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| 6 | This is a page listing characters that make up the cast of ''WesternAnimation/ReBoot''. |
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| 8 | For characters from ''Series/ReBootTheGuardianCode'', go [[Characters/ReBootTheGuardianCode here]]. |
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| 10 | !Contains spoilers |
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| 12 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 13 | |
| 14 | !Main Characters |
| 15 | |
| 16 | [[folder:Bob]] |
| 17 | [[quoteright:299:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/guardianbob.png]] |
| 18 | [[caption-width-right:299:[[labelnote:Click here to see Bob's appearance post-Season 3.]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/glitchbob.png[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 19 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Michael Benyaer (Seasons 1, 2 and 4), Creator/IanJamesCorlett (Seasons 3 and 4), Creator/AlfonsoObregonInclan (Latin American Spanish dub) |
| 20 | |
| 21 | TheHero. Bob is a Guardian. The Guardians are the net's equivalent to a police force, based in the Super Computer. Their purpose is to mend and defend: repairing damage caused by tears and fighting viruses. Assisted by his Keytool Glitch, Bob has been assigned as the Guardian of the small system of Mainframe, defending the locals from their two resident viruses: Megabyte and Hexadecimal. In Mainframe, Bob is looked up as some sort of SuperHero, especially by young Enzo, who dreams of becoming a Guardian himself. Bob is more prone to the IndyPloy in comparison to Dot's TheChessmaster approach. Had a WillTheyOrWontThey thing going with Dot, until they decided to get married. |
| 22 | ---- |
| 23 | * AllLovingHero: Bob is very reluctant to hurt others and even supports not killing Viruses, as he believes they can be healed into Sprites. He is distraught by [[spoiler:his fellow Guardians having no regard for their lives when brainwashed by Daemon]] and exhausts himself trying to get them out of Mainframe non-lethally rather than just shooting them down. |
| 24 | * BetterThanNew: Both Bob and Glitch come back from their near death experience tougher. |
| 25 | * BigGood: Being a Guardian, he's technically the highest ranking of the good guys, but Phong's the local ruler. |
| 26 | * BigBrotherMentor: For Enzo. |
| 27 | * BlueIsHeroic: Bob's so heroic, his ''skin'' is blue. |
| 28 | * BroughtDownToBadass: On the occasions he has Glitch taken away from him, he relies on his wits and fighting skills alone to save the day. |
| 29 | * ButtMonkey: He was a bit of this during the first two seasons as a result of his frequent bad luck, but moved past the role after the show's CerebusSyndrome and his Web-induced character development. When his doppelganger ([[spoiler:actually Megabyte]]) was introduced, this one briefly resumed the role during his [[spoiler: impersonation of Bob]] as a way of driving home the notion that the old Bob was truly back. |
| 30 | * CastFromHitPoints: Being fused with Glitch gave Bob a lot of cool powers, and he did a lot of good with them. Unfortunately, Glitch was damaged when they fused together, so that Bob started to weaken whenever he used his powers. It got to the point where he risked being deleted by using them too much. |
| 31 | * CharacterCatchphrase: |
| 32 | ** "I don't ''think'' so!" |
| 33 | ** "This is bad. This is ''very'' bad." |
| 34 | ** "Not good! This is ''not'' good!" |
| 35 | ** "Stay frosty!" |
| 36 | ** And when he's ''really perturbed,'' (like when he's stuck in a parody of Franchise/{{Pokemon}}) "THAT IS SICK!" |
| 37 | * CharacterDevelopment: Many fans noticed that Bob's portrayal after returning in Season 3 was a bit different. He was noticeably less cocky and impulsive than in earlier seasons, and comes off as a bit OlderAndWiser. Considering the events of the Season 2 finale and Season 3, this makes perfect sense. |
| 38 | * CharacterizationMarchesOn: Prior to Season 4, Bob had never displayed his ThouShaltNotKill attitude toward viruses, nor had shown any intentions in reforming them. In fact, he outright attempted to delete Megabyte in ''Infected''. He ''did'' save Megabyte and Hex on occasions, but he chalked it up to his programming, rather than any belief that they could be reformed. |
| 39 | * ChickMagnet: Dot, Mouse, and Hex have all expressed romantic interest in him to varying degrees.[[note]]Mouse and Hex are far more aggressive while Dot doesn't openly express affection for him until Season 3.[[/note]] At least one female binome has come on to him too. |
| 40 | * TheChosenMany: The Guardians are an entire organization of chosen heroes. |
| 41 | * TheChosenOne: According to Turbo, keytools select their guardians, and few are chosen. This makes Bob and Matrix Chosen Ones among the Chosen Many that are the Guardians, as they were both accepted by Glitch. |
| 42 | * CityMouse: He has to be reminded on multiple occasions that [[RunningGag Mainframe is not the Supercomputer]], both in terms of technology and its sense of community. |
| 43 | * {{Determinator}}: "He is a Guardian. He will find a way [[spoiler:to survive the Web, but he needs us to show him the way home]]." |
| 44 | * DeusExitMachina: |
| 45 | ** His forced departure at the end of Season 2 is actually just one of several problems facing the heroes, but it makes the situation seem that much more hopeless and further emboldens Megabyte and Hexadecimal. |
| 46 | ** His sudden abduction by Hexadecimal at the end of "Megaframe" leaves the others without extra muscle during the assault on Megabyte's forces. |
| 47 | * {{Deuteragonist}}: In the latter half of season 3, with Enzo taking more of the lead role. |
| 48 | * DudeWheresMyRespect: Despite being Mainframe's Guardian and a capable hero who has saved the system countless times, he tends to get little respect from a number of citizens, particularly Cecil and Frisket. |
| 49 | * EnragedByIdiocy: He's cool with fighting Users or viruses to protect Mainframe's inhabitants, since that's part of his function. What pisses him off is when those same inhabitants nearly get him deleted trying to "help" him. |
| 50 | * FusionDance: Bob merges with Glitch to create a portal from the Web to Mainframe. He also gets a lot of other cool powers in the process. Unfortunately, Glitch being damaged when they merged led to some problems later on... |
| 51 | * TheHero: For the first two seasons. As of season 3, he becomes more of a MessianicArchetype. |
| 52 | * HerosClassicCar: Bob cruises around Mainframe in a red 262 convertible hovercar. When it's not having engine trouble, that is. When it reboots in a racing game, it takes the form of a 50s-style hotrod. |
| 53 | * HollywoodToneDeaf: He's a ''terrible'' singer. [[PlayingWithATrope Yet an incredibly proficient guitar player.]] |
| 54 | * ImaginationBasedSuperpower: Glitch can do pretty much anything that it needs to do for the plot, including deciding for itself what it needs to do to advance the plot. |
| 55 | * IndyPloy: Bob's favored method of dealing with any given situation. |
| 56 | * LastOfHisKind: [[spoiler: During season 4, Bob is the last Guardian that still has a Key tool. Additionally, he was the last Guardian to be infected by Daemon.]] |
| 57 | * LivingMacguffin: [[spoiler: Is considered such by Daemon, as he's the only Guardian whose Key tool hasn't fled her reach. By being fused with Glitch, Bob becomes the only Guardian left capable of opening portals throughout the Net, which is key to Daemon's plans of spreading her infection to isolated systems she can't normally access.]] |
| 58 | * MajorInjuryUnderreaction: He badly burns his hand saving the system in Season 3 but barely flinches from it. |
| 59 | * MartialPacifist: He repeatedly advocates trying to rehabilitate viruses rather than deleting them. |
| 60 | * MessianicArchetype: While he was always a Guardian sent by the more slick Supercomputer to "mend and defend," to protect Mainframe from games, glitches, and viruses... After he is [[BetrayalTropes betrayed]] and banished to the Web by the treacherous [[SatanicArchetype Megabyte]] in the Season 2 Finale, most characters speak of his memory with reverence, believing that "only Bob" can save them from Megabyte and the Supercomputer from Daemon. Most characters even describe his possible return as "believe in Bob" and "have faith in Bob." |
| 61 | ** His return to the show is treated almost like a SecondComing. His first act is to save the deathly ill [=AndrAIa=] by giving his life force to hers. His demeanor is much more humble, patient, and compassionate than his previous goofy, hot-headed persona. When he fuses with Glitch, he's bathed in gold and white. His primary powers become fixing and healing rather than fighting. In the final battle, his compassion cures Hexadecimal of her insanity, and it's his idea to allow [[spoiler:the User to win the Game in Mainframe to allow the system crash and get rebooted by the User, which creates a kind of Rapture that restores Mainframe to its former glory and brings back all the sprites that were killed.]] |
| 62 | * MyCarHatesMe: His is the type of car that just won't turn over in the most dire of situations. |
| 63 | * NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler:His bickering with a superior kept Kilobyte from being deleted, giving him time to break free and upgrade to Gigabyte. He was then caught in a portal leading to Mainframe, which caused the destruction of one of the system's twin cities and caused Gigabyte to split into Megabyte and Hexadecimal.]] |
| 64 | * OnlyFriend: Or rather “the closest thing to a friend” to Hexadecimal. Despite her craziness and previous threats, Bob seemed to be the only character in the show to actually treat her with some sort of decency (leaving Mike the TV to help her recover after nearly getting deleted, healing her and rendering her sane after simply fixing her mask). |
| 65 | * PowerUpLetdown: Bob does a lot of good when he merges with Glitch, but it starts taking a toll on his health because Glitch was damaged when they fused. Eventually, using his powers weakens him so much he's in danger of getting deleted. |
| 66 | * PresentAbsence: His absence for most of Season 3 is continually felt. Without him around, Megabyte is emboldened to begin taking Mainframe piece by piece, with many (even Hack and Slash) feeling no one can stop him. Losing Bob has a big effect on Dot's emotional state, which gets progressively worse as a result of other developments in the season. Enzo's attempts to fill the void are largely met with derision by Megabyte and citizens alike, as he is frequently compared poorly to Bob. After his transformation into a renegade, Matrix laments the idea of Bob being lost forever, but he also harbors a fear of the hero he idolized shunning him for what he had to become to survive. |
| 67 | * PutOnABus: At the end of Season 2, he's rocketed into the Web by Megabyte; he's absent for most of Season 3 as a result, and Matrix and [=AndrAIa=] make it part of their mission to find him. |
| 68 | * SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Post-time skip, Bob becomes the Sensitive Guy to Matrix's Manly Man. Matrix still hero-worships him, though. |
| 69 | * SoProudOfYou: After he reunites with Matrix, he tells him this, easing the latter's concerns about this. |
| 70 | * StatusQuoIsGod: Done rather infamously in Season 4. Despite his merge with Glitch being supposedly permanent, he eventually figures out how to unmerge them. This is followed by two [[DeusExMachina Deus Ex Machinas]] in a row that return the Guardians' lost Keytools and revert Bob to his Season 1 design. |
| 71 | * ThouShaltNotKill: Considered a radical among Guardians for his advocacy of rehabilitation for viruses. It works for Hex, but by the end of ''Code of Honor'', even Bob's starting to get tired of letting Megabyte live. |
| 72 | * UnwantedAssistance: Expresses annoyance in "[=AndrAIa=]" over two Binomes who attempted to "help" him in game by setting off an EarthShatteringKaboom (while still ''inside'' the given planet) and spouting irrelevant commands, respectively. He ends up teaching a refresher course to help other Mainframers learn what they should be doing in games. |
| 73 | [[/folder]] |
| 74 | |
| 75 | [[folder:Glitch]] |
| 76 | [[quoteright:299:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/glitch1.png]] |
| 77 | [[caption-width-right:299:[[labelnote:Click here to see Glitch's appearance in Season 4.]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/glitch2.png[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 78 | |
| 79 | Glitch is Bob's Keytool. It has the ability to become any object on command, as well as other powers such as analyzing the rules of a game. The exact limitations of Glitch's ImaginationBasedSuperpower abilities: it can only do one thing at a time, it's implied it cannot duplicate some of the rarer weapons Bob requisitions from Phong, it doesn't seem capable of turning into a sophisticated or large vehicle (though it can manage a hang-glider or a helicoptery thing to pull Bob out of a fall), and it does not have unlimited energy. Glitch is sentient, though it seems only a Guardian can understand its beeping language. Glitch was damaged at the end of season 2, making it unable to morph and project energy but still capable of [[EverythingSensor scanning anything and everything]]. Later it merged with Bob, and was later unmerged and upgraded into Glitch 2.0 (whose exact capabilities are unknown). |
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| 81 | * TheChooserOfTheOne: Glitch will only allow those with the potential to be great Guardians to wield it. |
| 82 | * EmpathicWeapon: Glitch is sentient and capable of activating on its own to protect its Guardian. |
| 83 | * EverythingSensor: Shows the rules of ''any'' game cube. It can also detect viruses. |
| 84 | * FusionDance: With [[spoiler: Bob in season 3]]. |
| 85 | * LoyalPhlebotinum: It is extremely loyal to Bob. It accepts to merge with him so they can return to Mainframe and stop Daemon. Glitch' decision to abandon Bob to join the other Bob in ''My Two Bobs'' seems to seal the deal on which Bob is the original. [[spoiler:Glitch is actually knowingly joining the fake Bob because in doing so it can retrieve the real Bob's missing code, and repair him, while revealing the fake as Megabyte]]. |
| 86 | * SwissArmyWeapon: Glitch can morph into a ridiculous range of tools and weapons. And a lamppost one time. |
| 87 | * SuperWristGadget: Glitch's default form is a small device that is mounted on Bob's wrist. |
| 88 | * TheUnintelligible: Though it rarely speaks, Glitch's speech consists of beeps and whirring sounds. |
| 89 | * TakeUpMySword: Glitch was Dixon Green's (Bob's partner and mentor) Keytool. It passed to Bob when an upgrading Kilabyte killed her. |
| 90 | ** After Bob was cast into the Web, Glitch passed to Enzo (heavily damaged, see WreckedWeapon) until they reunited with Bob towards the end of Season 3. |
| 91 | * TrueSight: Glitch [[spoiler:sees through Megabyte disguising himself as the "true" Bob and retakes the part of Bob's code that Megabyte absorbed when he crushed it. It then returns that code to Bob, restoring him to his full form and forcing Megabyte to reveal himself.]] |
| 92 | * WreckedWeapon: Glitch is crushed by Megabyte at the end of season 2, rendering most of its functions useless. [[spoiler:Until repaired by the other Keytools after unmerging with Bob]]. |
| 93 | [[/folder]] |
| 94 | |
| 95 | [[folder:Dot Matrix]] |
| 96 | [[quoteright:299:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dotmatrix.png]] |
| 97 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KathleenBarr, Pilar Escadón (Latin American Spanish dub) |
| 98 | |
| 99 | The leader of Mainframe (she took over the position from, according to WordOfGod, an unseen sprite whom Phong represented sometime between the end of season 2 and the end of season 3). Dot is for most of the series Bob's main love interest. She owns Dot's Diner, a small diner that often served as headquarters to the heroes in the early seasons. Enzo is her little brother. Dot is known to be ''very'' organized and almost incapable of doing anything unless she has a plan. However, once she does have a plan, things usually go right. |
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| 101 | * AmazonianBeauty: She has a very broad and muscular body, with great abs. |
| 102 | * BadassBookworm: More often than not, the brains of the operations. |
| 103 | * BeautyBrainsAndBrawn: The Brains to [=AndrAIa=]'s Beauty and Mouse's Brawn. |
| 104 | * BigGood: From season 3 onward, Dot takes over from Phong as Mainframe's Command.Com, leading the war effort against Megabyte's tyranny, and later, heading up Mainframe's resistance against Daemon. |
| 105 | * BigNo: In "Game Over" [[spoiler: when Enzo, Frisket and [=AndrAIa=] lose a catastrophic game and are lost in the web because of it.]] |
| 106 | * BrokenBird: Was briefly hinted to be this in Season 2, but she became a more obvious example in Season 3, after losing Bob and Enzo. |
| 107 | * ClingyJealousGirl: She gets annoyed when Mouse flirts with Bob. |
| 108 | * CoolBigSis: For Enzo, until the time skip. Then she doesn't look so big to him anymore. |
| 109 | * FireForgedFriends: With Mouse. Dot initially can't stand Mouse due to her nearly getting Enzo deleted and her obvious thing for Bob, but they reach an understanding when they're forced to work together in "Gigabyte." |
| 110 | |
| 111 | * TheHeart: Definitely the heart and soul of the good guys for the first two seasons. |
| 112 | |
| 113 | * HeroicBSOD: At the end of Season 2 [[spoiler:when Bob gets shot into the web]], she begins to go through this. [[spoiler:And went further down after she believed Enzo was nullified. Even though she's happy to see Bob, Enzo (Matrix), [=AndrAIa=], and Frisket back, she doesn't know if she has any fight in her left.]] |
| 114 | * InsecureLoveInterest: Late Season 3, when Bob returns, Dot doesn't try to pursue him because she feels guilty for having given up on him ever coming back. Mouse snaps her out of it. |
| 115 | * TheLancer: In the early seasons mostly. In Bob's absence, she moves to BigGood. |
| 116 | * MsFanservice: Is a very beautiful woman who often wears many flattering outfits, and gets a good bit of MaleGaze. |
| 117 | * MyGodWhatHaveIDone: In the ''My Two Bobs'' movie, when she realizes she chose ''Megabyte'' (who was impersonating him) over the real Bob for rather shallow reasons (basically he looked like Bob used to) and very nearly married him. Doubles as TookALevelInJerkass for some fans. |
| 118 | * NiceGirl: Despite her imperfections, Dot is very kind, supportive, sweet, and caring. |
| 119 | * NotSoAboveItAll: Despite being usually one of the most level-headed members of the main cast, she was shown to enjoy pulling the occasional childish prank ("Racing the Clock"), and on the few occasions she has an argument with Bob, she adopts an attitude and behavior that even [[BrattyHalfPint Season 1!Enzo]] finds childish ("The Tiff", "Wizards, Warriors and a Word from Our Sponsor"). |
| 120 | * PromotedToParent: As confirmed by the Season 4 flashbacks, Dot had to go from CoolBigSis to ParentalSubstitute for Enzo following [[spoiler:Welman's ultimately disastrous experiment in the twin city]]. |
| 121 | * PurelyAestheticGlasses: Later on Dot adopted a pair of glasses despite no evidence that she actually ''needs'' them. They would pop up occasionally when she was reading early in the series but a lack of consistency kind of killed the idea. |
| 122 | * SmallGirlBigGun: In "Web World Wars". |
| 123 | * [[TheSmartGuy The Smart Girl]]: Her main role, though in "The Tiff" she and Bob switch so she becomes the ActionGirl and he becomes TheSmartGuy. |
| 124 | * TheStrategist: Dot is always the one who comes up with a plan. |
| 125 | * TeamMom: For Enzo on a personal level, and as a guiding force for the rest of the cast. |
| 126 | * TookALevelInJerkass: In ''My Two Bobs'' she treats "Glitch Bob" badly, believing him to be a clone despite all they'd been through together. When she learns the "Original Bob" is [[spoiler:Megabyte in disguise]], she's horrified over how she acted. |
| 127 | * WetBlanketWife: Dot is Bob's LoveInterest and Enzo's CoolBigSis, but she's very serious and practical while the two boys [[CharacterDevelopment start off]] more goofy and impulsive. In the first two seasons she's always the one to remind everyone they need a ''plan'' before rushing off into danger, and is pretty much the only sprite who seems to remember how ''dangerous'' Games can be (until poor Enzo lost an eye). |
| 128 | * WhatASenselessWasteOfHumanLife: She doesn't take any pleasure in a victory over the virals in "Game Over". |
| 129 | [[/folder]] |
| 130 | |
| 131 | [[folder:Enzo Matrix]] |
| 132 | [[quoteright:299:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/enzokid.png]] |
