History Main / TronLines

* In ''{{Achron}}'', units are depicted as mostly-translucent silhouettes with edges that glow with the unit's team colour. This is an [[JustifiedTrope interface concession]] to make your troops easier to spot: according to the setting, all three of the species use advanced camouflage on their military units, making them near invisible. This doubles as an explanation for why your units have extremely short sight (insofar as they have RTS-standard near-blind line of sight radii). [[TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything You can actually ''hear'' battles occurring outside your vision radius.]]

* Plenty of these can be found throughout the ''RatchetAndClank'' series, mostly on Ratchet's armor (most noticeably his armor in ''A Crack in Time'').

* ''StarWarsTheOldRepublic'' has the Return of the Gree event. their ship is just plain lit up in silver Tron lines and bright geometric shapes of neon coloring. there are also armor sets unique to the event that are black with blue or red lines (like ''VideoGame/TronTwoPointOh'') or white and blue, similar to the Renegade's in ''WesternAnimation/TronUprising''. Needless to say, the armor quickly got called "Tron armor" and the event caused a lot of jokes about Disney's purchase of Lucasarts.
* In ''[[SlyCooper Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time]]'', there is a giant wooden fish statue full of these in ''Turning Japanese''. It's colors are, however, green and yellow.

* In ''[[{{SlyCooper}} Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time]]'', there is a giant wooden fish statue full of these in ''Turning Japanese''. It's colors are, however, green and yellow.

* Lisa Basil from ''VisualNovel/{{Phoenix Wright|AceAttorney}}: Trials and Tribulations'' has a futuristic suit with flashing lights running up and down the sides and front of it. It's implied that she may or may not be a robot (yes, the game is that vague).

** A similar phenomenon occurs with the [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamUnicorn Unicorn-class]] when it enters [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Destroy-Mode]], where segments of the Unicorn's armour open up to expose the glowing psychoframe underneath. The colour depends on the strength of the pilot's psycommu resonance.

* The male dancers in the latter part of Inna's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Od-6uzcLGqw "In Your Eyes"]] video.

* Marvel mutant Havok gets to have a costume with such when he was [[IncrediblyLamePun jammin']] with the Starjammers. When he returns to earth and briefly rejoins ''Comicbook/{{X-Factor}}'' Pip the [[MeaningfulName Troll]] doesn't miss the chance in calling him ''Tron'', much to his annoyance.

** And in ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess Twilight Princess]]'', everything remotely associated with Twilight has a sort of Lovecraft+''TRON'' thing going on. The Dominion Rod imparts Tron Lines to statues, similar to the ones from ''Wind Waker'', when you take control of them.

* An early example appears in Creator/{{Bally}}'s ''Pinball/{{Xenon}}'', which uses blue plastics and lights to give a futuristic Tron Lines-style aesthetic. Some collectors modify their tables with blue LEDs to further emphasize the effect.

* It's subtle, but Spider-Man 2099 in ''VideoGame/SpiderManShatteredDimensions'' and ''VideoGame/{{Spider-Man Edge Of Time}}'' has glowing blue lines on his costume.

* It's subtle, but Spider-Man 2099 in ''VideoGame/SpiderManShatteredDimensions'' and ''SpiderManEdgeOfTime'' has glowing blue lines on his costume.

* Present in all the riders of the ''KamenRiderFaiz'' universe, which powers all the gears. The lines only glow during the TransformationSequence, although the [[FinishingMove finishers]] all involve a pulse of energy traveling from the [[TransformationTrinket Rider Belt]] to an arm or leg. The [[AllThereInTheManual supplementary materials]] say that these lines carry a substance known as [[AppliedPhlebotinum Photon Blood]], which may explain why [[JustifiedTrope they need actual "lines" to carry it]]. It's part of Faiz's the slightly more "realistic" idea of the way a Rider suit works. Energy is always seen traveling from the power source to the place it's going to be used (not just the arm or leg, but specific devices on it). For Rider Kick finishers, it's the circle on the boot with the Rider's emblem.

