"Code Lyoko is a kids show"

[@blara2401]

The most concerning part is that I absolutely did still want to be part of them as a kid.

[@Nparalelo]

Well, you'd have prevented this from happening. We got a hero right here!

[@Vegedow]

The true Lyoko Warrior

[@Canonicallycreative]

100% I even have old drawings I made of my “Lyoko warrior costume” 😅

[@lyoko80thegamer39]

same lol

[@Eurora17]

Sameeeeeeeeee

[@daneyal7162]

This is why X.A.N.A. is one of the creepiest AI type villains. The fact that he can exit electrical systems and interact and possess organic stuff as well makes him look like an artificial intelligence that has really evolved into a next level of existance.

[@hayleybartek8643]

More of a literal Ghost in the Machine, not being bound by matter.

[@BigAmericanGirlFan]

Odd's description of him as a demonic artificial intelligence is an apt one because it feels like XANA has evolved into a demonic/eldritch AI more than your run of the mill AI like Skynet or Ultron

[@BigAmericanGirlFan]

Odd saying he's a demonic artificial intelligence is not a wrong statement given how he operates more like an eldritch or demonic horror than your typical malevolent AI.

[@makikopatouche9315]

Its look like the Absolute Solver of Murder Drones

[@TECH097]

I see X.A.N.A. like he's an Eldritch being beyond our understanding invading our world by manipulating it so easily.

[@EdwardBrown77]

All of this happened because Jeremy wanted to materialize his AI girlfriend, Aelita. Jeremy gave his friends PTSD and tortured them over his virtual girlfriend. What a concept 😂.

[@lilbill7385]

He’s a discord mod

[@shadowking2153]

Wasn’t she always human

[@jismeraiverhoeven]

@@shadowking2153 yeah but they didnt know that innitially. They only found out once they learned that the creator of lyoko was in reality her dad. Untill then they didnt really know anything about her other then that she was stuk in lyoko for some reason

[@oddbychoice6105]

worth

[@SubzeroBlack68]

Realistic. You know what weebs would do to make their waifus real.

[@BlackPrince24]

Damn, as a kid, I never realized everyone's built like Megamind with a football sized forehead

[@darkanayer5867]

No supercomputer?

[@nahrafe]

*football arena

[@djmaple5940]

Bruh same lol

[@imjoesan]

🤣🤣🤣

[@SpicePrincess1890]

What gave me a double chuckle is that Mr Blue Sky is also in Megamind and it was already on my mind while watching this lmao

[@jakkdlaw]

I started rewatching the show again and I keep asking myself how they are still not completely traumatized. 😂

[@erikmckoul2478]

This show is so much more brutal then I remember. lol

[@KosmicTears]

Fr tho to think about it they’re fourteen year old risking their own life saving the world from an evil digital program. They need a break.

[@shaneharrisnj3484]

@@erikmckoul2478 If they wanted to go in a dark direction, they should've aired it on TNT, and this was during the highly successful "We Know Drama" era of the network (2001-2015)

[@sokkaamvcreator]

This was my exact thought. Especially Yumi. She faced death so often I would've definitely shut down the supercomputer

[@kingofvoid007]

RETURN TO THE PAST!!!

[@aaronji2838]

Scenaristically, the time travel at the end of each episode to avoid dealing with the consequences between stories may feel like a cop-out... BUT BOI! It allowed them to sacrifice the main characters, side characters, hell the city itself at any moment, no-one was safe which really made you realize as a kid that this series kept you on your toes. What's it gonna be this time? Possession? Murderous Plants? A Zombie Apocalypse? The literal 7 plagues of Egypt?

[@Awesomeisme7000]

It always confused me with the return to the past thing how it would work for those that died of all the other possible cases of death that may have occurred aside from Xana.

[@josstarfluff5052]

And only the main cast remeber any of it

[@avroarchitect1793]

That's why I liked it. Nothing was off the table and the stakes of them failing were high. Imagine if they failed and couldn't return to the past. That was the real tension and threat. Not what or who was lost in a day, but the risk of them failing to reset it back to what it was before and stopping Xana.

[@fallenyetholy1810]

@@avroarchitect1793 exactly. This was my absolute favorite series as a kid. X.A.N.A is definitely a threatening villian

[@lop1652]

You couldn't exactly sacrifice them. For some odd reasons, "return to the past" doesn't revive the dead.

[@qwertyuiop19283]

I can’t even begin to imagine how much therapy these kids would need once the show ended

[@MultiSweeney1]

They could never get any though because no one who wasn't part of the original group would ever believe them, and because of all of the return to the pasts, they would have very little if any evidence even if they wanted to go public..

[@scrapfox3695]

To quote a certain buck toothed boy with a silly pink hat and goldfish: "No amount of therapy will ever make this moment okay."

[@PlaneMirage]

not me, I was having the time of my life, choking was only a stress moment

[@BAGELMENSK]

I feel like I need therapy for watching this shit when I was 5 or whatever.

