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> the hero is disintegrated by a laser cannon behind his back, scanned and transfered to virtual reality environment

That bit always made me laugh. Tron leads you to believe that the exciting/magical part is the virtual world, while I always thought the laser was the real world changing invention.

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It's like Iron Man.

The guy creates a compact, cheap, abundant and unlimited power source and a form of non-reactive propulsion and what does he do with it? He builds a suit!

To be fair, it's Tony Stark.

Actually, he didn't build the suit. The robots he invented built it for him, controlled by the AI system he also invented.

The part I found unbelievable: in spite of the fact that Stark Industries is prepared to sell us everything we need to live in an Asimovian future, their stock price is tanking because Stark wants to stop building weapons.

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