10/22/2003
The Matrix101 - The Matrix Reloaded: Synopsis
"Zion, mankind's last free city, has been located by the machines. With 250,000 sentinels only hours away, Zion's military leaders scramble all hovercrafts and personnel to defend the city and its people. Believing mankind's salvation lies not with a military action, but with the Oracle's prophecy, Morpheus pleads for time and resources to allow the Oracle to contact Neo. While Neo has gained greater control over his abilities in the Matrix, he is haunted by horrifying visions of death that threaten to paralyze him in the moment of truth. With new information from the Oracle, Neo, Trinity, and Morpheus take the fight into the Matrix in hopes of saving Zion, and ending the machine's enslavement of humanity once and for all."
The Matrix Reloaded Cast and Characters
The Matrix101 - The Matrix Reloaded: Characters
Neo: "Neo is the One. Now much more confident in his abilities, but haunted by terrifying dreams and conflicting information, the ultimate fate of the human race rests with Neo."
Matrix Character Database - Neo AKA Thomas A. Anderson
"Once an employee of Metacortex by day who sold illegal software by night, Neo scoured the internet for the illusive Morpheus. Morpheus eventually found him and showed him the real world, adding him to the crew of the Nebuchadnezzar. Although Morpheus believed he would be the One to fulfill the prophecy, Neo doesn't realize his own abilities until after getting gunned down by Agent Smith. Trinity's love for him brings him back in that her kiss makes him realize he was only dead within a simulation. After that, he views the Matrix in code and starts to reach beyond the tip of the iceberg of his power, including the new ability of flight and stopping bullets midair. After reaching the Architect, Neo learns that he was not meant to fulfill any prophecies. He is an anomaly of the system, the result of an unbalanced equation the machines are forced to implement in order to get the maximum amount of individuals to accept the system. The prophecy in itself is just a device used for control. Neo breaks the cycle that the machines had created to keep the Matrix running so he could rescue Trinity. He manually restarts her heart after removing the bullet put into her by Agent Thompson. After the return to the real world, Neo senses the sentinels and is able to stop them with powers similar to what he uses in the Matrix. The new use of these powers sends Neo into an unconscious state."
Trinity: "Trinity is Morpheus' right-hand. Morpheus freed her years ago and she has since become his most trusted an accomplished ally. Trinity is Neo's love interest, confidant, and source of strength."
Matrix Character Database - Trinity
"The first mate on the Nebuchadnezzar, Trinity was told by the Oracle that she would fall in love with the One. Trinity watched Neo for a while before they attempted to free him. Over the course of time when Neo was aboard the Neb, Trinity realizes that she does love Neo. She kisses Neo in the real world after he gets gunned down by Agent Smith, causing Neo to realize he had only died in the Matrix. During Neo's act to reach the source, Trinity is forced to jack into the Matrix when Soren's crew is killed before disabling the backup generator. She is successful, but finds herself in a hopeless situation against several agents and jumps out a window. Agent Thompson shoots her in the heart. Neo swoops down and catches her. He successfully revives her by manually restarting her heart."
The Oracle: "An unusual inhabitant of the Matrix, The Oracle is able to see the future. She guides Neo on the path to destroying the Matrix. The Oracle is also responsible for the original prophecy concerning the existence of The One."
Matrix Character Database - Oracle, the
"A program who is seen as a guide to the rebels, the Oracle was the one to speak of a prophecy and an anomaly who would end the war by reaching the source. She has the sight; the ability to see the world without time. She guides many on their path, but her stand on the war is uncertain as of now. She could just be manipulating the rebels for the machine world. However, she seems to want man and machine to unite. Some programs sold her out to the Merovingian, forcing her to change her form."
Niobe: "Captain of the hovercraft Logos, former flame of Morpheus, and married to Commander Lock. Niobe is one of the two main characters in Enter The Matrix."
Matrix Character Database - Niobe
"Morpheus' former lover, Niobe is the captain of the Logos. Once Morpheus became obsessed with the prophecy and finding the One, Niobe split up with him and eventually hooked up with Commander Lock. Their relationship is faltering as Niobe begins to realize that she still has feelings for Morpheus. She is considered the best pilot of the Zion fleet. Niobe and Ghost are responsible for getting the transmissions from the Osiris that show the oncoming army. Lock had the council put all the ships in the sentinel counter attack except for the Logos, because he said that it being the smallest ship, it would have the weakest EMP. Niobe knows that this isn't true and is angered that Lock would do that, so she volunteers to look for the Nebuchadnezzar when the council requests for 2 ships. She aides them in saving the Keymaker by catching Morpheus with her car when he falls off of the truck. She later takes out the power plant to shut down the security systems on the building that contains the door to the source. After exiting into the real world, swarms of sentinels threaten the ship, forcing the crew of the Logos to fly into uncharted areas where they become stranded after using their EMP on the sentinels."
The Keymaker: "Held prisoner by Merovingian, The Keymaker is the only one who can lead Neo to the Source. The Oracle sends Neo to him."
