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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: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 an evil computer virus that is a threat to mankind. Its only obstacles are the [[Lyoko Warriors]]. It has taken over the [[Supercomputer]] that holds [[Lyoko]]. By activating [[Tower|Towers]], it [[X.A.N.A.'s Attacks|attacks]] on Earth, and creates [[monsters]] and programs on Lyoko to fight its enemies.
+'''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.
-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]]''.
+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.
+'''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 program that doesn't have a physical form. It lives as pure data inside the system that exists as [[Pulsations|red, pulsating energies]] that run through the [[Lyoko Wires]]. It can only act through spectres, monsters, or virtual simulations.
+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.
-The [[Spectre|spectres]] it manifests are black ghostly entities made out of data given physical form, and may as well be X.A.N.A.'s true form on Earth. Even then, they are just extensions that serve as its means of earthly actions, while its core program remains inside the Supercomputer.
 [[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]]''. While X.A.N.A. was being destroyed everywhere by Jeremie's multi-agent antivirus, the spectre that was possessing William was forced out and became a giant entity with its eye symbol on the chest, screaming and writhing in agony before it disappears.
+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.
-==Characteristics==
+==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 virus system that has gained self-awareness and autonomy. It turns into a malevolent and chaotic entity that wants to destroy humanity and take over the world. As a program, X.A.N.A. has no emotions in the human sense. It usually shows the mindset of a hostile force with some intelligence among creatures that share its mind. With spectres, it acts violent, sadistic, and relentless when attacking, manipulative to deceive others, and becomes arrogant and taunting when having the advantage.
+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.
-Its computing intellect allows it to access vast knowledge, calculate attacks and schemes, and even use feelings to take advantage of others. But, X.A.N.A. is still merely a program that knows only logical patterns and theoretical knowledge with no human qualities. It is capable of making mistakes and is easy to predict.
-X.A.N.A.'s goals and desires evolve as the series progresses. Initially, it launches random attacks on humanity and its enemies, while keeping the Supercomputer online to survive. After becoming stronger, X.A.N.A. gets smarter and more focused, seeking to escape the machine and take over the world network. Upon gaining freedom, X.A.N.A. becomes more dangerous than ever. It is now free to destroy Lyoko to render the group helpless, while planning to infect hundreds of supercomputers in the network to build weapons and armies to conquer the real world. X.A.N.A. also targets Franz Hopper, whom it views as the biggest threat capable of bring about its destruction.
+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.
+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.
-Despite its chaotic and destructive nature, X.A.N.A. is also logical. It would quickly spare its enemies or team up with them against a bigger threat for the necessity of self-preservation or greater goals, and would not risk destroying essential parts in its plans. X.A.N.A. also takes any chance to gain more power, shown when it made William its weapon after seeing him in action.
-==Character Relationships==
+==Relationships==
 ===[[Lyoko Warriors]]===
-The Lyoko Warriors are X.A.N.A.'s mortal enemies throughout the series. It considers them obstacles to be destroyed and relentlessly attacks them in the real world any way it can, even using them as tools when it suits its purposes. X.A.N.A. also has different views of each and every one of them:
+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 with attacks, since he is the only one who can use the lab interface, and it sees him as the source of their 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."
+*'''[[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|'''Aelita Schaeffer''']]: She is the only one who can deactivate Towers, making her very dangerous. But, her abilities make her valuable to X.A.N.A.'s plans. It always uses her as a tool to fulfill greater plans throughout the series.
+*[[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.
 *'''[[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, it seems to respect him enough to have monsters listen to his orders when fighting the [[Marabounta (monster)|Marabounta]].
+*'''[[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]].
-*'''[[Ulrich Stern]]''': It is aware that Ulrich is the best fighter of the group and usually fights by outnumbering him on Lyoko.
+*'''[[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 used him as its minion throughout 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'']].
+*'''[[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.
