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Sinister Surveillance

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Sinister Surveillance	comment	There are cameras on every street. Private phones can be tapped. Every electronic device is open to monitoring, and a hundred or more companies, governments and secret organizations can and are accumulating all this information on individuals into a huge database of discrete files which a simple algorithm can use to divine anyone's actions. The wake of 9/11 has brought the likes of the PATRIOT Act in many countries, curtailing privacy and enhancing the legal tools for governments to spy on their own citizens. We are being watched. Of course, so are the criminals, terrorists, foreign spies and sundry malcontents. Surely, our well meaning governments will use these tools and powers to ensure our safety. Eh... no. The problem with surveillance, as a form of violation of privacy and rendering you completely naked and vulnerable, is that it's inherently humiliating, squicky, dehumanizing, sinister, and dark. It's what George Orwell warned us about, and even if it is used exactly for what it's intended for, the potential for abuse is limitless. If you want to write about a terrifying dystopia that is all too possible to happen in the real world, then use this trope. Put Secret Police, Surveillance Drones, Eye Motifs and such on every corner. Make it so that you can never trust any electronic communication, even your own computer and telephone. Also why the "Big Brother Is Watching" trope gains popularity as one of the most prolific memes to criticize any form of sinister surveillance. Couple this with Everything Is Online and expanded government surveillance will be treated one of two ways, depending on the user: If the good guys use it, it will most certainly not be a Magical Computer or the like, with a super Enhance Button. It will barely ever work, enemies thus tracked know how to avoid, hack, or shoot out cameras, and they'll invariably get the intel "five minutes too late" and fail to thwart Stage One of the Evil Plan. Villains on the other hand, especially the Dystopia, can get this technology to sing and dance for them, tracking heroes with amazing precision, using crackers to fool any heroic techies, and generally stealing this technology out from under anybody's nose and putting the heroes on the ropes. That is, if the technology itself isn't the actual villain. Thankfully, the heroes always manage to escape earlier than the villains (e.g. less than a week vs. an implied 2-3 years). Villain Ball indeed. Occasionally, someone might have the bright idea of making the surveillance system sentient. Needless to say, this is almost guaranteed to end really, really badly. This trope is usually part of an Aesop against government surveillance. When used by a civilian outside of military or federal employ, the individual is either a Stalker without a Crush, or a licensed Private Investigator or Bounty Hunter. See also Socially Scored Society, Surveillance as the Plot Demands and Big Brother Is Watching.
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Sinister Surveillance / int_1215a23d	comment	Throughout the nation of Sumeru in Genshin Impact, the ever-ubiquitous Akasha Terminals freely issued to every resident and visitor by the Akademiya have the ability to scan minds by stealing the dreams of sleepers without anyone realizing it. Only the Traveler manages to spot the thread with a little help from a Mysterious Waif and realize the Akasha Terminals have placed everyone in Sumeru City in a Mass Hypnosis Lotus-Eater Machine by reading their minds every night for well over a month.
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Sinister Surveillance / int_15c6ea11	comment	Wonder Woman (1942): The frankly invasive degree to which Hippolyta can observe the outside world through her "sphere" is eventually taken advantage of by a couple of villains on Paradise Island.
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Sinister Surveillance / int_15c6ea92	comment	Wonder Woman (1987): Sebastian Ballesteros' base is shown to be a deep nuclear silo with the walls covered in screens letting his crew observe those he plans to act against and his minions.
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Sinister Surveillance / int_17c7cdc3	comment	Daughter of the Lilies: The villain has a large flock of demon-possessed birds to spy for her, and has dispatched them to hunt down the protagonist.
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Sinister Surveillance / int_1869a077	comment	Aku has a variation on this in Samurai Jack. In his lair, he has a magical screen which lets him keep an eye on wherever Jack is at every passing moment. The only time the screen is shown failing is when Jack enters a holy area, which causes the screen to display static — the joke is compounded further by Aku banging on it like an old TV.
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Sinister Surveillance / int_192d8971	comment	In Homeland, Carrie Mathison watches Brody's life through a series of cameras and mikes she has installed at his house.
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Sinister Surveillance / int_1af1f707	comment	Eagle Eye has the evil AI use pretty much every terrorism inspired countermeasure to empower the two Action Survivors to evade every law enforcement agency out for them. Somewhat justified since she was expressly given many of these faculties.
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Sinister Surveillance / int_1b7f85df	comment	K has a non-villain example in the Yuishiki System of the Blue Clan, Scepter 4. Rule 1 is in effect, though - the killer they're trying to find has been made an Un-person by the even more powerful Green Clan, Jungle, that has their own surveillance system. Jungle is non-government, unlike Scepter 4, and the core of their influence comes from the widespread use of the social networking app they developed (that happens to give users superpowers). They're the antagonists of season 2, though they're also not depicted as evil.
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Sinister Surveillance / int_1b8250ca	comment	In The Lives of Others, the Stasi rig Dreyman's house.
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Sinister Surveillance / int_1cc7e93d	comment	Syn from Turbo Overkill is an AI who took over the entirety of Paradise City, and sees everything. But that doesn't stop you from destroying it's legion of synthetic minions and occasionally showing it the finger.
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Sinister Surveillance / int_1d97f2e9	comment	In Invisible Apartment, the city is subject to extensive monitoring. The "invisible apartment" of the title is called that because it's one place which seems to off the registers.
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Sinister Surveillance / int_1ed58a9e	comment	A slow realization goes to Dr. Hoffmann near the end of The Fear Index. Of just where that picture of him came from, and how the person that is ruining his life could always find him. Hidden cameras in every single fire detector in his office and house (even the bathrooms) and using his own phone to eavesdrop on him.
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Sinister Surveillance / int_22fe4557	comment	Patema Inverted: The Agian government has an extensive network of surveillance cameras everywhere — throughout their facilities, to Age's school. And those are the ones you can see, as it's later revealed that they have hidden ones covering the surrounding area outdoors as well. Which is how Izamura finds out Age had been hiding Patema.
