What if Tron was aware of the original Clu sneaking into Encom but couldn’t do anything about it due to being in jail
When Flynn made Clu again for the Grid, Tron must’ve been like ‘YOU…’
Flynn: Now, now, I know he was a hacking program in a past life but let’s all learn to get along!
lmao
This brings up a few interesting questions
like. did he recognize Clu when he first saw Flynn, because they look alike? Or did he not know Clu by sight (hell, maybe programs recognizing each other is based on something totally different from appearance anyway)
and… at that stage in his life (when the system he’s supposed to protect has just been taken over by an evil red cylinder who keeps him locked up and makes him do stupid pointless fights all the time)… how would Tron feel exactly about a hacker breaking into that system? Maybe he’d feel hopeful? like… maybe someone’s trying to help fix this whole mess?
(very related to my old headcanon that Original Encom Tron is still around, in some upgraded or refactored form, during Legacy…. even after Flynn made the copy of him and ran off and disappeared. Like, think of Original Tron in there, being Encom’s security software and grimly noticing the signs of the Free System being not-so-free anymore… of course he deliberately lets Sam break in to play his pranks)