In honor of the new film Tron: Legacy, us here at Film Grenade decided to put together one of hour world famous Character guides…Well I don’t know if its world famous but they certainly are informative…. Any way you can check out some of our other character guides here ( Transformers) (Twilight) (Watchmen) ( Prince Caspian).

But for now we get into the story of Tron: Legacy! Warning: There are Spoilers in this article!

In 1989, Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges), an innovative software engineer and the CEO of ENCOM International, disappears. Twenty years later, his son, Sam (Garrett Hedlund), who became the controlling shareholder after his father’s disappearance, takes little interest in the company besides an annual practical joke on the board of directors. Sam is visited by his father’s friend and ENCOM executive Alan Bradley (Bruce Boxleitner), who urges Sam to investigate a mysterious pager message originating from Flynn’s old arcade. While exploring the arcade, Sam discovers a concealed computer laboratory and unintentionally transports himself to The Grid.

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Sam is captured and taken to the game arena. He is eventually pitted against Rinzler, the champion of the games, who notices that Sam is not a program, but a User. Rinzler takes him before Clu, a digital copy of Sam’s father who rules The Grid. Clu nearly kills Sam in a Light Cycle match before Quorra (Olivia Wilde) rescues him. Taken to a distant hideout in the “Outlands,” Sam is reunited with his father, who reveals that Clu betrayed him and defeated Tron, seizing control of The Grid and forcing Kevin to remain in hiding. Clu also committed genocide against sentient “isomorphic algorithms” (ISOs), self-produced programs that carried the potential to unlock mysteries in science, religion, and medicine that Clu considered to be an imperfection. When the portal closed, Flynn became a captive inside his own creation until Sam re-opened it from the outside.

Resolving to make it back to the real world where he would be able to delete Clu, Sam makes his way back to The Grid to find a program named Zuse, whom he believes can provide safe passage to the portal. The End of Line Club owner – Castor (Michael Sheen) – is revealed to be Zuse and betrays Sam to Clu’s guards. Though Kevin and Quorra arrive just in time to help Sam escape, Quorra is wounded in the process and Zuse gains possession of Kevin’s identity disc. Knowing the disc works as a master key to The Grid, Zuse attempts to negotiate with Clu, but Clu simply takes it and destroys the club.

Stowing away on a transport ship, Kevin heals Quorra, who is revealed to be the last surviving ISO. The three unexpectedly arrive at a station aboard a massive warship. When Quorra allows Rinzler to capture her to serve as a distraction, Kevin recognizes Rinzler as a reprogrammed Tron. Clu addresses an army of troops, expressing his desire to enter the real world and reform it to his ideal of perfection.

Sam saves Quorra and reclaims Kevin’s disc. The trio then commandeer an aerial shuttle and are pursued by Clu, his guards and Rinzler using Light Jets. Between Quorra’s evasive flying and Sam manning the rear turret, they manage to shoot down Clu’s guards. During the conflict, Kevin and Rinzler make eye contact and Rinzler regains his true identity as Tron. Tron declares: “I fight for the users”, and he deliberately collides with Clu’s Light Jet, causing both of their vehicles to derezz. As they are falling Clu fights Tron, and steals his spare baton. Tron falls into the Sea of Simulation, where the orange illumination on his armor reverts back to his original blue. Clu uses Tron’s spare baton to create another light jet, allowing him to arrive at the portal first. When Sam, Kevin and Quorra reach the portal, a scuffle ensues. Kevin sacrifices himself, re-integrating with Clu to ensure Sam and Quorra escape. The two merge and explode just as Sam and Quorra use Kevin’s disc to transport through the portal to the real world.

Back in the basement of Flynn’s Arcade, Sam saves a backup of The Grid onto his flash drive. He then meets Alan and tells him that he will start working at ENCOM, and, as the controlling interest shareholder, he will name Alan chairman of the board. Sam leaves with Quorra on his motorcycle, showing her the sunrise she has longed to see.

Protagonists

Kevin Flynn

Played by Jeff Bridges

Kevin Flynn started off as a young computer game creator and programmer. His games were eventually stolen by another collegue named Ed Dillinger. Dillinger passed off the games as his own and Flynn lost his job when he tried to say that Dillenger stole his ideas. Unemployed, Flynn financed an arcade with all his games in and most nights people watch him play his video games until they are completed. Alan approached him about some dodgy dealings at the factory where Dillinger took over. Flynn obliged and the Master Computer transferred him from the real world and zapped him into a computer world called “The Grid”. Flynn proved more than a match of the world and the evil Sark by helping Tron destroy the MCP and Sark before being able to return to the real world a hero. Dillinger loses his job when the truth about his games comes to light and Flynn takes his rightful place as President of Encom.

Sam Flynn

Played by Garrett Hedlund

Sam Flynn is the son of Kevin Flynn. In 1989, Kevin Flynn goes missing and Sam is brought to live with his grandparents. Over the following years, Sam begins to act out in school and is advised to find something that will keep his interests so that he can graduate from Well Minster Academy. He picks up Amazon Capoerica and it calms him. As his teacher noted, his behavior worsens in the months of July and September. He has a dog named Marv and tells Allan Bradley to watch over his dog in case anything happens to him. Sam gave up taking over ENCOM and his father’s arcade. Sam is HIGHLY against ENCOM and does what he can to invade and start a riot. He is a member of FLYNN LIVES but refuses to go after his father after the countless and useless endeavors that he has done in the past since his father went missing. Sam drives his father’s Ducati motorcycle and is interested in extreme sports. Sam has acted up in the recent times since Space Paranoids came back in a new modern twist. Sam rallied against it by parachuting into the event with his parachute saying “89″. He refers often to ’89 as the “year that changed everything.” He did inherit his father’s computer genius and was going to attend CalTech.

