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''Code Lyoko'' is a French Animated Television Series featuring both normal Animation and Computer-generated Imagery , produced by Antefilms during the first season and MoonScoop during the second, in association with the France 3 television network and Canal J. ''Code Lyoko'' is about a group of four Boarding School students enrolled at Kadic Junior High School , named Jeremie , Odd , Ulrich , and Yumi . The students try to help a virtual girl named Aelita leave the virtual world of Lyoko , which is found inside a supercomputer housed in the basement of an abandoned Factory near Kadic, and enter the real world. A megalomaniac digital entity, named Xana , bent on world domination, has taken over the supercomputer in charge of Lyoko. It attacks the real world by activating Towers (usually one at a time), which act as links to the real world. If the group is able to get Aelita to the activated tower(s) out of the more than forty scattered about Lyoko's five regions, she can deactivate the tower(s) and neutralize Xana's attack on the real world; then they can use the supercomputer to Return To The Past , leaving no one except themselves to remember any of the events that transpired. To complicate the situation, they must do this while ensuring their classmates and teachers are not killed (going back in time cannot bring back the dead), and deal with the various personality clashes they have with them at the same time. THE STORY SO FAR In the first season, Odd , Yumi , and Ulrich would travel to the virtual world of Lyoko in order to stop Xana's attacks on the real world. To do so, they had to help Aelita , a virtual girl who lived there, get past Xana's Monsters and deactivate the activated Tower . Jeremie would keep track of them from a laboratory terminal in the Factory . The terminal allows him to keep track of the situation in Lyoko, warn them of danger, and to monitor their life points, which are a measure of their viability inside the virtual world, similar to Hit Point s in Computer And Video Games or Role-playing Game s. If one of the virtualized players lost their life points, they merely Devirtualized ; however, since Aelita was connected to the virtual world, she would be lost forever if she were to lose all of her life points. Her inability to leave Lyoko prevented them from shutting down the supercomputer that contained Xana. While fighting against Xana, Jeremie worked on a program to materialize Aelita. He eventually developed a program to do so, but Xana had taken measures to keep Aelita linked to the supercomputer. Jeremie believed a virus to be responsible for the link. Thanks to the link, Aelita was forced to remain on Lyoko to keep watch over Xana. In the second season, Jeremie developed a way to detect activated towers instantly, allowing Aelita to take up permanent residency on Earth; however, Xana still remained a threat. Even though she could now move between both worlds, she could only be devirtualized by Jeremie through the program he developed and a tower, unlike the others, who still return to the real world if they lose all their life points. In the episode "Unchartered Territory", the group discovered a mysterious fifth sector of Lyoko, known as Carthage , a massive sphere floating in virtual space. It is accessed through the use of the Transport Orb . It was found to be Xana's home sector. All of Xana's data could be accessed from an access panel on the outside of the sphere. It was in this episode that Xana started sending the Scyphozoa after Aelita to steal her memories. In the episode "A Great Day", it was discovered that supercomputer is a Quantum Computer , and that Return Trips made the supercomputer more powerful. That, in turn, made Xana stronger. Jeremie theorized that the time reversions had the effect of increasing the base of the supercomputer's calculation capacity Qubits . From then on, the heroes refrained from reverting time as much as possible, so that Xana's power growth was kept in check. Therefore, they had to be exceptionally careful to ensure that Xana's attacks went largely unnoticed. This proved more difficult in recent episodes, such as "Attack of the Zombies" and "Ultimatum". Even without the jumps to increase its power, Xana seemed to get stronger with each attack. In the episode "Franz Hopper", a man claiming to be Franz Hopper showed up and offered to help in the fight against Xana. He turned out to be one of Xana's clones, however, and nearly got rid of the group. The clone was defeated and the others learned that the real Franz Hopper was trapped within Lyoko. Later, in the episode "Contact", the real Franz Hopper managed to contact the group through Sissi and offer his help. The final two episodes of the second season, "Revelation" and "The Key", most of the mysteries surrounding Aelita, Lyoko, Franz Hopper, Xana, and the supercomputer itself were revealed. When Franz Hopper's diary was decoded in "Revelation", it revealed most of the history of the things mentioned above in that episode and the one following it. It was discovered that Aelita was actually a human, but had the memories of her human life stolen from her by Xana. It was these missing memories that kept her linked to the supercomputer, and not a virus as Jeremie had first believed. She was also revealed to be the daughter of Franz Hopper. He had virtualized her along with himself to escape government agents that had been pursuing them. The mystery surrounding Franz Hopper and the supercomputer was also revealed. He had originally been working on a military project known as Project Carthage, which was intended to disrupt enemy