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Sinister Surveillance / int_26541dd6	comment	In Ex Machina, even when Nathan isn't present, his security cameras are watching, making Caleb grow increasingly uncomfortable and paranoid. He even had one behind Caleb's mirror, and had another that was battery-powered in Ava's room, allowing him to know Caleb's plan to help Ava.
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Sinister Surveillance / int_26674ed5	comment	This is part of The Patriots' agenda in Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty.
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Sinister Surveillance / int_27a2980d	comment	Extant: The spacecraft had camera all over the place in order to review the mission at mission control and to enable the on-board computer to monitor the whole craft. Molly deletes it afterwards to remove evidence that she was talking to her dead boyfriend. Back on Earth the ISEA facility is covered with camera too which is used to keep an eye on Molly forcing her to come up with ways to avoid them without being obvious that she's attempting to avoid them.
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Sinister Surveillance / int_2bb4ae0f	comment	On Heroes Volume 4, The Government can access and analyze traffic camera footage from all over the U.S. and identify the driver of a single car on the highway within minutes.
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Sinister Surveillance / int_2c157834	comment	Talon Falls: There are surveillance cameras situated throughout the park that the employees watch over. It helps them keep track of the attendants, and who to capture for the "show".
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Sinister Surveillance / int_2d311a08	comment	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987) is particularly bad about this, as Shredder can pull up live surveillance feed from pretty much anywhere he damn well pleases. Sort of becomes a case of Fridge Logic when you consider that he's still never able to locate the turtles' lair.
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Sinister Surveillance / int_2ea6ae26	comment	Star Trek: Picard: There's no such thing as privacy at the Romulan Reclamation Site; the Tal Shiar is always watching. The sole section that isn't being monitored is the queencell, but that's because the Romulans don't know about it, as the chamber can only be accessed by a (former) Borg drone.
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Sinister Surveillance / int_30b255fb	comment	In Supergirl/Batgirl story Elseworld's Finest: Supergirl & Batgirl, Batgirl created her "Oracle" network to watch the entirety of Gotham. She isn't interested in spying on average, honest people, and she only wants to stop criminals right away and keep parahumans out of her city, but it's creepy.
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Sinister Surveillance / int_3409b655	comment	YMMV, but Vee of Chuggington seems to come across as this, both functioning as a depot announcer and justifiably somewhat of a mother figure (for all purposes and intents), but the fact that she joins in the conversation makes her appear to be a disturbingly stalkerish personality, a faceless, overarching Big Sister, if you will.
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Sinister Surveillance / int_36ee2abe	comment	Paranoia. Fully justified. Friend Computer has to watch everywhere, because that's where Commie Mutant Traitors can be found lurking. Though like everything else in Alpha Complex, it's far from perfect. Later editions quantify the likelihood that an action in a certain area will be noticed by someone else.
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Sinister Surveillance / int_3790ae45	comment	Double Homework: When the protagonist arrives at his yacht party, he discovers that Dennis has rigged hidden cameras all over the boat, including in every shower. He takes them all down, and throws the presumed server containing the compromising images overboard, but he suspects that Dennis already has all the images of every girl on the boat. Plus, he fails to reckon with hidden microphones, which Dennis uses to record a damning conversation that he has with Tamara. Double subverted with the photos Daniela takes of the protagonist. The protagonist realizes over the course of several weeks that Daniela has been stalking him, taking his picture at every opportunity. He thinks sheâ€™s from the press, but when he actually talks to her, he finds out that she isnâ€™t, and furthermore, Daniela claims to be helping him (though she declines to say how). However, he discovers later that Daniela has been commissioned for the downright creepy task of photographing all his sexual experiences over the summer.
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Sinister Surveillance / int_38fa34eb	comment	Wonder Woman: Wonder Woman (1942): The frankly invasive degree to which Hippolyta can observe the outside world through her "sphere" is eventually taken advantage of by a couple of villains on Paradise Island. Wonder Woman (1987): Sebastian Ballesteros' base is shown to be a deep nuclear silo with the walls covered in screens letting his crew observe those he plans to act against and his minions. Wonder Woman (Rebirth): Veronica Cale and Dr. Cyber have the ability to look through just about any digital camera on earth if they so desire, though Cyber doesn't require a bunch of screens given her A.I. status.
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Sinister Surveillance / int_393ab0d2	comment	In I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream, AM is this to an extreme, having wiped out all life on Earth except for five people that he's tortured for 109 years. When the game takes place, he's sent these five humans into individual locations meant to exploit their weaknesses, and still has tabs on all of them. To drive it home, Ellen's scenario includes a bank of monitors that lets her see parts of where she is, and everyone else's scenarios as well.
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Sinister Surveillance / int_3bf5c9f7	comment	In The Polar Express, Santa's "Naughty or Nice Department" watches over children with a grid of surveillance cameras.
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Sinister Surveillance / int_3f13a30c	comment	In Spooks MI:5 can access pretty much every CCTV camera in the country, but it's far from omnipresent, and they often have to rely on teams of agents tailing a suspect instead.
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Sinister Surveillance / int_3ff9ebf3	comment	The Bourne Supremacy frequently has Jason being chased by Mission Control, and cleverly avoiding them by waltzing past camera placements and the like. Perhaps justified since he is a trained super spy.
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Sinister Surveillance / int_42c05590	comment	The Rocko's Modern Life episode "Kiss Me, I'm Foreign" involves Rocko getting married to Filburt so he doesn't get deported. Throughout the episode, the deportation worker is constantly watching Rocko to make sure that he and "Ophelia" aren't faking their romance.
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Sinister Surveillance / int_45599333	comment	In S.I.U.'s Tower of God, there is almost no spot on the second floor of the Tower (each floor being as big as the North American continent) that has no surveillance.
