TRON: Legacy: Difference between revisions

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* [[Alternate Continuity]]: To ''[[Tron 2.0]]'', [[Canon Discontinuity|which it replaces]].

* [[Alternate Reality]]: In a much more lifelike, sophisticated [[Cyberspace]]. It possibly also allows computer programs to travel into our world physically.

* [[Alternate Reality Game]]/[[Viral Marketing]]/[[In-Universe Marketing]]: The ''Flynn Lives'' ARG, which ran from July 2009 to December 2010, told the story of a group of conspiracy theorists attempting to locate Kevin Flynn long after the rest of the world presumed him dead. Events in the game included the opening of a replica Flynn's Arcade in San Diego during the 2009 and 2010 Comic-Cons, an Encom press conference hosted by Bruce Boxleitner in character as Alan Bradley, and the release of a fully playable version of the video game ''Space Paranoids''. Members of this group got swag including a poster, postcards, pins, stickers and plenty more. And in the end {{spoiler|[[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|they possibly caused the transmission that allowed Clu to send the page.]]}}

* [[Always Night]]: On The Grid.

* [[Ambiguously Gay]]: Castor is flamboyant, to say the least.

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* [[Authority Equals Asskicking]]

** Clu is apparently the toughest thing in the entire Grid. While not as flashily agile as Tron or Rinzler, he's [[No Sell|unfazed by a de-rezzing disc hit]] from Tron, and manages to take out both Tron and Sam with one punch. In the final battle, {{spoiler|fighting him doesn't do any good at all, and Flynn has to perform a [[Heroic Sacrifice]] to finally get rid of the guy.}} It makes sense that he's way tougher than any normal program, as Flynn (who's basically God) made him specifically to serve as his stand-in while he was out in the real world (additionally, Flynn implies that this version of Clu is a true A.I. rather than a basic program, making him akin to a somewhat less omnipotent, but also less bloated and more mobile version of the MCP).

** Also Rinzler. He's Clu's [[The Dragon|Dragon]] and is champion of the games. Turns out, there's a reason he's that good; {{spoiler|he's a "repurposed" Tron}}.

* [[Background Halo]]: When Flynn is on the Solar Sailor meditating, the light behind him gives him the appearance of having one.

* [[Badass Adorable]]: When Quorra isn't busy derezzing Clu's mooks, she is innocent, naive, and, of course, outrageously gorgeous.

* [[Badass Boast]]: Sam gives one when he invades Clu's headquarters.

{{quote|'''Sentry Program:''' Identify yourself, program.

'''Sam Flynn:''' I'm not a program. My name's Sam Flynn... }}

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* [[Better to Die Than Be Killed|Better to Die than Be Derezzed]]: A program throws himself off a building rather than be conscripted into the games.

* [[Bifurcated Weapon]]: Rinzler's disc(s).

* [[Big Bad]]: Clu, ironically enough.

* [[Big Damn Heroes]]

** Quorra's description of how Flynn rescued her before the movie took place. Quorra was surrounded by Clu's blackguards and when she opened her eyes... [[Curb Stomp Battle|there was only Flynn standing there]].

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** "This is the key to a new order." referring to Tron's disc in the [[Tron|first film]] and Kevin's {{spoiler|after it's taken by Clu}}, sort of a [[Dialogue Reversal]] or [[Ironic Echo]].

** The fireworks were designed around isocahedral, dodecahedral, and other ''n''-hedral forms, as an homage to Bit.

** [[Daft Punk]] used Wendy Carlos's [[Leitmotif]] extensively, and sampled generously from ''all'' the ''TRON'' video games, including the [[Intellivision]] ones.

** "I fight for the users!"

** '''"FINISH THE GAME!"''' Also counts as an [[Ironic Echo]]; in the first film, Sark shouts this at Flynn when Flynn is about to de-res another program, while in this film, Clu shouts it at Rinzler as Rinzler is about to kill Flynn.

** In the End of Line Club, there are some programs sitting off to the side that Gem mentions as being distracted. In the original ''[[Tron]]'', there's a scene after Flynn crashes the recognizer where he passes up a few programs in a similar situation while walking about.

* [[Camp Straight]]: Although we never really get a hint at whether programs actually have sexual orientations, or even whether the concept of sexual orientation would make any sense in The Grid, Castor is most definitely camp... turned [[Up to Eleven]]... [[In Space|IN CYBERSPAAAAAAAAACE]]!

* [[Canon Discontinuity]]: Nothing from ''[[Tron 2.0]]'' is in this, [[Mythology Gag|although some aspects of it have been borrowed for this film.]] The game's premise directly contradicts the movie, as the game story had digitization as being impossible for nearly twenty years after the MCP's defeat (as the MCP corrected errors inherent in the process and a new method to take its place took that long), whereas in ''Legacy'', Kevin was digitizing himself regularly after the events of the first movie. Interestingly, both Sam Flynn and Jet Bradley [[Parental Abandonment|lose their mothers at a young age]].

