TRON: Uprising/WMG

Anon (aka the System Monitor), Quorra, and other characters from Tron Evolution will appear, and Tron Uprising will partly be continuation of that story.

• Tron Uprising takes place during and immediately after Tron Evolution, so there's no reason not to. Sure, Beck's plot is the first and most important one in the show, but bringing in elements from that game would be fun and make for some nice continuity backfiling. And if they can get Mandy Moore and Elijah Wood(!) as voice actors, it's not impossible for them to get Olivia Wilde behind a microphone.
• Anon appearing probably wouldn't be likely because of his death at the end of Evolution, but Quorra would make for a stellar cameo since Beck may not be willing to reveal that the real Tron's alive and she may only think he's a very good pretender.

Tron's damage at Clu's hands was progressive

• Tron was not immediately indoctrinated by Clu, the process was gradual. This explains how Tron could reveal himself to Beck and ask him to take his identity. As the series goes along, Tron will slowly lose his sense of self until he finally becomes Rinzler.
  • Alternately, he may not be rectified yet, but will perform a Heroic Sacrifice to save Beck and his friends which results in his capture. Clu then decides to partially rectify Tron so his skills will remain and some part of him will survive to save the Flynns and Quorra in Legacy.

As mentioned as a Fridge Horror possibility on the main page, Rinzler is Beck, not Tron

• Items that might be interpreted to support it:

1. 1. The most obvious piece of evidence is that Beck has taken on Tron's identity, complete with the T sign on his chest.
   2. Tron will apparently be training Beck how to fight.
   3. Beck also seems to have 2 Identity Discs, his own original and his friend's.
   4. In Tron: Legacy, during the flashback, Tron's fighting style is brutal and direct, dispatching his opponents with a minimum of effort and time. But Rinzler's fighting style is flashy and acrobatic, just like Beck's.

• • • Granted, it has been a loooooong time between the two, and Rinzler's style may have evolved into the acrobatics. Also, the main place we see Rinzler fight is in the games, and he may have been deliberately putting on a show for the audience.

1. 1. If Uprising is Canon, it would be difficult to reconcile Tron's permanent injuries allowing him to be as effective a fighter as Rinzler is, unless Clu is able to heal him somehow.
   2. Beck survives crashing into a light ribbon, which has been seen to kill other programs. Rinzler, Tron and Clu all are shown to have similar vitality.
   3. When Rinzler breaks free of his conditioning at the end of Legacy, we do not see his face, so it is not visually confirmed to be Tron under the helmet.

• Things that may be interpreted against it:

1. 1. Uprising may turn out to not be Canon or in the same continuity with Legacy.
   2. Rinzler speaks in Tron's voice and says Tron's catchphrase at the end of Legacy.

• • • Although that may be justifiable depending on how well trained/programmed/brainwashed Beck is.

1. 1. The show has not made it explicit that Beck's unusual vitality is special, so it may also be a case of the writers making it more common rather than placing Beck at Tron's or Rinzler's level. This would allow more Badass vs Badass fights, rather than the curbstomps we see in Legacy between Clu and Rinzler and Tron and any mook who is unfortunately to share the screen with them.

• • • Although Tron (even wounded) effectively curbstomps Beck, so it could just be that Beck is Badass only compared to other ordinary programs, not powerful admin programs like Clu and Rinzler, or Users like Sam and Kevin.

1. 1. It's not strong proof, but Tron's fake-out Clu supporter disguise looks a lot like Rinzler, and his voice has a similar modification to Rinzler/Tron in Legacy also..

Beck is not actually a Program. He's an Iso that decided to "pass" for a Program

• It was said in Tron Evolution that Programs carry out their functions, and are limited by their parameters, unable to do much growing past said parameters and directives. Beck "falls into" mechanic work. He says he's only a half-decent mechanic, and furthermore says he hasn't been on The Grid for very long. Given that he's making a lot of leaps of logic and faith, actively rebelling, and seems both naive and wise, it's possible that part of his rebellion against Clu stems from the fact that he's marked for death, even if he didn't resist.
  • His boss knows and is helping him hide.

The "Tron" Beck encountered is already Rinzler, and Beck is being used as an Unwitting Pawn

• The "Tron" training Beck is, pardon the Actor Allusion, as much a falsehood as Talia Winters. Tron already said that he was badly injured and left for dead, with no explanation for how he escaped Clu. Furthermore, Clu didn't so much as pause before telling Tessler that Tron was dead. By having Beck pose as Tron start a resistance movement, Clu will be able to have a young, naive, and inexperienced Program posing as a much more experienced one, rallying his enemies from hiding and making them all the easier to round up and destroy.
  • An interesting question, but how exactly does a program get 'left for dead' on the Grid? They disintegrate into voxels when they die. If they haven't disintegrated, they're not dead (yet).
  • Same way Flynn and Ram (and later, Tron) were left for dead in the first film. Enough damage or a "No One Could Survive That" and they'll just assume the enemy is de-rezzed. no point in checking for a body, either.
    • Fair enough, although if you're holding your victim down on the ground and stab your disc into his chest, and you still can't make sure he's dead, maybe you ought to consider another line of work. ;)

Both Tron and Beck are being used as Unwitting Pawns by Clu

• To combine both the first WMG and the one just above, Clu didn't sloppily "leave Tron for dead", he basically went and infected Tron with The "Rinzler" Virus, and is sitting back and waiting for it to gradually do it's work. Because how better to bring down an organized rebellion than through it's leader one day waking up as your loyal servant. Plus, the pilot focused a lot on belief in Tron, and much damage will it do to those like Beck who trust in him if he turns around and stabs them in the back?
  • For more fun, at the end of the series, performs a Grand Theft Me (perhaps with Beck's permission) uploading his personality and skills into Beck's functional body, in order to provide the Grid with a fully-functioning Tron to resist Clu.
    • Fridge Horror version: Tron already did that, by giving Beck the white half of his disc. The Aesop: Always check the files you download, kids! The Virus might be hiding in it!

White Tron?

• For some reason, Tron is depicted in a white uniform in this series, both in current day and flashback scenes, contradicting how he was seen in Legacy in the flashback. The white uniform is apparently passed on by a special Identity Disc piece, which Tron gives to Beck. Is it just a casual Retcon to make Tron more distinctive, or does it have a deeper meaning?
  • People recognize Beck as Tron even in his black uniform, so apparently he did wear black sometimes.
    • Which is actually kind of odd, come to think of it. How come no one recognizes Rinzler as Tron, if the uniform is that distinctive?
      • Most likely explainable as it's just been too long, and they've forgotten what he looked like.
  • It could be a nod to the original Tron movie where the programs have white uniforms; remember, Tron was transferred from ENCOM's original system to Flynn's Grid, as noted in Tron: Legacy. When Tron gave half of his identity disk to Beck, his uniform turned black like his depiction in TRON: Legacy.

Paige is an ISO that has been partially Rectified.

• Her bio mentions she lost her "family" when CLU started his rebellion and this is why she is loyal to Tessler for rescuing her. But what if he didn't? Maybe Paige was ISO that fought so well that Tessler decided to take her alive and reprogram her into a Living Weapon. It would explain her loyalty to Tessler despite knowing what an utter bastard he is. It's likely that Tessler is hiding Paige's real nature from CLU because his plans hinge on having a loyal and competent supporter to back him up because he believes the reason CLU fears ISOs is because he fears they could destroy him. If Beck is also an ISO it could lead to some interesting complications down the road.