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'''Flynn:''' [[Oh Crap|... Yeah...?]]<br />
'''(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 Two Point Oh (Video Game)|TRON 2.0]]'', [[Canon Dis Continuity|which it replaces]].
* [[Alternate Reality]]: In a much more lifelike, sophisticated [[Cyberspace]]. It possibly also allows computer programs to travel into our world physically.
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** [[Deadly Euphemism|Deresolution instead of death]], which turns them into a bunch of spilled voxels.
** Electronically altered voices, for some characters more than others - Sam's initial contacts on the Grid had lots of flanging, while Quorra's and most of the program main cast was barely noticeable. Noticeable or not, every program's voice was processed to some degree.
** Quorra's D-DNA is a [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/:Triple-stranded_DNAstranded DNA|Triple Helix]].
* [[Black Guy Dies First]]: Once the nightclub fight starts, the scarred resistance leader is the first one derezzed.
* [[Black Knight]]: Rinzler
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'''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)''<br />
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** 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...]]}}
* [[The Faceless]]: Rinzler, {{spoiler|to hide the fact that he is really a brainwashed Tron.}} Also probably to save {{spoiler|having to digitally de-age Bruce Boxleitner's face for more than the few seconds it's shown in flashbacks. The flashbacks themselves also have a bit of a digital haze to them, effectively de-emphasizing the fact that Boxleitner's de-aging wasn't nearly as detailed, according to [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/:Cinefex |Cinefex]].}}
* [[Faceless Goons]]: The Black Guards. {{spoiler|Done to Tron.}}
* [[False Reassurance]]: Clu's entire first conversation with Sam. All of his answers are truthful, but it's what he doesn't say that misleads Sam.
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** 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.}}
* [[Free -Fall Fight]]: {{spoiler|Between Clu and Rinzler after the latter crashed their Light Jets together, to seize the remaining Light Jet baton.}}
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* [[Future Spandex]]: A particularly noteworthy example.
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* [[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>[http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/: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,]] including [[Tron (Film)|the 1982 original,]] seldom show [[The Hero]] getting even a scratch in battle, ''TRON: Legacy'' is quite possibly the darkest Disney movie yet.
** 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>
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{{quote| '''Flynn:''' ''(on Clu)'' He doesn't dig imperfection, and what's more imperfect than our world?}}
* [[Hypercompetent Sidekick]]: From what little we see of him, Dillinger Jr. seems to be this to the Encom CEO.
* [[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 frisbee discs, but awesome laser chakrams that can still be used in close combat without hurting the wielder.
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* [[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]]
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** 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]]
** Was to be called ''TR2N''.
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* [[Old School Dogfighting]]: It doesn't get much more old school than having a tail gunner.
* [[One-Scene Wonder]]: [[Daft Punk (Music)|Daft Punk]]. They have a cameo as DJ programs in the End of Line Club.
* [[Orange -Blue Contrast]]
* [[Orchestra Hit Techno Battle]]: The Masked DJs in-universe provides the soundtrack for a battle inside Castor's nightclub.
* [[Order Versus Chaos]]: The driving force for the conflict between Flynn and Clu.
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* [[Parental Abandonment]]: Sam suffers from this; in addition to his father's disappearance, his mother was killed in a car accident shortly after he was born. Alan does his best to be a surrogate father. Arguably, Clu is also an example (Flynn being the disappeared "father").
* [[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 (Film)|the first movie]]. The diagram shown is vaguely similar to diagrams depicting [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential_cryptanalysis: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.
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* [[Precision F-Strike]]: Sam gets one during his botched getaway after stealing the ENCOM OS 12 and redistributing it on the Internet; specifically, when his parachute gets caught on a stray pole in the middle of the road.
{{quote| '''Sam:''' Oh, ''shit!''}}
* [[Precision -Guided Boomerang|Precision-Guided Identity Disc]]
* [[Pretty Little Headshots]]: Averted during the dogfight -- one shot takes out a significant chunk of a mook's head. It's still [[Bloodless Carnage]] seeing as he's a program.
* [[Product Placement]]: With most of the movie taking place in the computer world, they need to stuff it in early.
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** A subtle one in the arcade's secret lair. Dust everywhere. Cobwebs. Old lock, key still inside it. {{spoiler|The key, however, is shiny and new.}}
* [[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 (Film)|The only way to win is not to play.]]"
** [[2001: A Space Odyssey (Film)|Walking into a pristine white room and finding an old man...]]
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** A poster of the original ''TRON'' film adorns young Sam's wall, although in-universe, it's an advert for the game.
** He also has a poster for ''[[The Black Hole (Film)|The Black Hole]]''. The doors also look like Maximilian.
** Zuse is named after [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Konrad_Zuse:Konrad Zuse|Konrad Zuse]], creator of the first functioning, turing-complete, program-controlled computer. This is particularly appropriate, since Zuse is described as having been around since the early days of the grid -- i.e. one of the first functioning programs.
** Other programs competing in the disc and Light Cycle games are named after notable computer engineers and programmers: [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wulf:William Wulf|Wulf,]] [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Miner:Jay Miner|Miner,]] [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Landin:Peter Landin|Landin,]] [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Logg:Ed Logg|Logg,]] [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/:J._Presper_Eckert Presper Eckert|Eckert,]] [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing:Alan Turing|Turing,]] [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Pike:Rob Pike|Pike,]] [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Eugene_Kurtz:Thomas Eugene Kurtz|Kurtz,]] [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners:Tim Berners-Lee |Berners,]] [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Backus:John Backus|Backus,]] [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour_Cray:Seymour Cray|Cray,]] [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Vint_Cerf:Vint Cerf|Vint, Cerf]] and [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Allen_Wilkes:Mary Allen Wilkes|Wilkes]].
** The real world is depicted two-dimensional, the digital world three-dimensional. Like in ''[[The Wizard of Oz (Film)|The Wizard of Oz]]'', where Kansas (real world) was black and white, and Oz (digital/magical world) was in Technicolor.
** Kevin's usage of [[The Big Lebowski (Film)|"dude", "man", and "you're really messing with my Zen thing",]] complete in The Dude's slacker voice.
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{{quote| '''Kevin Flynn:''' Profoundly naive... yet unimaginably wise.}}
* [[Slouch of Villainy]]: Clu, while watching the Games.
* [[Smart People Play Chess|Smart People Play Go]]: Quorra and Flynn Sr. play [http[wikipedia://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_%28game%Go chr(28)gamechr(29 )|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 (Film)|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]]
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* [[There Was a Door]]: Sam's reaction to having his clothes burned off in the armory: "Hey, it's got a zipper."
* [[This Is Gonna Suck]]: Kevin's reaction in the [[Flash Back]] when confronted by Clu ([[Tron Lines]] [[Color Coded for Your Convenience|now all in orange]]) who asks him if he's "still to create the perfect system?", is a nervous pause and wary "... Yeah...?"
* [[Three -Point Landing]]: Done by Quorra, Sam, and Rinzler.
* [[Token Romance]]: Delightfully subtle, as there is a growing affection between Quorra and Sam during the course of the film but there is no [[Big Damn Kiss]] and Quorra is too important to the story to count as a [[Shallow Love Interest]]. See also [[Eating the Eye Candy]] and [[Love At First Sight]], above.
* [[Totalitarian Utilitarian]]: Clu, building his "perfect world".
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