What REALLY Happened to Agent Smith? | MATRIX EXPLAINED

some big points of discussion before the Matrix resurrections was released or how agent Smith came back and why he had a new body we know why it's simple Hugo weaving couldn't spare the time to play Smith but how was that going to be explained in the movie to our surprise the new agent Smith ended up helping Neo in his fight against the analyst but what if this myth was not the same one from the original movies as we originally thought welcome to Matrix explained welcome to the desert of the real throughout the original trilogy and the most recent installment we have witnessed the evolution of one of the franchise's most iconic and complex characters agent Smith however who we saw in Matrix resurrections could be a different character than the evil Smith from the OG Trilogy let's go all the way back to the first installment and see how Smith evolved as a character in the first film agent Smith was introduced as a program created by the machines to maintain control and stability in The Matrix as the film progressed Smith demonstrated much contempt for Humanity and a strong desire to escape the matrix his main goal was to eliminate human Rebels such as Neo Morpheus and Trinity who threatened the stability of the system he also needed the Zion codes to destroy the last human City but Smith was part of a bigger play and he didn't know it at the time Smith only fulfills one of his objectives after he kills Mr Anderson foreign Smith was vital to the emergence of the anomaly if Smith hadn't pushed Neil to the extreme if he hadn't kidnapped Morpheus and ultimately cornered Neo and shot him dead Neo wouldn't have become the one understanding that this was the path that Neo was supposed to go through we can assume that Smith fulfilled his purpose he thought that he was doing what he needed to do to escape the matrix's control and be freed from Humanity yet he was just being used to activate the anomaly's code the anomaly is an emergent quality in the code found inside Neo this quality allows him to have Supernatural Powers inside and outside the Matrix Smith was a key player and while he may have thought he was rebelling against his creators he was simply a pawn a means to an end and Expendable when Neo destroys Smith in The Matrix he unwillingly copies part of the anomaly's code into Smith giving the agent his emergent abilities and qualities now Smith could replicate Neo's abilities but he also had a feel of his own I don't fully understand how it happened perhaps some part of you imprinted onto me something overwritten or copied because of you changed I'm unplugged a new man so to speak like you apparently free congratulations thank you Smith becomes the out of control version of the anomaly that can spread and infect Both Worlds his actions are exactly what many people today fear with language models artificial intelligence that manages to obtain emergent qualities and possibly escape and spread through the internet Neo is the cure for the Smith virus and he sacrifices himself to remove it from the equation the balance of the Matrix was re-established and Smith was no more while that is until Matrix resurrections came along in the fourth film in The Saga Smith returned played by another actor Jonathan Gruff instead of being the main protagonist Gruff Smith as I call him plays a more ambiguous role millions of people just living out their lives oblivious [Music] I always loved that line you wrote that one yeah it is not entirely clear how Smith came back which gives us plenty of room to theorize his true origin we think that Gruff Smith is not the same character Hugo weaving played in the classic Trilogy just like young Morpheus is not the same Morpheus we believe that this new Smith was created by the True Villain of the movie the program called the analyst resurrected Smith to keep an eye on Neo and make sure that he couldn't escape the matrix again Gruff Smith was also used to psychologically torment Neo as we saw when this character was talking to Neo about making a new video game that triggers Neo and he is then sent to see the psychiatrist as the fourth movie progresses Gruff Smith expresses hatred for the analyst for using and controlling him but he still also Harbors resentment towards niho yet in a shocking Twist of events Smith helps Neo and Trinity defeat their Mutual enemy the Analyst at the end of the film Smith's fate is left in the air but it is hinted that his involvement in defeating the analyst might have granted him a measure of Freedom this raises the possibility that Smith's character could continue to evolve if there are any future Matrix installments but we think that this was all a facade in our previous video we explained that Neo and Trinity were put through multiple simulations in an attempt to reactivate the anomaly but the analyst couldn't pull it off he tried several times until he realized that the way to activate the anomaly was to unite Trinity with Neo but we think that the activation of the code goes much deeper than that we believe that it does not only require Trinity it also requires recreating other elements such as Neil's Escape into the real world and his rivalry with agent Smith these elements are extremely important for the activation of the anomalies code as the analyst mentioned the way he gathered energy from Neo and Trinity was by subjecting them to multiple simulations making them suffer and taking advantage of their emotions the analyst is a parasite a vampire that feeds off of human emotions also as mentioned in our previous video there is a possibility that Neo and Trinity from Matrix resurrections are not real they are not the same humans who died at the end of Matrix Revolutions they are reconstructions their personalities are much different than their predecessors we believe that the analyst built this couple for his version of The Matrix simulation if we look at things that way then it all makes sense Gruff Smith is not the real Smith he would be a new version created to manipulate and activate the anomaly Thomas Anderson would have to go through the same conflicts all over again which includes fighting agent Smith and escaping to the real world by then the code is activated and the analyst can use it proof that this could be fact is when Gruff Smith is having a conversation with the video game creator Thomas Neo then shows up in the psychiatrist's office as if it was all connected we think that the gruff Smith Neo and young Morpheus are artificial in intelligence created to discover and pretend to be the original characters to once again activate the anomaly's code that Neo carries within him so is it then that everything we saw was fake there might be one character that is real in this entire movie and that is the Merovingian but we'll talk about that in another video the analyst devised such a complicated plan that ultimately worked for him in the end Thomas Anderson now believes that he is Neo and that Smith is not the real enemy though they did go through the torture of experiencing multiple simulations you know the difference between us Tom anyone could have been you or as I've always been anyone FYI something that we forgot to add in our previous video is that when the analyst mentions the multiple simulations he also says that Neo's skin looks good this time call me an optimist but this could all be for the best skins not looking too bad this time this statement shows that Neo has been through multiple simulations with the analyst in the end maybe we didn't see what actually became of the Matrix world how interesting would it be to have another movie with Gruff Smith discovering that he was created only to activate the anomaly's code again but that you agree what could have happened to agent Smith after Matrix resurrections for Matrix explained please leave a like And subscribe and thank you for visiting the desert of the real the day-to-day routine can feel like an endless cycle waking 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Length: 9min 42sec (582 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 21 2023