communications. This seems to be centered around the sector known as Carthage. For a reason that has not been made clear, he wished its destruction. He created the supercomputer, Lyoko, and Xana to this end. While working on destroying Carthage, he discovered the return trip capacity of the supercomputer. He used this feature 2546 times (slightly less than seven years) so he could finish his work. During this time, Xana gained independence, though Franz did not seem aware of this. He did comment that he felt like someone was watching him, but this might have been simple paranoia on his part. For a reason that is not made clear, Franz shifted the focus of his project. He redesigned Lyoko to be a safe haven for him and his daughter. He took the access codes to Lyoko (referred to as "keys") and split them between himself and Aelita. When the government agents finally came to arrest him, presumably for stealing and/or trying to destroy government property, he and his daughter escaped to Lyoko. Xana used the opportunity to imprison Franz, taking his half of the keys, and to steal Aelita's human memories. Finally, in the episode "The Key", Xana finally manages to steal the rest of Aelita's memories. This gives Xana the other half of the keys, allowing him to escape from the supercomputer. This left Aelita in a Coma -like state or completely dead. Jeremie believes it to be the latter. Franz Hopper seemingly sacrificed his own life to revive his daughter. Doing so restored all of her human memories and severed her link to the supercomputer. Unfortunately, Xana's escape made this a moot point. It is unknown if Franz survived the event, but the group promises to look for him. Now that Xana is free from the supercomputer, it is no longer limited by the towers. It can attack anywhere at any time. The group promises to continue fighting against Xana, though they are not quite sure how they will do that just yet. CHARACTERS Primary characters See Also: List of primary characters in Code Lyoko The main characters are Aelita (known as Aelita Stones at Kadic ), Jeremie Belpois , Odd Della Robbia , Ulrich Stern , Yumi Ishiyama , and Xana. The first five are the protagonists while the last one is the antagonist. There are also several supporting characters that appear in most of the episodes. These two groups make up the primary cast for the show. Secondary characters See Also: List of secondary characters in Code Lyoko There are many characters in ''Code Lyoko'' that do not contribute much, if anything, to the overall plot of the show. Several of them have played roles in single episodes, though. All of the various characters are sorted by their current grade. Monsters in Lyoko See Also: List of monsters in Code Lyoko There are many types of monsters in Lyoko . Xana creates them in order to keep the Towers it activates safe. Some are a mere nuisence while others are a major threat. The ones that can be considered a nuisance make up for this fact by travelling in packs. All of them, however, try to impede the group. The monsters remain until they are destroyed or a Return Trip is activated. Xana has eleven types of monsters so far. Odd , Ulrich and Yumi each have special weapons in Lyoko in order to destroy the monsters. Aelita mostly relies on the protection of the others when it comes to dealing with the monsters. Other monsters exist that don't fall into the same category as Xana's monsters. One is a monster Jeremie produced, called the Marabounta . It appears in only one episode. There is also an entity known as the Transport Orb . It's a giant white sphere with an Eye of Xana printed on it, like all of Xana's monsters. Unlike the other monsters, however, its only purpose is to ferry passengers from the edge of any region to the center of the fifth sector, Carthage, and back again. Both Jeremie and Xana can access it at will. This entity's classification as a monster is arguable, but is included for the sake of completion. EPISODES See Also: List of Code Lyoko episodes ''Code Lyoko'' has a total of 97 episodes, the first 52 of which have aired. The following 45 are still in production. First Season Second Season Third and fourth seasons , so the dates in the U.S. will likely be slightly later. According to information (in French) on CodeLyoko.net , including an interview with one of the writers from the show, the 45 episodes will be split into two new seasons. The third season will be 15 episodes long and will serve to bridge the gap between the second and fourth seasons. It will be airing in September of 2006. The fourth season will be 30 episodes long and will go even deeper into the history of Franz Hopper and Lyoko . The first half of it will air in March of 2007. The second half will air near the end of 2007. It will be accompanied by a major merchandising campaign to cover a broad range of licensed products, including toys, clothes, stationary, and school bags. A excerpt from the interview is below, converted into English. There will also be an original animated prequel, medium-length film about how the group originally discovered Lyoko. It will be approximately 52 minutes long. Cartoon Network currently has it ordered, whereas other stations have not agreed on anything and may have it release straight-to-DVD in France. Show changes from season to season
OTHER MEDIA See Also: List of Code Lyoko media Several ''Code Lyoko'' products have been or are being planned to be released. This includes several DVDs, an book based on the episodes "Teddygozilla" and "Plagued", a video game, and a line of toys. A line of clothing and other accessories is also being planned. TRIVIA
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