Basic Trope: An embarrassing password or passcode.
- Straight: The password to Emperor Evulz's computer is "Winnie the Pooh".
- Exaggerated:
- The password is "I looove fapping to Winnie-the-Pooh porn while smoking lotsa w33d".
- The password is "Winnie-the-Pooh". Every security question has an embarrassing answer too.
- Downplayed:
- Justified:
- Evulz hates the password and is unable to change it.
- Evulz picked this password on purpose. Who would ever think that "Winnie-the-Pooh" is the password for an Evil Overlord's computer?
- Inverted:
- The password is perfectly normal, but Evulz's username is "Winnie-the-Pooh".
- Evulz has an account on a Winnie-the-Pooh fan website. His username and password are unremarkable — the embarrassing part is that he has an account at all.
- Emperor Evulz's password is "IBangedHirosMom": embarrassing, but for Hiro instead of Evulz. (Bonus points if it's true, and even more bonus points if Hiro was conceived from that encounter and this is how he finds out.)
- Subverted:
- Hiro tries to log in with "Winnie-the-Pooh". It doesn't work.
- "Winnie-the-Pooh" is a decoy password that seems to work at first, but doesn't unlock anything important. Evulz might even have programmed the computer with a snarky response like "Really? I'm more of a Tigger fan, but you do you."
- Double Subverted: The actual password turns out to be "Piglet is the cutest!".
- Parodied:
- The password is "Embarrasing Password".
- The contents of his computer turn out to be folders upon folders of pirated Winnie-the-Pooh movies, pirated Winnie-the-Pooh books, pirated episodes of Winnie-the-Pooh TV shows... and Evulz's large collection of Winnie-the-Pooh lemon fics in the last folder.
- Zig Zagged: Evulz changes his password frequently. Sometimes he chooses an embarrassing one, and sometimes he goes for something boring.
- Averted: The password is perfectly normal.
- Enforced: The meddling executives think the episode got too dark, and forced the writers to throw in the embarrassing password to lighten the mood a bit.
- Lampshaded: "Why did the evil emperor use 'Winnie-the-Pooh' of all things as a password?"
- Invoked:
- Evulz intentionally chose a silly password because he believed no one would guess it.
- A Playful Hacker changes other people's passwords to stuff like "Soiled Underpants" for fun.
- Exploited: Evulz wants to embarrass his minions, so he forces them to recite stupid passphrases.
- Defied:
- Evulz receives an embarrassing default password and immediately changes it.
- Evulz, the company IT tech, wonders about giving embarrassing passwords to the employees he hates beginning with Hiro. His boss immediately makes clear in no uncertain terms to the entire employee pool that if Evulz does this to anybody, they can make it known to him and he will instantly fire Evulz, sue him into bankruptcy for workplace harassment, blacklist him in all the companies in the country, and call the FBI on him if there's ever any particularly suspicious technical issues in the future. Evulz decides it's too much of a hassle.
- Discussed: "I bet his password is something silly like 'PinkUnderpants'"
- Conversed: "How come people on TV like to use embarrassing passwords? I know no one else is supposed to see them anyway, but still..."
- Implied: When the tech support guy asks Evulz for his password, he blushes and asks if he can't just enter it himself.
- Deconstructed: Hiro is Hopeless with Tech. He has an embarrassing password he doesn't know how to change on his own, and he's afraid to ask for help because he knows the tech support guy will need his old password. Then his computer gets hacked, and his continued refusal to ask for help just makes the problems worse...
- Reconstructed: Hiro do has a particularly high level of safety in his gear because the embarrassing password is literally the last thing any hacker would even think of trying.
- Played For Laughs:
- When he hears that the computer has been stolen and the password has been leaked, Evulz panics about people finding out that he likes Winnie-the-Pooh. He doesn't care about the secret documents on the computer at all.
- Bob has an account with the password "ILoveTeletubbies" on an extramarital dating website. When his data is leaked, he's worried about people knowing he loves Teletubbies and forgets all about the infidelity.
- Played for Drama:
- The "embarrassing" part of the equation leads to massive bullying and/or loss of face that Bob really gets upset over.
- The "embarrassing" part of the equation leads to Skewed Priorities from everybody who do nothing as Bob's identity is stolen.
- Played for Horror:
- Bob is a Serial Killer and the password-protected photo folders holding his "trophies". The password is considered embarrassing to him, and way too descriptive for anybody else.
- The "embarrassing" part of the equation is something Bob decides to kill people over.
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