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ReBoot Character
Enzo Matrix
Format Sprite, Guardian, Renegade
First Appearance The Tearing
Hobby Young: Yo-yo tricks, tackling Bob, learning, and travelling with him
Adult: Shooting things and getting mad at Ray.
Catchphrase Young: "Alphanumeric!"
Adult: "You got a deletion wish?"
Voice Actor Young - Jessie Moss, Matthew Sinclair, Christopher Gray, Danny McKinnon, Octavian Kaul
Adult - Paul Dobson
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"My Format? I have no Format. I am a Renegade, lost on the Net." - Enzo Matrix

Enzo Matrix is a Sprite living in Mainframe. He is the son of Welman Matrix, the younger brother of Dot Matrix, and later the older brother to Little Enzo.

History

When he was a young sprite, his father was nullified when Mainframe's Twin City was destroyed. He lived with his older sister, Dot Matrix, at Dot's Diner. Enzo idolized Bob when the Guardian came to Mainframe to help protect the city. He was the envy of the little sprite and Enzo dreamed of being a Guardian just like Bob. Enzo's pet and best friend was a dog named Frisket. Despite his small stature, Enzo was very brave, always ready to go into a Game Cube or face Megabyte or Hexadecimal. Enzo also had a habit of greeting Bob by tackling him to the ground.

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Enzo as a child

Once Megabyte shrunk some of his agents and tried to place them in Bob's brain. His viral binomes messed up and the agents ended up in Enzo's brain. Dot and Bob took Enzo to see Phong in the Principal Office. When Megabyte realized their mistake and where the young sprite was, he forced Enzo to go in the System Operating Core. Luckily, Bob stopped Megabyte's agents and Enzo could leave the Core before he was deleted. (The Great Brain Robbery)

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Enzo and Frisket

Megabyte broke into the city's Archives by using Game energy to steal the control circuitry for Enzo's father's Gateway Command. The Virus used Enzo to test the Gateway and see if it was working properly. The Gateway worked perfectly and transported Enzo briefly to the Super Computer. (When Games Collide)

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Enzo's upgrade at his birthday

Enzo received a small upgrade on his first birthday from version '01' to version '10'. He was overjoyed. Dot organized a huge birthday party and sang at the performance. Megabyte even performed a guitar battle with Bob. He gave his guitar to Enzo when he was finished. (Talent Night)

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AndrAIa and Enzo

As Enzo grew older, he was increasingly depressed that there were no young sprites for him to play with since they were mostly nullified by his dad's experiment. When he entered the Treasure of Atlantis Game, he meets a Game Sprite named AndrAIa. She helped him win the Game. To ensure they could be together she downloaded a backup of herself onto Enzo's icon. When the backup was activated after the Game was over AndrAIa activated in Mainframe. Enzo and AndrAIa were inseparable ever since. (AndrAIa)

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Guardian Enzo Matrix

A Web Creature found its way to Mainframe and opened a Web Portal over the city. The Web War began as Bob helped Phong prepare the city for war. Bob gave Enzo an upgrade to a cadet Guardian as he was worried that something might happen to himself, and the city would have no Guardian to protect it from the viruses. Enzo performed valiantly during the Web War helping to support CPU defenses with anti-aircraft guns. Enzo was devastated when Megabyte shot Bob into the Web and closed the portal. Bob's broken Key Tool Glitch passed to Enzo and he pledged to defend the system from Megabyte and Hexadecimal. (Web World Wars)

Appearance

As a child, Enzo had the appearance of a young boy. He appeared to wear a blue body suit underneath a white shirt and yellow guard pads at his shoulders, elbows, and knees. He wore sneaker shoes, a red baseball hat that he wore backwards and his icon placed in the center, and typically carried a yo-yo at his hip.

When he became guardian after Bob, Enzo now wore a guardian uniform similar to Bob's but in a darker blue color and his icon now located on the left side of his chest. Like other guardians, Enzo wore Glitch on his left forearm.

As Matrix, he grew to have a tall and muscular body. He now wore blue pants with his gun strapped to his right thigh, a black vest, and black combat boots. He wore black fingerless gloves on both hands and an icon tattoo on his left bicep. Along with a gold hoop earring on his left ear, Enzo had replaced his damaged right eye with a gold eye that had targeting capabilities.

