In case the subject didn't warn you enough, what I'm about to ask refers to major spoilers regarding Quorra, so if you don't want to know about her fate by movie's end, stop now!

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I didn't see any other thread mentioning this, so I thought I'd bring it up: how exactly could Quorra be pulled into the real world and still survive? Unlike Kevin and Sam, who are already flesh and blood and just had their bodies digitized and reverse-digitized to pass in and out of the computer world, Quorra should've been pure code. Wouldn't her "body" just dissolve into so much digital flotsam since there's no physical shell to contain her?

Mind you, I might've missed some details as to what exactly Kevin Flynn knew that had Clu convinced he could send himself and his massive army into the real world; I'll be seeing the movie again soon, so I'll make sure to keep a look out for it. But, assuming it wasn't really explained, I can't figure out how Quorra could've become human. Her status as an ISO shouldn't have mattered either; she may have evolved independently of Kevin Flynn's work on developing the Grid, but she'd still be just data, albeit unique.

If I missed something about this, please fill in the blanks for me. Also, I'd love to hear any theories you may have.

Ah but that raises the question of whether or not we have a soul ergo "I think therefore I am." Quorra's manifestation into the real world was simply a deus ex machina to service the plot without any sensible plot logic.

Flynn's matter was suspended in the laser. Clu likely intended to do what Quorra did - use that matter to enter the real world. Speculation, but then Clu would have to zap some more matter to bring his army after him.

Tron Unit Wrote:I find it amusing that Flynn has the laser in the basement of the arcade. It already consumes a lot of power to run the arcade machines and lights but the amount of power that laser would consume would be massive. Not something you could simply plug into a standard 120v power outlet. I'd hate to see his monthly electric bill.

Once an object is digitized, it can be altered at will inside the Grid. That means transmuting it to energy, if desired. He could have run the thing on garbage.

Sub-Odeon Wrote:According to the "science" of the original movie, the molecules of a digitized object or person remained suspended in the beam of the digitizing laser until the computer "plays out the model" for the digitized object, and the molecules collapse back into place. It's essentially the transporter idea from Star Trek. As to how Quorra could be made real from nothing but ISO code, who knows? Since the whole digitizing process is fantasy anyway, I chose to ignore this problem. Maybe they'll try and explain it in the third movie.

Keep in mind that that was how the first laser worked. This is a totally new one and no one has said it works exactly the same. A recent interview with the screenwriters had them talking about the cylinders attached to the laser being where various materials are held and used for the digitizing/un-digitizing.

IMAGinES Wrote: Tron Unit Wrote:I find it amusing that Flynn has the laser in the basement of the arcade. It already consumes a lot of power to run the arcade machines and lights but the amount of power that laser would consume would be massive. Not something you could simply plug into a standard 120v power outlet. I'd hate to see his monthly electric bill. Me, I'd have hated to see his freaking monthly paycheque. Well, not so much hated as wept. He probably even had a "Next Big Thing" slush fund which covered the bills.

I also thought it interesting that Flynn's old arcade remained unchanged for 20 years, and that no one had bought or renovated the old property. I figured that Flynn had at some point given Alan the responsibility of maintaining the property in case anything ever happened to him.

I find it amusing that Flynn has the laser in the basement of the arcade. It already consumes a lot of power to run the arcade machines and lights but the amount of power that laser would consume would be massive. Not something you could simply plug into a standard 120v power outlet. I'd hate to see his monthly electric bill.Forget THAT...why was the power in the arcade still hooked up after 20 years??? Somebody been paying the bill in all that time??? (For that matter, building still empty? I assume it was owned and not leased, and that Sam/his grandparents never sold it, for sentimental reasons?)

I want to know if Quorra became completely human or is just some sort of nanotech cyborg.

Quorra is human. But may have unique properties to her genetic make-up.

No she's not a "mutant". Just a human, that may have unique genetic properties. I don't expect her to have powers in the "real world" at all.

Just speculating here, but it would be interesting if she has slightly accelerated healing (not to Wolverine's level), or that removing a little bit of tissue from her, that the cells become stem cells that self-replicate/self-repair. Would be a huge benefit/breakthrough for medical science.