- Persephone (The Matrix)
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name = Persephone
series = The Matrix
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first =The Matrix Reloaded
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creator =Wachowski Brothers
portrayer =Monica Bellucci
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species = Computer Program
gender = Female
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The Matrix Reloaded " and "The Matrix Revolutions ", Persephone (played byMonica Bellucci ) is the wife of The Merovingian. She seems bored with her existence in the Matrix, and is disaffected from her husband (possibly because of his dalliances).She is attracted to Neo and offers to help him if he kisses her with the same passion with which he has kissed Trinity. Reluctantly, he complies, and she helps him free The Keymaker.
Persephone uses a distinctive four-barreled
handgun , loaded with silver bullets, to shoot awerewolf who is in her husband's employ. The gun is aCOP 357 Derringer ; the same gun was used by replicant Leon Kowalski inBlade Runner .Persephone also encounters and takes a kiss from both Niobe and Ghost (depending on whose story you follow) in the video game "
Enter The Matrix ". She seems to be able to deduce the feelings and emotions of those she kisses, noting Niobe's love for Morpheus, and Ghost'sunrequited love for Trinity. She apparently takes deep pleasure in sampling the emotions of others.In "The Matrix Revolutions", Persephone is seen briefly and warns The Merovingian that Trinity would indeed kill everyone in
Club Hel to free Neo from the Train Station, simply because she is inlove . This leads viewers to believe that Persephone perceives and understands love, and may be disheartened by thecynicism of her husband, who seems to be driven solely bygreed andlust .The character takes her name from the
Persephone inGreek mythology , who is the daughter ofZeus andDemeter , and whomHades took to theunderworld to be his queen. There are allusions throughout the movie that The Merovingian works in the Matrix as an analogue toHades , including his presence in Club Hel, his unhappy marriage to Persephone, and his existence as one of the oldest beings in the Matrix universe, specifically as the one in charge of "lost souls."Online
Persephone gave the location of the Assassin's hide-out to Zion operatives in a critical mission relating to the Death Of A Destroyer event.
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