Matrix Character Database - Keymaker, the
"The Keymaker is a program designed to make keys for everything, including the programming doors and the source. His purpose was to give Neo the key to the source as well as tell him what to do and lead him to it. He had been prisoner to a powerful program, the Merovingian, for sometime before the Oracle discovered his whereabouts. Cain and Abel let him escape and then took the key meant for the One from him in the backdoors. The Merovingian had the Keymaker recaptured and the key destroyed, but the Keymaker made another. Persephone leads Neo and the gang to the Keymaker. They free him and help him escape from the agents who want the Keymaker deleted as well as the Twins who want the Keymaker back for the Merovingian. After the Keymaker gives them instructions and leads them to the door, he is shot by the Smiths."
Commander Lock: "Commander of Zion's military forces, and Niobe's husband. Lock doesn't believe in the prophecy and thinks devoting resources to it will hasten Zion's destruction."
Matrix Character Database - Lock, Jason
"The commander of Zion's military, Lock doesn't believe in prophecies and has a bone to pick with Morpheus. Lock is known as Deadbolt to the captains. He and Niobe are currently together, though she is drifting away from him and he knows it. He tries to keep all the ships at Zion in order to perform a counter attack against the oncoming sentinel army, but the Council allows the Nebuchadnezzar to go to the Oracle and later allows the Vigilant and the Logos to search for the Neb. Lock's attack may have worked if Bane hadn't triggered the EMP early."
Bane: "A member of another hovercraft crew, Bane is turned into an Agent Smith duplicate in the Matrix immediately before jacking out. It appears Agent Smith now controls him in the 'real world'."
Matrix Character Database - Bane
"Bane is a rebel onboard the Caduceus. Their crew stays behind to contact the Oracle after the sewer meeting, but during their return he and Malachi have an encounter with the Smiths. Malachi leaves with the disk from the oracle, but Bane is taken over by Smith. Bane's real world body is now inhabited by Smith. He attempts to kill Neo once but is foiled by the Kid, who ruins his element of surprise. Bane later tries to volunteer the Caduceus to be one of the ships to search out the Nebuchadnezzar, but Ballard doesn't allow it. Bane decides to foil the counter attack against the sentinels instead. He kills the crew of the Caduceus and activates an EMP before the ships are in position, knocking out four other ships and allowing the sentinels to slaughter the crews. He is the only survivor and is picked up by the Mjonir (the Hammer) in an unconscious state."
Architect: "The creator of the Matrix, the architect informs Neo that much of what he believed about the Matrix, Zion, and his destiny is untrue."
Matrix character Database - Architect, the
"The designer of the Matrix, the Architect resides in a room made up of television screens. When the path of the current One leads to the Architect, the Architect presents them with a choice; choose to enter the source and allow the Matrix to be reloaded while picking 23 people to restart Zion with so the cycle continues, or returning to the Matrix and allowing the system to continue to break down to the lack of the One's code being reinserted, eventually leading to a system crash that kills everyone in the Matrix while the sentinels kill everyone in Zion. Simplified, the choice is to allow the cycle to continue or to allow the human race to face extinction. Neo takes his chances with extinction in order to return to the Matrix and save Trinity's life, and thus breaks the cycle that has continued for some time."
Matrix Character Database - Hamann
"Hamann is a councilor on the Zion Council. He and Neo have trouble sleeping while at Zion, so they go to the industrial level and have a conversation about control. He later clears the Nebuchadnezzar to enter the Matrix so they could contact the Oracle, despite Commander Lock's wishes."
Morpheus: "Captain of the hovercraft Nebuchadnezzar, Morpheus believes in The Oracle's prophecy, and he believes humanity's only chance for survival is Neo."
Matrix Character Database - Morpheus
"Morpheus is the captain of the Nebuchadnezzar. The Oracle prophesized that he would find the One, so Morpheus searches for his entire life until he finds Neo. He was once with Captain Niobe, but he was consumed by the prophecy and they split up. Morpheus essentially sacrifices himself for Neo by fighting Agent Smith to give the crew time to escape. After being taken prisoner, he resists the efforts of Smith and the agents and refuses to give the codes to Zion's mainframe. Once Morpheus is rescued and he sees Neo begin to display his powers, he believes the war will come to a close soon. When the prophecy is fulfilled and Neo reaches the source but the war doesn't end, Morpheus is crushed. He is now dispirited and shipless.'
Agent Smith: "A rogue program in the Matrix, Smith is able to do almost everything Neo can, plus a few things Neo can't (like creating unlimited exact copies of himself). Smith's motivations have changed since his re-birth - destroying Neo seems to be his only focus."
Matrix Character Database - Agent Smith
"The leader of the trio of agents that include Brown and Jones, Smith has a hatred for human life and sees the human race as a virus. Smith makes a deal with Cypher in order to get to Morpheus. After Morpheus is in his custody, he attempts to get codes to the Zion Mainframe, hoping that the destruction of Zion would mean that he would no longer have to be a part of the Matrix. Smith kills Neo after his rescue of Morpheus, but Neo rises again as the One and destroys Smith. He is then supposed to return to the source to be deleted, but in a phenomenon resulting from Neo's jump into Smith's body having something to do with their code getting mixed, Smith no longer felt the need to obey orders. He now multiplies as a virus, taking over more and more hosts inside the Matrix, with one purpose in mind: To destroy Neo. One of his host bodies was that of the rebel Bane, who he sent back into the real world with Smith's mind."
