#tron: evolution

[pedroam-bang]

Tron: Evolution (2010)

[badsectoromega]

『 𝔾𝕠𝕝𝕕𝕖𝕟 』

[cmdrjanus-2]

"Be careful Monitor. Because everybody lies."

[mewtwowarrior]

Since my original post is huge, here's a picture-only version of my TRON: Lightcycle / Run character comparison post.

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Sources:

The DisneyParks Blog Introducing Team Green

BlogMickey.com’s First Look at Team Green

BlogMickey.com’s Twitter TRON Lightcycle / Run Queue Twitter post 1

BlogMickey.com’s Twitter TRON Lightcycle / Run Queue Twitter post 2

xbox.com’s TRON: Evolution page

xbox.com’s TRON RUN/r page

BlogMickey.com’s TRON Lightcycle / Run at D23 2022 article

Fortnite update page

TR2N font

TRON: Evolution PC

TRON RUN/r PC

Fortnite Bitstream character

[justjensenanddean]

Jensen Ackles’ Filmography.

 “I certainly wanna continue performing, an actor, I wanna work with people I can learn things from, I wanna work with people who push me and make me better... I love what I do and I love telling stories, I love playing characters, I love creating, film and television and I will keep doing it into some capacity for as long as I can.”  —  Jensen Ackles, SDCC 2018

Happy Birthday, Jensen Ackles! March 1st, 1978.

[tronverse]

The Forgotten Hero of TRON: Evolution (PSP).

Beta, the main character in TRON: Evolution for the PSP, is a program created by Kevin Flynn in 1985 to become (under Tron's tutelage) a competitor in the first Game Grid Tournament. Although fully customizable in-game, Beta is shown with blue circuitry in the loading screens and in the screen that shows all the competitors in the tournament.

[helloblobbyblobfish]

SYSTEM MONITOR DEREZZED

The number of people who don't follow the same medias as I but like to see what I write… Thanks guys!

Tron: Evolution is a game set during C. L. U. 2.0 rebellion mentioned in Legacy. Adds some characters and concepts but not much details, the only important thing to mention being the virus called Abraxas. Probably one of the less plot-heavy or plot-relevant things of the full property. 

So, Tron: Evolution… Even by Tron standard (should make a meta commentary about this franchise-wide problem), this game has A LOT of interesting idea and unusual concepts thrown everywhere and never used:

That the program's focus on their directives is seen by some as a sign of their inferiority, by others the reason they are superior; rebellious ISO who are a lot less naïve than what we were told, Abraxas (Spoilers, but seriously. If CLU 2.0 could create a whole identity for a three-helix DNA being the day of the coup but had to wait Uprising to be able to let repurposed program keep the ability to just TALK, let alone still struggle to properly rectify Tron by the time of Legacy, The H**k is Alan's level of skill? That one might be a glaring plot hole, still.), Zuse's motives, Flynn who didn't believe in "basic's" free will but saw CLU as a person capable of growing mentally, etc.

Which leads us to the hero of the game: Anon. Helmet, full mute, even in-universe. The idea seems to be that this system monitor (like Tron) written in a hurry doesn't possess abilities not directly related to his job as Grid security. This and quite a lot of elements I've noticed or realized while reading/watching posts/videos about Evolution are almost earth-shattering for the franchise's themes and lore, but not a single scene to focus on the subject (seems the game was a bit rushed anyway).

Something was brought to my attention by this specific post by @the-system-monitor: https://the-system-monitor.tumblr.com/post/646373242011090945/thoughts

And I had to do something. Because the post also doesn’t fully grasp something about the Anon/Gibson dynamic: Anon doesn't show a single regret killing or even fighting him after Gibson is infected by a virus. Heck, one could argue that the reason why Anon went after Gibson is his purpose of eradicating all infected programs and he saw Abraxas infecting the ISO rather than worry.

I do like to imagine Anon is capable of emotions, but I was intrigued by the idea of a program who only thinks by his programming with no emotion, because it's so out of place in the franchise's style and internal logic. Plus, it would be compelling to try to write an emotionless POV character. Haven't done that in years.

So, here came this AU and ficlet. Hope you will enjoy it.

I own nothing. Tron is a Disney property.

Recompliling Program...

Importing backup….

The Grid. Living again.

Scanning surroundings for threats…

“Hum? Hello? We’re here, Mysterious System Monitor!”

