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—, Glorious It seems that most characters in fiction missed the memo on making a good or pass phrase. They are almost invariably single words, names, or dates of significance to a character which can be easily deduced using a little detective work: the clue is often right there on the desk, in the form of a picture or memento. Or simply spelled out in bold lettering on your commemorative plaque or a wall poster. Another thing that's widely overlooked in fiction is the fact that a password in most cases has to be matched with a username. Many websites and servers nowadays also require you to include mixed-case letters, number, and special characters in an effort to make your password less guessable.

In addition, they lock you out after three tries. Serial And Parallel Data Transmission Pdf on this page. Both these measures can be ignored at will in fiction if it serves the plot. A related trope in fiction is to —on the screen—for all to see.

No sense in bleeping out the characters with asterisks or a mute prompt. Of course, scriptwriting-wise, a particularly amusing password can elicit a humorous response from the audience this way without dialogue exposition. See also,, and. Wagstaff: Gee, I forgot it. I better come out there with you!

• Finally, Pinky (Harpo Marx) manages to get inside despite his muteness by pulling a large fish and a sword out of his coat, sticking the one into the other, and presenting it to the doorman. • This is such a beloved sequesce among Hollywood writers and directors that dozens of later movies homaged it () when it came time to include a password of their own. • Spoofed in The Adventures of. • In 'The Thing That Wouldn't Stop It', a character demands a password before adding: '.And if you say 'swordfish,' I'll lose it!' The password ends up being '.

• Later, in Sam and Max: The Mole, the Mob, and the Meatball, one of Sam's guesses for the password to the back room of Ted E. Bear's Mafia-Free Playland and Casino is 'swordfish'. The real password is the phrase • And again in Sam and Max: Reality 2.0, where it's one of the guesses for the password to Bosco's bank account.

However, the real password is Bosco. • Guess what it is in.

Go on, guess. The is a big movie buff, as evidenced by numerous references he makes to various classics through the film, so it was probably supposed to be like that. The German title is 'Passwort: Swordfish'. • Joked about in. The password to get into the sewer entrance is 'stinkfish.' • In the novel, the titular character was about to be attacked by a Romulan who.

After Q dished out his punishment, the Romulan was begging for mercy by saying 'Please' over and over. Q gave a snarky response by invoking this trope. Q: 'I don't think 'Please' is the magic word today; you'll have to try again. How about Swordfish?' • In, an adventure on the Poopdeck of the ship at the Obligatory Pirate's Cove has you randomly asked by a pirate 'What be the password?'

If you've read the appropriate quest item, you'll correctly answer that the password is 'swordfish', and unlock a new area to explore. To further hammer the trope home, the adventure this happens in (which doesn't happen if you don't read your father's diary) is even titled 'It's Always Swordfish. Download Free Beltronics 870 Manual Lawn there. ' • A Clan can purchase a speakeasy and use it to order some very nice drinks. Problem is, in order to unlock these drinks you need to give a password. Each clan has a different password for each drink, but the Lucky Lindy in particular has the same password throughout all clans.

Guess what this password is. • 'Swordfish' was also the password to Caveman Dan's cave in the Time-Twitching Tower event zone. When the player character learned it, their response was 'Of course it is.' • Spoofed in: Sasuke gives a long, complex poem for the team's password; in dismay, Naruto suggests 'swordfish' as an alternative. When a ninja impersonating Naruto gives Sasuke the correct password, Sasuke immediately attacks because Naruto would never remember something like that.

• Also comes up in the first computer game, in which the password is ' spoons blah blah blah swordfish blah blah blah Simon says.' • ' in the VGA remake. • In 's mystery Queen of the Flowers, the password to get onto the gambling boat is 'swordfish' and Phryne commented that as she gave the password she • 's Sherlock: The Riddle of the Crown Jewels •: 'The Secret Life of Grotke'. Used as the password for a magic society. • In the lighthouse keeper's first words to you are: 'What's the password?

Can't let you in without the password. And don't try swordfish, I know it's not that. I tried it myself, I couldn't get in.'

• On, Roger jokingly guesses 'swordfish' when he can't think of the password to an illegal gambling den. (The real one is 'Milwaukee,' which he remembers too late.) • strip and the associated. • In the computer game, the goal of the game is to collect microfilm which, when reassembled in your PDA, delivers the villain hideout door's nine letter password.

One of the passwords that can be generated this way is of course 'Swordfish'. • On, Ruff chooses this as his password to his security system. He actually has trouble remembering it. • In, two characters meeting have a call-and-response password. The response is 'Swordfish swordfish swordfish swordfish swordfish.'

• In the FPS, guess what's the password needed to enter the Golden Narguile Club? • In the book series for, one of the mysteries revolved around the guests trying to figure out the password to the display case that held Mr. Boddy's latest treasure (a solid gold fish). It turned out to be, of course, 'swordfish.' • Used in as the password to a private poker game. • has a password be 'Sword fish.'

