TRON: Difference between revisions

* [[Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever]]: {{spoiler|Sark at the climax}}.

* [[Attack Reflector]]

* [[Big Bad]]: The MCP

** Flynn screams this when Sark orders him to finish off Crom.

** And Tron has one when it seems Flynn and Ram have been killed.

* [[Cool Train]]: The Solar Sailer Simulation.

* [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]]. Edward Dillinger, who stole Flynn's programs, got promoted, then fired Flynn.

* [[Crucified Hero Shot]]: Sark tortures disobedient programs by "crucifying" them on a wall with electric impulses.

* [[Cyberpunk Is Techno]]: The original ''TRON'' score was by electronic music pioneer Wendy Carlos.

* [[Cyberspace]]: [[Trope Codifier]]. Had at least as much influence on how fiction portrays it as ''[[Neuromancer]]'' -- and ''TRON'' was released [[Older Than They Think|two years before]] ''Neuromancer''. However, [[William Gibson]] hinted at the idea of cyberspace in his short story "Burning Chrome", which was published shortly before ''TRON'' was released although after the film had been made. In fact, it was first published in an issue of ''[[Omni]]'' magazine that also had an article about the making of ''TRON''.

* [[Deadly Disc]]

* [[Deadly Euphemism]]: Programs don't "die"; they "derez" (short for "deresolution"). Averted whenever Sark or the MCP talk to or about Flynn, for obvious reasons. Also averted by Yori speaking about {{spoiler|Tron's supposed fate when Sark's Carrier rammed through the Solar Sailer}}.

** Bit, despite only being able to say "yes" and "no".

{{quote|'''Flynn:''' [''while driving the recognizer''] Pretty good driving, huh?

[''He crashes into several things'']

** Kevin Flynn is a major snarker as well.

{{quote|'''Flynn:''' I never should have written all those tank programs.

* [[Deep-Immersion Gaming]]: The [[Trope Maker]]?

* [[Deus Est Machina]]: The Master Control Program, obviously.

* [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?]]: Sark's reaction to the news that MCP has captured and enslaved a User.

* [[Disappears Into Light]]: All programs <s> die</s> derez this way. Somewhat justified, being in the computer system.

* [[Dramatic Pause]]: Ram gives a particularly good one when Flynn first meets him.

{{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.}}

* [[Duel to the Death]]: ...er, Deresolution.

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

** Inverted. The MCP tortures Sark by "depriving him of cycles". In this case, he RUNS on electricity, so this requires the opposite action to get the desired effect.

** Also played straight, when the MCP captures Clu and threatens him with total de-resolution if he fails to tell the MCP who his User is.

* [[Force Field Door]]: The holding cells for the competitors at the Gaming Grid are bounded by the kind of force field that's invisible until touched. Flynn discovers this by walking straight into it.

* [[Future Spandex]]: A particularly noteworthy example.

* [[Gladiator Games]]: Ranging from Lightcycles to Killer Frisbees.

* [[Glasses Pull]]: Alan, when he's complaining to Lora about Dillinger and the MCP.

'''Flynn:''' Heh heh, you wish! You guys know what it's like... you just keep doin' what it looks like you're supposed to be doin', no matter ''how'' crazy it seems.

'''Tron:''' That's the way it is for ''programs'', yes.

* [[God Was My Co-Pilot]]: Flynn himself, from the point of view of his program allies.

* [[Good Colors, Evil Colors]]: Red vs. Blue.

{{quote|'''Tron:''' You forget how good the power feels... until you get to a [[Incorruptible Pure Pureness|pure]] [[Pure Energy|source!]]}}

* [[He Didn't Make It]]: Flynn says it about {{spoiler|Ram}}.

** "Who does he calculate that he is?"

** "I knew you'd escape. They haven't built a circuit that could hold you!"

* [[Humans Are Flawed]]

* [[Humongous Mecha]]: For lack of a better category, the Recognizers go here.

* [[I Don't Pay You to Think]]: Sark tells an underling, "Don't think anymore. I do the thinking around here."

* [[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.

* [[Like Cannot Cut Like]]: Identity Discs are the only thing that appears to be capable of blocking Identity Discs, although {{spoiler|Tron does succeed in breaking Sark's disc in two during their final battle}}.

* [[Logic Bomb]]: Flynn attempts to use this to hold off the MCP while searching for evidence. He ends up provoking the MCP into firing the [[Deep-Immersion Gaming]] Laser at him, which was for some reason conveniently positioned directly behind its control panel.

* [[Ludicrous Precision]]:

{{quote|'''Master Control Program:''' There's a 68.71 percent chance you're right.

* [[Make My Monster Grow|Make My Program Grow]]:

{{quote|'''MCP:''' Sark, all my functions are now yours!}}

* [[Mega Corp]]: Encom. They make cool Arcade Games and have a Digitizing Ray.

* [[Messianic Archetype]]: Flynn, intentionally, within the system.

* [[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.

* [[Product Placement]]: Flynn's computer is an Apple III.

* [[Pure Energy]]: (Sort of) justified.

* [[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]]

* [[Scenery Porn]]: The original film is full of it, which was almost the entire basis for [[Roger Ebert]]'s rave review.

* [[Screams Like a Little Girl]]: [[Narm|Clu.]]

* [[Secondary Character Title]]: Because calling this movie "Flynn" wouldn't have fit the themes nearly as well.

* [[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.

** [[Easter Egg|Easter Eggs]]: Pac-Man and a "hidden Mickey Mouse".

** Don't forget ''Colossus: The Forbin Project'' (see [[Turned Against Their Masters]] below).

** An old, half-abandoned communications program named DuMont.

* [[Sinister Geometry]]: Again, the MCP.

* [[Smoking Gun]]: The evidence that Flynn and the others were looking for would supposedly be undeniable proof that Dillinger stole Flynn's program. And they were right!

** Near the beginning of the film, Clu runs his tank into a wall after being attacked by Recognizers. That's right, Clu, the program, [[Incredibly Lame Pun|crashed]].

** All the characters in the Grid (except for Flynn, of course) are computer programs. And they're sometimes [[Incredibly Lame Pun|running]].

* [[Sweater Girl]]: Lara's white angora sweater in the last scene of the movie.

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

* [[Thank the Maker]]: The blue programs hold their Users in awe in a manner akin to worship; the red-tinted MCP denies the existence of the Users (publicly, anyway), claiming that nobody has ever seen one, and wants to establish rule over the computer system in which "liberated" programs no longer believe in something so archaic as Users.

* [[Threesome Subtext]]: Has to set a minor record, despite being a [[Disney]] flick.

** Once Flynn's in cyberspace, there's buckets of subtext when he allies himself with Ram and Tron. The scene at the [[Healing Spring|Power Pool]]? Three pretty men in skintight, neon-lit spandex gasping and giggling over how good [[I Can't Believe It's Not Heroin!|power from a "pure source"]] is.

* [[Trapped in Another World]]

* [[Tron Lines]]: The [[Trope Namer]].

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

'''Sark:''' Busy dying, you worn-out excuse for an old program?

** 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.