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=== Season 4 ===
After the end of the third season, two TV movies were produced in 2001: ''[[ReBoot: Daemon Rising|Daemon Rising]]'', which addressed the problem the Guardians were facing in season three (and used much of ''Terabyte Rising''), and ''[[ReBoot: My Two Bobs|My Two Bobs]]'', which brings back a corroded and mutated Megabyte in a cliffhanger ending. The two movies, broken up into eight episodes in its U.S. run on [[Cartoon Network]]'s [[Toonami]], revealed much of Mainframe's history, including the formation of Lost Angles, Bob's arrival in the system, and the origin of Megabyte and Hexadecimal. The films end with Megabyte in control of the Principal Office, and the characters scattered and about to be hunted down. It is revealed that the nulls still possess their old sentience and intelligence: The heroes manage to put the null that was once Dot's father into a robot, enabling him to move and speak like he used to.

Initial plans for the fourth season included three films broken into 12 episodes, followed by a 13th musical-special episode. Due to a change in deals and budget, the series was reduced to eight episodes.<ref name="takeone">Punter, Jennie."[https://web.archive.org/web/20070219062128/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-77613562.html Mainframe Reboots ReBoot]". ''[[Take One (Canadian magazine)|Take One]]''. July 2001.</ref> The following plan was to produce 30-minute episodes. These would be edited down to 21 minutes for broadcast and the extra scenes added to the film versions for DVD release. Against the writer's wishes, these scenes were cut from the scripts. After this decision was made, the eighth episode was rewritten to end on a cliffhanger.<ref name="sittingonanatomicbomb.com"/>

Creator Gavin Blair has publicly refused to reveal the plans for the resolution and final episodes, in case he ever got the chance to resolve the cliffhanger.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpwGTo7tKGg Reboot Reunion Special Presentation (Part 1) video, filmed at 2012 Vancouver FanExpo]</ref>