History Awesome / CodeLyoko

** Doubles as a SugarWiki/{{Funny Moment|s}}, [[BroughtDownToBadass but when Odd loses his abilities, he punches out one of the Creepers]], injuring it enough to fall into the Digital Sea.0

** XANA takes the opportunity to possess William and turn him into his slave. Now, XANA-William leads XANA's monsters to seige the core of Lyoko. He easily defeats Aelita, Ulrich, Odd, and Yumi in seconds, and ''destroys Lyoko''. Definitely another case of TheBadGuyWins two seasons in a row.

* Episode 39: In a similar vein to the Jim example above, Yumi's dad decking out in samurai gear to take on the materialized Krabes in "A Bad Turn". Ulrich himself does just as fine against them with a metal pipe.
** Another scene from the same episode. Yumi's been shot by the Krabe, her family is watching as it charges its laser for a final blow, Yumi's mom is crying out, and as the Krabe fires the shot, Takeo's blade comes out of nowhere, deflects the shot, and shows Ulrich standing right there as he says, "Make my day, shrimp." Awesome indeed.

** After saving him, Jérémie (the contest in which he says it makes him a DesignatedHero, however) acknowledges William as [[WorthyOpponent XANA's greatest weapon]]. ''Not even the Kolossus'' left that much of an impact on the team.

* Episode 40, "Attack of the Zombies": Even after being zombified at the last minute, Jeremie manages to stave off control by TheInfection just long enough to launch a return trip through sheer HeroicWillpower alone.

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* In a meta example, when co-creator Thomas Romain (he left the project even before the actual series was made, due to artistic disagreement) isn't busy with work he often spends time with his children by turning their drawings into anime characters, and [[https://9gag.com/gag/a88GM33 they look]] amazing.
* Code Lyoko managed to reach the top 3 in Creator/CartoonNetwork's ratings in 2006 and 2007, and still remains a CultClassic to this day.
** The fact that the show even ''managed'' to reach CultClassic status to begin with. Everything was against it from the start. Thomas Romain's original ''Garage Kids'' plans and ideas all being shot down, the constant budget cuts throughout the show's run, and the eventual [[ScrewedByTheNetwork network screwing near the climax]]. Yet, despite these setbacks, four seasons of content were created, which despite constant restrictions and narrative inconsistences, aren't half-bad all things considered. It's easily something to be proud of.
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** In the same episode, Yumi and Odd display their excellent teamwork, first by knocking out one of X.A.N.A.'s specters in the real world, then by devirtualizing William in a grueling air battle.

** XANA. sends out the big guns: the ''[[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever Kolossus]]''. One swing of it devirtualizes Ulrich and Aelita on the spot, [[TheBadGuyWins forcing Jeremie to abort the mission]]. The thing is so powerful that when it touches a tower it ''instantly'' gives XANA control.

** In a way, XANA's death. XANA was a villain who until then was constantly a step ahead of the heroes. Its death, after so [[TheBadGuyWins victories]], is certainly satisfying.
* That said, XANA has his own awesome moment : his objective was to kill Franz Hopper in this season. It may have been finally killed but [[TheBadGuyWins it still managed to complete that objective]].

* In a meta example, when co-creator Thomas Romain isn't busy with work he often spends time with his children by turning their drawings into anime characters, and [[https://9gag.com/gag/a88GM33 they look]] amazing.

* In a different sense of awesome for Sissi, the GrandFinale, ''Echoes'' has her somehow acquiring a ''tracking microchip'' that she successfully implants on Ulrich and she manages to find the supercomputer and learn about the group's ''entire adventure'' via Jeremie's video logs. The looks of shock and horror on the group's face that she pulled this off once she tells her father about it kind of says it all. A crisis is averted since her father [[CassandraTruth thinking she's lost it and taking her to the infirmary for treatment]] gives the group enough time to return to the past, but the fact that Sissi even put them in such a compromising position to start with is undeniably impressive. [[spoiler: Part of them accepting her as an "official" friend at the end of the episode seems partly fueled by sheer respect at what a WorthyOpponent she turned out to be.]]

->'''William:''' You want to go? Be my guest.

** Jim, Sissi, and Hiroki, normally the PluckyComicRelief characters, score some real BadassNormal points in "Canine Conundrum", fighting against XANA's robotic dogs.

->'''William:''' Nice shot Aelita! [[EvilLaugh (evil laugh)]]

** No mention of Aelita in "A Bad Turn"? She takes quite a liking to the Overboard and the first thing she does is materialize a halfpipe in the terrain to pull off some [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3qLLiTxRXU&t=12m9s seriously cool tricks]]. Aelita essentially fights solo the entire episode - first taking out a hoard of Hornets with nothing but a hoverboard and smart use of the terrain, and then psyching out a Tarantula and the Scyphozoa with a decoy to get inside the tower.

* The very first episode certainly introduces Odd well. While he and Aelita were forced to run away from Creepers, his fight against the Megatank was certainly entertaining.

* In a different sense of awesome for Sissi, the GrandFinale, ''Echoes'' has her somehow acquiring a ''tracking microchip'' that she successfully implants on Ulrich and she manages to find the supercomputer and learn about the group's ''entire adventure'' via Jeremie's video logs. The looks of shock and horror on the group's face that she pulled this off once she tells her father about it kind of says it all. A crisis is averted since her father [[CassandraTruth thinking she's lost it and taking her to the infirmary for treatment]] gives the group enough time to return to the past, but the fact that Sissi even put them in such a compromising position to start with is undeniably impressive.

** Doubles as a SugarWiki/{{Funny Moment|s}}, [[BroughtDownToBadass but when Odd loses his abilities, he punches out one of the Creepers]], injuring it enough to fall into the Digital Sea.

* In episode thirteen, ''Just In Time'', Sissi threatened to tell the principal about Kiwi, and a pissed off Yumi barely squeezed the glass she was holding and BROKE IT, giving her a cut she barely felt. This is only an in-universe example, as the viewers are the only ones besides the Lyoko warriors who find out XANA had influenced it.

** Yumi lets herself get devirtualized and spends the entire episode preventing William from hurting Jeremie.

** In a way, XANA's death.