Trinity

In M1, Trinity makes first contact with Neo, finally leading Neo to Morpheus. She is told by the Oracle that she would fall in love with the One, which ends up confusing her since Neo was so certain that he is not the One. In the end, Cypher asks Trinity if Neo is the One, and she says yes right before Cypher is finally killed by Tank. After Neo is shot by Agent Smith, Trinity kisses him and appears to revive him from the real world (but only appears to - see Neo's Powers: Back to Life).

In M2, Neo makes a choice to risk all of humanity to save Trinity. Roles are reversed as Neo revives Trinity, this time from within the Matrix.

In M3, with the help of Morpheus and Seraph, Trinity rescues Neo from Mobil Avenue by making a move on the Merovingian. She pilots the Logos with Neo's guidance, and dies after crashing into Machine City.

Both Trinity and Neo are resurrected from death in M4 by machines and are imprisoned in a new Matrix that extracts extraordinary power out of Neo and Trinity by keeping Trinity and Neo close enough to create hope, but far enough apart to ensure despair. For more on this, see Neo's Powers: Nuclear Despair.

Trinity's Powers

The Analyst explains to Neo that it was never about him:

This would seem to suggest that the only reason Neo was able to do what he did in the first three movies was because Trinity was with him. This clearly wasn't the intent in the first three movies, because this contradicts the fact that Neo was still able to see Machine City while blindfolded and was still able to be Superman in the Matrix as he fights Smith-Oracle, even after Trinity died and Neo walked away from her. From what we saw with our own eyes in M1-M3, Neo is already dangerous, even when not "mixed together" with Trinity. But, as it turns out, the Analyst was wrong when he said it was never about Neo. It was at one point. There is something very important about Trinity's past that the Analyst just couldn't possibly know.

Since Smith is the inevitable result of balancing the equation with Neo, and since Trinity appears to be sharing the stage now with Neo as "The One," shouldn't Trinity have an opposite? Perhaps if an M5 is ever made, it would be a love story about Smith and Trinity's opposite coming together, and maybe her name will be Karen because she just hates it when Trinity breaks rules.

In all seriousness, I don't think Trinity needs an opposite. I think Neo is still "The One." When the Analyst says it was never about just Neo and that it was really about both of them, this doesn't necessarily mean that Trinity is also a "One." Clearly the system did not manufacture her in order to cancel out rejection; instead, she was used to help the One walk his path. But she does seem to have Neo's Matrix powers. Neo's powers were both funneled into him by the Prime Program and also granted to him via access to the source (also see Neo: Altered Consciousness). We don't know if Trinity has the same real-world powers. I doubt it. As for her Matrix powers, did Trinity also her Matrix powers from the Prime Program? No, she got them differently.

First, as I argue in Smith: The New Smith, Neo's imprinting some of himself onto Smith is what gave Smith the ability to replicate.

Given that Neo reached inside of Trinity in M2 to save her life in the Matrix, "some part" of Neo would have also imprinted onto Trinity. And by "some part," I mean Neo would have imprinted everything he was onto Trinity as he literally held her heart and restarted it. I'm not arguing that Neo deliberately thought to himself, "As I grab Trinity's heart, I'm going to transfer aspects of myself to her." I'm talking about more of an instinctual action, the same kind of thing that happens when Neo wants to fly. He just wills himself to fly, and he flies. Trinity and Smith are the only two people (or even objects) that we know of that Neo literally physically penetrated, so it would make sense that those are the only two characters that benefitted from Neo's "imprinting."

Did Trinity really have these abilities from that point on? It's certainly very possible. The only other time Trinity goes into the Matrix after her life was saved was to go with Morpheus and Seraph in to Club Hel and get Neo out of Mobil Avenue. That was the last we ever saw of Trinity in the Matrix, until 60+ years later in the Analyst's 8.0 Matrix. Trinity very well could have stopped bullets to overwhelm the Merovingian, but at that point it wouldn't have been possible, because Trinity had no belief whatsoever that she was anything like the One. Fortunately, she and her two friends didn't need those powers to overwhelm the Merovingian.

So, when the Analyst says to Neo that "it was never just you," he was right, but only to a degree. Before Neo restarted Trinity's heart, it was just Neo, but the Analyst never had the benefit of seeing Trinity's original "source code" (as the Analyst might call it) at that point in time, before Neo imprinted himself onto her.

At first, I thought that maybe this plotline was pursued to promote today's social justice trends. In other words, Neo is stripped of his singular hero status since Neo is what the trans community would label a "cisgendered" white male movie character played by a "cisgendered" white male actor. It looks like I was wrong about that, as it appears Neo is the only reason Trinity can do what she does.

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