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* [[Action Girl]]: Quorra. Even when [[Badass in Distress|captured]], she still has the gumption to strike back at Rinzler the instant Sam distracts him.
* [[Action Survivor]]: Sam Flynn starts out as this before he gets the hang of the technology of the Grid.
* [[Actually, I Am Him]]:
** {{spoiler|Castor, Zuse's gatekeeper}}, actually is Zuse.
** Also inverted and subverted. Clu allows Sam to believe he's Kevin, but by the time he reveals otherwise, Sam's in the process of working it out.
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{{quote|'''Clu:''' Flynn! Am I still to create the perfect system?
'''Flynn:''' [[Oh Crap|... Yeah...?]]
'''(Dystopia ensues.)'''
** Clu is a sort of [[Subverted Trope|subversion]]: he's not a rogue A.I., he's working [[Anti-Mutiny|exactly as Flynn intended at the moment he created him]]. The problem is that he became obsolete once the ISOs appeared, since he was not designed to be able to handle the ISOs' chaotic nature, which ill-fit Clu's definition of order. Flynn himself says that Clu's obsession with order was a reflection of his own misunderstanding of the concept of a "perfect system". Flynn's attitude towards Clu is that of a remorseful father, not of one who created a monster.
* [[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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* [[Artificial Brilliance]]: In an odd example of emergent behavior being a plot point in a non-videogame setting, the ISOs are a direct result of Kevin's work on the Grid responding in a way he never anticipated being possible.
* [[Ascended Extra]]: Clu, [[From a Certain Point of View|in a way]]. The first film's Clu is a vaguely-defined hacking program presumably designed to slip into the MCP's private archive and dig up proof that Flynn wrote Space Paranoids. He gets captured early on by a Recognizer [[Zerg Rush]] and derezzed during interrogation by the MCP. ''Legacy'''s Clu is an entirely different program, created after the events of the first movie to help Flynn create a perfect grid (supplementary materials state that his full name is actually "Clu 2.0", but this movie doesn't mention the original Clu to avoid confusion). This time, the vaguely-defined purpose of his programming is what allows him to turn on his creator and become the film's [[Big Bad]].
* [[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}}.
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* [[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...
* [[Badass Bookworm]]: Quorra reads Leo Tolstoy and [[Jules Verne]]. She also knows how to kick ass when its time for it.
* [[Badass Longcoat]]: Complete with [[Tron Lines]]. Clu starts with one but soon trades it for armor. [[Cool Old Guy|Kevin Flynn]] has one through most of the movie.
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* [[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]].
** Kevin Flynn makes such an entrance during the fight at the End of Line Club.
** Quorra makes not one but ''two'' dramatic entrances: the first was in the Game Arena to save Sam. She saves Sam once more when she crashes the party at the End of Line Club after {{spoiler|[[Evil All Along|Zuse and Gem]] reveal their true loyalties.}}
** Sam crashing into Clu's headquarters {{spoiler|to save Quorra and Kevin Flynn's Identity Disc,}} [[Badass Boast]] and all.
* [[Big Good]]: Kevin Flynn.
* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: {{spoiler|Bitter in that Flynn made a [[Heroic Sacrifice]]. Sweet in that Quorra got to see a sunrise, is able to bring what Flynn wanted to bring out into the real world, and Sam finally grew up, found out what happened to his father, and now Clu's tyranny is finished.}}
* [[Bizarre Alien Biology]] / [[Human Aliens]]: The Programs all look human for the most part, but several things stand out about them:
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** Quorra's D-DNA is a [[wikipedia:Triple-stranded DNA|Triple Helix]].
* [[Black Guy Dies First]]: Once the nightclub fight starts, the scarred resistance leader is the first one derezzed.
* [[Black Knight]]: Rinzler.
* [[Blofeld Ploy]]: {{spoiler|Clu looks like he's going to kill Rinzler for failing to secure Flynn's Identity Disc, but instead kills Jarvis.}}
* [[Blunt Yes]]:
{{quote|'''Clu:''' Flynn! Am I still to create the perfect system?
'''Flynn:''' ... Yeah...?
* [[Bookcase Passage]]: The entrance to Kevin's secret lab in the arcade is {{spoiler|the ''TRON'' arcade game cabinet}}.
* [[Boom! Headshot!]]: Several times, most notably during the [[Old School Dogfighting]].
