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Override Command
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So what if you don't know the combination to the keypad lock, or the password to the ultrasecure government computer? Every electronic device has an Override function, which will conveniently give full access to any schmuck who knows the command. Most often seen as the explicit command "OVERRIDE" entered via a Viewer-Friendly Interface when access is denied to someone who really ought not to have it. Sometimes this is spoofed with "manual override" being a euphemism for pounding on the machine with fists or tools until it finally does what you want. Klaatu Barada Nikto is a specific variant. A real situation similar to this one would be a backdoor, which is a hidden, purposefully created way of entering a computer system created by the programmer(s). |
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In Ponies and Dragons, they find out that the enchanted comics like the one from "Power Ponies" actually have override commands that allow you to exit at any time. | |
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Imperial Radch: Justice of Toren and every other Radchaai ship or station AI has these, and by the time of the series have each been given multiple conflicting commands from Anaander Mianaai. In the third book, the ships and station in Athoek system have their overrides removed using the overrides posessed by Lieutenant Tisarwat. | |
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Sluggy Freelance: In the "GOFOTRON" arc, it becomes a sort of running gag that Riff overrides automated systems by tearing wires out with the phrase, "Everything has a manual override." This tends to have some unexpected consequences, from disabling the ship to indirectly causing the destruction of the entire universe. Oasis apparently has "Override B-1" whenever she encounters Hereti-Corp personnel. From all appearances, activating it makes her more focused and less compassionate — this being someone already Ax-Crazy. When someone blurts out in the middle of a firefight that Riff works for Hereti-Corp, he says "I quit" and Oasis goes back to fawning over Torg. Cue every Hereti-Corp agent in the room announcing their resignation and leaving. |
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In Madagascar, Private finds the override code for the ship. | |
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The Four Horsemen's second big trick in Now You See Me is to hack their sponsor's bank account for an Involuntary Charity Donation. They know he's too careful with his password, so instead they fake a Cold Reading routine to get his account recovery information (his mother's maiden name, and that of his childhood pet). | |
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Star Trek: Picard: Averted in "Broken Pieces" when Raffi decides I Need a Freaking Drink. Later in the same episode, when Soji tries to hijack La Sirena to fly it to her homeworld, Cristóbal Rios recites "Arroz con leche", a Spanish lullaby, that completely locks out the helm and returns control of the remaining systems to him. |
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The 7th season Hawaii Five-O episode "Computer Killer" has a surprisingly realistic example where an individual associated with an IBM expy obtains a secret book of phone numbers that allow direct administrator (root) access to most mainframe computer systems in the Honolulu area. This allows him to bypass all safeguards and event logging when changing database records. At the time mainframe computers were usually leased with the manufacturer maintaining direct back doors into the systems for maintenance or as an override mechanism when end users ran into trouble. | |
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In Discworld Noir, Lewton must get into the Archeologists' Guild vault, which is guarded by a magical lock which will transform anyone who enters the wrong code. The trick is to talk to a wizard, who will tell you there's a "back passage" code. | |
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MechWarrior series of games, being based on BattleTech, grants pilots the Override Shutdown command. The pilot shuts off the automatic shutdown designed to be engaged if the mech red lines over the Heat threshold, leaving only the Heatsinks and Life support systems active, while trying to limit damage to the fusion reactor and mech, as well as reduce the risk of an ammo explosion. Pilots shut it off when absolutely need to keep firing in a desperate attempt to survive by destroying the enemy mech quickly. Or by those who realize they're facing the end of the line, and are about to make one last final defiant stand. | |
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Freefall: Being an artificial life form, Florence was equipped with several. 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 the release of Gardner in the Dark, which would effectively lobotomize all robots on Jean. |
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In the Supernatural episode "Devil May Care" (S09, Ep02), Kevin says Dean opening the door from the outside reset the systems and ended the bunker's lockdown. | |
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In Iron Man 2, close examination of both Tony Stark's and Anton Vanko's computer antics (Stark at the Senate committee hearing, Vanko when taking control of the Hammer mainframe) imply their seemingly ridiculous hacking skill boils down to having a backdoor account installed in the respective systems. In Stark's case, given his status as a major government contractor, he probably sold it to them in the first place, while Vanko had plenty of unsupervised access while he was helping program the Hammer drones on the same computers. | |
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The finale of Ben 10: Alien Force has Ben override the Omnitrix's (and later, the Ultimatrix's) command functions simply by saying "Code 10". He can then issue commands that are a Shout-Out to Star Trek's "Make Ship Asplode" code. | |
