History Fridge / TronTwoPointOh

* When a Program de-rezzes in this game, they leave behind a core dump that can be "used" to restore some of Jet's health and energy. Energy is relatively easy to obtain from patch spheres, pools, and the like. Health? Not so much. Health spheres have a limited charge, and they're harder to find, so you'll be downloading those core dumps to stay alive until the next health sphere or checkpoint. You're cannibalizing the dead to survive. That's a degree of {{squick}} on par with AmericanMcGeesAlice. Worse, consider that Flynn was shown to absorb the life force of one of Sark's guards to blend in, and that it was implied that [[spoiler: Ram gave up what was left of his energy to Flynn upon discovering Flynn was a User]]. HumansAreCthulhu indeed.

* The pattern on Jet's disc (concentric circles with a triangle in triangle in the center) has been jokingly referred to as [[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda a triforce]], and he's the right age to have played a ''lot'' of those games, but there's another interpretation. In the first film, Tron's disc was decorated with a series of concentric circles. Yori's identifier mark was a triangle bisected by a semi-circle. Jet's disc pattern could be a subtle nod to his legendary Program "siblings."

* If you go the PatchworkFic route? Sam and Jet Bradley would have been something like cousins or brothers, but their respective trips down the cyberspace rabbit hole were ''very'' different. Sam saw nothing but hostile AI; his father betrayed and killed by Clu, thousands of Programs cheering for his messy death in the arena, Zues and Gem turning out to be scheming bastards, Quorra's tale of narrow escape from genocide, Clu's regime threatening to take over Earth, and even the great User-Believer Champion nearly slit his throat in front of a cheering crowd. Jet saw mostly sympathetic Programs and HumansAreTheRealMonsters. Jet also may have killed humans to protect those Programs. If Sam sees Jet as a traitor to humanity for protecting Programs, and Jet sees Sam as going down the path of people like Crown or Thorne, that could be a tragic and ugly confrontation akin to [[Comicbook/CivilWar Marvel's Civil War]].

* If you go the PatchworkFic route? Sam and Jet Bradley would have been something like cousins or brothers, but their respective trips down the cyberspace rabbit hole were ''very'' different. Sam saw nothing but hostile AI; his father betrayed and killed by Clu, thousands of Programs cheering for his messy death in the arena, Zues and Gem turning out to be scheming bastards, Quorra's tale of narrow escape from genocide, Clu's regime threatening to take over Earth, and even the great User-Believer Champion nearly slit his throat in front of a cheering crowd. Jet saw mostly sympathetic Programs and HumansAreTheRealMonsters. Jet also may have killed humans to protect those Programs. If Sam sees Jet as a traitor to humanity for protecting Programs, and Jet sees Sam as going down the path of people like Crown or Thorne, that could be a tragic and ugly confrontation akin to Marvel's Civil War.

* If you go the Patchwork Fic route? Sam and Jet Bradley would have been something like cousins or brothers, but their respective trips down the cyberspace rabbit hole were ''very'' different, with Sam seeing nothing but hostile AI; he saw his father betrayed and killed by Clu, thousands of Programs cheering for his messy death in the arena, Zues and Gem turning out to be scheming bastards, Quorra's tale of narrow escape from genocide, Clu's regime threatening to take over Earth, and even the great User-Believer Champion nearly slit his throat in front of a cheering crowd. Jet saw mostly sympathetic Programs and HumansAreTheRealMonsters. Jet also may have killed humans to protect those Programs. If Sam sees Jet as a traitor to humanity for protecting Programs, and Jet sees Sam as going down the path of people like Crown or Thorne, that could be a tragic and ugly confrontation akin to Marvel's Civil War.

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** According to an email in-game, Alan did it after Laura was killed but not yet brain dead, so ''some'' of Lora's neural patterns were uploaded.

** According to an email in-game, Alan did it after Laura was killed but not yet brain dead, so ''some'' of Laura's neural patterns were uploaded.

** No. The program was sort of an anti-virus program for ''humans''. Installing it causes its program to eliminate all humans from the system.

* The pattern on Jet's disc (concentric circles with a triangle in triangle in the center) has been jokingly referred to as [[LegendOfZelda a triforce]], and he's the right age to have played a ''lot'' of those games, but there's another interpretation. In the first film, Tron's disc was decorated with a series of concentric circles. Yori's identifier mark was a triangle bisected by a semi-circle. Jet's disc pattern could be a subtle nod to his legendary Program "siblings."

* The pattern on Jet's disc (concentric circles with a triangle in triangle in the center) has been jokingly referred to as [[LegandofZelda a triforce]], and he's the right age to have played a ''lot'' of those games, but there's another interpretation. In the first film, Tron's disc was decorated with a series of concentric circles. Yori's identifier mark was a triangle bisected by a semi-circle. Jet's disc pattern could be a subtle nod to his legendary Program "siblings."

*** A third bit of brilliance if you cross the timelines. A Sequencer weapon is a very efficient, nasty weapon with a low energy cost...low, that is, for a User like Jet. [[spoiler: Tron-Rinzler being a Program, would be more adversely affected by the energy drain, making it a brutally effective weapon for Games or short skirmishes, but the drain would also act as a leash and further his dependence on Clu!]]

