...it's like TV Tropes, but LINKED DATA!
Trust Password
- 1113 statements
- 212 feature instances
- 210 referencing feature instances
| Trust Password | type |
FeatureClass | |
| Trust Password | label |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password | page |
TrustPassword | |
| Trust Password | comment |
A character needs to prove their own identity or situation to another character who's not likely to believe them. Maybe they're from the future, some other character reincarnated, or disguising as someone else. Maybe they have to pass a God Test. That's when they say the Trust Password — something that will prove their identity beyond a shadow of a doubt. Trust Passwords come in several forms. A common sub-trope is Something Only They Would Say, for an utterance that shows the speaker can be trusted, but wasn't established as a password beforehand. It can be set up in advance as a Covert Distress Code or a form of Spy Speak (often in sign/countersign form). It could be specialized knowledge of certain facts or events. Or it could be an object that has a special significance (such as an object that's been separated in half, so if you have one half only someone you trust has the other). The trope can be Played for Laughs quite easily — the skeptical character might not believe an otherwise airtight password, or the password might be common knowledge such that anyone can easily impersonate the character. Sometimes an illustration of The Power of Language. Not to be confused with Secret Word. Especially not to be confused with Safe Word. (Usually.) |
|
| Trust Password | fetched |
2024-03-19T12:46:05Z | |
| Trust Password | parsed |
2024-03-19T12:46:05Z | |
| Trust Password | processingComment |
Dropped link to AlternateUniverse: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| Trust Password | processingComment |
Dropped link to ArcWords: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| Trust Password | processingComment |
Dropped link to AstralProjection: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| Trust Password | processingComment |
Dropped link to BigBad: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| Trust Password | processingComment |
Dropped link to Bizalom: Not an Item - UNKNOWN | |
| Trust Password | processingComment |
Dropped link to BluffTheImpostor: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| Trust Password | processingComment |
Dropped link to CovertDistressCode: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| Trust Password | processingComment |
Dropped link to DarkSecret: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| Trust Password | processingComment |
Dropped link to DoubleSubversion: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| Trust Password | processingComment |
Dropped link to DownplayedTrope: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| Trust Password | processingComment |
Dropped link to EldritchAbomination: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| Trust Password | processingComment |
Dropped link to EmotionEater: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| Trust Password | processingComment |
Dropped link to FreakyFridayFlip: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| Trust Password | processingComment |
Dropped link to GenreSavvy: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| Trust Password | processingComment |
Dropped link to GodTest: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| Trust Password | processingComment |
Dropped link to HanlonsRazor: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| Trust Password | processingComment |
Dropped link to IDieFree: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| Trust Password | processingComment |
Dropped link to Intangibility: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| Trust Password | processingComment |
Dropped link to InvertedTrope: Not an Item - IGNORE | |
| Trust Password | processingComment |
Dropped link to JapaneseRanguage: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| Trust Password | processingComment |
Dropped link to KatyPerry: Not an Item - IGNORE | |
| Trust Password | processingComment |
Dropped link to NotMyDriver: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| Trust Password | processingComment |
Dropped link to PeggySue: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| Trust Password | processingComment |
Dropped link to PlayedForLaughs: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| Trust Password | processingComment |
Dropped link to PublicServiceAnnouncement: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| Trust Password | processingComment |
Dropped link to QuirkyMinibossSquad: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| Trust Password | processingComment |
Dropped link to RetGone: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| Trust Password | processingComment |
Dropped link to SantaClaus: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| Trust Password | processingComment |
Dropped link to SeriousBusiness: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| Trust Password | processingComment |
Dropped link to ShaveAndAHaircut: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| Trust Password | processingComment |
Dropped link to StableTimeLoop: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| Trust Password | processingComment |
Dropped link to StarWarsReturnOfTheJedi: Not an Item - UNKNOWN | |
| Trust Password | processingComment |
Dropped link to SteinsGate: Not an Item - UNKNOWN | |
| Trust Password | processingComment |
Dropped link to TakingTheHeat: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| Trust Password | processingComment |
Dropped link to TheBeatles: Not an Item - IGNORE | |
| Trust Password | processingComment |
Dropped link to TheGlomp: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| Trust Password | processingComment |
Dropped link to TheLostLenore: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| Trust Password | processingComment |
Dropped link to TheNthDoctor: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| Trust Password | processingComment |
Dropped link to TimeTravel: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| Trust Password | processingComment |
Dropped link to TragicVillain: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| Trust Password | processingComment |
Dropped link to TrrrillingRrrs: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| Trust Password | processingComment |
Dropped link to VoluntaryShapeshifting: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| Trust Password | processingComment |
Dropped link to YouWereTryingTooHard: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| Trust Password | processingUnknown |
SteinsGate | |
| Trust Password | processingUnknown |
Bizalom | |
| Trust Password | processingUnknown |
StarWarsReturnOfTheJedi | |
| Trust Password | isPartOf |
DBTropes | |
| Trust Password / int_1133352a | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_1133352a | comment |
Terminator: In The Terminator, Kyle tells Sarah, "Come with me if you want to live.", after he stops the T-800 from assassinating her at the Tech Noir nightclub. In Terminator 2: Judgment Day, an identical-looking T-800 is sent back in time to protect the young John Connor, and when she's understandably terrified seeing him, the T-800 says "Come with me if you want to live", allaying her worries and establishing that this also serves as a trust password among the human resistance. In Terminator Genisys, when Sarah encounters Future John Connor, she suspects him to be a shapeshifted terminator. Connor gains her trust by citing details of the past that only John Connor would know. Subverted, it turns out he's a Terminator-human hybrid made from Connor's body. |
|
| Trust Password / int_1133352a | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
| Trust Password / int_1133352a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Terminator (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_1133352a | |
| Trust Password / int_11366f17 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_11366f17 | comment |
In Betrayal at Krondor, James sends Gorath, a dark elf, to warn Prince Arutha of an attack, and tells him to use the phrase "There's a party at Mother's" to convince Arutha that the message is indeed from James, as it's a phrase they used years earlier in their adventures together and Something Only They Would Say. | |
| Trust Password / int_11366f17 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_11366f17 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Betrayal at Krondor (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_11366f17 | |
| Trust Password / int_122d2101 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_122d2101 | comment |
Hogyoku ex Machina: Yamamoto gives Ichigo one of these to prepare for when Rukia will turn Ret-Gone in the future (i.e. the third film). It also ends up being useful for identification against Aizen's illusions, though Ichigo still has to scramble as he struggles to remember it. Ichigo convinces Gin that he's from the future by explaining the true power of Gin's bankai, which Gin never revealed to anyone. |
|
| Trust Password / int_122d2101 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_122d2101 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hogyoku ex Machina / Fan Fic | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_122d2101 | |
| Trust Password / int_1367cea0 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_1367cea0 | comment |
Worm has these as a major component of Master/Stranger protocols the Protectorate uses as a guard against parahumans who can mind-control and/or impersonate people. The most prominent example of this is after the protagonists capture and bodyjack Shadow Stalker in order to infiltrate the Wards. When Weld uses the standard password, they're able to make Shadow Stalker reply with the standard countersign indicating that she's uncompromised — but they are at a loss when Weld asks who it was Shadow Stalker recently got in trouble for harassing. The incorrect response turns an until-then-successful infiltration into a firefight. | |
| Trust Password / int_1367cea0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_1367cea0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Worm | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_1367cea0 | |
| Trust Password / int_14494034 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_14494034 | comment |
Abraxas (Hrodvitnon): Once a way for humans to communicate with Monster X in its second form is found, Madison Russell asks the female head a series of questions to confirm that Monster X's female half really is Vivienne Graham. | |
| Trust Password / int_14494034 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_14494034 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Abraxas (Hrodvitnon) (Fanfic) | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_14494034 | |
| Trust Password / int_15349fd6 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_15349fd6 | comment |
Played with in The Three Hostages. When Sandy needs to communicate with Hannay secretly, he says that he'll sign his messages with a letter of the Greek alphabet, then changes his mind, saying that he doesn't expect Hannay to know those, so he'll use champion racehorses instead. And so Hannay receives a series of messages signed with names of racehorses — none of which, he notes, are champions, because Sandy's knowledge of horse racing is even worse than Hannay's knowledge of Greek. | |
| Trust Password / int_15349fd6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_15349fd6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Three Hostages | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_15349fd6 | |
| Trust Password / int_16a486f9 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_16a486f9 | comment |
In the "Sparks Nevada, Marshal on Mars" episode of the Thrilling Adventure Hour, the first time Croach the Tracker sees Sparks Nevada after returning from the dead, Nevada needs more than just Croach's word that it's really him and demands something only the two of them would know about. To Nevada's dismay, Croach chooses to use the time Nevada massaged his egg sacks in the second episode. | |
| Trust Password / int_16a486f9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_16a486f9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Thrilling Adventure Hour (Podcast) | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_16a486f9 | |
| Trust Password / int_17a3d08a | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_17a3d08a | comment |
On The Terror: Infamy, the Nakayamas and the Ojedas set up one in "Come and Get Me" with the Spanish nursery rhyme "Los Pollitos" to try to keep Yuko Tanabe out so that she can't get Chesster and Luz's baby. When they sing "Los pollitos dicen pio, pio, pio, cuando tienen hambre..." the person at the other end of the door is supposed to finish with "Cuando tienen frio." Unfortunately, Yuko somehow overhears the password, possesses the priest Father Ysidro, and uses it to get in. | |
| Trust Password / int_17a3d08a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_17a3d08a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Terror: Infamy | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_17a3d08a | |
| Trust Password / int_1835ca75 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_1835ca75 | comment |
On Cursed, if trying to figure out if someone is a Fey, a member of the Fey will greet them with the phrase "Born in the dawn..." to which they are supposed to reply with "...to pass in the twilight." The full phrase, as spoken by Gawain and Squirrel, is apparently "A knight of the Fey is one with the land, as enduring as the Great River and as true as Arawn's bow. We are born in the dawn, to pass in the twilight." | |
| Trust Password / int_1835ca75 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_1835ca75 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Cursed (2020) | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_1835ca75 | |
| Trust Password / int_1a3a6af1 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_1a3a6af1 | comment |
In Continuum, Spanners use a form of sign/countersign to identify other spanners. They ask what time it is. Levellers will respond with the time. Other spanners will respond by repeating the question back to the asker, word for word. | |
| Trust Password / int_1a3a6af1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_1a3a6af1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Continuum (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_1a3a6af1 | |
| Trust Password / int_1aa9d596 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_1aa9d596 | comment |
Reboot (Miraculous Ladybug): Master Fu gave Marinette a series of words to tell his younger self to let him know that he sent her back in time. | |
| Trust Password / int_1aa9d596 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_1aa9d596 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Reboot (Miraculous Ladybug) (Fanfic) | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_1aa9d596 | |
| Trust Password / int_1bdeba5a | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_1bdeba5a | comment |
Defied in an old X-Men story. When Emma Frost tries to convince Kitty Pryde that she is in fact Storm and that the actual Frost had forcibly body-jacked her to infiltrate the X-Men, Pryde understandably points out that "Something only I would know," is a means of identification trivially bypassed by a low-ethics telepath that has had a couple of hours to dig through the requester's brain. | |
| Trust Password / int_1bdeba5a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_1bdeba5a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| X-Men (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_1bdeba5a | |
| Trust Password / int_1beda93b | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_1beda93b | comment |
Sluggy Freelance: During their adventures in the Punyverse, Bun-Bun cons Lord Grater into believing he works for his boss, Zorgon Gola. Lord Grater responds, "if you know everything about me, what am I thinking about right now?" Bun-Bun responds that the information is classified, which instantly appeases him. In "Oceans Unmoving", (major spoilers), it's inverted. Bun-Bun can't appear himself to his past self as himself, because he knows that if he were to see someone claiming to be himself from the future, he'd figure it was a trap and kill them, expecting that if it were really him he would have expected that. |
|
| Trust Password / int_1beda93b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_1beda93b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_1beda93b | |
| Trust Password / int_1bfa015e | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_1bfa015e | comment |
In Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey, Ted tries this on the boys' "evil robot usses" by giving them a How Many Fingers? test. They pass, although since Ted was hoping for them to pass, he may just have flashed whatever number of fingers they said he was holding. | |
| Trust Password / int_1bfa015e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_1bfa015e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_1bfa015e | |
| Trust Password / int_1e0f7416 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_1e0f7416 | comment |
In Mara, Daughter of the Nile, Sheftu gives Nekonkh a Trust Password for Mara: "Tell her I have not forgotten what I said last night when I took her in my arms." Nekonkh is repulsed by Sheftu's cold-bloodedness, as he is to use the password as part of Mara's loyalty test. | |
| Trust Password / int_1e0f7416 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_1e0f7416 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Mara, Daughter of the Nile | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_1e0f7416 | |
| Trust Password / int_1f4b835c | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_1f4b835c | comment |
In Married Thrice To Salted Fish, Lu Wancheng tells Lin Qingyu that he'll use the phrase "if odd, change; if even, remain the same" to prove his identity to him if he gets reincarnated again in his world. Said phrase is a trigonometry-related mnemonic that only people from the modern day world would be familiar with so Lin Qingyu can be certain that no one other than Lu Wancheng, a transmigrator from the modern day, would come up with an odd-sounding phrase like this in the ancient China setting he lives in. | |
| Trust Password / int_1f4b835c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_1f4b835c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Married Thrice To Salted Fish | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_1f4b835c | |
| Trust Password / int_1fd88f96 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_1fd88f96 | comment |
In Multiverse of Madness: The Clea Cut, when 616-Wanda has been manipulated into dreamwalking into her Earth-717 counterpart, 616-Peter Parker (who had accidentally travelled to that Earth with Strange and America Chavez) confirms that this is "his" version of Wanda in control by quoting from Wicked, which he and Wanda saw shortly before Strange came to them about America's presence and which Peter has already confirmed doesn't exist on Earth-717. | |
| Trust Password / int_1fd88f96 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_1fd88f96 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Because I Knew You (Fanfic) | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_1fd88f96 | |
| Trust Password / int_20a73848 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_20a73848 | comment |
Used oddly in True Magic. Nobles "salute" by making a plume of fire come from their hand. Since peasants can't do that, they're able to keep them out of places they're unwelcome. | |
| Trust Password / int_20a73848 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_20a73848 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| True Magic (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_20a73848 | |
| Trust Password / int_20b544b | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_20b544b | comment |
In Shardlight, members of La Résistance identify each other and their collaborators with the phrase "I'd have/I've got the perfect life." It makes quite a bit of sense, in that it would be a very uncommon phrase in a Crapsack World set After the End. | |
| Trust Password / int_20b544b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_20b544b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Shardlight (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_20b544b | |
| Trust Password / int_21e4ee5c | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_21e4ee5c | comment |
In an episode of Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Buck hijacks a Draconian fighter and must prove to another pilot that he's from Earth. The pilot is someone Buck had previously been stranded in the desert with and had shared stories of the past. In this case, Buck proved who he was by giving a description of OJ Simpson. | |
| Trust Password / int_21e4ee5c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_21e4ee5c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Buck Rogers in the 25th Century | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_21e4ee5c | |
| Trust Password / int_22147342 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_22147342 | comment |
