List of fictional hackers

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This is a list of fictional hackers n 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.[1]

Comics and sequential art

Batman-related comics

The Hacker Files

  • Jack Marshall (Hacker) – protagonist of The Hacker Files series
  • Barbara Gordon (Oracle)
  • Master Blaster
  • Cowboy
  • Sue Denim
  • Phreaky Phreddy
  • Spider

Ghost Rider 2099

  • 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

The Blue Nowhere (Jeffery Deaver novel)

  • Wyatt Gillette (Valleyman)
  • Phate (Jon Patrick Holloway)

The Chronicles of Amber by Roger Zelazny

  • Merlin of Amber
    aka Merle Corey, the protagonist of the second series
  • Rinaldo aka Lucas "Luke" Reynard, his best friend

Cryptonomicon

  • Randy Waterhouse

Discworld

  • The Smoking GNU (Mad Al, Sane Alex and Undecided Adrian) – (clacks hackers)
  • Hex
    )

Drawing Blood

Genius series (Catherine Jinks novels)

  • Cadel English

Millennium
 series

  • Lisbeth Salander (Wasp) – protagonist
  • Other hackers appearing occasionally, known by nickname only:
    • Plague (Swedish)
    • Trinity (British)
    • Bob the Dog (British)
    • Bilbo (American in Texas)

Hex

  • Raven –
    Hex: Ghosts

Holo.Wars: The Black Hats

  • Steve Cylander
  • F8th
  • Hauk
  • Dark0

Jurassic Park

  • Lex Murphy
  • Dennis Nedry

Kidd series (John Sandford novels)

  • Kidd
  • Bobby

Little Brother (Cory Doctorow
novel)

  • W1n5t0n
  • M1K3Y

Neuromancer

  • Henry Dorsett Case

Oryx and Crake

  • Crake

The Shockwave Rider

  • Nick Haflinger

Snow Crash

  • 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

Splinter Cell
 series

  • 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

Ace Ventura: Pet Detective

  • Woodstock

Antitrust

Assassins

  • Elektra

Bait

  • Bristol

Blackhat

  • Nicholas Hathaway
  • Sadak

The Core

Cowboy Bebop: The Movie

  • Lee Sampson

Cube 2: Hypercube

  • Alex Trusk

Die Hard

  • Theo

Enemy of the State

Furious 7

Ghost in the Machine

Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex

  • The Laughing Man

GoldenEye

  • Boris Grishenko

Gone in 60 Seconds

  • Toby

Hackers

  • 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")[1]
  • Joey Pardella
  • Emmanuel Goldstein ("Cereal Killer")

Independence Day

  • David Levinson (Alien OS hacker)

The Italian Job

  • Lyle ("The Real Napster")

Johnny Mnemonic

  • Jones (The Dolphin)
  • Strike

Jumpin' Jack Flash

  • Jack
  • Terry Doolittle

The Lawnmower Man

  • Jobe Smith

Live Free or Die Hard

  • Matthew Farrell
  • Thomas Gabriel
  • Freddie ("Warlock")

The Losers

  • Jake Jensen

The Matrix

  • Apoc
  • Cypher
    (Mr. Reagan)
  • Dozer
  • Ghost
  • Morpheus
  • Mouse
  • Neo (Thomas A. Anderson)
  • Switch
  • Tank
  • Trinity

Mission: Impossible

  • Luther Stickell

National Treasure

  • Riley Poole

The Net

Ocean's 8

  • Nine Ball

Ocean's 13

Office Space

Serenity

  • Mr. Universe

Sneakers

  • Martin Bishop
  • Erwin Emery (Whistler)
  • Darryl Roskow (Mother)

Superman III

  • Gus Gorman

Swordfish

Terminator 2: Judgment Day

Trackers (Patrick Carman novel)

  • Shantorian

Tron

  • Kevin Flynn

WarGames

  • David Lightman

Wreck-It Ralph

  • King Candy (Turbo)

