Basic Trope: Breaking security cameras so you don't show up on them.
- Straight: Alice destroys a security camera so that she won't be discovered.
- Exaggerated: Alice destroys every camera nearby to maintain secrecy (even though two of the cameras were already off and one of them was a toy).
- Downplayed: Alice simply unplugs the camera instead of destroying it (which is a better option, as an unplugged security camera can be explained away as someone being careless while a destroyed camera raises eyebrows).
- Justified: Alice is trying to keep her kind/world/order/powers a secret, so anything she does that involves any of those can not be caught on camera.
- Inverted: The security camera (maybe a security robot that doubles as a security camera) tries to destroy Alice.
- Subverted: Alice sees a security camera near a building she needs to enter without being seen. She just goes in a different way, out of the camera's sight.
- Double Subverted:...only to see another security camera near that entrance. So she destroys the second camera.
- Parodied: Alice gets a Christmas card from a security camera company, which includes a note thanking her for keeping them in business.
- Zig-Zagged: "How'd you get into the building without being seen by security?" "I shot out the security cameras, scaled the wall and climbed in the window. How'd you get in?" "I pretended I was a delivery guy."
- Averted: The building the characters need to sneak in to doesn't have security cameras, so they just need to avoid the guards.
- Enforced: Alice spends an entire day training to destroy different kinds of security cameras, in case she needs to destroy one in the field.
- Lampshaded: "Why do we always destroy the security cameras? I mean, all it does is tip people off that someone did something in the building that they didn't want anyone to see. Wouldn't it be so much easier and more pragmatic to just unplug them or cover them up, or something?"
- Invoked: The Leader tells everyone to make sure that their sword blades are sharp enough to cut through anything, including security cameras.
- Exploited: A security camera company knows that super villains, criminals, government agents, and other such people tend to use this trope, and intentionally use materials in their cameras that are easy to destroy, meaning their cameras need to be quickly replaced. Profits have never been higher!
- Defied: Alice simply avoids the security cameras.
- Discussed: "You know that trope where a character can't be seen in the White House or villains lair or whatever so they destroy the security cameras?" "Yeah. Can't help but wonder how mad the owner of the place probably gets having to replace all of the cameras. I mean, it can not be cheap..."
- Conversed: "Hey, what's the name of that trope where a character destroys a security camera?" "It's called "Cleaning The Windows", Rose." "Really?" "No! It's Destroy the Security Camera, you moron."
- Implied: "How did you get past all of those security cameras? Did you use a computer virus?" "No, I used a machete."
- Deconstructed: Alice is caught because the cameras were recording footage when she destroyed them, and several of them caught her face on video. What's more, she's under arrest for destruction of property for breaking so many cameras.
- Reconstructed:...only for it to be revealed that this was a training simulation to show her trainees/teammates why this trope is an important part of their mission, and to make sure they do it right (destroy the camera from the side so you aren't seen, make sure the screen is totally destroyed, simply unplug the camera, etc).
- Played for Laughs: Alice destroys security cameras so often that photographers, security guards, and cameramen run in fear when they see her.
- Played for Drama: Bob was just killed by a Mook. Alice has is in the middle of a breakdown over it when the team needs to get past a hall of security cameras. She destroys them while screaming savagely and crying.
- Played for Horror: Someone who's come to a prison to visit a prisoner is actually there to kill said prisoner (as said prisoner murdered the visitor's mother). The visitor destroys the cameras in the visiting room. By the time security gets there, the prisoner has been brutally murdered. So has everyone else that was in the room. The visitor is no where to be found.
