“so what is this headcanon about Tron 1982 being all in Kevin Flynn’s imagination”

“eh, it’s a theory that the programs in there were just normal programs, he just projected onto them and saw them as people.”

“So he wasn’t actually digitized in there by the MCP then? He just hacked into the computer the usual way, but fantasized the whole time about being inside the computer and the programs being alive?”

“No, no, the theory is that the MCP WAS actually intelligent and did digitize him in there, but he projected humanity onto the programs because a human mind in there would have to project something in order to make any sense of it.”

“hmm”

“BUT, that theory isn’t perfect. It has some inconsistencies when you look at other works like Legacy, Uprising, the videogames… Like, if he made the Grid in Legacy based on what he experienced in 82, but that wasn’t real, then…”

“wait who’s saying he made the Grid in Legacy? why would the headcanon say that was real if Tron 82 wasn’t? maybe he just imagined all THAT stuff too.”

“…”

“maybe it was ALL in his imagination. maybe none of it happened– not Legacy, not Uprising, not the games, not meeting programs in the ENCOM system, not even getting digitized in there”

“…..”

“maybe all of his life that we saw was imagined. Maybe he never worked at ENCOM. Maybe he never worked in the arcade. Maybe he wasn’t really even named Kevin Flynn. Maybe that was all in his imagined fantasy too.”

“………..”

“maybe he was actually named Steven Lisberger”

“…congrats. you have just discovered how fiction works”