u/Kurtfan1991

DISCLAIMER: This is just supposed to be a humorous post, parodying the series "Everything Wrong With..." by CinemaSins, inspired by u/Valha28's posts on r/gumball parodying the same series. This is NOT a critique of the show, and while some things I sin in this series might actually be things I'd criticize in an actual critique, most of the things I'll sin are nitpicks, and the whole series is just made for good fun.

With that out of the way, welcome to Everything Wrong With: A Fine Mess!

Odd-Yumi: Uh, I think we've got a little problem here...
A LITTLE problem?! +1

Jeremy: I guess there's a little bug in the rematerialization program.
Yumi-Odd: You call this a LITTLE bug?!
Yumi would GOATed at LyokoSins. +1

Odd-Yumi: For example, something's itching in my back...It's...I think it's the strap to your...
Yumi-Odd: Don't you DARE take it off, you hear?
Siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigh. +5

Ulrich: You're going steady with two girls at the same time? I didn't know that.
Odd-Yumi: Neither do Magalie and Clair.
WHAT?! Polyamorous relationships are okay IF THE TWO GIRLS KNOW THAT THEY'RE IN A POLYAMOROUS RELATIONSHIP AND ARE OKAY WITH IT! Here it's just straight-up cheating! +3

Odd-Yumi: Give it a rest, Sissi...Ulrich and I were made for one another. You got that?
cuddles with Ulrich
Odd, between this and Episode 23, you should learn about CONSENT. As a gender-fluid person, these kinds of scenes from 2000s cartoons are just cringe to watch. +5

Tamiya: takes a picture Oh, wow! The scoop of the year! I got it!
Tamiya violating Ulrich and Yumi's basic privacy rights. +5

Mr.Ishiyama: Why Yumi, what's the matter?
Odd-Yumi struggles to eat sushi with chopsticks
Yumi should have told him that it's also not a frowned upon method to eat sushi with your hands (that's what I do when I eat them lol) +1

Yumi-Odd: You see...you'll get used to me in no time. Nice puppy.
Dogs recognize humans primarly through their sense of smell. We'll see later in the episode that Yumi and Odd's bodies didn't swap their scents, therefore Kiwi should have recognized "Odd". +1

Yumi-Odd: I thought my hand was disappearing for a minute. I must have imagined it.
YES! Completely gloss over this when you're already in an unusual situation due to a glitch on Lyoko! I'm sure this won't end terribly! +3

Odd-Yumi: NI HAO!
Odd's knowledge of other cultures borderlining on bigotry at this point. This happens a lot in this episode, so I'll just sin it here. +5

Milly: Yumi Ishiyama transformed by love! Cool headline, huh?
Now Milly is violating Yumi's right to her image. +5

Jeremy: Transfer Odd! No, I mean, that is Yumi...no, wait...oh, whatever! Transfer, scanner, virtualization!
Hahahahahahaha -1

Ulrich: Kankrelats. That's all we need.
Well of course X.A.N.A would use his monsters when you're in a situation like this. What did you expect? +1

Odd-Yumi: Laser arrow! But...wait...oh no, I forgot!
How do you forget something so crucial? +3

Yumi-Odd tries to learn to use the Laser Arrows Like this? accidentally shoots on Odd-Yumi
Why did you aim for him?! You have no respawns in this situation, just like Aelita! Do you seriously have no survival instincts left? +5

Ulrich: And what's more, seeing how you handle those arrows, you might accidentally kill Odd before then!
Why is Ulrich so chill about this? +1

Ulrich plants his katana in the Megatank's eye before getting devirtualized.
Okay, I can't lie, this actually looks really cool. +1

Yumi-Odd: Anyone know how to fly?
I love how Odd is so impulsive that she doesn't even trust him with the telekinesis power. +1

Odd swims and chills around in the zero-gravity room
This is not a time for chilling out. +1

Ulrich: Odd! Is that you?
Odd: Of course. What's the matter with you? You don't recognize your own friends?
Hahahahaha -3

Total sins: 44

Sentence: Disintegration

Most sinned episode so far: The Chips Are Down (201)
Least sinned episode so far: Ghost Channel (-106)

Most sinned episode in Season 2 so far: The Chips Are Down (201)
Least sinned episode in Season 2 so far: Temptation (24)

Previous: https://www.reddit.com/r/CodeLyoko/comments/1ttizix/comment/op4yhe5/?screen_view_count=2

Seriously, it's 50% of people bitching about Deltarune, 30% of OUR FAVORITE GRIFTING TECHNIQUES, and 20% of people just getting political.

It's so annoying that at each direct, people act like this is suddenly the worst direct ever. Like, this is far from being one of the best directs of all time but all things considered, it's still a satisfactory direct, with announcements that were honestly pretty exciting, notably Splatoon Raiders, Xenoblade Genesis, and Kingdom Hearts 4.

