In Code: Total Drama Reality, most of the characters tropes in Total Drama and Code Lyoko are still applied, so please refrain from putting the same character tropes here unless the existing trope is handled differently in the story.
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Lyoko Warriors
Aelita Stones/Schaeffer
- All Your Powers Combined: She gets the powers of previous Lyoko warriors from Lyoko's databanks.
- Energy Weapon: Her new technique Plasma Beam is a directed energy attack.
- An Ice Person: Can use her Creativity to freeze opponents.
- It's Personal:
- With XANA, now more than ever.
- With Lyon, though it's more a case of You Killed My Mother.
- The Mentor: Acts as the new group's guide with her knowledge of XANA and Lyoko, and no one has any qualms of her being the leader.
- Physical Goddess: By unlocking the Keys to Lyoko inside her, Aelita becomes so powerful that she exerts energy suprassing XANA's.
Gwen
- Barrier Warrior: Can twirl her scythe to creat a blue barrier.
- Cast from Hit Points: Her flying ability, stat restoration, and "Shadow Veil" all cost a good amount of life points.
- Casting a Shadow: One of Gwen's powers is the shadow-based Elemental Power of hiding in an enemy's shadow.
- Character Development: Reverts back to her more likable persona from previous seasons and seriously starts to question her relationship with Duncan (eventually breaking up with him) and come to better terms with Trent, Heather, and Courtney.
- Color-Coded for Your Convenience: Each of her spells has a specifically-colored Battle Aura (red=fire, air=green, etc.).
- Combo Platter Powers: Gwen can fly, use her scythe as a barrier, get her weapon back if she loses it, uses fire, earth, wind, and poison attacks, and can increase one of her stats, and hide in an enemy's shadow. However, several of these powers do carry a significant life point cost.
- Expository Hairstyle Change: Gwen's hair becomes all-blue from the dormant virus inside her after XANA's Grand Theft Me attempt. It goes back to her usual streaked style after the virus is eliminated by Seraphim.
- Grand Theft Me: By XANA.
The results weren't pretty. - Just Friends: With ex-boyfriend Duncan, when she realized that they were Better as Friends anyway.
Geoff
- Dark Is Not Evil: For someone who sure likes to wear pink all the time, Geoff's Lyoko form wears mostly black and brown.
DJ
- Living Statue: He can turn into a golem, in which he can use his full power.
- Took a Level in Badass: While it applies to all of the other new Lyoko Warriors, it's easier to see the difference from the Prone to Tears person he was on the show to this version, where he actually has some self-confidence.
Bridgette
- Berserk Button: If harm comes to Geoff, the perpetrator will learn why this nice girl is not to be taken lightly.
- Beware the Nice Ones: The normally laid-back Bridgette is violently protective of her boyfriend.
- Bifurcated Weapon: Bridgette's Surfboard splits in two, and she can wield the halves like swords. She can use the surfboard to crash into enemies as well.
- Chest Insignia: Bridgette's Lyoko form includes a dolphin insignia on her chest.
- Cool Sword: Her board swords.
- Dual Wielding: Bridgette wields both of her surfboard halves at once.
- The Heart: Bridgette is the nicest member of the team, along with Aelita, and is usually the one to try to defuse tension.
- Jack of All Trades: She's the only Lyoko character to have her own mode of transportation from the start and she's good at swordplay, agility (though Heather is better), and her water attacks are unique to herself (though Gwen and Trent have a more diverse Elemental Powers range).
- Making a Splash: Bridgette has a variety of water-based Elemental Powers in her Lyoko form, befitting her fondness for water sports.
- Power Glows: The wave tattoos on her arms glow when she activates her energy waves.
- Power Tattoo: Bridgette has wave tattoos on her arms in accordance with her water-based powers.
- Violently Protective Girlfriend: If Geoff should ever get hurt, any monster responsible won't live to regret it.
Leshawna
- Character Development: Although Leshawna is as aggressive as usual, bitter experience on Total Drama has taught her to be more circumspect.
Cody
- Beware the Nice Ones: If you thought him punching out Duncan at Greece was epic, wait until you see him win against a general.
- Jumped at the Call: Joined at the "XANA's Nightmares" arc, after he saw Gwen get stabbed by XANA's polymorphic clone.
- Swiss-Army Weapon: His guns have blades attached.
- Time Master: Can stop time for thirteen seconds.
- Weak, but Skilled: Good with computers, and pretty gutsy and useful due to his wits and on occasion his Time Master powers.
Heather
- Defrosting Ice Queen: Really starts to warm up to her old enemy, Gwen, although Heather would never admit it.
- Grand Theft Me: By Shadow, and boy was she pissed.
- Hidden Weapons: Heather can summon an arsenal of shurikens and knives.
- Refusal of the Call: Heather initially declined to join the Lyoki team, until Shadow's antics convince her otherwise.
Courtney
- Cast from Hit Points: She can boost the stats and life points of others at the expense of her own.
- Defrosting Ice Queen: Courtney gradually gets over her animosity towards Duncan and Gwen.