[@PlaneMirage]

@@BAGELMENSK rlyy?????? Lol

[@Deathhead198]

Darkest part of this show to me was Yumi being lost inside that virtual void for god knows how long it felt for her... I don't know how she wasn't sent a psych ward after going through that lol

[@Bakesuta]

I remember that.. and they seem to feel the pain in the virtual world. So yeah...

[@noobdude5933]

@@Bakesuta Actually it's a big plothole, they aren't supposed to feel pain in Lyoko. It was stated that they only have 2 senses in lyoko, sight and hearing, not taste, feeling or smell. But for some reason, they react to pain sometimes. (The only episode where it actually made sense was the one where Xana had trampled with the materialization system so Yumi felt pain in Lyoko)

[@cartrellsplunge4447]

I think the most disturbing part about all this is that I don't think they're ever going to forget all that for the rest of their lives

[@blara2401]

They probably can use the Supercomputer to erase some memories, but it's going to be traumatic either way.

[@Lyokoheros-KLPXTV]

@@blara2401 but it's unlikely they would want to.

[@thijsvanruissen1800]

@@blara2401 maybe a little more shock therapy would work too

[@BobBob-tr7wi]

@@thijsvanruissen1800 worked for aelita lol

[@darkanayer5867]

Following the books, which act as sequel, they in fact remember everything perfectly even a couple years later (except Aelita Who started having amnesia for a while, which is why they were telling the story)

[@MultiHydralisk]

This is just one more reason why I love Code Lyoko. The writers never dumbed down the danger these kids were in. There was a digital monster ACTIVELY TRYING TO MURDER THEM! No long winded speeches about global domination. Just brutal, cold logic. "The children are in my way. They must die."

[@shamelessmoose]

Not to mention all the times Aelita got her brain sucked out by the Scyphozoa, the trauma of losing her family and ten years of her life, when her heart stopped four times when the supercomputer kept dying, or when Yumi stopped breathing after being in subzero temperatures for too long. XANA was brutal 😅

[@decidueyezealot8611]

He did want them dead lol

[@dipsithecreeper]

I was only 4 years old when I witnessed the brain sucking scene. Oh boy, was I scarred for life... I still remember that scene and how I felt to this day... I'm 17 now and the show still gives me nightmares, even though I am able to handle much worse things than what happened in the show... When you're a child and you see something horrific, it stays in your memory for the rest of your life.

[@Off-with-a-bang]

This show was basically an adult's way to vent all their frustration at annoying kids who bugged them on a personal level 😂

[@happywithdrawal]

seeing this put together in one compilation is so surreal holy hell this show was dark

[@sashathedemiroomni4146]

It was. That's why I love it

[@MsMylife91]

@@sashathedemiroomni4146 same totally same

[@triforceofcourage100]

They didn’t even include the one where Ulrich and Yumi just about froze to death

[@TheAllSeeingEye2468]

The way kids shows should be

[@sarii_p1697]

@@TheAllSeeingEye2468 Yeah

[@Jcartist_10]

0:46 nah you can’t tell me Odd didn’t develop some sort of fear of visible electricity after this

[@tkcritic7368]

This just shows that despite having no voice or a face at all, XANA was a truly deadly villain, not one for simple and typical actions that lead to easily solved situations, no, XANA legitimately and truly wanted to kill the kids by any means, in ways only being effective for serial killers, which goes to show that if a villain has no face or voice, it can still be a dangerous threat when it let's actions speak louder than words.

[@timkozdra5647]

It's a lot like the Hal 9000

[@tkcritic7368]

@@timkozdra5647 No no no... At night, Hal 9000 checks under it's bed for XANA...

[@timkozdra5647]

@@tkcritic7368 yeah because it literally is an unpredictable force of evil compared to the sophisticated calm talkative Hal

[@leandroroman7053]

Although sometimes it talks through its puppets, like that time with the fake Franz Hopper.

[@darkanayer5867]

Wait till i tell you about xana in the books

[@iReadFiction]

When I had a re-watch of the series I still remember the later episodes were brutal. Xana wasn't trying to do little schemes on getting them killed. He flatout just sent his essence into people and made a B line for the lab to choke them out.

[@snailnoodle]

Okay, reading the last part made me chuckle a bit. 🙊 Xana had no hesitations, just went straight to the point!

[@deltasquad8817]

LMFAOOOOOOOO

[@Slowpoke3x]

XANA: Why you little!!! Odd* choking noises

[@Danyko33]

I loved the electrocution "mostly by Jeremy... and mostly towards Odd".

[@reddawn1873]

x.a.n.a's Favorite past time electricianing idiots especially odd

[@MisanthropyTEC]

@@reddawn1873 I thought it was because he was a furry.

[@pptemplar5840]

"I know your internet search history Odd, you must be punished!"

[@defiantspirit8512]

Could stop laughing after that

[@da-vidcargill4975]

@My Avatar is Cooler than yours nah it was like that before that

[@Ayocartoonclips]

This made me realized how much emotional and physical trauma the Lyoko warriors went through. They literally battle a program that was able to control literally everything and always tried to kill them every time. Hell in Lyoko they FELT some things when they were on there example using when xana william slashed Ulrich in half. When the scanner opened Ulrich clutched his stomach. Also for people saying the return to the past revived the dead that’s false. Ulrich stated that any fatalities before the return to the past stay dead.

