Scyphozoa

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"Not so fast, Blubberface!" -Yumi Ishiyama

• Life Points: 100
• Laser(s): None
• Height: 32 feet 8 inches
• Weight: 55 lbs.

The Scyphozoa is a monster designed by X.A.N.A.. It serves a number of purposes for X.A.N.A. personally: the predomiant two of its tasks are to drain a victim's memory or plant viruses in other warriors to possess them. Aelita is the creature's prime target.

The Scyphozoa originated from the fifth sector, Carthage. It is possible that it was the first monster to come into existence. Unlike normal monsters, who move physically through legs, rolling, or flying, the Scyphozoa can levitate swiftly over gaps and surface-less areas without any visible support. It has no laser weapons; rather, it uses a few of its tentacles to paralyze its foes whilst using the rest to drain its victim's memory or possess them. If it succeeds in the first task, it drops its foe and leaves him or her for dead. Although its main target is Aelita, the Scyphozoa also stole Yumi's Genetic Code so she couldn't rematerialize in Missing Link.

The creature also has a habit of surviving any attack thrown at it by the Lyoko warriors. Its Eye is located on a diamond on its head; only its tentacles and head are ever hit though. Neither spot takes any visible damage, though hitting either causes it to release any victim within its grasp. The tentacles can regenerate over time.

In The Key, the last episode of the second season, the Scyphozoa succeeded in stealing Aelita's memories (which was revealed in the episode to be the pieces necessary for X.A.N.A. to escape the supercomputer), effectively killing her. Franz Hopper sacrificed himself for his daughter, however, and she regained her memories.

Having completed its original purpose in the second season, X.A.N.A. uses the Scyphozoa in the third season to possess Aelita through viral implanting. She is then used to wipe out complete sectors on Lyoko by entering the sector's way tower and entering the code: X.A.N.A.; the sector is then destroyed. Thrice, X.A.N.A. succeeded in using this method: he wiped out the Forest Sector in "Lyoko Minus One"; the Desert Sector in "The Pretender", and the Mountain sector in "Double Trouble". Finally, X.A.N.A. possesses William in the last episode of the season, "Final Round", to destroy Lyoko's core and, effectively, Lyoko itself.

The Scyphozoa's role in the fourth season is minor; it still possesses Aelita on occasion; however, it is shown to be capable of draining the NaviSkid's lifepoints with its tentacles. The fourth season also marks the only time the creature is ever destroyed. As the creature attempts to drain the NaviSkid's shields in "The Lake", Aelita recharges the Skid's shields with a burst of power that overloads the Scyphozoa and destroys it. However, like with X.A.N.A's other monsters, it continues to reappear throughout the season.

[edit] Trivia

• The Scyphozoa & the Transport Orb are the only monsters to have appeared in all 5 sectors of Lyoko.

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Roachster | Hornet | Blok | Krab | Megatank | Creeper | Manta | Guardian | Tarantula | Scyphozoa | Polymorphic Clone | Spectre | Kongre | Shark | Kalamar | Kolossus