- Grand Theft Me: Shadow infiltrates her body while she's draining him of energy, and, once she loses her memories, uses it to sabotage the Warriors.
- Everything's Sparkly with Jewelry: The headband mentioned above, as well as diamond earrings.
- Life Drain: Courtney can drain life energy from her enemies to replenish her losses.
- "Well Done, Daughter!" Girl: Part of what drove Courtney to make Duncan meet her standards was so that her parents would come to approve of him.
Duncan
- Anguished Declaration of Love: More like Anguished Declaration Of "Can't We Just Stop the Soap Opera Crap and Get Back Together?"
- Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: He never gives up his feelings for Courtney, but has pulled some questionable moves (e.g. the kiss with Gwen) when Courtney's controlling personality became too much for him. The Belligerent Sexual Tension is resolved is eventually resolved, only for both he and Courtney to get hit with Nephilim's Laser-Guided Amnesia attack. See Last Request below.
- Berserk Button: Calling him a punk or a Three Days Grace reject. Mentioning Alejandro/Courtney really gets him going.
- Brainwashed and Crazy: Becomes Shadow's new personal puppet, alongside Courtney.
- Catharsis Factor: In universe, Duncan taking the opportunity to punch out his abusive step-father.
- Expository Hairstyle Change: Shaved his mohawk after becoming a Lyoko Warrior (which is why he doesn't remember shaving it off when hit by Nephilim's Laser-Guided Amnesia).
- Freudian Excuse: When he was a child, his mom and dad seperated for a time, and the former remarried to a cop who was an Abusive Parent. While Duncan's mom eventually left this creep and returned to Duncan's biological father, the abuse Duncan endured left him with an immense distrust of authority figures (espcially cops), thus leading to his current life of delinquency
- Green-Eyed Monster: Duncan becomes jealous when Trent flirts with Gwen, although Duncan had cheated on Courtney with Gwen to provoke a similar reaction. This only stops after Gwen breaks up with him.
- Power Dyes Your Hair: His mohawk, (even after he gets rid of it), is jet black in Lyoko.
- Super Mode: Berserker Mode, activated when he gets angry.
- The Worf Effect: He gets beaten by Cody again, this time in wrestling.
Trent
- Barrier Warrior: Trent can create barriers by playing his guitar.
- Character Development: Trent becomes more mentally stable than in his later seasons, more or less returning to his original canonical characterization.
- Like Father, Like Son: He explains that he overreacts about relationships like his dad.
Noah
- Badass Longcoat: Noah wears a longcoat in his Lyoko form, and several people (including himself) comment that he looks like something out of The Matrix.
- Body Snatcher: Noah can possess XANA's monsters.
- Casual Danger Dialogue: Noah is canonically a Deadpan Snarker, and he retains this trait even in dangerous situations.
- The Smart Guy: Noah showcases his technological intelligence in a variety of situations.
- Weak, but Skilled: He's no stronger than he was in the original series, but good use of possession and Mega Manning, as well as his invaluable intelligence, makes him a good addition to the team.
Izzy
- The Big Girl: All the more apparent when she transforms into a rhino or a T-Rex.
- Obfuscating Stupidity: Izzy understands her situation as a Lyoko Warrior much better than she lets on.
- Pointy Ears: Izzy has pointed ears in her Lyoko form.
- Voluntary Shapeshifter: Izzy can transform into real-world animals, but not make-believe ones.
Seraphim
- Meaningful Name: His name is the race name for a type of Judeo-Christian angel.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: Seraphim is with the team for only five chapters.
- The Worf Effect: Seraphim gets owned in his first battle with XANA.
Eva
- Leeroy Jenkins: Her usual response to danger is "charge in and hit it til it's dead".
Villains
XANA
- Bishōnen Line: XANA has transcended from being a creepy computer symbol to using a human avatar resembling an older, Gender Flipped version of Aelita.
- The Chessmaster: Everything that happens goes according to his plan.
- The Corruption: To Gwen and Duncan. He was on the receiving end years before, making him what he is during the story's events.
- Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas:
- Calling it "love" is a bit of a stretch, but he really was fond of Antea enough to actively seek out and inflict a Fate Worse than Death upon her killer.
- The last thing he does, before his death, is seek out the pieces of Antea's digital avatar and piece it back together, effectively restoring her to life.
- Evil Brit: His avatar has a slight British accent.
- Fallen Hero: His original programming was to destroy a greater threat and save the human race. He even saved Aelita from wolves when she was a child. Then he got hit with a virus that corrupted him into what he currently is.
- Freudian Excuse: His father always referred to him as an "it" and tried to kill XANA, who was child-aged at the time and also trying to fight off a virus. The attempted murder left him weak enough that he merged with it. Between The Corruption, his hate over what his father tried, and his dwindling faith in humanity, that was enough for him to go evil.
- Mama's Boy: Unlike Waldo, Antea always had high hopes that XANA would evolve, treated him like a son, and encouraged him to branch out his humanity. To this day she's the only human he doesn't hate, and the last thing he does before dying is bring her back to life.
