Agent Smith

Agent Smith is the main antagonist in the 1999 action film The Matrix and its sequels, a villain in Meta-Verse Arcs 1-9 and is a prominent character in World Protection Security Agency, who is the secondary main antagonist of the series. After being initially destroyed by an agent called Neo, he became an Exile program and manifested as a computer virus. In the WPSA stories, when he is later given an opportunity to join in with another evil organization called Umbrella Corporation by another A.I. known as Red Queen, Smith later becomes one of Red Queen's lieutenants.

## Appearance

The manner in which Smith speaks is similar to that of the late Carl Sagan. There are also noticeable pauses at odd places in his sentences. Oddly, he doesn't really use this manner of speaking when he tells Sati he is "not such a bad guy" (perhaps to convince her he is not intimidating).

Agent Smith's weapon of choice, as standard for all Agents of the Matrix, is the notably large Desert Eagle Chambered in .50 AE (Action Express). He retains this weapon even after being unplugged, as demonstrated by how he and his clones used the gun(s) in an attempt to kill Morpheus, Neo, and the Keymaker, ultimately succeeding with the latter before the door was closed, though he very rarely uses it. Unlike others, Smith always refers to Neo as "Mr. Anderson.", except in the final battle Smith is visibly confused and doesn't know he used the name Neo, and to a lesser extent when interacting with Corrupt in order to deliver to Neo a message (which was more to ensure the package was delivered due to the name "Mr. Anderson" not meaning anything for the Resistance members). This may be to discourage Neo from the concept of his freedom from the Matrix, although it may simply be an aspect of Smith's personality.

## Personality

On the surface, Smith appears polite, professional, and merely serving his purpose as an Agent of the system but as the movies progress this is revealed to be a facade to hide the resentful, self-serving monster within.

It is notable that when interrogating Morpheus, Smith sends his colleagues from the room and then he removes his glasses as a sign of "getting personal", then removes his earpiece, severing his communication with his fellow Agents, before expressing his opinion of both humanity and the Matrix. Having removed his earpiece, he missed information about Neo and Trinity breaking into their building.

Smith states with palpable bitterness that he despises the Matrix and its inhabitants due to the smell, though this is unlikely to be literal. More to the point, Smith expresses a strong hatred of humans and their weakness of the flesh, expressing a stronger dislike for humans than the general apathy displayed by other Agents. He even compares 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 as the other agents were in the room at the time he said this, he may have just been reiterating his fellow agents' general apathy towards humans while toning down his own excessive hatred of them in their presence). He also grudgingly acknowledged during his final battle with Neo that only humans could conceive of love, unlike machines and programs, during his rant to Neo. Despite his extreme hatred of humans, however, he was at least pragmatic enough to avoid having bluepills undergo major casualties beyond what was necessary to his goals, as he claimed he ordered a police lieutenant to have his unit not confront Trinity until after the Agents arrived for the police's protection. Ironically, Smith himself later manifests as a self-replicating virus that spreads throughout the Matrix, his only stated purpose being to destroy the world he inhabits.

During Morpheus' interrogation, Smith also states that he secretly despises the Matrix itself, which he labels a "zoo", and is desperate to escape from it, feeling that he is as much a prisoner as the humans he is tasked with policing. His seemingly personal hatred of humans clashes with his Agent counterparts, who view humanity with apathy. He later develops an immense desire for the destruction of both mankind and machines alike, and it is stated by the Oracle that Smith's ultimate desire is the destruction of all of existence.

Smith appears to function as the leader of his Agent colleagues and possesses the authority to launch Sentinel attacks in the Real World. Unlike other Agents, Smith does not approach problems purely pragmatically, but rather with brute force and apparent rage. However, he is still capable of cunning, able to predict the actions of his quarry and counter them.

This is supported by the fact that, while Brown tried to chase Trinity across the rooftops and ultimately failed to capture her, Smith tracked her movements and took control of the driver of a garbage truck near Trinity's exit, only failing to kill her by a very narrow margin. He also demonstrates this ability in the climax when he abandons chasing Neo as soon as he draws near the Heart O' The City Hotel. After escaping Brown and Jones, Neo enters room 303 only to be shot and killed by Smith, who appeared to have taken control of a person living in that room.

Besides his hatred for Neo, he also harbors a great deal of hatred and resentment toward Trinity for her knack of managing to avoid his attempts to kill her at the last possible second. He later vocalized this hatred and his reasons for it when ambushing Trinity while using the body of Bane.

Smith was also shown to be nihilistic, as evidenced by his speeches to Neo in *The Matrix Revolutions* and his revelation that the purpose of all life is "to end" during his final battle with Neo. Hints of his nihilism were also demonstrated in their meeting in *Reloaded*, when he implicitly compared the concepts of reason and purpose to an inescapable prison.

He was also possibly a masochist which was brought on by him never truly feeling pain in The Matrix and as such when he inhabited himself into the body of Bane he began to cut himself. Smith also seems to have sadistic tendencies, as evidenced by his admission that he watched Neo die with a certain amount of satisfaction and the way he brutally beat up Morpheus in the bathroom fight. Smith, at least after his being "unplugged", was also shown to have a very dark sense of humor. This was demonstrated twice: The first time when he proceeded to copy over the Resistance member Bane just as he was about to jack out of the Matrix, where he replied to Bane's horrified "Oh, God...!" as he was being copied over with "Smith shall suffice" in faux-humbleness. The second time was when Oracle, immediately before being copied over by Smith, demanded to know what the rogue agent program did to Sati, prompting a Smith clone (heavily implied to have been created from Sati's being copied over) to cruelly echo her trademark phrase of "Cookies need love like everyone does." Smith's gradual "humanization" is a process that mirrored and balanced Neo's own increasing power and understanding of the machine world.

## Powers

**AS AN AGENT**

As an Agent of the Matrix, Smith had all the standard abilities that came with his programming. the powers included:

* Superhuman strength.
* Able to leap enormous heights and distances.
* Super fast speed which allowed him to dodge bullets and attack very quickly.
* Able to possess any bluepill.
* Reality Warping, he was able to change the form of Neo's mouth (Although he may have simply issued the command to other machines to change the code for Neo's RSI rather than having the ability to do it himself).

**AS AN EXILE**

As a result of Neo destroying him, Smith became an Exile "unplugged" from the system though he still contained most of his standard Agent abilities with the exception of possessing bluepills.

* Superhuman strength.
* Able to leap enormous heights and distances.
* Can replicate himself by stabbing his hand into the person's RSI whether human (including redpills) or programs (including Agents) and convert their data.
* Weather alteration, presumably from absorbing Sati's program, as implied by his asking Neo if he liked "what he had done to [Mega City]" shortly before their final battle, which was currently undergoing a torrential storm.
* After transforming the Oracle into a Smith clone, Smith powers were now equal to the powers the One wields, which included the ability to fly. In addition, he also had Oracle's foresight, as made clear by his confirming to Neo that this fight will indeed be their last fight, to the extent that he won't even require his clones to back him up to beat Neo.

It is unknown whether he retained his ability to dodge bullets, although his reaction to Morpheus's threat implied that by that time, regardless of whether he possessed the ability, he no longer needed it.