“TRON and Yori Love Scene” Deleted Scene
OK, can we talk about this? Because it establishes a ridiculous amount about the characters, especially in retrospect.
The context is that Tron asked Yori for somewhere safe and off the radar to plan their next move. Keep in mind that he essentially put Alan on hold until he could find her and establish she’s okay. (Yes, great User, I love you. But my wife takes priority.)
Once he finds her, she takes him to her quarters. He expresses dismay over its barren conditions, and she agrees “not like home, is it?” This establishes that they are a unit who live together - whatever the Programs’ answer to marriage is (”bundled software?”). A little “as above, so below” to Lora and Alan, but they’re probably even further along in things than their Users (as Alan still has some massive insecurity issues).
That’s when Yori assured him it is safe to talk (she’s already looked it over for security bugs), and then whips out her design talents to turn the place into digital Barbie Dream House. Mister Lawful Good Fights-For-Users asks who authorized her to do this (because illegal isn’t his style), and she defiantly says that she’s doesn’t need authorization - she’s doing it just because she can (Flynn, why in the @#$$@ did you say Programs don’t have free will again?). and that she can only keep it that way for a little while before she’s busted (so this isn’t her first time with this highly illegal power reroute right under Master Control’s oversized nose, she’s almost been busted over it more than once, and it isn’t stopping her, and she knows she has enough time to give hubby a proper “welcome home”).
“I can always count on you.”
“Always!”
Yeah, this is so not the first time they’ve gotten it on between skirmishes, not the first time she’s pulled his very nice butt out of some fire he landed in, and not the first time she’s caused a little trouble for all the right reasons. She’s squared away a hideout, starts making the actual plans (and incorporates them into the foreplay!), and snazzed it up for a little romp while she’s at it since that’s the way she wants to roll. He handles the combat - she handles everything else.
Now, factor in Uprising. Tron’s probably the same age in the first film as Beck is in Uprising. At the very least, it makes his teasing of Beck regarding Paige more understandable (because he remembers what it was like to be just out of Beta and seeking the comfort of a partner, even though Yori’s still MIA in Legacy canon). At most, it makes it clear why he’s great at teaching Beck how to fight, but utter crap at the nuts and bolts of actually running a damn revolution - because THAT was Yori’s job! You might as well tie his left (dominant) hand behind his back without her being there.
Seeing how much trouble she is capable of starting if she puts her processing power to it, she probably ended up equal to him or even higher on Clu’s hit list because good old Word of Lisberger says the Programs retain some vestiges of memory and behavior from their Users - which could make the whole Clu/”Rinzler”/Yori situation fantastically ugly because Clu wouldn’t underestimate her any more than Flynn would underestimate Lora.
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