“Be more respectful of him! He… He saved my life.”

Combat posture engaged. “Hey! hey! Hey! Hey! Calm down!”

A User? Better disengage, in case he feels the need to derezzes a rebellious program.

Protect the Users.

New sub-directives discovered. Kevin_Flynn must have tried to copy Tron’s programming during conception.

New objective: Discover what happened to CLU and The Grid since derezzing.

Internal clock reveals over 12000 cycles have happened since derezzing.

This program is feeling... shock.

“Are you okay? Anon, is it?”

ISO intruding in personal space. Have to step back to have the room to grab the disc without being stopped if need be.

“I don’t think I’ve ever seen him talk. I wonder how Flynn, your father, Sam, not you, programmed him. He always had an approach… I would say ‘robotic’, by users terms.”

A group of programs is around the ISO and the User. Scanning.

1)Male Mechanic program.

Defensive abilities: agility

Weaknesses: none

Notes: Seems extremely well-trained. Has adopted a System Monitor defensive stance. To be surveilled.

2)Female Combattant program

Defensive abilities: none

Weaknesses: Corrupted disks

Notes: Detecting traces of Medic program codes, that seems to have been abandoned in favor of becoming a Combat program. Is this possible?

Secondary objective: Learn how a basic program could change directives.

“What is he doing?”

“Shhh, Sam! He must be confused! Oh, how could I have missed his utter lack of expression ability during C.L.U’s coup?!? I’m feeling like such an idiot!” The User is immediately at her side, hugging her.

The Combatant program is murmuring to the Mechanic. What is she doing? Is she attempting to bribe him?

Analysis of her body language… Enhancing hearing to listen to her better…

Result… She is flirting. Nothing to notice.

Detecting a fifth program in the vicinity.

  Scanning for threat level…

Tron

Status: corrupted codes

Defensive abilities: Light Shielding, Unique programming making him more resistant and hit stronger. Extreme agility in recorded memory. Might have been weakened by the corruption.

Weaknesses: Stasis disc. Might be destabilized by injecting a second type of corrupted data with the corruption disc.

Tron might be too powerful to take on, but he is a danger to the Grid.

Goodbye, Tron.

“What is he doing?!!?” The Mechanic program is immediately defending him. Those movements… He was trained by Tron. Need to get away to planify a better attack strategy.

The ground’s coding is being modified by the User. Tentacles restraining… What should System Monitor Anon use to refer to itself?

Coding malfunction detected… Impossible to self-diagnostique.

“It is my coding, Sam_Flynn. He considered our previous working relationship less important than his programming.”

The Mechanic program is trying to… Analysis... comfort Tron: “Tron. I know you’re feeling guilty with everything you did as Rinzler, but this wasn’t you. Okay?” His face softens in a sign of.... Support?

Was Tron turned into a Virus like the ISO Jalen?

He needs to be derezzed for the safety of the grid, if so.

“I’m sorry”, the User’s voice, Sam_Flynn, unknown connection to Kevin_Flynn, comes from the back. Engaging 360° view. He is approaching the disc.

Protect your disc or your programming will be modified.

“Oh boy. I’m, I’m sorry. My dad seems to have written you off in haste. I will try to do something about it. Tron is getting repairs, but all those cycles of being infected by Malwares and other things make the process slow.“

“Don’t worry. I won’t derezzes you. But you need to focus on the Grid Bugs and the infighting amongst the remaining commanders of C.L.U’s army.” The combattant program flinch. Spy? Traitor? For whom? How to warn the User and the ISO if she’s a danger? Wait, the disc!

The User quickly puts it back in the support, but…

New programming detected… Engaging Sleep Mode during the reboot process...

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Originally, I wanted to sprinkle in moments that showed Anon being able to detect wherever a program is currently being killed and by who, but it would have been horrendous to name everyone and he never showed this ability in canon, so I dropped it. I also didn’t expect the story to get so dark with the question of HOW could Anon act that way during the game and how unable to empathize with others he is. The latter point should have been the most obvious thing, but I guess it’s in the franchise’s coding to write something and realize the mere concept is existential dread..

[rexwrendraws]

finally got around to watching a playthrough of tron: evolution the other day and all i can think is JALEN OH NOOOOOO

(the jalen is based on @3-inch-sam ‘s redesign of him!)

(May 2021)