History Main / OverrideCommand

** And the [[spoiler:"[[SelfDestructMechanism Make Ship Asplode]]"]] command from ''Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock''.

-->-- ''Literature/JurassicPark''

* UsefulNotes/{{Unix}} and similar operating systems have "sudo" (which temporarily elevates your privileges for one command) and "su" (which elevates them until you undo it).[[note]]su stands for Super User, which is the Unix equivalent to what Windows more prosaically calls an administrator account.[[/note]] This is useful because you can accidentally run malicious or otherwise damaging programs, but as long as your privileges aren't elevated at the time, then the potential damage is limited.

* If you forget the root password on a [[UsefulNotes/{{Unix}} Linux]] system, you can boot into single-user mode and reset it without being prompted for a password, if the BIOS password hasn't been set at least.

* Ken Thompson, creator of the UsefulNotes/{{Unix}} operating system, produced [[http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html one version]] whereby the login program had a back door. So just recompile from source, right? Except the C compiler was in on the joke too, and was programmed to add the back door to any case where it was building login, ''and'' to add the back-door-adding code to any case where it was building ''itself'' (so you could have a system where the programs were evil but the source looked 100% clean). And to add insult to injury, it was ''[[CrazyPrepared also]]'' programmed to recognize when it was building the disassembler, and alter it so the hacks wouldn't show up. [[ParanoiaFuel No one knows if the back door made it out of Bell Labs]].

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* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'': In the last years of Bruce Wayne's crime-fighting career, he'd created an electronic batsuit which included a "kill switch", a BigRedButton in the Batcave, to use in the event the suit ever ended up in the wrong hands, which completely shuts down the suit's system. It was used twice in the series: in the pilot episode "Rebirth", when Terry [=McGinnis=] first took the mantle, and "Lost Soul", when [[AIIsACrapshoot the Robert Vance program]] hacked its way into the suit. However, in the latter episode, when the suit was recovered, the Vance program reactivated itself and destroyed the kill switch before escaping the Batcave.

* [[spoiler:Dinobot's]] HeroicSacrifice in ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'' was made possible by overriding his Stasis Lock protocol (basically a self-induced robotic coma if one is too low on energy or too banged up to function without injury). Although it violated the rules in order for drama since that was the only instance it announced it was going to work giving time to override it. All other times including with the character in question at earlier episodes they just immediately went into stasis lock, whether they wanted to continue to fight to the death or not.
* The finale of WesternAnimation/Ben10AlienForce has Ben override the Omnitrix’s (and later, the Ultimatrix’s) command functions simply by saying “Code 10”. He can then issue commands that are a shout out to Star Trek’s “Make Ship Asplode” code.

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' with the cast of ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'':
-->'''George Takei:''' Does your ship have a self-destruct code? Like: 1A, 2B, 3C,--''(Bender's head blows up)''\\

* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels'': In [[Recap/StarWarsRebelsS3E15ThroughImperialEyes "Through Imperial Eyes"]], Grand Admiral Thrawn's assassin droids, which he [[KingpinInHisGym spars with]], have the override "[[MythologyGag Rukh]]" to deactivate them. TheMole [[spoiler:Kallus]] either deactivates or changes the override code when he sics the droids on Thrawn in an AssassinationAttempt.
* ''WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder'': In "The Prisoner", Commander Peepers is tasked with capturing Wander. He believes the task will be extremely easy given Wander's simple, trusting nature and that Lord Hater's description of him as a cunning genius was completely erroneous. HilarityEnsues and in the end, the Skullship is about to self-destruct [[BewareTheSillyOnes thanks to Wander's meddling]]. After forcing a panicking Peepers to admit he was wrong to underestimate Wander, Hater gives the self-destruct system's override command: [[ThePasswordIsAlwaysSwordfish "Lord Hater, Number One Superstar."]]

* In the ''ComicBook/CivilWar'' storyline, when Spider-Man turns against the pro-registration camp, Iron Man uses an Override Command to shut down Spidey's armour (which he designed), [[GenreBlind calling Spidey out]] on not realizing that he would have one. Subverted when Spider-Man reveals that he ''did'' realize that, and installed an [[IAmNotLeftHanded override override]].