| 133 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Jesse Moss (season one), Matthew Sinclair (seasons one and two), Christopher Gray (young Enzo, season three), Giacomo Baessato [[spoiler:(Little Enzo)]], Danny [=McKinnon=] (flashback in season four), Carlos Díaz (Latin American Spanish dub, Seasons One and Two), Creator/EduardoGarza (Latin American Spanish dub, Season Three) |
| 134 | |
| 135 | Dot's BrattyHalfPint brother who hero-worships Bob. He dreams of becoming a Guardian himself and enrolling at the Academy, and jumps at the opportunity to enter games and tussle with Viruses himself despite the danger of both of those tasks. He was eventually made a Guardian cadet by Bob. After this one was shot into the Web, Enzo saw himself forced take up the torch as Mainframe's Guardian. He struggled at first due to his inexperience and young age, but just as he was getting skilled, he had the misfortune of losing a game, which left him stranded in the Net and led to his development into an older anti-hero who usually goes by just "Matrix". See the entry for "The Renegade" below for more info. At the end of Season 3, Matrix accidentally leaves his icon in Game Sprite mode during a system reboot, causing the system to recreate young Enzo from an earlier backup (right after his "upgrade" to Guardian cadet) since he didn't read as being present. From that point forward, the two Enzos co-exist. |
| 136 | ---- |
| 137 | * AllUpToYou: The first arc of Season 3 deconstructs this. He's Mainframe's only hope against Megabyte, but he's just an inexperienced kid that virtually everyone thinks isn't up to the task. He frequently suffers self-doubt and depression over not measuring up. Megabyte even exploits this to further crush the townspeople's morale and sap their will to resist. Enzo does start to turn it around, though. |
| 138 | * BodyHorror: He is turned into disembodied Vid Screens in ''Painted Windows''. Fortunately, he makes it work to his advantage. |
| 139 | * BrattyHalfPint: Enzo is often the cause of trouble due to his reckless nature and HeroWorship. |
| 140 | * CharacterCatchphrase: "Alphanumeric!" |
| 141 | * ChildSoldier: Out of necessity once Megabyte banished Bob and began conquering Mainframe; he was the only sprite with the Guardian protocol and the only one who could use Glitch. |
| 142 | * ClonesArePeopleToo: Both [[spoiler:Dot and Matrix]] consider [[spoiler:the back-up copy of Enzo a little brother and part of their family.]] |
| 143 | * DivergentCharacterEvolution: Little Enzo [[spoiler:develops differently than Matrix due to never having been subjected to years of survival in games. Hexadecimal also brings his father back, allowing them to bond with each other.]] |
| 144 | * EyeScream: He has his eye shredded by a User in a Franchise/MortalKombat style game. |
| 145 | * {{Foreshadowing}}: In Dot's BadFuture sequence from "Identity Crisis, Part 2," viewers see [[spoiler:an older Enzo that's all muscled up and more of a jerk. He even has a scar over his right eye and wears an earring.]] |
| 146 | * FantasticRacism: He experiences some against his green skin, oddly enough, due to Cyril's propaganda. While it was never an issue before, apparently Sprites with blue skin are seen as more heroic than those with green skin. |
| 147 | * FriendlessBackground: The destruction of the twin city left him the only small sprite in Mainframe, so he's often lonely whenever Bob and Dot are busy. This is changed after the episode ''[=AndrAIa=]'' in which the titular AI copies herself into Mainframe and joins Enzo there. |
| 148 | * FutureMeScaresMe: Over the course of season 4, [[spoiler:Enzo has a huge case of HeroWorship toward his future self, demanding to be called "Little Matrix."]] Over the course of the season, though, Enzo realizes all the hardships [[spoiler:his adult self]] experienced and just how jaded and bitter they left him, and stops emulating him. |
| 149 | * TheGlomp: Enzo does this to Bob so often that it's a RunningGag. |
| 150 | * TheHero: In Season 3 he replaces Bob as the hero and protagonist. |
| 151 | * HeroWithBadPublicity: Early in Season 3, thanks to Cyrus' [[MaliciousSlander propaganda]] and the general unwillingness of the Mainframers to accept anyone other than Bob as a Guardian. He and [=AndrAIa=] manage to turn this around somewhat, though. |
| 152 | * HeroWorshipper: Enzo looks up to Bob. In season four, [[spoiler:little Enzo latches on to his original self.]] |
| 153 | * HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: In the third episode Megabyte convinces him to take a package to Hexadecimal. He's somehow persuaded [[EvilOverlord Megabyte]] would give him return business and be a good business partner. |
| 154 | * {{Keet}}: He's pretty energetic, befitting being TheBabyOfTheBunch. |
| 155 | * TheLoad: He's one early on, where he is quick to rush into a Game but fails to do anything useful. In one episode he rebooted into a DamselInDistress. He was ''not'' happy with this. |
| 156 | * NiceJobBreakingItHero: He once turned everyone in Mainframe into absolute idiots, then had to win a Game with them all in that state. |
| 157 | * OddFriendship: Little Enzo quickly befriends a [[spoiler:cured Hexadecimal, much to Matrix's chagrin.]] |
| 158 | * OnlyFriend: The game sprite [=AndrAIa=] becomes his only friend after she enters Mainframe. [[spoiler:Hexadecimal of all people fills this role for Little Enzo]]. |
| 159 | * RunningGag: His typical reaction upon seeing Bob was to shout, "''Bob!''" and tackle the Guardian to the ground. |
| 160 | * SuckSessor: He serves for one for Bob in season 3 due to Cyril's propaganda against him making him seem weak and incompetent compared to the Guardian himself. |
| 161 | * TakeUpMySword: Becomes Mainframe's Guardian after Bob is lost in the Web. [[spoiler: And he fails.]] |
| 162 | * TagAlongKid: He starts as one, but develops into a capable Game player in his own right. |
| 163 | * TaughtByExperience: Enzo was able to survive as a [[SuckSessor replacement Guardian]] thanks to his always [[TagAlongKid tagging along]] on Bob's adventures. |
| 164 | * WhatTheHellHero: He calls [[spoiler:his older self out]] for having become no different than Megabyte in ''Number 7''. Later, [[spoiler:Little Enzo calls Matrix out on being a bitter and jaded person.]] |
| 165 | [[/folder]] |
| 166 | |
| 167 | [[folder:Mouse]] |
| 168 | [[quoteright:299:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mousereboot.png]] |
| 169 | ->'''Voiced by:''' [[Creator/StevieVallance Louise Vallance]], Creator/RocioPrado (Latin American Spanish dub) |
| 170 | |
| 171 | Mouse was first mentioned as an old "associate" of Bob's before showing up as a mercenary working for Megabyte. She was quick to [[HeelFaceTurn join the heroes]], however, after Megabyte double-crossed her. She managed to simultaneously be an ActionGirl while mostly taking Dot's place as TheSmartGirl. |
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| 173 | * ActionGirl: Just like practically every other female in the series. |
| 174 | * AmazonianBeauty: Mouse is a very muscular and beautiful woman who has no trouble attracting the fancy of many male characters in the show. Her musculature is especially pronounced in later episodes. |
| 175 | * AscendedExtra: Makes a one-off appearance in Season 1 before returning in the concluding arc of Season 2. |
| 176 | * BeautyBrainsAndBrawn: The Brawn to [=AndrAIa=]'s Beauty and Dot's Brains. |
| 177 | * CharacterCatchphrase: Tends to call everyone "Sugah". |
| 178 | * ChekhovsGun: In the Season 2 Finale, Mouse informs Megabyte that she's not only fixed the glitch to the Web, but sealed it so nothing can find its way back in. [[TheBadGuyWins Then Megabyte sends Bob into the Web]]. Most characters hold out hope that Bob will find a way back in Season 3, but it isn't until the party tries to return to Mainframe through the Web that they encounter one of [[StealthPun Mouse's traps.]] |
| 179 | * CoolShip: Not like Capacitor's, hers is more an airborne warship. |
| 180 | * TheCracker: Mouse is a hacking program. Within the context of the Net, this makes her equal parts freelance mercenary and ClassyCatBurglar. |
| 181 | * CuteLittleFangs: Odds are if you're seeing these, Mouse is pretty pissed off. |
| 182 | * DatingCatwoman: It's suggested that Mouse and Bob had this relationship before he arrived in Mainframe. While he was arresting her when she tried to hack into the Supercomputer, Mouse flirted with him constantly. |
| 183 | * DroppedABridgeOnHim: The ''Code of Honor'' webcomic kills her and Ray off in a fairly mean-spirited manner, without much of a sendoff past "Where's Mouse and Ray? Crap." |
| 184 | ** Although the two of them, as well as Turbo, turn out to be [[DisneyDeath not really dead]]. They're still never seen again in the comic, but it's implied that the three of them came back after Gnosis was dealt with. |
| 185 | * TheDreaded: Her hacking skills are second-to-none. When the crew of the Crimson Binome tries to hack the Firewall to get back to Mainframe, they almost give up completely knowing ''she'' personally programmed it. |
| 186 | -->'''Matrix:''' We might've been able to sneak past Megabyte, or even Hexadecimal...but ''Mouse?!'' |
| 187 | * EveryoneHasStandards: In "The Great Brain Robbery," she had no problem helping Megabyte hijack Bob's (then Enzo's) brain to access the Supercomputer. But learning Megabyte intended to delete a little boy, and her with him? Nu uh, sugar. |
| 188 | * ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: The name of her ship? "Ship". |
| 189 | * FireForgedFriends: With Dot. Dot initially can't stand her, and Mouse was only too happy to troll her, but they reach an understanding when Dot saves her life. |
| 190 | %%* FriendlyEnemy: |
| 191 | * GeniusBruiser: Hacks systems just as well as she fights. |
| 192 | * HeadTurningBeauty: She's extremely attractive, and her very first scene leaves Megabyte and his minions [[DistractedByTheSexy distracted]] by her SupermodelStrut. |
| 193 | * HeelFaceTurn: Never exactly evil, but she went from a thief with some standards to a loyal ally. |
| 194 | * ImpossiblyCompactFolding: She uses a full length katana. Which she keeps in an ankle holster. Somehow. |
| 195 | * KatanasAreJustBetter: Her weapon of choice, and she even laments not having anywhere to put it while wearing her bridesmaid dress. |
| 196 | * {{Leitmotif}}: A rising four-note sequence. |
| 197 | %%* LovableRogue: Her initial characterization. |
| 198 | * MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: The masculine girl to Ray's feminine boy. |
| 199 | %%* NiceGirl: She's very friendly. |
| 200 | * NiceJobBreakingItHero: While it was very satisfying seeing her send Megabyte [[spoiler: into the web]], instead of letting him infiltrate the Super Computer, this allows him to come back [[spoiler: disguised as Bob and with Trojan Horse abilities. As if she doesn't feel bad enough for being used so many times.]] |
| 201 | * NoodleIncident: Bob once arrested her for hacking into the Supercomputer. Whatever she did to be thrown in Captain Capacitor's brig and did to escape are given even fewer details. |
| 202 | * NumberTwo: In the war against Megabyte, Mouse ends up becoming Dot's right-hand woman. |
| 203 | * PlayfulHacker: She hacks the Principal Office to take down its shields with a wink, mostly for fun. |
| 204 | * ShapedLikeItself: Mouse's ship is called "Ship". Go figure. |
| 205 | * SitcomArchNemesis: Is this to Dot at first, before Mouse settles down in Mainframe and they become friends. |
| 206 | %%* TheSmartGuy: Which makes her a good sidekick for Dot. |
| 207 | * SouthernFriedGenius: Has the accent, and is very intelligent. |
| 208 | * StatuesqueStunner: She's almost as tall as Bob. |
| 209 | * StealthHiBye: A talent of hers. Bob used something she left behind to pull a similar trick in "The Crimson Binome". |
| 210 | * SupermodelStrut: She walks with a confident strut that has her hips swaying in a seductive manner. Megabyte even gets [[DistractedByTheSexy distracted by it]] when they meet for the first time. |
| 211 | * UnmovingPlaid: A variety. her hair and eyebrows have a constant orange-colored "white noise" pattern. |
| 212 | * UnusualEyebrows: They appear to be attached to her hair. |
| 213 | * UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: During the Web invasion, Mouse set up a series of booby traps to protect Mainframe from further incursions. It's not a problem for the heroes, unless they happen to be on a pirate ship covered in dead Web creature scales. |
| 214 | * UnwittingPawn: Twice, which cemented her decision to join the good guys. |
| 215 | * WildCard: Originally she was a truly neutral party, working for whoever paid her. Enough betrayals by Megabyte turned her fully to the side of good. |
| 216 | [[/folder]] |
| 217 | |
| 218 | [[folder:Phong]] |
| 219 | [[quoteright:299:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/phong.png]] |
| 220 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MichaelDonovan, Creator/CesarArias (Latin American Spanish dub) |
| 221 | |
| 222 | The oldest and wisest sprite in Mainframe, who lives in the Principal Office and oversees the system. A frequent target of Megabyte's schemes, nevertheless he does what he can in order to stop him with the help of the others. |
| 223 | ---- |
| 224 | * BigGood: In seasons 1 and 2; Dot later takes over this role. |
| 225 | * CharacterCatchphrase: "Oh dear" and, to a lesser extent, "Yadda yadda." |
| 226 | * CrazyPrepared: He had a set of Franchise/PowerRangers-esque robots built in case of a giant null monster attack, which [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever later happened]]. |
| 227 | * {{Determinator}}: "I will fight you to the last, virus." |
| 228 | * GambitRoulette: Apparently, he let Enzo use the Read-Only Room knowing full well [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor what would probably happen to Mainframe]], in order to [[TheOnlyWayTheyWillLearn teach him a lesson]]. |
| 229 | * HeroicSacrifice: In the flashbacks to "Megaframe," [[spoiler:as the virals break into the Principal Office, Phong stays behind to give Dot and the others time to evacuate]]. He doesn't die, of course, but he didn't know that and appeared quite ready for the worst possible result. |
| 230 | * IncorruptiblePurePureness: In a way; as read-only memory, he's totally immune to infection from all but the most powerful viruses. |
| 231 | * IncrediblyLamePun: People had to beat him in VideoGame/{{Pong}} to get his advice. |
| 232 | * MeaningfulName: He seems to be named after [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phong_shading Phong shading]], which is especially prominent on his shiny body. |
| 233 | * MissionControl: His main function for the good guys. |
| 234 | * NonActionGuy: Most of the time. When he ''does'' participate in something, it is usually because the situation is dire. |
| 235 | * OffWithHisHead: [[spoiler: Megabyte severs his head and tortures it in Season 3.]] |
| 236 | * RunningGag: He often puts a damper on Bob's enthusiasm by reminding him that "This is not the Supercomputer" and their resources for fighting Viruses are limited. This is subverted when eventually, he has ''exactly'' what they need to fight a giant Null monster - Combining mechas. |
| 237 | * TookALevelInKindness: As the series progressed he went from a somewhat obstructive TricksterMentor to a genuinely helpful MissionControl who even took part in defending the system from some games. |
| 238 | * TricksterMentor: In non-serious cases in earlier seasons, the person seeking advice would have to win a game of VideoGame/{{Pong}} against him first. |
| 239 | [[/folder]] |
| 240 | |
| 241 | [[folder:[=AndrAIa=] '''(Unmarked spoilers!)''']] |
| 242 | [[quoteright:299:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/andraiakid.png]] |
| 243 | [[caption-width-right:299:[[labelnote:Click here to see [=AndrAIa's=] appearance post-time skip.]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/andraiaadult_6.png[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 244 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AndreaLibman (young), Sharon Alexander (adult), Christine Byrd (Latin American Spanish dub, young), Connie Madera (Latin American Spanish dub, adult) |
| 245 | |
| 246 | Originally a game sprite, [=AndrAIa=] met young Enzo in an aquatic game and they became friends. As the game ended, she attached a copy of her data to Enzo's icon so that said copy would leave the game with Enzo and could stay with him. [[PlotRelevantAgeUp Aged up]] along with Enzo, becoming an ActionGirl and LoveInterest. |
| 247 | ---- |
| 248 | * ActionGirl: She was already this in the game where she originated, but growing up with Matrix made her even more this trope. |
| 249 | * AmazonianBeauty: She grows up to be very muscular and statuesque, and it's pretty much impossible for any man not to fall head over heels for her. |
| 250 | * BadassInDistress: She can hold her own in a fight, but every now and again she needs help. |
| 251 | * BeautyBrainsAndBrawn: The Beauty to Dot's Brain and Mouse's Brawn, as an adult. |
| 252 | * BetaCouple: In contrast to Bob and Dot's WillTheyOrWontThey, Matrix and [=AndrAIa=] become a committed couple during the Season 3 time skip. |
| 253 | * ChildhoodFriendRomance: She and Enzo are close friends as kids, and become lovers post-time skip. |
| 254 | * DudeMagnet: Pretty much every guy who meets her post-time skip openly admires or lusts after her. |
| 255 | * FishOutOfWater: Almost literally. Her original form is that of an aquatic mermaid-like creature. She also displays the trope properly in her child form, though after the timeskip she's grown out of it. |
| 256 | * {{Foreshadowing}}: In a few season two episodes, she reboots into biker chicks. Post-time skip, she grows up into a biker. |
| 257 | * TheGlomp: Enzo gets a taste of his own medicine in "To Mend and Defend" when [=AndrAIa=] glomps him the way he used to do to Bob. |
| 258 | * GreaterNeedThanMine: |
| 259 | ** In her debut episode, she helps Enzo win the Game so he can return to Mainframe with his friends, knowing she'll be deleted with the Game and without any guarantee that a backup of her [=AI=] data will reboot into his world. |
| 260 | ** Later, she stops Mouse from testing an adaptor pin in a Game, reasoning that if it doesn't work [=AndrAIa=] can survive in game environments as a game sprite, while Mouse would just be deleted or nullified. |
| 261 | * TheHeart: Took over the role from Dot in Season 3, after this one was (temporarily) removed from the cast and developed into more of a BrokenBird. |
| 262 | |
| 263 | * HellBentForLeather: Again, adult [=AndrAIa=]. |
| 264 | * LiteralMinded: "Now all we can do is sit and wait". "I will stand, if that's okay with you." Grew out of it over the time skip. |
| 265 | * LoveAtFirstSight: Falls in love with Enzo very soon after meeting him. She outright says the trope name when discussing love with Daemon. |
| 266 | * LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe: After the timeskip, her fins have grown strong enough to stop shrapnel and such, on top of being able to extend them. |
| 267 | * ManicPixieDreamGirl: Young [=AndrAIa=] is at least borderline, in a PuppyLove kind of way; she's not as energetic or spontaneous as a typical ManicPixieDreamGirl but she's perky, has a number of odd quirks due to her origin as a Game Sprite, and is devoted to Enzo from the beginning. As an adult, though, she no longer fits the personality type, having become too calm to qualify and lost her FishOutOfWater idiosyncrasies. |
| 268 | * MeaningfulName: She's a sentient game sprite with the "AI" in her name in caps. |
| 269 | * MoralityChain: She's the only reason Matrix didn't become a complete and utter psychopath during the time skip. (Something he practically admits near the end of "Number 7.") Any time she's separated from him or incapacitated, he gets really, really ill-tempered, even compared to his normal self. At one point he is seen working this frustration off in a Game. This was a ''bad time'' to be a User. |
| 270 | * MoralityPet: She tends to bring out the best in the men around her. Matrix, the Crimson Binome, and Ray Tracer (though he's a NiceGuy anyway) are all on their best behavior around her, and often act uncharacteristically selfless for her sake during Season 3. |
| 271 | * ObfuscatingStupidity: When they first met, Enzo claimed to be a Guardian to impress her and was very reluctant to tell her the truth. Despite the obvious, though, she always referred to him as "Guardian." In Season 4, however, [=AndrAIa=] reveals that she always knew the truth on account of her superior hearing. She just pretended to believe the lie because she was in love. |
| 272 | * OfficialCouple: With Matrix post-time skip. |
| 273 | * TheParalyzer: Her nails, which break off like a bee's barb to increase the effect. As she grows older [[SpikeShooter she learns to shoot them]]. |
