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Morpheus is the name of a fictional character (played by Laurence Fishburne) in the science fiction films, The Matrix
, The Matrix Reloaded
, and The Matrix Revolutions
.

The Dreamer of Dreams

Morpheus was the captain of the Nebuchadnezzar, a hovercraft of the human forces of the last human city, Zion, in a devastated world where most humans are grown by sentient Machines and kept imprisoned in the Matrix, a virtual computer-generated world. Morpheus was once a human living inside the Matrix until he was freed earlier in life. The name he may have had while a human in the Matrix is not known.

Morpheus is apparently a very popular public figure in the city of Zion. He is also known in the Matrix, but as a dangerous terrorist wanted by Agents (who are actually sentient programs that patrol the Matrix, eliminating any human that is a threat to the secret of the Matrix or dispatching programs that exile themselves in the Matrix to avoid their deletion).

Like other hovercraft crews, Morpheus and his crew are dedicated to the freeing of humans from the Matrix and the protection of Zion.

Finding The One

Earlier in his life, Morpheus gained the romantic attention of Niobe, another hovercraft captain. That relationship became estranged shortly after Morpheus visited The Oracle, an ally living in the Matrix who appeared as an old black woman. The Oracle could foretell the future, and she told Morpheus that he would be the person who would find The One, a human with superhuman abilities within the Matrix and who could end the Man/Machine War. Since that visit, Morpheus spent much of his life searching the Matrix for The One.

In the first feature film, The Matrix, Morpheus successfully found and monitored a pod-human named Thomas A. Anderson, a computer hacker who called himself Neo. Despite a close call with Agents that captured, interrogated, and placed a surveillance device on Neo, Morpheus and his crew located Neo. Morpheus offered Neo a choice of ingesting a red pill, which would activate a trace program to help Neo discover the truth of the Matrix, or a blue pill, which would leave Neo in the Matrix to live and believe what he wanted to believe. The Nebuchadnezzar crew were able to eject Neo's body from the Matrix powerplant and retrieve him from the cold sewers where hovercrafts patrol. Morpheus took a risk in helping Neo escape the Matrix, as human minds that live too long in the Matrix may have trouble in comprehending the real world and the truth of the Matrix. Initially, Neo did experience serious denial when Morpheus explained the truth, a point for which Morpheus apologized.

The Prophecy begins

Shortly after Neo first visited the Oracle, Morpheus was captured and interrogated by Agents after a crew member, Cypher, betrayed the crew, killing several members before being stopped. Since Morpheus, as a hovercraft captain, possessed access codes to the Zion mainframe computer, the surviving members of the ship's crew were about to unplug Morpheus from the Matrix without the ability to retrieve his mind or his body, a process that would kill him. However, Neo had his own foretelling from the Oracle that told him that either Morpheus or Neo would die, but that he had the choice to save himself or Morpheus. Neo and Trinity reentered the Matrix and made a daring but successful rescue of Morpheus. Neo saved Trinity from a helicopter crash, confirming Morpheus' belief that Neo was indeed The One of legend.

Neo was eventually killed by Agent Smith shortly after the rescue, but reawakened as The One and returned to the Nebuchadnezzar before Sentinels could destroy the ship.

The Dream is gone from him

In the second film, The Matrix Reloaded, the viewer sees Morpheus more confident than ever that the war is nearing its end. A spiritual as well as an influential leader, Morpheus convinces one hovercraft ship to stay in the Matrix to await contact from the Oracle, despite orders from Zion for all ships to return to the city. He incurs the wrath of Jason Lock, commander of the Zion defensive forces, but Morpheus' actions are easily defended by Councillor Hamann, a member of the Zion Council, the city's ruling body.

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Movies - Morpheus

The Dreamer of Dreams

Finding The One

The Prophecy begins

The Dream is gone from him

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