#m-tron

[evancelt]

The Motherlode

[solidsmax]

MARVEL vs. CAPCOM Fighting Collection: Arcade Classics

[coupleofdays]

This image of what a 1990s American version of the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen would look like is awesome for many reasons, of course:

My eyes are of course drawn to the upper left corner, where among other images of possible 80s League members, we see good old Tron. And look who he's hanging out with: None other than Max Headroom!

For those of you who don't know, Max Headroom was a 1980s TV character, who was presented as if he was CG generated, but was in reality an actor (the extraordinary Matt Frewer) in physical costume and makeup made to look as if he was CG. He was intentionally portrayed as often "malfunctioning", stuttering and repeating himself for humorous effect. Here's a collection of funny bits with him, to give an idea of what he was like:

I've always been fascinated by this concept, of using traditional effects to pretend that something is computer generated. And that's why I think Max meeting Tron is fitting. The original Tron film is of course famous for its actual CG elements, but a lot of the film instead uses other special effects, such as matte paintings, cell animation and the lovely backlit animation, to portray the computer world. This feels to me like a variant of the "trickery" behind Max Headroom, a way of filmmaking that was probably unique to that era when CG was just starting to become the hot new thing, and was promising great leaps forward for special effects, but wasn't able to live up to those promises just yet (and some would argue that it still hasn't).

Also, I think a crossover between the characters would be really funny, with the stoic serious warrior Tron having to deal with the joking, self-absorbed jackass Max Headroom.

[cosmics-beings]

i miss writing for predastar. there is something just lovely and poetic about two people who were hurt healing together and escaping violence. and it would be a great redemption story for starscream to understand that even if he himself was hurt, he shouldn't have treated others the way he was treated. and i think that predaking, being someone who was hurt by the decepticons, and megatron and also believed in them, would also learn to heal and accept starscream.

i just have these positive vibes for two broken people who have both only been shown and only use violence seeing a better side of each other and healing.

[astercontrol]

so I already did one take on "Flynn made copies of the Encom programs for his New Grid; the originals are still at Encom, abandoned and missing him; they seek contact with each other to be reminded of him"

but now that I've done the (sad, angsty) Tron/Clu1 version of it...

let's try something a bit happier

I bet Ram plays around with rerezzed Clu1 as well, for the good memories and good feels

and I bet he has a lot more fun...

...they're just playfully wrestling....

[stardustinthesky]

Bruce Boxleitner as Alan Bradley and Tron in Tron (1982)

This is the key to a new order. This code disk means freedom.

[cyberfunsupporter]

o/ngsasun had so much potential until sun started acting funny and being generally ungrateful/rude and then outing o/ngsa and acting as if it was her fault 😭 because a girl not being ready to come out is some kind of incredibly selfish offense… she didn’t even know if her parents were homophobic, had they turned out to be what would’ve happened? damn sun just doesn’t think about her i swear

[viirazu]

I only come here for my hyperfixation

[nico-di-genova]

For the headcannon questions:

What is Sam's comfort food/drink of choice?

Okay, so hear me out. Disney made that energy bites kiosk in the Tron area that sells like three different food items with pop rocks on it. Even the donut holes have chocolate coated pop rocks, unhinged. So I like to think this was all Sam’s idea because pop rocks are his favorite candy. Blue Razz is his favorite flavor, he’s got a stash of the stuff at his house.

His family used to go road-tripping when he was younger, piled into the RV and just drove wherever. He had his gas station order perfected by the age of 4. pop rocks, a bag of chips for nutrition, and all the different slushy flavors mixed together in the largest cup size. So when he’s feeling particularly overwhelmed he’ll stop by the 7-11 on the way home to grab a slushy. He still mixes all the flavors together, even though it turns into a syrupy sweet mess that he can hardly stand now. It just reminds him of camping trips and better times.

He’s a also a really good cook, when he wants to be. His go to meal is any sort of pasta, specifically cream based sauces. He makes a mean chicken pesto Alfredo that’s loosely based on a recipe his grandma taught him. He usually cooks it when the loneliness is starting to get to him and he needs the comfort of warm food and familiarity. He also used to make it for Alan a lot when he lived at the man’s house in his late teens/early 20s.

