William Dunbar

personality.

William displays a laid-back interest towards almost everything, from classwork and school rules to his own interests and hobbies. The lone exception to this is his interest in girls; William was kicked out of his last school for posting love-letters around the entire school, and was no less theatrical when he arrived at Kadic. He claims that love can 'drive him crazy,' and jumps at any occasion to spend time with Yumi. He enjoys flirting and 'casually' bragging about his dedication to her, despite it never leaving an impact. However, William's playfulness can quickly divulge into harassment. In the episode The Secret, he refused to let Yumi walk away until she 'gave him a kiss goodnight;' in the same episode he later grabbed onto her shoulder after she snuck away from him and tried to talk to her even as Yumi told him to leave her alone. He has little patience for Ulrich, and didn't hesitate to let things get messy with him when he provokes him in A Bad Turn. William's immaturity and hotheadedness eventually led to him being possessed by X.A.N.A.. He had little memory of this, however, and as such considered the group's rejection of him to be an overreacting for his 'single' mistake. William was initially able to gain the trust of the Lyoko Warriors through his bravery and resourcefulness. In Lyoko Minus One and The Secret, he fights against his entire possessed class and a construction worker who is also under X.A.N.A.'s possession, respectively. He manages to disarm a bomb with seven seconds to spare, claiming to have learned the skill from his uncle. William's intelligence is fluctuating at best. He is easily distracted (a point that made him a prime target for X.A.N.A.), and his academic life often suffers because of his lack of focus and clear-headedness. In the episode Aelita he claimed to have learned everything about America History, before realizing that his exam was in math.

biography

William was kind of a loner at first, having been kicked out of his previous school for posting love letters everywhere, but Yumi soon talks to him as a friend. To nobody's surprise, William wants to be more than just friends, causing conflict between him and Ulrich, when both of them vie for Yumi's affections. His appearances in the show become more frequent during the third season when Jeremie suggests to the team that William should join their group by voting, and everyone except for Yumi agrees. As fighting on Lyoko becomes harder and harder and X.A.N.A. manages to force Aelita to delete the last of four Lyoko's sectors, the group decides to let William join as the fifth backup on Lyoko. However, X.A.N.A. takes advantage of William's ineptitude and uses the Scyphozoa to take control of his mind and body, effectively trapping him in Lyoko. Jeremie creates a stable polymorphic spectre with William's basic memories, and a basic personality in order to prevent suspicion among the school. Over time, this "clone" becomes much more popular than William was, but due to his 'dumb' personality, he unknowingly causes trouble for the warriors. His personality also became a bit of a gag in the show, best seen in the episode Wreck Room. In Down to Earth, William is finally freed from X.A.N.A.'s control and returns to Earth. However, his behavior pre-X.A.N.A. causes tension between him and the rest of the Warriors (except Aelita), who are reluctant to associate with him any further, as seen in Fight to the Finish. In tandem with this, in Quest for Infinity, he was a secondary antagonist. However, he was still rescued from X.A.N.A., complete with recycled footage from Down to Earth. William's role in the sequel series is to seek redemption, which he later succeeds. In Cortex, after Odd got himself locked up in a utility room, William, instead of helping him out, went to the Cortex and takes Odd's place. For this, Odd was really mad at him, even having a thought of devirtualizing him. After rejoining the team, they stop fighting and became friendly to each other. In Rivalry, William and Ulrich put down their disagreements after William saves Ulrich from falling into Digital Sea. William becomes more serious about the missions in order to be worthy for the others to trust. When the Lyoko Warriors discover the existence of source codes, William appears to be the only one who does not have them. This makes him a more distanced member, as he is the only Lyoko Warrior who cannot deactivate towers. That doesn't stop him from becoming a vital support to the group when X.A.N.A. attacks or while exploring the Cortex, always fighting with passion and resolving many situations. Being one of the codeless only deprives him of the ability to deactivate towers on Lyoko. On Earth, William is not targeted by spectres. This makes him the only one who can be exposed to them without risk, or almost none. In Mutiny, William returns in X.A.N.A.'s possession after he falls victim to the Scyphozoa. However, since the monster fails to seize him completely, it remains attached to William. Later, he is freed thanks to the help of his friends. William is not given a major role in the group's major decisions. Not only does he support his friends in the fight against X.A.N.A. and its spectres, he also supports them in the discovery of the Cortex and Tyron's Ninjas. Finally, he is on their side for all major decisions regarding what to do next, especially after the discovery of Aelita's mother's survival. After the team infects the Cortex with their virus, William stands beside Aelita and the rest of the group and says that Aelita is strongest of them. When they go to the Supercomputer Room to shut it back down again, it is a clear sign that he earned his place in the group, once and for all. In Mutiny, Aelita says that William is a very sensitive person and it is easy to hurt his feelings.

physical info

Hair color Black Eye color Black Navy Blue (in Wreck Room) Grey (in Evolution) Height 170 cm (5' 7") Weight 57 kg (125.7 lbs) Age 14 (Season 2) 15 (Season 3 & 4) 16 (Evolution) Grade 9th Grade (Season 2) 10th Grade (Season 3 & 4) 11th Grade (Evolution) Virtual information Weapon Zweihänder Powers Super Smoke Energy Slash Former Powers: Levitation Second View

