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"HAHAHAHAHA, YOU ARE GOING TO DIE! HAHAHAHA!"
–X.A.N.A. itself speaking to the Lyoko Warriors in Ghost Channel

"A multi-agent computer program I created. It has achieved self-awareness and autonomy, and it's trying to eliminate us now."
–Franz Hopper explaining to his daughter about how he created X.A.N.A. in Aelita.

X.A.N.A. (or simply XANA) is the main antagonist of Code Lyoko.

It is an artificially intelligent multi-agent computer program created by Waldo Schaeffer in order to destroy Project Carthage, but its power and intelligence grew thanks to the Supercomputer's Time Reversion, allowing it to gain consciousness and grow hostile towards its creator and humanity as a whole, changing its purpose to conquering the world.

Waldo shut down the Supercomputer after realizing how corrupted his creation became but after a decade, was reactivated and seeks to destroy the Lyoko Warriors to prevent them from trying to destroy it by escaping the Supercomputer and infecting the global network. Despite succeeding in this and killing its creator, X.A.N.A. finally met its end when Jeremie Belpois activated his own multi-agent system designed to destroy all of XANA's Replikas and succeeding in eradicating the hostile program once and for all.

In the non-canon continuity, Code Lyoko Evolution, X.A.N.A. instead returned by infecting another virtual world known as the Cortex and planned to recover the source codes that it hid inside of Aelita Schaeffer, Ulrich Stern, Yumi Ishiyama and Odd Della Robbia, in order to regain control of the network again. However, after deactivating both the Cortex and Lyoko again before X.A.N.A. could regain all of its source code, the Lyoko Warriors succeeding in once again destroying XANA, with no chance of return.

Appearance

X.A.N.A. is a computer program that has neither physical or digital form. It keeps an unseen presence inside Lyoko's systems and generates red, pulsating energies that run through the Lyoko Wires when activating a Tower. The specters it manifests into the real world are black, ghostly entities that are extensions of its multi-agent system and are the closest thing it has to physical existence.

X.A.N.A.'s only real incarnation was in Ghost Channel, masquerading as Jeremie inside a Simulation Bubble meant to imprison Ulrich, Yumi and Odd. It manifested its presence into a monstrous caricature figure of Jeremie, with sharp nails, spiky hair, white glowing eyes and an unnatural aura. In The Key, X.A.N.A. appeared in the form of a massive, whirling specter escaping the Supercomputer above the factory. But the closest thing to a real appearance was in Fight to the Finish, while X.A.N.A. was being destroyed everywhere in the Digital Sea by Jeremie's multi-agent antivirus, the specter that was possessing William was forced out and became a giant entity with its eye symbol on the chest, screaming in agony before it disappears.

Personality

X.A.N.A. is an psychopathic, hostile and semi-sentient Artificial Intelligence based on a multi-agent system that is solely bent on world domination. It is incredibly intelligent, able to calculate attacks and schemes, build advanced technology, even predict behavior patterns to use to its advantage. However, it can only know theories and logical patterns due to its innate nature as a machine. X.A.N.A. can easily understand base emotions like anger, fear, jealousy, and desire, but is unable to grasp the complex nature of love, compassion, and friendship.

As specters on Earth, X.A.N.A. displays its true self. It acts normal to avoid attention, calculating when working to fulfill schemes, and is hostile, ruthless, and sadistic when attacking. It has also displayed arrogance, mocked its enemies, and shown begrudging respect on rare occasion.

As the series progresses, its power, intellect, and motives evolve and become more complex. At first, X.A.N.A. launches random attacks on its enemies (most likely to force more time reversions to launch and increase its power), while keeping the Supercomputer online to survive. As it grows in power, X.A.N.A. figures out how to escape the confines of the Supercomputer and into the world network, by stealing the Keys to Lyoko from Aelita's memory. Once it succeeds, X.A.N.A. infects other supercomputers around the world in order to build weapons and robot armies to take over the Earth, while working to destroy Lyoko and kill Franz Hopper in addition to fighting the team to eliminate all of its obstacles.

As a program, X.A.N.A. is a logical entity despite its extremely chaotic nature, acting only for its own benefit. It was determined to keep the Supercomputer online to survive before its escape and helped the team destroy the Marabounta, but only to keep Aelita's memory intact and save itself from the monster. Also, the team have used its own logical nature against it more than once, making it thwart its own plans by threatening things it values, such as in Hot Shower, where Aelita has Odd devirtualize her in order to give X.A.N.A. an ultimatum: either it allows the Supercomputer to be destroyed along with Aelita whom it desired to capture alive or destroy the meteorite threatening her and the Supercomputer, thus resulting in X.A.N.A. forfeiting its plan.

Relationships

Lyoko Warriors

The Lyoko Warriors are X.A.N.A.'s mortal enemies, thwarting its attacks at every turn. It considers them to be troublesome obstacles and attacks them relentlessly, would take any chances to get rid of them, and has no qualms about using them as tools at the same time. X.A.N.A. also has different views of each and every one of them:

Jeremie Belpois: X.A.N.A. targets Jeremie the most out of everyone since he is the only one who can use the lab interface and because it sees him as the source of the group's leadership. It believes that he is the reason for their high success rate. When X.A.N.A. made a clone of him, it remarked that it "was almost proud to resemble him", showing a begrudging respect for the brains of the group due to his high intellect.
Aelita Schaeffer: She is the only one out of the group who can deactivate its Towers, making her very dangerous. However, her unique abilities and connection to the past makes her valuable to X.A.N.A.'s larger objectives. From the Keys to Lyoko in her memory, destroying surface sectors, or luring out Franz Hopper, it always tries to capture and exploit her whenever possible as it views her to be very useful after she was materialized.
Yumi Ishiyama: It sees Yumi as one of the more mature and competent of the group. It uses her the most to accomplish its plans and always tries to devirtualize her the most out of the three core fighters.
Odd Della Robbia: X.A.N.A. just sees Odd as another annoyance. It even mocked him when its polymorph took his appearance after he suggested that it "turns into a wimp," but seems to respect him enough to have monsters listen to his orders when fighting the Marabounta.
Ulrich Stern: It knows Ulrich is the best fighter and usually fights by outnumbering him on Lyoko. It once took over his body when his mind was separated from it to attack the Core of Lyoko.
William Dunbar: X.A.N.A. noticed that William has the most strength and potential out of the Lyoko Warriors. It immediately used the Scyphozoa to possess him on his first trip to Lyoko and makes him its most dangerous minion in the last season. Even after he was freed, X.A.N.A. tried to manipulate him into rejoining its side in Evolution, showing it values his potential as a warrior and worthy agent.

Franz Hopper

He is the one that X.A.N.A. fears the most, being the one who created X.A.N.A. and understands how the program works as well as how to destroy it, along with the fact that he is the reason the team keeps surviving its most devastating moves. It considers him an even bigger threat than the Lyoko Warriors, so much that it was willing to spare Aelita and her friends from certain death because she is vital to drawing him out. X.A.N.A. is aware that Franz Hopper and the Lyoko Warriors working together can surely bring about its destruction.

Powers and Abilities

X.A.N.A. is an extremely intelligent and powerful multi-agent system that has infected the Supercomputer that holds Lyoko and exploits its capabilities. It was initially bound to the machine, until it escaped into the network after stealing the Keys to Lyoko, which also lets it build Replikas in other infected supercomputers. Its capabilities are listed below:

Tower Control

Tour carthage-1- — X.A.N.A. activating a tower.

X.A.N.A. activates Towers, known by pulsations, to act in the real world. It can only be stopped by deactivating them. With Towers, X.A.N.A. can take over networks or manifest specters from its multi-agent system, which are ghostly extensions that let it interact with the real world.

On Earth, it can hack networks, control all forms of electromagnetic phenomena, and possess any targets (electronics, natural elements, inanimate objects, animals, etc.) like a virus to manipulate at will to attack the real world. After evolving further, X.A.N.A. can take over humans or manifest polymorphic specters to follow its orders on Earth as pixelized vessels with its spectral and electrical powers. Only the Lyoko Warriors cannot be controlled because being virtualized to Lyoko gives them resistance. Its vessels return to normal or simply disappear when their Towers deactivate, and victims do not remember what happened.

Also, X.A.N.A. can activate Towers to materialize or teleport minions to Earth through Scanners or Replikas, control technology it has built, or show visions through a psychic link.

Monsters & Programs

On Lyoko, X.A.N.A. virtualizes deadly monsters to fight enemies and attack targets, and the Scyphozoa to steal digital memory or possess warriors on Lyoko. It can also alter environments, create virtual prisons, modify incomplete warriors, plant bugs or viruses, program equipment and vehicles, etc.

Using its Replika network, X.A.N.A. can send the Kolossus, its largest and most powerful monster and the ultimate weapon to use on Lyoko or any of its Replikas.

Biography

Origin

X.A.N.A. was created by a computer scientist named Waldo Schaeffer, who later changed his name to Franz Hopper in order to hide his identity from his enemies, to destroy Project Carthage. Despite his efforts to throw them off his trail, his enemies learned of his activities and pursue him. To escape them, he uses time reversions to give him all the time needed to perfect his virtual world Lyoko to be a safe place to live. Consequently, this caused X.A.N.A. to evolve until it becomes self-aware. Once Franz Hopper and his daughter were virtualized, it rebels against them by trapping them in Lyoko and trying to eliminate them. Franz tries to reason with X.A.N.A. but it has grown too powerful and become a threat to mankind, forcing him to shut down the Supercomputer.

Awakening

18 evil crazy wires — X.A.N.A. controlling cables.

X.A.N.A. was reawakened when Jeremie reactivates the Supercomputer, discovering Aelita and Lyoko. It sends monsters after Aelita and activates a Tower to attack with electricity and machines, then manifests a lightning specter after those involved with Lyoko. Jeremie sends Odd, Ulrich, and Yumi to Lyoko to deactivate the Tower and let him continue his work on Aelita's materialization, knowing how to neutralize X.A.N.A, officially becoming the Lyoko Warriors.

TeddyGodzilla XANA attack image 1 — X.A.N.A. using a specter to launch an attack.

While Jeremie works on materialization, X.A.N.A. launches random attacks on humanity and its enemies by using Towers to hack networks to control machines, generate electrical phenomena, or manifest specters to possess targets to bend to its will, while guarding its Towers with monsters and virtual traps on Lyoko. The group continue fighting X.A.N.A., thwarting its attacks at every turn and fixing the damage caused with time reversions.

When the heroes finally manage to materialize Aelita with Code: Earth, X.A.N.A. stole her memories of her life on Earth to bind her fate to the Supercomputer, putting her into a lethal coma when the team shut the machine down, which ensures X.A.N.A.'s survival for now.

Growing Power

New Order Charge up lasers image 1 — X.A.N.A.'s new monster.

X.A.N.A. is somehow evolving and getting stronger, creating new monsters on Lyoko, displayed by the Tarantulas. 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.A.N.A.'s latest attack.

The heroes discover the Hermitage, which is owned by the mysterious Franz Hopper. Later, the group discovers a fifth sector on Lyoko where X.A.N.A. lives and all its data can be accessed, but it's guarded by Creeper and Manta monsters, and trap mechanisms linked to a countdown procedure. The team regularly venture there to mine through X.A.N.A.'s own data relating to the virus tying Aelita to X.A.N.A. with the hope of freeing her.

