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Message: <blockquote data-quote="James Gasik" data-source="post: 9708908" data-attributes="member: 6877472">Yeah, I mean, in the first film, Tron is kind of a big deal- a powerful security program that functions independently without oversight from the main CPU, monitoring all access points to and from the system with authority to shut down any unsanctioned activity.  He's certainly able to overpower most other programs he comes into conflict with inside digital space, as proof of this.But he's more of a MacGuffin- he can solve the problems, but without Flynn's actions, he couldn't have succeeded.  I have to assume that once Dillinger was ousted and the MCP nuked, Alan would have been given the greenlight to install Trons everywhere and sell copies of the program worldwide (the Tron seen in Kingdom Hearts was certainly a copy, though KH is highly unlikely to be canon to the films).When he created the Grid, Flynn took a copy of Tron (certainly not the original!) with him for...reasons?  The Grid wasn't hooked up to phone lines, so it was a closed system.  There wasn't much reason to have Tron around beyond having a friendly space- in the Grid, Flynn was a veritable deity, though he ceded a lot of control to Clu 2.0.  Clu corrupted Tron into Rinzler, his personal enforcer, but he was little more than a sword for the entirety of Tron: Legacy.-I didn't watch Tron: Uprising, so I can't really say how important he was to those events.Now we have programs being brought into the real world, literally reversing the original digitization process (which Legacy introduced, with Quorra coming to our world- wonder what happened to her?).  Tron doesn't seem to have any relevance to the story anymore (I mean even Alan only got a brief scene in Legacy).  But hey, I could be wrong.  I've read that somehow the Flynn we see in the trailer is the real Flynn, which feels like one hell of a handwave ("somehow Flynn returned") but who knows- it could be that when Rinzler was defeated, some part of Tron remained and Flynn merged with it to sustain his existence or something...I don't know.  I love the original movie, warts and all, and I really want Ares to be good, but given how the franchise has been treated all these years, I'm worried that this movie will be all flash and no substance.</blockquote>

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