Talk:EScape/@comment-25021327-20140716142025/@comment-1196539-20140716231807

It's a French animated show that's obscure enough that it didn't have any pastas written about it, but widely known enough that I'm sure there will be at least a handful of people who understand the references. This pasta was written such that anyone who's even seen a little bit of the show should understand them--it doesn't require any prolongued watching or advanced knowledge of the series.

The synopsis in a nutshell, for you or anyone else interested: Four youths discover a supercomputer housing a virtual world called Lyoko, as well as a virtual girl named Aelita and a malevolent superintelligence named XANA. Each episode (mostly throughout the first season), XANA launches an attack on the real world, possessing electronics or something of the sort, placing lives in peril, and the four youths must enter Lyoko in virtual form and escort Aelita to an area where she can nullify XANA, allowing them to reset time and prevent the threat from ever occurring.

This is functionally a theory pasta that actually explains a lot of the series' plotholes and reveals a much darker side, showing that every time they return to the past to avoid a catastrophe, they're actually leaving behind a world where it went on without them and XANA won.