Pandora

**Pandora** is a primary character later turned antagonist of Infinity Nado 2. He is a supporting character in Infinity Nado 3. He is a friend of Jin, Dawn, Davis, and Cecilia. He is the child of the Earth, created millennials ago by the spiritual power of the Earth. He must awaken when the time for the end of the world comes and destroy it to recreate a new one.

## Appearance

Pandora has long light purple hair and purple eyes with star/diamond-shaped pupils, which resemble the Ancient Group Hunters' gemmiferous stone bindings (which were connected to both Chaos and Pandora).

Pandora was probably the character who has the most variety of outfits throughout the series, as she has his original clothes, his modern clothes, his "cute disguise", his Split Family outfit, and his disguise as Dodd.

## Personality

Pandora is a cheerful, innocent, and energetic person. He is very friendly and cares for his friends and wants to protect them as they protect him. He had a sense of guilt and embarrassment when thinking that he dragged Jin and his friends into their troubles with the League of Ancient Hunter Gods but Jin reinsured him that it wasn't his fault.

After remembering his mission to destroy the Earth, he seems more serious as he believed the world was too cruel to exist and wanted to destroy the Earth without hesitation, and had no problem with the lives of the people. But he was able to regain his hope in humanity again after being reminded of his friends and hopeful in creating a new world where everyone could be themselves again.

As Dodd, he is a sneaky and mysterious person, though has his heart in the place of wanting to protect his friends.

## Powers and Abilities

Due to Pandora being a humanoid spirit, he has many distinguishing features that make him stand out from humans; such as the superhuman strength that allowed him to drag a man across town and knock over an iron door in the Eden Temple and also super agility that allowed him to jump from great heights and landing on his feet. Like Dodd, Pandora seemed to have the ability to teleport and also is seen to be skilled at throwing cards.

Pandora represents the element light and owns the attributeless type nado called Glory Sword. According to Mr. Arthur, due to Pandora's connection to all of Eath's magic, the Earth would end up exploding in anything if Pandora loses his life. Pandora is also shown to have spiritual powers that were directly connected to the magic stored inside of the Earth that can be transferred through him and fired through the Sky Colosseum to create natural disasters that rip apart the Earth and recreate reality.

Pandora was also said to be able to communicate with the spirit of Thunderbolt Horse; which made him the only main character to own and control an attributeless nado, as its spirit chose him.

Dodd managed to merge Glory Sword's powers with Thunder Stallion by sucking its powers out of its fossilized state.

## Plot

### Past

Pandora originated and was created from the spiritual energies of the Earth's rotation which made him the first human on Earth and "the son of the Earth". When human civilization first began, Pandora was able to take human form and was put asleep inside a machine-like bed that resembled an incubator and was meant to wake up at the "Earth's destined time of ending".

### Season 2

#### The Awakening

10,000 years later, Pandora was found by Arthur and Dawn in underground temple ruins after waking up in an amnesic state. Pandora joins the main cast after they help him find his fossilized Nado, Glory Sword God. Together they challenged the Ancient Hunting God as it is part of Pandora's to have them abandon their mission of destroying humanity.

Eventually, Pandora was able to get his memories back after gaining ten hundred thousand points when fending off an angry mob provoked by the Hunters Gods who came after him. This caused Pandora to realize that the purpose of his existence was to destroy the world and summon the Aerial Colosseum to meet where the project would be taking place. There Pandora meets his counterpart, Chaos - who manipulates him into believing that the world must be destroyed to be recreated in their image.

During the final battle after Chaos's defeat, Pandora is shown to care for Jin and his friends and wants to create a new world where everyone can be themselves and live happily again. When Jin is fading away, Pandora cries and tells him everything has an ending but they will meet again someday. After the world was reset, Pandora had a vision of meeting up with Jin in a valley one year later where they end up holding hands and walking off in the sunset.

### Season 3

At the beginning of the third season, Pandora seems to have gone his separate way from the main cast as she ends up disguising himself as a mysterious person under the name of "Dodd" who got a new Nado called Thunder Stallion stolen from Dr. Louis's lab and later on absorbed and fused with the spirit of the now-fossilized Nado - Glory Sword God from a museum. Upon seeing Dodd, Jin thought that he was oddly familiar and often found himself helping Dodd on several occasions as he believed that Dodd was good at heart and trying to protect Jin and his friends from something. Dodd's identity was revealed in the 27th episode after being attacked by Dr. Louis was revealed to be Temperance. Jin then helps help heal Pandora who finally rejoins the rest of Jin's friends.

