History Main / DestroyTheSecurityCamera

* ''Fanfic/{{Spider-Ninja}}'': When Petra and the turtles are staking out Stark Tower, Raph puts a sai through the screen of every security camera he finds so the group doesn't have to worry about being seen.

* The Nintendo 64 ''VideoGame/GoldenEye'' game will have you doing this quite a bit as if you're spotted on a security camera, the alarm will sound and everybody and their brother is going to be after you.
* 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. The fourth entry ''Blood Money'' introduced a mechanic wherein the player character can retrieve the tape from the security office rather than destroying the cameras themselves.

* ''Film/ClownKill'': While Colin and George are watching [[TheProtagonist Jenny]] while she's excersizing in the office gym, the camera feed suddenly gets disturbed. Later, when they're investigating in the gym, they discover the security camera on the floor with a paper plate with vanilla on it.

* One of the mechanics in ''VideoGame/SystemShock'' is destroying the cameras on Citadel Station to stave off SHODAN's SinisterSurveillance, resulting in the security levels lowering and more areas unlocking. This would become a staple of the series, appearing again in the sequel ''VideoGame/SystemShock2'', and even in their [[SpiritualSuccessor Spiritual Successors]] like the aforementioned ''Bioshock''.

* The first level of the video game of ''VideoGame/TheWorldIsNotEnough'' have James Bond attempting to track down the informant, [=LaChaise=], in [=LaChaise's=] penthouse. But the penthouse is only accessible via an elevator on the second floor, which has security cameras that can raise alarms upon locating Bond. Those security cameras (five of them) can be shot and destroyed, but failing to prevent the alarm from ringing will have Bond being cornered by guards and forced into a gunfight. Destroying all five cameras without being spotted even once nets Bond a better score by the end of the level.

* ''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. This is so they won't see him enter the AirVentPassageway instead of the EmptyElevator.

* Downplayed in ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnoldTheMovie'' when Arnold sneaks into the security camera hub room to steal a videotape of [[BigBad Scheck]] [[DestroyTheEvidence burning the tomato incident document]] so he could illegally destroy Arnold's neighborhood after his ancestors failed to do so. One camera is about to spot Arnold, but Arnold disables it by throwing chewing gum into the lens, allowing him to get the evidence needed to prove Scheck's guilt. Moments after Arnold retrieves the evidence, Scheck returns to his office and notices one camera is out and immediately replaced. This later prompts the chase to stop Arnold and his friends before they stop the bulldozers.

* Downplayed in ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnoldTheMovie'' when Arnold sneaks into the security camera hub room to steal a videotape of [[BigBad Scheck]] [[DestroyTheEvidence burning the tomato incident document]] so he could illegally destroy Arnold's neighborhood after his ancestors failed to do so. One camera is about to spot Arnold, but Arnold disables it with chewing gum, allowing him to get the evidence needed to prove Scheck's guilt. Moments after Arnold retrieves the evidence, Scheck returns to his office and notices one camera is out and immediately replaced. This later prompts the chase to stop Arnold and his friends before they stop the bulldozers.

* ''VideoGame/PoppyPlaytime'': Exploited by the Prototype during one of his escape attempts. A video log details how he [[MacGyvering constructed a laser pointer from an alarm clock]] and fired it at a security camera to disable it. Unlike in most examples, the surveillance team noticed immediately and the camera was fixed in under 30 seconds, but in this time the Prototype had seemingly disappeared from the room. One surveillance specialist went to confirm the Prototype's absence. However, on entering the room she found that the Prototype had hidden in one of the camera's blind spots in order to trick the observers into thinking that he had escaped. He then attempted to leave the room, but another specialist remotely re-locked the door. Both the Prototype and the first specialist were sealed inside the room, where the Prototype promptly killed the specialist.

* Possible in ''VideoGame/PAYDAY2''. Destroying a security camera will prevent it from spotting any heisters or other suspicious activities, but in some cases, the camera operator will send a guard to check the area. Titan cameras on higher difficulty levels defy this with a damage-proof shield.
** Proper heisters subvert this by shooting the guy who ''watches'' the cameras.

* The commentators on ''Series/WorldsDumbest'' frequently mock the criminals who fail to notice -- much less do anything about -- the cameras that film their crimes. On one notable instance, however, a criminal did take out the camera -- though said "criminal" was just a toddler escaping from his crib. The commentators pointed out how this little child was smarter than all the grown-up criminals featured on the show.

* ''Film/TheseAreTheDamned''. Nine children are being kept in a secret underground facility under constant surveillance. After refusing to hand over the 'big people' who have entered the facility from the outside, the normally well-behaved children smash or obscure the cameras as an act of defiance, and the BigBad is forced to send in soldier whom he can't guide using the cameras, causing one of them to get shot.

* ''Series/DoctorWho'': In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E12TheSoundOfDrums "The Sound of Drums"]], after the Doctor realizes that the Master is watching him, Martha and Captain Jack over a nearby CCTV camera, he blows it out with his sonic screwdriver, causing the Master to retort [[LameComeback "Ooh, you... public menace!"]]

* ''ComicBook/TheTransformers'': In Issue #13 ("Shooting Star"), a damaged, mindless Megatron is found by Joey Slick, a small-time crook, who uses him in gun mode to go on a crime spree. When Joey robs a bank, he orders Megatron to take out the security cameras first.

* In ''WesternAnimation/Amphibia'' "[[Recap/AmphibiaS3E06FightAtTheMuseum Fight At The Museum]]", Sprig does this with his tongue to take out the museum cameras. [[spoiler: Unfortunately, one of the cameras does end up catching a glimpse of his face before he smashes it, drawing the attention of the robot assassin that is searching the city using the nearby radio tower's signals.]]

* In ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsIIFinalMix'', when Xemnas comes to visit Aqua's armor and Keyblade in a secret room of Hollow Bastion's castle, he blasts a camera that spots him putting in the password to the room.