In the Arrow fic "Happy Accidents", after Laurel Lance is reborn in the body of her Earth-2 counterpart, Cisco and Thea each test her with their own trust passwords; Cisco asks what he asked for in exchange for helping her create her Canary Cry (Laurel countering by asking what she said she'd do if he showed it to anyone), and Thea asks what she told Laurel regarding her ex-boyfriends Alex and Roy (Laurel replying Thea said she'd be surprised at which of the two used more tongue). | |
| Trust Password / int_22147342 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_22147342 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Arrow | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_22147342 | |
| Trust Password / int_2250e67e | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_2250e67e | comment |
In an alternate future of Star Trek: Enterprise seen in the episode "Twilight", the now elderly Captain Jonathan Archer is being cared for by his "caretaker" T'Pol. However, an injury prevents him from remembering all that's happened since he was last on the Enterprise. T'Pol says to him that she fully understands that he might consider all this to be an illusion or an elaborate deception. To alleviate his fears, she tells him the story of an old girlfriend he wanted to marry back on Earth. The stunned Archer wants to know just what kind of "relationship" he and T'Pol have that he'd ever tell her the story. She'll only say their relationship has "evolved". | |
| Trust Password / int_2250e67e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_2250e67e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Star Trek: Enterprise | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_2250e67e | |
| Trust Password / int_226f6b3f | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_226f6b3f | comment |
On Haven, an aborted attempt at Sex for Solace becomes this for Audrey and Duke. They shared a kiss in Colorado while investigating a lead related to the show's mythology, stemming from Audrey's season-long identity crisis and stress over the thought of disappearing in a matter of days. They keep this to themselves, but the fact that only they know what did—and didn't—happen in that hotel room comes in handy several times after, when they need to confirm that they are who they say they are. | |
| Trust Password / int_226f6b3f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_226f6b3f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Haven | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_226f6b3f | |
| Trust Password / int_233dd948 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_233dd948 | comment |
In Red vs. Blue: The Recollection, Agent Washington verifies to the Reds that he is from Command by knowing Sarge's ultimate secret codeword: it's "codeword". | |
| Trust Password / int_233dd948 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_233dd948 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Red vs. Blue: The Recollection (Web Animation) | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_233dd948 | |
| Trust Password / int_251e67c5 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_251e67c5 | comment |
Justice League of America: During the Obsidian Age arc, in which the entire League is killed and their souls trapped by an ancient Atlantean sorceress, it's revealed that Batman's passcode for Nightwing is "The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze"; not only are they song lyrics, but they also refer to Dick Grayson's boyhood career. | |
| Trust Password / int_251e67c5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_251e67c5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Justice League of America (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_251e67c5 | |
| Trust Password / int_2675c915 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_2675c915 | comment |
In the first-season finale of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Skye convinces Mike she has his son by having Ace repeat what they said to each other in the pilot. Used again in Season 6, when the villainous Izel is capable of possessing people's bodies and imitating their mannerisms, but can't access their memories beyond what she already knows of them. This results in a very tense scene where the agents all share half of a secret they know about somebody else in the room, which the other person then has to complete, thus proving that both individuals are really who they say they are. (Example: Mack, as the new director, is the only person who knows that Daisy donates part of her paycheck every month, and asks her to confirm where it goes. She reveals that she gives it to Lincoln's sister.) Naturally, the first person to flat-out refuse to comply can't give a good reason for doing so, and is quickly identified as being the one who's possessed. |
|
| Trust Password / int_2675c915 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_2675c915 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_2675c915 | |
| Trust Password / int_2a5145ed | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_2a5145ed | comment |
Downplayed in Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII when Lightning says the first half of their personal motto ("Keep your eyes front") and Hope fails to correctly finish the phrase ("I'll watch the rear") even after Lightning prompts him, so she stops trusting him. She doesn't know what's wrong with him (he's possessed), but it's something big for him to forget that. | |
| Trust Password / int_2a5145ed | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_2a5145ed | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_2a5145ed | |
| Trust Password / int_2b7a926b | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_2b7a926b | comment |
In Unexpected Surprise, when Adrien needs to convince Marinette he is the former Chat Noir (and the father of her child), he starts to tell the detail of their night together. Since there were obviously no witnesses to that, a make-up follows within seconds. | |
| Trust Password / int_2b7a926b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_2b7a926b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Unexpected Surprise (Fanfic) | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_2b7a926b | |
| Trust Password / int_2d311a08 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_2d311a08 | comment |
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987)': Played for Laughs when Burne Thompson goes looking for information on the Teenaged Mutant Ninja Turtles, accidentally walks into a spy dead drop and ends up kidnapped and subjected to three hours of Tickle Torture when he doesn't know the rest of the code phrase. | |
| Trust Password / int_2d311a08 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_2d311a08 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987) | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_2d311a08 | |
| Trust Password / int_2e2efbf9 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_2e2efbf9 | comment |
In the first film, Marty tries to convince 1955 Doc that he's from the future and he needs Doc's help. He first shows him his driver's license and a picture of his family where his sister is wearing a sweatshirt that says "Class of '84" (Doc assumes he doctored themnote They soon realize the "doctoring" was actually the first signs that history was changing). He then tries to reveal "future" history, which Doc laughs off because he refuses to believe that Hollywood actor Ronald Reagan is really President. Marty successfully gets Doc to believe him by telling him something only Doc would know — the vision that led to his invention of the time machine. | |
| Trust Password / int_2e2efbf9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_2e2efbf9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Back to the Future | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_2e2efbf9 | |
| Trust Password / int_2ea6ae26 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_2ea6ae26 | comment |
Star Trek: Picard: The Titan is attempting to ascertain whether Captain Tuvok is a Changeling over a subspace communication. The voice result is inconclusive. Seven of Nine then references the game kal-toh, which she and Tuvok played often aboard Voyager. After Tuvok's response, she appears relieved. This, however, is a Double Subversion: One, because he is a Changeling, and two, because Seven's next sentence was another test, bringing up the Voyager episode "Infinite Regress"... which Changeling!Tuvok fails. Later Played for Laughs when Picard and Geordi have to prove to each other who they are. |
|
| Trust Password / int_2ea6ae26 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_2ea6ae26 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Star Trek: Picard | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_2ea6ae26 | |
| Trust Password / int_30a5ebfd | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_30a5ebfd | comment |
Naruto plays with the trope during the Chunin Exam. Sasuke Uchiha, having just defeated an impostor by recognizing him through sheer luck, decides it's necessary to give Trust Passwords to Sakura and Naruto in case they get separated again. However, he deliberately makes the password so complicated that he knows Naruto will never remember it — so when an impostor impersonating Naruto shows up and perfectly recites the password, Sasuke knows it's a fake who was eavesdropping earlier. | |
| Trust Password / int_30a5ebfd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_30a5ebfd | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Naruto (Manga) | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_30a5ebfd | |
| Trust Password / int_31a48eed | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_31a48eed | comment |
The Outer Limits (1995): In "Tribunal", the elderly Karl Rademacher from 1999 is brought back to Auschwitz in 1944 by Aaron Zgierski and Nicholas Prentice and forced to dress in the clothes of an inmate. When he is brought before him, he tries to convince the younger Rademacher that he is him from more than 50 years in the future by relating what happened on his tenth birthday: his father gave him a green bicycle and beat him when he drove it into a river. The younger Rademacher is disturbed by this since, as far as he knows, there is no way that this elderly Jewish prisoner could have known about that incident. He then shoots his older self in the head. | |
| Trust Password / int_31a48eed | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_31a48eed | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Outer Limits (1995) | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_31a48eed | |
| Trust Password / int_350d48da | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_350d48da | comment |
Cybervillage: Robogozin, once he makes contact with his secretary, tells her about his nickname for her and some other private matters. | |
| Trust Password / int_350d48da | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_350d48da | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Cybervillage | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_350d48da | |
| Trust Password / int_352c7503 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_352c7503 | comment |
In Airheads, to determine whether a record executive actually is an exec and not an undercover cop, Chazz asks him, "Whose side did you take in the Van Halen/Roth split: Van Halen or Roth?". He incorrectly answers "Van Halen", outing him as a cop. Chazz still gives him one more chance, asking "Who would win a wrestling match: Lemmy or God?". He first answers "Lemmy", then hastily switches to "God", before Rex tells him, "Wrong, dickhead! Trick question! Lemmy is God!", and he's finally driven away. | |
| Trust Password / int_352c7503 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_352c7503 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Airheads | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_352c7503 | |
| Trust Password / int_35e05f2a | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_35e05f2a | comment |
The RWBY fanfic Four Deadly Secrets has Neo and Ruby exchange one, in the form of sign/counter-sign when they first meet. | |
| Trust Password / int_35e05f2a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_35e05f2a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| RWBY (Web Animation) | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_35e05f2a | |
| Trust Password / int_3729373e | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_3729373e | comment |
In one of Connor's endings of Detroit: Become Human, he's put in a situation where Hank must decide whether to shoot him or a non-Deviant version of him and asks the two what the name of his son is. However, a potential problem that can come up is that it is fully possible for the players to miss out on the options that leads to Connor learning the name of Hank's son, meaning that they either don't know the Trust Password or have to simply guess. | |
| Trust Password / int_3729373e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_3729373e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Detroit: Become Human (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_3729373e | |
| Trust Password / int_3b34143f | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_3b34143f | comment |
In the last two Harry Potter books, the Ministry of Magic suggests people set up a password with their loved ones so as to identify someone disguised with Polyjuice Potion. It's generally treated as a joke in Half-Blood Prince (such as Arthur accidentally outing his secret Affectionate Nickname for Molly), but becomes deadly serious in Deathly Hallows, as the circumstances are much more dire, and people will turn on their loved ones if they don't answer correctly immediately. In detail: In Half Blood Prince, the accepted wisdom is to pre-arrange these passwords with family members - an approach with obvious vulnerabilities - and the questions are asked in a way that doesn't afford much security should the impostor fail the test. In Deathly Hallows, the questions are random, and posed to the suspected impostor at wandpoint. | |
| Trust Password / int_3b34143f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_3b34143f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Harry Potter | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_3b34143f | |
| Trust Password / int_3b6a4d03 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_3b6a4d03 | comment |
The Dresden Fillies (The Dresden Files & My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic): As in the Dresden Files half of it's source material, Harry giving his full name to Twilight Sparkle is a sign of immense trust in her and is used in the second story to confirm her identity to him. | |
| Trust Password / int_3b6a4d03 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_3b6a4d03 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Dresden Fillies / Fan Fic | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_3b6a4d03 | |
| Trust Password / int_3d0180fa | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_3d0180fa | comment |
Parodied in several The Pink Panther movies. Clouseau will ask Dreyfus what his code name is, or what the password is. Dreyfus has to think, then replies in a fury that he doesn't have a codename or that there is no password. Clouseau confirms that only the real Dreyfus would know that, but this just angers Dreyfus further. | |
| Trust Password / int_3d0180fa | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_3d0180fa | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Pink Panther (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_3d0180fa | |
| Trust Password / int_3d0806b2 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_3d0806b2 | comment |
Winter War: How do you convince someone who's been Aizen's prisoner for months that you really are you? You hand him his zanpakutou, which will do the convincing for you. | |
| Trust Password / int_3d0806b2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_3d0806b2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Winter War / Fan Fic | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_3d0806b2 | |
| Trust Password / int_3ef1def5 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_3ef1def5 | comment |
In The Death of Superman, the real Superman proves his identity to Lois by naming Clark Kent's favorite movie, To Kill a Mockingbird. | |
| Trust Password / int_3ef1def5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_3ef1def5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Death of Superman (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_3ef1def5 | |
| Trust Password / int_40ef1034 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_40ef1034 | comment |
In The Seven Deadly Sins, Gilthunder's supposed Badass Boast turns out to be a trust password. It's a phrase learned from Meliodas, to be used if they're ever in deep trouble. | |
| Trust Password / int_40ef1034 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_40ef1034 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Seven Deadly Sins (Manga) | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_40ef1034 | |
| Trust Password / int_413aa2f7 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_413aa2f7 | comment |
One particularly extreme password was reciting Don Quixote in its entirety. Filemón tries unsuccessfully to convince the guard on the other side of the door to let him skip the password for once. He has a Photographic Memory and knows it by heart, but by the time he's finished reciting it, he's grown a Time-Passage Beard. And then the door collapses, and the guard turns out to have died of old age. | |
| Trust Password / int_413aa2f7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_413aa2f7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Don Quixote | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_413aa2f7 | |
| Trust Password / int_41b0198a | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_41b0198a | comment |
The Dresden Files: White Night: When Harry is mentally communicating with Elaine Mallory, his use of both their true names serves as this. Small Favor: When Queen Mab, Queen of Air and Darkness shows herself before Harry, she is speaking via a servant malk talking for her. Harry has encountered Mab several times before and asks for confirmation she is the true Mab as Mab has never needed such aid before. Mab recites the terms of the debt contract Harry owes her and her last encounter with him. Ghost Story: When Harry reappears after his vanishing six months prior with his friends not knowing what happened to him, he is bombarded with questions from allies to all matters of Call Backs in the previous twelve books to confirm his identity and not some imposter or doppelganger. This is all the more important because at this moment, Harry is a spirit and talking through an ectomancer. It finally takes Harry's cat who can see him rubbing against his intangible leg and Molly, Harry's apprentice who has gone a dark path since his death, to confirm it is him. |
|
| Trust Password / int_41b0198a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_41b0198a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Dresden Files | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_41b0198a | |
| Trust Password / int_423a7a24 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_423a7a24 | comment |
Twisted in Futari Wa Pretty Cure Blue Moon. Facing down an illusory copy of Yoko controlled by Millusion, Cure Sunday asks her to answer a question about herself. The twist is that giving the right answer proves her as the fake, because Yoko didn't know it. | |
| Trust Password / int_423a7a24 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_423a7a24 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Futari Wa Pretty Cure Blue Moon (Fanfic) | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_423a7a24 | |
| Trust Password / int_43576f5 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_43576f5 | comment |
Supernatural: Sam and Dean have a series of passwords and routines established for if they get separated, captured or arrested. The phrase "Funky Town" means the brother who says it is being held at gunpoint. "Poughkeepsie" means drop everything and run. A note addressed to "Hilts" and signed "Steve McQueen (actor)" means the brother who sent it will create a distraction while the brother who received it makes an escape. In "The End", Dean is sent to the future and proves his identity to Future Dean by telling a story that only he would know: When Dean travels back in time, he has to convince his mother, Mary, that he is her son sent from the future. He convinces her by telling her that she always sang "Hey Jude" to him as a kid because it was her favorite song. |
|
| Trust Password / int_43576f5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_43576f5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Supernatural | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_43576f5 | |
| Trust Password / int_483a069c | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_483a069c | comment |
Mortadelo y Filemón have an arbitrarily catalogued number of trust passwords. A Running Gag is for the password to be very offensive to some group or collective that happens to be within earshot. A beating ensues. One particularly extreme password was reciting Don Quixote in its entirety. Filemón tries unsuccessfully to convince the guard on the other side of the door to let him skip the password for once. He has a Photographic Memory and knows it by heart, but by the time he's finished reciting it, he's grown a Time-Passage Beard. And then the door collapses, and the guard turns out to have died of old age. |