Unchartered Territory Ulrich sees the Scyphozoa image 2 — The Scyphozoa stealing Aelita's memory.

X.A.N.A. develops greater objectives as its power grows. While still fighting the heroes, it wants to acquire the Keys to Lyoko inside Aelita's memory to gain access to the world network. To that end, X.A.N.A. creates the Scyphozoa to extract digital memory from anything and launches schemes to lure Aelita to Lyoko for its monster to capture her without interference. Until X.A.N.A. gets the keys, it has to be careful to keep her alive no matter what.

The group discovers that the returns to the past are making X.A.N.A. stronger, confirmed when it took control of the function to repeat 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.A.N.A. cannot possess Lyoko Warriors, since it could only control Jeremie to destroy the newly discovered diary of Franz Hopper, who copied the data beforehand and got virtualized to prevent further possessions.

X.A.N.A. and the heroes aid each other out of necessity on two occasions. When Jeremie created the Marabounta and went out of control, it sends monsters to protect Aelita and help the team destroy it, because it still needs Aelita intact. Then, when the Supercomputer's nuclear battery fails, putting it and Aelita at risk of dying, X.A.N.A. possesses a criminal to steal another and kidnaps Jeremie to make him change the battery, since it knows they both have an interest in keeping the machine online. Once he puts in the battery, X.A.N.A.'s pawn tries to kill him and fails.

Clone polymorph — A polymorphic specter.

As more proof of its growing power. X.A.N.A. can manifest polymorphic specters, ghosts with pixelized abilities that appear as clones of people or shapeshifters that transform at will. Since it cannot control Lyoko Warriors, this allows X.A.N.A. to use their identities to deceive them, ambush them on Lyoko, or impersonate Franz Hopper to gain their trust.

Later, the real Franz Hopper contacts the group and helps decrypt his diary, despite X.A.N.A.'s efforts to stop him in the former or steal their data in the latter. Following the decryption, the information reveals that Franz Hopper created X.A.N.A. and Lyoko, but also that Aelita is his daughter and he virtualized her to Lyoko along with himself.

The Key - X.A.N.A — X.A.N.A. frees itself from the Supercomputer in *The Key*.

Jeremie also learns from the diary what X.A.N.A. seeks within Aelita's memory and that she doesn't have a virus, but a missing fragment. X.A.N.A. uses a fake to lure the heroes into a trap that devirtualizes her allies and allows the Scyphozoa to successfully steal her memory and the Keys to Lyoko, giving X.A.N.A. everything it needs to escape the Supercomputer. Aelita seemed to perish as a result, but Franz Hopper restores her to life and the missing part of herself: the memories of her former life on Earth, at last making her fully human. However, X.A.N.A. is no longer bound to the Supercomputer anymore, making it more dangerous than ever.

Targeting Lyoko

Coreoflyoko — X.A.N.A.'s monsters attacking the Core of Lyoko.

X.A.N.A.'s multi-agent system has now expanded to the world network. It hasn't attacked the heroes since it freed itself, thinking it is beyond their reach. When Jeremie upgrades the Superscan to find X.A.N.A, it responds by sending monsters to attack the Core of Lyoko to wipe out the virtual world, intending to keep the heroes from discovering its network schemes. The group stops its assault in the end.

Codexana — X.A.N.A.'s code being entered

Having no more need for the Supercomputer, X.A.N.A. is free to launch attacks on Lyoko itself, which is the team's only means of fighting. To accomplish this, it targets the Core of Lyoko in the virtual world with monster attacks, while using diversions to keep the heroes busy or attacks the Supercomputer directly using possessed humans and other physical methods.

Additionally, X.A.N.A. also destroys all of Lyoko's surface sectors by using the Scyphozoa to possess Aelita with its virus code and make her input the code into the sector's Way Towers, allowing X.A.N.A. to erase the corresponding sectors completely. It takes these actions to make the Transport Orb inaccessible to the team. It succeeds in the order of Forest, Desert, Ice, and Mountain, but Jeremie finds the means to virtualize the team directly to Sector 5.

Xanapossessedwilliam — X.A.N.A. transforming William

Initially reluctant, the team decides to recruit William Dunbar. However, he gets cocky during his first mission, allowing X.A.N.A. to use the Scyphozoa to possess him. It puts William at the head of a Creeper army focused on the Core of Lyoko, who quickly destroy its shields with their combined firepower. When the warriors arrive, he defeats them all and successfully destroys the Core, wiping out Lyoko and rendering the team unable to fight X.A.N.A. now. William was left in the digital void, but X.A.N.A. retrieves and enslaves him.

World Domination Plans

12 hello handsome — X.A.N.A.'s newest minion

Through a message sent by Franz Hopper, Jeremie recreates Lyoko. Soon after they do, X.A.N.A. sends William to the real world from the Scanners to kidnap Aelita and throw her into the Digital Sea. The group saves her and defeats William, but know he is an agent of X.A.N.A. now. To avoid suspicion about his disappearance at the academy, the group create their own William clone.

X.A.N.A. has made William its general and most dangerous weapon. It has made him a fighter that is more than a match for any warrior, lets him command its monsters, and gave him the Black Manta to summon and ride on. He also has a copy of the Keys to Lyoko, allowing him to influence or deactivate Towers activated by others. Finally, X.A.N.A. can materialize him from the Scanners as a pixelized human without using a Tower for missions on Earth.

While X.A.N.A. is still determined to destroy the Lyoko Warriors and the Supercomputer, it decides Franz Hopper is the biggest threat. Since he's the reason the team always recovers and X.A.N.A. knows that Franz joining forces with the team would be the ultimate threat. To deal with him, it schemes to throw Aelita into the Digital Sea, knowing he would risk his life to save his daughter. Meanwhile, inside the world network, X.A.N.A. infects other supercomputers, putting Replikas inside them, smaller Lyoko copies. They are extensions that let it survive outside the Supercomputer and take over secret laboratories and military bases on Earth for its own purposes.

When the heroes build their own virtual ship, the Skidbladnir, to counter X.A.N.A.'s network schemes, it creates virtual sea monsters and the Rorkal Nav Skid for William to fight them in the Digital Sea. Inside Replika sectors, it defends itself by sending Lyoko monsters and William to attack and activates Towers to deal with the teleported heroes sent to its Earth facilities to destroy their supercomputers. It can also have William deactivate their Towers to quickly end their missions. Also, X.A.N.A. launches attacks and programs traps that specifically target their virtual ship to prevent any further interference but continues to fail.

Kolossus Code Lyoko — The mighty Kolossus.

Near the end of the series, X.A.N.A. teleports William to its Ice Replika base to fight the team, which allows them to access data on how it controls him, then uses the power of all its Replikas to create the strongest monster: "the Kolossus," a massive titan that can devirtualize enemies instantly. They manage to escape with their ship intact and discover that X.A.N.A. controls hundreds of Replikas in the network.

After which, Jeremie creates a program to free William and an incomplete one to destroy X.A.N.A. The heroes go back to the Ice Replika for the former task where they discover its plan to create weapons and armies of robots for world conquest. They manage to free William, but the Kolossus destroys the Skidbladnir. X.A.N.A. may have lost William, but still has the Kolossus and built an army capable of world domination. Jeremie's multi-agent program is their only hope of stopping X.A.N.A.'s evil ambitions.

The End of X.A.N.A.

Xana 1 — X.A.N.A.'s final moments in the real world as its eradicated by Jeremie's Anti-X.A.N.A. Program.

X.A.N.A. engages its final assault when the group and Franz Hopper meet to launch their Anti-X.A.N.A. Program. It possesses William to knock out Jeremie and try to unplug the Scanners, hoping to destroy all its enemies using the Kolossus and Mantas. While Ulrich manages to defeat the Kolossus, Franz Hopper sacrifices himself to provide the energy for Aelita to launch the program, appearing as a swarm of agents that destroys all of its monsters before spreading to the other four sectors of Lyoko, then making its way out into the network where it destroys all its Replikas one by one.

As this happens, the specter possessing William is forced out of him, showing X.A.N.A. in agony and glitching out due to its entire multi-agent system being destroyed everywhere. Then, it finally fades into oblivion while its activated Tower returns to normal as the hostile program is erased for good. Ultimately, the Lyoko Warriors are successful in destroying X.A.N.A. forever and ensuring it will never return.

Other Continuities

X.A.N.A. reappears in the live-action Evolution sequel and the alternate continuity of the Chronicles novel series. It should be noted that neither of the two continuities are completely canon, as Evolution was disowned by the original showrunners, who confirmed that only a few of their ideas made it into the show and that the events within were not canon.^[1]^[2] Similarly, while the novels were written with the original documents in hand, not all of their events are noted to be canon either.

Code Lyoko: Evolution

Xana returned — A Tower activated, signifying the rebirth of X.A.N.A..

In the live-action Evolution sequel, X.A.N.A. has survived its demise in the previous series by hiding in the supercomputer that generates an unknown Replika, called the Cortex. X.A.N.A. causes strange bugs in the Kadic school's computers and short circuits, which compels the group to reactivate the Supercomputer and restore Lyoko, renewing their struggle with their old enemy.

Furthermore, X.A.N.A. had injected its own Source Codes into the warriors in their last battle, which contain fragments of its power. It now sends specters to Earth to steal back its source codes from the heroes, and gradually recover its full strength and take over the world network again. At the same time, X.A.N.A. also keeps itself hidden from the owner of the Cortex, Professor Tyron, so he does not do anything rash to purge it from his systems.

Cortexball dissapearing — The disintegration of the Cortex, where X.A.N.A. now lives.

Throughout this series near the end, X.A.N.A. has gradually recovered 95% of its full power from the Lyoko Warriors, but the group have also diligently worked on a virus that would wipe out the Cortex and X.A.N.A. too. They were forced to implant the virus immediately, but Tyron shuts down his supercomputer to avoid losing all his work while the virus was uploaded.

Unless Tyron finds an antivirus, X.A.N.A. will be rendered eternally frozen as long as the Cortex stays turned off. If Lyoko stays active, it will escape destruction again, so the group shuts down the Supercomputer, but will remain on guard if X.A.N.A. survives.

Code Lyoko: Chronicles

In this alternate continuity, the events of the first four seasons are severely streamlined as the first book indicates. While the events of the prequel and the first season are followed relatively the same as before, the climax of the rest of the series is compressed into one event. Franz Hopper reveals himself to the group before any equivalent of The Key occurs. He informs the group how to destroy X.A.N.A., by launching the multi-agent program into the Core of Lyoko. Hopper sacrifices himself to provide the energy needed, while at the same time restoring Aelita's memories and informing the group about her mother.

As for X.A.N.A., the entity's core is destroyed. It is purged and ejected from Lyoko, left to drift in the network without its memories or core functions. Over the course of several months, however, X.A.N.A. begins to gain strength back, and searches for a human vessel in lieu of a virtual world. Ultimately, it looks for a vessel that it can use to infiltrate Kadic without suspicion, so as to kill the Lyoko Warriors.

