Seraph
The Oracle's guardian, a program who fights to authenticate those who seek her.
Seraph (portrayed by Collin Chou) is a supporting character in The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions: an exiled program who guards the Oracle. He is described as the personification of a sophisticated challenge-handshake authentication protocol, effectively a login screen that fights the user to authenticate their identity, and he is the medium through which the Oracle contacts people in the real world.
Lore & Background
Neo first meets Seraph after being summoned by the Oracle in The Matrix Reloaded; after confirming Neo's identity by fighting him to a stalemate, Seraph takes him through one of the Matrix's many backdoors to the Oracle. In The Matrix Revolutions, he accompanies Morpheus and Trinity to Club Hel and convinces the Merovingian and the Trainman to release Neo from Mobil Avenue. He then guards Sati but is unable to stop the multiplying Smiths from assimilating both of them, and he is set free after Neo reloads the Matrix.
Reader's Guide
Seraph's code appears golden, unlike the rest of the Matrix, which appears green. The Merovingian and other denizens of Club Hel note that he is an exiled program formerly employed by the Merovingian, and The Matrix Online hints that he was once a Seraphim, the equivalent of Agents in a previous incarnation of the Matrix, whose wings were burnt away when he betrayed the Merovingian. He appears again in The Matrix Online, protecting the Oracle. The role was first offered to Michelle Yeoh, who declined because of a scheduling conflict; the character was changed to a male and offered to Jet Li, and after Li declined, Collin Chou signed on.
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