Link: "The only other member of Morpheus' crew. Married to Tank and Dozer's sister, Link is the operator for the Neb's crew when they enter the Matrix, and he also pilots the Neb in the 'real world'."
Matrix character Database - Link
"Link is a Zion born human and the new operator aboard the Nebuchadnezzar. He is married to Zee, the sister of the now dead Tank and Dozer. She doesn't want Link to die on the Neb like they did, but Link made a promise to Dozer that he would be the ship's operator. Link wasn't a believer in the prophecy, but being aboard the ship and seeing Neo's powers first hand has started to change his mind. He's working on his trust in Morpheus."
Ghost: "Niobe's right-hand. Ghost is especially effective in hand-to-hand combat and weapons usage. Ghost is one of the two main characters in Enter The Matrix."
Matrix Character Database - Ghost
"A rebel aboard the Logos, Ghost's major skill is with firearms. He often snipes enemies to cover Captain Niobe as she accomplishes missions. Ghost was freed the same day as Trinity and thus they refer to each other as brother and sister. Ghost loves Trinity but knows that she will never return that love."
"Persephone: Wife of Merovingian, Persephone tires of her husband's infidelities and assists our heros in locating The Keymaker...but at what cost to Neo?"
Matrix Character Database - Persephone
"A program who is married to the Merovingian, Persephone longs for the days when she and the Merovingian were in love. In order to get a taste of the feelings she used to have, she samples the love of others with a kiss. She helps the Logos crew reach the prison area of the chateau in exchange for a kiss. Later, she leads Neo to the Keymaker after Neo kisses her. On the way, she kills the thug Abel and allows Cain to fetch the Merovingian."
The Twins: "Henchmen of Merovingian, the twins have some unique abilities, including making themselves immaterial at will, and limited flight (or controlled jumping)."
Matrix Character Database - Twins, the
"The Twins are a pair of identical albino programs with the ability to become transparent and ghostlike, allowing them to glide through everything. After going into ghost-mode, any injuries they may have had are instantly corrected. They are exiled programs and serve the Merovingian. They attempt to retrieve the Keymaker for him, but fail when Morpheus blows up their car and sends them flying."
Merovingian: "Likely another program in the Matrix, Merovingian holds The Keymaker captive, standing in Neo's way. His wife, Persephone, betrays him."
Matrix Character Database - Merovingian, the
"A program from an earlier version of the Matrix, the Merovingian holds a great deal of power and leads a group of exiled programs up in the mountains. He has a wife, Persephone, who he often cheats on, and a great deal of thugs with myth-like powers such as turning into mist and dying by silver bullets and stakes. He has survived other 'the Ones' and holds the Keymaker program hostage, possibly with hopes of stopping the reloads."
Seraph: "Guardian of The Oracle, Seraph is a program in the Matrix. He tests Neo before allowing him to see her."
Matrix Character database - Agent Jackson
"Jackson is one of the upgraded agents along with Johnson and Thompson designed to replace Brown, Smith, and Jones after their failures. Agent Jackson fires at Trinity after she fights with Agent Thompson."
Matrix Character database - Agent Johnson
"Johnson is one of the upgraded agents along with Jackson and Thompson designed to replace Brown, Smith, and Jones after their failures. Johnson appears to be the leader of the new batch. He and Morpheus fight on top of a truck when the agents attempt to delete the Keymaker."
Matrix Character database - Agent Thompson
"Thompson is one of the upgraded agents along with Jackson and Johnson designed to replace Brown, Smith, and Jones after their failures. Agent Thompson is the agent that encounters Smith during the Burly Brawl and is temporarily turned into another Smith. He jumps out of a window while shooting out Trinity. They have a gun battle until Thompson shoots her in the heart."
Matrix Character database - Ajax
"Ajax is the captain of the Icarus, a ship in the Zion fleet. His ship is disabled in the EMP blast caused by Bane during the counter attack on the machines in the pipelines above Zion. The sentinels slaughter Ajax and his crew."
Matrix Character database - AK
"AK is the operator of the Mjolnir (the Hammer), the largest ship in the Zion fleet. The crew of the Hammer picks up the stranded Nebuchadnezzar crew after the sentinel attack."
Matrix Character database - Ballard
"Ballard is the captain of the Caduceus, a ship in the Zion fleet. When the captains have a meeting in the sewers, Morpheus asks for one ship to remain behind so the Oracle could contact them. Ballard agrees to do this. The oracle eventually does contact him and sends him back with some data for Neo. Ballard returns to Zion not knowing that his crew member Bane has been infected with Smith during their escape from the Matrix. Ballard gives a disk to Neo that presumably told him how he could contact the Oracle. Bane later kills the entire crew of the Caduceus so he can foil the counter attack against the machines with an EMP blast."
Matrix Character database -
Beautiful Woman at Le Vrai
"The Merovingian spots a beautiful woman in the restaurant Le Vrai and sends her a special orgasm-inducing cake. She retreats to the bathroom and the Merovingian later meets her there."
Matrix Character database - Cas
"Cas is the widowed wife of the Nebuchadnezzar's former pilot Dozer. She now takes care of her two children and spends time with her sister-in-law Zee."
Matrix Character database - Colt
"Colt is the first mate of the Mjolnir (the Hammer), the ship that picks up the stranded Nebuchadnezzar crew after they are attacked by sentinels."
