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Lemony Narrator
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A Narrator who tells the story from a third-person perspective, in an eccentric, bizarre, or otherwise unconventional style. This may involve expressing opinions about the story’s proceedings, going off on asides, breaking the Fourth Wall, Hanging Lampshades, deadpan-snarking, choosing to focus on unusual details or just describing things in an odd way. In the 19th century, this style of narration was so common as to be nearly ubiquitous; in the 21st century it’s no longer the default, but still shows up in quirkier works (and homages to 19th-century literature). In some cases, this trope reminds readers that the Narrator can be a character themselves, not just a perspective to read the story from. This character is not an active participant in the story. They are able to affect how the story is told, but not the story itself. Named after Lemony Snicket for his idiosyncratic narration style. The Lemony Narrator is rarely, if ever, found narrating a Lemon. Nor would a British narrator necessarily be found narrating a Lime. (Though you have to admit both would be funny.) Often found in conjunction with Direct Line to the Author. Compare Interactive Narrator and Unreliable Narrator. Contrast the First-Person Smartass, who is a similar character that plays an active role within the story. |
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The Pendragon Adventure: Bobby's narration in the journals he sends to his friends is often very snarky. | |
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Wizardry VII: Crusaders of the Dark Savant featured a narrator who described the game world for the party, but also delivered deadpan cynical commentary on what the party finds. "You wonder if perhaps mankind has a destiny, a role in the universe. Do mere mortals have a role to play... and then again, perhaps not." | |
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Ari Bach narrates his novel Valhalla in a slightly snarky, irreverent and at times oddly stilted manner. It's almost as if the story is being told by an elderly British professor with a snide take on the events. This is very subtle and only fully comes across when the novel is consumed fully, though a few lines stand out: | |
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What would Tales from the Crypt be without the Crypt Keeper? This guy is a Large Ham in every sense of the word, using Hurricanes of Puns and a great deal of media references into Black Comedy and Gallows Humor while presenting each story. | |
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Subverted in Jonathan Barnes' novel The Somnambulist, in which the narrator appears to be utilized in the story as an homage to this trope in Victorian literature. However, it's later revealed that the narrator is actually the main villain. | |
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The Stage Manager in Wilder's Our Town is one too, despite his low-key manner. His exchange with Professor Willard is very much outside conventional dramatic exposition. Since he steps in to act as reverend and soda jerk at certain points, he's also an Interactive Narrator. | |
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Desperate Housewives, where the narrator, Mary Alice Young (played by Brenda Strong), is actually a character who died in the first episode of the series, so the narration is occasionally colored by her own opinions of the other characters. Although that's really just for the first 2 seasons. After that point, all the plot threads involving Mary Alice were put to bed, and she became much more of a standard omniscient narrator apart from a couple verbal idiosyncrasies ("Yes..."). | |
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in Issue 72 of Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics), a televised address by King Acorn is pre-empted by a documentary on the late Dr. Robotnik. The narrator of the documentary, on top of following a Self-Serving Memory, is completely unprofessional, and doesn't hesitate to insult or misname any of Robotnik's enemies. | |
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TFWiki.net makes even this wiki look po-faced and serious. It has a very snarky page for the "cheesecake robot" one Decepticon fantasizes over in the original cartoon; the page for the IDW comic version of Riptide captions all of its pictures with lines from the Vance Joy song; and the page for the episode B.O.T. is laden with snide comments on how bad it is. | |
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The fanfic Those Lacking Spines has fun with this. A good example would be the second time we meet Mansex, and the narrator gets so tired of saying "dark" and "black" that he substitutes every such instance with some other colorful description. | |
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William Dozier in Batman (1966). Doubles as Descended Creator. | |
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Dragon Age: Despite the fact that he's at the mercy of the Chantry, Varric of Dragon Age II insists on adding obviously fake, sensationalistic tinsel to the Framing Device story at random times. His Blatant Lies range from people single-handedly felling ogres to himself suddenly becoming Scarface to his best friend's sister having incredibly large breasts. Within the story itself, it's also acknowledged that he does this with Hawke's diary - interacting with the diary in Hawke's bedroom may prompt him/her to remark that he not only reads the diary, but adds embellishments. As of Dragon Age: Inquisition, players can read Hard in Hightown, Varric's most famous in-universe novel, as a series of codex entries in the game. It's full of this kind of narration, his description of a ship being a classic example, and so beloved by the fandom that it's being released as an actual book. |
