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In the movies The Matrix Reloaded
and The Matrix Revolutions
, Persephone (played by Monica Bellucci) is the wife of The Merovingian. She is disaffected from her husband due to his philandering. She is attracted to Neo and offers to help him if he kisses her with the same passion with which he has kissed Trinity. Reluctantly, he complies, and she helps him free The Keymaker.

Persephone also encounters and takes a kiss from both Niobe and Ghost (depending on whose story you follow) in the video game Enter The Matrix. Based on this behavior, as well as her encounter with Neo in The Matrix Reloaded, some fans have speculated that Persephone is some sort of empathic vampire who samples the feelings of others by forcing them to redirect their passion toward her.

In The Matrix Revolutions, Persephone is seen briefly and warns The Merovingian that Trinity would indeed kill everyone in Club Hel to free her love, Neo, from the Train Station. She apparently bases this on the strong feelings she felt from Neo's kiss alone.

The character takes her name from the Persephone in Greek mythology, who is the daughter of Zeus and Demeter whom Hades took to the underworld to be his queen. There are allusions throughout the movie that The Merovingian works in the Matrix as an analogue to Hades, including his presence in Club Hel, his unhappy marriage to Persephone and his existence as one of the oldest beings in the Matrix universe, and specifically the one in charge of "lost souls."

Uncertain Fate

There is no clear indication as to what became of Persephone and her co-horts in the Matrix Revolutions. Many fans presume them to be dead. However, some fans believe that Persephone, her husband the Merovingian, the Trainman, and his other acolytes were absorbed by Smith not long after she and her husband revealed to Morpheus and Trinity Neo's location in the Mobil Avenue Station and were subsquently freed after Neo destroyed Smith for the second time. This, however, can neither be confirmed or debunked as the Wachowski Brothers have not elaborated on that particular subject, although she and her husband are apparently in the MMO game The Matrix Online.

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