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The '''Master Control Program (MCP)''', voiced by [[David Warner In [[Tron]] And In [[Kingdom Hearts 2]] By [[Corey Burton]] is the main villain of the [[The Walt Disney Company|Disney]] movie ''[[Tron (film)|Tron]]''. It is an [[artificial intelligence]] [[mainframe computer]] created by Ed Dilinger (also played by Warner) that ruled over the computer world. During the rule of the MCP, many programs were enslaved and forced to play games against its henchmen, led by [[Sark (Tron)|Sark]].
[[Image:MCP.jpg|frame|right|The MCP, as seen in the 1982 Disney film, Tron]]
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[[Category:Fictional artificial intellectsintelligences]] ▼The MCP began life as a chess program, written by [[ENCOM]] programmer Walter Gibbs. Ed Dillinger, a rising exec at ENCOM, rewrote the program to administrate the company's computer network (in effect an AI [[Superuser]]). However, the MCP had the capacity to learn and grew beyond the confines of its original programming. It began to steal data from other systems, and took control of several companies and institutions. Its intelligence - and ambition - grew nearly out of control, and the MCP grew to desire nothing less than world domination; with the information at its command, the MCP believed it could run things 900 to 1200 times better than any human.
Eventually, however, the MCP caused its own downfall. It digitized former ENCOM programmer Kevin Flynn, who had come dangerously close to uncovering Dillinger's schemes. Flynn, in the computer world, allied himself with [[Tron (character)|Tron]], a security program; their combined efforts resulted in the deresolution (death) of the MCP.
==''[[Kingdom Hearts II]]''==
The MCP was based on the ENCOM program when it was transferred into a super computer created by [[DiZ|Ansem the Wise]], who then modified the ENCOM program, which made the computer vulnerable for the MCP to take over, apparantly rebooted by [[Xehanort]], Ansem's corrupt apprentice to be in control of the Hollow Bastion Operating System. Taking over the Space Paranoids with "virtual Heartless", the MCP intended to take over [[Hollow Bastion|Radiant Garden]] as it evolved to the point that it sees "Users" of no more use. To that end, the MCP intended to unlock the DTD Program, only for [[Sora (Kingdom Hearts)|Sora]] and company with Tron to interfere. After that, the MCP began to materialize his Heartless into the "real world" and reprogrammed the security system to attack non-Heartless beings. To counter it, Tron was upgraded with a program created by [[Cid Highwind|Cid]] and company that will destroy the MCP. However, even after enhancing Sark to giant-size and fighting Tron, Sora and company directly, the MCP was destroyed along with Sark. Tron then took its place in managing Hollow Baston's computers with the MCP no more.
==Parodies==
*In the ''[[South Park]]'' episodes "[[Jewbilee]]" and "[[Super Best Friends]]", [[Moses]] took the form of the MCP.
*In the ''[[Dexter's Laboratory]]'' episode ''Game Over'', a dangerous program called "Master Computer" takes over Dexter's Computer. The Master Computer speaks like and resembles the MCP.
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