Warning: Media section contains flashy and loud videos may cause epileptic seizure. About Montage Parodies (or “ MLG Montages”) are a series of remix videos parodying the “video game montage” subgenre on, which is characterized by quick-paced edits and looped footage, as well as heavy use of loud music and sounds in the background. While this style of editing initially rose to popularity through highlight reels of impressive gameplay released by e-sport teams in the, it quickly became known as a cliche as amateur gamers began creating their own, usually with in-game footage of unremarkable quality. Origin As early as September 2010, YouTubers were uploading montages containing footage from first-person shooter games like (shown below, left). On March 10th, 2011, YouTuber Jamal Nigrumz (also known as jmcxs) uploaded the earliest known montage parody video featuring clips from the massively multiplayer online role-playing game (shown below, right).

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Common Tropes Images that are often featured in montage parodies include those mocking the controversy, the GIF and the default “Sample Text” captions from the Sony Vegas video editing software. Additionally, references to the first-person shooter trick shot, the phrase and the secret society are often included in the videos.

Music / Sound Sample Usage Montages are often uses loud musics from and genres and various music remixes, mashups or comedy tracks. Sometimes sourcing those samples from the sound sharing site, these samples are mostly being refered as Soundclown. Ironic conspiracy theory parts of the videos are usually including the or themes on the background. They can also be remixed with the blasts. As well as the usage to parody drama. There is also largely usage of the hitmarker sound and trigger from the series. Spread On October 18th, 2011, YouTuber souqil released a montage featuring footage from the game Woodcutter Simulator 2011 (shown below, left).

On December 23rd, YouTuber motdef uploaded a montage parody for the game Train Simulator inspired by souqil’s video (shown below, right). In the first three years, the videos gained over 310,000 and 2.47 million views respectively. On May 18th, 2012, the /r/montageparodies subreddit was launched for users to share notable montage parody videos. On May 31st, YouTuber xX420KuShxX uploaded a montage featuring shaky Flash browser game footage (shown below, left). On December 14th, 2013, YouTuber QwertySkill uploaded a montage parody containing clips of a woman demonstrating how to properly flip a pancake (shown below, right).

— ( ) Real hacking is boring. Hollywood hates boring (unless it's ). (And how many real life hackers would want to be responsible for?) Instead of exploiting security flaws, you guide a little 3D version of yourself through a fiery maze that somehow represents the firewall, without forgetting to. It's nothing like real hacking, although either way, you may have to use.

That last part also means that any AI or robot that can directly interface with a computer is automatically the greatest hacker in the universe that can instantly take over any system no matter how secure, because it doesn't need to type. Hollywood Hacking is when some sort of convoluted metaphor is used not only to describe hacking, but actually to put it into practice. Characters will come up with like, 'Extinguish the firewall!' And 'I'll use the Millennium Bug to launch an on the whole Internet!'

- even hacking, which is even sillier if said electric razor is unplugged. The intent is to employ a form of or which takes advantage of presumed technophobia among the audience. You can also expect this trope to annoy those within the audience whose occupation involves computers or the Internet.

Of course, with computers, this could also fall under much the same heading as; one hardly wants to come under any accusations of informing the audience of how to hack computers. In the is an based on the. Mainly because who wants to sit there and exploit security flaws when you could? If the attack brings two computer-savvy users head-to-head, then you've also got.

In, Ed hacks via a school of cute, tiny fish nibbling on screenshots of web pages. (the manga, at least) has Chachamaru attempt to hack into the school's computer system, which are represented by pixellated sharks. A student uses an artifact to transport herself into cyberspace and fight them, -style. It's almost certainly a parody of this trope, as she uses legitimate hacking techniques (SYN Flood, a Denial-of-Service attack, etc.) that are simply visualized in ridiculous ways (the DOS attack is a tuna, for example), and the 'spells' that she's chanting are Unix shell commands with accurate iptables syntax. In both an Angel and SEELE attempt to hack into the Tokyo-3 MAGI, and both are repelled by Ritsuko's l33t h@xx0r ski11z with accompanying.:. Made fun of in where Kaiba's computer claims to be so advanced it makes hacking look like a. Said computer also points out how Kaiba seems to be pressing the same keys over and over prompting the latter to claim he learned how to hack by watching old episodes of.

