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TRON
Episode Studies
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In preparation for the Tron: Legacy movie which came out in December 2010, I re-watched the original Tron film and read the novel. I followed those with analyses of the Tron 2.0 video game and Tron comics published by Slave Labor Graphics in 2003 and Marvel in 2010, plus Legacy and its spinoff video games. Below are my studies relating to each, such as commentary on the science described, sound bits of memorable dialog, screen grabs, and my own musings. Following this are my  some other goodies. I'll be presenting them in my estimation of the chronological order each story takes place.

 

Although there are no television "episodes" in the Tron canon, I am continuing to use the term "episode" as I have elsewhere on PopApostle, as a separable piece in the continuous narrative of a larger story.

 
"The Gospel According
to Dumont"
"The Betrayal" Part 1 "The Betrayal" Part 2
Movie Tron: Betrayal GN (Disney) Tron: The Betrayal #1 (Marvel) Video Game Tron: The Betrayal #2 (Marvel)
A computer hacker finds himself trapped in a computerized landscape, his only hope of escape: activating a heroic computer program to stand against the malevolent Master Control Program. Dumont records "the story thus far" onto Flynn's identity disc. Flynn creates a new Electronic World and transfers Tron into it to act as its protector. He also creates a new Clu to guide the new world into becoming a perfect system. With hostility starting to brew between the Basic programs and the ISOs, Tron assists a particularly skilled ISO player to become an icon by becoming the first ISO champion of the Game Grid. While Flynn is torn between his two worlds, Clu uses the time to gain more power in his mission to create a perfect world.
   
  Legacy      
Video Game Movie Short Film    
When Clu betrays him and launches a war against the ISOs, Flynn creates a new system monitor program called Anon to help Tron protect the denizens of the system. When Alan Bradley suddenly receives a page from Kevin Flynn, missing for the past 20 years, Flynn's son, Sam, is propelled into an adventure inside the TRON System. The anonymous leader of the Flynn Lives Organization realizes the time has come to leave the operation.    
 
Alternate Timeline
  "Ghost in the Machine" Part 1 "Ghost in the Machine" Part 2 "Ghost in the Machine" Part 3 "Ghost in the Machine" Part 4
Video Game Tron #1 (SLG) Tron #2  (SLG) Tron #3  (SLG) Tron #4  (SLG)
20 years after the events of Tron, Alan Bradley's son, Jet, enters the Electronic World to battle the evil machinations of fCon, the company that has bought out ENCOM. After his experiences in the Electronic World, Jet, like Flynn before him, has become troubled and quit ENCOM, leaving his former life behind in favor of seclusion from digital technology. Jet finds himself thrust into a renewed war with the MCP. Jet begins to hallucinate a white rabbit who keeps trying to tell him that his current mission in the Electronic World is a hoax. Jet launches his assault against the MCP.
     
"Ghost in the Machine" Part 5 "Ghost in the Machine" Part 6      
Tron #5 (SLG) Tron #6 (SLG)      
Jet-red tortures Jet-blue with virtual reality hallucinations. Clarence's identity is revealed and he and Jet have a showdown.      
 
Sidebar Studies
Tron Holiday Special      
Cybernetrix        
Novel Parody
In an alternate reality where '80s fads never went out of style, struggling comic book creator Wesley Allen Scott enters the virtual world of Cybernetrix, based on the classic film Tron...and his life will never be the same.
This is a parody commercial inspired by the atrocious Star Wars Holiday Special from 1978.