- "No, Adam. You're not going to stop me."
The Sourcerer
The Sourcerer is an evil hacker who lives on Earth. He uses dangerous Dark Code to hack systems and bend them to his will, intending to send humanity back to the Dark Ages. He is the main antagonist in Reboot: The Guardian Code.
Description[]
Appearance[]
The Sourcerer appears as a thin middle-aged man wearing a black hooded jacket to hide his identity. Physiological traits include a recurrent facial tic, raspy voice, and speaking with a redundant speech pattern. He communicates with Megabyte through a vid window, appearing as pixelated and monochromatic face, and speaks with a voice filter to hide his identity in cyberspace.
Personality[]
In the show, the Sourcerer is portrayed as intelligent, malevolent, insane, egomaniacal, and obsessed with causing destruction. The Sourcerer treated Megabyte as nothing more than a pawn with no respect while in his unwilling service.
Abilities & Equipment[]
The Sourcerer can skillfully use Dark Code to corrupt all kinds of systems in cyberspace (communications, power grids, weather satellites, government systems, etc.) to bend to his will, create monsters to attack, and open rifts in space. With the Nova X3J, all of the Sourcerer's hacking becomes untraceable. He also makes use of Megabyte's army of Sentinels and digital weapons while in his service.
He carries out his operations from a well-equipped computer setup in his lair, an abandoned warehouse littered with electronic equipment, and owns a van with a similar setup inside for field work or traveling. In the field, he carries hacking tools and equipment on his person to investigate or sneak into places and a taser for self-defense.
History[]
Before the Series[]
Almost a year ago, a Dark Code entity that prowls in the Deep Web encounters the Guardian, Adam Carter, who has since faked his own death and lived in cyberspace. The entity attacks and infects Adam with Dark Code, corrupting his mind and erasing his memories, and returning to the real-world in Adam's body. Now reborn as a madman that craves only destruction and chaos.
Against the Guardians[]
The hacker sets up his operation with plans to cause worldwide chaos using Dark Code. He first runs afoul of the Guardians when he opens a Dark Code rift through a weak point in cyberspace to unleash a plague of cyber locusts on a power grid site, causing a blackout in the United Kingdom, but his efforts are thwarted by the newly formed team, who fight and destroy all the cyber locusts and block his access with a cyberpatch (Activation).
Upon his first defeat, he hacks the Mainframe database for something he can use. He finds and revives Megabyte, an evil computer virus, upgrading his abilities and planting a delete code he can use to threaten to eliminate him if he goes rogue or fails to meet his demands. Megabyte's first task is removing the cyberpatch blocking his rift from his previous scheme, so he can continue what he started. The Guardians thwart him again, defeat Megabyte, and permanently close the rift. The Dark Code hacker sees this Guardian code as a threat and wants it eliminated (Resurrection).
After Megabyte sets up his fortress and Sentinel army, the dark hacker plans to infiltrate Pogo Systems and steal the Nova X3J computer. He requests a distraction for the Guardians using a cat virus, while Megabyte leads his army in a viral attack on the system's firewalls. This weakens security which allows him to enter the building, then creates an emergency that makes the employees leave the Nova X3J unguarded, letting him steal it and escape without trouble. The Nova X3J would increase his power and allows him to connect to the Internet without Wi-Fi, making all of his hacking completely untraceable. The news has dubbed this mysterious hacker "the Sourcerer" after the theft (Catastrophic).
After this, he orders Megabyte to build a Replicator in his fortress with the intention of producing armies of Sentinels to use for his next schemes, berating Megabyte for being behind schedule (Discoveries).
The Sourcerer then attacks Global Village Bank using Megabyte's Sentinel army to weaken the site's outer defenses, locking out their customers. His real goal is to unleash malware in the form of a Dark Code cyber worm to break into the vault and cause millions of customers to lose their life savings. Meanwhile, the Department of Internet Security (DIS) track his Dark Code, the authorities who police all of cyberspace. The Guardians destroy the worm and save the bank site (Emotional Rescue).
After seeing how weak and ineffective Megabyte's Sentinels are against the Guardians, the Sourcerer then demands that he replicate himself in order to raid Virusylum, where the DIS imprisons viruses, to release all of them into cyberspace. The plan fails due to the copy's inferior quality. The Sourcerer then demands Megabyte's replicants be at full strength, not caring that it would drain Megabyte's power. The Guardians infiltrate his fortress, defeat all his copies, and destroy the Replicator. This outcome angers the Sourcerer and he almost deletes Megabyte, but he discovers human blood from an injured Guardian on his person, indicating they are really humans in cyberspace (Game Day).
