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{{quote|'''Ram:''' You're a... ''(pauses, thinks for a moment, stands up and walks over to the wall to lean against it while half-smirking)'' ...guest of the Master Control Program.}}

* [[Dressing as the Enemy]]: Flynn turns himself red (but not evil) by absorbing the energy from one of Sark's warriors, derezzing him. He uses this disguise to blend in with Sark's other troops and approach the Solar Sailer. It almost fatally backfires on him when he charges more troopers boarding the Sailer, causing Tron and Yori to mistake him for an enemy boarder and almost [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|push him to his death.]]

* [[The Eighties]]: In its purest form. Ironically, ''1990's Theme'' by [[Journey (band)|Journey]] sounds like an early 1980's song (which it is).

* [[Electric Torture]]

* [[NameTron]]. According to Lisberger, TRON is a shortening of the word elec'''TRON'''ic. He didn't learn until years later that there was a BASIC command that was also TRON (a debugging tool, short for "trace on"). <ref>The computer graphics were calculated on a small mainframe, Digital Equipment Corporation model PDP-10. That 36-bit computer has a TRON instruction (Test Right half, set to Ones, skip if any were Nonzero). Trivia: the numeric value for that opcode, in octal, is 666.</ref>

* [[Nay Theist]]: The MCP and Sark, although their public position on the matter is less [[Nay Theist]] and more "[[Flat Earth Atheist|Users don't exist]], period".

* [[Nerd Glasses]]: Alan Bradley's large and unflattering spectacles. (Most of his co-workers too, actually. Apart from marking them as computer nerds, it helps keep them visually distinct from their electronic counterparts.)

* [[Nice Hat]]: As is typical of costumes designed by [[Moebius]]. All programs wear helmets, but special mention goes to Dumont's hat, which resembles both a bishop's mitre and the abdomen of an insect.

* [[No OSHA Compliance]]: The digitizing laser should have been constructed and installed in such away that it could never target anything that was outside of a clearly-marked danger area, let alone one of the computer terminals that control it.

* [[Take My Hand]]: Tron pulls Flynn to safety while he's hanging off the Solar Sailer.

* [[Take Over the World]]: The MCP informs Dillinger that it's planning to do this, establishing that Flynn's success matters in the real world, not just to the oppressed programs.

* [[Tank Goodness]]

* [[Technology Porn]]: The ''whole damn movie'' qualifies.

* [[Stab the Sky|Upload the Sky]]. One of the original theatrical posters, complete with near-[[Leg Cling]].

* [[Verbal Tic]]: The MCP's "End of Line."

* [[While You Were in Diapers]]: Dumont is one of the programs created by Walter Gibbs, one of Encom's founders:

{{quote|'''Dumont:''' What do you want? I'm busy!

** In a similar conversation in the real world, Gibbs admits he occasionally wishes he was back in the garage where he started the company. Dillinger darkly implies "that can be arranged, Walter."

* [[World-Healing Wave]]: The MCP's death.

* [[You Will Be Assimilated]]: The MCP has expressed an interest in assimilating you.

{{quote|'''Ram:''' ''(on the MCP's directives)'' If he thinks you're useful he'll take over all your functions so he gets bigger.}}

* [[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 [[wikipedia:Three-state logic|tristate]] electronic output.

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