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| “ | Here's the thing about feelings. They're so much easier to control than facts. Turns out, in my Matrix, the worse we treat you, the more we manipulate you, the more energy you produce. It's nuts. I've been setting productivity records every year since I took over. And, the best part - zero resistance. People stay in their pods, happier than pigs in sh-t. The key to it all? You. And her. Quietly yearning for what you don't have, while dreading losing what you do. For 99.9% of your race, that is the definition of reality. Desire and fear, baby. | „ |
| ~ The Analyst explaining how his Matrix works. |
The Analyst is the main antagonist of the 2021 science-fantasy action film, The Matrix Resurrections, the fourth installment of The Matrix franchise.
He is a manipulative program who poses as a therapist to Thomas Anderson, Neo's civil identity, in a new Matrix years after the Machine War. It later turns out that the Analyst is the one in charge of the new Matrix, having replaced The Architect a long time ago and rising to power during the Machine Civil War, and keeps Neo and Trinity alive so he can use their thoughts and emotions to sustain the new Matrix.
He was portrayed by Neil Patrick Harris who also played Lowell Sloane in Dexter: Resurrection.
What Makes Him Pure Evil?[]
- He had Neo and Trinity resurrected after their deaths following the end of the Machine War so he could create a new Matrix in his research to understand the human psyche, subjecting them to a painful resurrection process to do so just so he could "study" them.
- Plugged Neo and Trinity back into the Matrix and gave them new identities and roles they didn't really feel comfortable with, having Neo re-adopt his previous identity as Thomas Anderson and turning him into a video game developer (who created a video game trilogy based on his real adventures in and out of the Matrix) and having Trinity adopt a new identity as a woman named Tiffany with a husband and three kids.
- By resurrecting Neo, he also resurrected Agent Smith, the Agent program who nearly destroyed the Matrix, Zion, and Machine City. While this was inevitable due to Smith's bond to Neo, the Analyst took a great risk, as Smith was able to recover his memories easily despite being given a new identity, but ultimately did nothing due to growing to like his freedom within the system.
- It should also be noted that, thanks to knowing deep inside that he was inside the Matrix in spite of his brainwashed state, Neo became suicidal and once attempted to jump off a building to his death, but the Analyst prevented him from doing so.
- Seized power from The Architect due to feeling that the Architect's Matrix was too "mathematical" and that feelings were easier to manipulate than facts, likely deleting the Architect in the process.
- Instituted a program purge to reboot the old Matrix into his new version, resulting in the deletion of The Oracle, the Agents, and many other programs, including Rama Kandra and his wife Kamala, despite Rama Kandra helping him to design the resurrection pods he used to resurrect Neo and Trinity, leaving their daughter Sati an orphaned program.
- Some old programs, like the Merovingian and some of his Exiles henchmen, survived his purge but were rendered homeless and as former shadows of what they used to be.
- Created a new Matrix modeled after the 21st century so he could control bluepill humans with social media and pop culture, allowing them to believe what they wanted to believe to keep them in the Matrix forever.
- Replaced the Agents with Bots, new programs who were programmed to obey his orders and pose and live as bluepill humans, so he could summon them whenever he needed assistance.
- Posed as Neo's therapist and subscribed him blue pills to keep him docile and prevent him from thinking too much about what could be reality.
- Froze Neo and Trinity in bullet time to explain his plans to Neo and gloat at his machinations after Neo rediscovered the truth thanks to Bugs and her resistance crew.
- Devised a plan to have Neo return to his perpetual imprisonment by striking a deal with him that if Neo failed to make Trinity remember her past life and the truth about the Matrix, he would return to his pod. When Neo seemingly failed to do so, the Analyst laughed at him due to his apparent victory.
- What's worse is that when Trinity remembers her past, she kills her husband Chad, who turns out to be one of the Analyst's Bots, but it's hinted by Trinity that her three children were bluepills, leading her to call the Analyst out later on for using innocent children, to whom she doesn't really feel any attachment, in his scheme. Showing that he could take away children from their own biological parents for his own plans.
- Tried to kill Trinity upon realizing that he had lost.
- To stop Neo and Trinity from escaping his Matrix, he summoned all his Bots to throw themselves off buildings to their deaths in a mass suicide attack, not caring about the bluepills who were with Bots, surely traumatizing them in the process.
- His nefarious actions were even enough to lead Agent Smith, Neo's former arch-enemy who nearly destroyed the Matrix in the past, to make a truce with Neo and save him from the Analyst, if only because the Analyst threatened to take Smith's freedom away.
- While he seemingly cares about his cat, Deja Vu, it's heavily implied that the cat acts as sort of his control board for the Matrix, seeing as he had little control over The Matrix without it. Meaning he only cared for it out of pragmatism.
- Despite being an AI, The Analyst has moral agency, as he is shown to fully understand the human mind and how to manipulate it, setting him apart from the other machines in the series.
- Despite having some comedic moments, none of them detract him from his heinousness.
Trivia[]
- The Analyst is, alongside Miguel Bain, Adam Sutler, Peter Creedy, Lewis Prothero, and Lord Ozunu, one of the six Wachowskis villains to be Pure Evil.
- The Analyst is one of two villains from The Matrix to be Pure Evil, the other being Cypher Reagan from the original trilogy, as well as Neil Patrick Harris' first Pure Evil villain.
External Links[]
- The Analyst on the Villains Wiki.
- The Analyst on the Matrix Wiki.
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