Deus Ex Machina
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The Deus Ex Machina[1] is the central interface of the Machine City. It creates a humanoid "face" from by a swarm of flying insect-like droids, which it uses to communicate.
Neo, after managing to fly past the city defenses in the hovercraft Logos, confronts the Machine entity and offers a proposal: In exchange for removing the out-of-control program, Smith, the Machines call a truce against Zion and humanity in the centennial Machine War.
The Deus Ex Machina, reflecting the intolerance that humanity once showed Machines, initially rejects Neo's assessment that Smith will destroy both the Matrix and the Machine City, but Neo convinces it of the truth.
After Neo is jacked into the Matrix, the Deus monitors the situation. It appears that, after Neo willingly allows himself to be assimilated by Smith, two objectives occur that allow Smith's deletion. First, Smith is now directly connected to a hard-line connected entity: Neo's avatar. Second, in assimilating Neo, Smith has completed the purpose he redefined for himself.
Moments after Neo is assimilated, the Deus appears to send a massive surge of energy through Neo's body, presumably a deletion program that wipes out the Smith/Neo avatar and destroys all other copies of Smith's code throughout the Matrix.
The Deus gathers Neo's body reverently in preparation of reinsertion of the Prime Program to reload the Matrix.
The "face" of Deus Ex Machina is the face of a human, formed by thousands of tiny machines. The body of the Deus is a large, half-globe with hundreds of long spines.
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- ↑ This is the character's name, directly from the credits. This is amusing as "deus ex machina" literally means "god from a machine" and the character itself serves the literary purpose of a deus ex machina.
