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The Matrix franchise

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The Matrix saga tells of a war between the Resistance and a race of sentient Machines who imprisoned humanity within a virtual reality known as the Matrix. The films center on The One, a man gifted with special abilities and an important destiny. Woven throughout the main story of the Matrix are various threads of background stories that cut across different mediums, including the films as well as comics, video games, and an animated anthology series.

Beyond the surface of its story, The Matrix is rich in explorations and allusions to various questions in philosophy, theology, psychology, sociology, politics, and computer science.

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The One, also known as the Prime Program, is a systemic feature of the Matrix wherein a special code is carried by a randomly selected human being. This person is then gifted vast superhuman abilities as an avatar within the Matrix, which sometimes manifests as extraordinary powers in the real world. The special code has the function to collectively attach, to the person that carries it, all of the anomalies which emanate from the few humans who continue to reject the Matrix. This essentially makes The One an "Integral Anomaly" or the SUM of all anomalies.

The mechanisms by which The One appears are rather simple and arranged in the Prime Program process: when the anomalies in the Matrix reach a certain threshold and begin to pose serious problems, a random human is selected by the machines to be born with a special code (the Integral Anomaly) that, as said before, ties and attaches all of the anomalies within the Matrix to the programming of this human. The Oracle, who is aware of The One's existence and purpose because it is her duty to guide humanity to find The One, will enlighten him to his true nature and lead him towards the Source where he fulfills his purpose of reinserting the Prime Program and resetting the Matrix. She does this by predicting the return of The One to the people of Zion to aid them in freeing humanity from the Machines' grip. The Architect, as creator of the Matrix, is also well aware of The One's existence and purpose, referring to The One as an "eventuality".

Essentially, the purpose of The One is to ensure the stability of the Matrix through containing the anomalies in one individual rather than letting them spread throughout the system.

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Karma's a word. Like 'love'. A way of saying 'what I am here to do'. I do not resent my karma – I'm grateful for it. Grateful for my wonderful wife, for my beautiful daughter. They are gifts. And so I do what I must do to honor them.
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― Rama Kandra to Neo in Mobil Avenue

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The Origins of the "One", His Functions and Powers
by Fernando Navarro Robuschi/Tut1991

This essay is a recollection of all we know (and don't know) about the being known as "The Chosen One" (within the context of “The Prophecy"), and as the "Integral Anomaly" by those who know the truth about him/her. It is meant to answer questions such as:

-Is “the One” chosen by the machines? Or is he the byproduct of the anomalies within the matrix?

-Is he granted his powers on purpose by the machines? If so, how? Or does he have them as a result of being an integral anomaly? Or perhaps is the code he carries that which gives him/her his/her powers?

-What is the nature of the code “the One” carries? Where does it come from? What does it do?

Please note this essay is not intended for those unfamiliar with “The Matrix” original trilogy of films, but instead for those who already saw the original matrix trilogy and know the basics of what I’m going to explain.

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