History Main / MrExposition

* GameOfThrones: Jorah Mormont; at least in the first season, he mainly exists to inform Daenerys/us about the customs of the Dothraki and other such things.

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* Nameless scientist (possibly Dr. Kleiner) in the beginning of ''{{Half-Life}}, immediately lampshaded by another nameless scientist ({{retcon}}ned to be Dr. Vance)

* ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls" does this to various degrees:

* LegacyOfKain: Almost every character gets a turn in LOK but none more so than Janos Audron. Every scene with him is part history lesson, part [[FloweryElizabethanEnglish Shakespearean monologue]], and part Grandpa's Neverending War Stories.

* Pick any character with a speaking role in ''MassEffect''. ANY. CHARACTER. To be fair, most of the time you can just not ask them stuff. [=ME2=] makes this process even more clear-cut; much of the game's extra exposition is on the crew's personal backstories, and they provide those details if you ask. As far as the main plot goes, exposition tends to come from the Illusive Man and the various Cerberus crewmembers, and occasionally Mordin on questions of science. TL;DR: ME attempts to avoid the Mr. Exposition phenomenon by splitting him into about 13+ characters. YMMV on if it worked. There's a LOT of exposition.
** As a straighter example, [[spoiler:Vigil]] from the first ''[[VideoGame/MassEffect1 Mass Effect]]. Explains everything in the game up to that point; what the Conduit is, what Saren wants with it, the fate of the Protheans, and how to stop [[spoiler:Sovereign]] before it's too late.

* ''Series/{{Merlin}}'' has Gaius, the old court physician. He rarely ever has a line that isn't explaining something to someone.
** Sometimes the dragon gets in on this trope as well.

** Data was the main choice for any {{Technobabble}} plot exposition, although really nearly any character on the various ''Star Trek'' shows was at some time forced into that role. Once she had been introduced to ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'':
** Guinan became the mouth through which the writers often introduced backstory information that Data couldn't be expected to know about, i.e. about the Q, the Borg, etc.

* In ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', Data was the main choice for any {{Technobabble}} plot exposition, although really nearly any character on the various ''Star Trek'' shows was at some time forced into that role. Once she had been introduced to ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'':
** Guinan became the mouth through which the writers often introduced backstory information, i.e. about the Q, the Borg, etc.

* Dr. Reid does this often in ''Series/CriminalMinds''

* ''Series/ICarly'': Wendy. Tells the gang that another tv show is stealing their bits. Explains that Freddie gave up a sea trip to get rid of Carly's old friend who was trying to break them up.

* Another Cameron example is Ripley in ''Film/{{Aliens}}'' when she provides a briefing to the Marines. She basically tries to explain what happened in the first movie, but fails as the Marines are constantly interrupting her story, and asking mocking questions. Once they encounter the xenomorphs they aren't in a laughing mood anymore...

* In ''Alien'', Ash, being the Science Officer, is the one infodumping the rest of the crew (and the audience) regarding the Alien and the planet it comes from.

* ''Film/BackToTheFuture'' series: Lorraine [=McFly=] serves this purpose in the first two movies. In ''Part I'', she explains the circumstances of how she and George [=McFly=] originally met and fell in love. In ''Part II'', she explains Marty's problem with [[BerserkButton being called "chicken"]], and how it got him into an car accident which changed his life for worse.

* Another Cameron example is Ripley in ''Film/{{Aliens}}'' when she provides a briefing to the marines. She basically tries to explain what happened in the first movie, but fails as the marines are constantly interrupting her story, and asking mocking questions. A good half hour later, they aren't in a laughing mood anymore...

* ''Film/{{Dune}}'': Adpating the plot of the book was so complex and so much of it was cut from the movie that Miss and Mr Exposition were required: Princess Irulan before the credits, explaining the general setting, and after the credits, the secret report within the guild giving the context for the next scene.

** Tanner in some movies, notably ''Film/Goldeneye''.

* CaptainObvious meets an example [[http://cockeyed.webcomic.ws/comics/12 here]].

* [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Twilight]] for [[AceAttorney Phoenix]] in ''FanFic/TurnaboutStorm''. Some of the stuff she explains to him are common knowledge for fans of the show, other times she explains elements that are new to the audience.

* ''Series/HoratioHornblower'': The show used written text, explaining the political situation or the situation at sea. Additionally in "The Even Chance", Midshipman Archie Kennedy explains Horatio and the audience his view on TheFrenchRevolution and present situation in Frnce ("Louis was captured just before Christmas. What do you think they'll do with him? [[DramaticIrony You can't kill a King]]." -- Oh, Archie!), and he also informs us later that the French has killed their king.

* Subverted in ''{{FLCL}}'' by Commander Amarao. He tells Naota (and the audience) that Haruko is searching for her lover Atomsk, the pirate king (the scene is accompanied by a humanoid fire creature). Amarao was just guessing, Haruko really wants [[spoiler: to eat him.]].

** Rex Goodwin in ''{{Yu-Gi-Oh 5Ds}}''. There's a reason fans of 5D's use the term "Rexposition"

* Yue Ayase in ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima!'', usually due to her innate [[TheSmartGuy smarts]] or her GreatBigBookOfEverything. She tends to indulge in WallsOfText, but isn't usually heard.

* The ''AceAttorney'' series has the various assistants that go around to assist or comment on the action, and to give general plot recaps at the beginning of each chapter. Most often, it has been Maya Fey, though Pearl takes her place a couple times during the second and 3rd games and she is replaced entirely by Trucy in the 4th.

* ''VideoGame/{{Bayonetta}}'' Subverts this; on the way back from a job, Enzo decides to speak out loud about Bayonetta's nature of having to kill angels every day or she'll be dragged down to hell while she figures out her lost past. A mildly annoyed Bayonetta snaps at him for telling her her own life's story.

* ''{{CSI}}'' people. Every single one of them. Does anyone else want one of them to just say, "Yeah I know what you're doing with the DNA, I work here also."

* Scout, in ''ToKillAMockingbird'' takes on this role. Even her brother Jem is more a part of the plot than she is.

* ''Series/HoratioHornblower'': The show used written text, explaining the political situation or the situation at sea. Additionally in "The Even Chance", Midshipman Archie Kennedy explains Horatio and the audience his view on TheFrechRevolution and present situation in Frnce ("Louis was captured just before Christmas. What do you think they'll do with him? [[DramaticIrony You can't kill a King]]." -- Oh, Archie!), and he also informs us later that the French has killed their king.

* In ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', Data was the main choice for any {{Technobabble}} plot exposition, although really nearly any character on the various ''Star Trek'' shows was at some time forced into that role. Once she had been introduced to ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', Guinan became the mouth through which the writers often introduced backstory information, i.e. about the Q, the Borg, etc.

*** Subverted slightly in that for a long time, Data did not know when it was appropriate (or not) to do the infodumpage.
*** Avoided entirely with Troi because her empathic suggestions were universally uselessly vague. (e.g. "Troi, can you tell why they might be shooting laser death missiles at us?" "I sense... Pain. Pain... and anger.")
**** [[SarcasmMode Well, at least we know they aren't doing it for shits and giggles!]]
***** Hey, that's not ''completely'' useless information - it [[ForTheEvulz happens that way sometimes]].