spends time with William, such as when he follows her to the pool in "Marabounta". Yumi calls him out on this, especially when he says it was [[BlatantLies only a coincidence he was there too]].
* TheStoic: He does occasionally shows emotion, typically his UnresolvedSexualTension with Yumi and [[NotSoStoic occasional outburst]], but overall he is much calmer than his teammates.
* StraightMan: To Odd's comic relief.
%%* TwiceShy: With Yumi.
%%* UnresolvedSexualTension: With Yumi.
* WellDoneSonGuy: A whole Ulrich-centered episode has him constantly seeking approval from his ultra-exigent father. He gets it in the end... [[spoiler:at the apparent cost of his father's life]]. And then promptly has it ResetButton'd. Poor guy.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Ulrich is terrified of heights. This is due to the fact that he suffers from vertigo, a disorder that causes nausea and disorientation and is triggered if the person looks down from a high perch. This disability even extends to his Lyoko avatar.
* WillTheyOrWontThey: With Yumi. According to the SeriesFinale "Echoes", they eventually will... but it was ''highly'' tentative.
!!!Lyoko Avatar
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[[caption-width-right:234:Season 1 Avatar. [[labelnote:Click here to see his Seasons 2-3 appearance]] https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ulrich_152.png[[/labelnote]]]]

* TheAce:
** Ulrich is pretty much the strongest Lyoko Warrior for most of the show's run. His katana can one-shot monsters, reflect lasers, block a Megatank's blast and doubles as a thrown weapon. Not only that, but he gets '' two'' very versatile Lyoko powers that come with no drawbacks at all.
** Zigzagged in Season 4. He starts to get overshadowed by Aelita and is usually [[TheWorfEffect worfed]] by William, but even then ''everyone'' stares in awe as he singlehandedly curb-stomps XANA's forces in "Hard Luck". Also, there is the fact that he is the only one who [[spoiler:kills the near unbeatable Kolossus]] in the penultimate episode.
* AttackReflector: His katana can be used to deflect the Monsters' laser.
* BadassBiker: From Season 2 onwards, thanks to the Overbike.
* CallingYourAttacks: Less so than Odd, but he will occasionally shout "Impact" when hitting a monster or "Triplicate[=/=]Triangulate" when using his power.
* CarFu: With the [[CoolBike Overbike]]. He once sends it crashing against a Megatank to topple the monster into the Digital Sea.
* DoppelgangerAttack: "Triplicate" allow him to generate two duplicates of himself. In the first season they only act as decoys to distract enemies, but Seasons 2 and 3 has him using them as allies that can attack of their own. He used it only once in Season 4 (in "Double Take"), as William correctly guessed which one was the real Ulrich and devirtualized him.
* DoppelgangerSpin: "Triangulate" allows him to essentially combine his Super-Sprint and Triplicate, causing him to move at Super-Speed around the opponent in a triangle-like pattern, with the three Ulrich appearing at each angle.
* EverythingsBetterWithSamurai: There's no real reason for him to be a samurai in Lyoko. He's not even Japanese. But damn, it sure is cool.
* FingerlessGloves: On both of his outfits.
%%* HitPoints
* KatanasAreJustBetter: Literally, as his weapon is easily the most effective against most monsters, being capable of causing easy damage to their weak-points and deflecting their lasers.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: In ''Skidbladnir'', William devirtualizes him by using his own katana against him.
* LightningBruiser: His katana is an efficient weapon both to deflect attacks and inflict heavy damage, while his Super Sprint (and even without it) power makes him the fastest of the group.[[spoiler:He becomes the second fastest one in Season 4, as William's SuperSmoke surpasses his Super Sprint. However, without special abilities, William remains slower than Ulrich.]]
* MesACrowd: His Triplicate ability, which allows him to make two copies of himself.
* LeParkour: One of the many uses he found for Super Sprint.
* {{Samurai}}: His avatar's design is based on a samurai. In the final season, his appearance is updated and is loosely based on a ninja, though.
* SpeedEchoes: His Triangulate ability allows him to create these. What's more, they're not just afterimages; they're actual copies.
* SuperSpeed: "Super Sprint!"
* ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks: He's got a better track record throwing his sword than Odd does shooting his arrows.
* WeaponOfChoice: A katana, which is replaced by twin blades during the last season.
* WreckedWeapon: His sword can be destroyed by the monsters' lasers if it is hit while Ulrich is not holding it. This is demonstrated in "The Pretender", forcing Ulrich to make an ImprovisedWeapon out of a broken rock to fight for most of the episode.
!!!Season 4 Avatar
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[[caption-width-right:350:Season 4 Avatar. [[labelnote:Click here to see his teleported appearance]] https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ulrich_329.png[[/labelnote]]]]

* AwesomeButImpractical: His Triplicate ability is useless against William, who can identify the real Ulrich among the clones through an unknown ability. In fact, Ulrich only used this superpower once in the entirety of the fourth season, while the Super Sprint became his signature Lyoko power.
* DualWielding: His new avatar grants him a second katana.
* GoodColorsEvilColors: His new swords have a blue aura when Ulrich wields them, but glow red if touched by William or XANA-Aelita.
* HardLight: When "translated" on Earth.
* SensualSpandex: An update from his much more loose-fitting older outfit.
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[[folder:Odd Della Robbia]]
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[[caption-width-right:200:[[SmallNameBigEgo Small boy, big personality.]]]]
[[caption-width-right:200:Seasons 1-3 Earth appearances. [[labelnote:Click here to see his Season 4 appearance]] https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/odd_300.png[[/labelnote]]]]

'''Odd Della Robbia'''

->''"That's just the Magical Odd Effect. You see me once and you feel as though you've known me all your life!"''

->Voiced by: Raphaëlle Lubansu (French), Matthew Géczy (English), Christophe Callabero (English, two episodes of Season 1), Gabriel Ortiz (Latin American Spanish), Jesús Pinillos (European Spanish), Hiroki Shimowada (Japanese)

The only extravert of the Team, and an incorrigible smart-aleck. He dresses in flashy, clashing colors, mostly purple and yellow. Though physically petite compared to the rest of the team, he is an adrenaline junkie, just the type to go for extreme sports. Also a passable student; his strengths are in the languages and artistic classes. He's [[KidAnova a big flirt]] who's dated about every girl in his grade (most of them for only a day or two) as well as a few others. He has smuggled his small dog, "Kiwi", into the dormitories. In Lyoko, his avatar is a Cat Boy version of himself, including claws and a tail. He has heightened agility and stamina in this form, and can shoot "Laser Arrows" from his forearms -- which, for a time, tended to run out of ammo at the worst possible moments. This shortage was resolved in Season 2 at the expense of another of Odd's powers, the "Future Flash" which offered spontaneous visions of [[YouCantFightFate the mostly immutable immediate future]]. This left Odd with the short end of the stick powers-wise, a fact lampshaded in Season 3's "Triple Trouble" when Jérémie tries to give Odd a teleportation ability, [[MesACrowd but ended up making two clones]] for him instead, and the clones wind up not disappearing when no longer needed. At least he still has a marginally useful [[DeflectorShields energy shield]], granted as part of the Season 2 power realignment.
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* AnimeHair: A rare justified example: he is explicitly mentioned to use gel to keep his hair that way (though that doesn't explain the bi-color part). Notably, he originally had a regular hairstyle in the prequel, and changed it according to what he looks like on Lyoko ([[ResetButton twice]]).
* BareYourMidriff: Unintentionally, due to a goof in "A Great Day", we briefly see this trope played straight.
* BigEater:
-->''[seeing Odd wolfing down food for the first time]''\\
'''Ulrich:''' You always eat like this?\\
'''Odd:''' No, it's just I'm not very hungry today.
* BloodKnight: Odd loves fighting on Lyoko as he's the first one to dive headfirst into combat with added laughter and commenting how much fun it is. Even in real life with Xana's numerous schemes he still enjoys the thrill of battle.
* BoisterousBruiser: In training. He's too young to drink, but he gets the eating, womanizing, battle-happy and fun-loving elements down pat.
* BookDumb: He is absolutely terrible at school, and apparently manages to keep decent grades only by cheating and copying Jérémie's notes. However, he is also shown to be quite creative on the artistic side of things, and while [[LeeroyJenkins he has absolutely zero sense of strategy]], he is quite capable of improvising, so he ''has'' some smarts.
* BrilliantButLazy: Odd, while generally known for having bad grades, can be surprisingly bright when he wants to. A notable example is in "A Great Day" where he has no trouble answering Mrs. Hertz's questions after one Return to the Past, and only gets better with the following.
* BringIt: He's fond of the "bring it" Bruce Lee gesture.
* ButtMonkey: Gets the least respect in his group, does badly in school, has absolutely ''no'' luck with [[KidAnova his love life]], gets picked on by his sisters, and as he lampshades, is "the only one who looks like a nitwit on Lyoko".
* ByThePowerOfGreyskull: Transfer: Odd! Scanner: Odd! Virtualization!
* CampStraight: He does look a bit effeminate (to the point of leading to ViewerGenderConfusion from some fans), dresses in pink and purple, and speaks in a high-pitched voice. Graphic errors such as [[http://img.codelyoko.fr/galeries/19_frontiere/Frontiere_365.jpg the occasional lack of undershirt]], or his voice in the French dub, don't help either. Ironically, however, he is clearly shown to not only be straight, but [[KidAnova also very interested in girls]]. Of course, that doesn't stop the {{Yaoi Fangirl}}s from imagining things...
* CasualDangerDialog: Nothing changes Odd's goofy demeanor, not even being faced with certain death.
* CatchPhrase: "''T'y crois pas!''" ("Can't believe it!")
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Long before the flanderizing in Season Four took place, there was Odd in [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness Season One]]. While always a jokester and shown to be poor at school, he still possessed some basic street smarts plus his future flash ability implied that there was [[HiddenDepths more depth]] to him besides just being "the funny one". By Season Two he was dumbed down considerably with the future flash gone and only a throwaway explanation in Season Three elaborates that it was accidentally deleted and never restored.
* CrazyEnoughToWork: Almost everything he does is this. See LeeroyJenkins.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: For all his silly jokes, ButtMonkey status and tendencies to go crazy in fight, Odd definitely ''is'' a skilled fighter. At several points, he has been able to deal with large amount of monsters entirely on his own, escape or distract Xanafied people on Earth and save Aelita. Not to mention [[spoiler:he is the one who finally takes down William, allowing the Lyoko Warriors to get him back]].
* 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 Yolanda.
* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: In the prequel.
* 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.
* FashionableAsymmetry: One leg of his pants is a darker shade of purple than the other.
* {{Flanderization}}: Coupled with StaticCharacter and TookALevelInJerkass, Odd was always a rather playful character, but in Season 4, his antics start becoming more and more troublesome, which are coupled with a NeverMyFault attitude in regards to him screwing up, which again, plays into StaticCharacter below.
* GreenAroundTheGills: He feels nauseous while riding the Transport Orb to sector five. Yumi experiences the same symptoms in the episode where the two swap bodies.
* InsistentTerminology: "I'm not scrawny, I'm svelte."
* IsItSomethingYouEat: Being a BigEater with a very limited vocabulary, this comes up a lot.
* {{Keet}}: Short, skinny, hyperactive, CampStraight, he fits this trope like a glove.
* KidAnova: He has had relationship with almost every girl in his school, Yumi, Aelita and Sissi excepted (and even then, he once replaced Ulrich as Yumi's partner at dance, flirted with Aelita upon first meeting her, and Sissi [[ShipTease gets moments with him several times too]]).
* LeeroyJenkins: He rarely has any strategy before charging; most of his tactics consist either in doing something completely crazy or going ahead shooting at the enemy. Even his own teammates have some doubt about his sanity.
-->'''Aelita:''' You call ''this'' being careful? I call it being COMPLETELY NUTS!\\
'''Odd:''' Isn't that the same thing?
* MeaningfulName: Aside from the obviousness, "Odd" may also come from "Odr", meaning "tip of the arrow".
* MrFanservice: He has his share of fangirls. This is at least partly due to his [[{{Catboy}} Lyoko form]]... and the SensualSpandex.
* MultiColoredHair: He has blond hair with a purple spot in the middle of it. This carries over in his Lyoko form.
* MultiethnicName: Even more than Ulrich; he sports a North European-sounding first name and an Italian surname.
* NeverMyFault:
** In one episode, he refuses to take the blame for getting himself and Aelita in detention (For context, Odd wanted Aelita to cover for him in gym class... since he spent the whole night playing a video game).
** In another, Kiwi gets out of control, much to everyone else's annoyance, and Odd continues to try to make excuses for the dog instead of disciplining him.
** In yet another, he gives an embarrassing photo of Yumi to the school newspaper as a joke, and then convinces Ulrich to take the blame, which leads her to be furious with the latter for most of the episode. Later attempts to explain "Ulrich's" decision to give the photo away leaves him to accuse Ulrich of trying to get Yumi's attention because he likes her. Remember: Ulrich is taking the blame to protect Odd's reputation for reasons of ''friendship''. Granted, the last one actually ends up working in Ulrich's favor with Yumi when it leaves her touched that he would seemingly do that to get her attention. But, it was still a fairly selfish thing to do.
* NewTransferStudent: In "XANA Awakens".
* TheNicknamer: He's the one that names all the monsters (even complete with XtremeKoolLetterz). As if that wasn't enough, two episodes reveal that he also calls some monsters by ordinary human names such as "Lucy-Ann". He's also responsible for Jérémie being called "Einstein" and Aelita "Princess" most of the time. He sometimes calls Ulrich and Yumi "Lovebirds."
* OutnumberedSibling: Odd reveals in the episode "Distant Memory" that he has five older sisters who bully him.
* ScreamsLikeALittleGirl: It's even worse in the original French version, where he actually ''sounds'' like a kindergarten girl even without screaming.
* ShipperOnDeck: He is very supportive of Ulrich's relationship with Yumi. To a lesser extent, he's this way with Jérémie and Aelita's relationship as well.
* ShipTease: Often with, [[SlapSlapKiss ironically enough, Sissi]].
* SmallNameBigEgo: As he stated in the aptly-named episode "Bragging Rights".
-->'''Odd:''' Yes, I'm a braggart, and I love it that way!
* StaticCharacter: The most noteworthy example on the show; while almost every other character, even [[BigBad XANA]] had some form of CharacterDevelopment one way or the other throughout the series, Odd is still pretty much the same kid he was in the prequel, barring [[TookALevelInJerkass his new level]] in {{Jerkass}} in season 4.
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodSandwich: He ''hates'' this trope; he spends the entirety of the episode "Tidal Wave" complaining about not eating.
* TookALevelInJerkass: In Season 4, coupled with {{Flanderization}}. Highlights include him being extremely cocky in "Bragging Rights" and selling an EmbarrassingOldPhoto of Yumi to the Kadic News, followed up by trying to get out of facing Yumi's wrath by having Ulrich take the fall in "Cold Sweat". He also goes as far as to say that William is the Lyoko Warriors' enemy, even though he didn't fought them willingly. [[spoiler: Dies down in the end of "Fight to the Finish" however, where he regrets rejecting William and is shown shedding a tear over Franz Hopper's HeroicSacrifice.]]
* XanatosSpeedChess: While his plans are generally anything but well-thought, he truly shines in improvisation, adapting to new elements as needed. A notable example is when facing the Tarantulas. While the very first one easily defeats all the heroes by itself, Odd is later capable of taking on four of them by himself.
!!!Lyoko Avatar
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* AliceAllusion: Unintended, but it's undeniable that he's got the whole "Cheshire Cat" thing going.
* ArchEnemy: The Megatanks. Lampshaded in the first episode.
* AwesomeButImpractical: His Laser Arrow is the team's primary ranged attack, but unlike his companions he has a limited ammo supply and is pretty much helpless when he's out of ammo. Jérémie can refill him, but it takes time.
* BadassNormal: After season 1, he lost his Future Flash and became the only member of the team without a special ability. This is actually a plot point in a season 3 episode, where he comes to the realization that the lack of superpowers doesn't make him any less effective than his teammates.
* BoringButPractical: Highly [[{{Irony}} ironic]] considering Odd's usual personality, but amongst the Lyoko Warriors, his abilites and weapon-set are not very flashy and very straightforward, much to his annoyance in one episode...but his Laser Arrows are the most reliable long-range weapon the Lyoko Warriors have, being faster than Aelita's Energy Fields and needing less inherent skill than Yumi's Tessen Fans. His basic agility boosts from his form make him fairly acrobatic, and having the ability to briefly block laser fire from XANA's monsters is nothing to sneeze at. It's his LeeroyJenkins tendencies that ultimately dampen his effectiveness.
* BroughtDownToBadass: Even after Jérémie erased his Future Flash power, he is still very competent. Of course, [[WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway the fact his power wasn't of much use to begin with does help]].
* [[CatGirl Cat Boy]]: His Lyoko avatar gives him a set of cat ears and a tail. He also [[RunningOnAllFours runs on all fours]] quite frequently.
* ChestInsignia: Of Kiwi peeing. Even he doesn't get why Lyoko did that.
* {{Deflector Shield|s}}: Since Season 2 (and in the prequel as a minor continuity goof).
* DiscardAndDraw: Lost his Future Flash power in Season 2 in favor of being able to briefly generate a shield to protect himself from attacks.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: In the first episode, he uses the move Impact to attack a monster at point-blank without expending ammunition from his Laser Arrow. This move ends up getting given to Ulrich later.
* FacialMarkings: Like Aelita, he has markings above his eyes.
* FingerGun: An interesting variation, more akin to a Forearm Shotgun. Although he does not require it to fire, he usually holds his firing arm as if he was pointing a shotgun, and often does a pumping action motion that goes accompanied by a surpising shotgun sound effect.
* FourFingeredHands: He loses a finger when he goes into Lyoko, likely because he becomes a [[CatGirl Cat Boy]]
* FragileSpeedster: In Season 1. While he has as many HitPoints as anyone else, before Jérémie programs in his shield, he has no defenses except dodging.
* HomingProjectile: [[spoiler:XANA]] grants him this upgrade, but it's lost in the same episode.
* HoverBoard: His Overboard in Season 2.
* InstantCosplaySurprise: Again, in the prequel, he's the most baffled concerning his Lyoko avatar:
-->'''Odd:''' I don't dream about giant purple cats!
* LongRangeFighter: Played with. His signature Laser Arrows definitely enforce this, but his claws can also damage monsters and are often used to subdue XANA's Mantas. He will also not hesitate to straight up punch his opponents if he runs out of ammo (as shown in the episode "Franz Hopper") or if they get too close for comfort ("Bragging Rights").
* LeParkour: The undisputed master of it, even beating out Ulrich.
* RunningOnAllFours: He gains the ability to run faster on all fours in Lyoko.
* {{Seers}}: Future Flash gives him brief glimpses into the future. Unfortunately for Odd, when the power activates, he is often stunned and unable to move, and to make matters worse, the futures he sees are not mutable. He loses the ability in Season 2 in favor of generating a shield from his arms.
* SuperReflexes: Cat-like reflexes, essentially. He may not be very tough, but he's damn near impossible to hit.
* TakingTheBullet: This is usually how he gets dematerialized, mostly because he's so agile that it's hard to hit him unless he wants to be hit.
* UnskilledButStrong: His default skillset is smaller than the rest of Lyoko Warriors on paper (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). Likewise, as mentioned in BoringButPractical, said skillset is the most straightforward in combat. It isn't flashy, but very deadly in the right hands...except Odd has a lax and reckless attitude that prevents him from really taking full advantage of what he already has.
* WallCrawl: Using his claws like a cat climbing a tree.
* WeaponOfChoice: Laser Arrows, which are actually darts fired from his forearm.
* 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, not to mention that the futures he sees cannot be changed, defeating the purpose of the power to begin with. 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.
* WolverineClaws: The claws of his cat paws can apparently harm XANA monsters to a very minor degree, as he sometimes uses them to spur Mantas while riding them and it causes them visible pain. It's not enough to destroy them however.
!!!Season 4 Avatar
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* HardLight: When "translated" on Earth.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: In "Guided Missile", William reflects Odd's Laser Arrow with his bracelet, devirtualizing him.
* MadeOfIron: Zigzagged. Generally, he's not that resistant and can easily be beaten when he's unable to defend himself. His one defensive technique, the shield is small, fragile and doesn't even protect his legs. However, he's so far the only Lyoko Warrior who ''survived a direct hit from [[OneHitKill William's Sword]]''. ''Twice''.
* SensualSpandex: Quite a bit tighter than his previous avatar's outfit.
* SpamAttack: Thanks to an upgraded ammo count, Odd is much more liberal with his arrows here than in previous seasons. His main strategy against William involves unleashing a FlechetteStorm that not even his {{BFS}} can block.
* UnusualEars: Cat ears (to complete the feline appearance).
* WorfHadTheFlu: Odd's mix of nimble movements and fast projectiles often made him the perfect counter to William's slow and short-ranged attacks. This often forced the writers to come up with contrivances to prevent the two from facing each other in a straight fight. In fact, without anything interrupting them, they fought only three times ("Bragging Rights", "Kadic Bombshell" and "Guided Missile"), which is extremely rare compared to the enormous number of fights William had with the others.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Yumi Ishiyama]]
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[[caption-width-right:200:[[TheLancer It's like another hero.]]]]
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'''Yumi Ishiyama'''

->''"Black is my color. Black, like your eye will be if you don't back off!"''

