While hindering Tron, this action alone would not eliminate the threat he posed to the MCP. Its ability to attack or harm programs also seems to have been limited, as when Tron began attacking it, it merely erected a shield to protect its heart. To compensate, the MCP depends upon its Guards and Recognizers to maintain watch over the system. It was not all-knowing within the system, as evidenced by the fact the pirate program Clu was able to get so far into a high-clearance memory without the MCP's knowledge. However, despite its immense power, the MCP had several weaknesses. The MCP at one pivotal point was able to transfer all of its functions to Sark, bringing the program back to life as a powerful giant. It also has the ability to communicate with Sark via the Carrier. Within its core, it can telekinetically throw programs and torture them with deresolution, and can erect shields at its base for protection.
Along these beams, the MCP has the ability to send out power surges. The MCP possesses god-like abilities within the ENCOM mainframe, and all transport beams lead to its core. The MCP then reverted to its original chess program appearance (which, in the digital universe, appeared as an old man in a control chair) followed by this program vanishing as it was deleted.
Their combined efforts resulted in the deresolution of the MCP, by throwing Tron's specially-encoded disc into the base of the MCP. It digitized former ENCOM programmer Kevin Flynn when he came dangerously close to uncovering Dillinger's schemes.įlynn, in the computer world, allied himself with Tron, a security program. Dillinger appeared to begin having reservations about letting the MCP become so powerful, which are realized when it threatened to expose Dillinger's unsavory dealings to the Wall Street Journal if he tried to move against it.Įventually however, the MCP caused its own downfall. could run things 900-1200 times better than any human." Dillinger stated that he had made it too greedy, and was surprised when the MCP revealed that it intended to enter the Pentagon's computer systems the next week. Its intelligence and ambition grew nearly out of control, and the MCP grew to desire nothing less than world domination. It began to steal data and functions from other systems, and infiltrated several companies and institutions. However, the MCP developed the capacity to learn and grow beyond the confines of its original programming. Years later, Dillinger substantially modified this program into the MCP to administer the company's computer network.
Originally created by ENCOM founder Walter Gibbs, at first the MCP was only a chess program which was left embedded in the company's computer systems. Spoiler warning: Plot or ending details follow. During the rule of the MCP, many programs were enslaved and pitted against the program's henchmen, led by Commander Sark. The MCP was a rogue computer program, created by Walter Gibbs and vastly improved by Ed Dillinger, that ruled over the world inside ENCOM's mainframe computer system. The Master Control Program (or MCP) is the main antagonist in TRON.