'''Basic Trope''': Hackers can use computers to do unrealistic things.
* '''Straight''': Max, a MadScientist, can get into people's computers and activate viruses with his machine alone.
* '''Exaggerated''': Max can hack into anything and everything, including [[HackTheTrafficLights traffic lights]] and microwaves.
* '''Downplayed''': Max can change entire webpages through hacking. He uses this to help him upload viruses.
* '''Justified''':
** EverythingIsOnline.
** Max is literally using [[{{Magitek}} magic to hack]].
** Max is a RealityWarper who [[InvokedTrope likes the "Hacker" aesthetic.]]
* '''Inverted''': Max can't even use his computer to access his own files.
** 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.
* '''Subverted''': Max tries to remotely activate a virus via his computer but fails.
* '''Double Subverted''': But he only failed once, and succeeds every other time he tries.
* '''Parodied''':
** Everything Max knows about hacking, he learned from playing ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}''.
** Max hacks into the computer via PercussiveMaintenance.
** [[AchievementsInIgnorance Max hacks into airgapped DARPA servers using a solid plastic toy computer.]]
* '''Zig-Zagged''': Max can easily hack someone's computer, but the others don't. That may because "the others" protect their computers well.
* '''Averted''': Computers are portrayed realistically.
* '''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!"
* '''Lampshaded''': "Hacking is like magic."
* '''Invoked''': Max makes computers with security backdoors, letting him easily hack anyone who buys his computer.
* '''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.
* '''Defied''': "Hacking is more than click-clacks and loading screens, Max!"
* '''Discussed''': "Lemme guess ... she's just gonna press a few keys and then some traffic light is gonna explode, right?"
* '''Conversed''': "You know, modern hackers can hack any computers if they want, as news says."
* '''Implied''': Max says he's going to hack into someone's computer. As Bob leaves, RapidFireTyping is heard in the background.
* '''Deconstructed''': It turns out the hacker does the whole RapidFireTyping shtick just for show, and he does the actual "hacking" through different means.
* '''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.
* '''Played for Laughs''': Max hacks into computers specifically to leave "AWinnerIsYou" and other silly messages.
* '''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.
* '''Played for Horror''': Max hacks into a nuclear reactor and sets off a meltdown just to get VillainCred.
* '''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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