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* ComicBook/{{Oracle}}: Some superheroes did not know Oracle was really Barbara Gordon, and most supervillains (assuming they even knew about Oracle) did not know Oracle was a woman. Some even speculated that Oracle was actually an A.I.

Not to be confused with female ''hacks'', AKA crappy journalists.

* ''Film/{{Hackers}}''. Acid Burn was an alpha hacker so she had a coterie of boyhackers who thought she was awesome, but Crash Override was surprised to discover she was a girl. Dade keeps trying to get her to go out with him, but she forces him to prove that he's a better hacker before she does. [[spoiler:In the end, after their date, he finally tells her that she's elite. She tells him that this is all he had to do to get her to go out with him instead of trying to go the normal route]].

** Donna Clark also fits the bill, albeit to a lesser extent.

* Dr. K from ''Series/PowerRangersRPM'' combines Hackette with MultidisciplinaryScientist.
* Dutch Velders in ''Series/TheStrain''.
* In the ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' episode "The Girl with the Dungeons and Dragons Tattoo", the hacker that Dick Roman uses to crack a hard-drive is Charlie Bradbury... a woman, and the titular "girl".

* In ''Series/WhiteCollar'' episode "Taking Account" Peter arranges a meeting with a hacker known as Vulture. He tries scoping out the men in the area, but it's Mozzie who realizes the Vulture is a woman.

-->'''Aiden:''' You don't look 17.
--> '''Clara:''' Do I look like a ''bad boy''?
* ''VideoGame/SaintsRow'': Kinzie Kensington, the Saints' mission control and hacker, is a former FBI counter-hacker who was incriminated by one of her targets.
* Rani from ''VideoGame/{{troublemaker}}'', who has a mission where she's tasked with SchoolGradeHacking in order to expose Ricco's past crimes.

* ''VisualNovel/NineHoursNinePersonsNineDoors'': Inverted. Junpei initially thinks that [[MsFanservice Lotus]] is a belly dancer due to her figure and her clothing style ([[spoiler: she is, but it's a hobby]]) but is quite shocked to discover that Lotus is a security consultant who had previously worked in Silicon Valley. He learns this when Lotus [[DungeonBypass hacks a computer terminal rather than waste time solving a puzzle]].

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* Help I'm Trapped In A Driver's License Factory Elaine Roberts from ''Webcomic/{{XKCD}}'' fits this trope.

* Penny from ''VideoGame/PokemonScarletAndViolet'' is an introverted genius hacker.

* ''WesternAnimation/GlitchTechs'': Miko is very creative when it comes to technology. Also Zahra, who's likely the most competent of the entire main cast. [[EnforcedTrope Inevitable]] since both of them work for a video game company.

[[caption-width-right:300:Hide yo hard drives, hide yo computers, hide yo servers because she's hacking everybody out there!]]

They are given a list of possible suspects, all of whom happen to be geeky men who are PhD students in computer science wearing hoodies and living in a monitor-filled HackerCave in an AbandonedWarehouse. After either narrowing down the list to one or two suspects or dismissing all the suspects completely, the hero or his sidekick stumbles into a startling revelation: the hacker is a woman.

They are given a list of possible suspects, all of whom happen to be geeky men. After either narrowing down the list to one or two suspects or dismissing all the suspects completely, the hero or his sidekick stumbles into a startling revelation. The hacker is a woman.

The cops are hot on the trail of a hacker who is [[TheCracker bringing down banks, shutting off traffic lights, and just generally causing mayhem]].

They are given a list of possible suspects, all of whom happen to be men. After either narrowing down the list to one or two suspects or dismissing all the suspects completely, the hero or his sidekick stumbles into a startling revelation. The hacker is a woman.

* In the ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' episode ''The Girl With the Dungeons and Dragons Tattoo'', the hacker that Dick Roman uses to crack a hard-drive is Charlie Bradbury... a woman, and the titular "girl".

