List of minor characters in the Matrix series
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Many fictional characters appear in the Matrix series. This article is intended to be a comprehensive list of all the secondary human characters; for the non-human characters refer to the List of programs and machines in the Matrix series.
Many of the characters listed here have names reflecting certain aspects of them, such as their status, personality or role. A detailed description may be found at The Matrix character names.
Apoc
Apoc (played by Julian Arahanga) is a crew member of the Nebuchadnezzar in The Matrix.
Apoc and Switch are portrayed as front-line soldiers while inside the Matrix, acting as "point" and "rear guard" in their escape from the Agents and police and covering fire as they make their way into the sewers. Apoc also assists Tank in locating Neo inside the Power Plant. Cypher murdered Apoc by pulling his Matrix jack out of his head while Apoc was connected to the Matrix.
In earlier drafts of the script for The Matrix, it was revealed that Apoc was the creator of the "Four Horsemen virus." His name "Apoc" is probably short for "Apocalypse" as in, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
Bane
Bane (played by Ian Bliss) was a human crew member of the Zion hovercraft Caduceus in the films The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions. Bliss was cast by the Wachowski Brothers because they saw him do an impression of Hugo Weaving, the actor who plays Agent Smith,[[Citing sources citation needed]] and partly because Bliss somewhat resembles Weaving. The name Bane also means "nemesis", or "deadly poison".
As he was waiting to jack out of the Matrix with a message from The Oracle, Bane was attacked by a clone of Smith, now a dangerous, viral rogue program that was hell-bent on copying himself into everyone in the Matrix in his effort to destroy everything as well as his nemesis, Neo.
Bane's mind was overwritten by Smith. From this point on, Bane ceased to exist; When the Caduceus operator called to jack Bane out of the Matrix, Smith was the one who actually left the Matrix. Now free to roam the real world, Smith walked among the citizens of Zion using Bane's body as a disguise. During his time in Zion, before the Zion counterattack, Bane/Smith also mutilated himself with a knife for reasons which are unclear. He also attempted to stab Neo shortly after arriving in Zion, but was interrupted by the Kid, who came to see Neo on his way.
While Bane/Smith was initially unsuccessful in convincing the captain of the Caduceus to join in the Zion Council's search for the hovercraft Nebuchadnezzar, Bane/Smith later created disaster by sabotaging the Zion counterattack against the burrowing Machine forces by blowing the Caduceus EMP weapon early, disabling all other hovercraft in the counterstrike and leaving them helpless as the Machines destroyed each ship. Bane, the only survivor of the disaster, was later found unconscious by the Mjolnir.
In The Matrix Revolutions, when asked about the counterattack disaster, Bane/Smith claimed that he could not remember the incident. This might have been a ruse, but regardless, just before Neo and Trinity left in the hovercraft Logos for the Machine City, Bane/Smith murdered Maggie, a medical crew member of the Hammer, and stowed away on the Logos.
Bane/Smith then attacked Trinity and Neo before they could start the Logos up. During his fight with Neo, Bane/Smith used a power conduit to cauterize Neo's eyes, blinding him. However, because of his powers as The One, Neo discovered that he could 'see' the golden auras of anything or anyone that contained Machine programming. This new ability allowed Neo to see Bane/Smith while he hid in a recessed, pitch-black equipment room on the ship. Neo killed Bane/Smith by beheading him with a large piece of piping.
Cas
Cas (played by Gina Torres) is the widow of the Nebuchadnezzar
Choi and Dujour
Choi (played by Marc Gray) is putatively a "bluepill" who appears in the first movie buying illegal software from Neo, for which Choi pays $2,000 in cash. Choi, his latex-clad girlfriend Dujour (played by Ada Nicodemou) and several unnamed and unspeaking friends arrive at Neo's door just after he had been mysteriously told to "follow the white rabbit". When Neo notices that Dujour has a tattoo of just such a rabbit on the back of her left shoulder, he accepts their offer to go with them to a goth club, where he is approached by Trinity. Going to the club and subsequently waking up late for work the following day set the stage for the rest of the film, though Choi, Dujour, and their friends are never seen or alluded to again.If one listens carefully to what Choi says to Neo (particularly after having seen the film at least once before), it is obvious that almost everything he says foreshadows the rest of the film: "I know. This never happened. You don't exist," and "Hallelujah. You're my savior, man. My own personal Jesus Christ," being especially poignant.