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Sheep in the Big City had a narrator who was often shown on screen speaking into a microphone in a sound booth, and would make quips and talk to the characters. Occasionally, he was drawn into the main storyline as well. | |
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The Stanley Parable's narrator, who serves as a sort of middle man between Stanley and the game's creators. Even if you end up following the story by the letter, you will only be able to proceed by using information he narrates to you, which will lead the narrator to comment on that. And if you start going Off the Rails, well, things start to get increasingly bizarre. The demo alone serves as a master example of this trope, with the narrator presenting the demo to you, the player. | |
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Aki-chan's Life: Caption boxes will often exposit on the characters' expressions, and in parts of chapter 1 they just flat out give the author's commentary on the proceedings. | |
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Nathaniel Hawthorne was an autobiographical Lemony Narrator. This appeared in some of his short stories but is probably most prominent in The Scarlet Letter in which the first chapter is the narrator discussing his experiences working as a customs officer before getting to the actual story, which he says was written from documents archived in the Customs House. The narrator doesn't make too many comments during the actual story, but he does wrap it up at the end. | |
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Bill Nye the Science Guy: The cameraman (voiced by Pat Cashman) would usually make sarcastic comments on Bill's attempts at Mundane Made Awesome, drama failure, and when an experiment failed to go as planned, as well as the occasional Nausea Fuel. | |
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The stage production of Shockheaded Peter has/had two very strange narrators — one who announces himself as "the greatest actor who has ever existed" and Martyn Jacques of the Tiger Lillies, who sung most of the songs and whose stage persona is intentional nightmare fuel. At the end of one song he would appear to have some kind of breakdown and shrieking "DEAD! DEAD!! DEAD!! DEAD!!" over and over again before being forced temporarily offstage. | |
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Brad Neely's Wizard People, Dear Reader, in which he narrates the first Harry Potter film in an excessively dramatic, increasingly inaccurate and often insane way, most notably a scene late in the film where the narrator entirely ignores the action sequence taking place on screen to discuss Harry's desire to move to pre-Columbian America. For several minutes. | |
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The narrator of Disney's Hercules frequently argues with the Muses. Unlike the Bobobo and Rocky and Bullwinkle examples above, the Storyteller isn't strictly necessary for the plot to progress (in one episode, it's his day off) and he does appear onscreen (same episode, just after someone remarks on his absence and is informed that he doesn't have to come in to work today, he wanders by with his family — they're disembodied voices, but we can still see where they are because they're wearing party hats). Also, he was referred to as "Bob." (The voice was provided by Robert Stack.) | |
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The narrator in The Adventures of Willy Beamish, who only rears his head if you examine something/one. Depending on what he's describing, it can be any combination of Mundane Made Awesome, Deadpan Snarker, and This Loser Is You (his opinion of Willy is strikingly low). | |
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Peter Shaffer's Amadeus is narrated by a very old and somewhat mentally disturbed Salieri. | |
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The narrator in Marie D Suesse And The Mystery New Pirate Age!, so very much. He even starts off with a Snicket Warning Label, and follows up saying that a normal narrator would have started this story by launching into a detailed description of the main character before noting that they really can't be bothered with descriptions at that stage because it was not important and how they would rather provide a picture of the OC if it was. The end of the story strongly implies that the narrator is The Disinfector, also known as Trafalgar Law, or at least the part of Law's consciousness that remembers Mar and everything that happened. | |
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The entire concept of the fanfic Equestria: A History Revealed relies on this concept heavily. Not only is the narrator a character in the story in her own right, it can be argued that she is the only character. As the fic is actually supposed to be an in-universe academic essay, other than the glimpses of history that can be gleamed from quotes and sources she cites, Equestria's history is mostly seen through her eyes. It's through her tremendous leaps in logic and her conspiracy addled mind that the story turns a supposedly dry essay into a thrillride of laughter and ridiculousness. |
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The translation notes for Excel♡Saga were licensed by the same people as that of Pani Poni Dash, and it's narrated similarly. | |
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The Simpsons has one Mother's Day episode where Moe narrates the story and gets distracted by Marge in the window. | |
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The first episode of Dr. Tran had a narrator describing the main character (a young boy trying to eat lunch) as an over-the-top action hero, eventually getting into an argument with him as the narrator's speech descends into gibberish. | |
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The narrator of Samurai Pizza Cats definitely belongs here. He kicks off every episode with a fourth-wall break, has been the victim of a kidnap-the-narrator's-family plot by the Big Bad, the works. | |
