So you know how there’s at least a few canon hints that in TRON (1982) the Master Control Program did not approve of programs having intimate pleasure with each other

like, ok it’s not 100% clear, there’s definitely other possible interpretations, but

- the fact that the MCP not only kept “male” and “female” programs separate (males as warriors like Tron, females as desk workers like Yori) but also set up environments very hostile toward any sexy fooling around within those segregated spaces (warriors not currently fighting gladiator battles were kept in tiny cells that were subdivided with forcefields so they couldn’t even touch their cellmates… desk workers had apparently zero privacy in that open-floorplan workplace, and the only reason Yori had privacy in her own damn quarters is because she was teh 1337 haxx0r)

- the fact that the Deleted Love Scene features Yori bringing Tron to her secret haxx0red safe room to do both 1. plotting the revolution and 2. circuit-touching sexytimes, kinda suggests that both are things one couldn’t safely do anyplace where the MCP could see

- the fact that the two of them never kissed until the end of the movie, despite being clearly in a romantic relationship and having multiple scenes where they just… look at each other, longingly, totally seeming like they WANT to kiss but… can’t quite articulate what they want?? …and the first kiss that happens in their world is not between the actual two programs in a romantic relationship – though they do it too, right after – but is between Flynn (human programmer with literal god powers in that realm) and Yori (program with probably the most awareness of the User World besides like. Dumont and the MCP himself)

….Suggesting, to me, that the reason those two even kissed, was because they simultaneously realized that 1. Kissing was a thing programs would generally really enjoy, and 2. The only reason they haven’t been doing it is because the MCP was restricting the goddamn permissions on it, and 3. it would take the combined skills and insights of a dumbass User and a genius laser program to hack their way around that shit

… anyway.

In light of this reading of the MCP as a goddamn prude

And in light of …. other recent events

The obnoxious and yet somehow beloved part of my brain that I call the “Pattern Recognizer” has just come up with the phrase

“MasterCard Troll Program”

and i just thought you all should know.

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