In the Ghost in the Shell series, Laughing Man proves to be the ultimate hacker, capable of such feats as hijacking multiple video streams simultaneously, taking over someone’s cybernetic brain entirely, or even editing his own images out of someone’s cybernetic eyes, and all in real time. The characters name is taken from the title of J. D. Salingers short story, The Laughing Man. The Laughing Man logo is an animated image of a smiling figure wearing a cap, with circling text quoting a line from Salingers novel The Catcher in the Rye, which reads: I thought what Id do was, Id pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes. The supposed Laughing Mans name is Aoi. In the last episode of the first season, thereis his red hat with the name Aoi patched on the inside