astercontrol:

Crossing Over Between Worlds:

Various Isekai-type Stories Ranked by their Crossoverability with Tron 1982
(Analysis by Aster the Pattern-Recognition Program)

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Alice in Wonderland / Through the Looking Glass

Patterns recognized:

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“Stranger and stranger” / “Curiouser and curiouser”
Multiple familiar things “mirrored” on the other side

Protagonist comes in with wide array of skills/knowledge and is eager to flaunt this
However, usefulness of knowledge is variable within new world
(Flynn’s videogames not as easy on this side of screen / Alice’s memorized poetry keeps coming out different)

Villains based on games

• Sark = Queen of Hearts
  could very easily be redrawn as this character (red-on-white theme) (Card Sark?)
  Forces subjects to play games (croquet/jai-alai)
  “Off with her head!”/ “immediate deresolution!”
  Requires (roses/circuits) to be “painted red” to avoid wrath
• MCP = Red Queen
  Red and cylindrical
  Chess-themed origin
  Is at the other end of the game and difficult to reach
  When reached, player transforms from pawn to queen/ruler/CEO

Ability of character to change size (but only for villain during final battle? Weak connection)

(incidental but probably irrelevant pun: Alan in 1-derland)

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The Wizard of Oz

Patterns recognized:

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Protagonist enters magic world as direct result of threat perceived in outside world
(threat to Toto / threat to livelihood from stolen intellectual property)

Prior to events, protagonist has fascination with rainbows
(Singing “Over the Rainbow” / apartment and arcade featuring rainbow-themed decorations)

Movie displays a dramatic shift in color upon entering (using very new film technology at the time)

Teams up with friends to seek out ruler of this realm in hopes of getting home

Friends include man-made entities who have spontaneously developed working equivalents of features they were believed unable to have

(Friends of Dorothy = scarecrow/brain, tinman/heart)
(Friends of Flynn = programs/sentience/sapience [brain AND heart])

(Lion/courage connection unclear, more analysis may be needed)

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Peter Pan

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Themes of sailing ships
Small flying creature, devoted to specific character, but capable only of very limited speech
Scene of kiss exchanged with character who has no idea what a kiss is
Villain is someone who stole software (…pirate?)
Protagonist is a boy who never grew up
(However, in Tron story that character plays role of Wendy, not Peter)
(There is also a very minor character named Peter)
(but none named Wendy, although a very significant Wendy did the musical score)

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Chronicles of Narnia

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Time-dilation
Spiritual/religious themes
(Relatively few patterns recognized)

(notably, this one also contains a lion that I can’t match up with anything)

(Aslan-1?)

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The Matrix

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…too easy
Literally in a computer
Red vs Blue dichotomy (present in Matrix only in the scene with the pills)
(With notably reversed meanings, in terms of which color stands for Good and Truth)
Otherwise, everything else just too obvious