Line #13 PlayingWith/HollywoodHacking


1	'''Basic Trope''': Hackers can use computers to do unrealistic things.
2	* '''Straight''': Max, a MadScientist, can get into people's computers and activate viruses with his machine alone.
3	* '''Exaggerated''': Max can hack into anything and everything, including [[HackTheTrafficLights traffic lights]] and microwaves.
4	* '''Downplayed''': Max can change entire webpages through hacking. He uses this to help him upload viruses.
5	* '''Justified''':
6	** EverythingIsOnline.
7	** Max is literally using [[{{Magitek}} magic to hack]].
8	** Max is a RealityWarper who [[InvokedTrope likes the "Hacker" aesthetic.]]
9	* '''Inverted''': Max can't even use his computer to access his own files.
10	** Max uses social engineering to create viruses - not even by persuading a disgruntled programmer on the inside to do so or tricking someone else into compiling one he composed.
11	* '''Subverted''': Max tries to remotely activate a virus via his computer but fails.
12	* '''Double Subverted''': But he only failed once, and succeeds every other time he tries.
13	* '''Parodied''':
14	** Everything Max knows about hacking, he learned from playing ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}''.
15	** Max hacks into the computer via PercussiveMaintenance.
16	** [[AchievementsInIgnorance Max hacks into airgapped DARPA servers using a solid plastic toy computer.]]
17	* '''Zig-Zagged''': Max can easily hack someone's computer, but the others don't. That may because "the others" protect their computers well.
18	* '''Averted''': Computers are portrayed realistically.
19	* '''Enforced''': "The boys upstairs just greenlighted the new hacker flick. There's one problem, though: they found the dialogue too advanced." "Just throw [[{{Technobabble}} a bunch of random tech terms]] in there and they won't bat an eye!"
20	* '''Lampshaded''': "Hacking is like magic."
21	* '''Invoked''': Max makes computers with security backdoors, letting him easily hack anyone who buys his computer.
22	* '''Exploited''': Max recruits hackers and {{Mad Scientist}}s by hanging outside theaters showing hacker movies, and listening in on who complains about the lack of realism.
23	* '''Defied''': "Hacking is more than click-clacks and loading screens, Max!"
24	* '''Discussed''': "Lemme guess ... she's just gonna press a few keys and then some traffic light is gonna explode, right?"
25	* '''Conversed''': "You know, modern hackers can hack any computers if they want, as news says."
26	* '''Implied''': Max says he's going to hack into someone's computer. As Bob leaves, RapidFireTyping is heard in the background.
27	* '''Deconstructed''': It turns out the hacker does the whole RapidFireTyping shtick just for show, and he does the actual "hacking" through different means.
28	* '''Reconstructed''': [[AcceptableBreaksFromReality It's a necessary show]], otherwise his peers would be uber-bored. And his results are still excessive for what someone with a laptop, a few faked e-mails with spyware and a couple of hours' worth of SocialEngineering and digging through trash should be able to do.
29	* '''Played for Laughs''': Max hacks into computers specifically to leave "AWinnerIsYou" and other silly messages.
30	* '''Played for Drama''': Max is a sociopathic [[TheCracker malevolent hacker]], and he's got his eyes on a hospital's systems if another MadScientist can't find his HackerCave in time.
31	* '''Played for Horror''': Max hacks into a nuclear reactor and sets off a meltdown just to get VillainCred.
32	* '''Plotted a Good Waste''': That Max's hacking is so unrealistic is foreshadowing that he is making the whole thing up to fool a technologically illiterate Charlie.
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