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* In Warren Ellis' Supergod, a character who possesses the power of quantum perception is able to perceive the narration accompanying his panels, and comments on it. The Narrator himself, a character recounting the story at a later date, has no idea that this is happening.
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* The narrator in the ''MortalKombat'' games is also BigBad Shao Kahn. In some games, when he wins a fight, the narrator will sometimes say "I win" instead of "Shao Kahn wins".
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->'''Tigger''': Say, who are you?\\

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->--'''Tigger''' and the '''Narrator''', ''TheManyAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh''

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->--'''Tigger''' and the '''Narrator''', ''TheManyAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh''
--->''TheManyAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh''
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->''"Say, who are you?"\\
"I'm the narrator."\\
"Oh, well, please, for goodness' sakes, narrate me down from here."''

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->--'''Tigger''' and the '''Narrator'''

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->--'''Tigger''' and the '''Narrator'''
'''Narrator''', ''TheManyAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh''

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* There are a lot of examples of this in ''[[ImSorryIllReadThatAgain I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again]]'', done in various ways. On one occasion, for instance, David Hatch is introducing that week's episode of the serial and breaks off to comment on how bad the plot is, saying that it's just as believable as him saying that suddenly there was a huge explosion and [the cast] all disappeared in a puff of smoke. They promptly do just that, and once he's brought them back, John Cleese berates him for being power mad. Hatch proceeds to narrate a series of disasters culminating in Cleese landing in a vat of simmering tapioka pudding as an object lesson to everybody else.
--->'''David Hatch:''' What's the matter?
--->'''Graeme Garden:''' I'm not complaining.
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\n* JosephAndTheAmazingTechnicolorDreamcoat has a female narrator explaining the story, and the role can get pretty superfluous depending on the production (the 1999 movie adaptation in particular has her doing some pretty ridiculous things). Also to note, if the narrator wasn't around, there would be no significant female role at all.

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* The narrator of ''Disney's {{Hercules}}'' is named Bob (his wife is Mrs. Bob, they have two kids). While he rarely interacts with the main characters he is in competition with the Muses and frequently argues with them. Bob is apparently ''just'' an invisible guy as he and his family appear in one episode wearing large souvenir hats.

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* The Mexican Christmas film ''Santa Claus'' features a scene where the Devil tries to tempt a poor girl Lupe into stealing a doll from a toy store. The narrator immediately says, "No, Lupe, don't listen to him!" This scene was prime joke fodder when this movie featured on ''MysteryScienceTheater3000'':
-->'''Crow''': The eternal conflict between evil and the narrator!
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* Pokebattles has the most current sinister villain being the Narrator. They can't have a battle without any reaction to the Narrator and it's hardly ever an opponent. Then again it's favorite past time is torturing the players and sometimes embarrasing them. The Narrator is genderless and this is almost a {{lemony narrator}}.

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* Pokebattles Pokébattles has the most current sinister villain being the Narrator. They can't have a battle without any reaction to the Narrator and it's hardly ever an opponent. Then again it's favorite past time is torturing the players and sometimes embarrasing embarrassing them. The Narrator is genderless and this is almost a {{lemony narrator}}.
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\n* In "Our Town", 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.

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* This also happened in another {{BBC}} radio comedy ''TheNavyLark'' at one point having the cast abandon the story to go look at the narrator's [[PageThreeStunna dirty calendar]].

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* This also happened in another {{BBC}} radio comedy ''TheNavyLark'' at one point having the cast abandon the story to go look at the narrator's [[PageThreeStunna dirty calendar]].calendar]] - his naughty Lillian Gish calendar. On another occasion they help the narrator find a 15 sided nut for his vacuum. Throughout the run, the narrator set up the story with a little monologue at the beginning. Later in the run, the characters would break in and either converse or argue with the narrator, or tell him to hurry up so they could get on with the show.
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* ''Anthony Trollope, used the omniscient observer voice. However, in one novel, he interacted with the characters slightly by declaring that he once caught one of the characters fibbing.

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* ''Anthony Trollope, Trollope'', used the omniscient observer voice. However, in one novel, he interacted with the characters slightly by declaring that he once caught one of the characters fibbing.
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* ''Anthony Trollope, used the omniscient observer voice. However, in one novel, he interacted with the characters slightly by declaring that he once caught one of the characters fibbing.
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** Even worse when you consider that the "lame-o Sci-Fantasy explanation" is EXACTLY what happens to her next boyfriend.

