History Main / NostalgicNarrator

* JamesJoyce's short story "Araby"

* ''HowIMetYourMother'': The level of narration Older Ted provides varies from a (sometimes necessary) MrExposition to a framing device to not even appearing.

* The ''Warhammer40K''-based ''CiaphasCain'' novels use his memoirs (complete with footnotes added by a member of the inquisition (and [[ShipTease possibly lover]]).
* Kvothe in ''TheNameOfTheWind'' is unusually young to play this trope straight, but he's looking back on himself from when he was younger nevertheless.

* Both ''IcewindDale'' games use this. The narrator in the first game turns out to be [[spoiler:the BigBad Belhifet stewing over the memory of his defeat and relishing the approaching end of his century long banishment.]] The narrator of the second is a little girl who accompanied the party for a while on their journey who is now an adult remembering their adventure as she sets out on her own journey.

* Slightly subverted in ''Okami''. At first, it seems like a disembodied voice retelling the story. It turns out that [[spoiler:Issun]] is really the narrator.

* In ''AgeOfEmpires II'', the Attila campaign is narrated by a monk who says "sometimes, I miss it", referring to his time being a Hun captive.

* ''GunnerkriggCourt'' has Antimony narrating the first few chapters; so far we cannot tell precisely how far in the future she is narrating from, but it's more than two years.

* ''Young IndianaJones'' originally did this, although the video release and [=DVDs=] got rid of it.

* In ''AgeOfEmpires II'', the Attila campaign is narrated be a monk who says "sometimes, I miss it", referring to his time being a Hun captive.

* [[BionicCommando "Let me tell you about the man I met when I was young."]]

* In ''AgeOFEmpires II'', the Attila campaign is narrated be a monk who says "sometimes, I miss it", refering to his time being a Hun captive.

* The DustinHoffman flick ''LittleBigMan''.

* WoodyAllen provides this kind of narration for ''Radio Days''.

* ''Jakers: The Adventures of Piggley Wink''

* ''{{Amadeus}}''.

* In AgeOFEmpires II, the Attila campaign is narrated be a monk who says "sometimes, I miss it", refering to his time being a Hun captive.

* You Damn Kid does this, sometimes comparing how different things were back then.

* You Damn Kid does this, sometimes comparing how different things were back then.

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* Horribly subverted in ''{{Bokurano}}'': [[spoiler:The first narrator's word choices make it sound like he's talking about the distant past, but he's actually only narrating maybe two days back, and even less time until he abruptly dies.]]

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* FrankSinatra's "It Was a Very Good Year" sort of combines this with AgeProgressionSong. (''"When I was seventeen..."'')

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''Ah, the life of a trope. One day you're just a recurring idea, flitting around in a writer's head, the next you've got your very own wiki page. I remember when I just a [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/discussion.php?id=dtutz10liu2ufdkubfaqpgs8 YKTTW]], an insignificant blue entry swimming with hundreds of others. Back then, I had fewer {{Wick}}s, a lot fewer examples, and my trope description looked like this:''

* The A.E. Housman poem "[[http://www.bartleby.com/123/13.html When I was one-and-twenty]]"
** Considering that the poem is told from a 22 year old looking back on when he was 21, this is actually a subversion. At least that's the way that Tommy Makem recites it in the middle of a song, The Sally Gardens, on ''Tommy Makem and Liam Clancy''

* ''GunnerkriggCourt'' has Antimony narrating the first few chapters; so far we cannot tell how far in the future she is narrating from.