Bane
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Bane was a crew member of the hovercraft Caduceus. He later became the Real World vessel for a Smith.
[edit] Biography
Bane was first seen in the Crisis Meeting with his crewmates. When Ballard volunteered to stay behind to wait for Oracle's message, he stayed behind with Malachi. After receiving the message, they were chased by clones of Smith. Just after Malachi jacked out of the Matrix, but before he could do so himself, Bane was attacked by a Smith.
This Smith overpowered then possessed him, overwriting Bane's mind and taking his place in the Matrix. A prize opportunity was suddenly available: Smith had a mind in a redpill's body, and a phone ringing next to him (the Caduceus still expecting Bane to pick up). He could now expand his reach beyond the Matrix, with a chance to destroy the resistance as well as his nemesis, Neo. Smith picked up the phone and jacked out.
Now free to roam the real world, Smith walked among the citizens of Zion using Bane's body. During his time in Zion, Bane-Smith cut himself with a knife (thereby experiencing pain for the first time) and later approached Neo in the intent to stab him before he could board the Nebuchadnezzar. Bane-Smith aborted this plan when Neo's attention was drawn in his direction by the approach of Kid, who came to see Neo on his way.
During a Zion Council meeting, he tried to convince his captain to join in the search for the Nebuchadnezzar, but Ballard refused.
Bane-Smith later sabotaged the Zion counterattack against the burrowing Machine forces by prematurely triggering the EMP on the Caduceus. The blast disabled many of the other hovercraft in the counterstrike, just before the Machines hit their front line. Bane-Smith survived the attack and was later discovered unconscious by the crew of the Hammer. He was placed in their medical bay alongside an also unconscious Neo.
After coming round and being asked about the failure of the counterattack and his self-inflicted wounds, Bane-Smith claimed that he could not remember what happened. However, just before Neo and Trinity left on the Logos for the Machine City, Bane-Smith murdered the Hammer's doctor with a scalpel and escaped, stowing away on the Logos.
Hiding in the engine rooms, Bane-Smith removed a couple of fuses to cause an engine failure, then took Trinity hostage when she turned up to fix it. As she had managed to raise the alarm, Neo rushed down to save her, armed with a Lightning Rifle. After forcing Neo to drop the weapon, Bane-Smith threw Trinity into the fuse room so she couldn't interfere. He took the Rife, held Neo at gunpoint and revealed his true identity, but just as he was about to fire, Trinity pulled out another fuse, plunging the room into darkness.
The shot missed as Neo grabbed the weapon, and the two stuggled; Bane-Smith gained the upper hand, and used a power conduit severed by the Rifle to cauterize Neo's eyes, blinding him. Bane-Smith hid in the darkness, wielding a steel pipe and taunting Neo. This was when Neo discovered that his new powers as The One allowed him to 'see' the golden auras of anything connected to The Source - While he could no longer see Bane's body, he could see Smith's code inside it.
Just as the unwitting Bane-Smith lunged forward, Neo disarmed Bane-Smith and struck him in the head with his own pipe, killing him. This was seen in Neo's "Source vision" as Smith shattering.