|
| Trust Password / int_483a069c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_483a069c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Mortadelo y Filemón (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_483a069c | |
| Trust Password / int_49c37a09 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_49c37a09 | comment |
There's a way to use this in Millennia: Altered Destinies to get the most powerful weapon in the game. Occasionally, when you perform a temporal jump, you will end up in a green mist with a mirror of your ship in front of you. You can contact your other self, and he will tell you a number. The next time you're in the same mist, you can tell your other self the same number. He will then teleport a set of plans onto your ship that can be given to a sufficiently-advanced race to build. | |
| Trust Password / int_49c37a09 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_49c37a09 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| MillenniaAlteredDestinies | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_49c37a09 | |
| Trust Password / int_4cacbf66 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_4cacbf66 | comment |
Bill & Ted: Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure has the protagonists' future selves prove their identities thusly: In Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey, Ted tries this on the boys' "evil robot usses" by giving them a How Many Fingers? test. They pass, although since Ted was hoping for them to pass, he may just have flashed whatever number of fingers they said he was holding. |
|
| Trust Password / int_4cacbf66 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_4cacbf66 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Bill & Ted (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_4cacbf66 | |
| Trust Password / int_4ce56986 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_4ce56986 | comment |
Kitboga is a scambaiter popular on Twitch and YouTube. A common tactic of certain scammers is to set up a password with the victim and then the victim isn't supposed to answer any calls unless the caller is able to give the password. For Kitboga, this is just another opportunity for more fun, making up ridiculous passwords like "I love the mailman" or hanging up if they are even slightly off with the password. | |
| Trust Password / int_4ce56986 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_4ce56986 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Kitboga (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_4ce56986 | |
| Trust Password / int_4d04208 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_4d04208 | comment |
When Hank's cure first works, Scott assumes the not-blue-and-furry Hank is a imposter. Hank tries twice before managing to convince Scott of who he is — because he knows why Scott doesn't like The Andy Griffith Show. | |
| Trust Password / int_4d04208 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_4d04208 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Andy Griffith Show | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_4d04208 | |
| Trust Password / int_4dc30764 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_4dc30764 | comment |
In If I Could Start Again, in order to gain Hawkeye and Black Widow's trust after they learn that he's from the future, Thor tells them about when they went to Clint's house during the Ultron incident and about his family when they first met them. Since the only way Thor would know about Clint's family in the first place would be if he had his absolute trust, he accepts Thor's claims. | |
| Trust Password / int_4dc30764 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_4dc30764 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| If I Could Start Again (Fanfic) | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_4dc30764 | |
| Trust Password / int_4dd54482 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_4dd54482 | comment |
In Ben 10: Alien Force, Past Gwen demands Future Gwen say something only she would know. Future Gwen whispers something to her, prompting a disgusted reaction. We never find out what it was, even Dwayne MacDuffie refused to comment, saying it was "personal". | |
| Trust Password / int_4dd54482 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_4dd54482 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Ben 10: Alien Force | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_4dd54482 | |
| Trust Password / int_4f5896ce | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_4f5896ce | comment |
Event Horizon (RWBY): Ciel tells Ozpin about her Semblance early on, and is surprised when he believes her. He tells her about a man named Listing with a similar Semblance, and to use the phrase "I have Listing's Semblance" to explain things as quickly as possible. The author notes in the afterword that it's no coincidence that the only one who could get Ozpin to trust Ciel was Ozpin himself. | |
| Trust Password / int_4f5896ce | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_4f5896ce | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Event Horizon (RWBY) (Fanfic) | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_4f5896ce | |
| Trust Password / int_50bcf7a6 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_50bcf7a6 | comment |
In Homestuck, Jade implements a system of these, though it's less about trust and more about trying to keep her conversations relatively linear, since the Trolls tend to skip around a lot regarding time shenanigans. Subverted in one conversation with Karkat, who can't remember the password, but does remember that it's insulting. He rattles off a truly impressive self-loathing monologue, which convinces Jade anyway, because Karkat is the only person who hates himself enough to put that much effort into insulting himself. | |
| Trust Password / int_50bcf7a6 | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
| Trust Password / int_50bcf7a6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Homestuck (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_50bcf7a6 | |
| Trust Password / int_50e2e357 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_50e2e357 | comment |
Star Trek (2009) gives an example where this doesn't work. Spock Prime greets Kirk with the line, "I have been and always shall be your friend". Except that event happens so far into the future that Kirk and Spock aren't even friends yet in this timeline, so Kirk doesn't get it. Spock resorts to using a mindmeld instead. | |
| Trust Password / int_50e2e357 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_50e2e357 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Star Trek (2009) | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_50e2e357 | |
| Trust Password / int_51507cf2 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_51507cf2 | comment |
Something Awful goons answer the question "Do you have stairs in your house?" with the countersign "I am protected." | |
| Trust Password / int_51507cf2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_51507cf2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Something Awful (Website) | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_51507cf2 | |
| Trust Password / int_5178149f | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_5178149f | comment |
Batman: The Brave and the Bold: In "The Criss-Cross Conspiracy!", Batman is trapped in Batwoman's body. Nightwing asks him to prove it by saying something only Batman would know. When Batman is projecting himself astrally after being Buried Alive (It Makes Sense in Context), he possesses Speedy and starts telling Green Arrow about what's going on. Arrow initially thinks it's Speedy doing an impression, before Bats grabs him by the hem of his shirt and threatens him to his face. |
|
| Trust Password / int_5178149f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_5178149f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Batman: The Brave and the Bold | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_5178149f | |
| Trust Password / int_546876cb | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_546876cb | comment |
In the Sonic Boom episode "Hedgehog Day", Eggman asks Sonic and Tails what he can say in order to convince them quickly that the time loop exists. After time resets itself again: | |
| Trust Password / int_546876cb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_546876cb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sonic Boom | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_546876cb | |
| Trust Password / int_550ba959 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_550ba959 | comment |
In Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, the trust password for identifying ally under EMP is "Star", to which the proper response is "Texas", as seen in Second Sun stage. | |
| Trust Password / int_550ba959 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_550ba959 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_550ba959 | |
| Trust Password / int_585e3746 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_585e3746 | comment |
Big: The most prominent trust password is extremely complicated, with a fast song and dance routine. When Josh calls his mother, pretending he's a kidnapper, his mother asks him to name the song she used to sing to him when he was younger. Josh tries to dodge the question, but when she insists, he sheepishly sings the song, the title theme of The Way We Were. |
|
| Trust Password / int_585e3746 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_585e3746 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Big | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_585e3746 | |
| Trust Password / int_59140854 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_59140854 | comment |
In Jessica Jones, Trish and Jessica decide they need some sort of signal to indicate Jess is not under Kilgrave's mind control. Since Kilgrave would make Jessica pretend like everything's normal, they decide to use a phrase that Jessica would never say: "I love you." | |
| Trust Password / int_59140854 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_59140854 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jessica Jones (2015) | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_59140854 | |
| Trust Password / int_5a3dae52 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_5a3dae52 | comment |
In the series 2 premiere of Misfits, the gang have to deal with a shapeshifter. In order to make sure it's really them, they greet each other with "Monkeyslut!" As befits their general methods, this is horribly ineffective. When one of them does encounter the shifter, he just says it with prompting, and fails to notice the shifter's look of confusion. | |
| Trust Password / int_5a3dae52 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_5a3dae52 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Misfits | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_5a3dae52 | |
| Trust Password / int_5afbc0cb | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_5afbc0cb | comment |
In Undertale, if the player loads the game immediately after receiving a pacifist judgement from Sans and receives it again, he will notice that you seem to have heard his speech before; to put you to the test, he gives you a Trust Password that he's been setting up just in case he ever needed to verify if someone's a time traveler. If you load again, The Child will tell Sans the password, "I'm a stupid doodoo butt," and he will, in turn, give you the true trust password that will verify, once and for all, that you're a time traveler. Load again and The Child will give Sans the second password, "I'm the legendary fartmaster," and he will, in turn, gives them the key to his room. | |
| Trust Password / int_5afbc0cb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_5afbc0cb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Undertale (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_5afbc0cb | |
| Trust Password / int_5b086a8a | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_5b086a8a | comment |
Jasmine receives helpful text messages from an anonymous source in The Well of Moments, beginning with references to two different inside jokes she shares with different people. She mostly dismisses the weirdness of that because she's worked with supernatural objects, and weird comes with the territory. Although the secrecy annoys her she grudgingly extends limited trust to the texter, who seems to at least know her circle of friends. | |
| Trust Password / int_5b086a8a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_5b086a8a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Well of Moments | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_5b086a8a | |
| Trust Password / int_5b7900ff | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_5b7900ff | comment |
SOON: Dr. Fang decided on a "time travel password" as a kid just in case someone had to prove time travel was real. | |
| Trust Password / int_5b7900ff | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_5b7900ff | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| SOON (Visual Novel) | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_5b7900ff | |
| Trust Password / int_5bb3aaab | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_5bb3aaab | comment |
At the end of Ghost in the Shell (1995), just before Major Kusanagi leaves Batou, she tells him that 2501 (the code number of the Puppetmaster project) will be their password so that he can identify her when they meet again. | |
| Trust Password / int_5bb3aaab | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_5bb3aaab | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Ghost in the Shell (1995) | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_5bb3aaab | |
| Trust Password / int_5c3b1859 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_5c3b1859 | comment |
Captain America: Civil War: Bucky proves that he's back to his old self after being re-brainwashed and causing an international incident by remembering that pre-serum Steve used to stuff newspapers in his shoes; he's the only living person other than Steve who would know that, and he wouldn't remember it if he were still under the effects of the kind of brainwashing HYDRA uses. | |
| Trust Password / int_5c3b1859 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_5c3b1859 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Captain America: Civil War | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_5c3b1859 | |
| Trust Password / int_5d30f322 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_5d30f322 | comment |
In Frequency, the protagonist convinces his father in the past that he's really from the future by detailing a baseball game that hasn't happen yet. When the father sees the game the next day happen exactly as described, he believes. | |
| Trust Password / int_5d30f322 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_5d30f322 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Frequency | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_5d30f322 | |
| Trust Password / int_5dd2cbc0 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_5dd2cbc0 | comment |
Ministry of Fear offers a Spy Speak example. The whole story unfolds after Stephen accidentally utters the code phrase, telling the palm reader to ignore the past and tell him the future. She then tells him the weight of the cake which is a prize in a weight-guessing game. Cue a long chase as Nazi spies try to get the MacGuffin hidden inside the cake that Stephen won. | |
| Trust Password / int_5dd2cbc0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_5dd2cbc0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Ministry of Fear | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_5dd2cbc0 | |
| Trust Password / int_5e9ea81e | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_5e9ea81e | comment |
Black Panther (2018): Wakandan War Dogs, deep cover agents around the world, have a nonverbal password. When asked for their identity, they pull down their lower lip to expose a glowing blue vibranium tattoo. | |
| Trust Password / int_5e9ea81e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_5e9ea81e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Black Panther (2018) | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_5e9ea81e | |
| Trust Password / int_6059314b | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_6059314b | comment |
In xkcd #1121 Cueball asks Megan for a server password over the phone. When she asks how she knows it's him he begins to excitedly suggest a proof-of-identity protocol. She stops him mid-sentence; that suggestion alone was enough to confirm his identity. | |
| Trust Password / int_6059314b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_6059314b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| xkcd (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_6059314b | |
| Trust Password / int_6375e714 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_6375e714 | comment |
A Chance Meeting of Two Moons: How Artemis and Luna confirm their identities as the others' counterpart from a parallel universe - they simultaneously reveal the time they each caught their older sibling having drunken sex with their world's draconequus. | |
| Trust Password / int_6375e714 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_6375e714 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| A Chance Meeting of Two Moons / Fan Fic | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_6375e714 | |
| Trust Password / int_6535218b | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_6535218b | comment |
Same Tactic used by one of the protagonists in Red Storm Rising when radioing back to friendly forces. | |
| Trust Password / int_6535218b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_6535218b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Red Storm Rising | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_6535218b | |
| Trust Password / int_679edf73 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_679edf73 | comment |
In Terminator Genisys, when Sarah encounters Future John Connor, she suspects him to be a shapeshifted terminator. Connor gains her trust by citing details of the past that only John Connor would know. Subverted, it turns out he's a Terminator-human hybrid made from Connor's body. | |
| Trust Password / int_679edf73 | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
| Trust Password / int_679edf73 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Terminator Genisys | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_679edf73 | |
| Trust Password / int_680901e6 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_680901e6 | comment |
Burning Bridges, Building Confidence: When Master Fu selects a new holder for the Fox Miraculous, he has Trixx go and retrieve Tikki from Marinette in order to get her approval first. Later, when Ladybug meets Vexxin for the first time, she asks her what the names of both of their kwamis are in order to affirm that it's the same person. | |
| Trust Password / int_680901e6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_680901e6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Burning Bridges, Building Confidence / Fan Fic | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_680901e6 | |
| Trust Password / int_69d15cc0 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_69d15cc0 | comment |
Marvel Cinematic Universe: Captain America: Civil War: Bucky proves that he's back to his old self after being re-brainwashed and causing an international incident by remembering that pre-serum Steve used to stuff newspapers in his shoes; he's the only living person other than Steve who would know that, and he wouldn't remember it if he were still under the effects of the kind of brainwashing HYDRA uses. Black Panther (2018): Wakandan War Dogs, deep cover agents around the world, have a nonverbal password. When asked for their identity, they pull down their lower lip to expose a glowing blue vibranium tattoo. In Avengers: Endgame, a time traveling Captain America has returned to the time of The Avengers (2012) and he needs to get the scepter for the modern day Avengers' plan. Surrounded by Agent Sitwell and S.T.R.I.K.E. team members, he knows he can't fight them or blow their cover as HYDRA moles at this point, so Cap utters the "Hail HYDRA" salute to them, befuddling the entire group and letting Cap walk out with the scepter. Spider-Man: Far From Home: After being thoroughly fooled by Mysterio pretending to be Nick Fury, Peter makes sure to check that Happy Hogan is real by asking him to tell him something only the real Happy would know. Happy responds by talking about the time they were in Germany together and Peter ordered an adult movie via the pay-per-view. The story's enough to convince Peter that it's the real Happy. |
|
| Trust Password / int_69d15cc0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_69d15cc0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Marvel Cinematic Universe (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_69d15cc0 | |
| Trust Password / int_6a4bddd6 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_6a4bddd6 | comment |
