#Red pill blue pill matrix quote Offline

When Neo is first shown the reality of the Real World and The Matrix, he begins to go into convulsions and Cypher opines that 'he is going to pop', suggesting that it is not uncommon for Redpills to die when they find out the truth. Removing a bluepill who has lived long enough in the Matrix could be dangerously overwhelming for them to the point that they're driven insane or even suicidal in their inability to adapt to the radically different circumstances of the real world. It's important to note that resistance members make it a rule to only free someone from the Matrix before they reach a certain age. Humans who suddenly awaken appear to be instantly rejected by docbots, who disconnect them from their pod's umbilicals and eject their body to the old sewer system of the ancient human cities, where the hovercraft crew retrieves the freed human.

#Red pill blue pill matrix quote Offline

The pill is actually a tracing program that disrupts the carrier signal of the pod-human's mind, making it possible for a hovercraft operator to locate the pod that holds the human, and sending commands that force it to go offline and awaken its inhabitant.

The term gets its name from the color of the virtual pill given by a hovercraft operative (who has re-materialized inside the Matrix as an avatar) to a human still living out a life within the Matrix.