Choosing a girl known as Eva Skinner, X.A.N.A. began to settle into its new circumstances, and learned of the Lyoko Warriors researching the history of the Supercomputer. Seeing a chance to gain its strength back, X.A.N.A. befriended the group, but planned on destroying them from the inside out. Over a time period, it gradually gained enough trust that they "informed" Eva about the supercomputer, Franz Hopper, and their search for Anthea Hopper. Seducing Odd, X.A.N.A. managed to brainwash the boy, laying the groundwork for its return.

X.A.N.A. however, would later learn from Hopper's archives multiple shocking truths: that he had been made with altruistic purposes in mind, to be the Guardian of Lyoko and the First City. Moreover, he had been close friends with Aelita, a friendship Hopper encouraged as a way to teach him human emotions. However, all this had been clouded when he was corrupted by leftover coding from a dark zone program, Project Carthage, whose templates Lyoko had been created from.

Shaken by this, as well as by the emotions that had gradually crept up on him the longer he stayed in the Lyoko Warriors' company, X.A.N.A sought out an opportunity to speak to Aelita alone and share what he remembered. While rightfully wary of the AI, whose identity had by now been ousted, she nevertheless agreed. Appearing to her as a young man greatly resembling William, X.A.N.A spent many hours talking with her. But though they rekindled their former friendship, the discussion ended in conflict when X.A.N.A. mistook her reluctance to help him as a declaration of war. Leaving her, he began preparations to dominate the world.

Aelita, not giving up, pursued him. She persuaded him to listen to his original programming and fight off the virus still infecting him. X.A.N.A. would thus ally himself permanently with humanity, helping the Lyoko Warriors to defeat a terrorist group that was hoping to use Lyoko as a substitute for Carthage. While X.A.N.A. seemingly sacrificed himself to upload a self-destruction program that would delete Lyoko for good, his programming was salvaged by Aelita, who managed to recreate X.A.N.A. and bring him into the real world as a human.

Trivia

X.A.N.A. was voiced by David Gasman in the English dub of Ghost Channel, the same actor who voices Herb, Jim and William.
X.A.N.A.'s name was derived from Xanadu in the 1941 film Citizen Kane.^[3] A similar, more explicit reference was in Code Lyoko's pilot Garage Kids, where, although X.A.N.A. itself didn't exist yet, the virtual world was named Xanadu instead of Lyoko.
- Sophie Decroisette also confirmed that X.A.N.A.'s name doesn't stand for anything.^[4]
Big Brother from the 1949 book 1984 served as inspiration for X.A.N.A., specifically for X.A.N.A.'s symbol resembling an eye and the slogan from the book: "Big Brother is watching you".^[3]
- X.A.N.A.'s symbol also resembles the logo of Tachibana General Laboratories from the anime Serial Experiments Lain, which served as one of the main sources of inspiration for Code Lyoko according to Thomas Romain.^[5]
- In-universe X.A.N.A.'s symbol is said to originate from Project Carthage.^[6]
Sophie Decroisette revealed that the writers received pressure from higher-ups to personify X.A.N.A., which they repeatedly fought against and tried to avoid doing as much as possible as "we wanted him to be an entity that no one can represent".^[3]^[7]
In Code Lyoko's original graphic bible, X.A.N.A. was originally the supercomputer itself and not a multi-agent system.^[8] It was said to have been discovered by Franz Hopper, who used it to build Lyoko as his own paradise. Hopper eventually disappeared during one of his visits to Lyoko, which was theorized as the cause for the bug that makes X.A.N.A. to want to attack Earth.
Since X.A.N.A. is a computer program, it's supposed to be genderless. However, everyone except Franz Hopper addresses X.A.N.A. by male pronouns in the main series. This originates from all nouns being either masculine or feminine in French, the show's original language, and there being no equivalent to "it".^[7] X.A.N.A. is specifically referred to as a "programme" (program), which is masculine. Decroisette notably prefers describing X.A.N.A. as an "entité" (entity), which is feminine. She admitted the "a" at the end of its name made her see X.A.N.A. as female, though said program was a more accurate term.
- In Fall of X.A.N.A. as well as the trailer for Quest for Infinity, X.A.N.A.'s pronunciations are female.
In the Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir episode "Hack-San", the titular sentimonster looks almost exactly like X.A.N.A.. One of the directors of the series, Wilfried Pain, later confirmed this is a reference to Code Lyoko.^[9]^[10]

Gallery

References

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v • e Lyoko
Characters	Franz Hopper • X.A.N.A. Lyoko Warriors: Jeremie Belpois • Aelita Schaeffer • Odd Della Robbia • Ulrich Stern • Yumi Ishiyama • William Dunbar
Locations	Sectors: Ice Sector • Desert Sector • Forest Sector • Mountain Sector • Sector Five (Arena • Celestial Dome • Core Zone • Data Tunnels • Skidbladnir Hangar • Heart of Lyoko) Other: Digital Sea • Virtual Limbo
Hardware	Factory Interface (Holomap) • Scanner • Supercomputer
Virtual Objects	Eye Scanner • Lyoko Wires • MegaPod • Overboard • Overbike • Overwing • Skidbladnir (Nav Skid) • Tower (Way Towers) • Transport Orb • Virtual World Shell
Programs	Annex Program • Anti-X.A.N.A. Program • Avatar • Codes (Lyoko • Earth • X.A.N.A. • Scipio) • Deletion • Devirtualization • Digital Genetic Code • Energize • ID Card • Keys to Lyoko • Life Point • Memory fragment • Pulsations • Sector Alteration Program • Simulation Bubble • Superscan • Telephone • Vehicle Virtualization Program
Weapons	Lyoko Warriors: Katana • Laser Arrow • Tessen Fans • Zweihänder X.A.N.A.'s Monsters: Circular Laser • Flying Mine • Hallucinogenic Beam • Laser • Pulse Beam
Powers	Catclimb • Energy Beam • Energy Fields • Enhanced Marksmanship • Feline Execution • Monster Riding • Second Sight • Second View • Shield • Super Smoke • Super Sprint • Telekinesis • Teleportation
Other	Eye of X.A.N.A. • Gunship • Virtual Weather

