History WesternAnimation / ReBoot

* OutOfCharacterMoment: The Platform/PlayStation game, which has numerous CGI cutscenes originally intended for a pilot episode, is full of these. Bob [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmg7lL0b6vg knocks the bejeezus out of Megabyte]] after winning their boss encounter, Hexadecimal [[DeadGuyOnDisplay practices taxidermy on Bob and Dot]] in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iU5AB-3Aowo a game over cinematic]]. Most notably, Hex has a HughMann scene before the final battle, masquerading as Dot and seducing Bob with so much {{Fanservice}} that it is a shock to the typical [=ReBoot=] fan when first seen.

* TheBlank: Hexadecimal 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 Bob removes her mask and reveals that there's absolutely nothing beneath, just a powerful beam of light. [[spoiler:This also happens in the UsefulNotes/PlayStation game]].

* OminousCube: Game Cubes ([[UsefulNotes/NintendoGameCube not those ones]]) sectioned off large portions of the system cities of The Net, which would either be left intact or destroyed, depending on whether the User lost or won.

* OutOfCharacterMoment: The UsefulNotes/PlayStation game, which has numerous CGI cutscenes originally intended for a pilot episode, is full of these. Bob [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmg7lL0b6vg knocks the bejeezus out of Megabyte]] after winning their boss encounter, Hexadecimal [[DeadGuyOnDisplay practices taxidermy on Bob and Dot]] in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iU5AB-3Aowo a game over cinematic]]. Most notably, Hex has a HughMann scene before the final battle, masquerading as Dot and seducing Bob with so much {{Fanservice}} that it is a shock to the typical [=ReBoot=] fan when first seen.

* TheBlank: Hexadecimal 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 Bob removes her mask and reveals that there's absolutely nothing beneath. [[spoiler:This also happens in the UsefulNotes/PlayStation game]].

** It's implied in the first episode that Megabyte had already been established in Mainframe for a while by the time Bob moved there. ''Daemon Rising'' reveals that Gigabyte originally split into Megabyte and Hexadecimal upon arriving in Mainframe, and that Bob arrived only moments later.
** Sprites appeared as silent background characters throughout Season One. This was dropped (barring a brief shot in Al's Diner in "Trust No One") in Season Two when it was apparently decided that Bob, Dot, Enzo, and Phong would be the only Sprites in Mainframe.

** Hexadecimal. Just '''watch''' her. The censors let this pass because Hexadecimal is evil. Apparently, they wanted children to believe [[EvilIsSexy Sexy Is Evil]].

** In the first scene of "Daemon Rising", we see a shot of Mainframe. [[spoiler:Then the camera pan and we see ''ANOTHER MAINFRAME''. It takes a moment to realize that this is a flashback of the Twin City.]]

* CloningBlues: ''My Two Bobs'' takes the 'Blue' part literally

In 2018, a reimagined series titled ''Series/ReBootTheGuardianCode'' -- likewise, a reboot to ''[=ReBoot=]'' -- was released on Creator/{{Netflix}}. The reimagining is a CGI/Live-Action hybrid show where [[RecruitTeenagersWithAttitude Teenagers With Attitude]] battle the forces of Megabyte, who, with the help of "The Sourcerer", creates mega-virus monsters to attack electronic systems.

* BrotherSisterIncest: Web-creature-controlled-Megabyte attempts to merge with Hexadecimal to create what is, in her own words, "the next generation." The MoralGuardians were also afraid of encouraging incest in RealLife, so they ordered the producers to remove a scene where Dot kissed Enzo on the cheek at his birthday party (See ExecutiveMeddling in the Trivia section). Ian Pearson, one of the creators, stated that he found the reasoning behind that decision "one of the sickest things I've heard."
** It should be mentioned that the scene in question between Dot and Enzo had Dot dressed as a vampy night-club singer singing a Marilyn Monroe "Happy Birthday, Mr.President"-style song to her ''little brother.'' Throughout the scene, Bob and Enzo stare at her like they've never seen a girl before.
** Even without the Web Creature's influence Megabyte seems to have a bit of an incest kink. He ''did'' dress Hex up as a bondage slave while she was in a coma. Enzo even [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything expresses shock and disbelief that Megabyte would do such a thing to his own sister]]. [[spoiler:Also, his plan to marry Dot might count, since he thinks of Wellman Matrix as his "father".]]

