By the end of The Matrix Revolutions Neo had "integrated" all rejection of the Matrix -- he was the only Zion operative left in the Matrix, and all the other humans in the Matrix had been captured by Smith.
This is why the Matrix would not have simply been rebooted if Neo had been absorbed earlier e. But since Neo had "integrated" all rejection by the end of The Matrix Revolutions , by destroying Neo, Smith fulfilled his purpose and in doing so lost his purpose. Of course, this is not fair:. Smith didn't play by the rules after his first defeat because he still had a purpose. But he makes it clear how important purpose is to him, and without his purpose he has no choice but to choose deletion.
This is also why all the Smiths explode instead of just Neo-Smith -- the Machines killed Neo from Machine City and in doing so killed Neo-Smith, but by itself this doesn't explain why all the other Smiths were destroyed. However, all the Smiths lost their purpose and all chose deletion. On another level, Smith acquires the properties of the people and programs he controls such as the Oracle. Thus, Smith also acquired Neo's choice to die when he absorbed Neo.
In that sense, it was necessary for him to absorb Neo. With that said, why didn't Smith realize that absorbing Neo would be his downfall and simply not absorb him especially since Smith now has the eyes of the Oracle? The obvious answer is that to do so would be to deny his purpose, which Smith cannot do. But there's also a deeper answer. Remember what else the Oracle said:. Even though Smith has the eyes of the Oracle, he can't understand Neo's choice to die and therefore he can't see his own destruction past Neo's choice.
Agent Smith and Neo are polar opposites of each other. Smith represents inevitability, uniformity, destiny. Neo represents free will, individuality, choice. The simple answer is: they cancel each other out. In Reloaded, Smith monologues about his resurrection, telling Neo that he knew he was supposed to die, but felt compelled not to.
Smith: Our connection. I don't fully understand how it happened. Perhaps some part of you imprinted onto me, something overwritten or copied. That is at this point irrelevant, what matters is that whatever happened, happened for a reason.
Smith: I killed you, Mister Anderson, I watched you die With a certain satisfaction, I might add, and then something happened. Something that I knew was impossible, but it happened anyway. You destroyed me, Mister Anderson. I was compelled to stay, compelled to disobey. And now here I stand because of you, Mister Anderson, because of you I'm no longer an agent of the system, because of you I've changed - I'm unplugged - a new man, so to speak, like you, apparently free.
He glosses over the details, but the conclusion is the same. Smith now only exists for one reason: to defeat Neo. Literally, and ideologically. Smith: Thank you. But as you well know, appearances can be deceiving, which brings me back to the reason why we're here. We're not here because we're free, we're here because we're not free. Smith: We're here because of you, Mister Anderson, we're here to take from you what you tried to take from us. Smith: Can you feel it Mr.
I'm closing in on you. Oh, I can. I really should thank you for it After all it was your life that taught me the purpose of all life. The purpose of life is to end. At the same time, he assimilates all the inhabitants of the Matrix, adding their viewpoints and abilities to himself. He absorbs the Oracle, allowing him to foresee the future.
He absorbs and overwrites Bane, allowing him to walk in the real world. But Smith isn't really a living person. He's a virus. His ideology is to destroy, to enact the inevitable. It is literally impossible for him to understand the ideas of hope, or choice, or free will; everything The One embodies. Smith: Why, Mr. Anderson, why? Why do you do it? Why get up? Why keep fighting? Do you believe you're fighting for something, for more than your survival?
Can you tell me what it is? Do you even know? Is it freedom, or truth, perhaps peace? Could it be for love? Illusions, Mr. Anderson, vagaries of perception, temporary constructs of a feeble human intellect trying desperately to justify an existence that is without meaning or purpose. And all of them as artificial as the Matrix itself. Only a human mind can invent something as insipid as love. You must be able to see it, Mr. Anderson, you must know it by now.
You can't win, it is pointless to keep fighting. Why, Mr. Anderson, why, why you persist? When Neo allows Smith to assimilate him, the two contrasting ideologies can't coexist in one entity. The Smith virus breaks down, and is purged from the Matrix. Neo offered the leader of Machine City to fight Smith for him. After a extended fight Neo finally comes to the right conclusion that he cannot defeat Smith. While it is not explicitly said, Neo decided to sacrifice his life and use Smith ability to clone himself against him.
So Neo so I suppose gave the leader of the Machine City the subconscious message "Once Smith has absorbed me, kill me! Smith was invincible before because he exists only inside the Matrix and there he really is God-like. But the attack from a human being outside the Matrix meant that Smith can in fact clone himself on beings outside the matrix. That may Neo give the idea that you can do that in reverse and connect Smith permanently with an outside being, making him vulnerable. Smith is a computer program with a particular purpose to serve within the Matrix.
When programs die in the Matrix—as the Keymaker does, for example—they are deleted because they have fulfilled their purpose. His program evolves or becomes corrupted, and increasingly Smith finds himself at odds with the Matrix world, where all the other Agents remain at ease. He is a program, but somehow he also demonstrates an evolution of character and purpose. Hugo Weaving portrays Smith as a confused, complex entity. Smith is a program, but he also seems to possess human qualities.
We see his desperation, for example, when he faces the Oracle and tries to figure out what she knows and how she knows it. Initially, Smith is smug, slow, and methodical in his questions, assured that whatever programs he is a part of will run smoothly. We use cookies and other tracking technologies to improve your browsing experience on our site, show personalized content and targeted ads, analyze site traffic, and understand where our audiences come from.
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While en route to the city, Neo and Trinity are ambushed by Bane, a human resistance fighter assimilated by Agent Smith during the events of The Matrix Reloaded. Neo fights Bane, and in the process is blinded by an exposed power cable during the scuffle.
The Logos manages to make it into the city, but Trinity is fatally wounded upon arrival, leaving Neo on his own. Neo meets with the machine leader, proposing a truce between the humans and the machines on the condition of defeating their mutual enemy, Agent Smith, who poses an immediate threat to both the Matrix and the Real World. Neo ultimately defeats Agent Smith, but his fate is left up to question; we see his body cradled on a hovering barge which subsequently carries him into the Machine City.
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