History Film / Tron

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Tron gets off an epic one with just ''five words'' after Sark dismisses him as a slave.
-->'''Tron:''' I'm also ''better'' than you. ''[cue BoomHeadshot]''

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** The room Flynn and company walk through that looks to be filled with large object resembling washing machines... those were also real. They were ''hard drives''. That's what hard drives looked like in the 70s.

* CelibateHero: Inside the computer system. While the programs can and do hug each other, Flynn gives Yori a good-bye kiss, just before jumping into the MCP. Yori later gives Tron a kiss and he reacts, "Wow!" with a "where'd you learn that?" expression.

* MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness: This is a pretty soft sci-fi story considering the digitization and digital world.

To add insult to injury, [[UsefulNotes/AcademyAward the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] considered it "cheating" to have used computers to create the special effects, resulting in the film not getting nominated for Best Special Effects. ''TRON'''s failure, along with AMPAS's anti-CGI prejudice, put CGI development on the back burner for years; while a few later productions made use of CGI elements (''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'', ''Film/YoungSherlockHolmes'', ''Film/FlightOfTheNavigator'', and, most notably, ''Film/TheLastStarfighter''), it would not be until 1989's ''Film/TheAbyss'', and later 1991's ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay'' and 1993's megahit ''Film/JurassicPark'', that computer-generated effects would become feasible in the eyes of Hollywood and the public. This development and the film's persistent [[CultClassic cult fandom]] would cause the film to be popularly [[VindicatedByHistory reevaluated]] as a bold experiment in computer visual effects. This was the only project in which legendary futurists Syd Mead and Creator/{{Moebius}} would collaborate (each working on different aspects of the cyberworld.)

** Dillinger then gets another "Oh crap" when Master Control casually mentions that it plans to take over both [[TheGreatPoliticsMessUp the Pentagon and the Kremlin]]

* WatchingTheSunset: The final shot of the film is the cityscape going from daylight to a neon-lit night scene that looks a lot like the digital world, hinting that we are NotSoDifferent.

* FamousLastWords: Not all of Flynn's allies make it through the film.
-->[[spoiler:'''Ram:''' ''[to Flynn]'' Flynn... help Tron... ''[expires]'']]

** The room Flynn and company walk through that looks to be filled with large object resembling washing machines... those were also real. They were ''hard drives''. That's what hard drives looked like in the 70's.

* ArcadeSounds: Justifed for once. Music/{{Journey}} is also playing on the PA [[TheEighties for atmosphere]]. Journey actually did two songs for the soundtrack: "1990's Theme" and "Only Solutions".

To add insult to injury, [[UsefulNotes/AcademyAward the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] considered it "cheating" to have used computers to create the special effects, resulting in the film not getting nominated for Best Special Effects. ''TRON'''s failure put CGI development on the back burner for years; while a few later productions made use of CGI elements (''Film/YoungSherlockHolmes'', ''Film/FlightOfTheNavigator'' and, most notably, ''Film/TheLastStarfighter''), it would not be until 1989's ''Film/TheAbyss'', and later 1991's ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay'' and 1993's megahit ''Film/JurassicPark'', that computer-generated effects would become feasible in the eyes of Hollywood and the public. This development and the film's persistent [[CultClassic cult fandom]] would cause the film to be popularly [[VindicatedByHistory reevaluated]] as a bold experiment in computer visual effects. This was the only project in which legendary futurists Syd Mead and Creator/{{Moebius}} would collaborate (each working on different aspects of the cyberworld.)

* RealityEnsues: Flynn is able to steal a Recognizer... but since he has no idea how to steer one of these behemoths, the thing goes careening out of control, with Flynn and Bit often hanging on for dear life, and it finally crashes into a building.

* ZeroesAndOnes: Bit, who can only say "yes" and "no". He also has a "neutral" state, corresponding to the high-impedance state of a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-state_logic tristate]] electronic output.

* IAmNotShazam: Some people who only know of ''TRON'' through its significance and the [[TronLines aesthetic it inspired]] assume TRON is the name of the cyber-world itself, when it's actually the name of a character ''in'' the cyber-world.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar:
** At one point, Flynn passes by a shady-looking area where a couple of female programs with red circuits are lounging about. It appears to be a ''Red Light'' District of sorts.
** Early on, Flynn casually tricks Alan into revealing that Alan and Lora, an unmarried couple, are living together. Pretty exotic for a Disney movie in 1982.

* RealityWarper: As a User, Flynn is essentially this inside the digital realm. It takes him sometime to master his powers, but near the end of the film he's able to redirect a conduit of raw power, resurrect YORI from being de-rezzed, and keeps the carrier intact even after Sark tries to delete it.

* ThePasswordIsAlwaysSwordfish: Dillinger's password to access the Master Control Program is "Master."

* StealingTheCredit: Flynn was the one who created a half-dozen of Incom's hit video games but one night, found all the data missing. A few weeks later, Dillinger showed the board six games he had "invented" and began his rise to power. As Flynn snaps "the slime didn't even change the ''names!''"

''TRON'' appeared as a level in ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII'' (it was Tetsuya Nomura's admitted first choice for the series, but he couldn't find a way to put it in the first game), and its sequel ''TRON: Legacy'' appeared as a level in ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsDreamDropDistance'' on the [=Nintendo3DS=].

Video game developer Kevin Flynn (Creator/JeffBridges), trying to prove that a CorruptCorporateExecutive has stolen his videogame programs, is sucked into the digital world inside the computer, where anthropomorphic programs are consigned to fight for their lives in gladiatorial games. With the help of Tron, an independent security program, Flynn must try to destroy the evil Master Control Program from within, bring liberty to the cyber realm, and find a way of returning himself to the real world.

* IDontPayYouToThink: Sark tells an underling, "Don't think anymore. I do the thinking around here."