...comics, see [[:Category:Comics featuring Black Hat|Comics featuring Black Hat]].''
:''For Black Hat's girlfriend, see [[Danish]].''</noinclude>
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|Connecticut ||A train conductor's hat.||
...and the Republican political party. The man seems to be wearing a tricorn hat.
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:[They both drop to the ground, off-panel, leaving only Megan's tumbling hat and a vocal effect.]
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...hat wishing for more wishes is prohibited and for many of his wishes Black Hat attempts to circumvent that.
Later, in [[2741: Wish Interpretation]], Black Hat again gets a chance for making a wish, where the rules are discussed by the
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[[Black Hat]] has become bored with attacking {{w|Emo}} kids, a cultural and, particula
Instead, Black Hat has chosen to attack {{w|computational linguistics}}, an interdisciplinary
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...ger hair and a much meaner attitude, was distinguished from her as [[Black Hat]]'s girlfriend [[Danish]]. A similar long-haired version of Megan also appe
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...haracter in [[xkcd]]. He is distinguished by his white beret. Like [[Black Hat]], he is one of the few xkcd characters who tends to represent the same cha
...raits with Beriah from [http://www.meninhats.com/ Men in Hats], as [[Black Hat]] does with Aram from the same series, but in contrast to the latter, this
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[[Black Hat]] killed Hitler in the year Hitler would have died anyway, ''after'' all th
...s and a genocidal campaign known as {{w|the Holocaust}}. Even though Black Hat has other (and probably better) ideas about how to use his time machine, he
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...y is politicians. This event may have been contrived, as a certain [[Black Hat]] is visible in the audience.
...l-like guys (two cut off at the edges), a person with black hair and Black Hat to the right can be seen. Below the headline and below the picture are blac
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In this comic, [[Black Hat]] is attempting to game the system by raising money to work on the perfect
...gogo campaign]. There are a number of similarities to the comic (the black hat, $5,000 vs $500 goal), so Baron von Husk may have got the idea from xkcd.
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At first it seems that [[White Hat]] is happy that his wife, who works as a pharmacist, does bring home the ba
...s. Opioids suppress emotional pain as well as physical pain, keeping White Hat’s stress levels low.
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...the lucky 10,000 are less lucky than others", as demonstrated when [[Black Hat]] offers to "help" Cueball to stem his overflowing Diet Coke bottle by plug
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[[File:white hat.png|thumb|200px|[[White Hat]] is an example of a stick figure character]]
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Note that [[Black Hat]] and [[Danish]] are using two of the most useful symbols, and appear to ha
|This symbol is not very sharp, and [[White Hat]] is unable to use it in combat. It would not work as a good shield due to
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...ther characters by having no distinguishing features (including no hair or hat). The name is unofficial but used here. Like other [[xkcd]] characters, Cue
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...children bullying him (young versions of [[Hairy]] and [[Cueball]]). Black Hat takes the traditional saying and twists it into a creepy thought by saying
Young Black Hat also taunts young Hairy later in [[1753: Thumb War]].
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...xist or has no value at negative values, Cueball no longer exists to Black Hat and thus either leaves or disappears magically. Cueball repeating his claim
:[Cueball is talking to Black Hat. Cueball has his mouth wide open and has both of his arms up.]
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...achieve some mission goal. Ultimately, Cueball is then annoyed at [[Black Hat]] for not answering his question in a useful manner.
..., reading top to bottom, the word ACE. As Cueball is playing a game, Black Hat could be additionally saying that he's an ace of the game.
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...that could bring care and joy into the target's heart. Of course, [[Black Hat]]'s carebearstare is far more lethal.
...w|Myspace}}, a networking site, but Black Hat isn't interested. When Black Hat gets annoyed by Cueball's persuasions, he activates his "carebearstare," th
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...comics, see [[:Category:Comics featuring White Hat|Comics featuring White Hat]].''<noinclude>
...than the color of their respective hats. Unlike Black Hat, however, White Hat doesn't necessarily represent the same character in each appearance.
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When [[Cueball]] asks [[Black Hat]] for a favor, he seems to be making a {{w|Obscene gesture|rude gesture}},
...or, by commenting him out programming style, even to the point where Black Hat sees the commenting out slashes, Cueball, and anything he says in the color
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#Redirect [[Black Hat]]
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...0 or 1, but also −42 or 100000. [[Cueball]] is complaining that [[Black Hat]] was not consistent in his choice of where to start his arrays. This is a
...alarmed response to the presence of an intruder. It is not clear if Black Hat is aware of this.
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{{comicsrow|278|2007-06-18|Black Hat Support}}
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...anded (shown in gray in the background), and the pilot, wearing an aviator hat and goggles, is walking towards the crowd waving.]
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[[Danish]] tells [[Black Hat]] that her computer virus that she is writing reads a YouTube user's commen
:[Black Hat approaches Danish typing at a computer.]
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...seems to represent the same character, usually being portrayed as [[Black Hat]]'s roommate. He is one of the few of Randall's characters to be given a na
...ct, it's possible that within the xkcd continuity, every time we see Black Hat's roommate, it's Rob. But with no name mentioned it is not enough to list t
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...that the Holocaust was an acceptable alternative. It's no secret that the hat guy is closely based on Aram, from Men in Hats.<br><br><span class="plainli
...'[http://meninhats.com/d/20040225.html Men in Hats comic]'' on which Black Hat is based on.]]This was the thirty-first comic originally posted to [[LiveJo
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...s face (so it could be any character, as any hair could be hidden, and the hat could be on the bed stand).]
...eard have the same face, this could be any character, including one with a hat (which could be hidden or outside of the frames) or hair (several of the us
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...eat to any of the organizations.{{Citation Needed}} (Alternatively, Black Hat is in fact controlling the wall of ice to make it move quickly enough to be
:[Black Hat is standing on an advancing glacier.]
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...ain from flinching as the pendulum approaches. This experiment (with Black Hat's twisted take) is referenced in [[1670: Laws of Physics]] and [[2539: Flin
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===Black Hat===
...tup is a direct reference to the movie {{w|Blade Runner}} (1982) and Black Hat is taking the Voight-Kampff test which is used to identify replicants from
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...d", but don't offer you a job. A job interviewer, [[Hairy]], tells [[Black Hat]] exactly that.