You just know that 1 year later, these same people are gonna glaze this direct while complaining that the latest one sucks.

DISCLAIMER: This is just supposed to be a humorous post, parodying the series "Everything Wrong With..." by CinemaSins, inspired by u/Valha28's posts on r/gumball parodying the same series. This is NOT a critique of the show, and while some things I sin in this series might actually be things I'd criticize in an actual critique, most of the things I'll sin are nitpicks, and the whole series is just made for good fun.

With that out of the way, welcome to Everything Wrong With: Ultimatum!

Jeremy: Bomb explodes, guy under X.A.N.A's control: obeliterated.
I know that it's not supposed to kill the guy under X.A.N.A's control, but Jeremy explained that process so terribly that it's honestly weird that his friends didn't question the ethical implications of this. +10

Sissi: What do you know? Yumi isn't here with you! Oh, of course not! I just saw her with William, how stupid of me!
Sissi spent too much time on the Internet cliché. +3

Nicholas: Delmas has kidnapped Ishiyama and Della Robbia!
Teacher: What kind of nonsense is this?!
Love how he doesn't even try to ask if this is true, he directly assumes it's fake. I understand him but the irony of it all forces me to add a sin. +1

Nicholas: But it's true, sir! He even beat up William Dunbar!
Teacher: Don't you move! I'll be right back.
Wow, bro was VERY quick to convince. +1

Jim: Classes are cancelled for the rest of the day. You can all go home.
You should really have them go home accompanied by policemen. What if Delmas also attacks them? Sure, X.A.N.A is targeting Odd and Yumi but the teachers have no way to know Delmas won't attack other students. +5

Sissi: Hey! What about those guys? You should question them, too! They're always scheming with Odd and Yumi!
No they aren't. They are regularly apart from each other, especially since Yumi's not even in boarding school. +1

Odd: X.A.N.A! Apparently you plan on keeping us alive?
How can you tell, and what interests would X.A.N.A have in doing that? +2

Sissi: It's true that my father's been acting kind of weird for a while now.
"Kind of" weird only? +1

Aelita: I should have handed myself over the Schyphazoa!
I doubt this would have stopped X.A.N.A knowing the sadistic nature of this virus. +1

Delmas electrocutes Odd and Yumi for about 30 seconds straight
They survive this. +1

Sissi: My father might be dead by now!
The writers throw out a "dead? alive? dead? alive? dead? alive?" type of suspense and expect us to fall for it cliché. +3

Sissi gives a pencak silat hit to Jeremy (...)
Sissi: By the way, why did you ask me to do it?
Yeah, why did the writers choose this stupid excuse to do it? It's really out of character for Aelita when she eventually manages to reason Jeremy in episodes like Cold War when he gets overprotective. +5

Aelita sees Kankrelats and panics
Ugh, Aelita acting like not-movie Princess Peach again. I miss A Bad Turn already. +1

Aelita goes down the slide of the Ice Sector
Minus three sins for bringing back this banger. If anything in this show is worth recycling, it's THIS. -3

Aelita starts to get her memory stolen from the Scyphazoa
There is no way Yumi and Odd can be virtualized fast enough to save her given how fast her number of "memory points" is decreasing. At this point, I have a theory: Aelita died from the Scyphazoa in Episode 28 and the rest of the show is just the other characters imagining things to cope with- oh shit, that type of theory is overused too. Well, just take 3 sins. +3

Odd keeps orbiting around the ice cave
I don't see why he doesn't try to stop going to the most random directions ever and just shoot the Tarantulas with his laser arrows already. +1

Sissi: Is he...
Ulrich: No, just knocked out.
You literally used the word "dead" earlier and now you're hesitating? +1

Sissi: Okay, then you'll remember this kiss.
She kisses Ulrich
Aaaaaand consent jumped off the window again. +10

Also, 2 characters have a moment that brings them closer together due to a X.A.N.A attack but it goes nowhere after this episode cliché +3

Total sins: 50

Sentence: Being electrocuted if the tower isn't deactivated in the next 50 hours

Most sinned episode so far: The Chips Are Down (201)
Least sinned episode so far: Ghost Channel (-106)

Most sinned episode in Season 2 so far: The Chips Are Down (201)
Least sinned episode in Season 2 so far: Temptation (24)

Previous: https://www.reddit.com/r/CodeLyoko/comments/1ti4znp/comment/on31h45/

DISCLAIMER: This is just supposed to be a humorous post, parodying the series "Everything Wrong With..." by CinemaSins, inspired by u/Valha28's posts on r/gumball parodying the same series. This is NOT a critique of the show, and while some things I sin in this series might actually be things I'd criticize in an actual critique, most of the things I'll sin are nitpicks, and the whole series is just made for good fun.

