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Kevin Flynn was the CEO of a company called ENCOM in an unknown world. According to [[Tron]], this company, and Flynn himself, created the data world of [[Space Paranoids]], as well as himself and the [[Master Control Program]]. However, the original program was said to be destroyed. [[Ansem the Wise]] found the old system and copied it onto his own computer, as well as its inhabitants.{{storylink|Kingdom Hearts II}}

Meanwhile, Kevin Flynn created another world out of data from the original program, a more evolved world called The Grid. He also created CLU 2, a program designed to help him make the perfect system, as well as getting help from Tron. Upon the discovery of a new life form called ISOs, Flynn saw their potential for the word, and abandoned his previous project. However, CLU saw it as a violation of his code, and usurped Flynn's position in a coup. Tron was presumed derezzed, but helped Flynn escape. Cut off from the outside world, Flynn was then trapped there for twenty years.

Flynn's appearance is based on his attire in ''Tron: Legacy'', in which he is shown with long, grey hair and a bushy mustache and beard on his face. He is clad in long, charcoal robes, the inside of which glows white. An Identity Disc is on his back, as with all programs.

In his hideout, Kevin's attire is pure white.

Kevin, in contrast to his son, Sam, has a less impulsive nature. Due to his old age, he is calm with a large degree wisdom, and often has a habit to meditate. During his exile, he became overly cautious and refused to move against CLU, focusing on keeping alive and keeping CLU out of his home world. However, reuniting with his son awakened a part of him that accepted the idea of taking risks. For example, he decides to make an all-out sprint for the portal in spite of the danger, and allows Sora and Quorra to try and help Tron from CLU's clutches.  

Kevin used to idealize making a perfect system, as did CLU. His technical knowledge is immense enough for him to make it a possibility, for him to create two worlds of data as well as their inhabitants. However, upon seeing the wonder of the ISOs, a bio-digital life-form, he abandoned his previous ideas. He became aware that perfection was impossible, but they should always aspire to it. Flynn also shows a great sense of selflessness. He went alone to help Sam and Quorra escape the trap of Zuse (never shown in the game), and at the very last moment, sacrifices himself so his son can go free.

[[File:Kevin Flynn - TRON (1982), Tron Legacy.png|thumb|left|Top: Kevin Flynn in the original film.<br>Middle: Flynn on ENCOM's server<br>Bottom: Kevin Flynn in ''Tron: Legacy'']]

Kevin Flynn first appears in the 1982 film, ''Tron'', portrayed by{{w|Jeff Bridges}}, in which he is portrayed as a former ENCOM game designer whose games were swindled from him by rival programmer, Ed Dillinger, who acquired a series of promotions and made it to CEO of ENCOM. Flynn tries numerous times to hack into the system and obtain evidence of Dillinger's crimes, and one particular attempt gets him sent into the datascape, where he joins forces with [[Tron]], Ram, Yori and Dumont to battle [[Sark]] and the [[Master Control Program]] and win his freedom. Flynn succeeds and gains his rightful position as CEO of ENCOM.

Following his promotion, Flynn creates an isolated server - his digital frontier - called "the Grid", intended as a playground where he could experiment to his heart's content, and it slowly took on a life of its own as it teemed with programs of all sorts. Kevin copied and upgraded Tron from ENCOM servers in order to protect the Grid, naming a city in his honor. Years later, while escorting Flynn to the portal to the real world, they are ambushed by CLU 2 and four Black Guards. Tron tells Kevin to run as he fends them off, leaving him to fight and ultimately lose to CLU 2 as Kevin makes a run for it.

In the 2010 sequel, ''Tron: Legacy'', Flynn has been missing for twenty years. His son, [[Sam Flynn]], ventures into the Grid to find him, only to discover that it has been taken over by CLU 2, and Flynn has been living in exile all this time with an ISO, [[Quorra]]. Eventually, when Flynn learns of CLU 2's plans to attack and take over the real world, which he sees as "imperfect", he joins forces with Sam and Quorra to escape back to the real world and trap CLU 2 inside the Grid forever. CLU 2 pursues them, ending in a confrontation outside the Portal. Flynn taps into his power and draws CLU 2 back into himself by force of will, allowing Sam and Quorra to escape before releasing a huge blast from the reintegration.