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Encyclopedia > Ghost (The Matrix)

Ghost is the name of a fictional character (played by Anthony Wong) in the computer game Enter the Matrix, and the science fiction films The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions. In Making 'Enter the Matrix', he's described by the Wachowski brothers as an "ascetic Buddhist killer". A student of philosophy, he quotes and/or refers to Hume, Kierkegaard, James, and Nietzsche. His name may be a reference to the phrase "ghost in the machine", which describes the concept of mind-body dualism. In the game Enter The Matrix, at one point, Ghost and Trinity also refer to each other as "Brother" and "Sister" A fictional character is any person who appears in a work of fiction. ... Anthony Wong (born 12 May 1965) is an Australian actor of Asian descent. ... // History Main article: History of computer and video games The first primitive computer and video games were developed in the 1950s and 1960s and ran on platforms such as oscilloscopes, university mainframes and EDSAC computers. ... Enter the Matrix is a video game and part of The Matrix series. ... Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... Larry Wachowski (born June 21, 1965) and Andy Wachowski (born December 29, 1967) are film directors most famous for The Matrix Trilogy. ... The word ascetic derives from the ancient Greek term askesis (practice, training or exercise). ... A replica of an ancient statue found among the ruins of a temple at Sarnath Buddhism is a philosophy based on the teachings of the Buddha, Siddhārtha Gautama, a prince of the Shakyas, whose lifetime is traditionally given as 566 to 486 BCE. It had subsequently been accepted by... Philosophy, (Greek: Φιλοσοφία, philo-sophia, love of wisdom) // Meaning and use of Philosophy The word once included all forms of knowledge, and all methods for attaining it. ... Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: David Hume Online editions of Humes work: Works by David Hume at Project Gutenberg Free eBook of A Treatise of Human Nature at Project Gutenberg Free eBook of The History of England, Volume I at Project Gutenberg Free eBook of An... Søren Kierkegaard was born to an affluent family in Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark. ... William James (January 11, 1842, New York – August 26, 1910, Chocorua, New Hampshire) was a pioneering psychologist and philosopher. ... Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (October 15, 1844 – August 25, 1900) was a German philosopher, whose critiques of contemporary culture, religion, and philosophy centered around a basic question regarding the foundation of values and morality. ... For other uses, please see Ghost in the Machine (disambiguation) Ghost in the Machine is the fourth album by The Police, released in 1981 (see 1981 in music). ...


Ghost's latest appearance has been in the MMORPG The Matrix Online. MMORPGs (Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games) follow a client-server model in which players, running the client software, are represented in the game world by an avatar — a graphical representation of the character they play. ... The Matrix Online (MxO) is a MMORPG developed by Monolith Productions. ...

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As seen in Enter the Matrix, Ghost and Trinity refer to each other as brother and sister as they were unplugged from the Matrix on the same day. His romantic feelings for her are unrequited, since she's in love with Neo. He serves on the Logos alongside his Captain, Niobe, and Operator, Sparks. He is known to be the best gunner in the fleet, and the best person to have riding shotgun during a car chase. He and Niobe have some of the same parts in the game. They mostly have different sides to the story. Enter the Matrix is a video game and part of The Matrix series. ... Trinity is the central female fictional character in The Matrix universe, played by actress Carrie-Anne Moss in the films The Matrix, The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions. ... Neo is the name of the central fictional character from the movie The Matrix and its sequels The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions. ... Niobe is a fictional character from the Matrix film series, portrayed by actor Jada Pinkett Smith, wife of actor Will Smith. ... Sparks is the name of a fictional character (played by Lachy Hulme) in the science fiction film The Matrix Revolutions. ...

The Matrix series
Films The Matrix | The Matrix Reloaded | The Matrix Revolutions
The Animatrix Final Flight of the Osiris | The Second Renaissance | Kid's Story | Program | World Record | Beyond | A Detective Story | Matriculated
Games Enter the Matrix | The Matrix Online | The Matrix: Path of Neo
Main characters Neo | Trinity | Morpheus | Smith | Agents | Oracle
Secondary characters Apoc | Architect | Bane | Cas | Cypher | Dozer | Ghost | Kamala | Keymaker | Kid | Link | Lock | Merovingian | Mouse | Niobe | Persephone | Rama Kandra | Sati | Seraph | Sparks | Switch | Tank | Trainman | Twins
Locations The Matrix | The City | Mobil Ave | Zero One (Machine City) | Zion
Ships Brahma | Caduceus | Gnosis | Icarus | Logos | Mjolnir (Hammer) | Nebuchadnezzar | Novalis | Osiris | Vigilant | Other ships
Cast and crew Wachowski brothers | Keanu Reeves | Laurence Fishburne | Carrie-Anne Moss | Hugo Weaving | John Gaeta | Geof Darrow | Steve Skroce
Other topics The Matrix character names | Original Soundtrack | The Matrix Revisited | The Ultimate Matrix Collection
Related articles Bullet time | Cyberpunk | Digitalism | Martial arts film | Messiahs in fiction and fantasy | Virtual reality


 

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