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Encyclopedia > Trainman (The Matrix)
Bruce Spence as the Trainman
Bruce Spence as the Trainman

The Trainman is a fictional character in the film The Matrix Revolutions and the game Enter the Matrix. Image File history File links Trainman. ... Image File history File links Trainman. ... Bruce Spence as Charlie in the 1974 Peter Weir film The Cars That Ate Paris Bruce Spence (born September 17, 1945 in Auckland) is an Australian actor. ... A fictional character is any person who appears in a work of fiction. ... Films are produced by recording actual people and objects with cameras, or by creating them using animation techniques and/or special effects. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... Enter the Matrix is a video game and part of The Matrix series. ...

The Trainman is effectively the god of Mobil Ave, a virtual subway station he created that exists in neither the real world, the Machine world, nor the Matrix. With one exception (Neo's arrival at the beginning of The Matrix Revolutions), no one can enter or leave the station except on the train that the Trainman conducts. Mobile Ave. ... The Matrix is a film first released in the USA on March 31, 1999, written and directed by the Wachowski brothers (Andy and Larry). ... Neo is the name of the central fictional character from the movie The Matrix and its sequels The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ...


The Trainman works for the Merovingian and is aggressively loyal. This is an article on the fictional character The Merovingian in The Matrix Trilogy. ...


The Trainman has long, dirty hair, a half-crazed look, and wears numerous watches on one arm, apparently to track the movements of all the trains in the Matrix. He carries a revolver, but isn't a very good shot. While in his Train Station, he seems to be able to manipulate its simulated physics there better than Zion rebels do in the Matrix, as shown by his punch to the trapped Neo that slams him effortlessly into a wall.


He is the only program other than Smith to have fought Neo and won.


The Trainman is an allusion to the ferryman Charon, reinforcing one of the Merovingian's characterizations within the Matrix as a Hades figure. The name of the Merovingian's wife, Persephone, is another reference. His role in the Matrix may be analogous to that of a computer bus. Allusion is a stylistic device in which one implicitly references a related object or circumstance that has occurred or existed in an external context. ... Charon, Greek ferryman of the dead. ... Hades (Greek: - Hadēs or - Háidēs) (unseen) means both the ancient Greek abode of the dead and the god of that underworld. ... Spoiler warning: In the movies The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions, Persephone (played by Monica Bellucci) is the wife of The Merovingian. ... In computer architecture, a bus is a subsystem that transfers data or power between computer components inside a computer or between computers. ...

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 | Club Hel | 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 | Owen Paterson | 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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