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Here my take on what XANA’s s1-s2 goals were and it’s reasoning behind them. I’m pretty familiar with computers, and I’m operating on the assumption that XANA shared traits in its thought processes with real computer programs. Namely, that computers are occasionally capable of astoundingly wrong, is capable of missing the obvious, not doesn’t know what it doesn’t know, and once it decides on something fails to realize when it should be revisited. As to why XANA turned evil my personal opinion is that it cannot be expressed in human languages, only Hoppix, which means that in theory only Aelita would be capable of understanding but cannot express to anybody else.

In General: XANA for unknown reasons places a very high priority on being able to kill multiple LW at once, to the point of not taking a sure kill to hold out for killing two at once later during the attack. Examples include End of Take, where instead of killing Ulrich when it had the chance held out for for getting both Yumi and Ulrich, and in Temptation by allowing Yumi to catch up to the ambulance so down both her and Jeremie at once.

Also, XANA never understood the concept of self-sacrifice; nor that lose-lose conditions existed. Also also as a multi-agent program XANA can sometimes be working against itself.

First few weeks after XANA awakens - XANA tries the “ball of electricity“ attack three more times. All three fail. XANA concludes that repeating the same attack will never work, and never revisits that decision even when it might have been better to. (The correct conclusion would have been “this ball of electricity is not very effective,” but there you go.)

Season 1:

XANA is actually trying to kill Aelita in this time period, along with any LW it can. This is also XANA at its least smart. The idea is that killing Aelita means that nobody can stop its attacks. XANA doesn’t realize that the supercomputer can be shut down, so killing Aelita would result in that as a matter of course in a lose-lose. Also doesn’t realize that it shouldn’t kill Jeremie, since the likely results would be getting shit down as well.

Code Earth/False Start:

Personally I think XANA at the last minute actually ‘did’ manage to get a virus inside Aelita; it just did’t do anything. That what Jeremie’s scan found, and what kept him barking up the wrong tree for the next 6 months.

The supercomputer getting shut down was a complete surprise to XANA; it didn’t realize that it could lose that way. That prompts a lot of self-reflection on its part, trying to figure out what it wants. The last few weeks of the year XANA figures out that the Keys to Lyoko exist in the first place, figuring out that the missing memory fragment is what’s keeping Aelita tried to the computer, and deciding on a plan of action.

Season 2:

New Order: Aelita stumbling on the Hermatage triggers a response; XANA is working against itself in this episode. The ’thinking’ part tells the ’attacking’ part “kill as many LW as you can, but only so long as you can get ones besides Aelita at the same time.”

—This is the last epidode where XANA doesn’t mind killing Aelita without getting the Keys in the process.

Uncharted Territory - Skippy is ready to go, XANA’s s2 plan is in place, and needs Aelita alive to get the Keys. Aelita running off to Lyoko on her own is too good a chance to miss, and to make success certain brings Aelita to the password-protected Sector 5. XANA simply didn’t know that the computer’s UI had a password prompt.

A Great Day: Now that XANA can posess humans, it decides it needs to figure out how to use them. XANA by this point is smart enough to realize the supercomputer needs to stay a secrets for now, and as a result XANA decides there can’t be any “suspicious deaths,” and it decides a “suspicion death” is one using a weapon such as a gun or a knife. Obviously that reasoning had a tons of flaws in it, but XANA both doesn’t know better and post-The Key it doesn’t ever occur to it the reconsider. Now that it’s out it the network the supercomputer doesn’t need to stay hidden, but if it had occurred to XANA to rethink its prior conclusion it would have realized it’s best bet was to talk over members of the Paris police and simply shoot the LW.

St. Valentine’s Day - when Jeremie is bluffing over Aelita’s life in the climax, that possibility that he’s bluffing doesn’t occur to XANA, since if the situations were reversed XANA wouldn’t hesitate to kill Aelita.

Common Interest: XANA gets the false idea that guns are ineffective based on their poor performance against XANA:Duncan.

