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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 brainwash warriors on Lyoko. With its network of Replikas, X.A.N.A. can send the titanic [[Kolossus]], its largest and most powerful monster.
 
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 brainwash warriors on Lyoko. With its network of Replikas, X.A.N.A. can send the titanic [[Kolossus]], its largest and most powerful monster.
   
It also has programs for [[Sector Alteration Program|alterations and illusions]], [[Guardians|using]] [[Simulation Bubble|virtual]] [[List of Programs and Codes|prisons]], opening portas, bugs and viruses, [[Missing Link|manipulating]] [[Nobody in Particular|incomplete]] [[X.A.N.A. William|warriors]], and creating abilities, equipment, and vehicles for them.
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It also has programs for [[Sector Alteration Program|alterations and illusions]], [[Guardians|using]] [[Simulation Bubble|virtual]] [[List of Programs and Codes|prisons]], opening portals, bugs and viruses, [[Missing Link|manipulating]] [[Nobody in Particular|incomplete]] [[X.A.N.A. William|warriors]], and creating abilities, equipment, and vehicles for them.
   
 
==Biography==
 
==Biography==

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"HAHAHAHAHA, YOU ARE GOING TO DIE! HAHAHAHA!"

–X.A.N.A., physical form in Ghost Channel

"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

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.

It has infected the Supercomputer that holds Lyoko. By activating Towers, it can attack in the real world and programs monsters, alterations, and traps on Lyoko to fight its enemies.

After its supposed destruction, X.A.N.A. managed to miraculously survive through the Cortex, becoming even stronger than before in Code Lyoko Evolution.

Appearance

Xana

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 red, pulsating energies that run through the Lyoko Wires, revealing its presence in the virtual world and the Supercomputer.

The ghostly 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.

XANA

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 a multi-agent computer virus with a mind of its own. It has become a dangerous 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.

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.

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

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.

It also has separate opinions to describe each and every one of them:

  • 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."
  • 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.
  • 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: 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.

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.

Powers and Abilities

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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 can infect many systems at once.

It was formerly bound to the machine and vulnerable to shutdown. After getting the Keys to Lyoko, X.A.N.A. can escape into the network to survive outside Lyoko and create Replikas, smaller copies of Lyoko, within other infected machines. Its capabilities are listed below:

Tower Control

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X.A.N.A. activating a tower.

X.A.N.A. activates 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.

With spectres, X.A.N.A. can use unnatural abilities. The most notable is 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 wield electricity, affect the environment, and project hypnotic signals. X.A.N.A. can later create pixelized vessels with these abilities on Earth, by possessing humans or sending polymorphic spectres that appear in human forms. Only Lyoko Warriors can't be controlled. They return to normal when their Towers deactivate and humans have no memory of what happened.

With Towers, X.A.N.A. can also materialize or teleport virtual minions to Earth through the Scanners or Replikas, control devices it has built, or show psychic visions through a unique link.

Monsters & Programs

XANA Monsters

X.A.N.A.'s monsters

On virtual worlds, X.A.N.A. creates and virtualizes armies of 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 brainwash warriors on Lyoko. With its network of Replikas, X.A.N.A. can send the titanic Kolossus, its largest and most powerful monster.

It also has programs for alterations and illusions, using virtual prisons, opening portals, bugs and viruses, manipulating incomplete warriors, and creating abilities, equipment, 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. The men in black found Hopper, forcing him and his daughter to retreat to Lyoko. But, X.A.N.A. betrays Franz, imprisons them both, 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

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X.A.N.A. taking control of cables.

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, Ulrich and 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.

First Encounters

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X.A.N.A. using a spectre to launch an attack.

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 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

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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 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. now wants to access the world network. To escape from the Supercomputer, it must steal the 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.

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The Scyphozoa stealing Aelita's memory.

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.

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 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.

Clone polymorph

A polymorphic spectre.

As more proof of its growing power. X.A.N.A. can send Mantas to surface sectors and learns to create 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.

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.

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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.

Targeting Lyoko

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

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. 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.

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

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 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.

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X.A.N.A. resurrecting 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, and falls into the Digital Sea after. However, X.A.N.A. revives and transforms him into its servant.

Ultimate Plans

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X.A.N.A.'s newest warrior.

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 of X.A.N.A.

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.

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.

Kongres

New monsters, Kongres.

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 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 laboratory, a Desert Replika in a New Mexico base, and a Carthage Replika in a 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 cybernetic spiders, force field generators, control chips, and metallic orb drones. The team travel to its Replikas and teleport themselves as spectres in their virtual forms to destroy their supercomputers in the real world.

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The mighty Kolossus.

When the team goes to an Ice Replika, located in a 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: "the Kolossus," revealing it has hundreds of Replikas in the network, too many to take out one by one.

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X.A.N.A.'s robot army.

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 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 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.

Final Battle

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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.

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.

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

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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 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.

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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 Ghost Channel, in the American version of Code Lyoko, the same actor who also voices Herb, Jim, and William.
  • 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.
  • X.A.N.A.'s name was derived from Xanadu, the virtual world in Garage Kids.
  • 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 name is used with male pronouns in Code Lyoko; whereas in Evolution, his name was genderless.

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