Master Pi's plan to get rid of Hacker is nothing short of brilliant. The Game of Nim seems complex and impenetrable but, 'under the hood', is extremely simple. Even a child could solve it - and because it involves creative thinking, in many cases, only a child could solve it.
Why is the number pi personified as an Eastern-style monk? Because pi is a transcendental number.
During the Snelfu Snafu Part 2, The Hacker has taken over Cyberspace via his "Hackerboard" AI. The children are fugitives. Yet they are able to steal The Hacker's own ship, the Grim Wreaker, and go around to different cybersites to buy the parts that they need to win, without any interference beyond Buzz and Delete's usual antics. If The Hacker truly has taken over Motherboard's position, then why does he not have more of an ability than normal to stop the kids?
Motherboard has been consistently shown as a benevolent ruler known for kindness, wisdom, and being beloved by the citizens of Cyberspace. She is never shown to have an army that she commands, and she is never shown to have any weapons on-board Control Central. At best, she is a pacifist, and at worst, she is actually incapable of defending herself or attacking anyone. The Hacker may have the throne in Control Central, but that doesn't give him any more power that normal to fight off the kids. If anything, he just seems more stressed out than usual when putting together his future plans and putting up with Wicked's demands for his money.
Fridge Horror
The citizens of Cyberspace are implied to be made entirely out of metal while the Cybersquad consists of three normal human kids. Hacker has been proven to be willing to get physically violent with the kids as have several other villains ...which could result in permanent or even lethal damage... Brr...
Over the course of the show, all three members of the Cybersquad have nearly died multiple times. Imagine what would happen if one of them did actually die. The other two would either have to go home and make up a cover story for why their missing friend isn't going to ever come back or live out their lives in Cyberspace; neither is a pleasant thought.
In Double Trouble, Master Pi's story about the young warrior choosing wealth instead of peace becomes a lot more jarring when you see Delete and Buzz nearly drown from the piece-of-gold-turned-gold-flood inside the Grim Wreaker.
In The Guilty Party: Motherboard sends the squad to Poddleville to prove Sleight's innocence because he's Dr. Marbles's nephew, and insists that he actually is innocent because of that connection. Even Inez believes Hacker's frame-up for most of the episode. What if Sleight was just a regular cybercitizen without Motherboard to vouch for him? The team's involvement would have just confirmed Sleight's "guilt", and that's if Motherboard had sent them in at all.
Since Coop left because of Hacker's plans, we can infer that he disappeared long before the events of Slider's intro episode. Now, during said intro episode, Slider is clearly shown to be something of a loner, which would be bad enough. However, as later episodes show, Slider is a Minor Living Alone, evidently having been so since long before the Cybersquad meet him and assuming that he's in the age range of the Cybersquad (or is the cyborg equivalent depending on how they age), he's been in that situation since before his age hit double digits, meaning that at the very least, Radopolis doesn't have much in Child Protective Services and quite possibly there isn't much in that department in Cyberspace itself. It makes you wonder what would have happened to Slider if he hadn't been able to buy his garage from Hacker...
In "On the Line", Buzz and Delete use the Transformatron to turn some rocks into donuts, then one donut into a bunny. Everything affected by the Transformatron turns back to its original form when Digit removes its Network Interface Card. The bunny's fate is never shown or brought up, but whether it retained consciousness as a rock or not, it's not a pleasant one. Worse, the bunny looked identical to Delete's beloved pet, George.
In "Of all the Luck", The Hacker finds and imprisons the 10 good luck charms of Cyberspace. He is almost immediately approached by the Cybersite Clearing House Prize Patrol, an Expy of the famous Publishers Clearing House direct marketing group and their sweepstakes. They immediately hand him ownership of 737 Cybersites. Later on in the same episode, he gets 312 more Cybersites. Given that this is the same board that the Prize Patrol used, this either implies that he won another sweepstakes in a short time, or he's got the equivalent to the Publishers Clearing House $5,000 a week for life reward. Thankfully, when he loses his good luck charms, he also loses all of those Cybersites. We never see this crew again, but it raises some uncomfortable questions.
Why is the Cybersite Clearing House crew able to just give away Cybersites like this? It is the equivalent of the Publishers Clearing House being able to give away cities, or even entire countries.
Is this a "landowner" arrangement or a "head of state" arrangment?
What does this mean for the cyber-people who live in these countries?
Would it be possible for The Hacker to win the sweepstakes, even without his enhanced luck?
Presumably yes, since he would have needed to enter it prior to the episode.
What recourse would Motherboard or the Cybersquad have to stop him from taking over 737 Cybersites if he won the CCH sweepstakes fair and square?
Why does he get all of the Cybersites that he won taken away after all of his good luck is gone?
What kind of cyber-person (aside from The Hacker) enters a sweepstakes that can award you control of entire Cybersites?
In "The Creech Who Would be Crowned", The Hacker uses a projector to make a fake path appear for the other racers, as well as disguise the real path. We see all of the racers, except for the Cybersquad, take the fake path. This is the last time we see those other racers in the episode.
