Guys, what if Kevin Flynn becoming obsessed with the ISOs is what turned EVERYTHING in the grid to shit but not just in the way it’s perceived so far?
(these are rambles concocted off of caffeine and hyperfixating on Cody Flynn, and I do appreciate being corrected where I’m wrong or seem to lose the plot too much!)
I think read somewhere (there’s a lot of lore and fan theories, I don’t remember where they all are anymore) that grid bugs and ISOs were cropping up alongside each other, what if that’s how is was SUPPOSED to be, but Kevin got involved and fucked it all up?
What if ISOs just started spawning, didn’t know wtf this place was but oh, it’s so pretty and cool and- GRID BUGS! now twenty of them are dead… Then they use their discs to kill the grid bugs. New ISOs crop up as the first batches are making little villages in the Outlands, they building a society and- GRID BUG SWARM! now two hundred of them are dead, but they now know that Grid Bugs come in swarms like that from time to time like typhoons.
As time passes, the ISOs and Grid Bugs keep each other in check. That would explain why they are rezzing into the grid at the same time and why ISOs seem to come from an infinite supply from the Sea of Simulation. One is a predator and the other is prey!
But Flynn came along and saw a “miracle”, started building Arjia and let the ISOs have their pick of the resources as well as having Tron and Clu take care of the Grid Bug problems.
In real life, taking away a predator population and leaving the prey alone causes the prey’s numbers to explode and become damn near an invasive species. And since Flynn had been coddling the ISOs and giving them stuff, the ISOs didn’t know how to survive without the excess when this entire time, ISOs were meant to live like nomadic hunter gatherers in the outlands who were experts in surviving without User intervention as well as being extremely fearsome fighters since they took on viruses and Grid Bugs themselves because they lacked a security monitor to do it for them?
A classic case of human intervention FUCKING UP the natural order of things… AGAIN.
I feel like Tron: Betrayal directly contradicts this?
I haven’t gotten around to reading Betrayal just yet to be honest, since I hop between fandoms every couple of weeks so it’s a bit hard to remember intricate lore because it gets overwritten with headcanons or stuff for my AUs. But I am neck deep in Tron atm and I’m still free from college for a week so I’ll try to find a way to read the comic some time (if I can) soon to see how my theory deviates from the comic!
Though I am curious since it does take me a couple of passes to get source material through my head, what parts of the comic clashes with my theory?
Betrayal directly contradicts a lot of stuff. I view it as the side of the story given by a couple of unreliable narrators: first Dumont (who for some baffling reason thinks Flynn wrote the MCP?) and then Clu2 (who the heck knows WHAT he might have skewed viewpoints about, lol)