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| Lora Baines Bradley | |
| Biographical information | |
| Username | N/A |
| Birth Date | N/A (possibly 1954) |
| Death Date | 1994 (Tron 2.0 Canon)
Unknown in Main Timeline Canon |
| Physical description | |
| Gender | Female |
| Hair Color | Blond |
| Eye Color | Blue |
| Other information | |
| Functions | ENCOM Programmer and Developer of Digitization technology |
| Programs | Yori, Ma1a, Ma2a, Ma3a |
| Vehicles | ENCOM Van |
| Allies | Alan Bradley, Kevin Flynn, Walter Gibbs |
| Out of universe information | |
| Actor | Cindy Morgan |
| Appearances | TRON, TRON 2.0, TRON: The Ghost in the Machine |
Played by actress Cindy Morgan, Lora Baines (in TRON 2.0, Lora Bradley) is one of the key characters in TRON, and although this character dies in the intervening time between the first move and the TRON 2.0 video game, is mentioned extensively during the game and is critical to the game plot.
Although Lora's age and background are not known, she is first introduced during the movie as a computer scientist (and perhaps physicist) working directly for Walter Gibbs, the founder of ENCOM. Lora works in the digitization lab at Encom.
During the movie, she learns from her then-boyfriend (and later husband) Alan Bradley, that his access has been canceled due to a security breach within Encom.
Lora is immediately suspicious that a former boyfriend and ex-Encom employee, Kevin Flynn, may have been behind the security breach.
It is Lora who decides to warn Flynn that Ed Dillinger, the CEO of Encom, knows about the attempts to hack in to Encom.
When Flynn admits that it was him, Lora convinces her skeptical boyfriend that Flynn's motives are honest and ultimately creates the team that will defeat the MCP by offering to drive them into Encom so Flynn can hack access into the MCP to locate evidence that his games were stolen by Ed Dillinger.
Lora breaks Flynn into the digitizing lab where he is digitized by the MCP and taken to the world on the other side of the screen.
While in the system, Lora's program is named Yori and is likewise in a relationship with Tron, reflecting their real world counterparts.
Although Kevin Flynn is clearly still in love with Lora, he respects that she is no longer with him, although he does express his feelings for Yori, her counterpart, while in the digital world, despite the fact that she is in a relationship with Tron, introducing her to the concept of a kiss.
Later in the Movie, a less formal Lora is seen, clearly still with Alan Bradley and as Kevin Flynn is introduced as the new CEO of Encom, the three are clearly good friends, bonded by their experience together.
TRON 2.0 Canon
As the preceding story for TRON 2.0 begins, Lora and Alan announce that they are having a child in May 1982 and ask Flynn to become the godfather of their child (which he agrees to).
This is believed to be very shortly after the setting of TRON.
Lora's son, Jethro Eugene Bradley is born, possibly the couple's only child, in December 1982.
In 1984, Lora discovers that there are serious problems with the digitizing process that cannot be sorted out at the time with their limited knowledge of computer technology now that the MCP has gone.
In 1988, Lora Bradley develops the Math Assistant One Audio application - Ma1a, which is a generic voice-interactive application to front-end a research tool.
In 1990, Kevin Flynn leaves Encom as Gibbs Jr (Believed to be Walter Gibbs son) takes over, but Lora and Flynn stay in touch.
In 1994, what is believed to be the digitizing laser misfires in the Lab. Lora is fatally wounded in the accident.
Although Lora's death at this point provides some of the plot elements with respect to her son Jethro's relationship with his father, it is Lora's "continuance" in Ma1a, which becomes Ma2a shortly after her death that is the most significant plot continuance mechanism.
Although there is no specific suggestion in the game TRON 2.0, it is suggested via rumour that by 1996, Ma2a, the upgrade to Ma1a, is showing traits similar to Lora. It is also suggested that the voice of Ma2a is very much like Lora's and some plot elements with Ma3a suggest that Lora's spirit lives on inside the computer in Ma3a.
TRON: Legacy
In the official TRON Universe canon, Lora survived to the present day and is still married to Alan Bradley.
Although Lora does not appear in the actual TRON: Legacy movie, Lora has appeared at events that are a part of the Flynn Lives ARG that promotes it, such as a press conference to announce Space Paranoids Online which was interrupted-first by members of the Flynn Lives Organization, then by a skydiving Sam Flynn.