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* ''WesternAnimation/TheTiggerMovie'': In the opening scene, Tigger is upset at the title of the book usually used in the other Pooh Bear Adventures. The Narrator asks, "Well, what would you call it then?", to which Tigger rearranges the print on the page to form his own title.
* 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 of ''VideoGame/TheStanleyParable'' starts by gently nudging Stanley in the direction of the game that leads to freedom. If the player defies the narration, the Narrator becomes increasingly annoyed and tries pushing Stanley--[[MediumAwareness and then the player]]--in the direction intended. Depending on which decisions the player makes, the Narrator can either become the main antagonist aiming to kill Stanley for going against the narrative, a confused ally of Stanley trying to make sense why the game is becoming MindScrew-y, or the target of Stanley's defiance causing his story to crumble around him.

--> '''King Kai:''' Wait, don't you already know the outcome of the fight?
--> '''Narrator:''' Um... Nooooooo...?

-->'''Narrator:''' So they dug, and they dug,
-->Until day turned to night
-->And the ungleblung shadows-
-->'''Mario:''' Quit talking, all right!?

->'''Boti''': Oh come on, Narrator! You can do better.
->'''Narrator''': Yeah, I have to improvise when you dance and sing all over. Screw you!
->'''Boti''': Thanks, now you ruined my holiday spirit.

* The male Narrator of Creator/MondoMedia's ''Miss Andry'' shorts is berated and abused by the titular heroine to the point where he can barely do his job.

* ''Radio/{{Dragnet}}'' had a notable example in the episode'The Big Ben.' Friday and his partner Ben Romero are on the trail of a pair of carjackers. [[spoiler: One of them ambushes Joe right before the commercial break. Afterwards Ben takes over both the investigation and narrative duties. Friday does not appear again until the end when Ben visits him in the hospital.]]

* ''Radio/{{Dragnet}}'' had a notable example in the episode'The Big Ben' Friday and his partner Ben Romero are on the trail of a pair of carjackers. [[spoiler: One of them ambushes Joe right before the commercial break. Afterwards Ben takes over both the investigation and narrative duties. Friday does not appear again until the end when Ben visits him in the hospital.]]

* 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 KillEmAll, 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 the ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' fanfic ''Fanfic/ThoseLackingSpines'', the narrator takes on two forms; as the actual writer of the literature (with a habit of torturing Vexen), and as in the slightly-crazy fan of one of the protagonists, namely, Xaldin.

* The Franchise/SuperSentai fanfiction “Kijuu Sentai Qidenger” opens chapter 10 with a recap of the previous instalment, which asks who the SixthRanger is. Then the character of Mio talks back and points out that he’s already been introduced as [[ChekhovsGunman Tanjo Takumi]] and tries to move onto the real focus of the chapter, to which the narrator threatens to make the fic with RougeAnglesOfSatin or dialogue only with no context, [[DisproportionateRetribution purely out of spite]]. To demonstrate this, [[StylisticSuck the writing changes to reflect his threats]].

-->'''[[spoiler:Samantha]]:''' ''(after having made a crawler)'' Next time, Uncle Edward will give you stronger legs. ''EDWARD!'' Give them stronger legs! You're ''terrible'' at this!

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls''

* The events for ''VideoGame/HyperdimensionNeptuniaVictory'' where Neptune meets [[DownloadableContent the DLC Maker characters]] are portrayed as [[MetaGuy Neptune]] [[UpToEleven going for broke]] and ''[[NoFourthWall directly asking the narrator to give her a new friend to her specifications]]'', to which [[SummonMagic he cheerfully complies.]]

* ''Webcomic/TheFourthWall'': The Creator regularly argues with the characters and comments on the situation. Turned UpToEleven in "Where in the World," where he actively guides Greg through the plot.

* Alan-a-Dale in ''WesternAnimation/RobinHood1973'' is an unusual variation of this trope. He is seen at the beginning, and is drawn in a style that makes it very plausible for him to be just a character in the story. At first, he is just narrating the story, and throughout the first half, you never see him again. Finally, when Prince John gets a VillainousBreakdown and locks up ''everyone in Nottingham'' in jail, the camera slowly zooms toward the jail, as Narrator Alan-a-Dale begins to narrate "All of Nottingham was in jail…"; finally we see ''him'' inside the jail: "[[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou Yup! I'm in here too.]]" After that, he stops narrating at all and becomes an ally to Robin Hood in the climactic battle, until the very end, where he narrates once more for a minute, albeit from inside the story instead of being invisible.