...the briefcase to contain money to bribe the interviewer into hiring Black Hat. Instead, it contains a portal or gateway into an impossibly deep chasm.
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:[A red and white Santa hat on green just opened.]
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...belongs to one of the two groups. The character with a hat is not [[Black Hat]], as Randall hadn't standardized his character designs yet. The assembly o
:[Two people are talking, one in a hat.]
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...year, presumably having 'only' around 20,540 in the prior one), but Black Hat doesn't care and responds that he hopes they are all okay with being "in se
...faith. Although the beliefs spread by his proselytizers vary widely, Black Hat is not concerned with what his so-called followers believe. Thus, he can cl
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*[[White Hat]] notices a dangerous hole, and thinks he should warn people about it.
...y]] and tries to warn him about the hole, but all Hairy perceives is White Hat being dramatic without understanding the warning.
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...me, their feet would be vulnerable to being hit in sequence. Perhaps Black Hat is going for a 'strike'. Hairy approaches Danish, while Cueball looks on an
...scene in ''{{w|Star Wars: Attack of the Clones}}''.) Of course, once Black Hat discovers his shenanigans, Hairy might not have much more life to rethink.
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...ding the image into Microsoft Paint and using the fill tool), with [[Black Hat]] saying "A message from sysadmins everywhere: Seriously, don't screw with
...ackground, and only visible under certain conditions, is an inverted Black Hat (i.e. white), with the text from above still visible written across his for
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...tur and therefore there is no climax) at the same time, thus proving Black Hat and Cueball wrong, hence them expressing discontent with the word "shit."
:[Black Hat and Cueball are standing next to each other. Above them the text is written
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[[Black Hat]] launches into what appears to be an in-depth exposition about the {{w|Equ
...mama" joke}} along the lines of "she's fat and not that attractive." Black Hat then can't be bothered with, or can't figure out, the lengthy route to his
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...unattended. Suspecting her friends and acquaintances [[Cueball]], [[Black Hat]] and [[Danish]] of perhaps having something to do with it, she gathers the
...hind. She has an audience consisting of Cueball standing in front of Black Hat who is sitting and leaning back in a chair and Danish standing behind him.]
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...picture is typical for an internet troll (see the xkcd version of [[Black Hat]]), and also the guy saying {{w|LOL}} is already laughing out loud at you b
...to the right (is it a canon?). The third picture shows a man with a black hat holding up a sword to the left and a trumpet to the right. The fourth and l
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;Panel 8 ''Boom de yada, Boom de yada'' (''I put on my robe and wizard hat'')
...lay as a wizard during {{w|cybersex}} (saying "I put on my robe and wizard hat" to signal this) and invariably infuriate his unwitting partners with demea
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:''For Danish's boyfriend, see [[Black Hat]].''</noinclude>
...[stick figure]] character in [[xkcd]]. She frequently appears with [[Black Hat]], and like him, represents the same character in each appearance.
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...Cueball]] and his subsequent discovery of them in this state prompts Black Hat and Danish to kill him. Their return to their more typical behavior contras
:[Black Hat and Danish are talking and holding hands.]
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This comic is a direct sequel to [[374: Journal]], where [[Black Hat]] discusses his plan exactly as [[Danish]] describes it here, that is, he i
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...ball]] is understandably surprised when he sees Black Hat's journal. Black Hat lives up to his reputation though, as it turns out that the journal is just
...ill stay with the poor girl for the rest of they day. The only thing Black Hat gets out of this is the knowledge of having ruined the girl's day. As he sa
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...el their specific skills are challenged by an interesting problem. [[Black Hat]] has decided to make this into a disturbing game of getting nerds, in this
The problem Black Hat shows is an electronics engineering thought experiment to find the resistan
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...although that seems like a leap. In any event, this is another early Black Hat strip that, for the first time, explicitly sets out that he goes out of his
...s the soup mix to become the soup/broth. By poking holes in the cup, Black Hat ensures that someone pouring boiling water in the cup would have it leak al
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In [[374: Journal]], [[Black Hat]] explains to [[Cueball]] that a hobby of his is to pretend to write in a j
...explored the fact that she might be even better than Black Hat. But Black Hat shows his true power and ingeniosity.)
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In Journal 1, [[Black Hat]] explains to [[Cueball]] that a hobby of his is to pretend to write in a j
...at in the process. Initially stunned, in Journal 3 he at last regained his hat, the emblem of his personality and attitude, leaving him with the higher gr
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In [[Journal]], [[Black Hat]] explains to [[Cueball]] that a hobby of his is to pretend to write in a j
...of the satisfaction of a proper social connection. She leaves, taking his hat in the process.
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[[Black Hat]] has strapped {{w|James Bond}} to a centrifuge and claims that the {{w|Cen
;Observers' point of view (Black Hat, us, etc.)
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...me. The committee members are obviously surprised, and they question Black Hat, trying to get him to reveal his motives. He then cryptically replies that
...ven Internet trolls via his sociopathic ways. This would explain why Black Hat was nominated as Internet secretary. These are all the comics in [[:Categor
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*In the title text of [[163: Donald Knuth]], [[Black Hat]] reveals that he broke into [[Donald Knuth]]'s house through the skylight
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...ven Internet trolls via his sociopathic ways. This would explain why Black Hat was nominated as Internet secretary. These are all the comics in [[:Categor
...llow bloggers no matter what, and Ron Paul wants the nomination that Black Hat, a blogger, is getting.
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...fied to be in the position they have been appointed to. Of course, [[Black Hat]] is not the cleanest of characters, so Congress has a lot of reservations
...ven Internet trolls via his sociopathic ways. This would explain why Black Hat was nominated as Internet secretary. These are all the comics in [[:Categor
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...ve to be on-scene. To thwart the media (and probably everyone else), Black Hat has built a {{w|moat}} around his apartment building. The second reporter i
...ven Internet trolls via his sociopathic ways. This would explain why Black Hat was nominated as Internet secretary. These are all the comics in [[:Categor
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...ven Internet trolls via his sociopathic ways. This would explain why Black Hat was nominated as Internet secretary. These are all the comics in [[:Categor
:[Black Hat looks away from his computer at the ringing phone.]