Matrix Character database -
Corrupt
"Corrupt is a rebel aboard the Gnosis who serves as the doorman during the meeting in the sewers of the Matrix. Smith approaches him and has him give Neo his ear piece to show that he is no longer an agent."
Matrix Character database - Dillard
"The head councilor on the Zion Council, Councilor Dillard requests for 2 ships to volunteer in order to search for the missing Nebuchadnezzar, despite Commander Lock's wishes to use the entire available fleet for the counter attack against the sentinels."
Matrix Character database - Ice
"Ice is the captain of the Gnosis. This is probably one of the 5 ships hit by Bane's EMP. If so, Ice and her crew is dead."
Matrix Character database - Jax
"Jax is the operator of the Vigilant. When the sentinels threaten the ship during the crew's attempt to disable the backup generator within the Matrix, Axel crosses a rustic bridge that snaps, sending a metal rod through Jax's chest. The vigilant is completely vulnerable when the sentinels bomb it."
Matrix Character database - Kali
"Kali is the captain of the Brahma. This is probably one of the 5 ships hit by Bane's EMP. If so, Kali and her crew is dead."
Matrix Character database - Kid AKA Michael Karl Popper
"The Kid is a teenager who has dreams of falling. Neo talks to him through computer chats and the Kid deeply believes in him. At his school, agents come for him and the Kid goes on the run through the building, using his skateboard. He finds himself climbing up the side of the school, but the agents wait for him on the roof. The Kid jumps and his belief is so strong that he wakes up in the real world. He believes Neo had saved him, when he had really saved himself. Now he follows Neo around and wants to be in the Nebuchadnezzar crew."
Matrix Character database - Malachi
"The first mate of the Caduceus, Malachi goes with Bane when they attempt to leave the Matrix after meeting up with the Oracle. Bane gives Malachi the Oracle's disk. Malachi then jacks out, not knowing that Bane would be possessed by Smith and then jack out with Smith's mind in Bane's body. Bane later kills Malachi and the rest of the Caduceus crew."
Matrix Character database - Mifune
"Captain Mifune accompanies Commander Lock's Lieutenant when he goes to take Morpheus to the Commander in order to 'keep the peace.' He is the head of the APU squadron."
Matrix Character database - Rama-Kandra
"Rama-Kandra is led out of the Le Vrai restaurant by one of the Merovingian's thugs just as Neo arrives. More on him later."
Matrix Character database - Roland
"Roland is the captain of the Mjolnir (the Hammer), the ship that picks up the stranded Nebuchadnezzar crew after they encounter sentinels."
Matrix Character database - Sati [Revolutions]
"Rama-Kandra's daughter? Awaiting Revolutions..."
Matrix Character database - Soren
"Soren is the captain of the Vigilant. He volunteers to help find the Nebuchadnezzar when the council asks for 2 ships. Soren and his crew attempt to take out the backup generator to allow Neo to reach the source of the Matrix. A sentinel bomb destroyes the Vigilant, killing Soren and his crew while they are still in the Matrix."
Matrix Character database - Tirant
"Tirant is the captain of the Novalis. His ship is one of the 5 that is disabled when Bane set off an EMP. Tirant and his crew are slaughtered by sentinels."
Matrix Character database -
West
"A member of the Zion Council, Councilor West has some sort of device attached to his neck. He is the first to propose that a ship be sent out to aide the Nebuchadnezzar."
Matrix Character database -
Zee
"Zee is the sister to Tank and Dozer. She is Link's girlfriend. After Tank and Dozer died, she doesn't want to lose anyone else to a ship that seems cursed and doesn't want Link to be the operator of the Nebuchadnezzar. She accepts that Link had made a promise to Dozer and allows Link to leave, giving him some beads for good luck."
Matrix Character database
The Matrix101 - The Matrix Reloaded: Meaning & Interpretations
The Architect
"For a lot of people one of the most confusing scenes in Reloaded is Neo's discussion with The Architect. Coincidentally, this is probably the most critical scene in the movie. Everything that's come before is put into question by what the Architect says, and everything yet to come in Revolutions will be influenced by his message. Keep in mind that The Architect may be deliberately misleading Neo. We don't buy that. We're assuming he has no reason to mislead Neo, and are taking what he says as truth.
The Architect is the 'father' of the Matrix. He's an entity from the machine world and he designed the original 'failed' Matrix and the current 'successful' one. The first Matrix failed because it was too perfect. It was a virtual paradise, a utopia for humanity. Unfortunately, humans are not accustomed to living in a perfect world, and the test subjects rejected the simulation because it just wasn't right. The second Matrix he designed more closely resembled the 'real world' of 1999: it was hard, it was dirty, it had death, violence, war, atrocities, and everything else a flawed species would likely create for itself. This one also failed, but for reasons that the Architect couldn't figure out. Another machine program (one created to investigate aspects of the human psyche) stumbled upon the reason for the second failure: a lack of choice. If humans were offered a choice, even one felt at an unconscious level, then over 99% would accept the Matrix and live in the virtual world, unknowingly powering the machines. The remaining percentage would choose the other option, becoming a 'free mind' destined to become part of the human resistance based in Zion." More...
