10 Amazing Character Moments In The Matrix Trilogy

10. Seraph - Testing Neo

Let's kick this list off with some literal kicking!

There are a lot of nonsensical fight sequences in The Matrix Reloaded, and while the playground fight between Neo and 100 Smiths might be the most memorably pointless in the series, one of the most WTF! scenes comes just before this, when Neo goes to meet The Oracle. After finding her in a new location, he must first get past her bodyguard Seraph.

Before Neo can even register what's going on, he's having a scrappy one on one with Seraph and the fight is spectacularly choreographed. Considering Neo has now become The One and can fly and stop bullets, he has himself quite a challenge against Seraph - which only serves to embolden and tell us that Seraph is one of the best allies to have on side throughout the films.

Seraph's immediate attacking of Neo could have been seen as an incongruous moment in the film, but if you were to view his character as a program protecting The Oracle (who is also a program), it's logical to imagine Seraph as the manifestation of a computer Firewall. His fight with Neo is a knee-jerk response to a threat, and once he establishes that Neo is a "trusted program", he lets him through to see The Oracle.

Well, that's how I see it anyway.