Personality

As a young sprite, Enzo is very energetic and curious. As he greatly looks up to Bob and his bravery and duties as a guardian, Enzo often tried to adopt these traits himself. This often causes him to rush forward into games and dangerous situations without thinking things through which often puts him or others in great danger. This has caused his sister Dot to make him promise numerous times to not enter games or go to uncertain areas without herself or Bob although Enzo tends to break these promises after a short period of time.

When Dot and Bob became more firm in not allowing Enzo to go into games, he became upset at this as it prevented him from having any fun which added to his stress and frustration of not having friends his own age to play with. Enzo viewed the games as a way to have fun with others and go on exciting adventures but did not often appear to take them as seriously as he should have until he or others nearly lost.

However, Enzo is still very brave and compassionate. He greatly cares about those close to him and does not hesitate to do what he can to help them and the citizens of Mainframe. Because he's still so young, Enzo is easily captivated by things he thinks are "cool", whether it is on the side of good or bad.

After Bob was sent into the Web and Enzo became the new guardian for the system, he had a difficult time living up to the role when he saw how challenging it really was and when Mainframers doubted him due to age and lack of skill. He did not let this stop him though as he continued defending the system as best as he could until he, AndrAIa, and Frisket had to stay in the game to prevent nullification.

Now becoming Matrix the Renegade, he gained a cold and brash demeanor. He also appeared to have trouble controlling his temper at times. Matrix also did not hide his deep hatred of viruses and would not show any mercy to one he fought against; not hesitating to destroy one with a headshot and nearly destroying Megabite.

Viral Wars

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Enzo protecting Mainframe

With Bob gone and almost the entire CPU defense force destroyed, Mainframe's leaders struggled to keep the city safe as the Viral Wars started. While Dot, Phong, and Mouse worked on fortifying the city, Enzo's job was more focused on protecting the city from Games. Dot feared for his safety and accompanied him into his first Game. She eventually agreed to let him train and defend Games without her if AndrAIa, and sometimes Frisket went with him. Enzo promised his sister that wherever Bob was, he would find him and bring him home. (To Mend and Defend) As Glitch had been broken by Megabyte prior to Bob's exile, the Key tool was now useless beyond data retrieval, forcing Enzo to consider alternate strategies to Bob's past examples.

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Enzo and Megabyte

Megabyte was not amused that the city's leaders were sending a child to fight him. He found it a joke, that this was their last line of defense. Megabyte also thought that they did not take his threat seriously. Megabyte had used a delivery service that Enzo started two years ago. He started telling Enzo he was nothing but a delivery boy, a messenger. Megabyte also made sure to refer to him only as a boy, so he would not forget he was nothing but a little kid.

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Enzo watching the city with Phong

Despite the interference of Megabyte through his ABCs and his propaganda created by his servant Cyrus, Enzo became a respected hero to Mainframe.

They finally trapped the viruses behind a firewall. Phong and Mouse came up with the device, but they let Enzo believe that he came up so he would feel that he was more than a kid. Before activating the Firewall, Enzo witnessed what Megabyte had done to his sister, Hexadecimal. When Megabyte showed how proud he was of torturing Hex, Enzo was disgusted "You're sick Megabyte, I won't rest until I've stopped you" a response which Megabyte believed was an idle threat. (Firewall)

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Dot and Enzo

Enzo helped Mainframe to win several Games before he played the Immortal Konflict Game which became his undoing. The User, as the demon Zaytan, fought Enzo, rebooted as a Ninja. While almost winning, Enzo was badly injured - which cost him his right eye. His final act was to change his icon into Game Sprite mode so that he could survive nullification and travel with the Games. AndrAIa and Frisket did the same. Everyone in Mainframe thought they were nullified; Dot took the loss of her last family member hard. (Game Over)

The Viral Wars continued without Enzo and AndrAIa.

