![]() This explains why the Merovingian's worldview is based upon causality and the reason that throughout The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions he is interested in why or how events unfold. Restated, the Oracle's gift is inductive reasoning, whereas the Merovingian's strength is deductive reasoning. While the Oracle (as her name suggests) is endowed with foresight, the Merovingian is endowed with hindsight. His home is also presented as an elaborate French château, which is decorated with busts of Clovis I, the first of the Merovingian kings, and numerous medieval weapons from around the world. ![]() This is revealed when he tells Neo "I have survived your predecessors and I will survive you." It is the second clue in the film series that there have in fact been other anomalies similar to Neo and the previous One.Īlthough he may own several other institutions and businesses, in the films he is only portrayed in two of them the first being an upper-class restaurant named Le Vrai (meaning The True or The One Who is True in French), and second being a rave club named Club Hel. The Merovingian himself has existed throughout several, if not all versions of the Matrix. Due to his role as keeper of such dissatisfied programs, the Merovingian has many such creatures in his employ. This might very well have given rise to creatures such as vampires, werewolves, ghosts and demons the selfsame creatures which the Oracle mentions as being anomalies within the system. His wife Persephone mentions his henchmen coming from an "older" version of the Matrix as the Architect notes upon meeting Neo in the second film, the second design of the Matrix was constructed so as to reflect the " varying grotesqueries" of human nature. He has also held the Keymaker prisoner and controls the Trainman.Īs revealed in The Matrix Revolutions, the purpose of the Merovingian is to control the Exiles from the machine world, eerily mirroring how the city of Zion is used to unite human exiles from the Matrix. The Merovingian is the leader of a group of Exiles, and employs The Twins and others as his henchmen. He is married to Persephone, a beautiful woman who resents his philandering. He revels in gustatory indulgence, sartorial splendor, scintillating banter and carnal pleasures. While technically a sophisticated program, his persona is that of a mannered French bon-vivant with a patina of vulgarity which he demonstrates in both word and deed. As one of the few entities able to directly manipulate the code which creates the Matrix he is an unofficial power broker. The Merovingian is a rogue computer program created within the Matrix.
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