Not sure if anyone has brought this up yet, but what is the significance of the Tron outfit being white? I don't remember Tron being white at any point in the movie or game. I know the light colors on the outfits mean something, but what does the whole white outfit mean? I know its a throw back to the original 80s movie in a way, but other than that, and just being a different color so no one recognizes him, I don't know what the purpose is. Unless its just a style choice for the show and has no other meaning outside of that.

I took it as a reference to the old system, which Tron came from. He was the only program that Flynn brought from that system hence the only program to sport the white suit.

if you'll notice, all the suits in the show look almost like a mixture of the 82 suits and the legacy suits. all the suits in the show have little to no armor and they are just 1 plain color instead of having the complex hexagon symbol all over the suit.
this is probably for 2 reasons:
-it is supposed to be very similar to the 82 suits
-the animators did not want to put all that complex armor and tiny hexagons on the suit, so they pulled it off by calling it their own "style".
i really like the look of the suits in it. not too simple, and yet not too complex.

JamisonE33 Wrote:Technically CLU was in both the old and new, but he did not have a white suit

Nope, the Clu you're thinking of is technically a different program. You'll remember that the Clu you're thinking of was tortured to death within the opening scenes of the first movie

Well, what I said in a previous topic about the white suit kind of doesn't hold water anymore. It seemed clear to me that the white suit is Tron's 1.0 appearance. To maintain optimal operations in wake of the damage he sustained, he cannot stay in 2.0 form (including the "Rinzler" outfit) without risking complete code degradation.

But as the show progressed, much called my theory into question. First of all, as Beck flits about in Tron's 1.0 form, programs seem to instantly recognize him as Tron. How could this be, if Tron always maintained his 2.0 form while in Kevin Flynn's Grid? Sure, you could say they are only identifying him by his "T" symbol, but more questions arise from the preview for the upcoming "Scars" episodes.

Tron is clearly seen in these flashbacks as also in his white suit. Would this make sense if the memories are recalled by Tron and interpreted by Beck? If the reminiscing is done by Dyson, though, then that would constitute a serious instance of canon rewriting. Tron in all media up to this point looked like "white circuits" Rinzler. The only variations were in circuitry patterns, most likely done in order to not draw too much attention to the "Tron = Rinzler" concept prior to the release of Tron Legacy.

If anybody else sees some alternative explanation that I'm currently missing, do share. The only other way I can explain the white suit's ubiquity is that at some point (and this is a really crazy theory) when Flynn started creating the Grid (Early 1983), there was definitely some overlap between his Grid and the Encom grid. I mean, all those programs had to come from somewhere. Perhaps their exodus (Tron came along, too?) was of such an instantaneous or unrevealed nature that to them, living in Tron City or Argon City in Flynn's Grid was just an extension of the old Encom Grid. Hence, Beck's proclamation to a disguised Tron, "Tron saved the Grid once before. Maybe he can save it again."