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{{quote| '''Flynn:''' I never should have written all those tank programs.<br />
'''Flynn:''' Now ''that'' is a ''big door''! }}
* [[Deep
* [[Defictionalization]]: The "Light Cycle" game became a popular arcade game pretty quickly, which is somewhat recursive considering that it itself was based on one of the first arcade games. Inverted with the ''TRON'' arcade game (whose cabinet is briefly seen) which was released just shortly before the movie (and spawned both a sequel and a few home games). Eventually played straight with ''Space Paranoids'', which was released as an online game in 2009.
* [[Deleted Scene]]: The "love" scene between Tron and Yori, including Yori getting a new outfit before they head for the I/O Tower. Described in detail in the novel.
* [[Deus Est Machina]]: The Master Control Program, obviously.
* [[Did Not Get the Girl]]: Flynn does not get back together with former girlfriend Lora {{spoiler|although he does kiss her counterpart Yori before his would-be [[Heroic Sacrifice]].}}
* [[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.
* [[The Dragon]]: Sark
* [[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.}}
* [[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.]]
* [[Duel to The Death]]: --er, Deresolution.
* [[The Eighties]]: In its purest form. Ironically, ''1990's Theme'' by [[Journey (Music)|Journey]] sounds like an early 1980's song (which it is).
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'''Tron:''' That's the way it is for ''programs'', yes.<br />
'''Flynn:''' I hate to disappoint ya, pal, but most of the time, that's the way it is for users, too. }}
* [[God Was My Co
* [[Good Colors, Evil Colors]]: Red vs. Blue.
* [[Go Out With a Smile]]: {{spoiler|Ram}} after realizing Flynn is a User.
* [[Healing Spring]]: Doubles as [[I Can't Believe
{{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}}.
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* [[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.
* [[Kiss Me, I'm Virtual]]: {{spoiler|Flynn says goodbye to Yori, a program within the System, with a kiss.}}
* [[Last Kiss]]: {{spoiler|Flynn kisses Yori just before his attempted Heroic Sacrifice.}}
* [[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
* [[Ludicrous Precision]]:
{{quote| '''Master Control Program:''' There's a 68.71 percent chance you're right.<br />
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* [[Mickey Mousing]]: Several instances, notably during Sark walking to the MCP core, where his footstep punctuations are actually in the score, not sound effects. According to the liner notes of the CD release of the soundtrack, composer Wendy Carlos actually used this much more in the original drafts of the score, but was requested to lessen it by the production staff.
* [[Mohs Scale of Science Fiction Hardness]]: Fairly soft.
* [[
* [[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".
* [[Nerds Are Sexy]]. Kevin Flynn, Alan Bradley, and Lora
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* [[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.
* [[No Plot, No Problem]]: Deconstructed -- the games played at Flynn's gaming hall are this trope in the physical world, but once you are inside the Grid you discover that these simple games are surrounded by all kinds of drama.
* [[Oh My Gods]]: The inevitable, "Oh, my User!"
* [[
* [[Physical Religion]]
* [[Power Glows]]: Have we mentioned this yet?
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* [[Threesome Subtext]]: Has to set a minor record, despite being a [[Disney]] flick.
** First, Alan and Lora show up at Flynn's arcade. Flynn acts a little overly familiar to them both (even though Lora's his ex), snarking that "nothing classes up the joint like a clean-cut young couple." Once they're upstairs, he casually changes his shirt in front of them, remarks Lora isn't one for small talk, and asks Alan if she still leaves clothing on the floor. The end of the scene is Lora brandishing a set of car keys and asking, "Shall we dance?".
** 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
** And after {{spoiler|Ram dies}} and Flynn's found Tron and Yori? Well, see the arcade scene above. Tron and Yori are doppelgangers of Alan and Lora and in an established relationship already. Doesn't slow down any of the subtext from earlier, nor does it stop Flynn from giving Yori a very passionate [[Last Kiss]] before making {{spoiler|what he believes to be}} a [[Heroic Sacrifice]] to save them all.
* [[Trapped in Another World]]
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* [[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."
* [[Year Inside, Hour Outside]]. They kind of got this one right; computer processes are so fast that subjectively, the perception of time would be vastly different. Programs reference time in "microcycles" and "nanoseconds".
* [[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!<br />
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