History Main / HackedByAPirate

%%* ''Manga/BloodyMonday'': The lead character Fujimaru, the hacker known as 'Falcon', always leaves his personal symbol of a diving falcon at the screen of every computer he visits, as a calling card.
%%* ''Anime/BubblegumCrisis Tokyo 2040'': While Linna is investigating the Knight Sabers in the first few episodes, [[{{Hackette}} Nene]] detects the primitive attempt to hack the AD Police, and launches a virus that covers Linna's display with blood and a ghostly face, while a deep voice warns that nobody who's investigated the Sabers has survived.[[note]]Linna survives.[[/note]]

%%* Jensen from ''ComicBook/TheLosers'' often has to break into systems on a timetable, but if he's on his own schedule, he likes to work wearing a pirate hat. And only a pirate hat.
* One ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'' storyline has Batman investigating a criminal / terrorist dressed in a mask and he finds a video file of said masked man...who removes his mask to reveal a pixellated skull.
* In some ''ComicStrip/BloomCounty'' strips, PlayfulHacker Oliver Wendell Jones sometimes wore a pirate costume and [[TalkLikeAPirate talked like one]] while illegally hacking.

%%* Wiggins from ''Roleplay/CumberholmesRolePlayTwitterCommunity'' employs these methods.

* All over the place in ''Film/{{Hackers}}.'' The viruses launched by the hackers all have some malicious and/or cute animation that's displayed while they're mucking about in the system.

* As they browse the Deep Web, the protagonist of ''Videogame/WelcomeToTheGame'' is constantly hacked. Each hacking minigame starts with a cackling skull.
** This is repeated in the sequel ''VideoGame/WelcomeToTheGameII'', where anytime your computer gets hacked as you explore the Deep Web, an image of a laughing skull takes over your screen, followed by a minigame to repel the hacker.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}'', a skull without crossbones, stylized like a calavera, is the symbol for Sombra's Hack ability in her hotbar, and marks anything she's used it on. It also shows up when she hacks the Play of the Game screen and seems to be her personal SigilSpam.
* In ''Videogame/WatchDogs2'', [=DedSec=] uses the Grim Reaper as their personal logo and their equivalent of Guy Fawkes masks are LED skull masks.

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%%* Radical Edward from ''Anime/CowboyBebop'' tends to do this. Although Ed's more into smiley faces and other sillyness.
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* In ''VideoGame/WelcomeToTheGame 2'', whenever your computer gets hacked as you explore the Deep Web, an image of a laughing skull takes over your screen, followed by a minigame to repel the hacker.

* In ''VideoGame/WelcomeToTheGame2'', whenever your computer gets hacked as you explore the Deep Web, an image of a laughing skull takes over your screen, followed by a minigame to repel the hacker.

* When the hacker group in ''Film/WhoAmI'' hacks the German stock market, they show the DAX's daily curve in form of the finger which causes some irritation in the commentator.

Often overlaps with HollywoodHacking.

* Website defacement being a purposefully showy practice, this kind of calling card subsists there.

* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'' episode "Tragical History" features a computer virus [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJnklyxbcL8 accompanied by a cute pirate video]] and an EarWorm.

* ''Film/IndependenceDay'' is the TropeCodifier, when David displays a laughing skull and crossbones to the aliens as a joke... just before he and Capt. Hiller throw a nuke at them. Played with in that David didn't display the skull until long ''after'' he'd covertly hacked into their system and uploaded a virus: he only did the skull thing when the jig was up and stealth was no longer an option.

* In ''Videogame/WatchDogs2'', [=DedSec=] uses the Grim Reaper as their personal logo and their equivalent of Guy Fawkes masks are skull masks made of ASCII symbols.

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* ''FanFic/AThinVeneer'': Commodore Acaltha's trap in the Berlin system includes an ElectronicWarfare attack the Minbari garrison force, complete with suddenly-blacked-out-then-returned computer displays being overrun with [[ShoutOut laughing]] [[Film/IndependenceDay skull-and-crossbones]].

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* Such practices of depicting hackers using fancy graphics/logos to identify themselves most likely originated with software pirate groups way back in the 80's - who typically did have some form of ASCII based logo that they would insert into the game they cracked and released. Even today, it's common to find such logos/art in the .nfo file that often accompanies such pirated software. With Hollywood being Hollywood, it's no surprise that they have no concept of the difference between a computer [[TheCracker cracker]] and a software pirate.

* In ''Videogame/WatchDogs2'', [=DedSec=] uses the Grim Reaper as their personal logo and their equivalent of Guy Fawkes masks are masks with skulls on them.

* When the hacker group in ''Film/WhoAmI'' hacks the German stock exchange, they show the DAX's daily curve in form of the finger which causes some irritation in the commentator.

-->-- '''Dexter Grif''', ''Machinema/RedVsBlue''

Often overlap with HollywoodHacking.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}'', a skull (without crossbones) is the symbol for Sombra's Hack ability in her hotbar, and marks anything she's used it on. It also shows up when she hacks the Play of the Game screen and seems to be her personal SigilSpam.

%%* Jensen from ''TheLosers'' often has to break into systems on a timetable, but if he's on his own schedule, he likes to work wearing a pirate hat. And only a pirate hat.

* Robin in ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'' uses the "stylised version of the hacker" version, complete with his distinctive laugh.