Franz Hopper

Waldo Franz Schaeffer (commonly known as Franz Hopper) is a supporting protagonist in Code Lyoko. He was a genius who was responsible for creating the supercomputer, the virtual world Lyoko, as well as the artificial intelligence, X.A.N.A. He was the spouse of Anthea Hopper and Aelita's father.
It was later revealed that he died protecting his daughter, gaining Jeremie's multi-agent program enough energy to temporarily wipe out X.A.N.A. After moving to the Hermitage near the Kadic Academy, he had taken his wife's maiden name (Hopper) in order to make a fresh start and to stay hidden from his adversaries.
==Skills==
Franz Hopper is the proficient scientist who constructed the Supercomputer, X.A.N.A., and Lyoko, and knows all of their attributes and programs that the virtual world is made of.
When he virtualized himself, Franz becomes a being that can take control of the Supercomputer functions much like X.A.N.A. Likewise, he is capable of doing and has the Keys of Lyoko programmed into him. His first form in Lyoko, a cluster of small white orbs, as he himself noted, was incomplete and fragmented compared to Aelita. In that state, he could naturally levitate as well as move freely between the Lyoko sectors. Later, he takes on a single, larger white orb form, whereupon he can physically make contact with the environment, and draw people into himself to protect them from attacks and the Digital Sea. Unfortunely for him, however, both of his forms lack offensive abilities, making him extremely vulnerable to attacks. Despite this, he is almost certainly the most powerful character in the series, second only to X.A.N.A.
He is very efficient of controlling Towers and can protect them from X.A.N.A.'s influence, activating his own Towers to generate spectres that can possess humans, or take control of other active Towers with weak security. He can also program virtual creatures under his control, travel within the Digital Sea without being deleted, and send messages across the network. Franz is also able to fully restore a person's digital memory, reactivating the virtual world if it was shut down, and providing energy to run powerful programs, though these abilities take a large amount of resources on his end, which can potentially be fatal to his well-being.
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