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Blossom: Hey, who filmed this anyway? What, do you have cameras all over the world?
Mojo Jojo: Yes! Now shut up!
The Powerpuff Girls (1998), "Monkey See, Doggie Two"

Gandalf: The palantír is a dangerous tool, Saruman.
Saruman: Why? Why should we fear to use it?
Gandalf: They are not all accounted for, the lost seeing-stones. We do not know who else may be watching.

Seto Kaiba: I have installed security cameras all over Japan, because when you're rich you can never be too paranoid. Also, I like to spy on Yugi just to make sure I'm always one step ahead of him.
Henchman: Yes, Mister Kaiba, but do we really have to watch him taking a shower every day? It seems a little unnecessary.
Seto Kaiba: I-must-always-be-one-step-ahead!

It's charming until you realize how many hidden cameras this guy must have set up to get all this footage.
Bill Corbett, RiffTrax of Batman & Robin

I heard that, Curtis.
Noah "The Spoony One" Antwiler imitating protagonist Curtis Craig's Obviously Evil boss, Let's Play Phantasmagoria 2

The Monarch: Yeah, yeah, roll the clip...
Councilman 1: Unfortunately, we have no visual records of your time in college.
The Monarch: ...Really? So we're not going to have to sit through hours of me abusing myself to Markie Post?
Councilman 2: Of course not! How could we have video of you from that long ago? That's crazy!
Councilman 3: We're the Council of Thirteen, not magic angel babies.
Councilman 2: We don't have like a... magic window into the past—
The Monarch: Okay, okay, I get it.

(Lex Luthor watches a surveillance close up of Batman)
Ironman: How many cameras do you have?!
Green Goblin: What, did you buy out Google Earth?

Thor: Someone is taking these films of us, Iron Man?
Iron Man: Security cameras, ATM cameras, even my own armor's cameras. You're always being watched these days.
Thor: Hmm, like Heimdall the All-Seeing.
Avengers Mission Reports

In a room on the Rock of Eternity, the old wizard sat, and stared at a conjuring of Earth.
The image of the world on which he had been born hung in a flickering vision-screen before him, the stone wall of his cottage visible beyond it. […]
Old Shazam!'s forefinger flickered out, bringing various parts of the globe into closer focus. The viewpoint zoomed in, as if held by a cameraman with a powerful lens. He homed in on the presences of the three he knew and loved best.

"How do you know all of this?" she began again. "All the stuff about our signs and the gray men?"
"I spend all my time watching them and everything that relates to them," explained Master Hora. "That's how I came to be watching you and your friends."
"But you never leave the house?"
"It isn't necessary," said Master Hora, becoming visibly younger again. "I have my Omnivision glasses." He took off his little golden glasses and handed them to Momo. "Would you like to try looking through them?"
Momo put them on, blinked, squinted, and said, "I can't see anything at all." All she could make out was a storm of different blurry colors, lights, and shadows. It actually began to make her dizzy.
"Yes," said Master Hora. "It's like that in the beginning. It isn't so easy to look through the Omnivision glasses, but you'll get used to them soon enough."
Momo


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