In an early Iron Man comic Rhodey Rhodes does this by accident when he steals a VC helicopter and tries to fly it back to an American base, only to be challenged for the password which he does not have. He spends some time in explanation but is not believed by the skeptical tower personnel. After he mutters under his breath "The Mets will win the pennant before these bozos believe me" the two tower personnel look at each other, exclaim "Mets!" and "Pennant!" and then allow him to land. | |
| Trust Password / int_6a4bddd6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_6a4bddd6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Iron Man (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_6a4bddd6 | |
| Trust Password / int_6aa2ebc9 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_6aa2ebc9 | comment |
In Oona Out of Order, the titular protagonist is Unstuck in Time. Oona's first leap in time takes her to 2015. She wakes up not knowing where she is or what has happened to her. When she encounters Kenzie, she doesn't recognize him and doesn't believe him when he claims to be her 51-year-old self's personal assistant. In her mind, she is just 19 and it is 1983. Fortunately, he is prepared with anecdotes from the 1982 New Year's Eve party, like how she caught the band drummer doing cocaine. | |
| Trust Password / int_6aa2ebc9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_6aa2ebc9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Oona Out Of Order | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_6aa2ebc9 | |
| Trust Password / int_6b3cfe38 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_6b3cfe38 | comment |
Bob and George pay homage to Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure this way when Time Travel becomes a regular occurrence in the comic; since Mega Man and Bass are legendarily stupid, it goes about the same way. Used more intelligently in this strip. Future Alternate Bass believes in free will, and doesn't believe that Far Future Alternate Bass knows exactly what he's thinking because FFAB remembers the conversation from when he was FAB. So FAB picks a number and tells FFAB to guess. FFAB not only answers correctly, he points out that FAB was planning to cheat by switching to a different number, and guesses that one, too. |
|
| Trust Password / int_6b3cfe38 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_6b3cfe38 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Bob and George (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_6b3cfe38 | |
| Trust Password / int_6b40eec8 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_6b40eec8 | comment |
Arlo the Alligator Boy: Arlo Beauregard is celebrating his fifteenth birthday at the beginning of the movie, and Edmée's sole gift for him is a box containing the ID bracelet from when he was a baby, which sets the movie's plot in motion. However, Arlo refuses to accept the gift unless his birthday is today, and to prove it, Edmée is forced to launch into her birthday ritual where she gives Arlo his cake and party hat, sings a birthday song with her banjo, smashes it, sets off fireworks, and finally giving Arlo a kiss, allowing him full permission to open the gift. | |
| Trust Password / int_6b40eec8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_6b40eec8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Arlo the Alligator Boy | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_6b40eec8 | |
| Trust Password / int_6c12433c | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_6c12433c | comment |
White Night: When Harry is mentally communicating with Elaine Mallory, his use of both their true names serves as this. | |
| Trust Password / int_6c12433c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_6c12433c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| White Night | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_6c12433c | |
| Trust Password / int_6c1d09b4 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_6c1d09b4 | comment |
Fallout 4's Railroad faction has "Do you have a Geiger Counter?" with the countersign "Mine is in the shop". | |
| Trust Password / int_6c1d09b4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_6c1d09b4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Fallout 4 (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_6c1d09b4 | |
| Trust Password / int_6c2c4bf3 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_6c2c4bf3 | comment |
X-Men Film Series: X-Men: After being fooled by Mystique one too many times, Cyclops demands that Wolverine prove he is who he says he is, under threat of being eye-beamed. Wolverine's response: "You're a dick." It works. X-Men: Days of Future Past: Logan convinces 1973 Charles to hear him out by telling him some details about his childhood that he learned from future Charles and that the younger Xavier hadn't told anyone up until this point in time: |
|
| Trust Password / int_6c2c4bf3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_6c2c4bf3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| X-Men Film Series | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_6c2c4bf3 | |
| Trust Password / int_6ce0d19c | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_6ce0d19c | comment |
Quantum Leap: Sam has leaped into an illiterate murderer on the run who is holding a woman and her daughter hostage. He decides to drop the masquerade, telling her he's a doctor from the future in a Time Travel experiment. She doesn't believe him. Then he notices her medical textbook, and she reveals that she's in medical school. So he has her quiz him on medical stuff to prove that he's telling the truth. At first she still doesn't believe him, saying that he looked at the book already, so could have memorized the information. Sam quickly fires back: "When was the last time you met an illiterate speed-reader?" | |
| Trust Password / int_6ce0d19c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_6ce0d19c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Quantum Leap | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_6ce0d19c | |
| Trust Password / int_6e1d5f36 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_6e1d5f36 | comment |
An unintentional variation occurs in Farscape. John is having a normal conversation with Aeryn until he mentions her baby and she doesn't know what he's talking about. This gives away that she is a bioloid duplicate and the real Aeryn has been kidnapped. | |
| Trust Password / int_6e1d5f36 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_6e1d5f36 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Farscape | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_6e1d5f36 | |
| Trust Password / int_6e73440d | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_6e73440d | comment |
Fall Into the River, a spinoff to The Victors Project, has La Résistance in District 8 paying special attention to any out-of-district packages that come in where the date of shipment is replaced with the number of children their District has lost to the Hunger Games (109 in that case). | |
| Trust Password / int_6e73440d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_6e73440d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Victors Project / Fan Fic | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_6e73440d | |
| Trust Password / int_6ea42227 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_6ea42227 | comment |
The Changeling Sequence: When a panicked kid begs him to help his brother, Dick Grayson starts believing this is another mundane crime... until the kid tells him "Little Wing asked for you", since Little Wing was Dick's nickname for his deceased sibling Jason. | |
| Trust Password / int_6ea42227 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_6ea42227 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Changeling Sequence (Fanfic) | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_6ea42227 | |
| Trust Password / int_6f734712 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_6f734712 | comment |
Smallville: In "Relic", Clark Kent proves to his father Jonathan that he's really been seeing visions of the past by revealing that Jonathan's father Hiram wanted to name him Gene. In "Transference", Clark Kent and Lionel Luthor swap bodies. In Lionel's body, Clark convinces Martha Kent it's really him by telling the story of how he discovered Super-Speed at age 6. Subverted in "Apocalypse". Clark tries to prove he's a friend to Chloe by revealing some of their past experiences, but since he's in an Alternate Universe where they have never met, it fails. In "Kent", Clark gets stranded in an alternate universe that had been terrorized by his counterpart Clark Luthor. The alternate Jonathan Kent, who did not find and raise Clark Luthor, attacks and subdues him with kryptonite. Clark gets Jonathan to trust him and let him go by knowing where he keeps his father's shotgun and quoting some of his lessons. |
|
| Trust Password / int_6f734712 | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
| Trust Password / int_6f734712 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Smallville | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_6f734712 | |
| Trust Password / int_70814599 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_70814599 | comment |
Stargate SG-1: The team accidentally travels back in time to 1969. Since this was a Stable Time Loop, General Hammond knew to send them with a sealed note explaining things to his rookie past-self. When he finds it, Lieutenant Hammond believes it and helps them escape imprisonment (and remembers to write the note "again" 30 years later). In the same incident, O'Neill convinces Lt. Hammond that the team knows him in the future by telling him he watched the first moon landing two weeks prior from his father's bedside after a heart attack. The team finds a crystal skull inside a chamber filled with radiation, and their attempt to examine it results in Daniel being made invisible and immaterial. The rest of the cast has no idea what happened to him until it is revealed that Daniel's grandfather Nick (who had once seen a similar skull and was living in a mental institution) can see him. Jack is skeptical, but is convinced by this exchange: Similarly, Daniel is inclined to believe that a teenager that got on the base is O'Neill because of the exasperated way the kid shouted "Daniel!" In the same episode, the teen convinces a group of seasoned pilots that he really is O'Neill (a full-bird colonel) with a well-known phrase. The majors and captains visibly straighten in their seats and lose their smiles. Parodied a few times in one episode where the team is dealing with aliens that can shapeshift into other people: The free Jaffa use the phrase "Shal kek nem ron" as a password to identify other members of the resistance. In Stargate: Continuum, the trope is subverted twice: O'Neill refuses to believe the alternate timeline SG-1 (partly because what Daniel tries to use — his son's accidental death — didn't happen in the alternate timeline), while Landry cuts them off as they are about to do this by telling them he believes them (having previously seen the tapes of their interrogations). |
|
| Trust Password / int_70814599 | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
| Trust Password / int_70814599 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Stargate SG-1 | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_70814599 | |
| Trust Password / int_71a07a47 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_71a07a47 | comment |
In Paper Girls, Present-Day Erin asks several very personal questions in a row to verify that her younger self is who she claims to be. Subverted in that young Erin doesn't know the answer to the first one (her social security number), and the last one isn't a Trust Password at all, it's a genuine question that older Erin has always wondered about: a scar that she doesn't remember how she got, since it occurred due to time-travel shenanigans. | |
| Trust Password / int_71a07a47 | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
| Trust Password / int_71a07a47 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Paper Girls (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_71a07a47 | |
| Trust Password / int_74ff2ce0 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_74ff2ce0 | comment |
In Mr. Standfast, the German spy ring uses the closing lines of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's "Wanderer's Nightsong" ("The little birds in the forest are silent." / "Wait, soon you will rest too.") as their sign and countersign. The first time Hannay hears it, he narrates that it is | |
| Trust Password / int_74ff2ce0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_74ff2ce0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Mr. Standfast | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_74ff2ce0 | |
| Trust Password / int_755fadab | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_755fadab | comment |
This occurs frequently in the Haruhi Suzumiya series: In Bamboo Leaf Rhapsody, Kyon gives Yuki the piece of paper that she gives him in three years' time as he travels through time himself. This convinces her to synchronize her memories with her future self, effectively merging her current and future selves into the same person. And then she returns the favor immediately afterward, taking off her glasses the same way she does three years later. In the fourth light novel, Kyon finds himself in an Alternate Universe where the SOS members are ordinary humans. Haruhi won't even give him the time of day, until in desperation, he introduces himself as John Smith, the alias he used as a time traveler helping him out three years ago. After he does that and the world is returned to "normal", he keeps this as an emergency trump card and finds himself using it to blackmail Yuki's boss. Adult Mikuru convinces Kyon of her identity by showing him a distinctive mole on her breast — except Kyon didn't know about that yet, even though Mikuru claims he pointed it out to her. Kyon uses this information to point this fact out to the younger Mikuru, turning the whole thing into a Stable Time Loop. It pops up later, too — he recognizes a fake Mikuru because she doesn't have the mole, and he tries it again in Disappearance on an alternate universe Mikuru, who calls him a pervert and punches him out. |
|
| Trust Password / int_755fadab | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_755fadab | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Haruhi Suzumiya | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_755fadab | |
| Trust Password / int_7668653a | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_7668653a | comment |
In the second game, during the first meeting with Tali, Shepard can mention the geth data that they gave her during the first game, wondering if it helped her complete her Pilgrimage. As Tali was the only other person who knew that Shepard had disobeyed orders by giving her a copy of classified intel, this proves that Shepard had indeed come Back from the Dead. | |
| Trust Password / int_7668653a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_7668653a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Mass Effect 2 (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_7668653a | |
| Trust Password / int_7668653b | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_7668653b | comment |
In the Citadel DLC for the third game, Shepard can prove to Traynor that it was their evil clone that just fired her and threw her off the Normandy, by describing the toothbrush that Traynor mentioned as wanting to buy during their first conversation. Alternatively, a Female Shepard in a romance with her can do this via a "Shut Up" Kiss. | |
| Trust Password / int_7668653b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_7668653b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Mass Effect 3 (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_7668653b | |
| Trust Password / int_77582c7b | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_77582c7b | comment |
X-Men: Days of Future Past: Logan convinces 1973 Charles to hear him out by telling him some details about his childhood that he learned from future Charles and that the younger Xavier hadn't told anyone up until this point in time: | |
| Trust Password / int_77582c7b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_77582c7b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| X-Men: Days of Future Past | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_77582c7b | |
| Trust Password / int_77f35b36 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_77f35b36 | comment |
In Tumbleweed, Jim is able to prove to Aguila that he really was Tigre's friend by showing him the necklace Tigre gave him just before he died. | |
| Trust Password / int_77f35b36 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_77f35b36 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Tumbleweed | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_77f35b36 | |
| Trust Password / int_7988cb68 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_7988cb68 | comment |
Mass Effect: Quarians are issued one of these to give when returning to the migrant fleet. They are also issued another phrase that indicates they are returning under duress and their ship should be fired upon before it gets too close. In the second game, during the first meeting with Tali, Shepard can mention the geth data that they gave her during the first game, wondering if it helped her complete her Pilgrimage. As Tali was the only other person who knew that Shepard had disobeyed orders by giving her a copy of classified intel, this proves that Shepard had indeed come Back from the Dead. In the Citadel DLC for the third game, Shepard can prove to Traynor that it was their evil clone that just fired her and threw her off the Normandy, by describing the toothbrush that Traynor mentioned as wanting to buy during their first conversation. Alternatively, a Female Shepard in a romance with her can do this via a "Shut Up" Kiss. One example from the third game had David Archer, the Tragic Villain from the Overlord DLC in the previous game, vouching for Shepard when the school he was sent to is under attack by Cerberus. |
|
| Trust Password / int_7988cb68 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_7988cb68 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Mass Effect (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_7988cb68 | |
| Trust Password / int_7a2e12e5 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_7a2e12e5 | comment |
Spider-Man: Far From Home: After being thoroughly fooled by Mysterio pretending to be Nick Fury, Peter makes sure to check that Happy Hogan is real by asking him to tell him something only the real Happy would know. Happy responds by talking about the time they were in Germany together and Peter ordered an adult movie via the pay-per-view. The story's enough to convince Peter that it's the real Happy. | |
| Trust Password / int_7a2e12e5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_7a2e12e5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Spider-Man: Far From Home | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_7a2e12e5 | |
| Trust Password / int_7bc04973 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_7bc04973 | comment |
Ghost Story: When Harry reappears after his vanishing six months prior with his friends not knowing what happened to him, he is bombarded with questions from allies to all matters of Call Backs in the previous twelve books to confirm his identity and not some imposter or doppelganger. This is all the more important because at this moment, Harry is a spirit and talking through an ectomancer. It finally takes Harry's cat who can see him rubbing against his intangible leg and Molly, Harry's apprentice who has gone a dark path since his death, to confirm it is him. | |
| Trust Password / int_7bc04973 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_7bc04973 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Ghost Story | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_7bc04973 | |
| Trust Password / int_7c0602e7 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_7c0602e7 | comment |
In the superhero game, the sequel to one day at a time (Nyame), Jason manages to convince Kon that he's traveled back in time, and that Jason has too, by mentioning the name of Hiyori Tanaka, Kon's wife in the previous timeline. | |
| Trust Password / int_7c0602e7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_7c0602e7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| the superhero game (Fanfic) | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_7c0602e7 | |
| Trust Password / int_7cf1b706 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_7cf1b706 | comment |
In Escape from Monkey Island, Guybrush asks his future counterpart to guess what number he's thinking of. Since you "remember" what future-Guybrush said to past-Guybrush, you can answer him. | |
| Trust Password / int_7cf1b706 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_7cf1b706 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Escape from Monkey Island (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_7cf1b706 | |
| Trust Password / int_7d5e43b0 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_7d5e43b0 | comment |
The Goodies. In "Invasion of the Moon Creatures", the password for getting into Graeme's Mission Control is Bill shouting, "Let us in, you great Nana!" | |
