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I watched as ReportSiht clicked back to FirstPersonPeripheralNarrator
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I watched as ReportSiht JustForFun/ReportSiht clicked back to FirstPersonPeripheralNarrator
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** Although the narrator is an extremely important person - a monarch or famous scientist or detective - he spends the story revealing that his own doings were irrelevant to the real story.
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* '''Parodied''': A case solved by the master detective, as imagined by a hobo who was snooping outside the detective's base, and only saw, not heard, the proceedings... As told by a louse atop the hobo's scalp.
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* '''Parodied''': '''Parodied''':
** A case solved by the master detective, as imagined by a hobo who was snooping outside the detective's base, and only saw, not heard, the proceedings... As told by a louse atop the hobo'sscalp.scalp.
** The master detective is stumped for an hour. At the end, the hobo takes the case and solves it in twenty seconds.
** A case solved by the master detective, as imagined by a hobo who was snooping outside the detective's base, and only saw, not heard, the proceedings... As told by a louse atop the hobo's
** The master detective is stumped for an hour. At the end, the hobo takes the case and solves it in twenty seconds.
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That is actually the Enforced example — there\'s no In Universe reason to need to obscure the reasoning of the detective.
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** There is a twist involving the main protagonist's plans, and if he were the narrator we would be privy to them, thus ruining the twist.
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* '''Zig Zagged''': So many people reveal their "true" identities and the story changes perspective so many times it's almost impossible to know which characters are which, let alone identify the narrator.
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* '''Zig Zagged''': Zagged''':
** So many people reveal their "true" identities and the story changes perspective so many times it's almost impossible to know which characters are which, let alone identify the narrator.
** So many people reveal their "true" identities and the story changes perspective so many times it's almost impossible to know which characters are which, let alone identify the narrator.
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** The narrator is set up as a [[LemonyNarrator detached, albeit somewhat snarky]] third-person narrator, but is later revealed to be one of the characters, and one of the ''main'' characters at that.
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** For the first Act of the story, the narrator does nothing but follow more plot relevant people around... Until he reveals himself as the master detective everybody's been expecting to arrive next week... 's twin brother, and the master detective arrives as planned.
** For the first Act of the story, the narrator does nothing but follow more plot relevant people around... Until he reveals himself as the master detective everybody's been expecting to arrive next week... But then one of the people he's been following solves the case before he does.
** For the first Act of the story, the narrator does nothing but follow more plot relevant people around... Until he reveals himself as the master detective everybody's been expecting to arrive next week... But then one of the people he's been following solves the case before he does.
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** For the first Act of the story, the narrator does nothing but follow more plot relevant people around... Until he He in fact reveals himself as the master detective everybody's been expecting to arrive next week... 's detective's twin brother, and the master detective arrives as planned.
**For the first Act of the story, the narrator does nothing but follow more plot relevant people around... Until he He reveals himself as the master detective everybody's been expecting to arrive next week... But then one of the people he's been following solves the case before he does.
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* '''Downplayed''': ???A case solved by the master detective, as told by his assistant, who is almost as important to the story as the detective.
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* '''Exploited''': ???The detective is able to focus on solving the case rather than writing everything down in a story.
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** Or: A case solved by the master detective, as told by someone who heard about it from his assistant.
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** Or: A case solved by the master detective, as told by someone who heard about it from his assistant.
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** Or: there is a twist involving the main protagonist's plans, and if he were the narrator we would be privy to them, thus ruining the twist.
** Or: while the protagonist did most of the activity, the narrator is the character [[CharacterDevelopment most deeply affected]] by them.
** Or: the protagonist never fully understood the significance of what happened, and the narrator provides the necessary perspective.
** Or: while the protagonist did most of the activity, the narrator is the character [[CharacterDevelopment most deeply affected]] by them.
** Or: the protagonist never fully understood the significance of what happened, and the narrator provides the necessary perspective.
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** Or: there There is a twist involving the main protagonist's plans, and if he were the narrator we would be privy to them, thus ruining the twist.
**Or: while While the protagonist did most of the activity, the narrator is the character [[CharacterDevelopment most deeply affected]] by them.
**Or: the The protagonist never fully understood the significance of what happened, and the narrator provides the necessary perspective.
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** Or: For the first Act of the story, the narrator does nothing but follow more plot relevant people around... Until he reveals himself as the master detective everybody's been expecting to arrive next week... But then one of the people he's been following solves the case before he does.
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** Or: For the first Act of the story, the narrator does nothing but follow more plot relevant people around... Until he reveals himself as the master detective everybody's been expecting to arrive next week... But then one of the people he's been following solves the case before he does.
