Matrix who is smith

Memorably played by Hugo Weaving , Smith was the arch villain of the entire Matrix trilogy and gained iconic status thanks to his famous suit-and-shades getup and cold, clinical persona. Smith doggedly pursued Mr. Anderson whenever Neo plugged into the Matrix. Created as a program within the Matrix, Smith's role is essentially that of a policeman, removing any potential threats to the digital peace the Machines' alternate reality is upholding.

Smith originally pursues Mr. Anderson because of his questioning reality, but later targets the red-pilled Neo because he's now part of a human uprising intent on taking down the framework Smith was designed to guard. After Neo defeats Smith at the end of the original Matrix , the villain returns as an exile program, now free from the bidding of Machines and allowed to pursue his core function - the establishment of order and the eradication of all who threaten it.

To this end, Smith becomes less like the antivirus he represented in the original film and more like a virus, spreading and infecting the Matrix. In The Matrix Revolutions , Smith enters the body of a human called Bane while he's plugged into the Matrix, and then uses Bane as a vessel to escape into the real world. But how does a digital creation like Smith manifest into a real human?

Like many secrets of The Matrix , an explanation for Smith's trip to Zion isn't explicitly laid out, but some working theories can be drawn from information the Wachowskis' do provide. Firstly, Smith in The Matrix Revolutions is a free program. The Machines would never design something that could move from the Matrix into the real world because, as revealed later in the movie, a being that powerful would threaten Machines as much as the humans.

The Agent, in both a storyline-related mission and live event, showed signs of uncharacteristic speech and emotion and eventually led an assault against Zionite redpills declaring 'their stench unbearable any longer'. As a result of his actions the Agent was apprehended by his fellow system representatives and scheduled for a 'thorough code cleansing'.

He has shown no signs of direct infection since. Machine liaison officer DifferenceEngine , following a similar scenario to that of the previous Agent Gray infection, also took on the dialect and emotional characteristics of the famous Exile Agent.

Instead of attacking redpills, this instance insisted on finding 'Mr. His subsequent fate is unknown. The third victim of infection was the notorious bluepill Shane Black. This man was an unfortunate victim of the Smith Virus who, once infected, gained the ability to spread the code to others. This quickly led to a small-scale outbreak, with several more bluepills becoming infected and joining forces in their hunt for power. He and the other infected were eventually cleansed and returned to their bluepill lives.

Shane Black's troubles continued, as he was one of the bluepills recorded to have first witnessed Unlimited redpills practicing their newfound powers at the Uriah wharf. This triggered a resurgence of the memories formed during his Smith infection and he soon became volatile and insane. He is reported to have been mercifully killed shortly afterward. The most recent appearance of the Smith virus was during the third-anniversary events.

The virus manifested itself in the form of black-suited men although they lacked the distinct likeness of Smith. As redpills began to fight back using specialist code from The Oracle, the virus vanished suddenly, stating that he had obtained a new and more dangerous form. The only person to kill the main Agent Smith virus was the Machinist Trilateral, originally of the Iterator server, on Recursion server after the server merge, being the first person in game to earn the perpetual flame virus award.

The nature of this form was never revealed. The MegaSmith was used for gameplay reasons, because although the Wachowskis thought the martyr approach suitable for film, they believed that for an interactive medium such as a video game based upon the successful completion of goals it was "Lame. Really lame". So, described by the Wachowskis as, "A little Hulk versus Galactus action", this character was created to be the more appropriate "final boss" of Path of Neo.

The MegaSmith is composed of destroyed buildings, cars, and parts of the road, with the "spectator Smiths" standing around the crater and in the streets acting as the MegaSmith's muscles, resulting in Smith not only becoming the city's people, but the city itself.

After Neo knocks Smith into the crater in the level "Aerial Battle", Smith is sent flying through the ground and up through the street. As Neo relaxes, the surrounding Smiths walk away from the crater. Neo gets out of the crater, and dodges a car that flies through the air and lands in a pile of debris. Neo looks on as Smiths tear up chunks of the road and throw cars into this pile. A truck then speeds into a building and blows it up.

