User:JNighthawk/Page Archive/List of passwords used in fiction
Passwords are common in fiction, from the simple to the complex, and the deciphering or retrieval of these passwords often plays a large part of the plot. One password in particular, swordfish, has been used in numerous works, beginning with the Marx Brothers movie Horse Feathers.
Books edit
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone: Caput Draconis (one of several passwords spoken to the Fat Lady portrait to access the Gryffindor dormitories)
- Night Watch: Swordfish. (As Sam Vimes says "The password was ALWAYS Swordfish")
- The Lord of the Rings: Mellon (the Sindarin word for friend is the password to the western gate of Moria)
- The Book of One Thousand and One Nights: Open, Sesame (used by Ali Baba in "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves")
Movies edit
- Barbarella: Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysilio, go go goch!
- Hackers: zxcvb, GOD, SEX, god, krmit; swordfish[1]
- Horse Feathers (Marx Brothers): swordfish
- The Matrix Reloaded: Z1ON0101[2]
- National Treasure: Valley Forge (password used by Abigail to enter the preservation room)
- The Net: BER5348833, natoar23ae, swordfish[1]
- Sneakers: "Hi, name is Werner Brandes. My voice is my passport. Verify Me"
- Spaceballs: 12345 (code for the shield to planet Druidia and President Scroob's luggage )
- Swordfish: Swordfish[3]
- WarGames: Joshua, 220040, DL, DLG2209TVX, RONCTTL, RONCTTLA, PANEL, TENURE, PuBLIC, VISUAL, DATER, HANDLE, EFFORT, POINTS, Double, Pencil, JOB 9515 VNS, 444666, 7KQ201, McKittrick, CPE1704TKS[1]
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets The password flibbertigibbet is used to gain access to Fred and George's sweet shop in Deleted Scenes
Television edit
- Babylon 5: Peek-a-boo (system password used by Chief Warrant Officer Michael Garibaldi), Zoe's dead (system password used by Captain Elizabeth Lochley), Wine, women, song (passwords used by Londo for his "purple files")
- Doctor Who: There is nothing more useless than a lock with a voice print. (password set by Cardinal Barusa to open a secret door. The password was guessed and used by The Doctor to evade security escorts after he was elected president of the high council of the Time Lords.)
Computer games edit
- Baldur's Gate: To gain entrance to the thieves' guild in the city of Baldur's Gate, the player has to say the password Fafhrd to the sentry at the door, a reference to Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser.
- Larry 1: Ken sent me, to gain entrance to the door to the right in the bar. Password is written on the wall in WC.
- Theatre Europe: Launch code for nuclear strike is MIDNIGHT SUN.
References edit
- ^ a b c "Useless [hacker|cracker|computer-criminal|*] Movie Trivia". Retrieved 2006-07-08.
- ^ "Trivia page for The Matrix Reloaded at the Internet Movie Database". Retrieved 2006-07-08.
- ^ "Trivia page for Swordfish at the Internet Movie Database". Retrieved 2006-07-08.