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Urinetown has Officer Lockstock and Little Sally, a police officer and a street urchin, respectively, who converse about theatre tropes while telling the story. | |
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The cowboy narrating The Big Lebowski, who never seems to understand that this is not a western movie. | |
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The narrator in An Epic Comic is seen constantly conversing with the characters, stopping what they are doing, and even bringing in other characters. It doesn't get any weirder when it turns out he's the author. | |
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Nobilis 3e and supplement A Diary of Deceivers are narrated by Jenna Moran's Author Avatar, a resident of Nobilis Earth who's involved with the Powers and Excrucians, often to amusing effect. Spinoff Chuubo's Marvelous Wish-Granting Engine is also narrated by Jenna's avatar, who came to Town after the world ended. |
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The Storyteller in Dave the Barbarian. In one story, he was magically enslaved by the Dark Lord Chuckles the Silly Piggy and forced to read out Chuckles' new narration. The heroes are saved when the Storyteller develops laryngitis and they are able to employ a temporary narrator (albeit one who turns the show into a space opera) long enough to capture Chuckles and free the Storyteller. | |
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The narrator of Jane the Virgin often lampshades elements or speaks about the plot in a jokey way. This is also accomplished by on-screen captions in conjunction with voiceover narration (for example, when Jane decides that she will refer to her unborn baby as a "milkshake", the on-screen caption introducing Rafael originally reads "the father of the baby" and is then edited to read "the father of the milkshake"). | |
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Though there are several examples in Adventures in Odyssey, perhaps the most prominent is Bernard Walton, local window-washer and janitor. If ever a kid in Whit's End says he is bored, or he has a problem and Whit's not around, you can be sure that he's in for a retelling of a Bible story. These yarns are consistently peppered with deadpan snarking, humorous comparisons, and references that go over the heads of the younger generation. In "It Happened At Four Corners", Bernard makes up a story about a pair of cousins (exactly like himself and Eugene) who find the map to an underground river of gold. At the end of the episode, it nearly comes true. Bernard later gets a TV program called B-TV, in which he almost invariably ends up telling a story in his own particular style. |
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Zig-zagged in Manehattan's Lone Guardian. Scenes where Leviathan is narrating the story often contain snark towards her associates, and she at times lampshades tropes (such as viewing the idea of being Trapped in Another World as one of the oldest cliches in fiction) and elements of her source material (Bottomless Pits and Spikes of Doom). Meanwhile, most of the third-person scenes are narrated normally, though at one point the narration itself directly cuts off an antagonist's profanity-laden tirade before it begins. | |
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How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (the live-action version) features Anthony Hopkins as the narrator, and he usually remains objective. A notable exception is when the Grinch tells him to be quiet during a "sneaking" scene, and he responds by whispering the narration. | |
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Although not technically a narrator, the text of the Monsters and Other Childish Things sourcebook Dreadful Secrets of Candlewick Manor is written with this sort of style very much in mind. For example: | |
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The narrator of Desert Punk sometimes lapses into an fairly acerbic form of this, usually in response to the underwhelming behavior of the characters in the show. | |
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"In the next episode, Burnt Face Man has sex! With an eagle!" | |
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The narrator of Zuleika Dobson appears to be a hold-over from the Victorian use of this trope (i.e. an opinionated narrator whose in-universe/out-of-universe status is nebulous). Then he's revealed halfway through the book to be a historian whom the Greek muse of history has granted the ability to be invisibly, intangibly present for the events of the story so that he can write a history book that's more like a novel (and therefore less boring). | |
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Dragaera: Steven Brust spoofs Alexandre Dumas with Paarfi, the narrator of his "Khaavren Romances". No one is more impressed by Paarfi's storytelling skills than Paarfi himself, and he's not shy about letting his readers know how much they should share his opinion. He will proudly digress for paragraphs at a time to explain a particular literary device he is about to use, and will even digress to explain how he doesn't want to waste the reader's time. He will also put his narrative on hold to start ranting about completely unrelated topics that have got his goat, often venting some petty grievance against a rival historian. The Baron of Magister Valley proves that Paarfi is not alone in his narrative eccentricity. The foreword for the book is written by a critic who spends the entire 1,000 words of his foreword griping that he's being forced to write 1,000 words or else he won't get paid. |
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In Artificial Ace Attorney, at the end of "The Ballistic Turnabout," as Mia, the POV character, is shot dead in court, the video ends with the narrator addressing the viewer. | |