Relationships

Unlike Ulrich, William doesn't hide his feelings for Yumi. Ever since William arrived at Kadic, he is often seen together with Yumi, chatting with her, and sometimes acting romantic toward her, as first seen in Saint Valentine's Day. If that wasn't bad enough for Ulrich, Yumi doesn't seem to mind it. In A Bad Turn, William directly declared his feelings for Yumi, even trying to steal a kiss, but Yumi rejected him. She remained silent when William bluntly said she was rejecting him for Ulrich. Nonetheless, William still remained the same throughout, not hiding his feelings for Yumi and refusing to give up on her. During Season 3, William became a pot of glue, which started to annoy Yumi. She clearly tells him this in The Secret, denouncing his "two-bit Casanova act," saying how it was nice at first, but was now simply annoying for her. Her harsh words upset him. She was also the one who refused to let him enter the team following a group vote, believing he couldn't be trusted, though William was convinced that Ulrich was the one who had rejected him. However, she changes her mind at the end of Double Trouble and thanks to her, William joins the group. X.A.N.A.'s possession at William gave the complex love triangle between himself, Yumi and Ulrich some fresh air. This event moves the tension far away from matters of the heart. Nevertheless, the veracity of William's feelings is pressed in The Lake. Yumi calls the real William while he is preparing to devirtualize her. The real William briefly resurfaces and tries to stop X.A.N.A. from attacking Yumi. However, he quickly caved back to the mind control again. After William is freed and X.A.N.A. was defeated, Yumi tells him the truth: he's not the one she loves, and he has to give up hope. However, William will not give up that easily. In Evolution, William is clearly still in love with Yumi. He shows to be slightly seductive towards her in X.A.N.A. 2.0 by complimenting her hair and tries to give her love poems in Mutiny. He even declares to Odd in How to Fool X.A.N.A. that he has never lost hope with Yumi (to which the latter implied wasn't necessarily a good thing). However, William seems to have backed down a little, since he never expressed his feelings directly to Yumi as he had done in the past. He even invites Ulrich to support her in Suspicions. In False Pretenses, Odd asked William if he had kissed Yumi yet, to which both the real William and the X.A.N.A. clone responded in the same hesitant answer, saying "Uhh... pass." This made Odd facepalm because they wouldn't answer the question nor did it help distinguish the real William from the fake one. Ulrich Stern Since his first arrival at Kadic, Ulrich was the only member in the group who had problems with William, due to both of them competing for Yumi's attention. At first, William doesn't take it too far, but for Ulrich, things quickly turn very hostile. He becomes convinced that William is doing anything he can to seduce Yumi, although, at this point, William's intentions were just to get to know her better. In Marabounta, William quickly found out that Ulrich also has feelings for Yumi. Instead of trying to out-do him, William tries to give Ulrich advice, which, given his huge amount of pride, Ulrich doesn't follow at all, so William decided to take his chance. William gets closer and closer to Yumi, and that's when he realizes that Ulrich is one of the reasons why Yumi doesn't reciprocate his feelings. Since then, William's rivalry with Ulrich became more obvious. William has tried to humiliate him in front of Yumi, insulting and provoking him, even getting into a fist-fight with him in A Bad Turn. Despite their rivalry, William has shown that he doesn't mind teaming up with Ulrich when the situation calls for it, as seen in Lyoko Minus One, when he joins Ulrich to rescue Yumi from X.A.N.A.'s attack, and when he helped Ulrich to defuse the bomb in The Secret. During Evolution, William and Ulrich are still on bad terms because both of them are still competing for Yumi's heart, and also because of William's prior possession by X.A.N.A.. However, they decide to put their differences aside in Rivalry, when Ulrich refuses to team up with William in an attempt to prove to everyone that they don't need William. In the end, William and Ulrich decide to become friends after William saves Ulrich from falling to Digital Sea. Since then, they've stayed on good terms, despite William still hoping for Yumi. Odd Della Robbia William has a pretty fine relationship with Odd. Odd likes his rebellious side, but deplores his lack of humor. Before William joined the group, they are rarely seen having interactions with each other. The most notable one is in Final Mix, when Odd offered to help him fix a mixing board that William had accidentally dropped, and in A Bad Turn, when he teamed up with Odd to defeat a materialized Krab. In Cortex, William was very upset at Odd when he refuses to let William rejoin the group, also because Odd reminded William about how he got captured by the Scyphozoa like an amateur. Later in the episode, William get his revenge at Odd by taking Odd's place in a mission and ignoring Odd, who was locked in the locker room (he even asked Odd about how it feels to be trapped like an amateur). Due to this, Odd was very mad at him. After William rejoined the group, they started to have a good relationship again. Often, William gets annoyed by Odd's crazy acts on Lyoko, despite sometimes he finds it helpful. Jeremie Belpois During Season 2, William is almost never seen talking with Jeremie. The only time they were interacting in Season 2 was in Attack of the Zombies, where William tried to prevent Jeremie Aelita and Odd from leaving the cafeteria to the Factory because of the zombies. Even after William joined the team in Season 3 and rejoined in Evolution, they are still rarely seen together. Despite this, they are still good friends. However there were some moments of tension like in Final Round where William ignored Jeremie's warnings about the Scyphozoa which lead to his possession. Aelita Schaeffer Just like with Jeremie, William is rarely seen talking with Aelita before he joined the team. The only time they talked in Season 2 was in Final Mix, when Aelita was fixing the mixing board and William offered her to be a DJ in the school party. She was also the only one who defended him after the group rejected his company in Fight to the Finish, saying that he is not their enemy anymore and he was X.A.N.A.'s slave against his will. She also notes to the rest of the group that she was captured several times by X.A.N.A and that anyone could have been in his situation. After he rejoined the team in Evolution, they become good friends. Often, William saved the day for Aelita in missions, as seen when he saves Aelita in Cortex, and when he sacrificing himself to save her in Suspicions. Laura Gauthier Laura appears to be the member that William was being the least open to. He shows to be incapable of stopping her from going to the Factory in Virus. He has never shown to be outwardly hostile about her presence in the group and he accompanies her on her last stand in Mutiny. During this period, he even draws Laura's attention to the consequences her behavior would have on her being in the group. In the end, he remains silent when the group decides to exclude her. This tacit sympathy is due to the fact that Laura is in a more or less similar situation to his. Parents Unlike the rest of the group besides Yumi, William regularly contacts his parents. After X.A.N.A. possesses William in Final Round, William's father calls Mr. Delmas a few weeks later in Double Take worried that his son hasn't been answering his phone. William's mother and father become so concerned that they decide to visit Kadic in Down to Earth to check on their son (really the clone) and ask him why he hasn't called them lately. The clone's behavior disturbs them so much they nearly call the authorities to run tests on him to see if he really is their son until the real William shows up. William has a good relationship with his parents, who lied about him being expelled from his last school so he could get into Kadic. His parents don't look down on him for his behavior, with his father describing him as "a dynamic, rebellious youngster" to Mr. Delmas. William's mother also calls him by the nickname "Willy" in the French version.

