Hexadecimal (character)
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| Hexadecimal | |
|---|---|
| First appearance | Racing Against The Clock (1x02) |
| Last appearance | Sacrifice (4x04) |
| Created by | Mainframe Entertainment |
| Portrayed by | Sherley Meliner |
| Information | |
| Species | Virus |
| Gender | Female |
| Family | Megabyte (brother) |
Hexadecimal is a fictional character from the CGI TV series, ReBoot, often referred to as Hex. Her name is a reference to hexadecimal notation, which programmers sometimes use rather than binary notation.
Hexadecimal is an insane virus, operating out of Lost Angles and who has a not-so-secret crush on Bob the guardian. She is Megabyte's sister, serving as chaos to his order. She is melodramatic and emtionally volatile, symbolized by the masks that she wears, which change constantly in a slew of different ways. She has trans-finite power reserves (making her both extremely powerful and able to replenish her powers, even after fully exhausting them). Her other abilities include: energy beams and fireballs, altering gravity (once causing Bob to stop and hover in midair), flying, energy shields and shrugging off severe damage, and controlling nulls (sprites downgraded to slug-like status for losing to the User in a game).
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[edit] The masks
Her vast collection of masks serve to show her facial expression and mood, thereby giving her a harlequin-like appearance. The expressions shown in these masks can range from happy, sad, scheming, and even homicidally insane. Hex is known to play a little game with herself whereby she looks in the mirror and changes her expression back and forth, similar to an acting exercise. These masks also hold her power in check, though when removed (as in the episode "Painted Windows"), her power escapes and continues to do damage to her environment although she will overload and be destroyed if the mask is not replaced.
[edit] Home
She lives on the island known as Lost Angles, once Mainframe's twin city. It was destroyed in the explosion that created Hexadecimal and Megabyte. Lost Angles is a chaotic place (much like Hexadecimal) which is confusing and hard to navigate through ("Why do I always get lost in lost angles?"—Bob).
[edit] Storyline
In the episode Web World Wars, her power charged the Hardware that closed the portal to the Web. However, immediately afterwards, she decided to fire the Hardware at the Principal Office on a whim. She did not care this would destroy the Core, the System and herself. Luckily, a Game Cube landed on top of the Hardware and the energy feedback from the Cube along with the energy charge that she had already infused in the hardware seriously damaged her. Megabyte had her rebuilt and enslaved her into being a weapon he could use against Mainframe. This only made her more insane and angry. When she broke free of Megabyte's control her resulting rampage devastated Silicon Tor, G-Prime and the surrounding sectors. She spent the rest of her days lurking in Lost Angles.
At the end of season three when Bob returned, she abducted him for demented party games (and would eventually have killed him). However, he was able to defragment her with his new powers. This replaced her makss with a real face (looking exactly like her masks, except it was able to move). Her insanity was replaced with a more harmless quirkiness. With the System about to restart, Bob insisted that Phong give her an Icon (or PID) to register her with the Principle Office so she would be backed up. Mainframe restarted and a viral scan disinfected all the Virals, but Hexadecimal was so powerful that she was not affected.
By the fourth season (Daemon Rising), she had began openly and heavily trying to seduce Bob. In order to make him happy, she used her powers to drive out the invading super virus Daemon's forces. However, this weakened her powers enough for the viral scan, which had remained in her Icon, to start again. The nulls covered her in order to protect her. When the nulls fled due to a Game, she emerged transformed into a normal, unpowered Sprite; wearing a new costume of white and gold instead of red and black, with normal-looking eyes and black hair. When Daemon conquered Mainframe, she rejected Hex as an abomination.
With Bob was in danger of dying, Hex absorbed power from Mainframe's core energy in order to revert back to viral self once more. With power levels rivaling even Daemon's, she was able to battle her to a stalemate. By that point Daemon was powerful enough infected the entire Net (as she was a cron virus). Hex chose to sacrifice herself by infecting the Net with the cure to Daemon's infection.
Her sacrifice symbolizes two themes previously stated in the show. "Love conquers all boundaries" (AndrAIa, S4 episode 3): Hexadecimal decides to fight Daemon's countdown due to her love for Bob and desire for him to survive. "Chaos will always triumph over Order; it is the way of things" ("Game Over"): Daemon's purpose is stated by Turbo to bring order to the Net, and the self-styled Queen of Chaos fights her to a standstill and cures the Net of the infection.
[edit] Companions
Scuzzy
Hexadecimal's familiar. A cat-like animal with a video screen on its head. He spies on anybody that she tells him too (e.g. Megabyte)and communicates through a series of generated images on the screen. Named after SCSI, which stands for Small Computer System Interface.
Mike the TV
He temporarily lived in her lair when Bob left him with her in order to "cheer her up" after the events of Painted Windows. Mike apparently joined Scuzzy as her helper. He stayed there until he, Scuzzy, Hack, and Slash were scared away by Nullzilla and met up with Bob.