| 274 | * ProngsOfPoseidon: She picks up a trident either from a game or from somewhere in the net in between games. |
| 275 | * SarcasmBlind: She doesn't understand the concept of sarcasm when she's little. After she's grown into an adult, she's no longer blind to it. |
| 276 | * SatelliteLoveInterest: Averted. Narratively, she was created so Enzo could have a friend his own age. In-universe, she's a game sprite who joined the Mainframe crew just to be with Enzo, and admits she considers "home" wherever he is. Yet, she quickly becomes a main character in her own right, and post-time skip she develops a strong, amiable personality and [[MoralityChain moral compass]] outside of Enzo. She isn't afraid to challenge or disagree with him, split up when necessary, gather information and resources herself, and even make friends and allies when he's not around ([[GreenEyedMonster much to his jealousy]]). |
| 277 | * SecretSecretKeeper: She knew for a long time that when she and Enzo met, he wasn't a Guardian/Guardian Cadet, as she has really acute hearing so she could hear all the times Bob and Enzo "quietly" discussed Enzo lying about his Guardian status. |
| 278 | * StatuesqueStunner: Post-time skip, she becomes very tall and very fit. She's only shorter than Matrix and Mouse, but that's only because they're both ''HUGE''. |
| 279 | * {{Stripperiffic}}: Adult [=AndrAIa=]'s skintight outfit has gotten a fair bit of MaleGaze. |
| 280 | * SuperSenses: Her hearing may be on par with Frisket's. |
| 281 | * TookALevelInBadass: While she was designed to be an ActionGirl in the game that originated her, her very first scene had her getting one-shotted by the User within seconds. After the time skip, however, she was shown to be far more capable, as a result of being older and more experienced, as well as gaining a trident and the ability to shoot her fingernails. |
| 282 | * UndyingLoyalty: Devoted to Enzo through thick and thin. |
| 283 | * ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: Downplayed. While she never has to resort to violence, any time Enzo is threatened pre-time skip (usually by Metabyte), she doesn't hesitate to stand between him and trouble with a weapon drawn. |
| 284 | * WhatTheHellHero: She loves Matrix completely, but she isn't above telling him off when his jerky behavior goes too far. |
| 285 | * YearInsideHourOutside: Her and Matrix's appearances in season 3 suggest that time within the games works this way. |
| 286 | * YouthfulFreckles: Has them, despite having a more reserved personality than most examples (ironically, the far more hyper Enzo ''doesn't'' have them). They're still there after the time skip. |
| 287 | [[/folder]] |
| 288 | |
| 289 | [[folder:The Renegade '''(Unmarked Spoilers!)''']] |
| 290 | [[quoteright:299:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/matrixadult.png]] |
| 291 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/PaulDobson, Creator/OctavioRojas (Latin American Spanish dub) |
| 292 | |
| 293 | Originally Dot's BrattyHalfPint brother. In the 3rd season, he underwent a PlotRelevantAgeUp into a [[SuperStrength super strong]] badass with a short fuse, a hatred of viruses, and a homicidal hatred of Megabyte in particular. The adult Enzo has a copy of Bob's Guardian code, meaning that he has technically all the immunities a Guardian has to the web and viral infections, although he never had any Guardian training. The lack of training, however, does not make him any less dangerous (Heck, it probably makes him ''more'' dangerous). He takes on the name "Matrix" and it sticks when a younger copy of him is created at the end of season 3. |
| 294 | ---- |
| 295 | * AlternativeSelfNameChange: With the creation of a second Enzo following a system restore, the original Enzo decides to go by the name Matrix from that point on. |
| 296 | * AlwaysSaveTheGirl: Deconstructed. In late Season 3, when [=AndrAI's=] energy is stolen by a Web creature, Matrix's bull-headed determination to save her no matter what nearly gets himself and the crew killed multiple times. In ''Daemon Rising'' his desire to save [=AndrAIa=] and get revenge on Daemon only causes both him and Mouse to get brainwashed by Daemon. |
| 297 | * AntiHeroSubstitute: Deconstructed. Enzo grows from a cheerful, naive young sprite into the big, tough badass Matrix, but everybody keeps telling him how being a big, tough badass does not compensate for being a jerk, and his hotheaded actions put [=AndrAIa=], the love of his life, in mortal danger. A recurring theme of season three is the fact that, for all his efforts to reunite with his family and Mainframe, he knows that they would be disgusted and repulsed by what he has become. |
| 298 | * BadassNormal: Even without Gun and Glitch he's a force to be reckoned with, as Megabyte [[UnderestimatingBadassery learned the hard way.]] |
| 299 | * BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: As a kid, he loved games and thought they were fun despite the many dangers they bring. When he becomes a full-time guardian, he loses an eye inside a game. Then he gets lost in the Net for a year, playing nothing but games to try to return home. By the time he finally does, he no longer considers games fun. His younger copy still loves them, however. |
| 300 | * BigBrotherInstinct: Though he doesn't like to show it, he has this toward Little Enzo, treating him as a little brother. |
| 301 | * TheBigGuy: Matrix is big and strong enough to punch a dent in Megabyte, or a wall. |
| 302 | * BigLittleBrother: Averted, sort of. It's implied that because of the time difference in games, Matrix is actually ''older'' than Dot. |
| 303 | * BreakTheCutie: Losing Bob, being promoted to Guardian, and enduring a hopeless PR battle against Megabyte was hard enough on poor Enzo. But then losing a Game ([[EyeScream and an eye]]), and being lost in the Net for years sealed the deal. |
| 304 | * CharacterCatchphrase: "You got a deletion wish?" |
| 305 | * CharlesAtlasSuperpower: After everything he went through in the games, Matrix is tough enough to fight [[LightningBruiser Megabyte]] evenly. |
| 306 | * TheChosenOne: Turbo calls Matrix one upon seeing Glitch with him, as keytools select their guardians, and few are chosen. |
| 307 | * CombatPragmatist: Mostly in his "interactions" with Megabyte, Matrix dents his chest, gouges his gut, breaks his claws, and punches him in the gut wound, ''repeatedly'' and that is when he doesn't just shoot 'em. Although he did get an HonorBeforeReason moment when Megabyte goaded him into putting down his gun and just using fisticuffs. This quickly ended when he saw that Megabyte had no intention of fighting fair. |
| 308 | * CrazyJealousGuy: He does not appreciate anyone hitting on his girlfriend even though he knows she'd never leave him. |
| 309 | * CuttingTheKnot: Post-time skip, Matrix doesn't have much patience for fuss and deliberation. Special mention goes to ignoring Ray Tracer to follow a Web creature through an electrical storm that nearly destroys the ''Saucy Mare''. |
| 310 | * DamnedByFaintPraise: To himself, no less. In "Number 7," Matrix has a dream in which his younger self confronts him about [[HeWhoFightsMonsters becoming just like Megabyte]], and accuses him of not loving or caring about anyone. Matrix can only weakly respond, "That's not true! I love [[MoralityChain AndrAIa]]!" |
| 311 | * DarkIsNotEvil: Matrix has the looks of a dark themed AntiHero, but he is still the same Enzo. |
| 312 | * DoNotCallMePaul: Post-time skip, he really hates when people call him Enzo. |
| 313 | * ElectronicEyes: Matrix's prosthetic eye lets him detect viruses, aim his gun, and use telescopic vision. |
| 314 | * EyepatchAfterTimeSkip and EyepatchOfPower: Cybernetic eye instead of an eyepatch, but the trope is still in full effect. Those games were not kind to him. Kind of a variation in that Enzo losing the eye happens on-screen, in his last scene ''before'' the time skip. |
| 315 | * EyeScream: What led to the trope above. Note that the scene where his eye was cut out was surprisingly relatively bloody...[[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids and happened when he was still a little boy...]] |
| 316 | * FantasticRacism: The adult Matrix has a vicious hatred for viruses, at one point scoffing at a felled virus's pleas for mercy before deleting him. That said, Megabyte gave him [[FreudianExcuse many a good reason]] to hate viruses. |
| 317 | -->'''Virus''': Please, renegade! Mercy!\ |
| 318 | '''Matrix''': Mercy? To a virus? ''Never''. ''[BoomHeadshot]'' |
| 319 | * {{Foreshadowing}}: In Dot's BadFuture sequence from "Identity Crisis, Part 2," viewers see an older Enzo that's all muscled up and more of a jerk. He even has a scar over his right eye and wears an earring. |
| 320 | * FutureBadass: It's almost hard to believe that Matrix and Enzo are the same person. |
| 321 | * GentleGiant: According to [=AndrAIa=], Matrix is this once you get to know him. Those who had to face him as enemies would beg to differ on the gentle part, though. |
| 322 | * TheGlomp: He nearly glomped Bob again after finding him in the Web, though Bob sensibly pointed out he was too big for that now. |
| 323 | * GoodIsNotNice: He's a bit of a jerk due to past trauma. However, Matrix still believes in helping people as long as it doesn't interfere with his own goals. |
| 324 | * GoodIsNotSoft: He lacks Bob's mercy when it comes to viruses. |
| 325 | * GreenEyedMonster: He is ''extremely'' jealous of Ray's attraction to [=AndrAIa=] in season 3. |
| 326 | * HatesBeingTouched: It's subtle, but close observation shows that Matrix tends to either flinch away from people trying to touch him or outright push them away - sometimes quite violently. He has at least once responded to sudden, unexpected physical contact by pulling his gun. In fact, it seems like Matrix doesn't even like people standing close to him in general, to the point of outright nudging a binome backwards with his boot when he got too close. The only regular exception to this seems to be his girlfriend [=AndrAIa=], with whom he is physically affectionate with. |
| 327 | * TheHero: In Season 3, including after Bob comes back. Firmly TheLancer in season 4 though. |
| 328 | ** SociopathicHero: Matrix has moments like this, but that's more due to trying to hide his softer side. Still, Matrix has no qualms about killing his enemies, much to the dismay of both his allies and younger self. |
| 329 | * HeroesLoveDogs: One thing that hasn't changed about him is the love for his dog. |
| 330 | * HeroWorshipper: Both versions of Enzo look up to Bob. In season four, little Enzo latches on to his original self. |
| 331 | * HeWhoFightsMonsters: He never took the presence of Megabyte too seriously, until Megabyte finally took over Mainframe, exiled Bob into the Web, and pushed Enzo into despair until he was trapped in the games. When Enzo came back much older and much more serious, killing Megabyte was all he could think of. In the episode "Number 7," he ended up in a simulation of Mainframe, where he rebooted in Megabyte's body and easily played the part unconsciously. That same episode also shows that Matrix suffers from a ''lot'' of self-loathing over what he's become and fears he's truly become a monster like Megabyte. |
| 332 | * HiddenHeartOfGold: In "Icons," he delivers TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to the binomes of a devastated system for being too scared to go into games and then storms off. When [=AndrAIa=] catches up with him, he asks how many signed up. Apparently, the tactic works great in getting people to join the cause. |
| 333 | * HisOwnWorstEnemy: He justifies becoming a muscle-bound renegade as a means to defend his loved ones and home. However, "Number 7" reveals he actually carries around a lot of self-loathing about what he's become and fears he's really just a selfish, unloving sprite driven by hatred. The same episode also shows him succumbing to despair over his lack of control in game-hopping, though he shakes it off in the end and takes charge. |
| 334 | * IGotBigger: Holy ''crap'' did he ever. Enzo was half the size of Bob while Matrix is taller than all but Megabyte. |
| 335 | * IHatePastMe: Matrix is greatly ashamed by Little Enzo and finds him to be an annoying Load. However, part of this is due to his own self-loathing and fear he'll never be able to reintegrate into Mainframe again, and that young Enzo makes Matrix see the flaws into the person he's grown into, by noticing all the qualities Enzo had that he's lost. The trope gets inverted in season 4, where Enzo tells Matrix that he hopes to never grow up to be like him because of how callous Matrix is. |
| 336 | * {{Irony}}: Enzo had to become the ruthless AntiHeroSubstitute Matrix to survive the Games to return home to Mainframe... yet his new ruthless antihero nature is exactly what prevents him from fitting in in the very home he's trying to return ''to''. |
| 337 | * ItsAllMyFault: Blames himself after [=AndrAIa=] falls deathly ill, since his jealousy prevented him from being there to protect her. |
| 338 | * JerkassHasAPoint: He hates viruses, putting him at odds with Bob's belief that viruses can be benign. But aside from Hexadecimal, every virus Matrix has encountered proved to be evil, and Hex still nearly destroyed Mainframe more than once. Not to mention him letting Megabyte live proved to be a big mistake. |
| 339 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: After the timeskip he becomes one. |
| 340 | * LastNameBasis: Matrix is so ashamed of the goofy kid he used to be that he insists that everyone refer to him by his last name rather than Enzo. |
| 341 | * MacrossMissileMassacre: Matrix's bike, which can launch dozens of missiles in every direction all at once. |
| 342 | * MoralityChain: |
| 343 | ** [=AndrAIa=]. Without [=AndrAIa=] to be his friend and eventually, his girlfriend, Matrix would have spun off the deep end long ago. Even then, he is very often a JerkAss to everyone ''besides'' her. |
| 344 | ** In season 4, Young Enzo acts as this to him, as Enzo's disapproval of his older self shames Matrix into acting better. |
| 345 | * MoreDakka: Gun's "Death Blossom" mode consists of the gun tagging everyone in the room, before spinning in mid-air on its own randomly. It's also a ShoutOut to ''Film/TheLastStarfighter''. |
| 346 | * MrFanservice: Matrix is definitely the most sexualized male character on the show. He is a tall, extremely muscular, and handsome young man with tattoos and scars so, if you're into tortured bad boys Matrix is the one for you! notably, several Games involve him rebooting forms that are shirtless and are in general scantily-clad. |
| 347 | * MusclesAreMeaningful: Matrix is big and buff, and it shows when he takes on [[LightningBruiser Megabyte]] and ''wins''. |
| 348 | * MyGreatestFailure: Losing a game and failing to protect Mainframe when it needed him the most, which led to him becoming disgusted by his weakness and turning himself into the muscular, gun-toting Matrix. |
| 349 | * NiceJobBreakingItHero: His attempt to rescue [=AndrAIa=] against all odds ends up delivering Mouse right into Daemon's hands, causing Mouse to dismantle all of Mainframe's defenses against her. |
| 350 | * NoSocialSkills: Spending the equivalent of roughly ten years in near-constant combat scenarios with only his girlfriend and feral dog for company has left Matrix with little in the way of social skills or intelligence, which is quiet sad considering how social and friendly he was as a kid. Matrix is rough, blunt, quick to anger, and cold with others, even those he genuinely cares about. This becomes a legitimate issue when he returns to Mainframe, as he has a hard time rebuilding old relationships. |
| 351 | * OutgrowingTheChildishName: After growing up in the games, Matrix insists on being addressed on a LastNameBasis, having become cynical and hating the naïve kid he used to be. |
| 352 | * RedEyesTakeWarning: When his golden eye glows red, he's gunning for you. |
| 353 | * ShapedLikeItself: Matrix nicknamed his gun Gun. Yeah. |
| 354 | * ShellShockedVeteran: Going through the games clearly took a toll on Matrix's sanity. He is quick to react to anything that startles him by pulling out Gun, which shames him deeply when Bob witnesses one such outburst. |
| 355 | * SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids: After he gets trapped in one of the games, he develops this outlook on life. |
| 356 | * SourOutsideSadInside: Matrix is a rough guy on the surface to most people but his closest friends, but on the inside he has a lot of self-loathing over what he's become. |
| 357 | * StealthPun: It was all fun and Games until Enzo lost an eye... |
| 358 | * StillWearingTheOldColors: That orange stripe on Matrix's shoulder? That's from the Guardian uniform he got as Enzo. |
| 359 | * StrangerInAFamiliarLand: While searching for a way back to Mainframe, Matrix worries that the ruthless renegade he's become won't fit in with the home of his youth. Subverted once they return Mainframe, which is reduced to a post-apocalyptic hellhole thanks to Megabyte's tyranny. Double-subverted when the system crashes and Mainframe is restored to its pristine old self. The Season 3 SeriesFauxnale implies, and the UnCanceled Season 4 confirms, that while Matrix is happy to be home, he will never feel truly comfortable or fit in there the way he did as a kid. |
| 360 | * StrongAndSkilled: While one could mistake [[TheBigGuy Matrix]] for UnskilledButStrong. considering his size and [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower proportionate strength]], he's seen competently wielding many different weapons after the TimeSkip, when he isn't using Boxing, Kung-Fu, or even [[WrestlerInAllOfUs Wrestling]] to put the hurt on his enemies. Assuming he doesn't [[WhyDontYaJustShootHim just shoot them,]] considering how much of a CombatPragmatist he is. |
| 361 | * StrongFamilyResemblance: Aside from a few different accessories (and, of course, his size) Matrix looks almost exactly like his father, Wellman Matrix. |
| 362 | * SuperStrength: For starters, he punches Megabyte with enough force to send him flying across the room and bash a big dent in his chest. |
| 363 | * TaughtByExperience: Enzo was able to survive as a [[SuckSessor replacement Guardian]] thanks to his always [[TagAlongKid tagging along]] on Bob's adventures. Taken to the extreme while he was Game Hopping, where he spent several years worth of time fighting for his life, [[TookALevelInBadass coming out stronger for it.]] |
| 364 | * ThatManIsDead: Matrix repeatedly refuses to go by his first name because he's ashamed of the goofy kid he once was. The name is later taken up by Little Enzo. |
| 365 | * TookALevelInBadass: Matrix went from being the series' BrattyHalfPint to being tough enough to take Megabyte on in a straight-up fight. |
| 366 | * TookALevelInCynic: Used as his EstablishingCharacterMoment post-timeskip, where he loudly trash talks a weak band of binomes in a nearly-destroyed system. However, this is subverted when afterwards he and [=AndrAIa=] reveal his attitude was a ruse to convince more binomes to volunteer to learn how to be trained in game combat. |
| 367 | * TookALevelInJerkass: During "Daemon Rising" he goes from Renegade with a HiddenHeartOfGold, to a ''[[ItsAllAboutMe trigger-happy spoiled brat]]''. Thankfully, he gets better by "My Two Bobs". |
| 368 | * TotallyRadical: In his youth, Enzo spat lots of lines like this: "ALPHANUMERIC!", "PIXELACIOUS!", "TOTALLY RANDOM!". After he grew up, he considers these lines embarrassing. |
| 369 | * TragicBigot: Following the TimeSkip, Enzo has an intense hatred towards all viruses, even those that are friendly. |
| 370 | * TriggerHappy: Matrix is quick to draw his gun and this sometime leads to FamilyUnfriendlyDeath. |
| 371 | * UnstoppableRage: Matrix isn't to be provoked. Megabyte does it and ends up being tackled through a wall and having a dent punched into his chest. |
| 372 | * UsedToBeASweetKid: When Matrix was a kid, he was upbeat and enthusiastic. After he compiled into an adult, he became a brooding violent renegade. |
| 373 | * VagueAge: Even when without the YearInsideHourOutside issue of the Games, just how old Matrix (and [=AndrAIa=]) are supposed to be is unclear. Various official sources listed him as (the equivalent of) 22, but Gavin Blair has stated he is only 19 (which raises the question of what 19yos was Gavin Blair looking at?!). He is shown ordering what is presumably alcohol in one episode, meaning Matrix is either of legal drinking age... or big and scary enough to get away with drinking underage. Both are equally possible. |
| 374 | * WalkingSpoiler: Just seeing his character model makes it obvious that something traumatic happens to Enzo. |
| 375 | * WellDoneSonGuy: Shows traces of this after Bob is rescued. While he is thrilled to see Bob again, he is concerned that the Guardian will judge him harshly for what he had to do to survive. Unsurprisingly, Bob is actually proud of him. |
