Ejen Ali

The series is set in the fictional town of Cyberaya, largely based on the actual town of Cyberjaya, located approximately halfway between Kuala Lumpur and KLIA. In the series, Cyberaya was shown to be a technologically-advanced city, much as the real-life Cyberjaya had envisioned.

In episode MISI: MAIN, Cyberaya was shown to have a rapid transit system.

The series revolves around M.A.T.A. (Meta-Advance Tactical Agency), a paramilitary Pinkerton-style spy agency, made up of four company-sized units known as pillars.

These characters are the agents of M.A.T.A (Meta Advance Tactical Agency), a secret spy organization that possess advanced technologies and is responsible for keeping the peace of Cyberaya. They play major roles in season 1, but some of them only appear in several episodes of season 2.

Ali

Voiced by: Ida Rahayu Yusoff

Ali is a boy which became a M.A.T.A Techno agent after having accidentally activated Infinity Retinal Intelligent System (I.R.I.S), a device prototype created by M.A.T.A, which is controlled by neuro-signals enabling the wearer to perform actions programmed by the computer, but consumes the energy of the user to work. I.R.I.S has been synchronised for Ali, therefore only Ali is capable of using it (the I.R.I.S scans a person's irises to activate). Therefore, he became a permanent agent and practised as an agent. He is a boy who didn't excel in class and always came late to the school. He has a best friend named Victor. Ali's weapon is a yo-yo that can send a shockwave. Ali wears Aero boots which are connected to the I.R.I.S to help Ali jump farther and higher of up to 25 metres. Also, when Ali is in grave danger, I.R.I.S can also enable Ali to tap into the Override Mode, which gives its user the ability to gain access to the part of the systems network, and helps Ali by turning the tables during battle, but can conjure his mind and lose control of its use, and possibly nearly kills him as well. In season 2, Ali invented ATLAS (a device which mirrored the I.R.I.S). ATLAS enables any MATA agent to wear it and use it against its opponents while keeping the functionality of the I.R.I.S. The problem with ATLAS is that it will drain Ali's energy very quickly.

Bakar

Voiced by: Shafiq Isa

Bakar is Ali's uncle, a combat M.A.T.A agent, and a younger brother to Ali's late mother. He has a tough body and is excellent at fighting. He is always caring for Ali. He usually fights physically and wears gauntlets that can activate a plasma shield to defend himself from enemy attacks. Bakar was framed as the "enemy's spy" when a CCTV camera showing him sending the data of the I.R.I.S blueprint to the enemies. However, Ali finds out that Bakar's brain was controlled after receiving a strange phone call from Dr. Aaron, causing him to do so. In season 2, he became a mentor in the Combat Pillar.

Alicia

Voiced by: Noorhayati Maslini Omar

An adopted daughter of General Rama, she is a Chinese-Indian young agent from the Neuro Pillar and Ali's classmate. She is first introduced as the 'Masked Menace', who wears jet black clothing and full-face helmet, and helps Ali to defeat the enemies at the port. Alicia initially hates working in M.A.T.A together with Ali. Due to her egoism and Ali's stubbornness, they always fight and this makes them rivals. After Ali saved her from the Azurium explosion, she developed more caring and friendly personalities towards Ali. She can be quite hostile sometimes. After saving Ali from Uno and Jenny (Cinco), she is trying her best to protect I.R.I.S from being taken by the enemies. Her weapon is a slingshot that is used to shoot various metal balls. Some deal damage, some function as smoke bombs, and some use fictional gravitational magnet-like forces to attract enemies.

General Rama

Voiced by: Azman Zulkiply

The fierce general of M.A.T.A and adopted father of Alicia. He always chants "Bertindak Segera!" (Malay for "Act Immediately!") every time he is instructing the agents to immediately proceed to their assigned missions. A running gag in the series is that whenever the agents are being noisy whilst his presence, he screams "Dey!" that echoes throughout the room.

Rizwan

Voiced by: Azman Zulkiply

Rizwan is the greatest agent of M.A.T.A, of the Inviso Pillar. He can disguise as someone else by putting on a cap. He is often seen with lollipop in his mouth, thus always uses the lollipop stick as his final shot. His gloves can temporarily disable the enemies' nervous system. In season 2, he betrayed M.A.T.A and joined the Numeros, before it was later revealed that he was negotiating with Uno to end the rivalry with M.A.T.A (which ends in failure).