* AlternativeSelfNameChange: Following a system restore, a copy of Enzo Matrix is made that resembles how he looked when he was younger. The original Enzo was ''already'' going by [[LastNameBasis his last name]], but the copy showing up made even their sister and others who mostly knew him as a child use that name. Later, a second Bob appears, which adds to the confusion, especially for Dot, who just proposed to Bob. While trying to make sense of her feelings for the two men, she dubs the Bob who merged with Glitch, Glitch-Bb, and the on that looks as Bob id at the start of the series, just plain Bob.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: We never see Scuzzy or Cyrus again after they meet on opposite sides of the Firewall in "Game Over." Well, we see Scuzzy somehow got past the wall, becasuse he meets up with Hex soon after. Later, it is revealed that they are employed by the Mainframe Strolling Players as the [[FollowTheBouncingBall bouncing ball]] and supporting dancer, respectively.

* WeHaveReserves: The bigger Megabyte's army gets, the more okay he becomes with sacrificing them for "the cause", which gets demonstrated when he has Hexadecimal open a hole in the newly erected firewall so he can send an entire fleet of [=ABCs=] through to atack the Principal Office. The [=ABCs=] are immediatly shot to peices by the Principal Office defenses, and when the survivors attempt to return to base, Megabyte has Hex close the firewall in an attempt to prevent himself from being shot, sealing the fate of those still outside.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: We never see Scuzzy or Cyrus again after they meet on opposite sides of the Firewall in "Game Over." That is, until it is revealed that they are employed by the Mainframe Strolling Players as the [[FollowTheBouncingBall bouncing ball]] and supporting dancer, respectively.

** In "Enzo the Smart," the colors and shading gets primitive when Enzo changes the clock speed of Mainframe when he tries to become twice as smart as everybody else. It doesn't affect Enzo, and he even comments on it.

* BattleCouple: [=AndrAIa=] and Matrix. They met on the shows equivalent of a battlefield, and they have been watching each others backs ever since. They even frequently flirt while kicking the User's butt in games.

* BigBad: Megabyte, always and forever. Daemon steals the spotlight for a short time, but it doesn't take long for Megs to grab it back in truly monstrous fashion.

** Mouse and Ray, ''during'' the reconstruction of Mainframe, lampshaded by Ray afterwards.

* CensorDecoy: The creators gave the female characters massive breasts, knowing that the censors would force them to shrink them. This allowed them to give them the cup size they wanted in in the first place.

** The first time Matrix's TriggerHappy tendencies are shown is a fairly humorous scene, with him nearly shooting a binome that startled him by stepped on a small horn, leading to it fainting in fright. But later episodes make it increasingly clear that this habit is a symptom of Matrix's severe PTSD and very much an issue. In fact, it leads to one of the series' saddest scenes when Matrix instictively pulls a gun on someone who bumps into him my accident.

** Vehicular version. The Megatruck and a large grounded airplane on wheels are driving towards each other in a narrow canyon (ItMakesSenseInContext) and a collision is inevitable and it looks like both vehicles are going to be destroyed. The Megatruck plows right though the airplane without slowing down and proceeds to run over the mooks on motorbikes right behind it. The Megatruck is not damaged at all and just keeps on trucking.

* DefiantStoneThrow: When has Megabyte threaten a group of binomes with assimilation into his viral forces, a Picard-Expy binome refuses with a line out of the Star Trek movies. Megabyte promptly vaporizes him.

* DigitalDestruction: The original, 2001 Anchor Bay DVD release of ''Daemon Rising'' and ''My Two Bobs'' was improperly formatted; the original source footage ran at 25fps while the DVD ran at 24fps, meaning that the movies ran 4% slower and everyone's voices sounded much deeper. Anchor Bay eventually reprinted the DVD in 2004 with corrected visuals and audio, and offered free replacements for anyone that bought the original version.