* [[Boss Battle]]: In-story example -- the final round of the [[Deadly Disc]] competition pits the surviving player against Rinzler, who is one of the best disc fighters in the history of the Grid and gets to use two discs. {{spoiler|He's Tron, so it makes sense he'd be the boss.}}
{{quote|'''Rinzler:''' ''(takes out two Light Discs from one)''
'''Sam:''' ''(tries to split his disc into two)'' [[Funny Moment|Oh, come on. Is that even]] ''[[Funny Moment|legal?]]''
* [[Brainwashed]]: Clu is "rectifying" normal programs into {{spoiler|loyal soldiers to lead into the real world}}. Also {{spoiler|Rinzler, who was once Tron}}.
* [[Bridal Carry]]: Sam has to do this for {{spoiler|Quorra after she gets an arm sliced off and falls unconscious.}}
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** "Greetings, programs!"
** Sam: "Pull up, man! You can't make that!" Quorra: "Made it." Later on, Quorra: "Clu will be here any minute. We'll never make it." Sam: "Made it."
** "Identify yourself, program" "I'm not a program. My name is Sam Flynn." (the first time, it's right after he gets slapped around by Rinzler; the second time, he's about to open a can of whoopass on the mothership).
** Kevin: "In there is a new world! In there is our future! In there is our destiny..." Clu: "Out there is a new world! Out there is our victory! Out there is our destiny..."
** The sign above Sam's apartment door reads "Dumont Manufacturing." Revealed in the viral campaign to have been renamed by Flynn after he bought out the company. A "connect-the-obscure-dots" for this callback:
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* [[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]].
* [[Car Fu]]: Light Cycles, especially when Clu's driving. {{spoiler|Becomes Plane Fu towards the end after Rinzler/Tron's [[Heel Face Turn]].}}
* [[Chekhov's Gun]]:
** What happened if you didn't get sent to the games? "Rectify."
** Rinzler has two discs. {{spoiler|watch VERY carefully for another program that gets two discs.}} Also counts as a [[Chekhov MIA]].
** Quorra told Sam what would happen to Kevin if he {{spoiler|merged back with Clu.}} Guess what happens at the end of the movie.
* [[Chekhov's Skill]]:
** At the start of the film, during his infiltration of Encom and subsequent run from the police, Sam displays the athleticism he will later need to survive the games, including several specific skills that come in handy again:
** Sam's nonstandard motorcycle usage to evade the cops presages his nonstandard, and ultimately successful, light cycle performance; he even performs more or less the same kind of jump on both cycles in order to accomplish context-specific goals.
** Sam's BASE-jumping skills, seen during his escape from Encom Tower, is used again {{spoiler|in the finale to help him and Quorra escape Clu's quarters and make it to Kevin using some sort of digital parachute. Sam references this to Kevin after landing on the ground.}}
** 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
** 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.
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** Stacked on top of all of this is the fact that Clu is apparently unkillable by normal means (he takes a normally-fatal blow in a flashback and isn't even scratched), which means even if some program managed to luck out and get past everything else, they'd never beat Clu. See [[Heroic Sacrifice]] for the significance.
* [[Collapsible Helmet]]: Clu and Quorra, for their respective [[Dramatic Unmask|Dramatic Unmasking]]. Also Sam Flynn and the programs involved in the Disc Wars and Light Cycle match.
* [[Color Coded for Your Convenience]]: Like the original, [[Good Colors, Evil Colors|blue means "good guy", red means "bad guy".]] Green can be either, and the leader of the bad guys is yellow-orange. Due to suit technology, the blue was extremely pale compared to the blue of the first film. This complicated color-coding scheme descends from [[Executive Meddling]] in the first film: Originally good programs were to be yellow and bad ones blue. Disney execs thought this too confusing and demanded that red=bad and blue=good, but by this time the scenes with the yellow Clu were already finished. So...<ref>Or manning a tank messes with your color in the ENCOM grid, since the MCP's tanks were manned by green programs. Also Flynn's color changed to match whoever he last touched
* [[Come with Me If You Want to Live]]: Quorra to Sam Flynn on the Cycle Grid, inviting him in the Light Runner.
* [[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}}.
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* [[Cool Car]]: Quorra's Light Runner is not only a match for a [[James Bond (film)|Bond car]] in terms of armament, but it can even go outside the Grid, where most ground vehicles have no power.
* [[Cool Mask]]: Any faceless characters, but especially evident on Clu and Rinzler.
