X.A.N.A's Monsters

XANA's monsters bowing to the Lyoko Warriors, as seen in the episode Marabounta.

 

Monsters are created by XANA in Lyoko to get rid of Team Lyoko, protect XANA's activated towers, and secure Aelita for XANA. There are a wide range of monsters, and most of them are unintelligent brutes that are created only to serve their master, but some have gained sentience. They materialize into Lyoko, and each monster takes up some memory in the supercomputer. According to lyoko.fr, XANA has a base template which he uses to make it easier to create new monsters.

Many mysteries still hover around the birth of monsters and the the process of their manufacture remains to be revealed. Since the monsters roam in a virtual world, the existence of a factory is highly unlikely. It is possible that they are created from a basic program, with all their characteristics, allowing XANA to create monsters many monsters, all almost identical. This would correspond to the program created by Jeremie to virtualize vehicles. In some episodes, such as Marabounta, XANA virtualizes creatures directly in the field as Jeremie does with the Lyoko Warriors. The Mantas provide another part of the answer: when the heroes first access the interface to Carthage, Mantas appear as if they are 'hatching' from the walls of Sector 5 - they seem to spring from within the digital data. If they are created from a program, in any case, they are not virtualized (within Sector 5 at least).

Nor is it clear if XANA has a need for energy to create its monsters. XANA produces many of them, but it remains impossible to learn whether large quantities can be produced simply, or whether the quantity of monsters can be infinite; in which case the question remains to be at what rate can XANA produce them? It is difficult to gauge from the show as in some episodes the heroes face three monsters, and in others they are forced to fight entire armies. It is certain, however, that XANA can produce more monsters as it gains in power with the returns in the past. The appearance of the Kolossus proves this, since it can only be mobilised by XANA with multiple Replikas as sources of energy.

The death of the monsters is less convoluted; when they are mortally wounded or fall into the digital sea, they simply devirtualize. They do not appear to have a conscience of any kind, so they do not have any attachment to Lyoko as the heroes would. The destruction of their virtual envelope corresponds to their complete disappearance within the virtual world.

Monsters on Lyoko

• Kankralats

• Hornets

• Bloks

• Krabs

• Megatanks

• Guardians

• Tarantulas

• Creepers

• Scyphozoa

• Mantas

• Sharks

• Konger

• Kalamars

• Kolossus

Video Game Only Monsters

• Dark Monsters

• Scorpion

• Exploding Roachsters

• Mites

• Volcanoids

• Insekts

Real-world Monsters

• Spectres

• Zombies

• Polymorphic Clone

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)

X.A.N.A

X.A.N.A
Role	Main Villain
First appearance	X.A.N.A has no known physical form. He has only been known to launch attacks via a tower First attack : Teddygozilla
English voice actor(s)	None

X.A.N.A is a malevolent sentient artificial intelligence that seems to only exist to take over the world. It has the ability to launch attacks, like controlling and manipulating lightning and electricity and possessing people, by activating Towers in Lyoko.

Personality

X.A.N.A., being just a multi-agent program, albeit an abnormally strong and dangerous one, does not have much of a personality. Nevertheless, it often has specific attributes that identify it.

For starters, X.A.N.A is incredibly intelligent and knows almost everything scientific about Earth. It utilizes cunning and stealth in its schemes, often hiding them until the last moment; unlike many other fictional villains, who arrogantly boast about their grand plans.

X.A.N.A is capable of developing advanced strategies, as shown in countless episodes where it attacks right as all the warriors are together, or when he manipulates their emotions to have them act in his favor.
It also has a moderate understanding of human emotions; it cannot grasp complex emotions like love and compassion, but can easily understand ones such as anger, envy, and fear. It seems to have a particular "hatred" against Jeremie as well even more than the other Lyoko Warriors.
X.A.N.A. also seems to be able to weigh the risks and benefits of a situation, as shown in Saint Valentine's Day, when it released Aelita, its key to escaping, from its control when Odd started firing at her. Other times, X.A.N.A.'s monsters would hold their fire, refusing to shoot at Aelita.

Finally, like most fictional villains, X.A.N.A.'s most dominant trait is that it values Team Lyoko's destruction over everything except for its own survival. As seen in Marabounta, it teamed up with Team Lyoko to eliminate the Marabounta, an immediate threat. It also refrained from attacking the Factory in seasons 1 and 2, for obvious reasons (though more than once it did deactivate the Scanners in a failed attempt to kill the warriors). However that weakness was eliminated, when it escaped from the Supercomputer at the end of the second season. From that point on it tried its hardest to destroy the factory (more in the fourth season instead of the third season), so to eliminate the Lyoko Warriors' constant interference once and for all.

Appearance

As stated above, X.A.N.A. is a multi-agent program, and because of this doesn't have a physical manifestation like humans do. Even its monsters are just its servants that it created, not X.A.N.A. itself. Some fans believe that X.A.N.A. is actually a spectre, but it has been proven spectres are not actually X.A.N.A., just extensions of his will. In the second season, X.A.N.A. possessed people, but once again, even that was just X.A.N.A. inside a person's body, and not X.A.N.A. itself. The same applies for polymorphic clones. The only thing one could count as being X.A.N.A. is the Eye of X.A.N.A., which is just a symbol. In fact, since that same symbol is seen on the platforms of the Towers, on the Supercomputer, on the Transport Orb, and on the Core of Lyoko in Carthage, the Eye of X.A.N.A. is more likely to be the symbol of all of Lyoko, not X.A.N.A. alone. The only real physical incarnation of X.A.N.A. is seen in Fight to the Finish. Just as X.A.N.A. is being destroyed, its ghost is forced out of William and is seen writhing and screaming in agony and pain, and right before it disappears a human face is seen.

Behind the Scenes

X.A.N.A. is voiced by David Gasman in the American version of Code: LYOKO, whom also voices Herb, Jim, and William. In the original pilot Garage Kids, Lyoko was called Xanadu, and X.A.N.A. is based on that name. As of the most recent episode, Echoes , it is still unknown what X.A.N.A. stands for.