#X.a.n.a

[eclair-creates01]

@favoriteofxana I am your secret Santa! Hope you enjoy your gift >^<)/

Hope you have a Merry Christmas! ^w^

[be3zbvb]

my take on the xanawill fruit allegations

[lyokos-slugcat]

Switched Hearts: Satellite episode in a nutshell

[16hoppinggummybears-blog]

Code Lyoko Posting

Credit to @kosizam on Tiktok

[miracleofdatabase]

So, my friend counted how long of a jail time will XANA gets if it could be arrested for it's crime and...

It would receive at MINIMUM 490,623 years of jailtime for just one TYPE of crime it has commited...

[cerberus253]

✨🎄Merry Christmas from XAN[T]A🎄✨

[snailsnaps]

Am I the only one in love with him???

Hello? Am I screaming into the void here? Where all the X.A.N.A simps at? =(

I'm practically starving here...! Do I have to do everything myself??

[raphaelcrossofoliver]

Progress Report: Finally finished the Sectors and X.A.N.A

Now to draw the Lyoko Warriors fighting a X.A.N.A monster in a sector that is disadvantageous to them and advantageous to the monster

[clswitchedhearts]

Main Character: XANA

The benevolent AI. The main support and the AU's Aelita replacement.

When it reawakens and sees Jeremie, its first Instinct was to try getting Jeremie out as soon as it possibly can. But Aelita had noticed him, moreover, Jeremie didn't shut the Supercomputer back down on his way out.

Desperate, XANA's only option is to bond with Jeremie. It attached itself to Jeremie, making them connected.

Whilst turning the Supercomputer down kills Jeremie, the Blonde nerd can be killed in a normal way. If it does happen, XANA will die alongside him

XANA, at the start of the story, acts like your typical AI. it is kind, and in some level, empathetic, but it has base level understanding in humanity. It is the personification of true good guy. It stands for what it feels right for it and doesn't understand the meaning of 'Just having fun'

[mattapparentlystumbltourneys]

Virtual Character Tourney - Round 3 - Bracket 1 - 1

Propaganda below (May contain spoilers!)

Hatsune Miku propaganda:

she is hatsune fucking miku. progenitor of the character vocal series. she is everything

she's literally the OG virtual girl…

first sound of the future and the most iconic #Girl in the world. everybody loves her. liking vocaloid is not a prerequisite to liking miku she is everything to me she is blue hair blue tie hiding in your wifi. And she is my best friend

X.A.N.A propaganda (...Propa-XANA?):

Listen man I know they probably won't win but still. Xana my beloved I don't care that they've nearly murdered several (yes I do) but they're like. Kid mes favorite villain from a cartoon. They can infect machines, humans, etc. Hell, they even created zombies at one point!! They nearly blew up a nuclear power plant! They turned gravity off! They nearly annihilated a kid with a government space Lazer! All while being a computer virus/program!

XANA's cool (thumbs up). Also it's a program (in universe) that was originally housed on a supercomputer but kinda spread outside of it (because of the main character kids accidentally letting the freak (affectionate) out of its cage?) Also almost kills people on a regular basis. :)

[writer-of-worlds]

XANA, during an attack: You're all gonna die!

Aelita, deactivating a tower: Nuh uh.

XANA: TFYM NUH UH?!

[local-lamppost]

Feel free to ignore this, its just me gushing about how important Code Lyoko is to me.

I'm not one of those people who gets nostalgic and for multiple reasons, A) I'm very rarely emotionally sentimental towards media, B) I am a bit stunted emotionally, and C) due to a childhood/teenage years of a number of head injuries my memory is absolutely shot.

But through it all, Code Lyoko-the weird show from France with its stilted animation and repetitive plot-is what gets me. Not my favorite movies, games, or even other tv shows will do this to me.

Now, I started watching Code Lyoko when I was pretty young. I'm more or less a year older than it. So, when it was dubbed into english for the states, I was just old enough to catch onto the plot and some time later be enthralled with the later seasons/reruns. I have two older brothers and we all have vastly different taste in media, but for a solid part of my childhood we all agreed on a shared love for this show. We would meet in the den to watch the episodes every day and get along as only kids watching cartoons can.

When we moved states the subject I was most upset over was that CN for some reason didn't have Code Lyoko in this new area. Which, considering the move took probably about a day or two, really confused me. But for years this show lived only in my memory, not even my friends at school-in grades above or below-knew what I was talking about.

Some years pass, Code Lyoko is this shiny little memory that sits in the back of my brain, and I'm given a gen 1 iPad. It's slow, it dies quickly, I didn't even have my own headphones, but I didn't have to share with my brothers and had Youtube.

Now, for any young folk reading this for some reason (first off, good on you for getting into Code Lyoko) Youtube had been around for a few years at this point and had only really started getting traction circa 2008-09. The fun thing about early Youtube was that you could watch anything. Very few restrictions, no concept of enforcing copyright, it just had to be ten minutes or less and even that was beginning to change(I think). This was the era of watching a lagging anime in 3-4 parts an episode, and this is where I was able to finally watch Code Lyoko again.

I remember very specifically marathoning the show in the kitchen, sitting oddly in an arm chair, utterly engrossed in this show. It had action, it was 3D animated, the characters were cool and funny, and I would've done anything to have a hangout like the factory. Not to mention the intro was the best thing I'd ever heard and still is to this day one of my favorites.

But why do I love this show? Well a couple reasons...

Thing 1: Animation

Now I know the jokes and the jabs and the fact that its old and dated are what anyone unfamiliar with the show is quick to point out. If anyone has even passing knowledge of Code Lyoko its usually the weird character designs. If you watch the show you get used to it and sorta come to notice that it fits the characters much better in the 3D world more than the 2D and Lyoko is where all the cool action scenes are so.