* ElectronicSpeechImpediment: In "The Quick & The Fed," Dot became ill when she came into contact with a magnet. In addition to being semi-transparent she also spoke like this.

** The Mainframers, on learning the identity of their new Guardian, invariably remark that "Green's no colour for the defender of the system!" It's a bit odd, because these comparisons between Enzo and Bob are the only time anyone even comments on a sprite's colour.

* FirstGirlWins: Despite all of the girls that fell for Bob, in the end he stays with Dot.
** His relation with Mouse is less clear though. It's obvious they knew each other prior to the series' start and during "The Great Brain Robbery" she mentions that Bob "was always an exciting date."

* ForcedIntoTheirSundayBest: In preparation for Bob and Dot's wedding, Matrix is being fitted for a suit. In frustration he rips off the suit's sleeves before becoming envious of Bob, who will be wearing a Guardian dress uniform.

** "The Web" was mentioned several episodes before the appearances of the Web Creature in "Nullzilla," where several binomes were talking about how they had heard that the web was expanding and conquering systems.

** In Season 3, Bob performs a Power Booster. He [[spoiler:merges with his (damaged) keytool Glitch upon being reunited with it toward the end of the third season. This actually ends up causing problems for him in the fourth season, as the merge didn't quite work right due to Glitch's damaged state. It's mentioned that if he continues to use his Glitch powers he'll eventually die because of it. He manages to split from Glitch (though he decides to separate from Glitch because he believes he can win Dot's love that way, not because he's going to die!) a few episodes later, returning him to his original look. Glitch also returns, repaired and upgraded]].

* GilliganCut: In "The Crimson Binome", when word breaks that something bad is going down at the docks, Enzo says that Bob lives out that way and whatever's happening, he'll be on top of it. Cut to panic in the streets as the raiding pirates take everyone prisoner, and meanwhile Bob is completely oblivious, working on his car and [[HeadphonesEqualIsolation listening to music on a large pair of headphones.]]

--->'''Bob:''' [[spoiler:Hex,]] you won't survive it. It's a one way trip. Total fragmentation.\\

* HolodeckMalfunction ''Bad Bob'' features a game cube that gets corrupted when Megabyte stole Mainframe's core energy. Normally the destruction a game cube can cause is limited to the area it landed on, but since this game landed on the Principal Office if the User wins [[ApocalypseHow the entire system crashes]]. However, if anyone else wins the game, the core energy leaves with the game, and [[NiceJobBreakingItHero the entire system crashes]]. This problem forces Bob to keep the game going until he can get the core energy back into the Principal Office to stabilize the game and let it leave without crashing the system.
* {{Homage}}: Every episode was full of {{Shout Out}}s, computer science and gaming in-jokes, and {{Whole Plot Reference}}s. However, starting with middle of season two several episodes were essentially other series with [=ReBoot=] characters: ''Bad Bob'' was Film/MadMax; ''[=NullZilla=]'' included homages to ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'', Franchise/SuperSentai and Series/{{Thunderbirds}}; ''Trust No One's'' main guest stars were essentially [[Series/TheXFiles Mulder and Scully]] ("Fax Modem" and "Data Nully", who was even voiced by Creator/GillianAnderson); ''Firewall'' was a ''Film/JamesBond'' film both in and out of the game in the episode, complete with altered opening titles; "Where No Sprite Has Gone Before" was a ''Franchise/StarTrek'' episode written by D.C. Fontana, a long-time Trek alumni dating back to the Original Series; "Number 7" was [[MindScrew in the style of]] ''Series/{{The Prisoner|1967}}''; and "The Episode With No Name" was a SpaghettiWestern to make Creator/SergioLeone proud.
* HonorBeforeReason: The crew of the ''Saucy Mare'' have always loyally followed the Crimson Binome on whatever path he chose for them, whether it was piracy or honest trade, because he always took them towards the profit. However, when he meets up with Matrix after losing contact with Mainframe he decided to bring his ship and his crew to the aide of Matrix and Dot and, when his first mate asks where the profit is in any of this, he explains that there are things more important in life than profit. The entire crew is shocked to a stand-still, and he mentions repaying a debt to an old friend and helping those in need. Despite the dangerous waters they are going into, and the lack of any benefit to themselves, the entire crew follows him onward anyway.