Quorra

Played by Olivia Wilde

Quorra is the confidante and surrogate daughter of Kevin Flynn, and has been loyally helping him survive his digital exile. She is revealed to be an Isomorphic Algorithm (better known as ISO) which are a race of programs that are self-created; in other words, they were not created by users.

Kevin Flynn and Clu first encountered the ISO’s in 1983 while at the edge of the newly created Tron City. The ISO’s help to beautify and perfect Tron City but are later hunted and destroyed following a coup by Clu which forces Kevin Flynn to flee into exile. Quorra manages to escape Tron City during the purge of ISO’s and finds Kevin Flynn. She is later revealed to be the last functioning ISO.

Quorra’s personality is quite innocent and childlike as well as very compassionate and naive.

Quorra is an accomplished warrior, possessing significant skill with the sword and her Identity disk. She is also a skilled driver and pilot, capable of guiding vehicles through complex terrestrial and aerial stunts.

Quorra first meets Sam Flynn when she charges onto the Game Grid and spares him from death at the hands of Clu. Gradually forming a bond with Sam, Quorra goes against Kevin’s wishes and secretly aids Sam in finding her old friend Castor, only to rescue him once more when she is betrayed by Castor at the End of Line Club. Quorra’s systems shut down after an arm is partially de-rezzed in the ensuing brawl. Quorra is able to regenerate her arm and reboot her program after the damaged code is located and removed by Kevin Flynn.

Kevin Flynn has shared his knowledge of the real world with her, and as such, Quorra longs to experience what lies outside the realm of possibility. She ultimately has her wish granted when she accompanies Sam Flynn on his journey back home to our World, apparently becoming human in the process. Quorra happily sets off with Sam as he shows her the wonders of reality.

Alan Bradley

Played by Bruce Boxleitner

Alan Bradley is a computer programmer working for Encom and a friend of Kevin Flynn. He is also the creator of the Tron program that monitors communications between the Master Control Program and the real world. Bradley at first attempts to look on updates of the system through his Tron program, only to find out that the MCP has already locked it out. It was then that Flynn convinced Bradley to let him go to the laser laboratory to get to another security program to find evidence of Dillinger stealing Flynn’s original work. In the film, Tron addresses Bradley with the username ‘Alan-1′ when he establishes communication with him.

Tron

Played by Bruce Boxleitner

Tron is the title character of the Disney movie “Tron”. He is a computer program.

Heand his friends are forced to play brutal games in the Game Grid by their master, the Master Control Program, and his henchman, Commander Sark. They are aware of the xistance of “users” (ie. the people from our world). When the user Kevin Flynn enters the computer world, he inspires Tron to rebel against the Master Control Program and defeat him.

He appears in the videogame “Kingdom Hearts II”. There, the Master Control Program tries to use the Heartless to take over Hollow Bastion, so Tron teams up with Sora, Goofy and Donald to defeat him.

His name comes from the word elecTRONic, as the producer of the movie once stated. He had no idea about the ‘trace on’ command at the time he named the character.

Antagonists

Clu

Played by Jeff Bridges

Clu (an acronym for Codified Likeness Utility) had originally been a search program written by Kevin Flynn to hack the Encom mainframe for evidence that Ed Dillinger had stolen his video game designs. He was captured, tortured, and ultimately derezzed by the Master Control Program’s henchmen.

Flynn resurrected Clu to oversee his new Grid program while he was in the real world. However, since Flynn told Clu to create “the perfect system,” Clu saw this as carte blanche to overthrow Flynn, brainwash Tron into becoming his henchman, and reengage in the MCP’s old habits of forcing other programs to play the gladiatorial video games of old. Clu also ordered the genocide of the isomorphic programs that had spontaneously coalesced into existence. Clu’s new goal was to escape into the real world and conquer Earth itself, but was forcibly reintegrated into Flynn, destroying them both.

Rinzler

played by Anis Cheurfa

Rinzler is the corrupted version of Tron. He is CLU 2′s right hand man and enforcer. Considered a master warrior, he uses two identity discs when in combat and displays advanced acrobatic talent. Rinzler is named after Lucasfilm Executive Editor, J.W. Rinzler, author of several books including The Making of Star Wars, The Complete Making of Indiana Jones, and Making of The Empire Strikes Back. Director Joseph Kosinski chose the name during a working session with the writers when one of Rinzler’s books happened to be on the table.^[10]

Throughout the course of Tron: Legacy, it is revealed that Rinzler is a reprogrammed version of Tron. Tron was selected by Flynn to help him build the Grid, and defended Flynn when CLU betrayed them. Tron appeared to have been ‘derezzed’ as Flynn escaped, but actually was repurposed to serve CLU, being wiped of his memories as Tron in the process. He has several encounters with Sam Flynn through the course of the film, and during an aerial fight sequence, remembers his past identity and turns against CLU, saying that he fights for the users. He is left by CLU in the sea of simulation, and as he sinks to the bottom his armor reverts from its orange hue back to white, indicating that he has become Tron again. His ultimate fate is left unknown, but it is possible he was derezzed along with the rest of the Grid when Flynn integrated with CLU.

Edward Dillinger Jr.

Played by Cillian Murphy

Edward Dillinger Jr. is the son of Ed Dillinger, one of the main antagonists of the first film.

Castor

Played by Michael Sheen

Castor is the flamboyant owner of the End of Line night club located inside the Grid. He hides his true identity fearing reprisals having worked with the ISO’s before Clu purged them, and only a few know he is “Zuse”.

Source: IMDB