"Greetings, programs!"TRON: Evolution, the requisite video game tie-in/prequel to TRON: Legacy, fills in some of the backstory that is only vaguely alluded to in the film itself. You play as a newly-written program known only as the System Monitor, designed by Kevin Flynn to help quell the unrest between the newly-arrived ISOs and Grid-native Basics. The arrival of virus Abraxas on a supposedly-closed system doesn't help matters, and soon the Monitor is pressed into service to defend the Grid from threats both internal and external, with Strange Girl Quorra watching from a distance.
TRON: Evolution provides examples of the following tropes:
100% Completion: The TRON Files and Abraxas Shards scattered throughout the game.
Actually, I Am Him: Abraxas shows up shortly after the former leader of the ISOs is supposedly derezzed. No points for guessing his true identity. It goes even further if you connect the dots between the Xbox 360/Playstation 3 version and the Wii counterpart, Battle Grids. The customizable protagonist of Battle Grids ends the game by becoming the first ISO to win the title of champion of the Grid Games; information provided by collectibles in Evolution establish that Jalen, the ISO who becomes Abraxas, was the first ISO champion of the Games.
Brainwashed and Crazy: Everyone infected with the Abraxas Virus and Abraxas himself.
Big Bad: You'd think that would be Abraxas, the source of the virus infecting Tron City, but he himself was reprogrammed into a virus by Clu, using Abraxas as a distraction for Flynn, Quorra and Anon, while Clu takes over the Grid and exterminates the ISOs.
The Cameo: Despite his name beingthe title, Tron himself only appears briefly in the opening scenes. They did get Bruce Boxleitner, though.
Color-Coded for Your Convenience: Just like the films, blue is good (or at least neutral), while red is bad and dark yellow/orange is independent. Exclusive to the game is bright yellow representing infected programs. Although ISOs end up being both green and white during the game, green is reserved for residents of Bostrum, while all other ISOs are white.
Cutting Off the Branches: Supplementary materials confirm that the customizable player character of TRON: Evolution: Battle Games was Jalen, the leader of ISOs and eventually the main antagonist and Final Boss Abraxas.
Deadly Disc: Your identity disc is your ONLY weapon. Use it wisely.
Deadly Euphemism: Programs don't die, they are derezzed. This one is true for the entire TRON 'verse, though.
Deadpan Snarker: Gibson falls pretty squarely into this area.
Death Is a Slap on the Wrist: Hell, they'll even refill your health while they're at it. Sometimes suicide is the most effective way to give yourself a fighting chance against the next wave of enemies.
Dying as Yourself: Gibson. He even thanks Anon right before derezzing
Doomed by Canon: Evolution is a prequel to Legacy. Anon, Gibson, and Radia are all nowhere to be found in the film. Guess who's not making it through Evolution in one piece? To say nothing of The Purge.
Hero of Another Story: Anon. In Legacy, Quorra briefly mentions a "sympathetic program" helping her to escape the Purge before she was found by Flynn; it seems likely that she meant Anon.
Hoist by His Own Petard: CLU's own creation, Abraxas, returns to take revenge for his torment, destroying CLU's command carrier. CLU, himself, escapes, but Abraxas's intervention create the opportunity for Anon to rescue Quorra.
Mook Chivalry: When Abraxas first attacks, several guards run at him in a single-file line and are individually swatted into oblivion. Which is odd, because they were shoulder-to-shoulder when they started running, and don't even draw their discs to deal with the obviously dangerous program.
Mr. Fanservice: Gibson for most of his screentime... if you ignore the fact that he tries to kill you while infected, anyway.
New Game Plus: All your upgrades and disc types carry over from one playthrough to the next. You can even take your upgraded Monitor into online multiplayer.
One Program Army: Anon is always outnumbered by CLU's forces and the Infected Programs but never stops tearing through them. He's even more this after Flynn upgrades his disk for the final attack on CLU's command ship.
Le Parkour: The Monitor's preferred method of travel. Heck, you have to use Le Parkour to restore your health and energy by running along Energy Tranfer Circuits along walls and structures. Vaulting towards an enemy and attacking also increases damage.
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