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* ''Radio/OurMissBrooks'': After a brief introduction by the announcer, Miss Brooks provides her own brief introduction and a few lines of narration after the sponsor breaks or sets up the scene for the episode. This is mostly confined to the radio, however Miss Brooks occasionally provides narration on television as well. Most notably "Who's Who" in the fourth season.

* ''Series/{{Taken}}'': The series is narrated by the nine-year-old Allie Keys in 2002. The identity of the narrator does not become entirely clear until the final scene of the sixth episode "Charlie and Lisa" but it was hinted at in several previous episodes. For instance, in "High Hopes", "Acid Tests" and "Maintenance", she speaks about her grandfathers during scenes showing Jacob Clarke and Jesse Keys.

* In the ''Literature/SherlockHolmes'' franchise, Watson is the typical narrator, though there are stories that don't use him.

* ''Literature/KingdomOnFire'': [[Literature/AShadowBrightAndBurning All]] [[Literature/APoisonDarkAndDrowning the]] [[Literature/ASorrowFierceAndFalling books]] in the series are narrated from the POV of [[TheProtagonist Henrietta Howel]].
* ''Literature/TheLandMine'': The story is told from the perspective of [[TheProtagonist Derek]].
* ''Literature/TheProudestBlue'': The story is told from the perspective of Asiya's little sister, Faizah.
* ''Literature/Surfacing1972'': The story is told from the perspective of [[NoNameGiven the unnamed female]] [[TheProtagonist protagonist]].

This can make the story more challenging to understand since you only get to know what this character thinks: if there are other characters, and there is tension between them and the narrator, not only will you be in the dark about their purpose or morality, but all the info you get about them will be biased. Similarly, for a person who the narrator especially admires, they will be portrayed as much more heroic and generally better than they really are. In some cases, the narration could be even [[UnreliableNarrator delusive,]] and the challenge is to understand the actual situation behind your referent's words.

* The title character on ''WesternAnimation/TraceyMcBean''.

* [[Music/SimonAndGarfunkel Art Garfunkel]] appears as a character in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'' episode, "The Ballad of Buster Baxter". For the most part, he simply sings events off to the side, away from the main characters, but at one point, Buster criticizes his happy music as not being very sad, when he's singing about Buster being in a sad mood. At the end of the episode, the characters then uncomfortably realize they have no idea who this person that has been stalking them was.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingMaurice'' is mostly narrated by Malacia from her room, where she appears to be writing the story after the event (which doesn't stop her from occasionally breaking the fourth wall in the scenes as well). Maurice also narrates occasionally, including reminding Malacia that her name isn't in the title. While Malacia's narration starts the film, Maurice concludes it.
-->'''Malicia''': What? Who's to say a narrator can't also appear in the story she's telling?

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheJungleBook1967'', Bagheera, one of the main characters, provides the opening narration.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Dinosaur}}'' has Pilo, one of the lemurs, narrating the opening scene and the epilogue.

* ''Literature/EmpireOfTheVampire'': The story is framed as an autobiography which Gabriel narrates to Jean-Francois, one of the vampires keeping him prisoner. The chronicler will occasionally even interrupt the Silversaint's telling for the sake of expanding on the worldbuilding, as his stated mission is to "preserve (the setting's) image long after (Gabriel's) world has been forgotten by future generations".

* ''Film/{{Elf}}'' has Papa Elf, Buddy's adoptive father, narrating at the beginning and the end of the film.

* ''Manga/TheDangersInMyHeart'': Episodes/chapters usually open with narration from its protagonist Kyōtarō Ichikawa, who's the only character who's thoughts are actually shown to the audience as the story is told from his perspective. Even the character profiles of each volume are described by him personally. Sometimes the kid narrates for ''himself.''

This can make the story more challenging to understand since you only get to know what this character thinks: if there are other characters, and there is tension between them and the narrator, not only will you be in the dark about their purpose or morality, but all the info you get about them will be biased. Similarly, for a person who the narrator specially admires, they will be portrayed as much more heroic and generally better than they really are. In some cases, the narration could be even [[UnreliableNarrator delusive,]] and the challenge is to understand the actual situation behind your referent's words.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewGroove'' plays with this. Kuzco serves as narrator, giving his version of events and [[FirstPersonSmartass snarking about the onscreen action]]. Eventually he is told to shut up by the ''onscreen'' Kuzco, who by this time [[HeelRealization has realized that it's his own fault he's in this mess]], and the narration stops for the rest of the movie.

* ''Radio/OurMissBrooks'': After a brief introduction by the announcer, Miss Brooks provides her own brief introduction and a few lines of narration after sponsor breaks or sets up the scene for the episode. This is mostly confined to the radio, however Miss Brooks occasionally provides narration on television as well. Most notably "Who's Who" in the fourth season.

