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The Matrix is about as rebellious as Harry Potter. Both feature "chosen" characters proceeding to take their rightful place at the top. Dane/Jack Frost is too, but almost all the other Invisibles characters are born more or less normal people--maybe a bit smarter or enterprising than most--but look for (King Mob, Ragged Robin, Jolly Roger) or are pushed into (Lord Fanny, Boy) the extraordinary. Mason Lang is a tourist, but a really cool one. But it's more of a team effort than the Matrix, which is God and two apostles who kick ass.
If the Stars My Destination were made into a movie it would be rebellious. Its hero is a nobody who finds the will to become great and ends up turning the solar system upside down. He literally becomes Prometheus, but doesn't lose his liver over it. (I haven't read the sequel The Deceivers, so I could be wrong.)
Also, the Invisibles change the world so that everyone can be their own superheor, if that's what they want (then Bicycle Repairman will be king!). I'll have to wait if Matrix Revolutions ends the same way or Neo is just a puppet who finally learns his lines and can help the Frankenstein Computer God (aka the Architect) fix the broken world so that everyone is actively happy (instead of passively sort of happy).
So on the above basis, I guess The Matrix owes a bit less to GM. |
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