Tron (character)

Template:DisneyChar Tron, played by Bruce Boxleitner, is the titular character of the Disney movie Tron. He is a security program created by Alan Bradley (also played by Boxleitner). In the movie, he stopped the MCP and Sark with the help of the digitized user named Flynn. He reprises his role in Kingdom Hearts II.

Other Programs

• Yori: Yori is Tron's girlfriend and she was created by Alan Bradley's girlfriend Lora, she was also a maintenance program in the simulation hangar.

• Ram: An actuarial program in an insurance company who enjoyed helping people plan for their future needs, he was Tron's best friend and helped Tron and Flynn escape from the game arena. Sadly, he was blasted by a tank program which injured him greatly. After finding out that Flynn was a User Ram de-rezzed peacefully.

• Dumont and the Guardians: Dumont is the guardian program of the only remaining active I/O Tower and is in charge of communications between the Real World and the Program World. He was created by Dr. Walter Gibbs; the other guardians were programs created by the older lab team in ENCOM in charge of the Laser Digityzing System. The Guardians are in charge of the other I/O Towers but the MCP shut them down. In the end they were re-activated and thus they were able to continue their original purpose.

• Glitch Guards: They are Sark's third highest ranked warriors and were created from discarded data. Unlike regular programs the Glitch Guards are fiercely loyal to Sark and will follow any of his commands.

• Clu and Bit: Clu was Kevin Flynn's best program but he was de-rezzed by Sark when he refused to say who programmed him. Bit was Clu's partner and Flynn's weakest program that was only capable of saying yes or no. He tends to run away in the face of danger. UPDATE: Please note that CLU was derezzed by the MCP not Sark.

• Crom: Crom is a compound interest program that worked at a saving and loan. Because he isn't very advanced he can get tired very easily. He knew Ram for a short time but sadly Crom was de-rezzed after Flynn refused to kill him. His creator and user is a full branch manager named Mr. Henderson.

Kingdom Hearts II

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Tron and Sora as depicted in Kingdom Hearts II

In Kingdom Hearts II, when Sora, Donald, and Goofy are digitized into Space Paranoids (the game's Tron-based world), he and friends first encounter Tron in a Pit Cell, where they all have been sent to by Sark, a Heartless commander. After helping Tron break free, they activate a power core which allows them to access the real world, allowing Sora and company the ability to pass between them. Tron revealed he is trying to access the DTD (Door to Darkness) but cannot obtain the right password since a majority of his functions were appropriated by the MCP. He sends Sora to the real world, where they find the password (Belle, Snow White, Aurora, Alice, Jasmine, Cinderella, Kairi) behind a portrait of Xehanort. Tron then hacks the DTD, gaining back all of his functions, and granting Sora access to information on the Heartless and the Nobodies. He then changes the password to Sora, Donald and Goofy to bide himself some time against the MCP, who has gained access to the DTD and decides to test the emergency destruct program for the town, while he and Sora's group travel to the I/O Tower to fight a pitched battle with a Hostile Program, which they defeat. Tron then informs the trio of Ansem's status as his user and enemy; the latter because he rebooted the MCP. It is unknown if Tron later became aware of the fact that the person who rebooted the MCP was actually Xehanort, Ansem's apprentice, or that the real Ansem eventually died at The World That Never Was.

Later, Tron is forced onto the game grid in a fight for his life. Meanwhile, Hollow Bastion is under attack by Heartless that the MCP has downloaded into reality. Sora and co. return to save Tron, and he soon learns that he has a lot of user friends: Leon, Cid, Merlin, Yuffie, and Aerith and then Cloud. They then return to the I/O Tower where Tron receives a special Eradicator program for use against the MCP. A solar sailer ride later, they arrive at the mainframe. They engage in battle with Sark. They defeat him, but he is then upgraded by the MCP, who tries to convince Tron to join it. Tron refuses, and the gang deletes the MCP. In the fight, he has a Delete Reaction Command with Sora to drain the MCP's health. In his happiness at the victory, Tron shows himself to have a "silly side." He then bids goodbye to his friends with a hug each, promising to see them again, before diving into the mainframe to take over the MCP's functions (Sora, Donald and Goofy think that Tron dived into a pit of nothingness). Back on the outside, the Heartless disappear, and Tron gives his new friends something he dug out of the archives: footage of when Hollow Bastion was first built. From watching the footage, Aerith revealed their home's real name as "the Radiant Garden."

Tron, like the other party characters, has a unique limit attack when teamed with Sora. Tron's is called Setup, where he and Sora float on a platform and fire data at various enemies while Tron attempts to gain access to the Reprogram Reaction Command. At the end, once Tron gains access, Sora slams the reprogram button.

In the game credits, Tron is given a new program, and he can be seen dancing. This shows that he picked up his new friends' "illogical habits."

It is debatable that Tron is the most important Disney-created character to appear in Kingdom Hearts II other than Mickey, Donald and Goofy and the original characters Sora, Kairi and Riku (who share copyrights between Square Enix and Disney), for his extensive role in Hollow Bastion. Multiple characters outside of his world apart from the main trio also know of his existense - something that is not possible for other Disney-created characters in the series (although this may mainly be due to the fact that Space Paranoids is 'a world within a world').