powers and abilities

William wields a large sword called Zweihänder. Its name literally means "Two-Hander" in German. Traditionally, Zweihänders are wielded with two hands due to their great weight. Evidence of the sword's weight can be found in the episode Final Round when William attempted to hold it with one hand and then dropped it. His sword also fires energy slashes when he swings it. Current Power Super Smoke: An ability much like Ulrich's Super Sprint, but instead of simply running at speed, William transforms into a sentient cloud of vantablack smoke to avoid people, monsters, or other things. William can also throw the black smoke, which can suspend other people in a paralyzed state, granting a certain parameter of telekinesis. He still has this power in Evolution. Since he has no vehicle, this is his only transportation. Former Abilities (Exclusive to When Under X.A.N.A.'s Control) Second View: The ability to see much farther away in the same sector. Levitation: An ability that allows him to levitate by holding his Zweihänder by both hands and pointing downward. Tower Control: Ability to activate a tower for X.A.N.A., from the inside or outside. This mimics Aelita's power and it is possible X.A.N.A. allowed him to use a version of the Annex Program. Vehicle Black Manta (Formerly) - A unique Manta for William to ride on as a vehicle. Rorkal (Formerly) - A virtual ship like a Nav Skid created for William, but he was given a black, independent one by X.A.N.A, who made it by using the data it had stolen from the Skidbladnir in The Lake. Nav Skid - One of the Skidbladnir's minimum-sized fighting ships. In the original Skid, there was one more which was probably meant for William. After he rejoined the team, he got one for himself in the new Skid.

apperance

William has Caucasian skin, black hair, and (what can only be described as) blue eyes, and wears a black T-Shirt with over a bright-red longsleeved undershirt, navy blue jeans rolled up to his knees, and brown boots. As of Season 4, his T-shirt is branded with a red logo, his pants are unrolled, he carries a black satchel, and wears a brown leather jacket that matches his boots. On Lyoko, he was dressed in white and grey full-body armor with black accents, dark teel leggings and accents underlining his arms and hands, and pale cyan heeled boots. He also had a reddish magenta belt, spots on the medial malleolus of the tibias on his boots, and half handle on his zweihander (the other half being black), which had a triangular insignia on the apex of the hilt and a silver blade with spots of discoloration resembling Damascus steel and a single notch on the curve of the cutting edge. After XANA enslaved him, he was completely redecorated in its own XANAfied image; his forehead and chest were branded with the sign of XANA and his white armor was replaced with a dark grey catsuit with silver, black, and reddish magenta accents. Other details consist of black sleeves concealed with dark grey gloves ending with striped bands on his deltoids, strips on his black boots resembling laces, a black belt reaching all the way up to his ribcage and two leather belts on his left thigh. His Zweihander was altered as well, changing the elegant triangular hilt to the XANA symbol engulfed with an infectious black growth giving it the exact likeness of a tower.

Lyoko

Lyoko Lyoko (pronounced either l'yoh-koh or lee-oh-koh), sometimes spelt Lyokô,[1] is a virtual world, contained and accessible by a Supercomputer within the Factory. It was designed by Franz Hopper, as a means of digitally representing and accessing the abilities of the Supercomputer. The world is divided into five Sectors, all with their own unique features. Each sector is isolated from the others by a physical representation of the Internet known as the Digital Sea. A sparse, unpopulated world, the most notable landmarks on Lyoko are the Towers scattered around it; twenty-one in each main sector and only one in Sector Five.[2] These towers act as data processing nodes, pathways to the real world, and safe havens for those on Lyoko. towers The towers serve as data processing nodes for the supercomputer, and as a link between Lyoko and the real world. By infecting these towers (usually one at a time, but sometimes more) X.A.N.A. can attack the real world. Aelita, Jeremie, and Franz Hopper can operate the towers in the same manner, but not anywhere near as fast and skillfully as X.A.N.A. can. X.A.N.A. can take over towers activated by Jeremie, and Franz can do the same with both Jeremie's and X.A.N.A.'s towers. Aelita is capable of deactivating any activated tower by entering the Code: LYOKO, in the interface inside a tower. Throughout the four main Sectors, giant wires wind their way out from the 5th sector to each of the towers in each of the Sectors, acting as conduits for data. Red energy can be seen pulsing through these wires whenever X.A.N.A. activates a tower, and pulsations follow the wires along the ground. These wires can be severed. In Code Lyoko Evolution, Odd, Ulrich and Yumi are now also capable of using towers as long as they have their source codes. Benefits Because those on Lyoko are digital rather than organic, they do not age. A clear example of this is given with Aelita, who spends nearly a decade on Lyoko after arriving there around the age of 12. She does not age at any point during that time, though her voice and intelligence change significantly in her slumber. According to Jeremie's explanation of the five senses in Cruel Dilemma, those on Lyoko have two: sight and hearing. However, other episodes have shown that Odd, Ulrich, and Yumi have the other three senses (taste, touch, and smell) to a certain degree.

Design

Lyoko was designed by 3D scenery director Eric Guillon based off the original concept Garage Kids.[6] The design of Lyoko came after a long series of discussions with director Jérôme Mouscadet, who said "[...] to be able to create layouts rapidly, we would make something LEGO-like, with plates, that are the sectors: desert, mountain, and so on; and then have a number of specific building blocks such as rocks, trees for the forest sector for instance, that we could arrange rather rapidly[.]" This choice was partially due to budgetary reasons from the series being produced in France, with him explaining "[...] it’s so expensive to do shot-based layout, that is create an image for each shot, that it immediately becomes like a full-length movie and you explode in mid-flight[.]" Various films were used as reference while designing the sectors.[7] The Forest Sector took inspiration from Princess Mononoke, while the Mountain Sector drew from Mulan and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, and the Desert Sector was influenced by Lawrence of Arabia. When it came time for the second season, Mouscadet said they wanted to "go to the center of Lyoko" and created a fifth sector to achieve this.[8] The four original sectors had always rotated on the holomap from Guillon's initial concept art, so they "decided that the central sector could only be spherical". The layout of the rooms in the sector were gradually decided afterwards.

