It is shown that the Red Pills of Io are able to use mirrors to not only enter and exit the Matrix, but also as fast travel portals between two locations inside the Matrix.
Also, the version of the Matrix we see in the original trilogy is perpetually set in the 90s. The phone are kept as part of the design because letting the Red Pills escape the Matrix helps the stability of the rest of the system. They are basically letting the people who resist exile themselves, and every now and then they roll out bug fixes to reduce the amount of outliers.
The mirrors work as in-Matrix point to point portals?
I thought the only thing close to that is… the ‘maintenance hallways’, the certain specific literal doors that work as portals only with specific keys.
To the best of my memory, a mirror as a point to point portal doesn’t happen in the OT, nor the Animatrix.
That also didn’t even happen in MxO, the Matrix Online, to the best of my memory… though the canonicity of all that is now essentially… either totally disregarded, or exceptionally complicated.
The rest of what you’ve said is basically correct… but… I do not recall any instance in the OT era stuff of using a Red Pill / Mirror to travel within the Matrix.
MxO handled that by using Pay Phones and I think a few special landline phones as basically fast travel points/hubs.
Is there… an offical comic I’m missing, maybe?
Am I not remembering this happening in Matrix 4?
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Also uh, potentially worth mentioning…
A Red Pill / mirror is not actually strictly required to exit the Matrix, as per the Animatrix and I think some other canon.
A few individuals, the Kid, the sprinter from World Record…
…they believe so strongly that… their world is not real, that they are not bound by its rules… that they actually ‘self-substantiate’…
…they pull themself out of the Matrix, or… cause their local experience of it to crash, w/e, and they then wake up in the pod.
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Also also, what the Red Pill actually does is act as a traceroute to your actual, physical location in the real world, so you can be recovered by a hovership crew.
Its just that red vs blue pill is also used in a less literal, more colloquial sense to refer to those ready to leave the Matrix, vs those who are not.
The mirror thing is exclusive to the Analyst’s version of the Matrix that we see in Resurrections. “Io” is their new home after Zion was destroyed. When I say “Red Pill” I’m taking about individuals that have woken up from the Matrix. People who refused the red pill are nicknamed Blue Pills for obvious reasons, and those that are unaware they are in the Matrix are referred to as Copper Tops.
I wasn’t referring to Neo’s experience of exiting the Matrix for the first time. I think there was an interview with one of the Wachowskis that implied the liquid mirror was just Neo’s reality bending experience. Other people may experience different types of hallucinations, and even other people in the room may not see what their hallucination is. They are probably just observed to fade out into code like when they use a telephone.
The mirror thing is exclusive to the Analyst’s version of the Matrix that we see in Resurrections. “Io” is their new home after Zion was destroyed.
Ah!
Ok, ok, that makes sense… I have not committed the 4th movie to memory anywhere near as much as I have with the OT era stuff.
I think there was an interview with one of the Wachowskis that implied the liquid mirror was just Neo’s reality bending experience. Other people may experience different types of hallucinations, and even other people in the room may not see what their hallucination is. They are probably just observed to fade out into code like when they use a telephone.
I remember that as well, and I agree that your minor extraploation at the end seems likely.
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I appreciate you expanding on the details I forgot =P
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Though I would add that the Animatrix shows that the uh, exiting the Matrix phenomenon… may be different for self-substantiators… the Kid is reported as dead after his ‘leap of faith’.
IIRC, there are scenes of an actual funeral? His parents mourn him as dead? Its a whole local news phenomenon that he ‘suicided’?
It could be that his uh… Matrix-physical? body did not evaporate into code…
…or it could be that the Matrix / the Agents executed an elaborate coverup, that the Kid’s ‘body’ did ‘code evaporate’, and they just whipped up a doppleganger body and gaslit/intimidated the hell out of any witnesses of the body ‘evaporating’, faked all the media coverage, etc.
It is shown that the Red Pills of Io are able to use mirrors to not only enter and exit the Matrix, but also as fast travel portals between two locations inside the Matrix.
Also, the version of the Matrix we see in the original trilogy is perpetually set in the 90s. The phone are kept as part of the design because letting the Red Pills escape the Matrix helps the stability of the rest of the system. They are basically letting the people who resist exile themselves, and every now and then they roll out bug fixes to reduce the amount of outliers.
the exiters evaporate themselves from the cup that is the matrix
Wait, what?
The mirrors work as in-Matrix point to point portals?
I thought the only thing close to that is… the ‘maintenance hallways’, the certain specific literal doors that work as portals only with specific keys.
To the best of my memory, a mirror as a point to point portal doesn’t happen in the OT, nor the Animatrix.
That also didn’t even happen in MxO, the Matrix Online, to the best of my memory… though the canonicity of all that is now essentially… either totally disregarded, or exceptionally complicated.
The rest of what you’ve said is basically correct… but… I do not recall any instance in the OT era stuff of using a Red Pill / Mirror to travel within the Matrix.
MxO handled that by using Pay Phones and I think a few special landline phones as basically fast travel points/hubs.
Is there… an offical comic I’m missing, maybe?
Am I not remembering this happening in Matrix 4?
…
Also uh, potentially worth mentioning…
A Red Pill / mirror is not actually strictly required to exit the Matrix, as per the Animatrix and I think some other canon.
A few individuals, the Kid, the sprinter from World Record…
…they believe so strongly that… their world is not real, that they are not bound by its rules… that they actually ‘self-substantiate’…
…they pull themself out of the Matrix, or… cause their local experience of it to crash, w/e, and they then wake up in the pod.
…
Also also, what the Red Pill actually does is act as a traceroute to your actual, physical location in the real world, so you can be recovered by a hovership crew.
Its just that red vs blue pill is also used in a less literal, more colloquial sense to refer to those ready to leave the Matrix, vs those who are not.
The mirror thing is exclusive to the Analyst’s version of the Matrix that we see in Resurrections. “Io” is their new home after Zion was destroyed. When I say “Red Pill” I’m taking about individuals that have woken up from the Matrix. People who refused the red pill are nicknamed Blue Pills for obvious reasons, and those that are unaware they are in the Matrix are referred to as Copper Tops.
I wasn’t referring to Neo’s experience of exiting the Matrix for the first time. I think there was an interview with one of the Wachowskis that implied the liquid mirror was just Neo’s reality bending experience. Other people may experience different types of hallucinations, and even other people in the room may not see what their hallucination is. They are probably just observed to fade out into code like when they use a telephone.
Ah!
Ok, ok, that makes sense… I have not committed the 4th movie to memory anywhere near as much as I have with the OT era stuff.
I remember that as well, and I agree that your minor extraploation at the end seems likely.
…
I appreciate you expanding on the details I forgot =P
…
Though I would add that the Animatrix shows that the uh, exiting the Matrix phenomenon… may be different for self-substantiators… the Kid is reported as dead after his ‘leap of faith’.
IIRC, there are scenes of an actual funeral? His parents mourn him as dead? Its a whole local news phenomenon that he ‘suicided’?
It could be that his uh… Matrix-physical? body did not evaporate into code…
…or it could be that the Matrix / the Agents executed an elaborate coverup, that the Kid’s ‘body’ did ‘code evaporate’, and they just whipped up a doppleganger body and gaslit/intimidated the hell out of any witnesses of the body ‘evaporating’, faked all the media coverage, etc.