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...never become a functional car again.{{Citation needed}} But at least Black Hat finally has space for his own car!
...one referenced in [[496: Secretary: Part 3]], where it is shown that Black Hat '...completely disassembled a car' because 'It was parked across two spaces
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...e orientation, vibration and GPS etc.). This is actually amazing and White Hat assumes she is overwhelmed and ask her if the development is changing too f
...yper technological future like in ''{{w|Blade Runner}}''). She tells White Hat that she has decided to {{w|Cryopreservation|cryogenically freeze}} herself
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:[Merlin with pointy hat and long white beard is sitting in a couch with the remote, watching TV whi
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Cueball's friend, [[White Hat]], is concerned about the matter of personal integrity, comparing this prop
:[Cueball and White Hat are walking.]
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...find something that is used to find other things. Cueball interrupts Black Hat before he can make the obvious joke. The same comic technique is used later
:[Black Hat sits on a couch, reading a book. Cueball is approaching him from behind the
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...huttle}} launch system. In the first frame, [[Cueball]] is showing [[Black Hat]] something about the SLS, possibly a video on his phone or other portable
...rogram. The unfortunate reality of Operation Paperclip, and one that Black Hat aims to make people uncomfortable with, is that a significant number of ex-
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...rds ending in "-gry," rather than the phrase "the English language." Black Hat does not seem to agree that this riddle is clever.
...nguage that end in '-gry,'" and by doing so has ruined any chance of Black Hat determining the correct answer; now, "three words" can't refer to the corre
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...rips in motion. Ralphie, the student in the second panel with the backward hat, was another student who often asked these questions. The students in the c
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...etting up a trap to get back at these ne'er-do-wells. To top it off, Black Hat plans to put up a sign warning passers-by to not smash the pumpkin. This wo
Black Hat, rather unconvincingly, insists that his pumpkin is suffering from chest pa
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...system, where the 70-meter (230-foot) escalator is. It's clear that Black Hat knows it is the longest and that this is the reason he has chosen this exac
...and intentions.) After this they reach the top and once they get off Black Hat quickly turns around and locks the bar in place at about waist height (i.e.
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...Robert in the table in [[596: Latitude]] was Bobby but given that [[Black Hat]] has never had any relation to him in the other comics, and that [[Rob]] h
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...ter inert. Elaine is bending in the knees, knife at the ready. Both bowler hat men, still holding their swords as before, but no hands up, have turned to
...in front of him and one over his head also pointing towards the two bowler hat med. They are standing normally, looking back at Stallman. The MPAA man nea
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...'t need these assholes.'' In the meantime, Cory Doctorow throws the bowler hat guys out and orders them never to "darken our comment threads again."
...n, since the sword is almost touching the skin on his throat. He wears his hat, but the sword lies behind him, out of reach, even though he is leaning bac
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In this comic, [[Black Hat]] is giving all the hotels he has stayed at, likes, and wants to stay in ag
...ld want to profit as much as they could before it was all destroyed. Black Hat uses this to explain his own reasoning: his actions don't determine what ot
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...acter who has hair (not to be confused with [[Hairy]]) suggests to [[Black Hat]] that he is wasting his life on the Internet, and they should go explore t
:[Black Hat and Not-Hairy are talking in a room with a computer on.]
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...o announces that it has had its windshield smashed with a golf club. Black Hat is, of course, holding a golf club, frustrated at the owner’s revolting a
:[Black Hat is holding a golf club and speaking into a P.A. system.]
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..., Ponytail in front followed by Cueball, Megan and a man with some kind of hat (could be Beret Guy, but only half of his head is shown so it is not clear)
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:[A soldier with a green military hat, with an black emblem on the front, is sitting in an office chair typing at
*This is the only comic so far to feature a soldier using such a green Hat.
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...n carrying around the violin for this eventuality (not unlike what [[Black Hat]] does in [[757: Toot]]), or perhaps he uses this sarcastic expression ofte
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:[Teenager playing with phone walks in background. White Hat and Megan are in the foreground.]
:White Hat: See, that's the problem with the MTV generation— No attention span.
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...gue for the entire month of November. Since it was Black Hat's idea, Black Hat probably suffers the same consequences.
:[Black Hat and Cueball sit in a room.]
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*This comic is referred to in [[368: Bass]], where [[Black Hat]] mentions in the title text that he is annoyed by "the guy upstairs with t
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...ng up for women everywhere. (This makes sense when you consider that Black Hat tends to pursue Randall's thoughts in a more controversial way, see [[86: D
:[Black Hat stands in the entrance to a room. The door has been broken down. A surprise
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...awn off-screen. A faint outline suggests the whitespace above the 'x' is a hat, with the brim extending into the upper part of the 'E'. Two speech bubbles
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:[Cueball and White Hat are walking towards the benches.]
:White Hat: Do you ever put your phone away and just take a moment to breathe and be a
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...ternal dominance and is still a national hero to the Czech people. [[Black Hat]] is supplying {{w|disinformation}} to unsuspecting carolers, either to shu
...the carolers may be a family. The man and woman are confused by what Black Hat has said, and the girl is looking to the adults, perhaps gauging their faci
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...so he continues the logic and realizes that one who has one ''more'' black hat must be proportionally dangerous to him.
...This movement and the accompanying line could also be interpreted as Black Hat being physically pushed away, like two negative or two positive poles of a
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[[Knit Cap]] is called ''knit hat guy'' in the [http://xkcd.com/1112/info.0.json official transcript]. There
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[[Black Hat]] and [[Danish]] are trying to clean up the mess that some bloody murder mo
...about to arrive just when they are finishing the clean up. But then Black Hat realizes that the ceiling has also been stained (by the violent murder...)
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...ll and Megan are in a weapon store talking to a bearded salesman wearing a hat.]
