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* The titular character from ''[[Battle Programmer Shirase]]''. He can take on even the most skilled and well-equipped hacker with '''just a cellphone.'''

* Nina from ''[[Ultra Maniac]]'' literally * is* a [[Techno Wizard]] because she needs to use a PC to cast spells due to her lack of skill.

* Yuki Nagato from ''[[Suzumiya Haruhi]]''. She hacked a computer game ''while playing'' and disabled the cheating of it's creators they were playing against. She [http://i44.tinypic.com/2nqce4z.gif played it] from the motherfucking ''code''. And she learned all those computer skills [[Instant Expert|in a matter of days]], as you can see her [[Rapid Fire Typing|typing faster and faster]] every day. Of course, {{spoiler|she's not even close to being human either.}}

* Yuki Nagato from ''[[Suzumiya Haruhi]]''. She hacked a computer game ''while playing'' and disabled the cheating of it's creators they were playing against. She [http://i44.tinypic.com/2nqce4z.gif played it] from the motherfucking ''code''. And she learned all those computer skills [[Instant Expert|in a matter of days]], as you can see her [[Rapid-Fire Typing|typing faster and faster]] every day. Of course, {{spoiler|she's not even close to being human either.}}

* Although much of Section 9 from ''[[Ghost in The Shell Stand Alone Complex]]'' counts, The Laughing Man leads the pack: he can, in a matter of moments, subvert an entire crowd's ''cybernetic eyes'' and show them what he wants them to see.

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* Adam on ''[[CSI: NY]]''

* Tosh in ''[[Torchwood (TV)|Torchwood]]''.

* Mickey Smith and the Doctor on ''[[~~Doctor Who (TV)|~~Doctor Who]]''.

* Mickey Smith and the Doctor on ''[[Doctor Who]]''.

* Rodney and Sam from the ''[[Stargate Verse|Stargate]]'' verse.

* Alec Hardison from ''[[Leverage]]'' embodies this trope - he can hack ''anything'' (except a hick). Bonus points awarded for the fact that, like a real life hacker, he uses social engineering almost as much as technical know-how to get what he wants...although he does have a tendency to take things a bit too far.

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* Given that the majority of computer users don't step far outside of video games, browsing the internet and email, pretty much anyone with an education in the subject beyond high school level can appear to be this.

** Hell if you can write a bash script you can appear to be this.

** That said, old school hacker purists will always maintain that there is a clear and important difference between "hacking" (i.e., using an original, creative and/or unconventional procedure to get a computer or system to do something useful) and "cracking" (achieving unauthorized access to a secure system, usually for nefarious ends but occasionally just to see what's there or prove that one can do it.) Hackers in the original sense generally disdain and have no use for crackers, who are widely seen as inferior in terms of their knowledge and skill level, and who often use widely-known exploits to do Bad Things. See [~~http://en.~~wikipedia~~.org/wiki/Script_kiddie~~ Script Kiddie]. Hollywood almost always ignores this distinction, to the extreme consternation of those that care about such minutiae.

** That said, old school hacker purists will always maintain that there is a clear and important difference between "hacking" (i.e., using an original, creative and/or unconventional procedure to get a computer or system to do something useful) and "cracking" (achieving unauthorized access to a secure system, usually for nefarious ends but occasionally just to see what's there or prove that one can do it.) Hackers in the original sense generally disdain and have no use for crackers, who are widely seen as inferior in terms of their knowledge and skill level, and who often use widely-known exploits to do Bad Things. See [[wikipedia:Script kiddie|Script Kiddie]]. Hollywood almost always ignores this distinction, to the extreme consternation of those that care about such minutiae.

** That said, some people think that's just silly. The only reason you see so much obvious stupidity around computer cracking is the power-complex involved; there is just as much stupidity in computer programming circles. It also doesn't help that most "ordinary" programmer/IT people, contrary to what one might think, have next to no technical insight into computer security. Hint: serious computer cracking is '''hard'''.

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