Talk:Agent (The Matrix)

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The recent refinements on this page are very impressive.

Contents 1 0.50AE 2 Death and Bleeding 3 The Garbage Truck 4 Agent Gibson 5 Strange allegation 6 Other Agents - Agent Pace, Red-Eyed and N30 Agents 7 Affliations 8 Fair use rationale for Image:Matrix Agents (Second Generaton).jpg 9 Smith, Jones, and Brown

[edit] 0.50AE

Someone keeps changing the ammo type used by the Agents from .357 to .50 AE...the DE .50 AE mags are 7 rounds. Several times the Agents are demonstrated to have 9 round mags...therefore indicating .357 ammo.

Well, no, actually. The muzzles shown are definitely closer to .50 size then .357 size. Also, the slow-mo cut of Smith firing his second round into Neo's chest at the end of the film quite clearly shows a blank round with a rebated rim, something unique to .50 AE and .440 Cor-Bon. It's not .440, which is bottlenecked and likely wasn't even available at the time of production, so it must be .50 caliber after all.

Magazine capacity counts for nothing inside the Matrix; guns only run dry when it serves to futher the plot. By my count, Smith shot Neo eleven times in Room 303 and still wasn't empty at the end of it. Not even a .357 Desert Eagle can do that in real life. BobBQ 06:05, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

Trivia Removed.

Weapon calibres and details on the NATO specifications of the Minigun in Matrix - 1999 removed.

neither useful for the reader or remotely relevant to the article.

Duttman 11:36:46, 16 February 2008 UTC

[edit] Death and Bleeding

Based on information from the game The Matrix Online, an Agent can be destroyed. Note information on that page about an Agent named Skinner. We have not known any Agent in the movies, other game or Animatrix sources to be destroyed, including Smith, whose body was destroyed by Neo, but not his code, which reformed to create the viral sociopath of the Agent. Based on information in other Matrix related pages, Wikipedia editors at this time consider such non-movie materials as canon.

In The Matrix Reloaded, during the highway fight scene between Morpheus and an Agent, Morpheus grazes the Agent's face with a katana, causing a laceration on the Agent's face that does bleed, though not profusely. Obviously, given the magnitude of damage that Agents generally take when fighting Zion operatives, such damage to an Agent is unusual. It could be presumed that Agents are more designed to withstand bludgeoning damage such as from fists, kicks, or clubbing, than from projectile, slashing, or piercing attacks. This makes sense since an Agent's body--including his skin--must still follow some level of rules in terms of the artificial physics of the Matrix. Spencerian 00:16, 15 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] The Garbage Truck

After re-watching The Matrix last night, I think something is wrong on the page. Unless i'm rather mistaken, the garbage truck was driven by Agent Smith, not Agent Brown. --J Assassin 06:49, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Agent Gibson

Agent Gibson was the second taken over by agent Sith not the Firest.

[edit] Strange allegation

This is in the article: "(Zion rebels broadcasting from hovercrafts are not susceptible to possession, most probably due to the wireless nature of their connection)".

But if this is true, how can Smith posses Blane in Matrix Reloaded? The wireless nature of the red pills' connections doesn't seem to have any relevance to this.

Smith is a virus by this time, which can infiltrate anything. Hence his ability to create copy after copy after copy. Ggctuk 12:35, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Other Agents - Agent Pace, Red-Eyed and N30 Agents

Could they actually come under this? They are labelled as Agents, after all. And there is probably some info on them on the MxO site or from players. And what about Agent Pace, the first female Agent?

Can we also get a picture of Agents Gray and Pace?

Ggctuk 08:56, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

Pictures —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 67.72.98.116 (talk) 08:54, 18 December 2006 (UTC).

[edit] Affliations

Would be nice if someone could add a bit about their apparent affliations with government agencies such as the Swat teams. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 218.102.104.196 (talk) 14:32, 28 March 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Matrix Agents (Second Generaton).jpg

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BetacommandBot (talk) 14:38, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Smith, Jones, and Brown

The names of the agents in the first movie seem to be an allusion to the original Gettier problem. Should this be mentioned in the article?--Grammar Vigilante (talk) 22:02, 27 March 2008 (UTC)