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In Sonic Battle, Professor Gerald has installed one of these in Emerl the robot, but it must be activated before it goes definitively berserk. They aren't able to issue the command the second time. | |
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Batman: The Brave and the Bold: When Red Tornado builds his "son", Tornado Champion, he builds him with an override in case anything should go wrong. About a week later, things go wrong, and Tornado Champion is forcibly shut down. Once Red and Batman are out of the room, he reboots, and declares he knew about the shutdown code and removed it ages ago. | |
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Fallout: New Vegas also has this a few times. Also, hacking computers in general is this trope turned into a minigame in both this game and Fallout 3. | |
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In Mortal Engines, the crash drive was built to shut down MEDUSA if it was activated accidentally or maliciously. | |
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The Lost Fleet: Similar to the Perry Rhodan example above, the Syndicate Worlds have a remote command override system that can disable or totally take control of their warships, in order to prevent mutinies or force ships to undertake a Suicide Mission without going to the trouble of offloading the crew first. They're savvy enough to keep this extremely quiet and only use it in times of direst need, partly for fear of the Alliance getting wind of it and turning it against them in battle but also because once it becomes generally known that it's possible, every captain whose loyalty was even slightly uncertain would start working on an override for the override. Spin-off series The Lost Stars also addresses the other problem with an override function, when a high-ranking Syndicate official who's cleared for the codes in question is the one who leads a revolt. | |
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Batman Beyond: In the last years of Bruce Wayne's crime-fighting career, he'd created an electronic batsuit which included a "kill switch", a Big Red Button in the Batcave, to use in the event the suit ever ended up in the wrong hands, which completely shuts down the suit's system. It's used twice in the series: in the pilot episode "Rebirth", when Terry McGinnis first takes the mantle, and "Lost Soul", when the Robert Vance program hacks its way into the suit. However, in the latter episode, when the suit is recovered, the Vance program reactivates itself and destroys the kill switch before escaping the Batcave. | |
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Fallout 3 has some sentient terminals and robots that can be affected by your Science skill (or failing that, Robotics Expert perk). One particular instance is the M.A.R.Go.T terminal, which can be overridden thusly. Fallout: New Vegas also has this a few times. Also, hacking computers in general is this trope turned into a minigame in both this game and Fallout 3. |
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Transistor: There's some use of administrative overrides such as the "Weather State Override" in ReturnToWelcome01. | |
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Farscape has fun with this in one episode. The protagonists have overridden the security on an elevator, only to have their override overridden. What do they do? Try to override it! Unfortunately, "We couldn't override their override of our override!" | |
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: After discovering a chamber filled with apparently dead Cardassians in the novel "Station Rage", Garak warns the DS9 crew that the Cardassian government would use it as an excuse to send an "inspection" team to the station to fully investigate the situation. Odo notes that after the Cardassians initially left it took the station crew about a year to close off all the overrides and backdoors and worries that if such inspectors were able to plant more override commands the DS9 crew would never be able to have a secured conversation again. | |
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The Key of Awesome's Space Girl is trying to Abandon Ship, but her ship's computer keeps debating the issue. Space Girl threatens to use the Manual Override, and we're shown a bank of levers marked with everything from SELF DESTRUCT to PULL IF COMPUTER IS IN DENIAL. | |
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X-Wing Series: After the New Republic takes Coruscant back from the Empire their computer experts go through and close off most of the obvious exploits, backdoors, and other override commands in in "The Krytos Trap." However, given the enormity of the task Imperial agents still have ways of using computers on that world to contact their Imperial handlers. The agent in Rogue Squadron (later revealed to be Erisi Dlarit) sends a message to Imperial Intelligence head Ysanne Isard via public networks. She then executes a command normally used to erase messages in bulk, selecting the time her message was sent as the start and stop time for the command. This ensures no public records remained of the message being sent. | |
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Nagato and Asakura from The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya know the override codes to reality. In the light novels the code they use is rendered as SQL queries. The anime has them "speaking" SQL as well, but so quickly it can barely be recognized as speech. | |
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In The Invisibles, the antagonists know the override command to the human brain. | |
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In WarGames, the creator of the military supercomputer W.O.P.R. implements a back door password: Joshua, the name of his son. | |