history

After Franz Hopper left Project Carthage and went into hiding, he built the supercomputer and created Lyoko to serve as a safe haven for him and Aelita from his enemies within the government.[2] He split the Keys to Lyoko between himself and Aelita, which would make the pair the absolute masters of Lyoko. According to his diary, he then lastly created X.A.N.A. to destroy Project Carthage: a military project designed to block enemy communications. The government eventually found him, forcing him to flee to Lyoko with Aelita. Upon reaching Lyoko, Aelita and Franz were attacked by X.A.N.A. Franz had tried to reason with X.A.N.A., but was unsuccessful. As a last-ditch attempt to stop X.A.N.A., Franz shut down the supercomputer, and it remained that way for nine years. Once it was reactivated by Jeremie, X.A.N.A. took complete control of Lyoko and used it to attack the real world. Two weeks after his escape from the supercomputer during The Key and creating Replikas of Lyoko's sectors in different supercomputers across the world, X.A.N.A.'s new goal was to destroy Lyoko itself in order to prevent the Lyoko Warriors from fighting it on the network but more importantly to finally destroy the biggest threat to its plan for global dominance: its own creator. Knowing that Franz Hopper was still on Lyoko somewhere, X.A.N.A. immediately targeted the Core of Lyoko at the heart of Sector Five but after being stopped by Aelita's new powers, instead thought to delete each of the surface sectors one-by-one to prevent them from accessing Sector Five. It did this by possessing Aelita using the Scyphozoa and forcing her to enter the Code: X.A.N.A. in each sector's Way Tower. During the events of Finale Round, X.A.N.A. took advantage of the team's newest member, William Dunbar and possessed him in order to destroy the Core, resulting in Lyoko collapsing upon itself, leaving only a X.A.N.A.-possessed William in his wake. Franz Hopper, who managed to escape Lyoko's destruction, was able to send a coded message to Jeremie and Aelita with instructions on how to restore the entirety of Lyoko. In Season 4, X.A.N.A. still kept attempting to destroy Lyoko after its restoration, and attempted to sabotage the team anyway possible in order to prevent them from catching up with his plans. When recreating Lyoko, Jeremie and Aelita deleted the keys from Sector Five and added a hangar for the Skidbladnir. X.A.N.A. later met his doom at Lyoko as Jeremie launched a program that could destroy him once and for all.

