The Master Control Program (MCP), voiced by David Warner, is the main villain of the Disney movie 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.
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, a security program; their combined efforts resulted in the deresolution (death) of the MCP.
The MCP is also a villain in Kingdom Hearts II, in the Tron-based world, Space Paranoids. It wants to kill Tron for interfering with its reign, and utilizes the Heartless to try and do so, even to the point of spawning virtual Heartless into the "real world" (Radiant Garden). However, even after enhancing Sark to giant-size and fighting Tron, Sora and company directly, both he and Sark are destroyed. In this continuity, the MCP is in charge of a computer created by Ansem.
Parodies
- In the South Park episodes "Jewbilee" and "Super Best Friends", Moses took the form of the Master Control Program.
- In the Dexter's Laboratory episode Game Over, A dangerous program called "Master Computer" takes over Dexter's Computer. The Master Computer speaks and resembles that of the Master Control Program.
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