• episode 16 'The Wild Brood' Both the password and the program/console/ •: Lelouch mentions in passing that password for everything is, indeed, 'Swordfish'. • A variant in: In one of the Agents of Change missions, a member of the Security confirms that he's an ally by reciting 'swordfish114' to them. • The English dub of of this with Lupin's unlikely password of 'Aye-ahh!

Swordfish, open sesame, and other crap like that!' • In the episode 'Kennel Kittens Return' of the 2010 version of, the password for entering the gated community of the target adoptive family is 'swordfish'. • Subverted in, the player is told that the password to see is 'swordfish'. The player is later told the real password is 'ribbet'.

This appears even more ridiculous, since the Frogfather is an. But while it seems silly, it's. Nobody's ever guessed it. • The password to in an episode of is swordfish. Greg doesn't know that, but everyone else does. • In Reloaded, Larry can try to use it.

Doorman: What's the password? Doorman: Dang fool, show some originality. • There's a quest in in which the player characters comes to a locked door and has three choices to give for the password: ', ', and 'Swordfish'. When you speak to the wizard you had rescued, he tells you that the password is none of these.

• In the non-canon chapter 'Born and Bred' of Ruby, Yang, and their father have a more complicated song and dance to get to it, but in the end the password to get into the home is even the. • In Bluff Check video on how to design a better dungeon, doors locked with a password (as opposed to the cliche ') are illustrated by a picture of a swordfish. • The protagonist of 's The Hacker and the Ants keeps a password in a swordfish: to be specific, the unlocking-code for a secure file is concealed within a simulated swordfish in the clip-art drawer of his virtual office.

• In, while infiltrating an office building, the player can answer 'Swordfish?' When asked for a passphrase. The guard quips 'Nice try' and attacks. Other poor password choices.

• In Ryouko is confronted by a holographic humanoid interface demanding a password while breaking into a bank. She grabs the interface and brutally slaps it around in frustration. She is immediately granted access as • Similar to the aforementioned Tenchi example: In one episode of, Lupin and Jigen break into NASA using a series of stolen voice-command passwords. When they encounter one more password than they expected, the pair panics and Lupin swears in frustration—which turns out to be the final password. (Extra note: In the English dub, all the passwords are.) • The password that Barnette uses to protect the systems of the Nirvana in is ridiculously simple, yet it proves to be a big hurdle for the Mejale forces—and to the heroes, who try to get away with the ship. • In an episode of, Len logs into his family's database to get some information.

He allows his friends to watch him enter the super-secret password, which, after a moment of intense anticipation, turns out to be Enter. Not the word, but the key. Everyone promptly pratfalls as Len brags that it's the greatest password ever. • In, Setsuna is able to reconfigure Makoto's cell phone by guessing correctly, at the very first try, that he used his birthday as password. • In the manga of, Mimura hacks into the school's system and says the password stupidly easy: Welcome.

• In New, the password to documents about the use of Getter Rays as weapons. • Averted and referenced in. When Hideki tries to set a password on Sumomo, the first thing he tries to set it as is his last name.which is immediately rejected because it's so easy. Then he changes it to Chobits, and Sumomo even suggests that he uses a mix of hiragana and katakana (and English letters and numbers, but he doesn't use any of those). • Played with in. A two-part password to identify a hired bodyguard as genuine is 'May the force be with you' ('The Triad is super cool.'

In the Japanese version). The lack of creativity behind this password is by both courier and bodyguard.

The trick is that it's not the real password. The real password was handed out in sealed envelopes to the courier and bodyguard beforehand, and having anyone complete the fake one would identify an impostor and also implicate a leak in the organization. • In, a student has been copying test answers and other data from the school computers to gain near-perfect results on every exam. The school is called Honan and what is the password?

The student even what a stupidly easy to figure out password it was. • In the episode with Jet Alone, the password to its main computer is 'hope' (希望, displayed on a screen, using a Japanese IME to type it in). This is a word you would likely learn in your first semester of Japanese study if you take a class. • The password for accessing Eva-02's 'beast mode' in —'za beasto'—isn't all too creative, either. It seems to use voice recognition.

Though there are two voice commands before you enter the code specifically for this mode. Its doubtful the other pilots are even aware of inverting controls or a backdoor code to an EVA so at least it has some level of security. •: In order to shake a suspicious Ran off his trail, Conan deliberately picks a password for his cellphone that is a to, as that's the only password that would be logical for both Conan and Shinichi (who Ran thinks the phone really belongs to). Still, before Ran figures this out, she attempts his birthday, hers, and then just goes straight for the. • Ran's father Kogoro isn't that much better: he admits to using things like his birthday or his name, changed to similar-sounding numbers (, after all), as passwords. • Seto Kaiba of successfully hacked into Pegasus J. Crawford's system because he accurately guessed that Pegasus was so vain as to believe no one would get that far.

