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[[Crazy Prepared]] characters naturally have at least one of these.
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
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* In the ''[[Justice League]]'' episode where Flash and Lex Luthor switch minds, Flash proves he's really himself again by starting to reveal Green Lantern's old nickname.
* In ''[[Ben 10 Alien Force (Animation)|Ben 10 Alien Force]]'', Past!Gwen demands Future!Gwen say something only they/she would know. Future!Gwen whispers something to her, prompting a disgusted reaction. We never find out what it was. Dwayne MacDuffie refused to comment, saying it was "personal."
* In the [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]] two-parter ''A Canterlot Wedding'', Twilight and Cadance have a rhyme from way back when. {{spoiler|When the false Cadance doesn't know it, Twilight smells a rat. When, due to False!Cadence's manipulations, she nearly blasts the head off the real one, Real!Cadence does this to prove it's really her this time.}}
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* Magician Harry Houdini had spent much of his later career debunking mediums and others who claimed to speak "from beyond the grave". He arranged a number of code phrases (one being a song called "Rosabelle") as identifiers for his wife Bess if such communication was possible. He died in 1926, well before Bess. No one was ever able to deliver a message she was satisfied was genuine.
** [[Take That|Funny how "paranormal experts" never bring that up.]]
*** [[Money, Dear Boy|They must have a good reason...]]
*** Used well in Carrie Vaughn's Kitty Norville series, where a medium contacts Houdini, and is told 'Everyone who knew my codes is long dead. Stop trying.'
* Don't forget about [[The Password Is Always Swordfish|that password]] you have to tell the computer to make sure it's really you.
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*** There was a website many years ago (it's long since dead) that was touted as a "time-traveler's support network." Meeting places and times in various cities were designated where a "volunteer" from the project would wait for someone to say a one-time use passphrase and render aid. The database of locations, times, and phrases was said to exist in a sealed document held by a law firm which would be turned over to any time-travel project in the future.
*** It may be long since dead now, but if you're going back in time that shouldn't really be a problem.
* As in the ''Bourne'' example above, secret agents normally have security checks they can insert into a message to verify that it's real. During [[World War II]], one British agent captured by the Germans deliberately gave his captors the wrong security check. He expected his bosses to realize that the messages coming from his radio were false. [[What an Idiot!|His bosses didn't pay attention.]] ''Das Englandspiel'' (also called Operation North Pole) resulted in the capture and execution of approximately fifty Allied agents, and didn't end until the Germans themselves called it off in a clear-text message to London..
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shibboleth Shibboleths] are words whose pronunciation is so unique that only native or extremely fluent speakers can pronounce them correctly.
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