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* SnicketWarningLabel: The narrator warns you to stop viewing this story while it still looks like it has a HappyEnding. Now!
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->'''Rizzo:''' How do you know what Scrooge is doing? We're down here, and he's up there.\\
'''Gonzo:''' I keep telling you—storytellers are omniscient. I know everything.\\
'''Rizzo:''' Hoity-toity Mr. Godlike Smartypants.\\
'''Gonzo''' (''facing the camera''): To conduct a proper search, Scrooge was forced to light the lamps.\\
''[the window lights up from the lamps]''\\
'''Rizzo:''' How does he do that?
-->-- ''Film/TheMuppetChristmasCarol''
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->'''Rizzo:''' How do you know what Scrooge is doing? We’re down here, and he’s up there.\\

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->'''Rizzo:''' How do you know what Scrooge is doing? We’re We're down here, and he’s he's up there.\\



'''Rizzo:''' Hoity-toity, Mr. Godlike Smartypants.\\
'''Gonzo''' (''[[BreakingTheFourthWall turning towards the fourth wall]]''): To conduct a proper search, Scrooge was forced to light the lamps.\\
''[The window lights up from the lamps]''\\

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'''Rizzo:''' Hoity-toity, Hoity-toity Mr. Godlike Smartypants.\\
'''Gonzo''' (''[[BreakingTheFourthWall turning towards (''facing the fourth wall]]''): camera''): To conduct a proper search, Scrooge was forced to light the lamps.\\
''[The ''[the window lights up from the lamps]''\\
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* UnspokenRetort: A character has a mental retort that is only "heard" by the audience
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* LittleDidIKnow: Foreshadowing life-turning events by mentioning the character's initial ignorance of them.
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'''[[Creator/CharlesDickens Gonzo]]:''' I keep telling you—storytellers are omniscient. I know everything.\\

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'''[[Creator/CharlesDickens Gonzo]]:''' '''Gonzo:''' I keep telling you—storytellers are omniscient. I know everything.\\
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* CharacterNarrator: One of the series' established characters ends up taking the role of narrating the story.

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* CharacterNarrator: One of An onscreen character who interacts with the series' established characters ends up taking others does the role of narrating the story.narrating.
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* CharacterNarrator

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* CharacterNarratorCharacterNarrator: One of the series' established characters ends up taking the role of narrating the story.
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* GenderNeutralNarrator
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* HelplessObserverProtagonist: Is usually a first-person narrator in prose.
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* HorrorHost: Many works of the horror genre have a framing device where a creepy individual is presenting the story to the audience.
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Tropes about TheNarrator-- the helpful invisible person that fills in the blanks of the story. Compare {{Dialogue}}. See also PointOfView, FramingDevice. Do not confuse with NarrativeTropes.

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Tropes about TheNarrator-- the {{Narrator}}-- the helpful invisible person that fills in the blanks of the story. Compare {{Dialogue}}. See also PointOfView, FramingDevice. Do not confuse with NarrativeTropes.
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+ PointOfView
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* CozyVoiceForCatastrophes

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* CozyVoiceForCatastrophesCozyVoiceForCatastrophes: A dark premise is told in a calm tone of voice.
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''[the window lights up from the lamps]''\\

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''[the ''[The window lights up from the lamps]''\\
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'''Gonzo/Creator/CharlesDickens:''' I keep telling you—storytellers are omniscient. I know everything.\\

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'''Gonzo/Creator/CharlesDickens:''' '''[[Creator/CharlesDickens Gonzo]]:''' I keep telling you—storytellers are omniscient. I know everything.\\
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->'''Rizzo:''' How do you know what Scrooge is doing? We’re down here, and he’s up there.\\
'''Gonzo/Creator/CharlesDickens:''' I keep telling you—storytellers are omniscient. I know everything.\\
'''Rizzo:''' Hoity-toity, Mr. Godlike Smartypants.\\
'''Gonzo''' (''[[BreakingTheFourthWall turning towards the fourth wall]]''): To conduct a proper search, Scrooge was forced to light the lamps.\\
''[the window lights up from the lamps]''\\
'''Rizzo:''' How does he do that?
-->-- ''Film/TheMuppetChristmasCarol''

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Literary Agent Hypothesis is YMMV and based on fanon; Direct Line To The Author is its objective counterpart


* DirectLineToTheAuthor



* LiteraryAgentHypothesis
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That's one form of Posthumous Narration. Undead Author doesn't have anything to do with narration.


* UndeadAuthor: A deceased narrator tells the story of how they died.
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* TheAllConcealingI: A first-person narrative is a handy way of keeping the narrator's identity hidden before revealing it in the twist ending.

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* TheAllConcealingI: A first-person narrative is a handy way of keeping the narrator's protagonist's identity hidden before revealing it in the twist ending.
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* {{Narrator}}

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* {{Narrator}}
{{Narrator}}: A character who describes the events of the story as they happen.



* TheAllConcealingI

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* TheAllConcealingITheAllConcealingI: A first-person narrative is a handy way of keeping the narrator's identity hidden before revealing it in the twist ending.



* AndThatLittleGirlWasMe

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* AndThatLittleGirlWasMeAndThatLittleGirlWasMe: Someone tells another person a story that they eventually reveal to be about themselves.



* InteractiveNarrator

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* InteractiveNarratorInteractiveNarrator: The narrator and the story's characters directly speak to each other.



* MrExposition

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* MrExpositionMrExposition: A character whose purpose is to provide exposition to the other characters in order to move the plot forward.



* NarratingTheObvious

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* NarratingTheObviousNarratingTheObvious: The narrator points out stuff that should already be obvious to the audience.



* NarratorAllAlong

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* NarratorAllAlongNarratorAllAlong: A character within the story turns out to have been the one narrating the story all along.



* OpeningNarration
* PosthumousNarration

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* OpeningNarration
OpeningNarration: The opening of the work has a narration describing the work's premise.
* PosthumousNarrationPosthumousNarration: The story is narrated by a character who died in the story.



* UndeadAuthor
* UnreliableNarrator
* UnreliableVoiceover

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* UndeadAuthor
UndeadAuthor: A deceased narrator tells the story of how they died.
* UnreliableNarrator
UnreliableNarrator: It's hinted that the narrator isn't telling the complete truth in their story.
* UnreliableVoiceoverUnreliableVoiceover: What the narrator describes is clearly not the same as what the audience sees.

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* AllFirstPersonNarratorsWriteLikeNovelists



* AllFirstPersonNarratorsWriteLikeNovelists



* NarrationEcho



* NarrationEcho

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* {{Narrator}}
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Tropes about TheNarrator-- the helpful invisible man that fills in the blanks of the story. Compare {{Dialogue}}. See also PointOfView, FramingDevice. Do not confuse with NarrativeTropes.

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Tropes about TheNarrator-- the helpful invisible man person that fills in the blanks of the story. Compare {{Dialogue}}. See also PointOfView, FramingDevice. Do not confuse with NarrativeTropes.
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* CharacterNarrator

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