This is a sub-trope of SamusIsAGirl and happens to be the techie sister of the WrenchWench. Related to the common myth that ThereAreNoGirlsOnTheInternet, which the Hackette in question is likely exploiting.

* ''Series/TheXFiles'' episode "Kill Switch" features a female hacker who goes by "Invisigoth" and is fighting a rogue AI that killed her boyfriend.

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* In the ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'' sourcebook "Paranormal Animals of North America" creature descriptions are discussed in comments made by shadowrunners and other more or less knowledgeable types. On of the more sensible and well-informed commenters is known as "Doc". Near the end of the book, Doc mentions being about to submit a description of a new species named ''(genus) amandae''. Why "Amanda?" the other commenters cluelessly ask. Because that's my name, Doc replies. Apart from the unusual decision to use her first name instead of her surname to name the species, the commenters really oughtn't have been ''that'' surprised, since female hackers/shadowrunners are common in the 2050 of the game, and a fair share of the previous commenters have very obviously been female.

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* In the ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'' sourcebook "Paranormal Animals of North America" creature descriptions are discussed in comments made by shadowrunners and other more or less knowledgeable types. On of the more sensible and well-informed commenters is known as "Doc". Near the end of the book, Doc mentions being about to submit a description of a new species named ''(genus) amandae''. Why "Amanda?" the other commenters cluelessly ask. Because that's my name, Doc replies. Apart from the unusual decision to use her first name instead of her surname to name the species, the commenters really oughtn't have been ''that'' surprised, since female hackers/shadowrunners are common in the 2050 of the game, and a fair share of the previous commenters have very obviously been female.
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This is a sub-trope of SamusIsAGirl and happens to be the techie sister of the WrenchWench and HotScientist. Related to the common myth that ThereAreNoGirlsOnTheInternet, which the Hackette in question is likely exploiting.

* ''Film/TheMatrix'': When Neo first meets Trinity, he's surprised and a little embarrassed to learn that Trinity is female (see the page quote).

* The page image is of Futaba Sakura from ''VideoGame/Persona5'', a teenage coding prodigy who goes by the alias "Alibaba" ([[spoiler:and previously, "Medjed"]]). The Phantom Thieves initially assume Alibaba is male, but soon put two and two together and realise Alibaba and Futaba are the same person.

* ''VideoGame/SaintsRow'' Kinzie Kensington, the Saints' mission control and hacker, is a former FBI counter-hacker who was incriminated by one of her targets.

They are given a list of possible suspects, all of whom happen to be men. After either narrowing down the list to one or two suspects, or dismissing all the suspects completely, the hero or his sidekick stumbles onto a startling revelation. The hacker is a woman.

In the minds of all officers of the law and FBI agents (even female ones), hackers are exclusively male, and having too much oestrogen allays any suspicion you might have anything to do with computers or technology in general. When the truth is revealed, the notion that anybody previously thought a woman was capable of such things is either tossed aside, or even ignored altogether.

* ComicBook/{{Oracle}}: Some superheroes did not know Oracle was really Barbara Gordon, and most supervillains (assuming they even knew about Oracle) did not know Oracle was woman. Some even speculated that Oracle was actually an A.I.

* In ''Literature/TheHistoryOfTheGalaxy'' books, cybreakers (hackers with multiple brain implants that allow them to hack ''with their minds'') and mnemonics (essentially, "white hat" cybreakers) are just as likely to be women as men, since they were originally trained by {{Mega Corp}}s who kidnapped children of both sexes to implant and train them. However, as a rule, there are more female mnemonics than cybreakers.

* Lisbeth Salander from ''Literature/TheMillenniumTrilogy'' uses this to help her hide from the police.[[note]]In a nod to ''Film/TheMatrix'', there's an actual hacker character known as Trinity in the third book. Unfortunately, he turns out to be a guy.[[/note]]

[[caption-width-right:300:Hide yo hard drives, hide yo computers, hide you servers because she's hacking everybody out there!]]

