Tropescilloscope: Leave the Camera Running

The same scene plays out for a while, whether anything's happening or not. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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More Tropes I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Black Comedy Comically Missing the Point Here We Go Again! Sci-Fi Horror Ironic Echo Gender Flip Time Skip Anyone Can Die Amusing Injuries Alas, Poor Villain The Power of Love Gratuitous English Heterosexual Life-Partners Calling the Old Man Out Horror Comedy Depraved Bisexual Nice Guy Stalker with a Crush No-Sell Death by Adaptation Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Evil-Detecting Dog French Films Half the Man He Used to Be Scare Chord Shirtless Scene No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Reality Is Unrealistic "Shaggy Dog" Story Serial Killer War Is Hell The Voiceless Rule of Cool Every Car Is a Pinto Animal Motifs Dwindling Party Big Bad It's All About Me I Have Your Wife Author Appeal Meaningful Name Femme Fatale Laser-Guided Karma Would Hurt a Child Really Gets Around Gold Digger Sexy Discretion Shot Creator Cameo Fatal Family Photo She's Got Legs Word of God Cold-Blooded Torture Race Lift Big-Bad Ensemble Documentary Sequel Escalation Vampire Fiction Pragmatic Villainy Yandere Gainax Ending Television Movie Index Jerkass Animated Credits Opening My Greatest Failure Based on a True Story Mr. Fanservice The Un-Reveal Bad Boss Death by Sex Psycho for Hire Fingore Pyrrhic Victory Setting Update Laughing Mad Disguised in Drag Never Found the Body Bar Brawl Fainting Fantastic Racism Happily Married Super Strength Grey and Gray Morality Tranquil Fury Dramatic Irony Put on a Bus Body Horror Deliberate Values Dissonance Dies Wide Open Dark and Troubled Past Humans Are Bastards All Just a Dream Hong Kong Films Older Than They Look Framing Device One-Man Army Slasher Movie Bottomless Magazines Insult Backfire Motor Mouth Would Hit a Girl Eyepatch of Power Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Costume Porn Crapsack World Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Everyone Has Standards British Films Bi the Way Action Girl Call-Back Last-Name Basis Aside Glance Death by Irony Narrator Product Placement Chiaroscuro Boom, Headshot! Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Ungrateful Bastard N-Word Privileges All There in the Script Riddle for the Ages Brother–Sister Incest Early Installment Weirdness Arc Words Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Shower Scene As the Good Book Says... Creepy Child How We Got Here Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Spell My Name with an "S" Smug Snake Agony of the Feet Missing Mom Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? The '70s Guns Akimbo Silence Is Golden Reckless Gun Usage Epic Fail Didn't Think This Through Military and Warfare Films Improbable Weapon User Hair-Trigger Temper Beauty Is Never Tarnished Cluster F-Bomb Death Glare Deus ex Machina Papa Wolf Those Two Guys Non-Indicative Name Hoist by His Own Petard Leave the Camera Running The Alleged Car Blackmail Vomit Discretion Shot Daddy's Girl Cool Car Superhero Captain Ersatz Cloudcuckoolander Unusually Uninteresting Sight Abhorrent Admirer Retirony Redshirt Army Obviously Evil Pet the Dog Earn Your Happy Ending Outrun the Fireball Abusive Parents Hope Spot Funny Background Event You Have Failed Me What You Are in the Dark Dogged Nice Guy Your Cheating Heart The Ditz Male Gaze Peek-a-Boo Corpse Overly Long Gag Visual Pun Wicked Cultured The Chick Improvised Weapon La Résistance Back from the Dead Made of Explodium Flashback Kick the Dog Undying Loyalty Red Shirt Not Using the "Z" Word Sadistic Choice Insane Troll Logic All Girls Want Bad Boys Mistaken for Gay Artistic License – History The Dreaded The Hero Dies Adaptational Badass Badass Normal Defiant to the End Ms. Fanservice Fate Worse than Death Informed Ability Logo Joke Cowboy Cop Kick the Son of a Bitch Beta Couple Jerk Jock Maybe Ever After Hypocrite Well-Intentioned Extremist Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? All for Nothing Not So Different Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Covers Always Lie Adorkable Redemption Equals Death Mystery and Detective Films Immune to Bullets Death Seeker Blatant Lies Villain Ball All Men Are Perverts I'm a Humanitarian Expy Leitmotif Lampshade Hanging No Antagonist Malevolent Masked Men Skewed Priorities Disney Death Bavarian Fire Drill Poor Communication Kills Properly Paranoid A Date with Rosie Palms