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The Kid gets a personal invitation from Neo , The One, to escape The Matrix. The following day, he is chased through his high school by a band of Agents, and ultimately is cornered on the roof. He asserts his faith in Neo, and throws himself from the roof - it promptly cuts to his funeral. The short fades up from black as The Kid awakens in the real world to see Neo and Trinity watching over him. They remark that he has achieved "self substantiation" (removing oneself from the Matrix without external aid), which was considered impossible. However, in both the short itself and '' The Matrix Reloaded '' The Kid seems to believe it was Neo's actions, not his own, that saved him.

Self-substantiation is never thoroughly discussed in any part of the series, however Dan in the ''Animatrix'' short, "World Record" similarly manages to exit the matrix without the use of a Red Pill.


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  • The school in the film is based on two schools in the located in Alameda, California , and Berkeley High School in Berkeley, California .

  • The teacher in the film is based on the former Vice Principal of Alameda High.

  • The main character of this story later appears as a minor character in The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions and emerges as the leader of "E Pluribus Neo", a break-away faction from Zion in the The Matrix Online game that takes place after Revolutions.

  • This is the only one of the animated shorts contained in "The Animatrix" which Keanu Reaves appears in.

  • The protagonist's name, Michael Karl Popper, is an obvious allusion to Austrian philosopher Karl Popper , who rejected the traditional conception of induction, which held that a scientific hypothesis may be verified through the accumulation of confirming observations, arguing instead that scientific hypotheses can at best only be falsified - an ideal fit to the theme of the Matrix.



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