| Trust Password / int_7d5e43b0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_7d5e43b0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Goodies | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_7d5e43b0 | |
| Trust Password / int_7f9362a | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_7f9362a | comment |
The Assignment (1997) is about a US naval officer Annibal Ramirez who has an uncanny resemblance to the infamous Carlos the Jackal, so he's recruited for a joint CIA/Mossad operation. A terrorist who knows the real Carlos accidentally runs into this Doppelgänger at Heathrow Airport. Ramirez tries to bluff his way out by pretending to be Carlos, but when the terrorist asks where he can buy a newspaper, Ramirez realizes too late that it's a password to which he doesn't know the countersign — his life is only saved by the intervention of a Mossad agent who sees him being led off a gunpoint. Afterwards his CIA handler mentions a similar incident where he was forced to kill a man who didn't respond with the correct countersign, and later uses this story to tell the difference between Ramirez and the real Carlos. | |
| Trust Password / int_7f9362a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_7f9362a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Assignment (1997) | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_7f9362a | |
| Trust Password / int_7fc78282 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_7fc78282 | comment |
The Lord of the Rings: Occurs when Frodo and the hobbits meet Aragorn for the first time. They are uncertain whether Aragorn is really who he says he is; although Gandalf left them a letter stating that Aragorn was a friend, Sam points out he could be an impostor who killed the real Aragorn and disguised himself to trick them. Then Aragorn happened to quote a line from a poem that was written in Gandalf's letter, a letter that Aragorn did not know about and the hobbits just opened. The Moria Gate password is actually one of these, although this is not explained in the actual narrative. The image printed in the book shows that the tengwar lettering reads "pedo mellon ar neledh". This however is a grammatically incorrect sentence. Other examples of elvish sentences provided by Tolkien conclusively demonstrate that the direct object of a verb should have the initial consonant changed in a particular way: here, "m>v". The proper Sindarin translation of the English sentence "speak friend and enter" would be "pedo vellon ar neledh". Of course, the message is actually saying that one should speak the word "mellon" in order to enter. Any person with a basic knowledge of Sindarin (so an elf, or elf-friend), would figure this out pretty much immediately. However, it would be pretty much unguessable to anyone who didn't know the language: even if they forced an elf to translate the message (because grammar inherently doesn't survive translation). While this did keep out Sauron's servants, even if they were humans or disguised as elves, it unfortunately did absolutely nothing to stop Sauron himself: since he knew the elvish languages quite well. Gandalf himself admits he's been trying too hard to find the password, when it was written on the door all the while and laments the "untrusting times" they live in. |
|
| Trust Password / int_7fc78282 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_7fc78282 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Lord of the Rings | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_7fc78282 | |
| Trust Password / int_7fd8133a | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_7fd8133a | comment |
In Skullkickers, when Shorty and Baldy make a stop in a tavern while hunting a doppelganger, Baldy suggests establishing a trust password, so that they will know if the doppelganger is impersonating the other. Shorty suggests some passwords, but Baldy dismisses all of Shorty's suggestions and kills the false "Shorty" on the spot. As it happens, they'd already established such a password. | |
| Trust Password / int_7fd8133a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_7fd8133a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Skullkickers (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_7fd8133a | |
| Trust Password / int_81692f99 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_81692f99 | comment |
Star Trek: In the Star Trek: The Original Series episode "Whom Gods Destroy", a shapeshifting madman assumes Kirk's appearance and tells Scotty to beam him back aboard. Much to his chagrin, Scotty challenges him with a three-dimensional chess move "Queen to Queen's level three, sir" — to which only Kirk and Spock knew the appropriate countersign (Queen to King's level one). The Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Firstborn" has Worf visited by a Klingon who first claims to be an advisor, and then later admits that he is Worf's now-grown son Alexander, traveling back in time to urge his younger self into becoming a warrior. To prove his identity, Worf asks future!Alexander to say what his mother said before she died. Star Trek: Voyager: In "Shattered", Chakotay is flung to different points of time throughout the show. In one instance, he ends up just before the events of the pilot episode "Caretaker". Since he was still with the Maquis at that point, Janeway is about to have him arrested until Chakotay shares some personal details about her in an attempt to convince her he really is from the future. In an alternate future of Star Trek: Enterprise seen in the episode "Twilight", the now elderly Captain Jonathan Archer is being cared for by his "caretaker" T'Pol. However, an injury prevents him from remembering all that's happened since he was last on the Enterprise. T'Pol says to him that she fully understands that he might consider all this to be an illusion or an elaborate deception. To alleviate his fears, she tells him the story of an old girlfriend he wanted to marry back on Earth. The stunned Archer wants to know just what kind of "relationship" he and T'Pol have that he'd ever tell her the story. She'll only say their relationship has "evolved". Mildly Played for Laughs in the Star Trek: Discovery episode "Magic To Make The Sanest Man Go Mad". When a vengeful Mudd uses Time Travel to repeatedly destroy the Discovery, and Lt. Stamets' tardigrade genes make him the only one who can retain his memory, he convinces Burnham to tell him a personal secret to use as a trust password. At the next reset, he walks up to her and blurts out "You've never been in love!" without any context. Her reaction immediately puts Stamets into damage control mode. Star Trek: Picard: The Titan is attempting to ascertain whether Captain Tuvok is a Changeling over a subspace communication. The voice result is inconclusive. Seven of Nine then references the game kal-toh, which she and Tuvok played often aboard Voyager. After Tuvok's response, she appears relieved. This, however, is a Double Subversion: One, because he is a Changeling, and two, because Seven's next sentence was another test, bringing up the Voyager episode "Infinite Regress"... which Changeling!Tuvok fails. Later Played for Laughs when Picard and Geordi have to prove to each other who they are. |
|
| Trust Password / int_81692f99 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_81692f99 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Star Trek (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_81692f99 | |
| Trust Password / int_819853fe | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_819853fe | comment |
During one side quest in Final Fantasy XIII-2, Serah and Noel need to find six members of a military squad that have been split up. Since some of them are in completely different time periods, the commander tells Serah and Noel to use "Thunder", his call sign, as proof that the other men should follow his orders to cooperate with them. | |
| Trust Password / int_819853fe | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_819853fe | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Final Fantasy XIII-2 (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_819853fe | |
| Trust Password / int_82d39ca0 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_82d39ca0 | comment |
T2 Trainspotting: Played straight with Renton and Sick Boy's improvised sectarian song; subverted with "1690" as the widely-used and easily-guessable bank card PIN. | |
| Trust Password / int_82d39ca0 | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
| Trust Password / int_82d39ca0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| T2 Trainspotting | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_82d39ca0 | |
| Trust Password / int_834197b2 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_834197b2 | comment |
A variant appears the Horus Heresy novel "Know No Fear", Captain Ventanus is thrust into a situation where he has no idea who is an ally and who isn't. The enemy attempts to portray themselves as a specific company of allies several times. Ventanus asks a question to identify them over the vox; "What is the number of the painted Eldar?". Whilst obviously a shibboleth, the trick here is that there are two different answers to the question (12 and 13) depending on the one asking or answering the question. | |
| Trust Password / int_834197b2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_834197b2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Horus Heresy | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_834197b2 | |
| Trust Password / int_83981e71 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_83981e71 | comment |
Zeppelin (1971). The protagonist is a British officer of German descent who pretends to defect to the other side. Once in Germany, he goes into a tailor shop and asks for "blue bunting". The tailor doesn't know what he's talking about. In some confusion he leaves, then abruptly re-enters the shop and says, "Bunting blue!" The tailor snaps back in English, "It's about time; I've been waiting for you for weeks!" | |
| Trust Password / int_83981e71 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_83981e71 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Zeppelin | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_83981e71 | |
| Trust Password / int_86411694 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_86411694 | comment |
In The Bourne Ultimatum films, it's shown that all Treadstone agents have "Safe" and "Under Duress" passwords. Nicky Parsons is expected to give her "Under Duress" password when Bourne tracks her down; she doesn't, signaling her defection to Bourne's side. | |
| Trust Password / int_86411694 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_86411694 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Bourne Ultimatum | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_86411694 | |
| Trust Password / int_86772227 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_86772227 | comment |
Knights of the Dinner Table: Used by Genre Savvy players in the comics. Often, players will set up a "Doppelganger Password"; should a character become separated from the group and later rejoin, they can be asked to provide the password in order to prove that they're not an infiltrator in disguise. It's used to great effect by the Black Hands group. During an annual Hackmaster tournament, Newt asks Stevil for the password and, not getting it, peppers his body with crossbow bolts and dumps his body down a well. All to the good, except that Newt accidentally (or "accidentally") forgot to set up the password with Stevil ahead of time, giving him an excuse to take him out of the game. Nitro doesn't buy the excuse and, when the Black Hands are eliminated, orders Newt to his house for "remedial training". And to bring a sack lunch. |
|
| Trust Password / int_86772227 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_86772227 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Knights of the Dinner Table (Comic Strip) | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_86772227 | |
| Trust Password / int_86e4732f | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_86e4732f | comment |
In Carrie Vaughn's Kitty Norville series, a medium successfully contacts Harry Houdini, famous in Real Life (as noted in its section below) for leaving codes he would use to try and contact people from beyond the grave, believing that it was all bunk and trying to discredit it. He tells the medium, "Everyone who knew my codes is dead. No one will believe you. But thanks for trying." | |
| Trust Password / int_86e4732f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_86e4732f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Kitty Norville | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_86e4732f | |
| Trust Password / int_885e1bec | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_885e1bec | comment |
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality uses this a few times, most notably in the first few chapters. McGonagall is flabbergasted when Harry first mentions that he actually has one, just in case of an unforeseeable eventuality when he'd need to use it. | |
| Trust Password / int_885e1bec | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_885e1bec | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality / Fan Fic | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_885e1bec | |
| Trust Password / int_887527ee | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_887527ee | comment |
In the Unacceptable Sitch Series (specifically "Under the Milky Way Tonight"), Señor Senior, Sr. gave his attorneys a list of passwords to prove he was of sound mind and free of coercion. Specifically, any future changes to his will would include all but one of them. | |
| Trust Password / int_887527ee | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_887527ee | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Unacceptable Sitch Series (Fanfic) | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_887527ee | |
| Trust Password / int_89bf8ce | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_89bf8ce | comment |
On 30 Rock, Nathan Lane shows up claiming to be Jack's brother, and Liz is suspicious because Jack has never mentioned a brother and this man pronounces their last name "Dona-hee" as opposed to "Dona-gee." Then he comments that she would be prettier if she didn't scowl, and she knows he's related to Jack. | |
| Trust Password / int_89bf8ce | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_89bf8ce | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| 30 Rock | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_89bf8ce | |
| Trust Password / int_8d817ccb | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_8d817ccb | comment |
Lost: In season 4 episode "The Constant", 2004-Daniel tells Desmond to tell 1996-Daniel that he knows about Eloise, and give him some important numbers for an experiment. This proves to Daniel that Desmond is traveling in time and has spoken to a future version of Daniel. Played with in season 5. Hurley is afraid of inadvertently being God Tested and revealed to be a time traveler when he's unable to answer a question that someone living in 1977 should be able to (which in his case goes as far as "who's President in 1977?") Pierre Chang eventually gets suspicious and trips him up easily. |
|
| Trust Password / int_8d817ccb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_8d817ccb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Lost | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_8d817ccb | |
| Trust Password / int_8df5521b | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_8df5521b | comment |
From Superman comics: In The Death of Superman, the real Superman proves his identity to Lois by naming Clark Kent's favorite movie, To Kill a Mockingbird. In later comics, Superman sets up a code phrase with Lois: "Beef bourguignon with ketchup" (a farming tradition). He uses it to let Lois know that he's safe even when he can't contact her directly. Unfortunately, Parasite is also able to use the password when posing as Lois. |
|
| Trust Password / int_8df5521b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_8df5521b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Superman (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_8df5521b | |
| Trust Password / int_8f21173f | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_8f21173f | comment |
The Night Land: The Master-Word. Only humans can say it, either aloud or in their minds. Nothing which cannot speak the Master-Word can pass the Air-Clog that protects The Last Redoubt though it is not necessary to say or think it to do so. Any entity which tries to communicate with a human, psychically or otherwise, claiming to be one itself can easily be identified as a Night creature if it will not say or think it. It is not clear whether the Master-Word was something coded into humans genetically at some point, or if its properties are one of the few things the Good Powers have managed to keep the Eldritch Abominations from screwing with. It appears to be related to the "brain-elements," but they have the same ambiguity. |
|
| Trust Password / int_8f21173f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_8f21173f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Night Land | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_8f21173f | |
| Trust Password / int_8f4ee60f | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_8f4ee60f | comment |
Back to the Future: In the first film, Marty tries to convince 1955 Doc that he's from the future and he needs Doc's help. He first shows him his driver's license and a picture of his family where his sister is wearing a sweatshirt that says "Class of '84" (Doc assumes he doctored themnote They soon realize the "doctoring" was actually the first signs that history was changing). He then tries to reveal "future" history, which Doc laughs off because he refuses to believe that Hollywood actor Ronald Reagan is really President. Marty successfully gets Doc to believe him by telling him something only Doc would know — the vision that led to his invention of the time machine. In Back to the Future Part II, 2015 Biff doesn't actually want his 1955 self to recognize him, but he does get his past self to trust him and take the Sports Almanac by demonstrating knowledge only young Biff would have, such as how to start his car. |
|
| Trust Password / int_8f4ee60f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_8f4ee60f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Back to the Future (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_8f4ee60f | |
| Trust Password / int_9058ad7e | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_9058ad7e | comment |
In The Terminator, Kyle tells Sarah, "Come with me if you want to live.", after he stops the T-800 from assassinating her at the Tech Noir nightclub. In Terminator 2: Judgment Day, an identical-looking T-800 is sent back in time to protect the young John Connor, and when she's understandably terrified seeing him, the T-800 says "Come with me if you want to live", allaying her worries and establishing that this also serves as a trust password among the human resistance. | |
| Trust Password / int_9058ad7e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_9058ad7e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Terminator | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_9058ad7e | |
| Trust Password / int_914ddbfd | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_914ddbfd | comment |
Groundhog Day takes it to extremes. To prove that he really is repeating the day over and over again, Phil walks Rita through a diner, giving the trust passwords for everyone in the diner, none of whom remember telling him those things. She still doesn't quite believe him, until he shows he can also predict what people are about to say. | |
| Trust Password / int_914ddbfd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_914ddbfd | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Groundhog Day | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_914ddbfd | |
| Trust Password / int_9431bab8 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_9431bab8 | comment |
In Sleepy Hollow, Ichabod and Abbie use a fist-bump to identify each other in Purgatory, as Abbie had recently taught it to Ichabod. Also while in Purgatory, Abbie correctly identifies a Crane imposter since the fake didn't pronounce her title using Crane's insistent British pronunciation: "Lef-tenant". | |
| Trust Password / int_9431bab8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_9431bab8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sleepy Hollow | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_9431bab8 | |
| Trust Password / int_94521b4a | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_94521b4a | comment |
In the second book of The Wolf Chronicles, Demmen claims to have a message from Kaala's mother Neesa, but, not wanting to be manipulated, Kaala wants proof. Demmen then tells her things that her mother told him to say, including the names of her siblings that were killed as pups, and what Neesa had privately told her before going into exile. | |
| Trust Password / int_94521b4a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_94521b4a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Wolf Chronicles | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_94521b4a | |
| Trust Password / int_99055407 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_99055407 | comment |