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In South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, Kyle gets into a restricted website by rerouting the encryptions. And he does this just by pressing a bunch of random buttons on the keyboard. | |
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Star Trek, of course, has several examples, from voice commands to manual overrides. Not only do they have override commands (in most cases, as simple as saying the word "Override"), but they have Auxiliary Control, which appears to be able to take over control from the Bridge without it being given voluntarily! The example from Wrath of Khan shows up again in the Star Trek: The Next Generation "The Wounded", being used to shut down the shields of a captain who was waging a one-man war on the Cardassiansnote it was specifically the modulation of that particular ship's shields, which is less of an override and more of an armor-piercer, but the principle is the same. It was given to the Cardassians to stop him, but even without shields (however briefly), he still won. In Star Trek: Voyager, Seven of Nine could control the entire ship on a whim. For example, one episode has her trying to access the Captain's personal logs. When denied, she walks over to a wall panel, flips a couple chips inside, and instantly gains access. In the same episode, she teaches a child to override commands from the bridge. Star Trek: Picard: Averted in "Broken Pieces" when Raffi decides I Need a Freaking Drink. Later in the same episode, when Soji tries to hijack La Sirena to fly it to her homeworld, Cristóbal Rios recites "Arroz con leche", a Spanish lullaby, that completely locks out the helm and returns control of the remaining systems to him. |
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The Thrawn Trilogy: Mara Jade, being a former personal agent to Emperor Palpatine himself, knows the secret access codes Palpatine had hardwired into the mainframe computers of every ship in the fleet so that he or his agents couldn't be locked out of his own ships by vessel commanders. She uses them to access the Chimaera's records to find Talon Karrde's detention cell as well as the ship's itinerary so that she and Luke can rescue him. She knows that Thrawn can't have removed her back door codes, but she worries that he might know about them and have set flags to show if they are used. Fortunately, no flags were set and Mara was not caught accessing the computer. During the rescue itself, she again uses the computer to alter duty rosters and reroute turbo lifts. When Thrawn figures that Karrde has been broken out of his cell, and that the rescuers must have used the computer to help them do it, he simply shuts the computer down entirely. While this considerably impairs the ship's operations, having the computer actively work against you is an even greater impairment. | |
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In Commander Kitty, simply being an intelligent lifeform (or Fluffy) counts as this for the Triple-I's automated drone pilots. | |
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In a 1980s Little Orphan Annie storyline, the friendly sentient robot F1do can be shut down with the oral command, "F1do! Down!", and his benevolent personality overriden with the command "F1do! Attack!" However, villain Skip Smith's attempt to use the "F1do! Kill!" override against Annie fails when F1do self-destructs rather than obey the command to kill his friend. | |
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Justified in Superman, when Clark never realized the "cells" (actually high-tech Kryptonian shipping crates) in his Fortress even had voice-activated override codes. Which means they were never changed from the factory default, which General Zod knows... | |
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In the Star Trek: Lower Decks episode Old Friends, New Planets, Mariner steals the Genesis Device Locarno was using to threaten the other Alpha Quadrant powers. Spotting a stolen Federation Sabrerunner-class ship, Mariner jumps aboard and uses her mother's command codes to take control of the ship and escape. | |
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Red vs. Blue: Subverted: when Sarge is called upon to disarm a bomb he created, he says he specifically built it so that he could not — just in case he was brainwashed and fell in the hands of "those dirty Blues". But used later on by Agents York and Washington, at different times, on the AI Delta, who can apparently be ordered to do just about anything by someone with the proper authority. Which makes sense: other storyline arcs clearly show what can happen when one of these A.I.s isn't kept under control. |
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In Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Admiral Kirk uses a prefix code (which is unique for each ship) to force the Reliant to lower its shields after it seriously damages the Enterprise in a surprise attack. It works, but only because Khan a) didn't know that feature existed and b) couldn't find the manual override button on his ship's control console in time. They state it wouldn't have worked if Khan had changed the passcode after stealing the ship. | |
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In the Futurama episode "Where No Fan Has Gone Before", with the cast of Star Trek: The Original Series: | |
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In Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, Flint tries to stop the out-of-control FLDSMDFR (a food replicator which has gone rogue and started producing massive food-storms) by uploading the Kill Code into it. Unfortunately, he ends up with the wrong file and has to resort to other methods... | |
