MCP

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End of Line.

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Master Control Program
Biographical information
User	00 - Dillinger (He later denied that he had a User)
Compile Date	N/A
Derezzed Date	1981
Physical description
Circuitry Color	Red
Gender	Male
Other information
Functions	Dictator of the ENCOM system. Controlled the digitization hardware. Became self-aware and wanted to rule the world.
Weapons	Sark's Army
Allies	Sark, Sark's Lieutenant, Guards, Ed Dillinger
Out of universe information
Actor	David Warner (Uncredited), Corey Burton (Kingdom Hearts II)
Appearances	Tron, Tron (comic), Kingdom Hearts II
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The Master Control Program (or MCP), played by David Warner, is the main villain of Tron. It was a rogue computer program created by Ed Dillinger (also played by Warner) that ruled over the world inside ENCOM's mainframe computer. During the rule of the MCP, many programs were enslaved and forced to play games against the program's henchmen, led by Sark (also played by Warner).

Dillinger wrote the MCP to administer the company's computer network; however, the MCP had the capacity to learn and grew beyond the confines of its original programming. It began to steal data from other systems, and took control of several companies and institutions. Its intelligence - and ambition - grew nearly out of control, and the MCP grew to desire nothing less than world domination.

Eventually, however, the MCP caused its own downfall. It digitized former ENCOM programmer Flynn, who had come dangerously close to uncovering Dillinger's schemes. Flynn, in the computer world, allied himself with Tron, a security program; their combined efforts resulted in the deresolution of the MCP by throwing a disk into the base of the MCP. The MCP then reverted back to its original chess program appearance (which, in the digital universe, appeared as an old man in a control chair) followed by this program vanishing as it was deleted.

The MCP would end most of its conversations with Dillinger and Sark with the phrase "End of Line".

He is also seen in Kingdom Hearts II, as the ruler of Ansem the Wise's computer. He the boss (along with Sark) for the final fight of Tron's world.

[edit] Out of scene

You can notice that in translations, the MCP's name is still abbreviated as "MCP". For example, in French, he is "Maître Contrôle Principal", literally "Main Master Control".

[edit] Gallery

Master Control Program's Catchphrase "End of Line."	The MCP while he communicates with Sark.	The MCP tortures Sark.	The MCP is distracted by Flynn and momentarily turns blue.
The MCP's original form as a chess program.	The MCP's original face.	The MCP face disappears as he derezzes.	The view of the MCP's original form.
The MCP talks to Sark in KH2.	The MCP, as he appears in KH2.

[edit] Parodies

Due to the cult following of Tron, there have been many parodies and tributes to the movie, as well as its characters. The following is a list of parodies of the MCP:

A character resembling the MCP appears in an episode of Dexter's Laboratory.

Another picture of "Master Computer", an obvious reference to the MCP.

Moses appears in the form of the MCP in an episode of South Park.