History Fridge / Reboot

* The ''Saucy Mare'' covering itself in webcreature skins may seem like padding, but it has a real world analog - packet encapsulation! Internet traffic consists of data packets preceded and followed by routing information, to announce where the information is to be sent. By covering itself in the skins, the ship effectively makes itself look like actual internet traffic, and is thus able to navigate the internet.

** What if Daemon wasn't meant to wipe the entire net, but only wipe her creators' local net in case of a police raid?

* AndrAIa's personality changed far less than Enzo's. This probably because she is a game sprite - her programming is suited for spending a large portion of her time in a game. Enzo isn't so he had a stronger reaction and a more drastic personality change.

*** Maybe this is why ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph'' has the death outside your game is [[FinalDeath Permanent]] rule. Consider the episode ''[=AndrAIa=]'': She attaches her Icon to Enzo's. While this is a backup, once the game ends, the original dies: with no icon, it has no data to restore her with. She removed herself from her Game's code. The arcade characters may have heard stories of the PC Game Sprite who ripped herself from her game's code. As Arcade characters they'd have no reason to know of backups in an adopted home system. A less horrible version is that it backed up her data on her Icon before it released her thinking she was Enzo (supported by the Wiki), but she still removed herself from her game's code.

*** Maybe this is why ''Disney/WreckItRalph'' has the death outside your game is [[FinalDeath Permanent]] rule. Consider the episode ''[=AndrAIa=]'': She attaches her Icon to Enzo's. While this is a backup, once the game ends, the original dies: with no icon, it has no data to restore her with. She removed herself from her Game's code. The arcade characters may have heard stories of the PC Game Sprite who ripped herself from her game's code. As Arcade characters they'd have no reason to know of backups in an adopted home system. A less horrible version is that it backed up her data on her Icon before it released her thinking she was Enzo (supported by the Wiki), but she still removed herself from her game's code.

* Kilobyte randomly changing into Gigabyte seems a little contrived, but it was most likely all part of the plan. To wit: Kilobyte, a weak virus, gets captured by Gaurdians. He is taken into the Supercomputer to be deleted. He then upgrades to Gigabyte. Now he is in the prefect position to infect the Supercomputer. I suspect that Kilobyte was made by a user and given the primary function to infect the Supercomputer, and was programmed to accomplish this by way of this plan. A plan which probably would have worked if not for that random portal. It also explains why Megabyte was always obsessed with getting to the Supercomputer; he's still following his primary function. And the fact that Megabyte loves complex plans is probably something he developed because he was made specifically to carry out this original plan to infiltrate the Supercomputer.

* Kilobyte randomly changing into Gigabyte seems a little contrived, but it was most likely all part of the plan. To wit: Kilobyte, a weak virus, gets captured by Gaurdians. He is taken into the Supercomputer to be deleted. He then upgrades to Gigabyte. Now he is in the prefect position to infect the Supercomputer, his primary function. I suspect that Kilobyte was made by a user specifically to infect the Supercomputer by this method, and it probably would have worked if not for that random portal. It also explains why Megabyte was always obsessed with getting to the Supercomputer; he's still following his primary function.

* Mike the TV living with Hexadecimal. Sure he was shown to be completely fine at the beginning of "Nullzilla" and getting along pretty well with the virus, but think about it: Somewhere between "Painted Windows" and "Nullzilla", Hex eventually woke up from her coma to find Mike in her lair. [[AxCrazy Knowing]] [[MoodSwinger her]], she was most likely royally pissed at Mike being there, especially because he helped Bob foil her scheme, and probably chased him around hell-bent on hurting or outright deleting him until Hex either got bored as quickly as she got angry and mellowed out long enough for Mike to explain himself, or even if somebody with impeccable timing miraculously intervened. A minor and insignificant nitpick compared to other examples on this page, but the image of [[TheWoobie poor Mike bearing the brunt of Hexadecimal's temper alone]] [[NightmareFuel and being pursued by her again as he fears for his life is still horrific.]]

* ''ReBoot''. When the User wins a game, a sector of the system is destroyed and anyone unfortunate enough to be there gets turned into little [[AndIMustScream sluglike nulls]]. Now imagine Mainframe is that computer that you play your video games on all the time and always win.

* It's all but canon that Matrix is only just on this side of being a DeathSeeker, and almost entirely because he had [=AndrAIa=] and Frisket. What would have happened to him if either or both of them hadn't survived or stayed with him through that time?

* Consider the design and personality of Daemon as well as it's capabilities. Very fast, infecting the entire net in short order and spread by being polite, civil and courteous to allow the potential victims to lower their guard. To add, Daemon was designed with a flair for French romanticism. Though the end result is different (being a Chron virus), the infection parameters are the same: Daemon was modeled after the Love Bug virus.

* The show establishes that all virus are programed by users, just like in real life. Consider Daemon; a virus that almost destroyed the entire net. Somebody deliberately programed a virus that almost destroyed the entire net and every computer connected to it. Even ignoring the ignorance of the beings existing with computers, and the show being made before the internet was a widespread as it was today, this was still somebody whose actions would have had severe real world consequences and likely just did it because they could.

* The use of dead web creatures as physical shielding for the ''Saucy Mare'' always seemed pure plot contrivance (expose AndrAIa, trigger Mouse's trap, etc) without real world parallel until one realizes - they're entering the ''internet'', those shields represent Layer 2 and Layer 3 encapsulation, without which the data representing the Saucy Mare would not be properly routed and simply discarded!

* In ReBoot: The Guardian Code, Bob will finally get to meet Users face-to-face.