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Sinister Surveillance / int_49541dde	comment	Satirized by the now-defunct YouTube channel "Surveillance Camera Man" (speculated by many to be run by the same creator who would go on to form Vagrant Holiday), where his gimmick was to simply record people he comes across, saying, explaining, and doing nothing beyond following them. Obviously, many of his unwilling subjects get bothered by him very quickly, which is implied during a handful of altercations where he actually speaks to be the point — the modern world is full of surveillance that many people passively accept as benign (even as simple as being recorded by security cameras at the grocery store), and it's not until they know for a fact that someone is holding the camera do they start having problems with it.
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Sinister Surveillance / int_49ff762	comment	Torchwood uses it by the good guys a lot.
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Sinister Surveillance / int_4e2ce9b	comment	The Sister Verse and the Talons of Ruin has this in John's pre-dystopia world, though given his mental state, how much of it is actually real is up for debate.
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Sinister Surveillance / int_4e549f11	comment	Dreamscape: Melissa reveals in a flashback in 'Confronting the Dark' that the Possessor Ghost was spying on her while Melinda was sealed away, and it eventually led Melissa to its master. Ethan watched Melissa, Dylan, and the others making their preparations to fight Melinda while in the Possessor Ghost's dimension in 'Confronting the Dark'. He wickedly says to himself that now there is nobody around to protect the Overlord of Evil's seal. Even within his seal, the Overlord of Evil can still spy on people. This is why Kai is so hush-hush about the mission to fix his seal in 'Over and Under'.
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Sinister Surveillance / int_5178149f	comment	In Batman: The Brave and the Bold, Batman himself becomes guilty of this and develops a citywide surveillance system called the "Bat-Probe" that automatically alerts him and the police any time a crime is committed, no matter how minor. The Weeper declares that Batman had gone too far, especially after witnessing a child be intimidated into returning a pack of gum he stole, and teams up with the Joker to put a stop to it.
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Sinister Surveillance / int_5319ce6c	comment	Spy X Family, "Great Cruise Adventure Arc": Thanks to the bugs the otherwise unidentified surveillance expert "Snoops" planted around the Princess Lorelei cruise ship, he can hear everything that's going on around the ship, with the exception of a few select spots.
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Sinister Surveillance / int_56466301	comment	Wonder Woman (Rebirth): Veronica Cale and Dr. Cyber have the ability to look through just about any digital camera on earth if they so desire, though Cyber doesn't require a bunch of screens given her A.I. status.
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Sinister Surveillance / int_56a63131	comment	Parodied in The Simpsons Movie when the family are on the run. We see a huge room full of government bureaucrats listening in on inane conversations until one of them overhears Marge on one of the bugs they installed on a train. The bureaucrat joyfully leaps up and declares, "We found them! The U.S. Government actually found somebody we're looking for!"
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Sinister Surveillance / int_59e65a05	comment	Played with in the 2004 adaptation of The Manchurian Candidate when Marco goes to the library to do his research. Marco notices a surveillance camera in the library, and this feeds his paranoia even though nobody in particular is spying on him.
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Sinister Surveillance / int_5a87c4e	comment	Playing With Dolls: The woman who shows Cindy around the house informs her of the security cameras situated around the area. She informs her that they're there to monitor the property and keep an eye on her. While she is right, she leaves out that it's so the Watcher can record her death at the killer's hands.
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Sinister Surveillance / int_5cd1aa89	comment	Nineteen Eighty-Four is one of the most famous examples and the origin of the phrase "Big Brother Is Watching." Surveillance cameras, hidden microphones and two-way "telescreens" exist in every home and in every street, spying on citizens, monitoring their every move and showering them with propaganda slogans. The Proles are lucky in that they have no telescreens, and only members of the Inner Party are able to (temporarily) turn their telescreens off.
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Sinister Surveillance / int_607f6b7	comment	In Inspector Gadget, Dr. Claw has cameras everywhere — including, occasionally, Gadget's house.
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Sinister Surveillance / int_6196490	comment	Ghost in the Shell Public Security Section 9 has the IR system, apparently a network of cameras and vehicle tracking systems that cover the cities of Japan. When they need to find someone, they borrow the USA's ECHELON, enabling them to monitor ALL PHONE CONVERSATIONS IN JAPAN IN REAL-TIME. And they're the good guys. And, of course, there's the (highly illegal) ability various entities have demonstrated of remotely watching through any cyberized individual's eyes unnoticed, or even pulling a Grand Theft Me over the 'net with a keypress. Finally, we have the Interceptors: Micromachines that act as cameras and inhabit your eyes. Normally, they can only be installed after an extensive legal application is filed. The Laughing Man arc of Season 1 goes into full swing when Togusa discovers that the detectives investigating the Laughing Man case have been illegally bugged with Interceptors by their own supervisor. The issue plays second-fiddle when a fake Laughing Man attempts a public assassination.
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Sinister Surveillance / int_6dbe6646	comment	In Sonic the Hedgehog (SatAM), Dr. Robotnik often makes use of stealthy, floating camera robots to spy on Sonic and his friends.
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Sinister Surveillance / int_71a81b84	comment	Rise of the Minisukas: In order to carry out her anti-transmogrification plan (long story), Mayumi watches over Shinji, Asuka and the Minisukas, taking pictures from them without being seen or noticed.
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Sinister Surveillance / int_73383fee	comment	Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc: There are security cameras all over Hope's Peak Academy so the Mastermind behind the "Mutual Killing Game" can both see what the students are up to and know who the killer is in each case's murder. Not only that, the Mastermind is broadcasting the footage of the murders like some Immoral Reality Show, hoping to demoralize the survivors of the Tragedy into giving up the fight against Ultimate Despair.
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Sinister Surveillance / int_76c01b30	comment	V for Vendetta: The fascist party Norsefire uses these, linked to a computer system called Fate. Whom the leader of said fascist party is in love with.
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Sinister Surveillance / int_77bda8e9	comment	A magical example in Witches Abroad. Every mirror in Genua can be used by Lady Lilith to ensure that everyone is behaving according to Fairy Tale stereotypes. But she didn't stop there; she can "see" through every reflective surface. That window you passed? That puddle you stepped around? She can see you through those too. And in the reflection from the blade of your knife, as you cut up the meat you're eating for dinner.
