Dueling Hackers: Difference between revisions

* ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'': Chisame versus Chachamaru in the festival arc.

* In ''[[Gakuen Heaven]]'' of all things the vice-presidents of the student council and the treasury are constantly trying to hack each other and keep the other out.

* Happens in ''[[Cannon God Exaxxion]]'' as both sides run a propaganda war against each other.

* In ''Demon Hunters: Dead Camper Lake'', two Cyborg [[Dueling Hackers]] complete with ominously named programs with skull icons, while sitting face to face at the same table. Eventually, the losing cyborg shrugs, picks up his laptop and clubs his enemy to death.

* A slowed down and scaled up version: The ''[[.hack]]'' plot-lines for the ''Twilight'' manga and anime involve a group of hackers breaking down an [[MMORPG]] while the game's programmers try and counter the slow infection.

* It's not really made that much of, but this happens between Yatouji Satsuki and Imonoyama Nokoru in ''[[X 1999]]''. She is trying to hack into the computers of CLAMP Campus and he is trying to keep her out. Given that Satsuki is a technopath working in tandem with a supercomputer, the fact that Nokoru actually manages to make it combat instead of a [[Curb Stomp Battle]] is [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|pretty impressive]].

* Happens often enough in ''[[Dennou Coil]]'', since realspace and cyberspace are linked. A particularly heated one happens between Isako and Fumie early on.

* Part of the climax of ''[[Hackers]]''.

** Also the scene where Dade tries to take over the TV studio. In reality, it's two robot arms trading a videotape. In Hollywood it's two titans meeting on the battlefield, if the kung fu clips interspersed with the robot arms and neat visual effects surrounding Dade's head are supposed to mean anything.

** The backtracing map is trivial to implement (traceroute, GeoIP, Google Maps, whatever takes your fancy), its just that fancy [[Viewer-Friendly Interface|Viewer Friendly Interfaces]] tend to get in the way of most useful network administration or abusing activities.

** Also, [[Playful Hacker|Boris]] kills time by hacking into Western computers and taunting his opponents as they try to thwart him.

*** He even thinks of unplugging his computer in the end, when he gets hacked back. He doesn't just pull the cable out though, but rips out whole racks of gear and throws them on the floor.

* In ''Demon Hunters: Dead Camper Lake'', two Cyborg [[Dueling Hackers]], complete with ominously named programs with skull icons, while sitting face to face at the same table. Eventually, the losing cyborg shrugs, picks up his laptop and [[Fighting Dirty|clubs his enemy to death]].

* [[The Core]] treated Rat's interaction with security systems this way, as though he were dueling with the security programmer. After breaking into DESTINI and shutting it down, "Your kung fu is not strong."

 

 

== Live Action TV ==

{{quote| '''Hardison''': Chaos. I heard you were in jail. Guess I was wrong.<br />

'''Chaos''': Alec Hardison. [[Lame Comeback|I heard you sucked]]. Guess I was right. }}

** It also happened once when Garcia '''lost''' and was out of commission all day while she ripped apart her computer (physically) to get it running again.

** In fairness, the reason they can't typically do that is because they need that computer online to do [[Fridge Logic|whatever they were doing on it in the first place]]. Especially since it's frequently time-sensitive.

*** Subverted when Gibbs unplugs the computer just as McGee and Abby are about to lose the computer.

* Kyle and Jessi do this in a second-season episode of ''[[Kyle XY]]''.

* In "[[Chuck]] Versus the Hack-Off", Chuck has to participate in the episode's titular "hack-off" (a competition where hackers have to outduel their competition) in order to get some dirt on the villain of the week.

 

 

== Video Games ==

 

 

== Webcomics ==

* A sequence in ''[[Megatokyo]]'' featured this.