It is my firm belief (if it isn't quite obvious to anyone else already) that Kevin Flynn is NOT going to make it out of this movie ALIVE.

A few things that lead me to believe this:

1. This whole 'Flynn Lives!' ARG. To me, it kind of parallels the 'Elvis Lives!' frenzy that society went through when he died. It seems that those behind this idea are just using that timeless literary device called irony, and building it up until the movie releases in theaters.

2. What use does Flynn even have for the 'real world' anyway? He is not even the same as other people anymore. The man is 20,000 years old. There is truly nothing that he hasn't experienced already, except for death itself. It would stand to reason that he WELCOMES death.

3. The realization that his actions have jeopardized Sam's life (if it wasn't for Flynn trying to play God by creating his own little utopia world, Sam wouldn't even be in this computer world). I believe the situation will come to a head at some point and Flynn will again 'sacrifice' himself so that others (the 'people' of the computer world, his son, whatever) can live or so that it will be possible that Sam can escape the computer world back into the real one. A subpoint to this would be the foreshadowing of Sam weaving in and out of traffic not only representing him riding lightcycles later on in the movie, but also of him 'weaving in and out' of the real world and the computer world.

4. The title of the movie itself. 20,000 years have gone by for Flynn. It's time to pass on the legacy not only of himself, but also that of TRON onto the next generation of 'users' (us).

You all might think I'm crazy. You might hate me for saying all this, but I'm just thinking of the 'reality' of the situation for what we know so far. I don't want to see Flynn die either, I just think that's whats' going to happen - how can it not? Let's not our love for this character blind us to this most likely outcome.

I had the same problem with Data when ST:NEMESIS came out. My friend who had not seen it before, warned me halfway through the movie that Data WAS going to die and I didn't believe him because I, like so many others, loved the character so much that I didn't think it was possible.

So by definition, LEGACY means "anything handed down from the past, as from an ancestor or predecessor." Also means "of or pertaining to old or outdated computer hardware, software, or data that, while still functional, does not work well with up-to-date systems."

This movie IS very much the passing of TRON from one generation to the next.

R.I.P. Kevin Flynn - you will be missed.

Where are you getting 20,000 years? My understanding was that only 1,000 years had passed for Flynn. (That's not to say that 1,000 years isn't a really damn long time)

Flynn found out he was dying of a terminal illness and the only way to stay alive was to go back onto the game grid.

He cannot leave because the "cure" he came up with in the virtual world will become undone when returned to the real world.

That is why he has been gone for so many years.

This is probably a nod to the false rumor of Walt Disney's wish to be put in cryogenic suspension upon death and then at a future point in time when technology has advanced enough, revived and cured.