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Camera Shy
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This person really hates having their picture taken. (Sometimes this also extends to hating being filmed on video.) They might be shy, reclusive, insecure about their appearance, or hate having to get dressed up in formal clothes for fancy photos. This frequently puts them at odds with someone who wants to take a picture of them, often their parents. Hilarity ensues when this person will do anything to avoid showing up on camera: running away, covering their face, making a bizarre or ugly facial expression to ruin the picture, getting into a fight with the photographer, or anything else they can think of. If they're camera-shy for no apparent reason, they might be in Witness Protection, doing something shady, or trying to stay off the grid. A specific variation of this is the old-fashioned superstition that cameras steal your soul, which is typically associated with "primitive" people unaccustomed to technology. Truth in Television, as some people just do not like being photographed. In particular, many parents will attest to how hard it can be to get small children to stand still for photos. Related: Camera Fiend: Mr. Camera-Shy's least favorite kind of person. Don't Look At Me: Someone doesn't like being looked at, period. Film the Hand: Sticking a hand in front of or over a camera lens to prevent being filmed. Last-Second Photo Failure: The shooting of a posed photo is ruined just before the camera goes off. Performance Anxiety: One of many reasons why someone might not want to be filmed. Contrast: Attention Whore: Someone who adores the limelight and would probably love having their picture taken. Not to be confused with the Worm fanfic Camera Shy. |
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In BoJack Horseman, Sarah Lynn has a violent hatred of photographers, stemming from her trauma of being sexually exploited by her photographer stepfather. | |
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Yandere Simulator: Students with the Loner personality type will cover their faces if the player tries to take a picture of them. | |
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| Camera Shy / int_3cc61f13 | type |
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We Bare Bears: Charlie the sasquatch has a fear of cameras because he's been stalked by the paparazzi for a long time. Whenever he sees a camera, his first instinct is to yelp and knock it down. | |
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The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You: One of Meme’s traits that are par for the course of her being a Shrinking Violet. When the president of the school newspaper club undergoes training to counteract Meme’s Ninja Log escapes, Rentarou and Mimimi assist her in hiding from the camera. | |
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| Camera Shy / int_3f75a173 | type |
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| Camera Shy / int_3f75a173 | comment |
The Father Hunt: Amy hires Nero Wolfe to find her father, whom she never knew. The job is made more difficult by the fact that Amy had no photographs of her recently deceased mother, Elinor. When Archie talks to Elinor's former boss, Thorne, he learns that Elinor always avoided having her photograph taken. Thorne, however, did manage to have two photos of Elinor taken when she wasn't aware. | |
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| Camera Shy / int_400469e | type |
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| Camera Shy / int_400469e | comment |
Calvin and Hobbes: Calvin hates getting his picture taken, despite being an Attention Whore most of the time. Whenever his parents try to take a photo of him, he always makes an ugly face at the last second to mess it up. In the December 14, 1988 arc, Calvin is in a bad mood because he has to wear a suit and tie (which he thinks are "dorky clothes") and get his hair combed for Christmas card photos. His dad keeps trying to take his picture, but he repeatedly makes ugly faces to ruin them. The November 11, 1990, Sunday strip is just a long series of Calvin making goofy faces, with only the last panel revealing that they're photos. Yet another example: in the October 12, 1990 strip, Calvin's dad is taking a picture of him, and Calvin holds his smile for a few seconds before making a disgusted face just before the camera goes off. |
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| Camera Shy / int_40584212 | type |
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Ripper (2014): Indiana is at a cafe with Carol Drinkwater when a local photographer tries to take a picture of them. The usually mild-mannered Carol reacts with fury and even attempts to rip the camera out of the other woman's hands. She has a good reason: "she" is really Indiana's male Stalker with a Crush, who is pretending to be a female cancer patient to get close to Indiana. | |
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| Camera Shy / int_42ffb88e | type |
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| Camera Shy / int_42ffb88e | comment |
SCP Foundation: SCP-096/The Shy Guy will go completely bananas if anyone looks at its face and kill them without leaving a trace of their body behind. If someone looks at a photograph of its face (even a photograph where the only visible part of its face is 4 pixels), it will somehow instantly know and will kill them. | |