* KidHeroAllGrownUp: Partway into season three, when Enzo enters a game he can't win, he, [=AndrAIa=], and Frisket change their icons to game sprite mode and rode the game out of Mainframe. The game's accelerated time causes a time skip, bringing them to adulthood. The following episodes focus on them, Enzo, now going by Matrix, is a [[TopHeavyGuy muscular badass]], and [=AndrAIa=], now an AmazonianBeauty, searching for Mainframe.

** The GrandFinale at the end of season three concluded all important and current storylines (Megabyte defeated? Check. Love interests together? Check. City repaired? Check. Dead characters returned to life for joyful reunion? [[ResetButton Check]]), but the Daemon storyline was left open. Introduced earlier in season three, it revealed the existence of Daemon, a supervirus, and laid at her feet a lot of the previously-thought-random occurrences that lead to the current situation. The Daemon arc had little bearing on the immediate quest of the characters, the reclaiming of Mainframe from Megabyte, so it fell by the wayside once they left Guardian-controlled territory and was only resolved in [[PostScriptSeason season four]].
** Speaking of, season four ended with an ''infamous'' case of this. After returning from the Web, Megabyte has taken over the Princial Office and swears revenge on Bob and all his friends. What happens next? ''Nothing''. Unlike season three, which resolved all its major plot lines and ended on a happy note, season four stalls out in the middle of the action with ''nothing at all'' resolved. It stayed that way until 2018, when ''The Guardian Code'' -- produced by an executive who'd only watched a handful of season one episodes -- came out and wiped the slate clean, reverting all the characters to their season one incarnations and undoing years' worth of storytelling.
* {{Leitmotif}}: Some characters, such as Megabyte, Hexadecimal and Mouse each have their own distinctive themes. The show's theme tune also crops up in-episode on a few, brief occasions.

* MorphWeapon: Bob's Keytool, Glitch. The keytool even shows initiative at some points; in one episode Bob desperately shouts, "Glitch: Anything!" and Glitch turns into a necessary piece of equipment (Namely, a lampost). On another occasion, when Dot was falling from a great height the same command caused the keytool to fly out to the ground and turned into a springboard she could jump off to safely land. The keytools seem to have a degree of intelligence and can think and communicate, serving only Guardians that they choose to serve and even offering advice and suggestions. It overlaps with GadgetWatches and MagicTool.

* NeverSayDie: Played straight for the first two seasons and change; "delete" and "erase" were used instead. However it was later averted, starting with Matrix's fairly subtle [[CallingYourAttacks Death Blossom]] and growing more prevalent after. This was to be expected, as the later seasons are DarkerAndEdgier.

** [[spoiler:During the {{Timeskip}}, Phong stayed behind to give enough time for Dot and the rest of the rebels to escape. Unfortunately, he carried the codes to open a way to the Super Computer, making Megabyte's job easier. Ironically, Phong didn't even changed the codes from the last season when he was captured, so Megabyte could have saved himself a lot of time extracting them from him.]]

* NoFlowInCGI: All the clothing is tight and the hair is generally short and/or rigid. As they introduced characters with longer hair (like adult [=AndrAIa=] and web damaged Bob) you can see the difficulty in properly animating those features. Although with Daemon the unnatural flow of her hair added to her off-kilter look and behavior.

* NoOSHACompliance: The Silicon Tor is a very unsafe place to work. There are no handrails and you can easily fall from great height if you're not careful. Another episode showed a crane inside the Tor. Its controls are located near the crane's base, putting the operators in immediate danger should any large objects be accidentally dropped. All this can be explain because the owner of the Tor is an EvilOverlord [[BadBoss who doesn't value the lives of his underlings]].

