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* In ''[[WALL-E]]'', Captain McCrea, someone who's never done anything in their entire life, including standing, is able to hotwire the ship's public address system in a second with no thinking. One can argue that, since he's the captain, he should know a thing or two about the ship, but, then again, he needs help turning the pages of a book, so... yeah.
** IIRC, he did go on a massive [[Archive Binge]] earlier, looking up all sorts of things out of sheer childlike curiosity. It's easy to believe some technical information took root, especially since being massively ignorant does not necessitate him being stupid.
* [[The Bourne Series|Bourne]] hotwires a car really really fast in the trilogy. He's hurt, people are chasing him, and he still does it in less than ten seconds.
* ''[[The Terminator]]'' can hotwire cars with relative ease; justified in that he's got nifty programming, but this ability is still played for laughs when John shows him that most people keep an extra copy of the key in the visor.
** Actually Terminator never hotwires anything, he does one better. He smashes and rips away the steering column cover, along with the lock cylinder, and then turns the ignition lock shaft with his fingers, which was clearly shown in the first film, and then repeated again in the second. Incidentally, due to it's strength the whole process literally takes it 5 seconds, about as fast as most people take to start a car with a key.
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* Averted in most of the ''[[Grand Theft Auto]]'' games because the protagonist never actually hotwires anything. Except for the fourth installment, where the trope is played straight, as the player can see the protagonist duck under the dashboard to start the engine.
** The DS Chinatown Wars game requires work on the touch screen to hotwire a car. Still, the trope is played straight.
* Also, in the latest [[Alone in
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