- Noble Demon: He doesn't lie (although as Noah points out, it's more like he can't because of how he was programmed), and acts honorably a few times; should he and the Lyoko Warriors pull an Enemy Mine on someone, XANA will usually just depart peacefully as a "reward".
- Pet the Dog: His dying act is to bring back Antea.
Shadow
- Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: His Grand Theft Me attempt on Heather not only fails, but motivates both Heather and Courtney to take up their new duty as Lyoko Warriors.
Ryder
- Technicolor Fire: His attacks use red lightning.
Yuki
- Light Is Not Good: Because in this case, it means there's a literal Ice Queen among the villains.
- Marionette Master: Yuki can create and control ice-clones.
- Meaningful Name: "Yuki" translates to "snow".
Cyrus
- Awesomeness by Analysis: By mind-probing, he can copy others' abilities.
- Eyes Do Not Belong There: Cyrus has an eye on his forehead.
Lilith
- Abnormal Ammo: Her arrows seem to be made of pure energy.
- Berserk Button: Do not kill her fellow generals.
Sora
- Affably Evil: He seems more interested in belittling his enemies than in battling them.
- Cool Helmet: Sora's eagle helmet can even shoot laser beams.
- Evil Counterpart: Apart from being evil instead of (at worst) merely obnoxious, Sora is quite similar to Noah.
- Evil Knockoff: To Heather, although their personalities are different; he Affably Evil, whereas Heather is a Manipulative Bitch.
- Meaningful Name: "Sora" means "sky".
- Opposite-Sex Clone: Of Heather, although he has his own personality.
- Punch-Clock Villain: He really only fights the Lyoko gang because it's his job.
- Terms of Endangerment: Calls Heather "Mom", which ticks her off to no end.
Jinx
- Taken for Granite: One of her spells turns the victim to stone, allowing her to crush them.
- Technicolor Eyes: Jinx has pink eyes, for no clear reason.note
Blade
- Shapeshifter Weapon: He's the only Lyoko character ever to have blood, which he can then transform into a diversity of weapons, similar to Noah's Mega Manning powers.
- Spikes of Villainy: Blade has spiky hair, and his blood weapons are typically covered in spikes.
- Threatening Shark: Blade's aesthetic features a shark motif.
Dr.Lyon
Nephilim
- Big Bad Wannabe: While a nasty villain on his own, still can't hold a candle to XANA.
- Meaningful Name: As with Seraphim, Nephilim's name carries Judeo-Christian subtext, referring to the legendary offspring of humans and angels.
Others
Chris McLean
- Can't Get Away with Nuthin': After Chris' sketchy actions in previous Total Drama seasons, the studio is keeping a close watch on his behavior and setting clear limits on how dangerous challenges can be.
- He's Back!: After Kurt and Carlos are drafted back into government work, he becomes the host again.
Carlos
- Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Very Hot-Blooded, once thought of giving his car a funeral, not to mention all the Noodle Incidents... but along with Kurt, he's the campers' best hope of a relatively safe season.
- Got the Call on Speed Dial: For every return to the past, Aelita can use specters from the supercomputer to give Carlos and other former allies their memories back when he needs their help. Carlos is happy to get some of the action whenever Aelita may have need of him.
- Henpecked Husband: His wife Melissa is probably the only person who can keep him under control.
- No Celebrities Were Harmed: Is said to resemble Sylvester Stallone's British cousin.
- Papa Wolf: Carlose is fiercely protective of the Total Drama cast.
- Trademark Favorite Food: Carlos is especially fond of Klondike bars.
Kurt
- Fiery Redhead: Not always, but he has his emotional moments.
- Got the Call on Speed Dial: For every return to the past, Aelita can use specters from the supercomputer to give Kurt and other former allies their memories back when she needs their help. Kurt is eager enough to get in on the action whenever Aelita may happen to ask.
- Only Sane Man: Kurt is the reasoning side of the new hosting duo, but the contrast between him and Carlos isless than he would like to believe.
- Papa Wolf: Not as much as Carlos, but Kurt is nevertheless fiercely protective of the Total Drama cast.
Lesley
All The Rest:
- Demoted to Extra: The narrative gives little attention to the Total Drama cast who aren't on the Lyoko team, nor to the original Lyoko gang (or William).
- Hidden Depths: Lindsay is revealed to be pretty good at robot making. Given her canonical skill at making bicycles, perhaps this should not be so surprising.
- Lethal Chef: As if the blowfish incident back in the first Total Drama wasn't bad enough, Lindsay allegedly has an arson code named after her in her hometown, due to her incompetence with an oven.
- The Sixth Ranger: Up until about chapter 30, the Lyoko group had a pretty conventional Five-Man Band structure. Then came seven more of these guys.
- Spared by the Adaptation:
- For once, Ezekiel is not voted off first. Doesn't last long though.
- Eva also sticks around a lot longer than she did in any of the canon seasons and even becomes one of the Warriors.
