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Not to be confused with ''[[Tron: Legacy]]'', the 2010 movie sequel to ''TRON''. Particularly since the two sequels are mutually exclusive, and [[Word of God]] makes the film the official continuity.

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* [[Action Girl]]: Mercury

* [[Advancing Wall of Doom]]: The {{spoiler|system reformat.}}

* [[Alternate Continuity]]: From ''[[Tron: Legacy]]'', as the two feature different and incompatible accounts of how the digitizer technology was developed in the decades since the events of ''TRON''. There is also a character who is dead in one and still alive in the other.

** There are some [[Recycled Script|pretty shocking similarities]], though, such as Kevin Flynn vanishing under mysterious circumstances (per the ''Ghost in the Machine'' spin-off comic) and Tron himself going MIA. Probably the most shocking one is that the plot of the game actually involves something called the "Tron Legacy Code", though nothing like it appears in the film sequel.

*** Not to mention the leads in each canon are the sons of the original Tron's leads, who meet a female program who's been influenced or sent to help {{spoiler|by the lead's father}}

* [[Ancient Keeper]]: I-No, Tower Guardian of the old Encom mainframe. Terribly friendly sort, too. {{spoiler|Chooses to die with his system, sadly.}}

* [[Body Horror]]: {{spoiler|When Alan removes the correction algorithms to check them, fCon higher-ups Bazra, Popoff, and Crowne are merged together into the final boss upon digitizing.}}

* [[Brain Uploading]]: {{spoiler|1=Ma3a}} straddles the lines of [[Brain Uploading]], [[Virtual Ghost]], and [[Interface with a Familiar Face]]. {{spoiler|Ma3a's previous builds (Ma1a and Ma2a) were designed by Alan and Lora. Lora was killed by being partly digitized by her laser. Alan used code from Ma2a and the part of Lora that remained in the system to construct Ma3a - this is why she's voiced by Cindy Morgan, the actress who played Lora (and her virtual doppelganger Yori) in the first film.}}

** On the other hand, if you have installed the patch, you can simply ''skip'' the lightcycle matches, and you can manually save at any time (except during lightcycle matches, of course).

* [[Clear My Name]]: Jet is mistaken for the cause of the viral corruption by Encom's chief security program, the Kernel, and a [[Stern Chase]] ensues for the first few acts of the game.

* [[The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard]]: In lightcycle races, computer-controlled opponents manage to pull off turns that are obviously impossible for human reaction to repeat. May or may not cross into [[Fridge Brilliance]] if you realize that they have the ''in-game'' advantage of not being human over the player.

* [[Contemplate Our Navels]]: Byte as the {{spoiler|reformat wall approaches.}}

* [[Cool Bike]]: ''TRON 2.0'' has its own updated version of the lightcycles (designed by Syd Mead).

* [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]] : If you thought Dillinger from the first film was bad, the F-Con crew are ''worse.''

** It is hinted that fCon's CEO is actually Dillinger.

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Byte.

* [[Dying as Yourself]]: {{spoiler|Thorne}}; he even helps out the good guys with some information before he goes.

* [[Face Heel Turn]]: {{spoiler|1=Ma3a and, in a sense, Tron; the "Tron Legacy" ([[Tron: Legacy|no relation]]) code Jet tries to find to fight fCon turns out to be designed to [[Kill All Humans|Kill All Users]] -- as he finds out just ''after'' Ma3a assimilates the code.}}

* [[Floating Platforms]]

* [[Follow the Leader]]: While it's certainly an original game, it uses many of the same gameplay elements as ''[[Half-Life (series)|Half Life]]''.

* [[A God Am I]]: Thorne. {{spoiler|He later realizes he's nothing.}}

* [[Going Down with the Ship]]

* [[Inhuman Resources]] : Dr. Eva Popoff makes Dillinger look reasonable.

* [[Locking MacGyver in the Store Cupboard]]: Nice going, F-Con thugs. You lock Alan freaking Bradley in a closet full of spare computer equipment. That can't backfire on you...

* [[Magnet Hands]]: You can perform all sorts of acrobatic tricks and still catch your disk without fail!

* [[Mini Game]]: The light cycle races, which also tend to be [[Nintendo Hard]]. Later versions of the game allow you to skip the ones in the main game, and there is also a non-story-based light cycle game mode you can play any time.