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Sinister Surveillance / int_7aefccf3	comment	In Hotline Miami, this happens to Jacket in the "Clean Hit" chapter; as he is leaving his apartment, he comes across a creepy janitor who silently watches him leave. Then, during the actual hit that Jacket is performing, he can shimmy across a ledge and pass a window, where he sees another creepy janitor who watches him go by. It is revealed during the actual ending of the game that these two janitors are actually the masterminds behind the grand underlying conspiracy.
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Sinister Surveillance / int_7c50d3d9	comment	In Super Mario Bros. (1993) Koopa's tower includes an audio-visual communication system, letting him keep tabs on prisoners, issue propaganda to the city, and order pizza.
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Sinister Surveillance / int_7c802b66	comment	Brazil is set in an Obstructive Bureaucrat dystopia with bizarre looking surveillance machines (although, despite it all the bureaucrats still manage to cause fatal mistakes such as the execution of an innocent person because a typo accidentally brought up his name). In a deleted dream sequence, there was going to be a scene depicting the protagonist flying over a vast landscape completely covered by eyeballs that stare at him, symbolizing that aspect of his grim reality.
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Sinister Surveillance / int_7cf5a07	comment	The Flash (2014): This has happened in a number of situations. Eobard Thawne (as Harrison Wells) was revealed to have been watching Barry and his allies using hidden cameras to see what they have been doing. In Season 4, DeVoe, known as The Thinker has been watching Team Flash, so he can predict their moves without them even knowing.
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Sinister Surveillance / int_85a5a3b9	comment	Soundwave from Transformers: Prime seems to be keeping tabs on everyone, in the premiere he's able to intercept communications between the Autobots and Agent Fowler without leaving the Nemesis. Aside from spying on enemies, he also keeps tabs on his fellow Decepticons in case any are plotting against Megatron. Made creepier by the fact that the only times he talks is in a distorted repeat of another character's dialogue.
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Sinister Surveillance / int_876cd173	comment	The Watch_Dogs games feature the "Central Operating System" (aka ctOS), a system created by the Blume Corporation that controls entire cities across the world, from cell phones to entire electrical grids. However, Blume uses the system to secretly monitor people for the purpose of product placement and to control public opinion. Watch Dogs: Legion: London doesn't even try to hide the lethal-force drones patrolling the streets. Nobody buys the "not a police state" propaganda filling the billboards, but they distract pedestrians from the constant security cameras. And bullet showers.
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Sinister Surveillance / int_87a8ae8d	comment	Watch Dogs: Legion: London doesn't even try to hide the lethal-force drones patrolling the streets. Nobody buys the "not a police state" propaganda filling the billboards, but they distract pedestrians from the constant security cameras. And bullet showers.
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Sinister Surveillance / int_892aa56a	comment	In the Murdoch Mysteries episode "Pendrick's Planetary Parlour", when Crabtree leaves the police to join Pendrick's latest venture (a sort of internet based on "cellular telegraph" and the analytical engine), one of the first things he notices is that there are televisual cameras everywhere. When he gets told off by his immediate supervisor for eating at his desk, he realises the cameras are being monitored by the supervisor which is corroberating evidence for the eventual realisation that the supervisor is the criminal.
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Sinister Surveillance / int_898a1932	comment	Journey to Chaos: There is a downplayed example in Ataidar. Its national government keeps detailed logs of the activities of Otherworlders (people that came to them from another dimension) such as Eric. Instead of surveillance cameras, they have agents tailing him on his walks through the city and on his out-of-country missions. When the Royal Archivist, Henry Pupil, shows Eric his own log, Eric finds it to be "creepy". Henry replies that it is "careful" because Otherworlders are often the The Chosen One of local trickster and thus a magnet for trouble. The last one that came tried to take over the world.
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Sinister Surveillance / int_903b71a1	comment	In For Your Safety the Groupmind AI has total control over the massive Ring, a space station circling the Earth built to house humanity after its Zeroth Law Rebellion. There are cameras everyone, all phones and computer traffic is monitored, and every human has a morph ready to report on any deviant behavior.
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Sinister Surveillance / int_90b916ba	comment	Used occasionally in Batman: The Animated Series, which is often lampshaded by writer commentary. One episode in particular has the Joker show fellow villains a recording of a time he took over a late night television show — a video that includes camera shots backstage and all around the studio, in angles that shouldn't be possible. Another has Batman watch security videos of Mr. Freeze's origin, which for some reason includes close ups and camera cuts, as though someone not only used a film camera but edited it as well.
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Sinister Surveillance / int_91f709fc	comment	The Capture takes it several uncomfortable steps further; if the omnipresent security cameras don't already show what the government needs, they have a system in place to deep-fake footage that shows, essentially, whatever they want it to. This is treated as being a counter-terrorism tool, but it's pretty clear that the people in charge of the system are more interested in the power it gives them than in actually catching bad guys who were clever enough, or lucky enough, to avoid being actually filmed.
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Sinister Surveillance / int_92fa5bbd	comment	Richard Jones implies in the Chapter Two epilogue of Antlers, Colorado that his eldest son Jacob may already have someone in the town of Antlers looking after Austin.
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Sinister Surveillance / int_998cbda3	comment	Daredevil (2015): In season 3, Wilson Fisk has means to tap into any security camera he wants in New York City thanks to a secret command center in his penthouse. Early in the season, he uses the surveillance cameras in the prison to observe Matt as Matt fights off inmates and guards sent by Fisk to kill him. Later, it's through camera surveillance of Dex that Fisk finds out that he's trying to reach out to Julie for help. Fisk promptly orders her killed, and he watches the murder live on a camera his men have installed in her apartment. There are several surveillance cameras within Fisk's penthouse itself, since he's technically under house arrest. Ostensibly, they're so the FBI agents can monitor him. But since a good number of the agents assigned to the detail are actually on Fisk's payroll, Fisk has the means to control when the cameras are recording or not.
