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 |  |  |  | |  | Nature of the inspiration: | Place that really exists |  File description: | The factory in which our heroes spend a lot of time really exists...or existed. It is now destroyed but you can find in the link a beautiful photo tour of the Renault factory that inspired the creators of Code Lyoko to conceive their factory. | Inspired elements: | The heroes' factory | 
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 |  |  |  | |  | Nature of the inspiration: | Science-fiction film |  File description: | Without a doubt the main source of inspiration of Code Lyoko: the first science-fiction film to show the inside of computers as a virtual world. And the first film in which a human came into this virtual world. Virtualisation was born! | Inspired elements: | The Machine deciding to destroy the humans, virtual world inside computers and most of all: virtualisation. | 
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 |  |  |  | |  | Nature of the inspiration: | Film trilogy |  File description: | This major film of the new millennium has really inspired Code Lyoko. We find the themes of the fight between humans and machines, and of humans who dive into a virtual world. Matrix entirely inspired the scenario of episode 24 and the series does a lot of other references.
 | Inspired elements: | Virtualisation, the fight between humans and machines. | 
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 |  |  |  | |  | Nature of the inspiration: | Historical character |  File description: | Franz Hopper is really a strange character for a cartoon... Where does this creepy, bearded man, hidden going mad in a laboratory, comes from? From a real person?
 | Inspired elements: | Franz Hopper, his story, personality and appearance. Kadic Academy's name.
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 |  |  |  | |  | Nature of the inspiration: | A novel series |  File description: | An interesting series of books. Going from a different beginning to Code Lyoko, we still find a lot of similarities between some characters and the scenarios of these two universes. | Inspired elements: | A few characters. A non-human character living undercover in a normal school. | 
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