Ram is a supporting blue program character in the 1982 film Tron . He resembles his user, Roy Kleinberg.
Background[ ]
Ram was created by ENCOM worker: Roy Kleinberg and was an actuarial program for an unnamed insurance company; he really enjoyed helping people plan for their future needs. He was then captured by the Master Control Program.
Personality[ ]
As an actuarial program, Ram like to help people plan for their future needs. He's shown to be polite and nice to welcoming programs who were captured. When on the verge of being derezzed, he happy to learn that Flynn was a user, even asking him to help Tron save the Grid and destroy the MCP.
Appearance[ ]
As a program, he looks just like his user, but his skin is gray and his suit has blue lightings and wears a helmet.
History[ ]
Ram was a program first seen in a pit cell inside the Game Grid, where programs resistant to the MCP's rules were forced to participate in gladiatorial games, in which the losers are destroyed. He was a close friend of Tron and Crom. Before being appropriated by the MCP, Ram had been an actuarial program for an unnamed insurance company; he had really enjoyed helping people plan for their future needs. Together with Flynn and Tron, he escaped from the Game Grid during a Light Cycle match. While fleeing Sark's forces, Ram's light cycle was destroyed by tanks. He was critically wounded and, after discovering that Flynn was a User and getting his promise to go on and help Tron, he eventually derezzed.
Years later, Flynn would give his named to Ram's original user: Roy as a nickname.
Trivia[ ]
- Ram is probably named for Random-access memory, a form of data storage within a computer.
- In Tron: The Next Day, Ram's user: Roy Kleinberg uses Ram's name as his nickname.
