TRON: Destiny is a Fan Film developed by Daniel Weissenberger and Anthony Scot Burns as a sequel to TRON: Legacy and as a fake trailer for the rumored "TR3N" movie. Released on the Internet to rave reviews, the four-minute short is remarkably well done and has many fans openly declaring their desire for Disney to make the actual film based on its premise...
...which is that two youthful college students and computer-nerd hackers make the hack of a lifetime, giving them the plans to build something amazing. Which then builds something wonderful itself... before, as the hackers celebrate with a night on the town, it starts building something else... of a rather less wonderful nature.
The short can be seen here
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TRON: Destiny provides examples of the following tropes:
- A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Liz's building of the digitization laser results in it building a lightcycle. By itself. The test drive gives it time to build something else entirely...
- Back from the Dead: Sark and, by implication, the Master Control Program.
- Big Brother Is Watching: Implied; Liz's text to David insists he use a landline to call her.
- Cool Bike: The laser builds a real-world lightcycle.
- Costume Evolution: Sark's outfit has been updated to match the character designs of programs in Legacy.
- Emerging from the Shadows: The figure constructed by the laser during the lightcycle's test drive has a blank, dark-faced helmet, until the very end of its rezzing when its helmet lights flick on... revealing the face of Sark.
- Hollywood Hacking: Apparently constructing the digitization laser and hooking it up to a computer is enough for the MCP to reach out from the Grid.
- Oh, Crap!: When it's realized exactly what Liz hacked.David: You hacked ENCOM?!
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: Sark.
- Returning Big Bad: The Master Control Program seems to be Back from the Dead given Sark's statement upon being rerezzed.
- Sealed Evil in a Can: And it seems they've let it out.
- Sequel Escalation: The MCP appears to have accomplished what Clu failed to do in Legacy: bringing programs into the real world.
- Swiss-Cheese Security: It's trivially easy for David to evade the lone security guard to Liz's building.
- Tron Lines: Well duh.
- Wham Line:Sark: Thank you, Master Control.
- With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility: The professor's speech in the opening of the film is on this topic. Liz developing her own digitization laser leads to it being hacked by the MCP who uses it rez Sark into the real world.