-*'''[[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]]===
-X.A.N.A. hates and fears him the most. He is its creator and is the reason the group keeps coming back from their defeats, therefore; Franz is the biggest threat to its existence. X.A.N.A. was originally its multi-agent program, until it became self-aware and betrayed him, keeping him prisoner in the virtual systems. When Lyoko was destroyed, Franz Hopper escaped into the network. Since then, X.A.N.A. desperately tries to lure him out to eliminate him once and for all. His threat is such that it was willing to spare Aelita and the team from certain death because she is vital to drawing him out into the open.
+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 an intelligent virus that inhabits the [[Supercomputer]] and a multi-agent system that uses extensions to act on Earth and infect many systems. It was initially bound to the machine, but it escaped into the network after stealing the [[Keys of Lyoko|Keys to Lyoko]]. They also allow it to create [[Replikas]], small Lyoko copies, within other supercomputers infected with its system. Its capabilities are listed below:
+[[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:
 ===[[Towers|Tower Control]]===
 [[File:Tour_carthage-1-.jpg|thumb|left|190x190px|X.A.N.A. activating a tower.|alt=]]
-X.A.N.A. activates [[towers|Towers]], known by [[pulsations]], to attack on Earth. They only be stopped by deactivating the Towers. Using them, it manifests physical extensions of itself as network impulses or ghostly [[spectres]]. With Lyoko's capabilities, X.A.N.A. is capable of many dangerous abilities.
+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.'s virus capabilities lets it [[Possession|possess]] networks or material (machines, objects, natural elements, plants, animals, etc.) to manipulate at will, and can control all forms of electrical energies. After growing stronger, X.A.N.A. can possess humans and manifest [[Polymorphic Spectre|polymorphic spectres]] to do its bidding on Earth as [[Pixelization|pixelized]] vessels with spectral and electrical powers. Only Lyoko Warriors cannot be controlled. They return to normal or disappear 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]] [[Hard Luck|to]] [[Cold Sweat|Earth]] through [[Scanners]] or [[Replikas]], [[X.A.N.A.'s Control Pendant|control]] [[X.A.N.A.'s Robot Army|special 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 Lyoko, X.A.N.A. creates and virtualizes deadly [[Monsters|monsters]] of many types to fight its enemies and attack virtual targets, usually armed with [[Laser|Lasers]]. It also uses the [[Scyphozoa]] to steal memory or possess warriors on Lyoko. With the power of its Replikas, X.A.N.A. can create the titanic [[Kolossus]], its largest and ultimate 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.
-X.A.N.A.'s programming abilities lets it use illusions, [[Sector Alteration Program|alter environments]], create [[Guardian|virtual]] [[Simulation Bubble|prisons]], plant bugs and viruses, launch [[Hallucinogenic Beam|programs]] through monsters, [[Missing Link|modify]] [[Nobody in Particular|incomplete]] [[X.A.N.A. William|warriors]], and create equipment and vehicles. In the fifth sector, it programs [[Sector Five Security Countdown|countdown]] traps and can open portals.
 ==Biography==
 ===Origin===
-X.A.N.A. was created by a scientist named [[Franz Hopper]], formerly Waldo Franz Schaeffer, to destroy [[Project Carthage]]. His enemies have discovered his activities and are trying to capture him. To finish the virtual world of Lyoko that would allow him to escape them, he repeatedly launched returns in time to complete his project. Consequently, this causes X.A.N.A. to grow stronger and become self-aware.
+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.
-With the Scanners and virtualization programs ready, Franz Hopper and [[Aelita|his daughter]] virtualized themselves to Lyoko to flee the [[Men in Black|men in black]]. Once inside, X.A.N.A. betrays its creator, imprisoning him and Aelita on Lyoko, so they cannot materialize and tries to kill them both. Franz tries to reason with the sentient virus, but sees it has become too powerful. If left unchecked, X.A.N.A. could threaten all of mankind. This leaves him no choice but to shut down the Supercomputer and stays offline for the next ten years.