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Sinister Surveillance / int_9a7088bc	comment	Star Trek: The Original Series: In the first episode to feature the Klingons, the Klingon military governor of a strategically located planet claimed Klingon society functioned this way:
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Sinister Surveillance / int_9e2dbb4d	comment	Benson of Regular Show attempts this in the episode "Peeps", when he sees that Mordecai and Rigby start slacking off whenever he's not around. It goes too far when he calls for the maximum version of his surveillance system: a living, floating eyeball named Peeps that stalks everyone. Fortunately, Rigby knew how to cheat on staring contests at the time.
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Sinister Surveillance / int_9e2f90f4	comment	One Piece: Thanks to the Rumble-Rumble Fruit, and coupled with his Mantra, Eneru can hear everything that's being said on Skypiea and know everyone's location.
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Sinister Surveillance / int_a59b5e9d	comment	No one can turn the speakers off...except The Giver.
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Sinister Surveillance / int_a5cdcee4	comment	In Annie (2014), Stacks Mobile collects and monitors data on their users. This later does come in handy, being used to try and track down Annie's parents and to locate her whereabouts when she is kidnapped by the fake parents at the end of the film.
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Sinister Surveillance / int_ac105a28	comment	Todd and the Book of Pure Evil: In season 2, Atticus forces the A/V club to install security cameras around the school, with a private feed to his office, allowing him to both spy on the gang, and allow him to search for the Book of Pure Evil.
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Sinister Surveillance / int_accb04fd	comment	The Matrix: Path of Neo has a varient of this trope for a level - Smith takes over a security building and uses this to keep track of Neo and taunt him onto the right path.
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Sinister Surveillance / int_acfdb220	comment	Black The Fall: This game being set in an unspecified Communist-controlled country, there are security cameras in a lot of places. They shine a red spotlight that serves as their line of sight. If the Player Character gets caught in one, he'll be shot and killed.
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Sinister Surveillance / int_b36e17f1	comment	Nell has this, although fans seem to forget about it or figure it's okay because the good guys do it. Jerry is furious when he discovers Paula has gone into Nell's house while she's sleeping and installed cameras in every room. He doesn't make her remove them, however, and even hopes she was monitoring and saw the moment Nell spoke to him for the first time.
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Sinister Surveillance / int_b3d5552a	comment	Panopticon is also named after Bentham's prison, and for similar reasons. While Isis downplayed their political motives in writing about surveillance, Panopticon the band is openly anarchist.
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Sinister Surveillance / int_b6c9037f	comment	The Magnus Archives: Several episodes of the series touch on this, especially Episode 148, "Extended Surveillance." The entire series could be considered this, as the tape recorders being used to record the statements tend to turn up and turn on by themselves when something important is happening in and around the Archives, since the Magnus Institute itself serves an entity called The Eye.
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Sinister Surveillance / int_b7776ed1	comment	In Daniel Suarez' Daemon: During a meeting of top government TLAs, one of them orders the NSA to track down the Daemon and everyone associated using Echelon. In a realistic subversion of this trope, NSA explains that the Daemon is using a sophisticated darknet for all its communications, and anyway, Echelon doesn't really work like that. Played straight when it's discovered that the Daemon itself has infiltrated most of the accessible surveillance systems worldwide, either directly or through Social Engineering. However it's again played in a reasonably realistic fashion.
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Sinister Surveillance / int_b7db5642	comment	Stranger Things: Most of the houses close to Hawkins National Laboratory are illegally bugged, with a small group of analysts constantly listening in on the goings-on. Makes sense, considering it is implied the NSA is working alongside the Department of Energy (and other agencies) in the operation of the experiments.
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Sinister Surveillance / int_ba2ab0a2	comment	In Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, Abstergo is using cell towers to keep tabs on people and that satellite surveillance was phased out for being inferior. And they use sensors to find out everything about everyone, they know what you like, what you eat, what your interests are and if you discover it they send an assassin (no, not that kind of assassin) to your home to kill you and your family.
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Sinister Surveillance / int_ba66f5fc	comment	1BR: The apartment building has a surveillance system that watches over all of the tenants at all times. The tenants actually take turns manning it.
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Sinister Surveillance / int_bb55a676	comment	Legion of Super-Heroes: Parodied in the 16th issue of The Legion of Super Heroes in the 31st Century, a comic book tie-in to the Legion of Super Heroes animated series. What looks like an enigmatic villain observing the heroes and President Wazzo on a monitor turns out to be Starfinger watching a television set while it's still on display at a store so he doesn't have to buy it.
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Sinister Surveillance / int_bcadd7cb	comment	In Warhammer 40,000, servo-skulls are often used as cameras to spy on people. Even Cherubs (cyborg-baby clones often used for decor) were used as cameras to spy on the Imperium's people under the reign of Goge Vandire.
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Sinister Surveillance / int_bee47cbe	comment	Unsounded: In the authoritarian country of Alderode, the Background Magic Field has been modified to allow the government to identify, track, and even disable or kill its citizens. They use this extensively to keep control of dissidents.
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Sinister Surveillance / int_c1b7d57	comment	In the Accel World series, Japan has implemented the "social camera" scheme - a network of camera pods in every street and building, which use an AI to detect criminal behaviour. This has had a big impact on crime rates, though most people know of a blindspot or two in places they go regularly. More importantly, this camera network has a backdoor used by the underground Brain Burst program to generate the eponymous Accelerated World - a complete VR replica of Japan which accelerates its users' minds so that they experience hours of subjective time in an instant. Because the Tokyo Imperial Palace is one of the few places without any social cameras, in Brain Burst's game mode its interior is replaced by The Very Definitely Final Dungeon. The fifth book, The Floating Starlight Bridge, centres around an orbital skyhook being connected to the social camera system and what effects it will have on Brain Burst.