| 376 | * WhatHaveIBecome: A recurring theme from season 3 onwards was Matrix struggling with his self-hatred towards not just towards his [[TagalongKid past]] behavior, but his current self as well, and his repeated self-castigation over the fact that the choices he's made to survive have turned him into a person that his friends and family from Mainframe would be disgusted by. |
| 377 | * WhatTheHellHero: Matrix gets chewed out by other characters ''many times'' for his jerkish, reckless, and/or ruthless behavior. |
| 378 | * WhyDontYaJustShootHim: His favored response to most situations, though he doesn't get to actually do it most of the time. This is used to set up an ''Film/AustinPowers''-themed Game where Matrix, in the form of Dr. Evil, decides to forgo the deathtrap and just put a bullet in the User. "Gun, command line: full delete" has been the last words heard by many a virus. |
| 379 | * WorfHadTheFlu: He gets beaten up by a degraded sprite in ''Web Riders on the Storm'' when he would soon take Megabyte in hand-to-hand combat, but that's because he had donated probably most of his blood-analog to [=AndrAIa=]. |
| 380 | %%* NoMoreHoldingBackSpeech: In "Number 7." |
| 381 | * YearInsideHourOutside: His and [=AndrAIa's=] appearances in season 3 suggest that time within the games works this way. He ages to be even older than Dot after spending a year within the games. |
| 382 | * YoungerThanTheyLook: While difference sources vary on what Matrix's official age is, the oldest possible answer is 22. Considering he looks AT LEAST 25, this is a surprising. |
| 383 | [[/folder]] |
| 384 | |
| 385 | !Supporting Cast |
| 386 | [[folder:Frisket]] |
| 387 | [[quoteright:299:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/frisket.png]] |
| 388 | |
| 389 | Enzo's dog. He has been known to chew tanks and growl at Bob. |
| 390 | ---- |
| 391 | * AmplifiedAnimalAptitude: Frisket can't speak at all (the closest he ever comes is a human-like snicker once in a while) and acts like a dog in most respects, but occasionally displays problem-solving abilities comparable to the humanoid sprites. For instance, there's the below example of him driving a car through a minefield in "Bad Bob". |
| 392 | * EvilDetectingDog: Goes with his incredible sense of smell. |
| 393 | * MadeOfIron: Frisket's tougher than any of the other heroes. |
| 394 | * TheNoseKnows: Can sniff out a virus under any circumstances. |
| 395 | ** In ''Bad Bob'', he sniffs out land mines and steers around them. '''''At the same time.''''' |
| 396 | * SuperStrength: He once got a hold of an Armored Binome Carrier and repeatedly smashed it around like a chew toy. On more than one occasion he anchors [=ABCs=] from taking off by sinking his teeth into the bumper, up until it tears right off. He also caught a cannonball with his teeth once. |
| 397 | * TeamPet: Possibly one of the most intimidating examples of this trope ever. |
| 398 | * UndyingLoyalty: Enzo once referred to him as feral, and he really does do as he pleases in general, but when it comes to Enzo? Not only would he face Megabyte, he'd face his superpowered upgrade, Gigabyte. |
| 399 | [[/folder]] |
| 400 | |
| 401 | [[folder:Ray Tracer]] |
| 402 | [[quoteright:299:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/raytracer.png]] |
| 403 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Donal Gibson, Creator/GerardoReyero (Latin American Spanish dub) |
| 404 | |
| 405 | A type of enhanced Search Engine, Ray meets Matrix and [=AndrAIa=] in a desert system where he is being detained by the authorities. He ends up joining their group because he can guide them through the Web, although he simultaneously causes Matrix much grief by flirting with [=AndrAIa=]. But in the end, Matrix accepts him. Ray later becomes the love interest of Mouse. |
| 406 | ---- |
| 407 | * AmazonChaser: Two women he's shown attraction to: [=AndrAIa=] and [[spoiler:Mouse]]. |
| 408 | * AwesomeAussie: Where he got the accent isn't explained. |
| 409 | * CaptainErsatz: Ray (especially when flying through the web) is an obvious homage to the ComicBook/SilverSurfer. |
| 410 | * DamselInDistress: Apparently loves rescuing these. Uses the phrase verbatim when he first sees [=AndrAIa=]. |
| 411 | * DemotedToExtra: Season 4. Seriously, the only times he appears on-screen are brief, silent cameos. This was largely due to his voice actor being unavailable. And that his powers were plot breaking in the Daemon struggle. |
| 412 | * TheDulcineaEffect: One episode after meeting [=AndrAIa=], he says he'd do anything to save her. Including some borderline suicidal actions. Like disagreeing with Matrix. |
| 413 | * EmpathicWeapon: Or rather, Empathic Surfboard- er, Surf''baud''. |
| 414 | * LoveTriangle: Sort of. [=AndrAIa=] either doesn't notice he likes her or doesn't really care. Either way, it's fairly obvious that she stays with Matrix. Also note that while Ray initially and genuinely flirts with her, that's before he sees she's in a committed relationship. He otherwise backs off save some compliments, but Matrix misinterprets it out of jealousy. |
| 415 | * NiceGuy: In sharp contrast to Matrix. |
| 416 | * PairTheSpares: He and [[spoiler:Mouse]] hook up in the Season 3 SeriesFauxnale. |
| 417 | * ProductPlacement: He has Motorola logo on his waist. |
| 418 | * RescueRomance: Averted. He rescues and flirts with [=AndrAIa=] when they first meet, but she's in a committed relationship with Matrix, and Ray doesn't pursue her further (beyond some friendly flirting) after learning she's taken. |
| 419 | * SkySurfing: Has flown his surfboard all over the Net and even through dangerous corners of the Web. |
| 420 | * {{Synchronization}}: Whenever his surfboard is hit, he will be incapacitated. |
| 421 | [[/folder]] |
| 422 | |
| 423 | [[folder:Mike the TV]] |
| 424 | [[quoteright:299:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mikethetv.png]] |
| 425 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Michael Donovan, Ernesto Lezama (Latin American Spanish dub, Seasons One and Two), Creator/MartinSoto (Latin American Spanish dub, Season Three) |
| 426 | |
| 427 | Mike is Bob's TV. Bob could never turn him off because the remote ran away. Mike talks a ''LOT''. All the time. Usually reciting StockPhrases, or advertisements he used to show. Around Mainframe, Mike is the closest thing to a news anchor, presenting news, narrating documentaries, and other such jobs in the visual media (including speaking with the drawl often associated with televangelists, while infected by Daemon). Mike has a great talent at annoying other characters (although the supervirus Daemon seemed to enjoy his company). He's a coward who will constantly remind people that he's a personal friend of Bob. |
| 428 | ---- |
| 429 | * AndNinetyNineCents: The Bucket'O'Nothing ad has him state that it's available for only ninety-nine, ninety-nine, ninety-nine. |
| 430 | * BrainwashedAndCrazy: Is the first character we see infected and mind controlled by Daemon. It doesn't actually do much to change the way he acts beyond making him a kiss up to her. |
| 431 | * ButtMonkey: He often gets scared out of his wits to put over the threat(s) of the episode. |
| 432 | * CloudCuckoolandersMinder: After "Painted Windows," Bob gives Mike TV the unenviable task of keeping Hexadecimal entertained so she won't cause havoc around Mainframe. It works for a while... until he accidentally shatters her looking glass. |
| 433 | * CoolAndUnusualPunishment[=/=]FateWorseThanDeath: From "Wizards, Warriors, And A Word From Our Sponsor": |
| 434 | -->'''Mike''': Don't touch that dial! You're tuned to the Commercial Channel! All commercials, all the time. (Darkly) An eternity of useless products to rot your skeevy little mind ''forever''.\ |
| 435 | '''Mirror Bob''': Aaaahhhhh!!! (immediately flees back into the mirror he came out of) |
| 436 | * CowardlyLion: Mike can actually be braver than most people give him credit for. Whether it's willingly helping Bob with his plan to stop Hexadecimal from wrecking Mainframe with the system's paint program, staying in Lost Angles to provide her with "therapy" for her after Bob removed her mask, or destroying a shadow monster, getting rid of Bob and Dot's {{Evil Counterpart}}s and eventually winning the game of A Dungeon Deep, Mike's come through for the heroes more times than you'd think. |
| 437 | * ADayInTheLimelight: "Wizards, Warriors, And A Word From Our Sponsor" sees Mike get trapped in a game with the main cast. To their surprise, he actually shows some ingenuity and becomes TheHero for once. |
| 438 | * DisabilityImmunity: In ''Enzo The Smart'', Enzo attributes how Mike seems completely unaffected by the system-wide stupidity caused by Enzo's messing with the clock speed program to him not being able to get any dumber. |
| 439 | * TheDreaded: Parodied in "Wizards, Warriors, And A Word From Our Sponsor." Bob actually tries hiding, and he Dot, and Enzo scream in terror when Mike approaches them. No virus ever prompted such a reaction from these three. |
| 440 | * EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: In his first appearance, in "The Tiff," his voice sounds filtered like an old radio. It was dropped for all subsequent appearances. |
| 441 | * FloatingLimbs: His mouth isn't connected to the rest of his body. He can also detach the upper part of his body from the lower part. |
| 442 | * TheFriendNobodyLikes: He annoys the others so much that no one is surprised to learn that his own remote control ran away. |
| 443 | * HiddenDepths: Mike may be a horribly obnoxious idiot, but he's shown to be a surprisingly effective teammate, went with Bob to stop Hexadecimal despite the very like chance it would get both of them killed, stayed with Hex in an attempt to keep her distracted, and helped fight a giant null monster. |
| 444 | * KentBrockmanNews: Way too eager for ridiculous dramatics to take seriously as a reporter. But they let him do it anyway. |
| 445 | * LargeHam: "Surprise your friends! Amaze your family! ANNOY PERFECT STRANGERS!!!!!!... it's absolutely nothing." Bob can't turn the volume down either. |
| 446 | * MotorMouth: Mike talks at a thousand miles a minute when he gets a good head of steam. So ''don't let him.'' |
| 447 | * NewJobAsThePlotDemands: Besides acting as a living TV for Bob and other characters, Mike's done everything from news reporting to hosting documentaries to interviewing celebrities to televangelizing to appearing in commercials. |
| 448 | * NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Often speaks in different impressions when doing {{Shout Out}}s. His regular voice also appears based on Phil Silvers. |
| 449 | * OutOfFocus: For the DarkerAndEdgier Season 3. Lampshaded in "System Crash." |
| 450 | -->'''Mike:''' Hey, is there room in this crowded show for a cameo by everyone's favorite talking television?\ |
| 451 | '''Everyone else:''' NO! |
| 452 | * PhraseCatcher: Everyone else tends to shout '''MIKE!''' at him when annoyed. |
| 453 | * ShoutOut: Almost everything Mike says is patterned after some element of popular culture. He's pretty much a ''living'' ShoutOut. |
| 454 | * SinisterMinister: Downplayed. While he's brainwashed by Daemon, he takes on the form of a televangelist broadcasting The Word and making catchy music praising Daemon, but unlike her other SinisterMinister Deacon, he never does anything blatantly evil. |
| 455 | * SmallNameBigEgo: He knows Bob, you know! |
| 456 | * UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: In "Nullzilla," Mike TV tries to entertain Hexadecimal with a program of a viking opera star hitting a note that shatters glass. This shatters Hexadecimal looking glass, which allows a Web virus to infect her and make her Nullzilla. Said virus also later causes Megabyte to merge with Hex, and the fusion removes what little honor and mercy he had, which eventually leads to the show's CerebusSyndrome. |
| 457 | * UnwittingPawn: As part of her larger plan to infect the Net, Daemon [[spoiler:arranged for a Web creature to enter Mainframe through Hexadecimal's looking glass. Mike accidentally shattering it with a loud opera show gave Daemon the opportunity she needed]]. |
| 458 | [[/folder]] |
| 459 | |
| 460 | [[folder:Cécil]] |
| 461 | [[quoteright:299:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/cecil_2.png]] |
| 462 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Michael Donovan |
| 463 | |
| 464 | Cécil is a stereotypical French waiter at Dot's Diner. He is a video screen with arms and very French-looking facial features, although he has no legs. Instead he movies around on a pole attached to slide tracks in the ceiling. That is until the diner is destroyed and his pole gets attached to a zipboard, allowing him to move more freely. He tends to be rude but is nevertheless loyal to his boss Dot. |
| 465 | |
| 466 | He resembles an old Macintosh computer, complete with a rainbow-colored icon. |
| 467 | ---- |
| 468 | * CharacterCatchphrase: |
| 469 | ** "Wait at ze bar, wait at ze bar." |
| 470 | ** "I am not a nanny." |
| 471 | ** "That's ''Ceh-cil''!" (After someone pronounces it Cee-cil). |
| 472 | * CampStraight: Very prim, proper and finicky. |
| 473 | * DeadpanSnarker: He is especially snide towards Bob. |
| 474 | %%* FrenchJerk: Towards ''everybody.'' |
| 475 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He's a prick, but he's loyal to Dot. |
| 476 | * NationalStereotypes: Specifically, French ones. Enzo even calls him the "foreign stereotype comic relief" in "My Two Bobs." |
| 477 | * PluckyComicRelief: Usually serves as this, despite being a sprite of few smiles. He lights up the mood during the otherwise devastating system crash in End Prog. While others are comforting each other and just watching the chaos, a furious Cécil tries to deal with the drunken pirates. |
| 478 | [[/folder]] |
| 479 | |
| 480 | [[folder:Turbo]] |
| 481 | [[quoteright:299:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/guardianturbo.png]] |
| 482 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/GaryChalk, Jorge Santos (Latin American Spanish dub, Season Two), Creator/SalvadorDelgado (Latin American Spanish dub, Season Three) |
| 483 | |
| 484 | Turbo is the Prime Guardian, the leader of the Guardian collective operating out of the Super Computer and head of the Guardian Council. Turbo's Keytool is Copland. |
| 485 | ---- |
| 486 | |
| 487 | * BigGood: He's in charge of protecting the Super Computer and borderline systems. |
| 488 | * DefectorFromDecadence: He was the only guardian to resist Daemon's infection (for a time), looking to find Bob, the only uninfected guardian, to see if he could help. |
| 489 | * HeroicBuild: A bit more muscular than Bob. |
| 490 | * IDidWhatIHadToDo: [[spoiler:He was willing, albeit reluctantly, to follow Guardian protocol to destroy Mainframe when a web creature was confirmed to have made its way there. Though he added a few more minutes on the bomb to give Bob time to get rid of it.]] |
| 491 | * ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem: [[spoiler:He added the few minutes on the bomb after having the rest of the Guardian Council leave him to be alone with his thoughts.]] |
| 492 | * ThisIsUnforgivable: Bob's philosophy on reprogramming viruses for the good often puts him at odds with his superior, believing Megabyte to be beyond redemption for what his genesis did to Mainframe's Twin City, and Bob's partner, Dixon. |
| 493 | * UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: [[spoiler: His part in "Trust No One" led to the Web War, and the Viral War immediately after. Both led to Bob getting lost in the Web, as well as Enzo, [=AndrAIa=], and Frisket being forced to game-hop to save themselves, which led Enzo to become Matrix.]] |
| 494 | -->"For what it's worth, I'm sorry." |
| 495 | [[/folder]] |
| 496 | |
| 497 | [[folder:"The Crimson Binome" and the ''Saucy Mare'' Crew]] |
| 498 | [[quoteright:299:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/capncapacitor.png]] |
| 499 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/LongJohnBaldry (Capacitor), Kathleen Barr (Princess Bula), Michael Donovan (Mr. Christopher) |
| 500 | |
| 501 | Captain Capacitor (Or, as he likes being called, "The Crimson Binome") is the captain of the ''Saucy Mare'' and its crew of pirates. He is a one binome and a fairly honorable man. Originally dealt in piracy, until Dot convinced him that legal business was more profitable (the damage done to his operation by kidnapping Bob, who subsequently escaped helped drive the point home). He later became an ally of Mainframe, especially Matrix, whom he helped search the web for Bob. His crew includes his nerdy accountant Mr. Christopher, and Princess Bula, an Amazonian giant one binome. |
| 502 | ---- |
| 503 | * ActionGirl: Princess Bula is very big and does a lot of fighting. |
| 504 | * ArmorPiercingQuestion: Knows how to keep the brooding, violent Matrix in line. |
| 505 | * BenevolentBoss: Captain Capacitor is friendly, generous, and jocular with his crew, and frequently rewards and praises them for their successes. |
| 506 | * CutLexLuthorACheck: He could make more money as a legitimate merchant than as a pirate. When Dot points this out to him and backs it up with her business savvy, [[GoodPaysBetter he immediately gives up piracy for honest work]]. |
| 507 | * DeconstructedTrope: Piracy seemed like a great way to make a quick profit, till Dot pointed out they spend so much on weapons, ammo, damages, etc on every raid that they barely break even after they sell their ill-gotten loot. She offers them a way to make good money transporting goods ''without'' spending most of their existing funds just to take it by force. |
| 508 | * {{Expy}}: Capacitor and Mr. Christopher are very reminiscent of [[WesternAnimation/PeterPan Captain Hook and Mr. Smee]]. |
| 509 | * AFriendInNeed: Captain Capacitor always comes through for these. He pretty much admits he's helping Matrix get home ([[WhatTheHellHero and putting up with his horrible behavior in the meantime]]) out of love for his friend and business partner Dot, and furthermore agrees to chart a dangerous course in the Web to save [=AndrAIa=]. |
| 510 | * BrawnHilda: Princess Bula. |
| 511 | * FakeAristocrat: Princess Bula isn't a real princess, but no one dares tell her different. |
| 512 | * GoodPaysBetter: They give up piracy at the end of their debut episode to go into honest business with Dot after she explains how much more money they can make. |
| 513 | * [[HugeGuyTinyGirl Huge Girl Tiny Guy]]: The Princess falls in love with Specky, the nerdy one binome working in the Principal Office. |
| 514 | * LargeHam: Capacitor. Again, he's [[WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog Robotnik]] after all. |
| 515 | * PirateBooty: Profit is their main concern. |
| 516 | * ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: At first averted, but once the Pirates leave piracy for legitimate business, they fall into this trope, never being seen to do anything but act pirate-like. |
| 517 | * NoGuyWantsAnAmazon: Princess Bula has this effect on most people, although Specky seemed to warm up to her toward the end of Season 3. |
| 518 | * OnlyInItForTheMoney: The ''Saucy Mare'' crew are pretty much only interested in profit (especially Mr. Christopher), but Captain Capacitor can also be motivated to help AFriendInNeed. See ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules. |
| 519 | * ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules: When Mr. Christopher mentions that they'll return from their voyage through the Web without a cent to their names... |
| 520 | -->'''Captain Capacitor:''' Aye, lad, perhaps so, but there be ''other'' reasons to set sail ''besides'' profit!\ |
| 521 | '''Crew:''' *GASP!*\ |
| 522 | '''Captain Capacitor:''' ...like repaying a debt to a friend, for one! Sometimes, doin' the right thing, lads, is worth more than all the booty a swab can carry! *turns to Mr. Christopher with a DeathGlare* Be I makin' meself clear, lad? |
| 523 | * TheStoic: The 1 Binome who's constantly peeling potatoes, no matter the level of danger surrounding. |
| 524 | * {{Tuckerization}}: Capacitor shares his first name with one of the show's co-creators. |
| 525 | * VerbalTic: ''Yarrrrr!!'' |
| 526 | * WhatHappenedToTheMouse: At the end of Season 3, the crew is in Mainframe and seems poised to further help the Mainframers against Daemon. However, in Season 4, [[spoiler:they are never seen doing so and -- outside of a cameo -- most (including Capacitor himself) never appear. A quick shot of a vid-window in "Daemon Rising" suggests Capacitor at least has been captured, but it is never made clear through dialogue and the whole crew goes unmentioned.]] |
| 527 | ** Several of them are seen at [[spoiler:Dot's wedding though]]. |
| 528 | * WhatTheHellHero: |
| 529 | ** Capacitor to Matrix, when Matrix refuses out of hand to release Ray Tracer from prison while breaking out the crew of the ''Saucy Mare''. |
