With TRON taking place in 1982, TRON: Betrayal taking place from 1983 to 1989, TRON: Evolution taking place in 1989, TRON 2.0 taking place in 2003 and TRON: Legacy set in 2010, the TRON Universe is about humans being transported inside a computer and interacting with humanoid computer programs in a digital world. The Universe/mythology is named after the computer program Tron, who saved ENCOM's mainframe computer system and the real world from an evil self-aware computer program known as the MCP in 1982.