With that out of the way, welcome to Everything Wrong With: Attack Of The Zombies!

Yumi: Hi! So how did the Italian test go?
Jeremy: I couldn't stream two words together!
As someone who used to study Chinese, RELATABLE. AS. FUCK. -1

Though, how can he struggle SO MUCH with Italian if, in parallel, he seems to be pretty good at speaking basic Turkish, which is WAY less close to French than Italian? +1

Odd says an Italian sentence that Jeremy doesn't understand
Odd: It means "you're really lame at Italian, Jeremy", old buddy!
Jeremy: You see? I didn't even get that!
I mean, for his defense, that was a complex sentence. I speak French and English fluently, and I learned or tried to learn A LOT of other languages in my life, and I can confidently say that you don't necessarily need to learn these sentences in a complex way to be understood. I lived in Mexico for a few months and despite only knowing basic Spanish, I managed to be understood. +1

Sissi: My dear Milly, your paper doesn't have any readers!
Wishful thinking. +1

Odd: No danger of that, Sissi! You need a brain to think!
Sissi: Good old Odd is unfunny as ever. Shut up, will you!
Usually I don't really factor in how good the English translation is, but here they removed what's perhaps one of the funniest Sissi quotes. In the original French version, she literally turned Odd's own roast against him by saying smth like "Yep, and so do you to crack good jokes!". They removed this in the English version, and I'M PISSED. +3

Jeremy: I didn't say that Kiwi was stupid!
Odd: No, you said he was brainless!
Jeremy: Well if you throw a stick, he won't run and fetch it!
Odd: Well, neither would you! Does that make you brainless?
Hahahahahahaha -1

Tamiya: Good doggy!
Kiwi bites Tamiya's hand
Tamiya: Ow!
Tamiya's vision blurs and she turns into a zombie
First, as someone who only recently overcame cynophobia (fear of dogs), thanks for the trauma flashbacks. +1

Then, 4Kids ahh censorship strikes. +1

Milly is taking a shower, when Tamiya attacks her
It's not very nice to jumpscare viewers. +2

Though, I'm pretty sure the way Milly gets attacked in the showers is a reference to Alfred Hitchcock's Psychose, and if it is, that's awesome. S-Tier reference here. -3

Jeremy: Who's Doctor Shrenk?
Odd: The psycho-TV brain surgeon in Hospital of Horrors!
Odd literally talked about this show 2 episodes ago and even compared Jeremy to Dr.Shrenk. +1

Hiroki: Was that Ulrich, your boyfriend?
Yumi: Hiroki, for the 100 000th time, he is not my boyfriend!
SIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGH. +5

Rosa: Hey, what's going on?
Odd: Nothing! We're surrounded by zombies, ma'am!
Rosa: Zom... faints
Hahaha, her reaction is gold! -1

Though, how did she believe it so easily without even questioning him? +1

Nicholas: The problem with the living dead is that you can't kill them, because they're already dead! Hehe.
Rosa, who was starting to wake up, faints again
Why did you get scared this time? You had no way of indicating that he wasn't talking about a movie. +3

William: No! I'm not joking! the operator hangs up the call, so William tries to call another one Zombies! That's right, like in Out Of The Tomb!
Why don't you just lie and say that there's an intrusion in the school? +1

William: Sorry. I'm the oldest one here (...)
Um, you're not. Rosa is. +1

William: A supercomputer that lets you go into a virtual universe where you have to battle an evil enemy called X.A.N.A...
Jeremy: Um, yes. When you put it that way, I admit it sounds a little weird.
Aelita: If we want to stop this zombie attack, Odd, Jeremy and I have to get to the factory right now!
William: Look, I'm sorry, but I don't believe you, so we're all staying together!
Why? In a situation where zombies are roaming around the school, Jeremy's story becomes much more believable. SOMETHING has to have caused this zombie epidemic. +5

Herb: Look! They're getting away!

https://preview.redd.it/74lipclfh62h1.png?width=1788&format=png&auto=webp&s=33c4ab4db7487490c4c690ee9828a0502d312eae

Why does this shot look like a soyjak pointing meme? +1

Odd: Wait, there's Kiwi! Look!
He found me! See how smart he is?
giggles You little diggity-dog!
Milly: Hey! That's the same dog we saw in the hallway just before Tamiya got zombie-fied! Wait, Odd!
Kiwi bites Odd's hand
Odd: Ow! Kiwi! What's wrong with you?
Odd sees the X.A.N.A sign on Kiwi's eyes
Odd: X.A.N.A...
Kiwi goes away, and Odd starts to transform into a zombie
Why is Odd so stupid here, why didn't Milly try to push him away from Kiwi, why did he not even see the X.A.N.A sign on his dog's eyes BEFORE being bitten, WHY IS SCENE? +10