"Zion, mankind's last free city, has been located by the machines. With 250,000 sentinels only hours away, Zion's military leaders scramble all hovercrafts and personnel to defend the city and its people. Believing mankind's salvation lies not with a military action, but with the Oracle's prophecy, Morpheus pleads for time and resources to allow the Oracle to contact Neo. While Neo has gained greater control over his abilities in the Matrix, he is haunted by horrifying visions of death that threaten to paralyze him in the moment of truth. With new information from the Oracle, Neo, Trinity, and Morpheus take the fight into the Matrix in hopes of saving Zion, and ending the machine's enslavement of humanity once and for all."
The Matrix Reloaded Cast and Characters
The Matrix101 - The Matrix Reloaded: Characters
Neo: "Neo is the One. Now much more confident in his abilities, but haunted by terrifying dreams and conflicting information, the ultimate fate of the human race rests with Neo."
Matrix Character Database - Neo AKA Thomas A. Anderson
"Once an employee of Metacortex by day who sold illegal software by night, Neo scoured the internet for the illusive Morpheus. Morpheus eventually found him and showed him the real world, adding him to the crew of the Nebuchadnezzar. Although Morpheus believed he would be the One to fulfill the prophecy, Neo doesn't realize his own abilities until after getting gunned down by Agent Smith. Trinity's love for him brings him back in that her kiss makes him realize he was only dead within a simulation. After that, he views the Matrix in code and starts to reach beyond the tip of the iceberg of his power, including the new ability of flight and stopping bullets midair. After reaching the Architect, Neo learns that he was not meant to fulfill any prophecies. He is an anomaly of the system, the result of an unbalanced equation the machines are forced to implement in order to get the maximum amount of individuals to accept the system. The prophecy in itself is just a device used for control. Neo breaks the cycle that the machines had created to keep the Matrix running so he could rescue Trinity. He manually restarts her heart after removing the bullet put into her by Agent Thompson. After the return to the real world, Neo senses the sentinels and is able to stop them with powers similar to what he uses in the Matrix. The new use of these powers sends Neo into an unconscious state."
Trinity: "Trinity is Morpheus' right-hand. Morpheus freed her years ago and she has since become his most trusted an accomplished ally. Trinity is Neo's love interest, confidant, and source of strength."
Matrix Character Database - Trinity
"The first mate on the Nebuchadnezzar, Trinity was told by the Oracle that she would fall in love with the One. Trinity watched Neo for a while before they attempted to free him. Over the course of time when Neo was aboard the Neb, Trinity realizes that she does love Neo. She kisses Neo in the real world after he gets gunned down by Agent Smith, causing Neo to realize he had only died in the Matrix. During Neo's act to reach the source, Trinity is forced to jack into the Matrix when Soren's crew is killed before disabling the backup generator. She is successful, but finds herself in a hopeless situation against several agents and jumps out a window. Agent Thompson shoots her in the heart. Neo swoops down and catches her. He successfully revives her by manually restarting her heart."
The Oracle: "An unusual inhabitant of the Matrix, The Oracle is able to see the future. She guides Neo on the path to destroying the Matrix. The Oracle is also responsible for the original prophecy concerning the existence of The One."
Matrix Character Database - Oracle, the
"A program who is seen as a guide to the rebels, the Oracle was the one to speak of a prophecy and an anomaly who would end the war by reaching the source. She has the sight; the ability to see the world without time. She guides many on their path, but her stand on the war is uncertain as of now. She could just be manipulating the rebels for the machine world. However, she seems to want man and machine to unite. Some programs sold her out to the Merovingian, forcing her to change her form."
Niobe: "Captain of the hovercraft Logos, former flame of Morpheus, and married to Commander Lock. Niobe is one of the two main characters in Enter The Matrix."
Matrix Character Database - Niobe
"Morpheus' former lover, Niobe is the captain of the Logos. Once Morpheus became obsessed with the prophecy and finding the One, Niobe split up with him and eventually hooked up with Commander Lock. Their relationship is faltering as Niobe begins to realize that she still has feelings for Morpheus. She is considered the best pilot of the Zion fleet. Niobe and Ghost are responsible for getting the transmissions from the Osiris that show the oncoming army. Lock had the council put all the ships in the sentinel counter attack except for the Logos, because he said that it being the smallest ship, it would have the weakest EMP. Niobe knows that this isn't true and is angered that Lock would do that, so she volunteers to look for the Nebuchadnezzar when the council requests for 2 ships. She aides them in saving the Keymaker by catching Morpheus with her car when he falls off of the truck. She later takes out the power plant to shut down the security systems on the building that contains the door to the source. After exiting into the real world, swarms of sentinels threaten the ship, forcing the crew of the Logos to fly into uncharted areas where they become stranded after using their EMP on the sentinels."
The Keymaker: "Held prisoner by Merovingian, The Keymaker is the only one who can lead Neo to the Source. The Oracle sends Neo to him."
