The Oracle (The Matrix)
The Oracle is a female film character who features in The Matrix.
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Biography
The Oracle
By including the Oracle, whose investigations into the human psyche yielded the answer to creating a functional simulation that humans would accept, a semi-stable system was created with the third version of the Matrix. However, an anomaly within the system still existed. In order to preserve the Matrix's integrity, the prophecy of the One was created to ensure its continuity in cycles. The Architect and the Oracle had very different roles to play in maintaining this cycle, and therefore the Matrix's stability. First, the Oracle spreads a prophecy of The One's final victory over the machines, and those humans who choose to follow this belief are allowed to disconnect from the system voluntarily. They created the real-world settlement of Zion; when its population grows large enough to become a threat to the Matrix's stability, the Architect takes action. He launched a machine offensive campaign to destroy Zion and reunite The One with the Source, rebooting the Matrix and keeping control over the humans. Zion was allowed to be rebuilt, with the One and twenty-three other freed humans where sixteen were female and seven were male leading a new generation as the cycle repeating itself. When Neo and the Architect meet, this cycle is about to complete its sixth repetition. The Oracle hinted at her program's true purpose: to correct the anomaly in the Matrix's coding. Whereas the Architect has balanced the equation so the One is created and the cycle repeats endlessly every hundred years, the Oracle unbalances the equation in her attempts to solve the anomaly.
Overview
Personality and attributes
She frequently enjoyed making cookies and likes the smell they make while they are cooking; she also has a penchant for candy.
The Oracle aided the human resistance in freeing humanity from the oppression of the Machines. According to Morpheus, the Oracle had been in the service of The Resistance 'since the beginning'.
Powers and abilities
Notes
- The Oracle was created by The Wachowskis and portrayed by actor Gloria Foster in the first two films with her then portrayed by actor Mary Alice where she featured in the setting of The Matrix.
In other media
Video games
Appearances
- The Matrix:
- The Matrix Reloaded: (2003)
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