Cyberchase

Plot

Characters

Main

• Matthew "Matt" is an 11-year-old Irish-American boy who likes skateboards and collecting things. He is impulsive, impatient, tells jokes, and has a great interest in sports. He has shaggy orange hair and usually wears a long-sleeved lime-green T-shirt, a red backpack, neon blue jeans, and red hi-tops. He has a pig named Sherman on his family's farm. Matt's red backpack contains his many yo-yos, which he is very good at using. He frequently calls Inez by the nickname "Nezzie", much to her annoyance. It is also shown he can be quite protective of her at times.
• Jackie is an 11-year-old African-American girl who loves to keep things neat and organized in order to figure things out. She has black hair worn in a bun, and she wears a yellow sweater with a sky blue denim skirt, red jewelry, and dull lavender hi-tops. Jackie's biggest pet peeve is slimy and icky stuff like bugs and many other "gross" things. Like Inez, she was very fond of Slider. In a running gag in Seasons 1–4, Jackie freaked out when in crisis, pacing while trying to figure out a solution, saying "Make room, I gotta pace!"
• Inez is a 9-year-old Latin-American girl who has an excellent vocabulary for which the others often tease her. She has shoulder-length brown hair and mostly wears a pink long-sleeved T-shirt with a yellow star on the front, teal shorts, a purple hooded vest, a pair of square glasses, and high blue boots. Despite being the youngest human member of the gang, she is the smartest one. Inez's biggest pet peeve is when anyone calls her "Nezzie", though she is fine with Slider calling her that. When asked why by Matt, she replies, "he's different", implying that she likes Slider.
• Digit LeBoid is a "cybird", who works for Motherboard and is the kids' best friend. He and the kids protect Cyberspace and Motherboard from Hacker. Digit was created by Hacker and worked for him along with Buzz and Delete, but escaped after learning of Hacker's evil doings. He became one of Motherboard's helpers, serving as Dr. Marbles' assistant. Digit can fly by spinning his tail feathers in a helicopter-fashion or flapping his wings. However, he has a fear of heights and prefers to walk. He is a cook and wrote his two popular cookbooks The Cyber Chef and Cookin' with the Didge. He carries many objects in his chest, including Widget. He can turn his beak into just about anything and bends it on occasion. He also can disguise his voice very well.
• Hieronymous Hacker, also known as The Hacker, is the main antagonist of the series and a mad scientist bent on taking over/creating ultimate chaos for Cyberspace, but he is almost always thwarted by the Cybersquad. He is characterized by a barrel chest with disproportionately small legs, green skin, a bicolored cape, a black wig, and a pointy chin of which he is vain. He was created by Dr. Marbles to assist Motherboard, but he rebelled and was exiled to the Northern Frontier. Nevertheless, he does have the potential to become good again, as shown in one of the episodes where he became a peaceful artist. He has two cyborg lackeys, Buzz and Delete, whose reliability is quite variable; sometimes, he gets very peeved when he has to do things himself that Buzz and Delete can't.
• Buzz and Phil Williams is one of Hacker's henchmen, a small spherical cyborg with a large mouth and scrawny limbs, but he seems to think he is a big tough guy; however, he can be kind at times and loves doughnuts.
• Delete is the skinnier and taller one of Hacker's henchmen. He is loyal to Hacker for the most part but has occasionally helped the Cybersquad. Unlike Buzz, who is rougher around the edges, Delete is softer and more vulnerable to trickery and deceit. He cares deeply for three things; Buzz, whom he has a brotherly friendship with, his desired pet bunny George, and Zanko, his fairy borg father.

  "Cyberchase For Real"

• Harry Wilson is one of the main protagonists in the "For Real" segment. He often dresses in a nerdish style and wears horn-rimmed glasses and Converse shoes. In many of the segments, he is rather careless, which usually costs him his current job. He is also very creative and thought out when he encounters a problem.
• Bianca DeGroat is one of the main protagonists in the "For Real" segment of the series. She often uses the original plot to solve everyday real world problems. As a character, she is rather absent-minded, arrogant, and self-centered, and does not think before she acts. She is seen to get carried away very easily.

  Recurring: Team Motherboard

• Motherboard is the benevolent ruler of Cyberspace and mentor to Jackie, Matt, Inez, and Digit. Her former assistant was Hacker who put a virus in her, but because her firewall was not fully uploaded before the virus hit, she was only left weakened. The Cybersquad tries to recover the Encryptor Chip and keep Motherboard safe from Hacker.
• Dr. Marbles is a smart and brilliant inventor who serves Motherboard. He is responsible for creating Hacker to help and defend Motherboard, although Hacker would later rebel against Motherboard and try to destroy her. A guilty Marbles would then downgrade Hacker's power and banish him to the Northern Frontier for his wrongful actions, right after Hacker vowed to return to finish Motherboard and Marbles off before taking over Cyberspace.
• Widget is a small likeness of Digit. His hat, tail feathers, and bowtie are not screwed on properly. He is younger than Digit and helps Digit when it is necessary.
• TW "Teeny Weeny Parallini" is a small square girl. She is not scared of Hacker, and despite the fact that her mother would not let her help the Cybersquad, she does help them find Diamond Joe.
• Fluff is a penguin that plays hockey, which is hard in Cyberia. He is logical and does not buy into advertisements. Fluff is determined to follow in his father's footsteps and to make his family proud. He helped the Cybersquad with the Hacker's challenge.
• Creech is the young ruler of the Cybersite Tikiville. She became the apparent Big Kahuna after competing in a race with other Tikiville-inhabitants as well as Hacker. Creech is in some ways similar to Inez, helping the two to become friends easily. Both have a fairly similar outlook: optimistic until something goes completely wrong, and they both have a large vocabulary. She also is the person in charge of Tikiville's Egg of Benedicta.
• Jules was first seen as a cave guard in episode 507, and is a good friend of the Cybersquad, but is often timid. He appears again in episode 607, where Hacker tricks him into pressing the nose of the Jam Master, causing Matt, Jackie, Creech and himself to get sucked into the chamber of Jimaya. After that he appeared in 801 where he helped in Hacker's challenge. He is often trying to find a job, but Hacker continuously tries to ruin it for him.
• Slider is a serious and James Dean-style 13-year-old skateboarder in Radopolis who builds and repairs skateboards and bikes. Since season three, he has been a recurring character in the series. According to Slider, his father Coop had abandoned him when he was younger because Hacker had hunted Coop for many years. However, in the episode "Measure for Measure" he finds out that his father abandoned him to protect him, and to make sure Hacker does not get an interface card that would allow Hacker to transform into whatever he wishes. If such were to happen, Hacker could cause immense chaos and even rule cyberspace.

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Cyberchase For Real

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1. Cyberchase 3D Builder
2. Cyberchase Shape Quest

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