* The entire gag of the short film ''Film/TheGunfighter'' (2014). The unnamed gunfighter walks into a Western saloon, only to find a mysterious voice describing everything that's about to happen, such as an impending gunfight. When the gunfighter urges everyone not to listen to the voice because he has no intention of killing anyone, the narrator starts describing embarrassing secrets everyone in the bar is hiding until the gunfight breaks out anyway.

* The entire gag of the short film ''The Gunfighter'' (2014). The unnamed gunfighter walks into a Western saloon, only to find a mysterious voice describing everything that's about to happen, such as an impending gunfight. When the gunfighter urges everyone not to listen to the voice because he has no intention of killing anyone, the narrator starts describing embarrassing secrets everyone in the bar is hiding until the gunfight breaks out anyway.

The Interactive Narrator isn't so lucky. While this type of narrator exists "off-camera", the characters of the story are fully aware of his narration and are able to interact with him. AuthorPowers are also not uncommon among these narrators, allowing them to change the entire setting and plot at will.

HilarityEnsues if the narrator in question is particularly [[DeadpanSnarker snarky]] or [[LemonyNarrator critical of the characters' actions]]. This often results in the narrator arguing with the characters like a sort of DungeonMaster. This extends to comedic examples of disgruntled villains attacking or abducting the narrator and attempting to take his place in order to make life miserable for the heroes.

In most series, the {{Narrator}} rests comfortably beyond the FourthWall, able to tell his story in peace.

* In one ''WesternAnimation/DaveTheBarbarian'' episode, the "storyteller" was enslaved by the resident evil pig. The problem was solved by [[spoiler:him developing laryngitis, and Dave and his family hiring a new one (albeit one used to {{Space Opera}}s that briefly turned the show into one)]]

** In yet another episode, Freakazoid and the narrator start squabbling, and Freakazoid threatens to replace him "with the narrator from ''Earthworm Jim'' (also a fellow Kids WB show); this wouldn't have been a problem since the ''EWJ'' narrator voice, Creator/JeffBennett, was already in the cast (and in that very scene no less, voicing Cave Guy!).

* Alan-a-Dale in ''WesternAnimation/RobinHood'' is an unusual variation of this trope. He is seen at the beginning, and is drawn in a style that makes it very plausible for him to be just a character in the story. At first, he is just narrating the story, and throughout the first half, you never see him again. Finally, when Prince John gets a VillainousBreakdown and locks up ''everyone in Nottingham'' in jail, the camera slowly zooms toward the jail, as Narrator Alan-a-Dale begins to narrate "All of Nottingham was in jail…"; finally we see ''him'' inside the jail: "[[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou Yup! I'm in here too.]]" After that, he stops narrating at all and becomes an ally to Robin Hood in the climactic battle, until the very end, where he narrates once more for a minute, albeit from inside the story instead of being invisible.

* The narrator in ''WesternAnimation/DangerMouse'' was known to occasionally argue with the title characters, and his misreading the stage directions would lead to reality itself changing (e.g. reading out the time 12:15 sent them to the year 1215). In that particular episode, he decides he ''likes'' the change and forces the characters to do a Robin Hood story, while DM tries to figure out how to undo the microphone malfunction that has made the narrator omnipotent.

* ''[[Theatre/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow The Rocky Horror Show]]''. The Narrator often interacts with the cast, which is fair, since the audience ''always'' interacts with ''him'' and the cast.

* In ''Series/TheMuppetShow'' the casts of ''Pigs in Space'' and ''Veterinarian Hospital'' can hear the Announcer, and sometimes argue with him. They always act surprised when he speaks up, and at one point, they even blows him up, causing him to land in the scene.

* [[http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=1192 This strip]] of ''Webcomic/DinosaurComics''.

* The very concept of an interactive narrator is parodied in [[http://www.ugmadness.net/#2006-07-03 this]] strip from the ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' webcomic ''Webcomic/UGMadness''.

* [https://www.gocomics.com/citizendog/1995/12/05 One strip] of ''ComicStrip/CitizenDog'' has a computer flying through space, the “Cybership Internet!”. Mel, Fergus and Cuddles are on the bridge, as the narrator says they will “boldly go where no one has gone before!”. The next panel has the three reading instruction manuals and trying to get the equipment working. The narrator repeats “And boldly going where no one has gone before!”, to which the three angrily look at the “camera” and say “We’re working on it!”.