Alan Bradley
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| Alan Bradley | |
 "Not if my Tron program is running...that shut the system down." | |
| Gender: | Male |
|---|---|
| Lifeform: | Human User |
| Jobs/Functions: | ENCOM Programmer |
| Circuitry Color: | none |
| Vehicle: | none |
| Tron calls him, "Alan One" | |
Alan Bradley (known to Tron as Alan-One) is a fictional character in the TRON universe. The character was performed in the movie TRON by actor Bruce Boxleitner.
[edit] Biography
[edit] The Film
In the early 80's, Alan Bradley was a brilliant, young computer programmer dating Lora Baines. Alan and Lora worked for ENCOM, a computer company. He wrote a security program called Tron, which was designed to police ENCOM's software systems from both external and internal threats. Tron was a threat to Ed Dillinger's Master Control Program (MCP). The MCP was an artificial intelligence (AI) which lacked any sort of ethical restrictions and was operating in secret to take absolute command over all ENCOM systems and software. It was brutally efficient and planned to expand out into other networks.
Alan Bradley assisted Kevin Flynn in trespassing on ENCOM property, so that Flynn could search for information to incriminate Ed Dillinger in stealing his game ideas. Unfortunately, the MCP had control over Alan's [[Digitization|digitizing laser] and used it to force Flynn into the ENCOM computer system.
Alan takes a backseat for the rest of the film, as all the action moves to the digital world. He helps out Flynn and Tron by providing them the code to destroy the MCP, before the final confrontation. In the final scenes, it was implied that Alan had been promoted, and Flynn was re-hired to a high-ranking position within ENCOM, possibly replacing Dillinger.
[edit] The Game
In Tron 2.0, Alan Bradley was widowed, his wife, Lora, having been killed in an unspecified accident that may have involved the digitizing technology. Alan and Lora had one child, Jethro, before Lora was killed.
A rival company, fCon, bought out ENCOM with plans to use the digitizing process to invade the computer world. The MCP of 20 years ago, held the secrets of the original process and with his destruction the algorithms were lost. Alan had been working to restore the process, finally, meeting success with the help of his new AI assistant program, Ma3a.
Alan was kidnapped by the main fCon antagonists, when he refused to hand over the correction algorithms to the digitizing process. Ma3a used the digitizing laser on Jet, since he would be much more able to help his father and stop fCon from inside. Once again, Alan took a back seat during most of the storyline, only contacting his son to provide pertinent information and move the plot line forward.
Eventually, the fCon villains forcefully digitized Alan into a dangerous, virus-ridden computer for his meddling and lack of cooperation. Alan and Jet worked together from this point -- father as the brains, and son as the brawn. Alan transported back into the real world at the conclusion of the game.
