The Cameo: You can talk to Trinity when on the Matrix console, but it's pre-automated.

Button Mashing: Especially during Bullet Time.

Bullet Time: Par for the course, being a game set in the Matrix universe.

The Brute: Vlad note If you play as Niobe and Cujo note If you play as Ghost serve as this to the Merovingian.

Bare Your Midriff: Niobe in the post office levels.

Captain Soren, another background character from the movies, has a major subplot where the player helps him rescue one of his crew from the agents.

In this game, Ghost becomes the protagonist (if you choose to play as him) and Sparks is the always-present Plucky Comic Relief. Niobe is a fairly important supporting character in the movies, but her two subordinates were just background characters with extremely brief appearances.

All There in the Manual: In this case, the game is the manual for The Matrix Reloaded - several scenes in the movie only get full meaning after you've seen them from the game side.

Trinity: Is that why so many saints are blind? Ghost: Like Augustine, I'm dedicated to a higher purpose.

Enter the matrix