Amulet of Zoar - Overview

Overview

The Amulet is a primary part of the show's plot, being sought by both superhero Ace Lightning and the Lightning Knights, and by Lord Fear and his group of villains. While the Lightning Knights' goals with the Amulet are mainly unknown apart from having to guard it, Lord Fear intends on using the Amulet's powers to conquer the world and then the universe, one dimension at a time. Kilobyte, an antagonist introduced in the second season, at first simple seeks out the Amulet in order to summon more villains, but he eventually plans to use it to conquer the world by swapping mankind with the creatures of the Sixth Dimension.

The Amulet is shattered to pieces all forms of the franchise, including both the show, the fictional and a real-life video game series and the fragments have to be collected by the characters in order to fix it and decide the fate of the opposing side. If Ace Lightning gains it, he will be able to send the villains back to the Sixth Dimension for eternal imprisonment, and destruction for the Lightning Knights if Lord Fear gains the Amulet. The Amulet is shown to be able to send the villains back to the Sixth Dimension if shattered by a member of the Lightning Knights, namely Mark Hollander.

Despite the claim that the Amulet possesses "untold powers", little of them have been revealed over the course of the show. The Amulet's primary ability shown is the ability to summon characters or items from the Sixth Dimension, really the video game's database in the show, although this is unknown to the video game characters. Over the course of the television series, several characters are summoned or re-summoned, depending on their situation and location. The choice of character that is summoned seems to depend on who uses the Amulet pieces, and who currently owns the fragments used. For example, when Ace or Lord Fear summon a character, it is a hero or villain respectively; but when villain Dirty Rat uses two pieces of the Amulet, one piece each stolen from both sides, he summoned Random Virus, a character who suffers from multiple personality disorder and has a good side and an evil side, making him a neutral-aligned character until one of his personalities decides to side with one of the respective sides.

The Amulet appears to possess some signs of animate life, as the fragments are capable of hiding themselves in odd locations like the inside of a garden gnome, and when the Amulet is shattered, the fragments can fly away.