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Portal 2's Wheatley performs a manual override on a wall to get Chell on to the old testing track to reclaim the portal device. AKA he smashes the wall down. Played with in the core transfer procedure and the Stalemate Resolution Button. It overrides the current core and replaces it with another, as long as both cores agree. If not, a trained Stalemate Resolution Associate must push the aforementioned button. Chell is able to press it to start a transfer in her favor the first time, but when she does it again, Wheatley, in a rare moment of intelligence, reveals he rigged the button to some bombs to ensure she couldn’t press it. |
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In the Civil War (2006) 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), calling Spidey out on not realizing that he would have one. Subverted when Spider-Man reveals that he did realize that, and installed an override override. | |
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In Forbidden Planet Robby the Robot can be overridden using the phrase "emergency cancellation Archimedes". | |
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In Batman & Robin, Batman uses a voice activated override to shut down Robin's motorcycle and stop him from doing a dangerous stunt. | |
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In Outlaw Star, Melfina the bioandroid/ship navigator has an override command that suspends her personality. | |
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Played with in a spinoff miniseries of Perry Rhodan. After being stuck millennia in the past of the Empire of Arkon (a time when his original self was still stranded on Earth), the protagonist Atlan is faced with a hostile local ruler who commands a fleet superior to that of the allies he's made. Thankfully, he remembers that the common practice during this historical period was for units of the Imperial fleet to have secret override codes so that suitably highly-ranked officers could simply render troublesome ships useless to their handlers with a single transmission, happens to have discovered the relevant codes for the enemy fleet, and uses them to devastating effect to force his enemies to evacuate their doomed planet with only the small craft he allows them while leaving their fleet behind. The 'played with' part comes in when he later muses that that very incident must have been one of the reasons the practice was discontinued not too long afterwards... | |
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In Blackest Night, Sinestro reveals he designed an override command into the yellow power rings, so he defeats Mongul by turning his own ring against him. | |
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Doctor Who: The Doctor once hacked UNIT's computer systems so that they would accept "BUFFALO" as the correct response for all their passwords. | |
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Blake's 7. In "Redemption", the original owners of the Liberator use this to take control of Zen to bring the spaceship back to their home system. Orac is eventually able to remove Zen's override command, enabling them to escape. | |
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Star Wars Rebels: In "Through Imperial Eyes", Grand Admiral Thrawn's assassin droids, which he spars with, have the override "Rukh" to deactivate them. The Mole Kallus either deactivates or changes the override code when he sics the droids on Thrawn in an Assassination Attempt. | |
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In Yu-Gi-Oh!, during the Legendary Heroes arc, Seto Kaiba had a voice-activated command to immediately terminate and exit the virtual reality simulation. Unfortunately, when he tried to use it, it turned out the Big Five had already disabled it, leaving him trapped until Yugi and the others rescued him. | |
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In Space Pirate Mito, the mailsuits used by the main character and the Big Bad have a glitch that's activated by hitting a sensor on the back. Once activated, the glitch short-circuits the suit, paralyzing the user. | |
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In Andromeda, at least one of the verbal authorization codes for overriding the Eureka Maru's ship safety protocols is "Shut up and do what I tell you" | |
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Kamen Rider Gaim: Ryoma Sengoku programmed his Genesis Drivers to self-destruct when he says “Kill precious� to prevent them from being used against him. While this stops Micchy from tearing him a new one, the much angrier and more emotionally stable Kaito simply switches to the Sengoku Driver, which lacks this feature. | |
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In the Battlestar Galactica remake, this is the key to the Cylons' Curbstomp Battle of the entire Colonial Fleet in the opening stages of the war. One of the Sixes seduced Gaius Baltar, posing as a defense contractor, and convinced him to allow her access to the latest hardware being installed in the Fleet, ostensibly to give her an edge in bidding for the next contract. In reality, she inserted a backdoor that would allow the Cylons to remotely shut down any Colonial ships with the hardware installed. Since almost the entire fleet had been refitted with said hardware, the Cylons went through the Colonial Fleet like a chainsaw through tapioca. | |
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Demolition Man: Simon Phoenix is in a phone-booth-slash-computer-terminal when the police catch up with him. He sees that one of the cops is standing close to a wall and tries to activate the anti-graffiti system (metal rods that come out of the wall and use high voltage to clear the wall of ink). The computer senses the presence of the cop and refuses to run the system, but he promptly overrides the safety feature with the password "7777777" (seriously), electrocuting the cop. The password does have some other characters in it so it's more like '777.77-7777-7_7777'. (Assuming that those characters aren't part of a shown pattern to aid in typing in the code.) Earlier in the movie, the same baddie escapes confinement by voicing the passcode to the cuffs that were restraining him (which was probably part of the programming he received while in cryostasis). It should be noted that the person who programmed him with this information is also pretty much the designer of their society and technology, so he purposely made things easy for Phoenix. Lenina Huxley also uses an passwordless override command to access Simon Phonenix's cryostasis programming contents. However, the Viewer-Friendly Interface does hint that she has to state a life-threatening reason before accepting the override command. |
