History Main / HackYourEnemy

* In ''VideoGame//{{SpiderManPS4}}'', you need to use Miles's hacking app to get past Sable drones while playing as him. Occasionally, [[spoiler:like when you need to stop the Devil's Breath from being released at Grand Central]], you need to use hacking to defeat robotic enemies while playing as Mary Jane as well.

* In ''VideoGame//SpiderManPS4'', you need to use Miles's hacking app to get past Sable drones while playing as him. Occasionally, [[spoiler:like when you need to stop the Devil's Breath from being released at Grand Central]], you need to use hacking to defeat robotic enemies while playing as Mary Jane as well.

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*** In one episode The Major directly controls Togusa to stop him allowing himself to be made a scapegoat because of his LawfulStupid nature.
*** The [[Anime/GhostInTheShell original movie]]'s BigBad is called "The Puppet Master". Guess what he does.

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* ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}''

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

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** Hacking also features in the spin-off game ''TabletopGame/{{Aristeia}}'', tough there it mostly acts as a buff/debuff mechanic.

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** In ''VideoGame/MassEffect1'', AI Hacking is an unlockable ability for an [[TheEngineer Engineer]]-class PC and [[WrenchWench Tali]]. In [[VideoGame/MassEffect2 2]], it is also available for Legion, whose loyalty mission also involves taking control of enemy turrets and [[spoiler: a virus that would have rewritten the "mainstream" geth into Reaper-worshipping "heretics". Whether you actually use the virus is up to you.]]
** In VideoGame/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 ''VideoGame/{{XCOM 2}}'' enemy turrets and robots can be hacked by Specialists with the Haywire Protocol skill, allowing you to temporarily shut them down or take control if you pass the check.

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* On ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim,'' a battle with [[DarkActionGirl Tak]] and her robot assistant, [[HypercompetentSidekick MiMi]], causes the latter's memory disk to fall out of her head. In the final space battle between them and [[VillainProtagonist Zim]], [[CreepyChild Gaz]] and [[ServileSnarker Zim's computer]] hook the disk up to [[ChaoticStupid GIR]], causing [=MiMi=] to act as insane as he does and throw Tak's ship out of control.

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

* Probably averted in case of Iraq, as [[http://www.textfiles.com/magazines/CRYPT/crptlettr6.vir this]] article states: ''US News and World Report'' published a report that the US inserted a virus into a network of Iraqi air defense computers several weeks before the start of the Persian Gulf War. However, as Associated Press reported later, "Trouble is, a computer industry publication, InfoWorld, sketched out a strikingly similar scenario in a column that ran in its April 1, 1991, issue. That article was an April Fool's joke, pure fantasy [...]."

*** The [[Anime/GhostInTheShell original movie]]'s BigBad is called "The Puppeteer Master". Guess what he does.

*** The third movie's BigBad is called "The Puppeteer". Guess what he does.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 2}}'' you can hack turret control to use them against final boss.
* In ''VideoGame/HalfLife2'' 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.

* In a video game based on ''Anime/GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex'', obtaining unit ID and hacking key data from defeated enemy commanders allows the player to hack other members of their unit. This can be used for scouting or taking out other enemies, but the hacked enemy drops dead once the connection is cut. Also, it can be done at almost any distance and through several walls.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}'' the hero Sombra can hack the enemy heroes to disable their secondary abilities.For balance reasons, the in game version doesn't fully disable any of the robot characters, but does affect abilities that aren't technological, such as Soldier:76's sprinting. It also works on health packs, speeding up their respawning and denying them to the enemy. Her Ultimate ability does this to any enemy in range.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}'' the hero Sombra can hack the enemy heroes to disable their secondary abilities. Her Ultimate ability does this to any enemy in range.

* In ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOps'', the Hacker Pro perk allows you to hack enemy equipments, from Sentry Guns to Claymore Mines. It doesn't help that they all glow red because of your perk and they can be jammed by Scramblers.

* Rai (ValiantComics) has this as a superpower. With the cry of "MINDLOCK!" he can take control of any ''one'' machine within the range of his voice.

* As [[http://www.textfiles.com/magazines/CRYPT/crptlettr6.vir this]] article states: ''US News and World Report'' published a report that the US inserted a virus into a network of Iraqi air defense computers several weeks before the start of the Persian Gulf War. However, as Associated Press reported later, "Trouble is, a computer industry publication, InfoWorld, sketched out a strikingly similar scenario in a column that ran in its April 1, 1991, issue. That article was an April Fool's joke, pure fantasy [...]."

* A 1991 April Fools Day spoof in a computer magazine had writers and editors at ''US News and World Report'' rechecking sources on its report that the US inserted a virus into a network of Iraqi air defense computers several weeks before the start of the Persian Gulf War.

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