This is a list of fictional hackers in comics, films, video games, and other media.
Hollywood films of the 1980s and 1990s portrayed hackers as technology wunderkinds who became "unintentional criminals." They were depicted as unconventional heroes fighting for justice, even though they were hunted by law enforcement for breaking IT laws.
Comics and sequential art
Batman-related comics Lonnie Machin (Moneyspider): an anarchist vigilante, featured in Anarky and various Batman-related comics, published by DC Comics Tim Drake (Robin): the third Robin of the Batman Family, published by DC Comics Barbara Gordon (Oracle): a major character in various Batman-related comics and Birds of Prey Noah Kuttler (The Calculator): brilliant hacker villain in DC Comics Wendy Harris (Proxy)
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) Ponder Stibbons (clacks hacker, through Hex)
Drawing Blood Zach Bosch
Genius series (Catherine Jinks novels) Cadel English
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo/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, Hex: Shadows, 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 Milo Hoffman
Assassins Elektra
Bait Bristol
Blackhat Nicholas Hathaway Sadak
The Core Taz Finch ("Ratt")
Cowboy Bebop: The Movie Lee Sampson
Cube 2: Hypercube Alex Trusk
Die Hard Theo
Enemy of the State Edward Lyle (Brill)
Furious 7 Ramsey
Ghost in the Machine Karl Hochman
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex The Laughing Man
GoldenEye Boris Grishenko
Gone in 60 Seconds Toby
Hackers Kate Libby ("Acid Burn") 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")
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 Angela Bennett ("Angel") Jack Devlin
Ocean's 8 Nine Ball
Ocean's Eleven Livingston Dell
Ocean's Thirteen Virgil Malloy
Office Space Michael Bolton Samir Nagheenanajad Peter Gibbons
Serenity Mr. Universe
Sneakers Martin Bishop Erwin Emery (Whistler) Darryl Roskow (Mother)
Superman III Gus Gorman
Swordfish Stanley Jobson Axel Torvalds
Terminator 2: Judgment Day John Connor
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 Chloe O'Brian
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Daisy "Skye" Johnson
Alias Marshall Flinkman Rachel Gibson
Arrow Felicity Smoak
Batman Beyond Maxine Gibson
Battle Programmer Shirase Akira Shirase
Birds of Prey Barbara Gordon/Oracle
Blake's 7 Kerr Avon
Bloody Monday Takagi Fujimaru (Falcon)
Bones Christopher Pelant Angela Montenegro
Breaking In Bret Harrison
Buffy the Vampire Slayer Willow Rosenberg
Chuck Chuck Bartowski Stephen J. Bartowski
Code Lyoko Jeremie Belpois Aelita Schaeffer
Continuum Alec Sadler
Covert Affairs Auggie Anderson
Cowboy Bebop Ed (Radical Edward) – short for Edward Wong Hau Pepelu Tivrusky IV
Criminal Minds Penelope Garcia – Hacker handle: The Black Queen
Mistletoe Murders Chimera - Founded by Grace (Sarah Drew) and Aaron (Aaron Ashmore)
CSI: Cyber Brody Nelson Raven Ramirez Daniel Krumitz ("Krummy")
Dark Angel Logan Cale (Eyes Only)
Doctor Who The Doctor Adam Mitchell Clara Oswald / Oswin Oswald Mickey Smith Bob Salmon – Doctor Who Past Doctor Adventures novel Blue Box by Kate Orman Sarah Swan ("Fionnula") – Doctor Who Past Doctor Adventures novel Blue Box by Kate Orman
Earth: Final Conflict Marcus "Augur" Deveraux
Eden of the East Yutaka ("Pantsu") Itazu Juiz
Eureka (American TV series) Zane Donovan
The Flash (2014) Cisco Ramon
General Hospital Stan Johnson Damian Spinelli
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex Aoi (Laughing Man)
Inspector Gadget Penny
Johnny Chase (T-Mobile commercials) Johnny Chase
Kim Possible Wade Load
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 Theora Jones Bryce Lynch
Mr. Robot Elliot Alderson ("Sam Sepiol") Darlene Alderson ("Dolores Haze") Shama Biswas ("Trenton") Sunil Markesh ("Mobley") Leslie Romero Cisco
NCIS Abby Sciuto Timothy McGee
Nikita Seymour Birkoff
Person of Interest Samantha Groves (Root)
The Raccoons Bentley Raccoon
ReBoot Mouse
Scandal Charlie Huck Jake Ballard Quinn Perkins
seaQuest DSV Lucas Wolenczak ("Frankenstein") Mark ("Wolfman") Martin Clemens ("Mycroft")
Simon & Simon Terry McDaniels (S1:E3 Trapdoors)
Serial Experiments Lain Lain Iwakura
Smallville Chloe Sullivan
Spider-Man: The Animated Series Hobgoblin
Team Knight Rider Kevin ("Trek") Sanders
Torchwood Esther Drummond Ianto Jones Jack Harkness Toshiko Sato
Undergrads Justin Taylor ("Gimpy")
Veronica Mars Cindy "Mac" Mackenzie
Warehouse 13 Claudia Donovan
Witch Hunter Robin Michael Lee
The X-Files Invisigoth ("Ester Nairn") The Lone Gunmen (also featured in The Lone Gunmen) John Fitzgerald Byers Melvin Frohike Richard Langly
Z Nation Citizen Z Kaya in da Skya
Video games Apex Legends Crypto
Assassin's Creed II Rebecca Crane
Assassin's Creed: Unity Bishop
Command & Conquer: Generals Black Lotus
Cyberpunk 2077 Altiera "Alt" Cunningham Spider Murphy T-Bug Song So Mi ("Songbird") Wilky LaGuerre ("Slider")
Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc Chihiro Fujisaki
Deus Ex: Human Revolution Frank Pritchard
Life is Strange Chloe Price
The Longest Journey Burns Flipper
Mega Man X Middy
Metal Gear Solid Dr. Hal Emmerich ("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
Hitman 3 Hush
Overwatch Sombra
Persona 5 Futaba Sakura
Saints Row: The Third Kinzie Kensington
Sly Cooper Bentley
System Shock The Hacker Dexter Witer
Team Fortress 2 Spy
Vampire: The Masquerade Mitnick – Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines, based on real-life hacker Kevin Mitnick Dev/Null – Vampire: The Masquerade - Redemption
Watch Dogs and Watch Dogs 2 Aiden Pearce (The Vigilante/The Fox) JB Markowicz ("Defalt") Raymond Kenney ("T-Bone") Damien Brenks Clara Lille ("BadBoy17") Delford Wade ("Iraq") Marcus Holloway ("Retr0") Josh Sauchak ("Hawt Sauce") Reginald ("Wr3nch") Horatio Carlin Lenora Kastner Ducky Epstein ("G1gg1L3s") Prime_Eight - Antagonist hacker group within the second game DedSec – Primary hacker group within the series
Role-playing games Cyberpunk 2020 Altiera 'Alt' Cunningham Rache Bartmoss Spider Murphy
Shadowrun Fastjack Netcat
Multi-media franchises
A Certain Magical Index Kazari Uiharu, aka The Goalkeeper
Cult of the Dead Cow Demonseed Elite – Cult of the Dead Cow's ezine (and many others) / Mage: The Ascension
Ghost in the Shell Project 2501, aka The Puppet Master
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