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* Huey Freeman in ''ComicStrip/TheBoondocks''. [[DemotedToExtra Mainly in the first season]], though.

* The Criminologist fulfills this role in TheRockyHorrorPictureShow.

* Waylon Jennings as the Balladeer in ''TheDukesOfHazzard'', though his narration was usually restricted to a QuipToBlack along the lines of, "Them Duke boys are in a whole heap of trouble."

* Likewise George, of ''DeadLikeMe'', who narrates from a distance, sometimes showing omniscience and talking directly to the audience, and sometimes just within her head.

* Jim Dale in ''PushingDaisies''.

* Stefan Salvatore of ''TheVampireDiaries''. Although Elena is the central character and protagonist, Stefan is the one who is telling the story about Elena and the other characters through his eyes and his point of view. This was established in the series Pilot.

* Lucas Scott of ''OneTreeHill''. He would always begin and end each episode with a literary reference.

-> [[AC:(cue end credits)]]

[[SelfDemonstratingArticle That's what the sign had said, anyway.]] And so, [[TVTropesWillRuinYourLife as if compelled to do so]], [[VideoGame/TheStanleyParable Stanl-]] I mean the Troper sat down at his computer screen and began to type...

* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': The pilot episode kicks off the story and the setting with a female narrator giving a brief overview of the history of humanity and the world, ending on a dark, bitter, pessimistic note that foreshadows a coming darkness. Her speech is concluded by a male narrator who strongly implies her bitterness is connected to a fall from grace and that the solution to the coming darkness can be found in a 'smaller, more honest soul'. The male narrator is quickly revealed to be [[BigGood Professor Ozpin]]; the female narrator takes much longer to be revealed.

* The titular character Plop serves as the narrator for each episode of Series/KabouterPlop.

* One of '''StanLee's''' key tropes, True Believers!

* For the Frankenstein segments of Creator/GrantMorrison’s SevenSoldiers the narrator was also a LargeHam.

-->-- '''The Cat In The Hat, {{Seussical}}''', ''Oh, the Thinks You Can Think!'''

* The Cat in the Hat in {{Seussical}}

* Detective Manzou (a.k.a. "The Saw"), in ''SamuraiChamploo''. Oddly enough, his narration has a tendency to transcend time, as he has narrated about future events which he could not feasibly be alive long enough to be knowledgeable of, like Vincent van Gogh, modern Japan's feeling regarding same-sex relationships ("getting back to the Edo period"), the Zen movement in the 1960s, and the cross-cultural popularity of baseball in Japan and America.

* ''ThomasTheTankEngine'': The Narrator is the only voice on the show and provides all the voices for all the characters.

To be a Narrator, the individual must directly relate to the story in some way, if only as the person telling it. For example, Creator/AlfredHitchcock was ''not'' a Narrator for ''AlfredHitchcockPresents'', because his footage was independent of and had no bearing on the story or stories it appeared with. RodSerling ''was'' a narrator, because he specifically introduced each story individually, often provided a lead-in to set them up, and provided a closing after the story footage ended; (okay, and in one episode he actually ''was'' assumed to be present in-universe, since an in-story character erased him from existence as a closing joke).

* The narrator of ''WesternAnimation/PowerpuffGirls'', starting out every episode with, "The City of Townsville:" and ending every episode with a variation of, "[[SoOnceAgainTheDayIsSaved So, once again, the day is saved, thanks to the Powerpuff Girls!]]" In the FreakyFriday episode, the Narrator ended up sounding like Bubbles at the end.

* ''{{Kaiji}}'' has a particularly popular narrator, due to his overly [[SeriousBusiness serious]] tone and use of [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic overblown metaphors]] to describe what's going on.
* ''ShinMazinger'''s Narrator may be THE MOST [[HotBlooded HOT BLOODED]] Narrator. EVER! Oh, and he's also a LargeHam as well.

* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarepants'' has a French-accented narrator inspired by Jacques Cousteau, who seems to be "studying" [=SpongeBob=] and friends. He rarely interacts with the characters, save for one memorable moment where, as he was narrating, [=SpongeBob=] ran over him.
** The Fish TV Announcer (Who looks like an actual fish) is mentionable.

** Taken to its logical conclusion in a ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' sketch, where Morgan Freeman stars in a movie called ''The Narrator'', which is nothing but him talking for two hours.
** Only because [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_kmNMR0cp4 he earns a freckle every time he narrates]]

* One of FrankMiller’s signature tropes is his usually hard boiled style narration.
* {{Nextwave}} has some fairly odd narration.

* The GaoGaiGar Narrator explains all the scientific Keys to Victory without really letting emotion into it. He doesn't need to - explaining ''how'' the MonsterOfTheWeek will be getting its ass(es) handed to it in through what is basically the Japanese version of MorganFreeman is enough.