Pashto mp3 songs latest. This concept is revisited in, when Yuma's sister Akari attempts to track down and destroy a virus, complete with an RPG-style dungeon and a boss battle. has a different version; rather than passwords, information is hidden behind duel puzzles (a duel-in-progress is presented and you have limited chances to figure out how to win in one turn). Interesting way of shoehorning duels into episodes that otherwise wouldn't have them. At one point the access to an important database is hidden inside a duel puzzle arcade machine - the person who thought it up claims that nobody would look for a database there, plus he can slack off at the arcade and claim it's for work. gets credit for showing the viewers that the camera is skipping the long, boring hours spent staring at pages of programming language, and enough appropriately used It loses credit for abuse of, and gains a bit of it back when Yusaku's use of older versions of duel disks and physical cards is an actual hacker technique. In, even the least eye-catching examples of hacking look suspiciously like and (the more visual ones?

They involved rockets). In this case, though, it's because a) they're not using the internet at all, but rather technology and b) the Augmented Reality subculture in the series is dominated mostly by preteen children, the exact sort of people who would try to make hacking as flashy as possible. has, in, Lordgenome 's head into the Cathedral Terra by having a virtual recreation of his body run down a virtual hallway connecting the ships, then running around virtual corridors to find a box, smashing it open with his head and eating the red sphere inside it. Nobody cared about how unrealistic it was in this case because a) it's and b) it was. As silly as it is, everything in this sequence is symbolically representative of real hacking: Lordgenome first breaks through the firewalls, then searches for the file, attempts to open it with a password, fails and uses a brute force decryption, succeeds and downloads the file.:. Firewalls are represented by spheres with shiny, meaningless glyphs on them.

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But when the characters hack into them, they do it by connecting an intrusion program (which looks sort of like a welding torch) and waiting a while (though it takes only a few seconds of screen time). In one episode, such a software hack was used to distract the target from the Major breaking in and physically connecting to the local network. The creators have noted that the cyberspace doesn't really look like that at all, but it's an entertaining visual representation for the audience's benefit. Even acknowledges in the original manga that cyberspace wouldn't have a visual appearance, and he only did so for the sake of entertainment. He created the series before the modern concept of the internet and cyberspace even existed. There are also Defense Barriers, which are firewalls for people's cyberbrains. A firewall designed to protect your very soul (which, having a cyberbrain, means it is now digital data and therefor tangible).

Each level of the barrier rotates at varying speeds and opposite directions from each other, and you can pass through them by advancing through a specific hole that shows up when they are properly aligned. has the maid staff trying to prevent a hacker from accessing their system by playing what appears to be a game of against a spider that's stealing information by walking across the screen and grabbing boxes from a warehouse.

When Grace wakes up she defeats the hackers with some quick keystrokes by summoning a giant. features a lot of the Hollywood Hacking staples, such as and virtual reality representations for hacking, but it also balances it out with a lot of parts that are grounded in reality (such as the movie's villain, a hacker AI named Love Machine, acting like a and doing things the way an actual real-life hacker would do them.) The main silly thing is the giant sequence of digits, apparently meant to be a password hash, which Kenji 'solves' on paper in a few hours.then again, in a few minutes.then again,. Leaving aside the nigh-impossibility of reverse-engineering a password from a hash at all, let alone by hand (that's the whole point of hashing passwords before storing them), why would Oz willingly spit the number at anyone trying to hack their way in, especially if it's solvable?. In, the climax involves the old TLW-728 supercomputer, Wittgenstein, wirelessly hacking into things from security gates to personal computers, and even being able to send pure electricity to devices through power outlets; all this despite him being, as the film takes time to point out, severely outdated. Ironically, through all of this they still take time to point out that you need a modem to get on the Internet. Exaggerated in. Turbo invades Sugar Rush and attempts to delete Vanellope Von Schweetz from the game code, but can only render her as a glitch and modifies everyone's memory of her so they treat her as a criminal and an outcast.

In, the character Jailbreak is shown using a form of smart watch to hack several things. It also displays a firewall as a literal being. Jailbreak is shown 'hacking' this by guessing the password at least fifty times. In, computer hacking consists of playing a literal computer game, consisting of hunting for a 'valid entrance' in a 3-D animated dungeon (with hostile skeletons!), while the system itself proclaims full awareness of your activities and their illegality.

It's a good enough sport to let you proceed without a fuss if you win. In the 1985 movie, Wyatt uses a computer program, 'Crypto Smasher v3.10', that provides a very detailed (for that time) graphical representation of the hacking he is doing to break into a military computer system. The connections are all rendered as tunnels, with the mainframe itself appearing as a vast space with CGI versions of images from the opening sequence of.

