Borrowed Biometric Bypass: Difference between revisions

* In ''[[Die Another Day]]'', [[James Bond (film)|James Bond]] and Jinx get past a hand scanner by severing the arm of a recently killed henchman and pressing it against the scanner.

** In ''[[Never Say Never Again]]'', the remake of ''[[Thunderball]]'' (both starring [[Sean Connery]] as Bond), a bad guy had an eye transplant to get past a retinal scanner protecting some nuclear weapons.

* Subverted in ''[[District 9]]''. Since the alien weaponry can only be used by an alien hand, various attempts are made to use severed arms to fire the guns. That doesn't work, though, since the arms need to be ''alive''.

* In [[The Film of the Book]] of ''[[The Dead Zone]],'' John Smith has a vision of Gregory Stillson as president. Stillson is hot to launch a nuclear strike at the Soviet Union, but to activate the Nuclear Football, he needs a general's handprint-scan in addition to his own. Stillson tells the general, "Put your hand on that pad or I'll cut it off and do it myself!"

* ''[[Torchwood]]'', "End of Days" with Capt. Jack. He's not killed ''for'' it but it's revealed after Owen kills him that they need his retinal scan to okay the use of the Rift Manipulator, so they hold his corpse up to the scanner. [[Immortality|Like always]], Jack gets better.

** In ''[[Torchwood: Miracle Day]]'', Jack and Gwen use non-invasive methods to get the biometric data from their target... the assassin chasing them, however, is a little more pressed for time. Bonus points for needing {{spoiler|both a hand and an eye}}. The tissue in question is immortal and thus still counts as alive, ripped off or not.

** To wit: One of them was fooled by a ''black and white computer printout of the finger in question'' (that had been licked to cover salinity).

** They also found that the expensive reader sold to be used as a door lock, was easier to fool than the cheap one used as a log-in device on a laptop.

** But played straight in the 2010 ''[[Alien vs. Predator]] game where the Predator has to use a severed head to open several doors with retinal scanner locks.

* Used in the original ''[[System Shock]]'', where you can use the entire head of an (already-dead) officer onboard the ship to reach an optional area.

* Quite gruesomely done in ''[[Resident Evil]] 4'' where after defeating Mendez in his plaga form his false eye pops out, whereupon Leon scoops it up and puts it in the scanner. If you examine the glass eye (probably because you're wondering [[Fridge Logic|why in the heck]] a ''retinal scanner'' can read it), you learn that the glass eye [[Hand Wave|had an encryption on the outside, which is what the scanner reads]].

* The combination of glass eye and retinal scanner also pops up in ''[[The Longest Journey]]''.

 

== Western Animation ==

 

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