List of fictional hackers explained
This is a list of fictional hackers in comics, films, video games, and other media.
Hollywood films of the 1980s and 1990s typically portrayed hackers as "unintentional criminals" who end up becoming heroes, even as they were hunted by law enforcement.
Comics and sequential art
- Jack Marshall (Hacker) – protagonist of The Hacker Files series
- Barbara Gordon (Oracle)
- Master Blaster
- Cowboy
- Sue Denim
- Phreaky Phreddy
- Spider
- Artificial Kidz:
- Kenshiro "Zero" Cochrane (Ghost Rider)
- Warewolf
- Phrack
- 2600
- Jimmy Alhazared (Doctor Neon)
Literature
Anonymous by Jhala vs. Jhali
- Jhala (Strength)
- Jhali (Weekness)
- Anonymous
- Wyatt Gillette (Valleyman)
- Phate (Jon Patrick Holloway)
- Merlin of Amber aka Merle Corey, the protagonist of the second series
- Rinaldo aka Lucas "Luke" Reynard, his best friend
- The Smoking GNU (Mad Al, Sane Alex and Undecided Adrian) – (clacks hackers)
- Ponder Stibbons (clacks hacker, through Hex)
- Lisbeth Salander (Wasp) – protagonist
- Other hackers appearing occasionally, known by nickname only:
- Plague (Swedish)
- Trinity (British)
- Bob the Dog (British)
- Bilbo (American in Texas)
Holo.Wars: The Black Hats
- Steve Cylander
- F8th
- Hauk
- Dark0
Oryx and Crake
- Da5id Meier
- Hiro Protagonist
- In the context of the plot, Enki is considered to be "the original hacker", capable of modifying the behavior of society
- Jaunita gains some of the skills attributed to Enki
- Anna Grimsdóttír (Grim)
- Marcus Greenhorn
Tori Swyft thriller series (John M. Green novels)
- FIGJAM Thatcher in The Trusted and The Tao Deception
- Red Scorpion in The Tao Deception
Film
- Kate Libby ("Acid Burn")[1]
- Ramόn Sánchez ("Phantom Phreak")
- Paul Cook ("Lord Nikon")
- Eugene Belford ("The Plague")
- Dade Murphy ("Zero Cool" a.k.a. "Crash Override")
- Joey Pardella
- Emmanuel Goldstein ("Cereal Killer")
- David Levinson (Alien OS hacker)
- Lyle ("The Real Napster")
- Jones (The Dolphin)
- Strike
- Matthew Farrell
- Thomas Gabriel
- Freddie ("Warlock")
The Matrix
- Apoc
- Cypher (Mr. Reagan)
- Dozer
- Ghost
- Morpheus
- Mouse
- Neo (Thomas A. Anderson)
- Switch
- Tank
- Trinity
Ocean's 8
- Michael Bolton
- Samir Nagheenanajad
- Peter Gibbons
- Martin Bishop
- Erwin Emery (Whistler)
- Darryl Roskow (Mother)
- Stanley Jobson
- Axel Torvalds
Television
Bloody Monday
- Christopher Pelant
- Angela Montenegro
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- Jeremie Belpois
- Aelita Schaeffer
- Ed (Radical Edward) – short for Edward Wong Hau Pepelu Tivrusky IV
- Penelope Garcia – Hacker handle: The Black Queen
- Brody Nelson
- Raven Ramirez
- Daniel Krumitz ("Krummy")
Dark Angel
Doctor Who
- Yutaka ("Pantsu") Itazu
- Juiz
Johnny Chase (T-Mobile commercials)
- Roland Travis
- Margaret "Sosh" Perkins
- Jargon
- Alec Hardison
- Colin Mason ('Chaos')
- Kate – (Episode: "Ugly Duckling")
- Elliot Alderson: Sam Sepiol
- Darlene Alderson: Dolores Haze
- Shama Biswas: Trenton
- Sunil Markesh: Mobley
- Leslie Romero
- Cisco
- Lucas Wolenczak ("Frankenstein")
- Mark ("Wolfman")
- Martin Clemens ("Mycroft")
Simon & Simon
- Terry McDaniels (S1:E3 Trapdoors)
The X-Files
- Citizen Z
- Kaya in da Skya
Video games
- Dr. Hal Emmerich ("Otacon")
- 707
- Vanderwood
- Unknown/Saeran/Ray
Hacker Evolution
- Bitwise (Bit)
- Kaguya (From the DLC Labyrinths)
- Coel (From the DLC Labyrinths)
- D3F4ULT (From the DLC Labyrinths)
- CSEC (Hacking Group inside game.)
- The Kaguya Trials (DLC Hacker Group in the game)
- Striker (Rival on the DLC Labyrinths)
- Naix (Main Game Rival)
- Aiden Pearce (The Vigilante/The Fox)
- JB Marcowicz (Defalt)
- Raymond Kenney (T-Bone)
- Damien Brenks
- Clara Lille (BadBoy17)
- Johnacious Mailkmon
- Delford Wade (Iraq)
- Marcus Holloway (Retr0)
- Josh Sauchak (Hawt Sauce)
- Reginald (Wr3nch)
- Horatio Carlin
- DedSec – hacker group within the game
Many more can be added.
Role-playing games
- Altiera 'Alt' Cunningham
- Rache Bartmoss
- Spider Murphy
Multi-media franchises
- Kazari Uiharu, aka The Goalkeeper
- Project 2501, aka The Puppet Master
Notes and References
- Jecan . Vlad . 2011 . Hacking Hollywood: discussing hackers' reactions to three popular films . Journal of Media Research . 4 . 2 . 95–113 . EBSCOHost.