In an early, unused draft of The Matrix Reloaded, Choi and Dujour reappear as redpills who Morpheus enlists to serve on the Nebudchadnezzar[link].
These names would appear to be inspired by French language; "Choi and Dujour" resembles the French phrase "Choix du jour", meaning "Plate of the day!" ( [link])
Cypher
Cypher (played by Joe Pantoliano) appears in The Matrix. He is referred to as "Mr. Reagan" by Agent Smith.
His name can be taken to have many meanings. One is that Cypher is a partial homonym of Lucifer (Lu-"Cypher"), who is known to be Satan, or the Devil in the Christian tradition. Also, a 'cipher' is an algorithm used in encryption, appropriate considering his position as an operator on the Nebuchadnezzar (he, like many on the crew, is able to look at the code screens and see past the encryption).
"Cipher" can also be used in relation to something of no importance[link]. This meaning could be taken to relate to Cypher feeling that he is treated poorly by the others, as if he does not matter, "all I do is what he[Morpheus] tells me to." In addition, it can mean the number zero[link], which can be seen as the opposite of Neo's position as The One.
In the first film of the trilogy, Cypher is one of the rebels from Morpheus' hovercraft, the Nebuchadnezzar. Although he may have been idealistic at first, Cypher has grown tired of the Man/Machine war within the Matrix. Harshly disillusioned by the grim existence living on a hovercraft and tired of following Morpheus and his blind faith of the Prophecy, he soon starts to wish he'd never learned the truth and left the Matrix in the first place. This prompts him to strike a deal with the Agents. At the beginning of the movie, he nearly gets Trinity killed by Agent Smith in successfully proving to the Agents that he, "the informant", was legitimate.
Cypher secretly meets with the Agents once more, agreeing to turn Morpheus over to them if the Agents will return Cypher's body to the Matrix power plant with no knowledge of the Matrix (and rich and famous to boot).
Despite his crush on Trinity, he overcomes this to betray his comrades. He murders Apoc, Switch and Dozer, and attempts to kill Tank, but Tank recovers and kills Cypher.
One of Cypher's most famous quotes from the movie is "Ignorance is bliss", which he utters while speaking with Agent Smith, referring to the state of people inside the Matrix.
\"Ignorance is bliss\"
Cypher's choices in the real world raised a lot of questions for philosophers, such as: would one stay in the harsh real world, or the excellent dream world? This raises a challenge to John Stuart Mill's Utilitarianism assertion that, "It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied."It is likely that, aside from the Satanic reference noted above, that Cypher refers to the computer term of "null" or "zero", suggesting he is an opposite in beliefs to The One (Neo), as stated above.
Original Concept: In one of the early drafts of the script the Wachowski brothers had written Cypher as someone Morpheus had pulled out the Matrix, believing him to be The One. This version illustrates more Cypher's disdain for Morpheus and the Man/Machine war in general.[[Citing sources citation needed]]
Cypher's Legacy: The Cypherites
Although Cypher was killed in the first movie, The Cypherites, an organization depicted in the The Matrix Online, carries on his philosophy: The Truth is an unnecessary nightmare. Their goal is to reinsert all "redpills" into the Matrix power plants. They were recently blamed for an extremist fringe element's plan which involved hijacking various concerts to which resulted in hundreds of Redpills being incapacitated.Dozer
Dozer (played by Anthony Ray Parker) is the pilot of the Nebuchadnezzar, the only hovercraft that appears in the first movie of the Matrix series.
In the movie, both Dozer and his younger brother Tank are said to have been born in the real world, in Zion. Thus, Dozer doesn't have the 'holes' on his body which allow that the other characters connect to The Matrix. He makes moonshine in his spare time; as Cypher describes it: "it's good for two things: de-greasing engines and killing brain cells." Dozer is slain when Cypher betrays the crew of the Nebuchadnezzar.
Dozer was married to Cas and had two young children in Zion. Also living in Zion was his sister Zee. After his death, Zee's husband Link took the job of operator of the Nebuchadnezzar in respect of Dozer's wishes.
Ghost
Ghost (played by Anthony Wong) is the guns specialist of the Logos ship in the video game Enter the Matrix and the feature films The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions.