| 530 | ** Does it again after Matrix almost gets everyone on the ''Saucy Mare'' killed by steering them through a web storm against Ray's express instructions. |
| 531 | [[/folder]] |
| 532 | |
| 533 | !Villains |
| 534 | [[folder:Megabyte]] |
| 535 | [[quoteright:299:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/megabyte.png]] |
| 536 | [[caption-width-right:299:[[labelnote:Click here to see Megabyte's appearance post-Season 3.]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/megaweb.png[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 537 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/TonyJay, Federico Romano (Latin American Spanish dub) |
| 538 | |
| 539 | The BigBad. A virus that styles himself after an EvilOverlord. He alternatively seeks to take over Mainframe or enter the Super Computer, where he could infect its vast resources to take over the entire Net. He is TheVirus, having the ability to infect Binomes and turn them into his Mooks. He is very powerful, so much that only three people would dare face him one-on-one in direct combat: Bob, Matrix, and Hexadecimal. |
| 540 | ---- |
| 541 | * ActuallyADoombot: [[spoiler:One of the powers he gains as a Trojan Horse is the ability to create Aliases, which are essentially perfect duplicates of him except full of “empty code”. He uses it to great effect in the final episode of season 4.]] |
| 542 | * AndNowYouMustMarryMe: [[spoiler:In "My Two Bobs", he disguises himself as Bob and seduces Dot entirely ForTheEvulz. It ''works'', and they are almost married before Glitch strips the disguise from Megabyte. What makes it even more depraved is that for him, its BrotherSisterIncest, because he and Hex always viewed Welman Matrix as their father after he accidentally created them in the Twin City disaster that split Gigabyte]]. |
| 543 | * AffablyEvil: He's quite evil, but he's quite pleasant and refined, and even [[HonorBeforeReason spared Bob and Dot's life]] because Bob saved him in a game. Not to mention the Rock Off mentioned under PetTheDog. This is most notable during season 1, though as the show progresses, he becomes more and more FauxAffablyEvil. |
| 544 | * ArchEnemy: Not towards Bob, surprisingly, but towards Enzo Matrix beginning in season 3. |
| 545 | * BadBoss: Megabyte doesn't treat the virals under his command very well. The same goes for [[DumbMuscle Hack and Slash]]. Physical punishments are the order of the day for failures and everyone is considered expendable to him. |
| 546 | * TheBadGuyWins: Season 2 ends with him successfully backstabbing Bob and sending him into the Web, while turning on Mainframe during the battle with the Web Creatures allowing him to remove almost any opposition to his take over of the city. [[spoiler: Season 4, and by extension the original show, end with him taking over the Principal Office.]] |
| 547 | * BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Taunts [[TheBigGuy Matrix]] into putting down [[WhyDontYaJustShootHim his gun]] and fighting him with his bare hands ''"like a real Sprite"''. [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower Matrix obliges.]] |
| 548 | * BigBad: Of Mainframe. |
| 549 | * BigStupidDooDooHead: [[spoiler:His usual condescension devolves into this during his VillainousBreakdown at the end of Season 3. As Matrix is clearly winning their battle, Megabyte shifts from smug mockery to childish, barely coherent taunts as he gets increasingly desperate.]] |
| 550 | * BluntYes: When Enzo calls him out on using Hexadecimal as a power source for his weapon, Megabyte casually cops to it. |
| 551 | --> '''Enzo:''' You did ''that'' to your own sister?!\ |
| 552 | '''Megabyte:''' Yes, yes, yes. [[CardCarryingVillain It's rather good, isn't it?]] |
| 553 | * BodyHorror: [[spoiler:His time in the Web didn't do his looks any favors, warping Megabyte's once streamlined appearance into a hellish, semi-organic, bestial form.]] |
| 554 | * CallBack: The first episode, "Enzo's Delivery Service", has Megabyte call on Enzo's service to deliver a package to Hexadecimal. In season 3, [[spoiler:when Enzo has become the only defender of the system,]] Megabyte once again calls him a "mere delivery boy". |
| 555 | * CardCarryingVillain: When Enzo reacts with horror to how Megabyte was using Hexadecimal as a weapon, Megabyte responds with pride. |
| 556 | --> '''Enzo:''' You did ''that''? To your own sister?!\ |
| 557 | '''Megabyte:''' [[BluntYes Yes, yes, yes.]] It's rather good, isn't it? |
| 558 | * TheChessmaster: His various schemes, especially his [[spoiler:spectacular betrayal of Bob & takeover of Mainframe (''both'' times)]] |
| 559 | * ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: And proud of it. He will always betray anyone who makes a deal with him. ''Always.'' |
| 560 | * ColdBloodedTorture: |
| 561 | ** What he does to Hex in season 3 to force her into being a weapon for him. He has Herr Doktor install a pain collar around her neck, which Megabyte can activate via a control panel attached to his arm. |
| 562 | ** In season 3 he also cuts off Phong's head and tortures it for information. |
| 563 | * ColorCodedForYourConvenience: Everything that serves Megabyte is dark blue, with neon green markings. Even the sprites that bear his infection are dark blue, with neon green markings and green [=PIDs=]. |
| 564 | * TheComicallySerious: A result of being SurroundedByIdiots. |
| 565 | * CrownShapedHead: Sports a badass, fish-looking one at the back of his head. |
| 566 | * DarkIsEvil: Megabyte's color scheme is primarily dark blue, and anything he infects takes on a similar coloring. |
| 567 | * DeadpanSnarker: Makes sarcastic remarks at expense everyone around him. Sometimes PlayedForLaughs, other times it's done to show what a jerk he is. |
| 568 | * {{Determinator}}: Megabyte is a liar, backstabber, but one thing he is not is a quitter. He survives [[spoiler:a trip into the web, just like Bob. After that he returns for revenge.]] |
| 569 | * TheDreaded: He's definitely the one spoken of in the direst tones by the main heroes. |
| 570 | * EasilyDetachableRobotParts: While we never actually see Megabyte do it, his legs come off when he sits on his throne. |
| 571 | * {{Egopolis}}: His ultimate plan is to turn Mainframe into "Megaframe." |
| 572 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: Even with his goals, there are a couple things Megabyte finds barbaric: [[spoiler: 'Mon fighting and reformatting viruses into sprites]]. Also, at one point, he's about to dissect Frisket and explicitly orders his minions to take Enzo away so he doesn't have to see it; of course, he still twists the knife by refusing to let Enzo say good-bye. |
| 573 | * EvilBrit: He speaks with a British accent and is the BigBad. |
| 574 | * EvilIsPetty: In addition to his grand machinations, he disguises himself as Bob and almost manages to marry Dot just to screw with her and everybody else. |
| 575 | * EvilLaugh: Uncommon, but spectacular whenever he chooses to do one. |
| 576 | * EvilOverlord: Rules over a section of Mainframe with his own army of infected binomes. |
| 577 | * EvilPlan: It seems like he wants to take over Mainframe but it's actually a stepping stone to reach the Super Computer. Though he had smaller scales ones too. |
| 578 | * EvilSoundsDeep: ''Very'' deep, and he wields it well. |
| 579 | * EvilVersusOblivion: |
| 580 | ** The primary conflict between himself and Hexadecimal. [[TakeOverTheWorld Megabyte wants to rule over Mainframe with an iron fist]], while [[OmnicidalManiac Hex is so intent on burning it to the ground that she doesn't even care if she dies too]]. Given Megabyte's [[KickTheDog actions]] and Hex's [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity obvious insanity]], it's a rare case where the "oblivion" side is the more sympathetic of the two. |
| 581 | ** This is why he assists in fighting off Web Creatures in season 2; he can't conquer a deleted system (especially since he'll be deleted along with it). [[spoiler:It also presents him with a ''fantastic'' opportunity to take out Bob, which goes off without a hitch]]. |
| 582 | * FauxAffablyEvil: From season 2 onwards. While still polite and WickedCultured, he's also more vicious and even psychopathic, doing such things as gleefully torturing Hexadecimal and being willing to sacrifice his own minions to get what he wants. And when he gets ''really'' angry, he drops the act completely, running on all fours and roaring like a big cat. |
| 583 | * ForTheEvulz: Primarily shown when he [[spoiler: convinces everyone he is the real Bob and very nearly marries Dot because he could.]] |
| 584 | * FusionDance: Forms Gigabyte with Hexadecimal [[spoiler:and the Web Creature]]. When that happens, you're dealing with ApocalypseHow. |
| 585 | * GeniusBruiser: He has ThePlan to manipulate and the muscles to intimidate. |
| 586 | * GracefulLoser: He's quite calm about his ruse being exposed in "My Two Bobs." |
| 587 | -->'''Megabyte''': ''(nonchalantly)'' I see my charade is at an end. A pity. We would have made the perfect couple. |
| 588 | * GoKartingWithBowser: He shows up for Enzo's birthday party in one episode, and not to wreck the place, but to perform an awesome guitar solo and give Enzo the guitar as a present. |
| 589 | * HealingFactor: Has survived numerous injuries which could possibly erase a virus. May be just inhuman durability due to his literally metallic skin. |
| 590 | * HuntingTheMostDangerousGame: [[spoiler: Implied at the end of Season 4. He explicitly refers to viruses as “predatory”, and then follows that he’s ready to fulfill his function and bring about “The Hunt”, suggesting his new goal is personally hunting down and killing everyone in Mainframe. [[CutShort Sadly, we never get to see it happen.]]]] |
| 591 | * {{Hypocrite}}: |
| 592 | ** Rebukes Bob's plan to reprogram him as a FateWorseThanDeath. Ignoring the fact that as a [[spoiler: Trojan Horse Virus impersonating Bob, he's already been living in harmony with the protagonists for a good long while, ''and even defending the system'' from Game Cubes.]] |
| 593 | ** He almost constantly mocks Enzo's immaturity, and even [[spoiler:after Enzo has become [[AntiHero Matrix]]]] he still mockingly brings up his tendency to childishly insult Megabyte. [[spoiler:When Matrix starts beating him in a fight, Megabyte devolves from his usual condescending mannerisms to [[BigStupidDooDooHead to similarly childish taunts]].]] |
| 594 | * ItAmusedMe: When Bob demands to know why he [[spoiler:went through with the "My Two Bobs" scheme]], he freely admits that he did so for fun, even quoting the trope name word-for-word. |
| 595 | * {{Irony}}: He tells Enzo that he is only alive by his own good will early on in season 3. At the end of the season, [[spoiler:he's the one only kept alive by Matrix's good will after Matrix defeats him in combat and has him at his mercy.]] |
| 596 | * {{Jerkass}}: Why did he decide to [[spoiler: impersonate Bob and nearly marry Dot?]] Because he's a dick, that's why. |
| 597 | * LargeAndInCharge: He's huge compared to binomes and extremely large compared to most sprites, though Matrix is almost exactly the same size. |
| 598 | * LargeHam: He has his moments -- with a voice like that, how can you not -- though he can't quite compete with Hexadecimal. |
| 599 | * LetsFightLikeGentlemen: Subverted; in Season 3, Megabyte convinces Matrix to throw his gun away and "fight like a real sprite." This gets Megabyte PunchedAcrossTheRoom— which leaves a dent in Megabyte's armored chest (cue OhCrap expression from Megabyte)— and then tackled through a wall, at which point Megabyte pulls out his WolverineClaws. Then [=AndrAIa=] throws her trident at the two of them for Matrix to use. |
| 600 | * LightningBruiser: He can outrun his armored Binome Carriers despite attempts to go full speed, and when he catches up to it he can throw it around like a rag doll. |
| 601 | * LiteralSplitPersonality: [[spoiler:He and Hexadecimal were originally one being, Gigabyte.]] |
| 602 | * ManipulativeBastard: [[spoiler: Pretends to be the real Bob and turns Mainframe against him.]] |
| 603 | * MadeOfIron: He can take a lot of hits before he starts to slow down. His skin is even literally metallic. |
| 604 | * MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily: He has three rows of serrated teeth in his mouth. |
| 605 | * MotiveDecay: As of season 4, he's gone from conquest of Mainframe to only caring about revenge. He even lampshades it: |
| 606 | -->'''Megabyte''': You're probably looking forward to one of my erudite speeches about me, [[{{Egopolis}} Megaframe]], the new viral dawn, et cetera et cetera. But I'm afraid I'm going to have to disappoint you. There is no grand scheme here. This is about revenge. |
| 607 | ** [[spoiler:It later becomes a complete inversion, when he ultimately mentions his function right from the start was just to prey on sprites and destroy everything. It turns out he decayed his motive a long time ago and is finally getting down to business.]] |
| 608 | * NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Just because he ''sounds'' refined doesn't mean he won't fight like an enraged bear when pressed. |
| 609 | * NoNonsenseNemesis: [[spoiler:The end of his character arc has him returning to Mainframe vowing revenge and serving his viral function. No longer seeking aspirations of "Megaframe" but now dedicating himself to "the hunt".]] |
| 610 | * NotSoHarmlessVillain: In early episodes, he was typically involved in humorous situations and rarely caused any permanent damage. However, this was largely due to ExecutiveMeddling; after the show left [=ABC=], Megabyte became far more evil and threatening. |
| 611 | * ObviouslyEvil: He's a hulking brute with a dark coloration, a suave British accent, and a deep voice. Even without all of his various schemes, it's not hard to tell at a glance that Megabyte's the bad guy. [[spoiler:It's even more obvious after he returns from he Web, with his new, warped appearance making him look more monstrous than ever.]] |
| 612 | * OhCrap: After [[spoiler:Matrix]] punches him across the room, he looks down and sees a dent in his chest. It's one of the first times anyone is ''ever'' seen as anything close to a direct physical match for him, and his expression is one of utter shock at the idea that [[spoiler:Matrix]] could actually injure him without [[spoiler:his Gun.]] |
| 613 | * OrderVsChaos: The Order to Hex's Chaos. Megabyte is a dictator bent on domination. |
| 614 | * OutGambitted: In "The Medusa Bug" he believes Hexadecimal is keeping a powerful virus from him and steals it from her lair. Turns out she wanted him to do it since she couldn't risk opening it herself. |
| 615 | * PetTheDog: |
| 616 | ** As awful as a being he is, his rock-off at Enzo's birthday was nice and awesome. He even gave Enzo his guitar as a birthday gift. |
| 617 | ** PlayedWith with Nibbles. Megabyte seems to have some strange affection towards the null, to the point where he'll threaten severe consequences to Hack and Slash if they fail to take care of him, but he'll also crush him in his hand, something that while not able to cause any long-term harm does seem to cause him pain. |
| 618 | * PostMortemComeback: When Bob enters the core to save data and force a system restart, he encountered a program left behind by Megabyte, who was launched into [[HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace the Web]]. It's a simulation of Megabyte, which can self-replicate, but all it does it taunt Bob. |
| 619 | * PowerUpFullColorChange: [[spoiler:Downplayed, as it isn’t quite full, but after returning as a Trojan horse, the green part of his color scheme is replaced by cyan.]] |
| 620 | * PsychoticSmirk: While most expressions of his beyond contempt range into this territory on an episodic basis, he gives his most terrifying one right before he [[spoiler:rockets Bob into the Web]]. |
| 621 | * PunnyName: Has a huge jaw full of MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily. |
| 622 | * SchmuckBait: Subverted. He attempts to bait [[spoiler:Matrix into fighting him in hand to hand combat rather than using his gun.]] When [[spoiler:Matrix]] obliges, he shakes his head with a mocking smile, sure in his own victory- until [[spoiler:Matrix]] punches him across the room and dents his chest, causing Megabyte [[OhCrap to realize that was a mistake.]] |
| 623 | * SiblingRivalry: [[spoiler: He's technically Hexadecimal's brother and is fighting her over rulership of Mainframe. He also considers Welman Matrix his father, therefore his conflict with Dot also can be considered this.]] |
| 624 | * SlasherSmile: [[spoiler:He gives one during his first fight with Bob in the fourth season.]] |
| 625 | * SoreLoser: "Do you want to see how much I ''hate'' to lose?" |
| 626 | * SuperStrength: On par with Hack, Slash, and Frisket; Megabyte has overpowered giant Exoskeletons and thrashed armored tanks barehanded. |
| 627 | * SurroundedByIdiots: Always seems that way. Hack and Slash are the worst of it, but many of the foot soldiers are goofy bumblers (though the Binomes up their game in Season 3). Even Herr Doktor (for all his usefulness) has goofy quirks that contrast with Megabyte's serious demeanor. |
| 628 | * TakeOverTheCity: He'd ''prefer'' the Supercomputer, but until he gets access he'll take what he can get. |
| 629 | * TeethClenchedTeamwork: Whenever he works with Hexadecimal, due to their conflicting styles and quirks. She's often amused by it all, but he just expresses irritation. |
| 630 | * TookALevelInJerkass: As of the season 2 finale, he just gets worse and worse, spending the third season as an increasingly sadistic monster who shamelessly taunts his enemies over the suffering he causes them. [[spoiler:Upon his return in season 4, he's become so twisted that he'd pose as Bob, win over the real Bob's friends, and convince Dot to marry him, all just to be a dick. He follows this up by whipping Mainframe into a frenzy, seizing control of the Principal Office, and preparing to engage in a sadistic hunt to take revenge on the heroes for defeating him so many times before.]] |
| 631 | * TheSociopath: All the qualities of a certifiable psychopath: ruthless, sadistic, and a ManipulativeBastard and {{Chessmaster}} all rolled into one. He committed lots of atrocities against the Net purely for his own ambitions, and he never showed a pint of remorse about them. |
| 632 | * SurroundedByIdiots: His lackeys are all morons to some degree, barring Herr Doktor. Megabyte frequently gets annoyed with all of them. |
| 633 | * UnderestimatingBadassery: He taunts Matrix into disposing of his gun and fighting hand-to-hand... and realizes what a bad move that was when Matrix [[PunchedAcrossTheRoom punches him across the room]]. |
| 634 | * UnwittingPawn: Hexadecimal lures him into stealing, then opening a virus of hers that turns everything into stone. |
| 635 | * VileVillainLaughableLackey: He's the vile villain to his laughable lackeys Hack and Slash. |
| 636 | * VillainsWantMercy: After Matrix defeats him in season 3 and has him pinned down, facing the business end of [=AndrAIa's=] trident, Megabyte, while he doesn't outright ''beg'', wheezes that Matrix can't kill him, as [[IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim it would go against everything he stands for]]. Matrix ultimately decides to spare Megabyte on the grounds that he's NotWorthKilling. |
| 637 | * TheVirus: He has the power to turn a machine a deep steel blue (like himself) after which he can manipulate it at will. He turns things around quite handily this way in "Infected." |
| 638 | * VillainHasAPoint: When threatening Enzo in his below mentioned YouWouldntLikeMeWhenImAngry moment he rightly points out that if he wanted to he could kill him on the spot. |
| 639 | * VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler:When Matrix is able to take him on in hand-to-hand combat at the climax of Season 3 and is ''winning'', Megabyte completely loses it and for once drops his sophisticated, eloquent attitude in favor of snarling rage.]] |
| 640 | --> '''Megabyte:''' You are becoming an ''[[SuddenlyShouting ANNOYANCE]]'', '''[[SuddenlyShouting BOY!]]'''\ |
| 641 | '''Matrix:''' [[BadassBoast Trust me, it gets worse!]]\ |
| 642 | '''Megabyte:''' IT DOES '''NOT!''' |
| 643 | * VoluntaryShapeshifter: At the end of [[spoiler: season 4, having become a Trojan Horse virus.]] |
| 644 | * WeCanRuleTogether: He makes such a pitch to Bob in the first episode. |
| 645 | -->'''Megabyte:''' You don't have to fight me, Bob. Think about it. We could be a great team.\ |
| 646 | '''Bob:''' I'd rather be erased.\ |
| 647 | '''Megabyte:''' Your choice. ''[extends claws]'' |
| 648 | * WickedCultured: The guy is, again, voiced by Tony Jay. What did you expect out of him? |
| 649 | * WolverineClaws: He sports two mean sets of these, one from his fingers and one from his knuckles. |
| 650 | * WouldHurtAChild: In the first arc of Season 3, he says Enzo is more useful to him still processing than deleted, but he quickly adds "for the moment." Not to mention him being perfectly fine with letting Enzo fry in the Core, and doesn't hesitate to choke him or let him get into dangerous situation. |
