Most Underrated Characther

[MY85 offline]

Code Lyoko has a good amount of characthers which some of you consider as your favourite. But there's always someone that is not appreciated at all by every fan. There are some underrated characthers in this show.

The purpose of this thread is to find which characther from the CL show would be the most underrated of them all.

[Stonecreek]

Sissi as a character is largely misunderstood. She can come across as very one-dimensional, which is not the case, to me anyway. Many fans take a narrow-minded view of her as a witch (with a capital B) who enjoys nothing more than giving the gang grief. While this is partly true, it overlooks the fact that the group needs a foil like her for the show to be successful. Having everything be all hunky-dorey would be boring. And having XANA as the only entity on the show to have people side against would also get stale. Enter Sissi. She sometimes serves as the comedic catalyst in the show, and the interaction between her and the group form the subplot of a particular episode. Her bossy nature gets on the gang's nerves, and the gang's view is what the show focuses on. We the viewers get to see very little out of other people's eyes, and Sissi is no exception. Being the principal's daughter would seemingly make her a magnet for attracting friends, yet all she has around her are Nicholas and Herb. This has to get to her, and she disguises this by being a pain to those she envies. Fandom pairs her with Ulrich because she pines after him on the show, but again, I think this is not all romantic in nature. She is deeply jealous of what the gang has between themselves, and transfers that want to an obsession with Ulrich. Deep down, Sissi just wants to be noticed, and if they get to know her, so much the better.

[Ghost Guest offline]

William, in my opinion. Most people hate him because he created tension between Yumi and Ulrich and they just wanted to see those two together. But, in the words of Joss Whedon, creator of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and "Angel":

"Don't give people what they want, give them what they need. What they want is for Sam and Diane to get together. Don't give it to them. Trust me. You know? People want the easy path, a happy resolution, but in the end, they're more interested in... No one's going to go see the story of Othello going to get a peaceful divorce. People want the tragedy. They need things to go wrong, they need the tension."

[Carth]

BANG. You just said what's on everyone's mind.

I'm not very deep-thinking like that. I voted William, for many of the reasons you stated- everyone hates him because he's standing smack between UxY, but ignores the rest of his character. Sure, he's a bit of a jerk. But he has helped the gang every once in a little while...and looky here, he's the host of XANA. That's a major deal he's got goin, if not the most pleasant.

[Taelia offline]

I may have voted for Jim just now, but he isn't the ONE underrated character. However, I do have some reasons as to why some fans think of the PE teacher as such.

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Jim is often seen as a comic character introduced to relieve tension. Even if he is an uptight S.O.B. at times, he has a gentle side to the kids as well (though we only see this rarely since RTTPS are done *grumble*). Also, because of his normally-strict attitude, very few Kadic attendants even like him.

[MY85 offline]

Sissi as a character is largely misunderstood. She can come across as very one-dimensional, which is not the case, to me anyway. Many fans take a narrow-minded view of her as a witch (with a capital B) who enjoys nothing more than giving the gang grief. While this is partly true, it overlooks the fact that the group needs a foil like her for the show to be successful. Having everything be all hunky-dorey would be boring. And having XANA as the only entity on the show to have people side against would also get stale. Enter Sissi. She sometimes serves as the comedic catalyst in the show, and the interaction between her and the group form the subplot of a particular episode. Her bossy nature gets on the gang's nerves, and the gang's view is what the show focuses on. We the viewers get to see very little out of other people's eyes, and Sissi is no exception. Being the principal's daughter would seemingly make her a magnet for attracting friends, yet all she has around her are Nicholas and Herb. This has to get to her, and she disguises this by being a pain to those she envies. Fandom pairs her with Ulrich because she pines after him on the show, but again, I think this is not all romantic in nature. She is deeply jealous of what the gang has between themselves, and transfers that want to an obsession with Ulrich. Deep down, Sissi just wants to be noticed, and if they get to know her, so much the better.

QFT.

