Code lyoko who is xana

XANA's nature. And it activates towers on Lyoko to gain access to your world. Relationships between XANA and supercomputers: from its power to its demise. Birth and development of XANA. XANA's name, appearance and symbolisation. Can you see the sign of XANA? XANA's reflection and feelings XANA seen by fans.

Remember me. Who is XANA? An elementary question for the series, for which we waited a long time before finding the answer It's a very nebulous domain to which this page will take you, giving you a maximum of possible answers!

What's that? We only found the answer to this recently and a number of hypotheses are around: - XANA was, for some fans, a computer virus which had infected the Supercomputer, making it go crazy. So the threat could have come from the outside! This theory couldn't be viable, because it would take a virus with unquestionable power to be able to infest a machine as complex as the Supercomputer and use it in such a way!

Even supposing this could be possible, nothing could explain why the virus decided to use the machine to destroy the world, unless it understands exactly how the Supercomputer works! It has achieved self-awareness and autonomy, and it's trying to eliminate us now. XANA became autonomous by itself, without any outside intervention! So it's a multi-agent program! It's able to increase in power by itself and has become self-aware, making it a very dangerous program.

To explain that, a little return to the source is in order! We now know that XANA is a program that acts on the heroes' Supercomputer, then on other machines of the same time.

Now we have to wonder what links exist between them, and just how much control XANA holds over it. XANA is therefore inevitably bound to Lyoko because one of the Supercomputer's main functions is to generate the virtual world!

So we have to notice that if it doesn't generate a virtual world, a supercomputer is useless to XANA we can still imagine it using Notepad to write its memories But well It's for this reason that XANA will create a Replika in everything it infects: the virtual worlds not only create a bridge to the real world for XANA, they also give it power. You don't need to be a Code Lyoko specialist to have an idea of the possibilities available to XANA on a virtual world. The ones we have the most examples of is its ability to activate towers on the Sectors, and the one that allows it to create monsters, and more of them each time!

It's better to concentrate on the limits of the influence XANA has on the virtual world and the Supercomputer in general! Until episode 52, XANA doesn't seem to be an incontestable master! What was it missing? The Keys to Lyoko maybe Fortunately for the heroes, some areas of the Supercomputer are secured! Though Jeremy is incapable of virtualising the Lyoko Warriors right in front of a tower, XANA virtualises its monsters wherever it wants, whenever it wants!

When XANA activates towers, it can use the Supercomputer's power to influence electrical and computer networks all around the world! Considering the returns launched by Franz Hopper and the good hundred or so triggered by Jeremy, we understand that XANA benefits from considerable extra power. Beside the Supercomputer, its range of action is more limited, overshadowed by Jeremy! The virus will always find a way to access data it needs, as the creation of the Scyphozoa illustrates!

It rather moved through the Network to get to new Supercomputers it had infected. The program has therefore seen an evolution of status on two scales. The link it had with Lyoko is reduced because XANA deserted the Supercomputer, only keeping a partial connection with it. During season 3, so in the first phase of the declin, XANA is still somewhat present, but its traps are less common and the defence is quite bad.

When we see the armies that XANA can mobilise in season 2, we can suppose that it would have destroyed the Core with little difficulty.

These machines are less powerful than Hopper's, and we can consider that XANA takes complete control of them. To exploit them, it uses their energy to conceive virtual worlds and place towers in them. The link XANA maintains with the infected supercomputers around the world is therefore similar to the one it maintains with Hopper's Supercomputer from episode 52 onwards.

Cutting one of them off and destroying it simply deprives XANA of their energy, instead of trapping it inside. In the end, XANA abandoned Lyoko and the Supercomputer in the factory, on which it exercised partial control, to flee to new supercomputers and create massive amounts of Replikas. XANA has also gained power: indeed, even though it deserted the most powerful of all the supercomputers let's not forget that Hopper's machine is the only one capable of generating a virtual world made up of multiple Sectors and not just one , it infected so many less powerful others that it largely gained enough power to more than make up the difference.

The only counterpower that can act there is Aelita, who can use the Code Lyoko to deactivate towers. The only way the heroes have to get rid of a Replika is to destroy the machine that generates it. Shutting down Hopper's Supercomputer appeared to be an efficient way to force XANA into hibernation and end the fight, assuring its definitive sleep if the machine was never turned on again.

Destroying it could have been a way to make the virus disappear. When it fled into the Global Network, the heroes only had but a few solutions: Destroy all the supercomputers infected by the program, or deactivate them. The method revealing to be impossible to execute from start all the way to finish, Jeremy opted for another way to end the enemy program: create another multi-agent program with similar properties to XANA's, in particular the ability to spread throughout the Network.

For those who like to believe that their favourite villain is not yet dead, we can find a possibility of escape: To survive, XANA could take refuge in a single supercomputer and cut off its access to the Internet and the Network.

This way, Jeremy's multi-agent program shouldn't reach it. That said, XANA could be back to a situation that's even worse than what it started with: a prisoner of and dependent on a single machine, a machine with no access to the Network or to a virtual world to prepare attacks with. Concerning the strict context of the series, XANA's time is well and truly over. It has achieved self-awareness and autonomy, and it's trying to eliminate us now! The AI came to life not long after Lyoko, created by Franz Hopper to destroy the military program the professor had unknowingly helped to build!