->Voiced by: Géraldine Frippiat (French), Mirabelle Kirkland (English), Creator/LilianaBarba (Latin American Spanish), Adelaida López (European Spanish), Sayaka Kinoshita (Japanese)

The tallest and oldest of the group[[spoiler:, alongside William]]. A good student, she is a Japanese national at the boarding school, living off-campus with her family. She is one grade above the rest of the Team, which proves sometimes problematic. While she may have feelings for Ulrich, Yumi is exasperated by his inability to articulate his crush. Her virtual form is a geisha with a collapsible razor-edged fan, with which she can deflect energy bolts. The fan can be thrown as a ranged weapon, [[PrecisionGuidedBoomerang returning to her hand after an attack]]. Yumi also exhibits [[MindOverMatter telekinetic power]] over several objects of the Lyoko landscape -- most often boulders in the Mountain or Desert sectors. A running joke among fans is XANA's tendency to [[DesignatedVictim single her out for attack]].
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* ActionGirl: Is proficient in martial arts in real life and already been training it prior to Lyoko (to the point where her parents thought her hobby was "weird"), and a very capable fighter both on and off Lyoko.
* AnchoredShip: In Season 3, she tells Ulrich that she's not going to be anything more than JustFriends with him due to their constant love drama. It still becomes fairly clear that she still likes him, though, and doesn't truly believe her own words.
* BareYourMidriff: All of her everyday clothes include this feature; it seems to be very much in fashion at Kadic.
* BattleCouple: With Ulrich. Even though they aren't actually dating, it is commented, primarily in season 4, that she and Ulrich fight very well together. During a mission, when Jérémie asks who's to be sent in, Aelita suggests them specifically because of how well they fight side-by-side.
* BrainyBrunette: She is not as smart as Jérémie or Aelita, but she is still quite smart. Whenever Jérémie and Aelita are absent, she usually is the one in charge of using the Supercomputer.
* ByThePowerOfGreyskull: Transfer: Yumi! Scanner: Yumi! Virtualization!
* CatchPhrase: In the original French...
** "''Banane !''" ("Dork!")
** "''Sympa, l'accueil. Très sympa.''" ("[[SarcasmMode Nice welcome. Very nice.]]")
* CelibateHero: Well, Heroine: Takes this position in Season 3, after deciding that she doesn't want to complicate her working relationship with Ulrich by allowing romance into the equation, and instead resolves to be JustFriends with him. [[UnresolvedSexualTension It doesn't actually]] [[WillTheyOrWontThey change their situation]] any.
* CoolBigSis: She's closer in age to the rest of the group than most examples, but she's mature enough to fit the mold pretty well and often acts as the big sister to everyone.
* DeadpanSnarker: Not as much as Ulrich, but when provoked...
* DesignatedVictim: Unlike the other Lyoko Warriors, Yumi lives with her own family off-campus, making her isolated from them, and as such an easy target for XANA's attacks. One could argue her role as the group's CoolBigSis and the fact she's the most reluctant to keep fighting might help as well, considering [[ManipulativeBastard XANA's habits to play with people's minds]]. She's also, with Ulrich, William's most frequent victim (he devirtualized them 7 times each), which doesn't help.
* DudeMagnet: For a girl supposedly not as remarkable as Sissi, it's amazing how many guys want her. Apart from Ulrich, William, Théo Gauthier, Johnny...
* DyingCurse: In "Final Round", she is the last Lyoko warrior to be defeated by a brainwashed William. As her virtual body disintegrates, she tells him how she knew bringing him into the group was a mistake.
* EveryoneKnowsMorse: She and [[AnnoyingYoungerSibling Hiroki]] learned it to talk in secret at the table.
* FuroScene: Chances are pretty good that you'll catch Yumi in the bathtub in several given episodes (Though, since most of these are in Season 1, this will be by StockFootage).
* FriendlessBackground: In "XANA Awakens," she mentions how she is friendless until Ulrich brings her into the group.
* GreenEyedEpiphany: She does a pretty decent job of pretending she's not into Ulrich, until someone (usually Sissi) starts flirting with him.
* HeIsNotMyBoyfriend:
** In regards to Ulrich. Yumi has a fairly hilarious scene where she accidentally calls Ulrich her boyfriend in front of [[ShipperOnDeck Odd]] and then repeats that Ulrich is her ''friend'' as if trying to convince herself of this.
** She also says this about William, but in this case, it is genuine.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Her relationship with Aelita.
* IJustWantToBeNormal: Out of all the team, she is the one to be the least comfortable with the struggle against XANA, as it forces her to routinely lie to her family (something she hates to do), [[DesignatedVictim frequently exposes her to XANA's attacks]] and generally makes her life more complicated. By the end of the series, she is, excluding William, the only one eager to shut down the Supercomputer and move on to a Lyoko-free life. This is averted in her diary: back in the end of Season 1, she clearly states that she will miss Lyoko... but given that she didn't know how ''long'' the conflict with XANA would last...
* JustFriends: With Ulrich. [[spoiler:Though the finale hints that the two will start dating]].
* LaserGuidedKarma: Unfortunately for her, when she makes questionable choices, it often ends up biting her in the ass. Not only that but it often happens when William is around.
** Had she accepted William in episode 53 "The Secret" instead of "Final Round", they wouldn't have to send him in an emergency mission with Aelita in ''Sector 5'' (by far the most dangerous of all sectors to remind you) without any experience. As a result, William got Xanafied, and Yumi became his favorite victim: she was the Lyoko Warrior he devirtualized the most (alongside Ulrich).
** In episode 68 "Opening Act", Yumi, before fighting XANA-William, mocks him, saying that he is still a rookie. Said "rookie" then proceeds to devirtualize her.
** In "Lost at Sea", Yumi disowns Hiroki for having stolen her diary, essentially leaving her all alone. When the pages of the journal are later torn, she says to Hiroki she'll never forgive him. Later, she ends up alone in the Digital Sea. Needless to say she doesn't like it and regrets not having made amends with Hiroki before she possibly kicks the bucket.
** When William wanted to help them in the second-to-final episode Yumi (Ulrich and Odd to a lesser extent) violently rejects him and refuses to let him on Lyoko, arguing XANA might seize the opportunity to control him again. [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Ironically, this is exactly what happens... except XANA is able to control him through a tower because he is still on Earth.]] When Yumi returns to Earth, the once-again Xanafied William ''[[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown utterly trashes her]]''.
* MistakenNationality: Regularly mistaken for Chinese, much to her irritation.
-->'''Yumi:''' I. ''Am. JAPANESE!''
* MsFanservice: Shares this role with Sissi. Yumi's had numerous risqué scenes including of dancing in a pool, bathing and kissing some boys.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: When William requested to join the team for the last battle, Yumi violently rejected him and refuses to let him on Lyoko, arguing XANA might seize the opportunity to control him again. Ironically, this is exactly what happens... except XANA is able to control him through a tower because he is still on Earth and hasn't been virtualized enough times. As if it is some sort of revenge, William then proceeds to gives a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown to Yumi, which in real life would have left her with broken bones, ''at least''.
* OneHeadTaller: Not exactly one head, but she's notably taller than Ulrich. She takes from her mother, obviously, who is also taller than her father.
* OneOfTheBoys: She's the only girl in her group of friends (except Aelita, who's a computer program for most of the show). She also avoids traditionally "girly" past times, preferring soccer, track and field, and martial arts.
* OnlyFriend: {{Downplayed}}. Her only friend outside of [[LimitedSocialCircle the team]] is William [[spoiler:(and even then, he later joined the team)]]. It's been pointed out that they were close.
* RavenHairIvorySkin: The palest of her friends, with very black hair to match.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech:
** To William in "The Secret".
--->'''Yumi:''' Because I find your second-rate Casanova act sickening! In the beginning, it was pretty nice. But now I'm ''really'' fed up! So why don't you buzz off and ''leave me alone''?
** Not even Ulrich (in "Marabounta") is spared:
--->'''Yumi:''' Oh yeah, right. What an incredible coincidence! Anyway, do you mind shelving your ego for a minute?
* {{Shorttank}}: She does have some feminity to her, but she is still significantly more tomboyish than either Aelita or Sissi.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Tomboy to Aelita's and Sissi's Girly Girls.
* 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.
* TwiceShy: Leading to a lot of UnresolvedSexualTension with Ulrich.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Comments that the Kankrelats are her most hated enemies, calling them disgusting. Apparently, bugs, in general, creep Yumi out as she is visibly horrified by XANA's cybernetic spiders in "Bragging Rights".
* WillTheyOrWontThey: She has this with Ulrich for most of the series. They decide to be just friends late into season 1, but William's introduction unearths their old dynamic. In "Echoes", [[spoiler:it's hinted that they might start dating]], but it's still very ambiguous.
!!!Lyoko Avatar
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* BoomerangComeback: A favored trick of hers to take out monsters with her throwing fans is to catch them on the return after an apparent miss. Telekinesis certainly helps.
* CombatHandFan: Her WeaponOfChoice. One in season 1, [[DualWielding two from season 2 onward]].
* DyingMomentOfAwesome: Downplayed. She doesn't actually kick off, but just before being devirtualized in "The Secret", she throws a fan at XANA-Aelita, devirtualizing her just after being devirtualized herself.
* EverythingsBetterWithSpinning: [[invoked]][[FanNickname Geisha Tornado]], a combination of her PsychicPowers and fans that involves spinning in place or while jumping to deflect the monsters' lasers.
* {{Geisha}}: Her outfit form seems to be at least partially based on one, altered to fit that of an ActionGirl.
* GiantWaistRibbon: Part of the geisha-looking outfit; she uses the big knot to store her CombatHandFan.
* JackOfAllStats: Not quite as agile as Odd, effective in close combat as Ulrich, adept at manipulating the environment as Aelita, or having William's sheer power -- but able to perform well in all four areas.
* LongRangeFighter: Unlike the real-life art of tessenjutsu, her fans are only functionally harming if they are flying, which means she is obliged to use them as throwing weapons. However, this is averted twice during season 4: In "Wreck Room", she attempts to slash William with her closed fan, but misses due to the weapon's short range. Then in "Music to Soothe the Savage Beast", Yumi successfully strikes a Manta with the two fans in her hand, but this only inflicts some minor damage to it.
* MindOverMatter: Her main power is [[PsychicPowers Telekinesis]], moving the landscape of Lyoko or her friends with her mind. She once sends a large rock tumbling toward a herd of Kankrelats, crushing a dozen of them in the process. In another episode, she saved Odd from falling into the Digital Sea by telekinetically pulling him up.
* OneHitKill: Zigzagged. Her fans sometimes instantly destroy monsters without even touching their weak points, while in other episodes they merely dismember the enemies. William generally tanks it, however.
* OurGhostsAreDifferent: By design choice or goof, her kimono is tied with the right lapel over the left. In real life, only ''burial kimonos'' are tied that way; a living wearer sporting it is seen in Japan as a sign of incredibly bad luck or a visual cue that he or she is actually a ghost.
* LeParkour: To great effect when she combines her psychic powers with her acrobatics.
* PlayerGuidedMissile: Sometimes shown using her telekinesis to guide her fans.
* PrecisionGuidedBoomerang: Her tessen fans can be thrown and always return to her.
* PstandardPsychicPstance: She sometimes makes this gesture when using her Telekinesis. More so in Season 4.
* SheFu: She takes a far more graceful and gymnastic approach to fighting enemies than Ulrich, Odd, Aelita and William even although she is not as fast as Odd, as agile as the latter or powerful as Aelita and William.
* ThreePointLanding: She often lands in this pose following some of her acrobatics, including sometimes when just virtualized.
!!!Season 4 Avatar

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* FashionableAsymmetry: A shorter sleeve on one side, a buckler-like bracer, one stocking different from the other, and sakura petals on her thigh.
%%* FingerlessGloves
* GratuitousNinja: Her upgraded costume makes her look more like a ninja than the previous geisha.
* {{Hammerspace}}: Instead of keeping her fans inside her costume, she now has the ability to make them appear and disappear at will. This doesn't stop William from crushing her fans in "Lab Rat", however.
* HardLight: When "translated" on Earth.
* SensualSpandex: Like all S4 avatars, this one outfit nicely shows her virtual curves.
* WreckedWeapon: William crushes her two fans in "Lab Rat". This renders her defenseless, as Jérémie has little experience programming them.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Jérémie Belpois]]
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[[caption-width-right:200:[[TheSmartGuy Too easy.]]]]
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'''Jérémie''' (Jeremy) '''Belpois'''

->''"OK, XANA. What do you have in store for us this time?"''

->Voiced by: Raphaëlle Lubansu (French), Corey Padnos (English, 2001), Sharon Mann (English, 2004-2007), Claudio Velásquez (Latin American Spanish, Seasons 1-2), Alan Prieto (Latin American Spanish, Seasons 3-4), Juan Antonio Soler (European Spanish), Yoshiko Kamei (Japanese)

Jérémie is the computer genius whom operates the Supercomputer and allows the interface. He's also the leader of the Team, and shows good tactical skills even under pressure. As the most level-headed, he keeps the infighting within the group to a minimum. He can even get a bit authoritarian, despite being the youngest. Jérémie is one year younger than Ulrich and Odd, having skipped a grade. He has more than a crush on Aelita, and it's largely this motivation that keeps the Team going in time after time to shut XANA down. Though he has been virtualized twice, this has [[TheUnreveal never been done on camera]] -- something of a LampshadeHanging on the second occasion.
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* AdaptationalJerkass: Heavily {{Downplayed}}, but a small case in the ''Fall of X.A.N.A.'' video game. While in "Fight to the Finish" he doesn't particularly mind William, planned to send him as back-up on Lyoko and expressed regret not to have send him sooner, in ''Fall of X.A.N.A.'' he is firmly against that idea and angrily tells William so when he enters the scanner room.
* AsYouKnow: Usually the one to deliver exposition, including what his teammates should already know.
* BadassBookworm: He is pretty much the archetypal geek, so this is a given. Though this is mostly visible in his relationship with Aelita; he is fairly comfortable with his little group of friends, and [[NoSocialSkills doesn't seem to care about what people think of him outside of them]].
* BadassNormal: He doesn't fight and was only virtualized twice as far as we know. However, he's by far the most important member of the group, thanks to his programs. Heck, in "Fight to the Finish", most of the credit in XANA's defeat is due to Jérémie and Franz Hopper. There's a reason XANA considers him his mortal enemy.
* BetaCouple: Her relationship with Jérémie is '''much''' smoother compared to the [[WillTheyOrWontThey tumultuous]] one of Ulrich and Yumi. Hell, they even ''kiss'' from time to time, something Yumi and Ulrich never get to do on-screen (though they do have an AlmostKiss on Lyoko at one point).
* BlindWithoutThem: Jérémie seems (as seen in "A Great Day" when he has a bit of trouble trying to get his glasses) to have major issues seeing without his glasses.
* ByThePowerOfGreyskull: Scanner: Jérémie! Virtualization!
* CharacterDevelopment: Was more demure and unsure of himself in earlier episodes. By Season 4, he's settled comfortably in his role as MissionControl and is more on-point in his plans to fight XANA.
* CrazyJealousGuy: Displays this in "Saint Valentine's Day", when he gets angry and possessive at the thought of another boy giving Aelita a Valentine's Day present. Odd even calls him out on acting like Aelita's his property.
* CyberneticsWillEatYourSoul: During Episode 38, he deliberately repeated Returns to the Past so he could utilize a special neuronal headset to increase his intelligence. However, this ended up hurting him mentally and physically, as he became increasingly irritable and was prone to fainting spells while under the device's influence. To add insult to injury, he actually ''wasn't'' getting smarter at all, and at the end of the episode, he destroys the headset.
* TheDulcineaEffect: As soon as he meets Aelita and sympathizes with her, he becomes obsessed with finding a way to defeat XANA without having to sacrifice her, despite shutting down the Supercomputer with her still inside being the easier way out. Frequently lampshaded by the other Lyoko Warriors.
* EveryoneKnowsMorse: He uses Morse Code to communicate with the others in ''Skidbladnir'' (actually only with Yumi, who claims to know it to secretly communicate with her brother). Given how CrazyPrepared he is most of the time, he probably learned to use in case of an emergency.
* 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.
* ForgetsToEat: Frequently; he often passes off his portion of meals to [[BigEater Odd]] so he can focus on finishing this program or that one.
* 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.]]
* GadgeteerGenius: Practically every upgrade, program or device used by the Lyoko Warriors is created by him. He also is shown to build a lot of robots as his hobby, and once manages to make a nearly functional EMP bomb.
* GoodCounterpart: Develops into a full-fledged anti-XANA as he gains more experience with the Supercomputer. XANA takes note, since Jérémie seems to be his most hated foe.
* HandBehindHead: His standard pose when he's not hunched over the Supercomputer's keyboard.
* HiddenDepths: While he's not as athletic or skilled at fighting as the other Lyoko Warriors, and is most often seen at a computer, he seems to be reasonably athletic himself -- being able to keep up with his friends on trips to/from the factory, as well as being able to climb up the ropes at the factory. Additionally, he is shown to be an adept swimmer -- in "[[Recap/CodeLyokoS1E15 Laughing Fit]]", when he jumps into the sewer water to escape XANA's attack, in "[[Recap/CodeLyokoS2E20 Deja Vu]]" when he jumps into the swimming pool to rescue an unconscious Aelita, and in "[[Recap/CodeLyokoS3E12 Double Trouble]]" when he survives an attempt by one of XANA's spectres to drown him.
* HotBlooded: Jérémie can be very stubborn and temperamental when he is stressed out. To where he'll even lash out towards his closest friends over something very petty and will often drive them away at times when he gets very riled up.
* {{Hypocrite}}:
** During the episode "Saint Valentine's Day", he gets very jealous over Odd (supposedly) giving Aelita a present for the holiday and acts like it's not allowed, even Odd remarks how Aelita isn't his property. But, later, he tells Ulrich and Yumi that they shouldn't be upset over the other receiving presents from Sissi/William. The two have to naturally lampshade how hypocritical he is being.
** He's angry at Ulrich for utilizing a Return to the Past to help Yumi's family (specifically, to get them the winning lotto ticket when her father loses his job and may move the family back to Japan) because it made XANA stronger for selfish reasons. Yet in Episode 38, Jérémie performs ''multiple'' Return to the Pasts to increase his intelligence, making XANA ''much'' stronger for even ''more'' selfish reasons.
* InSeriesNickname: "Einstein," "Frankenstein," "Frank-Einstein," "Brainiac" (only in the video game), and on one occasion "Ben Franklin".
* TheInsomniac: Frequently spends entire night working on programs to materialize Aelita or improve the Lyoko Warriors' equipment. In one episode, Aelita finds out he didn't even ''realize'' the night was over. In another, he actually falls asleep on the keyboard and it is noted by Odd from the key marks on his face. And in another, he worked so late that Aelita falls asleep next to him. Aelita often expresses concern over his late-night work habits.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He cares deeply about his friends and saving the world from XANA, but he can also be smug, snappish, and hypocritical. In an inversion of how this trope usually goes, the "jerk" parts [[TookALevelInJerkass becomes more noticeable]] in later seasons, as he grows more obsessive about fighting XANA and less tolerant of "wasting time" with his friends who simply want to live their lives.
* LaymansTerms: Often has to repeat himself in simpler terms, because he forgets that everyone else isn't a super-genius.
* TheLeader: Type 1: Mastermind. He directs everyone from the Supercomputer.
* LoveAtFirstSight: Towards Aelita. Ulrich even comments that he thinks the reason he desired to materialize her in "XANA Awakens" was because of this.
* MadScientist: He has his moments, especially when he tries to use inventions he picked from Franz Hopper's journal. They tend to [[GoneHorriblyWrong backfire]].
* {{Megane}}: He wears oval-shaped glasses; aside from looking adorable, they make him look very professional.
* MissionControl: The resident computer programmer, he's far more useful out of Lyoko.
* MrExposition: As a computer specialist, he can explain things, in particular the mechanics of Lyoko and the Supercomputer.
* {{Nerd}}: A completely textbook example.
* NerdGlasses: Up to {{Meganekko}} levels.
* NonActionGuy: Usually, though to be fair, [[ScienceHero he is much more useful at the Supercomputer than on Lyoko]]. Subverted in "Ghost Channel" and in "Maiden Voyage", with a little dose of TheGreatestStoryNeverTold. He himself apparently dislikes going on Lyoko. Of course, he still occasionally ends up fighting against XANA's attack of the day.
* NoSocialSkills: Implied; it's confirmed [[FriendlessBackground he had basically no friends]] before forming the Lyoko Warriors (and he only got closer to them because they got involved with Lyoko), and even after he befriended them, his exchanges with them tend to be rather professional and focused on their missions. He gradually gets better as the show goes on, especially after Aelita gets materialized. [[spoiler:In the final episode, he is reluctant to shut down the Supercomputer because he fears that without Lyoko to keep them together, he will lose the only friends he ever had.]]
* PairTheSmartOnes: With Aelita.
* PlayfulHacker: At first. CharacterDevelopment gradually strips out the "playful" part.
* PostKissCatatonia: Aelita kisses him in "XANA's Kiss", and he goes completely statue-like in response.
* 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.
* ScienceHero: He dislikes going on Lyoko, and it's suggested he is a poor fighter anyway. He makes up for it by being the Supercomputer operator and creating most of the upgrades the Lyoko Warriors use.
* TheShortGuyWithGlasses: He's not particularly short, but Yumi, Ulrich, and Odd's hair are all taller than he is. Only Aelita is about his height.
* TheSmartGuy: He's the only one who knows how the Supercomputer works or how to get to Sector Five or materialize Aelita; the list goes on. Doubles as TheLeader.
* SmartPeoplePlayChess: He's seen playing with Ulrich in a couple of episodes.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Either Jérémie or the anglicized Jeremy. The former is the official spelling.
* TeamDad: A {{Bumbling|Dad}} Team Dad, but a Team Dad nonetheless. He's the only one who comes close to Yumi in terms of maturity, even if he does get a little carried away sometimes.
* TechnoBabble: His exposition bits can turn out like this sometimes.
* TeenGenius: He is the youngest member in the team, yet he can build robots and regularly operate on a nuclear supercomputer most real people would have trouble even making ''work''.
* TooCleverByHalf: Jérémie is so self-assured in his intellect, he thinks he can't ''possibly'' make mistakes. Unsurprisingly, this means he makes a great many. "Marabounta", "Temptation", and "Vertigo" are just a few examples of times he's thought he's created the perfect anti-XANA weapon/self power-up/anti-virus, and had it backfire horribly.
* TookALevelInJerkass: He already tends to be overworking and a bit snappish (especially when he thinks people are wasting time or not focused on the fight), but becomes even more so in Season 4. One example? In "Opening Act", he gets angry when he finds out Aelita wants to audition for the Subdigitals, telling her not to "waste her time" (and in the original French, even says it's stupid to her face), much to her crestfallen hurt.
* VoiceWithAnInternetConnection: Beyond MissionControl, Jérémie has this role, especially in Season 4 where the heroes are translated close to some supercomputer in various remote places on Earth. Good thing that EverythingIsOnline.
* WiseBeyondTheirYears: Despite his general lack of common sense, he does show a surprising amount of insight for such a young kid.
* {{Workaholic}}: He's completely focused on the fight against XANA, almost to the point of obsession. This causes strife between him and Aelita several times, such as in "Final Mix" and "Music to Soothe the Savage Beast"; she wants to live her new life to the fullest and is angry he won't spend time with her, while he wants to beat XANA and is angry that she won't let him work.
!!!Lyoko Avatar
* InformedFlaw: Although never seen onscreen, his friends' comments imply either Jérémie's avatar looks weird or he sucks at fighting in Lyoko, if not both.
* TakeOurWordForIt: When Ulrich is asked how Jérémie's first performance on Lyoko went: "He was ridiculous..."
* 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.]]
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[[folder:Aelita Stones]]
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[[caption-width-right:200:[[TheChick Follow me, Princess!]]]]
[[caption-width-right:200:Season 1 Earth appearance. [[labelnote:Click here to see her Seasons 2-3 appearance]] https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/aelita_100.png[[/labelnote]]]]
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'''Aelita''' (Maya) '''Stones''' (Lyoko / Hopper / Schaeffer)

->''"And just forget about my past, you think that's easy? You didn't spend ten years of your life as some sort of computer software!"''

