Tron (disambiguation)

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Tron is a 1982 science fiction film produced by Walt Disney Productions. The film has spawned the Tron multimedia franchise.

Tron may also refer to:

Characters

• Tron, a character from the Tron franchise
• T'ron, a character in the Dragonriders of Pern series of science fiction novels
• Tron Bonne, a character in the Mega Man Legends series of video games
• Tron Carter, a recurring character on Chappelle's Show

Films

• Tron (soundtrack), the soundtrack album for the 1982 film
• Tron: Legacy, a 2010 science fiction film sequel
  • Tron: Legacy (soundtrack)

Television

• Tron: Uprising, a 2012 television series set between Tron and Tron: Legacy

Games

• Tron (video game), an arcade game based on the 1982 film
• Tron 2.0 (video game), a 2003 video game sequel
• Tron Evolution: Battle Grids, a video game based on the 2010 Tron: Legacy film
• Tron: Evolution, a 2010 video game that serves as a prequel to the Tron: Legacy film

Comics

• Tron 2.0: Derezzed (2003), an unreleased mini-series
• Tron: The Ghost in the Machine (2006–2008), a six-issue series continuing the storyline of the film Tron and the video game Tron 2.0
• Tron: Betrayal (2010), a two-issue series serving as the official prequel to the Tron: Legacy film
• Studio TRON, a comic book and animation studio created by manga artist Kia Asamiya

Computing

• TRON command, a debugging command in the BASIC programming language, an abbreviation of TRace ON
• TRON project, a real-time operating system kernel
• TRON (encoding), a multi-byte character encoding
• Tron, a block cellular automaton rule

People

• Jay Maynard (born 1960), American computer programmer known as the "Tron Guy" for his self-made electroluminescent costume inspired by the 1982 Tron film
• Tron (hacker) (1972–1998), pseudonym of German hacker Boris Floricic

First name

• Tron Erik Hovind (born 1956), Norwegian politician for the Centre Party
• Tron LaFavor (born 1979), American football player
• Tron Øgrim (1947–2007), Norwegian journalist, author, and politician for the Workers' Communist Party
• Tron Frede Thingstad (born 1946), Norwegian marine microbiologist
• Tron Austin (born 1997)

Son of TLC's Chilli and music producer Dallas Austin

Last name

• Audun Tron (born 1945), Norwegian politician for the Labour Party
• Georges Tron (born 1957), French politician for the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP)
• Nicolò Tron (circa 1399–1473), the 68th Doge of Venice

Places

• Amphoe Tron (Tron district), Uttaradit, Thailand
• The Tron, nickname of Hamilton, New Zealand
• Tronfjell, a mountain in the Norwegian region Østerdalen, district Tynset, near the village Alvdal

Scotland

• Tron Kirk, a church in Edinburgh, Scotland
• Tron Theatre, a theatre in Glasgow, Scotland
• Trongate, a street in Glasgow, Scotland
• St George's-Tron Church, a church in Glasgow, Scotland

Other

• Tron MVNO, a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) in the Malaysia
• Tron (Scotland), a weighing machine in medieval Scotland
• The Trons, an automated robot musical group from New Zealand

-tron

The suffix "-tron" denotes a complex scientific instrument. Examples include:

• Cyclotron, type of particle accelerator in which charged particles accelerate outwards from the centre along a spiral path
• Jumbotron, a type of TV developed by Sony
• Mechatronics, a field of engineering
• Mellotron, an electromechanical polyphonic keyboard musical instrument
• Phytotron, an enclosed research greenhouse used for studying interactions between plants and the atmosphere
• Trinitron, a brand of CRTs and televisions by Sony

See also

• All pages beginning with "Tron"
• All pages with titles containing Tron
• Tran (disambiguation)