In [Making 'Enter the Matrix'], Ghost is described by the Wachowski brothers as an "ascetic Buddhist killer". A student of philosophy, he quotes and/or refers to Hume, William James, Nietzsche and especially Kierkegaard. Ghost's name may be a reference to the phrase "ghost in the machine", which describes the concept of mind-body dualism.
Ghost's latest appearance has been in the MMORPG The Matrix Online, where due to copyright issues with Anthony Wong, has been completely shaven of all facial hair.
As seen in Enter the Matrix, Ghost and Trinity refer to each other as brother and sister, as they were unplugged from the Matrix on the same day. Ghost's romantic feelings for Trinity are unrequited, since she is in love with Neo. Ghost serves on the Logos alongside his captain, Niobe, and Operator, Sparks.
Ghost is known to be the best gunner in the fleet, and the best person to have riding shotgun during a car chase. He and Niobe have some of the same parts in the game. They mostly have different sides to the story.
Jue
Jue (voiced by Pamela Segall) appears in the Animatrix film "Final Flight of the Osiris".
She is a crew member of the Osiris, and shares an intimate bond with her superior, Captain Thadeus. Extremely athletic, Jue is the woman who sends the warning to Zion of the approaching Sentinel Army. She was killed seconds after completing this last mission when the Osiris was destroyed by the Sentinel Army.
Kid
-->The Kid (Michael Karl Popper), played by Clayton Watson, is a Zion-dwelling redpill from The Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix Revolutions, and The Animatrix short, "Kid's Story". The philosopher Karl Popper appears to be The Kid's namesake.
In The Animatrix, The Kid is an individual connected to the Matrix, who is aided in his escape from the Matrix by Neo. At the beginning of his story, part of an online conversation he has with Neo is shown and it appears to foreshadow the risk he takes at the end of the short:
- Kid: Somebody tell me. Why it feels more real when I dream than when I am awake. How can I know if my senses are lying?
- Neo: There is some fiction in your truth, and some truth in your fiction. To know the truth, you must risk everything.
- Kid: Who are you? Am I alone?
- Neo: You are not alone.
- (Note: Neo's last response was not shown until the very end of the short, after Neo & Trinity pick him up.)
- Trinity: It's unbelievable. I didn't think self-substantiation was possible.
- Neo: Apparently it is.
Though Neo repeatedly tells Kid (at the end of the short and in Matrix Reloaded), "I didn't save you, you saved yourself," Kid appears to associate the conviction which apparently gave him the strength to self-substantiate, with Neo's guidance. This association leads to his hero worship of Neo (almost to the point of overeager lackeyism), and probably influenced his stated ambition to serve as a crew member aboard the Nebuchadnezzar.
Following the events of The Animatrix, The Kid makes his first live appearance in The Matrix Reloaded. While possessing a minor role at best, his actions in The Matrix Revolutions were integral to the salvation of Zion. During the Machine army siege at the Dock, The Kid piloted the deceased Captain Mifune's APU and, with the help of Zee, destroyed a chain which held an entrance gate closed. With the gate now open(ing), the hovercraft Mjolnir (a.k.a.The Hammer) was able to enter the dock, crash land, and set off its electromagnetic pulse which successfully disabled all the attacking Sentinels and Drillers within the dock.
The Kid's latest appearance has been in The Matrix Comics, vol. 2, released in December 2004 by Burlyman Entertainment (The Wachowski brothers' comic publishing company), in the story entitled "I Kant." The story essentially revolves around Morpheus' (also in his first appearance since the events of The Matrix Revolutions) efforts to see The Kid through the jump program, as he did for Neo in The Matrix. This comic story, though still considered part of the Matrix canon, is not written by the Wachowski Brothers. The Art and Story are by Kaare Andrews, 3D Modeling by Ron Turner, and Color by Dave McCaig.
The Kid is also said to be involved in the MMORPG The Matrix Online, which was released in the US in January 2005, and has been seen in a cutscene dressed in attire nearly identical to that of Neo's "The One" outfit. He since formed the group E Pluribus Neo (From many, One) a splinter group of Zion who are dedicated to Neo's memory, a continuation of his hero worship of Neo. They are deeply opposed to the Cypherite organization and fight against them to ensure that all humans have a right to be free of the Matrix- though their ultimate goals are still a mystery. All members tend to dress similarly to Neo or Trinity, depending on Gender, except Shimada, the second in command.
Link
Link (played by Harold Perrineau) serves as the ship's pilot and operator for the crew of the Zion hovercraft Nebuchadnezzar in the movies The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions.