->Voiced by: Sophie Landresse (French), Sharon Mann (English), Xóchitl Ugarte (Latin American Spanish), Olga Velasco (European Spanish), Creator/YuShimamura (Japanese)

Aelita started out as the DamselInDistress in the series. Unlike the other characters, she seemed to have originated on Lyoko, and survived there for years. The first season of the show deals with Jérémie and the Team trying to figure out a way to materialize her into the real world. She originally had two special abilities in Lyoko: she could enter the access towers that XANA uses to interface with the real world and shut them down, and she had the ability to morph the virtual landscape around her to create walls, rockslides, etc. Starting with Season 3, she was no longer in danger of being killed if losing all her [[HitPoints Life Points]]. She gained the ability to attack with [[EnergyBall spheres of energy]] as well, and [[PowerGivesYouWings obtained wings]] in Season 4 with her new outfit.
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* ActionGirl: Not initially, but she starts developing traits of it in season 2 and fully becomes one starting with season 3.
* AllLovingHero: While she gets angry like a normal person, Aelita has the kindest heart in the show. She's the only one of the Lyoko Warriors to forgive William (even though what happened wasn't his fault), and in "Marabounta", she shows pity for XANA's monsters, being unable to watch their deaths at the titular creature's hands. In the novels, [[spoiler:her forgiveness even extends to XANA himself]].
* ArtEvolution: Starting from season 2, her face is more proportioned to be more human-like, much like the rest of the cast, instead of being an interpretation of her 3D Model seen on Lyoko. She also wears different clothes than her Season 2 - 4 counterpart, but this is explicitly noted later on in season 3 as [[spoiler: she wears those clothes when she first went into the transporter.]]
* BenevolentAI: [[spoiler:Subverted; the others initially assume she is one, but it's later revealed she's human to begin with.]]
* BetaCouple: Her relationship with Jérémie is '''much''' smoother compared to the [[WillTheyOrWontThey tumultuous]] one of Ulrich and Yumi. Hell, they even ''kiss'' from time to time, something Yumi and Ulrich never get to do on-screen (though they do have an AlmostKiss on Lyoko at one point).
* BreakTheCutie: Poor girl just can't catch a break. Aside from the various times where Jérémie almost found a way to materialize her only to fail at the last minute, season 2 ends with TheReveal [[spoiler:she wasn't really an ArtificialHuman, but a real girl whose memory was accidentally erased]]. It gets so bad [[DrivenToSuicide she actually ends up trying to kill herself]].
* ByThePowerOfGreyskull: Transfer: Aelita! Scanner: Aelita! Virtualization!
* CantLiveWithoutYou: In season 2, XANA manages to ensure that, even if she is outside Lyoko, shutting down the Supercomputer will still result in her death, [[spoiler:by removing her latent human memories]].
* CharacterDevelopment:
** Lots, to the point that she eventually becomes the show's central protagonist. To be specific, in Season 1, she's stuck in Lyoko and only interacts with the other Lyoko Warriors, behaving as a program becoming more familiar with human emotions. Season 2 takes a darker turn with this, where she's a rather demure and fragile MartyrWithoutACause while adjusting to the real world. From Season 3 onwards, she's a more open and normal PluckyGirl.
** 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 the 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!
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: For Season One, putting her development aside, she is depicted as a borderline saint and barely emotes beyond being a helpful ally to Jérémie and the Warriors, sometimes functioning as Jérémie's WarriorTherapist during times of stress. Season Two and onward 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 Jérémie. Knowing that the [[WhatCouldHaveBeen original plan]] was [[spoiler:not to make her a real human]] makes this subtle shift more understandable.
* TheChick: She is the team's emotional center, quick to advocate trust and friendship.
* ChildPopstar: She discovers a talent for mixing music in "Final Mix", which she quickly cultivates. Her talent is so prodigious she wins a contest and catches the attention of the famous band the Subdigitals.
* 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.
* DesignatedVictim: ''Very'' justified, since she is the key to stop XANA from attacking Earth, and Hopper clearly had major plans concerning her and Lyoko. As such, it's only natural for XANA to focus on her, though his reasons change with the situation every season.
* DisneyDeath: Happen several times. [[spoiler:The specific episodes being "Just in Time", where she's deleted because of a bug in her annex program, "The Key", where the Scyphozoa drains all of her memories, rendering her an empty shell, and "Distant Memory", where she's thrown into the Digital Sea. She's saved by Jérémie the first time thanks to one of his earlier rematerialization experiments, and the others are by her father, Franz.]]
* DreamingOfThingsToCome: In season 4, [[spoiler:where she dreams of her father's HeroicSacrifice]].
* DrivenToSuicide: At the end of season 2, she tries to commit a HeroicSacrifice by shutting down the Supercomputer. Jérémie manages to save her just in time.
* FetalPositionRebirth: When she's finally de-virtualized, she emerges like this, but laying down. Ironically, unless Jérémie programmed the clothes she was wearing, the aversion of NakedOnArrival should have tipped the Lyoko warriors that [[spoiler:she was actually a human girl who had been virtualized a long time ago.]]
* GiveGeeksAChance: Jérémie being a geek clearly never was a problem to her. Granted, she's a tad geeky herself.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Her relationship with Yumi.
* HonoraryPrincess: She isn't really a princess, but Odd and the gang likes to call her one. (It ends being an astonishingly adequate nickname after [[spoiler:discovering her father is Franz Hopper, who is metaphorically Lyoko's king.]])
* HumanPopsicle: [[spoiler:Although not through cryonics -- she didn't age for 10 years while virtualized inside the Supercomputer.]]
* HiddenBuxom: Appears to be surprisingly well-endowed those few times she isn't dressed in heavy, baggy clothing.
* IHaveManyNames: She only has one real name (Aelita Schaeffer), but relied on two different aliases through the series. Her first alias was Aelita Lyoko (in the first season) and her current alias is Aelita Stones.
* InSeriesNickname: "Princess", used on and off Lyoko too by everyone as an endearing nickname. Likely a reference to the SaveThePrincess trope started in the 1980s, though [[spoiler:considering her father is the creator, a.k.a. "king" of Lyoko, it turns out to be pretty meaningful.]]
* KissMeImVirtual: Aelita is an A.I. stuck in the virtual world. This doesn't stop Jérémie from falling for her and doing everything he could to materialize her on Earth. Subverted when [[spoiler:it is discovered she's in fact human]].
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: [[spoiler:The reason she started out believing she was just an A.I. She gets her memory back at the end of season 2. Season 4 later reveals that she's still missing a few however, such as her actual birthday.]]
* LittleMissSnarker: Full-fledged in Seasons 3-4, but there was some present before then.
* TheLoad: Especially in Season 1. Grows out of it throughout Season 2, and ''definitely'' no longer by Season 3.
* LoveInterest: For Jérémie.
* LuminescentBlush: More often than the rest of the cast, which only adds to her being TheCutie. Aelita blushes when Yumi calls her pretty and when Yumi stumbles on a "personal joke" between her and Jérémie on what they call the delayed virtualisation program (big fat cheese head).
* MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter: [[spoiler:She's actually Franz Hopper's daughter, and considering his work on Project Carthage and Lyoko, he definitely qualifies for the, "mad scientist" part of the trope.]]
* MagicalGirlfriend: Downplayed in regards to Jérémie, due to her connection to the virtual world. Of course, outside of Lyoko, where there are no powers, this aspect is moot.
* MagicSkirt: Justified, at least in the virtual world where skirts aren't necessarily made of fabric. Played straight in the real world with her first outfit, but she's never really in any compromising positions where this comes into play.
* MartyrWithoutACause: Aelita was often a bit too eager to sacrifice herself in Seasons 1 and 2. Sadly {{justified|Trope}} in that it would end XANA's menace once for all. XANA [[ManipulativeBastard even tries to take advantage of this]] in "Missing Link": he uses the Scyphozoa to steal Yumi's DNA sequence code [[BatmanGambit because he knows that Aelita will transfer hers over to Yumi]] (stating that "Yumi's place is on Earth"). This leaves Aelita's memory exposed for him to take at will.
* MeaningfulName: Her name is probably a reference to the titular character of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aelita_(novel) novel]] by Aleksey Tolstoy, who was also a prominent figure of another world and had a relationship with a lonely scientist.
* MissingMom: [[spoiler:Her mother is seen in flashback and has been named by WordOfGod as Anthea, but was kidnapped for unknown reasons by the [=MiB=]. It has still yet to be revealed what has become of her.]]
* NewTransferStudent: How she starts in Season 2 when being enrolled into Kadic Acadeny.
* NoSocialSkills: At first in Season 2, she has little to no idea how the real world works. Even after spending time on it, she is still a bit of TheIngenue for a time. Season 3 and onwards however, have her fully shed this trope, and she's shown to be far more sociable than Jérémie.
* OlderThanTheyLook: [[spoiler:Aelita is chronologically 23-24, but ten of those years were spent asleep in Lyoko (and another full year in avatar form), so she looks, acts, and biologically is 12-13. Finally confirmed in "Wrong Exposure", where Jérémie takes advantage of it to prevent Delmas from figuring out her relation to Franz Hopper.]]
* PairTheSmartOnes: With Jérémie.
* PetTheDog: In the penultimate episode, she's the only Lyoko Warrior who sympathizes with William after he's been freed from XANA, and is willing to stick up for him when the others reject him. It doesn't have any payoff since the others still prevents William from going to Lyoko, and XANA later possesses William one final time while she ends up focusing more on her father, but it's the thought that counts.
* PinkMeansFeminine: The girliest of the group by far, and has an overwhelmingly pink color scheme. ''Everything'' she has tends to be pink.
* PluckyGirl: You'd be surprised that someone this cheery and energetic was trapped in a supercomputer and hounded by an evil program for 10 years.
* RoseHairedSweetie: She fits about all the traits associated with this. She's a sweet and good-natured girl most of the time and while her love interest, Jérémie, doesn't have blue hair, he is associated with the color blue. In Season 4, even his sweater matches her color scheme of pink and red.
* SealedGoodInACan: Season 1 and, to a lesser extent, 2. The only reason why the heroes refuse to shut down XANA is because they are hell-bent on severing her ties to Lyoko.
* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: The reason she fell for [[TeamDad Jérémie]] was because of his persistence in helping and trying to make her happy without seeking thanks or reward.
* SmartPeoplePlayChess: She's Jérémie intellectual equal, and often plays him in chess.
* TeenGenius: She rivals Jérémie in that area, though [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane it's unclear how much is natural and how much comes from her spending years as a program]].
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Girly Girl to Yumi's Tomboy.
* TookALevelInBadass: In season 1, Aelita [[DistressedDamsel required Odd, Ulrich and Yumi as bodyguards]], and her only use is deactivating towers. Out of all 26 episodes of season 1, she only destroys ''one'' monster. By season 4, she's the most capable Lyoko Warrior of all -- not only does she have Energy Fields, which are more powerful than any other Lyoko weapon (being a SwissArmyWeapon that can be a [[BarrierWarrior shield]] or a OneHitKill on almost any monster without needing to AttackItsWeakPoint), she also has wings for flight and an ability that allows her to reshape the very world of Lyoko. It's also worth noting that XANA-possessed Aelita has only ever been defeated once, and even then Aelita had already disposed of Yumi and was only devirtualized when a wayward fan hit her by sheer luck.
* UndeadTaxExemption: Averted. The Lyoko Warriors have to do the work to create an identity for her (though Jérémie is very good at "arranging" her paperwork), and there are enough holes in it for Sissi to occasionally piece together that something's going on.
* VirtualRealityWarper: Aelita can use her Creativity power in Lyoko to reshape parts of the virtual environment at will, such as creating walls or bridges. She can also enter the towers, "behind-the-scenes" areas where she can input Override Commands that perform administrative actions, such as taking control of a tower back from XANA or outright [[spoiler: deleting a section of the world]] in season 3.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Twice, in the form of:
** Why Did It Have to Be Wolves?: They feature heavily in her recurring nightmares. She thankfully never has to deal with them in the present-day. The same cannot be said for...
** Why Did It Have to Be the Scyphozoa?: She ''really'' catches the DistressBall whenever it pops in, even in later seasons when she's the most powerful member of the group.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Pink hair, in her case. Unlike Odd's purple spot, hers is ''not'' dyed; Aelita's mother had the same inexplicable hair colour that she inherited.
!!!Lyoko Avatar
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[[caption-width-right:234:Season 1 Avatar. [[labelnote:Click here to see her Seasons 2-3 appearance]] https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/aelita_250.png[[/labelnote]]]]

* BarrierWarrior: Her energy fields can be used to block the lasers of XANA's monsters. Taken UpToEleven when she combines them with her Creativity power, creating a giant wall to protect the Skid in season 4.
* CallingYourAttacks: After she gets the ability to use Energy Fields, she calls it by name when shooting one.
* DeadlyDodging: Her main way of fighting before getting her Energy Fields. An especially notable instance in Episode 39, "A Bad Turn": alone on Lyoko, Aelita manages to get rid of a whole swarm of Hornets/Frelions by flying on the Overboard and having them ram the mountain or each other.
* DecoyGetaway: Aelita can create short-lived clones of herself to act as decoys while she escapes to safety.
* DeflectorShields: She can fuse two of her offensive-oriented Energy Fields to create a small shield that can stop a ''Megatank laser''.
* DistressBall: Even after becoming an ActionGirl, she always panics whenever the Scyphozoa is involved, and ends up getting possessed. This is particularly frustrating in "Wrong Exposure", where [[HeroicBSOD she forgets that she has wings]], and thus could escape the Scyphozoa by flying away.
* DubNameChange: Her Energy Fields were translated as "Energy Balls" for a season in the Spanish dub.
* EnergyBall: Her main offensive ability, which she gets in Seasons 3.
* FacialMarkings: A red line on either cheek in her Seasons 1-3 avatar.
* HypnotizeThePrincess: Whenever the Scyphozoa get ahold of her, this is the inevitable result.
* AnIcePerson: Whenever Aelita uses Creativity in the Ice Sector. In "[[Recap/CodeLyokoS2E18 Vertigo]]", she is able to momentarily incapacitate the Scyphozoa by freezing it solid.
* LotusPosition: Aelita uses this pose when "listening to XANA's pulsations" in Season 1 (and once in season 4).
* NeuroVault: Her memories hold [[spoiler:the Keys of Lyoko]], which XANA tries to siphon out of her brain with the Scyphozoa in season 2.
* OneHitKill: Technically everyone can one-shot monsters, but only if they AttackItsWeakPoint. Aelita's energy fields surround a monster and hit it from every angle simultaneously, allowing her to destroy the monsters (or paralyze some of the stronger ones) even on a glancing blow, making her the most powerful member of the team in terms of pure power. Then XANA-William comes in the picture and is able to tank several of these. Only a fully-charged energy field can instantly get rid of him.
* OneWomanWail: How she invokes her Creativity power.
* OverrideCommand: '''Code: LYOKO''' is the command she inputs into towers to take control of them, deactivating them , and allowing Jérémie to start a return to the past.
* PointyEars: Fitting with her elf/angel motif.
* PsychicPowers: Creativity, which telekinetically reshapes the environment, and Second Sight, which gives her omnipresent awareness of everything in Lyoko.
* RealityWarper: {{Downplayed}}; she can only manipulate Lyoko's territory. However, in "Ghost Channel", Aelita has shown the ability to cause events on Earth much like XANA (she distracted Mr. Delmas and Jim by blowing up pipes), but without needing to use towers. That said, it doesn't reach XANA's level in terms of sheer power.
* SuperpowerLottery: The Annex Program allows Aelita to possess cybernetic artificial intelligence, gives her the ability to read and understand computer files and binary codes, allowing her to access any interface, such as in towers and Sector Five. This is the main reason XANA focuses on Aelita on Lyoko: with the Annex Program, she can deactivate the towers and stop XANA's attacks. While it doesn't comes off as extremely useful in battle, it is still one of the most powerful Lyoko powers due to its versatility, and only William's SuperSmoke can compare.
* SupportPartyMember: Seasons 1-2. She can't fight, but she's the only person who can deactivate the towers. Her Second Sight is also extremely helpful to the party.
!!!Season 4 Avatar
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[[caption-width-right:350:Season 4 Avatar. [[labelnote:Click here to see her teleported appearance]] https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/aelita_330.png[[/labelnote]]]]

* TheCaptain: Of the ''Skidbladnir''.
* FacialMarkings: The red lines of her avatar move down in Season 4, starting from the lower part of her face and stopping where the original marks ended.
* FingerlessGloves: The new design gives her fingerless sleeve-gloves.
* {{Flight}}: A new power she gains, thanks to a pair of energy wings.
* HardLight: When "translated" on Earth.
* MasterOfAll: By this point, Aelita has a long-ranged OneHitKill attack, a defense that can block both physical hits and the most powerful XANA monster's attack save for the [[GiantMook Kolossus]], the ability of flying without a vehicle, and the ability to reshape the very environment. If she were more aggressively or tactically minded, she would probably outwork all the other Lyoko warriors in the battlefield with the sole exception of William. It shows when XANA manages to possess her one last time in "Wrong Exposure", where she manhandles Ulrich, coming very close to devirtualizing him.
* PowerGivesYouWings: Aelita's upgrade came with a pair of "Angel Wings" integrated into her suit.
* SensualSpandex: As with all Season 4 avatars.
* SkirtOverSlacks: A translucent, plastic-like skirt.
* {{Technopath}}: Cannot manipulate Earth's landscape when translated. Instead, her Creativity becomes this, allowing her to hack into computers and unlock doors.
* WingedHumanoid: When she uses her Angel Wings.
!!!XANA-Aelita:
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ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin, Aelita whenever she is brainwashed by XANA, which has happened enough for its own section.
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* AchillesHeel: Her lack of an obvious weapon (Energy Fields being mid-to-long range) meant that she needed to keep at long range, forcing her to be on the evasive in Season 2 and Season 3. Season 4 solves the problem by simply having her steal one of Ulrich's swords.
* TheBadGuyWins: She's a major reason XANA won in Season 3, as she destroyed 3 sectors. XANA slowly creeping his way to victory led the Lyoko Warriors to hastily [[spoiler:accept William on the team, whose lack of experience provided the program with the final tool it needed to destroy Lyoko]].
* BarehandedBladeBlock: A tricks she pulls on Ulrich, blocking one of his katanas (to the boy's non-negligible shock) and taking it away for a proper swordfight.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: She is the result of XANA taking control of Aelita: With a [[HypnoTrinket necklace]] in a Season 2 episode, and the Scyphozoa implanting a virus inside Aelita's brain during Seasons 3 and 4.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: During "Saint Valentine's Day" and Season 3, she's TheStoic, very rarely reacting more than she has to in regards to the situation at hand. Her possession in Season 4 has her act like a even more sadistic version of XANA-William, yelling and screaming while she attacks, and generally being very deranged.
* CoDragons: She was one of XANA's {{Dragon}}s in Season 3, the other one being the Scyphozoa, which was needed to bring her out in the first place.
* DemonicPossession: In her first appearance, XANA tricks Aelita into wearing a necklace that slowly implanted impulses into her mind, [[LoopholeAbuse bypassing the protection granted by the scanners]].
* TheDragon: She's essentially XANA's in Season 3, being used in order to cut off all access to Sector 5. [[spoiler:It fails, but XANA-William finishes the job in "Final Round" by destroying Lyoko.]]
* HarmfulHealing: By season 4, Jérémie has developed a program to rid Aelita of viruses should the Scyphozoa get to her. However, it also leaves her horribly weak, and she struggles to not pass out while making her way to the tower afterwards. Downplayed in that it ''does'' accomplish its main purpose.
* KatanasAreJustBetter: During her sole reappearance in season 4, she steals one of Ulrich's katanas and favors using it in place of her own powers to fight, only using her Energy Fields once.
* LightIsNotGood: Granted, since XANA never got ahold of her the way he did with William, he never had the chance to give her an EvilMakeover, but considering Aelita's usual colors are pink and white, she counts as this.
* NoNonsenseNemesis: During Seasons 2 and 3, she rarely talks, and is just deadset on her objective, whatever it may be. Season 4 sees her act significantly more psychotic, but the way she fights Ulrich, not giving him any openings and just rushing in for the attack, shows that she's still this.
* OverrideCommand: '''Code: XANA''', which will delete a surface sector if entered into its Way Tower.
* SlasherSmile: She gives an absolutely ''[[http://img.codelyoko.fr/galeries/90_medusee/Medusee_279.jpg terrifying]]'' one in her sole reappearance in Season 4.
* SuperpoweredEvilSide: An unusual case, since she's only around if XANA can actually take control of Aelita, but XANA makes much more effective use of Aelita's abilities than she does, spamming Creativity and Energy Fields much more than Aelita's regular usage, proving how unstoppable she would be if she went all out with her powers. It helps that XANA boosts her physical capabilities and strength in the process.
* TookALevelInBadass: XANA-Aelita in Seasons 2 and 3 preferred to keep away from direct combat in favor of just reaching her intended objective point, but Season 4 sees her disarm Ulrich, steal one of his katanas, and engage in a swordfight with him that she has the advantage over.
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[[folder:William Dunbar]]
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[[caption-width-right:200:[[SixthRangerTraitor You sexy idiot.]]]]
[[caption-width-right:200:Seasons 2-3 Earth appearance. [[labelnote:Click here to see his Season 4 appearance]] https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/william_300dub.png[[/labelnote]]]]
'''William Dunbar'''

->''"I'm not the kind of guy who likes to steal the show."''

