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