Trivia / TRON: Uprising

• Adored by the Network: Before suddenly getting postponed and moved to midnight slots it was a occasional favorite and one of the most popular animated series of Disney XD in 2012 the channel highly promoted promos and ads for the show before the TRON: Uprising premiere and every show on the channel it had very high ratings, the promos played on Disney Channel, Disney Junior and even ABC the first seven episodes were highly promoted in the summer of 2012, it had a marathon of sixth episodes and during it's two-part special Scars, it had 2 flash games on the website and minigames that were for a once limited time on Poptropica.
• All-Star Cast: Elijah Wood, Mandy Moore, Paul Reubens, Lance Henriksen, Aaron Paul, Nate Corddry, Fred Tatasciore, and Emmanuelle Chriqui in addition to Bruce Boxleitner reprising Tron and Olivia Wilde guest-starring as Quorra.
• Genius Bonus: The names of the cities, aside from Purgos, are elements on the periodic table. In order of introduction, they also follow the Greek alphabet: Argon, Bismuth, Gallium. ^note  Amusingly enough, this means there's likely a city on The Grid named Mercury
  • Beck and Cyrus are named after the Cyrus-Beck algorithm which serves for cutting lines going out of a rectangular space.
  • Parts of the fandom who work in real-world computer repair have pointed out that Cyrus's Omnicidal Maniac plan is exactly what you do with a hard drive that's too corrupted to save and that the whole Dyson-Tron rivalry is very much like what happens if you have two incompatible pieces of security software on a system.
• Left Hanging: The show was cancelled by Disney shortly after the airing of its Bolivian Army Ending finale in 2013. To date (2023), the fates of its main characters have remained unknown.
• The Other Darrin:
  • Clu is voiced by Fred Tatasciore instead of Jeff Bridges.
  • Tricia Helfer voices The Grid in this series, replacing Edie Mirman from Legacy.
• Playing Against Type:
  • Paul Reubens as Pavel.
  • Also, Reginald VelJohnson not playing a cop.
  • Then there's Aaron Paul, most famous for foul-mouthed Butt-Monkey Jesse Pinkman and laidback Nice Guy Todd Chavez, giving a chilling performance as the Cold Ham Knight of Cerebus Cyrus.
• Screwed by the Network: Seven episodes in, it suddenly got postponed to October. The return lasted three episodes, just long enough to get the two-parter out of the way, before disappearing from the lineup again until December, where it got moved to midnight on Mondays. Short of not being aired at all, you cannot get much more screwed than that.
• Shout-Out: The Jolly Tricksters disguise (bowler hats and a painted-on Slasher Smile) may be invoking A Clockwork Orange. The composer who did the music for A Clockwork Orange? Wendy Carlos, who also did the music for the 1982 TRON.

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