>Character standing on the other side of the street >A

I always just imagine how fucking FAST they would have to run to get out of the field of view.

Like they'd have to sprint so fast around a corner and hope the main character just leaves and doesn't look too hard for them or listen to their heavy breathes behind a nearby mailbox.

>>79967807
Spent my whole life expecting this to happen to get a good spook and it never happened

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>>79967882
as fast as this

>Character comes back home
>Someone is waiting on a chair in the dark

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>Character has snuck or broken into a room to look for something
>Hears person approaching
>Character is still standing in plain view as the person starts opening the door
>Cut to the other person's point of view as he opens the door and the character has already found a perfect hiding spot

>>79968074
tense as fuck every time

>>79968074
a variant
>protag downloads classified files, it's 74% complete
>door knob is turning
>cut to door-opening character
>protag is on the other side of the room

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>character sees a shadow behind window
>character looks away to get weapon
>shadow disappeared
>reappeared in front of character

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>character walks into dark room
>a rotating chair behind the desk is facing away from door
>character walks over and turns chair around
>it's empty
>baddie emerges from a shadowy corner

>>79967807
smart frogposter

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>character is hiding from killer
>makes noise from hiding spot
>killer slowly goes up to hiding spot
>gets distracted by a random noise and walks away without investigating the first noise he heard

B-B-B-Bonus Round!

>character lets out a sigh of relief
>killer suddenly teleports there

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>character is running away from killer
>killer only walks
>character runs down an alley and into a building
>there are no possible shortcuts
>killer is inside waiting

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>Character is the only witness of a crime
>dies in the dumbest way possible before getting the chance to talk

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>character caught in a compromising position while helping someone out
>significant other comes in and storms out in a rage
>character just stands there without explaining themselves

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>>79970049
>male character caught in a compromising position while helping someone out
>significant other comes in and storms out in a rage
>character tries to explain the situation but the significant other won't listen

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>>79970451
>character caught in compromising position while helping someone out
>wife/gf comes in and storms out in a rage
>character runs after them to explain
>the bull sneaks out of her bedroom while no one's looking

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>>79967807
The very best cliche.