Comot

Voiced by: Ida Rahayu Yusoff

Ali's pet cat. Initially mistaken as Labu, Ali's previous cat who ran away from home after the death of his mother. She used to work for Abang Bear and was requested to steal I.R.I.S, but she betrayed him as she doesn't want to be abused anymore. As a subject of an illegal pets' experiment three years ago, her genetics have been modified that gives her a camouflage capability. She is heterochromatic in her eyes.

Numeros is a group of main antagonists in Ejen Ali; their mission is to retrieve I.R.I.S and seek vengeance against M.A.T.A. Their name literally means numbers in Spanish; the members' code names are simply Spanish numerals. So far, there are only nine Numeros members, with four of them had their real name revealed. One of them, Cuatro (4) does not want to work with Numeros anymore, although he was forced to do so.

Uno (1)

Voiced by: Azuan Wanji Shamsir

Uno is the leader of Numeros, with the main objective to retrieve I.R.I.S. It was later revealed that he was the former Leader of Inviso Pillar, whose real name was Djin, who was rumoured to be killed in an Azurium explosion following their mission against terrorists which nearly threatens to destroy Cyberaya. He was Rizwan's mentor. He feels betrayed by the other Pillar Leaders who neglected him 5 years ago, which led to his grudge against M.A.T.A. He is able to move at super speed and is very agile while fighting. His weapon is a plasma sword.

Dos (2)

Voiced by: Nurul Radhiah Ibrahim

Dos is the earliest Numeros member to appear in the series, together with Trez, who break into M.A.T.A headquarters and steals I.R.I.S. Her weapon is her hair ornament that is able to electrocute her target and plasma blades that are able to cut through anything. She wears a pair of special boots that enables super speed and agility.

Trez (3)

Voiced by: Megat Zahrin Megat Hisham

Trez is a big-bodied man with cybernetic arms that enable him to lift a load 10 times heavier than a normal human.

Cinco (5)

Voiced by: Nor Meirysha Nurol Ashikin

Cinco's real name is Jenny and is previously M.A.T.A's special inventor. She created weapons, suits and devices for the M.A.T.A agents. As Jenny, she appears as a soft-spoken and gentle woman who always shows her concern towards the agents. However in episode 12, she revealed herself to be the "enemies spy" and never siding with M.A.T.A. As Cinco, she is responsible for the research in order to separate I.R.I.S from Ali. She is always seen holding a tablet with its pen, in which the pen functioned as a taser and communicator.

Seis and Siete (6 and 7)

Voiced by: Iliyas Abdull Latif

A pair of twins who share the same weapon, a soccer ball that produces high impact when it is kicked to the target.

Ocho (8)

Voiced by: Shafiq Isa

Ocho is a robot who is the master of the microbugs. His movements and attacks using the microbugs are controlled by Cinco.

Nueve (9)

Voiced by: Adi Bahari

Nueve's real name is Dr. Aaron, previously a scientist at Alpha Tower and worked under Dr. Tong. He is a mad scientist with the mission to advance humanity. Dr. Aaron invented NeuroGear, a helmet that can control a human's mind, and his invention is rejected by Dr. Tong before he gets fired. He was imprisoned and created NeuroLink, in order to transfer the data of Dr. Tong's brain to his own brain. After being successfully defeated by Ali and his team, he was kidnapped by Dos and Trez, in which he later became the member of Numeros and invented the I.R.I.S Separator.

Jet

Voiced by: Mohammed Haziq Mohammed Hilmy

A self-proclaimed young agent of the Neuro pillar who is able to fly with his weapon, a jetpack.

Moon

Voiced by: Ain Hafizah

A cheerful and chatty young agent of the Inviso pillar. She is one of the young agents who is very friendly towards Ali. Moon can produce her own clones with her suits that can project holographic images of her. Her weapon is a pair of gloves that causes impact shocks to anything she touches.

Iman

Voiced by: Salina Salmee Mohd Ali

A hijabi young agent from the Combat Pillar. She appears as a shy and highly-mannered girl but is very friendly towards Ali. Her weapon is a roped dart.

Khai

Voiced by: Khairul Anwar Suwandi

A Japanese-Malay young agent of the Techno Pillar who befriends Ali at the academy. His weapon is his robotic hoverboard named R-O. He tends to chant "Naisu!" (Japanese for "nice!") every time he is praising his friend's good works.

Rudy

Voiced by: Syahrul Matnizam

A cold-hearted and arrogant young agent of the Inviso Pillar. He holds deep hatred towards Ali after learning that Ali defeated Uno in episode 13. Rudy always fights with Ali. Before becoming an M.A.T.A agent, he was a pickpocket and lived in an alley. He idolized Djin (Uno) very much after he saved him from being tormented by Komeng. It is also revealed that he does not have his family anymore. He can control the movement of his target if he puts his weapons on their wrists, a pair of metal wristbands. Rudy is also able to disguise as anyone he desires by putting on his disguising hoodie.