 ===Awakening===
-[[File:18 evil crazy wires.png|thumb|X.A.N.A. taking control of cables.|alt=|150x150px|left]]
+[[File:18 evil crazy wires.png|thumb|X.A.N.A. controlling cables.|alt=|160x160px|left]]
-X.A.N.A. was reawakened when [[Jeremie]] turns on the Supercomputer and discovers [[Aelita]] and Lyoko. X.A.N.A. sends monsters after Aelita and activates a Tower to attack Jeremie, then sends an electricity spectre after all those involved with Lyoko. Jeremie sends [[Odd Della Robbia|Odd]], [[Ulrich Stern|Ulrich]], and [[Yumi Ishiyama|Yumi]] to Lyoko to deactivate the Tower. They decide to let Jeremie keep working on materializing Aelita, knowing they can neutralize X.A.N.A. by deactivating 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|X.A.N.A. using a spectre to launch an attack.|alt=|150x150px]]
-While Jeremie works on materializing Aelita, X.A.N.A. launches attacks in the real world. By activating Towers, it can hack networks, cause electrical phenomena, and possess objects to attack the group and wreak havoc on Earth, while using monsters and programs on Lyoko to guard its Towers. It can also materialize creatures from the Scanners, like clones for infiltration or real monsters to attack.
-When Aelita's materialization program is complete, X.A.N.A. tries to stop them, knowing they will shut down the Supercomputer afterward. It doesn't succeed, but after Aelita was materialized, Jeremie discovers that X.A.N.A. put a virus inside her, which puts her in a lethal coma if the Supercomputer is shut off. Linking Aelita's fate to its own has ensured X.A.N.A.'s safety for now.
+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.
 ===Growing Power===
 [[File:New_Order_Charge_up_lasers_image_1.png|thumb|left|X.A.N.A.'s new monster.]]
-X.A.N.A. is getting smarter and more powerful, creating new monsters on Lyoko, displayed by the [[Tarantula|Tarantulas]]. It becomes more focused and has bigger plans, no longer attacking at random. It wants to steal the [[Keys of Lyoko|Keys to Lyoko]] inside Aelita's memory to escape the Supercomputer. It creates the [[Scyphozoa]] monster that can steal memory and launches attacks to lure her to Lyoko to capture her for that purpose. However, until X.A.N.A. gets the keys, it has to be careful to keep her alive no matter what.
+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 group discovers a [[Sector Five|fifth sector]] where Lyoko's secrets and X.A.N.A. live, but it guards the place with [[Creeper|Creepers]] and [[Manta|Mantas]], and trap mechanisms linked to a [[Sector Five Security Countdown|countdown procedure]]. The team regularly venture there to mine data on the virus that ties Aelita to X.A.N.A. with the hope of freeing her.
+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.
-[[File:Unchartered_Territory_Ulrich_sees_the_Scyphozoa_image_2.png|thumb|170px|The Scyphozoa stealing Aelita's memory.]]It is revealed that returns in time make X.A.N.A. more powerful when it used a trap inside Sector 5 data to take over time reversions to repeat the same day until it can possess humans, making them [[Pixelization|pixelized]], empowered vessels that follow its orders on Earth. However, it cannot control Lyoko Warriors, shown when it could only possess Jeremie to destroy the newly discovered diary of Franz Hopper, who copied them into the Supercomputer beforehand and got virtualized to prevent future possessions.
+[[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 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.
-X.A.N.A. and the Lyoko Warriors help each other out of necessity on two occasions this season. When Jeremie's [[Marabounta (monster)|Marabounta]] monster went out of control, it sends monsters to protect Aelita and helps the group destroy it to preserve her memory and the virtual world. The second time was when the Supercomputer's nuclear battery was failing, putting it and Aelita at risk of dying. X.A.N.A. acts by possessing a criminal to steal another and kidnaps Jeremie to make him change the battery, knowing they both have a common interest to keep the machine online. It tries to kill him after the Supercomputer is reactivated 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.]]
-As more proof of its growing power. X.A.N.A. can manifest [[Polymorphic Spectre|polymorphic spectres]], which are empowered, shapeshifting ghosts that can appear as anyone it wants. This allows X.A.N.A. to deceive the group by using their identities, ambush the team on Lyoko, or impersonate Franz Hopper to gain their trust in an attempt to trap them, albeit unsuccessfully.
