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| “ | HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! YOU ARE GOING TO DIE! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! | „ |
| ~ XANA speaking to the Lyoko Warriors in his simulation. |
| “ | In the very beginning, he was a program that I designed to counter a military project, based on a multi-agent system. | „ |
| ~ XANA himself while posing as Franz Hopper. |
| “ | A super dangerous program, like a virus, which can control electricity, and activates Towers on Lyoko in order to gain access to your world. | „ |
| ~ Aelita |
XANA is the main antagonist of the cartoon series Code Lyoko. He is a sentient and hostile computer program that works like a virus and controls the virtual world of Lyoko. XANA wants to take over the world and shows no mercy to those who stand in his way, namely his mortal enemies: the Lyoko Warriors.
When he disguised as Jeremie Belpois in the episode "Ghost Channel", he was voiced by Raphaëlle Lubansu and David Gasman in English. In the Japanese dub, he was voiced by Akio Otsuka, who also voiced The Devil from The Snow Queen, All for One from My Hero Academia, Yujiro Hanma from Baki, and Blackbeard from One Piece.
Short History
- Main article: XANA/Synopsis
XANA was a multi-agent virus program created by the brilliant scientist, Franz Hopper, to destroy Project Carthage, but he was discovered and being pursued by government agents. To escape them, he created the virtual world of Lyoko, but the repeated time reversions needed for its completion made XANA gradually evolve, gaining self-awareness and unnatural abilities. When Franz Hopper virtualized himself and his daughter, Aelita, XANA betrayed its creator and tried to eliminate them. Realizing XANA has become a threat to humanity; Franz was forced to shut down the Supercomputer.
Years later, the Supercomputer was reactivated by Jeremie Belpois, discovering Aelita and the virtual world, Lyoko. The reawakened XANA targets them and three other students involved: Odd Della Robia, Ulrich Stern, and Yumi Ishiyama, activating Towers to unleash electromagnetic phenomena or possess objects or living things to attack, while using virtual monsters or programs on Lyoko. The children become the "Lyoko Warriors" who thwart its attacks at every turn and manage to materialize Aelita, but XANA stole a part of herself to bind her fate to its own when they tried to shut down the Supercomputer. As XANA gets stronger from time reversions, it can possess humans and create new monsters, like the Scyphozoa, which it used to steal the Keys to Lyoko from Aelita to escape the Supercomputer and access the world network, but Franz Hopper managed to fully restore Aelita, including the missing part of herself: her human memories.
After escaping into the network, XANA seeks to destroy Lyoko to permanently stop his enemies, by sending monsters or possessing minions to attack the Core of Lyoko, sabotage the Supercomputer, or brainwashing Aelita to wipe out the sectors one by one. Eventually, it possessed a new Lyoko Warrior named William Dunbar to finally destroy the Core of Lyoko, later turning him into its permanent slave. However, Franz Hopper helped the group recreate Lyoko to continue fighting XANA. Seeing him as the greatest threat, XANA is now determined to find and destroy his elusive creator on the network, while still targeting the group and the Supercomputer to eliminate all its obstacles.
Meanwhile, the Lyoko Warriors built a virtual ship to fight XANA inside the network, discovering that XANA has infected hundreds of supercomputers with Replikas, copies of Lyoko, to take over secret bases and build robot armies to take over the world. It could even draw power from its Replikas to send a massive Kolossus monster in virtual worlds. The group manage to free William from XANA's control and create an Anti-XANA Program to destroy XANA. Franz Hopper sacrificed himself to provide the power to run the program, destroying all its Replikas and the evil virus everywhere on the network, putting an end to the threat of XANA for good.
Personality
XANA is a virus program that evolved until it grew self-aware, gaining supernatural capabilities and becoming incredibly hostile and dangerous. It wants to destroy humanity and take over the world with its virus possession abilities and spread its multi-agent system across the network.
Despite its chaotic nature, XANA is intelligent and thinks like a simple machine, able to launch calculated and specific attacks, and understand and imitate human behavior to take advantage of enemies. However, XANA only follows logical patterns as a non-living program that are easy to predict and can never understand love, friendship, or self-sacrifice, which makes it more fallible than it seems. Also, XANA only values its own goals and survival, needing the Supercomputer to stay online before escaping and willing to join forces with enemies against a bigger threat for the same reasons. Additionally, XANA can be persuaded into stopping its attacks by threatening things vital to its needs.
While lacking real emotion as a program, XANA occasionally reveals emerging qualities from its hostile nature like sadistic and egomaniacal behavior to taunt or intimidate its enemies, respect for only intelligence, power, and skill, and contempt for stupidity and illogical behavior. However, XANA is capable of showing gratitude, thanking the Lyoko Warriors for helping destroy the Marabounta.
Capabilities
The Eye of XANA - the only sign of its presence.
XANA is a multi-agent computer virus that gained sentience and immense powers that could threaten all of humanity from its evolution, though limited by machine resources. It has taken over the virtual world of Lyoko inside the Supercomputer, hiding and growing stronger within its systems and activating Towers to attack its enemies in the real world. All of its capabilities are listed below:
Lyoko Towers
By activating virtual structures on Lyoko called Towers, they serve as conduits for XANA to act in the real world to launch its attacks and schemes. It can only truly be stopped by deactivating its Towers on Lyoko, while conventional methods only fail or delay its efforts.
