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"Mature Content Warning!" |
| “ | Mr. Anderson! | „ |
| ~ Agent Smith whenever he sees Neo, his most famous quote. |
| “ | I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species and I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment, but you humans do not. You move to an area and you... multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet; you are a plague and we are the cure. | „ |
| ~ Agent Smith, as he interrogates Morpheus. |
| “ | Oh, no, no, no. No, it's not fair... | „ |
| ~ Agent Smith's last words before being temporarily deleted. |
Agent Smith is the main antagonist of the The Matrix film series. He appears as the main antagonist of both the 1999 science-fiction action film The Matrix and its 2003 threequel The Matrix Revolutions, the central antagonist of its 2003 sequel The Matrix Reloaded and the secondary antagonist of it 2021 fourquel The Matrix Resurrections. He also appears as a posthumous antagonist in the 2005 spin-off video game The Matrix Online,
He is the prime arch-nemesis of Neo, the trilogy's protagonist. In the first movie, Smith was the leader of a group of sentient programs known as Agents, whose functions were to protect the Matrix by rooting out and eliminating threats to the Matrix, such as Redpills and Exiles. In the second and third films, Smith becomes a computer virus replicating across the Matrix, hijacking the system and seeking to exterminate both the Machines and the Humans from the face of the planet.
In the original trilogy, he was portrayed by Hugo Weaving, who also voiced Megatron in the first three Transformers films. In the fourth film, he was portrayed by Jonathan Groff.
His Evil Ranking[]
What Makes Him Close to Being Pure Evil?[]
- He helped the machines track down any redpills and exiles defying the Matrix system.
- He forced a tracking bug into Neo's stomach, an act which inflicted great pain and distress upon the latter.
- He sadistically tortured Morpheus after beating him into exhaustion and kidnapping him.
- He gunned down Neo painfully, nearly killing him.
- He assimilated the entire population of the Matrix and took over its system, and had it not been for intervention by Neo and the Machines, the Matrix would have been destroyed and the billions of people and programs connected to it would have been killed.
- He sought to destroy Zion, a city with a population of around 250,000 free humans.
- He assimilated Sati, who was simply just an innocent child.
- He displayed conceptual awareness not seen in most other programs and chose to commit atrocities, thinking human beings to be a plague and life to have no purpose but to end.
- Upon regaining his memories after his temporal deletion, he tried to kill Neo again by shooting at him.
- He ambushed Neo, Bugs and her crew with the Exiles led by the Merovingian and trid to defeat Neo in a fight again just to not ruin his "freedom".
- Although he joined forces with Neo to defeat The Analyst and refused to harm him and Trinity once The Analyst is rendered no longer a threat, he likely did so out of pragmatism because he didn't want to be Neo's "caretaker" anymore, as he stated that his alliance with Neo was over and could very well try to attack him again in the future.
What Prevents Him from Being Pure Evil?[]
- He seems to have mellowed out sixty years after his defeat due to admitting to liking the new Matrix where Neo and Trinity live and to enjoy his new form.
- Even though he's very set in his goals and has an "take no prisoners" demeanor, he does have some sense of honoring a deal and is open to making alliances out of necessity, even making a temporary one with Neo and Trinity to defeat The Analyst.
Trivia[]
- Agent Smith is the only villain in The Matrix series to be Near Pure Evil.
- However, his The LEGO Batman Movie and Space Jam: A New Legacy versions both cannot qualify for Near Pure Evil since the two are light-hearted, played for laughs and not taken seriously. This also applies to his The Matrix Has You and The Matrix Still Has You version, who was also played for laughs.
External Links[]
- Agent Smith on the Villains Wiki
- Agent Smith on the Matrix Wiki
- Agent Smith on the Warner Bros. Entertainment Wiki
- Agent Smith on the Wikipedia