Freudian Excuse Too Dumb to Live Only in It for the Money Man on Fire Throwing Your Sword Always Works Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Badass in a Nice Suit Villain with Good Publicity Action Genre Love Triangle Sealed Evil in a Can Major Injury Underreaction Slashed Throat Easily Forgiven Loads and Loads of Characters Protagonist Title True Companions Sinister Minister Small Name, Big Ego Despair Event Horizon Drowning My Sorrows Adaptation Dye-Job The '80s Fanservice Extra Black Dude Dies First Darker and Edgier More Dakka The Remake Ominous Latin Chanting Heel–Face Turn Crazy Jealous Guy This Is Gonna Suck Manchild Beard of Evil One Steve Limit Groin Attack And Starring You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Straight Gay Eagleland Take a Third Option Worthy Opponent Expository Hairstyle Change Chekhov's Skill Improbable Aiming Skills Decoy Protagonist Truth in Television Paper-Thin Disguise Bald of Evil Wham Shot Rule of Funny A Father to His Men After the End Dramedy Four-Temperament Ensemble Vitriolic Best Buds Dutch Angle Shipper on Deck From Bad to Worse Whole Plot Reference Diabolus ex Machina Bittersweet Ending Red Right Hand Artistic License – Military The Chessmaster Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Antagonist Title Cat Scare Police are Useless Manic Pixie Dream Girl Actor Allusion Implacable Man Oh, Crap! Suddenly SHOUTING! Same Language Dub Adults Are Useless Enemy Mine Taking You with Me Bond One-Liner Soundtrack Dissonance "Awesome McCool" Name Refuge in Audacity Scenery Gorn Self-Deprecation Married to the Job Artistic License – Physics The Big Guy Genre Savvy The Great Depression Shut Up, Hannibal! Woman Scorned Rule of Three Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Artistic License – Gun Safety Smoking Is Cool Cool Guns Silent Movie Bloodless Carnage An Aesop Novelization Psychological Thriller An Axe to Grind Bland-Name Product Important Haircut Those Two Bad Guys Room Full of Crazy Unresolved Sexual Tension Action Prologue Five-Man Band Stock Footage Roaring Rampage of Revenge Auto Erotica Together in Death Reasonable Authority Figure In the Back Spanner in the Works Credits Gag I Need a Freaking Drink Dark Action Girl Toplessness from the Back Betty and Veronica Curb-Stomp Battle The Bully Dark Reprise Random Events Plot Big Brother Instinct Eldritch Abomination Punny Name Mercy Kill For the Evulz Evil Sounds Deep A Minor Kidroduction Ship Tease Anti-Villain Sole Survivor The Film of the Book Dressing as the Enemy Cassandra Truth Meaningful Echo Genre Throwback Exactly What It Says on the Tin Badass Grandpa Soft Glass Christmas Movies Index The Musical Celebrity Paradox Love at First Sight Morality Pet Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Not Quite Dead Retired Badass Karma Houdini Daylight Horror Lighter and Softer Berserk Button Blood Knight Real Life Revenge Shell-Shocked Veteran Evil Laugh Irony Plucky Comic Relief Nice Hat You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Wounded Gazelle Gambit Manipulative Bastard The Quiet One Camp Gay Bury Your Gays Bullying a Dragon Market-Based Title Very Loosely Based on a True Story Science Fiction Films Big Eater Country Matters Failed a Spot Check Re-Cut Manly Tears Race Against the Clock Arranged Marriage Face–Heel Turn Wretched Hive Captain Obvious Mood Whiplash She Cleans Up Nicely Even Evil Has Loved Ones Fat Bastard Have a Gay Old Time Brutal Honesty Ripped from the Headlines Fantasy Films Artistic License – Biology Anachronic Order MacGuffin Italian Films Honor Before Reason Break the Cutie Chekhov's Gunman The Casanova Jump Scare Made of Iron Mighty Whitey Badass Longcoat Darkest Hour Be Careful What You Wish For Male Frontal Nudity Grievous Bottley Harm Author Avatar Jitter Cam As Himself World of Ham Reality Ensues Not So Above It All Frame-Up Never My Fault Central Theme The End... Or Is It? Chase Scene Drugs Are Bad Almost Kiss Hypocritical Humor timeperiod Taking the Bullet Batman Gambit Black Best Friend Genre Shift The Oner Lock and Load Montage Evil Is Petty Vacation Films Anti-Hero Unreliable Narrator Instant Death Bullet Neck Lift Video Credits Ambiguous Disorder Guile Hero Hero of Another Story Funny Foreigner Victoria's Secret Compartment Bolivian Army Ending Continuity Nod Interrupted Suicide The Sociopath Killed Mid-Sentence Intrepid Reporter Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Film Series Australian Movies Offscreen Teleportation Adapted Out Big Damn Heroes Affectionate Parody Double-Meaning Title Unspoken Plan Guarantee