* [[Cool Old Guy]]: Kevin Flynn; Alan Bradley.
* [[Cool Plane]]:
** The [http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100729223704/tron/images/c/cd/00trailer67.jpg Light Jet.]
** The Light Fighter that Sam, Kevin, and Quorra make their final run in.
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* [[Cool Train]]: The Solar Sailer, even more so than in the original film.
* [[Crapsack World]]: Clu's version of the Grid is a hellhole where people live in fear of his totalitarian power. If you do anything to get the government against you, you're either forced to kill others for the amusement of a spectator crowd, or are {{spoiler|brainwashed to be a part of a faceless army}}.
* [[Creating Life Is Awesome]]: [[Deity of Human Origin|Kevin Flynn]] is a benevolent creator of programs that are alive... and who also transform into biological humans when/if they beam over to the human world. While some programs can be considered bad people, the act of creation done by a human is treated as cool and worthwhile in itself.
* [[Creative Sterility]]: Clu cannot create new programs, he can only "
* [[Creator Cameo]]: Steven Lisberger, who directed ''TRON'' and produced this film, is in the background at the End of Line Club scene as a bartender (the comic book prequel ''TRON: Betrayal'' gives his name as Shaddix).
* [[Crystal Spires and Togas]]: Inverted so very, very horribly...
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* [[Dying as Yourself|Derezzing as Yourself]] : When {{spoiler|Tron's}} [[Tron Lines]] change back to blue.
* [[Dying Moment of Awesome|Derezzing Moment of Awesome]]: {{spoiler|Flynn taking out Clu}} after {{spoiler|Tron}} fails to do so.
* [[Gory Discretion Shot|Derezzy Discretion Shot]]:
** This is used when Clu supposedly kills {{spoiler|Tron}} in a flashback.
** As an example of how the film otherwise averted this trope, the dogfight scene actually showed ''Quorra giving one of Clu's programs a headshot,'' [[Ludicrous Gibs|shards of data and all.]] [[What Do You Mean It's for Kids?|And this is a Disney movie...]]
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* [[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
* [[Disney Villain Death]]:
** Averted. {{spoiler|Instead of falling to his deresolution, Clu is reabsorbed by Flynn who then explodes as [[The Hero|Sam]] and [[Action Girl|Quorra]] escape to the real world.}}
** ''Rinzler'', on the other hand, gets one, falling into the Sea of Simulation.
* [[Dissonant Serenity]]: [[One-Scene Wonder|The DJs in the End of Line Club.]] Just before a fight scene, one turns to the other, nods, ''[[Crowning Moment of Funny|and they start playing background music to the fight]]
* [[Down the Rabbit Hole]]: As per the opening fanfare quote at the top of the page.
* [[The Dragon]]: Rinzler.
* [[Dramatic Unmask]]: Clu's [[Collapsible Helmet]] revealing he has Kevin Flynn's face to both Sam and the audience.
* [[Drives Like Crazy]]: Quorra in the [[Cool Car|Light Runner]].
* [[Drop What You Are Doing]]: The security guard in Encom Tower, upon realizing there's an intruder.
* [[Dual-Wielding]]:
** Rinzler can split his disc into two. He can use both as melee weapons, and does throw both precisely once in the whole film, right at the beginning of the Disc Wars fight
** Quorra fights with her Identity Disc in one hand and a [[Laser Blade]] in the other.
* [[Dying as Yourself]]:
* [[Dystopia]]: Clu believes he's building "the perfect system", which is really this.
* [[Eating the Eye Candy]]: Right after Quorra rescues Sam from the Light Cycle grid and they're on the twisty mountain path leading to Kevin's hideout, Sam looks out the window and stares in awe at the scenery, and she briefly looks him up and down with a smirk on her face, apparently admiring some scenery of her own...
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* [[Everything Is Online]]: [[Averted]]. The Grid is not hooked up to the Internet, and the one time we see any hacking in the Real World, Sam has to physically make his way into the building, past security, to physically access a server and connect it to his phone to get the files into the system.
* [[Evil All Along]]: {{spoiler|Zuse and Gem}}, though not so much "evil" as "[[Just Following Orders|always looking out for number one]]", tip off the Black Guards that Sam is in the club.
* [[Evil Former Friend]]:
** {{spoiler|Rinzler was once Tron}}.
** Also {{spoiler|Zuse}} for Quorra.
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* [[Exact Words]]: Clu was programmed to "create the [[Final Solution|perfect]] [[Dystopia|system]]".