William: So you're saying that Kiwi is possessed by this X.A.N.A?
Jeremy: Right. But thanks to you, Kiwi's somewhere, ready to bite us! What's more, we're surrounded by an army of the living dead. If you had let us out before, we wouldn't be in this mess.
William: Listen, if you'd gone out, you might be a zombie yourself by now, idiot!
Sigh. Staying here won't prevent the zombies from attacking you, it will only delay it. Also, if they managed to get out, the whole Odd fiasco would have not happened. +3

Sissi: Open up! It's me, Sissi!
Open up, I said! I'm not one of them!
Herb: She's lying.
Um, nope. The fact that she's SPEAKING should show that she is not a zombie. What's with everyone being braindead in zombie episodes of TV shows? +5

Ulrich kicks Zombie William to the ground
Ulrich: That one's on me!
Really bro? After everything you two have been through in the previous episode?

2 characters have a moment that brings them closer together due to a X.A.N.A attack but it goes nowhere after this episode cliché +3

Yumi: You're getting better Jeremy! Soon we'll be landing right on top of them!
Nice foreshadowing. -1

Jeremy: If I get zombified, I won't be able to launch the return in time and...I don't wanna talk about the mess we'll be in!
Just give the RTTP instructions to Yumi right away! Better safe than sorry! +1

Yumi: We're gonna try to push our way through!
Jeremy: That's suicide!
Huh. Kind of surprising to hear this word when the show often (not always, but often) hesitates to use the word "dead". +1

Also, no, that's not suicide. Just have Yumi jump in front of the Krabs while Aelita goes into the tower.

Lyoko-Warriors don't think of distracting the monsters and let Aelita sneak away cliché. +3

Yumi and Aelita try to distract the monsters by having them go far from the tower
Hate to break it to you, but that's absolutely not the right thing to do in those "race against time" situations. +1

Aelita has a vision, like Odd
Wait, when did she get this power? And why don't we see it more often? +1

Yumi: I can tele-transport Aelita!
That's stupid. Yumi is unable to fight the monsters when doing this, and if she calculates her distance poorly, Aelita will fall into the Digital Sea. Just have Aelita use her creation power, or even use the Overboard! She proved to be good at piloting this vehicle in the LITERAL previous episode. +5

Aelita enters the invisible tower, and a Kankrelat headbonks it
Hahahahahaha -1

Sissi: Don't you touch Milly, you hear?
Honestly, Sissi is a really cool character in this episode. She protects Milly from the zombies and tries to reassure her like Tamiya would usually do during X.A.N.A attacks (with episodes like Claustrophobia). It's rare seeing this more caring side of her. Frankly, nice job writing a "mean girl" archetype that's a bit more nuanced and not just 100% evil. (yes, I'm talking to you, Thomas Astruc.) -5

Jeremy's ankle gets bitten by Kiwi
Jeremy: Oh, no!
As Aelita enters the tower, Jeremy struggles to maintain control as he is starting to turn into a zombie
Aelita: Jeremy, did you program the return to the past? Jeremy?!
Jeremy barely manages to launch the return to the past as he's transforming into a zombie
Jeremy: Aelita...aah...nnngh...return to the past now!
The show pulls out fake suspense at the very end on the mission on Lyoko and expects us to believe that it won't end well cliché. +3

Ulrich: It's true that she's a pain, but you know, deep down, I think she really likes you.
Aelita: And I really think that she can be very brave and a real nice person...when she wants to be.
Milly: What?!
Jeremy: Yeah! In fact, you can never guess a person's true colors, can you?
Why does Yumi seems to understand what they're referring to? She was absent during the entire zombie ordeal. Heck, I don't even think she saw any zombies! +1

I really think that this episode NAILED the atmosphere. I'm always kind of annoyed of the tropes of dumbing down the heroes to make zombie episodes always get on the BRINK of apocalypse (Zombizou in Miraculous had that problem too) but this one is REALLY saved by its general atmosphere. The dark night skies, the claustrophobic feeling, the "race against time" vibe...shout out to the creators for this. -10

Total sins: 44

Sentence: Zombification

Most sinned episode so far: The Chips Are Down (201)
Least sinned episode so far: Ghost Channel (-106)

Most sinned episode in Season 2 so far: The Chips Are Down (201)
Least sinned episode in Season 2 so far: Temptation (24)

Previous: https://www.reddit.com/r/CodeLyoko/comments/1tbivvy/everything_wrong_with_code_lyoko_episode_39_a_bad/