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Adams uses a similar style in his Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, where he makes odd references to things that seem either irrelevant or that don't even exist in our world. In a brilliant subversion, every single little idiosyncrasy turns out to be central to the main plot. Only Adams never makes this explicit and leaves it to the reader to figure it out. | |
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RWBY: Qrow is the narrator for the third series of the World of Remnant mini-series, which is scattered throughout Volume 4 of the main show. He brings his sarcasm A-game to the role, indulges his alcoholism before talking and shamelessly provides his own personal judgements on the people, places and events he's talking about. | |
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Dawn of War: The Narrator of Dark Crusade and Soulstorm is supposedly an Imperial scholar, and also, apparently, a Large Ham who INDEED has a... STRANGE way of intoning HIS MONologue. Watch. | |
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Ōkami-san's narrator (Satomi Arai and Luci Christian) amuses herself by insulting the characters — especially Ryoko and Ringo, the two she mocks most frequently for being flat-chested — though the others ignore her. In Episode 4, she even cuts off the opening narration with a comment that she's not going to bother telling us the exposition again. | |
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In Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates, most of the book was written with standard narration. In a few places it lapsed into Lemony Narration, such as when the narrator pondered why Santa didn't visit the destitute Brinker household on Christmas. Most jarringly, however, was at the end with the narrator telling you that you didn't care whether Hans or Peter won the race. | |
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The narrator of Edna & Harvey: Harvey’s New Eyes likes to follow a format of brief identification-longer declaration-highly unnerving aside. Like so: "A clown! Lilli had never seen a live clown before! Only the dead one who stood outside her window at night." He also tells Blatant Lies so often and with so cheery a voice that it swiftly starts to feel like a nonstop Sarcasm Mode. | |
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The narrator for the Goofy "How to" cartoons, who often corrects him and slows down the proceedings with verbose digressions. On one cartoon he freezes Goofy in the middle of a pole vault jump to discuss the proper vaulting form, and it turns into a recitation of Tennyson's "Crossing the Bar", all while poor Goofy is trying to maintain his balance. In How to Hook Up Your Home Theater, he even goes as far as to yell at Goofy to find the remote control because the Big Game is about to start. In How to Be a Gentleman, Goofy, after having failed twice in getting into a fancy club (the second time due to a lack of pants), beats up the narrator, who had just angrily chastised Goofy for walking into the club without any pants. |
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As of Dragon Age: Inquisition, players can read Hard in Hightown, Varric's most famous in-universe novel, as a series of codex entries in the game. It's full of this kind of narration, his description of a ship being a classic example, and so beloved by the fandom that it's being released as an actual book. | |
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Champions of Far'aus: While the narration is usually just there to say where people are, or how much time has passed, it gets a good snark in on occasion, but the best example would be the time where Skye and Daryl are Crossing the Desert, and the narration makes it clear there's nothing worthwhile to talk about besides the fact that Daryl and Skye are just walking, and then says "What say we skip the walking?" at which point the story cuts to them in a town — but it doesn't stop being snarky until the end of the page. | |
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A Town of Salem Affectionate Parody series shot in Live Action turns the narrator into just that, commenting the Wills and Death Notes the players leave. See it here. | |
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Drosselmeyer from Princess Tutu is an unusual case since he is an actual character in the show whose special ability to bring stories to life means in addition to being the narrator of the story he is also able to manipulate events in it. | |
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The narrative of Murder at Colefax Manor strays into this occasionally. | |
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VGA Miner: The narrator can be snarky, with lines like "You can't fly, dummy" and "Try the elevator" if you try to go up or down in town. | |
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If on a winter’s night a traveler, by Italo Calvino, is narrated by the author writing about you, the reader, who is reading about what the author, the narrator, is writing about you. With much, often hilarious, commentary. | |
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In Earthworm Jim, Psycrow forces the narrator to read the lines he's written for him, thus making the events actually happen. He threatens the narrator with larynx-eating insects if he does not comply. | |
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The musical Pippin, in which the narrator of the play is a character known as the Leading Player who often drags along the action by force and yells at the characters when they forget their lines or entrances. And when a character makes a decision that, according to the Leading Player, wasn't supposed to happen, well... | |
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WordGirl has a narrator who constantly breaks the fourth wall and strikes up conversations with the characters, often pointing out plot holes, obvious flaws in plans, and occasionally reading ahead in the script (and being called out for it as well). | |