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...[690: Semicontrolled Demolition]], and in [[496: Secretary: Part 3]] Black Hat claims the Twin Towers never actually collapsed. Chemtrails are mentioned a
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...[29: Hitler]], in which there is clear reference in the title-text to "the hat guy". This is the first indication we have that Randall had begun contempla
...rpart [[Danish]]; the philosophical and surreal [[Beret Guy]]; and [[White Hat]] who is often given a fatal flaw or annoying tendency.
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...ure of the news shows the logo of LulzSec, a man wearing a monocle and top hat.]
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:[A man with a black hat and a beard sits mounted on a horse at the top of the hill, lance at the r
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..., followed by an exponential rise in cell phone usage in the 2000's. Black Hat reverses the correlation/causation fallacy, and comically comes to the conc
The title text refers to the way Black Hat holds the laptop in panel 2. Being that Cueball (and Randall, for that matt
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[[White Hat]] is analyzing a movie about movies when Cueball compares White Hat's description of the movie to masturbatory {{w|Omphaloskepsis|navel-gazing}
...od as another reality metaphor, passing the "conversational ball" to White Hat, or acting like Michael Jordan by playing basketball.
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This is so far the only comic featuring the Brown Hat character.
:[The web continues in this one. A man with a brown hat and a case is drawing it.]
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...gn hanging from a string put over a peck in the wall above the desk. White Hat examines the glass, holding it up in his hand and looking at it with a magn
:[Scene 16: White Hat, only, grinds the glass on a grindstone he has put on his desk, pieces of g
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...s is the first strip to feature [[Danish]] without a connection to [[Black Hat]].
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...s and rather intelligent discussion are derailed by the absurdity of Black Hat's reaction, which is both humorous and puts the issue in stark contrast.
Black Hat neither joins in the discussion nor does he participate in the game. It see
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[[Black Hat]] resolves the solar plexus joke with a punch to [[Cueball]] in the solar p
:[Black Hat and Cueball are talking to each other.]
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:[The bald man is now wearing a party hat and has a {{w|party horn}} in his mouth, and there is confetti in the air.]
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...ot of time trying to find a nonexistent bug until they realized that Black Hat was lying (clearly they had not known him for very long, and clearly they w
...mming Contest}}. It is likely that it was this competition, in which Black Hat wasted his team's time, for which he got kicked out.
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...head down. But then, Beret Guy gives him an answer, regarding where White Hat's head once came through and asks him why he is still acting so {{w|dignifi
...childbirth}}. Put in the way he mentions said process, the fact that White Hat came into this world in such a fashion would be very humiliating.
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:[White Hat and Ponytail are standing on either side of Cueball who is talking while li
[[Category:Comics featuring White Hat]]
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...endent Schrödinger equation}} <math>i\hbar\dfrac{\partial}{\partial t} = \hat{H}\Psi</math>, a {{w|Differential equation|differential equation}} that the
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...6: Packages]]). Four years later, it is shown that you can blackmail Black Hat into not sending you a bobcat ([[837: Coupon Code]]). This comic is also re
:[Black Hat is packing a bobcat into a box; Megan stands beside him.]
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...glass on the floor will have a significant impact. The joke is that Black Hat will likely get glass in his feet as long as he refuses to clean it, and th
...ings does not affect whether good or bad things happen to us. Due to Black Hat's interpretation of Ecclesiastes, he is not going to clean the shards, and
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...them taste the same for him, so presumably he gets the cheaper ones. White Hat tells Cueball that if he just tried some really good wine and paid more att
...class signifier, and is treated as a mark of culture and education. White Hat appears to embrace this mindset, implying that there's an inherent quality
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...ame type. Behind them are two figurines (one Cueball and one with a pointy hat), then two dice and some paper strewn about in front of Death.]
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...oud has to be stored ''somewhere'', sometimes being merely a server. Black Hat claims that the various cloud services are all ultimately provided by his s
...it exists in the real world). However, it does make a bottleneck at Black Hat's server.
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...e true, this comic would also mark one of the few instances in which Black Hat does not get the last laugh.
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...reference to [[496: Secretary: Part 3]], which makes reference to [[Black Hat]] stealing a submarine, presumably for [[405: Journal 3]] - apparently this
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...mp's wish was to receive "handy" stimulation (or possibly that the [[Black Hat|last user of the lamp]] wished for that to happen to the next owner).
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...ext to right-to-left (RTL, as the title references). In the comic, [[Black Hat]] tires of [[Cueball]]'s complaining and inserts a U+202e character in the
What Cueball actually tries to say after Black Hat's change is:
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...gh it was not public information at the time the comic was posted. [[Black Hat]] then mentions that Apple was probably excited to announce its thinnest an
:[Black Hat talking to Cueball sitting at computer.]
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...reputation for himself without ever running a major campaign. Then, Black Hat tries to skip ahead of the interview process and coyly asks, before being o
:[Black Hat, standing in front of Cueball, who is sitting behind a executive desk, look
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Knowing this, [[Black Hat]], showing his typical behaviour, released his 2D movie about string theory
:[The people angrily approach black hat, who's sitting at a desk.]
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:<big>hat<u>ed band in the wo</u>rld:</big>
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...re a flash of green light can be seen at the very edge of the sun. [[Black Hat]] attempts to distract [[Cueball]] with this event so that he may knock out
The title text simply continues this, wherein Black Hat jokes that Green Flashes are actually caused, at least in part, by the fact
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[[Black Hat]] uses a [[:Category:Flowcharts|flow chart]] to propose two paths:
...is breaking the DRM to try to recover your collection by force, and Black Hat argues that this is inevitable.
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...badly, [[Cueball]] starts a rhyming game, which they continue until Black Hat refers to the horrifying {{w|My Lai Massacre}}, which is apparently going t
:Black Hat starts with the original line from the song.
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[[Black Hat]] explains that this is really an example of an age-old adage: "When all yo
...Black Hat's behaviour, can only bring himself to say that he's glad Black Hat's been having more fun than him.