Interestingly, the password in the Japanese version is a tiny bit harder—since, according to Kaiba's logic, the Duelist Kingdom is a metaphorical prison island from which none can exit, the password is a reference to that—'Alcatraz'. • In ( RockMan.EXE), the cyber door to the room with MegaMan's 'frame' in it had a single-digit password (looked to be '2'). Like the word 'password,' it's a good and bad password at the same time. • Subverted in the first movie. When the protagonist just tries the name of a brilliant programmer as the password to the man's source-code disk, he gets a biblequote from Genesis 11 for his trouble.

Oh, and every electronic piece of equipment connected to the computer he was using gets infected with a virus and displays/prints nothing but the word Babel in an endless loop. • Averted with the knightmares in; each has a random sequence of letters and numbers to start each one up. Lloyd plays it straight with access to a weapons system on the Lancelot, telling Suzaku it's his favorite food.

• In both Japanese and English versions of, the password on Logan's handheld computer is simply his name. Granted, it was a voice-activated password, but Yukio's 'Seriously?'

Reaction is still the same. • In, during the 'Saki Biyori' spinoff, Maho- who has great potential as a mahjong player but is held back due to constantly making amateur mistakes, having bad habits and her lack of common sense- has her username as her password for her mahjong account. To make matters worse, she. • In, guess the challenge and response chosen by the kids guarding Princess Kushana? • In, the three have ' which their handlers are supposed to use to subdue them if they get out of control.except that instead of pacifying them, it just makes them go into a terrified panic.

However, their programmers chose to use common, everyday words for the Block Words: Stella's is 'die', Auel's is 'mother', and Sting's note According to, since it never came up in the show is 'dream'. The stupidity of this setup is demonstrated in one episode where Auel gets triggered and raves 'Mother's gonna die!' , which in turn sets off Stella. • Used in, by Gina Diggers. User: Password, Pass: User. Even Gina couldn't figure it out, since she couldn't remember WHAT stupid thing she did!

Gina Diggers continued the poor passwords with her personal laptop's password 'Studpants', which for Gina is no surprise at all—and caused trouble when one of her sister Brianna's AIs did get access to it. To make matters worse for Gina's precious computer security, two other characters share much of her memories (sorta three, but it's hard to imagine a password that would keep out a time traveling future self) and would have an extra-easy time guessing. • in an early issue of. •: Kyonko should have known that setting the password to the 'MITSURU' folder as her name was a bad idea. How the blue fuck could Haruki have not guessed that?

• In the fanfic, the password to some information so important that its original finder died for it is. 'Umi' (Japanese for 'ocean'). Taking this to real levels, the team attempting to crack the password are stuck for months because they only guess English words. And they know the password is three letters, but no-one points out that.

• In needs to hack into computer in order to stop his and his masters plan. Of course, in order to do so they need a password. After Lexaeus and Xaldin guesses on Xiggykun Akuchan Marleydono HomieXLuxory Secks DemykinsOMGWTFBBQVCR Zexypoo Mansex (which is all the 's names in order), Vexen points out that it's both too many letters as well as incredibly stupid and asks what kind of idiot would use such a password. Xaldin answers that Mansex would, since he's the seme of Xemnas whose somebody Xehanort was known for his dumb passwords (see the folder for more information). Of course, the password's correct. • In the Catwoman/Batman fanfic series the password into Bruce's extra-secret partition of the Batcave mainframe is his father's first name, his mother's first name, and 'justice.'

Noted here because once you sit down at the keyboard of a terminal hidden in the cave under the man's Stately Manor. • In a fanfic America's password was 'fuck!Russia!fuck' during the Cold War, which Russia guessed. He then started to change his passwords from time to time. The one he currently uses is 'fuck!China!nooo'. • In, found,, trying to enter a password-protected file on her father's computer to find out more about why he was killed, tries every obvious possibility first, including birthdays, pet names and favorite foods, then finally tries her own name and gets in. The moment when realizes that her father had her name as a password is a bit of a.

• In a fanfiction set in the modern day, Javert messes with Valjean's computer and changes the password to '24601'. They end up going down a list of very common passwords. Apparently a lot of people just make their password 'password'. • This is initially in chapter 14 of when accessing Eggman's system, which requires a password. Tails suggests 'EGGMAN', which doesn't work. This is then with the password actually being 'PASSWORD'.

•: Alfred protects a CD (containing and Robin's secret identities, the location of the Batcave, and other such trivial little stuff) with the password 'Peg', which is too short, both a dictionary word and the name of a relative's (his sister-in-law), and written on an autographed photo right on his desk. This enables another character to easily access the disk. Admittedly, the disk was intended to be accessed by Alfred's brother (as designated heir to Alfred's position), and it's hinted that Alfred expected Barbara to to leave the disk alone but really. • In, Selina Kyle breaks into Max Shreck's protected files by guessing that his password is the name of his dog.

Crow: You know, if this works, I am going to spank you, Movie. •, in, opens up a computer system with a which prompts him for the user and the password. For the user, he enters user and for the password, password.

And it works! • Justified in.

The password to a file about an undercover police operation is the first and last name of the cop that is undercover. Since if anybody who wasn't supposed to know the agent's name were to find it out, the operation would be ruined anyway, why not? • In, the password is the Morse code for undercover.

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