

This disabled many of the other hovercraft in the counterstrike, just before the Machines hit their front line.

This murder attempt is aborted as Neo's attention was drawn in his direction by the approach of Kid, who came to see Neo.Īfter he was unsuccessful in convincing Ballard, captain of the Caduceus to join in the Zion Council's search for the hovercraft Nebuchadnezzar, Bane/Smith later sabotaged the Zion counterattack against the burrowing Machine forces by prematurely triggering the EMP on the Caduceus. During his time in Zion, Bane/Smith is shown cutting himself with a knife (thereby experiencing human pain for the first time) and later approaching Neo in an attempt to stab him before he can board the Nebuchadnezzar and leave Zion. Now present in the real world, Smith walked among the citizens of Zion. See also: Agent Smith#The Matrix Revolutionsīane's mind was overwritten by Smith when the Caduceus operator called to take Bane out of the Matrix, Smith came instead. While waiting to leave the Matrix with a message from The Oracle, Bane was attacked by Smith, now a dangerous, viral rogue program that was bent on destroying both humans and the machines using his cloning ability. The word "bane" also means "sorrow", "nemesis", "deadly poison", or "killer of". Bliss was cast by the Wachowski Sisters because they saw him do an impersonation of Hugo Weaving, the actor who plays Agent Smith and because Bliss partly resembles Weaving.

(October 2010)īane (played by Ian Bliss) was a crew member of the Zion hovercraft Caduceus in the films The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions. Ballard was among the hovercraft crews assigned to defend Zion and was killed by Bane.ĭoes not cite any references or sources. The crew of the Caduceus eventually made it back to Zion and gave the message to Neo.īallard, being unaware of Bane's strange behavior, was at one point urged by Bane to volunteer the crew for the mission to look for the Nebuchadnezzar, only to tell Bane to shut up. Shortly after the fight, Ballard met with the Oracle to retrieve her message. As Ballard stayed behind, he was eventually contacted and challenged to a fight by Seraph. During the Captain's meeting in Reloaded, Ballard volunteers to stay behind during the massive recall of all hovercrafts to Zion in order to await a message from The Oracle. In the Matrix Reloaded, Arahanga can be seen in one of the first establishing shots of Zion, as a machine operator who flashes quickly by the camera.Ĭaptain Ballard (played by Roy Jones Jr.), was the captain of the Zion hovercraft Caduceus in the film The Matrix Reloaded and the video game Enter the Matrix. Cypher murders Apoc by pulling his jack out of his head while Apoc is connected to the Matrix. He and Switch are portrayed as front-line soldiers while inside the Matrix, acting as "point" and "rear guard" in their escape from the Agents and police and laying down covering fire as they make their way into the sewers. It is a truth that could cost Neo something more precious than his life.Apoc (played by Julian Arahanga) is a crew member of the Nebuchadnezzar in The Matrix.Īpoc drives Neo to his meeting with Morpheus, and assists Tank in locating Neo inside the Power Plant. They fight a brutal battle for their lives against a cadre of viciously intelligent secret agents. Neo (Keanu Reeves) believes that Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne), an elusive figure considered to be the most dangerous man alive, can answer his question - What is the Matrix? Neo is contacted by Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss), a beautiful stranger who leads him into an underworld where he meets Morpheus.
