History Main / Narrator

* The narrator of ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'', 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.

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

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

** Of course, this is just for the dub...which is somewhat abandoned in ''[[Anime/DigimonSavers Savers]]'' in favor of a next episode preview. One of the characters still recap the previous episode, but only when it's needed.

* The titular character Plop serves as the narrator for each episode of Series/KabouterPlop by {{Creator/Studio100}}.

* Gonza, the butler of the Saejima clan, serves in this role in Series/{{Garo}}: Makai Retsuden.

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* In ''WebComic/GoldCoinComics'', Lance complains about having to narrate about his past.

* ''LightNovel/OkamiSan'' has Shirai Kuroko as a LemonyNarrator who also makes frequent observations about the main heroines' [[ACupAngst lack of endowments]].

* ''LightNovel/OokamiSan'' has Shirai Kuroko as a LemonyNarrator who also makes frequent observations about the main heroines' [[ACupAngst lack of endowments]].

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* In ''Podcast/WelcomeToNightVale'', public radio host Cecil is always the narrator (we rarely even hear other characters speak), often a bystander to events, and occasionally a protagonist in them. And hoo boy, is he [[LemonyNarrator Lemony]] at times, although he tries to maintain at least the pretense of journalistic distance.
* Corin Deeth the III acts as this for the ''Podcast/KakosIndustries'' shareholder announcements. He is also the main character and him playing this part only seems to be one of his many job requirements.
* In ''Podcast/TheMagnusArchives'' Jonathan the archivist serves as narrator for the series as a whole, reading out each statement about an alleged supernatural encounter and giving his comments. Through him, each statement-maker is also the first-person narrator of their own story (occasionally we instead hear it in their own voice, when the archivist makes a recording of a new statement instead of one he found in the archive, though Jonathan still adds comments of his own).
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[[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 [[TroperDemographics his]] computer screen and began to type...

* Chris, of ''Radio/AdventuresInOdyssey'' fame. In the early days of the show, she had a good deal more air-time and personality, and occasionally interacted with the characters as well as introducing the story and setting the scene. By now, though, she has spent the better part of the series briefly introducing the show, then showing up at the end to explicitly state the moral of the day and relevant Bible verses before moving on to the credits.

* The gangster parody ''DickieDickDickens'' has two narrators who tell the story in tandem, with the one often adding additional tidbits to the other's stated information. Occasionally they'll disagree with one another about what's relevant to the narrative, or contradict each other on minor details, but both tend to over-dramatize the events and nearly worship the titular character.
* Garrison Keillor provides the narration for most of the segments on ''Radio/APrairieHomeCompanion'', including Guy Noir's PrivateEyeMonologue, and the show's signature "News from Lake Wobegon".
* ''Radio/TheFoundationTrilogy'': The ''[[EncyclopediaExposita Encyclopedia Galactica]]'' is read by a narrator with [[StockSoundEffects a teletype machine in the background]] and in a [[ComputerVoice monotone voice artificially adjusted to sound more computery]]. The original work's third-person narration is removed, [[NarratingTheObvious leaving characters to comment on each other's actions]].

*** The ''Tamarlane'' was narrated by a man who escaped Tamarlane's wrath. In the end of the campaign, he reveals himself to be [[spoiler:Tokhtamysh Khan, descendant of Genghis Khan, who he betrayed Tamarlane and when Tamarlane retaliated, he was forced to flee to Lithuania to avoid being hunted down by Tamarlane's generals. It is also implied that the man that took him in was duke Vytautas.]]

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* ''Film/MollysGame,'' about a woman who runs high-stakes poker games. Molly narrates the film from beginning to end in voice-over, telling us what's going on and what she feels about it.

* ''Film/RocknRolla'' makes use of this by having the [[GenreSavvy genre-savvy]] [[TheDragon dragon]] Archy explain to the audience how his boss and London's underworld works.

* ''Film/StrangerThanFiction'' is very meta about this: the narrator is an author writing about the main character. [[InteractiveNarrator The character can hear the narrator]], and most of the film is spent trying to find out who she is. [[spoiler:They meet.]]

* Lemony Snicket, the narrator of ''Literature/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents'', is essentially omniscient, yet remains a distinct character. He never plays a direct role in the action, but is clearly intertwined with the events: his two siblings are major characters, his picture appears once, and he [[spoiler:loved the protagonists' mother, before she married their father]]. He also appears, unidentified, in The Penultimate Peril, though the character in question is referred to in the third person.

* Every adventure in the ''Literature/HankTheCowdog'' series is told by Hank himself.