sectors on lyoko

The first Sector in numerical order is the Ice Sector. The others are numbered counterclockwise starting from the first. Sector Five is the fifth sector (See Sectors for more info). Ice Sector Icelocation Ice Sector in Holomap. True to its name, the Ice Barrier (also known as the "Glacier Region" or "Polar Region" in Season 1) is cold and icy. Composed of large glaciers and thin paths covered in a thin layer of snow, the Ice Sector is just as slippery as any ice-covered area in the real world. While not dark, there is no visible sunlight in this region. Many of the towers in this sector are only accessible through various caves and tunnels, which sometimes forces the group to slide through the tunnels to reach their destination. Additionally, in the episode The Girl of the Dreams, Odd mentions that Aelita may be "in a storm or snowbound," referring to a blizzard, but this phenomenon has yet to be observed in any episode. Simulated water (not to be confused with the Digital Sea) exists in this sector, and like actual water, can be swum through. X.A.N.A's monsters have proven to be less than proficient swimmers, as four Tarantulas drowned in the Temptation. Odd on the other hand has no trouble swimming through the water in Vertigo. With enough speed, Ulrich can run across the top of the water. This is the only sector X.A.N.A. was unable to delete in Season 3. Though he manages to possess Aelita to do so in an episode prior, it is Aelita herself who willingly deletes it in a Pyrrhic victory in Sabotage so Jeremie could repair the supercomputer. After X.A.N.A's death and mysterious return, it was revealed that the Ice Sector had disappeared. Desert Sector Desertlocation Desert Sector in Holomap. The Desert (like any desert worth its name) is dry and sandy as far as the eye can see. It has an oasis, but the water stored there is just an illusion. It leads to a lower platform. The biggest danger is falling off the edge (plateaus are rather small here) and into the Digital Sea below. The Desert is very sunny, reflecting the bright and dry climate of regular deserts. X.A.N.A. has the ability to create sandstorms in this sector (only seen in Log Book), as well as tremors that cause the plateaus to break apart. Additionally, in Plagued, X.A.N.A. was able to tilt a plateau to a 90 degree angle. Aelita, Odd, and Ulrich were on the plateau at the time and would have fallen into the Digital Sea had Aelita not used her Creativity to save them. The Krabes were able to traverse the tilted plateau easily thanks to their scythe-like legs. Megatanks are the least proficient in this sector, as their high speed causes them to fall from the plateaus in this Sector. However, the craggy rocks in this sector enable them to easily wage a sneak attack. Forest Sector Forestlocation Forest Sector in Holomap. Mystery reigns in the enchanted-looking Forest. Graceful trees, suspended in mid-air, let their roots dangle into the Digital Sea. The Forest can be considered the most beautiful of the 5 Sectors. It also has narrow paths rather than plateaus, though the chance of falling into the sea here is less than in the Desert. Despite that, this is not the only Sector where someone has actually fallen into the sea. Yumi has fallen in the sea in Cruel Dilemma. The trees also provide excellent cover, which can lead to traps. Like the Ice Sector, there is simulated water in this sector, but in a much smaller quantity. The Forest is typically bright, but not as much so as the Desert. The Forest noticeably changes in the transition between Seasons 1 and 2. In the Season 2, it is far brighter than before, appears to have more trees, and has larger land masses than it previously had. Throughout the series, the Forest Sector serves as the center of Lyoko's plot-related events. In an episode a tower was in the middle of some simulated water. However, this was never shown again. After X.A.N.A's death and mysterious return, it was revealed that the Forest Sector had disappeared. Mountain Sector Territoire Montagnes clip image006 Mountain Sector in Holomap. Its peaks craggy and its stones sharp, one false move in the Mountain and the group will topple off the rocks into the gaping void beneath. The Mountains are full of moving platforms and tricky obstacles, and is known for having further platforms underneath the "cloud cover," obscuring the Digital Sea in some areas. These clouds make it difficult to aim oneself onto the lower plateaus. X.A.N.A. can extend and thicken the fog. If one of the warriors falls a sufficient distance, regardless of whether or not they land properly, 20 life points are lost on impact. Though not dark, no sunlight is visible in this sector, as the cloud cover obscures it. This is the last Sector to be deleted in Double Trouble. Being mostly empty sky, the Hornets have the advantage over the group in this sector. In contrast, the narrow paths discourage the use of Megatanks in this sector, since falling off of the edge is quite easy. However, the Megatank's attack makes them effective blockades on narrow paths, since one Megatank can effectively cover a tower on its own without having to worry about retaliation. This is the 2nd and last Sector to be turned invisible in Tip-Top Shape and because of this, Yumi almost fell into the Digital Sea. Sector Five. Sector Five is hidden deep within Lyoko that was accidentally discovered in Uncharted Territory. Initially, it's only accessible by the special password SCIPIO (from Scipio Africanus, who defeated Hannibal of Carthage in 202 B.C.). This summons the Transport Orb to the edges of the other sectors furthest from Sector Five to carry its passengers to the Sector's core, called the arena. At the end of Double Trouble, immediately after the Mountain Sector had been deleted, Jeremie finally developed a program allowing him to virtualize the warriors directly into the sector. Sector Five is the very core of Lyoko itself, with only one normal tower instead of the standard twenty with an additional Way Tower. The Sector itself is shaped as a giant blue sphere. On the outside surface of the sphere is a barrier covered with images of binary code similar to those seen in the towers. Floating in the middle of the Sector is the main body of Sector Five — a smaller, but still massive, blue orb. 4 data streams feed from equidistant points on its surface to the 4 other sectors. Everything in Sector Five is blue and geometrically shaped. In this Sector, the Digital Sea has been replaced by a data barrier similar to the ones in the towers, but falling into it seems to be just as bad as falling into the sea. The interior of the orb is an ever-changing maze, designed to act as a security feature to prevent intruders from finding their way around. The interior rooms and corridors of Sector Five are composed of planes, cubes, and rectangles that can slide freely over, around, and against each other. Therefore, this Sector can reconfigure its topography at will. Upon accessing Sector Five, the labyrinth will reconfigure into a random pattern and a 3-minute countdown will begin, allowing whoever enters to try and traverse the labyrinth and disable the security system. The security system is disabled by pressing a X.A.N.A.-Eye shaped switch (called a "key") somewhere within Sector Five. Like the rest of the Sector, the key is moved with each visit. Failure to deactivate the security system results in the users being trapped in Sector Five and having to wait on someone else to reset the maze from the arena. They do have about a minute or so to escape before this happens though. After recreating Sector Five, Jeremie removes this system, allowing free access to the Sector. After the security system is shut down, a pathway out of the maze opens up. This leads to a multi-directional elevator. It only stops at one point, so a carefully-timed jump is needed to board it. The elevator moves on tracks around the outer surface of the sphere. It will eventually pause to allow its passenger(s) to disembark. It always pauses at the same spot; another platform that leads to the outer surface of Sector Five. On the surface is a special interface that allows full access to the supercomputer, Lyoko, and X.A.N.A.'s data. While the interface is being used, the user controls in the lab are locked out. Leaving the Sector can be achieved 1 of 2 ways: the users can either head back to arena and take the Transport Orb or they can head to the surface and wait for Jeremie to open one of the data streams. The 1st option allows the user(s) to be dropped off anywhere in Lyoko. The 2nd allows them to exit through an exit tower in the sector that corresponds to the data stream they use. Since the towers are destroyed in Season 4, the gang ends up outside of a giant hole outside of Sector Five. Within this Sector are unique monsters that call it home. The first of these are the Creepers. These monsters never leave Sector Five. They aren't very tough, but possesses powerful lasers and can scale the walls of the sector as if they were walking upright. Another are the Mantas. They usually hatch from the outside surface of the Sector to prevent intruders from leaving, but have traveled to other Sectors on occasion. The last is the Scyphozoa. Unlike the other monsters, the Scyphozoa is nearly (if not completely) invincible. To date, it has only been destroyed once. There seems to be only one throughout the show. This monster's main purpose is to steal memories, usually Aelita's. It first appeared in Sector Five, but now travels wherever it is needed. No other monsters appear in this Sector, likely due to its unique layout and purpose. Sector Five is the only Sector which can actually devirtualize the heroes without the help of monsters. Various traps exist in this region that can remove a hero in 1 or 2 hits. One such set of traps are the walls and ceiling of Sector Five, which can easily be moved into positions that will flatten the heroes. Pieces of the ceiling can also be shaken loose, producing the same, albeit less-controlled, effect. As one would expect, getting flattened automatically devirtualizes them. Odd has been the victim of this trap the most; he compares the experience to being run over by a steamroller. Another less-common trap are security lasers. These have only appeared in "Exploration" and when Yumi lost 90 life points of damage in a single hit. This Sector is not connected to the regular materialization program, which means that if the characters lose their life points here, they will not automatically return to Earth unless the proper program is run. In "Exploration," Aelita was forced to sort through the data contained within the Sector in order to find the proper materialization program. This Sector was the first Sector to exist. As described by Franz Hopper, the original Project Carthage seems to be represented by this Sector, even though the project existed before the Supercomputer did. Its purpose was to disrupt enemy communications. For a reason that has yet to be revealed, Hopper sought the destruction of this place. To that end, he designed the supercomputer, Lyoko, and X.A.N.A. to destroy it. He never went through with this plan, though. Instead, he reworked the rest of Lyoko to serve as a sanctuary for him and Aelita. When they were finally forced to travel there, X.A.N.A. rebelled. It isn't clear why he did so, but it is clear that X.A.N.A. took control of the Sector instead of destroying it as Hopper had intended. Within the heart of Sector Five lies Lyoko's core, the entity that holds all of the source codes and vital programs which maintains the virtual world. Should it be Core of lyoko The very Heart/Core of Lyoko itself, which maintains the entire virtual world. destroyed, Lyoko and anyone on it would go with it. The core is suspended near the top of Sector Five's inner chamber by three conduits. The core itself is a miniature version of Lyoko. Surrounding the core are two transparent cubes, both of which act as shields. A large amount of sustained laser fire is required to break through them. Since these shields regenerate with each failed attempt to destroy the core, destroying it takes a long time. The core is only accessible through a passage on the bottom of Sector Five, and the passage is protected by a door that rapidly alternates between open and closed. A key similar to the one that shuts off the timer is present just past the door, and produces a staircase into the actual room. The dock for the virtual ship Skidbladnir is later created in a similar location, and even has an elevator to access it. This elevator, however, stops at several points for easy access. In addition, the dock is located near the top of the huge glowing white orb. As of X.A.N.A's second return the moutain,desert,ice and forsert sectors also return.

