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Hacked by a Pirate
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Whenever a character, be it the Asian and Nerdy hero or the computer genius villain, decides to hack into the opponent's computer and mess up with his plans, he'll never stop at just making the computer malfunction. You've got to do it with style. And so, a Skull and Crossbones image shall take the entire screen of the hacked computer, possibly followed by the voice of the hacker laughing in the background. Alternatively, an 8-bit image of the character doing the hacking, or his logo, or perhaps a mix of the above, shall appear on the screen, such as a Skull and Crossbones, only the skull is wearing the very same hat the hacker wears. Reactions vary from confusion to aneurysms. Named after the fact that Skull and Crossbones happen to be the Pirate's symbol of choice. Note that the trope is rarely, if ever, performed by an actual pirate, since they usually try not to be noticed. Often overlaps with Hollywood Hacking. Compare Calling Card for the non-computerized version of leaving a stylistic signature. Subtrope of Jolly Roger. |
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Invoked in Red vs. Blue: Reconstruction. As Simmons tries to hack Command's computer system, Grif unhelpfully offers advice such as, "You should try uploading a virus to the mainframe. I find viruses that feature a laughing skull work the best." | |
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A Thin Veneer: Commodore Acaltha's trap in the Berlin system includes an Electronic Warfare attack the Minbari garrison force, complete with suddenly-blacked-out-then-returned computer displays being overrun with laughing skull-and-crossbones. | |
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All over the place in Hackers. The viruses launched by the hackers all have some malicious and/or cute animation that's displayed while they're mucking about in the system. | |
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The Jawbone virus in the Purple Moon computer games. Expanded Universe material goes out of its way to say that this is the only thing it does, as while invading the computer of the local equivalent of Bill Gates is not beyond Bo, doing actual harm is. | |
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Cowboy Bebop: Radical Edward tends to leave a distinctive smiley face logo and other silliness on computers she is hacking. | |
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In Overwatch, a skull without crossbones, stylized like a calavera, is the symbol for Sombra's Hack ability in her hotbar, and marks anything she's used it on. It also shows up when she hacks the Play of the Game screen and seems to be her personal Sigil Spam. | |
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The Archer episode "Tragical History" features a computer virus accompanied by a cute pirate video and a song. | |
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Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040: While Linna is investigating the Knight Sabers in the first few episodes, Nene detects the primitive attempt to hack the AD Police, and launches a virus that covers Linna's display with blood and a ghostly face, while a deep voice warns that nobody who's investigated the Sabers has survived.note Linna survives. | |
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Anarky, in his online persona as 'Money Spider', leaves a graphic of a spider on the screens of those he has hacked (and whose bank accounts he has usually just emptied). | |
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One Batman storyline has Batman investigating a criminal / terrorist dressed in a mask and he finds a video file of said masked man...who removes his mask to reveal a pixellated skull. | |
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In some Bloom County strips, Playful Hacker Oliver Wendell Jones sometimes wore a pirate costume and talked like one while illegally hacking. | |
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In V for Vendetta, V has actually been manipulating the Fate computer for years. The "pirate flag" is just the final stroke to drive the Leader completely over the edge. | |
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Skyfall: Silva does this with a stylized skull and "God save the Queen" playing in the message. | |
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Happens like that in Tanguy when the title character's father sends a virus to his PC. The words "I Love You" (name of a notorious virus back then) flash on the computer screen along with a skull. | |
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In Watch_Dogs 2, DedSec uses the Grim Reaper as their personal logo and their equivalent of Guy Fawkes masks are LED skull masks. | |
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In Splatoon 2: Octo Expansion, Marina's personal insignia is a stylized octopus with a pair of headphones. Whenever she hacks into Kamabo Co.'s systems, a pixelated version of it appears on the screen. | |
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Independence Day is the Trope Codifier, when David displays a laughing skull and crossbones to the aliens as a joke... just before he and Capt. Hiller throw a nuke at them. | |
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In FoxTrot, Jason creates an elaborate treasure map (with a computer folder marked X) and wears a hat and eyepatch when illegally downloading music files for Peter. | |
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Robin in Young Justice uses the "stylised image of the hacker" version, complete with his distinctive laugh. | |
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YouTube has a few videos with virus pranks. One of them involves a skull animation. | |
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Yu-Gi-Oh!: Pegasus shows he's counter-hacking Seto Kaiba's cyber attack by displaying Pegasus' favorite cartoon rabbit character over Kaiba's computer displays. | |
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Bloody Monday: The lead character Fujimaru, the hacker known as 'Falcon', always leaves his personal symbol of a diving falcon at the screen of every computer he visits, as a calling card. | |
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In Geist, ghost Raimi can possess a computer and cause it to flash the skull-and-crossbones, pretending to be a virus to scare a technician. | |
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Jensen from The Losers often has to break into systems on a timetable, but if he's on his own schedule, he likes to work wearing a pirate hat. And only a pirate hat. | |
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As they browse the Deep Web, the protagonist of Welcome to the Game is constantly hacked. Each hacking minigame starts with a cackling skull. This is repeated in the sequel Welcome to the Game II, where anytime your computer gets hacked as you explore the Deep Web, an image of a laughing skull takes over your screen, followed by a minigame to repel the hacker. | |
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In Saints Row IV, after freeing Matt Miller from his Simulation and going to rescue him from the Zin mothership in the real world, you'll find that he's not only managed to hack open several doors all on his own, but he's also taken the time to upload a .gif of a laughing Decker skull to their control panels as well. | |
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In The Life of the World to Come, one of The Company Novels by Kage Baker, Alec Checkerfield, who considers himself A Pirate 800 Years Too Late uses a skull and crossbones graphic in the program he uses to counterhack Ellsworth-Howard's attempt to access his computer system. | |
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