How good a hacker Anderson was is unclear, but from context our game stats assume that he’s really, really good. If so his acumen is limited to the technical side of the job and perhaps the usual social engineering techniques — since generally he is, as the Oracle put it, “none too bright”. Aside from his technical skills he’s an everyman, though over the course of the movie he unearths more heroic resource, particularly when it comes to courage.

Neo’s avatar in the Matrix quickly becomes as least as powerful as the avatar of a particularly mighty human partisan such as Morpheus. He then becomes able to fight hand-to-hand at least as well as Morpheus, but unlike him also routinely employs firearms.

Later on, Neo starts accessing his abilities as the Chosen One, making his Matrix avatar operate on a super-heroic level.

History

Thomas Anderson is just a bland, somewhat awkward computer programming nerd. By day, he works (with little discipline) at a big, Microsoft-like computer corporation ; by night he’s the skilled and respected hacker called “Neo”. He sells unspecified illegal programs, which he presumably writes himself.

Everything seems normal, although somewhere in Neo’s subconscious hangs a strange, apparently meaningless question : “what is the Matrix ?”.

Description

In the Real World, Thomas is noticeably less muscular than in his Neo Matrix persona.

Personality

Anderson is a geek. He’s confused, socially unskilled and clumsy, easily impressed and somewhat shy. He’s neither courageous nor decisive. However, he has a burning desire to learn the truth, which leads him to accept Morpheus’ offer.

He underwent a crash growth in his role as Neo, taking initiatives instead of just standing there looking miserable. The tipping point was when he had to take the decision to rescue Morpheus and rescue him.