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Often used to achieve an [[Engineered Public Confession]]. May be achieved by a [[Magical Security Cam]].
With the development of [[w:Deepfake|Deepfake]] technology in the late 2010s, it's possible that this trope may be fated to become [[Discredited Trope|Discredited]] in any context other than a [[Period Piece]].
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== Anime and Manga ==
* Brutally subverted in ''[[Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex|Ghost in The Shell Stand Alone Complex]]'', where the Tachikomas discuss the fact that video footage is practically useless as evidence due to how easily it can be tampered with. Indeed, the Laughing Man's MO relies entirely on this, as he hacks into any recording devices around him (including other people's cyberbrains) and edits himself out of the footage, effectively letting him become invisible.
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== [[Film]] ==
* The villains of ''[[Machete]]'' are completely [[Too Dumb to Live]] in regards to this trope. Booth is pretty dumb for crucifying a priest while explaining his villainous plan and not bothering to remove the clearly visible security cameras, but the Senator takes the cake for actually ''asking'' that someone videotape him while he's committing murder, and actually requesting that he get a copy of the DVD afterwards.
* In ''[[Ruthless People]]'', there's a [[Not What It Looks Like]], where the judge they're blackmailing was videotaped having sex in a car, but the [[Too Dumb to Live]] cameraman thinks he was killing the girl. The blackmail still works, though.
* ''[[Robot Jox]]''. Before he kills another character, [[The Mole]]'s confession is videotaped, which eventually leads to his unmasking.
* ''[[Spies Like Us]]''. Emmett Fitzhume and Austin Millbarge are videotaped while cheating on a State Department advancement test, which leads to them being chosen as expendable decoys.
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* In the [[Grand Finale|series finale]] of ''[[Seinfeld]]'' the [[Main Characters]] are arrested because they watched an armed robbery take place and didn't call the police or do anything else to help. In court, footage that one of them shot themselves is used as evidence against them, showing them watching the robbery and, not only doing nothing to help, but actually ''mocking'' the victim as the robbery's going on.
* On ''[[Friends]]'' Ross and Rachel argue about which of them initiated the sex that resulted in Rachel getting pregnant. Ross insists that it was Rachel who hit on him, and shouts out that he can prove it because he videotaped the whole thing. This does not make the situation better.
* ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series]]'' episode "[[Star Trek/Recap/S1
* ''[[Square One TV|Mathnet]]'': The Karamasov brothers frame George for armed robbery by one of them [[Latex Perfection|wearing a George mask]] and robbing a bank. He stops to make sure the security camera has a clear view of him, even posing straight on and in profile like those pictures they take when the cops book someone.
* In ''[[Better Off Ted]]'' Veronica turns out to have a tape of the time Ted and her had sex, confiscated off a security guard who apparently had dozens of similar tapes. Ted ends up showing the tape to Linda, not because of the sex (which she already knew about), but because it revealed that the e-mail Linda swore she had sent Ted had been accidentally deleted during the act, explaining why Ted never received it.
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* ''[[Ghost Trick]]'': In Chapter 5, {{spoiler|Lynne is shown to have shot Sissel on a security camera.}} Chapter 17 reveals that {{spoiler|Yomiel intentionally framed Lynne with his manipulation powers.}}
* In the original ''[[Command
{{quote|'''Kane''': Is that camera still running?! ''(gunshot)''}}
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* On ''[[American Dad]]'' a traffic camera records Roger running someone over and leaving them to die. However, he's wearing a [[Paper-Thin Disguise|paper thin]] [[Kevin Bacon]] disguise at the time, so it's the Hollywood actor who gets arrested. Even Bacon himself, who was thousands of miles away when the hit-and-run happened, believes he must have committed the crime and repressed the memory, because "it's clearly me on the tape!"
* ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' [[It's Been Done|did it]] when Homer was accused of groping a woman. Apparently [[Funny Foreigner|Groundskeeper Willy]], like ''all'' Scottish people, secretly videotapes random people in cars, and he uses his tape to prove that Homer was just trying to grab a piece of candy off the woman's butt.
* The [[Dinosaucers]] tried it with the Tyrannos once ,but it failed because they put Bonehead in charge of taping the confession. Instead of doing so, [[Literal
* ''[[DuckTales (1987)]]'' had an episode where Flintheart Glomgold framed Scrooge with art theft by showing a tape of 'Scrooge' stealing the painting. It worked at first but Huey, Dewey and Louie eventually found out the tape caught a reflection of 'Scrooge' taking off his disguise, revealing himself as Flintheart Glomgold.
* ''[[Hey Arnold!]]'' had an animated movie where a [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]] tried to demolish several homes and businesses to erect a shopping center and avenge an ancestor. The villain gloated to Arnold and burned a document that established the area as a historical site, thus making it illegal to demolish it. It was caught on the villain's own security tape.
* ''[[Wheel Squad]]'': Akim and Johnny were once arrested for robbery and a security tape from World Mart had been introduced as evidence against them. It turned out that [[Corrupt Corporate Executive|Enzo]], the manager of World Mart, doctored the tape becaise his boss wasn't satisfied that the extra cameras had yet to diminish the place's theft rate.
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