History Main / OverrideCommand

--->'''EHH:''' [[NailedToTheWagon ou disabled alcohol services from your quarters two days ago.]]

---'''Raffi:''' Reinstate it. Override.

--->''affi:''' Burgundy. ''(replicator beeps, nothing happens)'' Red wine. ''(replicator beeps, nothing happens)''
--->'EHH:''' ''(materialising)'' What is the nature of your hospitality emergency?
--->'Raffi:''' I need a glass of red wine.
--->'EHH:''' [[NailedToTheWagon ou disabled alcohol services from your quarters two days ago.]]
---''Raffi:''' Reinstate it. Override.
--->'EHH:''' You locked yourself out of over-ride and... '(consulting padd)'' meta-override.

--->'Raffi:''' Burgundy. ''(replicator beeps, nothing happens)'' Red wine. ''(replicator beeps, nothing happens)''

** Averted in ''''Series/StarTrekPicard'' when [[TheAlcoholic Raffi]] decides INeedAFreakingDrink.
---''Raffi:''' Burgundy. ''(replicator beeps, nothing happens)'' Red wine. ''(replicator beeps, nothing happens)''
---''EHH:''' ''(materialising)'' What is the nature of your hospitality emergency?
---''Raffi:''' I need a glass of red wine.
---''EHH:''' [[NailedToTheWagon ou disabled alcohol services from your quarters two days ago.]]

---''EHH:''' You locked yourself out of over-ride and... '(consulting padd)'' meta-override.

* During the DiscOneFinalBoss battle of ''Fanfic/{{Marionettes}}'', [[TheHeavy Gear Shift]] attempts to use one of these to [[spoiler:regain control of Lightning Dust (who is one of the title robots). It fails because Twilight already [[FailsafeFailure fried her fail safes]] to free her in the first place.]]

* Unmanned spacecrafts have a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safe_mode_(spacecraft) Safe mode]], that stops everything but the essential functions as communications or attitude control so engineers at Mission control can fix whatever caused the craft to enter into said mode. For critical moments of the mission as orbit insertion or landing, this mode is overriden, so a cosmic ray hit on the wrong place at the worst moment will not cause the failure of a multi-million dollar mission.

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* In Series/{{Andromeda}}, at least one of the verbal authorization codes for overriding the Eureka Maru's ship safety protocols is [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "Shut up and do what I tell you"]]

* ''Series/{{Farscape}}'' has fun with this in one episode. The protagonists have overridden the security on an elevator, only to have their override overridden. What do they do? Try to override it! Unfortunately, "We couldn't override their override of our override!"
* [[Series/DoctorWho The Doctor]] once hacked UNIT's computer systems, so that they would accept "BUFFALO" as the correct response for all their passwords.
* In one episode of ''Series/StargateAtlantis'', Doctor Keller and Ronon are attempting to reclaim the ''Daedalus'' from the Wraith. Keller lists all the different systems they need to override and asks Ronon if he knows how to do all that. He proceeds to start shooting at the control crystals randomly.
* In the ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}'' remake, this is the key to the Cylons' CurbstompBattle of the entire Colonial Fleet in the opening stages of the war. One of the Sixes seduced Gaius Baltar, posing as a defense contractor, and convinced him to allow her access to the latest hardware being installed in the Fleet, ostensibly to give her an edge in bidding for the next contract. In reality, she inserted a backdoor that would allow the Cylons to remotely shut down any Colonial ships with the hardware installed. Since almost the entire fleet had been refitted with said hardware, the Cylons went through the Colonial Fleet like a chainsaw through tapioca.

* The 7th season ''Series/HawaiiFiveO'' episode "Computer Killer" has a surprisingly realistic example where an individual associated with an [[BlandNameProduct IBM expy]] obtains a secret book of phone numbers that allow direct administrator (root) access to most mainframe computer systems in the Honolulu area. This allows him to bypass all safeguards and event logging when changing database records. At the time mainframe computers were usually leased with the manufacturer maintaining direct back doors into the systems for maintenance or as an override mechanism when end users ran into trouble.

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* ''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. [[spoiler:[[ReverseMole Kallus]]]] either deactivates or changes the override code when he sics the droids on Thrawn in an AssassinationAttempt.

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* In one episode of ''Series/StargateAtlantis'' Doctor Keller and Ronon are attempting to reclaim the Daedalus from the Wraith. Keller lists all the different systems they need to override and asks Ronon if he knows how to do all that. He proceeds to start shooting at the control crystals randomly.

* The 7th season Series/HawaiiFiveO episode "Computer Killer" has a surprisingly realistic example where an individual associated with an [[BlandNameProduct IBM expy]] obtains a secret book of phone numbers that allow direct administrator (root) access to most mainframe computer systems in the Honolulu area. This allows him to bypass all safeguards and event logging when changing database records. At the time mainframe computers were usually leased with the manufacturer maintaining direct back doors into the systems for maintenance or as an override mechanism when end users ran into trouble.

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* In a 1980s ''ComicStrip/LittleOrphanAnnie'' storyline, the [[RobotBuddy friendly sentient robot]] F1do can be shut down with the oral command, "F1do! Down!", and his benevolent personality overriden with the command "F1do! Attack!" However, villain Skip Smith's attempt to use the "F1do! Kill!" override against Annie fails when F1do self-destructs rather than obey the command to [[PickYourHumanHalf kill his friend]].
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* Subverted in the {{Machinima}} series ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'': when Sarge is called upon to disarm a bomb he created, he says he specifically built it so that he could not - just in case he was brainwashed and fell in the hands of "those dirty Blues".