[@lop1652]

That part was alway strange for me. If they returned to the past, as they call it, why would they be dead? Do they actually return to the past or is the supercomputer just brainwashing everyone on Earth, ro believe it's the day before? Also, when did they have the chance to test that theory?

[@Vernas_R]

I get the feeling the dead could come back (haven't finished the show though so if there's an example, my bad). The reason being is that due to some of what Xana do would cause the disappearance of over 100 people quite easily, especially when it went for the entire town instead of the team.

[@colinmckoy4445]

@@lop1652 it was because the show needed some weight. They didn't want the Return to the Past trip to be a be all end all solution to everything. There was an episode early on where Yumi fell into the virtual sea and died, and the RTTP trip didn't bring her back and then Jeremy had to sacrifice the one time use to remataerialize Yumi instead of Aelita. (If you think about, Yumi is technically dead from that point on and all we've had from that point is a clone. Have a think on that)

[@lop1652]

@@colinmckoy4445 I am aware of the narrative need for that, I just don't understand how, if we are "returning to the past", do people that died, remain dead. How do they explain that?

[@combativeThinker]

@@lop1652 They can’t. They did it for the sake of “drama” or “stakes” or whatever.

[@martinnicdalsihovedetnemus6700]

there are enough scenes for this to be a pretty long series

[@xilverxoul6917]

Well it was. You should definitely watch if if you haven't already!

[@martinnicdalsihovedetnemus6700]

@@xilverxoul6917 there's like a series full of code lyoko not so for kids moments?

[@AkumaDayo]

@@xilverxoul6917 they meant there's enough scenes in the show to make a long series of videos about how this totally for kids show is NSFK (Not Safe For Kids)

[@solveigst-juste6276]

@@AkumaDayo I mean, it used to be my favourite as a kid. And the show didn’t traumatise me at all.

[@AkumaDayo]

@@solveigst-juste6276 maybe you just forgot how dark some of the scenes were or smth, I started rewatching it around the time of my last reply (then kinda stopped, cuz life happens lol) I didn't realize how dark the show could be at times lmao There are some really disturbing scenes at some points ngl

[@h2ojr1]

1:03 gotta love the whole "try to stop all powerful being from electrifying friends only to be electrified yourself" scene

[@artistanthony1007]

This is gonna be great for us fans, seeing what people who never saw the show will think and even if they have, they will not expect everything to actually be terrifying.

[@lazilyymade]

I watched this show every day when it still aired on Jetix or something, and even I didn't remember half of this torture 🤣

[@willwailes9298]

I watched it a few times as a kid, but it made me angry because their heads are so big. I'm surprised by how lewd it is.

[@iowatheother4986]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/oqqrdp5jnrmKmJo watch episode 1!

[@flyflip87]

Watching this as a kid, I never realized how much danger they always faced. I mean I knew they would "return to the past" in the end of every episode, but, yeah... it was thrilling to watch. These were kids around my age and they could do all these things! I wanted to be part of it.

[@slenderthesavagemaster]

I watched it..but i never knew the name untill now. This show has haunted me..for so many years because i never knew the name UNTILL NOW

[@RavemastaJ]

Wow, Code Lyoko without context is pretty brutal. I remember the zombie episode, though. And the going back in time with a lottery ticket to pay off that one father's debts. Probably the most real moment in my opinion.

[@kujakubes241]

The zombie episode is so memorable

[@dca-Letsplay]

I always got that this series was apart of the era where producers went for the audience that was growing up, that said a lot of the stuff with a deeper analysis went across that line arse first

[@thebighurt2495]

Also, this show was French. Having seen Wakfu, can confirm French animators have no qualms getting dark.

[@GreenEyedPsycho]

@@thebighurt2495 absolutely the French are down for the macabre

[@keyofvoid1787]

@@thebighurt2495 The french specially do some kickass dark anime ngl. Oban Star Racers is also included on that list.

[@asiajordan3206]

@@keyofvoid1787 oban star racers was really good!

[@KNHarrison125]

The wild thing is that this was just the tip of the iceberg with their trauma. Lmao. Let's not forget almost getting obliterated by a military laser, Ulrich watching his parents float off into space, being stuck on a run away bus headed for a chemical plant, being stuck on an island during an electrical storm, almost dying from sub-zero temps, almost dying from being cooked to death, being chased by possessed wolves, being stuck in the school while it falls apart due to violent tremors, almost suffocating on laughing gas, being trapped in an ambulance that crashed into a body of water, being attacked by a giant teddy bear, etc. Those kids had it rough.

[@WillOfMyD]

2:21 Keep in mind, this scene is LITERALLY her attempting suicide.

[@maxillebastille9079]

what episode is that

[@xanadu2002]

@@maxillebastille9079 episode 52 The Key

[@Lyokoheros-KLPXTV]

Well not exaclty literally, as the point of suicide would be to kill herself. But it wasn't they reason to do it, so I don't think it can be really call it. Sacrificing oneself is something different.

