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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 DilingerDillinger (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).

Kevin Flynn, a rising exec at ENCOM portrayed by Jeff Bridges,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; 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 by destroying his heart which is at the center. The MCP then reverted back to its original chess program appearance (which, in the digital universe, appeared as an old man in a control chair) followed by this program vanishing as it was deleted.