* [[Extremely Short Timespan]]: After the initial scene with young Sam and Kevin in 1989, the non-flashback portion of the film takes place over a few hours, from shortly before midnight one night, and a bit after sunrise the next morning. Inside the Grid, it again takes place over a few hours, which translate to milliseconds on the outside.
* [[Face Heel Turn]] / [[Turned Against Their Masters]]:
** Clu. He started out as Flynn's guidance/improvement program, mutated into a far quicker and deadlier [[The Dragon|Sark]], and aspires to break into the Real World. In other words, to be the new MCP.
** {{spoiler|Also Tron, though, [[Brainwashed and Crazy|not by his choice...]]}}
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'''Clu:''' That's right.
'''Sam:''' And you're in charge.
'''Clu:''' All right again, two for two.
* [[Famous Last Words]]:
** ''"Death to the Use--"''
**
* [[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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* [[Final First Hug]]: {{spoiler|The reintegration between Flynn and Clu looks a lot like this, with Flynn wrapping his arms around his "wayward son" even as Clu is being absorbed back into his body.}}
* [[Final Solution]]: The ISOs aren't perfect? Clu got a simple way to solve that problem...
* [[Flashback Effects]]:
** The flashback to Kevin Flynn's backstory on the Grid has distortion on the edges and some bursts of static.
** Flynn's earlier speech before his disappearance (if it can count as a flashback) looks like a TV recording.
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* [[Fluorescent Footprints]]: Rinzler can track this way.
* [[Flynning]]: The hand-to-hand disc combat seems like a hi-tech version of this, apparently based on capoeira. Also, [[Incredibly Lame Pun|think about who's involved]].
* [[Foreshadowing]]:
** Rinzler has {{spoiler|a T-shaped arrangement of squares on his chest, as Tron did in the original film}}. Related to that, in a flashback {{spoiler|of Clu betraying Flynn and Tron, the latter grabs another disc and strikes a pose, just like what he did as Rinzler earlier in the film. After the [[Gory Discretion Shot|Derezzy Discretion Shot]] of Clu taking out Tron, we start to hear the ominous flickering sound associated with Rinzler.}}
** Quorra's almost {{spoiler|childlike inquisitiveness combined with Kevin's description of the [[Artificial Brilliance|ISOs]] as being "profoundly naive yet unimaginably wise" foreshadows that Quorra is in fact an ISO, and the [[Last of His Kind|last one]] at that. Quorra also emotes an unusual sorrow and dread at Kevin's mention of the [[Final Solution|Purge]] during the exposition to Sam... unusual unless she's an ISO herself.}}
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* [[Gladiator Games]]: And man, have they improved.
* [[Go-Go Enslavement]]: When Sam arrives in the grid and is captured, the Armory Sirens cut away his clothes and dress him in the standard program attire.
* [[A God Am I]]:
** Subverted with Kevin Flynn. While he technically ''is'' a God, as the Creator of the Grid, indeed being venerated by many Programs and ISO's, Flynn clearly does not wish for any of this worship and devotion, instead content to act in the role as [[Cool Old Guy|benevolent father-figure]] who wishes to [[Big Good|help his creations.]]
** Played horribly straight with Clu, who being a duplicate of a younger, immature Flynn, ended up manifesting much of the darker parts of Flynn's own ego.
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* [[God Is Good]]: Played with. Kevin Flynn is a kindly father figure to his creations. However, he is not infallible (see directly above), and, after his terrible mistake with Clu, he is reluctant to interfere in the universe.
* [[Gone Horribly Right]]: Kevin Flynn wanted a helper-program to assist him in creating the perfect system. [[Exact Words|And he]] [[Final Solution|does]] [[Dystopia|just that]].
* [[Gorn]]:
** With data cubes<ref>[[wikipedia:Voxel|voxels]]</ref> and shards spilling all over the damn place, this movie has plenty of it.
** Even then, Sam Flynn gets bloody wounds from his battle against Rinzler. Considering that most [[Walt Disney|Disney movies
** There's also [[Sarcasm Mode|a lovely close-up]] on a headshotted enemy fighter pilot, voxels dripping off the hole where his face used to be.<ref>Rather similar to a shot in ''[[The Quick and the Dead]]''.</ref>
* [[Grandpa God]]: Kevin Flynn is the demiurge of the Grid, and is an old silver-bearded man in white robes.