[[caption-width-right:Hide yo hard drives, hide yo computers, hide you servers because she's hacking everybody out there!]]

* ''VisualNovel/NineHoursNinePersonsNineDoors'': Inverted. Junpei initially thinks that [[MissFanservice Lotus]] is a belly dancer due to her figure and her clothing style ([[spoiler: she is, but it's a hobby]]) but is quite shocked to discover that Lotus is a security consultant who had previously worked in Silicon Valley. He learns this when Lotus [[DungeonBypass hacks a computer terminal rather than waste time solving a puzzle]].

In the minds of all officers of the law and FBI agents (even female ones), hackers are exclusively male, and having too much oestrogen allays any suspicion you might have anything having to do with computers or technology in general. When the truth is revealed, the notion that nobody previously thought a woman was capable of such things is either tossed aside, or even ignored altogether.

In the minds of all officers of the law and FBI agents (even female ones), hackers are exclusively male, and having a second X chromosome excludes you from any suspicion for anything having to do with computers or technology in general. When the truth is revealed, the notion that nobody previously thought a woman was capable of such things is either tossed aside, or even ignored altogether.

* ''Anime/BubblegumCrisis'': Nene Romanova fills this role. It becomes a plot point when Nene uses her hardsuit to hack into the AD Police mainframe (unbeknownst to her fellow officers) to regain control of the building from a terrorist and his team of rogue boomers. While, at the same time, guiding the police chief's niece to safety via the intercom.

* ''Film/TheFastAndTheFurious - Furious 7'' goes this route in all its implications [[spoiler: [[SamusIsAGirl with Ramsey]], the hacker that needs to be rescued from a terrorist organization by Dom and crew]].

* In ''Literature/TheHistoryOfTheGalaxy'' books, cybreakers (hackers with multiple brain implants that allow them to hack ''with their minds'') and mnemonics (essentially, "white hat" cybreakers) are just as likely to be women as men, since they were originally trained by {{Mega Corp}}s who kidnapped children of both sexes to implant and train them. However, as a rule, there are more female mnemonics than cybreakers.

* Dr. K from ''Power Rangers RPM'' combines Hackette with MultidisciplinaryScientist.
* Claudia, when she is hacking into the Warehouse in the first few episodes of ''Series/{{Warehouse 13}}'', is spoken of with male pronouns until they learn her identity.
* Penelope Garcia from ''Series/CriminalMinds'' is happy to surprise supervisors and people from other precincts with the fact she's a female.
** Penelope talking in Criminal Minds S1 E22: "The Information Superhighway is closed. Someone had the nerve to run a black-hat op into my computers, Morgan. They hacked me, okay? But you can bet your sweet ass that I will find them. I've got honeypot farms hidden behind UML kernel data packets and a first-generation honey net I personally programmed. My snort-log lists every visitor, every server request, every keystroke of this entire network. If I have to back-hack his IP all the way to the frickin' stone-age I will find this sonofabitch, K? So bye!"

* An episode of ''Series/BurnNotice'' featured a girl hacker. Not only was the fact that she was an attractive teenage girl a surprise, but she also turned out to be utterly vicious and cold-blooded, as evidenced when she drugs Michael and then ties him to a chair and rubber-bands a plastic bag over his head in an attempt to kill him via asphyxiation (luckily, Michael manages to talk his way out of it).

* In ''Series/WhiteCollar'' episode "Taking Account" Peter arranges a meeting with a hacker known as Vulture. He tries scoping out the men in the area, but it's Mozzie who realizes the Vulture is a woman.

* Dutch Velders in ''Series/TheStrain''.
* ''Series/NewTricks'' played this to the hilt twice within a few years.
* Felicity Smoak from ''Series/{{Arrow}}'' is basically this trope personified. She is a wildly talented programmer who frequently shocks her colleagues and enemies with the fact that Oliver Queen's coding expert is a blonde woman with an impressive, feminine, fashion sense.