This remains a supposition, because we can then raise the next question: did Hopper expect XANA to hold so much power over the virtual world? It's difficult to imagine XANA as a submissive and wise program, but this is nevertheless what it should have been in the beginning!

But one of the features of multi-agent programs is the one that allows them to gain power and intelligence on their own! In XANA's case, the program is without contest the most powerful in the world, because it became smart enough to achieve consciousness!

XANA, being a program, has not developed much of a personality. Nevertheless, it often seems that XANA has specific attributes. For one, it is incredibly intelligent, able to calculate attacks to be timed and very specific. XANA is also very cunning and deceptive, often hiding its intentions until the last moment. XANA also has a moderate understanding of human emotions, though only to a certain degree; it cannot grasp complex emotions like friendship, love, and compassion it could, however, understand sexual desire, as it took the form of Yumi to seduce Jeremie , but can easily understand ones such as anger and envy.

It seems to have a particular "hatred" of Jeremie as well. The only thing it values above Team Lyoko 's destruction is its own survival, as seen in Marabounta when it briefly teamed up with them to eliminate the Marabounta , an immediate threat to its existence.

It also refuses to attack the Factory in seasons 1 and 2 , since at the time it was still housed within the Supercomputer. It had a need to get out of the Supercomputer, as its link to it prevented it from using more forceful attacks. As stated above, XANA is basically a program, and does not actually have a physical manifestation. The only tangible hint of an appearance to attribute to it is its Eye. In Season 1 , it mainly possessed inanimate objects. It also used polymorphic clones, which are imitations of other humans who, for the most part, already exist.

It is an malevolent program bent on destroying mankind and taking over the world. The Lyoko Warriors are the only one who stand in its way.

After its supposed destruction, X. It lives as pure data inside the system that exists as red, pulsating energies that run through the Lyoko Wires. The spectres it manifests are black ghostly entities that are data given physical form and are the closest it has to a true form on Earth.

Even then, they are just extensions of itself that serve as its means of earthly actions, while its core program remains in the Supercomputer.

It manifested its presence into a demonic caricature figure of the false Jeremie, with sharp nails, spiky hair, and an unnatural aura. But, the closest thing to a real appearance was in Fight to the Finish. While X.

It is highly intelligent, able to access vast knowledge, build technology, calculate attacks, and predict human behavior.

It is also cunning, often hiding its intentions until the last moment. However, it only knows theories and logical patterns, incapable of grasping concepts like love, friendship, or compassion, but can easily understand hatred, envy, and desire.

As spectres, X. Despite its chaotic and destructive nature, X. It avoids destroying the Supercomputer while still bound to it and helps the Lyoko Warriors destroy the Marabounta. It also wouldn't risk destroying the key to its goals, namely Aelita whom it needed to escape the machine and lure out Franz Hopper.

The Lyoko Warriors are X. It considers them obstacles to be destroyed and attacks them relentlessly, would take any chances to get rid of them, and has no qualms with using them as tools. He is the enemy that X. It considers him an even bigger threat than the Lyoko Warriors, so much that it was willing to spare Aelita and the team from certain death because she is vital to drawing him out. It was initially bound to the machine, but escaped into the network after stealing the Keys to Lyoko , which also lets it create Replikas in other infected supercomputers.

Its capabilities are listed below:. Using Towers, X. Through them, X. After growing stronger, X. Only Lyoko Warriors cannot be controlled. They return to normal or disappear when their Towers deactivate and people have no memory of what happened. With Towers, X. On Lyoko, X. It also uses programs to alter environments, imprison enemies, create illusions, plant bugs or viruses, manipulate incomplete warriors, create equipment and vehicles, etc.

Using the power of its Replikas, X. His enemies have discovered his activities and are trying to capture him. To finish the virtual world of Lyoko he would use to escape them, he goes back in time to repeat the same day until he completes the virtual world.

Consequently, this causes X. Once Franz Hopper and his daughter virtualize themselves, X. Franz tries to use reason, but it has become too powerful and a threat to mankind, leaving him no choice but to shut down the Supercomputer.

Jeremie sends Odd , Ulrich , and Yumi to Lyoko to deactivate the Tower and decide to let him work on materializing Aelita, since they know how to neutralize X. A, officially becoming the Lyoko Warriors. While Jeremie researches materialization, X. By activating Towers on Lyoko, it is capable of hacking networks to possess machines and cause electrical phenomena, but also manifests spectres from outlets to possess outside material or animals to exploit at will.

The group thwart its attacks at every turn and erase the damage caused with returns to the past. When Aelita's materialization program is complete, X. But, after Aelita was materialized, Jeremie discovers that X. This alteration has ensured X. It sends one of them which successfully defeats all three warriors, but they manage to outwit two of them guarding an activated Tower and thwart X.

Later, the group discovers a fifth sector where Lyoko's secrets and X. The team regularly venture there to mine through X. It now wants the Keys to Lyoko inside Aelita's memory, so it can use them to escape the Supercomputer and into the world network. However, until X. It is revealed that returns to the past make X. It used a trap inside recovered data to take over time reversions, repeating the same day until it can possess humans, making them pixelized , empowered agents to attack with or follow its orders on Earth, like kidnapping Aelita to send to Lyoko.

However, X. It could only control Jeremie to destroy Franz Hopper's diary, but he copied the data beforehand and got virtualized to prevent further possessions. When Jeremie's Marabounta monster went out of control, it sends monsters to protect Aelita and helps the group destroy it to preserve her memory and the virtual world.