When Jin's friends are all imprisoned in their dimensions, Jin ends up going to the dimension where Pandora was imprisoned; which appears to be an amusement park where they play together to find a way out and work together to defeat Jack (Temperance's evil puppet who guarded the dimension prison). After defeating Jack, Pandora and Jin are found by Justice who takes them to Hurricane Tower in the Spiral World to meet up with the other War Gods.

In the finale of season three, Jin and Pandora are finally reunited with their friends and decide to all go explore the world together.

## Notable relationships

### **Ancient** **Hunter Gods**

The Ancient Hunter Gods were a group of people from various ancient civilizations who became immortals and wanted to use Pandora as a weapon to destroy humanity. They were given stone bindings by the Split Family which were meant to act as a failsafe for Pandora's memories and Chaos's revival. When Pandora lost his memories, he was pretty intimidated by them as they always tried to pursue him to complete an unknown ritual. However, Pandora was able to defeat each of them and break their gemstones to free their bind to the ceremony. In the end, the Ancient Hunter Gods were finally able to understand why Pandora was willing to give up the ritual for his new friends.

However, when the truth regarding Pandora and Chaos was revealed, they willing to join hands with the son's of Earth's friends to stop the latter from destroy the Earth. When Pandora reset the Earth, their fate is undetermined.

### Jin

   Jin is the one character that is closest to Pandora as it was his powers to allowed Pandora's awakening. When they first met, Pandora ended up giving Jin the power to heal him and upgrade Jin's nado, Jin ends up making a vow that he and his friends will help Pandora and train him to become a strong nado player and protect him no matter what. Jin is seen to even go as far as to protect Pandora even if it means losing his own life. When Pandora left the group Jin was devastated but was still able to regain faith in Pandora. In the end, Jin was the one that reminded Pandora to still have hope in the world and they were happy to be reunited again in the Season 2 finale and Season 3.

According to the Deciples of King Dominus, as Jin awaken Pandora with his powerful life force, he became the one who bear one of the sons of Earth's spiritual power.

### **Cecilia**

Cecilia and Pandora generally have a good relationship with Cecilia was the one that helped Pandora buy some new clothes that were more suitable for the modern society of Wind Wheel Town with her own nado's points. Pandora was also the only one in the group that was willing to try Cecilia's camp soup and enjoy it which pleased Cecilia despite the others disliking her cooking. Cecilia is also seen to have a concern about Pandora's well-being when he was weakened by Greek Hunter God and has Jin take him back to the underground ruins.

In many ways, they are quite similar to them both being nonhuman members of the group and originally used to power a superweapon to destroy the world but were freed from that destiny thanks to Jin.

### **Dawn**

Dawn was the first one to discover Pandora when traveling with Arthur and offered to take Pandora back with them. Despite Pandora technically being chronologically older than all of them, Dawn often treats Pandora like a child due to his naivety from memory loss and adjusting to the modern world. In some ways, Dawn even tried to take advantage of Pandora on some occasions by originally wanting to have the Glory Sword God as his treasure and once even tried to trick Pandora into giving him some nado points through his scanner.

Though Dawn is still seen to be generous in helping Pandora gain nado points by taking him to a street tournament and admires Jin's care for him.

### **Chaos**

Chaos was another son of the Earth "born from the darkness of people's hearts" which technically makes him and Pandora brothers and opposite counterparts of each other representing light and darkness in the Split Family. Chaos is seen to shown to be quite manipulative as he has false sympathy for Pandora and forces Pandora to leave for another part of the Colosseum while Chaos challenged Jin. As for Pandora, he is pretty much intimidated by Chaos, which can be noted by his submissiveness towards the latter's superiority over him, unable to talk back to his Earthborn counterpart.

After Chaos was defeated by the hands of Jin, Pandora was finally able to get closure from his original fate of recreating the world for Chaos and decides to recreate the world for Jin and his friends instead.