Mika

Voiced by: Shafiqah Zulkefli

A tomboyish young agent of the Combat Pillar. She is disabled on her legs, thus, she possesses a mecha suit as her weapon. It enables her to move around and shields herself from enemy attacks.

Roza

Voiced by: Syuhadah Hysham

A Sarawakian young agent of the Neuro Pillar who bullied Ali at the academy. She is always seen chewing a bubble gum. Her weapon is a sniper rifle that can shoot lasers.

Bulat

Voiced by: Muhammad Aqil

A chubby young agent of the Techno Pillar. His weapon is a rubix sphere that has different functions, depending on its combination, such as creating explosions, a barrier and confetti.

Zass

A muted young agent of the Inviso Pillar with the ability to run at super speed.

Chris

Voiced by: Iqbal Mustaqim

A Caucasian young agent of the Combat pillar who speaks Kelantanese dialect. His weapons are plasma kris that are controlled with telekinesis. Chris fights with silat styles and chants.

Leon

Voiced by: Muhammad Zulhilmi

Leon is the mentor of Neuro Pillar and is the strictest of them.

Geetha

Voiced by: Azi Shafian

Geetha is the mentor of Techno Pillar. She is also known as the friendliest mentor agents at all. However, she can also be more strict than Leon when there is a student who is not listening to her.

Karya

Voiced by: Usamah Zaid Yasin

Karya is the mentor of Inviso Pillar. Outside of M.A.T.A, he works as a teacher at Ali's school, under the name Cikgu Bidin, who 'chose' Ali as a member of the Stamp Collecting Club. He is able to perform magic tricks and hypnosis.

Zain

Voiced by: Usamah Zaid Yasin

Zain is the leader of Neuro Pillar, who helped founded M.A.T.A. When the other pillar leaders do not trust Ali after the Override Mode incident, he is the only who can trust him and guides Ali. He is also secretly being as one of Ali and Alicia's mentor. It was reported he was killed after he sacrifices himself in stopping Djin and his minions during the attack on M.A.T.A Academy.

Ghaz

Voiced by: Shafiq Isa

Ghaz is the leader of Combat Pillar. He is quick-tempered.

Dayang

Voiced by: Aina Nadzir

Dayang is the leader of Techno Pillar, and also one of Zain's closest associates, including recognition and training Ali's main potential during on the Academy. She also recruited Ali's mother 15 years ago, after they investigate the raid on Cyberaya's main cargo bay and stopping them as well.

Wak Musang

A nasi lemak seller who works under Abang Bear. In episode 1, he is shown to work with the Numeros, when he is responsible for temporarily keeping I.R.I.S for Uno.

Abang Bear

The puppet behind the pets illegal experiment 3 years ago. He speaks Kelantanese dialect.

Komeng

Commander of the Bear gang, who always seeks to steal high technological devices from C-Tech.

Neonimus

An unknown entity who hacked into the station control room of the Cyberaya transit system

Analog Man

An old man who hates technology and plans to destroy Cyberaya. He said that advanced technologies caused the values of humanity to be forgotten.

Victor

Victor is the classmate and best friend of Ali, who enjoys playing video games together with him. Unlike Ali, he is academically excellent, often ranked 2nd in the class.

Puan Munah

The strict homeroom teacher of 6 Avicenna. She teaches Science and P.E subjects and often seen holding a rattan whip. Although small-bodied, her scream could terrify her students.

Dr. Tong

A scientist in biotechnology branch and former employer of Dr. Aaron. He became the victim of Dr. Aaron when the data of his brain is transferred into Dr. Aaron's brain.

Dr. Mala

A scientist in energy engineering branch.

Dr. Ghazali

Father of Ali who is a technological prodigy.

Aliya

Deceased mother of Ali and the older sister of Bakar. Her identity was revealed in Ejen Ali: The Movie, where she had teamed up with a slum girl from outskirts of Cyberaya, Nikki, to help people of poverty. She created small inventions for their daily use, and then started to steal technology for the backwards' benefits. The turning point comes in her life when she with Nikki tried to steal advanced equipment from a cargo bay, but were intervened by the core pillar leaders. After being defeated in the fight, Aliya forces Nikki to escape alone after being cornered, and then just as Nikki watches, Dayang, after being impressed by the courage and inventions of Aliya- offers her to join M.A.T.A, which is the reason for Nikki's betrayal.