This is also seen in the movie to a degree, when Hugh Jackman's character creates a worm to hack into a bank and steal the money for John Travolta's organization. This film features large amounts of and.

Also, as he is first hired, the hacker is able to break into a government network in only 60 seconds through extreme while receiving oral sex and with a gun pointed at his head. At another point of the movie the dialogue indicates that the writers of the movie think that a computer with multiple monitors is inherently more powerful than one that has just one.

invented the whole tapping-a-few-keys-and-saying-'We're-in' shtick, and set the general form of how every movie hacker is portrayed. At the time, the techniques presented in were very realistic, from phone phreaking, to social engineering. Some aspects of which are still in use successfully today, especially the social engineering aspect. (Just look at the trope image.) It's just that Hollywood never got past the 1980s in terms of graphical representation. And in the real world, and most of it got much, much more boring and automated since then., of course.

The entire movie basically. And it is glorious. There are some realistic discussions about password security, which is how some of the earlier hacks get done (Admin password is God.), and pretty much all of the prep work for the big hack is actually realistic. Lots of stealing passwords, going through discarded printouts, tapping the phone lines.

It's like they did all the research on how hacking actually happens, and then decided that would be boring. is the subject of the Penny Arcade strip quoted at the top of the page. Played with in one of Eddie Izzard's stand up routines. 'Hundred bazillion possible passwords. 'How did you know?' 'Well, he was born in Jeff, on the seventh day of Jeff, nineteen-Jeffty-Jeff.

And they're always so swish about it, too: Hacking into the Pentagon computer. Double-click on'yes'.' .: the genius D-Day sits down at the keyboard of Zed-10, the. He types the password (which is 'Crime does not pay', ) and then he types. 'INSTALL D-DAY'S REVENGE VIRUS'., with extra bonus points for, and figuring out its display well enough to send a visual to the invaders.

The novelization, and deleted scenes imply that Apple computers (among other things) were derived from alien technology. features a website known as 'The Hackers Mall' which appears to date from the early 1990's and displays an visual homage to the of Independence Day, numerous examples of (various 'hacked' cables posing a physical threat to the protagonists) and a wired up /computer hybrid with what looks like a bucket attached to its foot. has one of the characters reroute power from the US to a single location and find secret weapons files seemingly from the Internet. ' R2D2 can hack into any Imperial or Civilian computer system with ease, so long as he can tell the difference between a computer terminal and a power socket. has an infamous scene where the kid hero exclaims 'I know this, it's a UNIX!'

Over a screen of what appears to be zooming polygon nonsense. This program actually existed: it's a legitimate UNIX OS derivative from SGI called IRIX that was running a 3D file system navigator, but it never caught on due to being very slow and overly flashy. Then again, 'overly flashy' describes half the equipment in the park, so that at least makes some sense why Hammond would insist on using such a system. In, Q has a hacking display resembling a wire model, whilst hacking can be used to achieve practically anything, from leaving 'breadcrumbs', to causing gas explosions. It isn't, by any means, the first James Bond movie to feature hacking, but it is perhaps the most straight example of this trope.

More intriguingly, Q claims that only roughly six people are competent enough in the world to design honeypot files which are designed to wipe system memory when the files are accessed, and then claims that he was the person who invented this. Having now established himself as a security expert, he then networks the 's laptop directly into the main server. 1995's focuses on a mysterious secret program that is used to to erase Sandra Bullock's identity from every computer in the world. The film culminates with the deletion of the program, which reverses the erasure: this is comparable to deleting your personal copy of OpenOffice and thus undoing every edit you've made to every OpenOffice file, even those you've moved to other computers. In Breaker manages to hack a dead man's brain.

In, the protagonist hacks into a computer system through a public phone booth using only his telepathic brain., unsurprisingly written by (both the short story and the screenplay) has a scene where Johnny uses a, entering codes on a virtual keypad and in some places rearranging some blocks in a pyramid shaped 3-d puzzle, and another time hacking into his own brain with an avatar that dodged attacks from a security program and pulled an image out of his implant. Though the original short story just had Jones reading the imprint of the access code on his implant with a. accurately depicts a lot of the social engineering aspects and overall straight-up footwork required to get the basic information on what you need to get into and how you get into it, while the stuff you see actually on the computer screens is utterly Hollywood.

