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When the action is viewed through the eyes of one character, this trope applies. It's most commonly used in literature as a narrative technique and in video games a genre. It is noticeable and notable when it appears outside of those two areas, especially in movie and film where it's relatively rare to see anything directly from a characters perspective, rarer still for it to be maintained throughout. It was a major breakthrough in art when this was subverted and perspectives that no human could reasonably have started to be used in painting, such as a birds eye view.
First Person POV, especially when accompanied by first person narration unintentionally functions as a Spoiler Opening. Subconciously, the reader assumes with good reason, that no matter what happens during the story, the viewpoint character must survive the events in order to be in a position to tell the tale.
Sibling trope of Second Person Narration.
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