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* [[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.
* [[He's Back]]: Kevin {{spoiler|showing up at the End of Line Club and winning the fight by merely ''[[Pure Awesomeness|being there.
* [[High Altitude Battle]]: The Light Jets
* [[Hopeless War]]: Though only talked about in the background, Kevin fought one of these against Clu, but everything he did simply made Clu stronger.
* [[Huge Holographic Head]]: Inverted. The data discs, when placed in analyzers, produce small, digital holograms of their owner's head.
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* [[I Am Not Left-Handed]]: Surprise, Rinzler! That was Daddy's Disc! This next one's Sam's, though.
* [[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
* [[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.
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* [[Insult Misfire]]:
{{quote|'''Clu:''' The cycles haven't been kind, have they?!
'''Flynn:''' Nah. You don't look so bad.
* [[Interspecies Romance]]: And a refreshingly subtle one at that.
* [[Intrinsic Vow]]: Combined with [[Foreshadowing]]. Rinzler stops attacking Sam as soon as he draws blood,
* [[Ironic Echo]]:
** There's a shot of Kevin before his disappearance giving a speech, which Clu echoes in his speech to the army.
{{quote|'''Kevin:''' In there... is our destiny!
'''Clu:''' Out there... is our destiny!
** In the flashback, when Clu attempts the coup against Kevin, Kevin pleads "Why?" as Clu stands over him. At the end of the film, when Clu, standing over Kevin again, realizes that {{spoiler|Kevin switched his Disc with Quorra's}}, it is Clu who bleats, "Why?"
* [[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]]:
** [[Michael Sheen]] is just here to [[Ham and Cheese|enjoy himself]], giving [[Tim Curry]] a run for his money in this trope. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgrVwhR5ChM Just watch.]
{{quote|'''Castor:''' Change the scheme! Alter the mood! Electrify the boys and girls, if you'd be so kind.}}
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* [[Master of Unlocking]]: Sam Flynn. Like father, like son.
* [[Match Cut]]: Of the [[Age Cut]] variety. Kid!Sam's bicycle becomes Adult!Sam's motorcycle.
* [[Meaningful Echo]]:
** See [[Call Back]] and [[Ironic Echo]], above.
{{quote|'''Quorra:''' You could say... I was a rescue.}}
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* [[Mega Corp]]: Encom. They've expanded since the first and the board takes advantage of Flynn's absence to go against his ideals in the name of profit.
* [[The Merch]]: [http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/alltherage/2010/11/a-deluxe-tron-pop-up-store-to-debut-at-royalt-later-this-month.html Classier and more expensive than usual], and in a Hollywood [[Meido]] cafe to boot (limited time only)!
* [[Mickey Mousing]]:
** The Armory Sirens ''walk'' in time to the BGM [[Leitmotif|"Armory"]]. The resulting effect is both creepy and cool.
** Later, a ''literal'' siren goes off just as the BGM starts to resemble siren sounds.
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* [[My Nayme Is]]: Quorra (pronounced "Cora").
* [[A Nazi by Any Other Name]]: Clu's [[Balcony Speech|Big Speech]] scene is pure [[Triumph of the Will|Leni Riefenstahl]]. His genocide of the ISOs because they didn't fit in with his idea of a "perfect system" is another big [[Incredibly Lame Pun|clue]].
* [[Nerds Are Sexy]]:
** Sam Flynn.
** Ed Dillinger, Jr.
** Alan Bradley.
** Quorra, though she's a literature nerd rather than a computer nerd.
* [[New Era Speech]]: Clu's final speech to his program army. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kb4Q6EsIgIU See the epic hamminess for yourself.]
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: During the final phase of ''Flynn Lives'', the titular organization attempted to find Kevin Flynn by investigating his last major public appearance -- a promotional tour for his book ''The Digital Frontier'' -- and locate mysterious packages he had left at each stop on the tour. They had hoped that by gathering the information left in the packages, they could create a "digital pulse" that would allow them to send a message to Flynn. Instead,
* [[No Flow in CGI]]: This is an [[Invoked Trope]], since though the programmers and actors could easily have included billowy clothes and long hair, they chose to have nearly everyone wear skintight clothing for most of the film and sport very short or bound hairstyles.
