In the computer world of the Grid, a young program joins Tron's fight against their world's tyranny. When Mara falls victim to it, Zed and the Renegade work together to help rescue her. In the film, he is captured by the MCP and forced to play on the Game Grid, but freed by Flynn and instructed by Alan to shut down the MCP.

But his imagination was not as vivid as he has hoped, as the disk of one of his men came rolling towards his feet, and when he went to pick it up, a frightened Black Guard grabbed him, having been sliced in half. Considered a master warrior, he uses two identity discs in combat and displays advanced acrobatic talent. Beck and Paige go out on a date, and Paige begins to see Beck's views. Check out some of the IMDb editors' favorites movies and shows to round out your Watchlist. Zuse is most likely named after Konrad Zuse, whose Z3 was the first automatic programmable digital computer constructed, in 1941. Back in Argon, Paige regretfully confessed to having worked with the Renegade, who had also been trapped on the island, in order to survive as the terrain began to derezz around them. As he crawled towards Tesler, weakly begging for help, The Renegade jumped down and proclaimed that he was taking back Argon. A furious Tesler publicly challenges the Renegade to appear in Argon Square and surrender himself, promising to free additional prisoners and end the curfew if he does so.

He believes Tron is dead until Beck (taking on the mantle of Tron.) This article covers notable characters of the Tron franchise, including all of its various cinematic, literary, video game adaptations and sequels. His anger drew another salute from Jarvis, this time denouncing the users, although this only served to seal his fate when Clu immediately derezzed and silenced him by a lethal blow with his identity disc. Official Sites He was formerly an ISO named Jalen before he was re-purposed by Clu 2 as a computer virus to justify the purge of the other ISOs from the Grid. The explosion caused a recognizer to fall on top of the tank and injure Able, who was shipping the tank, which was enough for the Renegade to stop the fighting and run to Able's rescue. Tron: Uprising (stylized as TRON: Uprising) is a American science fiction television series, part of the Tron franchise, set between the films Tron and Tron: Legacy.A total of 19 episodes have been produced and aired on Disney XD in the United States from May 18, 2012 to January 28, 2013. He invests time and effort to keep the population on his side, as seen when he used the Light Roadster as a bribe to turn them against the Renegade, and when he fulfilled his promise to release curfew-breaking prisoners upon the Renegade's arrival at Argon Square, boasting before the crowd that he'd been a program of his word. Director Joseph Kosinski chose the name during a working session with the writers when one of Rinzler's books happened to be on the table.[12]. After Sam was captured and assigned to a Light Cycle duel, Jarvis mustered all of his showmanship in a booming announcement for the imminent match. Beck tries to rescue a fleeing government scientist before Paige and the Occupation finds her; Paige and Beck become passengers on the same runaway train and Beck must save the innocent programs on the train without revealing his identity. Dillinger uses the MCP to administer the company's computer network (in effect an AI Superuser); but it, empowered by Dillinger, begins to steal data from other systems, and comes to desire control of external corporations and even governments. Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. The ISOs (short for Isomorphic algorithms) are a race of programs that spontaneously arose on the Grid. He contributes to the rise of the Master Control Program that controls the ENCOM mainframe and creates the Sark program that acts as the MCP's second-in-command. Clu 2 later betrayed Flynn and Tron to seize total control of the Grid, and then enacted genocide upon the Isos, and forced Flynn into hiding for twenty years. Tron is a security program (played by Bruce Boxleitner) created by Alan to monitor communications between the MCP and the real world. Tesler hates Dyson, and doesn't particularly enjoy his presence, fearing that Dyson will have him fired. Tesler, with the help of his arm prosthetics, light grenades, and even a gatling gun turret, barely managed to old his own against the empowered Renegade. Use the HTML below. Angered by this decision, Tesler ordered it turned back on and replaced Paige with Pavel to oversee the drilling. This causes him to flee Argon and reported Tron's survival to Clu. After stealing a valuable data cube from General Tesler's ship, Beck (as the Renegade) is chased by Paige over the Sea of Simulation. Paige understands his self-serving nature well enough to discourage some of his more egregeous cruelties on the grounds that they would harm the Occupation's public image. Certificate: TV-Y7-FV Tesler then attacked, but it was no use. He is injured by a game tank after escaping the game grid with Flynn and Tron, and he dies from these injuries in the company of Flynn. Smiling at his success in hiding this fact from Paige, he coolly stated that he would never betray her, since he knew what she was capable of. Tron: Uprising (stylized as TRON: Uprising) is a American science fiction television series, part of the Tron franchise, set between the films Tron and Tron: Legacy.A total of 19 episodes have been produced and aired on Disney XD in the United States from May 18, 2012 to January 28, 2013. He is destroyed by Tron near the end of the film. Beck is a young vehicle maintenance program and the main protagonist of Tron: Uprising. Paige then tries to tell Tesler that Pavel was keeping the power upgrade weapon away from him, when he pulls it out with Pavel stating that he was always going to turn it in, once he knew it worked. Clu's impending arrival in Terminal fills him with dread, justified by the deleted scene in which Tesler's failure to keep control of the city is punished by Clu's order to cut off his hands again. When General Tesler offers a reward, as well as the lifting of Argon City's curfew, for the capture of the Renegade, programs all over Argon City began to falsely accuse each other. While involved in the games, Ram exceeds his original programming to become a proficient gamer, and expresses a fair amount of confidence in his abilities while between contests; but took pride in his work as an actuarial program, which he seemed to associate with humanitarian purposes. A mechanic, he is trained by Tron, the greatest warrior the Grid has ever known. Quorra is a skilled warrior and the last remaining member of a group of 'isomorphic algorithms' destroyed by Clu 2, played by Olivia Wilde and voiced in video games by Erin Cottrell.