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...ty over-the-top reply in the typical style of {{w|Yo Mama}} jokes, Black Hat's response is a dark, detailed, realistic insult, implying that the heckler
:[Black Hat on stage, holding microphone.]
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The example in the comic is [[Black Hat]] dismissing {{w|Ubuntu}}, an open-source computer operating system. Ubuntu
:Black Hat: Nah, I'm not really into Pokémon.
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...bubble of 'Oh god', which could either be in response to seeing what Black Hat is doing or in response to an unseen person, presumably sporting such an er
Given Black Hat's personality, it is unlikely he himself is doing this in protest; rather h
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:[Two people, Cueball and White Hat, are walking past a tree.]
:White Hat: So, has this sickness opened you up to looking for answers beyond science?
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...ror invalidates her research, which she was just ready to publish. [[Black Hat]] tells her not to panic and states there are two options.
Option two fits the [[classhole]] expectation from Black Hat, as he suggests that she should destroy the evidence, use her research mate
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...s [[Black Hat]] and [[Cueball]] digging into the ground and splicing Black Hat's computer into the TV cables of {{w|Rick Astley}}'s house. They are feedin
...e of a practitioner of anal stretching. The title text suggests that Black Hat and Cueball somehow made the (unknown) founder of the site click on an even
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...{Citation needed}} hence the need to stop accepting presents from "[[Black Hat|That Guy]]".
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...rn it. However, anyone actually willing to learn Lojban is someone [[Black Hat]] would rather avoid. Alternately, only people who speak Lojban, who compos
:Black Hat: Agreed, but would be talking to the people subgroup that is an expert in L
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...ple of hubris — extreme arrogance. Here, {{tvtropes|IcarusAllusion|Black Hat is bringing an artificial "sun" to "Icarus" to recreate the tragedy}}.
[[Black Hat]] is standing on top of the arch with a powerful heat source, a {{w|heat la
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...s can't help to find the correct door. The only saving grace is that Black Hat has seemingly forgotten to impose the limit of a single question, but depen
The title text presents a typical behavior of Black Hat — no door in fact does lead out of this labyrinth. (Neither door is corre
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...mention the impact to the local AirBnB market. Or it could just be [[Black Hat]], who would not need any particular reason for this sort of behavior, and
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...people and messing with their brains is normally an action done by [[Black Hat]], xkcd's resident classhole. The reason Cueball is shown is probably becau
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...icture. [[Cueball]] is worried and asks him to move the picture, but Black Hat lazily or teasingly refuses to move it.
...d also just be a general {{w|Doomsday Clock}}). Since it seems to be Black Hat's countdown, it is safe to assume that he knows both what it counts down to
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...extremely loud. Cueball is obviously surprised, as he was expecting Black Hat to start bragging instead of making an extremely loud sound with an air hor
Black Hat's actions could also be interpreted as punishment of Cueball, who began by
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...ng his own bubble to be inside is a smart move. He is contrasted to White Hat, who is wearing a {{w|Surgical mask|facemask}} for protection.
...have turned" and you have a control over the situation. However, as White Hat notes, the same people who laughed at Cueball before are still laughing at
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...upernatural phenomena like the existence of {{w|poltergeists}} which Black Hat is trying to imitate with his rearranging and scratching noises.
In the title text [[Cueball]] realizes that Black Hat has (probably intentionally) ruined his antique table by demonstrating his
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...n without {{w|Jon Stewart|Jon Stewart's}} insightful commentary, but Black Hat has corrected that problem by kidnapping Stewart, putting him in the baseme
The title text implies that Black Hat also kidnapped {{w|Stephen Colbert}} from ''The Colbert Report'' and put hi
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See also [[1314: Photos]] about people taking pictures and White Hat complaining.
...ll again discusses photography, while in [[2111: Opportunity Rover]] White Hat shares his anti-photography opinion again.
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:[Megan and White Hat stand next to a nuclear bomb. The bomb has a hatch open on top, and a small
:White Hat: Come quick!
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...at the presents under the tree; on the other, a character wearing a party hat, sitting dejectedly before a birthday cake. The panel edges are decorated w
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...Go go gadget [insert item here]." The gadgets would usually spawn from his hat, such as his trademark personal helicopter ("go go gadget copter!"). One of
In this strip, Inspector Gadget (wearing his trademark hat and trench coat) looks around furtively and apparently moves away from the
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...f the car. The bearded man has his arms up and the policeman is waving his hat and holding the bottle of tequila are standing up looking out of the sunroo
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...ter also with somewhat surreal comics, both about the black hat of [[Black Hat]]; [[412: Startled]] and [[455: Hats]].
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[[Category:Comics featuring Black Hat]]
[[Category:Comics featuring White Hat]]
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...which he then uses in his app. The second panel shows the screen of Black Hat's smartphone with the logs for his two friends in table form showing activi
...s. His friend Rob may already have thought of this himself, or maybe Black Hat has mentioned it to him before getting the idea for the app thus warning hi
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...here engineers have successfully constructed a space elevator, until Black Hat decides to cut the cable linking the ground and space using pruning shears.
The title text makes the point that even before [[Black Hat]] cut the space elevator's ribbon-like cable in two, it was ruined by the h
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...{{w|bobcat}}. This is a reference to [[325: A-Minus-Minus]] where [[Black Hat]] delivered a bobcat instead of a chair.
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...own in this comic in a rare moment of losing face. [[Megan]] notices Black Hat facing away from [[Cueball]] and her, and decides to play a simple, childis
...a moment, it looks like Black Hat has disappeared altogether. But then his hat inches away, showing that he's still underneath. It is possible that he was
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...xcerpt: Lincoln lay back on the bed, nude save for his trademark stovepipe hat. 'Tell me,' he purred seductively, as he and Obama formed a more perfect un
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It starts off on a practical level, with [[Black Hat]] describing to [[Cueball]] a devious social engineering scheme. It relies
...nel 7, the comic suddenly develops a philosophical and ethical bent. Black Hat reveals that he has already carried out step 1, through his numerous unprof
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When Hairy appears with [[Cueball]] or [[Black Hat]], he generally comes off as worse (as in [[1210: I'm So Random]], or as a
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...of crumbs and are rarely cleaned. In the comic, a person (probably [[Black Hat]]) tricks an unsuspecting character into lifting his keyboard up so that al
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...h it turned out it was not really about finding the phone, rather, [[Black Hat]] showing his inner [[classhole]].
