ReBoot: Daemon Rising (2001) character relationship network mapped with AI analysis. Explore the connections, alliances, and conflicts between characters.
Characters
Bob / Cadet Bob (voice)
(played by Michael Benyaer) — protagonist
Bob is a Guardian whose merged key tool leaves him as the only Guardian able to create portals. He resists Daemon until she infects him and forces him to open portals, slowly killing him. Afterward, h...
AndrAIa / Guardian (voice)
(played by Sharon Alexander) — supporting
AndrAIa is a Guardian and ally of Bob, Matrix, and the Mainframers. During Daemon's campaign, she becomes infected and loyal to Daemon, demonstrating how widely the infection reaches among the Guardia...
Enzo Matrix (voice)
(played by Giacomo Baessato) — supporting
Enzo Matrix is one of the Mainframers affected by the conflict surrounding Daemon and the competing Bobs. His icon is infected during Daemon's final activation, and the cure later passes through it be...
Dot Matrix / System Voice / Actress Dot (voice)
(played by Kathleen Barr) — supporting
Dot Matrix is a central Mainframe leader and Bob's fiancée. She helps organize resistance to Daemon, convinces Hexadecimal to restore Welman and rebuild the Gateway command, and later struggles to ide...
Daemon (voice)
(played by Colombe Demers) — supporting
Daemon is a Super Virus seeking to impose order on the Net rather than acting from simple malice. Through the Word, she brainwashes infected systems and Guardians, captures Bob, and uses his portals t...
Killabyte / Gigabyte (voice)
(played by Blu Mankuma) — supporting
Gigabyte is the powerful Super Virus whose activation of the Gateway command causes the destruction of Mainframe's Twin City. The resulting explosion nullifies the city and its inhabitants and splits...
Matrix (voice)
(played by Paul Dobson) — supporting
Matrix is a Guardian and a principal defender of the Net who remains outside Daemon's initial infection. He is later infected and becomes loyal to Daemon, but his icon contains the cure that Hexadecim...
Hexadecimal (voice)
(played by Shirley Milliner) — supporting
Hexadecimal becomes loyal to Bob and helps remove infected Guardians from Mainframe without deleting them, exhausting her power and reverting to a Sprite. After recovering through Mainframe's core ene...
Mouse / Dixon Green (voice)
(played by Stevie Vallance) — minor
Mouse is a skilled ally who helps Dot Matrix and Phong seal systems against Daemon. Because she programmed the firewalls, Daemon infects and uses her to break into Mainframe and reach Bob. Her tempora...
Canonical Relationships
Family, romantic, and professional connections based on plot evidence.
Dot Matrix / System Voice / Actress Dot (voice) → Bob / Cadet Bob (voice)
(Romantic Fiancés) — Their engagement follows the crisis, although the arrival of another Bob immediately creates confusion.
The plot states that Bob and Dot get engaged at the end of the movie.
Daemon (voice) → AndrAIa / Guardian (voice)
(Power Infecting Controller) — Daemon's infection temporarily turns AndrAIa against the allies she had previously fought alongside.
AndrAIa becomes infected during Daemon's campaign and is described as loyal to Daemon.
Daemon (voice) → Matrix (voice)
(Power Infecting Controller) — Matrix is temporarily turned into one of Daemon's followers, but his icon becomes the source of the cure.
Matrix becomes infected and loyal to Daemon during the battle. His icon later contains the cure that Hexadecimal uses.
Daemon (voice) → Mouse / Dixon Green (voice)
(Power Infecting Controller) — Daemon turns Mouse's firewall expertise against the resistance to reach Bob.
Mouse becomes infected and loyal to Daemon. Daemon uses Mouse's knowledge of the firewalls she programmed to break into Mainframe.
Story Dynamics
Alliances, conflicts, and narrative interactions that evolve throughout the story.
Dot Matrix / System Voice / Actress Dot (voice) → Matrix (voice)
(Alliance Restoration Advocate) — Dot's intervention helps Welman regain a body and restore the Gateway command.
Dot convinces Hexadecimal to give Welman a new body and convinces Welman to rebuild his Gateway command.