[@WillOfMyD]

@@Lyokoheros-KLPXTV Fine; _technically_ trying to kill herself. While she did know cutting the machine off would kill Xana, she also knew it would kill her too.

[@archangeruriseofthewizards8649]

Actually a sacrifice

[@trevordwyer8162]

This show was amazing. These kids would have face the apocalypse each day and had to play a videogame to stop it.

[@Venerabela]

Let's not forget the bra gag they did when Yumi and Odd swapped bodies. "DON'T YOU DARE TAKE IT OFF, YOU HEAR!?"

[@sashathedemiroomni4146]

There were a lot of those type of scenes in the show

[@darkazon5343]

I am 100% sure Odd did. He is that type of guy

[@sashathedemiroomni4146]

@@darkazon5343 Treu

[@dudebro2638]

Wasn't this shit on Cartoon Network btw???

[@sashathedemiroomni4146]

@@dudebro2638 It was on Cartoon Network

[@thesupershinymegagengar2034]

I've rewatched the show a year ago, and looking back, I can't help but notice most of this torture happens to Yumi and Odd....

[@JabamiLain]

Yumi is a great warrior while Odd was just irritating. Well, and a good shooter.

[@some_metalhead]

The femboy and the hot Japanese girl, lmao

[@etherealgirl394]

As I was always into cute shows as a kid my parents got really surprised at me enjoying code lyoko. I ADORED IT and I still do. But I don't think at that moment I saw it as dark as it was... Now that I am an adult I get surprised myself at how scary it was lol anyways, great show, it brings back so many memories

[@arielusgrey1855]

I used to live for this show to pop up on t.v. I remember both the fear of xana I had but also really loved the entire show So many cool fight scenes and the idea of going into a virtual world But this show really gave me nightmares sometimes it was amazing Absolute favorite show of my younger self and I still love it to this day

[@Trowa1293]

So this is where people get their choking fetish.

[@k.d.s.9426]

Ok so let me get this straight they've been strangled half to death, electrocuted, nearly drowned, etc. Ok I have two questions 1: How are these kids still alive? 2: How are they not terrified or traumatized at this point? (Just to be clear these are rhetorical questions.)

[@codememe9618]

plot

[@sashathedemiroomni4146]

Those are good questions. One of them has PTSD, I think

[@artistanthony1007]

@@sashathedemiroomni4146 Aelita has PTSD of her mom being taken away thanks to XANA.

[@sashathedemiroomni4146]

@@artistanthony1007 Okay, doesn't Yumi or Ulrich also have PTSD

[@artistanthony1007]

@@sashathedemiroomni4146 I mean we did see that Yumi despised the SC in Echoes so there's your answer.

[@fulltimeweeb]

I remember one episode where they couldn't stop laughing, forcing them to not breathe. I couldn't get that episode out of my head back then.

[@eoneonaeon]

i've been living in a complete lie this whole time THIS SHOW IS MORE BRUTAL THAN IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE HELP 💀

[@GoblinZone1]

I, uh, am kinda glad I forgot what this show was like.....*internal screaming intensifies*

[@nolyfe4814]

I swear to god I never saw any of these moments. Either that or kid me just did not care. Probably the second I’ve seen some stuff.

[@eoneonaeon]

@@nolyfe4814 ++ i forgot all of these happened and i just remembered everything the moment i found this video 💀

[@kaloz429mobile9]

But not brutal as happy tree friends💀

[@eoneonaeon]

@@kaloz429mobile9 ++ oh yeah that 💀 i wasn't traumatized the first time i watched it tho

[@XANA-zk]

i watched this every day after school

[@noahstmnts]

We can't possibly forget the episode where Mario made his cameo appearence as an electrician and tried to activate bombs in attempt to blow up a factory.

[@xehanort3623]

What episode

[@dislikebomb6680]

That episode is "The Secret"

[@tonguepop9453]

I barely remember this show. Honestly watching this was like a fever dream. We miss so much as kids lol

[@pliskenx51mm83]

Ah, yes the golden days where CN allowed shows like this on their channel! The early 2000s was certainly a time to be alive! There will never be a time like that again when it comes to growing up. For new generations that is.

[@eduardinho4206]

But the series was produced in 2008

[@EWOODJ]

*2003

[@tailedgates9]

Being experimental and willing to take risks aren't a thing kid channels don't do anymore. Except for some damn good gems as of late (Owl House, Infinity Train, etc.) it's never going to reach that point again. At least not broadly....

[@PEDROGARCIA-qj3gr]

@@tailedgates9 neh, code lyoko wasn't even that good, and damn good shows were never that common neither, nostalgia is very tricky

[@thedarklordchinchin4873]

There where also violent videos games back in the 2000’s just like manhunt

[@alejandrobotero8725]

A famous Children's film animator once said "Kids can handle anything with a happy ending" It certainly shows in his work, and it seems to have inspired after school programs of the decade.

