Sprite

Sprites - Phong, Little Enzo, Matrix, AndrAIa, Bob, and Dot

Sprites are human like people that inhabit most systems of the Net. They come in a variety of colors and usually have to arms and two legs. Phong is a sprite but has no legs and does not have the characteristic head and hands. Some sprites have a more organic look while others have a slightly mechanical look. Sprites are usually in charge of the systems they inhabit, but often work in conjunction with binomes. In almost every system sprites are less common than binomes, especially in Mainframe.

When Mainframe's Twin City was destroyed the explosion nullified almost every sprite in the system, leaving Mainframe with only four sprites and a huge population of binomes.

Viruses, like Megabyte, have difficulty infecting sprites. Particularly if they are the system core operator, like Phong. Super viruses have no difficulty infecting anything.

Sprites consider themselves the defenders of there systems, particularly against Game Cubes. Where binomes are smaller in stature Sprites try to help where they can. Guardians in particular are programed to defend anyone. Every Guardian ever seen has been a sprite.

Characters that live inside games are referred to as Game Sprites. They come in several different varieties, depending on the game they come from. AndrAIa is the only game sprite to ever leave a game.

No binome has ever been seen in the Super Computer, sprites appear to run it completely on their own, the only system known to have that. One system visited by Matrix and AndrAIa had only one sprite, the rest of the inhabitants were binomes. Another system they visited was inhabited by Spectrals and spectrals converted into sprites.

In season 4 Hexadecimal tried to repel a viral scan by protecting herself with nulls. The Nulls fled when a game landed in the area and the combination of energies turned Hex into a sprite. She was still a rather unique sprite, having similar clothing to her viral dress, except it was white not red. Hex lost all her powers except the ability to control nulls, something no natural sprite can do. Hex also had the ability to power up back into her super viral form if she could access enough energy.

Important Sprites

Some well known sprites are: Phong, Bob, Dot Matrix, Enzo Matrix also known as Matrix, AndrAIa, Mouse, Ray Tracer, Little Enzo, and Turbo

Sprites Biology

Like binomes and other beings on the Net, Sprites need energy in a similar fashion to humans needing food. They also need to sleep and go to the bathroom.

Sprites do get married and have families. Phong once referred to his parents telling him stories when he was a child. Several Binomes have been seen married and having children.

Also, sprites' aging is different humans, Enzo at "00" age looked like a toddler who already could walk, while at "01" he looked much older than that, similar to a nine year old human boy. When he grew to "10", the change was superficial (his shirt changed). It is unknown how old a sprite can get. Phong is the oldest ever seen and he comes from the early days of Mainframe's history.