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{{trope}}
[[File:Chūchūn.jpg|link=A Certain Magical Index|thumb|300px|Even [[Playful Hacker]]s have to take breaks.]]
{{quote|''The secretly female computer whiz is such a common trope these days that I've almost come to expect it. Oooh, there's this super 1337 hacker who the whole male cast is in awe of, but they have no idea who they are and they need their help. Then, unexpectedly, the first time they meet, that hacker is ''totally a hot chick''. Shocking! "I, uh, I thought you'd be..." stammers the main character. "Taller?" says the hacker chick, as the movie's creators sit smugly thinking they've pulled one over on a gender normative audience. "GET ON WITH IT," yells the audience, "THIS HAPPENS IN EVERY MOVIE."''|''[[The Mary Sue]]'', "[https://web.archive.org/web/20160621000827/https://www.themarysue.com/10-great-fictional-female-hackers/#0 10 Great Fictional Female Hackers]"}}
The Cops are hot on the trail of a hacker who is [[The Cracker|bringing down banks, shutting off traffic lights, and just generally causing mayhem]].
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This trope only counts when everyone thinks it's a boy and it's later revealed the hacker is a female. It is not a list of generalized female hackers.
This is a sub-trope of [[
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* ''[[Gundam Wing]]'' has Hilde Schbeiker. While aboard White Fang's orbital base, Libra, she hacks into their mainframe to access and download vital information on Vayette and Mercurious: their latest and most advanced in their line of mobile dolls.
* Nene Romanova fills this role in ''[[Bubblegum Crisis]]''. Much like the ''Princess Lover'' example, it becomes a plot point when Nene uses her hardsuit to hack into the AD Police mainframe (unbeknownst to her fellow officers) to regain control of the building from a terrorist and his team of rogue boomers. While, at the same time, guiding the police chief's niece to safety via the intercom.
** The version of Nene in ''[[Bubblegum Crisis: Tokyo 2040]]'' has a touch more [[Action Girl]] (and more snark) to her but is no less a Hackette.
== Comic Books ==
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* Sandra from ''[[Cube|Cube 2: Hypercube]]''.
* Acid Burn from ''[[Hackers]]''. She was an alpha hacker so she had a coterie of boyhackers who thought she was awesome, but Crash Override was surprised to discover she was a girl.
* Trinity, from ''[[The Matrix]]''
* Lex outs herself to buy her family some time in the film version of ''[[Jurassic Park]]''. (In the novel, her big brother was the hacker.)
{{quote|"It's a Unix system...I know this!"}}
* Jailbreak in ''The Emoji Movie''.
== Literature ==
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* ''[[The Lone Gunmen]]'' has a female hacker whose real name was never revealed, but she went by Yves Adel Harlow most of the time. All her aliases were anagrams of Lee Harvey Oswald.
* An episode of ''[[Burn Notice]]'' featured a girl hacker. Not only was the fact that she was an attractive teenage girl a surprise, but she also turned out to be utterly vicious and cold-blooded, as evidenced when she drugs Michael and then ties him to a chair and rubber-bands a plastic bag over his head in an attempt to kill him via asphyxiation (luckily, Michael manages to talk his way out of it).
* Riley in the new ''
* Raven in ''[[CSI Cyber]]'' has a similar history and pretty much any female member of the team will count as a hackette and will likely be recruited from the same background as you have to get them somewhere and getting people who weren't into mischief ain't gonna happen.
* The ''[[Ghostwriter (TV series)|Ghostwriter]]'' episode "Who Is Max Mouse?" had, not one, but two hackettes.
* Cindy "Mac" Mackenzie from ''[[Veronica Mars]]''. [[The Reveal]] came in her first episode, but there was still a reveal.
{{quote|"Crime pays. Technologically assisted mystery-solving? Costs."}}
* Orwell ([[Summer Glau]]) from ''[[The Cape (2010 TV series)|The Cape]]''.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* Miho from ''[[Megatokyo]]'' caused a massive crash of the ''Endgames'' MMORPG servers and asks Piro if he was surprised to learn the aforementioned hacker was a girl.
* ''[http://www.planetheidi.com/ Heidi, Geek Girl Detective]'' starts with a scene where a consultant is simply unable to grasp the concept that a female can be an IP specialist, let alone be "the networking guy".
== [[Truth in Television]] ==
* This is [[Truth in Television]] for most female programmers and computer technicians (whether they fit the general usage of "hacker" or not), since it's
** That said the [[Ur Example]] would be Ada Countess of Lovelace; who wrote a series of instructions that could have been executed by Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine (which would have been a [[Steampunk]] computer, were it built) and is often considered the world's first computer programmer (in the sense she wrote the world's first computer program).
** The techs who maintained the world's first computer ([[wikipedia:Colossus computer|
** [[wikipedia:Susan Thunder|Susan Thunder]].
** [[wikipedia:Kristina Svechinskaya|Kristina Svechinskaya]], dubbed the "world's sexiest computer hacker".
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** Ying Cracker.
** "Kayla", a suspected member of [[Lulz Sec]] in the [[Internet Counterattack|HB Gary Federal leak]], originally thought to be Laurelei Bailey.
** And then there's Admiral [[w:Grace Hopper|Grace Hopper]], who invented one of the earliest linkers ''and'' popularized the idea of device-independent programming languages. Without her, we wouldn't have had "computer programmer" as a job title as early as we actually did.
* There's a ''[[(The Customer is) Not Always Right]]'' story about a guy calling tech support/bringing his computer back to the store and demanding to talk to a male employee, [[Straw Misogynist|being incapable of accepting that women can know enough about computers to help with his problem]].
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