Age Lift Deadpan Snarker What the Hell, Hero? Twist Ending Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy My God, What Have I Done? Stealth Hi/Bye Bait-and-Switch Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Crazy-Prepared Beware the Nice Ones BFG Pretty Little Headshots Reality Has No Subtitles Catapult Nightmare No OSHA Compliance Stealth Pun Nothing Is Scarier Knife Nut Kill 'em All Adaptation Name Change Dying Moment of Awesome The '90s Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Real Life Writes the Plot Screw the Money, I Have Rules! The Alcoholic B-Movie Off-into-the-Distance Ending Curse Cut Short Show Within a Show Contrived Coincidence Exact Words Damsel in Distress Recycled IN SPACE! Chewing the Scenery Dirty Old Man Monumental Damage Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Casting Gag Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Big Bad Duumvirate Badass Bookworm Rousing Speech Anguished Declaration of Love Final Girl Historical-Domain Character Corpsing Heroes Want Redheads Accidental Misnaming Hooker with a Heart of Gold Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Unwitting Instigator of Doom Ass Shove Gilligan Cut Translation Convention Becoming the Mask Determinator Department of Redundancy Department Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Pragmatic Adaptation Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Slap-Slap-Kiss The Dragon Retcon Kubrick Stare Fanservice Martial Arts Movie Bad "Bad Acting" Dumb Blonde Hell Is That Noise Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Bloody Hilarious Names to Run Away from Really Fast Dull Surprise Zombie Stories Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Bilingual Bonus Suspiciously Similar Substitute Stepford Smiler Running Gag Screw This, I'm Outta Here! An Arm and a Leg Naked People Are Funny Epic Movie folderlabel Dirty Coward Dissonant Serenity Evil Is Hammy Parental Substitute He Knows Too Much There Is No Kill Like Overkill No Celebrities Were Harmed Once More, with Clarity! Dropped a Bridge on Him From Nobody to Nightmare Flipping the Bird I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Romantic Comedy Broken Aesop Distracted by the Sexy Film Noir Index Sanity Slippage The '60s Drill Sergeant Nasty Adaptation Expansion Cain and Abel Getting Crap Past the Radar Fish out of Water Spiteful Spit Plot Hole Say My Name Only One Name Off with His Head! And the Adventure Continues Light Is Not Good Composite Character NO INDOOR VOICE Humiliation Conga Serious Business Driven to Suicide Broken Pedestal Token Minority Amoral Attorney Establishing Character Moment The Faceless Breaking the Fourth Wall Make It Look Like an Accident Your Head A-Splode The Reveal 20 Minutes into the Future Knight Templar Disappeared Dad Get Out! Hate Sink Fiery Redhead Biopic Cool Old Lady Blood from the Mouth Historical Hero Upgrade Obstructive Bureaucrat Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Action Survivor Defrosting Ice Queen The Cameo Bare Your Midriff Mad Scientist Villain Song The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Mexican Standoff It Can Think Bond Villain Stupidity Neck Snap Heroic Sacrifice Music Stories Did Not Get the Girl Aluminum Christmas Trees Pre-Mortem One-Liner Good Is Not Nice Take That! Faux Affably Evil Homage The Mafia Vomit Indiscretion Shot Scary Black Man Unusual Euphemism Match Cut The Ghost Dramatic Gun Cock Conspicuous CG Russian Films Cat Fight Double Entendre Greater-Scope Villain Fatal Flaw Disproportionate Retribution Imagine Spot Danny Peary Cult Movies List The Load Demonic Possession Wham Line Punch-Clock Villain Hero Antagonist Attempted Rape Demoted to Extra The Cavalry Mind Screw Alliterative Name Red Oni, Blue Oni Pay Evil unto Evil In Name Only Only a Flesh Wound Took a Level in Jerkass Rasputinian Death Left the Background Music On Sir Swears-a-Lot Artistic License – Geography Babies Ever After The Dog Bites Back Bunny-Ears Lawyer The Atoner Historical Villain Upgrade Bloodier and Gorier Training Montage Scenery Porn Hollywood Law Creative Closing Credits Horror Films Tagline Air-Vent Passageway Rape as Drama As You Know Heroic BSoD Does This Remind You of Anything? What Happened to the Mouse? The Stinger Japanese Films Combat Pragmatist Bitch in Sheep's Clothing The Smart Guy Not So Stoic Parental Neglect The Mole Black Comedy Rape Canon Foreigner No Ending Deal with the Devil As Long as It Sounds Foreign Needs Wiki Magic Love Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Chekhov's Gun Adaptation Distillation