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...{{w|Left 4 Dead|a new game}} for his {{w|Xbox}}, while Danish stole Black Hat's Xbox and sold it to buy a "dueling harness" for her Roomba, highlighting
:[Black Hat is holding up a copy of ''Left 4 Dead''. Danish is holding up a small harne
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To the right of the text, [[Black Hat]] stands atop the comic, having just dropped a cat off the edge head first;
| Black Hat and cat
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...o send data. In order to adjust the death rate to encode the header, Black Hat plans to travel to New Jersey and go on a killing spree with a crossbow, in
Crossbows were also mentioned in [[564: Crossbows]]. Black Hat is also seen using his crossbow in [[929: Speculation]].
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[[Randall]] himself (looking like [[Black Hat]]) is talking to {{w|Jeffrey Rowland}} (sitting with a drink), who writes t
:[Jeffrey Rowland and Randall wearing a black hat are sitting together. There is a big globe between them. Mr. Rowland has a
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This strip portrays [[Black Hat]] providing support for {{w|Linux}}, but in fact he provides only annoying
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:+2697:00 [They approach a man wearing a slightly larger hat, sitting before a small house.]
::Stranger with larger hat: [[File:Dialog2823.png]]
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...king exercise for health beats all other kinds of locomotion into a cocked hat.
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...consider "the past" as it it were an actual foreign country. In true Black Hat fashion, the first thing he considers is that this "nation" would have an o
...ime travel|time travel is hardly unknown in the XKCD universe]], and Black Hat isn't the type to worry about consequences when there's an opportunity to g
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...s. When the guard has doubts about the amount of liquid in the vial, Black Hat implies that the liquid is actually blood from a churchmouse. This is refe
:Black Hat: Not sure, how much blood is there in a churchmouse?
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...facial contortions accompanied by deliberately misspelled captions. Black Hat claims to be from the Internet and is thus creating LOLcat memes by literal
...t would have brought a fair number of staples to begin with) or that Black Hat injured other people's cats before going to Cueball's house in order to cap
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...lls. At this point he is probably suffering from {{w|asphyxiation}}. Black Hat and Danish are observing from outside the dome, and decide that physics pro
...alculating the {{w|electric field}}. The "other two physicists" that Black Hat and Danish are experimenting on are lost on the infinite plane, since there
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...igence and education. (Note that Safari Hat is not the same guy as [[White Hat]]! See below.)
But in panel 3, Safari Hat suddenly reveals that all the "facts" he cited were wrong, and we learn tha
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...but feels guilt despite knowing she isn't the cause of any danger. [[Black Hat]] on the other hand regards these feelings as perfectly natural. In the com
...t at their windows and hunt them down on horseback. In this example, Black Hat would actually be causing the danger, potentially injuring or killing passe
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...o say amid the nervous tension. If this were another character, say Black Hat, then it would be easier to believe that the entire night could have been s
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...the car behind him is "{{w|tailgating}}" (following too close behind Black Hat's car).
...op of what Danish has already accomplished. This may seem ironic, as Black Hat and Danish would be risking having their own car struck, but they would no
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...aborted when two characters from the normal xkcd, [[Cueball]] and [[Black Hat]], question the parody, as they are afraid of hurting artist Fred Gallagher
...the poor guy up, now that he may have taken the parody kind of hard. Black Hat also yells to him that he should not cry, when he and Cueball arrive on his
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..." part is most likely a reference to [[262: IN UR REALITY]], where [[Black Hat]] glues captions to cats, after running out of staples.
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...ord count of the article, any submission to Wikipedia must result in Black Hat's money supporting either pro-life or pro-choice activists. With a reward o
...hority or someone in a similar position) being mocked. In this case, Black Hat is disregarding Wikipedia's neutrality doctrine with his {{w|word count}} d
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In the first panel, we see [[Black Hat]] telling [[Cueball]] that he has hired {{w|Rick Astley}} to show up at a p
...ears Eve 2008, the meme was getting old.{{citation needed}} However, Black Hat assures Cueball that Rick Astley is not actually going to sing.
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:[A woman in a hat exploring a barren landscape.]
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Upon being asked by [[Cueball]], [[Black Hat]] reveals his new 'business', AirAware. He explains it uses a {{w|Quadrotor
...eclaring that his previous sentence was incorrect. This implies that Black Hat's business is not for profit; it's just another one of his sadistic schemes
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...ing the man was acting. Cueball is horrified by this act of evil, as Black Hat carries on into the song {{w|Macarena (song)|''Macarena''}}.
...cal reflector is used to focus sound waves from a couple having sex. Black Hat obviously gets annoyed by this and sometimes uses his machine to retaliate.
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...torrential stream of truly random numbers that overcomes poor Hairy. Black Hat then resumes his posture at the computer, as if nothing has happened.
Black Hat's "random" numbers are actually quoted from [http://oeis.org/A002205 the fi
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...raptors outflank (and kill) one of the human characters wearing a similar hat. “Snap-hiss” is a common phrase originated by Timothy Zahn to describe
'''Panel 29:''' Megan, possibly [[Danish]], asks [[Black Hat]] where he obtained the enormously large {{w|Christmas tree}} that can be s
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[[White Hat]] is giving a profound insight into <Google Glass>. This insight, however,
...rd White Hat as insightful, but it also causes Cueball to think that White Hat agrees with whatever it is that Cueball fears <Google Glass> for.
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...s abilities, which means science is still woefully incomplete or, as Black Hat said, simply doesn't work.
Black Hat further explained that the reason that nobody told Cueball was because they
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...lf. The doors apparently open off-panel when the password is spoken. White Hat then wonders aloud what the Elvish word for "frenemy" is, and Cueball postu
:[White Hat, Megan, and Cueball stand. Megan has her finger up.]
