History VideoGame / TronTwoPointOh

* GameMod: The Killer App Mod from [=LDSO=] (Living Dead System Operators, a ''dedicated'' fan collective) patches a lot of the bugs found in initial release and restores several XBox only weapons to multiplayer (and yes, they maintain their own server for it on a limited basis). The same collective also came out with "User Error," a fan-done expansion pack that [[PatchworkFic attempts to tie the game into the]] ''{{Film/TronLegacy}}'' [[PatchworkFic timeline]].

* DefendsAgainstTheirOwnKind: At first, Jet's got Thorne to deal with and needs to stop the corrupted User from destroying the Program world. But behind Thorne, there's F-Con's plans to invade and conquer {{Cyberspace}} with their army of mercenaries, leaving [[spoiler: Jet, Alan, and [=Lora/Ma3a=] ]] as [[RussanReversal Users fighting for the Programs.]]

* DeadpanSnarker: Byte

'''''TRON 2.0''''' is a video game developed by Creator/MonolithProductions and released in 2003.

The game was released to minimal advertising and press coverage, but still managed enough success for Slave Labor Graphics to release a six-part graphic novel series called ''Tron: Ghost in the Machine'' that took place six months after the game's events. Jet is shown to be traumatized from his experience in cyberspace, having nightmares and having trouble discerning those nightmares from reality. [[spoiler: The experiences are really those of an "echo" of Jet's time in the system, a Program called Jet.exe. Jet and Alan had split the echo into three different Programs to try keeping them stable, and the other two copies were trying to mislead or torture Jet.exe to keep their separate existences intact]]. There was also a sequel for the Game Boy Advance called ''Tron 2.0 Killer App'' (a title which was also used for the Xbox port of the PC game) where Tron was revived from archival storage and teamed up with Mercury to thwart a viral attack on Encom.

* ArtifactTitle: Tron's not in the game at all. He's only mentioned in two optional conversations, the in-game emails, and [[spoiler: the unused and buggy upgrade that was scrapped on Flynn's orders]]. It only makes a little sense in that Tron and Jet technically have the same father.

* DigitizedHacker: Staple for the franchise. Thorne and the Datawraiths play out the ugly aspects of this trope with the former declaring himself a virtual god and amassing an army of corrupted followers. The latter are mercenaries under the employ of [=fCon=], out to steal everything from state secrets and bank accounts to controlling global finance markets and media outlets. That's why [=Ma3a=]resorted, in desperation, to TakesOneToKillOne and kidnapped the protagonist to help. She explicitly states that humans are "five hundred and twenty six times more powerful" inside {{Cyberspace}} than out in the analog world.

* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Mercury]], though she "gets better" (eventually).[[note]]Mercury 2.8 doesn't recognize Jet, but Mercury 2.8.1, whom Alan saved, does.[[/note]]

* VideoGameCrueltyPunishment: Kill any civilian program or ally, and your game immediately ends with "This Program has performed an illegal operation."

* ActionGirl: Mercury. Undisputed and undefested champion of Encom's lightcycle combat arena, and appears to serve [=Ma3a=] in some kind of guard capacity. ''Killer App'' has her fighting her way through corrupted sectors and defeating a powerful virus in single combat, while explicitly showing she's ''equal to Tron'' as far as fighting ability. [[spoiler: Considering they're both Alan's Programs, this shouldn't be a surprise.]]

* ActionGirl: Mercury

It is a sequel to the 1982 movie ''Film/{{Tron}}''; the player takes the role of Jethro "Jet" Bradley, son of the film's characters Alan and Lora. Jet is swiftly summoned into the digital world of Encom's computer network to protect it, his father, and the secrets of the digitizer technology from both a mysteriously powerful virus corrupting everything in its path and a group of {{Corrupt Corporate Executive}}s from the company Future Control Industries ("[=fCon=]") staging a hostile takeover.

* HijackedByGanon: Thorne was being used by F-con. F-con's day to day operations are run by Seth Crown. But Crown's boss? [[spoiler: ''Heavily'' implied to be Edward Dillinger, though a resurrected Master Control is also plausible.]]

