5 Things I want to see happen in The Matrix 5 (that totally could happen too!)

 In contrast to the somewhat satisfying closure capping off the third installment of The Matrix trilogy, the newest installment left many things open ended in its tight recreation of the iconic final scene from the original movie wherein the new antagonist of the series played by Neil Patrick Harris warns Neo and Trinity that "The Sheeple aren't going anywhere" and survives. While this left many confused viewers (including me) scratching their heads, I believe this weird and wacky fourth installment could be laying the foundations for the most innovative and groundbreaking Matrix movies to grace the big screen! Hear me out: 

5) A new program is introduced as the Analyst's foil

In the original trilogy, we had a human-intuitive program known as the Oracle, and we had the emotionless Architect who was the program which designed the Matrix. Then, we got the Analyst who was an algamation of the two: a human-intuitive program calling the shots. Where the Oracle made predictions based on human behavior, would this new program make predictions using ... arithmancy?

4) More colors of Pills

I'm sure you remember the blue and red pills which were an iconic plot device from the first movie and were a staple of the marketing materials for The Matrix Resurrections, in which newcomer Bugs (as in Bunny) validates what we suspected all along when she said, "The choice is an illusion; you know what you have to do". But what would it take for the pills to actually provide a real choice? I believe there would have to be more than two choices. I mean really, either accept the illusion or be irrevocably freed from it? That's far too obvious! If a copperhead like me was given the option to live in an earlier version of the Matrix, now that would be something to write home about! Where's my green pill that can take me to the sixth iteration of the Matrix which fans unanimously argue was lightyears better than the seventh! Or how about a white pill which can allow me to live in the ideal-world first-iteration virgin Matrix? Never mind that the Architect said it failed because the people didn't accept it, it should work fine now that providing white pills would actually allow them to choose to accept it. Problem solved!

3) Agent Morpheus becomes a Seraphim

Speaking of the Virgin Matrix, let's talk about its version of Agents. I believe we met one in The Matrix Reloaded. Remember Seraph? "I protect what matters most"? The man who introduced Neo and us to the backdoors? Yes, him! Now that Neo and Trinity have taken charge of the Matrix, how do they intend to keep the peace now that there are Zionists and Cypherites running around? This job is too big for just the crew of the Mnemosyne to handle by themselves. There needs to be a team of programs just as there were in previous iterations. Iteration 6 had Agents, and for a while, the Analyst had his swarms of "bots" acting as his covert security in iteration 7. In iteration 1, the programs who maintained order were known as Seraphim. Reintroducing the Seraphim in iteration 7.5 would mean a return to old ideals and a true realization of the Architect's vision for the original Matrix. Just as the agents were led by Smith, it would make sense for the leader of the new seraphim to be led by someone who has had some experience being Smith. Could it be that Thomas Anderson was subconsciously grooming Morpheus to be a leading agent in a potential future reimagined Matrix? We already know that Morph was being groomed to be the means of helping Neo escape from the Analyst's new and improved Matrix.

2) Original Morpheus back from the dead

Speaking of Morpheus, weren't you also upset that Lawrence Fishburne didn't reprise his role in the new movie? And weren't you even more upset that he wasn't even asked? Well never fear, because the knowledge that he died sometime in the 60 years between Revolutions and Resurrections opens the door to his eventual return to the series; and heck, while we're at it, why not revive other characters from the original movie as well? One that's at the top of my list is having Belinda McClory sign on to reprise her role as Switch, a character that's still relevant today for reasons that make sense to the Wichowskis even more so than 25 years ago. And since Switch was good friends with Trinity, it would make sense for her to negotiate with the Suits to find her decaying body and reconstruct is, just as she and Neo had been reconstituted themselves.

"But wait a minute" I hear you say, "didn't the Analyst say that bringing Neo and Trinity back from the dead was 'crazy expensive'? I don't think either Neo nor Trinity have that kind of dough". Now that I think about it, what exactly did the Analyst offer to the Suits in exchange? Energy. That's right. And considering Neo lost his eyesight before he was killed by an electric shock, it would make sense that a lot of meticulous bioengineering would be needed to restore it to him. But why would the machines restore Neo's eyesight if the Analyst was only using him to improve the Matrix's energy output? I'm getting off topic. Anyhow, it wouldn't take as much work to revive Switch because the thing that killed her was getting forcibly disconnected by Cypher. If her body was preserved in cryostasis, all that would need to be done is reintegrating her archived code back into her and Ta-da! It is as easy to switch her back on as it was to switch her off. The same might be true of Morpheus since we don't know how he died. His body could have been preserved in cryostasis too. No reconstruction needed!

Unfortunately, since Tank was born and not grown, no trace of his code exists in any iteration of the Matrix, and so bringing him back from the dead using the same technology would be impossible. Which is too bad because Tank is such a cool guy! Maybe it's a good thing he can't be brought back. RIP Tank.

1) Smith regains his ability to assimilate programs and uses it

Agent Smith in The Matrix Resurrections seems to be having an identity crisis. At the beginning, he seems to think that he's Morpheus, and later on, he seems to think that he's Johnathan Groff. It's not until he picks up a handgun that he finds laying around on the floor that he realizes who he was always meant to be. And since bringing back Neo also brought back Smith, it falls to reason that when Neo was freed from the Matrix (the second time), Smith was free as well. He even says so himself in the movie:

 ... Once he got out, let's just say... I was free to be me.

Then he proceeded to shoot holes in the Analyst. Though, that didn't kill him. Though I'm not sure why the special ability that's most unique to Smith didn't end up getting used. Perhaps it's because Smith has yet to figure out that he still has that ability? When he does, he can finally defeat the Analyst once and for all by copying his own code onto him, turning the Analyst into a clone of Smith. Serves him right for using children-bots. This could even be a great opportunity to re-introduce Hugo Weaving back into the series. Now we could have two different versions of Smith coexisting in the same room ... until the classic Smith disagrees that his re-casting wasn't an improvement and promptly assimilates ... himself?

Things I want to see happen outside of the Matrix:

Agent Smith takes over the Abandoned city of Zion

Just like he always wanted to do in the first movie.

Also, having Smith take the red pill and manifest himself in the real world as a personage made from a swarm of tiny flying magnets, just as Agent Morpheus does in The Matrix Resurrections, this would allow Johnathan Groff to continue to perform the role even after being assimilated by Hugo Weaving.