Matrix Character Database - Keymaker, the
"The Keymaker is a program designed to make keys for everything, including the programming doors and the source. His purpose was to give Neo the key to the source as well as tell him what to do and lead him to it. He had been prisoner to a powerful program, the Merovingian, for sometime before the Oracle discovered his whereabouts. Cain and Abel let him escape and then took the key meant for the One from him in the backdoors. The Merovingian had the Keymaker recaptured and the key destroyed, but the Keymaker made another. Persephone leads Neo and the gang to the Keymaker. They free him and help him escape from the agents who want the Keymaker deleted as well as the Twins who want the Keymaker back for the Merovingian. After the Keymaker gives them instructions and leads them to the door, he is shot by the Smiths."
Commander Lock: "Commander of Zion's military forces, and Niobe's husband. Lock doesn't believe in the prophecy and thinks devoting resources to it will hasten Zion's destruction."
Matrix Character Database - Lock, Jason
"The commander of Zion's military, Lock doesn't believe in prophecies and has a bone to pick with Morpheus. Lock is known as Deadbolt to the captains. He and Niobe are currently together, though she is drifting away from him and he knows it. He tries to keep all the ships at Zion in order to perform a counter attack against the oncoming sentinel army, but the Council allows the Nebuchadnezzar to go to the Oracle and later allows the Vigilant and the Logos to search for the Neb. Lock's attack may have worked if Bane hadn't triggered the EMP early."
Bane: "A member of another hovercraft crew, Bane is turned into an Agent Smith duplicate in the Matrix immediately before jacking out. It appears Agent Smith now controls him in the 'real world'."
Matrix Character Database - Bane
"Bane is a rebel onboard the Caduceus. Their crew stays behind to contact the Oracle after the sewer meeting, but during their return he and Malachi have an encounter with the Smiths. Malachi leaves with the disk from the oracle, but Bane is taken over by Smith. Bane's real world body is now inhabited by Smith. He attempts to kill Neo once but is foiled by the Kid, who ruins his element of surprise. Bane later tries to volunteer the Caduceus to be one of the ships to search out the Nebuchadnezzar, but Ballard doesn't allow it. Bane decides to foil the counter attack against the sentinels instead. He kills the crew of the Caduceus and activates an EMP before the ships are in position, knocking out four other ships and allowing the sentinels to slaughter the crews. He is the only survivor and is picked up by the Mjonir (the Hammer) in an unconscious state."
Architect: "The creator of the Matrix, the architect informs Neo that much of what he believed about the Matrix, Zion, and his destiny is untrue."
Matrix character Database - Architect, the
"The designer of the Matrix, the Architect resides in a room made up of television screens. When the path of the current One leads to the Architect, the Architect presents them with a choice; choose to enter the source and allow the Matrix to be reloaded while picking 23 people to restart Zion with so the cycle continues, or returning to the Matrix and allowing the system to continue to break down to the lack of the One's code being reinserted, eventually leading to a system crash that kills everyone in the Matrix while the sentinels kill everyone in Zion. Simplified, the choice is to allow the cycle to continue or to allow the human race to face extinction. Neo takes his chances with extinction in order to return to the Matrix and save Trinity's life, and thus breaks the cycle that has continued for some time."
Matrix Character Database - Hamann
"Hamann is a councilor on the Zion Council. He and Neo have trouble sleeping while at Zion, so they go to the industrial level and have a conversation about control. He later clears the Nebuchadnezzar to enter the Matrix so they could contact the Oracle, despite Commander Lock's wishes."
Morpheus: "Captain of the hovercraft Nebuchadnezzar, Morpheus believes in The Oracle's prophecy, and he believes humanity's only chance for survival is Neo."
Matrix Character Database - Morpheus
"Morpheus is the captain of the Nebuchadnezzar. The Oracle prophesized that he would find the One, so Morpheus searches for his entire life until he finds Neo. He was once with Captain Niobe, but he was consumed by the prophecy and they split up. Morpheus essentially sacrifices himself for Neo by fighting Agent Smith to give the crew time to escape. After being taken prisoner, he resists the efforts of Smith and the agents and refuses to give the codes to Zion's mainframe. Once Morpheus is rescued and he sees Neo begin to display his powers, he believes the war will come to a close soon. When the prophecy is fulfilled and Neo reaches the source but the war doesn't end, Morpheus is crushed. He is now dispirited and shipless.'
Agent Smith: "A rogue program in the Matrix, Smith is able to do almost everything Neo can, plus a few things Neo can't (like creating unlimited exact copies of himself). Smith's motivations have changed since his re-birth - destroying Neo seems to be his only focus."
Matrix Character Database - Agent Smith
"The leader of the trio of agents that include Brown and Jones, Smith has a hatred for human life and sees the human race as a virus. Smith makes a deal with Cypher in order to get to Morpheus. After Morpheus is in his custody, he attempts to get codes to the Zion Mainframe, hoping that the destruction of Zion would mean that he would no longer have to be a part of the Matrix. Smith kills Neo after his rescue of Morpheus, but Neo rises again as the One and destroys Smith. He is then supposed to return to the source to be deleted, but in a phenomenon resulting from Neo's jump into Smith's body having something to do with their code getting mixed, Smith no longer felt the need to obey orders. He now multiplies as a virus, taking over more and more hosts inside the Matrix, with one purpose in mind: To destroy Neo. One of his host bodies was that of the rebel Bane, who he sent back into the real world with Smith's mind."