Link was Zion-born, and was married to Zee. After her brothers Tank and Dozer were killed by the traitor Cypher, Link took over the functions as operator and pilot of the Neb in respect to a promise he made to Dozer, should anything happen to Dozer during his missions aboard the Neb. However, Zee, after "losing two brothers to that ship," feels strongly that Link should find another ship to serve in. She repeatedly tells Link that his Captain Morpheus is crazy and that the Neb spends more time out of Zion that the rest of the fleet, and thus she gets to spend much less time with Link than she'd like. She's also very protective of Link, given what happened to her brothers on the ship he now serves on.
Link did not believe in the religious aspects that Zee believed in (the specific religion is never discussed), but when the Nebuchadnezzar leaves Zion to meet the Oracle (never to return again), Link chose to wear a prayer chain given to him by Zee for luck. "Can't hurt," he says, just as the Hammer races towards the gates of Zion.
Link guided fellow crewmates Neo, Trinity and ship's captain Morpheus while they are jacked into the Matrix. Link sat behind a series of screens that provided the crew weapons, maps, system and ship status, and views of the Matrix code that he could provide or relay to the jacked-in crew.
Link was very competent and skilled as an Operator, but could be very cautious and uneasy. This behavior annoyed Morpheus, who asked Link to instill more trust in what Morpheus asked of him. Part of Link's character development through Reloaded and Revolutions shifts him from initially uneasy to a firm believer not only in Morpheus' leadership abilities but also in the unspecified religion to which Zee is devoted.
With the Nebuchadnezzar destroyed at the end of The Matrix Reloaded, Link becomes a ship's hand on the hovercraft Hammer. After the hovercraft Logos, piloted by Trinity and Neo, left for the Machine City, the Logos captain, Niobe, piloted the Hammer through the narrowest, normally unnavigable tunnels of the underground sewers of the ancient world in an attempt to return home to Zion. Zee aided the Kid in destroying the counterweights of the access doors on the Zion dock, allowing the Hammer to crash land. At that point, Link triggered the EMP weapon on the ship, disabling the first wave of Sentinels and drilling machines that were attacking the city.
Link and Zee were reunited to see the end of the Man/Machine war, thanks to the Neo's successful barter for peace with the Machines.
In The Matrix Online, Link now trains all the newly awakened redpills (players) in various programs before they are allowed to enter the Matrix.
Lock
Commander Jason Lock (played by Harry J. Lennix) is the supreme commander of all military defense forces for the last human city of Zion. His character appears in The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions.
As with most character names in the Matrix saga, Lock's name has some philosophical symbolism. Lock may be named after the philosopher John Locke. Another interpretation is that Lock's behavior is a hindrance to Neo and Morpheus in contrast to characters such as The Keymaker, who help The One in meeting his destiny. In a less allusive sense, Lock's name could be an accurate descriptor of his function, in a sort of metaphorical way of closing doors that The One needs to open. Based on his inability to understand the redpills under his command, he is far more concerned about traditional warfare with the Machines, and therefore he doubts the effectiveness, or perphaps even the competence of the Captains under his command.
Lock is a naturally-born Zion citizen in contrast to redpill inhabitants, particularly his hovercraft crews and their commanders, most of which were Matrix inhabitants. Lock's unfamilarity with the Matrix grounds his views to the unadulterated realities of using any and all resources he can command to evade Machine forces and keep Zion's whereabouts a secret. Notably, Lock is one of the few characters in the films who has a first and last name, thus making him seem more "human" and less connected to the Matrix (most Matrix-born humans use various code names).
Lock's stern command mentality allows little debate. He is at odds with not only the Zion Council when managing the defenses, but with some errant ship captains, especially Captain Morpheus of the hovercraft Nebuchadnezzar. He is generally depicted as a bureaucratic, taciturn, unimaginative, and uncharismatic man who is not highly respected by either his subordinates or by the Council.
