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{{trope}}
When passwords are being entered, they're ''always'' displayed on screen in plain text, rather than asterisked out. Why? So you can see how ''clever'' either the characters or the writers are being; often it being some kind of reference or pun.
Part of the office-variety [[Viewer-Friendly Interface]].
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== Comics ==
* In the ''[[Watchmen (
== Films ==
* ''[[
* Strange inversion in the ''[[
* Happened in ''[[
** Also with Alfred's disc in ''[[Batman and Robin (
* Taken to its extreme in ''[[The Incredibles]]''. Not only does Syndrome's computer display the password, but his monitor is the size of an IMAX screen and the letters are several feet tall.
* In the ''[[Bibi Blocksberg]]'' movie, Rafea uses a spell to make the password of Mr. Blocksberg's computer a highly visible one.
== Live Action TV ==
* Happens in ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'' when Mohinder's trying to guess his father's password.
** Ditto when Elle was trying to get into her father's computer
* All versions of [[Star Trek]] have the "say the password aloud" version of this trope. Presumably they are checking for voice matches too, but a few episodes have shown that the computer can be fooled by a recording of the officer in question saying the password.
* In an episode of [[Scrubs]] Ted asks JD not to watch him type his password...then says it aloud as he's typing it (it's "alligator3").
* In the episode of [[Sherlock]] ''A Scandal in Belgravia'', Sherlock deduces that that the password on a smartphone that reads "I am locked" (with a four letter space for typing the password above the word "locked") must be "Sher", so as to cause the smartphone to displays the text "I am Sher-locked.
== Video Games ==
* In the game ''[[Second Sight]]'' the player can access computer terminals. If the terminal needs a password and the player doesn't know it then John Vattic (the Main Character) keeps entering generic passwords, which the player can see on the screen.
* In the game ''[[
** Ironically the password is asterisked when you type it (i.e. when you know it).
* Every time you encounter a keypad locked door in one of the ''[[Crusader:
* In ''[[Splinter Cell]]: Chaos Theory'' there is not so much a highly visible password as a highly audible one. A guard will be having an argument with someone over the phone within earshot of the player. When the player starts listening in, the topic has changed to the dangers of speaking a door code out loud. The frustrated guard will then shout out the door code repeatedly to prove that nobody is listening in.
== Western Animation ==
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* The initial version of the Wii's Internet Browser used an on screen keyboard that showed you what you were typing, no matter what kind of field you were typing it in. The latest version will display asterisks if you are filling in a password field, but that's only if you aren't using the word completer.
** That said, just ''try'' and input a password into a field using the screen's keyboard (ie, not plugging in a keyboard into a USB port) with someone in the room and do so without them figuring out what it is. I'll wait. Also, linking your Wii Shop Channel account to your Club Nintendo account requires a password which isn't masked in any way.
** Same thing for the [[
* The iPod Touch and iPhone display the most recently typed letter of the password, with the rest being dots. For instance, if you're typing "trope", it will appear as <nowiki>t, * r, ** o, *** p, **** e, ***** </nowiki>. [[Blatant Lies|Not a bug]] but an [[Anti Frustration Feature]], as the tiny on-screen keyboard makes it very easy to hit the wrong key, and if it was all dots there'd be no way to know you'd done it until your login was refused.
** The DSi's web browser and the Blackberry Storm 9500 do that too for the exact same reason (and probably all touch screen device).
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** [[Fridge Logic]]: if you ''are'' important enough to spy on, aren't you important enough to have a keylogger put into your computer? (Given that one of these can be done remotely...)
* The "remember my password on this computer" function can have a similar effect. [[Hilarity Ensues]] whenever someone uses this for something critical without bothering to set a login password for their PC, and it gets stolen.
* And then there's folks who think that [https://web.archive.org/web/20121220235827/http://www.useit.com/alertbox/passwords.html passwords should not be masked by default anyway].
** The first computer hackers, mostly found at MIT in the late 50s / early 60s, believed there shouldn't be passwords at
* Some command line programs (like the [[
* In one of the more boneheaded examples of this trope, a recent update to a popular VPN program requires the user to enter the password by clicking on a ''huge on-screen keyboard''. With the positions of the keys randomized, to slow you down while you search for where the A key is ''this'' time so that the person sitting next to you has plenty of time to jot down your password. The password itself ''is'' masked, presumably because it makes the joke funnier that way.
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