* Youtuber Tom Scott created a video of a fictional scenario where a disgruntled Google insider modified GMail to let anyone in the world log into anyone else's GMail account without requiring the password. Chaos ensues.

* In the "GOFOTRON" arc of ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'', it becomes a sort of running gag that Riff overrides automated systems by tearing wires out with the phrase, "''Everything'' has a manual override." This tends to have some unexpected consequences, from disabling the ship to indirectly causing the destruction of the entire universe.
** Also in ''Sluggy'', Oasis apparently has "Override B-1" whenever she encounters Hereti-Corp personnel. From all appearances, activating it makes her more focused and less compassionate -- this being someone already AxCrazy.
*** When someone blurts out in the middle of a firefight that [[spoiler:Riff works for Hereti-Corp, he says "I quit" and Oasis goes back to fawning over Torg. Cue every Hereti-Corp agent in the room announcing their resignation and leaving.]]
* Being an artificial life form, Florence of ''Webcomic/{{Freefall}}'' was equipped with several.

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* [[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.

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[[caption-width-right:180:If things are really going wrong, then grab the wheel and turn it to take control.]]

* Nagato and Asakura from ''[[LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya]]'' know the override codes [[RealityWarper to reality.]] In the Light Novels the code they use is rendered as SQL queries. The anime has them "speaking" SQL as well, but so quickly it can barely be recognized as speech.

* ''Film/DrStrangelove'': Group Captain Mandrake discovers the override code to recall Burpleson AFB's B-52 squadrons from their misguided mission to attack Russian targets. They were variations on the letters O-P-E, which were anagrams of phrases GeneralRipper was scribbling down during his SanitySlippage ("Peace On Earth," "Essence Of Purity", etc.). Now Mandrake has to contact the President to relay that code through a coin phone, only he hasn't got enough change and he's dealing with CloudCuckoolander Colonel from another base.

* ''Film/DrStrangelove'': Group Captain Mandrake discovers the override code to recall Burpleson AFB's B-52 squadrons from their misguided mission to attack Russian targets. They were variations on the letters O-P-E, which were anagrams of phrases GeneralRipper was scribbling down during his SanitySlippage ("Peace On Earth," "Essence Of Purity", etc.).

* ''Film/DrStrangelove'': Group Captain Mandrake discovers what the override code to recall Burpleson AFB's B-52 squadrons from their misguided mission to attack Russian targets. They were variations on the letters O-P-E, which were anagrams of phrases GeneralRipper was scribbling down during his SanitySlippage ("Peace On Earth," "Essence Of Purity", etc.).

* ''WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder'' has an episode in which Commander Peepers is tasked with capturing Wander. He believes the task will be extremely easy given Wander's nature and that Lord Hater's description of him as genius among other things was extremely erroneous. HilarityEnsues and in the end, the entire ship is about to self-destruct. Peepers panics, but Lord Hater merely crosses his arms and watches, all the while giving Peepers a condescending look. As the clock reaches it's final seconds, Peepers admits that Lord Hater was right all along and begs him to say the override code. Unsuprisingly, he says [[ThePasswordIsAlwaysSwordfish "Lord Hater, Number one. Superstar."]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/CloudyWithAChanceOfMeatballs'', Flint tries to stop the out-of-control FLDSMDFR (a food replicator which has grown into an EldritchAbomination) by uploading the Kill Code into it. Unfortunately, he ends up with the wrong file and has to resort to other methods...

* In Literature/AncillaryJustice ''Justice of Toren'' and every other Radchaai ship or station AI has these, [[spoiler:and by the time of the series have each been given multiple conflicting commands from [[SplitPersonality Anaander Miaani]]]]. In the third book, [[spoiler:the ships and station in Athoek system have their overrides removed using the overrides posessed by Lieutenant Tisarwat.]]

* WebVideo/KeyOfAwesome's ''Space Girl'' is trying to AbandonShip, but her ship's computer [[AIIsACrapshoot keeps debating the issue]]. Space Girl threatens to use the Manual Override, and we're shown a bank of levers marked with everything from SELF DESTRUCT to PULL IF COMPUTER IS IN DENIAL.

* WebVideo/KeyOfAwesome's ''Space Girl'' is trying to AbandonShip, but her ship's computer keeps debating the issue. Space Girl threatens to use the Manual Override, and we're shown a bank of levers marked with everything from SELF DESTRUCT to PULL IF COMPUTER IS IN DENIAL.

* The 7th season Series/HawaiiFiveO episode "Computer Killer" has a surprisingly realistic example where an individual associated with an [[BlandNameProduct IBM expy]] obtains a secret book of phone numbers that allow direct administrator (root) access to most mainframe computer systems in the Honolulu area. This allows him to bypass all safeguards and event logging when changing database records. At the time most mainframes were leased with the manufacturer maintaining direct back doors into the systems for maintenance.

* {{Justified}} in ''ComicBook/PaperinikNewAdventures'': Everett Ducklair ''programmed'' [[ArtificialIntelligence One and Two]], thus he was simply [[GenreSavvy smart enough to include commands to shut them down or outright delete their program]] if he needed to.