Link: "The only other member of Morpheus' crew. Married to Tank and Dozer's sister, Link is the operator for the Neb's crew when they enter the Matrix, and he also pilots the Neb in the 'real world'."
Matrix character Database - Link
"Link is a Zion born human and the new operator aboard the Nebuchadnezzar. He is married to Zee, the sister of the now dead Tank and Dozer. She doesn't want Link to die on the Neb like they did, but Link made a promise to Dozer that he would be the ship's operator. Link wasn't a believer in the prophecy, but being aboard the ship and seeing Neo's powers first hand has started to change his mind. He's working on his trust in Morpheus."
Ghost: "Niobe's right-hand. Ghost is especially effective in hand-to-hand combat and weapons usage. Ghost is one of the two main characters in Enter The Matrix."
Matrix Character Database - Ghost
"A rebel aboard the Logos, Ghost's major skill is with firearms. He often snipes enemies to cover Captain Niobe as she accomplishes missions. Ghost was freed the same day as Trinity and thus they refer to each other as brother and sister. Ghost loves Trinity but knows that she will never return that love."
"Persephone: Wife of Merovingian, Persephone tires of her husband's infidelities and assists our heros in locating The Keymaker...but at what cost to Neo?"
Matrix Character Database - Persephone
"A program who is married to the Merovingian, Persephone longs for the days when she and the Merovingian were in love. In order to get a taste of the feelings she used to have, she samples the love of others with a kiss. She helps the Logos crew reach the prison area of the chateau in exchange for a kiss. Later, she leads Neo to the Keymaker after Neo kisses her. On the way, she kills the thug Abel and allows Cain to fetch the Merovingian."
The Twins: "Henchmen of Merovingian, the twins have some unique abilities, including making themselves immaterial at will, and limited flight (or controlled jumping)."
Matrix Character Database - Twins, the
"The Twins are a pair of identical albino programs with the ability to become transparent and ghostlike, allowing them to glide through everything. After going into ghost-mode, any injuries they may have had are instantly corrected. They are exiled programs and serve the Merovingian. They attempt to retrieve the Keymaker for him, but fail when Morpheus blows up their car and sends them flying."
Merovingian: "Likely another program in the Matrix, Merovingian holds The Keymaker captive, standing in Neo's way. His wife, Persephone, betrays him."
Matrix Character Database - Merovingian, the
"A program from an earlier version of the Matrix, the Merovingian holds a great deal of power and leads a group of exiled programs up in the mountains. He has a wife, Persephone, who he often cheats on, and a great deal of thugs with myth-like powers such as turning into mist and dying by silver bullets and stakes. He has survived other 'the Ones' and holds the Keymaker program hostage, possibly with hopes of stopping the reloads."
Seraph: "Guardian of The Oracle, Seraph is a program in the Matrix. He tests Neo before allowing him to see her."
Matrix Character database - Agent Jackson
"Jackson is one of the upgraded agents along with Johnson and Thompson designed to replace Brown, Smith, and Jones after their failures. Agent Jackson fires at Trinity after she fights with Agent Thompson."
Matrix Character database - Agent Johnson
"Johnson is one of the upgraded agents along with Jackson and Thompson designed to replace Brown, Smith, and Jones after their failures. Johnson appears to be the leader of the new batch. He and Morpheus fight on top of a truck when the agents attempt to delete the Keymaker."
Matrix Character database - Agent Thompson
"Thompson is one of the upgraded agents along with Jackson and Johnson designed to replace Brown, Smith, and Jones after their failures. Agent Thompson is the agent that encounters Smith during the Burly Brawl and is temporarily turned into another Smith. He jumps out of a window while shooting out Trinity. They have a gun battle until Thompson shoots her in the heart."
Matrix Character database - Ajax
"Ajax is the captain of the Icarus, a ship in the Zion fleet. His ship is disabled in the EMP blast caused by Bane during the counter attack on the machines in the pipelines above Zion. The sentinels slaughter Ajax and his crew."
Matrix Character database - AK
"AK is the operator of the Mjolnir (the Hammer), the largest ship in the Zion fleet. The crew of the Hammer picks up the stranded Nebuchadnezzar crew after the sentinel attack."
Matrix Character database - Ballard
"Ballard is the captain of the Caduceus, a ship in the Zion fleet. When the captains have a meeting in the sewers, Morpheus asks for one ship to remain behind so the Oracle could contact them. Ballard agrees to do this. The oracle eventually does contact him and sends him back with some data for Neo. Ballard returns to Zion not knowing that his crew member Bane has been infected with Smith during their escape from the Matrix. Ballard gives a disk to Neo that presumably told him how he could contact the Oracle. Bane later kills the entire crew of the Caduceus so he can foil the counter attack against the machines with an EMP blast."
Matrix Character database -
Beautiful Woman at Le Vrai
"The Merovingian spots a beautiful woman in the restaurant Le Vrai and sends her a special orgasm-inducing cake. She retreats to the bathroom and the Merovingian later meets her there."
Matrix Character database - Cas
"Cas is the widowed wife of the Nebuchadnezzar's former pilot Dozer. She now takes care of her two children and spends time with her sister-in-law Zee."
Matrix Character database - Colt
"Colt is the first mate of the Mjolnir (the Hammer), the ship that picks up the stranded Nebuchadnezzar crew after they are attacked by sentinels."