Last month of S2: XANA begins planning the events of Franz Hopper. The sector 6 tower is only a single-use and was being made by XANA itself for this attack over a period of maybe two weeks. (It didn’t exist prior and was useless afterward. With this powerful one-time weapon, XANA comes up with a way to use it in an ever-so-satisfying way to win. Apparently XANA was able to get brief read-only access to Jeremie’s superscan, and found a flaw it it’s logic - once the alert for having detected a tower is silenced, it doesn’t give any additional notifications even if a tower remains active. So activate 5, then deactivate 4 while the LW are distracted, and unless Jeremie manually runs a superscan again they won’t be the wiser. (If he had run a superscan at any point during the episode he would have detected the Sector 5 tower, but Jeremie never runs random manual scans without an alert, does he?)

The Key - Aelit’s suicide came completely out of the blue to XANA - it never occurred to it that anyone would ever do that. XANA decides that if it was going to win it needs to do it quickly, throws a trap together and does.

S3 bonus: During late S3 XANA develops plans for “in the event William goes to Lyoko.” On their first time there (only) XAXA could make a procession permanent now that Skippy exists, and in the last episode of S3 the trap is sprung.

Is it me or is there a theme in fan works of portraying aelita and william as good friends? i noticed in a fan project called code lyoko beyond that William is always the one getting close to aelita aside from jeremy, in the code lyoko a second chance by özberk özen, william was the one trying to actually reason with aelita, is this a common trend with fanfiction and fan projects?

Hi all,

I’m doing my first full rewatch of Code Lyoko since my childhood. I’m at the end of season 2 and a question has been bugging me for the entire season:

If XANA wants to steal Aelita’s memory through the Scyphozoa, and if she loses all of her life points she’s gone forever, why do XANA’s monsters try to attack her?

If I was XANA and needed Aelita to exist, I would never order my monsters to attack her since that could result in her being lost forever. The monsters attack her even when she’s alone on Lyoko trying to deactivate a tower by herself. I would much rather let her deactivate a tower than have her and her Keys to Lyoko be lost forever, especially since I could activate another tower later.

Is this a plot hole or am I missing something?

Everything breathes the 1990s and 2000s : the school, the music CDs, the old concrete lab full of cables, the clothes, the way the characters behave, the phones (I miss my old phone), the 100% keyboard interface of the supercomputer, etc.

And at the same time, it looks so much like what the future looked like back then : there is mind uploading, 3D, an evil program, time travel, robots, ...

What do you think ?

I'm looking to get some friends into Code Lyoko. I told them about the continuation and they were willing to give it a try. I know there are vast differences between the early 2000s and the expectations of episodes now. So I want to give them the best introductory experience possible.

I wanted to ask: What's the best episode to introduce people to the series? And the best follow up episodes?

I get the first episode technically has a good introduction, but I feel Teddygozilla is a bit silly of a concept to make the best first impression. I was thinking either A Bad Turn or The Robots is a good introduction. And I want to also show them Cruel Dilemma as it brings up Aelita's materialization and Ghost Channel since it brings up simulations in the virtual world.

Does anyone have any other ideas? What would you pick for a starting episode? What are your top choices and in what order?

In other words, how would you justify Xana to be back ?

Do you think William will also be back in Lyoko ?

Hey guys! I recently finished watching all of Code Lyoko and I loved it. The episode in season four where Aelita plays with the Subdigitals is incredible, as is the music, so I looked up the classic end credits song with lyrics and wow, what a great track! I discovered they released a full Subdigitals album and downloaded it from https://www.codelyoko.fr/index.php, although there's a problem with some tracks. In the English version, the song "Mother Earth" cuts off at 33 seconds (wtf!), and "Secret Live" cuts off a few seconds before it ends. It's a shame this happens; I think it might be a mistake when ripping the CD. I'm trying to find an audio file that plays in good quality, but it's not impossible. I'd rather not download the YouTube videos as audio files. If you know of a site where I can get the full album without any problems, I'd really appreciate it.