Tron

From Tron Wiki, also known as "Tronpedia", working on 184 articles

This article is about the computer program, Tron. If you were looking for the movie "Tron", click here: Tron (film)

“

We made it!... this far.

”

Tron
Biographical information
User	Alan-One
Compile Date	1981
Physical description
Circuitry Color	Blue
Gender	Male
Description	Regular Program Appearance
Other information
Functions	Security Program
Weapons	Identity Disk
Vehicles	Lightcycle
Allies	Yori, Flynn, Ram, Crom, Dumont
Out of universe information
Actor	Bruce Boxleitner
Appearances	Tron, Kingdom Hearts II
[Source]

Tron was a security computer program and the main character of the movie Tron. He was portrayed by Bruce Boxleitner. A mighty video game warrior and Disk Arena master, he fought bravely for the Users and became a legend among computer programs through out the entire computer world.

[edit] Biography

Tron was written in 1981 by ENCOM programmer Alan Bradley as a security program, separate from the MCP that ENCOM was developing for at the time. During a meeting with ENCOM's then Senior Executive Ed Dillinger, Alan explained how Tron worked:

“

Well, it's called Tron. It's a security program itself, actually. It monitors all contacts between our system and other systems. It finds anything going on that's not scheduled, it shuts it down.

”

After Dillinger asked if Tron was part of the MCP, Alan said no and added that it could "watchdog the MCP as well".

This meeting took place shortly after Alan found out that his access to Tron and the ENCOM computers was suspended after Kevin Flynn tried to hack his way into ENCOM to get his video game copyright data that Dillinger stole from him. It was during this time that Tron was held captive under Commander Program Sark and the MCP and forced to play gladiator video games on the Game Grid.

After Flynn explained to Alan why he tried hack into ENCOM to rightfully get back his data, Alan and his girlfriend, Lora Baines, decided to help him by using Tron to shut the MCP down and let him get the evidence that Dillinger stole Flynn's data.

Shortly after this, Flynn was digitized by the MCP to fight the same gladiator video games that Tron was playing.

When Flynn finally met up with Tron, Flynn thought he was Alan, to which Tron responded, "Where did you hear that name?" Flynn replied, "Well, that's your name, isn't it?" Tron said, "The name of my User!"

Shortly after this, Tron, Flynn and another conscript, Ram were forced to play a gladiator game of lightcycles against three programs from Sark's Army. As Flynn wrote the lightcycle game, he had complete knowledge of the game's AI and routines and caused one of the programs to crash into a wall of the game grid, leaving a crack in the wall. Flynn knew this was the way out and drove his lightcycle through the hole and escaped out of the game grid. Tron and Flynn escaped as well. As Flynn looked behind to see Tron and Ram behind him, he yelled out, "Greetings, Programs!"

In order for Tron to destroy the MCP and change the system, he needed data from Alan-One, his user, to be encoded on his Identity Disk. To do this, he would have to communicate with Alan-One via the I/O Tower, which was strictly forbidden by the MCP. While on the way to the I/O Tower, the three conscript were spotted by one of the tanks of Sark's Army. The tank fired and hit Flynn and Ram's lightcycles, mortally wounding Ram. When Tron looked back to see if Flynn and Ram were still alive, there was no trace of life and no response. Upset with the loss of his friends, Tron drove off to the tower and a armada of tanks were firing at him.

With the help of his "girlfriend", Yori and the Tower Guardian Dumont, Tron communicated to Alan-One and escaped with Yori by stealing a simulation and flying it towards the heart of the ENCOM system, where the MCP was located.

While traveling towards the MCP, Tron was reunited with Flynn. Flynn had survived the attack, but Ram didn't.

After several attempts by the MCP and Sark to stop the Solar Sailer from reaching its destination, Sark finally succeeded by ramming his carrier into the Solar Sailer in an ambush. As the Solar Sailer started to derez from the damage, Tron fell off to what seemed to be his death. Yori and Flynn hanged on the remaining wreckage as the remains of the sailer floated in a landing bay of the Carrier.