## Nados

He owns the attributeless nado **Glory Sword** in Season 2 and the balanced type nado **Thunder Stallion** in Season 3, which makes his elements of both light and electricity.

## **Trivia**

* Many viewers of the show often mistake him for a girl due to his effeminate face, and neutral-sounding voice, along with his noteworthy relationship with Jin. Though there were several instances where it was explicitly stated that he was a boy by the main characters with occasionally uses male-specific pronouns and titles and has to cross-dress when going to the Atlantis Temple with the boys instead of getting accepted by the mermaids aside from Cecilia.
* In some of the international dubs, Pandora gets voiced by a woman in normal form but gets voiced by a man as Phantom Thief Dodd. Some international releases even made Pandora female or even had him be genderless with no pronouns.
* In the original dubbing of Season 2, Pandora's voice range varied originally being sweet and childlike when he first appears but after regain his memories, his voice getting rougher but still neutral while being serious.
	+ In Season 3, Pandora maintained a rough but neutral voice as he is more mature.
* Pandora is the only main character that didn't get a name change in any of the foreign dubs, as his name is well-known and pronounced in almost every language.
* Pandora's name originates from the Greek myth about "Pandora's box" This fits the nomenclature of the story of Pandora releasing all the evils into the world with the hope being the last thing that remained in the box, which parallels the world being destroyed being recreated in the end.
	+ The name **Pandora** means *"all gifts"*, derived from a combination of Greek *πᾶν (pan)* meaning "all" and *δῶρον (doron)* meaning "gift".
* There are rumors that Pandora was originally supposed to be female, but was changed at a later stage in development (possibly after character designs were finalized) to not promote premature romance with Jin.
	+ Indian Hunter’s familiar India May have gotten the same treatment, but done when the Chinese subtitles were made due to his interactions with Eli.
* According to Earth's fate, Pandora woke up a century before he was supposed to due to being awakened by Jin's powerful life force.
* Despite physically looking about 15-16 years old. However, Pandora's actual age could be older than 10,000 due to his existence longer as a spirit before taking humanoid form and being asleep for a thousand years.
* There were originally going to be three different possibilities for Pandora’s awakening:
	1. Pandora will wake up with no memories but will recover them after defeating the Hunter Gods with their gems binds acting as a fail-safe.
	2. Pandora doesn’t recover his memories even after defeating the Hunter Gods yet still be able to revive Chaos through the gems. (This ended up happening)
	3. Pandora ends up waking up with all of his memories and all members of the Hunter God Glory will be sacrificed to destroy the world.

* The tournament of Jin vs Pandora in the Season 2 finale became known as one of the only final battles where the protagonist loses but was still successful in achieving their goal; in this case, it helped bring Pandora back to his senses and have the world being reborn instead of destroyed.

* Pandora was probably the character who has the most variety of outfits throughout the series, as she has his original clothes, his modern clothes, his "cute disguise", his Split Family outfit, and his disguise as Dodd.
	+ The rabbit ears that are part of Dodd's costume was a callback to when Pandora had to disguise himself as a girl with a dress that featured a bunny pin.
		- His attire along with Jin's cross-dressing is inspired by *Alice in Wonderland* as while Pandora's clothes are featured with bunny ears, Jin's clothes resemble Alice's.

* Although Pandora was the first one to recover his memories he was the last one to be reunited with Jin and his friends in Season 3.
	+ He also the last member to join the group in Season 2.
* Pandora was the only main character to not get an upgraded Nado in Season 3.
* Pandora and Temperance are the only characters to get a new Nado that is a different type than their first.
	+ Pandora replaced his attribute-less Glory Sword God with the balanced type Thunder Stallion.
* Pandora is the only character in the series to intentionally discard a Nado permanently. He left Glory Sword God at the doorsteps of a museum, where it became one of the artifacts housed inside until he stole it back to transfer its spiritual power into Thunder Stallion.
	+ It is theorized that after completing his duty, Pandora wishes to be himself in the new world, thus he needs a new Nado as Glory Sword God is tied to his now-completed destiny of destroying and recreating the Earth.
* Possibly the reason why Pandora has no problem enjoying Cecilia's cooking is that both are not human, thus their sense of taste is different from their friends.