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Maneater features an unseen in-universe narrator, voiced by Chris Parnell, who exists as part of the game's "Discovery Channel Expy Reality TV show" Framing Device. His commentary is a grab bag of genuinely informative and interesting marine trivia, jokes about the local wildlife, and sarcastic quips about the city of Port Clovis and its shark-hunting community. He pulls double duty as the Game-Over Man, with a pithy line at the ready if the shark should ever meet its fate. | |
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Some of the Stephen Briggs adaptations of Discworld novels represent the Lemony Narrator as a charcacter called the Footnote. The nested footnotes sometimes get represented with another Footnote character, who doesn't get on with the first one. | |
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Nextwave. It even crops up when the team make a blatant cameo appearance in other series, with the accompanying caption done in the series' style. | |
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William Makepeace Thackeray has a bizarre narrating style in "Vanity Fair", as he makes asides to his (often assumed to be female) audience about what's going on, often referencing events which happened at the time, as well as replying to a letter he received from a disgruntled fan part-way through. (The novel was originally serialised in a magazine.) | |
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Split Heirs: The book's narrator provides amusing, sarcastic commentary on the story's proceedings throughout. | |
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The narrator of Hayate the Combat Butler. Since they couldn't get someone British, they got Norio Wakamoto instead. And when the anime was dubbed in English by Animax-Asia, the narrator was British. |
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Final Fantasy XIV expansions have a character narrating each new location (Edmond de Fortemps for Heavensward, Lyse for Stormblood, and Ardbert for Shadowbringers). In Endwalker, this role is taken by none other than Emet-Selch, whose narrations are snarkier than the last three expansions. | |
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Professor Gregarious T. Oswald in Puppeteer (2013). When he's not narrating the story, he's prone to rambling about things only slightly related to the action, arguing with the actors on stage, and becoming easily distracted when cool machines and giant robots show up. | |
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The Brave Engineer is narrated by comedian Jerry Colonna, who does very little exposition, instead random commentary and speaking on behalf of the characters. Most of the actual narration is done by the King's Men, who sing "The Ballad of Casey Jones". | |
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The Japanese dub of The Transformers added a narrator who would frequently exclaim things like "and now, the battle begins!" or "But then...! Suddenly!" throughout the episode. | |
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Venom: The End is narrated by a glib being who is prone to technobabble and presenting the events of the story in a sillier, more exaggerated way. This person is revealed to be a Tony Stark-descended artificial intelligence. | |
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Monty Python and the Holy Grail has a narrator that goes off on tangents and even suddenly dies. | |
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In Soylent Scrooge, the narrator frequently comments on the characters and what they're doing, and is insistent that characters don't die despite all evidence to the contrary. | |
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Joe Leahy, the narrator in Freakazoid!, does such things as argue with the network censor and give away plot points, earning the ire of the villains. He also argues with Freakazoid on occasion, and becomes a character in his own right by the end of Season 2. | |
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Tara Duncan: Sophie Audouin-Mamikonian mocks her characters in footnotes, does comparisons of their gestures with famous movies, and in later books, gave the chapters long, overly descriptive titles. | |
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The Rocky Horror Picture Show has the Criminologist, who even explains the dance steps for "The Time Warp". "It's just a jump to the left—" The viewer could easily get the feeling the Criminologist wishes he were physically present for the insanity he's narrating. | |
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In Homestuck the Infamous Andrew Hussie has been known to get up to such shenanigans as demolishing the fourth and fifth walls, stealing other people's offices for his recaps, and strangling the guest narrator. Lord English killing him stopped him for a while but later on went right back to tormenting English's past self Caliborn. Mindfang's 'diaries' almost literally written like a lemon, describing even into detail how she treats her 'slave' (who was supposedly the Dolorosa). If Calliope's scrapbook is any indication, then she may serve as an lemony narrator à la Stranger Than Fiction, whilst also existing within the narration itself. Also, VOXUS' Let's Read Homestuck series has SuperBlueBadger doing the normal voiceover and Blackmagebrad as the Act 5 voiceover. As the series would be awkwardly worded if he constantly said things like 'forward arrow', they would sometime rewords the commands to be sillier in a way. |
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The Penny Arcade videogame On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness: Episode 1 starts off with a narrator who talks directly to the player character and warns you not to dwell on his mysterious identity... You're dwelling on it, aren't you? Stop that. It's implied that he will be a proper character in later episodes. He continues the trend in Episode 2, asking you to choose a difficulty at the beginning, and mocking you if you choose easy. While the narrator's presence in Episode 3 is somewhat subdued, he makes a comeback in Episode 4: as the last Old God and hence the Final Boss. |
