Viral (2003 TV series)

Viral was a computerized system that has the ability to go into computers systems and infect them similar to a computer virus.

Fast Forward
Donatello and Cody manage to trap Viral in a battle dummy. When she fails to defeat the Turtles, Sh'Okanabo punishes her by refusing to repair her or free her from the battle dummy. Viral later serves as Sh'Okanabo's personal assistant. In the episode, The Gaminator, Viral executes a failed plan where she traps the Turtles' souls inside the Gaminator program where she attempts, and, once again, fails to defeat them. In that episode, she demonstrated the ability to phase in and out of the physical world into the computer world.

Viral managed to create a copy of Cody's time-window to send Earth into an unspecific timeperiod. However, the device wasn't powerful enough and caused rips in time all over Earth. When Cody shut the window down, he notes the specifications and when he asked what she was trying to do, Viral left the scene.

Viral survived the destruction of Sh’Okanabo's lair and assisted her master in taking over Moonbase Bishop. When the Turtles and President Bishop were captured, Viral partially explained her master's plan to use the Atmospheric shield around Earth to completely leave it in darkness. When Cody and Serling came in and rescued the captives, Viral went ahead to take control of the Solar collection grid. She almost succeeded in covering the Earth in eternal darkness when she was tricked into Serling, caught in a decomplier, which dissected her data bit by bit.

Back to the Sewer
However, Viral had a number of fail safes that restore her scattered data at at least 97%. She observed the Turtles preparing to return to their own time, so she takes control of Serling and disrupts the window, causing the Turtles, Splinter, and Serling (whose defense protocols were deactivated) to fall back into the mesozoanic. But when they defeated the Spinosaurus, she sent them to the Dark Ages, where knights attack them. But Mikey taunted Viral into taking them somewhere more technical, but she took them to the not-so distant future, where the Foot are fighting amongst each other, each represented by a different incarnation of the Shredder: the Utrom one, the demon and an entirely new one. But Donatello used a coil from the Utrom Shredder's exo-suit to reboot Serling, using his decompiler to once against destroy Viral. But as they race back to their proper time, a part of Viral appeared in Serling, using the decomplier on the other Turtles who were not inside (as in the time stream they are temporal data). But Splinter takes the blow just as they return. Viral then escapes from Serling into the Internet, where she attempts to locate a better power source to help her recharge and finish off the Turtles. She finds a data vault belonging to the Foot, which she tries to access but its encryption is complicated and she gets infected with it, her program rewritten and form reformatted, as out of her body bursts the new Shredder, Cyber Shredder, seen in the not too distant future.

It is later revealed at the season finale that Cyber Shredder had inherited many of Viral's digital properties, such as her digital core, which enables her to escape harm. This allowed Don to figure out a way to decompile the Shredder.

Appearances

 * 1) Episode 120: Home Invasion.
 * 2) Episode 124: Night of Sh'Okanabo!
 * 3) Episode 128: The Freaks Come Out at Night
 * 4) Episode 131: The Gaminator
 * 5) Episode 133: Timing is Everything
 * 6) Episode 142: The Day of Awakening
 * 7) Episode 144: Master Fighter 2105
 * 8) Episode 154: Tempus Fugit
 * 9) Episode 155: Karate schooled Episode 155: Karate Schooled Image onley
 * 10) Episode 156: Somthing Wicked Episode 156: Somthing Wicked Flashback