Lost

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Enzo and AndrAIa grown up

Enzo and AndrAIa grew up relatively fast in the Games, having compiled up faster due to Game-Time being accelerated, and are now near Bob and Dot's ages. They continued using Game Cubes to go from system to system in search of one with ports to the Net, which they could use to return home. Faced with his failure to defend Mainframe and feeling responsible for their situation, Enzo grew distant and bitter about their lives. From his constant battling in games, he grew massive muscles and found a Gun on his travels. He replaced his damaged right eye with a golden mechanical prosthetic with a targeting implant and linked it to his new Gun. Enzo also stopped going by his first name, believing it to be too weak, as it reminded him of his younger self. He started calling himself by his last name, Matrix. He also stopped calling himself a Guardian, and now referred to himself as a Renegade. The only two people he was close to at this point were Frisket and AndrAIa. Whenever she wasn't with him, Matrix was more likely to lose his temper and jump into a fight without thinking. Even with AndrAIa around, he still grew nervous very easily, and often drew his Gun on pure reflex. However, AndrAI had become their voice of reason and calmed him when his temper flared. Matrix harbored an extreme hatred for viruses now, especially Megabyte. Before he deleted the Praying Mantis Virus in the Damaged System, it had begged for mercy, to which Matrix scoffed and promptly shot it in the head. (Icons)

In many respects, Matrix was still compelled by his Guardian code to Mend and Defend. Along with their travels, Matrix and AndrAIa helped teach many systems how to resolve their conflicts and win Games without them, including the Damaged System, Spectral System, and the Satellite System.

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Matrix meeting Turbo

When they reached the Desert Port System, Matrix was overjoyed to find a system with ports to the Net. Enzo met Prime Guardian Turbo in this system and learned the Super Computer had been infected by a Super Virus named Daemon. Matrix's icon was still coded as a Guardian, and he and Bob were the only two Guardians left on the Net that were not infected. Abandoning his search for a way home, he repeated the promise he had previously made to Dot to find Bob, so together they could help free the Guardians from Daemon's control, and save the entire Net. (The Episode With No Name)

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Matrix meeting Captain Capacitor

Matrix met one of Dot's old business partners in this system, Captain Capacitor. His crew had been imprisoned in the system and his ship - the Saucy Mare - impounded. Matrix, AndrAIa, and Frisket helped free his crew and take back the ship. Matrix also begrudgingly freed a search engine named Ray Tracer. They left the system on the Saucy Mare, and Ray Tracer led them to the Edge of Beyond where they could enter the Web and search for Bob. Matrix harbored undue jealousy towards Ray for flirting with AndrAIa. Because of that, AndrAIa was badly injured by a web creature hatchling shortly before they entered the Web. (The Edge of Beyond)

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Ray Tracer and Matrix

After entering the Web, they searched for the Web Creature that attacked AndrAIa, knowing it had part of her code and she would eventually be deleted without it. Matrix recklessly piloted the ship into a Data Storm in pursuit of the creature. When Ray confronted him about it, his temper flared again which escalated into a fight between him and Ray, until Capacitor intervened and warned Matrix that he would not tolerate such aggressive behavior again. During their search, they ran into the Web Riders. These degraded sprites tamed web creatures for their own purposes.

To protect their territory and the Web Creatures, the Web Riders attacked the Saucy Mare. The ship put up a good fight, but the Riders broke through the ship's web shields. The crew was defeated, and all seemed lost until Bob arrived and called off the battle, the lost Guardian having lived among the Web Riders to survive in the Web. Bob saved AndrAIa with some of his code, and Matrix was overjoyed to see his friend again. However, he felt that he had let Bob down by his new persona, but Bob assured him that he was very proud of him, as he survived the Games, and rescued him. After a tough journey, they managed to turn the ship toward the Web Address of Mainframe. The ship was nearly destroyed by traps Mouse had put in place to protect Mainframe from Web Creatures. Bob had an idea, and downloaded Glitch into his own code, restoring its abilities. He formed a portal to Mainframe, and through it, they finally returned home. (Mousetrap)

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Bob and Matrix

Once back in Mainframe, they found that the city had fallen to Megabyte. The virus was in control of the Principal Office and had Phong's head as his prisoner. When Matrix saw his devastated home, he vowed Megabyte would pay. Dot and Mouse had formed a rebellion against Megabyte. Matrix, AndrAIa, and the pirates joined the rebellion and attacked the Principal Office.