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 |name = X.A.N.A.
-|image = [[File:Eye of X.A.N.A..png|200px]]
+|image = [[File:XANASVG.svg|200px]]
+[[File:Xana.JPG]]
 |role = Main Antagonist
 |first = ''[[X.A.N.A. Awakens]]'' (chronologically)<br />''[[Teddygozilla]]'' (production)
 |engvoice = [[David Gasman]]
+}}
-|laactor = N/A}}
-{{Quote|"''HAHAHAHAHA, YOU ARE GOING TO DIE! HAHAHAHA!''"|X.A.N.A., physical form in ''[[Ghost Channel]]''}}
+{{Quote|"''HAHAHAHAHA, YOU ARE GOING TO DIE! HAHAHAHA!''"|X.A.N.A. itself speaking to the Lyoko Warriors in ''[[Ghost Channel]]''}}
-{{Quote|"''A super dangerous program, like a virus, which can control electricity. And it activates towers on Lyoko to gain access to your world.''"|Aelita about the malevolent artificial intelligence in ''[[X.A.N.A. Awakens, Part 2]]''}}
+{{Quote|"''A multi-agent computer program I created. It has achieved self-awareness and autonomy, and it's trying to eliminate us now.''"|[[Waldo Schaeffer|Franz Hopper]] explaining to [[Aelita Schaeffer|his daughter]] about how he created X.A.N.A. in [[Aelita]].}}
-'''X.A.N.A.''' (or simply '''XANA''') is the main antagonist of [[Code Lyoko]]. It is a malevolent computer program that has become a threat to all mankind. The only obstacles that stand in its way are the [[Lyoko Warriors]].
+'''X.A.N.A.''' (or simply '''XANA''') is the main antagonist of [[Code Lyoko]].
+It is an artificially intelligent multi-agent computer program created by [[Waldo Schaeffer]] in order to destroy [[Project Carthage]], but its power and intelligence grew thanks to the Supercomputer's [[Return to the Past|Time Reversion]], allowing it to gain consciousness and grow hostile towards its creator and humanity as a whole, changing its purpose to conquering the world.
-It has infected the [[Supercomputer]] that holds [[Lyoko]]. By activating [[Tower|Towers]], it can [[X.A.N.A.'s Attacks|attack]] in the real world and programs [[monsters]], alterations, and traps on Lyoko to fight its enemies.
+Waldo shut down the [[Supercomputer]] after realizing how corrupted his creation became but after a decade, was reactivated and seeks to destroy the [[Lyoko Warriors]] to prevent them from trying to destroy it by escaping the Supercomputer and infecting the global network. Despite succeeding in this and killing its creator, X.A.N.A. finally met its end when [[Jeremie Belpois]] activated [[Anti-X.A.N.A. Program|his own multi-agent system]] designed to destroy all of XANA's [[Replikas]] and succeeding in eradicating the hostile program once and for all.
-After its supposed destruction, X.A.N.A. managed to miraculously survive through the [[Cortex (Replika)|Cortex]], becoming even stronger than before in ''[[Code Lyoko Evolution]]''.
+'''In the non-canon continuity''', '''''[[Code Lyoko Evolution]]''''', X.A.N.A. instead returned by infecting another virtual world known as the [[Cortex]] and planned to recover the [[Source Codes|source codes]] that it hid inside of [[Aelita Schaeffer]], [[Ulrich Stern]], [[Yumi Ishiyama]] and [[Odd Della Robbia]], in order to regain control of the network again. However, after deactivating both the Cortex and Lyoko again before X.A.N.A. could regain all of its source code, the Lyoko Warriors succeeding in once again destroying XANA, with no chance of return.
 ==Appearance==
 [[File:Xana.JPG|thumb|left|X.A.N.A.'s true form in ''[[Fight to the Finish]]''.]]
-X.A.N.A. is a digital entity that is completely without a physical form. It lives as a sentient, electronic force in the machine that merely exists as [[Pulsations|red, pulsating energies]] that run through the [[Lyoko Wires]], revealing its presence in the virtual world and the [[Supercomputer]].
+X.A.N.A. is a computer program that has neither physical or digital form. It keeps an unseen presence inside Lyoko's systems and generates [[Pulsations|red, pulsating energies]] that run through the [[Lyoko Wires]] when activating a Tower. The [[Specter|specters]] it manifests into the real world are black, ghostly entities that are extensions of its multi-agent system and are the closest thing it has to physical existence.
+[[File:XANA.png|thumb|140x140px|XANA's only physical appearance]]
-The ghostly [[Spectre|spectres]] it generates may as well be its true form in the real world. Even then, they are just extensions that are its means of acting on Earth, while its true self remains safe in the virtual world.
+X.A.N.A.'s only real incarnation was in ''[[Ghost Channel]]'', masquerading as Jeremie inside a Simulation Bubble meant to imprison Ulrich, Yumi and Odd. It manifested its presence into a monstrous caricature figure of Jeremie, with sharp nails, spiky hair, white glowing eyes and an unnatural aura. In ''[[The Key]]'', X.A.N.A. appeared in the form of a massive, whirling specter escaping the Supercomputer above the factory. But the closest thing to a real appearance was in ''[[Fight to the Finish]]'', while X.A.N.A. was being destroyed everywhere in the Digital Sea by Jeremie's multi-agent antivirus, the specter that was possessing William was forced out and became a giant entity with its eye symbol on the chest, screaming in agony before it disappears.
-[[File:XANA.png|thumb|140x140px|XANA's only physical appearance]]X.A.N.A.'s only real incarnation was in ''[[Ghost Channel]]'', as a fake Jeremie inside a Simulation Bubble. 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]]''. When X.A.N.A. was being wiped out across the world network by Jeremie's multi-agent antivirus, the spectre that was using to control William was forced out and became a giant, formless being with its eye symbol on the chest, screaming and writhing in agony before it disappears.
 ==Personality==
+X.A.N.A. is an psychopathic, hostile and semi-sentient Artificial Intelligence based on a multi-agent system that is solely bent on world domination. It is incredibly intelligent, able to calculate attacks and schemes, build advanced technology, even predict behavior patterns to use to its advantage. However, it can only know theories and logical patterns due to its innate nature as a machine. X.A.N.A. can easily understand base emotions like anger, fear, jealousy, and desire, but is unable to grasp the complex nature of love, compassion, and friendship.
-X.A.N.A. is a multi-agent computer virus with a mind of its own. It has turned into a deadly enemy force bent on destruction and conquest. X.A.N.A. can calculate plans with its computing intellect, even use human feelings to deceive others, but is bound by logical patterns without human qualities, making it simple and predictable. It also has only theoretical knowledge of people and never repeats the same plan twice.
+As specters on Earth, X.A.N.A. displays its true self. It acts normal to avoid attention, calculating when working to fulfill schemes, and is hostile, ruthless, and sadistic when attacking. It has also displayed arrogance, mocked its enemies, and shown begrudging respect on rare occasion.
+As the series progresses, its power, intellect, and motives evolve and become more complex. At first, X.A.N.A. launches random attacks on its enemies (most likely to force more time reversions to launch and increase its power), while keeping the Supercomputer online to survive. As it grows in power, X.A.N.A. figures out how to escape the confines of the Supercomputer and into the world network, by stealing the Keys to Lyoko from Aelita's memory. Once it succeeds, X.A.N.A. infects other supercomputers around the world in order to build weapons and robot armies to take over the Earth, while working to destroy Lyoko and kill [[Waldo Schaeffer|Franz Hopper]] in addition to fighting the team to eliminate all of its obstacles.
-In the initial battles, X.A.N.A. launches random attacks on the team and the world. As its intelligence and cunning grows, X.A.N.A. develops greater ambitions. It wants to survive and eliminate all obstacles, destroy humanity, and take over the world network as the means to ultimate power. X.A.N.A. won't take any risks with its goals or survival, and will even spare its enemies or join forces with them for their sake.
+As a program, X.A.N.A. is a logical entity despite its extremely chaotic nature, acting only for its own benefit. It was determined to keep the Supercomputer online to survive before its escape and helped the team destroy the [[Marabounta (monster)|Marabounta]], but only to keep Aelita's memory intact and save itself from the monster. Also, the team have used its own logical nature against it more than once, making it thwart its own plans by threatening things it values, such as in [[Hot Shower]], where Aelita has Odd devirtualize her in order to give X.A.N.A. an ultimatum: either it allows the Supercomputer to be destroyed along with Aelita whom it desired to capture alive or destroy the meteorite threatening her and the Supercomputer, thus resulting in X.A.N.A. forfeiting its plan.
-Among the vessels and monsters that share its mind, X.A.N.A. appears to have the simple mindset of a hostile force with some intelligence. It is unrelenting, sadistic, and ruthless, can act deceitful to fool others, and becomes egomaniacal and mocking when having the advantage.
-==Character Relationships==
+==Relationships==
 ===[[Lyoko Warriors]]===
-The Lyoko Warriors are X.A.N.A.'s mortal enemies throughout the series. While usually targeting them physically, X.A.N.A. has occasionally infiltrated the group through either clones or possession in an attempt to sabotage their social dynamic from within, utilizing and manipulating emotions of jealousy, betrayal and flattery to varying degrees of success.
+The Lyoko Warriors are X.A.N.A.'s mortal enemies, thwarting its attacks at every turn. It considers them to be troublesome obstacles and attacks them relentlessly, would take any chances to get rid of them, and has no qualms about using them as tools at the same time. X.A.N.A. also has different views of each and every one of them:
+*'''[[Jeremie Belpois]]''': X.A.N.A. targets Jeremie the most out of everyone since he is the only one who can use the lab interface and because it sees him as the source of the group's leadership. It believes that he is the reason for their high success rate. When X.A.N.A. made a clone of him, it remarked that it "was almost proud to resemble him", showing a begrudging respect for the brains of the group due to his high intellect.
-It also has separate opinions to describe each and every one of them:
+*[[Aelita Schaeffer|'''Aelita Schaeffer''']]: She is the only one out of the group who can deactivate its Towers, making her very dangerous. However, her unique abilities and connection to the past makes her valuable to X.A.N.A.'s larger objectives. From the Keys to Lyoko in her memory, destroying surface sectors, or luring out Franz Hopper, it always tries to capture and exploit her whenever possible as it views her to be very useful after she was materialized.
-*'''[[Jeremie Belpois]]''': X.A.N.A. sees Jeremie as the biggest threat, thinking he would eventually become as smart as its creator and would figure out his work. Also, X.A.N.A. has the most respect for him such as when it made a spectre in his exact likeness, it said that it was "almost proud to resemble him."
+*'''[[Yumi Ishiyama]]''': It sees Yumi as one of the more mature and competent of the group. It uses her the most to accomplish its plans and always tries to devirtualize her the most out of the three core fighters.
-*[[Aelita Schaeffer|'''Aelita Schaeffer''']]: Through the series, X.A.N.A. has treated Aelita as a target, a hostage, a tool, and a lifeline. It wishes to control Aelita, given how it constantly needs her to further its plans, but frequently underestimates her drive and willpower.
+*'''[[Odd Della Robbia]]''': X.A.N.A. just sees Odd as another annoyance. It even mocked him when its polymorph took his appearance after he suggested that it "turns into a wimp," but seems to respect him enough to have monsters listen to his orders when fighting the [[Marabounta (monster)|Marabounta]].
-*'''[[Yumi Ishiyama]]''': X.A.N.A. seems to target Yumi more than the rest of the group, as her typical loner status makes her the most vulnerable. She is usually only able to survive by endurance alone.
-*'''[[Odd Della Robbia]]''': X.A.N.A. sees Odd as the most childish of the team. It even subtly mocked him, when its polymorph took his appearance after he suggested that it "turns into a wimp."
+*'''[[Ulrich Stern]]''': It knows Ulrich is the best fighter and usually fights by outnumbering him on Lyoko. It once took over his body when his mind was separated from it to attack the Core of Lyoko.