[@ayyylmao101]

Optimism is powerful 😌

[@seanmetellus6851]

when Aelita just fucking died I lost it

[@archangeruriseofthewizards8649]

When?

[@SparkTheKirin]

Some trivia, if you think this might be an over-exaggeration. Or if you just don't recall! Aelita's earth body required the Supercomputer, since for the early half of that plotline she wasn't completely disconnected and could suffer anything Lyoko did while on earth. Turning off the computer killed her, they even talk about her pulse fading and barely getting it back. There was no promise that just turning it on was a revive, she was putting it on the line for a chance to save her friends. Odd subjected himself to a homebrew of that black-mass 'Spectre' so he could get powers and fight another possessed person. It almost stopped his heart when the program began to fail. Return to the Past sounds like a really fun way to undo any damage to the world after an attack. But if you happen to die during the span of time that gets reversed, your body is already dead on arrival in the new timeline. So getting killed by XANA was a permanent deal, and Jeremie reminded the characters about it during an attack, as if they already knew from experience. This show was one camera angle from a porno. And an early scene got censored on reruns, because it was actually CONSIDERED such.

[@lpsfoxstar8454]

Thought they only censored the scene where yumi got impailed by the anime sword, what was the one that was considered pornographic? Guessing the yumi clone and jeremie one?

[@BlueBlazeKing]

Don’t forget, the gang later finds out Return to The Past actually strengthens XANA, so they’re Hail Mary ended up biting them in the ass

[@SparkTheKirin]

@@BlueBlazeKing I always interpreted this as not actually increasing XANA's processing power like the dub claims, but just giving XANA free time to simulate ideas and reflect. It literally got a whole day to just go over all its knowledge, it knows what it did wrong, and it can adapt to that.

[@MVR3IWER]

Something about the episode where XANA flickered the lights to turn off gravity always stuck with me. Just a terrifying concept.

[@swapertxking]

Yeah, what was that, like episode 6 or 7? This show didn’t get darker as it progressed, it was dark really early on

[@xehanort3623]

Same when Ulrich saw has parents float away it stuck with me for some reason.

[@kojikashiin319]

I kinda forgot the premise of the vid for a while and I was just like "man I am enjoying watching these intense code lyoko moments while jamming to ELO"

[@SayaaNara]

I'm glad this was my childhood though, made swallowing brutal and gory shows much more manageable growing up

[@c3por2d29]

Jeremie got to be a fricking Sith lord

[@DayanaRockStar122]

Oh god. The scene where Aelita shuts off the supercomputer. Damn, thats dark

[@DA28007]

Good thing: i finally found this show again Bad thing: *I STILL REMEMBER THOSE CHILDHOOD NIGHTMARE STUFF*

[@lunartsoloud]

I haven't seen Code Lyoko since I was a kid, and only now I understand... Some scenes are really nightmares.

[@Aelita_Kitsune]

Same fr and I still do currently 13 and still dream of being apart of this show even after watching it for 3-4 times all together

[@spideysenses4275]

“remember as a kid you would picture yourself as one of the main crew?” i still do sometimes lol

[@fernandor.g8230]

They are like the link of ocarina, no one knows what they did for humanity

[@Kaiseriin]

The fact that they sound like they're MOANING everytime even when they RUN is disturbung as shit specially Aelita

[@thecreatornooj1328]

Try the season 1 episode "Log book" when odd and aeltia are running from the megatank. Just close your eyes and listen. That's the scene I use when I tell my friends about it and they're like "It can't possibly be that bad"

[@decidueyezealot8611]

@NobleFonz The word is masochist, sadist like to inflict the pain not take it.

[@prophecybydefault4708]

@@LivingNoble what the fuck were the writers thinking??

[@x.sapphireanimelover.x]

Thank you I thought I was the only one like why she moaning running for 💀

[@kalide1704]

"Ohhh, hell noooo... In fact, I'm joining the Kids Next Door, screw you guys!"

[@mittensmaxmavi]

Also, 1:53 - 2:06 is literally an alternative version of 'Bully Yumi Extravaganza'

[@eddy_malouempereur_du_cong6536]

Of course it's yumi who had to deal with the tentacules monster

[@codememe9618]

Yeah even in France she can't escape the curse of being a Japanese school girl

[@airsoul366]

the absolute scariest thing I ever saw on this show was Xana effectively turning off and reserve the gravitational pull.

[@Rutawind]

Yeah...every "return to the past" was preceded by one of the kids being on the verge of death

[@sladejosephwilson2300]

Like Ulrich being shot in the face.

[@TheNonameHousehold]

I guess we all got so distracted with how cool the graphics were(for the time) and the plot, that we didn't pay attention at the fact that XANA was literally trying to brutally murder kids! 🤔😅😬

[@jacobhoover1654]

Trying to murder without drawing any blood b/c that's not allowed in cartoons

[@John-Stark]

XANA and Bill Cypher might get along

[@jutsumaniac4569]

@@jacobhoover1654 Honestly that's even worse, since those kinds of deaths are usually slow or painful

[@peabrain6872]

who cares, they're kids, they arent important

[@peabrain6872]

@@John-Stark 2 bad shows

[@alegzx]

I always burst out laughing at 1:04 when Yumi says "No Mr dumbass stop"

[@1Meepman]

1:32 Wait, that was an actual scene!? That wasn't a Zone-Tan edit!? What the fuck!?

