List of minor characters in the Matrix series

From The Black Vault Encyclopedia Project

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.

Contents 1 Apoc 2 Bane 3 Cas 4 Choi and Dujour 5 Cypher 5.1 Meeting the Agents 5.2 "Ignorance is bliss" 5.3 The Matrix Online 6 Dozer 7 Ghost 8 Jue 9 Kid 10 Link 11 Lock 12 Maggie 13 Mouse 14 Niobe 15 Rhineheart 16 Roland 17 Sparks 18 Spoon Boy and the potentials 19 Switch 20 Tank 21 Zee 22 Copyright

Apoc

Apoc is played by Julian Arahanga in The Matrix and a crew member of the Nebuchadnezzar.

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 related 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 was a human crew member of the Zion hovercraft Caduceus in the films The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions. Bane was played by actor Ian Bliss. Bliss was cast by the Wachowski Brothers because they saw him do an impression of Hugo Weaving, the actor who plays Agent Smith, and partly because Bliss somewhat resembles Weaving. The name Bane also means "nemesis", or "deadly poison".

Being pursued, and after helping a fellow crewmember 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, in effect, by Smith. When the Caduceus operator called to allow Bane to jack out, it was the Bane/Smith assimilated mind that left the Matrix. Bane's body in the real world possessed the dominant 'consciousness' of Smith. Now with an existence in the real world, Smith easily went about the world of Zion using Bane's body as a disguise. Bane/Smith was obsessed with the sensations of an actual human body, and proceeded to mutilate himself with a knife to experience what human pain felt like. He attempted to stab Neo shortly after awakening in the real world, 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 Hammer.

In The Matrix Revolutions, when asked about the counterattack disaster, Bane/Smith said that he could not remember the incident. Later, 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 later attacked Trinity and Neo. In the fight with Neo, Bane/Smith used a power conduit to cauterize Neo's eyes, blinding him. However, because of his limited real-world 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 find Bane/Smith while he hid in a recessed, pitch-black equipment room on the ship. Neo decapitated Bane/Smith with a pipe to end Smith's actions in the real world.

Cas

Cas (played by Gina Torres) is the widow of the Nebuchadnezzar's former pilot Dozer. She lives in Zion with their two young children. She also spends time with her sister-in-law Zee, and maintains friendly rapport with Zee's husband Link.

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 $20,000 in cash. Choi, his latex-clad girlfriend Dujour (Ada Nicodemu) 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, 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[1].

Theses names are obviously inspired by French language: "Choi and Dujour" resembles the French phrase "Choix du jour", meaning "Plate of the day! (Template:Fr [2])

Cypher

Cypher, referred to as "Mr. Reagan" by Agent Smith, appears in The Matrix, where he is played by Joe Pantoliano.

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[3]. 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 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.

Meeting the Agents

It is believed that it normally takes at least two people to jack into the Matrix from a hovercraft (one crew member and one Operator), how did Cypher communicate to the Agents without being caught by his fellow crewmates?

A logical solution that answers the above question revolves around the fact that we do not fully understand the additional functions of the "jack-in chair" and the Operator console. The likely answer was that Cypher was indeed jacked in to the Matrix during his conversation with Smith.

As was seen during Neo's use of the chair for the first time in "The Matrix", there is a pause between insertion of the data-needle and the pressing of the "LOAD" button by Tank. Further, at the end of the sequence, Neo can be heard saying, "Get this thing out of me" referring once again to the data-needle still in his skull. This implies that merely inserting the data-needle does not automatically link a person to the Matrix (film events later show that premature removal of a data-needle from a mind linked within the Matrix will result in death). An Operator may control when the data-needle is active, whether before or after it is inserted, and could do so by the console's computer control.

Cypher may have been programming the console to automatically activate the data-needle at a certain time to jack himself in, and to auto-dial a hardline to extract himself.

"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 Plato's Seventh Letter 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).

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.

The Matrix Online

Although killed in the first movie, his memory lives on in The Matrix Online. He has his own organization, The Cypherites (not yet available for players to join), who share his philosophy: Ignorance is bliss. Their goal is to reinsert all "redpills" into the Matrix power plants. Thier latest plan involved hijacking verious concerts to this end in which hundreds of Redpills were incapaciated.

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 (voice 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) is a Zion-dwelling redpill from The Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix Revolutions, and The Animatrix short, "Kid's Story". The Kid's full name can be seen as an allusion to the philosopher Karl Popper. The role is played by Clayton Watson.

In The Animatrix, The Kid is an individual connected to the Matrix who is brought to see the truth by Neo. His circumstance is peculiar in that he unplugs himself from the Matrix by purposely falling from the top of his school building. How he is able to survive this fall is never fully addressed, aside from the following comments from Neo and Trinity, taking place directly after they have retrieved The Kid from the real-world power plant:

Trinity: It's unbelievable. I didn't think self-substantiation was possible.

Neo: Apparently it is.

Due to The Kid's "awakening," orchestrated by Neo, he indulges in hero worship of Neo, almost to the point of overeager lackeyism, and his ultimate ambition is 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 (with but a few lines of unimportant dialogue—though his handing of the spoon to Neo could signify something greater), his actions in The Matrix Revolutions were integral to the salvation of Zion. During the final battle 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 actor 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 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. He was played by Harry J. Lennix.