| 651 | * XanatosSpeedChess: One such example: in "The Great Brain Robbery" from season 1, he's aghast to find that his plan to shrink down Mouse, Hack & Slash to get into Bob's brain (so he can have access to the Supercomputer) has gone awry when they wind up in Enzo's brain instead. But once he realizes Enzo was brought into the Principal Office, past all the security, he immediately initiates plan B: getting into ''Mainframe's central system core.'' |
| 652 | -->'''Megabyte:''' It's no Supercomputer, but not a bad catch either. |
| 653 | * YouWouldntLikeMeWhenImAngry: From "Firewall": Enzo and [=AndrAIa=] exit a game and are confronted by Megabyte: |
| 654 | -->'''Megabyte: '''"I have a message for your sister. |
| 655 | -->'''Enzo: '''"''I'' am a Guardian! I'm ''not'' your messenger!" |
| 656 | -->'''Megabyte:''' "You are what you have always been: a mere delivery boy. *picks Enzo up by his throat* Do not provoke me further; '''''it is by my will alone that you survive this encounter."''''' |
| 657 | [[/folder]] |
| 658 | |
| 659 | [[folder:Hack and Slash]] |
| 660 | [[quoteright:299:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hackandslash.png]] |
| 661 | ->'''Hack is voiced by:''' Phil Hayes (Seasons 1 and 2), Creator/ScottMcNeil (Seasons 3 and 4), Creator/AlfonsoObregonInclan (Latin American Spanish dub, Seasons 1 and 2), Creator/CarlosInigo (Latin American Spanish dub, Season 3) |
| 662 | ->'''Slash is voiced by:''' Creator/GaryChalk, Carlos Del Campo (Latin American Spanish dub) |
| 663 | |
| 664 | Megabyte's two bumbling henchmen who often screw up their given tasks. Both are rather fond of Bob despite being his enemy and have aided him on occasion. Not willing to cross the MoralEventHorizon by deleting a binome on Megabyte's orders (because Bob wasn't there to stop them, in their own words) or left for dead, they later [[HeelFaceTurn join the side of good]]. Hack, the red one, has a higher-pitched voice (the voice of [[WesternAnimation/BeastWars Rattrap]], to be precise) and tends to be rather callous, while Slash, the blue one, has a deeper voice and is [[MoralityPet more sensitive and kind]] than Hack. |
| 665 | ---- |
| 666 | %%* BashBrothers: Their raison d'etre. |
| 667 | * BumblingHenchmenDuo: Megabyte's incompetent crooks. |
| 668 | * ButtMonkey: Initially, though they became less this after joining the good guys. |
| 669 | * CoDragons: In the first two seasons, they were both this by default because the rest of Megabyte's army was made up of nameless, interchangeable Binomes. Early on in Season 3, though, Herr Doktor takes TheDragon spot. |
| 670 | * TheDitz: Yeah, uh, if it hasn't already been established yet, they're ''idiots.'' |
| 671 | * DivergentCharacterEvolution: They start off so similar in terms of temperament and quirks that the only difference between them is coloring. Over time, Hack becomes more snarky and the one that's smarter by comparison (and only by comparison), while Slash demonstrates more ethical standards. |
| 672 | * DumbMuscle: They're not exactly the sharpest tools in the shed, but they can punch someone the size of Gigabyte a significant distance. |
| 673 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: In "Game Over," Slash saves Cyrus from deletion and lets him escape. |
| 674 | -->'''Slash:''' I cannot do this. It is bad.\ |
| 675 | '''Hack:''' That's the whole idea! |
| 676 | * HarmlessVillain: The two of them cannot do anything right. "Game Over" revealed that Slash was always counting on Bob stopping them from doing anything really bad. |
| 677 | * HeelFaceTurn: In season 3, they become good, though they weren't really ''bad'' in the first place. |
| 678 | * {{Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain}}s: Prior to their HeelFaceTurn. |
| 679 | * JetPack: This makes them ''slightly'' more useful. |
| 680 | * MadeOfPlasticine: Quite often, usually for comedic effect. |
| 681 | ** [[spoiler:Usually. Eventually Hexadecimal damages them to a point where they could no longer be fully repaired. Until the reboot.]] |
| 682 | * MinionWithAnFInEvil: Especially apparent come season 3 when their conscience catches up with them. They were perfectly happy doing Megabyte's bidding because they knew they wouldn't do any ''real'' harm because they knew Bob would always show up in the nick of time to thwart them before they did anything bad. With Bob gone and Megabyte winning, they couldn't stomach what they were being made to do. |
| 683 | -->'''Hack:''' Now you've done it... Megabyte is gonna be mad!\ |
| 684 | '''Slash:''' Ah, what's new? I miss Bob.\ |
| 685 | '''Hack:''' What? You crazy?\ |
| 686 | '''Slash:''' Bob always stopped us before we could do anything really bad... Now, nobody does... |
| 687 | * MotorMouth: Both of them talk very quickly, and they often overlap each other. |
| 688 | * MultiArmedAndDangerous: Both have numerous hidden extra weapons and arms, but usually to little effect. |
| 689 | ** This is parodied when Matrix and [=AndrAIa=] are [[spoiler:infected by Daemon]]. Hack holds [=AndrAIa=] back with both hands while Enzo talks to Matrix, and when [=AndrAIa=] is about to shout at Matrix, Hack ''pops a third arm out of nowhere to cover her mouth.'' |
| 690 | * RedemptionPromotion: They show a notable increase in competence after switching to the heroes' side. They were still dim and bickered, but were less likely to screw up their part in any plans. |
| 691 | * RedOniBlueOni: Hack is, quite literally, the red to Slash's blue. |
| 692 | * SuperStrength: Slash once punched ''Gigabyte'' clear across the energy sea [[NiceJobBreakingItHero back into Mainframe]]. |
| 693 | * [[PunchClockVillain Punch-Clock Villains]]: It's implied early on that Hack and Slash are not really evil, they're just working for Megabyte. After Megabyte launches Bob into the Web at the end of Season 2, Slash laments that there is no one around to stop them. |
| 694 | -->'''Slash:''' I miss Bob, [he] always stopped us before we could do anything ''really'' bad, now nobody does... |
| 695 | * ThoseTwoGuys: They are comic relief characters who are seldom apart. |
| 696 | * TokenGoodTeammate: They quickly become this. They are not mean-spirited, generally spooked by Megabyte's eviler acts, and even like Bob. |
| 697 | * UndyingLoyalty: Their most redeeming value. Whether working for Megabyte, Phong, or Dot, they are consistently loyal. |
| 698 | * VitriolicBestBuds: Hack and Slash bicker ''constantly''. The sad thing is, that's just ''one'' reason they aren't so great at being henchmen. |
| 699 | * YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: By "Game Over", Megabyte has "grown weary of their incompetence", and that's before they failed to destroy the traitor Cyrus as ordered. So he had them take position in the next attack, and left them for dead. |
| 700 | [[/folder]] |
| 701 | |
| 702 | [[folder:Herr Doktor and Bunnyfoot]] |
| 703 | -> '''Voiced By:''' Creator/GarryChalk (Herr Doktor) and Creator/IanJamesCorlett (Bunnyfoot) |
| 704 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/bfhd.png]] |
| 705 | [[caption-width-right:350:Bunnyfoot [-(left)-] and Herr Doktor [-(right)-]]] |
| 706 | |
| 707 | A pair of Viral (infected) Binomes who serve Megabyte. Both are 1-shaped Binomes, with Herr Doktor being a MadScientist and Bunnyfoot his [[TheIgor Igor]]. |
| 708 | |
| 709 | ---- |
| 710 | |
| 711 | * AscendedExtra: In his debut, Herr Doktor had no dialogue or name, and was completely interchangeable with Megabyte's other Viral scientist. |
| 712 | * BodyHorror: Bunnyfoot's three body segments are all mixed-up, his left arm protrudes from a tumorous mass, and his feet are made from a brick and a bunny slipper (hence the name). |
| 713 | * CreepyLongFingers: Herr Doktor's fingers look creepy enough on their own, but the fact that he is literally the only Binome with fingers makes them stand out more, as all of the others just have pincer-like FingerlessHands. |
| 714 | * ADayInTheLimelight: Herr Doktor and Mike the TV are the protagonists of the second ''[=ReBoot=]'' IMAX ride, ''Journey Into Chaos.'' |
| 715 | * TheDragon: Herr Doktor, nominally; while he is Megabyte's second-in-command and the last obstacle that Matrix faces before Megabyte, he puts up little resistance (just threatening Phong) before running away with Bunnyfoot. |
| 716 | * EnemyMine: Bob ropes Herr Doktor into helping him return the Core's energy to the Principal Office in order to save Mainframe in "[[Recap/ReBootS2E4BadBob Bad Bob]]." |
| 717 | * EvilFeelsGood: The two remained loyal to Megabyte even after being cured of his infection by the User. |
| 718 | * {{Fingore}}: Herr Doktor's fingers get mangled thrice, leading to cries of, "Ach! Mein digits!" |
| 719 | * FlatCharacter: Bunnyfoot, a mute who exists only to look off-putting and perform menial tasks for Herr Doktor and Megabyte. The only bit of characterization that he ever got was it being implied that he was the one who was responsible for Hexadecimal's new DressedLikeADominatrix look in "[[Recap/ReBootS3E2BetweenARaccoonAndAHardPlace Between a Raccoon and a Hard Place]]." |
| 720 | * ForcedTransformation: They were turned into cookies ([[TransformationHorror with screaming faces]]) by Hexadecimal, but were restored when the system was restarted by the User. |
| 721 | * FrankensteinsMonster: Bunnyfoot looks like he was cobbled together from assorted Binome parts, as well as random junk. |
| 722 | * HateSink: Herr Doktor stands out as the most despicable of Megabyte's minions, clearly enjoying trying to vivisect Frisket, helping launch Bob into the Web, and torturing both Hexadecimal and Phong; when Megabyte gives him free reign to do whatever he wants to the latter, Herr Doktor even gleefully thanks him while bragging about how he is going to make Phong "squeal." And "My Two Bobs" reveals that none of this is even due to Megabyte's infection and influence, Herr Doktor is just a sicko who actually ''likes'' working for Megabyte. |
| 723 | * HerrDoktor: Herr Doktor, of course. He even refers to Megabyte as "Mein Fuhrer." |
| 724 | * TheIgor: While Bunnyfoot is visually inspired by the Frankenstein's Monster, his actual role is this, the weirdo assistant to a MadScientist. |
| 725 | * MadScientist: Many of Megabyte's gizmos and weapons were built by Herr Doktor, who also verges on MadDoctor, given what he did to both Hexadecimal and Phong. |
| 726 | * NonActionGuy: While Herr Doktor did try to help recapture Enzo and Frisket in his debut, it is clear that he and Bunnyfoot are not cut out for combat at all, as they never participated in it and simply ran away (after making an idle threat) when confronted by Matrix. |
| 727 | * NumberTwo: Herr Doktor becomes this for Megabyte in Season 3. He even gets to ride in Megabyte's FlyingCar. |
| 728 | * TheRemnant: The two survived Megabyte's downfall, but were eventually located and dealt with by Hexadecimal. After the system restart, they joined a group of likeminded "Neo-Virals" led by Lieutenant Chauncey. |
| 729 | * TortureTechnician: Megabyte places the two of them in charge of extracting information from Phong. |
| 730 | * UndyingLoyalty: Megabyte, in a rare display, actually expresses gratitude to Herr Doktor for "keeping the faith" when he returns to Mainframe in "My Two Bobs." |
| 731 | * SatelliteCharacter: Bunnyfoot is never shown apart from Herr Doktor. |
| 732 | * TheSpeechless: Bunnyfoot never speaks, he just makes odd noises, though he is capable of an EvilLaugh. |
| 733 | * StillWearingTheOldColors: While the other Neo-Virals donned replicas of their old uniforms, Herr Doktor and Bunnyfoot took it a step further by somehow cosmetically altering themselves to look like they were still infected by Megabyte. |
| 734 | * VillainsOutShopping: Megabyte is surprisingly lenient towards Herr Doktor, who has been shown doing things like playing Solitaire, eating a sandwich, and watching TV while working on projects for Megabyte. |
| 735 | * YesMan: There are two instances in "[[Recap/ReBootS3E13Megaframe Megaframe]]" where Megabyte, after saying something that he feels is witty, looks expectantly at Herr Doktor, who, after a pause, starts awkwardly laughing and heaping praise on Megabyte. |
| 736 | [[/folder]] |
| 737 | |
| 738 | [[folder:Hexadecimal]] |
| 739 | [[quoteright:299:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hexadecimal.png]][[caption-width-right:299:[[labelnote:Click here to see Hex in ''Daemon Rising'']]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/115px_white_queen_hex.jpg[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 740 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Shirley Millner, Nancy [=McKenzie=] (Latin American Spanish dub) |
| 741 | |
| 742 | A benign virus who lives in the ruins of Mainframe's former twin city, now known as Lost Angles. Essentially chaos incarnate, using the title of ''The Queen of Chaos'', with unpredictable mood swings and a flair for art and drama. Starts out rather villainous, but mellows out under Bob's influence. Hexadecimal is powerful. REALLY powerful. As in she can single-handedly massacre Megabyte's entire forces on her own without breaking a sweat, and Megabyte knows better than to engage her in a straight-on fight. |
| 743 | ---- |
| 744 | * AllPowerfulBystander: She's able to do things that Megabyte strives for the entire series, such as invading the Principal Office or finding the Supercomputer on just '''[[ChaoticEvil her whim]]'''. In her own words, while Megabyte got the smarts and crafty intellect from the fission into two viruses, she got the raw power and destructive lion's share of viral power, but not the sanity to make proper use of it. |
| 745 | * AntiHero: After Bob thoroughly heals her damaged face (and her insanity), she ends up becoming an ally. Even then, she only contributes to the war effort against Daemon's forces out of her love towards Bob, and not out of the goodness of her heart. |
| 746 | * AttentionWhore: Some of her antics are caused because she's not getting enough attention- Such as in ''Painted Windows'', where she hacks into Mainframe's Paint tool simply to get attention towards her art. When Bob and Mike claim to want to interview her, she is genuinely flattered and goes along with it. |
| 747 | * AxCrazy: The Queen of Chaos has several screws loose. |
| 748 | * TheBadGuyWins: In the "Medusa Bug" no one is able to stop her. However, she ends up reversing the effects of her victory after Bob points out to her that [[VictoryIsBoring there will never be chaos again if the entirety of Mainframe is dead.]] |
| 749 | * TheBeastmaster: She can control nulls. [[spoiler: This is the only ability she keeps after she turns into a sprite.]] |
| 750 | * BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: She's always had a thing for Bob, but her insanity would get the best of her. After he repaired her mask to emulate a real face, she felt whole for the first time, gaining a sense of perspective. Hex is still joyfully mad, [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes but Bob is now more important to her than ever.]] |
| 751 | * BerserkButton: Unless she is the one doing this, harm Bob, and she'll make you suffer. Just ask Daemon. |
| 752 | * BettyAndVeronica: She's the Veronica to Dot's Betty when it comes to the LoveTriangle between her, Bob, and Dot. |
| 753 | * BewareTheSillyOnes: As delightfully hammy as Hex is in her antics and mood swings, she still poses an obvious, viable threat when she wants to. |
| 754 | * TheBlank: She has a series of masks that she quickly swaps out behind her hand to change expressions. Her real "face" is not shown until halfway through the second season, when [[spoiler: Bob removes her mask and reveals that there's absolutely nothing beneath.]] This also happens in the Platform/PlayStation game. |
| 755 | * BrilliantButLazy: Hexadecimal has enough power to pretty much destroy a firewall or access the Supercomputer at will, but she's more interested in staying in Mainframe to fight Megabyte and cause chaos for the people of the city. |
| 756 | * BullyingADragon: Herr Doktor and his assistant learn the hard way they shouldn't have imprisoned Hex when she [[spoiler:turns them into cookies and offers them to the rest of the cast.]] |
| 757 | * ChaoticEvil: Per WordOfGod. She even ''calls'' herself the Queen of Chaos! |
| 758 | * ChaoticStupid: Deconstructed. Hexadecimal is much less often a villain than Megabyte is and her antics usually come about due to boredom. She is only a real threat due to her vast RealityWarper powers and is usually defeated by TalkingTheMonsterToDeath or simply because she gets bored with whatever scheme she has in progress. Bob treats her much more kindly than Megabyte, even leaving Mike the TV with her as her companion when she is left particularly broken after a fight. It is later shown that as the result of being a LiteralSplitPersonality she ''couldn't'' be sane until Bob repaired her, and she acted much less completely random after that point, gaining proper goals in life and even [[spoiler:becoming a healed Sprite for a while.]] |
| 759 | * ChildEater: Played for laughs; she jokes that she loves children [[ImAHumanitarian but could never eat a whole one.]] |
| 760 | * CloudCuckoolander: After [[spoiler: becoming a Sprite]], she mellows out and begins to act less AxeCrazy and more like this. |
| 761 | * CrownShapedHead: Fitting to her title of the Queen of Chaos, the back of her head has extensions that fan out like a crown. |
| 762 | * CruelAndUnusualDeath: |
| 763 | ** She gives one to [[spoiler:Bob and Dot]] in a BadEnding in the Playstation game, where she [[TaxidermyTerror stuffs them]] after Bob rejects her love. |
| 764 | ** She turns Herr Doktor and his assistant into cookies. Fortunately for them, they're restored when the system is rebooted. |
| 765 | * DarkActionGirl: Easily one of the most physically powerful characters, well above Megabyte's level. If her insanity didn't hold her back, she'd be a cataclysmic threat rather than a capricious nuisance. [[spoiler:When she joins with Megabyte and forms Gigabyte, we see what that power coupled with a sharp and sane mind can actually accomplish]]. |
| 766 | * DatingCatwoman: In the beginning, Bob and Hexadecimal have a FriendlyEnemy-dynamic with the occasional flirting, though that isn't to say that Hexadecimal would not try to do away with him if he was ever in her way. Later she holds him hostage, alternating between enjoying her "date" with him and threatening to kill him. After Bob heals her face (and by extension her mind), she becomes much more interested in pursuing ''something'' with him, even going so far as to help him fight off Daemon's invading hordes because he asked her to. |
| 767 | * DeadpanSnarker: She sometimes does this, such as when Megabyte realized she'd tricked him into stealing her [[ArtifactOfDoom Medusa Bug]]: |
| 768 | -->'''Megabyte''': You! All this time! All your secrecy! My whole operation! \ |
| 769 | '''Hex''': Yes? ''Yes''?\ |
| 770 | '''Megabyte''': A trap! \ |
| 771 | '''Hex''': Now I suppose you'll want thanks for all your hard work! |
| 772 | * DistractedByTheSexy: In ''The Medusa Bug'' she has a moment of being distracted by Bob's rear end while watching him through her mirror: |
| 773 | -->'''Hex''': No! Noo! (''Her mirror focuses on his rear'') ''Yes...'' |
| 774 | * DressedLikeADominatrix: As of her redesign in season 3 she is dressed like one. While it starts as GoGoEnslavement, Hex likes the outfit and keeps it, even when she is [[spoiler:healed into a Sprite.]] |
| 775 | * DrivesLikeCrazy: In ''Daemon Rising'' she learns to drive and is very fast when she drives. |
| 776 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: [[spoiler:When your attitude is bad enough to disgust the Queen of Chaos, it's time to take a good look at your code.]] |
| 777 | * EvilLaugh: Often, although it tends to lean towards LaughingMad on more than one occasion (''especially'' during season 3, in which she becomes even more insane than before). |
| 778 | * EvilVersusOblivion: The Oblivion to Megabyte's evil. A rare instance where the Oblivion side is more sympathetic than the Evil, seeing as Hex is clearly not sane. When she fights Daemon, she becomes the Evil to Daemon's Oblivion. |
| 779 | * ExpressiveMask: Averted, mostly. Her face is utterly static, and to change expression, she changes masks, though this happens instantly and generally happens any time her face is obscured from the viewer. Played straight once [[spoiler: she gets defragmented -- her mask becomes a fully expressive face.]] |
| 780 | * {{Expy}}: Seems similar to ''ComicBook/HarleyQuinn'' or even a straight up [[DistaffCounterpart female]] ''ComicBook/TheJoker'', as she's [[AxeCrazy completely insane]] her whole goal in life is to cause as much mayhem as possible, and her reason is typically no more complicated than "I was bored." |