[@codememe9618]

Nah it's always been there xD

[@diaquallo]

If it was, we'd die

[@leandroroman7053]

I thought the same the first time I saw the 2nd season intro with the cameo/reveal of the Scyphozoa, I was young.

[@koffinglolface1000]

that is some hentai shit

[@unusualusername8847]

Honestly this is why I love kid shows centered around conflict and adventure. Being at risk of harm or death is crucial for such a story and seeing how they communicate this to a broad audience has a enjoyability to it.

[@silverdragon2406]

Should be renamed: "All of the LyokoWarriors's traumatic scenes"

[@zinstone7286]

i think i know where my choking and electro kinks came from now...

[@mattiadellaquila8998]

2:34 every time I see that scene I cry

[@unityedits3722]

Odd's "getting shocked" scream still takes up free rent in my mind. Please help.

[@Bloodlyshiva]

The lightning, the weird sadism, what looks like some sort of conversion/assimilation...it seems they're fighting Sith Lords, in which case the fuckery makes sense as an 'in general'.

[@thatman8490]

Sith lords piss themselves in fear when X.A.N.A. rears it's head.

[@taylormansonshadicstorm9008]

0:56 Dear god, Jeremy is seriously intimidating in this shot!!!!!

[@theedgyboy4644]

And this is why code lyoko was my favorite. Every episode had tension. It almost felt like the main characters might day in any moments even tho we know it wouldn't happen

[@adrian_zombturtle148]

I just watched that episode where they literally got gassed

[@davidrequena6482]

the one i remember most is when yumi is stuck under a log or something similar when Xana attacks with a snow storm. is especially touching how ulrich tries his best to avoid her dying of hypothermia.

[@codememe9618]

That was episode 45 "Cold War" It was a really sad moment, because Ulrich was crying and his tear turned into ice. When Aelita deactivated the tower Yumi didn't respond and he couldn't contact the factory, so he thought Yumi died.

[@davidrequena6482]

@@codememe9618 yep, as I said, very touching. I also remember when Xana locked Yumi and Ulrich in that spa, as they were doing their very best to avoid heatstroke, but still fell on the ground, probably unconscious.

[@jacobweatherford4696]

@@davidrequena6482 wasnt it stated in the show returning to the past wouldnt bring anyone who dies back?

[@davidrequena6482]

@@jacobweatherford4696 it os stated, but i call bs on that. I mean, there was an episode where a lethal music track was realesed and it inffected way too Many people for anyone not get killed. We Also have the zombies, which are not edad per say, but neither Alive, and those are the ones i remember, but there have been so many big scale attacks, especially around their university, that it is impossible that no one was killed with the collateral At least. So maybe that rule applies To the Lyoko warriors, as their bodies seem somewhat resistant To the “Back to the past” thing (as their memories are untouched) but I doubt that rule applies to anyone else really. I mean, where did they hear that in the first place? No, seriously, because I binged once the whole series, and that rule just popped up out of nowhere.

[@jacobweatherford4696]

@@davidrequena6482 plus it doesnt make sense since time is being rewound its like if i shoot some dude and rewind time it should be as if i never shot him if hes somehow still dead after that id call bull.

[@deathfire2829]

My phone crashed as soon as he said “what’s the worst to deal with” lmao

[@Star-ie8br]

The part where odd was just smiling in bed had me laughing 😆 like in the middle of all this chaos you just see him doing that.

[@radbman5932]

I think that was simply a lite Joker Venom-ish episode. Laugh or smile too long would've killed him.

[@samforrt2898]

@@radbman5932 It was Glad When You're Bad. Basically this song had the potential to kill people through seizures just by listening to it, and Odd was one of the first victims.

[@erisunflower]

I love how random it was XD

[@dominikwilliams1703]

Wow, I never remembered it being this dark. Should probably research this.

[@nipcoyote1140]

I can't believe you didn't include the scene where Aelita's mother is taken

[@artistanthony1007]

OML yeah, that's one of the biggest ones 😂

[@archangeruriseofthewizards8649]

I always loved how her father’s enemies were represented as demonic wolves

[@leandroroman7053]

Also surprised that he didn't include any Scyphozoa scene.

[@voiceacticon667]

You’re fucking kidding right? How is that shit dark?!