** In ''Series/PowerRangersOperationOverdrive'', the in-scene non-TransformationSequence morphs and demorphs are very much like ''KamenRiderFaiz'', though a lot faster and with optional dramatic use of [[SigilSpam the Overdrive logo]].

This makes even more sense when you consider that the ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' season that provided the basis for ''In Space'' was themed not around space, but rather technology; its title, translated into English, was ''[[DenjiSentaiMegaranger Electromagnetic Task Force Megaranger]]''.

** Much of the tech in the ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime'' subseries glows, usually so you can tell what happened when you hit a switch; in the case of Samus's cannon, the color of the glow tells you the weapon you're currently using.
** Not to mention the green glowing lines between the panels in Samus' armor.

** Let's not forget the third game. When Samus's Phazon corruption reaches the highest levels near the end of the game, her suit really starts to show those blue lines.

If this were to take place in using technology similar to ours, this would be pretty inefficient. A big waste of power to maintain the glow (assuming this was electricity and not some power source that glowed on its own), and impossible to conceal, but damn, [[RuleOfCool it looks cool]]. Therefore, it's implied that Tron Lines indicate some non-electrical (or "differently electrical") form of technology; and those lines are the visible "power" veins. When your tech uses this, HardLight systems and {{Holographic Terminal}}s are pretty much prerequisites.

Of course, Tron Lines are ColorCodedForYourConvenience. Usually blue is "good" or at least standard; if they turn red or purple the AIIsACrapshoot or else has been [[EverythingIsOnline taken over by some virus or hacker.]] The lines get fainter or even turn off the closer the person or device is to deactivation. Likewise any power-up usually results in brighter lines; [[ExplosiveOverclocking pushing this to the limit]] causes every line to have a fan of light shining out.

* A number of New52 characters and teams, such as Superboy, the ComicBook/TeenTitans and the Ravagers wear very Tron-inspired costumes; black with glowing lines depending on the character. A [[http://media.dcentertainment.com/sites/default/files/RidgeSketch.jpg design sketch]] for Ridge even refers to them as "Tron Lines"

* All over the place in the video game sequel to the ''Film/{{Tron}}'' movie, ''[[VideoGame/TronTwoPointOh TRON 2.0]]''. The page picture is Jet Bradey, the game's protagonist before and after digitization.

** As does [[{{Film/TronLegacy}} The Grid]] in ''KingdomHearts3DDreamDropDistance''.

* ''StarWarsTheOldRepublic'' has the Return of the Gree event. their ship is just plain lit up in silver Tron lines and bright geometric shapes of neon coloring. there are also armor sets unique to the event that are black with blue or red lines (like ''[[{{Tron20}} Tron 2.0]])'' or white and blue, similar to the Renegade's in ''TronUprising''. Needless to say, the armor quickly got called "Tron armor" and the event caused a lot of jokes about Disney's purchase of Lucasarts.

* ''StarWarsTheOldRepublic'' has the Return of the Gree event. their ship is just plain lit up in silver Tron lines and bright geometric shapes of neon coloring. there are also armor sets unique to the event that are black with blue or red lines (like [[Tron20 Tron 2.0]]) or white and blue, similar to the Renegade's in TronUprising. Needless to say, the armor quickly got called "Tron armor" and the event caused a lot of jokes about Disney's purchase of Lucasarts.

* All over the place in the video game sequel to the ''Film/{{Tron}}'' movie, ''[[VideoGame/TronTwoPointOh TRON 2.0]]''.

* In honor of ''Film/TronLegacy'', Marvel made a [[http://io9.com/5667163/what-if-iron-man-captain-america-and-thor-starred-in-tron series of illustrations]] for heroes such as IronMan, Wolverine, Spider-Woman, and a Lightcycle-riding Comicbook/GhostRider done ''TRON''-style.
* The latest big Marvel storyline has some ancient evil Norse god creating a bunch of knockoffs of Mjolnir and giving them to carious characters such as Hulk and Juggernaut, [[http://img94.imageshack.us/img94/7251/ff1legioncps037038.jpg with varying levels of Tron Lines accompanying them]].