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* '''Exaggerated''': A case solved by the master detective, as imagined by a hobo who was snooping outside the detective's base, and only saw, not heard, the proceedings.
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* '''Exaggerated''': '''Exaggerated''':
** A case solved by the master detective, as imagined by a hobo who was snooping outside the detective's base, and only saw, not heard, the proceedings.
** A case solved by the master detective, as imagined by a hobo who was snooping outside the detective's base, and only saw, not heard, the proceedings.
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* '''Justified''': The protagonist is dead at the end of the book, and the narrator goes into the consequences of the protagonist's actions.
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* '''Justified''': '''Downplayed''': ???
* '''Justified''':
** The protagonist is dead at the end of the book, and the narrator goes into the consequences of the protagonist's actions.
* '''Justified''':
** The protagonist is dead at the end of the book, and the narrator goes into the consequences of the protagonist's actions.
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* '''Subverted''': For the first Act of the story, the narrator does nothing but follow more plot relevant people around... until he reveals himself as the master detective everybody's been expecting to arrive next week.
* '''Double Subverted''': For the first Act of the story, the narrator does nothing but follow more plot relevant people around... until he reveals himself as the master detective everybody's been expecting to arrive next week... 's twin brother, and the master detective arrives as planned.
** Or: For the first Act of the story, the narrator does nothing but follow more plot relevant people around... until he reveals himself as the master detective everybody's been expecting to arrive next week... But then one of the people he's been following solves the case before he does.
* '''Double Subverted''': For the first Act of the story, the narrator does nothing but follow more plot relevant people around... until he reveals himself as the master detective everybody's been expecting to arrive next week... 's twin brother, and the master detective arrives as planned.
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* '''Subverted''': For the first Act of the story, the narrator does nothing but follow more plot relevant people around... until Until he reveals himself as the master detective everybody's been expecting to arrive next week.
* '''DoubleSubverted''': Subverted''':
** For the first Act of the story, the narrator does nothing but follow more plot relevant people around...until Until he reveals himself as the master detective everybody's been expecting to arrive next week... 's twin brother, and the master detective arrives as planned.
** Or: For the first Act of the story, the narrator does nothing but follow more plot relevant people around...until Until he reveals himself as the master detective everybody's been expecting to arrive next week... But then one of the people he's been following solves the case before he does.
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** For the first Act of the story, the narrator does nothing but follow more plot relevant people around...
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* '''Deconstructed''': The narrator gradually realizes his relative unimportance to the story, provoking a crisis of self-image...
* '''Reconstructed''': He then realizes no one would hear the story if it weren't for him, and cheers up.
* '''Reconstructed''': He then realizes no one would hear the story if it weren't for him, and cheers up.
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* '''Averted''': The protagonist and the narrator are one and the same.
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* '''Averted''': '''Averted''':
** The protagonist and the narrator are one and the same.
** The protagonist and the narrator are one and the same.
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* '''Discussed''': "You ever read MobyDick? Well, I expect to be like Ishmael: the guy who tells this story to a later audience. That's why I'm pestering your men for more information, not because I'm particularly interested in troop movements."
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* '''Discussed''': "You ever read MobyDick? ''Literature/MobyDick''? Well, I expect to be like Ishmael: the The guy who tells this story to a later audience. That's why I'm pestering your men for more information, not because I'm particularly interested in troop movements."
* '''Deconstructed''': The narrator gradually realizes his relative unimportance to the story, provoking a crisis of self-image...
* '''Reconstructed''': He then realizes no one would hear the story if it weren't for him, and cheers up.
* '''Reconstructed''': He then realizes no one would hear the story if it weren't for him, and cheers up.
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%%* '''Implied''': ???
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%%* '''Played For Laughs''': ???
%%* '''Played For Drama''': ???
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* '''Inverted''': The protagonist in the narrator's story is an Ishmael himself, telling a story about the narrator.
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'''Basic Trope''': The main character is a completely different person than the narrator.
* '''Straight''': A case solved by the master detective, as reported by his assistant.
* '''Exaggerated''': A case solved by the master detective, as imagined by a hobo who was snooping outside the detective's base, and only saw, not heard, the proceedings.
** Or: A case solved by the master detective, as told by someone who heard about it from his assistant.
* '''Justified''': The protagonist is dead at the end of the book, and the narrator goes into the consequences of the protagonist's actions.
** Or: there is a twist involving the main protagonist's plans, and if he were the narrator we would be privy to them, thus ruining the twist.
** Or: while the protagonist did most of the activity, the narrator is the character [[CharacterDevelopment most deeply affected]] by them.
** Or: the protagonist never fully understood the significance of what happened, and the narrator provides the necessary perspective.
* '''Inverted''': The protagonist in the narrator's story is an Ishmael himself, telling a story about the narrator.