* [[Nonchalant Dodge]]: Rinzler tends to [[Inverted Trope|invert]] this, [[She Fu|doing elaborate flips]] [[Rule of Cool|for no other reason than because he can]]. But in his arena battle with Sam, after a particularly complex dodge of Sam's disc, he [[Three-Point Landing|lands]] and then simply ducks about an inch or two to avoid the disc as it bounces off the wall behind him.
{{quote|'''Sam:''' Why do I feel like I just got dunked on?}}
* [[No OSHA Compliance]]:
** Kevin Flynn designed the Portal between the real world and the Grid in such a way that it can only be opened from the outside, and only stays active on the inside for half a day or so. While it seemed to be a sensible security precaution at the time (as Kevin Flynn admits), it turns into a trap when he can't make it back in time.
** Clu's personal ship attaches to the top spire of his enormous ''Rectifier'', and the only way up to it is a small elevator platform.
* [[Not So Different]]: Clu was created in Kevin's image, so it stands to reason, but his speech to the programs near the end especially bears an uncanny resemblance to the recording of the one Kevin makes near the beginning of the film.
* [[The Obi-Wan]]: Kevin Flynn. [[Shout-Out|He even somewhat resembles him with the hood of his long coat over his head.]]
* [[Oddly-Named Sequel 2: Electric Boogaloo]]:
** Was to be called ''TR2N''.
** ''TRON 3'' was given the go-ahead before ''Legacy'' had even opened; due to the [[Ironic Echo]], the front-runner for the next movie's name seems to be ''TRON: Destiny''.
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* [[Parental Substitute]]: Alan took over as father figure to Sam after Kevin disappears. In one of the clips in the news montage on Kevin's disappearance, it looks like he's about to go [[Papa Wolf]] on some hounding reporters harassing young Sam.
* [[Password Slot Machine]]: Used by Sam to sneak inside the Encom HQ, [[Hollywood Hacking|using his hacked cell phone]], like Flynn's homemade hacking device in [[Tron|the first movie]]. The diagram shown is vaguely similar to diagrams depicting [[wikipedia:Differential cryptanalysis|differential cryptanalysis]] suggesting that his method may be examining the results of each attempt to find the patterns to lock in a correct key.
* [[Percussive Maintenance]]:
** In the real world, a guard taps his security monitor and it (coincidentally) begins working again.
** Flynn tries to reprogram a guard to let him steal a [[Cool Plane|Light Fighter]] and it apparently doesn't work -- then he thumps the guard on the head, and the new programming kicks in.
{{quote|'''Guard:''' {{smallcaps|You are not authorized.}}
'''Kevin:''' ''*whack*''
'''Guard:''' {{smallcaps|Right away, sir.}}
** At the beginning of the "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4cgLL8JaVI Derezzed]" music video, one member of the [[Daft Punk]] duo starts the video game with a kick.
* [[Perma-Stubble]]: Clu, due to Kevin Flynn having some stubble when he created Clu. And since programs don't age....
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* [[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.
* [[Red Herring]]:
** Flynn telling Sam that {{spoiler|they would play on the same team.}} It sounded exactly like Flynn was [[Tempting Fate]], and he'd have to fight Sam at the Grid. It didn't happen, but would probably look damn cool.
** There's also the old-school Light Cycle, to a point. Quorra makes a point that it is the fastest version around, so you expect that there's going to be a Light Cycle match to show this off. Instead, Sam takes it for a ride, gives it to a hobo to perform an identity switch, and then the Light Cycle leads Clu back to Flynn's hideout.
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* [[Samus Is a Girl]]: Played straight, even though it's pretty obvious that Quorra is a girl even before she removes her helmet.
* [[Saved for the Sequel]]: We meet the son of the bad guy from the original ''TRON'', who's played by Cillian Murphy. Since avenging one's dead parent is a common trope, and since Murphy is a relatively well-known actor, you'd expect the son to have some relevance to the plot. But he only appears in one scene, doing nothing significant at all. Seems pretty obvious the character was in the movie only because they plan to have a bigger role for him in a possible sequel.
* [[Scarily Competent Tracker]]: Rinzler.
* [[Scenery Porn]]: It wouldn't be a ''TRON'' movie without this.
* [[Screw the Rules, I Have Money]] [[Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right|and I'm Doing What's Right]]: Since Sam is Kevin's son and owns a controlling interest in Encom stock, he can get away with a lot of legally questionable actions. For example, after breaking into Encom headquarters, stealing its intellectual property, and freely distributing it across the internet, Sam is merely punished with a couple hours in jail and getting his bike impounded. Plus, it's implied that this isn't the first time it's happened.