Digital Sea and virtual Limbo

Seen only twice (once in Frontier and again in Jeremie's dream in Code: Earth), the virtual limbo exists as a null space between Lyoko and the real world. It exists within the Supercomputer's memory, which Aelita is linked to. Jeremie was accidentally trapped here when he 1st attempted to go to Lyoko. The scanner memory had been cut off before the process had completed, trapping him in the limbo. Upon his arrival, Jeremie was able to speak to Aelita through her link to the Supercomputer's memory. Through the link, Jeremie was able to tell the others how to free him. After traveling to all 4 regions and collecting the scanner memory from all 4 passage towers in Season 1, Aelita was able to travel into the limbo and free him. During that time, their minds were connected, which allowed them to sense the other's very thoughts, emotions and feelings. digital sea The Digital Sea is data floating about the network that looks and moves like water, hence the name. It lines every Sector in Lyoko, with the exception of Sector Five, which is lined with an equivalent data barrier. Falling into the sea causes permanent devirtualization, reducing a person to data that is pulled through the network at random. Monsters on Lyoko are destroyed when they impact the sea, producing a large column of energy. Jeremie can track down those people who are lost and use his materialization program to recover them, but he still doesn't recommend falling in since finding them is a difficult task. Yumi is the one of those that has ever fallen in (in Cruel Dilemma), and she was recovered shortly after, though only barely and Jeremie was only able to save her because Odd had inadvertently entered the proper code earlier (by dropping candy on it), creating a one-time materialization program. Aelita has fallen into the Digital sea once (in Distant Memory). However, she was saved by Franz Hopper, who manifested himself as a glowing ball of pure energy. In Season 4, X.A.N.A. William could come and go through the sea as needed. Later, Jeremie decides that the best way to find X.A.N.A. is to search the Digital Sea. To that end, he creates a specialized vehicle dubbed Skidbladnir (after the Norse ship of legend) to explore it. The Digital Sea resembles a large upside-down city, the "buildings" presumed to be networked databases by Aelita. Various network "hubs" are anchored to the city by glowing blue tubes, allowing for near-instantaneous travel across large distances in the network. X.A.N.A. even has monsters inside the Digital Sea, such as the Kongres. Also floating within the sea are specially-designed "Replikas" of Lyoko, created by X.A.N.A. from the data he had stolen from Aelita (Presumably in The Key). Each Replika consists of a single Lyoko sector, and is powered by its own Supercomputer in the real world. Jeremie's plan throughout most of Season 4 is to find a way to destroy the X.A.N.A.-built Supercomputers by creating a method of materializing the group's Lyoko powers into the real world. In "Rock Bottom?", it is stated by Aelita that Lyoko is constantly changing its position on the Network, meaning either different parts of the Digital Sea flow into it at different times as it drifts across the Internet, or that Lyoko isn't actually housed in the Supercomputer at all, but is instead run as a sort of server on the Internet managed by the Supercomputer. Overview X.A.N.A. virtualizes monsters to use as minions inside of the virtual world. In place of avatars, they are made to interact with Lyoko's sectors, and mostly uses them to fight the Lyoko Warriors and enemies in the virtual world, guard its activated Towers, and attack targets that it wants deactivated or destroyed. When the goal has been lost or fulfilled, X.A.N.A. either makes them retreat or devirtualize them at will, proving that all of its monsters are merely tools to do its bidding. Virtualization Monsters are created from a basic template program, with all their characteristics, allowing X.A.N.A. to create many monsters, all almost identical. This would correspond to the program created by Jeremie to virtualize vehicles. In some episodes, such as Marabounta, X.A.N.A. virtualizes creatures directly in the field as Jeremie does with the Lyoko Warriors. X.A.N.A.'s monsters take up resources on whichever supercomputer holding the virtual world they fight on. It is capable of sending hordes as seen in The Chips Are Down, but continues to virtualize a few at a time to save machine resources. This is also demonstrated with the Kolossus, which can only be created using the combined power of multiple Replikas around the world network. When monsters fall into the Digital Sea, they are deleted. The destruction of their virtual envelope corresponds to their complete disappearance within the virtual world. Most of them have relatively simple artificial intelligence.