One episode of Family Matters had a crazed criminal trying to hunt Steve down. Carl and his partner were assigned to protect him, but the criminal disguised himself as said partner to get close. Just when it seemed all was lost, Carl burst into the room and arrested the fake. It turns out that he and his real partner always said goodbye using a secret exchange of "See you later/Not if I see you first," and when the criminal didn't respond the right way, Carl immediately knew something was wrong. | |
| Trust Password / int_99055407 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_99055407 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Family Matters | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_99055407 | |
| Trust Password / int_9a02d243 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_9a02d243 | comment |
In Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, the Prince proves his story to the princess (events that never happened due to the events in the game) by telling her a word invented by her mother, "Kakolukia". | |
| Trust Password / int_9a02d243 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_9a02d243 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_9a02d243 | |
| Trust Password / int_9a7088bc | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_9a7088bc | comment |
In the Star Trek: The Original Series episode "Whom Gods Destroy", a shapeshifting madman assumes Kirk's appearance and tells Scotty to beam him back aboard. Much to his chagrin, Scotty challenges him with a three-dimensional chess move "Queen to Queen's level three, sir" — to which only Kirk and Spock knew the appropriate countersign (Queen to King's level one). | |
| Trust Password / int_9a7088bc | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_9a7088bc | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Star Trek: The Original Series | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_9a7088bc | |
| Trust Password / int_9bd27e6c | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_9bd27e6c | comment |
In Full Throttle, at one point Ben is about to be painfully killed by a gang led by Maureen, who believes that Ben killed her father Malcolm. Of course, Ben's innocent, and to prove it, you have to call Maureen by her childhood nickname, "Diapered Dynamo", which Malcolm told you shortly before he died. | |
| Trust Password / int_9bd27e6c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_9bd27e6c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Full Throttle (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_9bd27e6c | |
| Trust Password / int_9d257733 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_9d257733 | comment |
In Dragonsphere a group of guards bar you from entering a land of shapeshifters, even though you are their king, out of concern that the "you" who ends up returning may in fact be a shapeshifter who took your place. This is resolved by giving them an item from your inventory (any item will do) so that they will know that the real "you" will ask for that item upon your return. Ironically, you actually are a shapeshifter all along, you just don't realise it at first. | |
| Trust Password / int_9d257733 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_9d257733 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Dragonsphere / Videogame | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_9d257733 | |
| Trust Password / int_9d37e993 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_9d37e993 | comment |
Edge of Tomorrow. On being told Cage is in a "Groundhog Day" Loop, Dr Carter hides a hand behind his back and asks how many fingers he's holding up (two). A puzzled Cage has no idea, which tells Carter that this is the first time they've met. On later loops, Cage just cuts to the chase and tells Carter he's holding up two fingers to verify that he's looping in time. | |
| Trust Password / int_9d37e993 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_9d37e993 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Edge of Tomorrow | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_9d37e993 | |
| Trust Password / int_9da04de7 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_9da04de7 | comment |
At the start of The A-Team, Hannibal has just carjacked B.A.'s van, notices B.A.'s Ranger tattoo, and recites the Ranger Creed to get him to help. | |
| Trust Password / int_9da04de7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_9da04de7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The A-Team | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_9da04de7 | |
| Trust Password / int_9e0b88d2 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_9e0b88d2 | comment |
Back to the Outback: The Ugly Secret Society has the secret password "I’m Ugly. You’re ugly. We should all be this ugly. Ugly is the new beautiful." that when spoken, alerts any nearby U.S.S agents close enough to hear it that a fellow member, ally, or person/people under their protection needs help and/or is in danger. | |
| Trust Password / int_9e0b88d2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_9e0b88d2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Back to the Outback | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_9e0b88d2 | |
| Trust Password / int_9e2f90f4 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_9e2f90f4 | comment |
In the One Piece Self-Insert Fic This Bites!, after the initial encounter with Mr. 2, Cross forms one of these with the rest of the crew, and makes it twofold for extra security. It's utilized in Chapter 21: | |
| Trust Password / int_9e2f90f4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_9e2f90f4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| One Piece (Manga) | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_9e2f90f4 | |
| Trust Password / int_a1449d0d | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_a1449d0d | comment |
In Dynomutt, Dog Wonder, when Manyfaces has tricked Dynomutt into believing that Blue Falcon is an impostor, the hero proves himself by showing his friend that he knows Dynomutt's "one ticklish spot". | |
| Trust Password / int_a1449d0d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_a1449d0d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Dynomutt, Dog Wonder | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_a1449d0d | |
| Trust Password / int_a2c37f38 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_a2c37f38 | comment |
Near the ending of Planescape: Torment, the only way you can knock some sanity into the Paranoid Incarnation is to talk to him in the obscure language of Uyo, one of the things he used to lock away some journals of his. After all, if he killed everyone who ever knew the language, how could the new guy in the crystal be anything other than a more lucid aspect of himself? The change from "paranoid psychopath" to "scared puppy" is heartbreaking. | |
| Trust Password / int_a2c37f38 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_a2c37f38 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Planescape: Torment (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_a2c37f38 | |
| Trust Password / int_a32877f1 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_a32877f1 | comment |
In Garth Nix's Old Kingdom series, the line of Abhorsens has the Arc Words "Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker?" When apparent heir Sameth doesn't recognize the phrase, he makes it clear he's completely unprepared to take up the mantle. | |
| Trust Password / int_a32877f1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_a32877f1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Old Kingdom | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_a32877f1 | |
| Trust Password / int_a32b6a64 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_a32b6a64 | comment |
The West Wing: The Chinese Christian pastor seeking refugee status for him and his group knows who the four writers of the Gospel are when Bartlet asks him as the latter is trying to determine whether the group is genuine in their faith as opposed to just pretending to be in order to get into the United States, but he notes that for Christianity "faith is the true shibboleth". That phrasing is what convinces Bartlet that the stowaways are genuine and he decides to figure out a way to let them into the country despite the Chinese government's objections. During the second-season arc revolving around President Bartlet's multiple sclerosis and the fact that he hid it, the word "Sagittarius" is used to denote a person who knows about it prior to its public uncovering. |
|
| Trust Password / int_a32b6a64 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_a32b6a64 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The West Wing | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_a32b6a64 | |
| Trust Password / int_a5852f44 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_a5852f44 | comment |
Small Favor: When Queen Mab, Queen of Air and Darkness shows herself before Harry, she is speaking via a servant malk talking for her. Harry has encountered Mab several times before and asks for confirmation she is the true Mab as Mab has never needed such aid before. Mab recites the terms of the debt contract Harry owes her and her last encounter with him. | |
| Trust Password / int_a5852f44 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_a5852f44 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Small Favor | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_a5852f44 | |
| Trust Password / int_a660fd96 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_a660fd96 | comment |
In Avengers: Endgame, a time traveling Captain America has returned to the time of The Avengers (2012) and he needs to get the scepter for the modern day Avengers' plan. Surrounded by Agent Sitwell and S.T.R.I.K.E. team members, he knows he can't fight them or blow their cover as HYDRA moles at this point, so Cap utters the "Hail HYDRA" salute to them, befuddling the entire group and letting Cap walk out with the scepter. | |
| Trust Password / int_a660fd96 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_a660fd96 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Avengers: Endgame | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_a660fd96 | |
| Trust Password / int_a7001b36 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_a7001b36 | comment |
In Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation, future Rudeus convinces Rudeus of his identity, and thus to trust his warnings, by saying something only he could know: their Japanese name. | |
| Trust Password / int_a7001b36 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_a7001b36 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_a7001b36 | |
| Trust Password / int_a81325d3 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_a81325d3 | comment |
Final Fantasy: Early on in Final Fantasy VIII the Player Party is sent on a mission to aid an anti-government group called "The Forest Owls" and is given a Password to confirm their identity. Upon reaching the rendezvous point and saying the password to the group's representative (regardless of whether or not you gave the correct response), he takes you to meet the other members. During one side quest in Final Fantasy XIII-2, Serah and Noel need to find six members of a military squad that have been split up. Since some of them are in completely different time periods, the commander tells Serah and Noel to use "Thunder", his call sign, as proof that the other men should follow his orders to cooperate with them. Downplayed in Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII when Lightning says the first half of their personal motto ("Keep your eyes front") and Hope fails to correctly finish the phrase ("I'll watch the rear") even after Lightning prompts him, so she stops trusting him. She doesn't know what's wrong with him (he's possessed), but it's something big for him to forget that. |
|
| Trust Password / int_a81325d3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_a81325d3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Final Fantasy (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_a81325d3 | |
| Trust Password / int_a895e9d3 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_a895e9d3 | comment |
In the Portal 2 Perpetual Testing Initiative DLC, Cave Johnson realizes that it's very difficult to discern who is the original Cave, and who's from an Alternate Universe. He therefore announces that his trust password is "chariots", and only messages where he says that word come from the real him. Of course, he then discovers that there's an alternate him who just likes to say "chariots" randomly, so he changes the password to him saying it twice in a row: "chariots, chariots". You will never hear so many references to ancient Greek vehicles. | |
| Trust Password / int_a895e9d3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_a895e9d3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Portal 2 (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_a895e9d3 | |
| Trust Password / int_afa8187a | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_afa8187a | comment |
Subverted in 17 Again (2009). Mike tells his best friend Ned several incriminating details that only he could know while being attacked, but Ned justifies how the weird, soaking wet man in his house could get access to all the information he gives. | |
| Trust Password / int_afa8187a | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
| Trust Password / int_afa8187a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| 17 Again (2009) | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_afa8187a | |
| Trust Password / int_b083559a | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_b083559a | comment |
Batwoman. In "An Un-Birthday Present", Mouse and the Wonderland gang are holding hostages and demanding the release of Alice (formerly Beth Kane). A Beth from an alternate universe where she was never driven insane has just arrived on the scene, and tries to imitate her evil psychotic self to get Mouse to release the hostages. Unfortunately Beth has never met Alice and Mouse quickly becomes suspicious, asking, "Are there any lions or tigers about here?", the Trust Password they used as children when hiding from Mr. Cartwright (the correct answer is: "It's only the Red King snoring."). | |
| Trust Password / int_b083559a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_b083559a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Batwoman (2019) | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_b083559a | |
| Trust Password / int_b0a9ed90 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_b0a9ed90 | comment |
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure has the protagonists' future selves prove their identities thusly: | |
| Trust Password / int_b0a9ed90 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_b0a9ed90 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_b0a9ed90 | |
| Trust Password / int_b0e508bf | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_b0e508bf | comment |
In Stargate: Continuum, the trope is subverted twice: O'Neill refuses to believe the alternate timeline SG-1 (partly because what Daniel tries to use — his son's accidental death — didn't happen in the alternate timeline), while Landry cuts them off as they are about to do this by telling them he believes them (having previously seen the tapes of their interrogations). | |
| Trust Password / int_b0e508bf | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
| Trust Password / int_b0e508bf | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Stargate: Continuum | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_b0e508bf | |
| Trust Password / int_b24f49ab | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_b24f49ab | comment |
In Back to the Future Part II, 2015 Biff doesn't actually want his 1955 self to recognize him, but he does get his past self to trust him and take the Sports Almanac by demonstrating knowledge only young Biff would have, such as how to start his car. | |
| Trust Password / int_b24f49ab | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_b24f49ab | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Back to the Future Part II | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_b24f49ab | |
| Trust Password / int_b2ac2311 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_b2ac2311 | comment |
Xander tells a story about one of his early birthdays to prove his identity. He wanted a fire truck but didn't get one, which made him sad, but then the neighbor's house caught fire for real, and he got to see real fire trucks. He adds that he always thought Willow might have set the fire ("if you did you can tell me"). He also does the Snoopy Dance for her. The problem with this is (a) he's trying to prove he's not his Evil Twin, who would know all this anyway, and (b) Willow wasn't aware that there was a twin and thus had no reason to doubt he was Xander. | |
| Trust Password / int_b2ac2311 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_b2ac2311 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Peanuts (Comic Strip) | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_b2ac2311 | |
| Trust Password / int_b42811ef | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_b42811ef | comment |
In The Thirty-Nine Steps, when Hannay is at last able to meet with the Foreign Office official who can act on Scudder's information, part of his instructions for the meeting is that they will make themselves known to each other by whistling "Annie Laurie". | |
| Trust Password / int_b42811ef | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_b42811ef | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Thirty-Nine Steps | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_b42811ef | |
| Trust Password / int_b5ab36eb | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_b5ab36eb | comment |
In You Only Live Twice, Miss Moneypenny abuses her role as creator of Bond's trust password to get him to tell her something she really wanted to hear from him. It doesn't work and just makes everything kind of awkward: | |
| Trust Password / int_b5ab36eb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_b5ab36eb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| You Only Live Twice | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_b5ab36eb | |
| Trust Password / int_b6d7b1e1 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_b6d7b1e1 | comment |
That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime: After Rimuru announced his decision to evolve into a Demon Lord, Benimaru suggest a password phrase in case to assure Rimuru won't be negatively affected, with the phrase being "Shion's cooking tastes like shit". It's not until later Rimuru realize Benimaru set him up, only getting out of it by the long haul after pointing out Benimaru came up with the password. | |
| Trust Password / int_b6d7b1e1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_b6d7b1e1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_b6d7b1e1 | |
| Trust Password / int_b70a2d3b | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_b70a2d3b | comment |
Safe Havens: When Maria brings Samantha the coding she'd need for the Mars Mission from her future self, Samantha noted that her future self would have left some clue proving her identity. She got it in the form of the flash drive identifying her as 'Broople-head', which was a word Samantha had secretly made up for nasal discharge when she was in preschool. | |
| Trust Password / int_b70a2d3b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_b70a2d3b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Safe Havens (Comic Strip) | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_b70a2d3b | |
| Trust Password / int_b8c3cc30 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_b8c3cc30 | comment |
In Young Justice (2010), Wally is initially the only member of the Team who knows Robin's Secret Identity. In one issue of the tie-in comic they battle Clayface and Robin is met by two Wallys; he asks them for his middle name. Unfortunately for him, both were Clayface. A variant: in an issue given for Free Comic Book Day, Psycho Pirate is crushing Wally under the weight of his own insecurities. However, remembering that Robin trusted him enough to reveal his identity gave him the confidence boost that he needed to overcome it. |
|
| Trust Password / int_b8c3cc30 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_b8c3cc30 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Young Justice (2010) | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_b8c3cc30 | |
| Trust Password / int_baa97a52 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_baa97a52 | comment |
Tenet—the Title Drop is a Trust Password for members of the eponymous organisation when combined with interlacing the hands. Also "We live in a twilight world" and its response phrase "And there are no friends at dusk", used by the Protagonist and his CIA team in the Action Prologue. The Big Bad uses the phrase when meeting the Protagonist, implying he works for the CIA as well (though the Protagonist pretends not to recognise it). | |
| Trust Password / int_baa97a52 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_baa97a52 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Tenet | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_baa97a52 | |
| Trust Password / int_babeae6a | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_babeae6a | comment |