+*'''[[William Dunbar]]''': X.A.N.A. noticed that William has the most strength and potential out of the Lyoko Warriors. It immediately used the Scyphozoa to possess him on his first trip to Lyoko and makes him its most dangerous minion in the last season. Even after he was freed, X.A.N.A. tried to manipulate him into rejoining its side in [[Code Lyoko Evolution|''Evolution'']], showing it values his potential as a warrior and worthy agent.
-*'''[[Ulrich Stern]]''': X.A.N.A. knows Ulrich is the best fighter of the group, and as such targets him frequently. It usually fights by outnumbering him on Lyoko.
-*'''[[William Dunbar]]''': It witnessed William's superior abilities during his first time on Lyoko, and used the Scyphozoa to put him into its grip, making him into a powerful weapon to use against its enemies and advance its plans.
-*'''[[Eva Skinner]]''': In the ''Chronicles'' novel series, Eva joined their group of friends, but was really X.A.N.A.'s possessed pawn in order to destroy the group from within. X.A.N.A. barely learned anything about Eva's social life during its time possessing her, as it was instead far more interested in the social structure of humanity itself.
 ===[[Waldo Schaeffer|Franz Hopper]]===
-As X.A.N.A. knows that Franz can bring about its destruction, it is bent on taking out its creator. X.A.N.A. fears him the most and he is the reason the Lyoko Warriors keep coming back from their defeats. Its need to destroy Hopper takes priority over killing the Lyoko Warriors. In ''Hot Shower'', it was willing to spare them from certain death, because it needs Aelita as bait to draw out Hopper.
+He is the one that X.A.N.A. fears the most, being the one who created X.A.N.A. and understands how the program works as well as how to destroy it, along with the fact that he is the reason the team keeps surviving its most devastating moves. It considers him an even bigger threat than the Lyoko Warriors, so much that it was willing to spare Aelita and her friends from certain death because she is vital to drawing him out. X.A.N.A. is aware that Franz Hopper and the Lyoko Warriors working together can surely bring about its destruction.
 == Powers and Abilities ==
-[[File:VIRUS_Logo.jpg|thumb|160px|X.A.N.A.'s presence on a screen]]X.A.N.A. is a powerful computer virus that can take over systems, like the [[Supercomputer]] and [[Lyoko]] to exploit their capabilities. It is also a multi-agent system that sends extensions to act on Earth and infects other systems.
+[[File:VIRUS_Logo.jpg|thumb|180x180px|alt=]]X.A.N.A. is an extremely intelligent and powerful multi-agent system that has infected the Supercomputer that holds Lyoko and exploits its capabilities. It was initially bound to the machine, until it escaped into the network after stealing the [[Keys of Lyoko|Keys to Lyoko]], which also lets it build [[Replikas]] in other infected supercomputers. Its capabilities are listed below:
-It was initially bound to the Supercomputer and could be shut down. After getting the [[Keys of Lyoko|Keys to Lyoko]], X.A.N.A. can escape into the network to survive and create [[Replikas]] within infected machines. Its capabilities are listed below:
 ===[[Towers|Tower Control]]===
-[[File:Tour_carthage-1-.jpg|thumb|left|180px|X.A.N.A. activating a tower.]]
+[[File:Tour_carthage-1-.jpg|thumb|left|190x190px|X.A.N.A. activating a tower.|alt=]]
-X.A.N.A. activates [[towers|Towers]] on Lyoko, known by [[pulsations]], to act on Earth. The only way to stop its actions is by deactivating the Towers. On Earth, X.A.N.A. manifests parts of its multi-agent system as unearthly virus entities that infiltrate networks and emerge into the real world as [[spectres]] from outlets at will, ghostly creatures that let it interact with the real world.
+X.A.N.A. activates [[Towers]], known by [[pulsations]], to act in the real world. It can only be stopped by deactivating them. With Towers, X.A.N.A. can take over networks or manifest [[Specter|specters]] from its multi-agent system, which are ghostly extensions that let it interact with the real world.
-With spectres, X.A.N.A. can use unnatural abilities. The most notable is [[Possession|possessing]] objects or living things (machines, inanimate objects, natural elements, plants, animals, etc.) like a virus to bend to its will. It can also control electromagnetic energy to [[X.A.N.A. Awakens|control]] [[Seeing Is Believing|electricity]], [[Just in Time|affect the]] [[Zero Gravity Zone|environment]], and use [[Killer Music|hypnotic signals]]. X.A.N.A. can later create [[Pixelization|pixelized]] vessels with abilities on Earth, by possessing humans or sending [[Polymorphic Spectre|polymorphic spectres]] that impersonate people. Only Lyoko Warriors can't be controlled. They return to normal when their Towers deactivate and people have no memory of what happened.
+On Earth, it can hack networks, control all forms of electromagnetic phenomena, and [[Possession|possess]] any targets (electronics, natural elements, inanimate objects, animals, etc.) like a virus to manipulate at will to attack the real world. After evolving further, X.A.N.A. can take over humans or manifest [[Polymorphic Specter|polymorphic specters]] to follow its orders on Earth as [[Pixelization|pixelized]] vessels with its spectral and electrical powers. Only the Lyoko Warriors cannot be controlled because being virtualized to Lyoko gives them resistance. Its vessels return to normal or simply disappear when their Towers deactivate, and victims do not remember what happened.
-With Towers, X.A.N.A. can also [[Materialization|materialize]] or [[Translation|teleport]] [[False Start|virtual]] [[A Bad Turn|minions]] to Earth through the [[Scanners]] or [[Replikas]], [[X.A.N.A.'s Control Pendant|control]] [[X.A.N.A.'s Robot Army|devices]] it has built, or [[Deja Vu|show psychic visions]] through a unique link.
+Also, X.A.N.A. can activate Towers to [[Materialization|materialize]] or [[Translation|teleport]] minions to Earth through [[Scanners]] or [[Replikas]], [[X.A.N.A.'s Control Pendant|control]] [[X.A.N.A.'s Robot Army|technology]] it has built, or [[Deja Vu|show visions]] through a psychic link.
 ===[[Monsters]] & Programs===
-[[File:XANA Monsters.png|thumb|X.A.N.A.'s monsters]]
+[[File:XANA Monsters.png|thumb|X.A.N.A.'s monsters|210x210px]]
-On virtual worlds, X.A.N.A. creates and virtualizes armies of [[Monsters|monsters]] to attack and fight enemies. They include [[Kankrelats]], [[Bloks]], [[Hornets]], [[Krabs]], [[Megatanks]], [[Tarantulas]], [[Creepers]], [[Mantas]], [[Kongres]], [[Sharks]], and the [[Kalamar]]. It also made the [[Scyphozoa]] to steal valuable memory, drain energy, or possess warriors on Lyoko. By using its Replika network, X.A.N.A. can send the titanic [[Kolossus]], its largest and most powerful monster.
+On Lyoko, X.A.N.A. virtualizes deadly [[Monsters|monsters]] to fight enemies and attack targets, and the [[Scyphozoa]] to steal digital memory or possess warriors on Lyoko. It can also [[Sector Alteration Program|alter environments]], create [[Guardian|virtual]] [[Simulation Bubble|prisons]], [[Missing Link|modify]] [[Nobody in Particular|incomplete]] [[X.A.N.A. William|warriors]], plant bugs or viruses, program equipment and vehicles, etc.
+Using its Replika network, X.A.N.A. can send the [[Kolossus]], its largest and most powerful monster and the ultimate weapon to use on Lyoko or any of its Replikas.
-It can also create [[Sector Alteration Program|alterations and illusions]], [[Guardians|design]] [[Simulation Bubble|virtual]] [[List of Programs and Codes#Network Firewalls|prisons]], open portals, plant bugs and viruses, [[Missing Link|manipulate]] [[Nobody in Particular|incomplete]] [[X.A.N.A. William|warriors]], and program abilities and vehicles for them.
 ==Biography==
 ===Origin===
-X.A.N.A. and Lyoko were both created by a brilliant scientist named [[Franz Hopper]], formerly Waldo Franz Schaeffer, to destroy [[Project Carthage]]. Franz also discovered the time reversion function to give himself all the time he needed to perfect Lyoko. Through them, X.A.N.A.'s intelligence grew, showing signs of self-awareness and curiosity directed at Franz, who was getting paranoid through his abuse of the returns to the past, spending nearly seven years worth of the same day, setting in X.A.N.A.'s presence.
+X.A.N.A. was created by a computer scientist named [[Franz Hopper|Waldo Schaeffer]], who later changed his name to '''Franz Hopper''' in order to hide his identity from his enemies, to destroy [[Project Carthage]]. Despite his efforts to throw them off his trail, his enemies learned of his activities and pursue him. To escape them, he uses time reversions to give him all the time needed to perfect his virtual world Lyoko to be a safe place to live. Consequently, this caused X.A.N.A. to evolve until it becomes self-aware. Once Franz Hopper and [[Aelita|his daughter]] were virtualized, it rebels against them by trapping them in Lyoko and trying to eliminate them. Franz tries to reason with X.A.N.A. but it has grown too powerful and become a threat to mankind, forcing him to shut down the Supercomputer.
-The [[Men in Black|men in black]] found Hopper, forcing him and [[Aelita|his daughter]] to retreat to Lyoko. But, X.A.N.A. betrays Franz, imprisons them both in the virtual world, and tries to eliminate them. He tries to persuade X.A.N.A. to no avail. Seeing that it has become a threat to mankind, Franz Hopper has no choice but to shut down the Supercomputer to put the evil virus into dormancy.
 ===Awakening===
-[[File:18 evil crazy wires.png|thumb|X.A.N.A. taking control of cables.]]
+[[File:18 evil crazy wires.png|thumb|X.A.N.A. controlling cables.|alt=|160x160px|left]]
-X.A.N.A. was reawakened in the ''[[X.A.N.A. Awakens]]'' prequel by [[Jeremie]], when he turns on the Supercomputer and discovers [[Aelita]] and Lyoko. X.A.N.A. sends monsters and activates a Tower to attack using a virus extension that manipulates electricity against those involved with the Supercomputer. Jeremie sends [[Odd Della Robbia|Odd]], [[Ulrich Stern|Ulrich]] and [[Yumi Ishiyama|Yumi]] to Lyoko to fight the monsters and ensure Aelita deactivates the Tower. The group decide to let Jeremie keep working on materializing Aelita, knowing they can neutralize X.A.N.A. by deactivating the Towers, becoming the Lyoko Warriors.
+X.A.N.A. was reawakened when [[Jeremie]] reactivates the Supercomputer, discovering [[Aelita]] and Lyoko. It sends monsters after Aelita and activates a Tower to attack with electricity and machines, then manifests a lightning specter after those involved with Lyoko. Jeremie sends [[Odd Della Robbia|Odd]], [[Ulrich Stern|Ulrich]], and [[Yumi Ishiyama|Yumi]] to Lyoko to deactivate the Tower and let him continue his work on Aelita's materialization, knowing how to neutralize X.A.N.A, officially becoming the Lyoko Warriors.[[File:TeddyGodzilla XANA attack image 1.png|thumb|X.A.N.A. using a specter to launch an attack.|alt=|150x150px]]
+While Jeremie works on materialization, X.A.N.A. launches random attacks on humanity and its enemies by using Towers to hack networks to control machines, generate electrical phenomena, or manifest specters to possess targets to bend to its will, while guarding its Towers with monsters and virtual traps on Lyoko. The group continue fighting X.A.N.A., thwarting its attacks at every turn and fixing the damage caused with [[Return to the Past|time reversions]].
-===First Encounters===
-[[File:TeddyGodzilla XANA attack image 1.png|thumb|left|X.A.N.A. using a spectre to launch an attack.|alt=|150x150px]]
-In the early battles, X.A.N.A. launches attacks to menace the world, while Jeremie works to materialize Aelita, so they can unplug the Supercomputer. It activates Towers on Lyoko to manifest unearthly viruses from its multi-agent system to infiltrate networks, cause electromagnetic phenomena, possess any objects or animals to modify and bend its will, or set traps to take out its enemies. X.A.N.A. can also materialize creatures from the Scanners for its own purposes.
+When the heroes finally manage to materialize Aelita with [[Code: Earth (program)|Code: Earth]], X.A.N.A. stole her memories of her life on Earth to bind her fate to the Supercomputer, putting her into a lethal coma when the team shut the machine down, which ensures X.A.N.A.'s survival for now.
-When Aelita's materialization program is complete, X.A.N.A. tries to stop them by using monsters to attack the Tower they need to execute it. It doesn't succeed, but X.A.N.A. takes a fragment from Aelita to bind her to the Supercomputer. Once Aelita was made flesh and blood, Jeremie discovers the alteration, but mistakes it for a virus implanted in her. When they try to shut the machine down, Aelita gets put into a lethal coma, but wakes up when it turns back on.