* The Ghost in the Machine comic opens with Jet not coping well with the revelation of what being a User means in that universe's context, and admitting to the psychologist that it is way too much power to handle. Unlike his HonoraryUncle, he wants nothing to do with virtual godhood. The brilliance comes in when you remember that, through the whole game, he readily and willingly followed Ma3a and Mercury's orders ''and'' that while [[{{Film/Tron}} the Flynns fought]] [[AIIsACrapshoot rogue AI that were]] [[Film/TronLegacy trying to conquer humans]], Jet encountered few, if any, truly malicious Programs (the ones trying to kill him were corrupted or mistaken for the most part), and his battle was with malicious ''humans.'' His godfather's disappearance in ''both'' timelines would also mean he would have no guidance or instruction when it comes to what is expected of him as a User or why it's not an inherently bad thing to be one.

* The Ghost in the Machine comic opens with Jet not coping well with the revelation of what being a User means in that universe's context, and admitting to the psychologist that it is way too much power to handle. Unlike his HonroraryUncle, he wants nothing to do with virtual godhood. the brilliance comes in when you remember that, through the whole game, he readily and willingly followed Ma3a and Mercury's orders ''and'' that while [[Film/Tron the Flynns fought]] [[AIIsACrapshoot rogue AI that were]] [[Film/TronLegacy trying to conquer humans]], Jet encountered few, if any truly malicious Programs (the ones trying to kill him were corrupted or mistaken for the most part), and his battle was with malicious ''humans.'' His godfather's disappearance in ''both'' timelines would also mean he would have no guidance or instruction when it comes to what is expected of him or why it's not an inherently bad thing to be one.

** Datawraiths use the Mesh Blaster. As they're ''Users,'' the energy drain wouldn't affect them as much, and the rapid rire rate coupled with their stealth abilities means that hit, run, refuel is a perfectly valid tactic.
** If you look carefully, most of the [=ICP=] forces use discs as a primary weapon with only a few resorting to cannon weapons. They're healthy Programs who need to conserve their energy as they fight, so they would use a combat method that conserves their energy pool. It's also a very well-balanced and versitile weapon, especially with upgrades like Power Block, Primitive Charge, or even Sequencer. Little ''wonder'' the biggest {{Badass}} in cyberspace relied almost exclusively on disc combat [[spoiler: though he used a Sequencer upgrade as Rinzler, apparently.]]

* In the context of the Tron Universe, the [=DataWraiths=] are ''terrifying.'' They are powerful entities that seemed to appear out of nowhere, and can appear and reappear without warning. They speak an entirely encrypted, unintelligible "language" that cannot be understood. They have powerful weapons that they are experienced in using and kill without the exhaustion they would expect from a Program using gun weaponry. And on top of it - they are ''Users'' - '''''their Gods''''' come from the world outside on a mission of conquest. To a Program, it would seem like the literal end of the world, Judgement Day, and the invasion of the entire Lovecraft catalog all at once! Worse? If you ever did cross the timelines, Tron would be ''completely helpless'' to fight these guys as they're Users, [[spoiler: and not even Clu could break his directive to not harm humans]].

* In the context of the Tron Universe, the DataWraiths are ''terrifying.'' They are powerful entities that seemed to appear out of nowhere, and van appear and reappear without warning. They speak and entirely encrypted, unintelligible "language" that cannot be understood. They have powerful weapons that they are experienced in using and kill Programs with them without the exhaustion they would expect from a Program using gun weaponry. And on top of it - they are ''Users'' - '''''their Gods''''' come from the world outside on a mission of conquest. To a Program, it would seem like the literal end of the world, Judgement Day, and the invasion of the entire Lovecraft catalog all at once! Worse? If you ever did cross the timelines, Tron would be ''completely helpless'' to fight these guys as they're Users, [[spoiler: and not even Clu could break his directive to not harm humans]].

* The game tales SecondaryCharacterTitle UpToEleven. Tron is nowhere to be seen, and it's only in an optional conversation with I-No that reveals his fate as "unknown" (that, and some interesting emails indicating an upgrade to Tron was stopped on Flynn's orders). However, if you think of Programs as de facto "children" of their User-Creators, then the tile makes sense. Tron and Jet have the same father!

* If you read the ''Ghost In the Machine'' comic, the game takes on a couple levels of this. The opening scenes are of Jet, hunkered down in the ruins of his {{HonoraryUncle}}'s shuttered arcade, with a horrible case of PTSD and afraid to even ''touch'' a computer after what he saw and had to do. Living through a FirstPersonShooter and realizing what a User 'means'' in that universe didn't do his sanity any favors.

* The fate of the F-Con Trio. They were zapped in, but fused into a hideous monster because the algorithims were not installed. First of all, how do you think that ''felt?'' Thorne was definitely in a lot of pain at the end. Second, Jet threw them out of the transport beam, Alan trapped them on an external hard drive (and is in ''no'' hurry to free them). HoistByHisOwnPetard met AndIMustScream in one nasty move.

* If you read the ''Ghost In the Machine'' comic, the game takes on a couple levels of this. The opening scenes are of Jet, hunkered down in the ruins of his {{HonoraryUncle}}'s shuttered arcade, with a horrible case of PTSD and afraid to even ''touch'' a computer after what he saw and had to do. Living through a FirstPersonShooter and realizing what a User 'mmeans'' in that universe didn't do his sanity any favors.

* Likewise, Tron's unknown fate and the throwaway mention in the comic that Flynn ap[parently went crazy and vanished takes on a ''whole'' new meaning if you fuse this with ''Film/TronLegacy.''

** The Z-Lots use Ball weapons which are horribly inaccurate, use a lot of energy, but cause a lot of damage. The Z-Lots are crazy, not much for self-preservation, and just looking to infect other Programs.

* The other bit of brilliance related to the above. On F-Con's server, a pair of disgruntled Programs are chafing under the rule of the Datawraiths and wistfully wishing for a hero like Tron to show up. The Programs have no idea that Tron's de facto "younger brother" is overhearing it.