As of the beginning of Reloaded, Lock is the mate of Captain Niobe, but by the end of Revolutions the situation changes. Niobe used to be with Morpheus until he met The Oracle and received his life's mission: to find The One. The Matrix saga does not discuss whether marriages exist in the Zion culture, although there is obviously monogamous behavior. The history of Niobe with Morpheus increased tensions between Morpheus and Lock when discussing defense strategy. Morpheus' and the Council's desire to aid The One frustrated Lock, who felt that the limited resources of Zion's defenses would be better used elsewhere. As Zion inhabitants go, Lock was likely one of the least philosophical, furthering his misunderstandings and increasing his friction with the Council. Even Niobe became intolerant of his autocratic views on defense. When the Council asked for two captains to search for the Nebuchadnezzar, only one captain, Soren of the Vigilant, initially volunteered. Lock stated to the Council that he found it hard to believe "any man" would volunteer for such a daring mission. In a move faintly reminiscent of the conflict between the character Éowyn and the Nazgul Witch-king from The Lord of the Rings (which claimed it could not be killed by any man), Captain Niobe of the Logos stands to volunteer.
As the Machines tunneled toward Zion in the latter two movies, Lock devised a strategy where the hovercraft would be scattered in an attempt to use the ship EMP devices in a combined attack to disable most, if not all of the digging machines and Sentinels all at once. However, one of the ships set off their EMP before the other ships could prepare, disabling them. The Machines decimated the helpless ships. Apparently, Bane, who was assimilated by the rogue Smith while in the Matrix and whose body has Smith's consciousness, was the culprit. This act left only the ground forces of Zion to withstand the eventual assault.
Lock activated all of the Armored Personnel Unit (APU) corp, which used large exoskeletal machines with extremely powerful guns on each arm, as well as half of the ground infantry to Zion's defense. It was the digging machines that worried him most as they could penetrate the lower levels of Zion where most of the population would be hiding. If the Machines breeched these levels, Zion's defenseless population would be annihilated. A few citizens volunteered with homemade rocket mortars to destroy the diggers. Link's mate, Zee, was one of the volunteers.
Zion did not have an EMP weapon since using it could disable all of Zion's internal defenses and support systems, so Lock highly depended on the internal guns and the APUs to hold back the 250,000 Sentinels and their digging machines. The battle was pitched from the beginning. The Machines systematically destroyed the local gun turrets and all but destroyed the ground infantry and the APU corps. By the end of the wave of the Machine attack, Zion was ready to fall were it not for the arrival of the hovercraft The Hammer, piloted by Lock's mate, Captain Niobe, who gave her ship, the Logos, to Neo and Trinity in their attempt to reach the Machine City. The Hammer activated their EMP, disabling all Machine forces.
Unfortunately this left Lock with no more offensive options as the EMP disabled what few APUs and turret guns remained in the upper dome of Zion, where the fighting took place. All that Lock could do was to order all forces to withdraw to a bottleneck between the dome and the lower levels of the city and hold off a second wave of Machines using hand weapons.
But just as the second wave of Machines began their attack, they stopped. The reason was a system cease-fire command to the Sentinels from the Machine City. Neo had communicated with the Machine City's collective mind, and bartered for peace between Zion and the Machines, provided that he could stop the imminent crash of the Matrix by eliminating Smith, who would also jeopardize the Machine City itself once he crashed the Matrix, indiscriminately destroying everyone and everything, Machine or Man alike.
Neo was successful. The Machines retreated, and the sixth version of Zion (as it was known to the Machines who had systematically destroyed it five previous times, and to Neo) was spared.
In The Matrix Online, Lock plays an important role for new redpills as they gain reputation for Zion. Among the important things, Lock promotes the redpills to Captain so that they can have their own crew. Other than that, Lock praises the Zion-affiliated redpills a job-well done in pre-recorded messages held by Niobe and Ghost as NPCs.
Nothing is known of Lock's fate after the battle, except that he may have lost Niobe's company when she returned to Morpheus.
Maggie
Maggie (played by Essie Davis) is a crew member on the Mjolnir (aka Hammer). She appears to be the ship's medical officer. She first appears at the end of Reloaded, tending to the unconscious Neo and Bane. While attempting to inject Bane with something to "help him remember" (possibly sodium pentothal), Bane stabs her with a scalpel, killing her, and then makes his escape to the Logos.
Her character is not explained or expounded upon at all, appearing only briefly at the end of Reloaded and the beginning of Revolutions, though, given her name, she may be the only rebel other than Lock to have a real name as opposed to an alias or handle like the rest of the rebels.
Mouse
Mouse (played by Matt Doran) is a crew member of the Nebuchadnezzar in the first movie of the Matrix series.