XXX: State of the Union

  • Agent Toby Lee Shavers

Television

24

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Alias

Arrow

Batman Beyond

Battle Programmer Shirase

  • Akira Shirase

Birds of Prey

Blake's 7

  • Kerr Avon

Bloody Monday

  • Takagi Fujimaru (Falcon)

Bones

Breaking In

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Chuck

Code Lyoko

  • Jeremie Belpois
  • Aelita Schaeffer

Continuum

Covert Affairs

Cowboy Bebop

  • Ed (
    Radical Edward
    ) – short for Edward Wong Hau Pepelu Tivrusky IV

Criminal Minds

  • Penelope Garcia

Hacker handle: The Black Queen

CSI: Cyber

  • Brody Nelson
  • Raven Ramirez
  • Daniel Krumitz ("Krummy")

Dark Angel

  • Logan Cale
    (Eyes Only)

Doctor Who

Earth: Final Conflict

Eden of the East

  • Yutaka ("Pantsu") Itazu
  • Juiz

Eureka (American TV series)

  • Zane Donovan

The Flash (2014)

  • Cisco Ramon

General Hospital

Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex

  • Aoi
    (Laughing Man)

Inspector Gadget

  • Penny Brown

Johnny Chase
 (T-Mobile commercials)

  • Johnny Chase

Kim Possible

  • Wade

Level 9

  • Roland Travis
  • Margaret "Sosh" Perkins
  • Jargon

Leverage

  • Alec Hardison
  • Colin Mason ('Chaos')

Lone Wolf McQuade

  • Kayo Ramos

MacGyver

  • Kate – (Episode: "Ugly Duckling")

Max Headroom

Mr. Robot

  • Elliot Alderson: Sam Sepiol
  • Darlene Alderson: Dolores Haze
  • Shama Biswas: Trenton
  • Sunil Markesh: Mobley
  • Leslie Romero
  • Cisco

NCIS

Nikita

Person of Interest

The Raccoons

  • Bentley Raccoon

ReBoot

  • Mouse

Scandal

seaQuest DSV

  • Lucas Wolenczak
    ("Frankenstein")
  • Mark ("Wolfman")
  • Martin Clemens ("Mycroft")

Simon & Simon

  • Terry McDaniels (S1:E3 Trapdoors)

Serial Experiments Lain

  • Lain Iwakura

Smallville

Spider-Man: The Animated Series

Team Knight Rider

  • Kevin ("Trek") Sanders

Torchwood

Undergrads

  • Justin Taylor ("Gimpy")

Veronica Mars

  • Cindy "Mac" Mackenzie

Warehouse 13

Witch Hunter Robin

  • Michael Lee

The X-Files

Z Nation

Video games

Apex Legends

  • Crypto

Assassin's Creed: Unity

  • Bishop

Command & Conquer: Generals

  • Black Lotus

Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc

  • Chihiro Fujisaki

Deus Ex: Human Revolution

  • Frank Pritchard

The Longest Journey

Mega Man X

  • Middy

Metal Gear Solid

  • Otacon
    ")

Metal Slug

  • Marco Rossi

Mystic Messenger

  • 707
  • Vanderwood
  • Unknown/Saeran/Ray

Hacker Evolution

  • Brian Spencer

Hacknet

  • 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)

Honkai Impact 3rd and Honkai: Star Rail

  • Bronya Zaychik

Overwatch

Persona 5

Saints Row: The Third

  • Kinzie Kensington

Sly Cooper

  • Bentley

System Shock

  • The Hacker
  • Dexter Witer

Team Fortress 2

  • Spy

Vampire: The Masquerade

Watch Dogs and Watch Dogs 2

  • 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

Cyberpunk 2020

  • Altiera 'Alt' Cunningham
  • Rache Bartmoss
  • Spider Murphy

Shadowrun

Multi-media franchises

A Certain Magical Index

  • Kazari Uiharu, aka The Goalkeeper

Cult of the Dead Cow

Ghost in the Shell

  • Project 2501
    , aka The Puppet Master

References

  1. ^ a b c Jecan, Vlad (2011). "Hacking Hollywood: discussing hackers' reactions to three popular films". Journal of Media Research. 4 (2): 95–113 – via EBSCOHost.
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