* OhCrap: When Matrix faces off against Megabyte. He [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzSNrwNpw0g taunts Matrix into throwing his gun away and fighting with his fists,]] which he does, and while he's shaking his head at how [[SchmuckBait stupid]] Matrix was for taking the bait, the "boy" knocks the [[SuperStrength obscenely powerful villain]] across the room. The OhCrap is Megabyte's reaction to seeing a dent in his chest where Matrix just punched him. And another one one at seeing Matrix sprinting towards him right before tackling Megabyte ''through a wall''.
* OminousCube: Game Cubes ([[UsefulNotes/NintendoGameCube not those ones]]) sectioned off large portions of the system-cities of The Net, which would either be left intact or destroyed, depending on whether the User lost or won.

* OnlySixFaces: Defied by the main cast, with both subtle and overt differences that makes each one distinct. But the majority of background characters were Numerals (shaped like numbers) and binomes (the spheres and three-blocks) and were identified mostly just a mixture of different colors, clothing design and props. They were very creative with it, but is still this trope. In the crowd scene in "Talent Night," most of those character models are reused several times over.

'''Dot:''' ''I look to the Net. I search though systems, peoples and cities for these sprites: my family. My format: Command.Com of what was once Mainframe.''\\

* OutGambitted: [[spoiler:In season 4 finale, Dot planted a trap to capture Megabyte. They have the gateway command moved from the Principal Office to the Archives, [[BatmanGambit knowing that Megabyte will try to steal it]]. He does so, not knowing Bob and his team secretly follows him back to his secret lair. When Megabyte try to use the gateway, he realized it was a dud and Bob and co captured him, despite his [[VoluntaryShapeshifter Trojan Horse abilities]]. Unfortunately, Megabyte anticipated Dot's plan and turn it around. A harmless copy of himself has been captured instead and he masqueraded as Frisket. Now inside the War Room of the Principal Office, he infected everyone and proceed with his plans for {{Revenge}}.]]

* PairTheSpares: Mouse and Ray Tracer, introduced as alternate love interests for Bob and [=AndrAIa=] respectively. Once both were done hassling their respective love triangle counterparts, the two naturally get together.
* PaperThinDisguise: The viral binome Agent Twelve, who wears the classic "fake-glasses-and-moustache" disguise, along with a fedora.

** The show is positively loaded with in jokes related to the greater Vancouver area. The different sections of Mainframe are named for Vancouver locations with the exception of G Prime, which is an [[Franchise/{{Dune}} entirely different reference]].

** The last part of the ''Game Over'' episode, as seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHI0pwCAtos here]], counts as a shout out as a whole. It even ends with a Fatality... [[EyeScream of sorts.]]

** In "Firewall" in addition to the overall ''Franchise/JamesBond'' {{Homage}} mentioned above, has several other references. The episode's game itself has a ''WesternAnimation/WackyRaces'' theme to it - the User is Penelope Pitstop, and Cyrus and Frisket reboot into Dick Dastardly and Muttley respectively. The T-rex attack on Cyrus' vehicle resembles the famous scene from ''Franchise/JurassicPark'' when the T-rex escapes, and there is also a reference to ''Literature/TheIndianInTheCupboard'' when Enzo is plummeting through the air. And to round out the homage, is Cyrus' [[Film/YouOnlyLiveTwice gyrocopter]] afterwards.

** In "Life's A Glitch," characters reboot into a Barbie doll, a GI Joe, [[Franchise/StarWars Darth Vader]], and {{Mentor|s}} Phong turns into [[Film/SpaceBalls a cup of Yogurt]]. At one point, Enzo utilizes cans of soda in a ShoutOut to Anakin's Pod Racer from Episode 1 of ''Star Wars''.

** The game used in the pinnacle episode "Game Over" is a direct nod to [[Franchise/MortalKombat Mortal Kombat]]. This is evident by a theme music during the game that's very similar to the one used in the originals. This is also backed up by both Enzo Rebooting into a direct parody of Scorpion, in all but his signature harpoon attack, and [=AndrAIa=] Rebooting into a parody of Sheeva. The extremely graphic means of the User's avatar ripping the heads off of his defeated opponents also suggests a nod to the extremely graphical means of finishing opponents with a Fatality.

