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astercontrol:

Superhero with the power of traveling between alternate universes, but she won’t use her power for either good or evil

because she doesn’t care. There is only one thing she really cares about

(being an obsessively hyperfixated autistic fan of the 1982 cult classic TRON movie, who knows every detail of every draft of the scripts and decisions that went into changing them)

Which is why she only uses her power to travel to other universes where TRON was made differently, and watch the movie in each one of them

any other ways these universes are different from her own? Irrelevant. They are only different obstacles to the ultimate goal of watching TRON

she is resourceful, she can figure out a way to overcome any of them… but only for that one goal.

oh? this world is under global dictatorship by fashion designers and you will be stopped and imprisoned if you are out on public streets not wearing the Latest Look? ….Ok but… it still has Tron, right? ….Fine, I’ll do whatever it takes to break outta prison and get me some acceptable clothes, just make sure they’ll last long enough to find a place I can see TRON and then I’ll leave

Oh people have gills and live underwater in this universe. Hmm. Their version of TRON must be pretty interesting. I will put just enough effort into figuring out how to either get scuba gear or grow gills, so that I can get myself to an underwater theater showing TRON

this world is exactly the same except watching TRON is deemed the worst crime possible and all of law enforcement’s first priority is to stop people from watching TRON. Heads up programs, I’m about to become the most wanted criminal! ….but it’s all okay because my plan gives me plenty of time to watch the whole thing before I gotta go on the run and hop universes again

Eventually the space-time-continuum preservation society clocks her, and realizes her single-minded dedication is so intense, she is capable of doing more damage to a world in pursuit of the local copy of TRON than other universe-hopping supervillains have done with the express goal of destroying worlds

they have to develop a whole subcommittee dedicated to intercepting her at arrival and saying, “we know about you, we have made a treaty with the local people, they’ve given us this DVD to give you, now please please leave”

she is generally okay with this (as long as the DVD has sufficient behind-the-scenes extras to give context on why things were done the way they were)

I like the idea that TRON is a multiversal constant, that no matter how different the universes are otherwise, there will be some version of TRON (similar to the gin and tonic in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy).

Or that she will occasionally jump into a universe where TRON doesn’t exist in any form. “Oh no, it’s one of those universes. Oh, you poor, poor souls.”

Oooh and the metaphysical questions! What defines TRON? How close in premise and plot does the local version have to be in order to qualify as TRON? (Is there some multiversal force of nature that serves as ultimate authority on this? Like how in some fiction there’s a phenomenon where you can get swapped with your counterpart in another universe, so obviously there is some natural law that knows who or what your counterpart is, no matter how different from you?)

(I wanna see how she handles the universe where TRON itself doesn’t exist but PRON: THE XXX PARODY does.)