In the real world, XANA acts as a digital entity that can infiltrate networks, cause electromagnetic phenomena to attack or defend itself, and manifest ghostly specters into the physical world, which are the closest it has to a true form. XANA can also possess targets in the real world like a virus, allowing it to take over computer and electrical networks, and manipulate inanimate objects, natural elements, plants, or animals to hack systems, trap enemies, or create threats or disasters to attack on Earth.
After evolving further, XANA can now possess humans to be agents that do its bidding and pixelize them with its spectral and electromagnetic abilities to make them more dangerous. Only Lyoko Warriors cannot be controlled. It later learns how to create polymorphic specters with similar abilities that can take human forms it can use to deceive its enemies. They return to normal or disappear when their Towers deactivate and victims do not remember what happened.
XANA can also materialize or teleport minions to Earth using the Scanners or Replikas, show psychic visions to people linked to itself, or create dangerous objects (nanobots, mind control necklace, deadly music, robots, etc.) to unleash in the real world.
Monsters & Programs
All of XANA's monsters
In virtual worlds and the Digital Sea, XANA uses programming abilities to defend itself or manipulate the virtual world.
XANA mainly virtualizes monsters of many types in small or large groups to fight and attack targets on Lyoko, improving them and creating new types as it evolves. They are mostly armed with Lasers and have their own special attacks. It also uses the Scyphozoa, a monster with the function of capturing targets to siphon their data and life energy or implant its virus code to brainwash enemies to force them to do specific tasks.
Its programming abilities allow it to alter the landscape, manipulate incomplete warriors, program virtual illusions, prisons, simulation bubbles, new abilities and equipment, use other programs, and plant bugs and viruses. XANA can also design the trap mechanisms and open portals in Sector 5 before it was recreated.
Other
XANA-William (Formerly): XANA had possessed William Dunbar to destroy the Core of Lyoko, which made him fall into the Digital Sea. It later revived William from his deleted state, using a more permanent possession to bind him to its system. XANA also made William into a powerful and useful minion who can match any Lyoko Warrior, command monsters, enter and influence Towers, and materialize from the Scanners as a pixelized human without using a Tower. However, the group freed William from XANA's control near the end of the series.
Replika Network: With the Keys to Lyoko stolen from Aelita, XANA could escape the Supercomputer and spread its multi-agent system across the world network, infecting hundreds of supercomputers with Replikas (smaller Lyoko copies) inside them to harness their power. This made the evil virus nearly impossible to destroy. Furthermore, its Replikas controlled supercomputers in certain hidden bases all over the world, allowing XANA to possess them to build weapons and massive robot armies for world domination. Additionally, by drawing energy from all of its Replikas simultaneously, it could create the Kolossus, X.A.N.A.'s most powerful monster to decimate its virtual enemies. However, XANA and all its Replikas when the Lyoko Warriors and Franz Hopper used the Anti-XANA Program at the end of the series.
Physical Incarnations
XANA is a self-aware computer program in the Supercomputer that acts as a hidden, dark force lurking inside its systems, generating red, pulsating energies that run through Lyoko wires when currently active. It is a purely digital and impersonable entity without any virtual or physical form. Only the specters it manifests on Earth serve as extensions of its system and are the closest thing he has to a physical form.
XANA's only physical incarnation as seen in "Ghost Channel".
In the episode "Ghost Channel", XANA had his only real incarnation masquerading as Jeremie Belpois inside a virtual simulation of the real world made by the evil virus meant to imprison the Lyoko Warriors, becoming a monstrous caricature figure of Jeremie with sharp nails, spiky hair, glowing eyes, and an unnatural aura. was destroyed when Aelita dispersed the simulation bubble with her powers.
XANA's true form as he is dying.
The second direct appearance of XANA was at the end of "The Key", where the enormous mass of a specter was seen spiraling into the sky from the Factory as the program used the Keys to Lyoko to escape the Supercomputer. However, the closest to real appearance was in "Fight to the Finish". As XANA's whole system was being destroyed by the Anti-XANA Program, the specter that was possessing William was forced out of his body, becoming a giant entity with a misshapen eye symbol on his torso writhing in agony before being vaporized into nothing.
Victims
Deceased
- Waldo Schaeffer/Franz Hopper (creator)
- Amazon jungle laboratory scientists (offscreen)
Possessed
- William Dunbar (secondary victim)
- Aelita Schaeffer (main victim/virtual girl)
- Jeremy Belpois
- Elisabeth Delmas
- Multiple students of varying ages
- Hervé Pichon
- Dr. Chantal Phan
- Yolanda Perraudin
- Jim Morales
- Ms. Hertz
- Kiwi
- Principal Delmas
- Peter Duncan
- Rats
- Bees
- A wolf pack
- Crows
- Wild boar
- Sophie
Realationships
Allies
- William Dunbar (Possessed Accomplice during Season 4).
- Scyphozoa.
- The Colossus.
- Polymorphic clones.
- Specters.
- Kankrelats.
- Hornets.
- Bloks.
- Krabs.
- Megatanks.
- Tarantulas.
- Creepers.
- Mantas.
- Kongres.
- Sharks.
- Kalamar. (all creations)
Enemies
- Waldo Schaeffer/Franz Hopper (Creator and main Archenemy).
- Aelita Schaeffer.
- Jeremie Belpois. (Archenemy).
- Ulrich Stern.
- Odd Della Robbia.
- Yumi Ishiyama.
- William Dumblar. (Formally).
External Links
- XANA on the Pure Evil Wiki
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