History Fridge / CodeLyoko

* Franz not making himself known in Season 1 and most of Season 2 makes some sense as he was likely concealing himself from XANA within Carthage, a sector Jeremie didn't know existed until "Uncharted Territory." The moment he activated a tower, two Megatanks tried to destroy it outright. Plus, it seemed his influence over Lyoko grew from the Return Trips doubling the Supercomputer's processing power, making him enough of an equal to XANA that the A.I. began to hunt down his creator through season 4.

* Jeremie forgetting the majority of "XANA Awakens" and how the Lyoko Warriors came together is not unlike how fans began the series with "Teddygodzilla" with the origin story completely glossed over until after Season 2.

** Notably the problem on Ms. Hertz's blackboard differs between the real and false Kadics. Odd and Ulrich, despite being sent back in time by the previous mission, wouldn't notice because they are BookDumb. The reason to change it is also fairly obvious: XANA was displaying intellectual superiority. He was going to kill Odd and Ulrich, no reason not to have some gloating in first. Having false Jim make the two do pushups while he watches is just another little means of showing off.
** The reason that Jim and Principal Delmas were so hung on Jeremie not giving them information is because Jim caught a bit of his conversation with Aelita. They know Jeremie has ''some'' sort of information, even though Jeremie isn't lying when he says he has no idea where his friends are.

** Yumi being able to pick up XANA plots easier is not going to be a one off event: Xana proves in season 2 that he can possess Jeremie and Aelita and those their age are none the wiser. It offers a bit of a explanation for Yumi's designated victim status.

*** Similarly the fact that Jeremie and Aelita are dismissive of a third space like what Jeremie was in during that time is because Aelita could contact and hear from him. If they were in the same space she'd be able to detect them the same way and would have mentioned it.
** Finally the fact that this isn't mentioned again despite Jeremie ''really'' ticking off the principal would be a result of an off screen return to the past.

* ''Cold War'' notably have the factory not be a frozen doom-scape. Xana probably made sure that there was no risk of damage to the structure as to prevent Aelita from being able to enter Lyoko, let alone any possible damage to the super computer itself and thus Xana. How Xana did this...not sure.

* In "Distant Memory", Odd gifts Jeremie a rubber duck as a Christmas present. Odd claims it's a nonsense gift and has no real use, but there's actually a term in coding and computer engineering called Rubber Ducking! Wherein a programmer might figure out where they went wrong in their coding and debug it by explaining it all to a small object. Most often, as the name suggests, a rubber duck! Whether it was intentional on Odd's part, it's a pretty thematically on point gift for someone like Jeremie.

* While shipping is and forever shall be controversial, ''Replika'' actually gives a pretty good showing as to why the OfficialCouple is Jeremie x Aelita and not Odd x Aelita: When Jeremie and Aelita get into a spat it is usually because Jeremie is too laser focused on fighting XANA to pick up on Aelita's interests (usually music, sometimes other things). Jeremie is always looking at the wider picture, even if often too widely, and he will near always, if not always, find a way to make it up to Aelita later (for example taking their time from going after a decoy activated tower in ''Aelita'' to let Aelita check for the information she wanted to find in Sector 5, or going to her music events/giving her music sample to the subdigitals ahead of time). Odd meanwhile got into a spat with her over not covering for him playing video games all night and never really apologized to her. They just worked past it under fire. Jeremie as Aelita once said is 'stubborn as a fool', but he's a fool with good intentions. Odd is also a fool, but not with the same intentions.

* We essentially have three episodes to get a feel for Jeremie's father. The later two have him appear on screen, but the first season had him mentioned in regards to the school Jeremie was at risk of being transferred to. A 'they would not pass up such a thing for him' description that never comes up again. It's never spelled out clearly but it is very likely that the Belpois got wind of Jeremie finally making friends, let alone a ''very'' special friend in Aelita, that kept them from ever pushing the issue. Jeremie would do well enough at Kadic but he wouldn't have friends if he left it.

* In ''Seeing is Believing'', Jeremie asks the power plant engineer if there's an atomic process for materializing virtual particles in the real world. This, of course, comes off as Jeremie desperate for potential solutions to Aelita's materialization problem. But given the second season reveals that the supercomputer is powered by a uranium battery, Jeremie may have known this at the time and wondered how the nuclear energy fueling the computer could be used to his advantage.

* The Megatanks get DemotedToExtra in Season 4, though they get a few name-drops outside of their ''two'' physical appearances. But why? Even if they're a StoryBreakerPower for the Replika plotline, it doesn't make sense that they don't even appear often in Lyoko...until you remember that XANA needs to capture Aelita and throw her in the Digital Sea. The Megatank's [[OneHitKill circular laser]] would devirtualize her before XANA-William could subdue her, hence the increased reliance on the Tarantula as XANA's main attack monster for this season, and the usage of weaker monsters such as Kankrelats or Bloks.

** It's not a mystery why that didn't happen. Aelita has uncontrollable flashbacks ''including seeing her mother kidnapped'', hallucinations, numerous suicide attempts, etc. She clearly at least has PTSD, Dissociation, and probably other mental problems. I always thought that Jeremie had Asperger's Syndrome, "not really a major mental problem, but the stress clearly brought out some symptoms." On top of that, Jeremie actually did suffer mental deterioration in one season 2 episode. There's how Aelita and William both reacted to seeing the scyphozoa after the first time, hello tentacle mind rape flashbacks. They DID have mental problems.