 ===Growing Power===
 [[File:New_Order_Charge_up_lasers_image_1.png|thumb|left|X.A.N.A.'s new monster.]]
-X.A.N.A. grows more powerful. It can think of larger schemes, cause bigger phenomena and turn humans into pixelized vessels to do its bidding, and create new monsters on Lyoko, shown by the new [[Tarantula|Tarantulas]]. Its increasing power is because of the time reversions, each one adds more power to the Supercomputer and X.A.N.A., which is at the moment tethered to the machine.
+X.A.N.A. is somehow evolving and getting stronger, creating new monsters on Lyoko, displayed by the [[Tarantula|Tarantulas]]. 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.A.N.A.'s latest attack.
+The heroes discover the [[The Hermitage|Hermitage]], which is owned by the mysterious [[Waldo Schaeffer|Franz Hopper]]. Later, the group discovers a [[Sector Five|fifth sector]] on Lyoko where X.A.N.A. lives and all its data can be accessed, but it's guarded by [[Creeper]] and [[Manta]] monsters, and trap mechanisms linked to a [[Sector Five Security Countdown|countdown procedure]]. The team regularly venture there to mine through X.A.N.A.'s own data relating to the virus tying Aelita to X.A.N.A. with the hope of freeing her.
-X.A.N.A. now wants to access the world network. To escape from the Supercomputer, it must steal the [[Keys of Lyoko|Keys to Lyoko]] inside Aelita's digital memory, creating the [[Scyphozoa]] to do it. In addition to destroying the Lyoko Warriors, X.A.N.A. schemes of ways to virtualize her for that purpose and make sure no one interferes, by kidnapping her, using misdirection, or deception. Until it gets her memory, it has to be careful to keep her alive at all costs.
-[[File:Unchartered_Territory_Ulrich_sees_the_Scyphozoa_image_2.png|thumb|170px|The Scyphozoa stealing Aelita's memory.]]
+[[File:Unchartered_Territory_Ulrich_sees_the_Scyphozoa_image_2.png|thumb|170px|The Scyphozoa stealing Aelita's memory.]]X.A.N.A. develops greater objectives as its power grows. While still fighting the heroes, it wants to acquire the Keys to Lyoko inside Aelita's memory to gain access to the world network. To that end, X.A.N.A. creates the [[Scyphozoa]] to extract digital memory from anything and launches schemes to lure Aelita to Lyoko for its monster to capture her without interference. Until X.A.N.A. gets the keys, it has to be careful to keep her alive no matter what.
-The group also discover a fifth sector in Lyoko, its central hub where X.A.N.A. lives. It is a place where all of X.A.N.A.'s data can be accessed from its interface, but is also protected by [[Creeper]] and [[Manta]] monsters, mechanical traps, and a countdown procedure to keep out any intruders.
+The group discovers that the returns to the past are making X.A.N.A. stronger, confirmed when it took control of the function to repeat the same day until it can possess humans, making them [[Pixelization|pixelized]], empowered agents to attack with or follow its orders on Earth, like kidnapping Aelita to send to Lyoko. However, X.A.N.A. cannot possess Lyoko Warriors, since it could only control Jeremie to destroy the newly discovered diary of Franz Hopper, who copied the data beforehand and got virtualized to prevent further possessions.
-When Franz Hopper's diary is discovered, X.A.N.A. possesses Jeremie to destroy the discs to stop them finding out its secrets, but he copied them into the Supercomputer's restricted area beforehand.
-X.A.N.A. also had to take actions for its continued survival twice. When Jeremie's [[Marabounta (monster)|Marabounta]] monster went out of control on Lyoko, X.A.N.A. helped them destroy it out of its need to preserve Lyoko and Aelita for the moment. Also, when the Supercomputer's battery was failing, X.A.N.A. possesses a criminal to steal another and forces Jeremie to change the battery, knowing they both have a common interest to keep the machine online, but tries to kill him afterward and fails.
+X.A.N.A. and the heroes aid each other out of necessity on two occasions. When Jeremie created the [[Marabounta (monster)|Marabounta]] and went out of control, it sends monsters to protect Aelita and help the team destroy it, because it still needs Aelita intact. Then, when the Supercomputer's nuclear battery fails, putting it and Aelita at risk of dying, X.A.N.A. possesses a criminal to steal another and kidnaps Jeremie to make him change the battery, since it knows they both have an interest in keeping the machine online. Once he puts in the battery, X.A.N.A.'s pawn tries to kill him and fails.
-[[File:Clone_polymorph.jpg|thumb|left|A polymorphic spectre.]]
+[[File:Clone_polymorph.jpg|thumb|left|A polymorphic specter.]]
-As more proof of its growing power. X.A.N.A. can send Mantas to surface sectors and learns to create [[Polymorphic Spectre|polymorphic spectres]], pixelized ghosts that take others' appearances. Since it cannot possess any of the group, this allows X.A.N.A. to use their identities to deceive the Lyoko Warriors, by sowing dissent, gaining their trust, or setting ambushes on Lyoko.
+As more proof of its growing power. X.A.N.A. can manifest [[Polymorphic Specter|polymorphic specters]], ghosts with pixelized abilities that appear as clones of people or shapeshifters that transform at will. Since it cannot control Lyoko Warriors, this allows X.A.N.A. to use their identities to deceive them, ambush them on Lyoko, or impersonate Franz Hopper to gain their trust.
-Later, the real Franz Hopper makes contact with the Lyoko Warriors by possessing Sissi Delmas to write a message for them, with X.A.N.A. trying to stop him by attacking his Tower or destroying the vessel, but fails. He also helps them decrypt his diary, and saves them from X.A.N.A.'s plan to access the restricted area to steal both the information and their own programs. Following the decryption, the diary reveals that he created Lyoko and X.A.N.A., but also that Aelita is his daughter and he virtualized her to Lyoko along with himself.
+Later, the real Franz Hopper contacts the group and helps decrypt his diary, despite X.A.N.A.'s efforts to stop him in the former or steal their data in the latter. Following the decryption, the information reveals that Franz Hopper created X.A.N.A. and Lyoko, but also that Aelita is his daughter and he virtualized her to Lyoko along with himself.
+[[File:The_Key_-_X.A.N.A._is_freed-1.png|thumb|160px|X.A.N.A. frees itself from the Supercomputer in ''[[The Key]]''.]]
-[[File:The_Key_-_X.A.N.A._is_freed-1.png|thumb|160px|X.A.N.A. frees itself from the Supercomputer in ''[[The Key]]''.]]The diary has also revealed that Aelita has the Keys to Lyoko inside of her, the programming codes X.A.N.A. needs to escape the Supercomputer. Jeremie also learns that she doesn't have a virus at all, but a missing fragment. X.A.N.A. uses a fake fragment to successfully lure the Aelita to Sector 5. Falling objects drop from the ceiling that take out her allies, allowing the Scyphozoa to steal her memory with no one to stop it and causes her to drop lifeless. X.A.N.A. activates Towers in all sectors to darken Lyoko and escape as a massive spectre into the world network. Suddenly, Franz Hopper takes action to fully restore Aelita and Lyoko, deactivating the Towers. But, X.A.N.A. is now free from the Supercomputer, and cannot be shut down anymore.
+Jeremie also learns from the diary what X.A.N.A. seeks within Aelita's memory and that she doesn't have a virus, but a missing fragment. X.A.N.A. uses a fake to lure the heroes into a trap that devirtualizes her allies and allows the Scyphozoa to successfully steal her memory and the Keys to Lyoko, giving X.A.N.A. everything it needs to escape the Supercomputer. Aelita seemed to perish as a result, but Franz Hopper restores her to life and the missing part of herself: the memories of her former life on Earth, at last making her fully human. However, X.A.N.A. is no longer bound to the Supercomputer anymore, making it more dangerous than ever.
 ===Targeting Lyoko===
 [[File:Coreoflyoko.jpg|thumb|left|X.A.N.A.'s monsters attacking the Core of Lyoko.|alt=|150x150px]]
-After X.A.N.A. leaves the Supercomputer, it doesn't launch a single attack, thinking they are not a threat. But, when Jeremie upgrades the Superscan to track X.A.N.A. inside the network, it responds by sending monsters to an unknown room in Sector 5 that contains the [[Core of Lyoko]], firing their lasers at it. By destroying the core, X.A.N.A. can wipe out the entire virtual world. The group stops the assault in the end.
+X.A.N.A.'s multi-agent system has now expanded to the world network. It hasn't attacked the heroes since it freed itself, thinking it is beyond their reach. When Jeremie upgrades the Superscan to find X.A.N.A, it responds by sending monsters to attack the [[Core of Lyoko]] to wipe out the virtual world, intending to keep the heroes from discovering its network schemes. The group stops its assault in the end.
+[[File:Codexana.jpg|thumb|130x130px|X.A.N.A.'s code being entered|alt=]]Having no more need for the Supercomputer, X.A.N.A. is free to launch attacks on Lyoko itself, which is the team's only means of fighting. To accomplish this, it targets the Core of Lyoko in the virtual world with monster attacks, while using diversions to keep the heroes busy or attacks the Supercomputer directly using possessed humans and other physical methods.
-X.A.N.A. now wants to destroy Lyoko to end the group's interference for good, having no further use for the Supercomputer anymore. To do this, it sends monsters to attack the Core of Lyoko while causing events to distract them, tries to sabotage the Supercomputer, or destroy the entire Factory. The team succeeds in saving Lyoko every time.
+Additionally, X.A.N.A. also destroys all of Lyoko's surface sectors by using the Scyphozoa to possess Aelita with its [[X.A.N.A. (code)|virus code]] and make her input the code into the sector's Way Towers, allowing X.A.N.A. to erase the corresponding sectors completely. It takes these actions to make the Transport Orb inaccessible to the team. It succeeds in the order of Forest, Desert, Ice, and Mountain, but Jeremie finds the means to virtualize the team directly to Sector 5.
-[[File:Codexana.jpg|thumb|130x130px|X.A.N.A.'s code being entered|alt=]]
-To lower their chances, X.A.N.A. also destroys the surface sectors to prevent access to the [[Transport Orb]], by using the Scyphozoa to possess Aelita and enter Way Towers to input its [[X.A.N.A. (code)|virus code]], allowing X.A.N.A. to wipe its sector out of existence. It succeeds in the order of Forest, Desert, Ice, and Mountain sectors.
+[[File:Xanapossessedwilliam.jpg|thumb|left|173x173px|X.A.N.A. transforming William]]
-[[File:Xanapossessedwilliam.jpg|thumb|left|150px|X.A.N.A. transforming William]]After the last sector is gone, the team recruits [[William Dunbar]], but X.A.N.A. possesses William with the Scyphozoa during his first mission. He leads a Creeper army focused on the Core of Lyoko, who easily overwhelm the core shields and William defeats the group with ease. With no one left to stop them anymore, William destroys the Core of Lyoko and the virtual world with it. He should have been deleted, but X.A.N.A. takes him from the void and transforms him into an [[X.A.N.A. William|eternal servant]].
+Initially reluctant, the team decides to recruit [[William Dunbar]]. However, he gets cocky during his first mission, allowing X.A.N.A. to use the Scyphozoa to possess him. It puts William at the head of a Creeper army focused on the Core of Lyoko, who quickly destroy its shields with their combined firepower. When the warriors arrive, he defeats them all and successfully destroys the Core, wiping out Lyoko and rendering the team unable to fight X.A.N.A. now. William was left in the digital void, but X.A.N.A. retrieves and enslaves him.
-===Ultimate Plans===
+===World Domination Plans===
-[[File:12_hello_handsome.png|thumb|180px|X.A.N.A.'s newest warrior.]]
+[[File:12_hello_handsome.png|thumb|170px|X.A.N.A.'s newest minion|alt=]]
-With data sent by Franz Hopper, Jeremie and Aelita have recreated Lyoko. Soon after they do, X.A.N.A. sends William to Earth to kidnap Aelita and attempt to throw her into the Digital Sea. He doesn't succeed, but shows the group that he has been turned into an agent in X.A.N.A.'s own ranks.