Smiths can be seen holding the debris together as it takes on a thirty-story tall humanoid form which is then struck by lightning, powering it up. Neo flies up to watch as the giant humanoid lowers its head onto its shoulders. The giant Smith then pulls a pair of giant Smith Shades from a billboard and puts them on. He smirks, then the fight begins. During the fight, Neo must evade MegaSmith's punches and attempts to hurl objects at him, gaining the opportunity to attack after a certain amount of blows have been unleashed; the counter-attack sees Neo flying towards MegaSmith and knocking parts out of him, including the left side of his head and a sizeable portion of his chest.

After the fight, Neo flies straight into MegaSmith's mouth, causing the Smiths throughout the Matrix to overload and explode. We then cut to a shot seen in The Matrix: Revolutions of the streets shining with light from the destroyed Smiths. Agent Smith using his earpiece to uncover his target's location and communicate with fellow Agents. Initially, Agent Smith appeared polite, professional, and merely serving his purpose as an Agent of the system. However, this is later revealed to be a facade to hide the resentful, self-serving monster within.

While interrogating Morpheus, Agent Smith went as far as comparing humanity to a virus; a disease organism that uncontrollably replicates and inevitably destroys its environment, only to move on to another and repeat the process. Although since this was stated in the presence of the other Agents, he may have just been reiterating his fellow Agents' general apathy towards humans while toning down his own excessive hatred towards them. Ironically, Smith himself would later manifest as a self-replicating virus which spread throughout the Matrix , his only stated purpose, as mentioned by The Oracle , being to destroy the world he inhabited.

It is notable that during the interrogation, Agent Smith sent his colleagues out of the room and then removed his sunglasses, his sign of "getting personal". He followed this up by removing his earpiece, thereby severing his communication with his fellow Agents, before proceeding to express, with palpable bitterness, how he secretly despised humanity and the Matrix.

The Matrix , as he labeled it, was a "zoo" he was desperate to escape from, feeling as much a prisoner as the humans he is tasked to police. He even cited the suffocating smell of the Matrix and of all its inhabitants, though this was unlikely to be literal.

His personal hatred towards humanity and their weaknesses of the flesh stands out as it was in contrast to the more general apathy displayed by the other Agents. Later, during his final battle with Neo, he also grudgingly ridicules how only humanity could have ever conceived of love.

Agent Smith using an indirect approach, predicting the location of where Neo will flee rather than simply following him. Scene: Chase to Room As an Agent of the system, and despite his general hatred for humanity, Agent Smith's behavior still remained pragmatic when dealing with bluepills, seemingly keeping casualties to a minimum.

An example of this being when he ordered a police lieutenant to not confront Trinity when she was trapped inside a building, later claiming that the order was for the sake of the police force's own protection. Unlike other Agents, however, Agent Smith mixed his cunning with brute force and apparent rage, being able to predict the actions of his quarry before viciously and efficiently countering.

Agent Smith's cunning was showcased during his and his fellow Agents' pursuit of Trinity, using her movements to predict her eventual location. When Agent Brown tried to directly chase Trinity across the rooftops, he ultimately failed to capture her. But Agent Smith took control of a garbage truck near Trinity's would-be exit, only failing to run her over and killing her by a very narrow margin.

Once he finally kills his opponent, however, the logic of The Matrix reasons that he has fulfilled purpose as he has destroyed his target, which returns him to the source, leading to the machines deleting him and all of his copies and rebooting the Matrix.

Expanded universe material both comic books and video games have hinted that the character may have somehow reverted himself into some sort of data that could survive in the Matrix. Neo and Trinity are returning for the movie, despite their seeming deaths in The Matrix Revolutions, so they likely have a way to resurrect Agent Smith as well.

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