The Sourcerer launches more evil schemes to spread chaos and destruction around the world throughout the series, all of which fail due to the Guardians' efforts and DIS interference. His plans include the following:
- Corrupting Alyx, a trusted virtual assistant, with Dark Code using backdoor access, making her malfunction. The Guardians reset her, but it was a trap intended to give the Sourcerer full control of Alyx. This makes her dangerous to her users, controlling Austin's mom's car as she drives and affecting public transit, and putting global communications in danger. At the same time, the Sourcerer has Alyx attack the Guardians with traps, including a code compressor to try and crush them with to learn their secret (Artificial Intelligence).
- Hijacking a military weather satellite, using Megabyte's entire army to eliminate security and set up a minefield blockade around it for the Guardians, then assaulting them. He planned to use the satellite to enhance an active tropical hurricane and change its direction to decimate the entire West Coast, destroying homes and innocent lives (Datastorm).
- Tapping into a cellular network with Dark Code spyware using a trojan horse to access millions of cellphones, intending to find the Guardians' hiding place by filtering words they would say from random conversations. He nearly succeeds with Parker's own phone, but Vera stops him. He has Megabyte assist him by removing security from other networks to expand his search, but Hexadecimal's wild behavior exposes his hack to the DIS and ruins the plan (Network Interference).
- Building an army of Dark Code zombie bots from a base in cyberspace and having them infiltrate unprotected computers all over the world to form a massive botnet, planning to use them to cause massive denial of service attacks that will crash the entire Internet (Zombie Army).
- Infecting a line of bee toys to frighten children. This scheme was first perpetrated by Megabyte to prove his worth to the Sourcerer, who infects the hive queen and makes them behave aggressively. After the Guardians removed his virus, the Sourcerer takes over the plan using his own Dark Code virus, which makes the hive even stronger and the toys more dangerous (Bee-Ware).
- Hacking the DIS computers by baiting and switching an agent's smartphone. In cyberspace, this allows him to control their security forces and use their firepower to seize a government nuclear missile site. Then, he works to decode the 12-digit launch code, even using the Nova X3J to speed up the process, to launch a nuclear missile to inspire fear and devastate the world (Nuclear Confusion).
Eventually, the Sourcerer changes Megabyte's objective from destroying the Guardians to capturing them and forcing them to give up the unique technology that allows them to enter cyberspace, which would give him ultimate power.
He has Megabyte order his forces to capture and imprison all of the Guardians inside his fortress. The Sourcerer revealing himself to the Guardians, demanding the secret of how they enter cyberspace or he will use a decoding device to extract the answers from their bodies, killing them in the process. However, Megabyte uses their lives to bargain for the removal of his delete code, otherwise he will destroy the Guardians and their secrets with them. The Sourcerer grudgingly complies, but the team free themselves and escape his grasp, losing his slave in the process (Double Trouble).
From the extraction, the Sourcerer links the Guardians to Alan Turing High. He travels to Quantum Heights, determined to gain the power to enter cyberspace. On the way, he hears about Megabyte's social media takeover described as being "in the Sourcerer's league." He refuses to accept Megabyte as his equal and tries to dominate the virus again, but he blocks his vid-window (Mega-Viral).
Final Confrontation[]
Upon arriving at the school, he sneaks around and discovers the hidden entrance to Room Zero. However, he is caught by Austin before he can infiltrate the room. However, Austin recognizes the Sourcerer's true face: his own father, Adam Carter. He manages to get away from the Guardians after he is discovered (Identity Theft).
Reuniting with his son, Austin, Adam has moments of lucidity where he could fight off the Dark Code. He infiltrates Room Zero with Austin's unwitting help. The Sourcerer regains control of Adam and tases Austin, enters cyberspace, and locks the Guardians out of the Codec. Then, he reconfigures the Codec's energy weapon to enlarge a cyber black hole, intending to annihilate cyberspace and everything inside it. However, the Sourcerer is unaware that Adam opened a link to an old transfer station for the Guardians. Eventually, Austin breaks through to Adam, and father and son are reunited once again, but the Dark Code is too entrenched in his mind to extract. While he is still in control, Adam orders Vera to activate the Codec's self-destruct, and pilots the ship into the black hole, destroying it along with himself, taking the Sourcerer with him.
After their final battle, the DIS find the location of the Sourcerer's van due to an anonymous tip provided by the Guardians but discover that the Nova X3J is missing (Black Hole).
References[]
- The characters name is a combination of the words: source code and sorcerer.