In Godzilla vs. Kong, Conspiracy Theorist Bernie Hayes seeks like-minded individuals with the question "Tap or no tap?" based on his belief that the reason the government puts fluoride in tap water is to make people docile. The proper response is "No tap." Of course, one could point out that it's really a 50/50 chance, but unless people know his theories and understand the question in the first place, their response anyway would most likely be "Huh?" | |
| Trust Password / int_babeae6a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_babeae6a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Godzilla vs. Kong | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_babeae6a | |
| Trust Password / int_bad6ce79 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_bad6ce79 | comment |
X-Men: After being fooled by Mystique one too many times, Cyclops demands that Wolverine prove he is who he says he is, under threat of being eye-beamed. Wolverine's response: "You're a dick." It works. | |
| Trust Password / int_bad6ce79 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_bad6ce79 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| X-Men | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_bad6ce79 | |
| Trust Password / int_bc197b8e | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_bc197b8e | comment |
Did I Make the Most of Loving You?; The time-displaced Cottle checks if Adama and Roslin have also travelled in time, after seeing them together years in advance once his own memories are restored, by telling Roslin that she reminds him of a woman he treated for breast cancer. When Roslin meets a young Kara, after Kara calls her ‘Madame Prez’, Roslin tests Kara for future knowledge in turn with the ‘What do you hear?’ line. |
|
| Trust Password / int_bc197b8e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_bc197b8e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Did I Make the Most of Loving You? (Fanfic) | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_bc197b8e | |
| Trust Password / int_bf3a0285 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_bf3a0285 | comment |
In one episode of Without a Trace, the episode's missing person is a preteen girl who's been kidnapped as part of a pedophile ring. At the episode's outset, while talking about her quirks, the girl's uncle tells Malone that his nickname for the child is "Chicken Little". Much later, this comes in handy when Malone, having determined where the girl's abductor is, poses as a pedophile customer and gets to talk to the girl, but he can't say anything too suspicious to her since they're both still in the antagonist's line of sight. What does he wind up saying to gain her trust? | |
| Trust Password / int_bf3a0285 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_bf3a0285 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Without a Trace | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_bf3a0285 | |
| Trust Password / int_bf797086 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_bf797086 | comment |
Children of Men. "You're a fascist pig" is the password Theo is told to give to Syd, the policeman smuggling him into the Bexhill refugee camp. Given that Britain is falling into a fascist dystopia, it's not something you'd say to a policeman face-to-face, and Syd trolls him by feigning outrage. | |
| Trust Password / int_bf797086 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_bf797086 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Children of Men | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_bf797086 | |
| Trust Password / int_c00034c2 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_c00034c2 | comment |
Beetle Bailey subverts this with its usual irreverence: Beetle, on guard duty, detects someone coming and demands that they identify themselves through various means, such as the usual "Who won the World Series" and similar stereotypical means to ferret out foreign spies. He is rebuffed with responses like "Dunno!" and "Who cares!" after which he promptly allows the philosophical and profoundly sports-disinterested Plato back onto base. Equal parts Armed Farces and Something Only They Would Say. | |
| Trust Password / int_c00034c2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_c00034c2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Beetle Bailey (Comic Strip) | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_c00034c2 | |
| Trust Password / int_c3df4881 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_c3df4881 | comment |
In the Hard Reset sequel Hard Reset 2: Reset Harder, when Celestia hears that Twilight is a fellow time looper, she tells Twilight a password to unlock secret knowledge in Celestia's brain. When Twilight repeats the password to Celestia later on, she's paralyzed by a powerful spell, and Celestia immediately kills her after revealing that the "secret knowledge" is the rest of the password. It's repeating the entire combination that convinces Celestia of Twilight's story. | |
| Trust Password / int_c3df4881 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_c3df4881 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hard Reset (Eakin) (Fanfic) | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_c3df4881 | |
| Trust Password / int_c4282b71 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_c4282b71 | comment |
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: In the two-parter "A Canterlot Wedding", Twilight and Cadance have a rhyme from way back when. When the false Cadance doesn't know it, Twilight smells a rat. When, due to Fake Cadance's manipulations, she nearly blasts the head off the real one, the Real Cadance does this to prove it's really her this time. It proves useful in "The Times They Are A Changeling." The Crystal Empire is on guard against a changeling. They don't know if the visitors from Ponyville are really them, so Cadance initiates the rhyme and Twilight reciprocates almost immediately, calming the guards down. In the sixth season finale, "To Where and Back Again", Starlight Glimmer and her team, venturing into a kingdom full of Changelings, use the phrase "klutzy draconequus" as a trust password. Discord isn't exactly pleased. However when the phony Discord doesn't say "draconequus" after Starlight says "klutzy," she, Trixie, and Thorax immediately know what's up. |
|
| Trust Password / int_c4282b71 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_c4282b71 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_c4282b71 | |
| Trust Password / int_c43df4d8 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_c43df4d8 | comment |
Doctor Who: In general, the Doctor often recites enemies such as Daleks, Cybermen, and Silurians to prove his identity to people who know him but don't recognize his current appearance. "BAD WOLF" were Series One's Arc Words, and they tended to show up even after the "arc" was over. More than once, someone could get the Doctor's attention as to the severity of the situation (and whether they could be trusted) by saying those words to him. In the 2005 Children in Need special, the Tenth Doctor gets Rose to realize that he is the Doctor by repeating the first thing he ever said to her: "Run." "Human Nature"/"The Family of Blood": Martha Jones, a medical student from the future disguised as a maid, uses her knowledge of anatomy to prove that she's more than she seems. "Forest of the Dead": Professor River Song whispers the Doctor's name into his ear to prove that she knows him in the future. "Journey's End": Two seasons earlier, Rose Tyler was locked in an alternate universe and separated from the Doctor, who only had the energy to send her one message to tell her he loves her. However, his energy source runs out at "Rose Tyler, I—". In this episode, there are two Doctors, one of which is human while the other one is still a Time Lord. The human Doctor is offering, and able, to stay by her side and grow old together, and Rose has to decide if she can trust this Doctor. So she asks both of them what they meant to tell her two seasons earlier. The Time Lord Doctor Cannot Spit It Out, but the human one whispers his answer into her ear. She seems to find the answer acceptable and kisses him, accepting him. "The Impossible Astronaut": When Amy needs to get the Doctor to trust her, she tells him a detail only they would know: the Doctor's Wacky Cravings from their first meeting. "Wild Blue Yonder": In the climax of the episode, Donna and her Not-Thing clone both try to convince the Doctor that they are the real Donna, which is difficult since the Not-Thing can read minds and knows everything Donna knows. The Doctor asks them what the name of Donna's old choir teacher is ("Mrs. Beans"), and then asks why that is funny. One Donna tries to logically explain, the other replies "It just is," and the Doctor pulls the second one in. It turns out that was the wrong one. The Doctor only realizes his mistake when the TARDIS scans the fake Donna and shows him that her arms are a fraction of a millimeter too long, and he has to scramble to eject her and grab the real Donna. |
|
| Trust Password / int_c43df4d8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_c43df4d8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Doctor Who | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_c43df4d8 | |
| Trust Password / int_c58d3ee5 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_c58d3ee5 | comment |
Subverted in the Liavek story, "A Well-Made Plan" into Something Only They Would Say. A Body Swapped character shows up at his own front door and tries to convince his butler that it's really him. The butler asks for this trope, in the form of what the item that is the source of his magical power is (information that every magician keeps a closely held-secret, due to the way magic works in this universe). Instead of naming an item, the character explodes in fury, refuses to reveal it, then comments that since he'd never told the butler in the first place, there was no reason for the butler to expect him to answer. This is the response that the butler was looking for, and he gladly lets him in. | |
| Trust Password / int_c58d3ee5 | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
| Trust Password / int_c58d3ee5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Liavek | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_c58d3ee5 | |
| Trust Password / int_c72c2d06 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_c72c2d06 | comment |
Star Wars Rebels: "Blood Sisters": The courier Sabine and Ezra are sent to meet will respond to the code phrase "It's a long way to Alderaan." Played for Laughs as we get a Failure Montage of Sabine and Ezra trying it on every passenger they can find (and getting some odd looks, as they're not very subtle about it) while completely overlooking the actual courier—an unassuming power droid, who only responds when Ezra mentions the password while sitting on him. "An Inside Man" reveals that Fulcrum II has "By the light of Lothal's moons" as a code phrase. |
|
| Trust Password / int_c72c2d06 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_c72c2d06 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Star Wars Rebels | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_c72c2d06 | |
| Trust Password / int_cb28b938 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_cb28b938 | comment |
Charité at War: Margot Sauerbruch smuggles documents for a befriended American spy out of Nazi Germany. In Switzerland, she recognizes the Allied spy by the brand of cigarettes he carries. | |
| Trust Password / int_cb28b938 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_cb28b938 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Charité at War | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_cb28b938 | |
| Trust Password / int_cb840c8f | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_cb840c8f | comment |
In The Sixth Sense, Lynn Sear accepts that Cole is telling her the truth — he really can see and talk to dead people — after this exchange: | |
| Trust Password / int_cb840c8f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_cb840c8f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Sixth Sense | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_cb840c8f | |
| Trust Password / int_cba56284 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_cba56284 | comment |
Summer Time Rendering: When the heroes first realize there are Shadow doppelgangers replacing people, they come up with a password to tell them apart. One will say "Mountain" and the other will answer "Mesopotamian Civilization". This proves ineffective when Shinpei completely forgets about the password. Sou greets him with "Mountain", and when Shinpei just stands there confused, instead of suspecting he is a shadow, Sou yells at him for forgetting. | |
| Trust Password / int_cba56284 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_cba56284 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Summer Time Rendering (Manga) | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_cba56284 | |
| Trust Password / int_cd38d949 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_cd38d949 | comment |
All You Need Is Kill has a variant. Rita is part of a controlled time loop; after every battle, she is sent back in time one day to improve the outcome the next time around. Every battle, she asks everyone she can the same weird question (a different one every battle), like "Is it true that in Japan green tea is complimentary after a meal?" That way, if another looper ever shows up, they can prove their identity simply by answering the question before the battle even starts. | |
| Trust Password / int_cd38d949 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_cd38d949 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| All You Need is Kill | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_cd38d949 | |
| Trust Password / int_d294048 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_d294048 | comment |
In the Red Panda Adventures episode "The World Next Door", Baboon McSmoothie needs to do this twice. The first time, to convince the Red Panda he's from an Alternate Timeline, he gives the Panda a message from his counterpart with nothing but the Red Panda's real name on it. That convinces him McSmoothie is telling the truth, but isn't enough to secure the Red Panda's help stealing a prototype device from a Nazi scientist that, while destined to become one of the series greatest villains, hasn't done anything yet. What convinces the Panda to help is a file created by his counterpart detailing the supervillain Death Trap that killed his Flying Squirrel. | |
| Trust Password / int_d294048 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_d294048 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Red Panda Adventures (Podcast) | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_d294048 | |
| Trust Password / int_d2a29e65 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_d2a29e65 | comment |
In Firewing, when Griffin finally meets his father Shade, he doesn't believe it's him (due to the many illusions of the underworld). He first asks him about Shade's past adventures, but Shade gets the answers wrong because the stories Griffin believes are exaggerations of the true events. Griffin then asks him what his name would have been, had he been female. | |
| Trust Password / int_d2a29e65 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_d2a29e65 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Silverwing | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_d2a29e65 | |
| Trust Password / int_d461a59f | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_d461a59f | comment |
In Battlestar Galactica (1978), when Starbuck escapes from the Cylons by stealing one of their ships, he proves it is him to the Galactica by "waggling" the ship back and forth (since the ID transmitter he was given was damaged). | |
| Trust Password / int_d461a59f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_d461a59f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Battlestar Galactica (1978) | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_d461a59f | |
| Trust Password / int_d46cc708 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_d46cc708 | comment |
In an episode of Ed, Edd n Eddy, after Double D gathers up stuff on how to counter aliens, Ed asks him for the password, which Double D knows nothing about since no one mentioned anything about a password to him. Ed immediately attacks him thinking he's an alien, only since Ed made up the password by himself and assumed the others already knew the password cause he didn't need to tell them. | |
| Trust Password / int_d46cc708 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_d46cc708 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Ed, Edd n Eddy | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_d46cc708 | |
| Trust Password / int_d482acf2 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_d482acf2 | comment |
The Alice Network: Lili greets Eve with the words “Cherie, look at you! How is dear Oncle Édouard?�, which identifies her to Eve as the head of the Alice Network. | |
| Trust Password / int_d482acf2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_d482acf2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Alice Network | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_d482acf2 | |
| Trust Password / int_d50a1ab9 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_d50a1ab9 | comment |
A non-verbal example in Geist: Since Raimi has the ability to Body Surf, he has to prove his identity to Bryson by reproducing their Secret Handshake. | |
| Trust Password / int_d50a1ab9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_d50a1ab9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Geist (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_d50a1ab9 | |
| Trust Password / int_d62d7ff9 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_d62d7ff9 | comment |
In the final scene of Sharknado 5: Global Swarming, Fin Shepard runs into a grown man who claims to be the Future Badass version of his son Little Gil. Fin is understandably skeptical, until the man says, "Semper Paratus. A Shepard is always prepared." | |
| Trust Password / int_d62d7ff9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_d62d7ff9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sharknado 5: Global Swarming | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_d62d7ff9 | |
| Trust Password / int_d6c9c0a4 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_d6c9c0a4 | comment |
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex: A terrorist known as "Angel's Wing" (or "Angel Feathers" in the English dub) gives a Trust Password to his blind, wheelchair-bound daughter so that she'll know it's him even if she doesn't recognize it. At the end of the episode, he finds himself captured in a chapel, when his daughter happens to enter. She gives her half of the password ("What is the angel planning to do today?") Batou knows both halves of the password, and he could give the right response (if only to make her happy), but he doesn't — he tells her, "The angel... isn't planning to go anywhere." One of the final episodes in 2nd Gig has the Big Bad trying to send Rangers after Section 9. They immediately stand down after running into Batou, a former Ranger; they can tell this immediately because all Rangers have the exact same Electronic Eyes. |
|
| Trust Password / int_d6c9c0a4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_d6c9c0a4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_d6c9c0a4 | |
| Trust Password / int_d78af2ac | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_d78af2ac | comment |
Kingsman: The Secret Service: After Eggsy's father's Heroic Sacrifice, Harry Hart pays a visit to the deceased's family and gives Eggsy a medallion with a number they can call to request a "favor", along with a choice of words they have to say to the speaker. | |
| Trust Password / int_d78af2ac | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_d78af2ac | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Kingsman: The Secret Service | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_d78af2ac | |
| Trust Password / int_d88c6466 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_d88c6466 | comment |
In The Science of Discworld II, after traveling back in time, most of the wizards make a point of saying something to their past selves to prove that they are time travelers rather than doubles created by the elves. The exception is Rincewind, who is so jaded by everything that's happened to him in his very eventful life that he just walks up to his past self and says "hi". | |
| Trust Password / int_d88c6466 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_d88c6466 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Science of Discworld | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_d88c6466 | |
| Trust Password / int_d9c602eb | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_d9c602eb | comment |
In South Park, Cartman wants to be a Human Popsicle so that he won't have to wait for the Nintendo Wii to come out. He badly overshoots his goal and ends up in a Bad Future, where there's a war going on which prevents him from playing the Wii. He calls his past self to fix things and tries to convince him of his identity by explaining things only he would know, liking drinking Ovaltine and putting Clyde Frog in the closet before going to Butters and trying to freeze himself. But his past self merely thinks someone was spying on him and is not convinced. | |
