Phantom Virus

"Let's play ball!"

- Phantom Virus

The Phantom Virus is the central antagonist of the Scooby-Doo franchise's 9th feature film Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase, and the main antagonist of the PlayStation video game version of the same name.

Appearance
The Phantom Virus was a cyan being composed of electromagnetic energy. He had yellow eyes and teeth, as well as thin eyebrows. When moving, his joints would spike.

Inside the game, he would often be dressed in disguises to fool Mystery Inc.

Personality
The Phantom Virus was much like his creator, Bill McLemore: they both liked baseball and causing damage to other people's work and property. In fact, it was their similarities that caused Mystery Inc. to discover that it was Bill who made the Phantom Virus.

Voice actor Gary Sturgis described the Phantom Virus as a "computer virus with a real mean streak and a bad personality."

Abilities
Due to it being an electromagnetic being, the Phantom Virus had the ability to control forms of electromagnetism. He would use this to siphon computer data, animate wires, shoot lightning bolts, manipulate video games, and magnetize objects, causing them to swirl around.

However, his powers also made him weak to magnetic fields, which would disrupt his own electromagnetic fields. Mystery Inc. used this weakness to defeat him with magnetics bars from the laboratory.

Trivia

 * The Phantom Virus is similar to the 10,000 Volt Ghost from The Scooby-Doo Show.
 * The idea that magnets affect electronics actually only applies to older electronics like floppy disks and CRT monitors. More modern electronics operate without magnets and are thus unaffected by them.

Appearances

 * Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase