Hollywood Hacking/Playing With

Basic Trope: Hackers can use computers to do unrealistic things.

Straight: Bob, a master hacker, can get into people's computers and activate viruses with his machine alone.
Exaggerated: Bob can hack into anything and everything, including traffic lights and microwaves.
Downplayed: ???
Justified: Everything Is Online
Inverted: Bob can't even use his computer to access his own files.
Subverted: Bob tries to remotely activate a virus via his computer but fails.
Double Subverted: But he only failed once, and succeeds every other time he tries.
Parodied: Everything Bob knows about hacking, he learned from playing Portal.
Zig Zagged: ???
Averted: Computers are portrayed realistically.
Enforced: "The boys upstairs just greenlighted the new hacker flick. There's one problem though, they found the dialog too advanced." "Just throw a bunch of tech terms in there and they won't bat an eye!"
Lampshaded: ???
Invoked: ???
Exploited: ???
Defied: ???
Discussed: "Lemme guess...he's just gonna press a few keys and then some traffic light is gonna explode, right?"
Conversed: ???

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