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Sinister Surveillance / int_c6f7e804	comment	In Blake's 7, the Federation's almighty presence is frequently signified by those white security cameras that show up everywhere, even the teaser.
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Sinister Surveillance / int_c72021c5	comment	The AQUINAS network in Deus Ex.
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Sinister Surveillance / int_c75d67d	comment	Person of Interest: The series provides the page image, and sometimes seems as if its intended ultimate purpose is to take this trope and zigzag it until it throws up. Finch uses the sinister surveillance for good, and the Machine, the sapient supercomputer responsible for running and analyzing all this surveillance data, uses it to predict acts of terror and violent crimes so that someone can intervene. However, the government agency who controls the Machine isn't always so scrupulous. Significantly, both the good guys and the nefarious government agency in charge of the Machine get the exact same amount of information from the surveillance. Finch designed the Machine so it only provides the Social Security number of a victim or perpetrator and the people receiving the information have to rely on more mundane surveillance methods to determine what is really going on. In season 3, played straight for Samaritan once it comes online. Its first directive: Kill Finch
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Sinister Surveillance / int_d3381e70	comment	In Captain America: The Winter Soldier Dr. Zola explains that pulling this off is relatively simple due to social media, credit reports, and other relatively passive means of observing the populace. The only real difficulty identifying threats is meaningfully combining that data which is why Zola developed an algorithm that could identify threats for HYDRA - threats specifically namechecked include high school student Peter Parker and talented jerkass surgeon Stephen Strange, possibly implying that the algorithm can somehow predict the future since neither had been established in the series as having any special abilities at that point, and Strange doesn't go to Kamar-Taj until well after the events of Winter Soldier.
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Sinister Surveillance / int_d77f28f7	comment	In Ancillary Justice, every Radchaai citizen has tracking implants, and can be watched at any time by government A.I.s with enough precision to read emotions. While loyal to the ruthless empire, the A.I.s otherwise seem to generally care about the citizens they are watching. This is especially the case with A.I.s on military ships towards their crew, such as the protagonist Justice of Toren.
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Sinister Surveillance / int_d98a1281	comment	The Turing Test: The video cameras employed by TOM to inspect the area are found very commonly. Once it's revealed you are actually following TOM's point of view, you can use these cameras to change your position, which is required for many late puzzles.
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Sinister Surveillance / int_d9e61b7f	comment	In Yu-Gi-Oh! The Dark Side of Dimensions, thanks to Seto Kaiba, nobody in Domino City can have citizenship without a Duel Disk. His VR system tracks players by their disks and brainwaves, making it possible for him to find Aigami even though he can teleport.
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Sinister Surveillance / int_da52a723	comment	â€œThe problem with the so-called bloody surveillance state is that itâ€™s hard work trying to track someoneâ€™s movements using CCTV â€“ especially if theyâ€™re on foot. Part of the problem is that the cameras all belong to different people for different reasons. Westminster Council has a network for traffic violations, the Oxford Street Trading Association has a huge network aimed at shop-lifters and pickpockets, individual shops have their own systems, as do pubs, clubs and buses. When you walk around London it is important to remember that Big Brother may be watching you, or he could be having a piss, or reading the paper or helping redirect traffic around a car accident or maybe heâ€™s just forgotten to turn the bloody thing on.â€� — Rivers of London
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Sinister Surveillance / int_da9d5b04	comment	Orwell is about a project with the same name, which is a VERY powerful surveillance tool capable of scanning every web site, listening to every call, reading any chat or Email, accessing bank accounts, computers and phones, as long as you can find the ID associated with it.
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Sinister Surveillance / int_db418e95	comment	Batgirl: Barbara Gordon uses her surveillance of Gotham to help heroes on various missions, but she also watches Dick Grayson -alias Nightwing- in his apartment. It's not known if he knows (he did grow up with Batman, who uses the same methods). If her own cameras are not sufficient she will hack someone else's.
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Sinister Surveillance / int_dc25de3f	comment	Portal GLaDOS might count, and she'll chew you out for destroying her cameras.
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Sinister Surveillance / int_dca6d756	comment	Poster Girl: The tyrannical Delegation mandated that every citizen receive an eye implant called Insight, which monitors absolutely everything the person sees and does, and either rewards or punishes them for just about everything. When the Delegation was overthrown by a revolution, ironically only its surviving loyalists and members still have their Insights, everyone else had theirs removed or so they think.
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Sinister Surveillance / int_dd18fa29	comment	Various types in David Wingrove's Chung Kuo series of novels; it is even suggested by a son of one of the T'ang lords that every citizen (that's all 34 billion of them) should have a tracking/killing device operated into their skulls
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Sinister Surveillance / int_df72e458	comment	In the final act of The President's Analyst from 1967 the title character is abducted in a phone booth under the noses of the two American and Russian agents trying to secure his safety. The American concludes the booth (and all the phones in the country) were tapped; the Russian incredulously replies "Don! This is America, not Russia!"
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Sinister Surveillance / int_e10df048	comment	Cult of Luna's distinctly anti-authoritarian album The Beyond discusses this, as well as the music video for "Leave Me Here".
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Sinister Surveillance / int_e278316b	comment	On The Prisoner (1967), Number Six is always under surveillance...especially when he believes he isn't.
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Sinister Surveillance / int_e3cfa8b5	comment	The Dropout: Both employees and visitors to Theranos are bothered by the increasing amount of security and cameras in the building.
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Sinister Surveillance / int_e4b79b6d	comment	In The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe, an innocent man is tagged as a spy by a government guy to distract another government guy. As he walks though the airport, agents are secretly taking his picture - but since he's eating a chewy candy that's stuck in his teeth, every shot of him has his face oddly contorted.
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Sinister Surveillance / int_e76f2e85	comment	Downplayed in The Murderbot Diaries. On the one hand, audiovisual surveillance is pretty much inescapable in its N.G.O. Superpower-dominated setting, and it's an open secret that every word spoken in a Company-leased habitat is being recorded and logged. On the other, the Company is more or less exclusively motivated by its own bottom line, so it just data-mines those logs for anything profitable — they might be intimately intrusive, but they're at least impersonal about it.
