History Main / MatrixRainingCode

* ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|Reimagined}}'': Notable in that the Cylons have it on their computer screens, [[UnusualUserInterface data streams]], and even as holograms projected onto the set. An interesting tidbit is that [[SuperPrototype the first hybrid]] who is ''not'' a MadOracle (but oracular and sane) has blue rather than the typical Cylon red for his code holograms.

* Appears at the beginning and end of the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-g4H63JAi0&feature=related 4th cutscene]] of ''CrashMindOverMutant'' due to the fact that Crash and Coco have just put their [=NVs=] on.

* ''VisualNovel/InputOutput'' uses this effect for its OP. In the original PS2 version, it was colored green, but in the [[IBMPersonalComputer PC]] version, it was recolored blue.

That trippy raining code in ''Film/TheMatrix'' that is constantly changing has pretty much become synonymous with high tech computing, VR environments, [=AIs=], and Robots. Originally, it represented the ever changing nature of the Matrix and the overwhelmingly complex incalculability of it all. So when Neo starts seeing things in Matrix-Text-O-Vision, it represents him seeing and being able to manipulate the underpinnings of reality. Nowadays, it's mostly used to convey "Look, high tech computer with [[SufficientlyAdvancedAlien arcane, indecipherably alien power and mentality]]!" or as a StockParody for ''The Matrix''.

"Traditionally", the Raining Code will be green, flow from top to bottom, consist of normal letters and numbers with what looks like Japanese kana or other strange runes, and change text mid fall. Newer adaptations will likely use a different color, direction for it to scroll, and text palette. Note that the original ''Matrix'' version used katakana characters and arabic numerals, mirror-flipped to obscure their shapes. The characters will generally leave "ghosts" on the screen as they fall, reminiscent of old Apple II RGB monitors, symbolizing the GhostInTheMachine, of course.

* The "traditional" ''Matrix''-style code showed up colored white in a makeup(?!) commercial.

* ''Anime/RODTheTV'' also uses English letters--since the supercomputer in question belongs to the British Library.

* ''Anime/GhostInTheShell'' has a very similar scroll in it's opening title sequence. (And probably inspired the trope namer's use - it may even be the UrExample.)

* In ''Film/TheMatrix'' fanfic ''Fanfic/BringingMeToLife'' it's played straight, when Max sees it in his dreams and in 'reality' what with being [[spoiler: the reincarnation of Neo.]]
* In the slash fic ''Fanfic/HuntingSeries'' it's being a crossover of ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' and ''The Matrix'' Neo, Smith and all the A.I./programs can see it.

* ''The Matrix'''s raining code was ripped/homaged from the ''Franchise/GhostInTheShell'' opening scene, which didn't rain, but did change characters, and flowed across the screen. Note that these characters were a machine-code translation of the English-language credits that they transformed into.

* ''Film/TheMatrix'', [[TropeNamer of course.]]

** ''Series/{{Caprica}}'' carries on the Cylon example, and explains it as being a human (well, colonial human) programming language, specifically the one Zoe used to create her AI. Here, it's orange/red, rains upwards, and when it hits the top row it gets pinballed to the right where it's presumably "executed".
* An episode of ''Series/{{NUMB3RS}}'' has the computer in a DARPA sponsored project to develop an AI with Matrix code showing on its displays. This might have been a partial subversion, since a lot of the what the computer was doing was eye-candy to impress the folks footing the bill for it, and the actual "AI program" was just an overblown version of "Eliza".

* Animal Planet's ''Series/TheMostExtreme'' used this for the background (along with a healthy dose of "digital green"). One can only guess that RuleOfCool was in play.

* In the fourth season ''CSINewYork'' episode, "The Thing About Heroes", the team is trying to analyze data on a broken MP3 player. The image displayed looks like raining Matrix code.
* ''Series/NoOrdinaryFamily'' used this to represent JJ's super brain powers as used to crack a file encryption (the code was yellow instead, as with most representations of said power in the show.)

** The revival of ''Doctor Who'' has this in a roundabout way: the TARDIS' monitor displays whirling patterns of the clockwork-like Gallifreyan language.

* A Matrix code screensaver served as an ActorAllusion in a ''Series/{{Chuck}}'' episode featuring Carrie-Anne Moss.

* ''VideoGame/ZoneOfTheEnders: The Second Runner'' has the tutorial area VR environment show whisps of code occasionally.

** And coding conveniently "leaks" into the main game to highlight important stuff.

* ''VideoGame/DevilSurvivor'''s genius programmer Naoya wears a BadassLongRobe with Matrix Raining Code printed on it.

* As part of a larger ShoutOut to ''Film/TheMatrix'', ''Webcomic/{{Sinfest}}'' represents omnipresent sexism as raining green letters, spelling out words like "slut" and "whore."