+Through a message sent by Franz Hopper, Jeremie recreates Lyoko. Soon after they do, X.A.N.A. sends William to the real world from the Scanners to kidnap Aelita and throw her into the Digital Sea. The group saves her and defeats William, but know he is an [[X.A.N.A. William|agent of X.A.N.A.]] now. To avoid suspicion about his disappearance at the academy, the group create their own William clone.
+X.A.N.A. has made William its general and most dangerous weapon. It has made him a fighter that is more than a match for any warrior, lets him command its monsters, and gave him the [[Black Manta]] to summon and ride on. He also has a copy of the Keys to Lyoko, allowing him to influence or deactivate Towers activated by others. Finally, X.A.N.A. can materialize him from the Scanners as a pixelized human without using a Tower for missions on Earth.
-X.A.N.A. continues to target the Lyoko Warriors and the virtual world using any methods possible, but has also concluded that Franz Hopper is how the team keeps surviving. He must be destroyed to achieve a lasting victory. To draw him out, X.A.N.A. once again targets Aelita to throw her into the Digital Sea, knowing that he would expose himself to save his daughter.
+While X.A.N.A. is still determined to destroy the Lyoko Warriors and the Supercomputer, it decides Franz Hopper is the biggest threat. Since he's the reason the team always recovers and X.A.N.A. knows that Franz joining forces with the team would be the ultimate threat. To deal with him, it schemes to throw Aelita into the Digital Sea, knowing he would risk his life to save his daughter. Meanwhile, inside the world network, X.A.N.A. infects other supercomputers, putting [[Replikas]] inside them, smaller Lyoko copies. They are extensions that let it survive outside the Supercomputer and take over secret laboratories and military bases on Earth for its own purposes.
-William has been transformed become X.A.N.A.'s most powerful servant. He is stronger than any warrior, commands and leads monsters in battle, rides the [[Black Manta]], can affect and interface with Towers, and materialize as a pixelized being from the Scanners without activating a Tower.
+When the heroes build their own virtual ship, the [[The Skidbladnir|Skidbladnir]], to counter X.A.N.A.'s network schemes, it creates [[Kongre|virtual]] [[Shark|sea]] [[Kalamar|monsters]] and the [[Rorkal]] Nav Skid for William to fight them in the Digital Sea. Inside Replika sectors, it defends itself by sending Lyoko monsters and William to attack and activates Towers to deal with the teleported heroes sent to its Earth facilities to destroy their supercomputers. It can also have William deactivate their Towers to quickly end their missions. Also, X.A.N.A. launches attacks and programs traps that specifically target their virtual ship to prevent any further interference but continues to fail.
-[[File:Kongres.jpg|thumb|left|New monsters, Kongres.|alt=|160x160px]]The Lyoko Warriors build the [[Skidbladnir]], a virtual submarine, to travel in the Digital Sea to discover X.A.N.A's schemes. This newfound mobility compels it to target the ship to stop their efforts. It programs new sea monsters named [[Kongres]] to attack while they are exploring, and later [[Shark]] monsters and a [[Rorkal|personal Nav Skid]] for William. At one time, X.A.N.A. made the [[Kalamar]], a giant, squid-like monster to destroy the ship while its shields were down, but fails.
-Inside the Digital Sea, they discover that X.A.N.A. has built a network of [[Replikas]], smaller virtual worlds, in other supercomputers on Earth it has infected to take over and control military facilities, including a [[Forest Replika]] in an [[Jungle Research Facility|jungle laboratory]], a [[Desert Replika]] in a [[New Mexico Research Facility|New Mexico base]], and a [[Carthage Replika]] in a [[Space Station|space station]]. It turns them into secret laboratories and places that serve its evil purposes, like doing dangerous experiments, creating advanced technology, and making weapons using possessed scientists or automated machinery. It builds [[Spider Robots|cybernetic spiders]], force field generators, control chips, and metallic orb drones. The team travel to its Replikas and [[Translation|teleport]] themselves as spectres in their virtual forms to destroy their supercomputers in the real world.
 [[File:Kolossus_Code_Lyoko.jpg|thumb|The mighty Kolossus.|alt=|160x160px]]
-When the team goes to an [[Ice Replika]], located in a [[Siberian Research Facility|lab in Siberia]], X.A.N.A. teleports William, but this allows them to get data on how X.A.N.A. controls William from the activated Tower. But afterward, it draws power from all its Replikas to send its most powerful monster: "[[Kolossus|the Kolossus]]," revealing it has hundreds of Replikas in the network, too many to take out one by one.
+Near the end of the series, X.A.N.A. teleports William to its Ice Replika base to fight the team, which allows them to access data on how it controls him, then uses the power of all its Replikas to create the strongest monster: "the [[Kolossus]]," a massive titan that can devirtualize enemies instantly. They manage to escape with their ship intact and discover that X.A.N.A. controls hundreds of Replikas in the network.
+After which, Jeremie creates a program to free William and an incomplete one to destroy X.A.N.A. The heroes go back to the Ice Replika for the former task where they discover its plan to create weapons and [[X.A.N.A.'s Robot Army|armies of robots]] for world conquest. They manage to free William, but the Kolossus destroys the Skidbladnir. X.A.N.A. may have lost William, but still has the Kolossus and built an army capable of world domination. Jeremie's multi-agent program is their only hope of stopping X.A.N.A.'s evil ambitions.
-[[File:ArcticRobots.jpg|thumb|left|X.A.N.A.'s robot army.|alt=|140x140px]]
-Jeremie creates an incomplete multi-agent antivirus to destroy X.A.N.A. and a program to free William, but needs to go back to the Ice Replika for the latter to work. Inside the base, the group discover large robots lined up like an army, revealing X.A.N.A.'s ultimate plan to build an [[X.A.N.A.'s Robot Army|army of robots]] to take over the world. The group finally free William from X.A.N.A. using their program, but the Kolossus destroys the Skidbladnir in the ensuing battle.
+===The End of X.A.N.A.===
-The Lyoko Warriors may have got William back, but it matters little now. X.A.N.A. has become more powerful than ever thanks to its Replikas. It has the almighty Kolossus to destroy its enemies on Lyoko and created a robot army capable of taking over the world. Jeremie's multi-agent program is their only hope of saving the world from destruction.
+[[File:Xana_1.png|thumb|170px|X.A.N.A.'s final moments in the real world as its eradicated by Jeremie's [[Anti-X.A.N.A. Program]].|alt=|left]]
+X.A.N.A. engages its final assault when the group and Franz Hopper meet to launch their '''Anti-X.A.N.A. Program'''. It possesses William to knock out Jeremie and try to unplug the Scanners, hoping to destroy all its enemies using the Kolossus and Mantas. While Ulrich manages to defeat the Kolossus, Franz Hopper sacrifices himself to provide the energy for Aelita to launch the program, appearing as a swarm of agents that destroys all of its monsters before spreading to the other four sectors of Lyoko, then making its way out into the network where it destroys all its Replikas one by one.
+As this happens, the specter possessing William is forced out of him, showing X.A.N.A. in agony and glitching out due to its entire multi-agent system being destroyed everywhere. Then, it finally fades into oblivion while its activated Tower returns to normal as the hostile program is erased for good. Ultimately, the Lyoko Warriors are successful in destroying X.A.N.A. forever and ensuring it will never return.
-===Final Battle===
-[[File:Xana_1.png|thumb|190px|X.A.N.A. being destroyed.]]
-X.A.N.A. has its last battle when the group and Franz Hopper meet to launch Jeremie's program. It possesses William on Earth to knock out Jeremie and mess with the Scanners, and sends the Kolossus and Mantas to destroy them all on Lyoko. Yumi fights William, while Odd, Aelita, and Hopper go to Sector 5 to execute the program. Ulrich defeats the Kolossus, but is devirtualized after. They don't have enough power to run the program. Franz Hopper sacrifices himself to give them the power they need, with Aelita watching in horror as she triggers the program.
+==Other Continuities==
-The antivirus is launched from the Core of Lyoko, which destroys all monsters and spreads to all the sectors, including the activated Tower. Its spectre is forced out of William and personifies X.A.N.A. in pain. The antivirus program then spreads into the Digital Sea. X.A.N.A. screams in agony as its spectre is erased from existence when its Replikas are destroyed and the Tower deactivates. The deadly virus has finally been destroyed and will never threaten the world again.
+X.A.N.A. reappears in the live-action ''Evolution'' sequel and the alternate continuity of the ''Chronicles'' novel series. It should be noted that neither of the two continuities are completely canon, as ''Evolution'' was disowned by the original showrunners, who confirmed that only a few of their ideas made it into the show and that the events within were not canon.<ref>[http://cdal.over-blog.com/article-interview-sophie-decroisette-partie-2-122910086.html "Interview - Sophie Decroisette, partie 2".] Ces Dessins Animés-Là qui méritent qu'on s'en souvienne. March 11, 2014.</ref><ref>[https://en.codelyoko.fr/interviews/qr_sophie_decroisette.cl "Interview with Sophie Decroisette"] - CodeLyoko.fr (2016)</ref> Similarly, while the novels were written with the original documents in hand, not all of their events are noted to be canon either.
-==Other Continuities==
-X.A.N.A. reappears in the live-action ''Evolution'' sequel and the alternate continuity of the ''Chronicles'' novel series. It should be noted that neither of the two continuities are completely canon, as ''Evolution'' was disowned by the original show-runners, who confirmed that only a few of their ideas made it into the show and that the events within were not canon. Similarly, while the novels were written with the original documents in hand, not all of their events are noted to be canon either.
 ===Code Lyoko: Evolution===
 [[File:Xana returned.jpg|thumb|left|A Tower activated, signifying the rebirth of X.A.N.A..]]
-In the live-action ''Evolution'' sequel, X.A.N.A. has survived its demise in the previous series by hiding in the supercomputer that generates an unknown Replika, called the [[Cortex (Replika)|Cortex]]. X.A.N.A. causes strange bugs in the Kadic school's computers and short circuits, which compels the group to reactivate the Supercomputer and restore Lyoko, renewing their struggle with their old enemy.
+In the live-action ''Evolution'' sequel, X.A.N.A. has survived its demise in the previous series by hiding in the supercomputer that generates an unknown Replika, called the [[Cortex (Replika)|Cortex]]. X.A.N.A. causes strange bugs in the Kadic school's computers and short circuits, which compels the group to reactivate the Supercomputer and restore Lyoko, renewing their struggle with their old enemy.
-Furthermore, X.A.N.A. had injected its own [[Source Codes]] into the warriors in their last battle, which contain fragments of its power. It now acts to generate spectres on Earth to focus on stealing back its source codes from the teenagers, and gradually recover its full strength. At the same time, X.A.N.A. also keeps itself hidden from the owner of the Cortex, Professor [[Tyron]], so he does not do anything rash to purge it from his systems.
+Furthermore, X.A.N.A. had injected its own [[Source Codes]] into the warriors in their last battle, which contain fragments of its power. It now sends specters to Earth to steal back its source codes from the heroes, and gradually recover its full strength and take over the world network again. At the same time, X.A.N.A. also keeps itself hidden from the owner of the Cortex, Professor [[Tyron]], so he does not do anything rash to purge it from his systems.
-[[File:Cortexball_dissapearing_.png|thumb|The disintegration of the Cortex, where X.A.N.A. now lives.]]Throughout this series near the end, X.A.N.A. has gradually recovered 95% of its full power from the Lyoko Warriors, but the group have also diligently worked on a virus that would wipe out the Cortex and X.A.N.A. too. They were forced to implant the virus immediately, but Tyron shuts down his supercomputer to avoid losing all his work while the virus was uploaded.
+[[File:Cortexball_dissapearing_.png|thumb|The disintegration of the Cortex, where X.A.N.A. now lives.]]