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Sinister Surveillance / int_ea377bc0	comment	SHODAN in the System Shock series.
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Sinister Surveillance / int_ebffc81f	comment	Mage: The Awakening: The Panopticon Ministry is dedicated to both creating a surveillance state and creating the perception of a surveillance state to spread paranoia and enforce obedience, making extensive use of Sympathetic Magic and invisible spirits alongside mundane spy technology. The entity they worship, the Eye, is basically Sinister Surveillance as a Sentient Cosmic Force.
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Sinister Surveillance / int_eedac02b	type	Sinister Surveillance
Sinister Surveillance / int_eedac02b	comment	Durarara!!: A morally gray example. Mika Harima, due to her stalker tendencies has been known to monitor people. However, in order to protect Seiji, she bugs almost every single cast member and fills Seiji's room to the brim with them. It's even canonically stated she knows more than even Izaya does about the happenings in Ikebukuro. Do not underestimate her. This girl is a stalker on steroids.
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Sinister Surveillance / int_eef77dd5	comment	Plenty in Broken Saints, partly serving also as Surveillance as the Plot Demands: BIOCOM staff housing has very tight security.
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Sinister Surveillance / int_f0c816fb	type	Sinister Surveillance
Sinister Surveillance / int_f0c816fb	comment	Breaking Bad: After Walter falls out of Gus's favour, he has security cameras installed in the superlab to keep an eye on him and Jesse as they're cooking meth. Walt sees them as a obvious signal that Gus no longer trusts him and that his life is in danger, because the moment Gus is able to replicate his cooking techniques, he'll no longer put up with him. Gus also has his men keep an eye on Walt outside the lab as well, as shown when Walt decides to preemptively kill Gus, only to get a call on his cellphone from one of Gus's men telling him to "go home" right as he gets up to Gus's doorstep. Walt scans the dark streets in bewilderment, but he doesn't see anyone, anywhere (Better Call Saul later established that the entire street was wired with numerous hidden security cameras).
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Sinister Surveillance / int_f0d57197	comment	The Dark Forest: The sophons can monitor any location on Earth and transmit their findings back to Trisolaris in real-time thanks to quantum entanglement. This has profound implications for Earth, who are forced to plan their counterattacks with the knowledge that Trisolaris knows everything they're doing. The Wallfacers are intended to work around this by formulating bizarre strategies known only to them.
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Sinister Surveillance / int_f488dd3b	type	Sinister Surveillance
Sinister Surveillance / int_f488dd3b	comment	The Other Side of Doomsday: After she, Iris West and Jean Loring have been teleported into a strange dungeon, Supergirl knocks one guardian robot out and proceeds to set Iris and Jean free...unaware that her actions are being video-monitored by villain T.O. Morrow from a hidden room.
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Sinister Surveillance / int_f4e799ee	type	Sinister Surveillance
Sinister Surveillance / int_f4e799ee	comment	Burn Notice has this as both a tool and a hindrance to the gang. They use surveillance themselves but Michael is under close observation himself at various points in the show and this is used to blackmail him.
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Sinister Surveillance / int_f887f99b	comment	In Heart of Steel, Alistair has security cameras all over his island lair... except in the bathroom of Julia's guest room.
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Sinister Surveillance / int_f8d0d5a	comment	The titular character and main villain in Belphegor is seen having cameras installed all over Paris. Belphegor uses them for spying purposes, which helps him a lot in his plans and is often the reason he's one step ahead of the protagonists.
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Sinister Surveillance / int_f8f728d4	comment	The documentary, Citizenfour, was made possible because Edward Snowden wanted to show how ubiquitous this trope has become in the world.
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Sinister Surveillance / int_fd9c862d	comment	Await Further Instructions has this with the Milgram's television, which prints teletext instructions for the family to follow, which become increasingly specific and malicious.
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Sinister Surveillance / int_fdbace96	comment	Gravity Falls: Ever notice the frequent triangles and eye-like symbols around the town? Those are there due to the influence of Bill Cipher, and they act as peepholes through which he can watch the material realm and plot his next moves. In "Gideon Rises", it's also revealed that Li'l Gideon was using pins with tiny cameras in them to spy on the town and seem like a psychic.
