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What would happen if you refused both pills?


Say you just walk out of the room with everything you know up to that point, what would happen?

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You'd make Morpheus sad. And when Morpheus gets sad, the Oracle gets angry. And when the Oracle gets angry, the Architect will erase you from the grid. So you better take a pill, mister!

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You'd make Morpheus sad. And when Morpheus gets sad, the Oracle gets angry. And when the Oracle gets angry, the Architect will erase you from the grid. So you better take a pill, mister!

heh Criztu has it right.

It is best to not think of the pills as real things. They are just symbolic within the movie. The choice Morpheus offers Neo is a choice being offered to the audience as well:

Will you keep your eyes shut as you live your life in this corrupt and illusory world? Or will you decide to open them?


Neo is just a fictional character. When the Wachowskis first made The Matrix they hoped to open some eyes in their audience. You can see the same desire to inspire revolution in V For Vendetta.

By now, and with Jupiter Ascending, I think they have given up their aspirations for creating a new world order via their movies.

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Ha ha.

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Then you would have a totally different movie, one they chose not to make. The explanation is so simple I find myself wondering why anyone would ask it.

Trinity

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Nothing really.

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Say you just walk out of the room with everything you know up to that point, what would happen?


I highly doubt that's an option.

The blue pill is merely a symbolic placebo...the problem is choice.

But I think that refusal to take either pill would result in something unpleasant. The Redpills use the red pill to locate the body of the person they are freeing in the power plant. (I have a pet theory that it also "kills" the consumer.) It is a "trace program". This makes it likely that the blue pill also has an effect.

The simplest explanation is that the blue pill just knocks you out so that the crew can put you back where you belong. This seems like a lot of risk and effort to undergo for someone who WON'T be rescued. So I submit that the pill "resets" you. Similar to the way that Neo was "reset" after the interrogation scene with the agents.

While "physically" transporting someone while inside the Matrix would do the trick, it is inefficient. Since this is a simulation, all the Machines need to do is render a Bluepill unconscious and then set their location to "home in bed".

This may also be a post-possession tactic as well. Unless the agent possessing you suffers fatal damage, in which case the host simply dies.

So my guess is that you will not be allowed to leave the room without taking one pill or the other and that the Blue pill sends you directly to familiar surroundings.

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You just chill in the matrix with the knowledge of it being fake, if you accept it you just live out your life but if you can't and are changed, I guess the Agents come for you and kill you or something.

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If you refuse both, the third option is an enema.

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It's suggested in the online game that the choice of pills is just symbolic. If you don't choose the red pill the blue pill would be chosen for you by default. They wouldn't even have to force it down your throat. You would just wake up the next day and not remember what they showed you.

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If you don't choose the red pill the blue pill would be chosen for you by default.


This. No choice is a choice for staying in the Matrix and against leaving so by walking out you've essentially chosen the blue pill.

You would just wake up the next day and not remember what they showed you.


I'm not sure if you get mind wiped, though. Morpheus claimed that taking the blue pill would result in Neo waking up in his bed where he could then believe whatever he wanted to believe. The implication, to me, is that Neo would remember what happened but he could convince himself that it was a dream if he wanted to or he could, alternatively, believe it as real but choose to go on with his life in the Matrix. I'm also not sure that I buy that the blue pill does absolutely nothing and waking up in one's bed (with or without one's memories) would happen entirely from a placebo response, and I instead prefer to think of the blue pill as a simple sedative that they use to help facilitate the dream illusion. But, rejection of the red pill is, nonetheless, symbolic of acceptance of the Matrix as one's reality so taking the blue pill means you're probably going to go with the dream explanation.

Likewise, if you walk out the door and you don't suddenly wake up in your bed or have the blue pill forced on you it doesn't change anything as you can still both go with the latter option or swap out believing it was a dream with it being a psychotic break/hallucination, but it's still rejection of the red pill so it means you're likely someone who would go with psychotic break/hallucination to rationalize what just happened to you. And, for that reason, even if the blue pill is a sedative they may just let a person walk out because, to them, the waking up as if from a dream option was a bit nicer but unless it also wipes their memories then it wouldn't make a whole lot of difference to them.

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Better yet, what if you swallowed one, while at the same time, shoved the other up your ass? What if you only took half of one of the pills, or took half of the blue and two thirds of the red? We'll never know...or will we? Nope.

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