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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