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[[Image:MCP.jpg|frame|right|The MCP, as seen in the 1982 Disney film, ''Tron'']]

The '''Master Control Program''' ('''MCP'''), voiced by [[David Warner (actor)|David Warner]], is the main villain of the [[The Walt Disney Company|Disney]] movie ''[[Tron (film)|Tron]]''. It was a rogue [[Artificial_intelligence|artificial intelligence]] created by Ed Dillinger (also played by Warner) that ruled over the world inside [[ENCOM]]'s [[mainframe computer]]. During the rule of the MCP, many programs were enslaved and forced to play games against its henchmen, led by [[Sark (Tron)|Sark]] (also played by Warner).

Dillinger wrote the MCP to administer 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; stating "From here I can run things 900 to 1200 times better than any human."

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The MCP would end most of its conversations with Dillinger and Sark with the phrase "[[newline|End of line]]".

He is also seen in [[Kingdom Hearts II]], as the ruler of [[Ansem the Wise]]'s computer. He is fought as the boss along with Sark as the final fight of Tron's world.

==Parodies==

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*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 videogame called "Master Computer" takes over Dexter's Computer. The Master Computer speaks like and resembles the MCP, and forces Dexter to play a game similar to the lightcycles in Tron.