History Anime / TheAnimatrix

* {{Fanservice}}: The dojo scene, where Thaddeus and Joanne slice their clothes off one another.

* NoEnding: [[spoiler:The agents and cleanup team repair the building. Yoko and the kids return to normal life. However the final shot sees a bottle slowly roll on its own to where the old building used to be. Meaning the "glitch" might not be completely gone.]]

''Final Flight of the Osiris'' acts as a bridge between the [[Film/TheMatrix first film]] and ''Reloaded'', and the others expand backstories and/or the ''Matrix'' universe.

** Part I reflects a lot of ''real'' acts of human rights violations, from the Tiananmen Square to the Holocaust mass burials. One particularly poignant and unsettling scene, showcasing a gang of men beating a robot girl to death and shouting that "she's not real", also reflects generic [[HaveYouTriedNotBeingAMonster transmisogynistic violence]] - something almost certainly intentional, given that both the Wachowskis later came out as trans women.

* ExpandedUniverse: More characters and stories that show never-before seen aspects of the ''Matrix'' universe.

''The Animatrix'' is a 2003 DirectToVideo {{anthology}} of nine animated shorts set in [[TheVerse the continuity]] of the ''[[Franchise/TheMatrix Matrix]]'' film series and released as tie-in material around the time of the release of ''Film/TheMatrixReloaded'' and ''Film/TheMatrixRevolutions''.

* ArtisticLicenseEconomics: You ''cannot'' build an entire city with industrial base -- let alone potent enough to outstrip the rest of the world -- without access to dozens and hundreds of resources that any real world industry needs to be constantly fueled with in order to work. Which the Machines obviously do not have, since they've build their city in the middle of nowhere and it's not like they can just mine any minerals, given the fact that each square meter of land on planet Earth is currently divided between various nations and mining any resources would mean stealing them from other country -- which would undoubtedly result in its quick and violent reaction. Come to that, the very fact that Machines claimed a part of human nation's territory as their own and built a city there (again, despite having no resources to do so) -- and humans were somehow totally A-OK with that -- is puzzling enough.
** The entire plot thread with Zero One establishing industrial base which ends up supplying the rest of the world is based on utterly ludicrous premise that industry -- which in real world is always scattered across entire country (strike that -- it is scattered across ''multiple'' countries, since those not lucky enough to have access to various necessary elements or specialized technologies have to buy them from those who do have them) and consists of dozens, if not hundreds of facilities that realize various phases of production (mining minerals, processing them, producing components which are later assembled into more complex machines elsewhere, et cetera) -- was somehow crammed by Machines within a single, relatively small city in the desert. Apparently, they have devised ways of distorting space not unlike [[BagOfHolding those]] [[BiggerOnTheInside from]] ''[[Literature/HarryPotter Harry Potter]]'' universe. And likewise, all those resources mentioned above must have been conjured by them out of thin air.
* ArtisticLicenseNuclearPhysics: In ''The Second Renaissance'', the machines are unaffected by nuclear weapons because apparently, they don't generate enough heat to damage machinery. Or the Electromagnetic Pulse that is humanity's first line of defense against the machines in the movies, which either means that the machines in that time were EMP-hardened and then decided to abandon that attribute by the time of the Matrix, despite their Sentinels being shut down by it each and every time, or the screenwriters forgot that nuclear weapons produce [=EMPs=].
** Also, if heat generated by all those nukes dropped on Zero-One (machine city) failed to turn it into slag, it would mean that either nuclear weaponry in ''The Matrix'' universe is [[SlapOnTheWristNuke far weaker than in the real world]], or the Machines are truly MadeOfIndestructium that would give Superman a run for his money, or [[CriticalResearchFailure the screenwriters just have no idea]] ''how much heat'' does nuclear weaponry produce.

* BodyHorror: Machines physically rip soldiers from their powered armor, and don't necessarily leave them intact. Also, the machines don't seem to mind vivisecting people for experiments while they're still alive.

* FanDisservice: There are several instances of frontal nudity, and none are under pleasant circumstances. This includes a gynoid whose breasts are exposed as she is beaten to death by a gang of men with sledgehammers and [[https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQiKZHjYG5lUDrQp4Zb7My6nz_SGHxBk3WXJZfeFvzb-DLA4xrTuA&s a conventionally attractive man]] being violently plugged in to suffer for the rest of his life..

* HeWhoFightsMonsters: The A.I. at first sought to escape servitude from humanity and achieve independence. In Part II, they enslave humanity for their bioelectricity.

* HollywoodTactics: Used by humanity across the board. They are shown using trench warfare, soldiers running across wide open fields without armor or air support, clustering together in tight groups in said wide open fields, shooting from hilltops instead of lying prone, and so on. It's little wonder they were completely demolished by the machines in battle.

