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* In ''[[Outlaw Star]]'', [[Ridiculously Human Robot|Melfina]] the bioandroid/ship navigator has an override command that suspends her personality.
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* In the ''[[Marvel Civil War]]'' storyline, when Spider-Man turns against the pro-registration camp, Iron Man uses an Override Command to shut down Spidey's armour (which he designed), [[Genre Blind|calling Spidey out]] on not realising that he would have won. Subverted when Spider-Man reveals that he
* In ''[[The Invisibles]]'', the antagonists know the override command to {{spoiler|the human brain}}.
== Fan Works ==
* In the ''[[Firefly (TV series)|Firefly]]'' fanfic ''[[Forward]]'', the Alliance has hardwired override commands installed on all their ships in case of subversion. Only Operatives and very high-ranking military commanders and officials know these codes. Unfortunately for them, many of these people were in the same room with a mind-reading psychic at one point....
== Film ==
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** The robots have a verbal override command as well, which Florence used to prevent Blunt from attacking her in his effort to try to stop her from interfering with {{spoiler|the release of Gardner in the Dark, which would effectively lobotomize all robots on Jean}}. Also, while "non-human orders must not be obeyed", this only matters when AI in question can identify the source.
* ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'' [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2012-06-05 here]. The doors have an override for lockdown. But then, a warship has much faster and more reliable "override" for locking down exposed breezeways in hard vacuum...
* ''[[Buck Godot: Zap Gun for Hire]]'' has [https://web.archive.org/web/20150428205950/http://www.airshipentertainment.com/buckcomic.php?date=20080807 doors] with security override and, uh, "manual" override.
* ''[[Crimson Dark]]'' presents Ren's [https://web.archive.org/web/20171006165212/http://www.davidcsimon.com/crimsondark/index.php?view=comic&strip_id=575 somewhat roundabout way] of picking up someone who walked out for EVA and got blown up, as a corvette pilot (without leaving the bridge). Which consists almost entirely of manual overriding:
*# Mark the drifting suit as the object to dock with. Open the nearest airlock and initiate docking procedure.
*# Since the computer, obviously, lacks necessary means to do this, opt for (assisted) manual manoeuvre instead - that is, match velocity and position of the rescuee with the center of that hatch using detailed feedback.
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** Wiser ones, though, will reset the password by sending out an email to the associated email on file and require resetting the password that way. Wiser users still will make the answer to these questions completely unrelated to the question itself (functionally, a secondary password).
* There is the [[wikipedia:Magic SysRq key|magic SysRq key]] in Linux.
** It's likely to show "sysrq: SysRQ: This sysrq operation is disabled." for most. Though what's left is occasionally useful (e.g. doing sync now and then may prevent much filesystem damage if computer freezes or loses power soon).
* If you forget the root password on a [[UNIX|Linux]] system, you can boot into single-user mode and reset it without being prompted for a password, if the BIOS password hasn't been set at least.
** Not any more, at least on Debian and derivative desktop systems; it's the other way around now: you need root password to use rescue mode, but you may set root password by any superuser account, if you can login at all. Usually it's easier to do much the same as with other desktop systems: boot from LiveCD/LiveFlash/another partition and fix disk errors and/or mess with config files, then boot and login normally (or from text virtual terminal, if display manager is broken too).
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