[Stonecreek]

Sissi as a character is largely misunderstood. She can come across as very one-dimensional, which is not the case, to me anyway. Many fans take a narrow-minded view of her as a witch (with a capital B) who enjoys nothing more than giving the gang grief. While this is partly true, it overlooks the fact that the group needs a foil like her for the show to be successful. Having everything be all hunky-dorey would be boring. And having XANA as the only entity on the show to have people side against would also get stale. Enter Sissi. She sometimes serves as the comedic catalyst in the show, and the interaction between her and the group form the subplot of a particular episode. Her bossy nature gets on the gang's nerves, and the gang's view is what the show focuses on. We the viewers get to see very little out of other people's eyes, and Sissi is no exception. Being the principal's daughter would seemingly make her a magnet for attracting friends, yet all she has around her are Nicholas and Herb. This has to get to her, and she disguises this by being a pain to those she envies. Fandom pairs her with Ulrich because she pines after him on the show, but again, I think this is not all romantic in nature. She is deeply jealous of what the gang has between themselves, and transfers that want to an obsession with Ulrich. Deep down, Sissi just wants to be noticed, and if they get to know her, so much the better.

QFT.

I'm afraid I don't know that acronym, though I have a pretty good guess.

[MY85 offline]

Sissi as a character is largely misunderstood. She can come across as very one-dimensional, which is not the case, to me anyway. Many fans take a narrow-minded view of her as a witch (with a capital B) who enjoys nothing more than giving the gang grief. While this is partly true, it overlooks the fact that the group needs a foil like her for the show to be successful. Having everything be all hunky-dorey would be boring. And having XANA as the only entity on the show to have people side against would also get stale. Enter Sissi. She sometimes serves as the comedic catalyst in the show, and the interaction between her and the group form the subplot of a particular episode. Her bossy nature gets on the gang's nerves, and the gang's view is what the show focuses on. We the viewers get to see very little out of other people's eyes, and Sissi is no exception. Being the principal's daughter would seemingly make her a magnet for attracting friends, yet all she has around her are Nicholas and Herb. This has to get to her, and she disguises this by being a pain to those she envies. Fandom pairs her with Ulrich because she pines after him on the show, but again, I think this is not all romantic in nature. She is deeply jealous of what the gang has between themselves, and transfers that want to an obsession with Ulrich. Deep down, Sissi just wants to be noticed, and if they get to know her, so much the better.

QFT.

I'm afraid I don't know that acronym, though I have a pretty good guess.

Quoted for truth.

I'm appaled that nobody bothers to write something on the "overrated" thread. Are people really that coward enough to not dare and bash a CL characther?

[AmericanLyokoTeam offline]

QFT @ Sissi as well.

I'd like to add a lot of why I think she's the most underated are things that COULD BE rather than the things that already ARE. The character has a lot of potential, and hopefully we get at least a couple of S4 episodes to go back and explore her as maybe not the most worthless human being around.

I tend to think of Odd highly for the same reason on that note, there are a lot of things they could do with him but don't because they're too busy focusing on the other four major gang members.

I think you can see why I have such love for the notion of OxSi then, they're both underrated character that need something to bring them to the fore and really let the audience explore them.

But as for most underrated, I'd have to say Sissi. Odd at least gets screen time for being in the club.

[Taelia offline]

At least she's got a nice clothes closet. But her behavior needs a refresher course.

[Gauntlet offline]

BANG. You just said what's on everyone's mind.

I'm not very deep-thinking like that. I voted William, for many of the reasons you stated- everyone hates him because he's standing smack between UxY, but ignores the rest of his character. Sure, he's a bit of a jerk. But he has helped the gang every once in a little while...and looky here, he's the host of XANA. That's a major deal he's got goin, if not the most pleasant.

Agreed. One of my hopes is that, in this new season, we'll get a glimpse into his mind while he's XANA's host. I'm really hoping he's just comatose or anything, and that he's fully aware of what's going on, and perhaps tempted with something. What's going through his mind by being XANA's puppet? How does he feel about it? Would he change it?

Things like that. If that was fulfilled, then I'd probably say...mmm...maybe Jim, since I don't care that much for the others. I'm curious about him, exactly why he joined the school as a teacher and whatnot, despite it being totally irrelevant to the story.

[Jinnai offline]

This is a tough decision...NOT. WILLIAM. The poor guy was so underrated in favor of Ulrich it was saddening. I'm glad that he's been perma-XANA'd, now he's getting the respect he deserves!

[Overcaffeinated Sloth offline]

I think that they Allready have Hiroki, they should push the little brother thing a bit. It'd make for a good change.

[greenshoelaces offline]

...Sorry, I only voted for Jeremie because he is my favorite....