Franz Hopper / Waldo Schaeffer

This article is about the person. For the episode, see Franz Hopper (episode).

Franz Hopper.

Franz Hopper was the creator of Lyoko, XANA, and the father of Aelita. He created Lyoko and XANA to be the staging grounds and means of the destruction of Project Carthage, a secret government program he created to intercept enemy communications. By the time he was nearing the end of his completion of Lyoko, he became very paranoid and insane to some degree. He repeated the same day over 2000 times using the Time Reversion feature of the supercomputer to accomplish his goals. At the last moments, he and Aelita fled to Lyoko, only to be attacked by XANA and his monsters. Franz was captured and taken to an unknown location within Lyoko. He escaped, however, and sacrificed himself for his daughter in The Key. Team Lyoko continued to search for him after that. Aelita found a fragment of Franz's DNA in Carthage, so she still hoped. In Final Round, Jeremie and Aelita finally managed to track him down in Lyoko's code, but Lyoko was destroyed by XANA before he could be materialized. However, it seems that he escaped to the Internet because he sent a coded message to Team Lyoko from there after Lyoko was destroyed.
He loved playing the piano, as seen in the various visions and the memory sequence that Aelita has. He also had a wife, who mysteriously disappeared.
In Wrong Exposure, it is revealed that Franz's real name is Waldo Schaeffer, Hopper is the last name of Aelita's mother, and that Franz is his middle name. The reason for his name being changed is because that when he and Aelita moved to Hermitage, Franz wanted Aelita and himself to have a fresh start. He ultimately sacrificed himself to destroy X.A.N.A by covering Aelita from the Manta's blast while she finish the multi-agent program. For more information, see Wrong Exposure and/or Waldo Schaeffer.