Agent Smith is the main antagonist of the Matrix Trilogy, and is portrayed in all three films by Hugo Weaving. Initially conceived as a starter villain by the Wachowskis', Smith was merely the first of many threats to be faced by Neo and his friends. However, Hugo Weaving's performance of Smith became so iconic, the writer/directors decided to upgrade him to the role of primary antagonist for the remainder of the series.In The Matrix , Agent Smith is the de facto leader of the Agents , a program designed by the Matrix to cleanse the system of any undesirable material and/or resistance. Smith's role in the film is to track down the leader of said resistance, Morpheus, and retrieve vital information the controlling machines need to destroy the rebel fighters, more specifically the location of their home city, Zion.Smith appears to behave as robotic and subservient as the other agents , until he confesses, mid-interrogation, to Morpheus that he has grown to hate the Matrix and all its inhabitants, and thusly feels an urge, border lining on psychotic, to leave the Matrix once his task is completed.Neo, the prophecised hero of the rebel movement, confronts Smith after Morpheus is rescued. Smith seemingly executes Neo by shooting him at point blank range, but Neo persists. He invades Smith's program and destroys him from within, essentially deleting his program.In The Matrix Reloaded , Smith returns, claiming that Neo's deletion of him in effect freed him from the machines' control. As a renegade program, Smith evolves into a virus that can copy himself at an infinite capacity unto any other program or being he comes into contact with. Smith even copies himself onto a resistance soldier named Bane, and manages to use his body to try and assassinate Neo in the real world. The effort fails, but not before his actions lend Trinity the fatal wound that kills her in The Matrix Revolutions .With his ever growing power, the Smith virus permeates the whole Matrix system and soon threatens to destroy both the human world and the machine world. The Oracle tells Neo that Smith is his opposite, his negative, essentially his arch nemesis, and that the fate of both worlds will come down to a final battle between the both of them. Neo battles his enemy for one last time before he finally defeats Smith and renders his virus completely deleted and purged from the Matrix. Show less «