* The 3rd Season DVD of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' has this as one of the CouchGag menu transitions.
* For a while in ''{{Transformers}}: WesternAnimation/BeastMachines'', Megatron manifested as a big glowy head made out of this type of code, albeit in [[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Cybertronix Cybertronix]].
* ''JusticeLeagueUnlimited'' episode "The Once and Future Thing, Part 2: Time Warped" had Bruce Wayne of the ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'' future trying to calculate the damage to the timeline caused by the villain Chronus' very irresponsible time manipulation. The digital readout was essentially the Matrix raining code.

* One of the old DOS viruses ([[http://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/cascade.shtml Cascade]]) caused random letters on the screen to "fall".

* Information Society's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hM6Q8XEE88w "Land of the Blind"]] video.

* [[http://eeemo.net/ This program]] converts any written text into Zalgo Text, which adds scrambled symbols to the background and surroundings of the sentence.

Often displayed with StatOVision and in the HolographicTerminal. Compare/See also DesignStudentsOrgasm.

* The "traditional" ''Matrix''-style code most recently showed up colored white in a makeup(?!) commercial.
* White code with red highlights are used in the more recent Droid cellphone commercials.

* The ''EurekaSeven'' series has Renton's Compac Drive, with the name Eureka and other minamul streaming et cetera.

* In the slash fic ''Fanfic/HuntingSeries'' it's being a crossover of ''Supernatural'' and ''The Matrix'' Neo, Smith and all the A.I./programs can see it.

* ''Film/StarTrekNemesis''. The Federation database is depicted as blue matrix code

* In ''TheBookOfAllHours'' duology, the description of Metatron's updated digital copy of the Book sounds like a mix of this and a spellbook, all written in the Cant, the magical ur-language. The digital Book is constantly adjusting to accommodate the appearances and deaths of other [[DifferentlyPoweredIndividual unkin]], and can be read left to right and right to left, up and down, diagonally, and spiraling in toward the center while still retaining meaning in all different possible readings.

* ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|Reimagined}}'': Notable in that the Cylons have it on their computer screens, [[UnusualUserInterface data streams]], and even as holograms projected onto the set. An interesting tidbit is that [[SuperPrototype the first hybrid]] who is ''not'' a MadOracle (but oracular and sane) has blue rather than the typical cylon red for his code holograms.
* ''Series/{{Caprica}}'' carries on the Cylon example, and explains it as being a human (well, colonial human) programming language, specifically the one Zoe used to create her AI. Here, it's orange/red, rains upwards, and when it hits the top row it gets pinballed to the right where it's presumably "executed".
* An episode of ''NUMB3RS'' has the computer in a DARPA sponsored project to develop an AI with Matrix code showing on its displays. This might have been a partial subversion, since a lot of the what the computer was doing was eye-candy to impress the folks footing the bill for it, and the actual "AI program" was just an overblown version of "Eliza".

* In the fourth season ''CSINewYork'' episode, "The Thing About Heros", the team is trying to analyze data on a broken mp3 player. The image displayed looks like raining Matrix code.

* ''{{Series/Smallville}}'' has this in ''Abyss'' when [[spoiler:Brainiac starts wiping Chloe's memories]].

** Used astonishingly in ''1966'' in the serial "The Tenth Planet", which uses this in its {{Episode Title Card}}s, evoking listening stations.

* "Digital Rain" from the band Star One. The song is an homage to Film/TheMatrix

* ''VideoGame/EnterTheMatrix'', ''VideoGame/TheMatrixOnline'', and ''The Matrix: Path of Neo'', naturally.
* It was a requirement that at least one stage of any ''MegaManBattleNetwork'' game had to have white, future-y roads and a background with green 0 and 1. It sometimes scrolled, sometimes blinked.
* The background of the MASON System in ''ApolloJusticeAceAttorney''.

** The second ''VideoGame/{{Bejeweled}}'' game also has such a cheat; typing 'network' during a game would convert the background to MatrixRainingCode.

* The screensaver in ''ZeldaClassic'' is this.

* In ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime 2: Echoes'', while you spent most of the area indoors, if you looked closely while standing outside in Sanctuary, you would notice that it's raining. Look even closer, and you'll see its Matrix Raining Code, raining skyward.
* ''VideoGame/DevilSurvivor'''s genius programmer Naoya wears a BadassLongRobe with MatrixRainingCode printed on it.

* Appears at the beggining and end of the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-g4H63JAi0&feature=related 4th cutscene]] of ''CrashMindOverMutant'' due to the fact that Crash and Coco have just put their [=NVs=] on.