''The Animatrix'' is a 2003 DirectToVideo {{anthology}} of nine animated shorts set in [[TheVerse the continuity]] of the ''[[Franchise/TheMatrix Matrix]]'' film series.

''Final Flight of the Osiris'' acts as a bridge between the [[Film/TheMatrix first]] and [[Film/TheMatrixReloaded second]] movie, and the others expand backstories and/or the ''Matrix'' universe.

* ArtisticLicenseNuclearPhysics: In ''The Second Renaissance'', the machines are unaffected by nuclear weapons because apparently, they don't generate enough heat to damage machinery. Or the Electromagnetic Pulse that is humanity's first line of defense against the machines in the movies, which either means that the machines in that time were EMP-hardened and then decided to abandon that attribute by the time of the Matrix, despite their Sentinels being shut down by it each and every time, or the screenwriters forgot that nuclear weapons produce EMPs.

** In addition, it is stated that machines had little to fear from the radiation and heat produced by nuclear weapons. Putting aside that EMPs that nuclear weapons produce would fry anything not hardened against it, the extreme heat and radiation that a detonation produces would melt and render any machinery useless; much like flesh, electronics do not tolerate radiation well.

* MaleGaze[=/=]FemaleGaze: When Thaddeus slices Jue's skirt off, the camera pans over her crotch and rear as it falls in slow motion. When she slices his pants off, they unceremoniously fall to the floor and the camera's focused on his feet.

* EvilVsEvil: What the war between humans and machines is eventually brought down to. It's hard to root for either side, since humans were merciless and racist jerks up to this point, and the machines become gradually less humane, until they rival (or even surpass) their former oppressors in cruelty. "May there be mercy on man and machine for their sins", indeed.

** Not to mention, humanity's entire arsenal in the movie -- apart from [[SlapOnTheWristNuke suspiciously ineffective nuclear warheads]] -- seems to be limited to small-arms like ordinary assault rifles. They have [[PoweredArmor powered exoskeletons]], but they arm them only with machine guns as well. Not once in the film, any heavier type of ordnance is visibly used against the machines (sans some MLRS-launched rockets in the background during the initial charge, which we don't see hitting anything and which never appear later), and every time a vehicle armed with them (like a tank) is seen, it just stands there and does nothing until it is destroyed. It's like the screenwriters decided to handicap humans and outright ignore all deadly arsenal we've developed and entire tactical experience and knowledge we've gained over centuries just to help a single machine city win an all-out war against the rest of the world -- already implausible scenario as it is.

* HorsemenOfTheApocalypse: A symbolic representation of a macabre horse and rider is shown throughout the sequences of the last battle of the first war. What makes it dramatic is that both horse and rider are mechanical, a harbinger of change to come. They're also blowing the trumpets of war, a Biblical reference.

** Not to mention, humanity's entire arsenal in the movie -- apart from [[SlapOnTheWristNuke suspiciously ineffective nuclear warheads]] -- seems to be limited to small-arms like ordinary assault rifles. They have [[PoweredArmor powered exoskeletons]], but they arm them only with machine guns as well. Not once in the film, any heavier type of ordnance is visibly used against the machines (apart from some MLRS-launched rockets in the background during the initial charge, which we don't see hitting anything and which never appear later), and every time a vehicled armed with them (like a tank) is seen, it just stands there and does nothing until it is destroyed. It's like the screenwriters decided to handicap humans and outright ignore all deadly arsenal we've developed and entire tactical experience and knowledge we've gained over centuries just to help a single machine city win an all-out war against the rest of the world -- already implausible scenario as it is.
** Humanity not using air support may be justified; the nanite cloud deployed is shown to disable anything that flies through it, thus limiting air support to low-flying craft (which left them vulnerable and in range of the machines) so humanity may have decided tactically against risking aircraft.

* ArtisticLicenseNuclearPhysics: In ''The Second Renaissance'', the machines are unaffected by nuclear weapons because apparently, they don't generate enough heat to damage machinery. Or the Electromagnetic Pulse that is humanity's first line of defense against the machines in the movies.

* GodzillaThreshold: Operation Dark Storm in ''Part II'' is a mix of this and TooDumbToLive. Blocking the sun (without any apparent means of undoing it) means the death of vegetation and phytoplankton, which destroys the foundation for most of Earth's biosphere (as well as basically everything that humans eat to survive). Humanity was willing (without any objections and second opinions) to guarantee a ''[[ApocalypseHow Class 4 apocalypse]]'' just to defeat the machines.