Matrix at last confronted Megabyte in the ruined Principal Office. The virus was initially taken by surprise at seeing Enzo as an adult but soon continued to mock him as before. Matrix, filled with hatred, said nothing and readied Gun. Megabyte laughed this off and told him to put his toys away and fight like 'a real Sprite'. Matrix angrily threw aside Gun and punched Megabyte with enough force to send him reeling back, buckling in the evil virus' chest-plating. Megabyte was shocked that the boy was now so strong. Both began fighting hand-to-hand until Megabyte started using his claws. As Megabyte clearly wasn't going to fight honorably, AndrAIa evened the odds by throwing Matrix her trident.

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Matrix fighting Megabyte

Megabyte managed to get to the top of the Principal Office, but Matrix followed and beat the virus into a wall. Megabyte broke free and threw Matrix across the building's roof. Megabyte began kicking Matrix across the roof, causing him wounds and severe pain. Matrix eventually skidded to a stop at a hole in the ceiling. Matrix managed to get his footing and the two lunged at each other, and the trident shattered Megabyte's claws. Collapsing from agony, the virus soon found himself pinned underfoot. Matrix nearly impaled him with the trident, bitterly telling the virus how he ruined his life, home and family. But he spared Megabyte at the last moment by ramming the trident near his head, telling him he wasn't worth the loss of his sanity as well. Megabyte jumped off the roof onto a support beam and formed a portal to escape the "dying system", but Mouse changed his portal's destination from the Super Computer to the Web. A Web Creature popped out of it and dragged Megabyte away, and the virus was gone. (Showdown)

Matrix helped evacuate Mainframe into the Principal Office when it started to shut down. He objected when Bob suggested letting a Game Cube damage the city and cause a system crash. Bob delayed Matrix long enough for the Cube to land before anyone could get in. Matrix was backed up along with the rest of the city when it came back online. Matrix had accidentally left his icon in Game Sprite mode, so he was backed up as a Game Sprite, with a different PID than his original. The system still had his original PID on file, but it was him as a kid. A copy of Matrix in his original 01 child form was created. Dot and Matrix eventually called him Little Enzo and treated him as a little brother. (End Prog)

The Net War

As Daemon's infection continued to grow Mainframe began to fight back. Matrix and AndrAIa would go to other systems and seal them from Daemon's access. He took the view that defending Mainframe came first and was quite eager to delete the infected Guardians to do this; as Bob took a strong stance against killing, the two clashed. His blood lust ended abruptly as Bob took charge of the battle and ordered him and AndrAla to defend an incoming Game. (Daemon Rising)

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Matrix takes out Guardian warships

When Hex protected herself with Nulls from a viral scan, the null Nibbles used the Nullzilla hoard to communicate with Dot, revealing that he was the nullified Welman Matrix. After Hex was changed into a sprite Dot asked her to use her power over nulls to give Nibbles the ability to remember who he is and communicate with her. (Cross Nodes)

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Matrix and Mouse being infected

Mouse and Matrix grew tired of waiting and left Mainframe to assassinate Daemon. Matrix tried to shoot Daemon with Gun, but she proved that his weapon was useless in the Master Clock. She quickly infected them and ordered Mouse to give her the encryption code to Mainframe's firewall. Dot put up a second firewall to try and stop Daemon from getting in. She then had her father reconstruct his Gateway Command Generator. Her plan was to link the generator to multiple targets, lure Daemon to the generator and activate it, fragmenting her and hoping the Net would recover without her control. (Sacrifice)

Dot had a back-up plan, sending Little Enzo, Frisket, Hack, and Slash into a Game Cube and having them change their icons to Game Sprite mode. They would grow up fast in the Games, then come back and save Mainframe. Little Enzo did as he was told, but once inside the Game Little Enzo decided he couldn't leave his family.

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Hexadecimal taking the cure from Matrix

When Daemon arrived in the Mainframe she quickly infected everyone before they could activate the Gateway. Dot freely helped Daemon activate the portal generator to infect the remaining systems of the Net. The Game protected Little Enzo from the infection. When it ended he helped Matrix fight off the infection and found that a pure Guardian code was a cure for Daemon's infection. As Matrix's icon was Game Sprite Mode, it protected the Guardian Code of infection and used it to cure himself and the others. They freed everyone from infection and Hexadecimal volunteered to sacrifice herself to carry the cure and save the Net. She took the cure from Matrix and told him he was a virus hater and to learn from her actions. She then gave Little Enzo a gift for his fondness of her and told him it was so he wouldn't turn out like Matrix did.

