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“ | HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! YOU ARE GOING TO DIE! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! | „ |
~ XANA speaking to the Lyoko Warriors in it simulation |
“ | In the very beginning, it was a program that I designed to counter a military project, based on a multi-agent system. | „ |
~ XANA itself 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 2003-2007 French cartoon series, Code Lyoko.
It is a sentient and dangerous computer virus that infected the Supercomputer that holds Lyoko. It craves destruction and displays no mercy to those who stand in its way, the Lyoko Warriors.
When disguised as Jeremy in the episode "Ghost Channel", it was voiced by Raphaëlle Lubansu and by David Gasman in English. In the Japanese dub, it was voiced by Akio Otsuka, who also voiced The Devil from 2005 anime, The Snow Queen.
Personality
XANA is a sentient, hostile program bent on world domination. Its computing intellect allows it to calculate attacks and schemes, use advanced science, predict behavior to take advantage of, and is cunning, always hiding its intentions until the last moment. However, it is bound by theories and logical patterns as a machine, unable to adapt to the unexpected. It can easily understand things like anger, fear, jealousy, or desire, but cannot grasp the complex nature of compassion or friendship.
It doesn't have much of a personality as a simple program. As spectres on Earth, XANA acts hostile, ruthless, and sadistic when attacking, while pragmatic and calculating when working to fulfill schemes. It also displayed arrogance, mocked its enemies, and shown admiration at other times.
XANA's goals evolve as the series progresses. At first, it simply launches random attacks on humanity and its enemies, while keeping the Supercomputer online to survive. As time reversions increase its power, XANA wants to steal the Keys to Lyoko from Aelita to escape the Supercomputer and infect other machines in the world network to conquer the world, while working to destroy Lyoko and Franz Hopper in addition to the team to eliminate its main obstacles.
XANA is also logical despite its chaotic nature, only acting for its own benefit. It does everything it can to keep the Supercomputer online to survive until its escape and helped destroy the Marabounta, but only to keep Aelita's memory intact and save itself from the monster. XANA also cannot understand risky actions as the team does, which compels it to thwart its own schemes by threatening something important to it.
Powers and Abilities
XANA is an intelligent multi-agent system that works like a virus, infecting the Supercomputer that holds Lyoko and exploiting its advanced capabilities. After escaping into the network, XANA infects other supercomputers with its multi-agent system and plants copies of Lyoko sectors called Replikas within them to survive and expand its power.
Lyoko Towers
XANA activates structures called Towers in the virtual worlds to launch attacks on Earth, which can only be stopped when Aelita deactivates them on Lyoko.
- Spectral Forms: On Earth, XANA manifests spectres, extensions of its multi-agent system and the closest thing it has to a physical form. They are sent out as impulses that can travel through networks and emerge into the real world as ghostly entities. The latter appear as black, polymorphic energy fields controlled by its program that can fly, are immune to physical attacks, and can interact with real objects.
- Electromagnetic Abilities: It can also control electromagnetic phenomena in networks or as spectres. This allows it to manipulate electricity and cause short circuits, shatter objects (ultrasound), negate gravity (magnetism), induce total paralysis through formatted music, etc. Its powers are nullified when its Towers deactivate.
- Network Hacking/Virus Possession: Through its spectres, XANA can hack computer and electrical networks, or possess targets to bend to its will to attack on Earth. These targets include outside machines, natural elements, dangerous chemicals, inanimate objects, insects or animals, etc. XANA controls them at will and can modify them to suit its needs. After evolving further, XANA can possess humans to follow its orders as pixelized beings with its spectral and electrical powers. Only Lyoko Warriors cannot be controlled. They return to normal when their Towers are deactivated and people have no memory of what occurred while possessed.
- Polymorphic Spectres: After growing stronger, XANA is able to manifest spectres with pixelated powers that can take human forms to walk among people unnoticed. It can make clones that appear as other people or shapeshifters that can transform at will. This allows XANA to deceive the Lyoko Warriors, since it cannot possess them. These clones disappear when their Towers deactivate.
Using Towers, XANA can also materialize or teleport beings (clones, Lyoko monsters, XANA-William, etc.) to Earth from Scanners or Replikas, control implanted devices it has made (mind control necklace, robot armies, etc.), or show mental visions through a psychic link.
Monsters & Programs
On Lyoko, XANA sends armies of deadly monsters of many types to fight enemies, guard its Towers, and attack targets in virtual worlds. XANA also created the Scyphozoa to steal memory data from warriors or possess them to do its bidding on Lyoko. With the power of its Replika network, it can send the massive Kolossus, its most powerful monster and ultimate weapon.
Aside from sending monsters, XANA can manipulate the virtual world and plant viruses or bugs to affect Lyoko's systems. It can also create virtual prisons, affect incomplete warriors at will, and program abilities and weapons for its own warriors. The latter is how XANA retrieved William Dunbar from the digital void and make him its permanent slave. It can also send messages through the network.
Physical Incarnations
XANA is a computer virus in the Supercomputer that keeps an unseen presence in its systems. It has no actual physical form, other than the spectres that it generates into the real world to perform actions using a simple part of its multi-agent system, while its core self remains anchored to the Supercomputer.
In the episode "Ghost Channel", XANA appears for the first time inside a virtual simulation of the real world as XANA knows it. This manifestation is theorized to be XANA's true self, since it acts with more anger and sadism than any of its programs and considering its behavior when it broke down trying to compute a logical fallacy. The manifestation is a monstrous, sociopathic caricature of Jeremie that acts as the controller of its simulated world, and it was destroyed when Aelita dispersed the bubble with her powers.
XANA later manifested through a polymorphic spectre resembling Franz Hopper in the episode "Franz Hopper". Unlike most spectres, this imposter was capable of articulate speech and used deception rather than brute force, implying XANA was in direct control of it. However, the disguise wasn't flawless, as he showed distain towards Jeremie for letting "XANA destroy my diary"; in truth, XANA had tried to destroy it, but failed due to the intervention of the real Franz Hopper.
The second direct appearance of XANA was at the end of "The Key", where the enormous mass of a spectre was seen spiraling into the sky from the factory as the program escaped Lyoko. This is only form of XANA to be confirmed in-universe as its true form, since it was seen leaving the Supercomputer as a collective force rather than a weaker part of itself.
The third and final incarnation of XANA was the spectre that appeared in "Fight to the Finish". The spectre itself had the unique ability to possess William in the real world, despite him being scanned by the supercomputer. The other unique feature is the misshapen Eye of XANA that appears on its torso, of which no other spectre has had. This spectre is assumed to be XANA's real-world form since it expressed pain that went in tandem with XANA's ultimate destruction.
Victims
- Aelita Schaffer (main victim)
- William Dunbar (secondary victim)
- Jeremy Belpois
- Elisabeth Delmas
- Jim Morales
- Ms. Hertz
- Principal Delmas
External Links
- XANA on the Pure Evil Wiki
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