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* In Simon Hawke's ''The Reluctant Sorcerer'', the BigBad is an archmage described as possessing extremely potent mystical senses. He promptly demonstrates this by demanding to know who the mysterious voice talking about him is. He goes on to have several arguments with the narrator, resulting in abrupt scene shifts, and in the last volume of the series, [[spoiler: travels to the Narrator's dimension and buys out his publishing company in order to force him to change the ending of the book so that he wins]]!

'''"Dickens":''' I keep telling you, storytellers are omniscient. We know everything.\\
'''Rizzo:''' ''(scoffs)'' Well, hoity-toity, Mr. God-Like Smarty Pants.

* Applied InUniverse in the ''Tanya Grotter'' series (Three guesses [[Franchise/HarryPotter what]] this lampshades. At the magical school, they have a game called "Drakonbol" (Dragonball, presumably no relation to Franchise/DragonBall...), which involves dragons. There also is a commentator. When said commentator is injured, Bab-Jagun, one of the players becomes a resident "playing commentator". This wouldn't be so bad - except players are routinely ''eaten'' by said dragons. They don't '''usually'' devour said players, but you cannot comment on a play outside from there...

* ''VisualNovel/SlayThePrincess'': The Narrator is your constant guide through the journey who interacts with you and the various Voices you find in your journey, and depending on your actions can either move you along or actively interfere with the world to a limited extent if you try to avoid slaying the Princess and saving the world. [[spoiler:The Princess herself can interact with her in the Tower route, taking him over and speaking through him with both voices overlapping. TheReveal is that he created the game world and the main character to imprison the Princess as part of a plan to [[ImmortalitySeeker eradicate death]].]]

** [[spoiler:Rei]] tries to be this but is rebuffed by Asuka. However, the two of them do converse "behind the scenes" about certain issues.

* The [[OpeningNarration beginning]] of the second episode of WebVideo/SwordArtOnlineAbridged features a narrator recapping the important plot points from the previous episode and giving information on what happened between then and now. In a Creator/SamElliott drawl, while referring to SociopathicHero Kirito as "the kid". The InteractiveNarrator comes into play when Kirito mocks him for being CaptainObvious. Banter ensues, in which he continues to refer to Kirito in the third person only. He is then promptly turned off by Kirito mid sentence, revealing him to be an in-game feature. It's exactly as funny as it sounds.

* ''VisualNovel/SlayThePrincess'': The Narrator is your constant guide through the journey who interacts with you and the various Voices you find in your journey, and depending on your actions can either move you along or actively interfere with the world to a limited extent if you try to avoid slaying the Princess and saving the world. [[spoiler:The Princess herself can interact with her in the Tower route, taking him over and speaking through him with both voices overlapping.]]

* ''Film/LoveAtFirstSight2023'': the Narrator played by [[Creator/JameelaJamil]] appears throughout the film either interacting with Hadley and Oliver or by herself commenting on their love story to the audience. She meets the pair first as an air hostess and then continues to meet Hadley alone as a customs official, bus driver and a woman giving directions on the street. Hadley never notices it's the same woman she keeps running into all day.

* ''Film/TheSilenceOfTheHams'': At one point, Jo corrects the narrator when he says that Jane stole 400 dollars--it was 400,000 dollars.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Freakazoid}}'' had a narrator who was active in the story.

* ''Series/{{Teletubbies}}'' has the titular character hear the narrator. Usually, they will refuse to do what he says.

* The narrator of ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'' is, for the most part, a standard second-person LemonyNarrator, but there are several exceptions. One character, Napstablook, will respond to the narration, and the narration style will change depending on how you play the game. In the Pacifist Route, the narrator is upbeat and snarky. Killing monsters will make the narrator a little more pessimistic, and they'll go from 'half full' to 'half empty'. Go for genocide, and the narrator will switch to first person, [[ShooOutTheClowns drop all jokes]] and start speaking tersely, and refer to the player character as "It's me, [[HelloInsertNameHere [Name]]]". [[spoiler: It's a commonly accepted FanTheory that the narrator is the first Fallen Child, [[NarratorAllAlong Chara]]. The pacifist route is Chara being relaxed and optimistic because you're being nice to everyone, and getting to show off their rather childish sense of humor (calling Toriel's butterscotch-cinnamon pie "buttspie", for example). The genocide route is either the Fallen Child possessing the player character (who is actually named Frisk, not the name you chose in the beginning), or the player's bloodthirsty actions corrupting them into murderousness.]]

* In ''Theatre/OurTown'', Thornton Wilder uses a Stage Manager to aid in telling the story. Early performances had actors simply sitting in chairs reciting their lines, and the Stage Manager was a necessity. Later, directors had the actors do more acting, but the Stage Manager still played an important role.

---> '''Jackie:''' You can't do that! You're not the story, you're just the bloody narrator!
--->'''Lloyd:''' Watch and learn, Jackie.

* In the fan-made ''Videogame/{{Earthbound}}'' radio play ''Fanfic/FobbiesAreBorange'', the characters have a hostile relationship with the narrator. [[spoiler:In the end, it turns out that the narrator was the BigBad all along.]]

* In one episode of ''WebVideo/NarutoTheAbridgedComedyFandubSpoofSeriesShow'', there is a Anime/{{Pokemon}}esque narrator. Naruto immediately notices and throws a knife at her off-screen and we hear her writhing in agony. She eventually gets better and resumes her duties, which prompts another knife attack.

* ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya''[='s=] [[AnachronicOrder chronologically-first episode]] features one of these. It turns out to have been just [[DeadpanSnarker Kyon]] being [[LemonyNarrator Kyon]].

** In ''[[WesternAnimation/WinnieThePoohSpringtimeForRoo Springtime for Roo]]'' Mr Narrator goes full throttle with this to help Tigger unfold YetAnotherChristmasCarol upon Rabbit, even taking the role of the three Ghosts later on. He even directs the characters to the pages they need to travel to.

** The narrator is named Bob (his wife is Mrs. Bob, they have two kids), after his voice actor, Robert Stack. While he rarely interacts with the main characters, he is in competition with the Muses and frequently argues with them. Bob is apparently ''literally'' invisible, as he and his family appear in one episode wearing large souvenir hats.