william dunbar

William Dunbar
Role	Lyoko-Warrior, servant of XANA
First appearance	New Order
English voice actor(s)	David Gasman

William Dunbar joined Code Lyoko in the second season as one of Yumi's classmates. He became the sixth member of Team Lyoko, until his first trip into Lyoko, when XANA possessed him and used him as his servant until the end of the series where he was freed.

At Kadic

William is kind of a loner at first, but Yumi soon takes to him as a friend. To no surprise, William wants to be more than just friends, causing conflict between him and Ulrich. Later, in the third season, Jeremie suggests to the team that William join their group, much to the disagreement of the rest of our warriors. As fighting on Lyoko becomes harder and harder, the group decides to let William join. After XANA uses the Scyphozoa to take control of William's mind and body, Jeremie creates a stable polymorphic specter with William's basic memories, and a basic personality. Over time, this "clone" becomes much more popular than William was, but due to his 'dumb' personality he unknowingly causes trouble for our warriors. His personality also becomes a bit of a gag in the show, best seen in the episode Wreck Room. In episode Down to Earth, William is finally freed from XANA's control, returns back to normal and returns to Earth.

Lyoko Form

William wields a sword called Zweihander. It's name literally means "Two-Hander". Traditionally, Zweihanders are wielded with two hands due to their great weight. Evidence of the sword's weight can be found in the episode 'Final Round', when William attempted to hold it with one hand, and then dropped it. His sword also fires energy blasts when he swings it. However it is unknown whether it was an ability given to him by X.A.N.A., or if he already had it before.

Lyoko Powers (While under XANA's control)

• Super Smoke: An ability much like Ulrich's Super Sprint, but instead of simply running at speed, William becomes smoke to pass away from people, monsters or things. The black smoke can suspend other people in a paralyzed state. Super Smoke is known to be by far even faster than Ulrich's Super Sprint.
• Far Sight (Tentative name): The ability to see much farther away in the same sector.
• Ability to activate a tower for XANA
• Control over XANA's monsters
• Limited hovering

Vehicle

Black Manta - A unique Manta for William to ride on as a vehicle.
A Nav Skid was created for William, but he was given a black, independent one by XANA called the Rorkal.

Trivia

• While possessed by XANA in Lyoko, his sword's look changes, making a resemblance to the Soul Edge from the Soulcalibur series and having an eye of XANA just above the grip.
• His sword also bears an uncanny resemblance to the Buster Sword wielded by Final Fantasy VII's protagonist, Cloud Strife.
• His outfit bears an uncanny resemblance to the one of the Prince of Persia in the game The Two Thrones as well as Darkness Riku's outfit from the Kingdom Hearts games.
• He was first to get a new outfit.
• X.A.N.A. likely chose to possess William because it saw the most potential in him as a weapon out of all the other Lyoko Warriors due to his recklessness.
• In Episode "Vertigo", It is revealed that he's afraid of spiders.
• There was an unused Nav Skid on the Skidbladnir when it was created. It was, most likely, intended to be used by William in case he was taken back from XANA's control, however it remains unused until the Skid's destruction.
  • XANA made another one for him named "Rorkal".
• He was the last person in the real world to be possessed by XANA.
• Oddly, in a Lack of Goodwill, he wore the new clothes his clone had. But when in Down to Earth, when he is freed from X.A.N.A, he was wearing his old clothes.
• In the Final Round, he began to glow purple under X.A.N.A's control when he ran super fast or levitated. Later in the series, he just turns to smoke in order to be faster
• Odd's arrows couldn't hurt him while he was a cloud of smoke, in Bragging Rights
• he's the only one to be transfered to Lyoko that is a member of the team that was wasn't at first, though, thats because XANA controlled him (at first)