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{{quote|'''Stewie:''' Quick! Hotwire the car!
'''Brian:'''"Hotwire"? I don't even pump my own gas!|''[[Family Guy]]''}}
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== [[Film]] ==
* Used in ''[[Battle: Los Angeles]]''. Played with in that it takes several minutes to perform and the character is shown having difficulty with it.
* 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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** Kyle Reese hotwires a car in the first film as well.
** The film was an example of [[Shown Their Work]], as the creators actually researched the correct way to hotwire the cars in question.
* [[Averted]] in the second ''[[The Matrix]]''. [[Action Girl|Trinity]] has to ask their (literal) [[Voice
* In the 2003 movie ''[[
* Bizarre [[Double Subversion]] in ''[[A Sound of Thunder]]'': the protagonists encounter an SUV-like vehicle (this is the future, mind you). One of the scientists mentions it has a special lock, and starts listing all the equipment they will need to break it. However, before she can finish, the team's ''doctor'' breaks the window with his gun and hotwires it in a flash. When everyone stares at him dumbfounded, he just says "How do you think I put myself through medical school, hmm?" So... yeah.
* Chev Chelio hotwires a car in ''[[
* In one of the ''[[Police Academy]]'' movies, Zed (a convicted criminal turned police officer) hotwires a car by ripping out the appropriate wires and ''biting them''.
* [[Averted Trope|Averted]] in [[Die Hard
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'''Zeus:''' Of course I can, I'm an electrician. Only problem is...
[Zeus starts the ignition with his pliers]
'''Zeus:''' It takes too fuckin' long. }}
* [[Averted Trope|Averted]] again in Die Hard 4.0 with [[Voice
* A bit averted in ''National Security'' when Martin Lawrence has to hotwire a car carried inside a semi trailer with a bit of struggle of having to know the design and the model year.
== Literature ==
* The kids from ''[[Maximum Ride]]'' are all able to hotwire cars with ease, thanks to training their adopted dad Jeb gives them. While Max tells the readers that it works nothing like how it is shown on TV, she refuses to go into specifics for fear of inspiring a bunch of readers to steal cars.
* [[The Adventures of Fox Tayle
* Alice hotwires some very expensive cars when she and Bella are in Italy in ''Breaking Dawn''.
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* ''[[Prison Break]]'' again, throughout series two and four the characters have little difficulty commandeering and obtaining vehicles undetected.
* Played straight and somewhat plausibly in ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' when Giles hotwires his clunky old Citroen in "Dead Man's Party".
** Not only is an older car, it's implied that Giles, being a [[Former Teen Rebel]], has a ''lot'' of experience hotwiring cars. He even says that it's ''"Like riding a bloody bicycle"'' <ref>
* Nearly every episode of ''[[
== Tabletop Games ==
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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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[[Category:Hassle Free Hotwire]]
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