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Sark is an evil computer program, one of the main characters in the film Tron. He was played by David Warner in said film and voiced by Corey Burton in Kingdom Hearts II but in a manner uncannily similar to Warner's distinct voice.

Tron

Command Program Sark, as his guards call him, is the henchman and chief lieutenant to the Master Control Program. Both programs were created by ENCOM executive Ed Dillinger, and share Dillinger's voice (and in Sark's case, his physical form). Sark oversaw the training of new programs who were kidnapped and brought to the Game Grid by the MCP. Sark freely admitted that the training he arranged for the conscripts was somewhat substandard, as Sark's own elite force of programs nearly always won every match they took part in. Sark was known to enter the games himself from time to time, and was a grand master at any game he cared to try (when we first meet him, he is victorious in a game of Light Cycles).

Sark was brutally efficient at his work. Furthermore, the MCP himself pointed out that Sark actually enjoyed his job - "brutal and needlessly sadistic", as the MCP put it. Sark took immense pride in being labelled as such.

Nevertheless, Sark and the MCP's reign of terror over the computer world quickly came to a crashing halt when Kevin Flynn, a former programmer at ENCOM, was digitized and brought into the computer world. Sark refused to believe that there was anything special about Flynn, arrogantly dismissing him as "just an ordinary program". Sark threw everything he could at Flynn in an effort to eliminate him, but Flynn (along with Tron, a security program) fought back just as hard. Sark's repeated failure to kill Flynn drew the ire of the MCP, who wondered how Sark would take to working in a pocket calculator. After being threatened with deresolution (death), Sark resolved to wipe Flynn out once and for all. On board his command carrier (which resembles an aircraft carrier), Sark captured Flynn and attempted to use him to lure Tron out into the open where he could kill them both. In a battle with Tron, Sark was mortally wounded but was revived by the MCP, who infused Sark with all of his power - "Sark, All of my functions are now yours". Flynn distracted the MCP, which was subsequently killed by Tron. Upon the MCP's death, Sark derezzed and ceased to exist.

Sark is expected to appear in Tron 2.

Kingdom Hearts II

In the Square Enix/Disney RPG game Kingdom Hearts II, Sark, still the MCP's henchman and now a Heartless commander, is a villain in the Tron world, Space Paranoids. Sora, Tron and company fight Sark in the MCP's stronghold, and defeated him fairly quickly, after which he suggests to Tron that they would have made a great team whereas Tron replies that he is better than Sark; however, he was enhanced by the MCP, growing to giant size and fighting Sora's group yet again with the MCP by his side. Sark's powers were dangerously brutal in his giant size, but, along with the MCP, he was defeated. After the MCP was deleted by Sora and Tron, Sark faded out and disappeared. With the exception of the extra Kingdom Hearts characters and the absence of Flynn, Ram, Yori and Dumont, this scene plays out almost the same as the film's climactic end. David Warner, who played Sark in the movie, was offered the part, but had to decline because of a previous commitment and was only able to lend his likeness to the game. Sark's role was instead performed by veteran voice actor Corey Burton, who gave a near-flawless imitation of Warner's British accent.

References

1. Fred Glass, "Sign of the Times: The Computer as Character in Tron, War Games, and Superman III," Film Quarterly 38.2 (Winter, 1984-1985): 20.
2. Daniel Dinello, Technophobia!: Science Fiction Visions of Posthuman Technology (University of Texas Press, 2005), 157.
3. Brad Brevet, "Tron 2 Teaser Footage Featured at Comic Con: This one came out of absolutely nowhere...," Ropeofsilicon.com (July 25, 2008).

External links

• "Sark" on Kingdom Hearts Wiki

• Articles with topics of unclear notability from May 2008
• Disney characters originating in film
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• Fictional artificial intelligences
• Fictional commanders
• Fictional giants
• Fictional henchmen
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