The first time Quorra tries his slushy concoction she’s disgusted and horrified, which makes her nervous for his cooking. So she’s pleasantly surprised when it turns out Sam is kind of a master in the kitchen.

[evancelt]

"M:Tron Habitat"

[westeroswisdom]

Aemond Targaryen by Polish artist N M A Nestorowicz ar ArtStation. See more artwork by N M A Nestorowicz here.

[gra55-tast3bad]

Can we talk about how fine summer smith is? Like look at how sexy summer smith in go go Tron outfit is!

[rockabye-rinzler]

y'all, be honest with me...

would it be cringy to post my tron self-insert..? 👉👈

[cosmics-beings]

Have you read the Megatron spotlight? If so what's your overview?

I have two views on it .

One I loved how it showed megatons cruelty and reminds us that at a point he was a villain, a violent, brutal bot that a huge chunk of the fandom forgets or waters down. I always talk about how the fan base pacifies starscream but Megatron is also a victim of people suddenly forgetting that he was a villain and that there were many times he was brutal for the sake of being so.

Spotlight Megatron is a good nod to the fact that even with what's to come and his redemption, he is a villain and even when he turns good we're not required to forget or excuse him.

I also hate it because of how brutally he treated starscream. It is horrible and terrifying seeing Starscream's raw fear and terror of Megatron and how that haunts him. That chapter was so grotesque because Starscream was also extremely suicidal. he didn't care what happened to him, in fact, he asked Megatron to kill him because he just didn't care...and he was also afraid of the pain.

There is just something so psychologically terrifying about Megatron seeing a suicidal Starscream, and tormenting him so much to the point where he doesn't wanna die anymore, not because he wants to survive but because he is afraid of what Megatron will do with him. Megatron basically beat the life back into him in a morbid way. Mind you, i believe Starscream actually SAVED megatron a few chapters before this or something like that.

Before this, i think even when they did try to kill one another the were on equal playing ground but this was something purely different and out of a horror. It at least to me, completely changed the dynamic of their relationship, which is why i was HAPPY that starscream got his licks at the trial against megatron.

That's one reason i was always iffy about megatron's redemption arc. Spotlight Megatron was different in the way Megatron treated Starscream, and I feel that at least IMO...Megatron wasn't ever fully redeemed because he quite literally never referenced that again.

also since media literacy is fucked, obligatory no...I'm not excusing that starscream was a piece of shit, evil, terrible person. not excusing he's a villain or acting like he's innocent okay??

[astercontrol]

2 WIPs

things i am working on

(drawings)

(semi nsft)

(one Ram/Clu1, almost done)

(one OC yuri, rough wild scribbly draft)

...that is all

[lord-squiggletits]

It’s always very weird to me how much hate IDW OP gets in comparison to characters that are as bad or worse. Like, if hate for IDW OP was just “he’s an asshole and does xyz things,” I would get that, but the vast majority of the hate I see for him is just calling him an asshole with no particular explanation as to why. More puzzlingly, I see “IDW OP is an asshole” coming from the mouths of people who simultaneously stan characters like Pr/owl (also a cop, committed war crimes, constantly manipulates and uses people) and Mega/tron (genocidal dictator, racist against organics, generally violent and fucked up) so like???

It doesn’t seem like the problem is that IDW OP is an asshole, it seems to me like the problem is very specifically that it’s Optimus. For some reason people are just absolutely allergic to the idea of Optimus being morally gray to match a morally gray continuity. Somehow Optimus and Optimus alone is a horrible asshole who doesn’t ever deserve to be acknowledged even though the same people have no problems liking characters from the same comics who are as bad or worse? And it’s quite disappointing because it seems like in that case, it’s less about IDW OP being an asshole and more about the fact that people haven’t actually read the story and don’t care about the context/reasoning for IDW OP’s actions.

That or they just want every Optimus to be a happy silly dad or a depressed uwu dad (but only depressed in a cute and palatable way, never depressed in a way that leads to lashing out and bad decisions and social isolation), so they hate IDW OP for not being the cardboard cutout they want him to be. Instead of just... reading the OP that’s on the page and judging him based on the standards of IDW1 and the type of story IDW1 is.