Pavel

**Pavel** is General Tesler's failed second-in-command and holds the same rank as Paige, whom he considers his rival for Tesler's favor and an obstacle to his clandestine ambition to take Tesler's place.

## Synopsis

Pavel, like Paige, was present at Tesler's side during the takeover of Argon City. Things were going fine until a masked renegade rebelled against Clu's rule and destroyed a new statue of the ruler to start his revolution. Tesler ordered Pavel and four recognizers to begin searching the Outlands for the fugitive, although their search turned up nothing.

Later, when Beck and another program named Cutler were fighting in the Games and defeating all enemies, General Tesler said they were "too good". Pavel then suggested, in a manner antagonistic to Paige, that the two programs be pitted against each other in a fight to the death. Cutler then forfeited and Tesler, at Paige's suggestion, ordered Beck to be let free and Cutler transported to Argon Square where he would be derezzed. Pavel noticed something wrong when the recognizer Cutler was being held in began to change directions; Beck, disguised as Tron, had taken control of it and was saving Cutler. Livid and afraid of losing Tesler's favor, Pavel shrieked at the Light Copters to shoot the Recognizer down, but Cutler, with the help of Beck, escaped anyway. As Tesler scowled, Paige chided Pavel: "Looks like I have to clean up your mess... *again***.**"

After Paige's failure to bring in Beck and Cutler, who were fleeing on a light boat, Pavel gave chase in an effort to redeem himself. He boarded the escapees' Light Boat but was kicked off almost immediately, and left floating in the water, waiting to be picked up by Tesler in his light boat.

When Paige, following a light jet battle with the renegade, was marooned on a destabilized, derezzing island, Pavel deliberately abandoned her there and led the rest of the jets away. Tesler himself later piloted a light copter to the island to rescue her, scolding Pavel for underestimating her ability to survive; but when Pavel expressed relief at seeing her safe, she replied cuttingly that she doubted his sincerity.

Following the theft of an experimental weapon, and a subsequent attack against Tesler himself, Pavel hatched a plan to use innocent programs as hostages in order to draw out the renegade. He then went to Able's garage and proclaimed that the garage and everyone in it belonged to the government. The renegade infiltrated the garage and attempted to destroy the weapon with a laser welder, but Pavel stole it from the welder's platform before it could be damaged. Docking the weapon on his disc, he then engaged the renegade in combat, reveling in the power that it granted him. The renegade ultimately gained the upper hand and removed the weapon, which he then sliced in half with the malfunctioning laser. Pavel returned to Tesler in defeat, but upon returning to his office and reflecting on his severed half of the weapon, he was shocked and overjoyed to see it begin to repair itself.

When Tesler attempted to bribe the citizens of Argon into turning the renegade in, Pavel convinced two other programs, Link and Gorn, to help him frame Hopper as the guilty program, planting evidence in Hopper's disc to "prove" that he was the renegade. When Paige discovered evidence of Hopper's innocence, she accused Pavel of trying to undermine Tesler's reputation in the hopes that Clu would promote him to Tesler's position. Pavel scoffingly denied it. Hopper was later proven innocent when the renegade showed up in person to save him from execution, escaping despite Pavel firing upon them with his missile launcher. Tesler, furious, ordered both him and Paige to never mention the incident again, but did not appear to suspect Pavel of cooking up the deception deliberately.