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Tuesday 21 June 2011

Tarantulas

Tarantula

A Tarantula running
A Tarantula poised for attack
A Tarantula in the Code Lyoko Official Magazine
The Tarantula is one of XANA's monsters, and the first new monster introduced in the second season. With 125 life points and quite an intellect, Tarantulas are one of our heroes' greatest enemies.
Tarantulas can sometimes be seen alone, but are known to occasionally work together in groups of two or three, even five if XANA is desparate. These monsters are one of XANA's most powerful monsters created, as they can wipe out the entire team single-handedly. Tarantulas can fire a vast amount of lasers in a short period of time, due to their duel-laser cannons located at the tip of their front arms. Most of the time when a Tarantula fires, it has to sit, making it incapable of moving, though it has walked on its hind legs and fired on several occasions. Jeremie claims that the Tarantula has a "pretty powerful laser", as it does 20 points of damage, as mentioned earlier. But there have been occasions where Tarantulas have devirtualized our heroes in one shot. Ulrich refered to them as XANA bringing out the Big Guns in Revelation
These monsters have been deemed quite intelligent by viewers. Whenever there is a situation that involves more than one Tarantula, the two will talk to each other through various grunts and roars. When two of them converse, they are usually debating over who stays and who goes, such as in New Order where two Tarantulas are guarding a Tower and one gestures the other to get rid of Odd and Aelita.