Code Lyoko/Fridge

This page is for showcasing noteworthy moments of Fridge Brilliance or Fridge Horror in Code Lyoko. Note that any Fridge Logic examples do NOT belong here -- put them on the series' Headscratchers page, instead.

Fridge Brilliance

• Aelita's first materialization at first begs the question, "Where'd she get the clothes?" Then comes the reveal that she's human, and suddenly it makes sense.
• Jeremie said that one's appearance on Lyoko likely corresponds with one's own subconscious desires; Aelita's childhood toy - an elf named Mr. Puck - explains her elfin appearance.
• Sometimes when Aelita deactivates a tower, we see her doing a backflip as she ascends to the next panel. At first this seems to be just for show, but it turns out that it has a purpose after all. Think about it -- the second panel is directly above the first, and Aelita has to walk into the centre before she can ascend. If she didn't do a backflip, she'd smack into the bottom of the panel!
• Why do the uncontrolled towers in Lyoko glow blue earlier on, and white in later seasons? Simple: White is Franz Hopper's color. After Franz Hopper reveals himself, Lyoko recognizes its master.

Fridge Horror

• In the season 1 episode "Just in Time", Aelita gets deleted after deactivating the tower because of bugs in the system. However, they bring her back by virtualizing a strand of her hair (which Jérémie had successfully materialised at the beginning of the episode), which supposedly contains her entire genetic code. But if that's true, they wouldn't really be bringing back Aelita at all; rather, they'd be making an exact clone of her. Now, at the time, this wouldn't be such a big deal, but when we discover that she's really human, this opens up a lot of awkward possibilities...
  • She was reformatted, not deleted. Scanning the hair simply allowed the computer to salvage her from the system, separating her from the data belonging to Lyoko itself.
• Code Lyoko has enough Nightmare Fuel as it is, especially with regards to falling into the Digital Sea, but the show becomes even more horrifying when you consider how the five protagonists must feel about the whole thing, especially from season three onwards. After all, they're constantly at risk of being murdered by XANA - he could attack at any moment at all, and they have to be ready to fight him. Consequently, they can never truly relax. Also, whenever the gang are exploring the network in the Skid, there's always the considerable risk that something might go wrong with it, or one of them might become 'lost at sea'. If that happens, eventually the Skid would run out of energy, and then they'd end up in the Digital Sea, which as mentioned previously, isn't a good idea. And of course this is happening whilst the main characters are right in the middle of puberty, so you can imagine the turmoil they must feel. Just to finish all of that off, they also aren't allowed to tell anybody about XANA in the hopes of getting some help, because that would break the Masquerade. How they made it through the show without becoming mentally ill is a mystery...
  • Another one for Code Lyoko, only this time focused on a single episode rather than the show as a whole. At the end of "Bad Connection", Odd shows his latest mini-film, which reveals Sissi wrapped in a duvet, and emerging 'as a beautiful butterly'. That's cute and all... until you realise that in order to film that footage in the first place, he'd have to have stuck a camera in her room without her knowledge. Here's where the Fridge Horror comes in - what else could Odd have filmed? How do we know he didn't keep some of it for 'personal use'? Oh, and considering that Odd is a G-rated pervert, who's to say that Sissi is the only girl he's done this too? (Oh, and on top of all that, Sissi's father was watching the film, and he just assumed that Sissi was OK with this? It's amazing that Odd didn't get expelled...)

• The William Clone (Muffin II, if the fan nickname ever caught on), being deleted at the end with no apparent remorse. Not to say it wasn't neccessary; just changing his DNA would still leave a double or a stranger with an unusual personality roaming the campus. And fixing that would make it hard to shut down Lyoko if he chose to defend it. But it seems strange that Jeremie, Aelita, or even William don't give any thought to a being they created to resemble a person he could never actually become, in the form that Jeremie once thought Aelita was. Not to mention he helped Jeremie protect the supercomputer in (I believe it was,) An Eye For an Eye, either to save his creator (adds a sad note to the horror), save his data (which would mean he had a suvival instinct), or to destroy the real William (emphasizing that his whole purpose is to become someone who already exists and is not him). And now for where the horror comes in: Jeremie updated the clone using some of the data used to make XANA's AI. Emergent Qualities might not matter anymore if his capacity to learn is intact.
  • Jeremie did update the clone, but after the Return to the Past, he confirmed that he had deleted the update to William's clone personality. The clone itself (in Down to Earth) said "to be specific, I'm a digitally generated random polymorphic energy field controlled by a basic non-evolving behavioral program". Non-evolving meaning anything not programmed into its artificial intelligence would not be done or even considered, because it was a rigid program.
• It's mentioned several times throughout the series that returning to the past won't revive anyone who has died. How did the main characters figure THAT one out?