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* ''Manga/OnePiece'': As a series about pirates and sailing, logbooks occasionally show up every now and then. The most straight example was Kozuki Oden's case, as he kept a log of his adventures solely because he was interested in sailing and it serves as a sort of narrative complement to the actual manga panels of his flashback. It's also an important {{McGuffin}} due to the information written on it being quite valuable.

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* ''Manga/OnePiece'': As a series about pirates and sailing, logbooks occasionally show up every now and then. The most straight example was Kozuki Oden's case, Oden's, as he kept a log of his adventures solely because he was interested in sailing and it serves as a sort of narrative complement to the actual manga panels of his flashback. It's also an important {{McGuffin}} {{MacGuffin}} due to the information written on it being quite valuable.
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* ''Manga/OnePiece'': As a series about pirates and sailing, logbooks occasionally show up every now and then. The most straight example was Kozuki Oden's case, as he kept a log of his adventures solely because he was interested in sailing and it serves as a sort of narrative complement to the actual manga panels of his flashback. It's also an important {{McGuffin}} due to the information written on it being quite valuable.

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* ''Fanfic/RocketshipVoyager''. Captain Janeway verbally dictates her captain's log, but because she's in a 1950's PulpMagazine sci-fi she has to [[ZeeRust splice and tape her log by hand]] rather than tell her computer to delete her last sentence when she does a VerbalBackspace. She also gives an ordinary date instead of a stardate, as humanity hasn't discovered FasterThanLightTravel yet.

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* ''Fanfic/RocketshipVoyager''. Captain Janeway verbally dictates her captain's log, but because she's in a 1950's PulpMagazine sci-fi story she has to [[ZeeRust splice and tape her log by hand]] rather than tell her computer to delete her last sentence when she does a VerbalBackspace. She also gives an ordinary date instead of a stardate, as humanity hasn't discovered FasterThanLightTravel yet.


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* Subverted in ''Film/ItTheTerrorFromBeyondSpace'', which opens with Colonel Carruthers narrating but he's not TheCaptain. Colonel Van Heusen is the captain commanding the relief spaceship and Carruthers is under detention pending his court-martial back on Earth, accused of having murdered the [[SoleSurvivor rest of his crew]].
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* The long-running radio series ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Dollar Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar]]'' used the title character's [[RecapByAudit expense account entries]]; in the show's introduction, Johnny was credited as "The Man with the Action-Packed Expense Account".

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* ''Radio/YoursTrulyJohnnyDollar'': The long-running radio series ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Dollar Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar]]'' used the title character's [[RecapByAudit expense account entries]]; entries]] as a way to summarize what he's been up to; in the show's introduction, Johnny was is credited as "The Man with the Action-Packed Expense Account".
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* ''Film/TheManWhoSkiedDownEverest'': For this documentary about Yuichiro Miura's quest to climb up Mt. Everest so he could ski back down it, the narration is actually excerpts from Miura's diary, written as the expedition went along.
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At the end of the show, it's used to sum up the plot and deliver AnAesop.

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At the end of the show, it's used to sum up the plot and deliver AnAesop.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', Twilight Sparkle's letters to Princess Celestia on the {{Aesop}} of the episode are like this. Granted, unlike most examples, this happens at the [[AndKnowingIsHalfTheBattle end]] of each episode, but the basic idea is the same.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', Twilight Sparkle's letters to Princess Celestia on the {{Aesop}} lesson of the episode are like this. Granted, unlike most examples, this happens at the [[AndKnowingIsHalfTheBattle end]] of each episode, but the basic idea is the same.
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* Used by April O'Neil in the ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' live-action movie.

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* Used by April O'Neil in the ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' live-action movie.''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1990''.
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* ''Franchise/{{Tintin}}: Explorers on the Moon'' has a few all-text panels headed "Extract from the Log Book by Professor Calculus."
* Rorschach's journal in ''Comicbook/{{Watchmen}}'', at least to some extent.
* ComicBook/MilesMorales had one in the first issue of ''ComicBook/MilesMoralesSpiderMan2022''.

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* ''Franchise/{{Tintin}}: Explorers ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'': [[Characters/MarvelComicsMilesMorales Miles Morales]] had one in the first issue of ''ComicBook/MilesMoralesSpiderMan2022''.
* ''Franchise/{{Tintin}}'': ''Explorers
on the Moon'' has a few all-text panels headed "Extract from the Log Book by Professor Calculus."
* ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'': Rorschach's journal in ''Comicbook/{{Watchmen}}'', journal, at least to some extent.
* ComicBook/MilesMorales had one in the first issue of ''ComicBook/MilesMoralesSpiderMan2022''.
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* ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'': "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS1E5TheCloud The Cloud]]" [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] the franchise staple with something similar to LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn. Janeway makes the usual episode-opening log entry as a voice-over monologue while on a stroll through the ship, ending with:
--> '''Janeway (voice-over):''' ... I only wish I ''felt'' larger-than-life.\\

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"[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS1E5TheCloud The Cloud]]" [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] the franchise staple with something similar to LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn. Janeway makes the usual episode-opening log entry as a voice-over monologue while on a stroll through the ship, ending with:
--> ---> '''Janeway (voice-over):''' ... I only wish I ''felt'' larger-than-life.\\


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** In "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS2E15Threshold Threshold]]" Chakotay and Tuvok witness the results of the hyper-evolved Paris and Janeway coming out of the hole they were hiding in and heading for the nearest swamp. Chakotay remarks that he's not entirely sure how he's going to enter all this into the log, and Tuvok tells him that he looks forward to reading those log entries.
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* Suspecting that something is very wrong with Captain Kirk in the ''Franchise/StarTrek'' ''[[Franchise/StarTrekExpandedUniverse novel]]'' ''Ghost-Walker'', Spock reviews Captain Kirk's official log and hacks into Kirk's private, personal log. He quickly realizes that the style changed drastically in Kirk's official log after the visit to Midgwis and made no entries at all to his personal log since leaving that world. This leads Spock to conclude that Kirk was not himself. (Later he would realize that Kirk's body had been taken over by a Midgwin and the "ghost" haunting the ''Enterprise'' was actually the disembodied spirit of Captain Kirk).

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* Suspecting that something is very wrong with Captain Kirk in the ''Franchise/StarTrek'' ''[[Franchise/StarTrekExpandedUniverse novel]]'' ''Ghost-Walker'', Spock reviews Captain Kirk's official log and hacks into Kirk's private, personal log. He quickly realizes that the style changed drastically in Kirk's official log after the visit to Midgwis and made no entries at all to his personal log since leaving that world. While Kirk didn't make entries to his personal log every day the length of time since he had made an entry was unusual. This leads Spock to conclude that Kirk was not himself. (Later he would realize that Kirk's body had been taken over by a Midgwin and the "ghost" haunting the ''Enterprise'' was actually the disembodied spirit of Captain Kirk).

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