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Moonrise Kingdom has a non-sarcastic example in the "Narrator." He narrates certain portions of the film, usually giving critical information, and usually isn't seen with other characters (except for one plot-crucial scene where he gives information to the other characters on how to find the protagonists of the film, two runaway kids). All his dialogue is ambiguous: he appears to be on the setting's island to shoot a weather report for a news station, but he might as well be directly talking to the audience with exposition and looking right into the camera. | |
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The first sentence of The Voyage of the Dawn Treader is, "There was a boy named Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it." | |
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Senran Kagura's anime adaptation didn't play this trope in its Japanese dub for its narrator, but the English dub does this trope. | |
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In the first The Order of the Stick book, Dungeon Crawlin' Fools, Rich Burlew adds before the first strips some introductory strips which add a narrator. As the characters continually fail to remain stealthy in their efforts to reach the dungeon they're approaching, they comment on how difficult it is to sneak when there's a voice booming across the countryside announcing what you're up to. So they find the narrator and throw him to the monster guarding the dungeon. He still can't stop narrating what's happening. | |
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Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers: The Troubador intentionally derails an effort to tell an accurate telling of the source material to tell a comic book version involving musical numbers. | |
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The opening narration of Ted starts out like a typical family feel-good movie but goes off the rails rather spectacularly within minutes. During the ending narration, the narrator pauses to mock Superman Returns. | |
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In the Netflix adaptation A Series of Unfortunate Events, Lemony Snicket himself is portrayed by Patrick Warburton. He is present in many scenes, but is assumed to not actually be there, the series being a dramatization of his reminiscences. He frequently advises the viewer to do or watch something more happy instead, and offers his opinion on characters and on what he wished had happened in the story instead of the increasingly depressing events that do. | |
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The narrator of Space☆Dandy does this in pretty much all of his appearances. He mocks the characters of the show ("Drowning in the introspection he couldn't even spell..."), refers to his own position as narrator, and has his own personality, preferring to narrate about things like "breastaurants" rather than the actual plot. Many of the things that happen to Dandy and crew usually end up happening to the narrator as well, such as having to deal with alternate-universe versions of himself or becoming a zombie. |
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Best of Three: The narrator tends to add in some snarky comments. It calls you out for not knowing what to say when you reconnect with Grant, and later states that you are about to come up with a "rude retort" after one of Grant's comments before you get distracted. | |
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Ricky Jay in Magnolia. Notably, he mostly only narrates the opening sequence (made up of seemingly-unrelated stories about coincidence that actually set up the movie's theme) and the trailer. | |
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In LittleBigPlanet, this role is filled by none other than Stephen Fry. He's prone to strange similes ("Faster than a pneumatic whippet!") and anecdotes about his cat. | |
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Undertale's narrator will make comments about the various enemies you face and snark at you when you do something silly. Unless you're in a Genocide Run, in which case nearly all lemony-ness is dropped, with the few personal touches remaining being bloodthirsty instead of comical ("Where are the knives", "In my way", "Looks like free EXP" [said about Monster Kid, and so on). | |
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In Schlock Mercenary, the Narrator is JUST the narrator, and not the storyteller. This has led to a few points where the narrator wandered off to ask the author what was going on. | |
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Komi Can't Communicate: In the Latin American dub, Cristina Hernández adopts this style as opposed to the neutral tone of the original Japanese. Case in point, in a scene where a tour guide watches Tadano and Komi's interaction and thinks to herself that they should just get married, the Narrator directly agrees by saying "Lo mismo digo yo" ("That's what I say"). | |
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The narrator of Hysterical will often go on tangents, break the fourth wall, and openly comment/mock about whatever is going on at that moment. | |
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David Wong, the writer and one of the central characters of John Dies at the End and This Book Is Full of Spiders: Seriously, Dude, Don't Touch It, frequently comments on what's going on, usually to point out the ridiculous or stupid means of saving the world he and John employ. He frequently says to the reader things like "You heard me" or "No, really." He also lampshades that much of what happens is probably being embellished upon by him. A lot. | |