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

A transfer student exiled to Kadic Academy in Season 2 for spamming love notes. His primary function during the first half of his tenure is to act as a RomanticFalseLead for Yumi and lampshade Ulrich's [[CannotSpitItOut inability to spit it out]] in the process. William's assistance in foiling several of XANA's schemes on the real-world side proves critical in Season 3, though, and after he confides to the Team that [[PsychicDreamsForEveryone he is starting to dream about elements of his adventures that should have been erased with the Return to the Past]], the Lyoko Warriors reluctantly (but unanimously) take him on as their newest member. [[SixthRangerTraitor It goes downhill from there.]] [[NotHimself Mind-controlled by XANA]] (and [[HulkSpeak stripped of his higher vocabulary in the process]]), William spends the majority of Season 4 as the Lyoko Warriors' most consistent virtual threat. He gets better, but the show ends two episodes later, and on kind of a harsh note for him.
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* TheAtoner: Subverted; he attempts to be this in season 4 finale, but is rejected by the Lyoko Warriors. The best help he ended up providing was to inadvertently save the day in "The Lake" (and even then, it was also because Yumi was around) and distract Sissi in "Fight to the Finish".
* BadassNormal: Even in the real world, William is no joke. He wiped the floor with his entire xanafied class in episode 54 "Lyoko Minus One", deactivated a bomb in "The Secret" and defeated, while teleported, Odd and Yumi in "Cold Sweat" without using his powers. If it wasn't for Aelita, he would have sent them back to the Skid.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: With his cocky, childish, excited and downright annoying behavior in "Final Round", you certainly don't expect him to destroy nine Creepers with no effort. There is a reason XANA chose to brainwash him...
* TheBigGuy: He became the strongest Lyoko Warrior by virtue of that really big sword of his, and his special ability. [[spoiler:Even though he was NotHimself for almost the entire Season 4.]]
* BittersweetEnding: Unfortunately for him, he was freed from XANA's control, but never got the chance to get his revenge on him and he's kicked out of the group. The best he could do to aid the heroes isn't that much, on top of that (see TheAtoner).
* BloodKnight: Being Odd's {{foil}}, this is unsurprising. While it's less present than Odd, William is just as fond of fighting as him. This is best shown in "Final Round", where he's eagerly training in anticipation for his first mission, and later on destroys the Creepers with utter glee on his face.
* BreakoutCharacter: He debuted as a secondary character in Season 2. Unlike most breakout characters, William started out being considered a [[DieForOurShip pointless ship interference]]. However, he became more popular in Season 3, where he became a recurring characters often helping the heroes. He ends up joining the team... Before being brainwashed in the season finale by [[BigBad XANA]]. In [[GrandFinale Season 4]], he's been PromotedToOpeningTitles, became a main character and XANA's [[NotHimself unwilling]] {{Dragon}}. His popularity ends up skyrocketing as a result.
* TheCasanova: Completely averted. Yumi calls him one, [[InformedAttribute though he only ever pursues her]]. That said, he does show himself capable of and willing to seduce other girls -- namely Sissi -- when the group needs it in "Fight to Finish".
* CharacterDevelopment: Starts off as a JerkWithAHeartOfGold trying to seduce Yumi in Season 2, becomes a StalkerWithACrush (even though he actually never stalked her in Season 3) who can be serious when he realizes how dangerous the situation truly is (he didn't realize how bad things were in Final Round, hence why he was cocky), and in his few appearances in Season 4 as himself he matured (leaving Yumi alone when she rejects him again in the last episode and not being angry at her for example, wanting to fight seriously on Lyoko...).
* ChekhovsGunman: He starts off as a minor character and a RomanticFalseLead for Yumi before becoming the SixthRanger to the Lyoko Warriors. And then becoming TheDragon for the remainder of Season 4.
* CurbStompBattle:
** William defeated his entire xanafied class with ease in "Lyoko Minus One", notably knocking out three of them in one kick. In "A Lack of Goodwill", XANA-William manhandled Jérémie and took down Tamiya with no issue whatsoever. This case is {{Justified}}, since as a xanafied person, he's superhuman.
** He's been on the receiving end several times. The xanafied Mr. Delmas dispatched him with no effort in "Ultimatum", he was quickly taken care of by the zombified Jim in "Attack of the Zombies", the xanafied Mrs. Hertz knocked him out in one blow in "Lyoko Minus One" and he was nearly killed by the xanafied worker in "The Secret".
* [[DarkMagicalGirl Dark Magical Guy]]: He may not have the whole ParentalAbandonment thing nor the DarkAndTroubledPast (if anything his parents seems pretty nice and his life was pretty normal until then), but otherwise? [[BrainwashedAndCrazy Good guy brainwashed by evil?]] Check. [[MasterOfAll More powerful than the heroes?]] Check. HeelFaceTurn after being saved? Check. UndyingLoyalty, even if the Lyoko Warriors (bar Aelita) are jerks towards him in the second-to-last episode? Check. Angry about being cast out of the team, doesn't understand why they are angry at him, left alone? Check.
* DemotedToExtra: Barring flashbacks, he merely makes a cameo in the novels.
* DependingOnTheWriter: William is often used as plot device in several episodes in different and often contradictory ways. As such, this directly affects his character and abilities. For example, he's easily defeated by a bunch of zombies (In "Attack of the Zombies") but then defeats his xanafied classmates with no effort (In "Lyoko Minus One").
* TheDeterminator: He ''never'' gives up on seducing Yumi, even after all that happened by the end of the show.
* FlashbackNightmare: William has dreams about things that should have been erased with the Return to the Past -- one of the factors that led to his becoming a Lyoko Warrior.
* {{Foil}}:
** To Odd. [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Both can act silly, arrogant and childish, but also deeply care for their loved ones]] and [[BewareTheSillyOnes should not underestimated at all]]. But while Odd is a CasanovaWannabe, [[TheDeterminator William only loves Yumi]]. While Odd is probably the weakest Lyoko Warrior in terms of power, William is by far the strongest Lyoko Warrior. Odd is one of the smallest Lyoko Warriors while William is the talliest one. While Odd ended up being accidentally involved in the story (in the prelude), William was recruited. And while Odd is a willing hero, William is an unwilling villain.
** 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.
* HeelFaceDoorSlam: Sadly, after freeing him, all Lyoko Warriors but Aelita (and Jérémie, who just doesn't care) have difficulties forgiving him for what he did under XANA's control (despite Aelita pointing out [[NotHimself it wasn't his fault]] and it could have happened to any of them). It goes as far as when he attempts to redeem himself by helping them, Yumi (Ulrich and Odd to a lesser extent) violently rejects him and refuses to let him go to Lyoko, arguing XANA might seize the opportunity to control him again. [[spoiler:Ironically, this is exactly what happens... except XANA is able to control him through a tower because he is still on Earth. [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Nice job, Yumi!]]]]
* {{Irony}}: He ended up helping the Lyoko Warriors more when he wasn't part of the team than when he actually joined them.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He's rebellious and cocky and ''really'' [[StalkerWithACrush doesn't know how to take no for an answer]]. He's also brave and laid-back around people other than Ulrich -- and even then, he can put aside his [[TheRival rivalry]] with Ulrich when needed, like giving him some "friendly advice" or listening to orders.
* LeeroyJenkins: This is what causes him to end up possessed by XANA; he got too caught up in battling XANA's monsters, and thought he could take on the Scyphozoa... Quite simply put, he couldn't.
* LoveMakesYouCrazy: "Makes me totally insane." by his own admission. Not so much in Season 2, but ''definitely'' in Season 3.
* MrFanservice: Completely intentional on his part.
* NewTransferStudent: He got expelled from his old school for spamming love notes.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: When fighting against XANA's control in "The Lake", he inadvertently gave enough time to Aelita to reach the factory and deactivating the tower. In others words, he did what he was supposed to do as a hero: he (and Yumi) saved the day. He's the only one who ever fought against XANA's control and it's thanks to Yumi he briefly snapped out.
* OneHitPolyKill: In episode 54, "Lyoko minus one", William [[CurbStompBattle effortlessly]] [[http://img.codelyoko.fr/galeries/54_lyoko_moins_un/Lyoko_moins_un_311.jpg defeated three of his Xanafied classmates]] with only a wooden stick and one kick. This is even more badass knowing that William was only a ''secondary character'' back then.
* PromotionToOpeningTitles: In season 4, when he becomes a major villain.
* TallDarkAndHandsome: Odd often nicknames him that, and he's right. He is a tall, dark-haired and very handsome boy.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech:
** When giving a piece of advice to Ulrich in "Marabounta" , he's also clearly criticizing him for not having confessed to Yumi yet:
--->'''William:''' Uh-uh, no, that'd be too easy, [[TheRival Ulrich]]. Let me tell you what's wrong around here. My being around Yumi forces you to ask yourself a question, a tough question that you can't answer. Here's a piece of friendly advice: go and talk to Yumi, from the heart. Or else, one day, I will! And then I really will be your problem!
** Surprisingly, in "The Secret", not even [[UnrequitedLove Yumi]] is spared when [[WhatTheHellHero he calls her out for not trusting him]]:
--->'''William:''' Maybe it’s just because they trust me! Not like... [refers to Yumi]
* 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.
* RomanticFalseLead: To Yumi. In his first appearance, she seems to give back some of his feelings, but she gets annoyed by his StalkerWithACrush attitude as the show goes on. By season 3, it's made quite clear he never had any chance with her to begin with.
* SixthRangerTraitor: Joins the Lyoko Warriors at the end of Season 3, only to be possessed by XANA on his first mission and end up as TheDragon for Season 4.
* StalkerWithACrush: Subverted. While he never actually stalks Yumi, his approach to her gives off this vibe in Season 3. He's harmless, but annoyingly persistent. He gets better by the end of Season 4, however.
* UndyingLoyalty: He could have revealed the secret the second he was thrown out of the team. He chose not to, out of sheer loyalty to the team.
!!!Season 3 Lyoko Avatar
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[[caption-width-right:300:Season 3 Avatar.]]

* AttackReflector: As a good guy, he uses his Zweihander once to reflect a Creeper's laser back at it, destroying the monster instantly.
* TheBadGuyWins: Him being Xanafied is what allowed XANA to destroy Lyoko and win in the third season.
* {{BFS}}: As a good guy, this trope is {{Deconstructed}}. His sword has exaggerated proportions, even by Zweihänder standards. [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome However, he has trouble carrying it as a consequence]]. The trope is {{reconstructed}} upon his xanafication, as XANA gave him improved strength to be able to easily wield it even with one hand.
* BoobsOfSteel: A RareMaleExample. William's bust is bigger than even Aelita's or Yumi's, and for a beginner, he's very good. Under XANA's control, he has no problem wiping out the entire team by himself. {{Averted}} with his Season 4 Avatar, however, as his bust is smaller.
* TheKlutz: William, on battle, proved to be rather klutzy, having trouble wearing his heavy {{BFS}}. That said, he proved to be a promising Lyoko Warrior. The trope is also {{Justified}}, as William had no experience whatsoever on Lyoko.
* CurbStompBattle: Played with. As a good guy, William dishes one to ''nine Creepers'', who don't even touch him; but he is on the receiving end once the Scyphozoa shows up to brainwash him. Once under XANA's control, he once again has no problem offing all the Lyoko warriors by himself.
* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: Wiliam cut several Creepers in half and, once brainwashed, he does the same to Ulrich with an upward slash.
* InTheBack: In his debut appearance, William devirtualized all the Lyoko Warriors (except for Aelita) with a back slash while they are distracted.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: He defeats Yumi by running the full length of his sword into her back.. A deleted scene even shows him ''doing so [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=1s&v=lssWkJgU7ps on-screen]]''.
* LightIsGood: His avatar is as white as snow, and until his xanafication, he was nothing but well-meaning, if inexperienced and hot-headed.
* LightIsNotGood: Upon his xanafication, he still retains his original white avatar. The trope is only subverted after Lyoko's destruction.
* NaiveNewcomer: PlayedForDrama. Not knowing how dangerous the Scyphozoa actually is and its abilities is one of the reasons he ended up xanafied.
* OneHandedZweihander: Hilariously subverted. When he tries to use only one hand to wear his Zweïhander in "Final Round", he fails miserably because the sword is too heavy. Played straight once he's xanafied however.
* OneHitKill: His BFS was capable of destroying multiple Creepers in a single blow. Lyoko Warriors aren't exempt from it, sadly.
* PowerFloats: It's implied that his main power was supposed to be Levitation (which is used twice when he's Xanafied).
* SpinAttack: William's combat proficiency is showcased when he does a running spin sttack with his sword to destroy multiple Creepers simultaneously.
* SuperSpeed: {{Implied}}. He quickly joins Yumi when she's destroying Creepers, seemingly using Super Sprint. However, he only used that technique once, as he later gained the much more versatile SuperSmoke. Played straight in the social game however, as he does have the Super Sprint.
* UnskilledButStrong: We never get to know his actual skills on Lyoko, as he is Xanafied only minutes after being virtualized. However, all he needs is one blow to destroy a Creeper. [[BrainwashedAndCrazy Or a Lyoko Warrior]].
* WeHardlyKnewYou: Subverted. He didn't kick the bucket, but we don't know (and probably never will) his powers in his original avatar, this avatar appeared in only one episode (barring reused scenes in later episodes) and he was only using it as himself for 10 minutes.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen:[[invoked]] The Social Game implies that William had Ulrich's Super Sprint (which he may have used when Xanafied in "Final Round" to finish off Yumi), further emphasizing his rivalry with Ulrich.
!!!Season 4 Lyoko Avatar
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[[caption-width-right:200:Season 4 Avatar. [[labelnote:Click here to see his teleported appearance]] https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sueurs_froides_140.jpg[[/labelnote]]]]

* AllYourPowersCombined: His SuperSmoke power allows him to move as fast as Ulrich, fly like Aelita and can be used the same way as Yumi's telekinesis. Not to forget his Sword Beams are as fast as Odd's Laser Arrows. He's also shown having a power of Far Sight similar to Aelita's power to see through illusions on Lyoko and can manipulate technology in the real world like Aelita.
* AntiVillain: He's not evil ''per se'', he just happens to be BrainwashedAndCrazy.
* AttackReflector: His buckler-like bracer allows him to not only block close-range attacks, but also to reflect some long-ranged attacks. Odd found out the hard way in "Guided Missile".
* BattleCry: "FOR XANA!"
* TheBadGuyWins: He may not have won the war, but he won most of the battles. And when he did, it was ''devastating''.
* BadassInDistress: One of the main plot points of Season 4 is to save him, an extremely powerful newbie, from XANA's clutches.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: XANA's possession makes him more than a little unhinged.
* CardCarryingVillain: While under XANA's control, he tends to behave like a stereotypical villain (if he actually talks), taunting the heroes and laughing all the while. A rare example that ''doesn't'' diminish his threat level, since he's quite capable of hurting the heroes regardless.
* CoolSword: He uses a ''Franchise/FinalFantasy''-style Buster Sword.
* CurbStompBattle: An expert of this. While he is sometimes on the receiving end, he has defeated -- [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown often brutally]] -- the heroes a lot of times, to the point of having devirtualized them ''many more times (at least twice as much)'' than they devirtualized him.
* DarkIsEvil: His entire outfit is corrupted black to fit his BrainwashedAndCrazy status. Even his sword, which looked just like a regular-but-massive sword in Season 3, becomes almost demonic, with black tendrils and XANA's eye on the hilt.
* DeadlyDodging: In episode 86, he dodges both Aelita's Energy Field and Odd's Laser Arrow by ducking. The Energy Field harmlessly flows above him, continues its course, and hits Odd in the chest, devirtualizing him.
* TheDragon: He becomes XANA's top enforcer, issuing orders to the monsters and overall offering a much bigger threat than them.
* TheDreaded: His sheer power frightens the heroes even when they win. This is best shown by Jérémie's OhCrap reaction in "Cold Sweat" when William is teleported.
* DyingMomentOfAwesome: Subverted. He doesn't actually kick the bucket, but in "Down to Earth" (the last episode where XANA-William is fought on Lyoko), he manages to defeat [[TheRival Ulrich]] one last time before Odd finishes him off. TheBadGuyWins even when he loses.
* EnemySummoner: He can summon a Manta no matter where he is, either using it as a flying vehicle or as a distraction against the Warriors.
* EvilCostumeSwitch: After being possessed, his original white attire is replaced by one that is RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver.
* FacialMarkings: An Eye of XANA sometimes flashes on his forehead.
* FetalPositionRebirth: At the end of Season 3, XANA saves him from death after Lyoko is destroyed, and he's seen floating above the void in this position.
* FightingFromTheInside: In the French version, he attempts this during "The Lake", where he tries to fight off XANA's control, but fails. In the English version of the same episode, Yumi mentioned that he actually, if only for a while, ''succeeded'' in snapping out of XANA's control.
* FingerlessGloves: Started in Season 4. He had simple gloves in Season 3 through.
* ForcedSleep: One of the many applications of his Super Smoke. William can force it into other avatars' airways, causing them to pass out. This is used often against Aelita, making her helpless and unable to fight back as he transports her to be thrown into the Digital Sea.
* GeniusBruiser: Heavily {{Downplayed}}. While William generally prefers to attack the Lyoko-warriors directly (which can explain a couple of his defeats against the Lyoko-warriors), he can at a couple moments settle for more subtle strategies, and the results can reach near-devastating levels for the Lyoko-warriors.
** Both times where [[HydePlaysJekyll he pretended to be freed from XANA's control]] nearly ended badly for the Lyoko-warriors, with Odd only managing to save the day at the last moment.
** In "The Lake", he waits for Aelita ''inside the activated tower''. When Yumi ends up inside instead, XANA-William kicks her out of it and proceeds to [[CurbStompBattle curb-stomp her]]. Only [[FightingFromTheInside the good William]] and [[BigDamnHeroes Aelita]]'s respectives interventions prevent XANA from completely winning.
** 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.
** In "Down to Earth", he uses SuperSmoke to get away from Ulrich and leaving him to be crushed by the Kolossus. Odd managed to devirtualize and free him from behind, preventing the mission from ending in total failure for the Lyoko-warriors.
* HardLight: His virtual avatar is "translated" to Earth in the episode "Cold Sweat".
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: William has a tendency to attack his enemies from behind and send them to the Digital Sea. As such, his defeats in "Down to Earth" and "The Lake" are quite ironic: Odd devirtualizes him from behind in the former and Aelita sends him to the Digital Sea in the latter.
* HulkSpeak: His usual speech when under XANA, though he is quite capable of speaking in complete sentences. It's just that, like with most of XANA's forces, he rarely has ''reason'' to talk.
* HydePlaysJekyll: Does it twice to trick Aelita early on in his possession (the first time was when he returned as XANA's new minion, and the second time was him playing off a failed program to free him from XANA).
* KnightOfCerebus: While XANA was already a scary and dangerous threat, the series were otherwise pretty light-hearted. But the second William was xanafied, things took an ever darker turn, because of how dangerous and skilled William is.
* LaserGuidedKarma: The first time William devirtualizes Odd, he does so by firing a SwordBeam while the latter has his back turned to him. In "Down to Earth", Odd repays the favour by shooting William from behind while he is too busy gloating.
* MadeOfIron: Could take a ridiculous amount of punishment in season 4, owing to a larger reserve of HitPoints, requiring several strikes from Yumi's fans and Odd's arrows or a fully charged-up Energy Field from Aelita to be taken down.
* ManipulativeBastard: When Xanafied, he pretends to be his good self twice (it's ambiguous in a third case, "The Lake" -- it's likely he was actually himself -- , so it won't be listed here). Unlike XANA's regular tricks, the Lyoko Warriors (more precisely Aelita in the second case) fall for it. To his credit, he is a ''lot'' better at being genuine than any polymorphic clone.
* MarkOfTheBeast: The Eye of XANA has been engraved on his outfit, his sword and his brain (which can only be seen when it occasionally shines through his forehead).
* MasterOfAll: To a ridiculous degree. He not only has the most powerful and versatile hand-to-hand weapon of the Lyoko Warriors (which basically one-shots monsters and avatars alike with a swing and can even shoot RazorWind), but he also has a special ability that turns him invulnerable and allows him to do ''everything'' his friends can do without any drawback. And if it is not enough, he also possesses a buckler-like bracer to deflect and return physical attacks. Should we mention that he is the only Lyoko Warrior that can survive inside the ''Digital Sea''?
* NonchalantDodge: Even when not using his Super Smoke, he's a master of dodging with minimal movements, to better tease his opponents.
* NoSell: Anyone who falls in the Digital Sea suffers a FateWorseThanDeath. However (due to his SuperSmoke), it has no effect whatsoever on William, who even ''lives inside it while Xanafied''.
* OneHandedZweihander: Unlike the good William, XANA-William plays straight this trope. While he is often seen using his two hands to uses his Zweïhander, he has no problem using it with only one hand.
* OneHitKill: Almost all of his successful attacks, owing to his BFS.
* PowerFloats: While XANA is controlling him, he has the ability to levitate.
* PsychicPowers:
** [[MindOverMatter Telekinesis]] -- he's demonstrated the power to move things by extending a bit of his black smoke (including himself for levitating).
** Far Sight -- he can use a red-tinted telescopic vision to quickly locate his enemies on Lyoko.
* RealityWarper: Like Aelita, it's a very {{downplayed}} case. He's able to take over towers like Aelita and XANA, and he possessed Jérémie's clone and interrupted Odd and Aelita's translation in doing so. However, again, it isn't anything close to what XANA, and even Aelita can do. He can't change the environment on Lyoko, to boot. But he's still able, on Lyoko, to take control of towers without having to go inside them.
* SensualSpandex: Much more so in Season 4, in an inversion of EvilIsSexy.
* SummonToHand: He can do this with his sword, allowing him to turn the tide of battle when it looks like he's at a disadvantage due to being disarmed.
* SuperpowerLottery:
** Super Smoke is by far the best and most versatile Lyoko power ever to be granted to any character. Its uses include intangibility, super speed, telekinesis, flight, a projectile that immobilizes William's victim for an easy kill, and the ability to survive in the Digital Sea. Also, receiving critical damage causes the power to activate on its own and warp the boy back to XANA, essentially preventing materialization (and thus keeping the boy under the program's control).
** XANA-William also has the Annex Program like Franz Hopper and Aelita, which can turn the tide of an entire battle. See Aelita's SuperpowerLottery for more information on the Annex Program.
* SuperSmoke: The TropeNamer. He can turn into a cloud of black smoke (reminiscent of XANA's specters on Earth, certainly no coincidence). This allows him to move very quickly on Lyoko, on par with Ulrich's SuperSpeed, to fly and to phase through attacks.
* SuperStrength: It's implied he has, as he now can lift high his heavy sword with a single hand.
* SwordBeam: Can fire these RazorWind-style out of his [[{{BFS}} Zweihander]]
* SwordDrag: Though, if you had a sword that big, you'd probably drag it as well. It is more notable before he is Xanafied, as he lacks the strength to properly wield it.
* ThemeMusicPowerUp: Whenever one of his [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCppwHT8eQw two]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7bg-ox-DbY themes]] starts playing, you know he's about to kick some serious ass.
* TookALevelInBadass: After his possession, he goes from [[DieForOurShip an annoying rival to Ulrich]] to a [[EvilIsCool badass villain]].
* UnskilledButStrong:
** {{Averted}} when it comes to direct combat. William mostly uses his SuperSmoke and his sword, but he also has RazorWind, an AttackReflector, and the Annex Program.
** Being at the command of XANA's monsters on top of it gives him extra firepower... but while he has quite a bit of raw power, he's a bit weak on the strategy side, always preferring to directly attack instead of using more complex strategies. Best seen when he's using the ''Rorkal'', which is only on the same level as the other Nav-Skids. He's easily outmaneuvered the two times he utilizes it.
* VoiceOfTheLegion: As is standard with XANA possessions, he has his own voice accompanied by a demonic echo. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhQZgM5dUoc His French voice is even better.]]
%%* WeaponOfChoice: {{BFS}}.
* 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.
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!Villains

[[folder:XANA]]
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[[caption-width-right:200:[[BigBad Instant evil]], [[FacelessEye just add]] [[SigilSpam symbol]].]]
'''XANA''' (X.A.N.A.)