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Dr. Strangelove: Group Captain Mandrake discovers the override code to recall Burpleson AFB's B-52 squadrons from their misguided mission to attack Russian targets. They were variations on the letters O-P-E, which were anagrams of phrases General Ripper was scribbling down during his Sanity Slippage ("Peace On Earth," "Essence Of Purity", etc.). Now Mandrake has to contact the President to relay that code through a coin phone, only he hasn't got enough change and he's dealing with a Cloud Cuckoolander Colonel from another base. | |
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In one episode of Stargate Atlantis, Doctor Keller and Ronon are attempting to reclaim the Daedalus from the Wraith. Keller lists all the different systems they need to override and asks Ronon if he knows how to do all that. He proceeds to start shooting at the control crystals randomly. | |
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Star Wars Legends: The Thrawn Trilogy: Mara Jade, being a former personal agent to Emperor Palpatine himself, knows the secret access codes Palpatine had hardwired into the mainframe computers of every ship in the fleet so that he or his agents couldn't be locked out of his own ships by vessel commanders. She uses them to access the Chimaera's records to find Talon Karrde's detention cell as well as the ship's itinerary so that she and Luke can rescue him. She knows that Thrawn can't have removed her back door codes, but she worries that he might know about them and have set flags to show if they are used. Fortunately, no flags were set and Mara was not caught accessing the computer. During the rescue itself, she again uses the computer to alter duty rosters and reroute turbo lifts. When Thrawn figures that Karrde has been broken out of his cell, and that the rescuers must have used the computer to help them do it, he simply shuts the computer down entirely. While this considerably impairs the ship's operations, having the computer actively work against you is an even greater impairment. X-Wing Series: After the New Republic takes Coruscant back from the Empire their computer experts go through and close off most of the obvious exploits, backdoors, and other override commands in in "The Krytos Trap." However, given the enormity of the task Imperial agents still have ways of using computers on that world to contact their Imperial handlers. The agent in Rogue Squadron (later revealed to be Erisi Dlarit) sends a message to Imperial Intelligence head Ysanne Isard via public networks. She then executes a command normally used to erase messages in bulk, selecting the time her message was sent as the start and stop time for the command. This ensures no public records remained of the message being sent. |
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In the 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... | |
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System Shock uses the overrides at least twice. Considering that the software is dominated by SHODAN, It's the Only Way. | |
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Final Fantasy VIII has Selphie override several computers — one a "manual override" (in a Button Mashing minigame) and one a legit override in order to prevent a missile launch. (The password is EDEA, the name of the Sorceress dictator who's running the base.) | |
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In Star Trek: Voyager, Seven of Nine could control the entire ship on a whim. For example, one episode has her trying to access the Captain's personal logs. When denied, she walks over to a wall panel, flips a couple chips inside, and instantly gains access. In the same episode, she teaches a child to override commands from the bridge. | |
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Wander over Yonder: In "The Prisoner", Commander Peepers is tasked with capturing Wander. He believes the task will be extremely easy given Wander's simple, trusting nature and that Lord Hater's description of him as a cunning genius was completely erroneous. In the end, the Skullship is about to self-destruct thanks to Wander's meddling. After forcing a panicking Peepers to admit he was wrong to underestimate Wander, Hater gives the self-destruct system's override command: "Lord Hater, Number One Superstar". | |
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In Code Lyoko, Aelita can shut down any Tower by use of her handprint and inputting Code: LYOKO. Other codes exist, such as Code: EARTH, which materializes Aelita, and Code: XANA, which is essentially an override that deletes the entire Sector. | |
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Used and justified in Mega Man Legends, when Mega Man's pet monkey, Data overrides Mega Man Juno's commands to sterilize Kattelox island and even orders that Juno's personality be deleted. The reason this justified is that Mega Man actually did know the override codes a long time ago and copied them into Data for safe keeping. | |
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In the Game Boy version of a game based on Star Trek: The Next Generation, typing in OVERRIDE on the password screen will allow you to "override" the random mission selected, until you get the one you want. | |
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