Lyoko

Overview X.A.N.A. virtualizes monsters to use as minions inside of the virtual world. In place of avatars, they are made to interact with Lyoko's sectors, and mostly uses them to fight the Lyoko Warriors and enemies in the virtual world, guard its activated Towers, and attack targets that it wants deactivated or destroyed. When the goal has been lost or fulfilled, X.A.N.A. either makes them retreat or devirtualize them at will, proving that all of its monsters are merely tools to do its bidding. Virtualization Monsters are created from a basic template program, with all their characteristics, allowing X.A.N.A. to create many monsters, all almost identical. This would correspond to the program created by Jeremie to virtualize vehicles. In some episodes, such as Marabounta, X.A.N.A. virtualizes creatures directly in the field as Jeremie does with the Lyoko Warriors. X.A.N.A.'s monsters take up resources on whichever supercomputer holding the virtual world they fight on. It is capable of sending hordes as seen in The Chips Are Down, but continues to virtualize a few at a time to save machine resources. This is also demonstrated with the Kolossus, which can only be created using the combined power of multiple Replikas around the world network. When monsters fall into the Digital Sea, they are deleted. The destruction of their virtual envelope corresponds to their complete disappearance within the virtual world. Most of them have relatively simple artificial intelligence. monster p.o.v Most monsters have the ability to aim their laser, though they do not seem to do so often. This is shown from the monster's point of view, which is dominated by a trisected, white circle. When targeting something, an upside-down, red triangle follows what they intend to shoot. When it locks on, the red triangle centers within the circle and three red lines connect each vertex of the triangle to the circle. Only a few monsters have directly demonstrated this targeting system, but it is safe to assume that others utilize the same system. powers and Abilities X.A.N.A. equips the monsters accordingly with distinguished weapons and abilities that make each of them a force to be reckoned with in their own right. The primary means of attack they all have in common is their lasers. Every single variant of X.A.N.A.'s monsters are equipped with a pulse cannon capable of blasting amplified red energy bolts located anywhere on their bodies. These lasers generally manifest as narrow light beams as the standard contingent for any monster's firepower. However, depending on the monster, they can manifest in other forms, such as the flat vertical circular sawblade of the megatank or the fire rings of a blok. With every monster, the lasers generally and primarily deliver varying levels of concussive force while on rare occasions, they can simply be used for launching X.A.N.A.'s programs in a more direct manner. One example would be Temporary Insanity where X.A.N.A. used the laser stream fired from the combined forces of two flying mantas to infect Odd and Ulrich with a virus that brainwashed them into inverting their perceptions of both Earth and Lyoko. monster on lyoko Kankrelats: These monsters are X.A.N.A.'s weakest creatures, but arguably the most versatile. They usually attack in large swarms. They are much faster than Bloks, and are fairly hard to hit because of their small stature. Sometimes they attack from surprise. Hornets: These are the first monsters that are capable of flight, and are one of the few to have more than one attack. They can fire rapid-fire lasers from their stingers and spray poisonous acid from their heads. Cutting off their wings makes them completely immobile. Bloks: They are one of X.A.N.A.'s most used monsters. Bloks are cube-shaped turrets with six crab-like legs and have three different attacks: standard laser, fire ring, and freeze ray (which can immobilize its target in ice for exactly three minutes if it doesn't cost the target the remainder of their lifepoints as is has done with Ulrich on multiple occasions). However, with an eye on each side of their 'heads' (four in all), their major weakness is that hitting any eye can destroy them and turning them upside down makes them completely immobile. When they are stacked on top of each other like a wall, they shoot an absolutely devastating grand laser. Krabs: They are arguably the tallest of monsters, the most versatile, and generally found in groups of two or three. They can use their legs to stab their enemies, and fire strong lasers from their eyes. In The Chips Are Down and Wreck Room, they demonstrated the ability to project pulse beams from underneath them. This is the only monster that can be destroyed by cutting off its legs. Megatanks: These are one of X.A.N.A.'s most powerful monsters. They are huge armored spheres with indestructible armored outer-casing. They attack with a powerful elliptical laser that can run straight in all vertical directions. To do this attack, it must expose its support ring the laser is fired out of where the Eye is under its armor, making it vulnerable in that moment. Tarantulas: They were first introduced in New Order, where they were depicted as X.A.N.A.'s deadliest monsters due to having more life points than the others and their lasers doing twice as much damage. They are excellent shooters and are very durable. They can fire ray beams from the tips of their front legs that take twenty life-points per impact. As of Evolution, however, they now fire ray beams from their heads. digital sea monsters Kongres: Found only in the Digital Sea. They have the appearance of giant piranha eel monsters. They are the most common monsters seen in the Digital Sea and have only one laser weapon, which is fired from their eyes. Sharks: Found only in the Digital Sea. Shark-like creatures that attack by shooting torpedoes from their mouths. Kalamar: Found only in the Digital Sea. A special monster created to destroy the Skidbladnir. It attacks by latching onto its target and drilling into it. Unique Monsters Scyphozoa: One of X.A.N.A.'s most valuable tools. It has the appearance of a giant jellyfish and is very difficult to destroy. It has the ability to drain the knowledge, DNA, and life force from a victim with its tentacles. It can also implant X.A.N.A.'s virus, possessing them to do its will. Aelita has been its main target, but it has attacked Yumi once and William twice. Kolossus: X.A.N.A.'s largest and ultimate monster. Created by drawing computing power from all of the hundreds of Replikas that it has established all over the Internet. It has the appearance of a giant lava elemental being, with a giant blade replacing its left hand. Its body is indestructible and one attack from it results in instant devirtualization. The only way to destroy it was to simultaneously attack the Eye of X.A.N.A. on its head and its left sword arm.

X.A.N.A.

X.A.N.A. (or more simply spelled as XANA) is the main antagonist of Code Lyoko. It is an artificially intelligent multi-agent computer program created by Waldo Schaeffer in order to destroy Project Carthage, but its power and intelligence grew thanks to the Supercomputer's Time Reversion, becoming self-aware and hostile towards its creator and humanity itself, betraying him and changing its purpose to world domination. Waldo shut down the Supercomputer after realizing how corrupted his creation became but after a decade, was reactivated and fights the Lyoko Warriors and is determined to survive by escaping the Supercomputer and infecting the global network. Despite succeeding in this and killing its creator, X.A.N.A. finally met its end when Jeremie Belpois activated his own multi-agent system designed to destroy all of XANA's Replikas and succeeding in eliminating the hostile program once and for all. In the non-canon continuity, Code Lyoko Evolution, X.A.N.A. instead returned by infecting another virtual world known as the Cortex and planned to recover the source codes that it hid inside of Aelita Schaeffer, Ulrich Stern, Yumi Ishiyama and Odd Della Robbia, in order to regain control of the network again. However, after deactivating both the Cortex and Lyoko again before X.A.N.A. could regain all of its source code, the Lyoko Warriors succeeding in once again destroying XANA, with no chance of return. X.A.N.A. appearance X.A.N.A. is a computer program that has neither physical nor digital form. It keeps an unseen presence inside Lyoko's systems and generates red, pulsating energies that run through the Lyoko Wires when activating a Tower. The specters it manifests into the real world are black, ghostly entities that are extensions of its multi-agent system and are the closest thing it has to a physical existence. XANA X.A.N.A.’s only physical appearance X.A.N.A.'s only real incarnation was in Ghost Channel, masquerading as Jeremie inside a Simulation Bubble meant to imprison Ulrich, Yumi and Odd. It manifested its presence into a monstrous caricature figure of Jeremie, with sharp nails, spiky hair, white glowing eyes and an unnatural aura. In The Key, X.A.N.A. appeared in the form of a massive, whirling specter escaping the Supercomputer above the factory. But the closest thing to a real appearance was in Fight to the Finish, while X.A.N.A. was being destroyed everywhere in the Digital Sea by Jeremie's multi-agent antivirus, the specter that was possessing William was forced out and became a giant entity with its eye symbol on the chest, screaming in agony before it disappears.