->''[[LogicBomb "NOT LOGICAL!]] [[VoiceOfTheLegion NOT LOGICAL!"]]''

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

This malevolent A.I. is the [[BigBad main antagonist]]. Created by Franz Hopper to counter "Project Carthage", he [[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters rebelled against his creator]] and was [[SealedEvilInACan sealed in the Supercomputer]] some 10 years before the start of the series. His true motivations are unknown, but he is hostile to humanity, and to the Lyoko Warriors in particular. He regularly attacks the real world through the Lyoko Towers. Being a program, he has [[HeWhoMustNotBeSeen no definite shape]] and manifests through the ever-present logo (or Eye of XANA) and the monsters on the Lyoko Sectors. He tries to escape the Supercomputer throughout Season 2 so that the heroes can no longer defeat him by [[CutTheJuice cutting the juice]], and after doing so he attempts to conquer the world in Season 4 by creating an [[MechaMooks army of robots]].
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* AdaptationalHeroism:
** He's still an antagonist in the novels, [[spoiler:but he eventually has a HeelFaceTurn.]]
** Also in the novels, [[spoiler:he was once Aelita's childhood friend, who was simply corrupted by a virus left over from Project Carthage. The XANA in the show and its sequel has none of these redeemable qualities, with no hint whatsoever that his turn to evil was anything other than his own free will.]]
* AdaptationalWimp: Played with in the novels. On the one hand, XANA's planning abilities take a severe nose-dive, and being deprived of a proper virtual world limits what he can do. On the other, he displays more advanced versions of his powers, like [[spoiler:possessing Odd, who should be immune, thanks to Eva; materializing an entire army of robots when he ''does'' get back to Lyoko; and implementing the Lyoko Warrior's powers in the real world]].
* 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 his daughter]] the ''moment'' it became possible.
* AmbiguousGender:
** "He" is a computer program, so he doesn't really ''have'' a gender to begin with, but the show usually uses "him" or "it". The sequel series sticks with "it".
** The novels flip between "him"/"it" (and "her" when possessing Eva), but settle on "him" [[spoiler:when his very male human form appears]].
** In the ''Code Lyoko DS: Fall of XANA'' game, Jérémie refers to XANA as "Her" and "She."
* ArchEnemy: To the Lyoko Warriors and Franz Hopper. More personally, he seems to really ''hate'' Jérémie.
* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler:He partially succeeds in the season 1 finale by preventing Aelita's escape from the Supercomputer. Seasons 2 and 3 end with him fully reaching his goals (respectively escaping the Supercomputer and destroying Lyoko). It isn't until Season 4 where he's ''finally'' brought down, albeit at the cost of Franz Hopper's [[HeroicSacrifice life]]. And even then, in both the novels and ''Evolution'' he manages to come back!]]
* BatmanGambit: From Season 2 onwards, as he grows to have a greater understanding of humanity, several of his schemes depend on taking advantage of the heroes' generosity, love for one another, and other emotions.
* BenevolentAI: According to YTV's Vortex block's host Paula (''Code Lyoko'' was a show on this block and during commercial breaks Paula would often share bits of trivia), XANA was "once a good computer program until an evil virus corrupted it." She said this piece of information in the middle of season one, before season two aired. [[spoiler:Which rings true in the novels.]]
* BerserkButton: According to Jérémie, him activating a tower truly enrages XANA, as the program will often go out of its way to hijack it. Or just Jérémie in general, XANA really hates the boy's guts.
* BigBad: He is the only villain in the entire series (if one doesn't count ''Evolution'' or the novels).
* BondVillainStupidity: There are many, ''many'' moments in which XANA or one of its specters has the kids at his mercy, and even when there is quite literally nothing stopping him from offing one of them, he instead decides to attack someone else or mess with the Supercomputer, leaving enough time for the others to defeat him.
* BornUnlucky: Due to how Season 1 overuses JustInTime, XANA always gets taken down seconds before he would have won. One particularly unlucky instance is "Satellite", where he's defeated in the ''milliseconds'' between his hacked satellite firing and the moment its laser would have killed Odd and Yumi.
* CardCarryingVillain: Judging by the song he used to hypnotize all of Kadic in "Killer Music" titled: "Glad When You're Bad", and some of XANA-William's dialogue choices, XANA seems to ''know'' that he's evil by human standards and is quite unapologetic about it.
* CharacterDevelopment: Ironically for a never-seen character, he gets lots of it throughout the series. His goals shift along with time according to the situation, his schemes become more complex, and his power increasing allow for varied and subtler tactics. As the series progress, he goes from something in the vein of a GenericDoomsdayVillain in season 1 to a brilliant [[TheChessmaster Chessmaster]] in the latter seasons.
* TheChessmaster: Not as much initially, but as the series progresses, he starts developing more complex schemes.
* TheCorruption: [[spoiler:In the novels, it's revealed he was once a BenevolentAI, but was corrupted by the remnants of Project Carthage's programming.]]
* TheCracker: He has access to any computer network in the world and can manipulate electricity.
* CrazyPrepared: [[spoiler:The Lyoko Warriors are attempting to destroy his [[SoulJar Replikas' supercomputers]] in order to cut down his resources? He has long-since infected ''hundreds'' of them all over the world.]]
* DarkIsEvil: Him, his specters, and some of his minions, most notably [[spoiler: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.]]
* DeadpanSnarker: Overlapping with SilentSnarker, because he rarely speaks as himself, but XANA occasionally proves to have a wicked sense of humor. When Odd fights one of his polymorphic clones and tells it to change into a wimp, XANA just [[StealthInsult has it turn into Odd]]; at another point, when Aelita accidentally devirtualizes Odd while fighting the possessed William, he sarcastically compliments her aim.
* {{Determinator}}: It does not matter how many times his attacks fail -- the next episode, XANA will come knocking with a different one.
* DigitalAbomination: XANA is a malicious AI intent on invading the real world who can warp reality and his own possessed creatures in the digital realm. He is almost never seen even in the digital realm in a physical form and almost never speaks, but he is a consistent threat.
* EnemyMine: In "Marabounta" with the Lyoko Warriors to destroy the titular Marabounta.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: In season 1; due to his intelligence being based on pure logic, he is unable to understand why Jérémie would go into the scanners (something that is stated to terrify the young [[PlayfulHacker hacker]]) to save his friends. However, he is also notable for being one of the few villains to ''learn'' from it; in the latter seasons, several of his schemes take advantage of the heroes' generosity, emotions, and willingness to sacrifice themselves for their friends, and in Season 4, his plan to [[spoiler:kill Franz Hopper once and for all relies on using the man's love for his daughter.]]
* EvilIsBigger: In the second-to-last episode [[spoiler:the closest true physical form XANA takes is that of a gigantic specter that dwarves every other character, almost reaching the roof of the factory. Thankfully, he only gets in this form as he's getting destroyed.]]
* EvilOnlyHasToWinOnce: His goals may ''seem'' simplistic, but given that all he has to do is just reach that goal, it really doesn't matter how many times he's seemingly defeated. He just tries again and again until he reaches that one critical victory, [[spoiler:which is shown very well in "The Key", where it turns out that if any one of his attacks in the season had succeeded earlier, he would be out in the network. He also succeeds in that episode, and it takes the remaining half of the series for the Lyoko Warriors to even try and mount a proper counter-attack against him.]]
* EvilPlan: Downplayed. Early on, other than "self-preservation" he doesn't seem to have an over-arching scheme; the trouble he causes in real life during the first season is meant to kill the kids who could shut him down whenever they wanted, which tends to cause a lot of collateral damage. Once Season 2 starts up, however, XANA ''does'' end up forming a long-term plan. He intends to subjugate the world via an army of robots, which he can't do while he's restricted to one supercomputer, and kill/disable the Lyoko Warriors since they're the only people who actually know about him. As seen in TheBadGuyWins above, he comes very close to fulfilling this plan.
* FacelessEye: His trademark symbol.
* ForgottenChildhoodFriend: [[spoiler:With Aelita, in the novels. When Franz Hopper created XANA, he wanted him to develop emotions, so he encouraged Aelita to visit and play with him. They ended up becoming best friends. In a twist, they ''both'' got amnesia and forgot about it; remembering his time with her and rekindling their relationship is actually one of the catalysts for XANA's HeelFaceTurn.]]
* GenderLift: In ''Code Lyoko DS: Fall of XANA'', Jérémie refers to XANA as "Her" and "She."
* HeWhoMustNotBeSeen: He doesn't even ''have'' a body to begin with. Averted in the novels, where he makes an actual physical appearance -- [[spoiler:as a teenage boy [[IdenticalStranger strongly resembling]] William.]]
* HoneyTrap: Several of his plans (most notably "XANA's Kiss") have involved seduction, though given [[HeWhoMustNotBeSeen his lack of a body]], it's usually through possession or polymorphic clone.
* InstantAIJustAddWater: Justified; Franz made XANA and gave him the ability to evolve, before he learned that XANA was becoming too smart... but he was too late to stop XANA from rebelling. In a Season 4 episode revolving around an upgrade to [[spoiler:William's clone]], Jérémie reveals that XANA's original algorithms, if used on other [[ArtificialIntelligence A.I.]], could induce this in them.
* 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.]]
* LeakingCanOfEvil: XANA may be stuck in the supercomputer [[spoiler:for two seasons]], it doesn't prevent him from causing havoc: it even gives him a stable energy source to practice it.
* {{Leitmotif}}: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnFlBZ5lqhU "XANA Attack"]]. It gets remixed several times.
* LoopholeAbuse: Season 2 sees him become strong enough to possess humans, but due to constant virtualizations, the Lyoko Warriors (Besides Jeremie and later William, the latter of whom technically stayed in the network rather than using the scanners consistently) are resistant, preventing XANA from just possessing them. He is able to figure out alternative methods however, such as a HypnoTrinket in the form of a computer chip disguised as a necklace, zombification, or using the Scyphozoa to implant viruses into the Lyoko Warriors to take control of them.
* ManipulativeBastard: Though he has issues understanding emotions, he is still smart enough to develop various schemes based on emotional manipulation. As the series progress, he gradually becomes better at it, eventually reaching [[TheChessmaster Chessmaster]] levels.
* MasterComputer: In Seasons 1-2, he's limited to Lyoko's and during Season 1, is sometimes referenced as the Supercomputer (This is inaccurate as he is actually a multi-agent system residing in the Supercomputer). [[spoiler:He gets out by Season 3, and proceeds to become this for ''hundreds'' of such computers around the world]].
* MeaninglessVillainVictory:
** XANA's success in destroying Lyoko in the end of season 3 ends up becoming this when they recreate it at the beginning of season 4.
** While he did succeed in luring out and killing Franz Hopper, Hopper sacrificed himself to help the Lyoko Warriors launch the program that would ultimately destroy him as well, thus he failed at his ultimate plan for world domination.
* 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, it activates moments before XANA can kill Ulrich and Yumi personally through William to boot.
* NobleDemon: Tends to change a lot DependingOnTheWriter, but XANA will occasionally display noble behavior:
** After teaming up with the Lyoko Warriors against the common threat in "Marabounta", they expect him to turn against them. His monsters instead politely bow to them before retreating without any fight. [[spoiler:Jérémie doesn't get the same respect in the next episode, though.]]
** Similarly, in "Ultimatum", when he attempts to blackmail the Lyoko Warriors into delivering Aelita to him by taking Odd and Yumi as hostages, he shows concern with keeping them alive and warm. He also doesn't kill them until it's become clear that Jérémie refused, despite having them at his mercy.
** XANA doesn't go out of his way to kill bystanders; whenever his polymorphic specters encounter someone (i.e. 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.
* NoNonsenseNemesis: Once his attacks start up, he does not pull his punches in either causing as much destruction as possible or fulfilling his objectives. The fact that he's TheVoiceless means that he doesn't bother wasting his time with say, a BreakingSpeech or a MotiveRant unless his plans ''specifically'' require them. And when he IS talking or having his minions speak, it's usually WHILE they're still doing their job, so he's clearly capable of multi-tasking. Later on, after the Lyoko Warriors have disabled a mere three out of hundreds of facilities controlled by XANA, he creates the Kolossus to stall their progress on destroying any more Replikas for good.
* NothingIsScarier: ''Seriously''. The heroes are fighting an enemy trying his best to kill them who they ''never'' see, who rarely communicates with them. Still, he's obviously there, and it can clearly be terrifying at times. (Although, the one he ''did'' confront them personally, it was even ''scarier'', and his more direct manifestations are nothing short of terrifying.)
* PragmaticVillain: Such as in "Marabounta" where he teams up with the Lyoko Warriors to destroy the title Marabounta, not to save the Lyoko Warriors, but to save himself and Aelita, since XANA needs her memory to escape the Supercomputer. Also shown in "Hot Shower" where he [[spoiler:destroys the piece of a comet he was going to use to destroy the factory and the Supercomputer, not out of pity, but because Aelita was devirtualized from Lyoko and he needed Aelita alive and on Lyoko to lure out Franz Hopper]].
* RealityWarper: His capabilities with the towers are practically unlimited -- he's shown himself capable of summoning blizzards, reversing gravity, creating sinkholes, possessing people/animals/inanimate objects, and in some cases outright ignoring physics (like making a teddy bear somehow grow to {{Kaiju}} proportions). And like Aelita, he can change the environment on Lyoko (such as summoning a sandstorm in the Desert Sector, or skewing gravity), although he doesn't do this often.
* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: His symbol is a red eye on a black background, his pulsations in Lyoko are red, and his manifestations in the real world are black/dark-grey.
* {{Sadist}}: Downplayed, as he doesn't show it that much and [[PragmaticVillain is pragmatic enough to pick a quick win over drawn-out suffering]], but there are occasions (most notably "Ghost Channel") where he laughs while inflicting pain on the heroes.
* 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. [[spoiler:Unfortunately for the heroes, he gets out in the Season 2 finale.]]
* SlidingScaleOfRobotIntelligence: Nobel (to maybe Godlike by Season 4).
* SoulJar: His Replikas' supercomputers in season 4 serve as this to him. Beforehand, Lyoko's supercomputer acted as this.
* StalkerWithoutACrush: He follows the main gang for the purpose of learning vital information about them in order to manipulate their feelings and behavior to his advantage.
* TaughtByExperience: At first, his attacks were for the most part, random [[MonsterOfTheWeek disasters]] that never really served a greater purpose. Thanks to the fact that he got stronger and smarter from each usage of the [[ResetButton Return to the Past]], he began to learn from each of his mistakes, becoming a much deadlier manipulator and setting up clear goals for himself.
* TurnedAgainstTheirMasters: He's been trying to kill his creator for the better part of 10 years.
* UltimateEvil: Besides the FacelessEye, he never uses any kind of Lyoko form, and the closest thing to a physical form that he has in the real world is as a massive billowing cloud of slimy, black smoke.
* VillainousBreakdown:
** Has one toward the end of Season 1, in the episode "Ghost Channel", where the above quote comes from.
** In the second-to-last episode of Season 4, through a Specter as proxy, he has one as he [[spoiler: is getting destroyed for good. The phantom's body wildly contorts in what seems to be pain before turning briefly into a gigantic, screaming face.]]
* VillainousRescue: He unexpectedly helps the heroes against the Marabounta in "Marabounta", purely out of self preservation, and saves William from the Digital Sea in "Final Round" after Lyoko's destruction in order to turn him into his {{Dragon}}.
* VirtualRealityWarper: The virtual world of Lyoko can be warped by XANA at will. The malevolent program has been shown flipping the landscape by 90 degrees, generating dense fogs, submerging entire sectors under the Digital Sea, creating zero gravity zones, and turning portions of the world invisible.
* TheVoiceless: With the exception of the parts in "Ghost Channel" [[spoiler:where he impersonate Jérémie]] and "Franz Hopper" [[spoiler:where he seemingly expresses himself through Hopper's clone]], we never hear him talking. And even then, it's unclear if it is actually him talking.
* XanatosGambit
** Any of his plans involving massive damages or witnesses in the first two seasons can be considered as such: even if the Lyoko Warriors successfully stop his attack, they are forced to use the Return to the Past to erase the event, making XANA stronger in the process.
** Season 3 followed a similar method. Even if the Lyoko Warriors were able to stop his schemes to destroy Lyoko and the Supercomputer, their own efforts to find a way to counter XANA at his newfound power level stalled, meaning that no matter what, he still held the advantage, and ultimately was able to destroy Lyoko. Season 4 furthers this, as while Lyoko's destruction was temporary, XANA had been able to make significant progress on building his robot army, showcasing that he was getting closer and closer to his true goal even while his attacks on the Lyoko Warriors had mixed success.
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[[folder:Lyoko Monsters]]
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[[caption-width-right:200:Polite, efficient, deadly... for the most part.]]
'''Lyoko Monsters'''

The dozen or so models of virtual monsters that XANA uses to defend activated towers and other important locations on Lyoko:

* ''Guardians'' (''Gardiens'') -- Not actually monsters, but force fields designed to trap a victim on Lyoko while XANA confused the heroes with tangentially-related real-world shenanigans. Used twice in Season 1 and shelved afterwards.
* ''Roachsters''[[note]]Season one only, Kankrelats from season two on[[/note]] (''Kankrelats'') -- As close to TheGoomba as you'll get from XANA, these mollusk-like critters have a basic design: legs, a laser cannon housing, an Eye of XANA on its carapace and little else. They often make up for their lack of individual strength with ZergRush tactics; their small size also allow them to hide and act as [[ColdSniper snipers]]. The first of two monsters to be fielded in the real world (in "False Start"). Quickly evolved into the PluckyComicRelief among the monsters with their tendency for being TooDumbToLive. However, even as late as the third and fourth seasons, they still occasionally devirtualize a Lyoko Warrior, particularly Yumi in one case (having popped out from behind a rock). Notably the only monster to have one and only one attack; they have a basic laser shot, but unlike all other monsters, they don't have some sort of special attack.
* ''Hornets'' (''Frelions'') -- The AirborneMooks of Lyoko, looking like giant wasps with ten wings. They fly around, shoot lasers from their stingers, drip acid at close range ([[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness only in Season One]]), and make the Lyoko Warriors suffer for not having a dedicated anti-air weapon.
* ''Bloks'' -- Walking cubes slightly taller than one of the heroes, supported on six crustacean legs connected to an underslung base. The four side faces are marked with Eyes of XANA on white hemispheres -- one is the actual weak point, while the other three fire lasers, ice rays, and rings of fire respectively. The ice rays can paralyze the targets or devirtualize them if they're low on Life Points. The fire rings are the least often used, though both Ulrich and Odd got devirtualized by them in "The Secret". Notably, they seem to be more intelligent than the other monsters; ambushing Lyoko Warriors by using their gripping legs to hide on the sides of cliffs, for example.
* ''[[GiantEnemyCrab Krabes]]'' -- These four-legged, lanky six-eyed beasts deliver powerful laser attacks from both their eye arrays and underbellies. They sometimes also try to skewer the heroes with their pointy legs. Krabes are the first monster type to be deployed ''en masse'' ("The Chips Are Down", in which a line of several dozen guards the tower) and the second (and final) type to be deployed on Earth ("A Bad Turn").
* ''Megatanks'' (''Mégatanks'') -- A deadly powerful area denial weapon, these things consist of an arc-laser emitter cocooned within two indestructible shell halves which expand and contract to allow firing, connected by hydraulics and flesh. Their attacks are powerful enough to destroy Towers with enough concentrated fire (as attempted during Aelita's first transfer out of Lyoko in "Code: Earth"), but can be resisted with a couple of the Lyoko Warriors' weapons. They also move very fast by closing their shell and rolling on themselves, not hesitating to [[IndyEscape crush any unlucky hero in their path]]. They don't seem to have brakes, though, and often go flying off the Sector if they start to charge.
* ''Tarantulas'' (''Tarentules'') -- XANA's apparent first attempt at [[MinMaxing min-maxing]] its monsters: they have more Life Points than any other monster barring the Scyphozoa (as of its Season 2 rollout), the Eye of XANA weak point is small and located at the back of the head, and their mobility is largely sacrificed for high-speed firing of the [[ArmCannon laser cannon stubs on their arms]]. Their threat at first was immense, as a single one devirtualized ''every'' Lyoko Warrior in one go; later though, the team has learned to deal with them, and they aren't nearly as dangerous.
* ''Scyphozoa'' (''la Méduse'') -- XANA's first [[TheDragon Dragon]], looking like a levitating giant jellyfish. It eschews direct attacking for wrapping its tentacles around Aelita and attempting to crack her NeuroVault open. Other notable targets include Yumi (to force a variant FriendOrIdolDecision by making Aelita transfer her own materialization code to replace Yumi's deleted version), William (to make him the new Dragon), and the ''Skidbladnir'' (to sabotage its shield regeneration). It normally retreats when it is rendered unable to gain what it came for, only being destroyed once in "The Lake" when it is overloaded, but XANA just makes another.
* ''Creepers'' (''Rampants'') -- Worm-like monstrosities that inhabit Sector 5 exclusively, where they WallCrawl at will. The unique laser cannon in their mouth is more powerful on average than those of other monsters. Notable for being one of the few enemies that explodes in a large quantity of LudicrousGibs.
* ''Mantas'' -- White-and-blue manta rays [[FlyingSeafoodSpecial that "swim" through the air]] and [[NoisyNature shriek like hawks]]. As if XANA didn't have enough air superiority, these {{Giant Flyer}}s hatch from the Celestial Dome surrounding Sector 5 and can deploy practically everywhere to shoot the regular lasers or poop deadly multi-terrain mines. William gains a black one as steed when under XANA's servitude.
* ''Kongres'' -- Eel-like monsters that antagonize the heroes in the Digital Sea. Have MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily.
* ''Sharks'' (''Rekins'') -- [[EverythingsEvenWorseWithSharks Shark-like monsters]] also native to the Digital Sea. Fire torpedoes instead of lasers.
* ''Kalamar'' -- Only seen once in the Digital Sea, it attempted to [[ThisIsADrill drill]] through the ''Skid'''s hull.
* ''Kolossus'' (''le Kolosse'') -- XANA's last-minute GiantMook, appearing as a towering [[VolcanicVeins Lava]] {{Golem}} with [[BladeBelowTheShoulder a blade for a left arm]]. It foregos standard lasers to crush the Lyoko Warriors and the ''Skidbladnir'' with sheer physical power. It is harder to kill than most monsters, having two Eyes of XANA that must be hit simultaneously to destroy it, and is large enough that attacking its body anywhere else will not damage it.
* '''Video-game monsters''' -- The Volcano Replika and other locales in the ''WesternAnimation/CodeLyoko'' video games give XANA several extra additions to its bestiary, from lanky ''Insekts'' to hardy ''Volcanoids'' to the first DS game's FinalExamBoss ''Scorpion''.
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** ArtificialStupidity: The monsters occasionally commit ridiculous mistakes, sometimes even shooting each other. This is lampshaded in "Marabounta", where Odd, while [[spoiler:giving instructions to some of the Blocks XANA sent to help them against the Marabounta]], mentions that "the only thing stupider than one Blok is two Bloks". In many respects this seems to be due to being somewhat literal-minded and overly obedient. They stick to their given goal or objective even when it's clear that isn't working. For example, when given the task of forming a firing line between the enemy and an activated tower, they do exactly that but are at a loss for what to do when the line is broken or when the enemy receive vehicle support that make them capable of going over the wall. Or as mentioned below, when ordered to search for and destroy the Lyoko Warriors, they continue to do so even if it prevents them from meeting a much worse fate like falling into the Digital Sea.
** AttackItsWeakPoint: No matter how much life points they have, it is possible to [[OneHitKill kill them instantly]] if you manage to hit the part of their body marked with the Eye of XANA. The only known exceptions to this rule are the Kolossus ([[spoiler:you need to hit on ''both'' of his two marks]]) and the Scyphozoa (who does react and fly away when hit, but doesn't die).
** ConvulsiveSeizures: Most monsters shake violently before dying. The Scyphozoa squirms in agony when it absorbs junk data, like when it took the memory from Aelita's clone.
** DefeatEqualsExplosion: Most of them explode upon dying, although the conflagration is harmless to others. The Kolossus is an exception, as it does not explode, instead collapsing as the lava parts of its body cool down to rock. Because of this, it is still capable of taking down a Lyoko Warrior as it dies, as Ulrich found out when the falling Kolossus fell on top of him.
** DemotedToExtra:
*** 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.
*** The Hornets would also suffer from this during Season 4, only appearing in three episodes (79, 81, and 83), and were replaced by the Mantas whenever an aerial monster was needed.
** DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Some of the monsters's weapon design clearly evokes... bodily processes. Mantas excrete their flying landmines through a visible orbicular hole in their rear end, Krabes fire their vertical lasers from between their legs, and Hornets can squirt liquid from their lower body stingers.
** EnergyWeapon: All monsters, with the exception of the unique ones (Scyphozoa, Kalamar, Kolossus), primarily attack with SlowLaser. Apart from the Kankrelats, though, they all have unique methods of attack as well.
** EpilepticFlashingLights: Whenever they're wounded.
** HarmlessFreezing: Zig-zagged. The Blok's ice beam can be fired in a continuous stream and freezes targets in place, either freezing limbs or the entire avatar. While the former only restricts movement, the latter will drain life points and if it hits a weak enough avatar, will cause devirtualization.
** HitPoints: Unlike the Lyoko Warriors, who all have 100 Lifepoints, the monsters all have varying amounts. Tarantulas have the most, while Kankrelats have the least.
** AnIcePerson: Blocks are able to fire beams of ice at the warriors that can be used to immobilize them or cause instant devirtualization.
** ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: They ''do'' gets some shot to the heroes, and even sometimes succeeds in devirtualizing them, but most of the time, they miss their target, especially when said target is Aelita.
** ImplacableMan: The Scyphozoa stalks its victim relentlessly and cannot be destroyed, only temporarily incapacitated.
** TheJuggernaut: The Kolossus is huge, powerful and pretty much unstoppable by conventional means. While most monsters are weak enough that other parts of their bodies can be damaged to either immobilize them or be sufficient in destroying them, the Kolossus' body is impervious to damage. Even a program that freezes its bottom half while it is half-submerged in a lake barely fazes it. The only way to kill it, which Ulrich figures out in the next to last episode, is to strike the Eyes of XANA on its face and arm simultaneously.
** NiceJobFixingItVillain: It has happened for the monsters to keep firing on a hero about to fall in the Digital Sea -- thus saving him or her from being stuck by timely devirtualization.
** MechaMooks: Well, mecha-and-flesh mooks. Or just something completely different -- XANA is surprisingly creative in design for an AI program.
** NoBodyLeftBehind: They explode when killed and don't even leave a trace.
** PlayingWithFire: Bloks can shoot fiery rings which usually cause a OneHitKill.
** PowersAsPrograms: Justified, since they literally are programs. XANA is able to manipulate them exactly in that fashion: downloading them, modifying them, copying them, etc.
** RentAZilla: The Kolossus is a giant RockMonster bigger than anything else on Lyoko and capable of destroying anything in a single hit. [[spoiler:As shown when it one-shots the ''Skidbladnir'' at the end of the series.]]
** RoboCam: They apparently see through the XANA eye, with the exception of Tarantulas, who seem to see through the little red slits on their nose.
** SlidingScaleOfRobotIntelligence: Bricks (except the Scyphozoa). Bloks seem to have some degree of intelligence, curiously enough, as they have been seen glancing at one another and emitting confused noises when a Lyoko Warrior evades them, and ambushing them from unexpected angles.
** TheSpeechless: They do not seem to have human intelligence, and do not speak beside shrieking, roaring or other unintelligible sounds.
** SuperDrowningSkills: With the exception of the Kongres, the Sharks and the Kalamar. Justified though, since this is Lyoko, where falling in the Digital Sea equals being disintegrated for them. Landbound monsters can sink in ordinary bodies of water that you can find on the Ice Sector, but as they are designed to work in land, their performance in water tends to be disastrous.
** TopHeavyGuy: The Kolossus has short, stubby legs compared to its massive upper body.
** WeHaveReserves: XANA can create as many of them as he wants, so he has no qualm about sacrificing them if necessary.
** XtremeKoolLetterz: Most of their names are normal words in French and English, just modified with these to make them look cool. Kankrelat, for example, is just the French word for "cockroach," except with all of the "Cs" replaced with "Ks". Justified since Odd's the one who named them and everyone just ran with it.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Specters]]
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'''Specters'''

Artificial smoke-beings created by XANA through an activated Lyoko Tower to cause havoc on Earth. At first they were only able to take control of inanimate objects or machines, but as XANA gained in power they started [[BodySnatcher taking over animals or even humans]]. The possessed ones (often labeled as "[=XANAfied=]") can be recognized by the [[MindControlEyes XANA symbol in their eyes]]. The Specters confer them some special powers, like NighInvulnerability (they can still be knocked out if taken by surprise, and are vulnerable to electricity or EMP), SuperStrength, WallCrawl, ShockAndAwe... and [[NewPowersAsThePlotDemands others as the series progresses]]. Alternatively they can control many animals or people, but then fewer special powers are gained because XANA's energy is diluted.
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* AgonyBeam: The electricity that Xanafied persons shoot at the heroes acts as this, rarely inflicting any [[HarmlessElectrocution significant damage.]]
* BodySnatcher: If they possess someone.
* GlamourFailure: If their victims reveal XANA's eye.
* HulkSpeak: Sometimes; some of them have been shown to be perfectly able to deliver real sentences, which they can use to fool the heroes or other characters. Most often, it just seems like XANA doesn't feel like wasting time to make them talk, only doing so if it is deemed necessary.
* IntangibleMan: Part of what makes them so hard to fight in the real world is how often they pull this trick.
* MindControlEyes: XANA's eye, to be specific.
* NighInvulnerability: Only [=EMPs=] and other electrical forces can actually damage them, and even then, it just knocks them out temporarily. So far, only Ulrich and William succeeded in permanently putting them down.
* RoboCam: The vision of objects/creatures possessed by XANA is depicted as this, and in the earlier seasons, they often scan each human encountered to see if they match one of XANA's four targets (Jérémie, Ulrich, Odd or Yumi).
* ShockAndAwe: They can use electricity, and don't hesitate in the slightest to do so by shocking their targets.
* SlidingScaleOfRobotIntelligence: Monkey to Average-Joe, depending on the attack. Jim was notably talkative during both of his possessions, while others like Yolanda and Delmas merely grunted.
* SpeedEchoes: Possessed humans occasionally display this when moving.
* SuperStrength: Barely ''anything'' can really stop them. If they don't phase through an obstacle, they utterly ''destroy'' it.
* VoiceOfTheLegion: Everyone under their control gains a demonic, electric reverb.
* WalkOnWater: On occasion.
* WallCrawl: Nicholas and a delivery-boy displayed this ability once.
* WetwareBody: If they snag a biological host. They have a wide variety of choice: rats, wasps, wolves, humans... the list is as long as the number of living organisms on the planet.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Polymorphic Clones]]
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'''Polymorphic Clones'''

An advanced form of XANA's Specters, the Polymorphic Clones have no need for a host and can take a human shape by themselves. They can copy many appearances, most often of the Lyoko Warriors or some adult to sow division or attack by surprise. They have the same powers as a [=XANAfied=] human with the addition of [[VoluntaryShapeshifting shapeshifting]]. They solely appeared on Earth, with the exception of one going to Lyoko through a scanner by replacing Odd in the episode "Revelation". Jérémie mastered the technology in Season 4 to create a short-lived clone of himself, and then a [[ReplacementGoldfish replacement for William]]. Both of Jérémie's clones, however, have a strange programming flaw: their personalities are partially inverted compared to the originals. The Jérémie Clone is an insufferable Odd-like KidAnova, while the William Clone is [[TheDitz dumb as a sack of bricks]].
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* AgonyBeam: As with humans possessed by XANA, the electricity that Xanafied persons shoot at the heroes acts as this, rarely inflicting any [[HarmlessElectrocution significant damage.]]
* ArtificialHuman: According to Clone William, a polymorphic specter is a "digitally generated polymorphic energy field controlled by a non-evolving, basic, behavioral program" that takes the form of a human being.
* BossBanter: Usually avoided by the spectres as they fight the heroes, with the notable exception of the spectre that impersonated Jérémie in "[[Recap/CodeLyokoS3E12 Double Trouble]]", which mocks Jérémie (and Odd) as it attacks, giving the impression that it words are coming straight from XANA himself, a manifestation of his hatred of the heroes and Jérémie in particular.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: The prototype Clone in season 1 couldn't shapeshift and was rather terrible at impersonating Yumi, blowing its cover rather quickly. By season 2, XANA seems to have perfected them, and they are more than capable to fool not only the civilians, but also sometimes the Lyoko Warriors themselves.
* {{Doppelganger}}: Done frequently to deceive the Lyoko Warriors, often resulting in a MirrorMatch.
* GlamourFailure: If you catch their HellishPupils.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: The Polymorphic Clones technically didn't appear until season 2, but season 1 had an episode where XANA did try something of a prototype by sending a Specter assuming the appearance of Yumi on Earth while the real Yumi was kept inside a Guardian.
* HardLight: They are energy beings given a body. Specters can become solid or intangible at will.
* HellishPupils: Would you consider XANA's [[FacelessEye symbol]] to be anything less than this?
* HulkSpeak: Averted; like the humans possessed by XANA, most Polymorphic Clones that have been seen can articulate perfect sentences if needed, but they usually just growl while fighting.
* IntangibleMan: They're usually solid, but can become intangible along with a blur of static, letting physical blows just go through them.
* KissMeImVirtual: XANA's first perfected one went around making out with people on campus in an attempt to drive a wedge into the group. It worked on Aelita due to her [[NoSocialSkills lack of social skills]] at the time, but everyone else managed to figure out the trick after the initial shock.
* MachineMonotone: The specters sometimes speak like this, but usually manage to emote just enough to fool the heroes.
* MarkOfTheBeast: The Eye of XANA acts as this, usually appearing in the specter's eyes, but also occasionally on the forehead.
* MasterOfAll: While possessed humans can be knocked out with some effort, a polymorphic specter is pretty much an unstoppable ImplacableMan that keeps getting NewPowersAsThePlotDemands. They can even be sent into Lyoko, where they freely shapeshift into any avatar registered in the Supercomputer.
* NighInvulnerability: Barely anything can keep these things down for long. Electrical impulses seem to work the best, but even that's temporary. They can only be stopped if the tower powering them is shut down.
* RoboCam: They display this whenever the scene shifts to their perspective, which showcases XANA's symbol within a red screen with streams of data in the corner of their sight.
* ShockAndAwe: Along with SuperStrength, the most common power they manifest is the ability to fire lightning bolts from their hands or mouth.
* SlidingScaleOfRobotIntelligence: Average-Joe (though William's is more of a Monkey).
* SpeedEchoes: Like humans possessed by XANA, after being revealed, they generally manifest after-images while moving.
* SpotTheImposter: This comes up occasionally when the specters impersonate the Lyoko Warriors or someone they know. The heroes learn to do this as time goes on, mainly by looking into their eyes to see if they have XANA's HellishPupils or not.
* SuperSmoke: Their true form is a cloud of black energy. They can turn back into it to fly and move through small passages, among other uses.
* SuperStrength: As with the humans possessed by XANA.
* TraitorShot: If a specter is pretending to be a Lyoko Warrior or somebody else they know, this is bound to occur.
* VoiceOfTheLegion: Just like the humans under XANA's control.
* 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.
[[/folder]]

!Kadic Academy

[[folder:In General]]
* AdultsAreUseless: Usually played straight, but averted with Jim, who helps a lot when given the opportunity ([[spoiler:the season 1 finale being the best example]]), and Franz Hopper, whose position as the BigGood ensures him being useful.
* BoardingSchool
* JuniorHigh
* MeaningfulName: "Kadic", for sci-fi author Creator/PhilipKDick, who was the physical inspiration for Franz Hopper.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Élisabeth "Sissi" Delmas]]
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'''Élisabeth''' (Elizabeth) '''"Sissi" Delmas'''

->''"I'm the star, the diva of the school!"''

->Voiced by: Carole Baillien (French), Jodi Forrest (English), Christine Flowers (English, four episodes in Season 1), Gaby Ugarte (Latin American Spanish, Seasons 1-2), Adriana Núñez (Latin American Spanish, Seasons 3-4), Cristina Yuste (European Spanish), Koharu Takeda (Japanese, Seasons 1-2), Mihoko Hijiri (Japanese, Seasons 3-4)

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 occurred. [[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.
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* AbhorrentAdmirer: A toned-down example toward Ulrich; unlike the usual, he doesn't reject her because she is ugly (she is actually quite attractive), but because he feels she is a BrainlessBeauty and an extremely annoying StalkerWithACrush.
* AbsurdlyPowerfulStudentCouncil: A one-person version, solely by virtue of being the principal's daughter.
* ActionSurvivor: Just try to count the numerous XANA attacks she was directly involved in that she survived.
* AlphaBitch: Though becomes a LovableAlphaBitch through CharacterDevelopment.
* BareYourMidriff: She wears a belly-shirt everywhere.
* BathingBeauty: She is said to take up to three showers a day, and she spends lots of time in them.
* BigSisterInstinct: As often as she picks on them, Sissi is actually very protective of Milly and Tamiya during XANA's attacks. "Attack of the Zombies" makes a point of this.
* BrainlessBeauty: Or so she comes across; she's actually smarter than she seems.
* BrattyTeenageDaughter: To Principal Delmas. The poor man is just a little too good-natured to really do anything about it.
* ButtMonkey: She has awful luck, and everyone seems to dislike her to some extent. But she mostly brings it on herself.
* CatchPhrase: "Cretin(s)!"
* CharacterDevelopment: Becomes a progressively better person throughout seasons 1, 2, and 4 ([[DemotedToExtra not so much season 3.]])
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: In many of the earlier Season 1 episodes scripted (though aired out of order), she was very malicious and more effective in her manipulation and antagonism. But then the writers decided to soften her, and she became the bumbling comedic ditz that we're all familiar with.
* ClingyJealousGirl: Where Ulrich is concerned. It annoys the hell out of him, since they're not together and it gives people the wrong idea.
* DefrostingIceQueen: She's way more openly antagonistic to the main group in Season 1. Come Season 2, she's warmed up to them quite a bit.
* DemotedToExtra: In Season 3 and 4, especially 3 (she becomes relevant again late into Season 4).
* DependingOnTheWriter: The level of sympathy her character is treated with changes from episode to episode; shown moreso in Seasons 2 and 4 (where she was sympathetic in the majority of her appearances) than 1 and 3 (where she... wasn't, though she did have moments in 1 and Season 3 saw her DemotedToExtra). Her level of intelligence also varies. While in Seasons 1 and 4 she can be very smart, she's mostly shown as stupid in the prequel and seasons 2 and 3.
* {{Determinator}}: In regards to finding out what the Lyoko gang is up to. Her level of commitment is either admirable or frightening.
* DoNotCallMePaul: "It's ''Sissi''! Not ''Élisabeth''!"
* DungeonmastersGirlfriend: She ends up playing this role whenever she joins the party, even though she's not romantically involved with any of them (no matter how much she says she is with Ulrich).
* FriendlyEnemies: She and the gang are mostly very civil and casual with each other throughout Season 4. It only stops (temporarily) toward the end when her old suspicions consume her again.
* GreenEyedMonster: She's insanely jealous of Yumi due to Ulrich's crush on her and her general status as TheAce.
* HiddenDepths: More and more episodes show this as the show goes on, particularly how surprisingly selfless she can be during XANA attacks, very often helping other people even at risk to herself. [[spoiler: Even the misunderstanding that got her kicked out of the Lyoko gang was based upon frantic concern for their well-being.]]
* HopelessSuitor: Even ''before'' Yumi entered the scene, it was clear Ulrich had no interest in dating her.
* HormoneAddledTeenager: She's a little ''too'' amorous for her age, even.
* IJustWantToHaveFriends: As early as Season 1, she admits that her primary reason for fixating so much on the main characters is that she wants to be included in their group of friends.
* InformedAttribute: Stated by Ulrich to be a DudeMagnet in the prequel; however, the number of boys seen actually hitting on her onscreen doesn't exceed three (two of them being [[KidAnova Odd]] and [[AbhorrentAdmirer Hervé]], and the third being a one-shot character who forgot about her as soon as he saw Yumi), and minor characters have been shown to be pretty aware of her being a BrainlessBeauty. In fact, Yumi technically gets more attention from boys than she does.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Her usual attitude, though see HiddenDepths above.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: She's a bratty, self-absorbed snob, but she's a decent person deep down who can be incredibly brave and selfless when push comes to shove in a XANA attack. And she does genuinely care for Ulrich, even if she has a funny way of showing it.
* LittleMissSnarker: She can't say two sentences without something snarky coming out.
* LingerieScene: She's in her underwear about as often as Yumi is in the bathtub.
* LoveDodecahedron: She is in love with Ulrich, who has feelings for Yumi, who is also the main love interest of William.
* MissingMom: WordOfGod states that Sissi's mother is alive, but lives away from Sissi and her father. She is never seen or mentioned in the show.
* MsFanservice: When she's not in a LingerieScene, she's dressed to play this to the hilt.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Only adults ever call her "Élisabeth", and she hates that. Everybody else calls her "Sissi".
* OutOfFocus: From Season 3 up until near the end of Season 4 (when the gang's suspicious activities increases to such a level that she can't ignore it anymore).
* ScreamingWoman: Played straight when she's confronted to XANA's latest attack. Parodied in "End of Take", where "AAAAAHH" is her sole line in James Finson's movie.
* ShipTease: With Odd, particularly in Season 2's "Déjà Vu" and Season 4's "Kadic Bombshell" and "Bad Connection".
* SkirtOverSlacks: In Seasons 1-3 this is her standard outfit.
* SpoiledBrat: Her father is a ''huge'' pushover where she's concerned, which she takes advantage of mercilessly. [[spoiler: Season 3's prequel two-parter reveals that she started out as a more SpoiledSweet pampered girl, but the misunderstanding between her and the gang that led to them becoming enemies changed this.]]
* StalkerWithACrush: Her crush on Ulrich tends to verge on this, as in some episodes she is willing to resort to things like blackmail and taking advantage on his LaserGuidedAmnesia to get him to date her. The fact she has apparently been trying to seduce him since ''Nursery School'', even though he never returned the affection, doesn't help. This tends to be toned down after her CharacterDevelopment.
* ThrowTheDogABone: On occasion, and [[spoiler:in the final episode, when the gang at last decides to make her an "official" friend. Also counts as EarnYourHappyEnding, as it feels like an ultimate reward for all the multiple times she's helped out but doesn't remember, with shades of WorthyOpponent respect from the gang considering the stunt she'd just pulled prior to the final return to the past which caught them ''completely'' off guard.]]
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: A rival ([[UnknownRival sort of]]) case with Yumi.
* UnknownRival: Yumi is mature enough to realize that Sissi is a HopelessSuitor, and thus a rivalry between them is barely acknowledged on her part.
* 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 to be on good terms with her in the prequel.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Hervé Pichon]]
'''Hervé Pichon'''