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...stribution (but also ships {{w|GNU Hurd}} and {{w|BSD}} versions). {{w|Red Hat}} is the company behind {{w|Fedora Linux}} and {{w|RHEL}}.
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...inal performances. Costello is the shorter character, with a round brimmed hat and baseball bat, while Abbott is taller and wearing a baseball cap. This r
...guy with a baseball cap) and Costello (a short guy wearing a round brimmed hat and holding a baseball bat in his right hand.)]
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...Guy hangs upside down and says (in the title text) that he has stapled his hat to his head to make it stay on. That may very well have been the inspiratio
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...us people but it got really depressing and morbid and I had to go outside. Hat guy wins again.
[[Black Hat]] agrees and tells that he had an issue yesterday with a guy who had a seri
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First, Cueball imagines that the old man (an old version of [[White Hat]] with a cane) pulls out a {{w|crossbow}}, and that his response would be t
...is iPod. There are several other people, including an old version of White Hat at the counter with a cane and Hairbun with a long narrow box entering the
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The decision on how to best allocate our money is not a simple one. [[White Hat]] believes we should not explore space until "we have solved all our proble
.... This serves two purposes: First, it highlights the untenability of White Hat's statement by emphasizing their size, and second, it serves as a punchline
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...mic, thus being unanimously decided as the most annoying ringtone. [[Black Hat]]'s response is likely a pun meaning both "Oh, I've got to take this [call]
...nk again. Cueball is cringing while raising his arms above his head. Black Hat is holding his phone and looking at it.]
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This comic paints another one of [[Black Hat]]'s evil activities as an unlikely supervillain.
...Space Station's orbit above Earth), Cueball infers and then accuses Black Hat of wanting to catch the {{w|International Space Station}} (ISS) by winching
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...nse" plays off the adage "{{w|The best defense is a good offense}}". Black Hat's goal seems to be to interfere with the Google Glass user potentially reco
The title text shows the irony between Black Hat's needlessly complicated technical solution, and his apparent hate of Googl
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...is is true, the person Cueball is trying to contact may very well be Black Hat.
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The comic starts with [[White Hat]] telling the two children shown on the first panel that Christopher Columb
...at begins his explanation, Megan objects, though not explaining why. White Hat continues, so Megan interrupts, saying that Columbus went in a straight lin
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A similar topic was addressed in [[493: Actuarial]], with [[Black Hat]] predicting when the last of the original Star Wars cast would die, and in
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[[White Hat]] questions [[Cueball]]'s faith in {{w|functional programming}}. [[Cueball]
:[White Hat stands behind Cueball, who is sitting at a computer.]
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...different. In the comic, this particular position is satirized with White Hat's cry of "Well, maybe those numbers are just intrinsically better!"
...have in common. This could suggest that those letters are, to quote White Hat, intrinsically better.
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...ular identity theft. Fortunately, Cueball seems to be more honest; [[Black Hat]] probably would not have given any warning.
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[[Black Hat]] is annoyed about [[Cueball]]'s text messages, so he sends Cueball a "bett
...keyboard app {{w|SwiftKey}} has been mentioned [[1068|before]], and Black Hat has done something similar in [[156|156: Commented]].
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The title text makes a reference to a previous comic: [[792|Black Hat's trouble with what to do with stolen passwords]]. It also states that user
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...hoto of something help him focus attention on it, it is also none of White Hat's business how someone else chooses to enjoy a sunset.
.... Cueball then takes a photograph, implying that he would most enjoy White Hat's discomfiture by recording an image of it for posterity.
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::White Hat: '''''Actually,''''' it's an oblate spheroid.
[[Category:Comics featuring White Hat]]
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:[Cueball and Beret Guy, Cueball in a winter hat and Beret Guy in a beret, are walking through snow and across a patch of ic
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[[Cueball]] and [[White Hat]] are discussing the positive and negative effects of young people writing
:[White Hat and Cueball are walking together, White Hat is holding a newspaper or report.]
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...s before the viewers realized nothing had happened. Because of this, Black Hat did very little to help CNN.
It is possible that this is the finale of a long career Black Hat has had in marketing, beginning in [[125: Marketing Interview]].
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[[Black Hat]] suggests that if the Hoax were true and the miners did believe they'd dri
...is "nice" and therefore probably won't be on his side. This suggests Black Hat considers himself evil and thinks he would be fighting for Hell or maybe on
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...f the people marketing it don't know what it does, or what purpose [[Black Hat|someone]] may use it for.
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In the comic, [[White Hat]] uses a fallacious argument to [[Cueball]] to justify being inconsiderate
...ing he could contribute to the world for so little of his own time. (White Hat also appears to be discounting the possibility that being considerate towar
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...[[Cueball]] (as a politician vs. another politician with hair) and [[White Hat]] have small appearances, but only in a small section of particular storyli
**''{{w|Theft}}'' &@ — Pikachu wears Knit Cap's hat.
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...gn" style="width:100%">You’ve been hanging out with the man in the black hat again, haven’t you?
...0e40-bbc0-11e3-8020-002590d77bdd Permalink]) - only ''the man in the black hat again, haven’t you?'' can be seen in the image as Knit Cap's text overlap
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...dy— returns "HAT" plus 497 letters that happened to be next to the word "HAT" in its memory (more will follow than are shown in the server's speech bubb
:Meg: Server, are you still there? If so, reply "HAT" (500 letters).
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...u have to locate 'Waldo', a character with a distinctive striped shirt and hat, in a picture crowded with hundreds of characters. This is harder than it s
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...iddles). That said, Randall could have simply picked those comics out of a hat to plug for his comic (which he also does explicitly), and the date of rele
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...nvolving the drawing of coloured balls from a container, such as a bag, or hat. In older statistics related texts, a convention developed of describing th
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...sion this population is stupid. So it is a ''stupid'' comment that [[White Hat]] makes. The award being given to him by [[Cueball]] is thus a very sarcast
...including here), "People are stupid," refers to humanity as a whole. White Hat's anecdotal and subjective experience has led him to make a statistically i
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...647: Scary]], [[891: Movie Ages]], [[973: MTV Generation]] (in which White Hat utters Cueball's "That can't be right" line), and [[1477: Star Wars]]. Also
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...new idea is. Instead of the expected idea or theory, Black Hat removes his hat to reveal a tiny cannon on his head which blows away Cueball and his comput
:[Black Hat walks in.]
