History Main / DuelingHackers

* ComicBook/{{Oracle}} and [[EvilCounterpart Calculator]] faced each other online several times in ''ComicBook/BirdsOfPrey''. Typically, it was to get the other's location so they could send superhuman agents to arrest/kill each other.

* ''ComicBook/{{Robin|Series}}'': Tim ends up in a hacker duel with a hacker the Joker kidnapped in "Joker's Wild". When it becomes clear that the kidnapped hacker is trying to hack into the batcave's systems and won't be of any aid in his own rescue Tim [[CutTheJuice cuts the power]] to the batcomputer.

* In ''Demon Hunters: Dead Camper Lake'', two Cyborg DuelingHackers, complete with ominously named programs with skull icons, while sitting face to face at the same table. Eventually, the losing cyborg shrugs, picks up his laptop and [[CombatPragmatist clubs his enemy to death]].

* ''Franchise/GhostInTheShell'' has a few examples. It also averts the trope in ''[[Anime/GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex Solid State Society]]''. Section 9 actually does cut the power when they start getting hacked (via fireaxe to the power cords).

** Since the Matrix in ''Shadowrun'' employs copious amounts of YourMindMakesItReal hacking duels between deckers and especially Technomancers can resemble a WizardDuel. Failing to defeat standard IC (Intrusive Countermeasures) tends to leave a hacker with a headache. Failing to defeat Black IC tends to be [[YourHeadAsplode more permanent]].

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* In the first ''Film/ResidentEvil'' movie Kaplan has a hacking duel with the Red Queen [=AI=] to bypass her defenses.

* In ''Webcomic/{{Narbonic}}'', it's implied that Dave gets into one of these with Lovelace near the beginning of ''Professor Madblood and the Lovelace Affair''. He's a bit broken up when she turns out to be better at it than he is. [[spoiler: It's not his fault. She's an AI.]]

* ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'': Chisame versus Chachamaru in the festival arc.

* In ''Bloody Monday'' the protagonist has many duels with opposing hackers, both in the first and second seasons.

* It's not really made that much of, but this happens between Yatouji Satsuki and Imonoyama Nokoru in ''Manga/{{X1999}}''. She is trying to hack into the computers of CLAMP Campus and he is trying to keep her out. Given that Satsuki is a technopath working in tandem with a supercomputer, the fact that Nokoru actually manages to make it combat instead of a CurbStompBattle is [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome pretty impressive]].

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** Two seasons later in "[[Recap/ArrowS4E12Unchained Unchained]]", she gets into it again with [[spoiler: her father]] the Calculator.

* ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cuckoo%27s_Egg_%28book%29 The Cuckoo's Egg]]'' is a first-hand account of real-life Dot Combat from 1986. Clifford Stoll was asked by his supervisor to find the cause of a $0.75 billing anomaly in the accounts; over ten months, he followed the trail from that, to a hacker who was breaching American military networks looking for information on the Nuclear and SDI programs and selling what he stole to the KGB.
** This story is notable for being the first properly documented case of computer hacking: Clifford Stoll was an astronomer, trained to document what he did in detail, and with the curiosity of a scientist - as opposed to the standard response of an IT guy, who would usually have just locked out the offending user accounts and forgotten all about it.

* ''Anime/HanaukyoMaidTai''. In episode 8 the Jihiyou family hacks into the MEMOL supercomputer to steal information (and possibly activate the mansion's SelfDestructMechanism). Grace manages to defeat them.

* Happens often enough in ''Anime/DennouCoil'', since realspace and cyberspace are linked. A particularly heated one happens between Isako and Fumie early on.

* In ''Film/WhoAmI'', two hackers with the alias ''[=WhoAmI=]'' and ''MRX'' try to outgambit one another.

[[caption-width-right:300:That's Hollywood. [[MundaneSolution Reality is]] [[CutTheJuice simpler]].]]

** Since the Matrix in ''Shadowrun'' employs copious amounts of YourMindMakesItReal hacking duels between deckers and especially Technomancers can resemble a WizardDuel.

* Oracle and [[EvilCounterpart Calculator]] faced each other online several times in ''ComicBook/BirdsOfPrey''. Typically, it was to get the other's location so they could send superhuman agents to arrest/kill each other.
* ''ComicBook/{{Robin|Series}}'': Tim ends up in a hacker duel with a hacker the Joker kidnapped in "Joker's Wild". When it becomes clear that the kidnapped hacker is trying to hack into the batcave's systems and won't be of any aid in his own rescue Tim cuts the power to the batcomputer.