History Main / GreekChorus

** Their {{exp|y}}ies, Hibari Isada and Hikari Utada, aka Double H, from ''Anime/MawaruPenguindrum'' serve the same function, with their OnceAnEpisode [=PSAs=] on the subway referencing events in the plot.

[[caption-width-right:350:In ''Film/CatBallou'', these guys are just walking around town signing a ballad about the next scene. Probably because it is a small town and there isn't much else to do.]]

[[caption-right:350:In ''Film/CatBallou'', these guys are just walking around town signing a ballad about the next scene. Probably because it is a small town and there isn't much else to do.]]

* The Oompa Loompas from ''CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory'' which fits in quite nicely because they are a chorus.

* ''[[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffy]]'''s Andrew filled this role in "Storyteller". However, like most tropes in the show's later days, it was pretty ruthlessly deconstructed: Andrew realized he was putting a rhetorical spin on death and suffering for the enjoyment of a non-existent audience (he's talking to a camcorder throughout the episode).
** A BoundAndGagged Lorne found himself in this position on ''{{Series/Angel}}'''s "Spin the Bottle". The events are being retold to an actual audience, so we know he gets free at some point, but the slowness of his rescue is commented on frequently.

* ''[[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffy]]'''s Andrew filled this role in "Storyteller". However, like every other trope in the show's later days, it was pretty ruthlessly deconstructed: Andrew realized he was putting a rhetorical spin on death and suffering for the enjoyment of a non-existent audience (he's talking to a camcorder throughout the episode).

* Jimmy Olsen and Perry White fill this role in ''[[Series/LoisAndClark Lois And Clark: The New Adventures of Superman]]''. They even ''lampshaded'' this in one episode.
-->'''Jimmy Olsen:''' Chief.
-->'''Perry White:''' Yeah?
-->'''Jimmy Olsen:''' Instead of always standing around watching Lois and Clark, wondering what they're doing, we got to get lives of our own that are little more interesting.
-->'''Perry White:''' Son, you just hit the bull's eye. It's like we're supporting characters in some t.v. show and it's only about them.
-->'''Jimmy Olsen:''' Yeah! It's like all we do is advance their plots.

* ''Literature/{{Illium}}'' by DanSimmons [[PlayingWithTropes plays with this]] in its intro. The story begins with the narrator laying out the basics of the story in dramatic fashion, much in the same style as an actual Greek Chorus ("Sing, O Muse..."). Then it's revealed that the narrator is, in fact, the main character speaking in the first person and that he has, in fact, been resurrected from the dead ''specifically to tell you the story''. He actually lampshades the trope:

* ''LegallyBlonde'', Elle's sorority sisters, the Delta Nu girls. "Margot, Serena, Pilar? What are you doing here?" "This (indicating Elle's ex with a new girlfriend) is a tragedy. And every tragedy needs a Greek chorus!"

* By the 7th Arc of ''VisualNovel/UminekoNoNakuKoroNi'', there are two pairs of these: [[spoiler:Featherine and Ange]] in ''Dawn'', and Furfur and Zepar in ''Requiem''.

** Their {{exp|y}}ies, Hibari Isada and Hikari Utada, aka Double H, from ''MawaruPenguindrum'' serve the same function, with their OnceAnEpisode [=PSAs=] on the subway referencing events in the plot.

* ''IrregularWebcomic'' has a [[http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/2738.html literal Greek Chorus]][[hottip:*:hint: read it [[DogLatin phonetically]], and a link to this page.

* The (usually civilian) supporting cast of a superhero title are usually this trope, sometimes extended to the superhero's entire hometown. For example, Lois Lane, Perry White, and Jimmy Olsen (and frequently the rest of Metropolis) for {{Superman}}, the Gotham police department for {{Batman}}, the staff of the ''Daily Bugle'' for SpiderMan, etc.

* In ''MassEffect3'', there are Privates Westmoreland and Campbell, the two female ''Normandy'' crewmembers guarding the War-Room, who often comment about the events in the story as they occur.

* The Dreamers in ''TheSecretGarden'', a chorus of ghosts who haunt the house.

[[quoteright:350:[[Disney/{{Hercules}} http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/HerculesMuses_4947.jpg]]]]
[[caption-width-right:350:Literally in this case.]]

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* ''MahouSenseiNegima''

** Their [[{{Expy}} expies]], Hibari Isada and Hikari Utada, aka Double H, from ''MawaruPenguindrum'' serve the same function, with their OnceAnEpisode [=PSAs=] on the subway referencing events in the plot.
* The character Manzo the Saw when serving as narrator of ''SamuraiChamploo''. Often explains the history and culture behind the show's AnachronismStew concepts.

*** Often During an Invasion angle like [[The nWo NewWorldOrder]] the normal Heel commentator will be on the same page as the others. It helps establish the [nWo NewWorldOrder]] as uniquely evil if [[even Bobby "The Brain" Henan can't support them EvenEvilHasStandards]].

*** Often During an Invasion angle like [[The nWo NewWorldOrder]] the normal Heel commentator will be on the same page as the others. It helps establish the [nWo NewWorldOrder]] as uniquely evil if [[even Bobby "The Brain" Henan can't support them EvenEvilHasStandards]]
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* The {{Narrator}} fulfills this role in ''TheDarkTower'', except for the parts where he actually appears in the book.