Neo (born as Thomas A. Anderson, also known as The One, an anagram for "Neo") is the protagonist of the Matrix franchise. He was portrayed as a cybercriminal and computer programmer by Keanu Reeves in The Matrix Trilogy, as well as having a cameo in The Animatrix short film Kid's Story.
The protagonist of the trilogy, a hacker who eventually liberates humanity from the Matrix. Soft-spoken and reclusive, Neo is initially confused when he is torn out of the Matrix by strangers.
Keanu Reeves as Neo: A computer programmer, born Thomas A. Anderson, who secretly operates as a hacker named Neo. Reeves described his character as someone who felt that something was wrong, and was searching for Morpheus and the truth to break free.
Neo (born as Thomas A. Anderson, also known as The One, an anagram for Neo) is a fictional character and the protagonist of The Matrix franchise, created by the Wachowskis.
Scaling Neo's power is easier when comparing Keanu Reeves' character to Agent Smith. Before fully awakening his potential, Neo is soundly beaten by the Agent, but overtakes the enemy program after evolving into The One.
Cypher (born Reagan) was a redpill assigned to the Zion hovercraft Nebuchadnezzar under the command of Morpheus. He also betrayed the crew of the Nebuchadnezzar to aid Agent Smith and help him acquire information about the Zion mainframe.
In the first Matrix film, Morpheus explains that Neo's "body" is a digital construct created by his mind known as a "residual self-image," rather than an actual flesh-and-blood human body.
Neo was the “chosen one” both figuratively and in-universe, but the way the Matrix movies deal with the idea of a predestinated hero is quite different from other popular stories like Star Wars. In The Matrix, being The One meant that Neo could perceive the Matrix simulation in a way that no other human could.
Because he chose the red pill, Neo became aware for the first time of the oppressive, parasitic nature of the Matrix. We too live inside a matrix, and the hegemonic power of the matrix has only strengthened since September 11, 2001. Lies are repeated until they are accepted as truth.
Arthur Cayley is the father of matrices. He was a great mathematician. Arthur Cayley was born on 16th August 1821. It was in 1858 that Arthur Cayley published the theoretical definition of the matrix in his Memoir on the Theory of Matrices.
While later films make it clear that Neo is arguably the most powerful being within the Matrix, initially at least, Morpheus is able to beat him in a fistfight.
Switch, an androgynous character, was meant to be played by a woman in the matrix and by a man in the real world, hence the name “Switch,” co-director Lilly Wachowski, who is a transgender woman, said in an interview last year. “The corporate world wasn't ready for it,” she said at the time.
The Deus Ex Machina was the leader of the Machines, holding a hatred towards humankind for their arrogant nature and using the Machines as their own slaves. As such, the Deus Ex Machina created an empire where the Machines would rule over the world and subject humankind to slavery.
The Architect was a program created by the Machines following their victory over humanity in the Machine War. Due to the loss of the sun, the Machines turned to the human body as an abundant energy source, devising a way to accomplish this through experimenting on prisoners of war.
In addition to Neo's general ability to manipulate aspects of the Matrix, perhaps his most notable power is being able to dodge bullets, although being able to fly is certainly up there as well. Neo is also telekinetic in general, able to move objects with his mind.
Neo and Trinity's daughter in The Matrix is named "Sati." She is introduced in The Matrix Revolutions as a program created by Rama-Kandra, a program in the service of the Merovingian. Sati is portrayed as a young girl with the ability to manipulate the Matrix through her coding abilities.
Morpheus tells of the original “the One,” the first person to wake from the Matrix. Because they were the first, they necessarily broke out on their own. Nearly everyone in Zion can trace their freedom directly back to that first mental prison break.
At the end of the first movie in The Matrix trilogy, Neo is seemingly killed after an intense fight with Hugo Weaving's Agent Smith, a program created by the machines to police and control the Matrix.
Morpheus's crew travel into and out of the Matrix through phone lines. Neo cannot handle the immensity of the reality he was faced with; he proceeds to throw up and pass out.
Agent Smith is a former Agent of the Matrix. After initially being destroyed by Neo, he became an Exile and manifested as a computer virus with the uncanny ability to copy himself over the minds of Bluepills, Redpills and programs alike.
Realising what he has to do, Neo chooses to be assimilated by Smith – allowing Neo (and Deus Ex Machina) to destroy him from the inside, exploding all the Smiths as they glow with pure white Source light. A happy ending, then – or not quite, since the effort of it all kills Neo.