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| Camera Shy / int_54291151 | type |
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| Camera Shy / int_54291151 | comment |
Littlest Pet Shop (2012): Blythe Baxter is shown to be extremely camera shy in the episode "So You Skink You Can Dance," hiding her face whenever her dad tries to film her. When she and her dad travel to Hollywood to see a live taping of Vinnie's favorite show "Shake a Leg," Blythe's forced to dance on live TV by a producer who needs a quick replacement for a dancer that called in sick that evening, despite Blythe protesting that she's not a dancer and has a fear of cameras. | |
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| Camera Shy / int_616039c3 | type |
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| Camera Shy / int_616039c3 | comment |
The Incredible Hulk (1977): Because he's a fugitive of sorts, David Banner tries to avoid ever being photographed. If necessary, he'll either hold something in front of his face or hide behind others in group shots. In "Stop the Presses", a shady news photographer bursts into the restaurant where David is employed as a dishwasher and starts snapping pictures. The shot that gets published the next day is of David's hand thrust palm outward toward the camera completely blocking his face. | |
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| Camera Shy / int_74365738 | type |
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Going Postal: Moist von Lipwig tries to avoid having his picture taken; he was a conman with forgettable features before becoming Ankh Morpork's Post Master, and fears that photographic evidence will cause more people to be able to recognize (or remember) him. | |
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In Phantom of the Paradise, Swan hates photographers and refuses to let them photograph him. Everyone assumes it's some sort of eccentricity, but the truth is more sinister: He's actually Older Than They Look but has been kept young by a Dorian Grey-type Deal with the Devil, and he fears photographs might reveal his true face. | |
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Odd Squad: According to "O is For Opposite", Oprah isn't all too fond of getting her picture taken, as every time Olympia tries to take a selfie with her, she shields her face in some manner. | |
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The DCU: In the DCU, characters with Super-Speed such as the Golden Age Flash and Superman will vibrate their faces just enough to prevent people from trying to piece together their secret identities. | |
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Hazbin Hotel: Alastor is a 1930s radio host who hates all forms of modern technology and believes that radio is "the proper medium to express oneself." He uses his powers to prevent his face from showing up properly on any kind of recording device like a camera or smartphone. Curiously, his Arch-Enemy Vox owns half of a torn photo of himself and Alastor where the radio demon's face is unobscured, suggesting that they once had a good relationship. Niffty seems camera-shy as well. In "Overture", when Vaggie attempts to film her for a commercial, she instantly freezes up into a Thousand-Yard Stare. This happens again at the end of "The Show Must Go On" while being filmed by a news crew after killing Adam. |
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Lawrence of Arabia: Auda objects to Bentley photographing him, and Lawrence explains that Auda is "a bit old-fashioned. He thinks these things will steal his virtue. He thinks you're a kind of thief." | |
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| Camera Shy / int_dc25de3f | type |
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| Camera Shy / int_dc25de3f | comment |
Portal: In both Portal video games, there are cameras mounted on walls that are mostly used for monitoring your progress, however, once you acquire the Portal Gun, you are able to shoot the cameras off the walls, which results in GLaDOS scolding you for destroying "Vital Testing Apparatus". There is an unlockable achievement for destroying all the cameras on portal-able surfaces. | |
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| Camera Shy / int_df35b05c | type |
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Care Bears: Welcome to Care-a-Lot: Beastly approaches Harmony to try to steal her camera, but then she tells him to say hello to the camera. He freezes up and starts whimpering, allowing her to get past him. | |
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Running on Empty: Danny's parents have been on the run from the FBI for years. Every so often they have to pack up and move away, establishing new identities. Danny casually mentions that he skipped school on picture day, which his parents tacitly approve. | |
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Doug: In "Doug's Big Nose", Doug doesn't want to get his photo taken at school because he's embarrassed about the size of his nose. | |
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The Black Knight: Arpin Lusène refuses to be photographed, and when reporters try to take photos of him, he demonstrates his Impossible Theft skills by stealing their film rolls and the filament from one reporter's camera. | |
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