| 781 | * FadSuper: Her different looks over the course of the series have shades of this. Her original form comes off as a sort of evil East Village Bohemian who really played up the MadArtist angle, whereas her second "Red Queen" costume has more of a goth/emo/BDSM vibe, which was just starting to become more mainstream around the time it debuted. Her "White Queen" Sprite form is less influenced by real fashion as it is by fantasy art, but by the time that rolled around fantasy was starting to become more mainstream, too. |
| 782 | * FemmeFatalons: She has razor-sharp claws. |
| 783 | * FlyingBrick: She has those powers, as well as numerous others. |
| 784 | * {{Foil}}: To [[spoiler:her brother,]] Megabyte. Both viruses, Hex is the chaos to Megabyte's order. [[spoiler:In the end, their character developments take them in different directions. Hex saves the net and Mainframe having learned to be a sprite and in love. Megabyte embraces his viral being and makes his final stand an act of revenge against Mainframe.]] |
| 785 | * ForTheEvulz: Hexadecimal's main goal in life is just to have ''fun''. She enjoys the chaos that comes from her constantly fighting with Megabyte and her giving Bob and the other Mainframers fits. |
| 786 | * FusionDance: Forms Gigabyte with Megabyte [[spoiler:while infected by a Web Creature]]. When that happens, you're dealing with ApocalypseHow. |
| 787 | * GallowsHumor: Has a habit of it. In particular, she jokes about loving children... But not being able to eat a whole one. Given her great power, the jokes don't always register to others as jokes. |
| 788 | * GlowingEyesOfDoom: Her eyes are ''always'' like this [[spoiler:except when she's a sprite.]] Usually green, but tend to [[RedEyesTakeWarning turn red when she's angry or becomes unhinged]]. They have also been yellow, orange and blue on rare occasions. |
| 789 | * GoGoEnslavement: In season three. However, she likes the outfit and keeps it even after breaking free. |
| 790 | * GoodCostumeSwitch: [[spoiler:After becoming a Sprite, her outfit changes from one with a red and black colour scheme to one of white and gold.]] |
| 791 | * GoodColorsEvilColors: Her usual color scheme is [[RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver black and red.]] When she is [[spoiler:purified into a Sprite,]] her color scheme becomes white and gold instead. |
| 792 | * HappyHarlequinHat: Hex' crown is a stylized, more regal version of this, in keeping with her MonsterClown aesthetic |
| 793 | * HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:By the end of season 3, much to Phong's discomfort.]] |
| 794 | * HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: In order to take down Daemon in season 4 and rid the Mainframe of her suicide Virus, she sacrificed herself because that would mean Bob still gets to live.]] |
| 795 | * HolyHalo: [[spoiler:In season 4 after being healed into a Sprite, her crown-shaped head becomes one.]] |
| 796 | * InsaneEqualsViolent: She's completely psycho and has some very violent tendencies. |
| 797 | * IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: [[spoiler:When making her sacrifice she tells Bob and Dot to be happy together.]] |
| 798 | * LargeHam: Even static faces don't keep her from chewing scenery to bits. |
| 799 | * LightIsGood: When she does her GoodCostumeSwitch, she gains a white and gold color scheme. |
| 800 | * LiteralSplitPersonality: [[spoiler:She and Megabyte started life as one being, Gigabyte.]] |
| 801 | * LoveRedeems: [[spoiler:For Bob, who despite all her madness, she never stopped having feelings for. It's what gives her incentive for her HeroicSacrifice.]] |
| 802 | * MadArtist: Hexadecimal is a literal example when she hijacks Mainframe's paint program and turns the city into a surreal nightmare with her bizarre art, which is full of {{Shout Out}}s to real-world artists. |
| 803 | * MadGod: Hex is a PhysicalGod for all intents and purposes, and her RealityWarper abilities (particularly when she gains access to the paint program) place her ''firmly'' in this category. |
| 804 | * MagicMirror: Hex possesses a mirror that she uses to view the outside world and communicate with Scuzzy. It's actually attached to [[EldritchLocation the Web]], and when it's accidentally shattered an EldritchAbomination uses it to get inside Mainframe. |
| 805 | * MaskOfSanity: Inverted. Hexadecimal really ''is'' crazy, but she can also be lucid and businesslike when she wants to be. In "The Medusa Bug", she cleverly tricks Megabyte into stealing the title artifact so he'll destroy himself. In "Infected", she demands control of half of Mainframe once Megabyte takes over, and makes it clear she'll be paying close attention to what Megabyte is doing. |
| 806 | * MaskPower: Inverted; according to "Painted Windows," her mask actually keeps her transfinite power in check so she doesn't overload, making it a PowerLimiter. |
| 807 | * MilkingTheGiantCow: Hexadecimal often gestures wildly while hamming it up. |
| 808 | * MonsterClown: Downplayed in that she's pure chaos rather than pure evil, but her WhiteMaskOfDoom (with red lips and exaggerated eyes), MadArtist and CloudCuckoolander tendencies give off this vibe. |
| 809 | * MoodSwinger: |
| 810 | -->'''Hex:''' Ohhh, Bob. I don't know if I should talk to you or '''''kill you!''''' |
| 811 | * MoralityChain: Bob is this for her. |
| 812 | ** Enzo also proves to be this [[spoiler:before her HeroicSacrifice]]. |
| 813 | * MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Reverses the Medusa bug when she realizes that with everything in eternal, unchanging stone, Mainframe was as unchaotic as it could get. |
| 814 | * NightmareFace: Mostly because she [[TheBlank doesn't have one under her masks.]] However, one of her masks is also downright horrifying, with razor sharp teeth in an AxCrazy smile. |
| 815 | * NightmareFuelStationAttendant: Even when she's not actively AxCrazy, she still acts pretty creepy. |
| 816 | * NoSell: In her viral form, she's immune to Daemon's infection. She is also usually immune to antivirus programs, though this immunity can fade if she expends too much power. |
| 817 | * NoFaceUnderTheMask: Without the mask, her head is blank. |
| 818 | * OddFriendship: She becomes the younger Enzo's closest friend in ''Daemon Rising''. |
| 819 | * OmnicidalManiac: In "To Mend and Defend," she is perfectly willing to destroy the Principal Office -- knowing full well it would destroy the entire system, including herself. |
| 820 | -->"Never mind. It will be glorious." |
| 821 | * TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Saves Bob and Mike from Scuzzy in ''Painted Windows'', reminding her pet that the Guardian "belongs to her." |
| 822 | * OOCIsSeriousBusiness: In the episode ''Gigabyte'', her power has been greatly reduced and she is left weakly begging Bob to save her from Megabyte corrupted by the web virus. [[spoiler:He fails.]] |
| 823 | * OrderVsChaos: The Chaos to Megabyte's Order. A RealityWarper who does everything and anything on a whim. |
| 824 | * PetTheDog: Even Hexadecimal has her own, brief moments: |
| 825 | ** As she is talking to Megabyte via vid window in "Infected", she is shown having Scuzzy on her lap and petting him. |
| 826 | ** Letting Bob (who she kidnapped shortly after [[spoiler:his return]]) go after he fixes her mask. |
| 827 | ** Even after reverting back to her former, psychopathic self in "Sacrifice", Hex says a quick goodbye to a distraught little Enzo [[spoiler:before her HeroicSacrifice]] where they share an inside joke between them and Hex gives Enzo a gift on his icon, [[spoiler: which turned out to be allowing the nullified Welman Matrix to be able to be aware and properly communicate.]] |
| 828 | * ProperlyParanoid: She agrees to help Megabyte on a couple occasions, but she always keeps an eye on him. She's crazy, not stupid. |
| 829 | * [[PsychopathicManchild Psychopathic Womanchild]]: Especially in the first two seasons. Considering she has no ulterior motives with her unlimited powers other than to simply cause chaos and never considers how her schemes could backfire (i.e. the Medusa Bug), her behavior is similar to that of an unruly child who acts out when they're bored and want attention. This is driven home in ''Painted Windows'' when she crows about finally getting the recognition she deserves for her artistic talents. |
| 830 | * RedEyesTakeWarning: Her eyes usually turn red whenever she's angered or unhinged. |
| 831 | * RedOniBlueOni: In Season 1 and 2, she was the red to Megabyte's blue. After her HeelFaceTurn in the Season 3 finale, she became the red to Dot's blue. |
| 832 | * RightHandCat: Scuzzy is essentially her pet cat, and he is often shown on her lap as she schemes. |
| 833 | * SanityHasAdvantages: Whenever Hexadecimal became the MonsterOfTheWeek, the heroes had little to no chance of overpowering her or beating her into submission. However, most of the time the havoc she causes is ForTheLulz and she could be tricked into giving up, like when Bob has her undo her Medusa by pointing out how boring everything would be if everyone was frozen as statues. |
| 834 | * SanitySlippage: She was insane to begin with, but her horrific injury at the beginning of Season 3 and subsequent torture at the hands of Megabyte only serve to make her even ''more'' unhinged. |
| 835 | * SanityStrengthening: After Bob (having merged with Glitch) uses his new powers to heal the crack in her mask, he ends up taking it a step further and making it a moving, functional face, as well as making her completely sane. |
| 836 | * SchmuckBait: In ''The Medusa Bug'' she deliberately sets up noticeable defenses around the titualar bug to lure Megabyte into stealing it and releasing it onto Mainframe. |
| 837 | * SexyVillainsChasteHeroes: Enforced. The writers said they were only allowed to make an evil character sexy, so they went all out on Hexadecimal, giving her a sexy sashaying walk, defined breasts (unlike Dot's uniboob), and [[TheVamp having her openly show interest in seducing Bob.]] |
| 838 | * SiblingRivalry: |
| 839 | ** [[spoiler: With Megabyte. They don't get along and it is revealed that they are brother and sister.]] Hex even explains their attempts at killing each other with the words. |
| 840 | ** During ''Daemon Rising'', Hex adopts Dot as a sort of sibling due to [[spoiler: Wellman Matrix having unintentionally created her.]] [[LoveTriangle This doesn't at all stop her from pursuing Bob,]] though she at least asks Dot whether she was interested first (which Dot denied in [[SheIsNotMyGirlfriend He Is Not My Boyfriend]] style). |
| 841 | * SixthRanger: [[spoiler:After Bob defragments her, she joins the heroes.]] |
| 842 | * SlasherSmile: Her [[http://images.wikia.com/reboot/images/a/a5/3_07_meg.jpg "Homicidal Glee"]] mask is this, the source of many childhood nightmares. |
| 843 | ** Exaggerated when infected by the Web Creature. |
| 844 | * SmoochOfVictory: Invoked and gender flipped in ''Daemon Rising''. Once Hex deals with the [[spoiler:Guardian invasion]], she asks for a kiss as her reward. Bob goes in for a chaste one on the cheek, only for Hex to dip him and promptly make out with him. |
| 845 | * StalkerWithACrush: Occasionally acts this way towards Bob. |
| 846 | * StoryBreakerPower: Hex is virtually invincible. The only reason she doesn't take over Mainframe herself is because she doesn't feel like it. [[spoiler:After she makes a HeelFaceTurn, she's so powerful that she would render Matrix, Bob and the rest of the cast useless. Hex was then [[BroughtDownToNormal depowered]] in season 4 so Daemon could still be menacing, though she is temporarily repowered for a fight against Daemon and actually proves a match for the otherwise invincible super virus. [[HeroicSacrifice She was ultimately killed]] so a returning Megabyte could become an even bigger threat.]] |
| 847 | * {{Stripperiffic}}: Her default outfit consists of essentially bondage gear starting from season 3. Even when she gets a GoodCostumeSwitch she keeps her corset, garter belts, and stiletto heels. |
| 848 | * SupermodelStrut: She walks in a deliberate seductive strut that has her hips swaying, all to better illustrate her arrogance and [[AttentionWhore desire for attention]]. |
| 849 | * TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: Since Hex is so powerful she often has to be talked out of her plans, such as in ''The Medusa Bug'': |
| 850 | -->'''Bob:''' Peace and silence ''forever''. |
| 851 | * TakenForGranite: In ''The Medusa Bug'' she keeps around a virus that causes this effect. |
| 852 | * {{Telekinesis}}: Enough to toss Bob around like a rag doll if she so chooses. |
| 853 | * TooKinkyToTorture: Discussed by Megabyte and Herr Doctor when they have an explosive leash on her. Herr Doctor warns Megabyte it's a miracle they kept her as long as they have, and suggests she might only be playing along because she enjoys being tied up. |
| 854 | * {{Tsundere}}: Towards Bob. The quote above under MoodSwinger is a prime example, for most of the time Hex is unsure if she loves him or wants to kill him. |
| 855 | * VictoryIsBoring: There was one time where her EvilPlan actually worked. She won. There was nothing Bob or anyone could do about it. "Peace and silence ''forever''" as Bob put it. She had a panic attack and reversed the damage. Though it was less "Victory Is Boring" and more "That particular victory would be boring", because with everything in eternal, unchanging stone, she was now in a stagnant, predictable, orderly world, which as a self-described Queen of Chaos, was anathema to her. |
| 856 | * VillainessesWantHeroes: She's loved Bob pretty much from the beginning. As she says, she enjoys the chaos he brings into her life. She'll still try to delete him if he wrecks one of her plans. |
| 857 | * ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: As of Season 4, Hex's motivation boils down to "save Bob at all costs", including [[spoiler:returning to her viral, insane self without hesitation and performing a HeroicSacrifice in order to keep him alive.]] |
| 858 | * VirtualRealityWarper: In ''Painted Windows'' when she gets control of the paint tool. |
| 859 | * WhiteMaskOfDoom: Her PowerLimiter mask, which shows what emotion she's currently feeling and swaps out constantly. |
| 860 | * WickedWitch: While not in name, she lives in a lair, has a catlike {{Familiar}}, and has a magical mirror. A cut episode was going to have her reboot into a witch in a Game. In ''Web World Wars'', she hears Mouse call her a "witch" and is flattered that Mouse said something so nice. |
| 861 | * WildCard: Hexadecimal is usually on her own, with he objective of sowing chaos, but she will sometimes make an alliance with her brother Megabyte, though these never last. On a few occasions she even helps the good guys, when it suits her. |
| 862 | * WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: Though she retains her powers after having her head unscrambled, leading her to do things such as teleport an entire invading army out of the city because Bob asked her nicely. |
| 863 | ** When she [[spoiler:gets depowered in Season 4]] though, she mellows out even more. And [[spoiler:when changed back, even more powerful than before, she goes right back to being crazy.]] |
| 864 | ** Hex's madness may in fact be a ''subversion'', believe it or not. Her [[spoiler:fusing with Megabyte into Gigabyte]] implies that she could be a lot more destructive if she wanted to, but she finds fighting Megabyte and causing chaos in Mainframe to be a lot more fun. Gigabyte shows what happens when a NoNonsenseNemesis gets ahold of that kind of power. |
| 865 | * WorfHadTheFlu: Is unable to fend off a Web-infected Megabyte in ''Gigabyte'' due to having much of her power drained in the previous episode, ''Nullzilla.'' |
| 866 | * WorldHealingWave: She does this twice: |
| 867 | ** In ''Medusa Bug'', she cast one to undo the effects of the title ArtifactOfDoom on Mainframe when Bob pointed out she'd made it permanently stable and unchanging. |
| 868 | ** In ''Daemon Rising'', she [[spoiler:downloads the cure for Daemon's infection into her own code. She then fragments herself to spread her code across the entire Net, repairing the damage Daemon caused.]] |
| 869 | * {{Yandere}}: As she softens towards Bob she becomes sweeter towards him, though she's still dangerous to anyone else around. ''Especially'' towards anyone trying to hurt Bob. |
| 870 | [[/folder]] |
| 871 | |
| 872 | [[folder:Gigabyte]] |
| 873 | [[quoteright:299:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/gigabyte.png]] |
| 874 | [[caption-width-right:299:[[labelnote:Click here to see Gigabyte's original form.]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/killabyte.png[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 875 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/BluMankuma |
| 876 | |
| 877 | Gigabyte is the combined form of Megabyte and Hexadecimal forced together by the Web creature. When he first appeared, his only stated goal was to absorb energy and reach his full potential. |
| 878 | ---- |
| 879 | * BigNo: [[spoiler: The defeat he suffers in his eponymous episode leads him to make one of these.]] |
| 880 | * BroughtDownToBadass: [[spoiler: Retroactively it's revealed he was this when first seen]] thanks to Hexadecimal's energy being drained. He could [[EnergyAbsorption drain energy]] and had Megabyte's super strength, but lacked Hexadecimal's powers. But his EnergyAbsorption still made him a threat to the entire system and he was indestructible to boot. |
| 881 | * CharacterCatchphrase: "I am become Gigabyte, destroyer of systems!" |
| 882 | * CrownShapedHead: Averted. The most Gigabyte has is a small crest on his head, which adds to his no-nonsense attitude. Could be subverted though, if you consider how intricately detailed his armour is. |
| 883 | * EnergyAbsorption: In his first appearance, he's unable to use Hexadecimal's RealityWarper powers, and goes about stealing the energy from anything he can get his claws on to unlock his full potential. |
| 884 | * EvilSoundsDeep: Gigabyte's voice is just as deep and menacing as Megabyte's, with his lack of Megabyte's affected charm making him, if possible, even more threatening. |
| 885 | * FusionDance: Between Megabyte and Hexadecimal. [[spoiler:It's later revealed that he was the original]]. |
| 886 | * GenericDoomsdayVillain: Gigabyte's limited screen time means there is not much to him character wise. He is a virus out to gain power and then use it for some evil purpose because he is a virus and that is what he does. |
| 887 | * GodzillaThreshold: Gigabyte is dangerous enough for Bob to broadcast an alert across ''the entire Net'' to warn his fellow Guardians about the super virus and call for help. |
| 888 | * GreaterScopeVillain: [[spoiler: As Megabyte and Hexadecimal split off from him, he's indirectly responsible for most events of the series, save Daemon, and is actually the reason Bob came to Mainframe in the first place.]] |
| 889 | * TheJuggernaut: Gigabyte is nigh-on invulnerable to everything, and this is in his weakened state. |
| 890 | * KnightOfCerebus: Lacking Hex's lunacy or Megabyte's charm, Gigabyte is played as an absolutely terrifying, dire threat, a prelude to the DarkerAndEdgier tone the series would fall into after his appearance. |
| 891 | * NearVillainVictory: He comes this close to claiming the energy in Mainframe's core. |
| 892 | * NoNonsenseNemesis: Gigabyte doesn't have Hex's madness nor Megabyte's ego or greed. He sets himself to a goal and sticks with it. When Bob sends Glitch, a considerable source of power, away, in an effort to keep it from Gigabyte, the virus simply remarked that taking the energy from two Sprites would do just as well. |
| 893 | * ObviouslyEvil: When Bob first sees him after his FusionDance, he suggests that he might be a benign virus. Enzo sarcastically replies that "you can tell that just by looking at him!" |
| 894 | * OmnicidalManiac: He refers to himself as the “destroyer of systems”, and it’s clear that he lacks any ambition outside of using his vast powers to destroy. After all, it’s what he’s programmed for. |
| 895 | * TheRightHandOfDoom: Gigabyte's right hand is a grizzly three digit claw with long yellow nails. This claw is used to drain energy from his victims.[[spoiler:Notably, Killabyte gains this claw immediately after being upgraded but before fully becoming Gigabyte.]] |
| 896 | * PowerCopying: Draining energy from Hack gave him Hack's flight ability. This nearly allowed him to drain the energy of the Principal Office's shields since he was simply able to walk right up to them. |
| 897 | * ShoutOut: His above quote is a modified line from ''Literature/BhagavadGita''. |
| 898 | -->"Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." |
| 899 | * SIPrefixName: Gigabyte is the combined form of Megabyte and Hexadecimal. |
| 900 | * TemptingFate: Proclaims he is the destroyer of all systems, yet unwittingly is ripped apart from the destruction of the Twin City before he has a chance to wreak havoc on the Net. |
