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* The ''[[{{Series/Millennium1996}} Millennium]]'' episode [[{{Recap/MillenniumE31JoseChungsDoomsdayDefense}} "Jose Chung's 'Doomsday Defense'"]] has the titular author, reprised by Creator/CharlesNelsonReilly from ''Series/TheXFiles'' ep [[{{Recap/TheXFilesS03E20JoseChungsFromOuterSpace}} "Jose Chung's 'From Outer Space'"]] narrate the life of [[{{ChurchOfHappyology}} Selfosophy]] guru Juggernaut Onan Goopta. He also narrates the episode's denouement after [[spoiler: getting bludgeoned by the "Nostrodamus Nutball" and [[DiedInYourArmsTonight dying in Frank Black's arms,]]]] likely an ending for his last book.
---> '''Jose Chung:''' Well, "all's well that ends well," though that's easier for [[{{Creator/WilliamShakespeare}} Shakespeare ]] [[{{Theatre/AllsWellThatEndsWell}} to say.]] He'll be around for another [[TitleDrop millennium.]] But what of our own millennium? [[MillenniumBug Will it all end well?]] No one, of course, can know. But that, of course, doesn't stop anyone else from guessing. And the nature of these predictions always revolve around the usual suspects: salvation, and/or self-satisfaction. With that in mind, I humbly add my own prophesy of what the dawn of the new millennium shall bring forth: one thousand years of the same old crap.
---> '''Jose Chung:''' Well, "all's well that ends well," though that's easier for [[{{Creator/WilliamShakespeare}} Shakespeare ]] [[{{Theatre/AllsWellThatEndsWell}} to say.]] He'll be around for another [[TitleDrop millennium.]] But what of our own millennium? [[MillenniumBug Will it all end well?]] No one, of course, can know. But that, of course, doesn't stop anyone else from guessing. And the nature of these predictions always revolve around the usual suspects: salvation, and/or self-satisfaction. With that in mind, I humbly add my own prophesy of what the dawn of the new millennium shall bring forth: one thousand years of the same old crap.
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* In ''Theatre/OnAClearDayYouCanSeeForever'', Daisy's recollections of her past life as Melinda Welles include a memory of her own funeral.
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* In ''Theatre/OnAClearDayYouCanSeeForever'', Daisy's recollections of her past life as Melinda Welles include a memory of her own funeral.funeral after the ''Trelawney'' sank with her aboard.
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* Discussed in ''Theatre/MaryMary'', where this apparently occurs in one of the manuscripts Bob is editing for publication:
-->"It's told in the first person, and when the story opens we're coming back from a funeral. But only gradually do we come to realize that the narrator of the story is the dead man."
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* Discussed in ''Theatre/MaryMary'', where this apparently occurs in one of the manuscripts Bob is editing for publication:
-->"It's told in the first person, and when the story opens we're coming back from a funeral. But only gradually do we come to realize that the narrator of the story is the dead man."
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* In ''On a Clear Day You Can See Forever'', Daisy's recollections of her past life as Melinda Welles include a memory of her own funeral.
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* In ''On a Clear Day You Can See Forever'', ''Theatre/OnAClearDayYouCanSeeForever'', Daisy's recollections of her past life as Melinda Welles include a memory of her own funeral.
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Being a {{death trope|s}} and all, there are going to be '''unmarked spoilers''' below. You have been warned.
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!!As this is a {{Death Trope|s}}, [[Administrivia/SpoilersOff unmarked spoilers abound]]. [[Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned Beware]].
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* The episode "Random Shoes" from ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'' does exactly this, with the events after Eugene's death being narrated by Eugene as they are figured out in the present. Massively confusing, but very interesting.
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* The episode "Random Shoes" from ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'' episode "[[Recap/TorchwoodS1E9RandomShoes Random Shoes]]" does exactly this, with the events after Eugene's death being narrated by Eugene as they are figured out in the present. Massively confusing, but very interesting.present.
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* Subverted in the ''Series/DoctorWho'' 2-part season finale "Army of Ghosts"/"Doomsday": Rose Tyler begins each part saying "This is the story of how I died"...only it turns out she was merely trapped in a parallel universe while being declared dead in her own. Since she is separated from the Doctor forever though, this could have [[FauxSymbolism more than one meaning]]...
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* Subverted in the ''Series/DoctorWho'' 2-part season finale "Army "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E12ArmyOfGhosts Army of Ghosts"/"Doomsday": Ghosts]]"/"[[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E13Doomsday Doomsday]]": Rose Tyler begins each part saying "This is the story of how I died"...died"... only it turns out she was merely trapped in a parallel universe while being declared dead in her own. Since However, since she is separated from the Doctor forever though, forever, this could have [[FauxSymbolism more than one meaning]]...
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* In the very first ''Series/TalesFromTheCrypt'' episode, "The Man Who Was Death", the protagonist's final narration is heard immediately after his [[DeathByIrony death by electric chair]]. For extra irony, he is telling his imaginary audience that didn't he have his head shaved to prevent it from catching on fire during the execution because he's confident that the governor will grant him a reprieve. Meanwhile, his head is starting to smoulder.