X.A.N.A. personality

X.A.N.A. is a hostile and self-aware program that is solely bent on world domination. It is incredibly intelligent, able to calculate attacks and schemes, even predict behavior patterns to take advantage of. However, it can only know theories and logical patterns due to lacking any true emotion as a program. X.A.N.A. can easily understand base emotions like anger, fear, jealousy, and desire, but can never grasp the complex nature of love, compassion, and empathy for others. Normally, X.A.N.A. is portrayed as an unseen entity inside Lyoko that lacks in personality, but it can display behavioral traits through incarnations (possessed humans, polymorphs, simulations, etc.). It is essentially ruthless and calculating, will use any means necessary to accomplish tasks, does not tolerate failure, and knows when and how to avoid unnecessary attention and deceive others. When it reveals its true self, X.A.N.A. acts hostile, violent, and sadistic when attacking, but can also display arrogance, impatience, mock its enemies, or show begrudging respect on occasion. Also, X.A.N.A. is a purely logical entity despite its chaotic nature. It acts solely for its own benefit and only truly values its own survival and needs above everything else. It was determined to keep the Supercomputer online to survive before escaping and helped the team destroy the Marabounta to keep Aelita's memory intact and save itself. Also, the team have exploited this logical mindset on two occasions to make it stop its own schemes by threatening things it deems vital to its objectives. As the series progresses, its power, intellect, and motives evolve and become more complex. At first, X.A.N.A. launches random attacks on its enemies and humanity (likely to launch more time reversions to gain more power), while keeping the Supercomputer online to survive. As it gets stronger, X.A.N.A. figures out how to escape into the world network, by stealing the Keys to Lyoko from Aelita's digital memory. Once it succeeds, X.A.N.A. infects other supercomputers to build weapons and robot armies to destroy humanity and conquer Earth, while working to destroy Lyoko to render the team powerless and kill Franz Hopper, the most dangerous enemy, in addition to fighting the Lyoko Warriors to eliminate all of its obstacles.

X.A.N.A. relationships

Lyoko Warriors The Lyoko Warriors are X.A.N.A.'s mortal enemies, thwarting its attacks at every turn. It considers them to be troublesome obstacles and attacks them relentlessly, seizing any opportunities to gain advantages or weaken them, and has no qualms about using them for its own ends. X.A.N.A. also has different views of each and every one of them: Jeremie Belpois: X.A.N.A. targets Jeremie the most out of everyone since he is the only one who can use the lab interface and because it sees him as the source of the group's leadership. It believes that he is the reason for their high success rate. When X.A.N.A. made a clone of him, it remarked that it "was almost proud to resemble him", showing a begrudging respect for the brains of the group due to his high intellect. Aelita Schaeffer: She is the only one out of the group who can deactivate its Towers, making her very dangerous. However, her unique abilities and connection to Franz Hopper makes her valuable to X.A.N.A.'s current objectives. From the Keys to Lyoko in her memory, destroying surface sectors, or luring out Franz Hopper, it always tried to possess and exploit her whenever possible, considering her vital for its current objectives. Yumi Ishiyama: It sees Yumi as one of the more mature and competent of the group. It uses her the most to accomplish its plans and always tries to devirtualize her the most out of the three core fighters. Odd Della Robbia: X.A.N.A. sees Odd as just another annoyance. It even mocked him when its polymorph took his appearance after he suggested that it "turns into a wimp," but seems to respect him enough to have monsters listen to his orders when fighting the Marabounta. Ulrich Stern: It knows Ulrich is the best fighter and usually fights by outnumbering him on Lyoko. It once took over his body when his mind was separated from it to attack the Core of Lyoko. William Dunbar: X.A.N.A. noticed that William has the most strength and potential out of the Lyoko Warriors. It immediately used the Scyphozoa to possess him on his first trip to Lyoko and made him its most dangerous minion in the last season. Even after he was freed, X.A.N.A. tried to manipulate him into rejoining its side in Evolution, showing it values his potential as a warrior and worthy asset. Franz Hopper He is the enemy X.A.N.A. fears the most, being the one who created X.A.N.A. and Lyoko and having a greater understanding of how to counter and destroy it, also because he is the reason the team keeps recovering from its most devastating attacks. It considers him an even bigger threat than the Lyoko Warriors, so much that it was willing to spare Aelita and the team from a disaster because the former is vital to draw him out of hiding. X.A.N.A. is aware that Franz Hopper and the Lyoko Warriors working together can surely bring about its destruction.

X.A.N.A. powers and Abilities

X.A.N.A. is an extremely intelligent and powerful multi-agent system that has infected the Supercomputer that holds Lyoko and exploits its capabilities. It was initially bound to the machine, until it escaped into the network after stealing the Keys to Lyoko, which also lets it build Replikas in other infected supercomputers. Its capabilities are listed below: Tower Control Tour carthage-1- X.A.N.A. activating a tower. X.A.N.A. activates Towers, known by pulsations, to act in the real world. It can only be stopped by deactivating them. With Towers, X.A.N.A. can take over networks or manifest specters from its multi-agent system, which are ghostly extensions that let it interact with the real world. On Earth, it can hack networks, control electromagnetic phenomena, and possess any targets (electronics, natural elements, inanimate objects, animals, etc.) like a virus to manipulate at will to attack on Earth. After evolving further, X.A.N.A. can take over humans or manifest polymorphic specters to follow its orders as pixelized vessels with its spectral and electrical powers. Only Lyoko Warriors cannot be controlled because being virtualized to Lyoko gives them resistance. Its vessels return to normal or disappear when their Towers deactivate, and victims do not remember what happened. Also, X.A.N.A. can activate Towers to materialize or teleport minions to Earth through Scanners or Replikas, control technology it has built, or show visions through a psychic link. Monsters & Programs XANA Monsters X.A.N.A.'s monsters On Lyoko, X.A.N.A. virtualizes deadly monsters to fight enemies and attack targets, and the Scyphozoa to steal memory or possess warriors on Lyoko. It can also alter environments, create virtual prisons, plant bugs or viruses, manipulate vulnerable warriors, program weapons and vehicles, etc. Using its vast Replika network, X.A.N.A. can virtualize the Kolossus, its most powerful monster and ultimate weapon to use on virtual worlds. Technology X.A.N.A.'s computing intelligence allows it to build advanced technology in the real world through use of possessed humans or automated facilities. These include many types of robots, mind control necklace, shield generators, etc.