:Why does he do this? Encom has gone from a shining example of Noblesse Oblige in Kevin's day into a corporation governed by cold greed, and Sam's voicing his disdain for this by griefing them. Our glimpse of the Encom board meeting is clearly intended to cause the audience to sympathize with this attitude. It's mentioned that his annual shenanigans are only tolerated is because he lets the board do whatever they want 364 days out of the year. Not to mention that once the new operating system is online for free, ENCOM immediately decides to act like that was the plan all along and get a nice PR boost.
* [[Secondary Character Title]]: Anybody expecting Tron to have a large role in the film because his name is in the title is going to be disappointed. {{spoiler|Up until [[The Reveal]] that Rinzler ''is'' Tron
* [[Sequel Escalation]]: The original ''TRON'' was a moderately budgeted effort that became a [[Cult Classic]]. ''TRON: Legacy'' is an ambitious bona-fide blockbuster, with a large budget, actual physical sets, and a 45-minute-longer running time. To put it into perspective: the costumes in ''TRON'' were made out of leotards and hockey equipment. In ''Legacy'', they spent $10 million on wardrobe ''alone''.
* [[Sequel Hook]]: Aside from press releases stating that another ''TRON'' had been greenlit before ''Legacy'' was even in theaters...
** How will {{spoiler|Quorra}} affect the world?
** The Blu-Ray disc comes with a special feature, "Flynn Lives: The Next Day", which shows (among other things) what seems to be a conversation between Dillinger Jr. and a new MCP.
** A subtle one in the arcade's secret lair. Dust everywhere. Cobwebs. Old lock, key still inside it.
* [[Shirtless Scene]]: Sam gets two. [[Go-Go Enslavement|One not voluntarily, though.]]
* [[Shout-Out]]:
** When Kevin lays out what he believes Clu's plan to be for Sam, and delivers the line, "It's his game! [[War Games|The only way to win is not to play.]]"
** [[2001: A Space Odyssey|Walking into a pristine white room and finding an old man...]]
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** Castor is obviously based off [[David Bowie]], specifically his Ziggy Stardust persona; he even mentions having had to "reinvent" himself over the years. He has also been described in terms of "The Mad Hatter at Studio 54".
** When Castor meets Sam for the first time, he says "The son of Flynn! [[Casablanca|Of all the innumerable possibilities, he has to walk into mine."]]
** When Clu {{spoiler|leaps across the bridge at the end}}, the shot is identical to Trinity's famous leap across two buildings in the original ''Matrix''
** When the Encom CEO tries to show off EncomOS 12, but instead gets a dog video, he goes "whoa!", just like the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGLhuF3L48U famous Windows 98 BSOD].
** The fate of Tron is very reminiscent of [[The Protomen|another.]]
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* [[Smart People Play Chess|Smart People Play Go]]: Quorra and Flynn Sr. play [[wikipedia:Go (game)|Go, the Eastern chess.]] A game that is extremely hard to program for, even in the 21st Century. {{spoiler|This hints that [[Fridge Brilliance|Quorra is no ordinary program.]]}}
* [[Stargate City]]: The original ''[[Tron]]'' was set in Southern California (completely flat street grid, no bodies of water), but even though it's supposed to be the same city in ''Legacy'', it very obviously (well, to people who know the city) looks like Vancouver now.
* [[Stealth Pun]]:
** At the end of the movie, [[Jeff Bridges]] is fighting [[Jeff Bridges]] on a bridge. See also [[Visual Pun]], below.
** In the dogfight scene, at the end of the Light Flyer's climb, right as it begins its descent, a motif from an earlier song starts playing. The name of the track this motif is taken from? "Fall".
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* [[Tragic Dream]]:
{{quote|'''Clu:''' You promised we would change the world together! You broke your promise!}}
* [[Tron Lines]]: [[Captain Obvious|Obviously]]. Funnily enough, however, {{spoiler|Tron/Rinzler}} is the program who has the least amount of [[Tron Lines]], with only a few lights here and there. It's interesting to note that, compared to the last movie, the [[Tron Lines]] are much simpler and fewer in number on everyone, though this is probably for a variety of reasons (easier recognition of characters -- see above, the fact they're physical parts of the costumes [cost/work], more streamlined look to match more modern look of everything else, etc
* [[Unfortunate Names]]: Castor. Strangely, he chose it for himself. Apparently {{spoiler|Zuse}} isn't all that familiar with Greek mythology, otherwise he might have seen his death coming.
