Data Pusher

Two Data Pushers. Some data pushers are the most unique (and bizarre) programs in the computer world. For example the program on the right has hair - a very rare trait among programs.

Data Pushers are civilian programs who's purpose are never fully explained. In Tron, Yori and Tron have a short conversation about the data pushers.

• Tron: Who are all these weirdos?
• Yori: Inoperative data pushers.
• Tron: Control programs!

It seems that they have no sense of what is currently going on around them and only care about minimal routines, like taking care of their users and ordinary tasks. For example, in the movie Tron, when Flynn crashes his recognizer, he falls out and announces to all of the data pushers that he's "fine" and notices that no one is paying attention to him. He then remarks to himself sarcastically, "This town is full of live ones."

"Watch out for nested macros."

Flynn walks by some data pushers, shortly after he crashed his Recognizer.