The Return

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Matrix at Dot's failed Wedding

Matrix and everyone else were extremely confused when a second Bob, identical to his likeness prior to his time spent in the web. Craving familiarity, Dot turned toward him, eventually agreeing to marry him. Matrix was asked to be Bob's 'Best Sprite' and his father even got to walk Dot down the aisle. The other Bob didn't take this well and tried to separate from Glitch, eventually succeeding. He appeared at the wedding and tried to stop it, but Dot told him her decision was final. As Bob sadly began to leave, he relinquished Glitch to the other Bob, prepared to leave Mainframe for good. Shockingly though, Glitch rejected the second Bob, returning to Bob and restoring him to his original form, while the second Bob doubled over in pain as he began to transform. It was revealed that the second Bob was really Megabyte in disguise, who had become a Trojan Horse Virus during his time in the Web. (Null Bot of the Bride)

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Matrix and the alias Megabyte

Though despondent over her poor judgement, Dot quickly recovered from being fooled by Megabyte and created a plan to have a fake Gateway generator transported to the Archives. Megabyte stole the fake Generator and fell for the trap. A group of CPU's, Bob, Matrix, and AndrAIa followed him and trapped Megabyte in a holding cell. Matrix and Bob soon found out that their captive was an alias created by Megabyte to fool them. The real Megabyte snuck into the war room and attacked everyone there. Matrix was trapped in the Principal Office when Megabyte locked it down. He then informed them he was there for revenge and to prepare themselves for the hunt. (Crouching Binome, Hidden Virus)

Alternate Timeline

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Teenage Enzo

During an effort to free a sector of Giedi Prime controlled by Megabyte, Dot became disillusioned and lost confidence. To help, Phong used a device on Dot called a Reality Distortion Engine. It made her see what would happen to Mainframe if she did nothing to stop Megabyte. In this future, Megabyte ruled Mainframe with an iron fist. Enzo is a teenage punk and frequented what was now Nibble's Diner and harassed its customers.

Relationships

  • Dot Matrix: Enzo's older sister. Enzo loves his sister above everyone else in Mainframe and is highly protective of her. He greatly admires the success she's achieved and has tried to do the same for himself. Although knowing she is just looking out for him, Enzo is often annoyed or upset when Dot tries to prevent him from entering games because of how risky they are. Enzo greatly appreciates the support Dot gave him when he became the new guardian for Mainframe. When he became trapped in the games, his biggest goal was wanting to return to her.
  • Bob: The first guardian of Mainframe. Enzo greatly admired Bob as a guardian and the duties that came with the role. He usually tries to follow Bob on whatever task he had at the moment but seemed to accept Bob trying to prevent him heading into danger more than Dot. Because he tended to listen to Bob a little more than others, Enzo learned many things from the older sprite and got to see and experience different things thanks to him. When Bob was lost in the Web, Enzo was determined to honor Bob by becoming a guardian like him and later tirelessly searched for him during his time game hopping.
  • AndrAIa: Enzo's best friend and later girlfriend. When Enzo had been suffering great loneliness due to not having other friends to be with, he found a great companionship in AndrAIa. While he tried to impress her with false stories and claims of being a guardian, he found he didn't need these as AndrAIa already cared about him. As his closest friend and romantic interest, Enzo is very protective of her. He often tries to defend her from danger and later is shown to get jealous when anyone tries to show interest in her. At the same time, he knows how capable as a warrior and will rely on her when needed.

References

  • Enzo is the only character to appear in every episode of ReBoot.
  • Enzo features more separate voice actors than any other character in the show, having a total of five as a child, with an additional for his adult form.
  • Enzo is an actual Italian name. The story is that during the pre-production of the series, the producers were told by a distributor that to get the show to sell in the U.S. they would need a kid as a character. While the producers were hesitant, the distributor told them, "Just put one in. Some little 'Enzo.'" Originally using the name as a stand-in for the character, it eventually became the actual name. In retrospect, the producers were grateful for being forced to include him, believing Enzo to be the heart of the show. That's why they brought him back at the end of season three.
  • Enzo's mother has never been seen nor mentioned.

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