![]() ![]() New characters like AndrAIa were introduced she was originally a game character, and became Enzo's love interest. Midway through the second season, the show discarded its episodic nature and began introducing a long term Story Arc that reached through the fourth season. The decision to use simple shapes for background characters resulted from the technological limits of the time, and more human-like characters appeared as the production hardware was upgraded. Other characters in the show include the inhabitants of Mainframe, mostly binomes, who are shaped like ones and zeroes the lack of more sprites (Humanoid characters) besides Dot and Enzo and a small handful of others was ascribed to the destruction of Mainframe's sister city, which occurred before the start of the series and also killed Dot and Enzo's father. If the user wins the game, that section of the city is "nullified" and those inside are turned into mindless, energy-draining slug-like creatures called "nulls." To combat the User, Bob and his friends must enter the game and "reboot" themselves into forms adapted to compete within it. ![]() The games are purple cubes that descend from the sky and envelope an area of the city. A unique feature are her harlequin masks they will change expression depending on her mood but they remain static, never mouthing out her words.īesides dealing with a power-hungry virus, Bob is there to win the "games" that are sent by "The User" (a rarely-seen entity who fills the role of their God). She is more interested in chaos than actual destruction, so while being vastly more powerful her plans are less focused and are usually less of a concern. He has a 'sister' named Hexadecimal, whom he continually tries to destroy, and who tries to destroy him right back (she describes this as simple "sibling rivalry"). His attempts to take over Mainframe or travel to the supercomputer forms the backbone to most of his plans. The first season introduced the primary villain, the virus Megabyte, who serves as the Big Bad for almost the entire series. He is also aided by the system administrator Phong, who fills the role of a vaguely Confucian mentor. His two main friends are his love interest (and smart businesswoman) Dot Matrix, and her younger (and hyperactive) brother Enzo. In the beginning, the story was primarily about Bob, a Guardian (security program) from "The Supercomputer" who is assigned to protect the relatively backwoods city of Mainframe. Of particular note was the phenomenal vocal work, and the visual design by renowned Judge Dredd artist Brendan McCarthy. Filled with its own mythology and unique phrases that references a lot of computer terminology, it was a very successful show wherever it was shown. Premiering in 1994, ReBoot was the story of Mainframe, a city in cyberspace, and the various "programs" (people) that lived within. It was produced by Mainframe Entertainment, the same Canadian production house that would go on to make Beast Wars, Shadow Raiders ( War Planets), and several other shows. ![]() The first half hour TV cartoon to be fully computer generated, note While VeggieTales was produced earlier, it was originally direct-to-video instead of a regular series ReBoot is actually set inside a computer.
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