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** Even worse when you consider that the "lame-o Sci-Fantasy explanation" is EXACTLY what happens to her next boyfriend. [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2007-04-01 making the whole thing a five year]] BrickJoke.
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**Even worse when you consider that the "lame-o Sci-Fantasy explanation" is EXACTLY what happens to her next boyfriend.
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** Alot of Jay Ward series had this type of narrator, really, with ''Hoppity Hooper'' and ''GeorgeOfTheJungle'' being another prominent examples.
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* The Danish series "Jul på Vesterbro" features a narrator who is constantly interrupted, and whenever a new character is introduced the other characters have to explain the "strange voice". This is particularly weird as the narrator is explicitly stated to be an archaeologist from the future, who's deducing the story from the remains found in a smoking crater.
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* In the BBC's adaptation of ''DeadSouls'', the narrator is actually following Chichikov around, telling the story as he goes. He is nearly constantly on Chichikov's nerves, since he is prone to giving unflattering descriptions or switching around what Chichikov is thinking and what he actually says aloud. At the end of the story, Chichikov [[spoiler:is chased out of town by a bunch of very angry townspeople, and manages to leave the narrator behind as he flees.]]

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* The ''RockyAndBullwinkle''-type Narrator on ''Sheep In The Big City'' frequently berates the characters, who can answer back snappily, and sometimes has his booth invaded by other characters (at one point, he is actually beaten up for criticising one character's plotline). Unlike ''RockyAndBullwinkle'', however, this narrator was actually given a backstory (his name was Ben Plotz) and was frequently shown onscreen, recording his narration in a studio booth.

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* The ''RockyAndBullwinkle''-type Narrator on ''Sheep In The Big City'' ''SheepInTheBigCity'' frequently berates the characters, who can answer back snappily, and sometimes has his booth invaded by other characters (at one point, he is actually beaten up for criticising one character's plotline). Unlike ''RockyAndBullwinkle'', however, this narrator was actually given a backstory (his name was Ben Plotz) and was frequently shown onscreen, recording his narration in a studio booth.


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** During an episode that ended with a DownerEnding, the narrator decided that he hated the ending and invoked a DeusExMachina to make a Super Happy Ending.
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** In another episode where Mojo Jojo turns the entire world into dogs (ItsALongStory), the narrator called him out on it. In response, Mojo Jojo turns the narrator into a dog too.
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\n* ''The Somewhat True Tale of Robin Hood'' features a narrator called the Town Guy, who "manages to work his way into every scene whether he belongs there or not," constantly snarks with Robin and is even buddy-bud enough with the stage manager to control the scene transitions.

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** The English dub, which would be a GagDub if this wasn't already a GagSeries, will sometimes even play this with the ''subtitles'' which are supposed to be translating the on-screen Japanese text. On at least one occasion, the narrator and "caption guy" have gotten into an argument and started flinging insults at each other.
--->*The Narrator sucks!*
--->'''Narrator:''' Here's a caption - Bite me!
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* Most GameShows have the host interacting with the narrator.
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--> '''Scab''': A massage? Are you quite sure?
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* In the Brendan Fraser live-action movie of ''GeorgeOfTheJungle'', the narrator is an active and slightly malignant force. At one pook a {{Mook}} picks a fight with him over his insulting description, to which the narrator responds by rewinding the movie just to taunt him. (The mook's comrade then asks, "Did you just get in a fight with the narrator?") The sequel has the narrator ''reach in and pick up'' a villain who annoyed him, a DeusExMachina resolution to a plotline.

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* In the Brendan Fraser live-action movie of ''GeorgeOfTheJungle'', the narrator is an active and slightly malignant force. At one pook a {{Mook}} picks a fight with him over his insulting description, to which the narrator responds by rewinding the movie just to taunt him. (The mook's comrade then asks, "Did you just get in a fight ''argue'' with the narrator?") ''narrator''?") The sequel has the narrator ''reach in and pick up'' a villain who annoyed him, a DeusExMachina resolution to a plotline.
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** That goes back at ''least'' to "Dave and the Giant Pickle" - Bob wanders onto the set while explaining the backstory, prompting Dave to ask him who he is and what he's doing with his sheep.
--> '''Bob''': I'm the narrator.
--> '''Dave''': Oh... [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight Okay!]]
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* OneOverZero features the interactive Author.

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** In VI He shrugs it off as "Mechanical Flatulence from the ship"


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** In VI He shrugs it off as "Mechanical Flatulence from the ship" near the start
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** In VI He shrugs it off as "Mechanical Flatulence from the ship"

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