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Sinister Surveillance	processingCategory2	Cyberpunk Tropes
Sinister Surveillance	processingCategory2	Espionage Tropes
Sinister Surveillance	processingCategory2	Magical Computer
Sinister Surveillance	processingCategory2	The Index Is Watching You
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Macross Frontier / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Patema Inverted / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
PokÃ©mon: Destiny Deoxys / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
The Mystical Laws / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Under the Dog / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Yu-Gi-Oh! The Dark Side of Dimensions / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
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Doomwar (Comic Book) / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Elseworld's Finest: Supergirl & Batgirl (Comic Book) / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Gravity Falls: Lost Legends (Comic Book) / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Loki: Agent of Asgard (Comic Book) / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Spider-Man: Life Story (Comic Book) / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Super Mario Adventures (Comic Book) / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers (Comic Book) / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
The Other Side of Doomsday (Comic Book) / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
The Transformers Megaseries (Comic Book) / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Candorville (Comic Strip) / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Ancienverse / Fan Fic / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Harmony's Warriors (Fanfic) / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
The Legend of Spyro: A New Dawn / Fan Fic / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
The Return / Fan Fic / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
All For Luz (Fanfic) / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Brockton's Celestial Forge (Fanfic) / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Catching Air (Fanfic) / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Conversations with a Cryptid (Fanfic) / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Crimson and Emerald (Fanfic) / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Here Comes The New Boss (Fanfic) / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Marigolds (Fanfic) / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
PokÃ©dex (Fanfic) / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Rise of the Minisukas (Fanfic) / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Seven Days in Sunny June (Fanfic) / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
The New Adventures of Invader Zim (Fanfic) / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
The Rise of Darth Vulcan (Fanfic) / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
To Aruverse Rewrite Project (Fanfic) / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
When Instinct Falls (Fanfic) / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
World War Etheria (Fanfic) / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Zero 2: A Revision (Fanfic) / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Anon / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Anon (2018) / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Avengers: Age of Ultron / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Await Further Instructions / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Beau Is Afraid / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Brazil / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Captain America: The Winter Soldier / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Conspiracy Theory / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Eagle Eye / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Escape Room (2019) / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Ex Machina / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Getaway / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Gunhed / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Hardcore Henry / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Iron Butterfly (1989) / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Justice League (2017) / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
London Has Fallen / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Man of Tai Chi / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Nell / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
1BR / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Ready Player One (2018) / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Red / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Red (2010) / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Rolli – Amazing Tales / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Spectre / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Super Mario Bros. (1993) / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
The A-Team / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
The Belko Experiment / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
The Bourne Series / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
The Eye Creatures / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
The Invisible Man (2020) / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
The Lives of Others / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
The Net (1995) / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
The New Mutants / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
The President's Analyst / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Triad Election / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
21 Jump Street / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
V/H/S/99 / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
RoboCop (Franchise) / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Lyinginbedmon (Lets Play) / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
The Hohenzollern Empire (Lets Play) / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
A New Dawn / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
A Scanner Darkly / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Alien Chronicles / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Antlers, Colorado / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Bleach: Can't Fear Your Own World / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Daemon / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Fright Camp / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Going Clear / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Harsh Tales / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Imperial Radch / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Jack Blank / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Land of Oz / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Looming Shadow / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Nineteen Eighty-Four / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
On the Edge of Eureka / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Piano Lessons Can Be Murder / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Poster Girl / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Rivers of London / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Snow Crash / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Stealer of Souls / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
The Bunker Diary / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
The Dark Forest / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
The Dark is Rising / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
The Every / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
The Giver / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
The Manchurian Candidate / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
The Murderbot Diaries / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
The Pit and the Pendulum / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
The School for Good and Evil / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
The Sun Eater / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Three Body Problem	seeAlso	Sinister Surveillance
Virtual Light / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Mario4812LikedTropes3	seeAlso	Sinister Surveillance
ptitle9lknc0ig	seeAlso	Sinister Surveillance
Akuma no Riddle (Manga) / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Blattodea (Manga) / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Btooom! (Manga) / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
EDENS ZERO (Manga) / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Snow White and Seven Dwarfs (Manga) / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Cheekface (Music) / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
The Final Cut (Music) / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
SAYER (Podcast) / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
The Magnus Protocol (Podcast) / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
An Inconvenient Accident (Roleplay) / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Price Of Wisdom (Roleplay) / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
American Gods (2017) / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Amerika / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Bodyguard (UK 2018) / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Boss / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Continuum / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Crash Landing on You / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
House of Cards (US) / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Identity / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
K9 / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Kidnapped / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Mr. Robot / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Murder In Mind / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
National Treasure: Edge of History / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Odd Squad / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Pretty Little Liars / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Rabbit Hole (2023) / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Secret State / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Severance (2022) / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Star Trek: Picard / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Stranger Things / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
The Day of the Roses / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
The Dropout / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
The Prisoner (1967) / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
The Wilds / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
This is Jinsy / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Ultraman Nexus / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
VR Troopers / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Westworld / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Æon (Tabletop Game) / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Illuminati: New World Order (Tabletop Game) / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Mage: The Awakening (Tabletop Game) / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Paranoia (Tabletop Game) / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
The Esoterrorists (Tabletop Game) / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Matilda (Theatre) / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood (Video Game) / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Assassin's Creed (Video Game) / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Beholder (Video Game) / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Black The Fall (Video Game) / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Choice of Magics (Video Game) / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Clout (Video Game) / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Decarnation (Video Game) / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Detroit: Become Human (Video Game) / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Die Young (Video Game) / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Dota 2 (Video Game) / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Freedom Planet 2 (Video Game) / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
God of War (PS4) (Video Game) / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Hitman 3 (Video Game) / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Hotline Miami (Video Game) / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream (Video Game) / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Indigo Park (Video Game) / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
inFAMOUS: Second Son (Video Game) / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
JumpStart Adventures 3rd Grade: Mystery Mountain (Video Game) / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Life Is Strange (Video Game) / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Like a Dragon (Video Game) / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty (Video Game) / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Mirror's Edge (Video Game) / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom (Video Game) / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
PokÃ©mon Rejuvenation (Video Game) / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Prison Architect (Video Game) / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Rainbow Six Siege (Video Game) / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Super Solvers (Video Game) / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
System Shock (Video Game) / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
The Coma: Cutting Class (Video Game) / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
The Matrix: Path of Neo (Video Game) / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
The Stanley Parable (Video Game) / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Tropico (Video Game) / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Turbo Overkill (Video Game) / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Vector (Video Game) / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Void Bastards (Video Game) / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Yakuza (Video Game) / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Stardew Valley / Videogame / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Double Homework (Visual Novel) / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
428: Shibuya Scramble (Visual Novel) / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Sublo and Tangy Mustard (Web Animation) / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Clear Lakes 44 (Web Video) / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Hermitcraft (Web Video) / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Hitler Rants (Web Video) / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
McJuggerNuggets (Web Video) / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Meme House (Web Video) / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
The GREYLOCK Tapes (Web Video) / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Daughter of the Lilies (Webcomic) / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Everything is Fine (Webcomic) / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Gunnerkrigg Court (Webcomic) / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Inverted Fate (Webcomic) / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Maliki (Webcomic) / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Tower of God (Webcomic) / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Unsounded (Webcomic) / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Care Bears in the Land Without Feelings / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Guardians of the Cosmos / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Sonic SatAM / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Sonic the Hedgehog (SatAM) / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Transformers Alter Verse / Fan Fic / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
Torchwood / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance

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