** Similarly, in the Season 1 episode "Big Bug", the group tricks Sissi and Hervé into a compromising position together, taking a photo of it and joking about selling it to Milly and Tamiya to put in the school paper. Well, evidently they were just joking and didn't go through with that idea, because it is ''highly'' unlikely Hervé would still be at that school if they did, as the photo would make it look like he sexually assaulted Sissi...and since this is prior to her CharacterDevelopment, Sissi wouldn't hesitate to throw Hervé under the bus and agree with that outlook if she was questioned about it.

** That being said, Aelita and Franz both had a [[RealityWarper substantial measure of control over the world of Lyoko]], either by using the [[MasterComputer supercomputer]] or just being present in Lyoko itself. Xana, [[EvilCounterpart who has just about the same control as Aelita]], created monsters, made specters (AND said monsters) in the real world, and even took over William for quite a while. Franz has, from my knowledge, [[MindControl taken over Xana's monsters]], protected his daughter from death with NO form of virtual generality, and even changed things in Lyoko while living on the World Wide Web. (I think I am getting that last one wrong, though.) Like a comment I saw above, Aelita doesn't require a tower like Xana, she could have made millions of Clone!William-esque people without having to lift a finger. This way, she wouldn't technically be lonely. She wants a boyfriend? Boop! [[EnterStageWindow He's sneaking in the tower at night]]. This does, however, add to the Horror. She felt lonely so she MADE a boyfriend, wanted some fun with people her age so she MADE friends, and even MADE a [[AlphaBitch mega-bitch rival/bully]] to feel at least little like a normal girl. Side note: an above comment said that there were three scanners because Franz planned on bringing Anthea. If it all went the way Franz wanted, Aelita would have the two of them with her. If not, that would mean that she would probably make an virtual fill-in of her own mother. I guess that adds even more.

*** Let me top that: they're endangering the entire world to save what they thought it was ''an artificial being''. Again, this explains even further Aelita's MartyrWithoutACause: since she thought she was an artificial being, she thought her existence wasn't worth a "true" human being, and wasn't willing to let the others to take so many risks for her. For example, remember the episode when Xana pulled a BatmanGambit by stealing Yumi's DNA code?

* In "Echoes", Jeremie reveals that he had no friends before Lyoko; sad but understandable. Then he follows it up with explaining his fears that the rest of the gang will abandon him once the Supercomputer is no longer part of their lives. How badly was he bullied to believe that the kids who would risk their lives for his sake (and have proven it numerous times) would drop him like a rock the minute XANA was out of the picture?
** Makes sense. The relationships between the main characters were often strained throughout the show. Jeremy might have felt that the only reason they were friends were to fight XANA and without that, they would drift apart.
* In "Claustrophobia", it was ''pure luck'' that Jeremie and Yumi left the cafeteria before it got sealed off. If they hadn't, there would have been no one to stop XANA.

* In "Ultimatum," Jeremie and Aelita have a fight about whether or not Aelita should sacrifice herself to the Scyphozoa to save Odd and Yumi from XANA. When Jeremy is stubborn, what does Aelita do? She ''gets Sissi to knock him unconscious!'' Jeremie is fine because it was just a TapOnTheHead, but think about this for a second. Aelita is willing to cause serious physical harm to Jeremie when they have a disagreement. She doesn't do this again in the series, but she's already crossed that line once. Is she going to think this is an acceptable means of conflict resolution in the future? Oddlita shippers may very well have it backwards; Aelita has the potential to become an abusive partner to Jeremie.
** That is an example of a borderline situation as usually couple disputes do not contain borderline decisions to save the lives of your only friends from an artificial abomination, if Aelita and Jeremie have a couple dispute it will be over a less serious issue and could be resolved in a more mature way.

** That is an example of a borderline situation as usually couple disputes do not contain borderline decisions to save the lives of your only friends from an artificial abomination, if aelita and jeremy have a couple dispute it will be over a less serious issue and could be resolved in a more mature way.

* Yumi's status as the DesignatedVictim makes a bit of sense as she lives off campus compared to the other Lyoko Warriors, making her easier target for XANA to pick on. If she goes missing? It's much ''much'' easier to cover since there can't be an easily-fashioned cover story explaining her absence.

*** It has also been suggested that the supercomputer keeps a backlog of everything that happened since it had been turned on in order to do so, therefore it can be assumed that when the return to the past program is implemented the Lyoko Warriors aren't actually capable of remembering but it is the computer that helped them retain their memories when it activated. This brings across a kind of Fridge Horror when you think about the fact that anyone is capable of programming the computer to reinsert theie memories, proven to be true in Code Lyoko Evolution.

* Franz not making himself known in Season 1 and most of Season 2 makes some as he was likely concealing himself from XANA within Carthage, a sector Jeremie didn't know existed until "Uncharted Territory." The moment he activated a tower, two Megatanks tried to destroy it outright. Plus, it seemed his influence over Lyoko grew from the Return Trips doubling the Supercomputer's processing power, making him ebnough of an equal to XANA that the A.I. began to hunt down his creator through season 4.