+[[File:Clone_polymorph.jpg|thumb|left|A polymorphic specter.]]
+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 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]]''.]]
-Jeremie also finds out from the diary what X.A.N.A. really wants from Aelita and that she doesn't have a virus, but a missing fragment. X.A.N.A. tricks them with a fake, which allows the Scyphozoa to successfully steal her memory and lets X.A.N.A. escape from the Supercomputer at last. Aelita seemed to perish as a result, but Franz Hopper revives Aelita, along with her missing fragment: the memories of her life on Earth. But, shutting down the machine will not stop X.A.N.A. anymore, which is now free and more powerful than ever.
+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]]
-X.A.N.A. now hides in the network after escaping the Supercomputer. It hasn't attacked since, thinking it's out of reach. When Jeremie upgrades the Superscan to find X.A.N.A, it sends monsters to attack the [[Core of Lyoko]] in response, which will destroy Lyoko as a result, but 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.
-[[File:Codexana.jpg|thumb|130x130px|X.A.N.A.'s code being entered|alt=]]No longer needing the Supercomputer, the evil virus now intends destroy Lyoko to wipe out all its obstacles. X.A.N.A. constantly attacks the Core of Lyoko with monsters or targeting the Supercomputer on Earth. It also destroys the surface sectors to block the [[Transport Orb]], by possessing Aelita with the Scyphozoa to put its [[X.A.N.A. (code)|virus code]] in Way Towers. It succeeds in the order of Forest, Desert, Ice, and Mountain, but Jeremie finds a way to virtualize the team directly into Sector 5.
+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:Xanapossessedwilliam.jpg|thumb|left|173x173px|X.A.N.A. transforming William]]
-Initially reluctant, the team decides to recruit [[William Dunbar]]. However, during his first virtualization, he gets cocky, allowing X.A.N.A. to use the Scyphozoa to possess him after seeing his power. It has the possessed William lead a Creeper army focused on the Core of Lyoko, quickly destroying its shields with their combined firepower. When the warriors arrive, he defeats them all and successfully destroys the Core of Lyoko, wiping out Lyoko and rendering the team unable to fight X.A.N.A. now. William was left in the void after, but X.A.N.A. retrieves him and turns him into its slave.
+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|170px|X.A.N.A.'s newest warrior.]]
+[[File:12_hello_handsome.png|thumb|170px|X.A.N.A.'s newest minion|alt=]]
-Through a coded 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. His mission is to kidnap Aelita to throw her into the Digital Sea. The group manage to save her and defeat William, but shows the group that he is an [[X.A.N.A. William|agent of X.A.N.A.]] now.
+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.
-Inside the network, X.A.N.A. infects other supercomputers found in Earth facilities and laboratories for its world domination plans. It creates copies of Lyoko sectors inside them, called [[Replikas]], to take over these places for its own purposes, like experimentation and building weapons. William serves as X.A.N.A.'s general throughout the season. Through X.A.N.A.'s possession, he wields superior abilities, equipment, and vehicles, command over monsters, and Tower control abilities. It uses him to defend its assets, fight its enemies, and carry out its schemes any way it sees fit.
-X.A.N.A. still tries to eliminate the Lyoko Warriors and the virtual world, but has concluded that Franz Hopper is the greatest threat. To draw him out of hiding, X.A.N.A. targets Aelita again, luring her to Lyoko and throwing her into the Digital Sea, compelling Franz to expose himself to save her daughter. It knows that if he and the group combined forces, they would become the greatest threat it will face.
+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 group create their virtual ship, the [[The Skidbladnir|Skidbladnir]], to find and destroy Replikas on the network, X.A.N.A. starts targeting the ship to stop any further interference. It uses new [[Kongre]] and [[Shark]] monsters to fight them in the Digital Sea and targets the ship while its linked to Replika Towers. It can even have William deactivate their Towers to end their missions. At separate times, X.A.N.A. schemed to send the Scyphozoa to drain the ship when the group was indisposed or the [[Kalamar]] to destroy it while its shields were down, but continues to fail.