The original is a bit of legitimate and much Hollywood intrusion. The ideas of physically accessing the internal network to log in with a backdoor, and injecting high CPU-use problems into the system to keep the MCP busy are reasonably legitimate, the fact that your security programs are represented as inside the Grid, well. zigzags a bit. The climactic moment of retargeting the Crossbow test to fire at instead of the intended target is ultimately accomplished by physically replacing a computer chip in the prototype with one the kids made that contains different targeting data, which they accomplish by into letting them onto the military base doing the test.

So they used social engineering techniques to gain access to a system which obviously wouldn't be online so they had to be physically present, which is at least somewhat realistic. Also, since the people doing the hack had built part of the system themselves and convinced Kent (who made the tracking system) that and ordering him to repent for building a weapon, they could be assumed to know enough about the hardware they were dealing with to make a replacement part that might work. But their level of skill at both manipulating security personnel and perfectly emulating the original hardware on the first try strains credulity even for child prodigies, especially socially-awkward ones. And that's not even considering how they found out the date and location of the test, or where the prototype was stored. Parodied (like everything else) in with Hackerman, who specializes in this.

'With the right computer algorithms, I can hack you just like a ' Hacking can also heal bullet wounds, revive the dead, and turn Hackerman into a robot with a laser gun.: It takes Merlin only a few seconds of frantic key-tapping to remote-activate all of Valentine's explosive loyalty-chip implants worldwide. A little odd, considering Valentine's other mass-murdering doom-machine uses its own private satellite network biologically keyed to Valentine's hand, which prompts Merlin to say that he can't hack something that complicated. To a certain extent, as we're explicitly shown the biometric system's installation a long time after we're made aware that every member of the conspiracy is already implanted and those are (currently) on a separate, older system, and that it requires a gruesome constant connection to Valentine's hand. As well, while Merlin only taps a few keys, the computer shows lines upon lines of code streaming past, showing that Merlin isn't manually hacking the system, he merely triggered a program to do it. Taken in New York sequence where Charlize Theron's character first hacks into.than remote controls several hundred cars, including an early 2000s Prius hilariously shown with a fancy, high-fidelity 'autopilot engaged' message on it's low-def navigation display.

Ironically, none of the cars shown were a Tesla, the only car actually capable of autopilot. She does all of this from her, which apparently has so much computing power it can alter reality.: The only thing preventing access to the Prime Minister's computer is a weak password, and to hack it, you just need to tell the computer 'knock, knock' jokes. Apparently, it takes the combined power of the brightest minds in the country to figure this out.

The very grandfather of this trope is, who wrote the whole graphical hacking trope into his novel. He later admitted to basing it off teenagers playing arcade games, and that he had never used a computer before he wrote Neuromancer. Oddly enough this gives it a timeless (if vague) quality that accurate specifics would never have.

He later tried a computer, to find it 'disappointing.' Eventually, Gibson broke down, and seems to be as addicted as the rest of us, having recently switched from keeping a blog to posting to Twitter. In Tom Clancy's, people use VR to demolish code or bypass filters, such as killing viruses by turning them in nasty rats in a city, or passing firewalls by shooting them in a duel. It's a lot more fun than sitting at a command prompt and getting carpal tunnel, according to the personnel. In the novel Soul Drinker, a mechanized tech adept connects via a mechanical implant to an ancient relic. And uses it to hack the sentient circuitry inside at the speed of thought, as the technology was so advanced that they couldn't keep up otherwise. According to the description, the relic is so amazed at having the first of four firewalls gene-encoders broken through (and therefore light up on the grip) that the second one falls soon after.

Frequently occurs in, usually by Ax, as a result of his advanced alien knowledge. Human computers are extremely primitive to him. The novella ' did it three years before. It actually went further by making the case in-universe than in the age of VR, effective hacking is by definition Hollywood Hacking; governmental security is portrayed as less effective because of their agents' insistence on straightforward analogues of programming code and terminology to sensory representation, while the underground adopts and uses magical idioms and intuitive rather than logical interfaces. Lampshaded in. 'Because we are hackers,' Csongor said, 'and they have seen movies.' .