Ma3a (short for Math Assistant 3 Audio) is a female computer program.

Later in Tron: Legacy, it is revealed that Rinzler is a re-purposed form of the version update of Tron known as Tron 2 (short for Tron 2.0). He is a security program owned by Kevin Flynn to try to maintain order in the grid and to investigate conspiracies. He is trained by Tron and looks to him as a mentor throughout his time as a games warrior. When Tesler went to inspect his new energy drilling operation, he found that Paige had ordered the drill be shut down. In the film, he is captured by the MCP and forced to play on the Game Grid, but freed by Flynn and instructed by Alan to shut down the MCP. Samuel "Sam" Flynn is the son of Kevin Flynn who is a controlling shareholder at ENCOM and the protagonist of Tron: Legacy, played by Garrett Hedlund[8] and voiced in the video games by Ross Thomas. The Renegade maniacally laughed as he evaded every punch, limb and levitating off the ground as if he were a corpse being held up by some invisible force. As Tron trains Beck, Beck begins to doubt that he can be the next Tron.

When Tron arrived to face him, Dyson believed he was the Renegade until Tron revealed himself to him, he was shocked to see him alive, try to offer him to join him, but Tron refused. Standing above her remains, he growled, "Welcome home.". After Dyson's abrupt departure from Argon City, the general expresed delight to his lieutenants, unaware that Dyson had confirmed that the Renegade's identity is Tron to Clu himself.

While in the End of Line Club he flirted with Gem, who appeared repulsed. Angered by this decision, Tesler ordered it turned back on and replaced Paige with Pavel to oversee the drilling. Later when Paige tries to leave Argon through an escape route, she is caught by Tesler. Mercury is a female humanoid computer program. He is physically played by John Reardon, with Jeff Bridges lending his likeness and voice to the character. Tesler orders Paige and Pavel to keep the Renegade activities suppressed in Dyson's presence, but met with failure as he detected a bomb and managed to catch a glimpse of the Renegade, much to Tesler's anger. Ma3a carries many of Lora's personality traits and even sounds like her (Cindy Morgan also played Yori in TRON).

[27] "Beck's Beginning" was given a positive review, with IGN ranking it 8 out of 10.

If you have a stereo hooked up to your TV, turn it up.Lastly, the voice talent- All excellent, but especially Elijah Wood. After the crash of the giant recognizer in Argon City, Tesler demanded answers from Paige: what was "that monstrosity," why was it in his city, and why had he not known about it? Later Pavel took the mechanics in Able's garage hostage to draw out the Renegade. However, though Clu 2 seems to agree to the bargain, he traps Castor in his club, setting off explosions that kill him and his associate Gem. When Sam Flynn releases the software for free, Dillinger suggests that the company take credit and claim that it was a gift to their customers to defuse the situation. Beck accepts the challenge and narrowly escapes capture. [4] Despite this, the co-creators of Max Headroom, in their book Creative Computer Graphics, called it "one of the most memorable characters in the film. The series features an animation style that mixes 2D animation and CGI animation. Approaching the viewing port, Tesler glowered at a panorama of free-code graffiti reflecting from the buildings below, and demanded, "Where is that coming from?" Though appearing furious and betrayed when she was accused of conspiring against him, he sentenced her to the Games instead of killing her immediately, and accepted her back into the fold when her innocence was proven -- unlike Keller, whose willing return after defection was rewarded with death. Jarvis later made amends when delivering the news that the location of Flynn's Safehouse had been discovered, although once there he soon attracted another condescending glare when he knocked over one of Flynn's possessions. [2][3] The series is directed by Charlie Bean, who also acts as executive producer; Edward Kitsis, Adam Horowitz, and Justin Springer serve as consulting producers. He is voiced by Elijah Wood. He then tasked Paige with its retrieval, but her ambush on the Renegade failed. Beck seeks to stop Tron from killing Dyson. Dillinger was a worker in ENCOM before plagiarizing Kevin Flynn's original work, after which he becomes the company's senior executive. Abraxas is the main antagonist of Tron: Evolution. He also learns that he wasn't the first program that Tron had trained as a renegade. You run, and I'll derezz you myself.". In the sequel, Tron: Legacy, the digital world contains a nightclub called the "End of Line Club".