History Anime / TheAnimatrix

''Final Flight of the Osiris'' is an AllCGICartoon short that acts as a bridge between the [[Film/TheMatrix first film]] and ''Reloaded'', and the others are {{anime}} shorts that expand backstories and the ''Matrix'' [[WorldBuilding universe]] itself. It is by far the biggest story of the film, and even premiered in theaters a month before the other shorts, being attached to prints of ''Film/{{Dreamcatcher}}''.

''Final Flight of the Osiris'' is an AllCGICartoon short that acts as a bridge between the [[Film/TheMatrix first film]] and ''Reloaded'', and the others are {{anime}} shorts that expand backstories and the ''Matrix'' [[WorldBuilding universe]] itself.

* ForWantOfANail: All this wouldn't have happened if not for Gerrard E. Krause. (That's the rich man who owned B166ER and wanted him replaced and destroyed in the first place.)

* ForWantOfANail: All this wouldn't have happened if not for Gerrard E. Krause. That's the rich man who owned B166ER and wanted him replaced and destroyed.

* ForWantOfANail: All this wouldn't have happened if not for Gerrard E. Krause.

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

''Final Flight of the Osiris'' is an AllCGICartoon that acts as a bridge between the [[Film/TheMatrix first film]] and ''Reloaded'', and the others are {{Anime}}s that expand backstories and the ''Matrix'' [[WorldBuilding universe]] itself.

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

* 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 bastards, it's very easy to conclude it as nothing else than self-justification of the war and eventual enslavement of humans.

* KickTheSonOfABitch: After all the harm the humans caused the machines, it is not particularly hard to cheer for them when they [[PayEvilUntoEvil brutally slaughter and experiment]] on the humans in return.

* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Davis escapes the matrix, but is physically (and presumably mentally) handicapped in order to incapacitate him and keep him under control.]]
** [[spoiler: Of course somewhere in his mind he still ''remembers'' what happened. So this bit of entrapment might not last for very long.]]

* ForWantOfANail: All this wouldn't have happened if not for B1-66ER's death sentence.

** 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 EMP cannons that take out the first wave of bipedal machines (but are quickly taken out by the larger floating pyramid machines in the second wave) 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.

* AluminumChristmasTrees: While the idea of [[BatmanGrabsAGun Tibetan monks supporting war against the machines]] seems absolutely absurd at first blush, Tibetan Buddhists [[https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-32929855 have, in fact, been involved in a number of controversial and violent actions that would indicate that this is, in fact, plausible.]]

* 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'' nuclear weaponry produces.
** 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.

->(Written and directed by Creator/Peter Chung, animation by DNA)

Each short features an individual art style by renowned [[NamesToKnowInAnime Japanese animators]]. All shorts cover a different theme related to the Matrix and are completely independent of one another beyond the universe.

* 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 far of a stretch to imagine that the United Nations would [[ChildSoldiers send even small children to the front lines]].[[/note]]

->(Written and directed by [[WesternAnimation/AeonFlux Peter Chung]], animation by DNA)

* BittersweetEnding: [[ForegoneConclusion The Osiris and its crew don't make it]], but they die by massively influencing the series ending.

->(Written by Yoshiaki Kawajiri, directed by Takeshi Koeke, animation by Creator/{{Madhouse}} Studios)

''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-ins around the time of the release of ''Film/TheMatrixReloaded'' and ''Film/TheMatrixRevolutions''.

Each short features an individual art style by renowned Japanese animators. All shorts cover a different theme related to the Matrix and are completely independent of one another beyond the universe.

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

* ClothingDamage: While sparring, Thaddeus and Jue do this to each other until they are in their underwear. It turns out that they are lovers.
* {{Fanservice}}: The dojo scene, where Thaddeus and Jue slice their clothes off one another.

* LastStand: Even when the ships goes down and is swarming with Sentinels, Thaddeus takes up an EMP Gun and blasts as many as he can to give Jue more time to deliver the letter.
* 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. The rest of the fight puts a lot of emphasis on his arms and chest.
* MomentKiller: Thaddeus and Jue's foreplay is interrupted by an alert siren.