* Seen in ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', "Love and Rockets", when Bender merges his programming with the Planet Express ship.
* ''CodeLyoko'' has constant raining blue [[ZeroesAndOnes "0" and "1"]] inside squares in the Lyoko Towers, the tunnels between the Sectors or over the surface of the Celestial Dome in Sector 5. Those squares can also be seen flowing on many background computer screens in the real world, colored green and looking more like classical MatrixRainingCode.
* The 3rd Season DVD of ''TheSimpsons'' has this as one of the CouchGag menu transitions.
* For a while in ''{{Transformers}}: WesternAnimation/BeastMachines'', Megatron manifested as a big glowy head made out of this type of code, albeit in [[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Cybertronix Cybertronix]]
* ''JusticeLeagueUnlimited'' episode "The Once and Future Thing, Part 2: Time Warped" had Bruce Wayne of the ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'' future trying to calculate the damage to the timeline caused by the villain Chronus' very irresponsible time manipulation. The digital readout was essentially the matrix raining code.
* In the episode "Don" from ''RegularShow'', the government uses this to engulf the ''entire park'' when Rigby messes up the ''[[MundaneMadeAwesome audit]]''.
* {{Chaotic}} has a lot of this. When traveling to the game world, characters pass through a tunnel made out of swirling letters and numbers, and when a creature loses a battle, they dissolve into exploding letters and numbers. Justified, since the code is actually a plot point (sorta).

* Used at the start of the descent of the 2007 version of [[DisneyThemeParks Epcot's]] Spaceship Earth, with bopomofo instead of katakana.
* And of course present in tons of Matrix-style screensavers of all variations for most operation systems, from Win XP to Linux/UNIX.
* Software trace debuggers are about as Matrix-like as one can get. One for instance spits out what happened in the software and spending a few days looking at the code, one can tell what happened in the software as its running in real time. And sometimes this trace gets spit out at ungodly speeds. Thankfully these trace records are dumped to a log file for later analyzing.

** The second {{Bejeweled}} game also has such a cheat; typing 'network' during a game would convert the background to MatrixRainingCode.

* The opening/closing for ''Sword Art Online'' features this, in yellow. In an amusing reversal, this (Japanese) series has ENGLISH letters in the rain.

* ''{{Caprica}}'' carries on the Cylon example, and explains it as being a human (well, colonial human) programming language, specifically the one Zoe used to create her AI. Here, it's orange/red, rains upwards, and when it hits the top row it gets pinballed to the right where it's presumably "executed".

* Animal Planet's ''The Most Extreme'' used this for the background (along with a healthy dose of "digital green"). One can only guess that RuleOfCool was in play.

* ''NoOrdinaryFamily'' used this to represent JJ's super brain powers as used to crack a file encryption (the code was yellow instead, as with most representations of said power in the show.)

** The revival of ''DoctorWho'' has this in a roundabout way: the TARDIS' monitor displays whirling patterns of the clockwork-like Gallifreyan language.

** The revival of ''DoctorWho'' has this in a roundabout way: the TARDIS' monitor displays whirling patterns of the clockwork-like Gallifreyan language.
** Used astonishingly in ''1966'' in the serial "The Tenth Planet", which uses this in its EpisodeTitleCards, evoking listening stations.

* The revival of ''DoctorWho'' has this in a roundabout way: the TARDIS' monitor displays whirling patterns of the clockwork-like Gallifreyan language.

* Used in a few places in ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'', of all things. Most notably, surrounding one of the bosses in the Nexus.

* The ''DotHack'' series has something similar, with floating symbols and screen static in the corrupted areas.

* ''KamenRiderDouble'' notably uses this to portray [[spoiler:the interior of the Xtreme Memory, which rescued Philip from certain death at the hands of the Weather Dopant. Bits and pieces of code tend to appear during the Xtreme transformation too, but not nearly as much as Xtreme Memory's inside]].

* ''FinalFantasyIX'' features the code around teleportation gates. It works as foreshadowing for the more technologically advanced second half of the game, but it's still slightly jarring.

* ''The Matrix'''s raining code was ripped/homaged from the ''GhostInTheShell'' opening scene, which didn't rain, but did change characters, and flowed across the screen. Note that these characters were a machine-code translation of the English-language credits that they transformed into.

* In another homage to ''GhostInTheShell'', ''{{Avalon}}'s'' opening credits are orange falling text-like.

* These were to appear in the second ''KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'' game, but the planet they were on, the droid world of M4-78, was cut from the final product. A handful of mods exist that allow the player to visit what maps exist of M4-78, though.
* The intro cutscene for ''{{Bayonetta}}'' has some kind of red-Matrix-Raining-Code thing going on when the title of the game is being displayed. Why? RuleOfCool.

* The opening/closing for ''Sword Art Online'' features this, in yellow. In an amusing reversal, this (Japanese) series has ENGLISH letters in the rain.

* In [[http://tasvideos.org/2187M.html this]] Tool-Assisted SpeedRun of ''VideoGame/PokemonYellow'', streams of green-on-black numbers scroll extremely rapidly when the speedrunner begins inserting his arbitary code payload into the game.

* As part of a larger ShoutOut to ''Film/TheMatrix'', ''{{Sinfest}}'' represents omnipresent sexism as raining green letters, spelling out words like "slut" and "whore."