In the film, The Matrix, Mouse is the youngest crew member of the Nebuchadnezzar and the programmer of the virtual reality training simulation program. One of his stand-out scenes is when he is discussing with Neo if the Nebuchadnezzar's food tastes like "Tastee Wheat" (a brand of cereal, posters of which can be briefly seen in the train stations shown in The Matrix Revolutions), and if the Machines got the taste wrong, and if it tasted like oatmeal or tuna. He is also the creator of The Woman in the Red Dress, which is used as a distraction in the Agent program, part of Neo's training. He is a very eager young man, excited to see the possibility that Neo could be the one to end the war. He also appears to be something of a hedonist, as he offers the Woman in the Red Dress to Neo and later says, "To deny our impulses is to deny the very thing that makes us human."
However, while in the Matrix to take Neo to The Oracle, he is gunned down by police officers working for Agent Smith, when the team is suddenly ambushed by Agents who were sent by Cypher in his ill-fated attempt to betray the crew in order to return his body to the Matrix power plant.
Rhineheart
Mr. Rhineheart (played by David Aston) is Thomas Anderson's boss at the software company Metacortex. He is most likely a bluepill and appears only in The Matrix. Early in the film, in the morning after going to a goth club with Choi and Dujour (following the white rabbit), Neo arrives late at work and has to face his boss. Rhineheart, on a single monologue foreshadows many of the film's yet unrevealed aspects."You have a problem with authority, Mr. Anderson. You believe that you are special, that somehow the rules do not apply to you. Obviously you are mistaken. This company is one of the top software companies in the world because every single employee understands that they are part of a whole. Thus if an employee has a problem, the company has a problem. The time has come to make a choice, Mr. Anderson. Either you choose to be at your desk, on time, from this day forth — or you choose to find yourself another job. Do I make myself clear?"He also bears something of a resemblance to Agent Smith.
Roland
Roland (played by David Roberts) is the captain of the hovercraft Mjolnir aka the Hammer. He appears in the feature films Reloaded, Revolutions and the video games Enter The Matrix and .
Roland is the captain of the biggest hovercraft of the Zion fleet, the Mjolnir (or more easily the Hammer), as the ship's given name is, while in keeping with the theme of Zion's ships being named after objects or figures in various mythologies, difficult for an English speaker to pronounce, hence the ship's nickname. His first appearance is in Reloaded, during the captains' meeting initiated by Niobe in a sewersystem inside the Matrix, but his role there is very small.
In order to surprise the Sentinel-army in a preemptive strike, commander Lock ordered six ships to create a frontline to ambush the machines. Because of the immense size and weight of the Mjolnir, captain Roland and his team arrive 'too late' at the frontline. They discovering there, that an EMP was triggered before they could get into place and that all the ships were crippled, the machines destroyed every human and ship remaining, which turned into a slaughter as Hammer crew member Mauser called it. As soon as the machines were done, they started digging again and Roland made a quick pass to look for survivors. They found only Bane, a crewmember on the Caduceus, who was unconscious but alive.
As their sensors picked up another explosion in the vicinity, the Hammer went to check this out as well, they found a destroyed Nebuchadnezzar, its crew on foot and also an unconscious Neo. Of the three ships that weren't out of Zion by the time of the unsuccessful counter-strike, Roland learned that the Vigilant had been destroyed, but the fate of the Logos was unsure. He ordered a massive search for them in both the Matrix and the Real World. On their way back to Zion they picked up a distress signal from the Logos and then turned back to aid the ship and its crew. Roland found Niobe, Ghost and Sparks unharmed, and the Logos in need of a battery-powered jump start in order to fly again. After this Roland and Niobe created a small faction, the Hammer and the Logos shared crews and resources and traveled both back to Zion.
Roland was very cynical and unwilling, after having seen the carnage wreacked on the other ships, to assist Neo in his request to take one of the ships to Zero-One, ranting about, in his estimation, the imminent destruction of the Hammer, until Niobe freely offered Neo the use of the Logos for his mission.
Roland was the first to understand the true nature of the tragic events which happened before, when he questioned Bane, who had regained consciousness. At first he claimed innocence and amnesia, but after Bane/Smith killed Maggie, Roland understands that it was Bane who triggered the EMP too early. A wide search of his ship showed him that Bane is no longer aboard the Hammer, which was already in flight and bound for Zion, and sought refuge aboard the Logos, which was at that time piloted by Neo and Trinity in the direction of Zero-One. With a possibility that Bane took control of the Logos, Roland was powerless because he didn't want to lose his ship as well. He gave Niobe the helm and they rushed through a small mechanical line straight down to Zion.