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...knowledges Black Hat's statement by agreeing that everyone is aging. Black Hat, however, reveals that he is not trying to make her feel old, because the p
...take). This gives the situation a much darker tone; especially since Black Hat likely is not truly apologizing, as he is very unapologetic in his [[72: Cl
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...n [[#Time Turners|Time Turners]], and after the second walking image Black Hat discusses a [[#Fire Hydrant|fire hydrant]] with a firefighter.
[[Black Hat]] is talking to a fireman, with a fire engine on fire in the background, he
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Black hat: "To be fair, what else would you expect to come out of a fire hydrant?"
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All in all it seems like the right fencer may be [[Black Hat]].
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...ride|sodium borohydride (NaBH<sub>4</sub>)}}. Since Cueball fell for Black Hat's bait he exclaims, "I hate you."
...d pun. Cueball expects the value on a bill paid to be reduced, while Black Hat uses the chemical meaning of {{w|Reduction (chemistry)|reducing}}, which wo
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...guards and the loss of his hives. When Megan sarcastically consoles Black Hat for the loss of his hives, he declares that he'll find other datacenters to
...cally, so the cells can hold nectar without it dripping out. Whether Black Hat was able to re-orient the racks to suit the needs of honey production remai
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...back in the box, a request which he initially refused (as of course Black Hat would), thus reversing the AI desire in the original AI-box experiment.
:[Black Hat and Cueball stand next to a laptop connected to a box with three lines of t
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...esn't feel that the historic Tyrannosaurus can be improved upon, but White Hat insists they've created an even more terrifying, smarter ''Tyrannosaurus''
White Hat refers to ''Tyrannosaurus'' as "two decades old", indicating that he has sw
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...e disadvantage to flipping the lever where it would kill one person, Black Hat questions whether he would need to get up to reach the lever and how much i
...ll decides that there is no point posing the problem to someone like Black Hat and gives up. This further shows that it is challenging for people with dif
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This comic portrays a person, in this case [[White Hat]], who has taken such a naming convention to an extreme, giving hundreds of
...number increasing each time. In order to get such a file directory, White Hat would have to manually title all of his documents "Untitled". He appears to
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[[White Hat]] starts to pedantically answer the typically incredulous rhetorical questi
...ver-apply Cueball's rule to the comic panel, noting that technically White Hat's sentence started with the word 'well' instead of the word 'technically',
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...me price, as a result of the actions of individuals like Hairy (or [[Black Hat]] in [[958: Hotels]]) who are only seeking personal profit. The ''invisible
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In this comic, [[White Hat]] is pointing out to [[Cueball]] that his obsession with efficiency is inco
...rst time Cueball has obsessed over minor improvements in efficiency. White Hat also notes that he's just seen Cueball open and close [http://news.google.c
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...er-10.png User-10 Man with Gray Hat] [So neither [[Black Hat]] nor [[White Hat]].]
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====Black Hat====
...comes in and is amazed by this cool floating globe. Of course, being Black Hat, he has to prod this nice globe with a digit. But by putting his finger int
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***The answer is three emoji [🏯 (Japanese castle), 🎩 (top hat) and 🐡 (blowfish)].
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| 🚃|| 1F683 RAILWAY CAR||||🎩|| 1F3A9 TOP HAT||||💕|| 1F495 TWO HEARTS
| 🍜|| 1F35C STEAMING BOWL||||👒|| 1F452 WOMANS HAT||||🚦|| 1F6A6 VERTICAL TRAFFIC LIGHT
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...all-like soldiers with guns present Napoleon (recognizable by his Napoleon hat, aka a {{w|bicorne}}) to an officer sitting behind his desk. The officer is
...ger chain on his hands and a ball and chain on his right leg. His head and hat is battered from the battle.]
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.... The second picture is another timeline featuring Cueball, Megan, [[Black Hat]], and [[Danish]] in an area labeled Open Access. The various milestones de
:Black Hat: 25% of open-access papers are freely available on publication. The rest be
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|Oops, I forgot the cowboy hat
|Cat in a hat or fox in a box?
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...far away from its owner with relatively little effort on the part of Black Hat. This is yet another evil prank from xkcd's resident [[classhole]].
...e's "occupant." However, even if the car does not get to Anchorage, Black Hat will have created a serious problem for its owner who will have to report t
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...and is talking to Cueball, which explains how the keyboard mashing "White Hat" did was strange.
...er typing. Another possibility is that the "dog" barking is actually White Hat, as he is seen making grunts from beneath the spider's silk. It can be seen
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[[White Hat]] is apparently unfamiliar with the book, and [[Cueball]] explains it by re
In the final panel, White Hat wonders how such a plot was made into a big-budget film starring Matt Damon
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...s, including a planet called a cousin to Earth, {{w|Kepler-452b}}. [[Black Hat]] proposes naming it {{w|Pluto}}, both to commemorate the flyby of the {{w|
...ebate indeed becomes 'a little more confusing'. This is in line with Black Hat's characterization as a mischief-maker.
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...s ghosts like a racing game. He brags about this app to his friend [[White Hat]].
:[Cueball, holding a smartphone, is talking to White Hat.]
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...Guy, Rob, Cutie, and a girl (hard to see, but looks like girls hair, not a hat).]
[[Category:Comics featuring White Hat]]
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In this comic, [[Cueball]] is telling [[White Hat]] about several recent scientific studies he read that appear to contradict
...d problems in the way we live our everyday lives. In the last panel, White Hat seems to be attempting to start an inquiry into what everyday modern phenom
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In the comic, [[White Hat]] thinks that mapping the human genome is the same as knowing the {{w|sourc
...in the universe (natural evolution), running for billions of years. White Hat's thought process may be similar to the physicist in [[793: Physicists]] wh
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