Something I appreciate about Code Lyoko is that the monsters never become a joke to the characters.
Too often shows-especially ones with power creeping-will turn initial/early enemies into jokes or cannon fodder. There's a gimmick that makes them obsolete after a few episodes, next season there might be a a hundred of them in the back for spectacle but none of the characters care.
Code Lyoko never forgets the threat any of the monsters pose. The characters get better at dealing with them, especially the ones they have more experience with, but the danger a kankerlot poses is equal to that of a tank in the right setting.
Even when new monsters are introduced its not to overshadow the old ones, but as a sign of X.A.N.A. gaining strength or adapting to a new environment.
It also makes it seem like X.A.N.A. has a proper military and isn't just tossing minions at the heroes. Tanks are tanks, mantas/hornets are air support, kankerlots are foot soldiers, krabs are riot troopers, tarantulas are heavy artillery, etc.
aka The One We Gave Everything We've Got—Literally!
SmashGenesis: Below is a link to our entire body of work, uploaded to the Internet Archive by @4th-grader. (If you're reading this, thank you for thinking to do that!)
All Our Episodes
Additionally, help yourselves to the subtitle files for the handful of season episodes we mostly finished, albeit not completely. They may have typos and translation errors, and you'll need to get hold of the video files on your own, but you can watch these episodes start to finish! MonsterKamo translated 57, and I translated the remaining two.
Episode 57: Aelita
aka The One Where Jérémie's GPA is Cray-Cray, but His EQ is DOA
Episode 60: A Few Tarantulas Short of a Colony
aka The One About the Dangers of Being a Theater Kid
Episode 61: Sabotage
(P.S. The title for episode 60 is easily the translation I'm most proud of in this whole dang project. The French title is a XANA monster-fied pun on "avoir une araignée au plafond" which means, literally, "to have a spider on the ceiling"—that is, being insane. The English dub dropped the idiomatic aspect, which made finding an equivalent myself all the sweeter...)
aka The One Where Lyoko is Ice, Ice Baby... No More!
