History Headscratchers / Reboot

** You're making some serious assumptions here. Who says they can separate the immunity from the rest of the Guardian code? How do you know they're not trying and just can't? Megabyte can't infect Sprites, does that make Dot selfish for not trying to upgrade all the Binomes into Sprites?

** He may have. Computer dogs may have longer lifespans than dogs in our world.

* In The Medusa Bug, we see that Bob's guardian code protects him from the bug's effect. Everyone else in Mainframe (other than Hex) was petrified into a stone-like state. My question is: If the guardians are capable of making their code immune to certain bugs, why don't they share that with everyone else? Even if the immunity is tied to the guardian code and they obviously weren't going to make everyone a guardian, surely they could have created a "guardian lite" code of sorts that gives people the immunities without granting them any of the other guardian attributes. Keeping that part to themselves strikes me as extremely selfish and akin to withholding vaccines and medications from the general public.

* In The Medusa Bug, we see that Bob's guardian code protects him from the virus. Everyone else in Mainframe (other than Hex) was petrified into a stone-like state. My question is: If the guardians are capable of making their code immune to certain viruses, why don't they share that with everyone else? Even if the immunity was tied to his guardian code and they obviously weren't going to make everyone a guardian, surely they could have created a "guardian lite" code of sorts that grants people the immunities without giving them any of the other guardian attributes. Keeping that part to themselves strikes me as akin to withholding vaccines and medications from the general public.

** A virus took control of his home system, plunging it into war. Megabyte had always craved control of Mainframe, and just took the opportunity presented to make his move. That's all the motivation Matrix really would have needed. This hatred was probably just amplified over the time he spent wandering the Net - we saw the system in 'Icons' had a virus there as well, Matrix has probably transferred this hatred to all viruses by this point, precisely because a virus caused untold death and destruction to the place he loved. This is not that complicated psychology.

** It wasn't Megabyte and Hex's fault that they launched Bob into the web and then attacked and destroyed Mainframe? It wasn't Megabyte's fault that he constantly mocked Enzo when he was the city's guardian, got Cyrus to start a smear campaign against him, and came really close to murdering him (Enzo) before getting trapped behind the firewall?

** They may not have had the capabilities to mount an evacuation - they'd near a tear to create a portal, if they even knew where to go. Likewise, Bob was the only one who could stabilize a tear into a portal, which have been shown to lead to various places, not just one location, and he was busy trying to prevent the shutdown of the system from within the core. By the time he was done, just about all of the system had shut down, had no power, and, presumably weren't generating tears, which left them with no way out of the system.

** It wasn't Megabyte and Hex's fault that they launched Bob into the web and then attacked and destroyed Mainframe? It wasn't Megabyte's fault that he constantly mocked Enzo when he was the city's guardian, got Cyrus to start a smear campaign against him, and came really close to murdering him Enzo before getting trapped behind the firewall?

** Well, Mouse hacked the icon in order to allow herself and AndrAIa to enter games with Enzo. It's possible that she also hacked Enzo and Frisket's icons to allow them the same switch. But, like AndrAIa's icon, the only way to test it was in the field - if it failed, they'd never really know, and if it succeeded, as it did, it'd take the three far from Mainframe. If Mouse told Dot about that possibility, likely too much time passed for any of the Mainframers to think that they'd survived.

** If Mike hadn't shattered Hex's looking glass, the Web creature would never have come to Mainframe in the first place. Megabyte and Hexadecimal wouldn't have had any opportunity to send Bob to the Web.

** It wasn't Megabyte and Hex's fault that they launched Bob into the web and then attacked and destroyed Mainframe? It wasn't Megabyte's fault that he constantly mocked Enzo when he was the city's guardian, got Cyrus to start a smear campaign against him, and came really close to murdering him Enzo before getting trapped behind the firewall?

* Why did Matrix hate viruses in general and Megabyte in particular so much? Anything that happened in Season 3 was Bob's fault. If he hadn't left Mike at Hexadecimal's lair at the end of "Painted Windows", the web creature would never have come to Mainframe.

* How come that Matrix and Frisket are able to change their icons to Game Sprite Mode? They're not Game Sprites.

* What's with the whole "nullifying" aspect of the games? Most computer games don't ''delete large chunks of your hard drive'' when you win. (There is, in fact, at least one game out there[note][[SchmuckBait Don't play it, seriously.]][/note] that is designed specifically to delete random files on your hard drive when you play it, including ones that are ''vital for your system's function'', but most games obviously don't.)

* What's with the whole "nullifying" aspect of the games? Most computer games don't ''delete large chunks of your hard drive'' when you win. (There is, in fact, at least one game out there that is designed specifically to delete random files on your hard drive when you play it, including ones that are ''vital for your system's function'', but most games obviously don't.)

* What's with the whole "nullifying" aspect of the games? I don't recall a single computer program that vaporizes a large chunk of your mainframe whenever you play "{{Minesweeper}}".
*** '''DUDE!''' Be careful with just linking to something like that. At least put a disclaimer on the link, like "'''THIS GAME WILL DELETE FILES FROM YOUR HARDDRIVE AS YOU PLAY IT'''" or something like that.
*** Sounds like a fun way to wipe a hard drive clean.

* One thing kind of bugs me about season four. Why does Matrix constantly keep his Icon in Game Sprite mode? Aside from when inside the games themselves, he's always deliberately changing it whenever he exits a game. I get that plot wise, it's stop his Guardian code form keeping him immune to Daemon's control, but what's the reason character wise? We're never given an explanation.

* If time distortion made Enzo and [=AndrAIa=] grow up while they were in the games, why didn't Frisket get old?

* How come no one bothered to comfort Glitch Bob in "Null Bot of the Bride"? I'm disappointed on how the characters treated him. At the wedding, Dot, Pong, and Enzo acted like they don't care about his feelings. Copy or not, he still should be treated with respect. I understand they thought the "real Bob" was the real deal, but clones and copies have feelings too.

* How come no one bothered to comfort Glitch Bob in "Null Bot of the Bride"? I'm disappointed on how the characters treated him. At the wedding, Dot, Pong, and Enzo acted like they don't care about his feelings. Copy or not, he still should be treated with respect. I understand they thought the "real Bob" was the real deal, but they shouldn't have treated Glitch Bob like a nobody.

* How come no one bothered to comfort Glitch Bob in "Null Bot of the Bride"? I'm disappointed on how the characters treated him. At the wedding, Dot, Pong, and Enzo acted like they don't care about his feelings. Copy or not, he still should be treated with respect. I understand they thought the "real Bob" was the real deal, but don't treat the copy like a nobody.

* Why didn't anyone think about organizing an evacuation plan for the Mainframe citizens when the system was about to crash at the end of season 3?

* Why didn't anyone think about organizing an evacuation plan for the Mainframe citizens when the system was about to crash?

** Because she's not a sociopath? She went to Mainframe at the end of season two since she was working for the Guardians as they looked into the web creature situation. As a direct result of her actions Mainframe was invaded by the Web, Bob was lost to the Web and the viruses were running rampant. Mouse, for all her faults, is a decent person who doesn't like getting innocent people hurt or being betrayed so she stuck around to help them fight off Megabyte. By the time they fought off Megabyte they'd learned about Daemon, which let her know nowhere else in the Net was safe. Once the villains are dealt with and Mainframe was safe she took off with Surfer and only came back for the wedding, and she would have left again if they hadn't found out about Megabyte tricking them. The people of Mainframe are her friends and she won't leave them to die.