[@archangeruriseofthewizards8649]

@@voiceacticon667 maybe because the psychology in the scene was interessant

[@swapertxking]

you forgot the best parts: xana's robot army, (implied) the possessed scientists being eaten by xana's modified spiders, xana causing near apocalyptic events: chemical warfare, nuclear sabotage, asteroid collison, petrifying gas, chemical warfare again, nanonmachines (son). shit the stuff they got away with, with french/canadian tv standards. (that werent censored for an american audience) edit: forgot xana's OTHER robot army in the episode The Robots, where they had the school competition

[@swapertxking]

I REWATCHED THE SHOW and now to add: the scientists having their brains extracted so the final robot army could function. the trap laid out on the ISS that would have possesed or killed the astronauts, and bringing xana monsters to our world

[@Crystalwolf953]

And after all that I still wanted to be in this show xD

[@melodious_moon]

Watched this when I was reaaally little… and I still remember that I wanted to be a part of it. My friends and I even made a live-action Code Lyoko game in my backyard, and we acted out stories and dark stuff like this lol. I also often imagined little episodes or movies of myself as a character, usually as Ulrich because he seemed cool. There’s something about the darkness and the fighting in the show that I always loved (and still do).

[@kamikaze9080]

In one of the episodes there was an epidemic going on where if people listen to music their heart would start to stop beating. Like ayo....

[@Takejiro24]

Mmhmm mmhmm correct me if I'm wrong, didn't Odd die from that at the end of the episode (or came reeeeaal close) and was only saved by the Return to the Past?

[@flex_chacha4974]

1:43 and 1:48… your welcome

[@flex_chacha4974]

@@Takejiro24 yeah, he was reaaaally close

[@gameplaystorage3881]

This was actually a good cartoon

[@horriblequin]

It seems that a lot of people are catching up with the series, now that is on netflix and so did I. And man just by the first two episodes you're like: man this show is brutal, they could get away with anything thanks to the return to the past. Also the amount of things that Jeremy and Odd endured is amazing. Also, that Yumi part cracked me when I watched it, wasn't expecting that fn service in the series.

[@xenove4885]

They actually could not get away with everything with the return to the past...

[@andrewthefanboy1640]

Even back when I watched this on CN as a kid, this show always seemed dark to me, with how close everyone came to dying in every episode.

[@shaneharrisnj3484]

Classic CN: (seeing a vine go under Yumi's shirt) That's good s**t! Modern CN: (watching Infinity Train Book 4): you're fired!. (Meaning: CN got away with this on Code Lyoko, a show that airs 4 hours before they become Adult Swim, however, they canceled Infinity Train because it's TOO MATURE, though it really isn't)

[@corruptedteka]

Well that was early 2000s french TV before being CN. French cartoons were less sanitized than american ones in general.

[@heroeus8173]

As a francophone Code lyoko,Tintin,Martin mystère(martin mystery),Total spies galatic football,team galaxy and a lot more are part of my childhood

[@xehanort3623]

@@heroeus8173 any other shows

[@鉄血不死鳥]

@@xehanort3623 Try Valerian et Laureline. I may have wrote the name wrong but you should be able to get it

[@heroeus8173]

@@鉄血不死鳥 ah yes indeed very good show Kind of a startrek show

[@Kisamon]

And while every Lyoko Warriors remember what happened to them, Jeremy still could sleep like a log.

[@AtrocityEquine01]

Ah yes, Code Lyoko is as much of a kid show as Gravity Falls.

[@anthonyreynolds1995]

I think a lot of stuff in this makes GF seem tame

[@artistanthony1007]

@@anthonyreynolds1995 X.A.N.A. is far more scary, he doesn't have to speak and you just see sadism to its extreme, he also made a copy of the Earth and Ulrich, Yumi and Odd didn't know they were kidnapped by X.A.N.A. and if we were them, it would be impossible to know who made it and X.A.N.A. was unsuspecting in the form of Jeremie and unlike Bill Cipher, his eyes and voice was the same so that's far more impressive and X.A.N.A. has a far more horrifying death yell compared to Bill Cipher.

[@artistanthony1007]

Nah this is way more scary, I mean have you seen the nightmare feul Creepers? They're very disturbing and X.A.N.A. does world threatening things that nobody knows happens and he does it slowly, building up suspense until he's ready to unleash, he can appear on Monitors and watches through them but says nothing, he can pop up on any screen you have and watches in silence, you also cannot get away because he's a Multi Agent System and if there's electronics connected, he'll easily find you and he's instantaneous.

[@scrapfox3695]

@@artistanthony1007 Well then..HOW THE JUICE DID I ENJOY THIS SHOW FOR SO LONG NOT REALIZING THE THREAT X.A.N.A. IS!?

[@-migniht-2974]

The most funny thing is that I was watching this as a 6-8 old kid

[@lalaland2107]

The last time I watched an episode was probably 2005 or 2006. I miss being a kid. 😭😭

[@msxd1280]

I think the most unsettling Xana attack was when he summoned a blizzard over them, and Ulrich was trying his hardest to get Yumi unstuck from a tree that fell on her, but couldn’t. And as the temperature got lower and lower, everyone (especially Ulrich and Yumi who were literally outside) was on the verge of death.

[@chriskoloski32]

Sometimes it's easy to forget characters almost died every single episode

[@nintendosega100]

Didn't they actually die in some episodes and then the clock rewound? Edit: Turns out they got very close, but no one ever died because they would stay dead even after the time rewind (how they know this I dunno).