->Voiced by: Bruno Mullenaerts (French), David Gasman (English), Hiroki Shimowada (Japanese)

* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Hervé is a good student in general, but Jérémie always has better grades than him.
* BrainsAndBrawn: He's the brain to Nicholas' brawn.
* CheatersNeverProsper: In "The Robots". Hervé cheats on the robot competition against Jérémie in order to win, however, proof that he cheated is found on the video record Milly and Tamiya have made, and it's implied that even if a return to the past hasn't been done, he would've been outed as a cheater anyway. Played straight in the same episode after the return to the past, as Jérémie knew what to do in order counter Hervé's attempt at destroying Kiwi II.
* HopelessSuitor: To Sissi. Nothing he does ever catches her attention and makes him constantly jealous of Ulrich. Theo got under his skin too when he tried entering Sissi's gang during "Claustrophobia", clearly holding the torch for Sissi as well.
* OddFriendship: With Nicholas, as they seem to have very little in common.
* TeenGenius: Despite being frequently overshadowed by Jérémie's and Aelita's intelligence, he is also a very bright teenager on his own.
* ThoseTwoGuys: With Nicholas.
* UnknownRival: Compare with Sissi to Yumi; he's this to both Jeremie and Ulrich. He'd like to knock Jeremie down a peg or two based on their academic performances, but the latter sees he's mainly harmless. Ulrich thinks even less since he's never been that into Sissi in the first place.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Nicholas Poliakoff]]
'''Nicholas Poliakoff'''

->Voiced by: Carole Baillien (French), Matthew Géczy (English), Masaru Uekura (Japanese)

* AnnoyingLaugh: Nicholas seems to be known by his, with Odd stating in "The Chips Are Down" that he would recognize his laugh anywhere.
* 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 weigh a ton.
* BrainsAndBrawn: The brawn to Hervé's brains, though he isn't seen strongarming too much.
* DumbMuscle: Is none too bright but is adequate in sports.
* HiddenDepths: He's an excellent drummer and is also fond of fishing.
* LiteralMinded: One example of this happens in the final episode where Sissi needs an excuse to be absent from class and tells Nicholas to tell Jim the first excuse that pops into his head. HilarityEnsues when he tells Jim that Sissi ran into some aliens and went crazy.
* OddFriendship: With Hervé, as they seem to have very little in common, yet are ThoseTwoGuys regardless.
* SimpletonVoice: His voice is pretty dopey-sounding compared to the other characters.
* ThoseTwoGuys: With Hervé.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Amelia "Milly" Solovieff]]
'''Amelia "Milly" Solovieff'''

->Voiced by: Mirabelle Kirkland (English)

* 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.
* DeadpanSnarker: Has her moments. For example, during "Zero Gravity Zone", Tamiya zooming in on Ulrich's ass while he's playing soccer and making comments on the view gets this reaction from her:
-->'''Milly:''' Well thanks, Tamiya, for that excellent commentary on the game!
* GirlishPigtails: Her hairstyle features these.
* IntrepidReporter: She and Tamiya attempt to be this, always looking for their "scoop", however, no one really seems to take their journalism very seriously.
* HopelessSuitor: For Ulrich, in season 1.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: She's always referred to by her nickname, Milly.
* RedOniBlueOni: The emotional and quick to bite back red to Tamiya's more down-to-earth and rational blue.
* ThoseTwoGirls: With Tamiya.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Tamiya Diop]]
'''Tamiya Diop'''

->Voiced by: Barbara Weber-Scaff (English), Miho Hino (Japanese)

* BeautyMark: Has one under her left eye.
* CameraFiend: A given, since she is the camerawoman for Kadic News.
* FemaleGaze: PlayedForLaughs. Tamiya zooms in on Ulrich's butt while filming his soccer game. Milly is not too pleased about the quality of her coverage.
* IntrepidReporter: She and Milly attempt to be this, always looking for their "scoop"; however, no-one really seems to take their journalism very seriously.
* RedOniBlueOni: The usually rational and down-to-earth blue to Milly's quick to bite your head off and emotional red.
* ThoseTwoGirls: With Milly.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Jim Moralès]]
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[[caption-width-right:200:[[MemeticMutation Not talking at the moment.]]]]
'''Jim Moralès'''

->''"[[SubvertedTrope Actually]], I'd be glad to talk about it, but I don't have the time!"''

->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), Shinya Fukumatsu (Japanese)

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.
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* AmbiguousSituation: His endless stories about the amazing jobs and things he has done through his life. While there is some implication that at least some of them must be false, absolutely nothing is confirmed or refuted in the show proper. It's even strange that, while Jim himself has proven to be a CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass, whether that one quirk belongs to the moron or the badass remains thoroughly unanswered.
* BadassTeacher: He doesn't appear to be one at first glance, but he can be.
* ButtMonkey: Even more so than Odd and Sissi, being subject to physical comedy at his expense as much as verbal comedy.
* CatchPhrase: "I'd rather not talk about it," when referring to the various jobs he had, though it was not present in the first season.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: The absence of his catchphrase aside, he was ''slightly'' rougher around the edges in Season One and was not quite ''as'' weird compared to later on.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Even if he tries to present himself as a strict teacher, he has a ton of weird quirks and takes them to heart, and isn't even aware of how people actually laugh at his back for them.
* TheComicallySerious: While he's not completely devoid of a sense of humor, he takes himself very seriously. Too much, in fact, for the kind of eccentric he is.
* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: When he thinks Odd went back on his word and leaked his[[invoked]] [[OldShame old dance movie]] to the other students, he punishes him with compulsory disco lessons!
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Most of the time, he is portrayed as goofy, clumsy, and a bit stupid, to the point that even the students don't take him seriously. When given the chance, however, he can actually be competent.
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: He has a tendency of repeating or paraphrasing himself when he lets his speech meanders.
-->'''Jim:''' May I remind you that in the evening, girls and boys are prohibited from straying from their respective floors. Okay, for any of you who might be thinking of trying to pull anything, remember that the floors are different from each other in that either is upstairs from, or downstairs from, the one above. Girls are upstairs, and boys downstairs. Coming and going through upstairs to downstairs and from downstairs to upstairs are strictly forbidden. If I ever catch anyone going from downstairs upstairs or anyone going from upstairs to downstairs, he or she is really going to regret it stairs. [sic]
* DrillSergeantNasty: Apparently, he used to be one, and still has the mannerisms.
* ExpansionPackPast: Every time he talks about his past, he's got something new to add into the mix. No word on how much of it is true.
* GratuitousDiscoSequence: His secret video clip of Paco, King of Disco.
* IMinoredInTropology: Or rather, "I was a former Navy SEAL/CIA operative/FBI agent/paranormal researcher, etc."
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Brash, hot-blooded, almost always angry, but he does care about the well-being of his students.
* LetsGetDangerous: On those rare occasions when he gets fully serious, he's a force to be reckoned with.
%%* {{Malaproper}}
* MeaningfulName: He's a gym teacher named Jim.
* MultiethnicName: Has an Anglo-Saxon first name (if Jim is short for James) and a Spanish surname (though weirdly spelled, as the real life surname is Morales, not Moralés).
* TheMunchausen: Maybe. His various accounts of his previous life range from the reasonably believable to the patently ridiculous, not to mention the sum of all of them would probably require more than one lifetime to fit, but there's no actual proof that he's lying in any case.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: There's the one time he accidentally caused Jérémie to fall down a flight of stairs and break his ankle when Jim got on his case yet again. He may be something of a jerk, but actually causing the students to get harmed is the exact ''opposite'' of anything he'd ever want to do, and he's genuinely broken up over the incident far more than his getting fired over it.
* NoodleIncident: Over the span of his career... too many to count.
* OldShame: In-universe, the Disco Paco dance movie he starred in. Until it starts to become a big hit with the students, at least. As for his other past careers, [[CatchPhrase he'd rather not talk about them]].
* OlderThanTheyLook: While Jim lacks gray hair and other signs of age like many of his other teacher compatriots, he was around to make a disco film in the seventies and has an adult nephew, and as he was an adult in the film he's likely at least in his fifties
* PapaWolf: The students may not actually be his children but they're his students and by golly, he's going to protect them!
* PhonyVeteran: Some of the jobs he claims to have occupied are related to the Army, the Navy or some kind of secret service, including paranormal investigation. While we are never shown any proof that Jim lies in his life tales, the possibility of a man actually having done all those things (along with the rest of his stories) is admittedly very small.
* PluckyComicRelief: It goes to show [[AdultsAreUseless what kind of show this is]] that the old gym teacher plays this role.
* PointlessBandAid: Under his left eye. He probably thinks it makes him look tough.
* ProperlyParanoid: He is firmly convinced the Lyoko Warriors are doing something behind everyone's back, an impression Delmas only sees as paranoia.
* RealMenWearPink: Season 4 reveals his cellphone is pink and decorated with several hearts. Even ''Odd'' thought it was too girly.
* SixthRanger: Temporarily, at the end of Season 1. But then he gets his memory erased when the gang go back in time.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: His surname is officially written as "Moralès", but some dubs spell it by the more regular form "Morales" (the difference being, respectively, "Mo-ra-LES" and "Mo-RA-les").
* 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 and comical 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.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:William's Clone]]
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[[caption-width-right:200:Clone William. Awwwwwww!]]
'''William's Clone'''

->''"To be specific, I'm a digitally-generated random polymorphic energy field controlled by a basic non-evolving behavioral program."''

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

A Polymorphic Clone created by Jérémie to replace William throughout season 4 while the latter is controlled by XANA, so that nobody at Kadic gets suspicious from his prolonged absence. The clone is close enough from the original to fool most people, although his programming isn't quite perfect, making him a LiteralMinded [[TheDitz Ditz]] -- and a big source of humor. Milly and Tamiya discovers something is amiss in episode "A Lack of Goodwill", and William's parents quickly find out he's an impostor (in episode "Down to Earth"), just before William's return.
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* ArtificialHuman: A copy made of HardLight. It's able to simulate humanity well enough.
* CannotTellALie: He was never programmed to lie. He'd respond truthfully to any question asked by anybody, including about his true nature -- although being quite stupid and literal-minded, it's probable he'd misinterpret the question. And while he's aware another William exists, he still responds to William's name, which can cause further confusion.
* CloningBlues: Averted. He's not self-aware enough to care that he's just a replacement doomed to disappear when the true William comes back.
* TheDitz: His artificial intelligence isn't quite advanced enough to make him act normal.
* {{Doppelganger}}: A rather... imperfect clone of William.
* HardLight: "Random polymorphic energy" to be precise, [[TechnoBabble whatever the hell that means.]]
* LiteralMinded: The most common expression of his ditziness:
-->'''Delmas:''' Well, Dunbar, my boy, I am glad to see your fever has broken and you're feeling well!\\
'''Clone William:''' Eh... did I break anything else?
* OtherMeAnnoysMe: If the possessed William looks annoyed at the sight of his clone, it's nothing compared to what the real one discovers it did to his reputation when he's finally free.
* ReplacementGoldfish: He tends to exemplify the "Goldfish" part more than the "Replacement" part.
* TechnoBabble: The above quote.
* UndyingLoyalty: To the Lyoko Warriors, so long as XANA can't control him. He even goes so far as to try to fight the real William in one episode (not with much success, unfortunately).
* WalkingSpoiler: His very existence spoils William being BrainwashedAndCrazy by XANA.
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: The Lyoko Warriors, with the exception of Aelita, are pretty dismissive of him; they don't really care if he gets punished and call him not a real human... even though Episode 81 shows he's starting to ''gain'' humanity. Aelita calls them on this, since they treated ''her'' like a human when they thought she wasn't.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Kiwi]]
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[[caption-width-right:320:[[TeamPet Friendly]], [[UndyingLoyalty loyal]], and a WalkingDisasterArea. [[ToiletHumor Housetraining not included]].]]
'''Kiwi'''

Odd's dog, which he brought secretly in Kadic and now hides inside his room with the help of Ulrich, since pets are forbidden at school. Kiwi tends to not do much besides eating, sleeping and in some occasion wreaking havoc in the room. Odd, however, is devoted to it.
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* DogsAreDumb: If Jérémie's opinion is anything to go by.
* LoopholeAbuse: Used in one episode, where Jim finds out about Kiwi. When pointed out that pets are forbidden inside school, Odd notices that they are in the bus at this point, meaning they are technically outside school.
* MysteriousAnimalSenses: Can feel the presence of spectres and [[spoiler:Ulrich's consciousness in "Nobody in Particular"]].
* OpenSecret: Pretty much every student at the school knows that Odd is keeping him in his room in defiance of the rules; Sissi even threatens to tell on him in one episode, but apparently changes her mind later.
* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: Bordering on UglyCute at times.
* RobotMe: Kiwi has a robot duplicate built by Jérémie. He doesn't like it.
* TeamPet: To the Lyoko Warriors.
[[/folder]]
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!Lyoko Warriors Families

[[folder:Franz Hopper]]
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[[caption-width-right:200:[[BigGood The man by whom everything started.]]]]
'''Franz Hopper''' / '''Waldo Schaeffer'''

->''"Project Carthage was military program used to block enemy communication. [...] So I built the Supercomputer, created Lyoko, and last of all XANA, to destroy Carthage."''

->Voiced by: Arnaud Léonard (French), Paul Bandey (English, second season), Alan Wenger (English, third and fourth seasons), Víctor Delgado (Latin American Spanish), Pablo Sevilla (European Spanish)

Aelita's father, the creator of the Supercomputer, Lyoko and XANA. Also a former Science teacher at Kadic Academy.
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* AmbiguouslyEvil: Throughout Season 2, when the Lyoko Warriors were researching his life, it became increasingly unclear as to whether or not he is a good guy or an insane madman, with Ulrich at one point suggesting that Hopper is, in a way, a second enemy to deal with. His design for a neuronal headset nearly kills Jérémie (which is why Ulrich brought him as an enemy), Aelita's flashbacks of him are extremely ominous in presentation (even his most heartwarming moments picture him as a rather distant father), and the Polymorphic Specter of him has his personality so down pat that it can deceive a viewer (Yumi honestly thought that the clone was the real deal). Not to mention how his sanity did in fact, [[SanitySlippage plummet]] during his research concerning Lyoko. It isn't until Aelita's memories are restored in the Season 2 finale that Hopper is confirmed to be on the side of the Lyoko Warriors, and he is firmly seen as the BigGood from that point onward.
* BadassBookworm: He rarely manifest in person, but when he does, it almost always result in him doing something awesome to help the Lyoko Warriors. ''[[BigBad XANA]]'' considered him enough of a threat to ''miss a chance to destroy the Supercomputer and Lyoko Warriors for good'' if that meant not being able to deal with him.
* BallOfLightTransformation: Unlike other, rather than taking the form of a humanoid DigitalAvatar, Franz Hopper is permanently virtualized on Lyoko under the shape of a large, brilliant ball of light. In a flashback during Episode 57, his form consisted of a cluster of smaller balls of light.
* BigGood: Everything the heroes have to fight against XANA is thanks to Dr. Hopper. And he occasionally helps more directly if the situation calls for it.
* 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.
* ComicBookFantasyCasting: Appearance-wise, he's Creator/PhilipKDick with added opaque glasses for extra mystery. The creators of the show are fans of him, and also used his surname for "Kadic".
* CrazyPrepared: He locked his journals behind such high-encrypted coding Jérémie predicts it'd take a year to break it, then hid them in a random locker with the key being in a toy doll, which itself was hidden behind a compartment in a wall in a house in the woods. Taken UpToEleven in the novels, wherein among other things, he: manually broke apart and hid [[SelfDestructButton Code DOWN]], bricked up an entire part of the Hermitage to hide ''another'' diary, wrote notes in invisible ink, and [[spoiler:downloaded all his work into Aelita's brain just so she could recreate it if she had to enter Code DOWN]]. The man's ''modus operandi'' was basically predicting and preparing for anything that could possibly go wrong; even XANA turning on him was something he figured might happen, he just had no choice but to flee to Lyoko.
* 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 (or just lines of dialogue) 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.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Allows himself to be killed by Mantas while he diverts enough power to the Supercomputer to launch the Anti-XANA Program.]]
* 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. It's worth noting that when dealing with him, XANA becomes ''far'' more driven and dangerous than he usually is.
* TheMentor: He serves this function to Jérémie, helping him to refine his programming and giving him data and better weapons with which to fight XANA.
* MysteriousPast: The specific details of his work concerning Project Carthage is never revealed, even when the show ends.
* NonActionGuy: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]]. His virtual form is not capable of direct combat, much like Aelita in the first two seasons and he's absent for most of the series. However, the data he gives to the Lyoko Warriors is critical in enabling them to continue fighting XANA, [[spoiler:and in the end, his HeroicSacrifice and compiling of the anti-XANA program effectively gives him more credit in defeating XANA]].
* OpaqueNerdGlasses: In life, he sported a pair of these.
* PapaWolf: Many of his actions are motivated to protect his daughter. Unfortunately for him, XANA knows it, and [[BatmanGambit exploits it throughout Season 4]], using Aelita as bait to draw Hopper out of the Digital Sea in order to kill him. He's willing to take blow after blow as long as he can then get Aelita to a safe location.
* PhlebotinumRebel: Franz Hopper created XANA to destroy "Project Carthage", which he was previously working on. Whether or not he succeeded in doing so is unknown.
* TheProfessor: In a roundabout way, thanks to his diaries.
* ProperlyParanoid: He suspected agents were following him while he was working on the Supercomputer. He was right.
* RealNameAsAnAlias: [[spoiler:Waldo Schaefer]], a.k.a. Franz Hopper, changed his moniker for his middle name and the maiden name of his wife.
* SanitySlippage: Suffered a heavy case of it during the creation of Lyoko. His abuse of the Return to the Past (he repeated the same day over ''2,500 times'' without rest) made him extremely paranoid, as seen in his diary, as well as having a delusion of grandeur, as he called the Supercomputer his "Great Project".
* StayingAlive: In the season two and four finales, [[spoiler:he sacrifices himself for Aelita. [[KilledOffForReal The Season 4 sacrifice seems definitive.]]]]
* SuperpowerLottery: Like Aelita and XANA-William, he has the Annex Program. He helped and saved the Lyoko Warriors more often than not when using it, possessing Sissi to communicate with them or possessing Mantas to save the Lyoko Warriors. See Aelita's SuperpowerLottery for more information on the Annex Program.
* TheStoic: He has exactly two facial expressions: open-mouthed and closed-mouthed. It helps to present him as a deeply reserved man.
* TranshumanAliens: Hopper is permanently virtualized into Lyoko, and his avatar is a brilliant ball of light, rather than a humanoid like the other Lyoko Warriors.
* MadScientist: He built the Supercomputer, Lyoko and XANA on his own, and lost his marbles due to the strain of his experiments.
* VirtualGhost: Franz was never able to take on a corporeal form on Lyoko, only able to manifest in the form of a cluster of light orbs (Season 3) and a bright ball of energy (Season 4).
* TheVoiceless: While his voice ''is'' heard on screen, it's always either in a flashback, a recording, or a XANA trick. Hopper himself (in his present-day light ball form) is never heard to speak.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Mr. and Mrs. Ishiyama]]
'''Takeho and Akiko Ishiyama'''

->Takeho voiced by: Mathieu Moreau (French), David Gasman (English), Masaru Uekura (Japanese)\\
Akiko voiced by: Nathalie Stas (French), Jodi Forrest (English)

Yumi's parents.
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* BigEater: Takeho is seen twice in Season One wolfing down bowls of noodles in one go.
* GoodParents: They worry about their children, but at some points, this becomes a hindrance to the group due to said concern.
* ObliquelyObfuscatedOccupation: It's never made clear what exactly Takeho's job is.
* OneHeadTaller: Akiko is noticeably taller than her husband, and it seems that Yumi took after her in that regard.
* ParentsAsPeople: Embody this the most out of the parents of the Lyoko Warriors. Being foreigners from another country seems to have put legitimate stress on them at times, with them needing to spend time apart during a Season 1 episode, and Takeo's job-status being critical during a later Season 2 episode. They're also the most observant of Yumi's suspicious behavior owing to her not being a boarder, but considering that their daughter is fighting, as Odd puts it, a demonic ArtificialIntelligence, they're quite right to be worried. Regardless of their issues at times, they love their children no matter what.
* PinkGirlBlueBoy: Inverted in season 4, where Takeho wears a pink shirt and Akiko a light blue one.
* PlotMandatedFriendshipFailure: A marriage version of the trope is at play in "Laughing Fit": Yumi's parents are angry at each other for reasons not completely explained, but they make up by the end of the episode.
* 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]]

[[folder:Hiroki Ishiyama]]
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[[caption-width-right:200:The only AnnoyingYoungerSibling so far.]]
'''Hiroki Ishiyama'''

->''"YUUUUMIII, your boyfriend is here!"''