** In the film ''Anime/DigimonTheMovie'', Kari acts as the film's narrator for all three parts.

A character, sometimes part of the story proper and sometimes completely external to it, who acts either as the storyteller or as a framing device. A Narrator by definition breaks the FourthWall by addressing the audience to tell them the story. Sometimes, the Narrator is also responsible for presenting AnAesop to the audience at the end of the story (as in ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'' and its [[FollowTheLeader imitators]]).

* Detective Manzou (a.k.a. "The Saw"), in ''Anime/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.

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* In the ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses Three Houses]]'' fanfic ''Fanfic/YoullGetNoAnswersFromTheBlueSeaStar'', Jo Eisner is the one telling the story. In GreekChorus style she addresses the reader and offers her own opinions on things, including how much she doesn't want to be writing this story.
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* ''VideoGame/AgeOfEmpiresII'': In each campaigns, there will a narrator telling the story of the focus character in the campaign, telling the player about their exploits in history. Several of the campaigns often has twist of [[AndThatLittleGirlWasMe revealing themselves of being part of that history]].

*** The ''William Wallace'' campaign is narrated by a Scotsman who rally their warrior in fighting against Longshanks's conquest of Scotland.
*** The ''Joan of Arc'' campaign is narrated by Guy Josselyne, who tells the exploit of Joan and her battle in the Hundred Year War. Interestingly, he appears in the last scenario as a hero and though his survival is optional, he will still be the narrator despite dying in the same scenario.

*** The ''Tariq ibn Ziyad'' campaign was narrated by an anonymous Berber warrior, detailing the conquest under Tariq ibn Ziyad [[spoiler:and his successor, Abd ar-Rahman al-Ghafiqi]]. In the end of the campaign, [[spoiler:the Berber warrior end his story with the Berber needing to defeat one Frankish king before they can truly conquer all of Europe. That king was Charles Martel, who was the protagonist of the "Tours" scenario in the Battle of the Conquerors, who defeated the Berber and ended their war in Europe]].

*** The ''Francisco de Almeida'' campaign begins with Francisco already dead with the narrator, an anonymous Portuguese soldier in Francisco's expedition, retelling [[HowWeGotHere events that lead up to his death]].

*** The ''Suryavarman I'' campaign was narrated by Sangrama, general of Suryavarman's successor Udayadityavarman II, who is leading an army to suppress a rebellion. He tells one of his captain Suryavarman's story to inspire their men.

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*** The ''Francisco de Almeida'' campaign starts with Francisco already dead with the narrator, an anonymous Portuguese soldier in Francisco's expedition, retelling [[HowWeGotHere events leading to his death]].

*** The ''Genghis Khan'' campaign is narrated by a Mongolian author of the "The Secret History of the Mongol" as Genghis Khan leads the horde in a conquest of forming the largest empire in the world.

*** The ''Alaric'' campaign in the HD version was originally narrated by a wife of Alaric, but in the ''Definitive'' edition, she was replaced by Athaulf, Alaric's brother-in-law.

*** The ''Tariq ibn Ziyad'' campaign was narrated by an anonymous Berber warrior, detailing the conquest under Tariq ibn Ziyad [[spoiler:and his successor, Abd ar-Rahman al-Ghafiqi]]. In the end of the campaign, [[spoiler:the Berber warrior end his story with the Berber having to defeat one Frankish king before they can truly conquer all of Europe. That king was Charles Martel, who was the protagonist of the "Tours" scenario in the Battle of the Conquerors, who defeated the Berber and ended their war in Europe]].

*** And the ''Barbarossa'' campaign is narrated by a local customer in a German bar, telling the player about the reign of Barbarossa as he ruled the Holy Roman Empire. At the end of the campaign, he reveals himself to be [[spoiler:Henry the Lion, a German prince that fought both alongside and against Barbarossa throughout the campaign.]]

*** The ''Dracula'' campaign was narrated by a young soldier, who meets an old man in the ancient stronghold of Vlad Dracula who allow him and his comrades shelter. In the end of the campaign, where the young soldiers were planning to go to the monastery at Snagov to pay respect to Dracula's grave, asking the old man if he wish to accompanied them, which he accepts. In the HD version, the old man reveals himself as [[spoiler:Istvan, one of Dracula's companions]] but this was omitted in the ''Definitive Edition'', making the old man just one of Dracula's loyal soldier.

*** The ''El Cid'' campaign is narrated by El Cid's wife, Jimena, telling the player about her husband's exploits.

*** The ''Francisco de Almeida'' campaign starts with Francisco already dead with the narrator, an anonymous Portuguese soldier in Francisco's expedition, retelling how it came to his demise.