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Jim Morales 
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|  |  | "Bingo, Della Robbia. A little cardio work. This here is the new Kadic cross-country course. Through the arcade, up stairwell A, down stairwell B, jump over some benches, and that's not all. See you after lunch, and don't eat too much."
#22 Mutiny! |
An imposing and loud person, Jim is the icon of Kadic Academy. This adult is an essential component in the lives of Kadic's students, and it's unusual for any student to go a single day without crossing paths with Jim Morales.
Jim is first and foremost the PE teacher at Kadic. He's quite attached to his discipline, and puts the heroes to sleep with his long and grandiloquent speeches about the important of sport. He teaches his students many different sports: high jump, skipping, and...handstands, as well as the usual warm-up exercises.
In addition to this, Jim also manages the sports clubs at Kadic. He's Ulrich's coach and supports him during the inter-school karate competition (episode 10 "A Time to Fight"). This is when we find out that Jim himself is a good athlete. In episode 15 "Spartan," he mistakes XANA's spectre for a real football player and tries to recruit it for one of his clubs, after seeing it run after Odd.
However, education is but a small element in Jim's list of duties.
He's also Kadic's RA. We often see him on the lookout in the playground, keeping an eye out for any misbehaviour. He's also the one who gives detention to students who are in out-of-bounds areas such as the cafeteria storeroom (episode 02 "The Cortex"), or scolds students for fighting with each other (like Odd and...a spectre in episode 03 "Spectromania").
Jim also has his own dorm room at the school (episode 10 "A Time to Fight"). This is where he winds down and caters to his passion for nature documentaries. Jim probably sleeps at Kadic, given that we see him in the park in the early hours of the morning, exercising (episode 11 "Rendezvous"). Finally, he's the one who monitors Kadic's front gate, ensuring that no boarding students leave without permission (episode 07 "Countdown").
Jim is also the housekeeper. He's the one who receives deliveries (episode 12 "Chaos at Kadic"). He also manages supplies: he provides the equipment for the dance Yumi organises in episode 06 "Suspicion." He also sometimes acts as the principal's messenger, fetching students when their parents are paying a visit (like when he tells Odd that his dad is at the school in episode 12 "Chaos at Kadic"), or when he brings Jeremy and Laura to Graven so they can take their aptitude tests (episode 17 "A Bright Career Ahead").
Jim does maintenance as well. He changes fuses that were blown by XANA in episode 01 "XANA 2.0." But during this scene, we see that working with electrical equipment is not his strong point.
So, he's a very multi-talented employee. Due to his omnipresence, Jim sometimes has to face XANA, not that he knows it. In episode 01 "XANA 2.0," his own clone appears right in front of him and knocks him out with an electrical discharge. Sometimes he encounters a spectre (like the year six kid in episode 03 "Spectromania") without even knowing that it's not a real person. He even encourages William's clone to run faster when it's chasing Ulrich (episode 05 "Rivalry"). If there's a real problem, the return to the past will sort Jim out.
He's also involved in the complicated events concerning Tyron, the principal and Aelita in episode 26 "The Final Mission." But his role is only secondary, and he refuses to chase after Aelita when Tyron orders him to. | | |
| | "I'm telling you now, you'd better toe the line. I didn't sleep last night because of some mouse. I don't want to talk about it. Suffice to say I'm in a bad mood!"
#24 Time Warp |  |
Jim is a...special character.
First of all, he doesn't know much about technology. He doesn't know what watts are, and he pronounces the "g" in "geek" incorrectly. And, to him, a CD player is a mouth that swallows the CD (episode 01 "XANA 2.0").
He often acts in a ridiculous manner, either by getting lost in the middle of a sentence...or practising absurd katas. This is why Jim sometimes surprises us, when he finally puts his principles into practice.
It seems that Jim has fabricated a whole past life, and we don't really know if it's true or false...because he would "rather not talk about it." At one point he says he went on tour with the famous Rocking Stones (episode 06 "Suspicion").
Despite this ridiculousness, Jim is feared by the students. He's tenacious, and even spiteful. His punishments can sometimes be quite harsh or clearly blown out of proportion. He's quite happy to dole out punishment when a student does something they shouldn't have (episode 02 "The Cortex"). So nobody tries to fight his authority...aside from our heroes, safe in the knowledge that a return to the past will save them from a bad situation (episode 24 "Time Warp"). And this is for the best, because Jim is hot-tempered and won't hesitate to chase after a student when he deems it necessary. True to his nature, Odd enjoys tormenting the teacher.
Being the PE teacher, Jim takes himself very seriously. He's a bit sadistic: the more trouble the students have while trying to follow his instructions, the happier her is. Proof of this can be seen in his long Kadic cross-country course in episode 22 "Mutiny!"
Still, Jim is kind. He worries a lot about the students when they're feeling down, be it the Aelita clone that's as reactive as a slug (episode 20 "Espionage"), or Odd being allegedly overworked in episode 07 "Countdown." On this occasion, he takes Yumi to Delmas's office to stand up for the student body.
We also see that he can be softened by Yumi and Ulrich's frivolous relationship. He likes interrupting them and then apologising with a little smirk (episodes 01 and 09 "The Bait").
He gets very emotional when Ulrich thanks him for his coaching after winning the karate competition in episode 10.
In conclusion, despite his haughty attitude, his ridiculous gestures, his penchant for physical activity and his big mouth, Jim a man appreciated by many, especially the heroes. | | |
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"Are you kidding me? Jim's doing tai-chi."
#11 Rendezvous |
Jim is the only secondary character credited alongside the heroes in the opening credits. And we notice that, even though he doesn't get as much screen time in each episode, he appears in more episodes than Laura does. He appears in all the following episodes:
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| |  | The actor portraying Jim Morales in Code Lyoko Evolution is Bastien Thelliez. Click on the picture to access his page! |
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