Flynn sends loyal programs to try to stop Clu.

Clu Rectifies those programs.

ChessMess Wrote: I'm having difficulty seeing exactly how Clu could have feed of Flynns resistance. Course we don't know what form Flynn's resistance was. I mean Clu is so different than the MCP, he couldn't jump into the I/O of Clu to shut it down that way. Do you think they fought at all on the game Grid? That would be a sight to see Clu vs Flynn on the LightCycle grid! Any theories on Flynn's resistance and how Clu might have 'feed' off it?

Most likely Clu is able to use the fighting as an excuse to gain more control over the Grid and convince the majority of Programs that it's for their safety and in their best interest. He would most likely take the position that these are 'terrorists' and he's just responding to their attacks, rather than it being the other way around.

It's actually a very common tactic for dictators. Look at what's going on in Syria right now for instance. Hitler used this to an extent as well, focusing peoples anger on Jews and other minorities. Sadly it seems to be an aspect of history and human behavior that shows up again and again.

During Jarvis's oration on the Game Grid and Clu's speech aboard the Rectifier, references are made to "vanquishing the tyranny of the User" and "enslavement by the User". Castor hints at dissatisfaction with the measures Flynn took to ensure no program could access the portal. In Betrayal and Evolution there's a certain sense on the part of the programs (Clu in particular, of course) that Flynn has forsaken them in favor of the Isos, and that the programs have become afterthoughts to Flynn.

Clu makes a pretty good case to the other programs that Flynn is, at best, a capricious and jealous deity or, at worst, a petty tyrant with absolute power. Never mind that Clu is, himself, a totalitarian and authoritarian ruler. It's only natural that programs would crave hierarchy.

Anytime Flynn might move against Clu, to rally support, Clu need only assert that Flynn's goal is absolute subjugation of the programs. I'm supposing that's what Clu did, and Flynn is referring to Clu's success with the strategy.

(Supplemental: It occurs to me that Clu's propaganda may have included suggestion that Flynn intended to replace programs with Isos entirely, should Flynn return to power.)

ChessMess Wrote:Do you think Clu had the Purge event already staged the moment he got confirmation from Flynn to start the uprising (see "Am I still to create the perfect system" thread)? In the story telling of it in the movie it felt like there was some time between. But if there was, why didn't the ISO's help Flynn. Maybe they were just living in an ISO dream world and didn't see the Ctrl-C until it was too late.

I think Clu may have had plans for the purge ready, but I don't think he had tanks and recognizers deployed around the Iso city. It all unfolds pretty quickly in the Evolution plotline, though.

Maybe they were just living in an ISO dream world and didn't see the Ctrl-C until it was too late.

LOL.. That statement cracks me up so badly.... D It hurts.. my diaphragm.

How about SELECT and DELETE... Easy... Select all the .iso in a file given.. than delete all to recycle bin. ^^ Than clean the bin with Ccleaner. Well highlighting all related folders and than deleting em.

Ever used a shredder after deleting from the recycle bin?

I think it worked like we saw in Tron: Uprising, in the episode Blackout. Resistance does something good, CLU's forces paint it so that the Resistance was the one doing the bad thing that the Resistance actually stopped. And then paint it so that Clu's guys did the good that the Resistance actually did. CLU controlled the media. He could twist things however he wanted.