** Jet {{spoiler|compiling the Tron Legacy code. Alan thought that it would be safe to compile since he thought there were no humans in the system. Once he found out Jet was in the system, he desperately tried to tell Jet not to compile it. Too late.}}

** A ''very'' delayed case: The old mainframe is populated with tanks that cannot be deactivated or destroyed, forcing Jet to run the proverbial gauntlet. Flynn left them behind in the system...Nice freakin' going, "Uncle Kevin!"

* [[Ninja]]: fCon's Datawraiths are all-but-literally computer ninja -- digitized hackers able to infiltrate any system, and appear and disappear with virtually no warning to attack the player. In fact, their animations are almost entirely copied from the ninjas in ''[[No One Lives Forever]] 2''.

* [[Nintendo Hard]]: Like ''[[Metroid Prime]]'', ''TRON 2.0'' can be described as a first person platformer with shooting. Unlike ''Metroid Prime'', the jump distances are hard to control, often landing you in the [[Bottomless Pit]] over and over. And you can't fall as far as you can in many other games before hitting the ground becomes instant death.

** Subversion with Mercury's User. She only knows him as "Guest." Turns out, {{spoiler|Guest is Alan, using a game console and spare parts to hack into the system!}}

* [[Powers as Programs]]: The only thing always available are the "basics": the disc, the rod, the ball, and the mesh. All their other iterations (they have two additional versions each) are loaded as programs in Jet's "memory allocation" on the server he's on, along with the additional powers, such as increasing jump height, silent running, and so on. Virus-type enemies can infect programs to reverse their effects (the silent running program makes Jet's footsteps ''louder'', for example), and all programs have an alpha, beta, and gold level. Alpha is the least effective (or the most costly in terms of energy) and takes up the most space in memory (four contiguous blocks), beta is more effective (or less costly) and takes up two blocks, and gold is the most effective (or least costly) and only takes up one block. While there are beta versions of programs that can be found while exploring, you can only get gold versions by "feeding" the program to a code optimizer. Of which there are a limited number, and which can only be used once each.

* [[Punny Name]]: I-No. Justified as he ''is'' an information retrieval Program.

** The leader of all the security programs is, of course, their Kernel.

* [[RPG Elements]]: Before they were widely popular. The player can gather points throughout the game that can be used to "upgrade" Jet's basic characteristics (life meter, energy meter, etc.).

* [[Save Scumming]]: [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] by an NPC:

* [[Scenery Porn]]: Watching the ''TRON'' universe is one thing; interacting with it is another thing altogether.

* [[Sexy Backless Outfit]]: Mercury, and the game spends much of her time [[Fan Service|showing it off.]]

** There's an ICP who laments the approaching reformat because he lost all his updates the last time it happened. His buddy replies, "You'd lose your header if it wasn't compiled on."

** And finally, your weapons and sub-routines are named normally enough, but they couldn't help but sneak in a subroutine called "Megahurtz" that increases weapon damage and name your sniper rifle the "LOL".

* [[Swiss Army Weapon]]: Four of them! The Disc, Rod, Mesh and Ball primitives each have several different forms, on top of the use of the Rod for lightcycles;

** Disc: Disc Primitive (Standard Disc), [[More Dakka|Sequencer Disc]], [[Recursive Ammo|Cluster Disc]], [[Mundane Utility|X-Box only Charger Disc]]

* [[Trapped in Another World]]: Just like the films, no protagonist takes their first trip into [[Cyberspace]] willingly.

* [[The Unfought]]: {{spoiler|Thorne, played up as the game's main [[Big Bad]] on the box. When you finally reach him, the Kernel has nearly defeated him, and he derezzes soon after you beat the Kernel.}}

* [[The Virus]]: Thorne, the original [[Big Bad]]; {{spoiler|attempting to digitize himself without Alan and Lora's correction algorithms [[Gone Horribly Wrong|left him as Patient Zero of the virus corrupting Encom's network]].}}

* [["Well Done, Son" Guy]]: It's heavily implied that Lora's death put a huge wedge between Jet and Alan. Alan even grumbles during the game's intro that Jet is "as bad as Flynn." It's obvious that they do love one another, but there's not a lot of understanding on the part of either party.

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