Matrix Character database -
Corrupt
"Corrupt is a rebel aboard the Gnosis who serves as the doorman during the meeting in the sewers of the Matrix. Smith approaches him and has him give Neo his ear piece to show that he is no longer an agent."
Matrix Character database - Dillard
"The head councilor on the Zion Council, Councilor Dillard requests for 2 ships to volunteer in order to search for the missing Nebuchadnezzar, despite Commander Lock's wishes to use the entire available fleet for the counter attack against the sentinels."
Matrix Character database - Ice
"Ice is the captain of the Gnosis. This is probably one of the 5 ships hit by Bane's EMP. If so, Ice and her crew is dead."
Matrix Character database - Jax
"Jax is the operator of the Vigilant. When the sentinels threaten the ship during the crew's attempt to disable the backup generator within the Matrix, Axel crosses a rustic bridge that snaps, sending a metal rod through Jax's chest. The vigilant is completely vulnerable when the sentinels bomb it."
Matrix Character database - Kali
"Kali is the captain of the Brahma. This is probably one of the 5 ships hit by Bane's EMP. If so, Kali and her crew is dead."
Matrix Character database - Kid AKA Michael Karl Popper
"The Kid is a teenager who has dreams of falling. Neo talks to him through computer chats and the Kid deeply believes in him. At his school, agents come for him and the Kid goes on the run through the building, using his skateboard. He finds himself climbing up the side of the school, but the agents wait for him on the roof. The Kid jumps and his belief is so strong that he wakes up in the real world. He believes Neo had saved him, when he had really saved himself. Now he follows Neo around and wants to be in the Nebuchadnezzar crew."
Matrix Character database - Malachi
"The first mate of the Caduceus, Malachi goes with Bane when they attempt to leave the Matrix after meeting up with the Oracle. Bane gives Malachi the Oracle's disk. Malachi then jacks out, not knowing that Bane would be possessed by Smith and then jack out with Smith's mind in Bane's body. Bane later kills Malachi and the rest of the Caduceus crew."
Matrix Character database - Mifune
"Captain Mifune accompanies Commander Lock's Lieutenant when he goes to take Morpheus to the Commander in order to 'keep the peace.' He is the head of the APU squadron."
Matrix Character database - Rama-Kandra
"Rama-Kandra is led out of the Le Vrai restaurant by one of the Merovingian's thugs just as Neo arrives. More on him later."
Matrix Character database - Roland
"Roland is the captain of the Mjolnir (the Hammer), the ship that picks up the stranded Nebuchadnezzar crew after they encounter sentinels."
Matrix Character database - Sati [Revolutions]
"Rama-Kandra's daughter? Awaiting Revolutions..."
Matrix Character database - Soren
"Soren is the captain of the Vigilant. He volunteers to help find the Nebuchadnezzar when the council asks for 2 ships. Soren and his crew attempt to take out the backup generator to allow Neo to reach the source of the Matrix. A sentinel bomb destroyes the Vigilant, killing Soren and his crew while they are still in the Matrix."
Matrix Character database - Tirant
"Tirant is the captain of the Novalis. His ship is one of the 5 that is disabled when Bane set off an EMP. Tirant and his crew are slaughtered by sentinels."
Matrix Character database -
West
"A member of the Zion Council, Councilor West has some sort of device attached to his neck. He is the first to propose that a ship be sent out to aide the Nebuchadnezzar."
Matrix Character database -
Zee
"Zee is the sister to Tank and Dozer. She is Link's girlfriend. After Tank and Dozer died, she doesn't want to lose anyone else to a ship that seems cursed and doesn't want Link to be the operator of the Nebuchadnezzar. She accepts that Link had made a promise to Dozer and allows Link to leave, giving him some beads for good luck."
Matrix Character database
The Matrix101 - The Matrix Reloaded: Meaning & Interpretations
The Architect
"For a lot of people one of the most confusing scenes in Reloaded is Neo's discussion with The Architect. Coincidentally, this is probably the most critical scene in the movie. Everything that's come before is put into question by what the Architect says, and everything yet to come in Revolutions will be influenced by his message. Keep in mind that The Architect may be deliberately misleading Neo. We don't buy that. We're assuming he has no reason to mislead Neo, and are taking what he says as truth.
The Architect is the 'father' of the Matrix. He's an entity from the machine world and he designed the original 'failed' Matrix and the current 'successful' one. The first Matrix failed because it was too perfect. It was a virtual paradise, a utopia for humanity. Unfortunately, humans are not accustomed to living in a perfect world, and the test subjects rejected the simulation because it just wasn't right. The second Matrix he designed more closely resembled the 'real world' of 1999: it was hard, it was dirty, it had death, violence, war, atrocities, and everything else a flawed species would likely create for itself. This one also failed, but for reasons that the Architect couldn't figure out. Another machine program (one created to investigate aspects of the human psyche) stumbled upon the reason for the second failure: a lack of choice. If humans were offered a choice, even one felt at an unconscious level, then over 99% would accept the Matrix and live in the virtual world, unknowingly powering the machines. The remaining percentage would choose the other option, becoming a 'free mind' destined to become part of the human resistance based in Zion." More...
10/19/2003
Matrix Plots, Characters & Commentary