Not Even Bothering with the Accent The Ace A God Am I I Did What I Had to Do Kids Are Cruel Up to Eleven Offscreen Moment of Awesome Closed Circle Pretty in Mink Face Death with Dignity The Stoic Slasher Smile Title Drop Impaled with Extreme Prejudice The Smurfette Principle Villain Opening Scene Foil Romantic False Lead It's Personal Deconstruction Famous Last Words Took a Level in Badass May–December Romance Mr. Exposition Fourth Date Marriage Mugging the Monster Never Trust a Trailer Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Big "NO!" Mama Bear Trailers Always Spoil Butt-Monkey Suspiciously Specific Denial Gorn The '50s Tap on the Head Dark Is Not Evil Ax-Crazy '80s Hair Actually Pretty Funny Bowdlerise Meet Cute Foreshadowing Disney Villain Death O.O.C. Is Serious Business Red Eyes, Take Warning Adaptational Villainy The Vamp The Hero Downer Ending Even Evil Has Standards Handicapped Badass Drives Like Crazy Adult Fear Adaptational Heroism Psychopathic Manchild Star-Crossed Lovers Parental Incest Rated M for Manly Storming the Castle Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Police Brutality Car Fu Cool Old Guy The Lancer Faking the Dead Belligerent Sexual Tension Madness Mantra Let's Get Dangerous! Affably Evil Sequel Hook My Beloved Smother You Killed My Father Artistic License – Law Green-Eyed Monster The Lost Lenore Insistent Terminology Foregone Conclusion Ghost Fiction Evil vs. Evil Destination Defenestration Extreme Doormat Determinator aka: The Determinator Does Not Like Shoes Precision F-Strike Dual Wielding Overprotective Dad The Stoner Empathic Environment Sacrificial Lion Badass Boast The Brute Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Meaningful Background Event Historical In-Joke Animal Title Index Developing Doomed Characters One-Word Title Death of a Child Works Set in World War II Black and Gray Morality Henpecked Husband Big Applesauce Award-Bait Song Fun with Acronyms Fire-Forged Friends Naïve Newcomer Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Karmic Death Thriller The Starscream Evil Brit Gory Discretion Shot Bring My Brown Pants Parental Abandonment Canadian Movies Film Noir Index of Film Westerns "Well Done, Son!" Guy Dirty Cop Playing Gertrude Red Herring Fake Shemp Anachronism Stew Ambiguous Ending Brainless Beauty Rewatch Bonus Due to the Dead Advertised Extra Kill It with Fire Shown Their Work Eureka Moment Ascended Extra Extremely Short Timespan Mythology Gag The X of Y Chuck Cunningham Syndrome No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Our Vampires Are Different Accidental Murder Character Development Rule of Symbolism Intergenerational Friendship Stylistic Suck German Films Our Zombies Are Different Tempting Fate Apocalypse How Coming-of-Age Story Jerk with a Heart of Gold Eye Scream Blonde, Brunette, Redhead The Bad Guy Wins Crucified Hero Shot Woman in White Arch-Enemy Evil Counterpart Mundane Made Awesome Cruel and Unusual Death Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Book-Ends For Want of a Nail Rich Bitch Sports Stories "The Reason You Suck" Speech Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Men Are the Expendable Gender Broken Bird Leaning on the Fourth Wall Corrupt Corporate Executive Public Domain Feature Films He Who Fights Monsters And I Must Scream Gone Horribly Right Totally Radical Wrong Genre Savvy In Medias Res Mooks Friend to All Children Villain Protagonist Pimped-Out Dress Heel Realization A.I. Is a Crapshoot Spiritual Successor Awesome, but Impractical Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Ambiguously Gay Jerkass Has a Point Authority Equals Asskicking Domestic Abuse Catch-Phrase Early-Bird Cameo Big Fancy House All There in the Manual Better to Die than Be Killed Freeze-Frame Bonus Annoying Younger Sibling Hollywood Darkness Asshole Victim Obfuscating Stupidity Politically Incorrect Villain Evil Plan Armor-Piercing Question Camera Abuse Card-Carrying Villain Villainous Breakdown Alpha Bitch Those Wacky Nazis Bound and Gagged Brick Joke Eiffel Tower Effect Idiot Ball Line-of-Sight Name Deliberately Monochrome No Name Given Sassy Black Woman Only Sane Man Adaptational Attractiveness Not What It Looks Like Hidden Depths Noodle Incident "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Fan Disservice Stuff Blowing Up Break the Haughty Call-Forward Only Known by Their Nickname Spared by the Adaptation The Place Shoot the Shaggy Dog Cool Shades Posthumous Character It Will Never Catch On Large Ham Facial Horror Moment Killer Shout-Out Loophole Abuse Children Are Innocent