At that time the first wave of the Sentinel-army reached the docks of Zion and just in time, the Hammer could gain entrance to the dock, with the help of The Kid and Zee, and upon entering blew its EMP and disabling all of the sentinels for that moment. Roland and the rest of his crew were then considered heroes and the saviors of Zion, but a very frustrated Commander Lock who accused him of "handing over the docks on a silver platter," as the EMP-blast also destroyed Zion's last defenses and the few remaining APUs who were also defending the docks of Zion.
His final appearance is at the 'bottleneck', the entrance to the Zion Temple. Together with Lock, Morpheus and Niobe he is awaiting the second wave of the machines and is preparing himself for battle.
What happened to Roland after the war was over is unknown.
Sparks
Sparks (played by Lachy Hulme) is the operator and general-purpose crewmember of the Logos in the film The Matrix Revolutions and the video game Enter The Matrix. As seen in Enter the Matrix, Sparks serves as the Operator on the Logos alongside his captain and the ship's pilot, Niobe, and weapons expert and first mate Ghost.His sarchastic and irreverent demeanor serve to alleviate the someties tense situations aboard the Logos. It is not stated in any of the movies or the video games whether Sparks was a redpill or was Zion-born. However, it can be theorized That Sparks was pod born based on him calling Ghost (jacked into the Martix at the time)to ask if he died that he could have Ghosts personal processor. Ghost's personal processor was like a mini matrix that acted as a training program that he sparred with Trinity in as Shown in Enter the Matrix
Sparks is known for saying, "And since your lives obviously mean nothing to you, I ask you to try to think of something that does have meaning. Namely, my life."
Similarly-named Sparks of Sealab 2021 fame plays a strikingly similar role.
Spoon Boy and the other potentials
Spoon Boy (played by Rowan Witt) is one of the kids that lived with the Oracle. Spoon boy is based on a character from the matrix comic "Artistic Freedom" He has a clean-shaven head and is dressed in the traditional garb of a Buddhist monk. The kids are all very probably redpills and appear in only The Matrix, although the Spoon Boy is alluded to when he sends a real spoon to Neo in Zion via the Kid in Reloaded, suggesting that he has been freed from the Matrix at some point between The Matrix and Reloaded.Spoon Boy is the only one of the "potentials" with a speaking role.
When Neo is taken for the first time into the Matrix after having been unplugged, he goes with Morpheus to meet the Oracle. Once they get to her apartment Neo is left waiting in a room where some children are manipulating inanimate objects with their minds; they are introduced to him as "the other potentials." One of the kids is bending spoons and gets Neo's attention. He imparts some philosophical statements to Neo, the context of which become clear later in the film.
Spoon Boy: Do not try to bend the spoon; that's impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth.
Neo: What truth?
Spoon Boy: There is no spoon.
Neo: There is no spoon?
Spoon Boy: Then you will see, it is not the spoon that bends, it is only yourself.
Neo then takes one of the boy's spoons, and is able to telekinetically bend it himself, which is symbolic of his slow realization that he is, in fact, The One.
The title "potentials" these kids have leads to the assumption that they have the potential to become the One as well, or at least future freedom fighters for Zion. Although it seems impossible in the philosophy of that film that any of the kids are the next One, in the sequels we are shown that there can be not only one, but several versions of The One.
Switch
Switch (played by Belinda McClory) was a member of the crew of the Nebuchadnezzar in the first film of the Matrix series.
Unlike the mental projections of other crews jacked into the Matrix, who usually wear dark clothes and sunglasses, Switch wore white clothes and yellow, translucent sunglasses.
Switch and Apoc are portrayed as front-line soldiers while inside the Matrix, acting as "point" and "rear guard" in their escape from the Agents and police and providing covering fire as they make their way into the sewers. Switch also pokes fun at Mouse, calling him "the digital pimp". Switch was killed when her mind was forcibly jacked out of the Matrix by Cypher, who betrayed the crew in an attempt to return to the Matrix as a permanent resident himself. Cypher killed Apoc and Dozer before being killed by Tank, the ship's Operator.
Tank
Tank (played by Marcus Chong) appears in the first film of The Matrix series.