* ShownTheirWork: One 0-Binome on the ''Saucy Mare'' covers up one of his two eyes with an eyepatch, even though it is not damaged. This is something RealLife pirates often did, and is what lead to the eye-patch wearing pirate image in the first place: Many pirates wore an eye-patch while going into batle so that that eye would become accustomed to seeng in the dark so, if they suddenly had to fight beneath decks (Which would have had no lights at all, since candles and lamps would be exinguished for fear of starting a fire during combat) they would not need time to adjust to the different light levels, but could just remove their patch. The 1-Binome with the patch over his ''only'' eye, [[RuleOfFunny on the other hand...]][[note]]At the time, this fact wasn't very well known, so the 0-Binome was RuleOfFunny, too.[[/note]]

* SiblingYinYang: Megabyte and Hexadecimal. Megabyte is egomanical, sophisticated, well-mannered, calm and collected, and desires to have Mainframe placed under his orderly rule. Hexadecimal is sporatic, prone to wild mood swings, and loves chaos for the sake of chaos.

* SitcomHomageEpisode: The episode "My Two Bobs" opens with a sitcom-inspired scene, complete with canned laughter. The sequence ends with an homage to the ''Series/TheBradyBunch'''s title with various characters in boxes. The scene is then reveled to be a dream of Dot's.

* SmallRoleBigImpact: [[spoiler:Welman Matrix's experiment with the Gateway brought Bob, Megabyte and Hexadecimal to Mainframe and led to the start of the series. Not to mention destroying the Twin City and nullifying all its inhabitants.]]
* SmolderingShoes: In the ''WesternAnimation/{{ReBoot}}'' episode, "Between A Raccoon & A Hard Place," Megabyte's forces demand the [=PIDs=] of a group of binomes. One, an ovious stand-in for '' [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Captain Jean-Luc Picard]], refuses, saying [[Film/StarTrekFirstContact "The line must be drawn here!"]] An ABC then deletes him with a laser, leaving behind smoldering shoes. The other binomes immediatly hand over their [=PIDs=].

** In various other episodes, numbers are said in binary. For example, Turbo remarks that Matrix's age should be 11 (pronounced one one, or what would be 3 in base 10). Also, characters infected by super virus Daemon could be made to count backwards, in binary, disintegrating up on reaching 0.

* SpoilerOpening: All the openings give you a glimpse of the episodes to come. Particularly bad once you get in season 3 and 4 when the series is less episodic and more focused on stories.

* StoryArc: The last four episodes of season two serve as a complete arc involving the arrival of a web creature and all out war with the web. This continued in season three, which was composed of four story arcs of four episodes each, while it served as a summation of the season as a whole each individual arc had its own theme and character goals. Season four continued that path with two four episode story arcs.

** The end of season musical have the actors falling off the stage and include a scrolling background saying "do not scroll past this point".

** A couple disparaging references are made to the Music/DireStraits "Money for Nothing" video, which featured more primitive CGI characters done by the shows creators.

** Hexadecimal. Just '''watch''' her. The censors let this pass because Hexadecimal is evil. Apparently they wanted children to believe [[EvilIsSexy Sexy Is Evil]].

* SuperStrength: Megabyte, Hack and Slash, and Frisket are all ''freakishly'' strong.
* SurroundedByIdiots: Megabyte was prone to this. The old ''[=ReBoot=]'' trading cards explained for Hack and Slash that "...Megabyte loaded them up with so much firepower that they only had a couple kilobytes to share between them." Alternatively, the video game offers the interpretation that Hack and Slash were once a 'family heirloom,' which broke into the individual pieces of Hack, Slash, and Scuzzy. Could explain what happened to any intelligence they might have had…
* TheTag: The final episode of the third season, which was the GrandFinale [[PostScriptSeason until the fourth season appeared]], plays with this trope. The actual episode is over before the 15 minute mark and the credits start rolling. Mid-way through, static blurs in and Mike the TV explains that they are now going to have a musical, with all the main characters sitting in the theatre.
* TagalongKid: Enzo in seasons one and two (and four), he gets his own in season three's ''Icon''.