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The narrator (who is also the writer) of Dante's Night at Freddy's usually keeps out of the action, but when an adorable piglet is introduced just to be brutally sacrificed, he stops to admit, "Wow, that was kinda fucked up even by my standards." The first sequel, Animatronic Boogaloo, features the same writer and narrator, who gets into the action more often. So much so he appears in two of the later chapters, and reveals himself to be a Shameless Self-Promoter with a notable twinge of self doubt. The second sequel, Evie's Night at Fazbear's Fright, apparently contains two Lemony Narrators: the same author as the previous two, and a second narrator riffing on his chiches. Don't examine this too closely. |
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In American Dad!, Klaus once began to narrate things as though it were the DVD commentary. Being a goldfish hasn't been good for his sanity. | |
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Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth introduces itself with a great deal of fourth-wall-breaking snark from the character Sabina, which might qualify as Lemony narration. | |
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Every episode of Slayers begins with a recap narrated by Lina Inverse who can definitely be less than honest when it comes to telling her own story. She regularly twists her recollection of the story in order to put herself in a good light, belittle the villains and make jokes at the expanse of her friends. | |
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Ultra Fast Pony has a few: Phil the Narrator. His smarmy tone and inappropriate "Oh yeah"s turn everything he narrates into innuendo. He also actively encourages Applejack and Rarity to make out. The unnamed subtitle writer is also quite opinionated, often using the subtitles to agree with the ponies or mock Ultra Fast Pony's shortcomings. In one episode, he sides with the ponies against Phil the narrator, and in another he gets into an argument with Scootaloo. Another narrator shows up in "For Glorious Mother Equestria". He tries to spin everything as political propaganda, and his voiceovers tend to directly contradict what's happening on-screen. |
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In Twinkling in the Dark, the narrator quotes her father and discusses his Sir Swears-a-Lot tendencies, and later quips on how easily a scene with a back massage could be seen as Ho Yay. | |
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Super Daryl Deluxe — either someone else is writing about Daryl's exploits in Daryl's journal, or Daryl writes about himself in third person. Either way, the journal is full of inaccurate recountings of what happened during play and openly mocks Daryl for being stupid and easily distracted. | |
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Susannah Clarke, in Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, is not afraid to interject, true to the 19th-century style, with commentary on the characters and their actions. | |
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Thousand Shinji: While Shinji and Asuka watched their memories inside the latter's mind, a Keeper of Secrets of the Warhammer 40,000 universe made sarcastic remarks. Neither of them appreciated the commentary. | |
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The Powerpuff Girls (1998) had a plot in which Mojo Jojo took over the role of narrator and made the girls commit crimes. The regular Narrator even interacts with the characters and winds up becoming dumbfounded if the episode turns out differently than expected. In "Telephonies", when HIM, Mojo Jojo, and Fuzzy Lumpkins open a can of whoopass on the Gangreen Gang for making the Powerpuff Girls falsely attack them due to crank calls, the narrator says this: |
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BlazBlue example. Haku-men's Arcade Mode ending for Calamity Trigger features Rachel Alucard telling Haku-men's heroic backstory in the means of a bedtime story. You can see it here. Rachel also provides the narration for the tutorial mode. However, being Rachel, she is prone to stopping and insulting the player, especially early on. She eases up quite a bit (but not entirely) once the player has cruised through the easy stuff. |
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Then there's the storyteller of the standalone Gwent adventure Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales, who is revealed to be Borch Three Jackdaws, the golden dragon. | |
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Zak Penn's mockumentary Incident At Loch Ness; in which Herzog stars and gives an over-the-top version of his usual narration, culminating in his lamenting the sheer futility of all the crew's efforts. | |
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Spinoff Chuubo's Marvelous Wish-Granting Engine is also narrated by Jenna's avatar, who came to Town after the world ended. | |
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Keaton Yamada, the narrator of Chibi Maruko-chan. He frequently expresses his opinions about the characters' actions and goes on diversions about stuff. He especially targets Maruko and her doting grandfather for his asides, criticizing them for foolish behavior and thoughts. He makes a cameo in one episode in the original anime series where he actually speaks to the characters face to face, keeping up with his comments; the main characters also fire back. | |
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The narrator in the Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance fic Friendship Is Forever engages in Suspiciously Specific Denial of any possibility of a romantic connection between Ike and Soren with every sentence, while unashamedly describing heavy Ho Yay between them. | |
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The Cave from, ugh, The Cave is one. Yes, he's a talking cave, and he wishes you wouldn't laugh - getting a date is hard enough already. He spends the whole game laughing at the characters, giving subtle hints and occasionally spoilers. | |
