History Main / DigitizedHacker

** In the "Dragon Heart Saga" trilogy set in the ''Shadowrun'' setting, Alice (can't recall if she assumed that name to copy the Carroll character) was a researcher back when cyberspace was in development: she ended up this way in a not-quite-accident arranged by a coworker.

* ''BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', "I Robot, You Jane" - When the computer club starts digitally backing up the school library, they scan a book containing the spirit of a demon, releasing him onto the Internet (Giles really needs to be more careful with his [[TomeOfEldritchLore Tomes of Eldritch Lore]]). When the main cast find out, it doesn't take them long to realize what he's capable of.

* The new Dr. Robotnik [Eggman] in the ''SonicTheHedgehog'' Archie comics, before he was de-roboticized.

* Noa and Gozuburo Kaiba (and the Big Five) in ''{{Yu-Gi-Oh}}''.

* The title villain in the ''LawnmowerMan'' movies.

* And then there's this [[SarcasmMode little known]] movie trilogy called ''Film/TheMatrix''. While the main characters themselves technically qualify, the only character that actually hacks into other beings' minds is the former Agent Smith when he copies himself. He even takes over a human outside of the Matrix.

* And then there's this [[SarcasmMode little known]] movie trilogy called ''TheMatrix''. While the main characters themselves technically qualify, the only character that actually hacks into other beings' minds is the former Agent Smith when he copies himself. He even takes over a human outside of the Matrix.

* Noa and Gozuburo Kaiba (and the Big Five) in ''{{Yu-Gi-Oh}}''.

* ''CowboyBebop'' had one that was able to fabricate an identity and start a far-reaching {{Cult}} designed to turn everyone into {{Virtual Ghost}}s.

* In ''ComicBook/AllFallDown'', [[spoiler:AIQ Squared]] proves a very capable one-- considering it's made of the same data as the software it scours for information on Siphon.

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* In JackChalker's ''The Wonderland Gambit'', it's rumored that this is what happened to VR genius Matthew Brand.

* Seamus Harper sometimes inspects the computer system of {{Andromeda}} this way.

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'' has a one-off villain like this: a computer mogul who had his brain digitized and eventually went mad after he was shut down for decades. His first item of business after he's rebooted and hooked up to the 'net: Flex his digital muscles by wreaking havoc in the city. Second order: Commandeer Terry's computerized suit to kidnap his grandson and [[GrandTheftMe download himself into the younger body]].

* The plotline of ''[[VideoGame/TronTwoPointOh Tron 2.0]]'' (AlternateContinuity to Film/TronLegacy) is about a rival corporation trying to obtain Encom's digitizing technology to turn mercenaries into Datawraiths in order to steal and control all of {{Cyberspace}}. [[spoiler: The ''primary'' villains turn into EldrichAbominations when they digitize themselves without the safeties Alan coded into Ma3a]].

--> '''Giles:''' "Right, yours was best."

* A decker (computer hacker) becoming a "ghost in the machine" is a recurring urban legend among the deckers of the ''{{Shadowrun}}'' setting; however, whenever the subject comes up, there's always a few extremely technologically-savvy deckers around to point out that The Matrix does not work that way.

* Jeremiah Surd in ''WesternAnimation/TheRealAdventuresOfJonnyQuest'' did this, once he was hooked up with an access to the virtual-reality Questworld.
* In an episode of ''{{Transformers}}'', Spike Witwicky had to become a VirtualGhost while his body underwent surgery, and inadvertently dropped into this trope temporarily.
* An episode of ''BatmanBeyond'' has a one-off villain like this: a computer mogul who had his brain digitized and eventually went mad after he was shut down for decades. His first item of business after he's rebooted and hooked up to the 'net: Flex his digital muscles by wreaking havoc in the city. Second order: Commandeer Terry's computerized suit to kidnap his grandson and [[GrandTheftMe download himself into the younger body]].

* Many criminals in the ''GhostInTheShell'' anime, as well as Major herself in the movies.

* The plotline of [[{{Tron20}} Tron 2.0]] (AlternateContinuity to Film/TronLegacy) is about a rival corporation trying to obtain Encom's digitizing technology to turn mercenaries into Datawraiths in order to steal and control all of {{Cyberspace}}. [[spoiler: The ''primary'' villains turn into EldrichAbominations when they digitize themselves without the safeties Alan coded into Ma3a]].

* The titular villain in the ''LawnmowerMan'' movies.

--> Xander: "He's in a computer! What can he do?"
--> Buffy: "You mean besides convince a perfectly nice kid to try and kill me? I don't know. How 'bout mess up all the medical equipment in the world?"
--> Giles: "Randomize traffic signals."
--> Buffy: "Access launch codes for our nuclear missiles."
--> Giles: "Destroy the world's economy."
--> Buffy: "I think I pretty much capped it with that nuclear missile thing."
--> Giles: "Right, yours was best."

* The plotline of [[{{Tron20}} Tron 2.0]] (AlternateContinuity to TronLegacy) is about a rival corporation trying to obtain Encom's digitizing technology to turn mercenaries into Datawraiths in order to steal and control all of {{Cyberspace}}. [[spoiler: The ''primary'' villains turn into EldrichAbominations when they digitize themselves without the safeties Alan coded into Ma3a]].

* ''Buffy'', "I Robot, You Jane" - When the computer club starts digitally backing up the school library, they scan a book containing the spirit of a demon, releasing him onto the Internet (Giles really needs to be more careful with his [[TomeOfEldritchLore Tomes of Eldritch Lore]]). When the main cast find out, it doesn't take them long to realize what he's capable of.
-> Xander: "He's in a computer! What can he do?"
-> Buffy: "You mean besides convince a perfectly nice kid to try and kill me? I don't know. How 'bout mess up all the medical equipment in the world?"
-> Giles: "Randomize traffic signals."
-> Buffy: "Access launch codes for our nuclear missiles."
-> Giles: "Destroy the world's economy."
-> Buffy: "I think I pretty much capped it with that nuclear missile thing."
-> Giles: "Right, yours was best."

* The comic-book ''[[{{ptitle4sx0pqptj9fe}} Zot!]]'' has 9-Jack-9, an 'electronic ghost' who not only can control any electronic machinery, he can also create an extremely deadly SolidHologram to kill people directly.