Flynn meets and marries Jordan Canas. They have a son, Sam, in 1983. She dies in a car crash in 1985, because Disney Hates Mothers.
Flynn is obsessed with the world inside computers, and it's kinda rough on Sam, since he's already down one parent, and the remaining one is spending every night beaming himself into a computer. It's like WoW on speed.
Inside the computer, in a world he calls "the Grid," Flynn is working with Tron and a new version of CLU to build "the perfect system." This will bite him in the ass.
Everything is going reasonably well, until Flynn et al. stumble on some programs that just evolved on their own rather than being written by a User, the isometric algorithms (ISOs). Flynn considers them miraculous, but CLU is not a fan.
Flynn is still in charge, so he tries to set up a way for ISOs and regular programs (Basics) to live in harmony by appointing an ISO, Radia, to serve as co-Systems Administrator with CLU. It's even sort of working until CLU decides it's Brutus time.
The ceremony promoting Radia is broken up by a virus attacking. Tron urges Flynn to get back to the real world where it's safe (compared to the Grid, anyway), and is escorting him to the Portal back to reality when...
...The band breaks upCLU confronts Flynn, asking whether he's still meant to create the perfect system. Flynn's like "Uh...sure," and then CLU's like "LOL PURGE" and the fighting starts. Tron is apparently killed ("de-rezzed") fighting to give Flynn time to escape.
The Portal closes. It has to be opened from the outside, and Flynn hasn't been telling anyone where he's been spending his nights, so now he's stuck. GOOD JOB, MAN.
While CLU is busy exterminating the ISOs and building himself a Thousand-Cycle Reich, an ISO helps Flynn escape the city.
Things presumably happen to Flynn, but he's not the PC in Evolution, so they're pretty vague. He shows up again after pulling the actual PC out of the wreckage of a city CLU's forces destroyed, just in time to send him on the final boss battle to rescue Quorra, an ISO who's been taken prisoner by CLU.
The PC succeeds, Pyrrhically, and only Quorra lives. Barely. Flynn finds her in the wastelands outside the city in time to keep her from de-rezzing. Deus ex machina amirite?
Flynn and Quorra, the last surviving ISO, bugger off to the middle of nowhere for Flynn to get his Zen on, and CLU takes over the system.
Kevin Flynn | Tron | Reserved | 2/?
The band breaks upCLU confronts Flynn, asking whether he's still meant to create the perfect system. Flynn's like "Uh...sure," and then CLU's like "LOL PURGE" and the fighting starts. Tron is apparently killed ("de-rezzed") fighting to give Flynn time to escape.Deus ex machina amirite?