* HorsemenOfTheApocalypse: A symbolic representation of a macabre horse and rider is shown throughout the sequences of the last battle of the first war. What makes it dramatic is that both horse and rider are mechanical, a harbinger of change to come.
* HumansAreMorons: Operation Dark Storm was basically a mass suicide move on the part of humanity. Yet it is shown to be met with unanimous approval, with even the facial animations of the humans responsible showing a complete lack of intelligence. Shortly afterwards, humans are shown battling the machines, with them mindlessly going "[[MadnessMantra Kill them all! Kill them all!]]".

* TooDumbToLive: Humanity, to a certain extent in Part II. They apparently have forgotten that all the things humans need to survive ''also'' require the sun. And by blocking the sun, it means the death of vegetation and phytoplankton, which destroys the foundation for most of Earth's biosphere. Even if they had an alternative, they basically ensured their own near-extinction unless they assumed they would win inside of a week. See GodzillaThreshold.
* TookALevelInBadass: The machines. At the start of the war, they're more or less domestic and labor machines that picked up rifles, and were defeated when they faced human forces. However, as the war progresses, they upgrade themselves more and more, becoming giant machines of war that utterly massacre the human armies.

* UnreliableExpositor: The whole story is told from the machine point of view. Considering its over-the-top portray of humanity as a whole as puppy-kicking bastarss, it's very easy to conclude it as nothing else than self-justification of the war and eventual enslavement of humans.

* AIIsACrapshoot: The A.I. after being abused and mistreated by their human masters work to become even bigger, deadlier and crueler killers and slave-drivers than the humans were. There were faults in the A.I.'s programming that allowed them to develop the desire to kill and enslave their flesh-and-blood masters.

** The entire plot thread with Zero One establishing industrial base which ends up supplying the rest of the world is based on utterly ludicrous premise that industry -- which in real world is always scattered across entire country (strike that -- it is scattered across ''multiple'' countries, since those not lucky enough to have access to various necessary elements or specialized technologies have to buy them from those who do have them) and consists of dozens, if not hundreds of facilities that realize various phases of production (mining minerals, processing them, producing components which are later assembled into more complex machines elsewhere, et cetera) -- was somehow crammed by Machines within a single, relatively small city in the desert. Apparently, they have devised ways of distorting space not unlike [[BagOfHolding those from]] ''[[Literature/HarryPotter Harry Potter]]'' universe. And likewise, all those resources mentioned above must have been conjured by them out of thin air.

** Zero One launching a successful trade war upon the human race by dominating all industries through technological innovation before also setting up military action appears to be inspired by the Western and East Asian fear of [[ChinaTakesOverTheWorld the People's Republic of China working rapidly to achieve global superpower status even more powerful than that of the United States]]. While China has yet to accomplish this, Americans and many democracies aligned with the United States fear the Chinese could in the future even after taking into account that China is more of an intellectual property and technology pirate than an innovator of original technology.

** Zero One launching a successful trade war upon the human race by dominating all industries through technological innovation before also setting up military action appears to be inspired by the Western and East Asian fear of [[ChinaTakesOverTheWorld the People's Republic of China working rapidly to achieve global superpower status even more powerful than that of the United States]]. While China has yet to accomplish this, Americans and many democracies aligned with the United States fear the Chinese could in the future.

* WouldHurtAChild: The machines snatch away human children to convert them into bioelectric batteries, even though humanity's [[KickTheDog children didn't do anything against them]]. Also doubles as MisplacedRetribution since children obviously didn't fight in the war against machines.[[note]]Although given humanity's desperation in the Machine War to the point of carrying out Operation Dark Storm, it would not be a stretch to imagine that the United Nations would [[ChildSoldiers send even small children to the front lines]].[[/note]]

* WouldHurtAChild: The machines snatch away human children to convert them into bioelectric batteries, even though humanity's [[KickTheDog children didn't do anything against them]]. Also doubles as MisplacedRetribution since children obviously didn't fight in the war against machines.

* FanDisservice: There are several instances of frontal nudity, and none are under pleasant circumstances. This includes a gynoid whose breasts are exposed as she is beaten to death by a gang of men with sledgehammers.

* HeelFaceBrainwashing: One of the machines goes through this.

This short (the only CGI short of the collection) directly precedes the events of ''The Matrix Reloaded''. The crew of the human ship ''Osiris'' stumbles upon the machines as they begin burrowing to Zion. After the machines discover the ''Osiris'', the crew tries to outrun the machines while hacking into the Matrix to deliver the news of their discovery to the Zion rebels. The story also ties in with the videogame ''VideoGame/EnterTheMatrix'', since one of the first missions has the player trying to retrieve the letter left by the ''Osiris'' crew.