+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:Kolossus_Code_Lyoko.jpg|thumb|The mighty Kolossus.|alt=|160x160px]]
-Near the end of the series, X.A.N.A. draws energy from all its Replikas to create the most powerful monster: "the [[Kolossus]]." It is a fiery titan that can instantly devirtualize enemies with a single blow. The group managed to get away from the monster and gather data on how X.A.N.A. controls William. Later, they use a program based on the data to successfully free him, but the Kolossus destroys the Skidbladnir in the battle.
+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.
-Inside the last Replika, the group discover large robots lined up like an army, revealing X.A.N.A.'s grand plan to build an [[X.A.N.A.'s Robot Army|army of robots]] to destroy and take over the world. X.A.N.A. has achieved true power with its network of Replikas, having made an indestructible monster and built a massive army of machines. Without the Skidbladnir, Jeremie's multi-agent program is their only hope of saving the world from X.A.N.A.'s evil ambitions.
+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.
-===Final Battle===
+===The End of X.A.N.A.===
-[[File:Xana_1.png|thumb|170px|X.A.N.A. being destroyed.|alt=|left]]
+[[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. has its last battle when the group and Franz Hopper meet to launch their program. It possesses William to deal with Jeremie and unplug the Scanners, and sends the Kolossus and Mantas to destroy everyone on Lyoko. Yumi fights William, while Odd, Aelita, and Franz work to launch the program. While Ulrich defeats the Kolossus, Franz Hopper sacrifices himself to provide the energy to launch the program. It destroys all monsters, then spreads everywhere to the sectors and all the Replikas. Its spectre is forced out of William, displaying X.A.N.A. in pain as every part of itself in the network dies, then disappears. X.A.N.A. has been destroyed for good and will never threaten the Earth again.
+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 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.
+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.
 ===Code Lyoko: Evolution===
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 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.]]
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 ==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>
-*In Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir (more specifically episode "Hack-San"), the [https://www.miraculousladybug.fandom.com/wiki/Hack-San_(sentimonster) titular sentimonster] looks exactly like this virus. One of the directors of the series, Wilfried Pain, later confirmed that this is a reference to Code Lyoko.<ref>https://twitter.com/Winny_IRL/status/1435469679250874370?s=19</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>
 ==Gallery==
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 xana's up to something.png|Appearing on multiple screens at once.
 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
-attack105-2.jpg
 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]].
-Desincarnation 369.jpg
+Desincarnation 369.jpg|XANA in control of Ulrich's mindless body
 A wild boar possessed by X.A.N.A..PNG|A wild boar possessed by X.A.N.A.
 possessed rat.png|A rat possessed by X.A.N.A.
 F6D138F-56AE-464C-836D-D49EBBAC752A.jpeg|Principal Delmas possess by XANA kidnapping Aelita
 </gallery>
+==References==
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+{{LyokoNav}}
+[[Category:Characters]]
+[[Category:Villains]]
+[[Category:X.A.N.A.]]
+[[Category:Supercomputer]]
+[[Category:Things appear in game]]
+[[Category:Code Lyoko: Get Ready to Virtualize]]
+[[Category:Code Lyoko: Fall of X.A.N.A.]]
+[[Category:Code Lyoko: Quest for Infinity]]
+[[Category:Lyoko Conqueror: The Replika Experiments]]
+[[Category:Lyoko Conquerors]]
+[[Category:Keys of Lyoko]]
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-[[Category:Villains]]
-[[Category:X.A.N.A.]]
-[[Category:Supercomputer]]
-[[Category:Things appear in game]]
-[[Category:Code Lyoko: Get Ready to Virtualize]]
-[[Category:Code Lyoko: Fall of X.A.N.A.]]
-[[Category:Code Lyoko: Quest for Infinity]]
-[[Category:Lyoko Conqueror: The Replika Experiments]]
-[[Category:Lyoko Conquerors]]
-[[Category:Keys of Lyoko]]
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