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.

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, unimaginative, and uncharismatic man who is not highly respected by either his subordinates or the Council.

As of the beginning of Reloaded, Lock is the mate of 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, even sexist 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, countering Lock's sexist comment.

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 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 Mjolnir (referred to as '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 to the Machine City and bartered for peace for 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, destroying all sentients, Machine or Man alike.

Neo was successful. The Machines retreated, and the 6th version of Zion (as it was known to the Machines who had systematically destroyed it five previous times) 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.

Niobe

Niobe (played by actress Jada Pinkett Smith) is the captain of the Logos in the video game Enter the Matrix and the two feature films The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions.

Niobe also appears in the MMORPG The Matrix Online. In the game, however, Niobe's character voicing is portrayed by actress Gina Torres. Torres portrayed the minor Zion character "Cass" (friend of Zee, the mate of Link, operator of the hovercraft Nebuchadnezzar) in The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions. Torres is the wife of actor Laurence Fishburne, who portrays Morpheus in the Matrix canon.

Niobe is a human from Zion, being one of the rebels participating in the war against the Machines and the Matrix. She is the captain and pilot of a Zion hovercraft, the Logos, the smallest ship in the human fleet with a crew of only three: herself, weapons expert and First Mate Ghost, and Operator Sparks.

Within the virtual world of the Matrix, Niobe is one of Zion's most gifted martial artists. She has "killed" at least one Agent, survived multiple encounters with the Merovingian's superhuman thugs, faced Seraph in one-on-one combat, and even managed to survive and escape from a confrontation with the replicating entity Smith.

In the real world, she is the most skilled pilot among the rebel forces. She demonstrates this on several occasions. In one scene during The Matrix Revolutions, she maneuvered the hovercraft Hammer through the narrow, cluttered passage of a mechanical line - a feat no other pilot has successfully performed.

Niobe was once romantically involved with Morpheus, but their relationship broke apart after Morpheus received his revelations from the Oracle and started to preach the prophecy of the One (a prophecy Niobe has never truly believed in). After breaking up with Morpheus, Niobe eventually becomes involved with Commander Jason Lock, a stern, practical man who is in many ways the exact opposite of Morpheus. Both Persephone and The Oracle insinuate that Niobe is still in love with Morpheus when they confront her in Enter the Matrix.

At the end of The Matrix Revolutions, as the retreating Machine army obliged the new peace bartered by Neo, Niobe is seen embracing Morpheus, perhaps an indication of a renewal of their romance. (One reference in the Special Features also intimates that they have gotten back together.)

Niobe has so far played a minor role in The Matrix Online. When the Red-Eyed Agents appeared, she made a speech to the Zionite redpills in the ensuing race for Neo's digital remains, which had been blown into fragments. She claimed that Zion's progress was pathetic and they had to step up their efforts. (The Merovingian sect was the eventual victor.) Before the General made an alliance with Niobe, Niobe was busy avenging Morpheus's death by trying to find more information about the Assassin. She eventually got into a battle with a last remaining copy of the Assassin post-Death Of A Destroyer and was wounded, but got saved by a random redpill. A new character, the General, has appeared; Niobe recently made an alliance with him to defeat the Merovingian.

In January of 2004, Pinkett-Smith was nominated for an NAACP Image Award for the role of Niobe. Fellow cast member Nona Gaye also received a nod for her portrayal of Zee. [4]

Rhineheart

Mr. Rhineheart 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 a new job. Do I make myself clear?"

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 The Matrix: Path of Neo.

Roland is the captain of the biggest hovercraft of the Zion fleet, called 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 pilot of the Logos in the film The Matrix Revolutions. His sarcastic and irreverent demeanor serve to alleviate the sometimes tense situations aboard the Logos. It is not stated in any of the movies or video games whether Sparks is a redpill or was Zion-born.

As seen in the video game Enter the Matrix, Sparks serves as the Operator on the Logos alongside his captain, Niobe, and weapons expert and first mate Ghost.

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 potentials

The Spoon Boy (played by Rowan Witt) is one of the kids that lived with the Oracle. 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 is done so 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 becomes 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, that 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, the husband of 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.

Zee

Zee, played by actress Nona Gaye, appears in the last two films of The Matrix Trilogy.

Zee is a human-born Zionite who experienced the pain of losing her brothers Dozer and Tank (from the original Matrix film) killed on the Nebuchadnezzar. Unbeknownst to her, Zee's husband Link had a pact with Dozer that he would take over 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 siege on Zion (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 triggerwoman), though Charra is killed while attempting to flee from a pack of Sentinels, which Zee narrowly escapes. Zee is also the sister-in-law of Cas, who was Dozer's wife.

The role of Zee was originally given to singer/actress Aaliyah, who died in a plane crash on August 25th, 2001. She was replaced by Gaye, who was nominated for an NAACP Image Award along with co-star Jada Pinkett Smith for the role of Niobe.[5] The role was initially a toss-up after Aaliyah's death, with Gaye, Eva Mendes, Samantha Mumba, Brandy Norwood and Tatyana Ali all considered, and Gaye winning out in the end.[6]

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