History Anime / TheAnimatrix

** The entire plot thread with Zero One establishing an industrial base which ends up supplying the rest of the world is based on utterly ludicrous premise that they could somehow condense their manufacturing base into a single city. In the real world, no one location has access to every single thing necessary needed for the kind of complex technology they're producing (those not lucky enough to have access to various necessary elements or specialized technologies have to buy them from those who do have them) and a complex product like a vehicle consists of dozens, if not hundreds of facilities that realize various phases of production (mining minerals, processing them, producing components which are later assembled into more complex machines elsewhere, et cetera). Unless the Machines developed matter replication technology, they could never fit all the necessary facilities into their one city no matter how efficiently they used the space.

** However, that technology was put to military use by humans during the war already. High-altitude bombers dropping nukes on Zero-One and spraying the nanites during Operation Dark Storm sequence are propelled by the very same hover pads that were propelling the hover car and which were much later used by ships of Zion.

* NukeEm: The first attack of the war is a massive nuclear bombardment of 01 by the UN air force (it doesn't work). Later in the war, as the human armies are being overrun by machines, they desperately drop nukes on top of their own troops [[TakingYouWithMe to try to slow their advance]].

* UnreliableExpositor: The whole story is told from the machine point of view. Considering its over-the-top portray of humanity as a whole as puppy-kicking bastards, and the bizarre HollywoodTactics on display, it's very easy to conclude it as nothing else than self-justification of the war and eventual enslavement of humans.

* FantasticRacism: Part I reveals the catalyst of the entire Man-Machine war with hardworking, intelligent androids being abused and mistreated by their corrupt human masters. It gets to point where one of them actually kills his human master not wanting to be demolished, causing an outcry and mass panic triggering a worldwide eradication of machines. Several instances depicted [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything reference]] and [[AnAesop even mimic various real-life social revolutions]] such as the Slave Trade, the Civil Rights Movement, The Tiananmen Square Massacre and The Vietnam War.

* TheDogBitesBack: Pretty much the basis of the story. While it's left somewhat vague in the movies, this confirms that [[ForWantOfANail it all could've been avoided]] if humans treated the machines better.

* ForWantOfANail: All this wouldn't have happened if not for Gerrard E. Krause. (That's the rich man who owned B1-66ER and wanted him replaced and destroyed in the first place.)

* BlownAcrossTheRoom: [[spoiler:Cis punches Kaiser so hard he ends up on a floor, few steps away. What makes it ''really'' stand out is the fact she did it in real world and not inside simulation]].