In Josh Conviser's novel Echelon, almost all computer usage has become Hollywood Hacking complete with an immersive VR interface that almost plays like an MMO. The layers of abstraction make computer use easy for everyone, since now, but some of the characters realize it could not possibly have grown naturally out of the Internet, and that it's a kind of 'cultural terraforming' memetic weapon designed to be very easy to use and thus subvert an entire world's data management. It is, alas, never followed up on even in the sequel. How do you hack in IRV? Physically grab a program's avatar and wear it like. Naturally it's impossible to access any program that isn't visible at the time and place. Joked about in, when Kel Cheris and a few drones watch a cheesy drama.

The love interest character is supposed to be a hacker, but when they see the drama's idea of what hacking looks like, the drones start snickering and mocking the supposed computer genius. has Angela for their typical Hollywood Hacking needs, such as acquiring security footage and decrypting computer evidence.

Recurring villain Christopher Pelant manages to accomplish some truly outrageous feats with computers. He can do almost anything.

Some of the things he managed to do are: fool an ankle monitor, corrupt/modify security footage, take down cellphone networks and traffic lights, hijack a predator drone in Afghanistan, wipe his own identity and create a new one (twice!), upload viruses through library books, and infiltrate a private army. Oh, and in his first appearance he manages to carve bones in such a way that when a 3D model of them is created it infects the computer with malware that changes its fan speeds and causes it to catastrophically overheat. He's so good that Hodgins, who is admittedly a bit paranoid, worries that even if they use a system not connected to the internet Pelant will infect it with a worm by using the power grid. This was handwaved (lampshaded?) in with the explanation of, 'I even made it look like a video game so your little tween brains can handle it.'

. In possibly one of the most ridiculous evil plots known to man, you've got Bowser/King Koopa's hacking-related world domination plan in the Mario Ice Capades. The gist of it? From within a video game, he plans to use a virus in a NES console to hack a computer, and apparently take over the world (in an extreme version of ). This is then compounded by the program's host saying that an evil computer virus will 'release all the evil forces stored up in the computer'.: Meg's failed attempts to seize control of Grover's computer, in 'Shadow', lead to various responses, ranging from an animation of Grover giving a raspberry, to other concealed bombs being armed.:. The episode 'Driven' had a sabotaged car-driving AI, and they hacked into the SUV through sensor feed transmissions. Yes, there was a manual-adjustment feed, for slight adjustments of a specific system, but they used it to hack into root control within seconds.

And then on their own system to interface with it. The episode 'Kill Screen' had a semi-plausible cyberattack scheme where a hacker inserted a sophisticated subroutine into an online video game that he was lead programmer on.

He could then use this to hijack the player's computers to use as a distributed network that would act as an encryption breaking supercomputer. However, the computing power he gets from this is massively exaggerated and the setup is seemingly able to crack the Pentagon's network within half an hour (with convenient timer and graphical progress representation). Once discovered such an attack should be easy to stop but the NCIS team instead has to race against the clock to shut down the main server. One episode even has two characters fighting a hacker by, no joke, typing simultaneously. Somehow the keyboard is able to take more than one input at the same time, and those characters are somehow filing two separate commands rather than creating mixed lines of gibberish (unless they're somehow psychic and know exactly what their partner is about to type).

Another character foils the hacker. By unplugging the computer.

If he just unplugged the monitor, the action would be worse than useless because the hacking would still be occurring; they'd just be unable to see it. If he unplugged the entire computer stack, the attempt would still be useless because this wouldn't cut power to the server, which is presumably elsewhere in the building. This scene is mocked mercilessly in the '8 Scenes That Prove Hollywood Doesn't Get Technology.' .

An episode had the team recover a micro SD card and, fearing it had a virus on it but still needing to see its contents, decide to open it using a laptop that's been 'isolated' - by being put in a glass box. Then the virus still spreads through the power cable. Garcia: It would take anyone else quite a while to do that. I make it look easy because I'm just that good.:. This is how the new Cybermen were first defeated, once Mickey finished typing the same five characters over and over the password to their internal systems had appeared on screen one letter at a time. Subverted in. Oswin Oswald apparently uses a standard keyboard to rapidly type her way into the computers of a Dalek asylum.

Daleks, being the mutant alien cyborgs they are, don't exactly use technology readily compatible with human keyboards, and the Doctor himself isn't terribly convinced when Oswin tells him that Dalek technology is 'easy to hack.' The whole keyboard hacking thing turns out to be one of many illusions Oswin has unknowingly put in her mind to keep herself from grasping the: she currently a Dalek, and she was chosen to maintain the asylum planet's network due to her genius intellect from when she was still human.