->Voiced by: Guylaine Gibert (French), Barbara Weber-Scaff (English), Gergei Mayén (Latin American Spanish)

[[AnnoyingYoungerSibling Yumi's younger brother]], appearing in Season 2 and joining the 6th grade at Kadic at the start of Season 3. He shows some [[HeroWorshipper hero-worship]] toward Ulrich, and constantly hounds his sister to date the Stern boy and admit her feelings for him. A bit of a crook, he often blackmails Yumi into doing his homework in exchange for not tattling to their parents when she's out saving the world. [[TagalongKid Unwittingly tagging along]] in some of XANA's attacks, he tends to be a dangerous distraction (in "A Bad Turn"), but also shows some useful skills (like picking locks in "Hot Shower"). He never keeps memories of this thanks to the Returns to the Past.
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* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: His sole role seems to be teasing Yumi about her relationship with Ulrich. To say she finds this annoying would be an understatement.
* BrattyHalfPint: Yumi seems to think so, and indeed, Hiroki pretty much exists to be annoying for most of the series. There are some signs of him growing out of it during season 4 in regards to his crush on Milly causing him to stammer and become more nervous, but his overall attitude remains the same.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: There are two times when he won't behave like an obnoxious brat: When XANA's attack at the time seems on the verge of success, and when his crush on Milly pops up.
* EveryoneKnowsMorse: He does have an excuse for this, though; he and Yumi learned it to talk in secret at the table.
* RememberTheNewGuy: Hiroki is nowhere to be seen in season 1, even though we see the Ishiyama household a few times. Even in "Holiday in the Fog", when the family are going on vacation, Hiroki isn't seen in the car. Yet when he shows up in season 2, no-one draws attention to his sudden appearance.
* ShipperOnDeck: Of his sister and Ulrich, though it's mostly about teasing her.
* TagalongKid: He's completely in the dark regarding Lyoko, but occasionally participates in helping to curb the damage XANA causes in the real world.
* YoungEntrepreneur: In Season 4, he's shown selling Subdigitals tickets. He refuses to give any discounts.
[[/folder]]

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

Ulrich's parents.
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* AbusiveParents: As mentioned above in Ulrich's profile, Walter 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.
* AdaptationalNiceGuy: In the ''Code Lyoko Chronicles'' novels, Walter Stern, while still having a troubled relationship with his son Ulrich, ultimately reconciles with him.
* BystanderSyndrome: 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.
* DeathGlare: Walter's default expression does not reflect any warm feelings, especially after when it looks like Ulrich threw a soccer game, albeit to go reluctantly save a teacher from a XANA attack.
* 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 provocation, the man only shows affection to Ulrich when he's on the verge of ''dying''.
* NamedByTheAdaptation: Mr. Stern is named Walter in Code Lyoko Chronicles. Still nothing regarding his wife’s name.
* NoNameGiven: We never learn their first names in the show. The novels at least name Mr. Stern, giving him the first name of Walter.
* SoProudOfYou: Mr. Stern's last words to Ulrich when it seems that he's going to die in "Zero Gravity Zone". Made HarsherInHindsight[[invoked]] when we consider the fact that this was the only nice thing he ever did or said in the entire series.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Jérémie's Parents]]
'''Michel Belpois'''
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* TheGhost: Jérémie's mother never makes a physical appearance in the show, but dialogue indicates that she's still alive, well, and still married to Michel.
* GoodParents: They're very accomodating to Jérémie, and very understanding of him.
* OpenMindedParent: In "Distant Memory", Jérémie's father is receptive to the idea of his 14-year-old son having a girlfriend, even saying how the boy's romance reminds him of his own relationship with Jérémie's mother. Later in the same episode, Jérémie tells Aelita that his parents have no issue with her staying over at his house.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Odd's Family]]

Odd's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Della Robbia, and his five older sisters, Adele, Pauline, Elizabeth, Marie and Louise.
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* BigSisterBully: In "Distant Memory", Odd recalls the day in the last holidays when his sisters locked him in the bathroom for an entire night just because [[ForTheLulz they thought it would be funny]].
* TheGhost: Odd's sisters are this, as they never make a physical appearance during the entire show. His parents were also this for most of the series, as their first and only physical appearance only takes place almost at the end of the final season.
* GoodParents: Odd's parents are completely supportive of him and his hobbies, to Odd's dismay, [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor at first]].
[[/folder]]

[[folder:William's Parents]]

William's parents, James and Mrs. Dunbar.
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* GoodParents: James frequently calls William and quickly worries about him when he doesn't call anymore. Upon visiting Kadic with his wife, they try to spend time with their "son" (eating with him in the cafeteria, asking him how he's doing) and 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.
* {{Irony}}: William, a self-proclaimed "rebel", is actually very close to some authority figures, namely his parents.
* NoNameGiven: William's mother is not named.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Green in Mrs. Dunbar's case.
[[/folder]]

[[index]]
* [[Characters/CodeLyokoTheLyokoWarriors The Lyoko Warriors]]
* [[Characters/CodeLyokoVillains Villains]]
* [[Characters/CodeLyokoKadicAcademy Kadic Academy]]
* [[Characters/CodeLyokoLyokoWarriorsFamilies Lyoko Warriors' Families]]

[[/index]]

%%%* WakeUpGoToSchoolSaveTheWorld: Their job.

* {{Foil}}: [[AbusiveParents Mr. Stern]] is one to [[GoodParents Jérémie's father]], made specially evident in "Distant Memory". Whereas Mr. Stern spends his time demeaning Ulrich and insulting his friends, not even bothering to give them the time of day, Jérémie's father is far kinder and open-minded, being quite glad that his son has made friends, and taking said son back to Kadic (since he can see that Jérémie has a crush on Aelita).

* {{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. In contrast to Walter Stern, who refuses to understand Ulrich's perspective and considers Ulrich's friends a gang of good-for-nothings.

* {{Foil}}: To Mr. and Mrs. Stern. Both Ulrich and William's fathers live away from their sons and seem focused on their work. But while Walter barely contacts Ulrich at all and often demeans and insults him and his friends, James frequently calls William, quickly worries about him when he doesn't call anymore and knows William well enough to ultimately figure out Clone William isn't his son. While both Ulrich and William's mothers take a backseat compared to James and Walter, Ulrich's mother takes her husband's defense over her son's while William's mother is just as loving towards her son as James is.

* GoodParents: James frequently calls William and quickly worries about him when he doesn't call 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.

* CoDragons: She was one of XANA's {{Dragon}}s in Season 3, the other one being the Scyphozoa.

For tropes and descriptions that apply to ''Characters/CodeLyokoEvolution'', please refer to its character page.

* YamatoNadeshiko: Akiko.

* DungeonmastersGirlfriend: She ends up playing this role whenever she joins the party, even though she's not romantically involved with any of them.

* SpoiledBrat: Her father is a ''huge'' pushover where she's concerned, which she takes advantage of mercilessly. [[spoiler: Season 3's prequel two-parter reveals that she started out as more sweet pampered girl, but the misunderstanding between her and the gang that led to them becoming enemies changed this.]]

* VirtualRealityWarper: The virtual world of Lyoko can be warped by X.A.N.A. at will. The malevolent program has been shown flipping the landscape by 90 degrees, generating dense fogs, submerging entire sectors under the Digital Sea, creating zero gravity zones, and turning portions of the world invisible.

* ''Megatanks'' (''Mégatanks'') -- A deathly powerful area denial weapon, these things consist of an arc-laser emitter cocooned within two indestructible shell halves which expand and contract to allow firing, connected by hydraulics and flesh. Their attacks are powerful enough to destroy Towers with enough concentrated fire (as attempted during Aelita's first transfer out of Lyoko in "Code: Earth"), but can be resisted with a couple of the Lyoko Warriors' weapons. They also move very fast by closing their shell and rolling on themselves, not hesitating to [[IndyEscape crush any unlucky hero in their path]]. They don't seem to have brakes, though, and often go flying off the Sector if they start to charge.

[[folder:Franz Hopper]]
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[[caption-width-right:200:[[BigGood The man by whom everything started.]]]]
'''Franz Hopper''' / '''Waldo Schaeffer'''

->''"Project Carthage was military program used to block enemy communication. [...] So I built the Supercomputer, created Lyoko, and last of all XANA, to destroy Carthage."''

->Voiced by: Arnaud Léonard (French), Paul Bandey (English, second season), Alan Wenger (English, third and fourth seasons), Víctor Delgado (Latin American Spanish), Pablo Sevilla (European Spanish)

Aelita's father, the creator of the Supercomputer, Lyoko and XANA. Also a former Science teacher at Kadic Academy.

* AmbiguouslyEvil: Throughout Season 2, when the Lyoko Warriors were researching his life, it became increasingly unclear as to whether or not he is a good guy or an insane madman, with Ulrich at one point suggesting that Hopper is, in a way, a second enemy to deal with. His design for a neuronal headset nearly kills Jérémie (which is why Ulrich brought him as an enemy), Aelita's flashbacks of him are extremely ominous in presentation (even his most heartwarming moments picture him as a rather distant father), and the Polymorphic Specter of him has his personality so down pat that it can deceive a viewer (Yumi honestly thought that the clone was the real deal). Not to mention how his sanity did in fact, [[SanitySlippage plummet]] during his research concerning Lyoko. It isn't until Aelita's memories are restored in the Season 2 finale that Hopper is confirmed to be on the side of the Lyoko Warriors, and he is firmly seen as the BigGood from that point onward.
* BadassBookworm: He rarely manifest in person, but when he does, it almost always result in him doing something awesome to help the Lyoko Warriors. ''[[BigBad XANA]]'' considered him enough of a threat to ''miss a chance to destroy the Supercomputer and Lyoko Warriors for good'' if that meant not being able to deal with him.
* BallOfLightTransformation: Unlike other, rather than taking the form of a humanoid DigitalAvatar, Franz Hopper is permanently virtualized on Lyoko under the shape of a large, brilliant ball of light. In a flashback during Episode 57, his form consisted of a cluster of smaller balls of light.
* BigGood: Everything the heroes have to fight against XANA is thanks to Dr. Hopper. And he occasionally helps more directly if the situation calls for it.
* 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.
* ComicBookFantasyCasting: Appearance-wise, he's Creator/PhilipKDick with added opaque glasses for extra mystery. The creators of the show are fans of him, and also used his surname for "Kadic".
* CrazyPrepared: He locked his journals behind such high-encrypted coding Jérémie predicts it'd take a year to break it, then hid them in a random locker with the key being in a toy doll, which itself was hidden behind a compartment in a wall in a house in the woods. Taken UpToEleven in the novels, wherein among other things, he: manually broke apart and hid [[SelfDestructButton Code DOWN]], bricked up an entire part of the Hermitage to hide ''another'' diary, wrote notes in invisible ink, and [[spoiler:downloaded all his work into Aelita's brain just so she could recreate it if she had to enter Code DOWN]]. The man's ''modus operandi'' was basically predicting and preparing for anything that could possibly go wrong; even XANA turning on him was something he figured might happen, he just had no choice but to flee to Lyoko.
* 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 (or just lines of dialogue) 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.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Allows himself to be killed by Mantas while he diverts enough power to the Supercomputer to launch the Anti-XANA Program.]]
* 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. It's worth noting that when dealing with him, XANA becomes ''far'' more driven and dangerous than he usually is.
* TheMentor: He serves this function to Jérémie, helping him to refine his programming and giving him data and better weapons with which to fight XANA.
* MysteriousPast: The specific details of his work concerning Project Carthage is never revealed, even when the show ends.
* NonActionGuy: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]]. His virtual form is not capable of direct combat, much like Aelita in the first two seasons and he's absent for most of the series. However, the data he gives to the Lyoko Warriors is critical in enabling them to continue fighting XANA, [[spoiler:and in the end, his HeroicSacrifice and compiling of the anti-XANA program effectively gives him more credit in defeating XANA]].
* OpaqueNerdGlasses: In life, he sported a pair of these.
* PapaWolf: Many of his actions are motivated to protect his daughter. Unfortunately for him, XANA knows it, and [[BatmanGambit exploits it throughout Season 4]], using Aelita as bait to draw Hopper out of the Digital Sea in order to kill him. He's willing to take blow after blow as long as he can then get Aelita to a safe location.
* PhlebotinumRebel: Franz Hopper created XANA to destroy "Project Carthage", which he was previously working on. Whether or not he succeeded in doing so is unknown.
* TheProfessor: In a roundabout way, thanks to his diaries.
* ProperlyParanoid: He suspected agents were following him while he was working on the Supercomputer. He was right.
* RealNameAsAnAlias: [[spoiler:Waldo Schaefer]], a.k.a. Franz Hopper, changed his moniker for his middle name and the maiden name of his wife.
* SanitySlippage: Suffered a heavy case of it during the creation of Lyoko. His abuse of the Return to the Past (he repeated the same day over ''2,500 times'' without rest) made him extremely paranoid, as seen in his diary, as well as having a delusion of grandeur, as he called the Supercomputer his "Great Project".
* StayingAlive: In the season two and four finales, [[spoiler:he sacrifices himself for Aelita. [[KilledOffForReal The Season 4 sacrifice seems definitive.]]]]
* SuperpowerLottery: Like Aelita and XANA-William, he has the Annex Program. He helped and saved the Lyoko Warriors more often than not when using it, possessing Sissi to communicate with them or possessing Mantas to save the Lyoko Warriors. See Aelita's SuperpowerLottery for more information on the Annex Program.
* TheStoic: He has exactly two facial expressions: open-mouthed and closed-mouthed. It helps to present him as a deeply reserved man.
* TranshumanAliens: Hopper is permanently virtualized into Lyoko, and his avatar is a brilliant ball of light, rather than a humanoid like the other Lyoko Warriors.
* MadScientist: He built the Supercomputer, Lyoko and XANA on his own, and lost his marbles due to the strain of his experiments.
* VirtualGhost: Franz was never able to take on a corporeal form on Lyoko, only able to manifest in the form of a cluster of light orbs (Season 3) and a bright ball of energy (Season 4).
* TheVoiceless: While his voice ''is'' heard on screen, it's always either in a flashback, a recording, or a XANA trick. Hopper himself (in his present-day light ball form) is never heard to speak.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:William's Clone]]
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[[caption-width-right:200:Clone William. Awwwwwww!]]
'''William's Clone'''

->''"To be specific, I'm a digitally-generated random polymorphic energy field controlled by a basic non-evolving behavioral program."''

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

A Polymorphic Clone created by Jérémie to replace William throughout season 4 while the latter is controlled by XANA, so that nobody at Kadic gets suspicious from his prolonged absence. The clone is close enough from the original to fool most people, although his programming isn't quite perfect, making him a LiteralMinded [[TheDitz Ditz]] -- and a big source of humor. Milly and Tamiya discovers something is amiss in episode "A Lack of Goodwill", and William's parents quickly find out he's an impostor (in episode "Down to Earth"), just before William's return.
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[[folder:Mr. and Mrs. Ishiyama]]
'''Takeho and Akiko Ishiyama'''

->Takeho voiced by: Mathieu Moreau (French), David Gasman (English), Masaru Uekura (Japanese)\\
Akiko voiced by: Nathalie Stas (French), Jodi Forrest (English)

Yumi's parents.

* BigEater: Takeho is seen twice in Season One wolfing down bowls of noodles in one go.
* GoodParents: They worry about their children, but at some points, this becomes a hindrance to the group due to said concern.
* ObliquelyObfuscatedOccupation: It's never made clear what exactly Takeho's job is.
* OneHeadTaller: Akiko is noticeably taller than her husband, and it seems that Yumi took after her in that regard.
* ParentsAsPeople: Embody this the most out of the parents of the Lyoko Warriors. Being foreigners from another country seems to have put legitimate stress on them at times, with them needing to spend time apart during a Season 1 episode, and Takeo's job-status being critical during a later Season 2 episode. They're also the most observant of Yumi's suspicious behavior owing to her not being a boarder, but considering that their daughter is fighting, as Odd puts it, a demonic ArtificialIntelligence, they're quite right to be worried. Regardless of their issues at times, they love their children no matter what.
* PinkGirlBlueBoy: Inverted in season 4, where Takeho wears a pink shirt and Akiko a light blue one.
* PlotMandatedFriendshipFailure: A marriage version of the trope is at play in "Laughing Fit": Yumi's parents are angry at each other for reasons not completely explained, but they make up by the end of the episode.
* 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.
* YamatoNadeshiko: Akiko.

[[folder:Hiroki Ishiyama]]
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[[caption-width-right:200:The only AnnoyingYoungerSibling so far.]]
'''Hiroki Ishiyama'''

->''"YUUUUMIII, your boyfriend is here!"''

->Voiced by: Guylaine Gibert (French), Barbara Weber-Scaff (English), Gergei Mayén (Latin American Spanish)

[[AnnoyingYoungerSibling Yumi's younger brother]], appearing in Season 2 and joining the 6th grade at Kadic at the start of Season 3. He shows some [[HeroWorshipper hero-worship]] toward Ulrich, and constantly hounds his sister to date the Stern boy and admit her feelings for him. A bit of a crook, he often blackmails Yumi into doing his homework in exchange for not tattling to their parents when she's out saving the world. [[TagalongKid Unwittingly tagging along]] in some of XANA's attacks, he tends to be a dangerous distraction (in "A Bad Turn"), but also shows some useful skills (like picking locks in "Hot Shower"). He never keeps memories of this thanks to the Returns to the Past.

* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: His sole role seems to be teasing Yumi about her relationship with Ulrich. To say she finds this annoying would be an understatement.
* BrattyHalfPint: Yumi seems to think so, and indeed, Hiroki pretty much exists to be annoying for most of the series. There are some signs of him growing out of it during season 4 in regards to his crush on Milly causing him to stammer and become more nervous, but his overall attitude remains the same.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: There are two times when he won't behave like an obnoxious brat: When XANA's attack at the time seems on the verge of success, and when his crush on Milly pops up.
* EveryoneKnowsMorse: He does have an excuse for this, though; he and Yumi learned it to talk in secret at the table.
* RememberTheNewGuy: Hiroki is nowhere to be seen in season 1, even though we see the Ishiyama household a few times. Even in "Holiday in the Fog", when the family are going on vacation, Hiroki isn't seen in the car. Yet when he shows up in season 2, no-one draws attention to his sudden appearance.
* ShipperOnDeck: Of his sister and Ulrich, though it's mostly about teasing her.
* TagalongKid: He's completely in the dark regarding Lyoko, but occasionally participates in helping to curb the damage XANA causes in the real world.
* YoungEntrepreneur: In Season 4, he's shown selling Subdigitals tickets. He refuses to give any discounts.

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

Ulrich's parents.

* DeathGlare: Walter's default expression does not reflect any warm feelings, especially after when it looks like Ulrich threw a soccer game, albeit to go reluctantly save a teacher from a X.A.N.A. attack.

** AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: The Kolossus is a giant RockMonster bigger than anything else on Lyoko and capable of destroying anything in a single hit. [[spoiler:As shown when it one-shots the ''Skidbladnir'' at the end of the series.]]

* OverrideCommand: [[AC:Code: XANA]], which will delete a surface sector if entered into its Way Tower.

* BenevolentAI: According to YTV's Vortex block's host Paula (Code Lyoko was a show on this block and during commercial breaks Paula would often share bits of trivia) X.A.N.A. was "once a good computer program until an evil virus corrupted it". She said this piece of information in the middle of season one, before season two aired. [[spoiler:Which rings true in the novels.]]

* DarkIsEvil: Him, his specters, and some of his minions, most notably [[spoiler: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.]]

* {{Determinator}}: It does not matter how many times his attacks fail--the next episode, XANA will come knocking with a different one.

* EvilIsBigger: In the second-to-last episode [[spoiler: the closest true physical form XANA takes is that of a gigantic specter that dwarves every other character, almost reaching the roof of the factory. Thankfully, he only gets in this form as he's getting destroyed.]]

* EvilPlan: Downplayed. Early on, ther than "self-preservation" he doesn't seem to have an over-arching scheme; the trouble he causes in real life during the first season is meant to kill the kids who could shut him down whenever they wanted, which tends to cause a lot of collateral damage. Once Season 2 starts up, however, XANA ''does'' end up forming a long-term plan. He intends to subjugate the world via an army of robots, which he can't do while he's restricted to one supercomputer, and kill/disable the Lyoko Warriors since they're the only people who actually know about him. As seen in TheBadGuyWins above, he comes very close to fulfilling this plan.

* HeWhoMustNotBeSeen: He doesn't even ''have'' a body to begin with. Averted in the novels, where he makes an actual physical appearance--[[spoiler:as a teenage boy [[IdenticalStranger strongly resembling]] William.]]

* Tall,Dark,AndHandsome: Odd often nicknames him that, and he's right. He is a tall, dark-haired and very handsome boy.

* {{BFS}}: As a good guy, this trope is {{Deconstructed}}. His sword has exaggerated proportions, even by Zweihänder standards. [[RealityEnsues However, he has trouble carrying it as a consequence]]. The trope is {{reconstructed}} upon his xanafication, as XANA gave him improved strength to be able to easily wield it even with one hand.

* MasterComputer: In Seasons 1-2, he's limited to Lyoko's. [[spoiler:He gets out by Season 3, and proceeds to become this for ''hundreds'' of such computers around the world]].

* NoNonsenseNemesis: Once his attacks start up, he does not pull his punches in either causing as much destruction as possible or fulfilling his objectives. The fact that he's TheVoiceless means that he doesn't bother wasting his time with say, a BreakingSpeech or a MotiveRant unless his plans ''specifically'' require them. And when he IS talking or having his minions speak, it's usually WHILE they're still doing their job, so he's clearly capable of multi-tasking.

* SoulJar: His Replikas' supercomputers in season 4 serve as this to him.
* StalkerWithoutACrush: He follows the main gang, learning vital information about them in order to manipulate their feelings and behavior to his advantage.

* XanatosGambit: Any of his plans involving massive damages or witnesses in the first two seasons can be considered as such: even if the Lyoko Warriors successfully stop his attack, they are forced to use the Return to the Past to erase the event, making XANA stronger in the process.

** DefeatEqualsExplosion: They explode upon dying, although the conflagration is harmless to others.

%%* RoboCam

* HeterosexalLifePartners: Her relationship with Aelita.

* HeterosexalLifePartners: Her relationship with Yumi.