History Main / HackYourEnemy

* In {{Bioshock}} you can hack the flying defense turrets, which then follow you around and shoot the enemy. You can hack security cameras as well, but that's [[InsecurityCamera another trope]].

* In ''ProjectSnowblind'' you can hack pretty much any robotic enemy.

* ''SystemShock 2'' allows you to hack defense turrets if you can sneak up to them, turning them over to your side.

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* ''GhostInTheShell'':
** In episode "Automated Capitalism". While the team is infiltrating a millionaire's estate, Batou is pursued by robot dogs. He neutralizes them by hacking into their computer brains.
** In the first movie, people were hacked, giving them FalseMemories amoungst other things.
** In one episode The Major directly controls Togusa to stop him allowing himself to be made a scapegoat because of his LawfulStupid nature.
** The third movie's BigBad is called "The Puppetmaster". Guess what he does.

* ''MagnusRobotFighter'' Pulled this stunt at least once, by knocking the robot offline, opening up the back panel, disabling its wireless and setting it to local speech control.

* ''[[http://www.comics.org/series/1600/ Magnus, Robot Fighter]]'' Pulled this stunt at least once, by knocking the robot offline, opening up the back panel, disabling its wireless and setting it to local speech control.

* In {{Fallout 2}} you can hack turret control to use them against final boss.
* In HalfLife 2 Alyx hacked security system in Nova Prospect and programmed turrets to shoot guards and not Gordon. Gordon himself reprograms land mines by simply grabbing them with gravity gun.

* ''{{Iji}}'' lets you do this to pretty much any {{mook}} if you have enough points in "Cracking".

* In ''MassEffect2'', other than the Engineer 'AI Hack' ability already mentioned from the first game, also features Legion, a robotic ally who can activate and control inactive turrets - and on a larger scale, a potent virus capable of 'indoctrinating' an entire civilization of sentient robots into following a different ideology.
** In MassEffect3, such functionality gets wrapped into "Sabotage", which encompasses causing weapon malfunctions against organic foes as well. Becomes very useful in turning the tables on [[TheTurretMaster Cerberus combat engineers]] and their [[DemonicSpiders deployable turrets.]]

* In ''GetSmart'' Hymie the Robot was an invention of KAOS to infiltrate CONTROL, which CONTROL then reprogrammed for niceness instead of rottenness.

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* Flynn hacks a guard program in ''TronLegacy''.

* Pretty indispensable in ''{{Robot}}''.

* In ''Game/GoldenEyeWii'' you can use your smart phone to hack the computer controlled guns, which will then kill any mook in their range.

* In episode Deliverance of StargateUniverse they hacked enemy unmanned fighters to fight other fighters

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So, you are fighting robotic enemies. Maybe it's RobotWar, or your enemy just use computer controlled soldiers. Why not hack some of them? You can turn them off without fight, or even better - reprogram it to think you are their commander and their commanders and allies are their enemies so you get free reinforcements and ideal infiltrators.

* In recent arc of StarWarsTheCloneWars rescue operation involved reprogramming separatists droids to think R2-D2 is their commander.
* In the TeenTitans series, GadgeteerGenius Gizmo often uses this technique on Cyborg.

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* ''GhostInTheShell franchise does it a lot''

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For biological alternatives see PuppeteerParasite, {{Brainwashing}} and MindControl. You may notice that they are much more "evil" thing to do, presumably because even ridiculously human robot lacks "soul" of some sort and therefore it is not a bad thing to completely alter his personality.

* * Flynn hacks a guard program in ''TronLegacy''.

* In the original AlterAILA, Orange's special ability involves this.
* In flash game IAmAnInsaneRogueAI you play as [[AIISACrapshoot insane rogue AI]]. At the beginning, hacking maintenance robots is the only way to kill inhabitants of buildings you attack. Later you will gain access to various other methods, but hacked robots and turrets will remain primary cause of fatalities.
* {{Iji}} lets you do this to pretty much any {{mook}} if you have enough points in "Cracking".
* In Game/GoldenEyeWii you can use your smart phone to hack the computer controlled guns, which will then kill any mook in their range.

* In flash game [[http://www.kongregate.com/games/nerdook/i-am-an-insane-rogue-ai I Am An Insane Rogue AI]] you play as [[AIISACrapshot insane rogue AI]]. At the beginning, hacking maintenance robots is the only way to kill inhabitants of buildings you attack. Later you will gain access to various other methods, but hacked robots and turrets will remain primary cause of fatalities.

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* Supposedly, one of the reasons that the United States Navy suffered no casualties during the 1986 "Line of Death" confrontation with Libya was that the American military successfully hacked and effectively disabled Libya's air defense systems.