History Main / DestroyTheSecurityCamera

* ''Film/RawDeal'': Before the final shootout, Mark uses his shotgun to blast both surveillance cameras outside Petrovita's penthouse, all which were seen on video footage.

* ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'': A [[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2001-05-24 boarding party]] teleports between enemy lines and starts shooting out the many, many security cameras to hide their approach from the terrorists in the command center. One of the terrorists immediately recognizes the pattern; the other...

* In ''VideoGame/InvisibleInc'', it is possible to disable security cameras by shooting them, but it's usually better to disable them by electronic means because bullets are hard to come by (most people in this futuristic setting use energy weapons, which can't be used to shoot the cameras).

-->'''Eddy:''' Where did you hide the camera?!
-->'''Ed:''' ''(menacingly waves the coathanger used as a hook-hand)'' Only the Claw knows!

A common piece of FridgeLogic that stems from this trope is the assumption that once a camera is out of commission, it can't raise suspicion. In reality, a guard is at least as likely to notice a blanked-out screen as a video of someone acting suspiciously. On the other hand, this can be justified if the goal is to prevent incriminating recording, or at least to prevent the cameras from getting real-time updates on the situation.

JustForFun/NotToBeConfusedWith CameraAbuse. If done to prevent detection in the first place, this usually involves an InsecurityCamera, as proper security setups should have multiple cameras covering one another's blind spots. Can overlap with ComputerEqualsMonitor, for when someone destroys the output end of a security system to try to disable it.

* In the ''VideoGame/{{Hitman|2016}}'' series, shooting security cameras is one option available for disabling them. Less so on Professional difficulty, where doing this will cause the nearest few guards to come investigate the sudden failure, already suspicious of everyone nearby.

* In the ''VideoGame/{{Hitman|2016}}'' series, shooting security cameras is one option available for disabling them.

* ''Film/XMen2'': Stryker yells for his team to "take out these cameras!" after Mystique gets into his control room and turns them against him.

* ''Film/Dredd'': Dredd does this when he and Anderson are "trapped" in a section of the Peach Trees block as a warning to Ma-Ma.

* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddnEddy'': Kevin does this to the hidden camera that Ed placed to spy on him. Problem is, the camera was hidden ''right outside his front door'' with a stick taped to it as camouflage.

-->'''Ed:''' ''(menacingly waves the coathanger hook has his "hand")'' Only the Claw knows!

* In Chapter 5 of ''VisualNovel/NewDanganronpaV3'', Kokichi uses one of Miu's {{EMP}} bombs to shut down all the electronics nearby, including [[spoiler:the nanobots filming everything]] that the Mastermind uses to keep tabs on everyone, to deliberately obfuscate who the culprit and victim are so not even Monokuma will know, nullifying the game. [[spoiler:It doesn't work]].

A common piece of FridgeLogic that stems from this trope is the assumption that once a camera is out of commission, it can't raise suspicion. In reality, a guard is at least as likely to notice a blanked-out screen as a video of someone acting suspiciously. On the other hand, this can be justified if the goal is to prevent incriminating recording.

** Proper heisters subvert this by shooting the guy who *watches* the cameras.