Some notes about how the new Matrix movie seems to talk about non-binarity a lot and specifically about the character Bugs. SPOILERS AHEAD
Other people gendering Bugs
Trying to confirm if Bugs is canonically non-binary we look at the instances of Bugs being gendered in the movie. It seems that more often than not even if using a pronoun to refer to Bugs would be unambiguous and maybe even expected the characters will either use "Bugs" or "captain".
| 00:05:57 | Smith/Morpheus | Kill her. |
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| 01:18:43 | Freya | [talking to Niobe] Bugs has the same independence of mind she had the day you freed her. |
| 01:40:00 | Niobe | [talking to Neo] And do not rob my ex-captain of her agency, which she exercised with her own particular brand of shortsighted stupidity. |
(Maybe) Notable things
Some more things that either seem to hint that Bugs is non-binary or just non-binarity being a major theme in the movie.
| 00:07:48 | Bugs | My name is Bugs. As in "Bunny" [some people consider Bugs Bunny to be canonically genderfluid] |
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| 00:11:33 | Morpheus | [being offered pills] You call this a choice? |
| Bugs | Oh, honestly, when somebody offered me these things, I went off on binary conceptions of the world and said there was no way I was swallowing some symbolic reduction of my life. [...snip because long but it's great] [if we consider how Bugs looks and make a guess that Bugs was AFAB (only for lore analysis, don't do this to people), "symbolic reduction" could refer to the red/blue color of the pills as symbolic reductions of gender] |
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| 00:13:56 | [environment] | [the game Neo is working on is called Binary which, as a sequel to The Matrix,
is IMO very obviously meant that when cisnormative regime of (The Matrix) is gone
the next coercive regime we're faced with is the strict gender binary] [the poster on Neo's monitor subtitle] New: Binary gameplay revealed |
| 00:21:33 | The Analyst | [trying to explain away Neo's episode] Maybe it's not as binary as that. [i don't think this one is relevant, but they used the word "binary" where i think (i'm not a native speaker) it's more common to say "not so black and white" or some other euphemism instead of "binary"] |
| 00:42:55 | [environment] | [Bugs has a cartoon carrot on a t-shirt - Bugs Bunny, this doesn't say anything new but it's cute] |
| 01:28:07 | [environment] | [Bugs is wearing a split-skirt! (a Victorian skirt/pants hybrid)] |
| 01:28:44 | Smith | [talking to Neo] Look how binary is the form, the nature of things. Ones and zeros. Light and dark. Choice and its absence. Anderson and Smith. [this one probably isn't related but they said the word] |