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Many fictional characters appear in the Matrix series. This article is intended to be a comprehensive list of all the secondary human characters; for the non-human characters refer to the List of programs and machines in the Matrix series.

Many of the characters listed here have names reflecting certain aspects of them, such as their status, personality or role. A detailed description may be found at The Matrix character names.

Apoc

Apoc is played by Julian Arahanga in The Matrix
and a crew member of the Nebuchadnezzar.

Apoc 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 covering fire as they make their way into the sewers. Apoc also assists Tank in locating Neo inside the Power Plant. Cypher murdered Apoc by pulling his Matrix jack out of his head while Apoc was connected to the Matrix.

In earlier drafts of the script for The Matrix, it was related that Apoc was the creator of the "Four Horsemen virus." His name "Apoc" is probably short for "Apocalypse" as in, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

Bane

Bane was a human crew member of the Zion hovercraft Caduceus in the films The Matrix Reloaded
and The Matrix Revolutions
. Bane was played by actor Ian Bliss. Bliss was cast by the Wachowski Brothers because they saw him do an impression of Hugo Weaving, the actor who plays Agent Smith, and partly because Bliss somewhat resembles Weaving. The name Bane also means "nemesis", or "deadly poison".

Being pursued, and after helping a fellow crewmember jack out of the Matrix with a message from The Oracle, Bane was attacked by a clone of Smith, now a dangerous, viral rogue program that was hell-bent on copying himself into everyone in the Matrix in his effort to destroy everything as well as his nemesis, Neo.

Bane's mind was overwritten, in effect, by Smith. When the Caduceus operator called to allow Bane to jack out, it was the Bane/Smith assimilated mind that left the Matrix. Bane's body in the real world possessed the dominant 'consciousness' of Smith. Now with an existence in the real world, Smith easily went about the world of Zion using Bane's body as a disguise. Bane/Smith was obsessed with the sensations of an actual human body, and proceeded to mutilate himself with a knife to experience what human pain felt like. He attempted to stab Neo shortly after awakening in the real world, but was interrupted by the Kid, who came to see Neo on his way.

While Bane/Smith was initially unsuccessful in convincing the captain of the Caduceus to join in the Zion Council's search for the hovercraft Nebuchadnezzar, Bane/Smith later created disaster by sabotaging the Zion counterattack against the burrowing Machine forces by blowing the Caduceus EMP weapon early, disabling all other hovercraft in the counterstrike and leaving them helpless as the Machines destroyed each ship. Bane, the only survivor of the disaster, was later found unconscious by the Hammer.

In The Matrix Revolutions
, when asked about the counterattack disaster, Bane/Smith said that he could not remember the incident. Later, just before Neo and Trinity left in the hovercraft Logos for the Machine City, Bane/Smith murdered Maggie, a medical crew member of the Hammer, and stowed away on the Logos.

Bane/Smith later attacked Trinity and Neo. In the fight with Neo, Bane/Smith used a power conduit to cauterize Neo's eyes, blinding him. However, because of his limited real-world powers as The One, Neo discovered that he could 'see' the golden auras of anything or anyone that contained Machine programming. This new ability allowed Neo to find Bane/Smith while he hid in a recessed, pitch-black equipment room on the ship. Neo smashed Bane/Smith's head with a pipe to end Smith's actions in the real world.

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