Scyphozoa

The **Scyphozoa** is a monster programmed by X.A.N.A. to access and manipulate digital memory. It serves a great number of purposes for X.A.N.A. personally: the predominant two of its tasks are to drain a victim and/or object's digital memory/energy, or plant viruses in the Lyoko Warriors to put them under X.A.N.A.'s control.

## Appearance

Resembling a giant jellyfish with long tentacles protruding from its sides, the Scyphozoa is much larger than the rest of XANA's monsters. Its eye is located on a green diamond just in front of its head. The head is bulb-shaped, and sits on its dark pink cone-shaped body. Unlike the other monsters, who move through some form of physical transportation (legs or wings), the Scyphozoa is able to float as if it were swimming through water. This enables it to easily reach otherwise unaccessible areas on Lyoko, and also makes it highly maneuverable in close quarters. Like the Kolossus, the Scyphozoa is the only monster of its kind. The Scyphozoa also makes a unique, creepy noise that signify its appearance and/or approach.

## Biography

To steal a Lyoko Warrior's memory, the Scyphozoa first wraps its two or five front tentacles around them. Once the Lyoko Warrior is encased in a red aura and rendered immobile with either his/her arms or wrists prevented from getting lose, it levitates them above the ground. Next, the Scyphozoa places its three tentacles to a victim's head; two at the temples and one at the forehead. It then begins to drain the memory (seen as a glowing pinkish fluid through its tentacles) from a Lyoko Warrior's mind and into its brain-like organ in its bulb-shaped head which flash from absorbing. And when the memory is completely sucked out by it, the Scyphozoa either drops or gently places its victim back to the ground and floats away. There are possible ways to prevent this jellyfish-like monster from finishing its sinister task of stealing any of the Lyoko warrior's memory (usually Aelita's) for XANA: if the tentacles are severed before the process is complete, any data it has stolen is drained out of the Scyphozoa and returned back to the owner. This runs contrary to the episode "Missing Link ", where it still managed to steal Yumi's digital genetic code even though its tentacles were severed. It is possible though that since it was only stealing her code, it had already finished the process, and was either about to drop her anyway or it started stealing her memories which restarted the process. The Scyphozoa's memory-draining process seems to wear out its victim, as its captives usually feel momentary fatigue. It can also drain life points, as evidenced by the Scyphozoa's attack on the Skid in "The Lake."

As with all of XANA's monsters, the Scyphozoa's proposed weakness is the Eye on its head. Only its head and tentacles have ever been hit though. Its head simply absorbs the attacks but the tentacles are severed when hit. This causes it to lose its grasp on its victim. Getting hit in the head can also cause it to lose its grasp on its victim, though the effectiveness of this varies. This monster has also managed to survive every attack inflicted upon it, including Odd's laser arrows and Manta mines. This suggests that it might be indestructible or, at the very least, extremely durable, since even non-Eye hits have done no visible damage to it. It is only destroyed once, and inadvertently at that, in "The Lake," when Aelita supercharges the Skid's shields using energy from various towers in Lyoko. As it was connected to the shields at the time, the sudden increase in power overloaded and destroyed it. It also seems to be capable of regenerating its limbs over a short period of time. This is seen in "Déjà Vu," when its tentacles were severed by Ulrich, yet they regenerated instantly or in a few minutes. Regardless of this, the Scyphozoa retreats whenever it faces any significant resistance. XANA is not willing to risk losing Aelita's memories, so the Scyphozoa can also be persuaded to let her go if the group is willing to destroy her rather than let XANA have her memories. This has only happened once, in "Saint Valentine's Day," where Odd threatened to kill Aelita until the Scyphozoa was persuaded to release her.

## Powers and Strengths

The Scyphozoa is one of X.A.N.A.'s most powerful monsters, and the hardest to defeat. The Scyphozoa has the ability to use its tentacles to grab anyone near it. It can use them to steal a person's memory, or DNA sequence, force them to do a task, or plant viruses inside them. However, this task requires time, leaving the Scyphozoa unprotected. While the Scyphozoa has no laser weapons, it has been shown to be able to use its tentacles to push weapons out of the Lyoko warrior's hands and knock them to the ground. It is shown that the Scyphozoa can also use its tentacles to steal data from the Skid, as shown in *The Lake*.

#### Strengths

Regardless of lacking any offensive ability, the Scyphozoa can survive any attack thrown at it by the Lyoko Warriors. Its Eye is located on a diameter of its head; though only its tentacles and head are ever hit. The tentacles are the only part of the Scyphozoa to ever take any physical damage. The tentacles can regenerate over time and are strong enough to knock away melee weapons like a Zweihänder or stun long-range based weapons like Energy Fields.

#### Weaknesses

As stated above, the Scyphozoa does not have many offensive abilities. While its tentacles are capable of knocking away powerful weapons like still-forming Energy Fields and a Zweihänder, fast enough movement can counter this disarmament attack. Its tentacles are also very weak, and can easily be destroyed. In addition, the Scyphozoa needs time to accomplish a task, which varies based on what X.A.N.A. needs to obtain or accomplish. Draining the Keys to Lyoko and the Life Points of the Skidbladnir for instance, take a relatively long time to do so, while virus implantation or DNA extraction take about a minute at most. This is when the Scyphozoa is at its most vulnerable, as it must stay still as it completes this function. Finally, as the monster takes care to dodge Energy Fields, an action which it has never done for the weapons of the other Lyoko Warriors, it can be presumed that even the Scyphozoa can be harmed by them.

#### Movement

Though it may look slow at first, Scyphozoa is actually able to easily evade attacks, such as Aelita's Energy Fields, by quickly dodging from side to side. It is also X.A.N.A.'s only monster that constantly levitates in order to get around; its movements are similar to that of a real jellyfish when floating using its tentacles.

## Appearances

### Season 2

1. Uncharted Territory
2. Exploration
3. A Great Day
4. Mister Pück
5. Saint Valentine's Day
6. Final Mix
7. Missing Link
8. Temptation
9. A Bad Turn
10. Ultimatum
11. A Fine Mess
12. X.A.N.A.'s Kiss
13. Vertigo
14. Cold War
15. Déjà Vu
16. Is Anybody Out There?
17. Franz Hopper
18. Contact
19. The Key

### Season 3

1. Lyoko Minus One
2. The Pretender
3. The Secret
4. Triple Trouble
5. Double Trouble
6. Final Round

### Season 4

1. The Lake
2. Wrong Exposure
3. Echoes