Daemon (voice) → Enzo Matrix (voice)
(Conflict Infecting Enemy) — Enzo's icon is caught in Daemon's final infection phase before Hexadecimal distributes the cure.
The plot states that Daemon infects Little Enzo's icon during the final stage of her plan.
Dot Matrix / System Voice / Actress Dot (voice) → Mouse / Dixon Green (voice)
(Alliance Resistance Partners) — Dot and Mouse work together to protect systems from Daemon's infection before Mouse is infected.
Mouse, Dot, and Phong manage to seal off a few systems on the Net.
Hexadecimal (voice) → Enzo Matrix (voice)
(Alliance Curer And Infected) — Enzo's infected icon is part of the crisis that Hexadecimal's cure is meant to reverse.
Daemon infects Little Enzo's icon, and Hexadecimal uses the cure to deliver it across the Net.
Matrix (voice) → Hexadecimal (voice)
(Alliance Cure Source And Rescuer) — Matrix's icon provides the cure Hexadecimal uses to save the infected Net.
Hexadecimal takes a cure to Daemon's infection from Matrix's icon and delivers it across the Net.
Matrix (voice) → Killabyte / Gigabyte (voice)
(Conflict Gateway-Linked Adversaries) — Welman's Gateway activation is directly connected to the catastrophe that destroyed the Twin City and divided Gigabyte into Megabyte and Hexadecimal.
Flashbacks reveal that Welman's activation of the Gateway command brought Gigabyte to Mainframe's Twin City, where an explosion nullified the city and...
Hexadecimal (voice) → Matrix (voice)
(Alliance Restorer And Restored) — Hexadecimal helps Welman return from his null state, enabling him to act again.
At Dot's urging, Hexadecimal makes Welman a new body out of Nulls; Welman then rebuilds his Gateway command.
Dot Matrix / System Voice / Actress Dot (voice) → Hexadecimal (voice)
(Alliance Persuader And Ally) — Dot's persuasion helps restore Welman and the Gateway, which later figures in the cure's delivery.
Dot convinces Hexadecimal to make Welman a new body out of Nulls and to persuade him to rebuild his Gateway command.
Daemon (voice) → Hexadecimal (voice)
(Conflict Enemy) — Hexadecimal directly opposes Daemon and ultimately distributes the cure that reverses her infection.
Hexadecimal powers up and uses her energy to fight Daemon, though her attempts are in vain.
Bob / Cadet Bob (voice) → Hexadecimal (voice)
(Alliance Protected Ally) — Hexadecimal spends so much power helping Bob that she reverts to a Sprite and becomes enveloped in a null cocoon.
Hexadecimal is loyal to Bob and helps him remove the infected Guardians from Mainframe without deleting them.
Bob / Cadet Bob (voice) → Daemon (voice)
(Conflict Captive And Captor) — Daemon exploits Bob's unique portal-making ability to extend her infection across sealed systems.
Daemon repeatedly tries to capture Bob because his merged key tool lets him create portals. After infecting him, she forces him to open portals to sea...
Story Analysis
Daemon's attempt to impose order through infection threatens the Net, while the resistance fights to protect Mainframe and Hexadecimal ultimately sacrifices herself to deliver a cure.
Plot Progression
The Invasion and the Null Cocoon
— Daemon's infected Guardians attack Mainframe, and Hexadecimal helps drive them out without deleting them. Her effort exhausts her power and leads to the discovery of Welman in a null cocoon.
Welman's Gateway Returns
— Flashbacks connect Welman's Gateway command to the Twin City's destruction and Gigabyte's division. Dot persuades Hexadecimal to restore Welman, who rebuilds the command, while the resistance seals so...
The Infection Reaches Mainframe
— Daemon activates her dormant infection, turning several allies into followers. Using Mouse's firewall knowledge, she breaks into Mainframe, infects Bob, and forces him to open portals at the cost of h...
The Countdown and the Cure
— Hexadecimal draws energy from Mainframe's core to fight Daemon, but Daemon decompiles and starts a countdown threatening the infected and the Net. Hexadecimal takes the cure from Matrix's icon, distri...