* [[The Cameo]]

** [[Daft Punk]], who did the soundtrack, makes a cameo as the DJ programs in the End of Line Club.

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** Used ingeniously in the viral campaign where a code entered on website Hello Flynn showed home videos of Kevin and Sam throwing stones on water, riding bikes and throwing a frisbee.

** Blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment in Sam's garage/apartment: When Alan shows up, over his shoulder you can see a big punching bag. Apparently Sam boxes in his free time, which explains some of his fighting skills.

** One of the moves Rinzler uses on Sam is a quick, short jab with his disc in to the middle of his chest; not very powerful for a punch, but for a disc is is very lethal. Later, during {{spoiler|Kevin's flashback, during the battle with the rogue programs, Tron uses this exact same move several times.}} Subtle but clear connection there.

* [[The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard|Clu Is a Cheating Bastard]]: Clu deliberately stacks the odds against the programs that compete in his games. In order:

** Rinzler is the final opponent for any combatant. Not only is he much better and faster than them, he gets an extra disc to fight with.

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* [[Contemplative Boss]]: Clu when he has Sam brought to him.

* [[Convenient Color Change]]

** The color of a device depends on the color of the program, User or ISO using it.

** In Rinzler's last appearance, {{spoiler|his colors fade from red to blue}}.

* [[Cool Bike]]: The [[Captain Obvious|Light Cycles]]. The new design takes the cool factor [[Up to Eleven]].

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* [[Killed Mid-Sentence|Derezzed Mid-Sentence]]: "DEATH TO THE U--"

* [[Dying Moment of Awesome|Derezzing Moment of Awesome]]: {{spoiler|Flynn taking out Clu}} after {{spoiler|Tron}} fails to do so.

* [[Despair Event Horizon]]: By the time Sam finds him, his father has long since passed over this. {{spoiler|Betrayal by his creation, murder of his friend, genocide of the people he was hoping would revolutionize the world, large-scale corruption of the world he'd created, and a prolonged, endless struggle with no hope of victory and no escape}} would do that to a man.

* [[Disappeared Dad]]: He's been in the digital world all this time.

* [[Disney Death]]: {{spoiler|Quorra}}. Since no program had ever before crossed into the real world, there was some question about whether or not the process would work. Sam and {{spoiler|Quorra}} leave the virtual world together. After the climactic ending, we cut to the real world and Sam is standing alone in the old arcade, looking sad as he downloads something onto a memory stick. He meets Alan and has a conversation with no mention whatsoever of {{spoiler|Quorra}}, then goes outside the arcade alone. Only ''then'' {{spoiler|do we hear Quorra's voice and they reveal that she made it into the real world, and was just waiting for Sam outside.}}

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* [[Famous Last Words]]

** ''"Death to the Use--"''

** {{spoiler|"Goodbye, kiddo."}}

* [[Fan Service]]: Nothing overt, but there's lots of people in skintight suits.

* [[Fantastic Racism]]: Clu and his regime, against the ISOs, and in turn the Users. The events of ''TRON: Betrayal'' indicate that Clu believed the ISOs were actually damaging the Grid by their very presence, which he believed was an anathema to the perfect, ordered system that Flynn had asked him to create.

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** {{spoiler|A Black Guard uses it to steal Kevin Flynn's Identity Disc in the End of Line club.}}

** {{spoiler|Quorra also uses one to swing under the bridge (and Clu) at the Portal.}}

* [[Gravity Screw]]: The gravity in the Disk Wars arena can be reversed, turning the ceiling into the new floor. Clu can apparently control this with a remote, though there's a warning siren when the changeover is activated. Because Sam is unfamiliar with the games, he doesn't know what the siren means or why Rinzler is running up the wall of the arena, until he's falling upwards and hits the ceiling, hard. More experienced players like Rinzler know that the trick is to run up the curved arena wall, timing it just right that you're perpendicular to the original floor just as the gravity changeover occurs, at which point you just run "down" to the ceiling.

* [[Hermit Guru]]: Kevin Flynn resembles a stereotypical Far Eastern sage in many, many ways. Living a secluded life, reading classic Buddhist and Taoist texts and meditating in a [[Lotus Position]] certainly helps. [[Lampshaded]] by the famous "messing with the Zen thing" phrase. This is probably also influenced by the fact that [[Jeff Bridges]] himself has become a devout Buddhist and does "the Zen thing" in real life.

* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: {{spoiler|Flynn integrates with Clu}} to stop him from getting out of the Grid. And then [[Never Found the Body|explodes.]] {{spoiler|Tron}} does so twice.

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* [[I Have You Now, My Pretty]]: When Rinzler captures Quorra and brings her to Clu, he acts like this around her, including touching her hair and saying he has [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|"something special" in mind for her]] before [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3T574MgpKFo ordering Rinzler to take her to his quarters.]