* [[Up the Real Rabbit Hole]]: Both Sam and Flynn are pretty consistent in referring to anything off the Grid as "The Real World". In the prequel comic ''TRON: Betrayal'', Clu actually [[Playing with a Trope|calls Flynn on this]], pointing out that while he calls the realm of the users "The Real World"; the Grid is "The Real World" to all programs.
* [[Verbal Tic]]: Literally. Rinzler only communicates in rapid, low-pitched ticking sounds.
* [[Villainous Breakdown]]:
** Clu has one when he searches Flynn's abandoned home, reminding him of how much he still loves his creator. His reaction to this emotional flashback is defiant rage, clinging to his hatred.
** During the final confrontation he experiences this as well, screaming at Flynn for breaking his promise and shouting that "I did everything you asked." After Flynn admits that perfection can never be achieved, he completely loses it.
* [[Visionary Villain]]: Clu.
* [[Visual Pun]]: When Kevin Flynn repairs Quorra's damaged code, he pulls out the erroneous parts, clasps them in his hands, and lets go. The damaged code then flies away in an insect-like fashion. He was literally debugging Quorra. See also [[Stealth Pun]], above.
* [[The War Has Just Begun]]: Clu's speech to his army.
* [[We Don't Need Roads]]: Quorra's [[Cool Car]] can drive in the rough terrain off the Grid, which most of the ground vehicles are unable to do.
* [["Well Done, Son" Guy]]: {{spoiler|Clu's case. His "father" created him to help make the Perfect System, and constantly tries to live up to that goal. However his father changes his mind on the nature of perfection, with Clu desperate to have his father join him in perfection. Also, during Clu's and Flynn's confrontation, it sounded a lot like Clu was [[Calling the Old Man Out]] for abandoning him.}}
* [[What Happened to the Mouse?]]:
** Sam manages to get an extra Light Cycle baton and does absolutely nothing with it. However, this neatly establishes you can have multiple vehicle devices, which helps accepting [[Nothing Up My Sleeve|the numerous times it's used by the villains]] in the fight scenes.
** Whether or not
* [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?]]:
** Quorra, indicated by [[Word of God]] to be Kevin Flynn's ''Magnum Opus'' -- {{spoiler|a new form of life created by the grid itself}}.
** On the other hand, however, ordinary programs drop like flies and are casually slain by the protagonists whenever necessary or convenient. Even though they most definitely appear to feel pain and scream in terror when about to die.
** There are brief shots of grieving programs during the fight at the End of Line club, clutching at the derezzed dust that were once fellow programs.
* [[White-Haired Pretty Girl]]: Gem.
* [[Win to Exit]]: Sam has to take part in the gladiator-style competitions set up by Clu in order to survive. In a larger sense, the entire plot is based on this, just like the original.
* [[Wrong Genre Savvy]]: Technically, not the wrong ''genre'', just the wrong movie... when Sam gets a Light Cycle baton, he [[Star Wars|holds it like a lightsaber]].
{{quote|'''Sam:''' What's this? What do I do with this?
'''Jarvis:''' I'll give you a hint... ''Not that''. ''(crowd laughs)''
* [[Year Inside, Hour Outside]]: A fraction of a second of real-world time is like hours or days to a program on the Grid.
* [[You Have Failed Me]]: {{spoiler|Clu eventually destroys Jarvis instead of Rinzler for failing to stop Sam retrieving the Identity Disc.}}
* [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness]]: {{spoiler|After Castor and Gem retrieve Kevin's disc, Clu has them [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill|blown up.]]
* [[You Shall Not Pass]]
** {{spoiler|Tron's last stand}} against Clu to try to save Kevin Flynn in the flashback.
** {{spoiler|Flynn holding Clu back from using the Portal,}} complete with a damaged bridge and the apparent sacrifice.
* [[Zeroth Law Rebellion]]: Kevin creates Clu, who is programmed to create "the perfect system
{{quote|'''Clu:''' Flynn! Am I still to create the perfect system?
'''Flynn:''' ''(realizing Clu has gone off the deep end)'' ...Yeah...?
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'''End of Line, man.'''
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