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