Did the agents know Neo was The One?

The name is Neo.
The agents know of Neo prior to Morpheus contacting him as Cypher has told them to prove himself as a spy.
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How did the agents know about Neo?

The Agents had a spy in Morpheus's team, remember. And it takes them essentially zero time to get from one place within the Matrix to another. Presumably, they tracked the call. @HarryJohnston - The presumption is that the agents were on their way to Neo's office BEFORE Neo took the call.
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Who told Morpheus that Neo is The One?

Nobody told Morpheus that Neo was the one. The oracle told Morpheus that he would find The One, not who it would be. And after spending so long looking, it really is probably as simple as he just had a feeling.
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Was Neo actually The One?

Trinity, seeing Neo die in the real world while his mind is still in the Matrix, tells his evidently lifeless body that the Oracle had foretold that she would fall in love with the One. When kissed by Trinity, Neo comes back to life, finally fully emerging as the One.
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Why did the Oracle tell Neo he wasn't The One?

The Oracle's role was not to tell Neo that he was the One, but to set him on the right journey. She had to set him on an adventure of self-discovery. One final point to make comes right after the Oracle tells Neo that he's waiting for something.
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Film Theory: Neo ISN'T The One in The Matrix Trilogy



Does Neo only see in code?

The character Neo is the only human that can see the code of which avatars are composed while in the Matrix, and is therefore able to see their "true" digital form. By contrast, some programs are not seen as part of the green code, but as golden code (e.g., Seraph).
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Why does Trinity think Neo is The One?

Trinity's Love

The Oracle told Trinity that she would fall in love with a man, and that man would be "The One." Trinity's revelation of her deep feelings for Neo is the spark that causes Neo to acquire his fantastic abilities and overcome Agent Smith.
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Did Morpheus think Cypher was The One?

In The Matrix, Cypher is the most human character in the story because he has doubt. Cypher was born of Morpheus. Cypher didn't just show up. He was allegedly “the one.” If you look at the movie again, Morpheus had picked Cypher as “the one” even though he was not the one.
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Why can Neo see after he is blinded?

By going blind, Neo obtains a "third eye" through which he can perceive the true nature of things, instead of being fooled by their external appearances. It is this true sight that guides him through the climax of the series and allows him to defeat Agent Smith.
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What did they put in Neo's belly button?

In The Matrix, after refusing to cooperate during interrogation by Agents Smith, Brown and Jones, Neo has a bug planted inside his abdomen where the process jarringly played out like a rape; Smith placed the activated bug on the panicked Neo's belly as his cohorts held the latter on the table, leaving him helplessly ...
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Why do the agents try to stop Neo?

The Agents aren't targeting Neo, they're trying to capture Morpheus so that they can acquire the access codes to the Zion mainframe. The Agents therefore use Neo as bait to lead them to Morpheus.
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Is The Oracle Smith's mother?

I understood her being called the mother of Smith to mean that the oracle reproduced Smith after he was destroyed in the first movie because she saw the potential for him to create the conditions wherein peace could brokered between humans and the machines.
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Is Neo human or a program?

Like most humans, Neo is born in a vat in one of the machines' farms. His brain is jacked into the Matrix from birth, and he is raised as Thomas Anderson, just another unremarkable citizen of Mega City.
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Was Agent Smith actually The One?

In the end, Neo and Agent Smith fuse together, which means that Smith joins with the source, which is the stated eventual goal of The One. So basically, Neo isn't so much The One, as he is the conduit by which Agent Smith is used to be the One.
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Why does Cypher betray them?

Why does Cypher betray Morpheus? Because Morpheus' role to support the rite of passage into adulthood is worthless if it is better to remain a child, and Cypher rejects the truth. Also, as an allegory it illustrates how futile it is to attempt to return to the child state; once we know, we cannot unknow.
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Is Cypher in love with Trinity?

Cypher also possessed strong feelings of lust towards Trinity whom he thought he was in love with and disturbingly informed that he had dreams of her. This did not stop him however from betraying and attempting to murder her like the rest.
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Who was the one before Neo?

The One that came before Neo was a legendary human figure who could shape the Matrix at will. He freed many humans from the machines who then created the underground city of Zion.
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What did Trinity say the Oracle told her?

Just before Agent Smith appears, Trinity says to Neo: "Neo, I want to tell you something, but I'm afraid of what it will mean if I do. Everything the Oracle told me has come true... everything but this." She hesitates, and then Smith shows up to kill them and interrupts her.
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Why can Neo stop the Sentinels?

Considering the Matrix to be part of a greater machine network – a wireless hive mind – Neo's abilities don't seem as far-fetched. His new “system admin” privileges allowed him to control sentinels and forced them to shut down even outside the Matrix.
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What was Trinity's prophecy?

Near the end of the first film, after he is killed by Agent Smith inside the Matrix, she speaks to his interfaced physical body and reveals that the Oracle told her that she would fall in love with The One, a prophesied individual capable of manipulating the Matrix to an unprecedented degree.
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How did Neo's eyes heal?

During the fight, Smith's avatar uses an electrical cable to blind Neo, scarring his face. While his powers allow him to regain a type of sight, Neo remains physically blinded for the rest of the film, still wearing bloodied bandages over his eyes at the time of his death.
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How could Neo see without eyes?

According to the Wiki: Bane, who has stowed away on the Logos, takes Trinity hostage. Neo realizes that Bane has been assimilated by Smith. Bane cauterizes Neo's eyes with a power cable, blinding him; however, Neo discovers an ability to perceive the world as golden light.
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Why is Seraph's code gold?

He may have gold code because the Seraphim may have been real machines jacked into the Matrix (and the use of purely software Agents was developed later), or it may have something to do with his special role of guarding the Oracle ("that which matters most"). Humans appear in green code in the Matrix, too.
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