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* In the very first ''Series/TalesFromTheCrypt'' episode, "The "[[Recap/TalesFromTheCryptS1E1TheManWhoWasDeath The Man Who Was Death", Death]]", the protagonist's final narration is heard immediately after his [[DeathByIrony death by electric chair]]. For extra irony, he is telling his imaginary audience that didn't he have his head shaved to prevent it from catching on fire during the execution because he's confident that the governor will grant him a reprieve. Meanwhile, his head is starting to smoulder.
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* The ''Series/TalesFromTheCrypt'' episode "You, Murderer" opens with the protagonist dead in his car as a result of an accident, and he narrates the events leading up to his death. [[spoiler:Except he dies halfway through the flashback by receiving blunt force trauma from another character hitting him in the head with a statue instead and still continues to narrate the events leading up to the present as the ones who killed him attempt to hide his body.]]
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* The ''Series/TalesFromTheCrypt'' episode "You, Murderer" "[[Recap/TalesFromTheCryptS6E15YouMurderer You, Murderer]]" opens with the protagonist dead in his car as a result of an accident, and he narrates the events leading up to his death. [[spoiler:Except he dies halfway through the flashback by receiving blunt force trauma from another character hitting him in the head with a statue instead and still continues to narrate the events leading up to the present as the ones who killed him attempt to hide his body.]]
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Properly Paranoid: Subverted. By the time of the final seaso
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* The episode "Random Shoes" from ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'' does exactly this, with the events after Eugene's death being narrated by Eugene as they are figured out in the present. Massively confusing, but very interesting.
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* The episode "Random Shoes" from ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'' does exactly this, with the PilotEpisode of ''Series/DeadLikeMe'' has George narrating events after Eugene's death being narrated by Eugene as they are figured out in the present. Massively confusing, but very interesting.her life up to and including her own death, and continuing from there.
* ''Series/MoneyHeist'' is narrated at the beginning and end of episodes by Tokyo. She dies in the middle of the last season, but keeps narrating anyway.
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* The PilotEpisode of ''Series/DeadLikeMe'' has George narrating episode "Random Shoes" from ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'' does exactly this, with the events after Eugene's death being narrated by Eugene as they are figured out in her life up to and including her own death, and continuing from there.the present. Massively confusing, but very interesting.
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Occasionally, in watching a show or film that features a narration in voice over, you find that the narration is ''not'' because the writers got too lazy to show what's happening, but because they want to present you with the odd phenomenon of a deceased character telling you the story. There's no explanation given for why or how this character can tell the story in question, or whom he's telling it to; we don't see them as a ghost, or as a character writing or speaking their last words. They're just a very talkative voice that happens to belong to [[PosthumousCharacter a character who doesn't survive the movie]]. It might result from NearDeathClairvoyance, [[MyLifeFlashedBeforeMyEyes Life Flashing Before Your Eyes]], or even a DyingDream (which raises the possibility that they're [[AllJustADream also]] an UnreliableNarrator).
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Occasionally, in watching a show or film that features a narration in voice over, you find that the narration is ''not'' because the writers got too lazy to show what's happening, but because they want to present you with the odd phenomenon of a deceased character telling you the story. There's no explanation given for why or how this character can tell the story in question, or whom he's they're telling it to; we don't see them as a ghost, or as a character writing or speaking their last words. They're just a very talkative voice that happens to belong to [[PosthumousCharacter a character who doesn't survive the movie]]. It might result from NearDeathClairvoyance, [[MyLifeFlashedBeforeMyEyes Life Flashing Before Your Eyes]], or even a DyingDream (which raises the possibility that they're [[AllJustADream also]] an UnreliableNarrator).
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Occasionally, in watching a show or film that features a narration in voice over, you find that the narration is ''not'' because the writers got too lazy to show what's happening, but because they want to present you with the odd phenomenon of a deceased character telling you the story. There's no explanation given for why or how this character can tell the story in question, or whom he's telling it to; we don't see him (assuming it's him) as a ghost, or as a character writing or speaking his last words. He's just a very talkative voice that happens to belong to [[PosthumousCharacter a character who doesn't survive the movie]]. It might result from NearDeathClairvoyance, [[MyLifeFlashedBeforeMyEyes Life Flashing Before Your Eyes]], or even a DyingDream (which raises the possibility that they're [[AllJustADream also]] an UnreliableNarrator).
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Occasionally, in watching a show or film that features a narration in voice over, you find that the narration is ''not'' because the writers got too lazy to show what's happening, but because they want to present you with the odd phenomenon of a deceased character telling you the story. There's no explanation given for why or how this character can tell the story in question, or whom he's telling it to; we don't see him (assuming it's him) them as a ghost, or as a character writing or speaking his their last words. He's They're just a very talkative voice that happens to belong to [[PosthumousCharacter a character who doesn't survive the movie]]. It might result from NearDeathClairvoyance, [[MyLifeFlashedBeforeMyEyes Life Flashing Before Your Eyes]], or even a DyingDream (which raises the possibility that they're [[AllJustADream also]] an UnreliableNarrator).
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* In ''Film/Legend2015'', Frances is the narrator of most of the movie. She even lampshades the fact that most viewers will think she survives her suicide attempt because she's narrating, but she doesn't.
