Clu, which stands for Codified Likeness Utility, was a Hacker program written by Kevin Flynn and played by Jeff Bridges. Clu looked just like his user, Flynn, but talked in a very different voice than his human counterpart.
Overview The original Clu was created by Kevin Flynn to seek out evidence that ENCOM engineer Ed Dillinger stole several of Flynn's video game designs. In the original Tron film, Clu is unfortunately caught and assimilated into the Master Control Program (read: tortured to death).
CLU was created by Flynn to bring order to the Grid. This lead to the eventual coup and genocide of the ISOs (Quorra's "race" of programmes). After many cycles bringing 'order' to the Grid, CLU simply felt that doing the same to the real world was the natural next step to his original directive from Flynn, especially as he saw the real world as
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