[@Gio-vz8mr]

@@nintendosega100 there was one where Yumi freez in a blizzard and that was the closest "die" i think

[@voltus20]

@@nintendosega100 Yumi actually dies and doesn't come back after the rewind in one episode. They had to use a one use materialization device they intended to use to bring Aelita to earth in order to "save" Yumi. I say "save" because that device created a clone, so technically Yumi did die and from that point of the series onwards, the Yumi we see is the clone with all her memories.

[@callmekk3015]

@@voltus20 that’s dark😟

[@joshshrum2764]

They seem to die even more than Homestuck characters maybe.

[@PCMan8922]

Mr. Delmas, Stop! Nope.

[@tatuhakkinen6926]

This is the best cartoon ever.😍😍😍(best show also)🥰

[@Tonatiuth]

The coolest thing is that they always manage to travel back to the past so they are all traumatized only in their mind

[@trequonrowland2910]

The very reason that they aren't traumatized by any of this throughout the series is because each one of them took it like total champs, despite the fact that most of it was inflicted on odd. This reminds me of how Steven Universe went through all that trauma, and that it was never resolved until the very end of Steven Universe Future.

[@scrapfox3695]

Huh..neat..

[@dragonite-nn3sv]

i personally think yumi had it the worst but maybe that's just my opinion

[@swapertxking]

There’s a community joke I’ve heard that the show had an anti-Yumi week (5/6-7ish episodes) immediately following her not letting William into the group… culminating in the season 3 finale. Basically the universe wasn’t having her mistrust of William. Which is kinda funny… if he had be adjusted to Lyoko with the help of the gang over a few episodes he probably wouldn’t have been taken my xana.

[@boxtank5288]

Also because PTSD doesn't just show up at the moment, it's after that shit has time to sink in.

[@remtt]

wait, i only now realized, wheneve they die in ai world, they probbaly felt that pain.. again and again... damn

[@JabamiLain]

They do. The books confirm it.

[@remtt]

@@JabamiLain omg

[@tolgakatran5469]

I m forgetting episodes everyday wow we are olding

[@icarus1052]

Well i guess now i understand why kids wanted to end system and said good bye to Lyoko

[@nickfilmzproductions3560]

I remember how a bit dark and a little grim this show was, but that's why I love it

[@Shartwichh]

Jeez that first scene is kinda brutal for a kids show what the hell

[@Shartwichh]

I need to watch this show

[@elenaaa8016]

@@Shartwichh agree

[@elongatedmanforever1252]

The possession is the creepiest part of it.

[@Shishizurui]

for a computer program Xana sure comes up with some creative ways to try and kill these kids.

[@marshallneff1631]

I was in a love-hate relationship with the show. I was traumatised by a lot of the sceenes (having nightmares of it, geting hydrofobia for a couple of weeks, etc), but i was just massively addicted to it

[@zwordsman]

I feel like if Jeremy every went to Lyoko for battle mode.. he'd get electrical powers at this point.

[@JabamiLain]

It's actually explained somewhere he looks like Peter Pan, so I think his powers might actually be similar to Aelita's, especially since X.A.N.A admits it feels honored to take his form in some episode.

[@zwordsman]

Yeah in one of the books that are tangentially cannon he does and they joke about that look yep. i still think he'd be electiral based though. Given Xana always uses it and the base form is, in part, based on their own subconcious impressions

[@JabamiLain]

​@@zwordsman being Peter Pan means Jeremy doesn't wish to grow up, which he kinda accomplishes with Lyoko. I guess it's true, and he would have ellectrical powers, since just like Aelita, he is THAT connected to Lyoko.

[@JabamiLain]

​@@zwordsman I want the books to be adapted into either a movie or new seasons. What about you ?

[@zwordsman]

I'd like them to take aspects of the books. but on the whole I'd want them to do something a little different overall. I think it shows that hte oriignal writers weren't involved with the book in small details. I do really like that they come off more young adult maturity than the the younger tone of the show (horrorific almost deaths not withstanding) Though as they weren't finished (i think) they ight've gone in a way I liked more. I personally didn't like that Xana came back. And I"m less fond of the idea of it ossessing a random to go kill them. vs it creating its own form (perhaps using hopper as a child as a form) that was stable enough to appear as human. but i really liked the thematics in the end seasons of materializng things in the real world. I think I'd like a time jump to college, and they're looking for info on Aelita's mom. I'd love if they went more into the real world materialization thematics. I'd rather have had Xana leave behind a kernal in the internet that slowly built up. Not to take over the world but as a doomsday kill switch thematic. Where it starts to materialize monsters in the world in general rather than trying to take over it. Which would help lead to more general awareness and eventually Aelita's mom (for good or bad). Ideally Xana, knowing about Franza and Aelita had already found the mother. Franz knew-but he chose to save Aelita over Xana's knowledge. i prefer the smaller stories in terms of dynamics.so the killswitch is attacking the world at large, but they're mostly involved in the smaller story trying to get Aelita's mother. Which would lead to code (mothers name) which was something Franz ultimately left behind when he was dying with Xana for his hope for Aelita and his Wife. @@JabamiLain