And, I don't know if this is a hot take, but I like the 3D animation a lot. It looks like the ps2/3 games we would play as kids, and the premise is basically kids fighting monsters in a video game in 2003. It's an aesthetic that I appreciate for better or worse.

Thing 2: Stakes/Story

Code Lyoko is one of the few shows (cartoons especially) with the unique ability to be episodic in a serialized way. Things build up, connect, and whatever big changes happen in the past seasons continue on in the following. This was kinda insane to young me, shows were episodic or serialized, not both. Not to say there was nothing else (Teen Titans, Generator Rex, X-Men Evolution, Avatar, etc.) nor to say that Code Lyoko was the best at doing this, but no matter how repetitive the usual episodes are it more than makes up for with the stakes of those epidoes.

I don't think many cartoons put the kids in as imiment danger as Code Lyoko. Military satellites, Nuclear collisions, plagues of rats and hoards of wasps, using nano tech to give people amnesia that spread like the flu, being drowned or boiled alive, molested by plants, haunted by internet ghosts, Jeremy messing up a code so badly the antagonist needs to help the heroes out, feeling what it is like to be killed every time they are devertualized, having gravity turned off, having to deal with the fact that they are all months to potentially years older than their peers due to time travel, stressing over keeping everyone alive because time travel doesn't fix that, and so much more. Keep in mind they are all 13-15 years old and also in boarding school, on their own those are experiences that will deeply scar and change you without the cyber terrorism.

Thing Last: Characters

This is the real kicker and probably something I'll dedicate an entire series of things to talking about in depth, but for now.

Code Lyoko was the first show with characters I truly cared about. My young brain would be so absorbed in those stakes that I could forget that a cartoon for children would not kill any of its main characters(at least back then).

Individually, each character had something going for them. Jeremy was smart, witty, and made me feel better about being a nerd; Aelita was all that and more, being one of the kindest characters in media but still managing to hold her own both verbally and physically (no sequence was cooler to me than in season 1 when Aelita had to avoid monsters without aid and managed to kill a bunch using only the terrain); Yumi was the groups strength in the real world, a bit older and down to earth, it's weird she had no friends prior to the series; Odd, what to say about Odd? He is the only emotionally intelligent person in this whole cast with only Aelita coming close. He is happy, funny, proud, and kinda carried the team in the early episodes when Ulrich wouldn't go to Lyoko for whatever reason; Ulrich, my boy, the best fighter in Lyoko and a contender for best Lyoko design, my relating to him as a child was probably the earliest indicator I had mental health problems, but I will always remember him taking down Kolossus. Lastly, XANA. For a villain with maybe a line of dialog, XANA had a strange sense of character to him. He was a malicious, ruthless, powerful entity that wanted freedom for itself and the destruction of those who imprisoned him. XANA was meant to be a helpful AI, but it got out of hand and was persecuted by the men in black due to its capabilities, even scaring Hopper, his creator. XANA's death in the second to last episode is shown as a smoke being of him contorts in agony and dissipates; so close to being free.

More than anything, the Lyoko Warriors are friends. They goof around, get a virtual Aelita a birthday cake, know when to tease and when to just listen, they will do anything for each other through thick and thin, but they can also just hang out. A lot of stories have groups that feel like they only spend time together to achieve something, for a purpose, the Lyoko Warriors are friends who like being together.

To wrap this up.

Code Lyoko has numerous problems, most of which can be seen in Miraculous Ladybug the current popular French cartoon created by a former Code Lyoko storyboard artist, but it had heart. It showed me how far animation could go, how a world could be created. It motivated me to improve my writing and taught me that no story-no matter how good the visuals or plot-is anything without lovable characters.

More than anything serious, Code Lyoko was fun. It gave me time to spend with my brothers, an introduction into internet media/culture, and the first ending that I ever found satisfying as a child. I love this show, if someone came up to me and said 'if you quit your job and studies that your actually happy with and come make a Code Lyoko reboot/sequal' I wouldn't hesitate.

I love you Code Lyoko and here's to another 20! Let's live in a world without danger.

[be3zbvb]

ok i NEED to post this discovery

so in the wreck room episode of season four, jeremy launches a program to save william yada yada and aelita sees him in lyoko running away from krabs. THEN were led to believe it was all a trick because he attacks her literally right after being saved

however👹👹👹

im gonna start with some basic details, there is no reason for xana to disarm william if he was still under his control. this doesnt add to the trick it just weakens william

and the only reason hed try to do that is because william is out of his control at the moment

additionally! will looks way too desperate here! hes reaching for that sword like his life depends on it! probably because it does!

and notice in the scene after the krab that shot him did so specifically so he would be downed. without a weapon, and did something a xana creature has literally never done before

it crawled on top of him and shined this weird light on him, and it was only after this that williams demeanor changed

now heres the MAIN detail

william doesnt have the xana symbol on his forehead before the krab gets him

its only after!

thus! william WAS free in this scene until xana took control back via vague krab light and aelita was too late to save him

[lyokos-slugcat]

Made Error Code (XANA and Jeremie Rivalry) pin for myself

[vivianzane]

Doing a roleplay thing with my friends on the site Multerra, where I play Shulk as my main character. We were pitching ideas about how to make a plot work, and I thought "hey, what if X.A.N.A. from Code Lyoko were a character?" Then I considered if XANA were to possess Shulk, which would let it use the Monado. One thing led to another, and, well, here you go.

"This is the Xanado's power!"

Depicted: Xanado

[miracleofdatabase]

Switched Hearts: Serpent XANA

I realized i never posted this dude here lmao

Good guy XANA my beloved