| 901 | * TopHeavyGuy: Has a very bulky upper body. |
| 902 | * TrulySingleParent: He is the sole parent of both Megabyte and Hexadecimal since they are his fractured form. |
| 903 | * WhiteMaskOfDoom: His face is white, an allusion to Hexadecimal. |
| 904 | * WorfHadTheFlu: Phong and Bob note that Gigabyte is lacking enough energy to use Hexadecimal's higher-level powers, probably because Hex herself was drained of energy by the nulls before her FusionDance with Megabyte. He spends all his time trying to gain enough energy to use Hex's powers, and even in his weakened state the heroes have to take drastic actions to beat him. If Gigabyte had been at full power when he fused, the heroes likely wouldn't have stood a chance. |
| 905 | [[/folder]] |
| 906 | |
| 907 | [[folder:Scuzzy]] |
| 908 | [[quoteright:299:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/scuzzy.png]] |
| 909 | |
| 910 | Scuzzy is Hexadecimal's familiar. He is a small, cat-like creature who lives with his mistress in her lair, and serves as her pet and spy. He has a domed view screen on top of his head that can record anything he has witnessed and is small enough to sneak into any area undetected (even Silicon Tor). He is very cunning, sly, and extremely loyal to Hex -- although he isn't ignorant of the fact that she's crazy. |
| 911 | ---- |
| 912 | * AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: In "Painted Windows", Hex uses Mainframe's paint program to greatly increase his size. |
| 913 | * CatsAreMean: It looks like a robotic cat. |
| 914 | * MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily: Shows a lot of fangs whenever it opens its mouth. |
| 915 | * OutOfFocus: He seems to completely disappear after "Game Over", until he appears as the [[FollowTheBouncingBall bouncing ball]] during the musical number of the Season 3 finale. He also doesn't appear in Season 4 at all. |
| 916 | * PunnyName: Anyone ever heard of a SCSI (pronounced "scuzzy") interface? |
| 917 | * RidiculouslyCuteCritter: Scuzzy is small and kind of adorable. |
| 918 | * RightHandCat: Scuzzy is Hexadecimal's pet. |
| 919 | * SilentSnarker: He gets a lot of use out of those eyebrows. |
| 920 | * TheSpeechless: The only noises he makes are little purring-type sounds, and the occasional screech. |
| 921 | * UndyingLoyalty: For Hex, even though she's a particularly ''special'' kind of crazy. |
| 922 | [[/folder]] |
| 923 | |
| 924 | [[folder:Daemon]] |
| 925 | [[quoteright:299:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/daemon.png]] |
| 926 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Colombe Demers |
| 927 | |
| 928 | Daemon is by far the most powerful virus to ever hit the Net. She's a kind and gentle person when you talk to her, but she can enslave entire systems with a touch, will sacrifice any number of troops to achieve her goals, and is out to crash the entire Net. |
| 929 | ---- |
| 930 | * AffablyEvil: Her personality is no act; she's a truly nice and angelic person who just happens to also want to [[OmnicidalManiac cause the apocalypse.]] She even seems genuinely saddened and confused when she sees Mainframe resisting her forces. |
| 931 | -->'''Daemon''': Why do they suffer needlessly when the Word is inevitable? |
| 932 | * AGodAmI: In contrast to Megabyte, who ran his throng of Viral Binomes like a totalitarian dictatorship, Daemon's organization is more akin to a religious cult. Amusingly, she even gets a (literal) TV Evangelist and a chorus of FacelessGoons singing gospel music about her. |
| 933 | * AllLovingHero: A ''[[NightmareFuel terrifying]]'' exaggeration. Daemon's appearance and demeanor check most of the boxes of Christian sainthood (most specifically [[JeanneDarchetype Joan of Arc]]) and the "unity" her infection brings appears benevolent, if a tad [[WellIntentionedExtremist extreme]]. Unfortunately, her infected followers behave like mindless fanatics, she's willing to sacrifice any number of lives to further her cause, and the final step of her plan is to ''[[OmnicidalManiac crash the net]]'' to ensure the peace she brings lasts forever. The sheer disconnect between her PuritySue personality and hideous actions make for a deeply unsettling villain. |
| 934 | * AntiVillain: She wishes to spread her influence so that she can unite the entire Net. Unfortunately, her idea of unity involves infecting everybody with her fanatical brainwashing abilities and commanding all of them to self-destruct, creating a total system crash in an "AllAreEqualInDeath" sort of way. |
| 935 | * ApocalypseHow: She would have crashed the entire Net. For the people in the series, that would likely be equivalent to Galactic or Universal on the trope's scale of scope. |
| 936 | * BaddieFlattery: She's very polite and considerate, and speaks admirably of the main character's love ... though some things she cannot tolerate. |
| 937 | * BenevolentBoss: Being AffablyEvil, not that much fazes her, so when Daecon apologizes for his failures in conquering Mainframe, she easily forgives him. With that said, [[YouHaveFailedMe Daecon eventually finds out that she has her limits and will tolerate failure up to a point]]. |
| 938 | * BerserkButton: She seems to despise [[spoiler:Viruses turned Sprites, given her reaction to Hex]]. It should be noted, however, that her "berserk" never rises above mild annoyance (though she does trash Hex in the process). It's just weird because otherwise she's never seen to be anything but completely happy and polite, even when ordering her followers to commit suicide or getting shot at. |
| 939 | ** She'll also apparently [[EasilyForgiven easily retract]] her feelings if the "offense" is changed. When [[spoiler:Hex becomes her viral, psychopathic old self again and fights Daemon, Daemon says "Why do you wish to stand against me? You are a virus; we should be friends."]] |
| 940 | * BigBad: She took over the entire Net at one point. |
| 941 | * BlueAndOrangeMorality: Due to her function, she's unable to feel love or go against her programming, which compels her to infect and destroy all systems. She's otherwise a pleasant and sweet person. |
| 942 | * CompellingVoice: Sprites and Binomes inside a system she infects will ''happily'' go to their deaths for her sake. |
| 943 | * ContrastingSequelAntagonist: Following Megabyte, an ObviouslyEvil beast of a virus who embodied DarkIsEvil carried out atrocities with an [[FauxAffablyEvil affable façade]] and never had any illusions of his actions serving any greater good than his own twisted ego, we have Daemon, an angelic, petite woman who is an example of LightIsNotGood, whose affable qualities are genuine, and who sees her goals as beneficial for the Net. Furthermore, Megabyte was an extremely personal enemy for Mainframe, which he is obsessed with conquering, while Daemon is a far more distant figure who sees Mainframe as just one more system among the countless she's already infected. |
| 944 | ** Also to Hexadecimal. While Hex is a ChaoticEvil virus who has the power to destroy but lacks the sanity and will to do so, Daemon is a LawfulEvil virus with no such qualms and just as much power. |
| 945 | * CripplingOverspecialization: She cannot crack Firewalls or form portals to closed off systems. For a Cron Virus, this is quite the AchillesHeel. Also as Phong deduced there is a technical limit to how many systems she can infect before her powers start to weaken, hence why the Super Virus wanted to infect routers and gateways, but not all the millions and millions of individual computers themselves. |
| 946 | * DarkMessiah: Mike even acts as her televangelist as she seeks to cause the end of the Net. |
| 947 | * EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: In Season 3 Daemon's character had clearly not been fleshed out yet, as she was blamed for sending the Web Creature to Mainframe and has put a ban on travel into effect in Web-operated systems. It's unclear why she would do the former and the latter flat-out contradicts her goal of opening the entire Net up to her influence and corruption. Both these actions are ignored by ''Daemon Rising''. |
| 948 | * EverythingSoundsSexierInFrench: She calls Mike Michel, and has a French accent. |
| 949 | * EvilCannotComprehendGood: Discussed. Daemon is not programmed to be able to feel love or go against her purpose. She is thus fascinated by [=AndrAIa's=] ability to leave her game in order to return to Mainframe with Enzo through ThePowerOfLove. |
| 950 | * EvilVersusOblivion: [[spoiler: When she fights Hexadecimal. She is the oblivion, Hex is the evil.]] |
| 951 | * ExpectingSomeoneTaller: She looks more like a Sprite than a supervirus. However, she is ''far'' stronger than her appearance suggests. Mike the TV even Lampshades this. |
| 952 | -->'''Mike''': Well... yeah, where are the spikes? The fangs? The claws? You're a bit small for a supervirus, aren't you? |
| 953 | * FlyingBrick: She flies, her finger can block the attack from a Mech that smacked Megabyte across the room, and she can go toe to toe with a super-powered Hexadecimal. |
| 954 | * GettingSmiliesPaintedOnYourSoul: In this case, it is more like getting ":-D" Copied and Pasted Into Your Code, which is a secondary part of her infection. All of her brainwashed slaves are blissed out. |
| 955 | * HeroicSacrifice: Evil variation -- her servants will prefer non-violent methods, no matter how deadly the opposition. [[WeHaveReserves Of course, she can afford the losses]]. |
| 956 | * HumanoidAbomination: Out of all the viruses to attack Main Frame, Daemon is both the [[BishonenLine most humanoid]], and the [[RealityWarper most powerful]]. Yet while she could pass for a Sprite at a glance, her [[SecondaryColorNemesis offputting color scheme]], [[SupernaturalFloatingHair living hair]] and [[DissonantSerenity eerily]] [[AffablyEvil pleasant]] [[SugaryMalice demeanor]] makes her ''deeply'' unsettling. |
| 957 | * InterimVillain: Fills in for Megabyte as the main antagonist until he returns from the Web. |
| 958 | * InvincibleVillain: Daemon can infect anybody who attempts to oppose her and is indestructible. Only an empowered Hexadecimal is a match for her. |
| 959 | * JeanneDArchetype: She is an angelic woman with a French accent waging her own "Holy crusade" to unite the Net, [[spoiler: complete with her own eventual "[[MyDeathIsJustTheBeginning martyrdom]]".]] |
| 960 | * TheJuggernaut: Daemon is nearly unstoppable. She doesn't even react to threats with physical force because she's almost impossible to damage and just mind controls them instead. It takes an empowered Hexadecimal to even slow her down. |
| 961 | * KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Daemon dies fulfilling her function; her plans are only defeated by the skin of the heroes' teeth, and Daemon herself is never made to pay for her crimes.]] |
| 962 | * KickTheDog: [[spoiler: After she infects Hexadecimal, who was at the moment a sprite, she treats her extremely coldy despite and beats her. Hex submitted to her like everyone else, but Daemon couldn't stand her becoming a sprite.]] |
| 963 | * KnightTemplar: She thinks the only surefire way to eliminate pain, war, and fighting is to eliminate all existence. |
| 964 | * LightIsNotGood: She's pretty and angelic, with a sweet and polite nature. But she's also out to destroy the entire Net. Her crown also resembles a halo, her corruption were she brainwashes programs is the form of light, and her home-base resembles a holy church. |
| 965 | * MeaningfulName: In a Unix system (which Mainframe presumably is), a cron daemon runs regularly scheduled tasks. The "cron" term is short for "chronological", and their purpose is to merely count things in binary. This explains why Daemon's final plan involves counting down to deletion. Cron viruses don't exist, but they'd be potentially devastating for the net if they did, making her a perfect doomsday villain. |
| 966 | * MindControl: Her main ability is to enslave people to her whims. |
| 967 | * MusclesAreMeaningless: She's a small waiflike Virus and is NighInvulnerable. None of the other clearly more muscular characters stand a chance against her. |
| 968 | * NighInvulnerability: She's effectively indestructible. When Mouse tries to cut off her head with her sword, it not only fails to hurt Daemon, it doesn't even cut her ''hair,'' while Mouse's sword [[WreckedWeapon shatters on contact]]. |
| 969 | * OmnicidalManiac: Her plan basically involves committing genocide. |
| 970 | * ThePrettyGuysAreStronger: She's by far the most powerful antagonist in the series and looks the most like a normal Sprite of any virus seen in the series. |
| 971 | * RealityWarper: When shot at with an exploding bullet, she reverses its explosion and reassembles the bullet. Note that this took place in the infected supercomputer. |
| 972 | * ReligiousHorror: She's basically a Catholic saint who's been recast as a supervillain, ''and she's damned good at it''. |
| 973 | * SecondaryColorNemesis: Though Daemon's design heavily features [[HeavenlyBlue teal]], her more prominent green and purple aesthetic makes her palette overall [[LightIsNotGood cold and ominous]]. |
| 974 | * TakingYouWithMe: When her own timer runs out, [[spoiler:she decompiles herself, spreading a secondary infection through the Net that causes everyone who has been infected by her primary infection to start a 60-second deletion timer.]] |
| 975 | ->'''Daemon''': I am Daemon. I am not an entity, I am a time. My time... is now. The word... is cron. |
| 976 | * VillainsOutShopping: When she's not actively carrying out her plans she's shown enjoying musical numbers her brainwashed cult members put on for her. |
| 977 | * TheVirus: She ''takes over the entire Net''. |
| 978 | * WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove: Her followers love her, but only because of the infection. Daemon is thus fascinated by what [=AndrAIa=] tells her about the love she and Matrix have for each other. |
| 979 | * YouHaveFailedMe: When one of her infected aides, [[TheDragon Deacon]], fails in his attempt to invade Mainframe, Daemon whispers a series of "ones" and "zeros" to him in binary code. He then continues the sequence, before ending with a final "[[OhCrap ...oh]]". He then explodes. |
| 980 | [[/folder]] |
| 981 | |
| 982 | [[folder:Lieutenant Chauncy]] |
| 983 | -> '''Voiced By:''' Michael Donovan |
| 984 | |
| 985 | |
| 986 | A Viral (infected) Binome who leads Megabyte's army. |
| 987 | |
| 988 | ---- |
| 989 | |
| 990 | * HeelFaceTurn: When the system is rebooted. Chauncey returns and is an officer in the CPU forces. |
| 991 | ** HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: However, it turns out he ''liked'' being a viral, and not only helps form the Mainframe Neo-Virals, he willingly offers his PID to Megabyte when he returns for reinfection. |
| 992 | * MookLieutenant: Is delegated many orders from Megabyte to his legions. |
| 993 | * SlouchOfVillainy: Often buzzed by Megabyte when he is slacking on the job. |
| 994 | |
| 995 | [[/folder]] |
| 996 | |
| 997 | |
| 998 | !Other Characters |
| 999 | [[folder:The User]] |
| 1000 | The User is the owner of the computer that is Mainframe. He is HeWhoMustNotBeSeen because he's a human living in the ''real'' world, but he still plays a major role in the series, acting as an antagonist during the games. He is viewed by most of the inhabitants of Mainframe as some sort of god. Capable of both great evils (such as the sector-nullifying games) and goods (new files). The User is generally seen in game cubes under the guise of a PlayerCharacter which the inhabitants of Mainframe have to stop from winning. |
| 1001 | ---- |
| 1002 | * AmbiguousGender: The use of male pronouns is purely conjectural, as we only ever see the User's input into the computer system. Most of the User's game avatars are male or have no discernible gender (pilotless vehicles, for instance), with the notable exception of the Barbie doll User from "Firewall". |
| 1003 | * CavalierCompetitor: The user of Mainframe appears to be a casual gamer, rarely playing the same title twice nor bothering to familiarize themselves with quirky control schemes of older games. |
| 1004 | * CollectiveIdentity: It isn't exactly clear whether every game is played by the same User, so there may be more than one. |
| 1005 | * DeusExMachina: |
| 1006 | ** Or rather, god ''outside'' the machine. His game cubes fill that role often; when they don't, they serve only to make a situation worse by dropping at the worst times possible. The User himself performs that role more directly at the end of season 3 [[spoiler:when he initiates a system restore to save Mainframe after a system crash]]. His role is even lampshaded by Dot: |
| 1007 | --->''Where's a game cube when you NEED one.'' |
| 1008 | ** At least Turbo sees the User as a godlike being, as exemplified when Daemon infects Mainframe: |
| 1009 | ---> ''She's here. User, have mercy on the Net.'' |
| 1010 | * ForTheEvulz: The writers of Gigabyte and Daemon. Using their knowledge not to profit, but to create dangerous viruses that would crash all computers (including their own) around the globe, thus rendering themselves obsolete in the wake of the impending information Dark Age. |
| 1011 | * GameOfNerds: The user of the system seen in episode ''Number 7'' is obsessed with golf. Matrix finding himself stuck there, and in a fatalistic slump, was soon sick of the sport. |
| 1012 | * GodInHumanForm: In the games they'll, depending on the game itself, control a playable sprite, but for them it's merely an avatar. |
| 1013 | * GodIsEvil: [[JustifiedTrope Justified]], as The User is ObliviouslyEvil. They are unaware that they cause mass destruction and suffering to the sentient beings living inside the computer. |
| 1014 | * TheGhost: The User never makes a physical appearance. All we ever see are the characters' interactions with his player characters. |
| 1015 | * TheGodsMustBeLazy: Their negligence over maintaining and updating their computers often cause viruses to spread and infiltrate many networks, tears to crop up, and of course, inevitable crashes. |
| 1016 | * GreaterScopeVillain: The people who create viruses are this, particularly Gigabyte and Daemon. They're directly responsible for the destruction and chaos the viruses create. In Daemon's case, she nearly ''destroyed the entire Net''. |
| 1017 | * HaveYouSeenMyGod: Some people on the Net believe in many Users, others only in one true User above all. None know for sure whether the being is good to them or not. |
| 1018 | * HeroAntagonist: Any time the User controls a heroic character in a Game. |
| 1019 | * HumansAreBastards: There are Users who simply seek to destroy, such as the one that upgraded Killabyte into Gigabyte and Daemon's unseen creator. |
| 1020 | * HumansAreCthulhu: The User is a dangerous implacable foe in the games, a creator of viruses that plague the Net, provider of upgrades, and repairer of the system. Guardians will flat out state its beyond their comprehension to predict or understand the way a User thinks, and there's no point trying. |
| 1021 | * ObliviouslyEvil: The User obviously has no way to know that just playing a game on his computer can cause all sorts of suffering for the people living within. Guardian Bob is also of the opinion no user would ever knowingly release a killer-virus upon the Net ([[HumansAreBastards poor naive Bob]]). |
| 1022 | * ObviouslyEvil: Mainframe's User seems to have a preference for very obviously evil-looking player characters -- RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver and SpikesOfVillainy are common. The one time we see them select a player character, it's a BigRedDevil. |
| 1023 | * OhCrap: Many characters, both heroes and villains, react this way when a Game starts at a particularly bad time for them. |
| 1024 | * OurGodsAreDifferent: How many gods are humans using a computer? |
| 1025 | * PhraseCatcher: Many characters say "Oh no, not now!" or some variation on that, when the User loads a gamecube at a particularly bad time. |
| 1026 | * SpiritedCompetitor: The user of the Supercomputer, much like the user of the ruined system in the episode "Icons", is a hardcore gamer, and will only play the [[NintendoHard hardest]] and [[NoChallengeEqualsNoSatisfaction fastest]] titles on the market.[[invoked]] |
| 1027 | * TimeAbyss: Zigzagged. As time in cyberspace [[YearInsideHourOutside moves in nanoseconds]], when a game is not downloaded into the system, a second in the User's realm equates to ''over 31 years in cyberspace!'' When the user is playing against them, [[AcceptableBreaksFromReality time moves at the same rate]] for both of them. |
| 1028 | * UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: The User causes all sorts of mayhem with their Game cubes in general. Mainframe's User also has a really bad habit of unwittingly starting a Game at the worst possible time for the protagonists. |
| 1029 | [[/folder]] |
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