This can make the story more challenging to understand since you only get to know what this character thinks: if there are other characters, and there is tension between them and the narrator, not only will you be in the dark about their purpose or morality, but all the info you get about them will be biased. Similarly, for a person who the narrator specially admires, they will be portrayed as much more heroic and generally better than they really are In some cases, the narration could be even [[UnreliableNarrator delusive,]] and the challenge is to understand the actual situation behind your referent's words.

This can make the story more challenging to understand since you only get to know what this character thinks: if there are other characters, and there is tension between them and the narrator, not only will you be in the dark about their purpose or morality, but all the info you get about them will be biased. Similarly, for a person who the narrator specially admires, they will be portrayed as much more heroic and generally better than they really are. In some cases, the narration could be even [[UnreliableNarrator delusive,]] and the challenge is to understand the actual situation behind your referent's words.

* ''Literature/CliffordTheBigRedDog'': All of the books are narrated by Emily Elizabeth.

This can make the story more challenging to understand since you only get to know what this character thinks: if there are other characters, and there is tension between them and the narrator, not only will you be in the dark about their purpose or morality, but all the info you get about them will be biased. Similarly, for a person who the narrator specially admires, they will be portrayed as much more heroic and generally better than they really is. In some cases, the narration could be even [[UnreliableNarrator delusive,]] and the challenge is to understand the actual situation behind your referent's words.

This can make the story more challenging to understand since you only get to know what this character thinks: if there are other characters, and there is a tension between them and the narrator, not only will you be in the dark about their purpose or morality, but all the info you get about him or her will be biased. Similarly for a person who the narrator specially admires, who will be portrayed as much more heroic and generally better than (s)he really is. In some cases, the narration could be even [[UnreliableNarrator delusive,]] and the challenge is to understand the actual situation behind your referent's words.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingMaurice'' is mostly narrated by Malacia from her room, where she appears to be writing the story after the event (which doesn't stop her occasionally breaking the fourth wall in the scenes as well). Maurice also narrates occasionally, including reminding Malacia that her name isn't in the title. While Malacia's narration starts the film, Maurice concludes it.

** Every regular novel in the series is narrated by one of the six titular characters in a rotating order, though some (such as "The Departure") have two Animorphs narrate different chapters.

*** ''The Hork-Bajir Chronicles'' is narrated by its three protagonists (Aldrea, Dak Hamee and [[VillainProtagonist Esplin 9466]]). The framing device involves Jara Hamee narrating the story to Tobias.

* ''Literature/HouseOfRobots'' is narrated from the perspective of TheProtagonist, Sammy Hayes-Rodriguez.

* ''Series/KamenRiderGeats'' changes their narrator based on the arc of the show..

* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': In the pilot episode, "[[Recap/RWBYV1E1RubyRose Ruby Rose]]", a female narrator describes the world of Remnant; her cynicism and bitterness is countered by a more positive and optimistic male narrator, who is quickly revealed to be [[BigGood Professor Ozpin]]. Her own response is narrated at the conclusion of Volume 3, which leads to [[BigBad Salem's]] on-screen reveal. Both of them narrate episodes from the world-building ''World of Remnant'' mini-series; Salem takes the Volume 2 segments and Ozpin, the Volume 3 ones. Ozpin also narrates the world-building ''WebAnimation/RWBYFairyTales'' episodes, appearing on-screen in the fifth episode to conclude his role in the mini-series.

--> ... for you see, he, that flea, Pee Wee, is me. See?
** A similar reveal is used for "The First Bad Man", where the narrator of the story of Dinosaur Dan, the first Texas outlaw, is none other than Dinosaur Dan himself, still in prison after a million years, asking is fellow Texans to let him out.

** The episode "Little Gift Shop of Horrors" has the FramingDevice of Stan narrating three tales (which form the episode's miniplots) to a late-night customer.

** In the 'Encounter' arc, the narrator is Keiwa Sakurai, aka. Kamen Rider Tycoon. He primarily does this through recording a video diary. [[spoiler:Due to his elimination from the Desire Grand Prix at the end of episode 8, this role is picked up by Neon Kurama/Kamen Rider Naa-Go for the final episode of the arc.]]

** In the 'Encounter' arc, the narrator is Keiwa Sakurai, aka. Kamen Rider Tycoon. He primarily does this through recording a video diary. [[Due to his elimination from the Desire Grand Prix at the end of episode 8, this role is picked up by Neon Kurama/Kamen Rider Naa-Go for the final episode of the arc.]]

* In ''Literature/ThebeAndTheAngryRedEye'' is about an ill-fated space voyage. As Thomas the protagonist is the SoleSurvivor of the disaster, the entire story is seen through his eyes.[[spoiler:.. and the moment he dies is the moment the story ends.]]