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>4. Why did "Smith/Bane?" cut his hand and then just simply
>tell Neo "oh...good luck." If it is Smith that is Bane, then
>wouldn't that be effing with the cycle, since he survived
>the Zion attack? And if Smith is Bane, and can change BACK
>to the person he took over, then why can he bleed and be
>human? If Smith could take over a human, but still
>maintained human attributes, then Neo would have easily
>killed some of those Smith clones. And why would Bane have
>survived the attack, if he was still just human -- this part
>is confusing the more I think about it.


he was gonna try and kill neo, by stabbin' him in his back, but the boy called neo and eliminated the element of surprise. he was cuttin' his hand to experience the new human sensation that he previously never experienced.

they are still in hte matrix, even in zion, which is another level of the matrix. that's why neo and smith still had certain powers.