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* In ''[[Back to The Future]] Part II'' we see a brief glimpse of a news article in 2015 that says "Thumb Bandits Strike Again". Since all monetary transactions in that future are done by thumb scanners, criminals would start to steal victims' thumbs.
* In ''[[Doomsday]]'', a dying infected man armed with an axe uses this method to break into the building sheltering {{spoiler|the UK's Prime Minister}}.
* In ''[[Minority Report]]'', the protagonist's wife used his eye to enter the {{spoiler|prison where he's being kept. The eyes are actually his own leftover eyes after he gets a new pair of eyes to hide his identity}}. This invokes a [[Fridge Logic]] issue as of why his eyes have not been revoked access {{spoiler|after he is captured and put in prison}}.
* A healthy trade for blood samples, urine samples, fingerprints, dandruff, and hair existed in the movie [[Gattaca]]. The protagonist used this to <s>break a glass ceiling</s> fake the identity of another man, but presumably others used the black market in biologicals for more nefarious purposes.
* In both the book and the film of ''[[Angels and Demons]]'', a CERN scientist's eye is cut out to fool a retina scanner.
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* A robotic version appeared in ''Futureworld'', the sequel to ''[[Westworld]]''. A door has a device that scans the retinas of anyone trying to get in. To pass, you must have a pattern that only robots possess. The [[Heroes]] deactivate a robot and rip off its face, then use the face (and its eyes) to fool the device.
* ''[[Ultraviolet (film)|Ultraviolet]]'' has a system to scan someone entering a secure facility to make sure they aren't vampires. It involves two thick needles ''stabbing the subject in the wrists''. Getting around it by temporarily altering one's blood seems fairly simple.
* In ''[[National Treasure]]'', Gates uses Chase's thumbprint he acquired to infiltrate the vault storing the Declaration of Independence.
* In ''[[The Avengers (film)|The Avengers]]'', Loki and his minions use a fancy piece of stolen S.H.I.E.L.D. tech that lets them scan someone's eye and turn it into a hologram good enough to fool a retina scanner. Loki probably didn't ''have'' to [[Eye Scream|jam it right into the poor man's eye socket tho]]...
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"(smiling) He'll recognize it." }}
* The husband of Ilsa Pucci from [[Human Target]] was killed for his eye, so his lawyer could get into a biometrically-sealed vault to steal his identity.
* Averted in the fourth season of ''[[Burn Notice]]'', but only because Larry doesn't have a bonesaw with which to remove the dead Brennen's left hand, a fact he laments.
* The paintball game show Crossfire had one "mission" to steal a handily tanked "eyeball" to use on the enemy base biometric scanners. Since on at least one occasion the entire team were wiped on that mission, the host had a tank with his gran's eyeball in - "because who could refuse a little old lady access?"
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