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** And Tron has one when it seems Flynn and Ram have been killed.
* [[Blackmail Is Such an Ugly Word]]: Or "Embezzling" in this case.
* [[Boom! Headshot!]]: During their battle in front of the MCP, Tron takes out Sark with a disk attack that splits Sark's disk... and his ''head''. We even get some [[Ludicrous Gibs|gibs]].
* [[Brain Uploading]]: [[Word of God]] says that programs' resemblance to their Users is not a result of this, but is simply a reflection of their personalities.
{{quote| '''Gibbs:''' You can remove men like Alan and me from the system, but we helped create it. And our spirit remains in every program we designed for this computer.}}
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* [[Evil Brit]]: David Warner plays the trifecta of the movie's villains: Dillinger, Sark and the MCP.
* [[Evil Overlord]]: The MCP, again.
* [[Expose the Villain, Get His Job]]: At the end of the movie, Flynn has Dillinger's old job as vice-president of Encom. More justified than some instances of the trope, since it probably wasn't just exposing Dillinger that got him the job: the work that got Dillinger the job in the first place was all really Flynn's.
* [[Fan Service]]: Yori; Flynn; Tron. Put it this way: [[Cyberspace]] has mirror images of the attractive users from our world and slips them into lit-up [[Sensual Spandex|skintight spandex]].
* [[Forced Prize Fight]]: Gladiator combat.
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* [[God Was My Co-Pilot]]: Flynn himself, from the point of view of his program allies.
* [[Good Colors, Evil Colors]]: Red vs. Blue.
* [[Go Out
* [[Healing Spring]]: Doubles as [[I Can't Believe It's Not Heroin!]].
{{quote| '''Tron:''' You forget how good the power feels... until you get to a [[Incorruptible Pure Pureness|pure]] [[Pure Energy|source!]]}}
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* [[I Don't Pay You to Think]]: Sark tells an underling, "Don't think anymore. I do the thinking around here."
* [[I Know Mortal Kombat]]: Flynn succeeds at the games inside the computer partly because he's so good at them outside. Justified in the novel by saying that he based the ones he wrote on real-life skills he was familiar with.
* [[Indy Ploy]]: Flynn does ''not'' know what he's doing, and is clearly making it all up on the fly. He only survives the games because of what he knows about video games, and his User abilities are invoked only by guesswork and "this might work." Of course, [[Like Father, Like Son|the apple]] won't fall all that far from the tree.
* [[Inside a Computer System]]
* [[Instant AI, Just Add Water]]: The MCP started as a chess program, then various people gradually rewrote it to perform sysadmin duties on its own hardware. After this, it continued to gain intelligence by assimilating other programs' code into itself. That still doesn't explain why every other program seems to be an A.I. too, even when they don't need to be. Ram, for example, calculates insurance premiums, and Tron is basically just a firewall. May be a case of [[Science Marches On]]. There was a time not too many decades ago when the simple tasks of playing chess or recognizing speech commands was seen as the benchmark of intelligence. We now know actual intelligence consists of much more.
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* [[Pure Energy]]: (Sort of) justified.
* [[Recursive Canon]]: The ''TRON'' arcade game from the 1980s appears in both the ''Legacy'' and ''2.0'' continuities; the explanation is that Kevin Flynn created a game based on his adventures in the film, which was later published by Encom.
* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning|Red Lines, Take Warning]]: Sark's lines burn a rather brilliant light orange when he gets pissed.
* [[Robot Buddy]]: Bit qualifies.
* [[Robots Enslaving Robots]]
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* [[Serkis Folk]]: MCP
* [[Shirtless Scene]]: In a movie that takes place mostly in a computer system where the characters are programs who technically aren't wearing clothes to begin with, they still managed to sneak one in.
* [[Shout
** [[Easter Egg|Easter Eggs]]: Pac-Man and a "hidden Mickey Mouse".
** {{spoiler|Mickey Mouse is outlined in a single shot in the canyon as the Light Sail glides overhead.}}
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{{quote| '''Ram:''' ''(on the MCP's directives)'' If he thinks you're useful he'll take over all your functions so he gets bigger.}}
* [[You Have Failed Me]]: The MCP keeps threatening to pull this on Sark, but never goes through with it.
* [[Zeroes and Ones]]: Bit, who can only say "yes" and "no". He also has a "neutral" state, corresponding to the high-impedance state of a [
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