| Trust Password / int_d9c602eb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_d9c602eb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| South Park | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_d9c602eb | |
| Trust Password / int_da7c34b0 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_da7c34b0 | comment |
In PnF: Stolen Identity, Phineas does an impromptu one on Ferb's replacement, asking him about the day they first met. It's different from the typical example in that the first time he asks this question, he doesn't realize he's talking to an impostor (rather he thinks Ferb's gone mad) and wants reassurance that Ferb is still the person he loves. Later the real Ferb answers the question correctly (Phineas insisted on saving Ferb some cake), much to Phineas' obvious relief. | |
| Trust Password / int_da7c34b0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_da7c34b0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sols06's Phineas and Ferb Verse / Fan Fic | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_da7c34b0 | |
| Trust Password / int_db30cf92 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_db30cf92 | comment |
In the Warrior Cats book The Silent Thaw, in order to prove to Squirrelflight that he's met Bramblestar's true ghost and that the living Bramblestar is an impostor possessing his body, Rootpaw listens to ghost-Bramblestar and describes to Squirrelflight a private conversation that she and Bramblestar had had after Leafpool's death. | |
| Trust Password / int_db30cf92 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_db30cf92 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Warrior Cats | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_db30cf92 | |
| Trust Password / int_db6edf3a | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_db6edf3a | comment |
In Panthera, when Onca tries to tell Tigris that Ovid isn't the evil corporation they've been told it is, Tigris thinks Onca betrayed Panthera and attacks her. However, when Pardus shows up, she tells him that Leo told her Pardus dyes his fur. Pardus knows Leo wouldn't tell her that unless he had to to validate a message to the others. | |
| Trust Password / int_db6edf3a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_db6edf3a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Panthera (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_db6edf3a | |
| Trust Password / int_debe30cd | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_debe30cd | comment |
Subverted in Ghost Town. Ricky Gervais' character has started telling the wife of a dead husband (whose ghost he can see) facts that he shouldn't know. So she makes him prove that Ricky's really talking to the husband with a recurring nightmare the husband had that he only told her about. He says drowning, but it turns out that's way off, and the husband was purposely lying to Ricky so that he would stay away from the wife. | |
| Trust Password / int_debe30cd | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
| Trust Password / int_debe30cd | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Ghost Town (2008) | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_debe30cd | |
| Trust Password / int_df07d96e | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_df07d96e | comment |
In one episode of Lois & Clark, a time-traveler is able to enlist Clark's aid by whispering to him, "I know you're Superman, and I need your help." | |
| Trust Password / int_df07d96e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_df07d96e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| LoisAndClark | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_df07d96e | |
| Trust Password / int_dfdfe88c | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_dfdfe88c | comment |
In The Time Traveler's Wife, Henry ultimately convinces many people of his ability to spontaneously time travel by disappearing in front of their eyes. On one occasion he tells a doctor all the biological information on the doctor's then-unborn child in the hopes of getting some treatment, but it's the disappearing that clinches the deal. | |
| Trust Password / int_dfdfe88c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_dfdfe88c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Time Traveler's Wife | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_dfdfe88c | |
| Trust Password / int_e081af79 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_e081af79 | comment |
Double-subverted in The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob!. In the dragon Hibachi's first appearance, he claims to be a friend of Mrs. Primrose who'd been sent to pick up the box she had left with Bob. Bob is understandably suspicious, and demands the seemingly-useless Trust Password of her favorite color. Turns out it's such an obscure color (a specific discontinued shade of paint), and it has such an involved story attached to it, it really would be impossible for anyone who didn't know her to guess. | |
| Trust Password / int_e081af79 | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
| Trust Password / int_e081af79 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob! (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_e081af79 | |
| Trust Password / int_e293455a | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_e293455a | comment |
Buffy the Vampire Slayer was never known to use this trope straight, which makes sense, as it was written by Joss Whedon (who also gave us Wolverine's "You're a dick" line): Giles tries to prove his identity: Xander tells a story about one of his early birthdays to prove his identity. He wanted a fire truck but didn't get one, which made him sad, but then the neighbor's house caught fire for real, and he got to see real fire trucks. He adds that he always thought Willow might have set the fire ("if you did you can tell me"). He also does the Snoopy Dance for her. The problem with this is (a) he's trying to prove he's not his Evil Twin, who would know all this anyway, and (b) Willow wasn't aware that there was a twin and thus had no reason to doubt he was Xander. |
|
| Trust Password / int_e293455a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_e293455a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Buffy the Vampire Slayer | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_e293455a | |
| Trust Password / int_e7a27429 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_e7a27429 | comment |
The Bridge: Gigan is unsure if the being he's talking to is Monster X or Kaizer Ghidorah and asks him to tell him two things only his best friend would know. X proves himself by talking about how the two of them stopped the radio incident with the Kilaaks and what Gigan did the moment they first met. And X calls Gigan his best friend, while Kaizer would never do that because he Hates Everyone Equally. | |
| Trust Password / int_e7a27429 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_e7a27429 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| TheBridge | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_e7a27429 | |
| Trust Password / int_e7ad2805 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_e7ad2805 | comment |
In the The End of the World story The Golden Mean, the rebel victors mentoring for the 3rd Quarter Quell and game makers identify themselves by wearing accessories that evoke fire imagery (although it later turns out there were at least a couple of victors present who were Locked Out of the Loop and didn't know to wear any of that). | |
| Trust Password / int_e7ad2805 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_e7ad2805 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The End of the World (FernWithy) (Fanfic) | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_e7ad2805 | |
| Trust Password / int_e9e265b6 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_e9e265b6 | comment |
Fire Emblem: Awakening has several for most child characters. Generally they prove their identity with a future version of a unique item, generally a wedding ring but in one case Falchion. Amusingly, one character points out the problem with the item passwords; it is possible that the person presenting it murdered the time-traveller and stole their mom's wedding ring. | |
| Trust Password / int_e9e265b6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_e9e265b6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Fire Emblem Awakening (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_e9e265b6 | |
| Trust Password / int_ea3a10ed | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_ea3a10ed | comment |
In 12 Monkeys, Cole can't figure out if he's actually from the future or if he's just crazy. He figures it out when he tells Kathryn to make a phone call for him to a phone he knows will be monitored in the future. Kathryn leaves the message Cole had been told about in the future, which confirms he's from the future. | |
| Trust Password / int_ea3a10ed | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_ea3a10ed | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| 12 Monkeys | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_ea3a10ed | |
| Trust Password / int_ea4f62db | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_ea4f62db | comment |
In the Family Guy episode "Prick Up Your Ears", Stewie tries to catch the Tooth Fairy. He sets up a trap, which catches Brian. | |
| Trust Password / int_ea4f62db | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_ea4f62db | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Family Guy | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_ea4f62db | |
| Trust Password / int_eb6719f6 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_eb6719f6 | comment |
Early on in Final Fantasy VIII the Player Party is sent on a mission to aid an anti-government group called "The Forest Owls" and is given a Password to confirm their identity. Upon reaching the rendezvous point and saying the password to the group's representative (regardless of whether or not you gave the correct response), he takes you to meet the other members. | |
| Trust Password / int_eb6719f6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_eb6719f6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Final Fantasy VIII (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_eb6719f6 | |
| Trust Password / int_ebadd9a4 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_ebadd9a4 | comment |
Diaries of a Madman: Navarone, when dealing with shapeshifters alongside his adopted daughter Taya, gives her a few of these for verification. He also has his true name, which ostensibly isn't accurately recorded in his journals, replaced instead with "Anonymous". | |
| Trust Password / int_ebadd9a4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_ebadd9a4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| DiariesOfAMadman | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_ebadd9a4 | |
| Trust Password / int_edb68237 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_edb68237 | comment |
Sam and Dean have a series of passwords and routines established for if they get separated, captured or arrested. The phrase "Funky Town" means the brother who says it is being held at gunpoint. "Poughkeepsie" means drop everything and run. A note addressed to "Hilts" and signed "Steve McQueen (actor)" means the brother who sent it will create a distraction while the brother who received it makes an escape. | |
| Trust Password / int_edb68237 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_edb68237 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Great Escape | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_edb68237 | |
| Trust Password / int_ef076a36 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_ef076a36 | comment |
Star Trek: Voyager: In "Shattered", Chakotay is flung to different points of time throughout the show. In one instance, he ends up just before the events of the pilot episode "Caretaker". Since he was still with the Maquis at that point, Janeway is about to have him arrested until Chakotay shares some personal details about her in an attempt to convince her he really is from the future. | |
| Trust Password / int_ef076a36 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_ef076a36 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Star Trek: Voyager | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_ef076a36 | |
| Trust Password / int_f0c816fb | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_f0c816fb | comment |
Breaking Bad: Saul Goodman knows an associate whom he calls "The Disappearer" who will give anyone an immediate new identity, but first they need to use a specific code phrase. The recipient has to request "a dust filter for a Hoover Max Extract® Pressure Pro™, Model 60"note Which is a real model, but doesn't have a dust filter for the humble vacuum repair shop owner to even acknowledge them as a client for his less legitimate services. | |
| Trust Password / int_f0c816fb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_f0c816fb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Breaking Bad | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_f0c816fb | |
| Trust Password / int_f10a65b | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_f10a65b | comment |
Legends of Tomorrow: After some effort, Zari manages to convince Nate that she's caught in a "Groundhog Day" Loop. Nate says that on her following iterations, to come to him and say: "Groundhog Day". | |
| Trust Password / int_f10a65b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_f10a65b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Legends of Tomorrow | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_f10a65b | |
| Trust Password / int_f2041376 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_f2041376 | comment |
Charmed (1998): In "That 70's Episode", Prue and Piper convince their past selves to trust them by opening a trick drawer in a cabinet. Piper attempts to convince their mother they can be trusted because they know she's pregnant with Phoebe. It backfires because not only does she not know, she believes she's infertile. In another episode Piper goes shortly back in time and has to quickly convince her past self that she's her and not some demon in disguise. With no time for passwords, she pinches Past!Piper hard and then shows her a bruise that instantly appears on her own arm. |
|
| Trust Password / int_f2041376 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_f2041376 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Charmed (1998) | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_f2041376 | |
| Trust Password / int_f3ef0f86 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_f3ef0f86 | comment |
In Artemis Fowl, Artemis sets up trust passwords for himself and Butler in case the Fairies wipe their memories. Artemis' own password is a video of himself saying what happened, as Artemis would only believe something he said himself. Butler's is Artemis telling him his first name: Domovoi. | |
| Trust Password / int_f3ef0f86 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_f3ef0f86 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Artemis Fowl | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_f3ef0f86 | |
| Trust Password / int_f6eb1c14 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_f6eb1c14 | comment |
In Ghost (1990), Sam is trying to convince his girlfriend that a medium can speak for him. He tries to tell her that he loves her, but this backfires, since he was reluctant to say those words in life. He quickly corrects himself and tells the medium to say "ditto", which is how he would usually respond to his girlfriend telling him that she loves him. | |
| Trust Password / int_f6eb1c14 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_f6eb1c14 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Ghost (1990) | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_f6eb1c14 | |
| Trust Password / int_f70241e2 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_f70241e2 | comment |
The second volume of The Arithmancer is one of many Harry Potter fanfics where it becomes standard practice to ask security questions to check that people aren't polyjuiced imposters. But instead of being asked about a shared memory Hermione proves her identity by starting an explanation of some advanced maths that nobody else fighting against Voldemort has ever come across. | |
| Trust Password / int_f70241e2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_f70241e2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Arithmancer / Fan Fic | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_f70241e2 | |
| Trust Password / int_f73f989a | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_f73f989a | comment |
Kyon: Big Damn Hero (Haruhi Suzumiya & TV Tropes; author Died During Production): It starts with Kyon using this so Haruhi will believe him and help Yuki. | |
| Trust Password / int_f73f989a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_f73f989a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Kyon: Big Damn Hero (Fanfic) | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_f73f989a | |
| Trust Password / int_f8956ef3 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_f8956ef3 | comment |
In YuYu Hakusho, Yusuke possesses Kuwabara to try and tell Keiko that he's trying to come back to life and needs his body. She doesn't believe him, and he tries to come up with a Trust Password. So he gropes her breasts (or in the TV version, peeks up her skirt), causing her to reflexively slap him and yell "Yusuke, you jerk!" And in the end, she tells him that was unnecessary after all — she recognized his body language. | |
| Trust Password / int_f8956ef3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_f8956ef3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| YuYu Hakusho (Manga) | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_f8956ef3 | |
| Trust Password / int_fd0da518 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_fd0da518 | comment |
Played for laughs in The Wrong Reflection: Tess randomly demands of Eleya at gunpoint why Tess joined Starfleet, to make sure Dal Kanril hasn't tried to replace her. After going "WTF?" Eleya answers, and then asks Tess if she really thought Eleya wasn't herself. | |
| Trust Password / int_fd0da518 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_fd0da518 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Wrong Reflection (Fanfic) | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_fd0da518 | |
| Trust Password / int_fd6b2fd9 | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_fd6b2fd9 | comment |
In an episode of Salute Your Shorts, Camp Anawana is playing a very intense game of Capture the Flag with a rival camp. Pinsky ends up going to Donkeylips for help. Donkeylips and Z.Z. aren't sure if he's real or an impostor, so Donkeylips decides to ask him something that he told him earlier in the episode. | |
| Trust Password / int_fd6b2fd9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_fd6b2fd9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Salute Your Shorts | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_fd6b2fd9 | |
| Trust Password / int_fe94578f | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_fe94578f | comment |
In an Alex Rider book, the titular character agrees that, when reporting to his handlers, if everything is okay, he'll preface his message by saying things are terrible. The wisdom for this being that if his cover was blown, his captors might make him report back saying "Everything is okay" - this was the signal that he needed rescuing. Same Tactic used by one of the protagonists in Red Storm Rising when radioing back to friendly forces. |
|
| Trust Password / int_fe94578f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_fe94578f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Alex Rider | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_fe94578f | |
| Trust Password / int_ff0bf83f | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_ff0bf83f | comment |
In Justice League Unlimited, when Flash and Lex Luthor switch minds, Flash proves he's really himself again by starting to reveal Green Lantern's old nickname. | |
| Trust Password / int_ff0bf83f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_ff0bf83f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| JusticeLeagueUnlimited | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_ff0bf83f | |
| Trust Password / int_ff9ab17f | type |
Trust Password | |
| Trust Password / int_ff9ab17f | comment |
The Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Firstborn" has Worf visited by a Klingon who first claims to be an advisor, and then later admits that he is Worf's now-grown son Alexander, traveling back in time to urge his younger self into becoming a warrior. To prove his identity, Worf asks future!Alexander to say what his mother said before she died. | |
| Trust Password / int_ff9ab17f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Trust Password / int_ff9ab17f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Star Trek: The Next Generation | hasFeature |
Trust Password / int_ff9ab17f |
The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.
Copyright of DBTropes.org wrapper 2009-2013 DFKI Knowledge Management. Imprint. - Thanks to Bakken&Baeck for hosting. Contact.
Copyright of data TVTropes.org contributors under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.
Copyright of data TVTropes.org contributors under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.