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The Leet dialect has become firmly entrenched in contemporary Internet culture. Below is a list of prominent occurrences of Leet-enciphered text in various video games.
In the anime, video game, manga and book franchise .hack, there is a character named Sora. In the original Japanese versions of the various media, he adds sound effects and assorted strange phrases to his regular speech. In the fourth video game of the franchise, he is a playable character. In that game, his speech turned out to be a problem for the translators. As a solution, it was transposed into Leet, the closest English equivalent.
The character, Jake, commonly uses the term, "Owned!" (this is actually part of the translation the character’s speech style is very different in the untranslated Japanese version) on the victory screen after a battle. He also used "owned" in some dialogue portions of the game. Furthermore, in the History section, you receive the message "Pwn3d!" for destroying 150 subs and "w00t!" for destroying 50 megatanks.
One of the fort names in the game Age of Empires III is "Fort Pownall", keeping in style with the game's pseudo-historical references.
One of the cheats available in the game Age of Mythology is "L33T SUPA H4X0R". This cheat allows you to construct, train and research nearly instantly.
All data files in the game, when extrapolated to text, start with the phrase "l33t", followed by a complete garbled mess.
The console version of Alien Hominid uses the term "pwned" in one of its mini-games.
A "Leet" is also the name of a furry, cuddly creature resembling a Rodent/Parrot crossbreed in the online massively multiplayer role playing game, Anarchy Online. Leets are cuddly, speak in leet speak, and, within the game's story, are considered a nuisance. The names of the various kinds of leets found in the game world play on leet, with progressively stronger leets named Leet, Eleet, Leetas, Soleet, Phear Leet and Supa Leet, in addition to special unique leets named Joo and Ownz. Their cuteness has in many ways made them a mascot for the game, with calls for plush leet dolls being common, stories such as the Leetville series being made, and a special set of leet pets being the pre-order gift for Alien Invasion, Anarchy Online's third expansion.
In Area 51 the video game for PS2 and xbox, when playing multiplayer when you kill someone one of the messages in the top is _______ pwned joo.
In the Batman Begins video game, the keypad code to enter a computer room is 1337.
In single player mode if you kill 100 bots with no deaths a message will appear from one of the bots saying "joo R 1337!!1"
Two of the Freakshow villains in the MMOG City of Heroes are named The OwNz0r! and The PwNxxOrz. If the latter (and perhaps the former) successfully defeats a player, he exclaims, "PWN3D!" There is an achievement badge awarded called "Pwnz". Defeating one of the previous named Freakshow is a pre-requisite for earning it.
Villains whose powers have come across by technological means have the ability to access titles at level 25. One of these titles is "L33t".
The 1337 Krew is a selectable "Terrorist Faction". 1337 Krews are skinny men, who wear thick glasses, green collared shirts and khaki pants, perhaps as a stereotype of a computer hacker.
However, In recent versions of Counter-strike (1.6 and beyond), the character was re-modeled into a stereo-typical terrorist (adding a head-wrap, and changing the clothes). however, has reverted to the original style of the 1337 krew for their model.
Counter-Strike:Source does have references to 'leet speek' however. One of the many randomly selected phrases a bot (CPU controlled opponent) can say upon winning a round is "We Owned Em'", with 'owned' being the reference to leet speek.
Players can enter a code in the spacecraft menu that gives out 1,337 DNA points.
Cheat codes can be enabled in this game by adding the command-line argument "-hax0r" to the game's shortcut.
Prinnies use the interjection 'd00d' extremely frequently in the various Nippon Ichi role-playing titles they appear in.
In the strictly single-player RPG Morrowind, an Easter egg Non-playable character can be asked about "multiplayer" in the game. The answer given: "You wish others to help you in your quest? Coward! If you must, search for the Argonian Im-Leet, or perhaps the big Nord, Rolf the Uber. They will certainly wish to join you." The two names are in style with the rest of the game, but with a touch of 1337. There is also a hidden instrument item, a lute, named the "Fat Lute," a reference to the leet phrase "phat loot".
In the Mines of Gloomingdeep zone, one of the MOBs is called "Clockwork MCCCXXXVII"; MCCCXXXVII is 1337 in Roman numerals.
One of the characters in Full Spectrum Warrior, Pvt. Ota or Samuel Jay, speaks leet. A quote from the official website: "He loves his PC, a 1337 over-clocked screamer with OTT case mods." He also commonly says "You don't have the leet skills, man!" after making a kill.
In the manga/anime Gantz the machine Gantz calls the one who did best "th3 1337 h4xx0r." This only occurred in the manga and was a device of the scanlators. In the original Japanese no leet was spoken.
Some cars in the game can have their weight reduced to 1337 kg.
There are some obscure references to 1337 such as Prawn (pr0n) Island and the Roxor (r0x0rz) Building.
When playing in the Basement Venue of the game, when the camera does a close up of the player's rocker, look at the speaker behind him and one can see that "Roxxer" is the company who made the speaker.
In The Groove 2 has a reference to 1337 in the song "Robotix". During the middle section of the song, the maximum BPM is 1337. Also, the very company that developed it is called "Roxor Games".