In a later scene, Nikki plans to loot the city's resources, and then decides to destroy it and launches three missiles from the centre; but Aliya arrives and fails to stop Nikki. In the end, she uses the I.R.I.S Override Mode to clash the missiles mid air, but dies after the successful attempt.

Prof. Akram

Originally Cuatro (4) of the Numeros, he lives alone in a small house located at a remote forest. He refused to work under Numeros as he does not want to trust Uno anymore. However, Cinco threatens him to work together with them or else the life of his family will be at stake.

The first episode was broadcast on 8 April 2016, with the second and third episodes shown on 15 April and 22 April respectively. It is shown every Friday, at 5:30 p.m. on TV3. Fourth, fifth and sixth episodes shown on 27 July, 29 July, and 5 August respectively. Seventh to ninth episodes are shown on 28 October 2016 for three consecutive weeks. Tenth to twelfth episodes are shown on 30 December 2016, 6 January and 13 January 2017. Thirteenth episode (last episode of Season 1) has been shown on 3 March.

An English dub of the show premiered 15 December 2017 on Disney Channel Asia and it was finished on 8 June 2018. It also premiered on Nickelodeon Sonic in India on 16 July 2018;[7] however it was abruptly taken off the schedule nearly two weeks later due to low viewership. But on November 5, 2018, the new episodes were aired on Nick HD+ and the entire season was finished on 17 November 2018. The first season was aired till November 2018 To April 2020 On Nick HD+, The first season was aired till 17 months in india. After that they had cancelled the broadcasting of the Season 2, and later the movie, with having only Season 1 episodes aired in India.

The first episode of Season 2 was broadcast 22 September 2017, with episode two, three and four shown on 29 September. 6 October and 13 October respectively. Just like Season 1, It is shown every Friday, at 5:30 p.m. on TV3, Fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth episodes shown on 17 November, 24 November, 1 December and 8 December respectively. Episode nine to eleven aired from 9 February to 23 February 2018. The twelfth episode was released on 23 March 2018. The thirteenth episode (last episode of Season 2) was released on 30 March, making 26 episodes total.

An English dub for Season 2 premiered 15 April 2019 on Disney Channel Asia and it was finished on 1 January 2020.

Due to the insistent demand after three years since the end of the second season, it was announced that a third season has been confirmed[8] with undergoing productions of the new episodes, as well as the release of a new teaser music of opening theme.[9][10] A small teaser trailer was released on 14 October 2021,[11] and a poster released on 28 November 2021.[12] It was voted to be most popular local animated series on ABPBH 34.[13]

It is announced to be co-produced with Hotstar, and is expected to be released around 2022. The series would release on the regional Southeast Asian version as they received lower viewership in India and instead focusing on the designated areas.

Before the release of Ejen Ali, WAU Animation with the collaboration with Media Prima Digital released its own game which is Ejen Ali: MATA Training Academy for Android and iOS users on 4 March 2016. The game was downloaded for over 260,000 times.[16] The second game, Ejen Ali: Emergency was released for iOS and Android in September 2016. Ejen Ali: Emergency is co-produce with Malaysia video game company Common Extract after the company won a Game Jam organised by Media Prima Digital, Primeworks Studios, Wau Animation and Multimedia Development Corp.[17]

Both games have succeeded to win medals in Mob-Ex Awards 2017. Ejen Ali: MATA Training Academy won three golds which were Best App - Creativity, Best App - Media Owner and Best App - Tablets and one bronze which was Best App - Games & Entertainment, while Ejen Ali: Emergency won one gold for Best App - Games and Entertainment and one bronze for Best App - Tablets.[18]

In early 2020, WAU Animation with Media Prima Digital announced the releasing of a new game, "Ejen Ali: Agent's Arena"., which was to be available on Android, later iOS, but now it has been removed from most of the databases. It's already being played in Malaysia. Ejen Ali: Agents Arena is co-produce with Common Extract.[19]

After two seasons of animated TV series, WAU Animations produced its first film, titled Ejen Ali: The Movie, which was released on 28 November 2019 in Malaysia. Endowed by success of the first film, Wau Animation is now setting itself in preparing the film's sequence.[20]

Many products were also released on behalf of the series, such as action figures, toys, replicated gadgets, clothes, character-face masks, puzzles, board and card games, etc. Several volumes of comic series are also available online.

Due to COVID-19 pandemic in the country, it later introduced surgical/cloth masks as well.