* [[Impossibly Cool Weapon]]: The Discs are no longer conspicuous-looking frisbee discs, but awesome laser chakrams that can still be used in close combat without hurting the wielder.

* [[Indy Ploy]]:

{{quote|'''Flynn:''' What's your plan?

'''Sam:''' I'm a User. I'll improvise. }}

* [[Information Wants to Be Free]]: Sam stages an undercover operation to release the source code of Encom's operating system to the public (he's the main stockholder of the company, so it's legal for him to do so).

* [[Insecurity Camera]]: During his visit to Encom, Sam causes the camera (and apparently there's only ''one'' camera between the rear entrance and the secure server room) to stop working just long enough for him to get past it. The obligatory lazy security guard in the monitoring room notices that it's stopped working, but when it comes on again he decides it was nothing.

* [[Instant Expert]]

** Quorra apparently has never flown before. Not that it stopped her from deftly mixing it up with six Light Jets in the Light Flyer. {{spoiler|May be an aspect of her [[Artificial Brilliance|ISO]]-ness.}}

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* [[It Only Works Once]]: In his first disc match, Sam wins by breaking the floor in the spot his opponent is trying to land, sending him plummeting to his death. When he tries this on Rinzler a couple matches later, Rinzler lands on the edges so he doesn't fall through.

* [[Jedi Mind Trick]]: Kevin Flynn attempts this when stealing the light jet {{spoiler|by reprogramming the guard from behind}}. After getting the guard's attention, {{spoiler|the inital request doesn't work}}. Then Kevin {{spoiler|[[Percussive Maintenance|whacks the guard on the top of the head]], making him comply with the new programming}}.

* [[Just Think of the Potential]]: Flynn was delighted with the Grid and ''especially'' the ISOs, seeing them as capable of revolutionizing "science, medicine, religion, everything!" Of course, Clu disagreed with the notion, meaning that Flynn's entire vision came to nothing.

* [[Knight Templar]]: Clu

* [[Large Ham]]

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** Jarvis is no slouch in this trope either, especially in the Light Cycle Arena when he introduces Clu.

* [[Laser Blade]]: Mocked at first with Sam holding the Light Cycle baton like a lightsaber. Though it is later shown that both Quorra and the Black Guards use them, including a bo-staff version.

* [[Last of His Kind]]: {{spoiler|The last ISO, Quorra}}.

* [[Latex Space Suit]]: A majority of the programs, but ''literally'' the Armory Sirens, at least the outer layer. In a special feature on the DVD, Beau Garrett (the actress who plays Gem) explains that her costume has four layers; the outermost layer is a sprayed-on latex, similar to the latex used in party balloons.

* [[Left the Background Music On]]: Apparently, [[Daft Punk|the DJ programs in the End of Line bar]] were responsible for changing tracks {{spoiler|after Castor betrays our heroes and Kevin shows up personally.}}

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** Almost all of the toys and models in young Sam's room are actual merchandise created to promote the movie, especially the action figures.

* [[A Pupil of Mine Until He Turned to Evil]]: Clu since all he wanted was {{spoiler|perfection.}} The comic ''Betrayal'' indicates Clu was more a [[Deceptive Disciple]], especially since he was planting bombs in the City to frame the ISOs and turned the Games lethal before striking the final blow with the coup.

* [[Punctuated ~~for~~ Emphasis]]: Albeit a short one. Quorra needs to verbally club a hesitant Sam to get into the Light Runner when she sprangs him from the Light Cycle grid.

* [[Punctuated! For! Emphasis!]]: Albeit a short one. Quorra needs to verbally club a hesitant Sam to get into the Light Runner when she sprangs him from the Light Cycle grid.

* [[Pure Awesomeness]]: By merely being in the room, Kevin is able to completely turn the battle in the End of Line Club back around. He doesn't need to do anything beyond touching the floor and ''wham''. Functionally, this is probably something akin to Kevin overriding Clu's "administrator" functions that he uses to empower his goons.

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* [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]]: Played with. Kevin Flynn has been missing for only 20 real-world years, but has passed the equivalent of a ''thousand'' years inside the Grid. So he has a body of a 60-year old man, but the accumulated wisdom of ten lifetimes.

* [[Recursive Canon]]: The ''TRON'' and ''Discs of TRON'' video games were apparently made and published by Encom based on Kevin Flynn's experiences. ''[[Tron 2.0]]'' did the same thing.

* [[Redemption Equals Death]]: {{spoiler|Tron/Rinzler}}. Arguably {{spoiler|Flynn Sr.}} as well.

* [[Redemption Rejection]]: At the climax on the bridge, Flynn legitimately apologises to Clu for everything he had done that resulted in Clu becoming the way he was. He then offers to embrace him. Clu, looking absolutely stunned, seems almost willing to accept. {{spoiler|Instead, he sends Flynn flying across the walkway}}.

* [[Red Herring]]