* BadVibrations: During his fight with Megabyte, Matrix gets hit hard and slides down the outside of the Principle Office. He stops at the very edge of a massive hole, his head just over the edge. He lays there, barely conscious for a time, as small tremors begin. The tremors quickly get louder, coinciding with a metallic clanking, until Matrix's body jolts with each impact. Then the tremors stop, and we see Megabyte over top Matrix, about to deliver a killing blow.

** The "fourth season" movies ended with an upgraded Megabyte in control of the Principle Office, the majority of the cast converted or captured, and Megabyte himself promising that he is no longer interested in conquest, only in "the hunt." This was the note the ''series ended on''.

* InTheirOwnImage: When he's not trying to use a portal to escape to the Supercomputer, Megabyte is trying to conquer Mainframe and rebuild it as Megaframe. In "Infected," while inside the Principle Office, he explicitly says that he will rebuild the system in his own image.

** Speaking of, season four ended with an ''infamous'' case of this. After returning from the Web, Megabyte has taken over the Principle Office and swears revenge on Bob and all his friends. What happens next? ''Nothing''. Unlike season three, which resolved all its major plot lines and ended on a happy note, season four stalls out in the middle of the action with ''nothing at all'' resolved. It stayed that way until 2018, when ''The Guardian Code'' -- produced by an executive who'd only watched a handful of season one episodes -- came out and wiped the slate clean, reverting all the characters to their season one incarnations and undoing years' worth of storytelling.

** "Bad Bob" had a ''Film/MadMax'' inspired game warp into the Principle Office during a Megabyte attack and the Mainframe Core was translated into a semi-truck driving away. Bob had to hijack and return to the starting point before the game ends or the city will crash, letting them play off the prolonged chase scenes from the films[[note]]Brendan [=McCarthy=] was an art designer for the show and used this episode to attract the attention of Creator/GeorgeMiller, who recruited him to help design what became ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad'', which amusingly borrows some ideas from this episode[[/note]].

** In ''Game Over'', the ending of which marks the beginning of truly DarkerAndEdgier, Megabyte decides that he has finally become tired of the eternal bumbling of Hack and Slash. Once they they return from their current mission (Which they fail, by the way) Megabyte resolves to put them at the forefront of his next assault on the Principal Office to get rid of them once and for all.

** After Mainframe began producing the ''[[WesterAnimation/{{Barbie}}'' DTV movies that used MotionCapture for their ballet moves, the Mainframe team reused the same technology for the fourth season. It created quite a contrast to the earlier seasons, much like {{Rotoscoping}} it created a hyper-natural movement rather than something more artistically driven.

* AllThereInTheManual: Precisely how [[spoiler:young Enzo]] reappears is never fully explained in-series, and only briefly mentioned in the episode "My Two Bobs." Supplementary material, such as the episode guide included with the DVD set, explains it pretty thoroughly though.

** Midway through Season 2 they had a hardware upgrade that allowed more fluid and naturalistic movements, such as shoulders swaying forwards and backwards while walking (before the most expressive movement was Hexadecimal's SupermodelStrut). Season 3 jumped forward with textures like eyelashes and background items, as well as ''shadows'' (You would be surprised how much you miss them). Season 4 had a much more realistic sense of weight, instead of being either too fast or too slow when jumping around.

** After doing some DTV Barbie movies that used MotionCapture, the fourth season started using the same technology for this show. It created quite a contrast to the earlier seasons, much like {{Rotoscoping}} it created a hyper-natural movement rather than something more artistically driven.

** "Bad Bob" had a ''Film/MadMax'' inspired game warp into the Principle Office during a Megabyte attack and the Mainframe Core was translated into a semi-truck driving away. Bob had to hijack and return to the starting point before the game ends or the city will crash, letting them play off the prolonged chase scenes from the films[[note]]Brendan McCarthy was an art designer for the show and used this episode to attract the attention of Creator/GeorgeMiller, who recruited him to help design what became ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad'', which amusingly borrows some ideas from this episode[[/note]].

-->'''Matrix:''' What is it with you and bikes?

* TheResolutionWillNotBeTelevised: Courtesy of the online revival.

* ChekhovsGun: The Franchise/{{Stargate|Verse}}-esque portal Megabyte built in the second season turned out to be significant to the overall mythology, both in the past and the future.