Ed Dillinger
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| Ed Dillinger | |
| Biographical information | |
| Username | 00 - Dillinger |
| Birth Date | N/A (possibly 1941) |
| Death Date | N/A |
| Physical description | |
| Gender | Male |
| Hair Color | Blond |
| Eye Color | Blue |
| Other information | |
| Functions | Senior Executive at ENCOM (former ENCOM Programmer) |
| Programs | MCP, Sark |
| Vehicles | ENCOM Helicopter |
| Allies | Peter |
| Out of universe information | |
| Actor | David Warner |
| Appearances | Tron |
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Ed Dillinger is one of the main villains in Tron and wrote Sark and the Master Control Program. He was a programmer when he started his job at ENCOM, but soon climbed the ranks until he reached Senior Executive, thanks to his MCP program. Little did everyone at ENCOM knew that Dillinger wrote the MCP to appropriate any program that was considered useful. One of these programs was the game "Space Paranoids" which was actually created by former employee Kevin Flynn.
After the termination of the MCP by Tron and Flynn, Dillinger was presumably exposed as a fraud and was sent to jail. Which co-incides with the scenario the MCP presented to Dillinger in the film.
[edit] Skills
While regarded as "Not too bright" by Flynn, Dillinger had more than enough programming skill to convert the MCP into the corporate raiding tool that facillitated his rise to power. And he clearly possessed enough skill and buisness acumen to raise ENCOM from it's humble beginnings in a garage to the corporate giant it was at the start of the movie.
[edit] Trivia
- It is suggested that either Flynn or Dillinger is the CEO of fCon. Dillinger is more likely the true CEO, given the similarity of the names. Plus the voice heard had more of a British accent and the CEO's tactics had a decidedly ruthless methodology to them.
- Dillinger probably wouldn't have faced more than 5 years of jail time with a good lawyer, that would give him plenty of time to found FCon and develop it into a powerful corporation strong enough to be a contender to ENCOM.
