History Main / LemonyNarrator

* In ''10-8'', a 'light drama' about trainee cops in LA, the protagonist (trainee Deputy Rico Amonte) does a lot of this, [[DeadpanSnarker often ruefully commenting on his own shortcomings]] in the process.

* Extremely common in comics, especially of UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks, UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks, and UsefulNotes/TheBronzeAgeOfComicBooks. Creator/StanLee was well-known for it (addressing the audience as "True Believers"). Excelsior!

-->[[spoiler:'''Flynn/Eugene''': But I know what the big question is? Did Rapunzel and I ever get married? Well I am happy to say after years and years of asking, I finally said yes.\\
'''Rapunzel''': Eugene!\\
'''Flynn/Eugene''': Okay, okay. I asked her.]]

* Creator/LMMontgomery, particularly in the ''Literature/AnneOfGreenGables'' series. Her narration provides as much of the story's humor as the characters and events, particularly her descriptions of various people and/or their inner thoughts. For example, just from the first chapter:
-->Mrs. Rachel felt that she had received a severe mental jolt. She thought in exclamation points. A boy! Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert of all people adopting a boy! From an orphan asylum! Well, the world was certainly turning upside down! She would be surprised at nothing after this! Nothing!

-->"Well, we're not getting a girl," said Marilla, as if poisoning wells were a purely feminine accomplishment and not to be dreaded in the case of a boy.

* ''Literature/AtlasShrugged'': Good god, ''Atlas Shrugged.'' The narrator ''is just a bit'' hagiographic about the main characters. And then there's the [[SpeakIllOfTheDead rundown after the infamous train scene on why none the people on the doomed train could be considered "innocent" victims.]] Runs into the "show, don't tell" problem, which is probably inevitable considering the extreme length of the novel and the author's extensive use of methamphetamines while writing it.

--> ''"Call me Jack," said the peasant, who won't do a thing I tell him.''

* ''R/C Stunt Copter'' on the UsefulNotes/PlayStation is narrated by Lazlow Jones with heavy doses of this and DeadpanSnarker.

* Zig-zagged in ''Fanfic/ManehattansLoneGuardian''. Scenes where Leviathan is narrating the story often contain snark towards her associates, and she at times lampshades tropes (such as viewing the idea of being TrappedInAnotherWorld as one of the oldest cliches in fiction) and in her source material (BottomlessPits and SpikesOfDoom). Meanwhile, most of the third-person scenes are narrated normally, though at one point the narration itself directly cuts off an antagonist's profanity-laden tirade before it begins.

* ''VideoGame/Cyberpunk2077'': After [[PlayerCharacter V]] gats the Relic chip slotted into their head and starts to be able to converse with [[{{Deuteragonist}} Johnny Silverhand]], the mission descriptions in the questlog become written by him, with all of Johnny's usual sass, snark and irony.

* In the ''Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt'' episode "Trans-Homers," the two [[UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist bitchy angel protagonists]] are turned into robotic versions of themselves after eating the "hearts" of two sentient {{Transformers}}-like robots who inexplicably crash-landed in their house. During this period, the show's narrator becomes so confused as to what is going on that he at one point asks "I'm sorry, what show am I narrating again?"

* The narrator of ''Theatre/FlyByNightMusical'' starts off the musical by admitting that he doesn't know where to start, repeatedly realizes that he needs to rewind the story because he's completely skipped over what important characters were doing, and will occasionally say stuff that MakesSenseInContext."

* The narrator of ''Theatre/FlyByNightMusical'' starts off the musical by admitting that he doesn't know where to start, repeatedly realizes that he needs to rewind the story because he's completely skipped over what important characters were doing, and occasionally mentions that this story "circles around a triangle."

* ''ComicBook/{{Venom}}: ComicBook/{{The End|MarvelComics}}'' is narrated by a glib being who is prone to {{technobabble}} and presenting the events of the story in a sillier, more exaggerated way. This person is revealed to be [[spoiler:a [[ComicBook/IronMan Tony Stark]]-descended artificial intelligence]].

* TheStoryteller in ''Fanfic/TheLegendOfTotalDramaIsland'' narrates in a somewhat archaic style, as befits the story's [[Literature/ArabianNights structural model]]. Her narration is peppered with {{catch phrase}}s that serves as both narrative flourishes and narrative devices.

* ''ComicBook/{{Venom}}: Comicbook/TheEnd'' is narrated by a glib being who is prone to {{technobabble}} and presenting the events of the story in a sillier, more exaggerated way. This person is revealed to be [[spoiler:a [[ComicBook/IronMan Tony Stark]]-descended artificial intelligence]].

* The Narrator in ''LightNovel/{{Reaper}}'' tends get distracted from time to time and be voice his opinions on the characters and their actions.

* ''Literature/OkamiSan'''s narrator amuses herself by insulting the characters -- especially Ryoko and Ringo, the two she mocks most frequently for being flat-chested -- though the others ignore her. In Episode 4, she even cuts off the opening narration with a comment that she's not going to bother telling us the exposition again.

** The Creator/{{Funimation}} dub has a narrator who actively hates the show and only does this to cover his gambling debts, and throws in Lemony ''[[FunWithSubtitles subtitles]]'', the writer of which is apparently a separate character from the narrator.

* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'': Not during the main anime so much, but he does during ''Pokémon Chronicles'' and such.

* The Narrator in "LightNovel/{{Reaper}}" tends get distracted from time to time and be voice his opinions on the characters and their actions.

* ''LightNovel/BakaAndTestSummonTheBeasts'' has a bizarre sarcastic narrator already, but what makes it stand out is that partway through, Class F's teacher becomes the narrator, and the old narrator becomes their teacher. This is explicitly pointed out, and remains as such for the rest of the show.

* ''LightNovel/OkamiSan'''s narrator amuses herself by insulting the characters -- especially Ryoko and Ringo, the two she mocks most frequently for being flat-chested -- though the others ignore her. In Episode 4, she even cuts off the opening narration with a comment that she's not going to bother telling us the exposition again.

* Creator/JaneAusten does this from time to time. It's particularly marked in ''Literature/NorthangerAbbey'' where she starts by cheerfully [[LampshadeHanging pointing out]] all the ways Catherine Morland doesn't match the stereotype of "a [[DistressedDamsel heroine]]." There is also the part later in the first volume where upon mentioning that Catherine and Isabella Thorpe enjoyed novels, she embarks upon a tangent about how novelists are oh-so-oppressed by both critics and audiences who refuse to recognize them as serious literature.