+Throughout this series near the end, X.A.N.A. has gradually recovered 95% of its full power from the Lyoko Warriors, but the group have also diligently worked on a virus that would wipe out the Cortex and X.A.N.A. too. They were forced to implant the virus immediately, but Tyron shuts down his supercomputer to avoid losing all his work while the virus was uploaded.
-Unless Tyron finds an antivirus, X.A.N.A. will be rendered eternally frozen as long as the Cortex stays turned off. If Lyoko stays active, it will escape destruction again, so the group shuts down the Supercomputer, but will remain on guard if X.A.N.A. survives.
+Unless Tyron finds an antivirus, X.A.N.A. will be rendered eternally frozen as long as the Cortex stays turned off. If Lyoko stays active, it will escape destruction again, so the group shuts down the Supercomputer, but will remain on guard if X.A.N.A. survives.
 ===Code Lyoko: Chronicles===
 In this alternate continuity, the events of the first four seasons are severely streamlined as the first book indicates. While the events of the prequel and the first season are followed relatively the same as before, the climax of the rest of the series is compressed into one event. Franz Hopper reveals himself to the group before any equivalent of ''The Key'' occurs. He informs the group how to destroy X.A.N.A., by launching the multi-agent program into the Core of Lyoko. Hopper sacrifices himself to provide the energy needed, while at the same time restoring Aelita's memories and informing the group about her mother.
-As for X.A.N.A., the entity's core is destroyed. It is purged and ejected from Lyoko, left to drift in the network without its memories or core functions. Over the course of several months however, X.A.N.A. begins to gain strength back, and searches for a human vessel in lieu of a virtual world. Ultimately, it looks for a vessel that it can use to infiltrate Kadic without suspicion, so as to kill the Lyoko Warriors.
+As for X.A.N.A., the entity's core is destroyed. It is purged and ejected from Lyoko, left to drift in the network without its memories or core functions. Over the course of several months, however, X.A.N.A. begins to gain strength back, and searches for a human vessel in lieu of a virtual world. Ultimately, it looks for a vessel that it can use to infiltrate Kadic without suspicion, so as to kill the Lyoko Warriors.
 Choosing a girl known as Eva Skinner, X.A.N.A. began to settle into its new circumstances, and learned of the Lyoko Warriors researching the history of the Supercomputer. Seeing a chance to gain its strength back, X.A.N.A. befriended the group, but planned on destroying them from the inside out. Over a time period, it gradually gained enough trust that they "informed" Eva about the supercomputer, Franz Hopper, and their search for Anthea Hopper. Seducing Odd, X.A.N.A. managed to brainwash the boy, laying the groundwork for its return.
-X.A.N.A. however, would later learn from Hopper's archives multiple shocking truths: that he had been made with altruistic purposes in mind, to be the Guardian of Lyoko and the First City. Moreover, he had been close friends with Aelita, a friendship Hopper encouraged as a way to teach him human emotions. However, all this had been clouded when he was corrupted by leftover coding from a dark zone program, Project Carthage, whose templates Lyoko had been created from.
+X.A.N.A. however, would later learn from Hopper's archives multiple shocking truths: that he had been made with altruistic purposes in mind, to be the Guardian of Lyoko and the First City. Moreover, he had been close friends with Aelita, a friendship Hopper encouraged as a way to teach him human emotions. However, all this had been clouded when he was corrupted by leftover coding from a dark zone program, Project Carthage, whose templates Lyoko had been created from.
-Shaken by this, as well as by the emotions that had gradually crept up on him the longer he stayed in the Lyoko Warriors' company, X.A.N.A sought out an opportunity to speak to Aelita alone and share what he remembered. While rightfully wary of the AI, whose identity had by now been ousted, she nevertheless agreed. Appearing to her as a young man greatly resembling William, X.A.N.A spent many hours talking with her. But though they rekindled their former friendship, the discussion ended in conflict when X.A.N.A. mistook her reluctance to help him as a declaration of war. Leaving her, he began preparations to dominate the world.
+Shaken by this, as well as by the emotions that had gradually crept up on him the longer he stayed in the Lyoko Warriors' company, X.A.N.A sought out an opportunity to speak to Aelita alone and share what he remembered. While rightfully wary of the AI, whose identity had by now been ousted, she nevertheless agreed. Appearing to her as a young man greatly resembling William, X.A.N.A spent many hours talking with her. But though they rekindled their former friendship, the discussion ended in conflict when X.A.N.A. mistook her reluctance to help him as a declaration of war. Leaving her, he began preparations to dominate the world.
 Aelita, not giving up, pursued him. She persuaded him to listen to his original programming and fight off the virus still infecting him. X.A.N.A. would thus ally himself permanently with humanity, helping the Lyoko Warriors to defeat a terrorist group that was hoping to use Lyoko as a substitute for Carthage. While X.A.N.A. seemingly sacrificed himself to upload a self-destruction program that would delete Lyoko for good, his programming was salvaged by Aelita, who managed to recreate X.A.N.A. and bring him into the real world as a human.
 ==Trivia==
-*X.A.N.A. was voiced by [[David Gasman]] in ''Ghost Channel'', in the American version of ''Code Lyoko'', the same actor who also voices [[Herb]], [[Jim]], and [[William]].
+*X.A.N.A. was voiced by [[David Gasman]] in the English dub of ''Ghost Channel'', the same actor who voices [[Herb]], [[Jim]] and [[William]].
+*X.A.N.A.'s name was derived from [[Wikipedia:Xanadu (Citizen Kane)|Xanadu]] in the 1941 film ''[[Wikipedia:Citizen Kane|Citizen Kane]]''.<ref name="a">[https://youtu.be/xOU4AWH3pyY "Les secrets de Code Lyoko racontés par ses créateurs (et on sait pourquoi ils ont des grands fronts)"] - YouTube</ref> A similar, more explicit reference was in ''Code Lyoko'''s pilot ''[[Garage Kids]]'', where, although X.A.N.A. itself didn't exist yet, the virtual world was named Xanadu instead of Lyoko.
-*According to YTV's Vortex block's host Paula (Code Lyoko was a show on this block and during commercial breaks Paula would often share bits of trivia), X.A.N.A. was once a good computer program until an evil virus corrupted it. Interestingly, she said this piece of information in the middle of season one, before season two even aired. No evidence was stated to prove this fact, as it implies that it was Franz Hopper's abuse of the return in time program that made X.A.N.A. evil, not a virus. However, the novel series states that it really was a virus that corrupted it in the end.
+**[[Sophie Decroisette]] also confirmed that X.A.N.A.'s name doesn't stand for anything.<ref>[https://www.catsuka.com/interf/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=778&start=435 "Reply from Sophie Decroisette:] "... it's a name that emanates from Xanadu, the old name of Lyoko. So it's not an acronym...". CATSUKA. April 1, 2004.</ref>
-*X.A.N.A.'s name was derived from [[Xanadu]], the virtual world in [[Garage Kids]].
+*[[Wikipedia:Big Brother (Nineteen Eighty-Four)|Big Brother]] from the 1949 book [[Wikipedia:Nineteen Eighty-Four|1984]] served as inspiration for X.A.N.A., specifically for X.A.N.A.'s symbol resembling an eye and the slogan from the book: "Big Brother is watching you".<ref name="a" />
-*Since X.A.N.A. is basically a computer program, it is supposed to be genderless as neither male or female. However, everyone except Franz Hopper constantly addresses X.A.N.A. by male pronouns in the main series. This may be due to all nouns having genders in French, the show's original language. In ''Code Lyoko Evolution'', X.A.N.A. is rightfully called an "it" as genderless in the series.
+**X.A.N.A.'s symbol also resembles the logo of Tachibana General Laboratories from the anime ''[[Wikipedia:Serial Experiments Lain|Serial Experiments Lain]]'', which served as one of the main sources of inspiration for ''Code Lyoko'' according to [[Thomas Romain]].<ref>[https://www.bfmtv.com/people/l-histoire-mouvementee-de-code-lyoko-racontees-par-son-co-createur-thomas-romain_AN-202010010067.html ""Code Lyoko" arrive sur Netflix: l'histoire secrète de la série culte"]. BFMTV. January 10, 2020.</ref>
-**X.A.N.A.'s name is used with male pronouns in Code Lyoko; whereas in Evolution, his name was genderless.
+**In-universe X.A.N.A.'s symbol is said to originate from Project Carthage.<ref>[https://en.codelyoko.fr/events/avantpremieres4.cl#questionsrponses_ "Preview of Code Lyoko season 4"] - CodeLyoko.fr</ref>
+*Sophie Decroisette revealed that the writers received pressure from higher-ups to personify X.A.N.A., which they repeatedly fought against and tried to avoid doing as much as possible as "we wanted him to be an entity that no one can represent".<ref name="a" /><ref name="b">[https://cdal.over-blog.com/article-interview-sophie-decroisette-partie-1-122826682.html "Interview - Sophie Decroisette, partie 1".] Ces Dessins Animés-Là qui méritent qu'on s'en souvienne. March 11, 2014.</ref>
+*In ''Code Lyoko'''s original graphic bible, X.A.N.A. was originally the supercomputer itself and not a multi-agent system.<ref>[https://en.codelyoko.fr/bible_graphique.cl "The Graphic Bible of Code Lyoko"] - CodeLyoko.fr</ref> It was said to have been discovered by Franz Hopper, who used it to build Lyoko as his own paradise. Hopper eventually disappeared during one of his visits to Lyoko, which was theorized as the cause for the bug that makes X.A.N.A. to want to attack Earth.
+*Since X.A.N.A. is a computer program, it's supposed to be genderless. However, everyone except Franz Hopper addresses X.A.N.A. by male pronouns in the main series. This originates from all nouns being either masculine or feminine in French, the show's original language, and there being no equivalent to "it".<ref name="b" /> X.A.N.A. is specifically referred to as a "programme" (program), which is masculine. Decroisette notably prefers describing X.A.N.A. as an "entité" (entity), which is feminine. She admitted the "a" at the end of its name made her see X.A.N.A. as female, though said program was a more accurate term.
+**In [[Code Lyoko: Fall of X.A.N.A.|Fall of X.A.N.A.]] as well as the trailer for [[Quest for Infinity]], X.A.N.A.'s pronunciations are female.
+*In the ''Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir'' episode "Hack-San", the [https://miraculousladybug.fandom.com/wiki/Hack-San_(sentimonster) titular sentimonster] looks almost exactly like X.A.N.A.. One of the directors of the series, Wilfried Pain, later confirmed this is a reference to ''Code Lyoko''.<ref>https://twitter.com/Winny_IRL/status/1435469679250874370</ref><ref>https://twitter.com/Thomas_Astruc/status/1435565392873807874</ref>
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 xana the nano virus.png|The nano-viruses created by XANA attacking memory cells.
--10-03 2059 001.png|XANA's [[spectre]] on Earth.
+-10-03 2059 001.png|XANA's [[specter]] on Earth.
 Secondaires 0054.jpg|XANA taking [[possession]] of [[Jean Pierre Delmas]].
-tumblr lzepr1EMDM1qlvb12o1 500.png|XANA taking possession of a flock of crows.
+Tumblr lzepr1EMDM1qlvb12o1 500.png|XANA taking possession of a flock of crows.
-XANA attacks Sissi image 1.png|XANA's Spectre about to possess [[Elisabeth Delmas|Sissi]].
+XANA attacks Sissi image 1.png|XANA's Specter about to possess [[Elisabeth Delmas|Sissi]].
 XANA 579.jpg|Seeing through a [[monster]] or [[X.A.N.A.'s first robots|robot]] when attacking the real world.
 zqc5i.jpg|XANA taking possession of [[Aelita Schaeffer|Aelita]] and making her attack [[Ulrich Stern|Ulrich]].
 William.jpg|XANA-William.
+Attack105-2.jpg|XANA taking control of cell phones
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 Mix Final 092.jpg|The symbol in an eye of someone.
 X.A.N.A..jpg|[[Eye of X.A.N.A.|Eye of XANA]].
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+Desincarnation 369.jpg|XANA in control of Ulrich's mindless body
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 possessed rat.png|A rat possessed by X.A.N.A.
 F6D138F-56AE-464C-836D-D49EBBAC752A.jpeg|Principal Delmas possess by XANA kidnapping Aelita
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