While Yori and Flynn were held captive (along with Dumont who was taken away for helping Tron) Sark removed all of their energy and revealed that the carrier was going to derez after he disembarked in his Escape Pod. With their very low energy levels that would mean Flynn and Yori would derez as well. He was also going to take Dumont away and have the MCP derez him and take away his functions.

As Sark left the carrier, little did he know that Tron had survived the ambush and hanged on to the outside of the carrier. He made his way to the escape pod and hanged on as the pod flew out of the carrier and onto the vast mesa that MCP sits on.

Due to the fact that he was a User, Flynn secretly had enough energy to survive while the carrier derezzed around them. Yori did not and began to derez along with the carrier, until Flynn grabbed hold of her and transferred his energy to her, thus saving her life. The walls of the prison they were in disappeared and they escaped as the carrier turned into a wireframe.

Meanwhile, Dumont was slowing being absorbed by the MCP. The MCP "felt a presense" and realized that "another warrior" was on the mesa. Sark immediately turned around and saw Tron on the mesa. The two of them fought with their identity disks as they jumped to avoid the crevasses in the mesa. With one mighty swing, Tron threw his disk so hard that Sark's disk broke in two and sliced Sark's scalp. Sark was dead.

The MCP noticed that his ally died and gave all of his functions to him, successfully reviving him. As Tron threw his disk at the base of the MCP, the MCP's shields went online and protected him from the lethal disk. When a hole in the shields finally appeared, Sark appeared from behind. With the MCP's functions, Sark grew 15 feet tall and was invulnerable to disk attacks.

Flynn, while watching the battle from the remains of Sark's Carrier realized, that he had to "distract" the MCP so Tron can get his disk in. In order to distract the MCP, Flynn decided that jumping into the "beam" of the MCP would confuse him greatly and would make him vulnerable to attacks. However, Yori said to Flynn that he would derez by doing this, to which Flynn replied, "Don't worry". Flynn then shared a passionate kiss with Yori - something that programs had never experienced before - and jumped off of the carrier.

With Flynn "inside" of the MCP, Tron threw his disk and derezzed the MCP. Dumont and the other Tower Guardians were saved and escaped from the mesa just in time before the MCP blew up in a great explosion. Yori and Tron reunited and shared a kiss, as Dumont remarked that all of the I/O Towers were lighting up again.

Flynn, as a User, really didn't die but was kicked out of the computer world and returned to his original analog format in the real world. With the MCP deleted, he finally obtained the evidence that proved that Dillinger stoled his video games. Dillinger was then fired and Flynn was rehired at ENCOM as Senior Executive V.P. As he was reunited with Alan and Lora, he greeted them with the same saying he said to Tron and Ram; "Greetings, Programs!"

Tron posesses unparalelled skill within the computer world, defeating his enemies with ease. Tron easily defeated four of the MCP's game programs in the Disk War Gam and remarked that he is better than Sark before ultimately dealing the lethal blow that killed the Commander. Sark did have a professional respect for Tron's abilities, saying the two would make a great team but to Sark, Tron was nothing more than a slave.

Tron's abilities include complete mastery of his identitiy disk, sufficient enough that in one scene he was able to quietly snipe Sarks Leutenant. Tron also has the ability to remove the effects of the MCP's brainwashing, as evidenced by his rescuing of Yuri. He maintaines a complete tactical and topographic understanding of the computer world, is a master tactician, skilled infiltrator, and effective leader. PErsonality wise, Tron is very serious, objective focused and has a deep reverence toward older programs, such as Dumont, and, of course, his User ALAN-1.

[edit] Gallery

Tron as he appears in Kingdom Hearts II.	Tron driving a orange lightcycle.		The Avatar Of Tron From Ze Ball Breaker