Used straight a few episodes later in The Doctor, Clara, and the villains all use copious amounts of to hack and counter-hack each other. Chloe Sullivan from is absolutely the queen of this trope. In the first season she's merely an above average hacker as a high school freshman.

The next year she moves up the ability level scale by managing to hack the records of the charity that managed Clark's adoption. By Seasons 3 and 4, however, she's a complete master at hacking, and can hack emergency services, electric grids, medical records, and as of the later seasons, even government agencies. In one episode of Season 8, she is given a piece of alien technology.and successfully hacks into it within a relatively short span of time.:.

Hardison is able to basically hack anything electronic. Oftentimes from a cell phone. It is also notable that the difficultly of a hack is inversely proportional to its importance to the plot. He is able to hack into London's camera system effortlessly but he often requires physical access for the target company's computer.

While physical access is often necessary in reality, it would logically be necessary for police controlled surveillance cameras as well. At least a bit of this was explained early in the first season: Hardison spends considerable amounts of money and spare time getting back doors into any system he might someday feel the need to hack - he isn't often really breaking in on the fly, and his cell phone is usually giving commands to a much more powerful 'home system'. It's still unrealistic, but a surprising number of systems become much more hackable once somebody has the resources to do things such as produce shrinkwrapped software and substitute it for a company's order.

The episode, 'The Reichenbach Fall': Moriarty wows everyone with a tiny application he claims has the power to hack basically anything on the planet. He demonstrates this app by simultaneously hacking the Tower of London, the Bank of England and a major prison. At the end, it's revealed he found people beforehand who had master privs to the locks at those locations, and paid them gobs of money to help with his demonstration; all the app did was call them and tell them it was time. 'This is too easy, this is too easy.

There is no 'key', DOOFUS! Those digits are meaningless. They're utterly meaningless. A couple of lines of computer code are going to crash the world around our eyes? I'm disappointed, I'm disappointed in you, Ordinary Sherlock!' .: The episode 'The Shadow' features Hollywood-style hacker tracking—a program which, in a, slowly homes in on (and loudly announces) the hacker's home city, street address, and finally (somehow) their name. There is a race against time as the hackers try to log out of the system before the program finishes spelling out the computer owner's name.

In, Sam and Kevin can hack into almost any system when the plot demands it. In the episode, Kevin hacks the military server obtaining private photos and personal information on a Sergeant with a couple of keystrokes.:.

Happened more than once, but the most infamous example was in 'The Ides of Metropolis', which gave us two malicious hackers spewing jargon the writers clearly didn't understand at each other while Superman stopped their supervirus with a 3.5' floppy disk. 'My LAN isn't talking to me.

Should I reboot?' 'It's collapsing into a subdirectory!' . In another episode, Clark uses brute-force on a keyboard, so fast the keys start smoking.

Apparently no one heard the extremely loud clacking sounds. In the ship is transported back to the 90s, and the villain manages to hack Voyager, the 24th century spaceship and the Doctor, a sentient, evolving AI hologram so advanced that even in Voyager's present they still don't fully understand him, by typing really fast on his computer. And for a followup, someone will hack an iPhone by vigorously waving around semaphore flags. He's using technology from the 29th Century to assist him, but that's a strike against him; 29th century technology should have scrambled his brain.: In 'Ugly Duckling', Kate somehow hacks a building's systems and makes elevators go to the wrong floor, alarms go off, printers start printing out things people haven't sent to the printer, photocopiers shoot paper out all over place,etc.

Then she turns the lights off and escapes. In, one of John's former Newcastle mates, Ritchie Simpson, remotely hacks and shuts down 's power grid to weaken Furcifer in the series' pilot episode, 'Non Est Asylum'. In, hackers are frequently employed by the protagonist. The standard method of hacking involves an extremely detailed graphical user interface with things like waves of electrical energy to represent firewalls (and these firewalls can hurt you in real life). The hackers navigate these worlds as a real 3D landscape, including avoiding being caught by other hackers and programmers by ducking to avoid something hitting them. nicely subverts this as well as. As Brian explains during a where he's learning how to hack, the reason Hollywood tends to use montages for hacking is that real hacking is boring.

Prior to becoming a witch, Willow Rosenberg from often used her skill in computers to help out the team, including hacking into school records, secret government files, and even city power grids. Much later in the series, she could even amplify her hacking skills using her magic somehow, turning her into a more literal.