Kingdom of Loathing has many sarcastic references to 1337, including an enemy known as "1335 HaXx0r" (Not quite 1337), the item "1337 7r0uz3rz" (elite trousers), The 31337 and 64735 scrolls (elite and gates, respectively), and practically all of the events encountered in the Valley of Rof L'M Fao. Nearly the entire game is an homage to 1337speak in specific, and internet culture in general.
Early on in the game in Twilight Town, Seifer says to Roxas and his friends, "That was undeniable proof that we totally owned you lamers."
In this recently released DS game, two Hammer Bros., controlled by Shroobs, speak almost entirely in 1337. They constantly refer to Mario and Luigi as 'N00BZ', and say that they will 'R0XX0R', 'HAX0R', and 'PWN' them. When their mind-control helmets are removed, one of them comments, "Can you believe what was coming out of my mouth? Who talks like that?"
With the humor program installed, MegaMan.Exe can respond to jokes with "O rly?" and Lan replies "Ya rly". Terms popularized by the image board 4chan.
One of the many collectible WMD's hidden within the game is the "1337 dIc7i0N4rY"
In this game one of the Commandos, when about to hack into the enemies mainframe, comments, "Were is he, we could use his leet skills," referring to a soldier who died in the area beforehand.
In this game, in the third case, there is a NPC called Sal Monella. His speech is almost entirely comprised of 1337. When Sal Monella mentions the word 'sux0rz', a common 1337 word, your assistant, Maya, asks what "suck sores" means. This is never answered in the game.
N-Gage MMORPG Pocket Kingdom: 0wn the W0rld makes heavy use of Leet and gamer slang in its Non-player character's dialogue. It does so with a comic intent: the game's tagline is "Own the W0rld," which is in itself a reference to the Leet phenomenon. This is partly due to the game being based upon the online community.
In Psychonauts, there is a cheat code which, when activated, translates all the captions to 1337speak, and replaces the character names with those of people who worked on the game. (such as Coach Oleander translating into Tim Schafer.)
The letter "E" is commonly replaced with the number 3. For instance, when cycling weapons, Blaster is spelled "BLAST3R" and Rocket Launcher is spelled "ROCK3T LAUNCH3R".
In online or multiplayer play, when one player kills another player, the verb shown at the bottom right of the screen (Player 1 _____ed Player 2, generally fillied with imaginative synonyms for killed) is occasionally "pwned."
On the back cover it says: Kicking @$$, one planet at a time.
The Robopon GGTBot enhances into a Robopon called GGT1337.
The company which makes In The Groove, a Dance Dance Revolution clone, is named RoXoR Games, Inc.
In RuneScape, there's a cutscene in the members' version where players watch a video recording of a bank robbery. There are several fake players in the cutscene. One of them is called "1337Sp34kr". Everything that he says is in leet. He eventually gets destroyed by the bank robber, but not without a resounding "Hakr!".
In Star Wars: Republic Commando, one of the commandos named Delta-62 "Scorch", when ordered to slice a terminal, will sometimes say "no terminal can withstand my l33t h4x0r ski11z".
In Super Smash Bros Melee, a random nickname they give you is L33T, an alternate spelling of 1337.
ALSO: In the trophy menu, once the "Cannon Barrel" trophy has been acquired, the bottom of said Barrel says "2 L8 4 U" which translates to "Too late for you"
On the loading screen a message says "Teen Grid now open 24 Hours a day. The hawtnis!".
One of the characters on Tony Hawk's Underground says "l33t" and "r00l" and an online message says "I own3d j00." In its sequel, one of the objectives in the story mode is "Berlin Gets Owned", in which the player needs to destroy a billboard so that it reads "owned."
Also, in the Gameboy version, your house is the number 1337
In the music player on Ty the Tasmanian Tiger 2: Bush Rescue, the lifter bunyip theme is titled "Lifter Bunyip r0x0rs". It's hard to tell in the game, but if you look closely they are infact 0s.
Unreal Tournament, UT2003 and UT2004 all contain a voice taunt saying "ownage", used for when the player has killed (or owned) an opponent.
If you use Thrall's far seer viewing ability and get lucky on the tutorial's first level, you see Scurvy Pirates guarding Phat lewt, un 13373d leet. Also, one of the Night Elf Archers' acknowledgements when she is clicked on is: "Phear my leet skills".
One mini-boss in Blizzard's World of Warcraft, Rend Blackhand, will sometimes shout "Woot!" when the battle goes in his favor: Screenshot with additional 1337speek Another boss, Postmaster Malown, will yell that someone has just been "Malowned" when he kills a character.
There is a sub-boss in the low level instance "The Deadmines" called Rhahk'Zor, pronounced the same as "R0XX0R". Additionally, a quest in Un'Goro Crater invents a plane that the goblin proposes to call "Pwned". Also, before patch 1.5(?), players of the Horde and Alliance were able to communicate using non-alphabetical L33T-speak. The linguistics engine in WoW has since been recoded to exclude non-alphabet characters, since talking to the other faction was a direct violation of WoW's policies. Bloodlord Mandokir in the raid dungeon "Zul'Gurub" shouts "ding" when he kills a player whilst his ally shouts "grats" in congratulation. This is considered "leet etiquette" between players and adds an element of comedy to the battle.
Sometimes when a crate drops, the message on the top of the screen says "OMG ITS A CRATE!!111 LOL"
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