* UnfinishedUntestedUsedAnyway: Thorne saw Alan using the laser, but was warned that the connection algorithms were not completely tested. Thorne didn't buy it and told F-Con to use the laser anyway. Alan Bradley ''does not bluff'' when it comes to the need for safety measures as Thorne found out the hard way. Alan was still running the tests when F-Con kidnapped him, meaning [=Ma3a=] invoked this trope herself when zapping in Jet. F-Con then subverts it by [[spoiler: making Alan the guinea pig for the laser to test it before sending in the wraiths, since that will get rid of him either way.]]

* GoodColorsEvilColors: {{Exaggerated}} and [[Justified Trope Justified]] in the ''TRON'' universe. The color and pattern of a Program's circuits indicate their loyalties and their function, with each faction having their own color ([[BlueIsHeroic Blue for Encom]], red for ICP forces, purple for F-Con, SicklyGreenGlow for Thorne and his viral army). You have to take note of ''both'' to keep from accidentally killing civilians.

* NoEnding: The ending leaves more open than it solves. [[spoiler:Sure, Thorne's dead, the virus was halted, Alan and Jet make it back to the analog world, and it seems their rocky relationship is a bit smoother now. Yes, [=Ma3a=] is uploaded out of danger and Mercury appears to have escaped.]] However, [[spoiler: The F-con CEO / Dillinger/ (or maybe even Master Control Program 2.0)]] is still operating with impunity, and Alan cuts him off in mid-threat. Furthermore, [[spoiler: Crown, Popoff, and Baza are trapped on a hard disk, and Alan isn't in any hurry to free them]]. And what about the F-Con buyout of Encom, and ''all those [=[=DataWraiths=]=]?''

* CassandraTruth: When captured by the Kernel's ICP forces (Intrusion Countermeasure Programs), Jet answers everything in the interrogation truthfully. He was born in 1982, and he doesn't have a User - he ''is'' a User. The Kernel doesn't buy any of it and Jet narrowly escapes summary execution. Mercury even questions his statement, and Byte says it's {{Justified}} by saying ICP should stand for [[DumbMuscle "incompetent, confused Programs."]]

* ColourCodedArmies: Every faction gets its own colour, the red and blue of the original film being supplemented with green for infected, viral programs and sectors, gold for really ancient systems, and purple for the BigBad. {{Exaggerated}} and {{Justified}} tropes in the universe's settings. The color and pattern of Program circuitry are important identifiers. Just be careful to take notice of ''both'' to avoid shooting helpless civilians.

* ItemDropMechanic: When you de-rez an enemy, it leaves behind a "core dump" containing a small EssenceDrop of energy and health as well as subroutines and permissions. Yes, even the Wraiths. [[FridgeHorror Try not to think TOO hard about the implications of this.]]

* LegendaryInTheSequel: Both played straight and subverted. Several Programs mention Tron as a legendary hero, the focus of a KingInTheMountain style myth that states that he will return in the system's darkest hour. At least one NPC wistfully wishes he'd return to help them fight the [=DataWraiths=]. [[note]] Amusingly enough, the ''Killer App'' sequel plays this completely straight - Alan had a copy in reserve and reactivates his old System Monitor to fight a threat to Encom, leading to a BadassMindsThinkAlike team-up with Mercury! [/note]] Amusingly enough, ''no'' Program seems to remember Flynn...

* LegendaryInTheSequel: Both played straight and subverted. Several Programs mention Tron as a legendary hero and at least one NPC wistfully wishes he'd return to help them fight the [=DataWraiths=]. Amusingly enough, ''no'' Program seems to remember Flynn...

Not to mention the leads in each canon are the sons of the original ''TRON'''s leads, who meet a female program who's been influenced or sent to help [[spoiler: by the lead's father]]. And the fake-out with the living virus and apparent BigBad merely being an UnwittingPawn to the truly evil people who set the whole thing up has shades of ''VideoGame/TronEvolution''. Let's just say it probably wouldn't be a surprise if the ''Legacy'' writers played a few rounds of this.

* AttackReflector: Jet can turn his disc into one of these using the Power Block subroutine. It's devestating against other disc-wielding opponents.

* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: One of the emails in [=EN12-82=] is Flynn asking Alan if he can use TRON as the name of his new video game.

* AlreadyDoneForYou: About 2/3rds of the way through the game, you join forces with the [=ICP=]s in an EnemyMine alliance to assault BigBad Master User Thorne's domain and take him out. By the time you get to Thorne's throne room, however, you find that the [=ICP=] Kernel has already defeated Thorne, and you end up in a boss fight against the Kernel instead in order to SaveTheVillain (who you need alive to interrogate).