* '''Subverted''': For the first Act of the story, the narrator does nothing but follow more plot relevant people around... until he reveals himself as the master detective everybody's been expecting to arrive next week.
* '''Double Subverted''': For the first Act of the story, the narrator does nothing but follow more plot relevant people around... until he reveals himself as the master detective everybody's been expecting to arrive next week... 's twin brother, and the master detective arrives as planned.
** Or: For the first Act of the story, the narrator does nothing but follow more plot relevant people around... until he reveals himself as the master detective everybody's been expecting to arrive next week... But then one of the people he's been following solves the case before he does.
* '''Parodied''': A case solved by the master detective, as imagined by a hobo who was snooping outside the detective's base, and only saw, not heard, the proceedings... As told by a louse atop the hobo's scalp.
* '''Deconstructed''': The narrator gradually realizes his relative unimportance to the story, provoking a crisis of self-image...
* '''Reconstructed''': He then realizes no one would hear the story if it weren't for him, and cheers up.
* '''Zig Zagged''': So many people reveal their "true" identities and the story changes perspective so many times it's almost impossible to know which characters are which, let alone identify the narrator.
* '''Averted''': The protagonist and the narrator are one and the same.
** Or, the story isn't told in the first person to begin with.
* '''Enforced''': "We don't want the audience to be let in on what the protagonist is thinking, so we made the narrator a side character."
* '''Lampshaded''': "You might be thinking this story is about me. It's not."
* '''Invoked''': "We can't have the protagonist die if he's the narrator! We'll have... Jimmy, the whorehouse eunuch, be the narrator."
* '''Defied''': "You might be thinking this story is about me. It is."
* '''Discussed''': "You ever read MobyDick? Well, I expect to be like Ishmael: the guy who tells this story to a later audience. That's why I'm pestering your men for more information, not because I'm particularly interested in troop movements."
* '''Conversed''': "The protagonist in these stories is always some nobody."
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* '''Straight''': A case solved by the master detective, as reported by his assistant.
* '''Exaggerated''': A case solved by the master detective, as imagined by a hobo who was snooping outside the detective's base, and only saw, not heard, the proceedings.
** Or: A case solved by the master detective, as told by someone who heard about it from his assistant.
* '''Justified''': The protagonist is dead at the end of the book, and the narrator goes into the consequences of the protagonist's actions.
** Or: there is a twist involving the main protagonist's plans, and if he were the narrator we would be privy to them, thus ruining the twist.
** Or: while the protagonist did most of the activity, the narrator is the character [[CharacterDevelopment most deeply affected]] by them.
** Or: the protagonist never fully understood the significance of what happened, and the narrator provides the necessary perspective.
* '''Inverted''': The protagonist in the narrator's story is an Ishmael himself, telling a story about the narrator.
* '''Subverted''': For the first Act of the story, the narrator does nothing but follow more plot relevant people around... until he reveals himself as the master detective everybody's been expecting to arrive next week.
* '''Double Subverted''': For the first Act of the story, the narrator does nothing but follow more plot relevant people around... until he reveals himself as the master detective everybody's been expecting to arrive next week... 's twin brother, and the master detective arrives as planned.
** Or: For the first Act of the story, the narrator does nothing but follow more plot relevant people around... until he reveals himself as the master detective everybody's been expecting to arrive next week... But then one of the people he's been following solves the case before he does.
* '''Parodied''': A case solved by the master detective, as imagined by a hobo who was snooping outside the detective's base, and only saw, not heard, the proceedings... As told by a louse atop the hobo's scalp.
* '''Deconstructed''': The narrator gradually realizes his relative unimportance to the story, provoking a crisis of self-image...
* '''Reconstructed''': He then realizes no one would hear the story if it weren't for him, and cheers up.
* '''Zig Zagged''': So many people reveal their "true" identities and the story changes perspective so many times it's almost impossible to know which characters are which, let alone identify the narrator.
* '''Averted''': The protagonist and the narrator are one and the same.
** Or, the story isn't told in the first person to begin with.
* '''Enforced''': "We don't want the audience to be let in on what the protagonist is thinking, so we made the narrator a side character."
* '''Lampshaded''': "You might be thinking this story is about me. It's not."
* '''Invoked''': "We can't have the protagonist die if he's the narrator! We'll have... Jimmy, the whorehouse eunuch, be the narrator."
* '''Defied''': "You might be thinking this story is about me. It is."
* '''Discussed''': "You ever read MobyDick? Well, I expect to be like Ishmael: the guy who tells this story to a later audience. That's why I'm pestering your men for more information, not because I'm particularly interested in troop movements."
* '''Conversed''': "The protagonist in these stories is always some nobody."
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