Tank was the ship's Operator on board the hovercraft Nebuchadnezzar. Tank's job was to guide crewmembers who were jacked into the Matrix, a virtual computer-generated world set in the late 20th Century. Tank watched over not only the jacked-in crewmembers, but also the ship itself in case the Sentinels, killing machines, detected the ship. Like all Operators, Tank was a skilled programmer who could provide jacked-in crewmembers almost anything they needed and guided them to and from dangerous events within the Matrix.
Unlike their crewmates Apoc, Switch, Mouse, Trinity, Captain Morpheus, and Neo, neither Tank nor his older brother Dozer were grown artificially in the Machine's human harvest fields for insertion in the Matrix powerplant, but born in the real world, in Zion, the last human city. As a result, Tank and Dozer don't have the various jacks and connectors in their bodies as the other humans who once lived within the Matrix.
Tank was tending to the remaining crewmembers when Agents and police attacked them after their return from The Oracle. Tank was able to retrieve Cypher, but as he tried to retrieve the remaining crew, Cypher shot and severely injured Tank with a plasma gun and then killed Dozer. Cypher was able to kill Apoc and Switch by removing their jacks from their bodies, forcibly disconnecting their minds from the Matrix. Before Cypher could kill Neo and Trinity, Tank regained consciousness and killed Cypher. Tank was able to resume his duties to aid Trinity and Neo in rescuing Morpheus from a military-secured building, and to witness Neo's transformation into The One.
Tank died of unknown causes, possibly related to the abdominal injuries he suffered at the hands of Cypher, shortly after the events in The Matrix but before the events in the sequel, The Matrix Reloaded. The character's duties as ship's Operator was handed over to Link, who is married to Tank and Dozer's sister, Zee.
The demise of the character was reportedly due to actor Marcus Chong's salary demands and conflicts with the Wachowski brothers, the writers and creators of the Matrix series, leading to him being fired.[[Citing sources citation needed]]
Thadeus
Thadeus (voiced by Kevin Michael Richardson) is the captain of the hovercraft Osiris, the subject of the Animatrix short film Final Flight of the Osiris. He is involved in an intimate relationship with Jue, an officer aboard the Osiris. He and Jue are dueling in a training program when the Osiris receives an incoming sentinel alert. They exit the training program and hesitantly bring the ship up to the planet's surface, where they witness a Machine army massing. The ship is quickly spotted and attacked. In the final minutes before the ship is destroyed, Thadeus plugs Jue into the Matrix to deliver a message to Zion about the massing Machine army. He and the rest of the ship's crew are killed when the sentinels destroy the ship.
Zee
Zee (played by Nona Gaye) appears in The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions.
Zee is a native Zionite who experienced the pain of losing her brothers Dozer and Tank (from the original Matrix film), both of whom were killed while serving aboard the Nebuchadnezzar. Unbeknownst to her, Zee's husband Link had a pact with Dozer that he would take over as Operator on the Neb should anything happen to Dozer. It's a constant thorn in the side of their marriage, with Zee demanding that Link switch to another ship, and Link refusing to break his promise to his wife's deceased brother. Ultimately, Zee supports her husband's decision, and even takes up arms in the defence of Zion against the invading Machine army (as shown in Revolutions), attempting to stop the diggers with shoulder-mounted bazookas. She and another Zionite, Charra (Rachel Blackman), form a loader-gunner team (with Zee as the loader, and Charra as the trigger). Charra is killed while attempting to flee from a pack of Sentinels, although Zee narrowly manages to escape. Zee is also the sister-in-law of Cas, who was Dozer's wife.
Zee is an adherent to an unspecified religion, in contrast to her irreligious husband Link. As such, she gives Link a charm necklace before he departs Zion with the Neb; he wears it ("Couldn't hurt," he says) during the climactic flight back to Zion during Revolutions, and it is implied that he too becomes involved with Zee's religion.
The role of Zee was originally given to singer/actress Aaliyah, who died in a plane crash on August 25th, 2001, before she could complete shooting her part for The Matrix Revolutions. Many actresses were named as potential [replacements], including Alicia Silverstone, Eva Mendes, Samantha Mumba, Brandy Norwood and Tatyana Ali. Ali actress Nona Gaye was named as Aaliyah's replacement in [April 2002]. Gaye was [nominated] for an NAACP Image Award along with co-star Jada Pinkett Smith for the role of Niobe.
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