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The narrator of Kaguya-sama: Love Is War spends half his time playing up the insecurities of lovestruck teenagers as if they were the most important thing in the world and the other half mercilessly mocking the cast. The English dub on the other hand, has Ian Sinclair go full ham half the time, equally as invested in the love tug of war as the audience. |
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Minotaur Hotel: The third-person narration used in most of the game is quite creative and sometimes a little humorous. | |
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The narrator of How Heavy Are the Dumbbells You Lift? is a hoot in both the Japanese and English versions, addressing the audience directly, cracking jokes about the characters, and generally adding humor to the proceedings. | |
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Baka and Test: Summon the Beasts has a bizarre sarcastic narrator already, but what makes it stand out is that partway through, Class F's teacher becomes the narrator, and the old narrator becomes their teacher. This is explicitly pointed out, and remains as such for the rest of the show. | |
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The narrator of Lies of the Sheriff Evans: Dead or Love spends about a quarter of their time recapping or telling the reader what's going on, and the rest making fun of the characters, pointing out the times where they're lying, reminding them that the titular Sheriff has never had a girlfriend whenever he tries to act cool, and generally just being snarky about everything. | |
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The Volo's Guide series of sourcebooks for the Forgotten Realms has a lemony editor. Volothamp himself isn't usually that lemony in his descriptions, and neither is the editors that must have gone through the books after they were passed on to our world via Ed Greenwood, but before that was done, Elminster went through the books, correcting errors (and sometimes not correcting errors, to keep people on their toes) and adding comments. As one might guess by the fact that he leaves his comments in (and by the 'keeping people on their toes' part), Elminster has a rather idiosyncratic approach to editing... at least when it comes to Volo's books. | |
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Tress of the Emerald Sea has a very snarky, irreverent narrator, which stands out a bit from the rest of The Cosmere; this is justified, however, as the narrator is revealed very early in the book to be Hoid, a reoccurring character and infamous Troll with a snarky sense of humor. | |
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Wacky Races: Sometimes Dick Dastardly would engage in conversation with the narrator, where he would explain his evil plan to dispose of the other racers when questioned about it. The practice was carried over to spinoff series The Perils of Penelope Pitstop, where it was picked up by Hooded Claw (and sometimes Penelope herself too, while trying to escape a trap). | |
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George of the Jungle: As with the cartoon, featured in the live-action movie. Later on, one of the villains has to tell his sidekick not to bicker with the narrator. They fight anyway, and the narrator wins by fast-forwarding past his rant and mocking him. The narrator continues in the same way in the sequel, but reaches a whole new level when in retaliation for Lyle calling him "annoying", the narrator reaches down with a huge animated hand (ala Monty Python) and carries him off into the sky. He then asks the rest of the cast if they have complaints. They all quickly say no. |
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Prokofiev's opera The Love For Three Oranges has four or five competing lemony narrators: various groups of "audience members" (actually members of the chorus) who continuously interrupt the action to argue about what kind of story they want to see. As the opera goes on, they begin to influence the action directly, providing the heroes with advice and crucial props. Eventually they rush the stage and abduct the main antagonist. It's pretty weird. | |
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Dear White People: Giancarlo Esposito serves as one, humorously commenting about the events and issues of the story. Until the Season 2 finale where ''he's'' the one to meet Sam and Lionel when they finally track the Order of X's secret meeting spot. | |
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Penny Blackfeather has an Interactive Narrator - the ghost of protagonists's grandfather - who follows her, commenting on everything she does. He's already snarky with her, but whenever another character turns out to be able to hear him, they tend to rue the fact they cannot throttle him. He's also economical with the truth. | |
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The narrator of the original Colossal Cave Interactive Fiction game, down to the need for the player to solve at least one puzzle in a "lemony" way. For those curious, it involved being deliberately ambiguous about killing a dragon. When the player types "KILL DRAGON", the narrator responds "With what, your bare hands?" In order to kill the dragon, the player responds "YES". | |
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Sarah & Duck: The narrator is actually a character in the show. Though the audience never sees him, he interacts with the other characters, and influences the plot. He also explains difficult words to Sarah, and seems to come with her and Duck everywhere. He appears to have some connection to Sarah's family. In one episode, when the three of them go up to the attic to find Duck's old toys, they discover a box with several windup robots. | |
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Most of the narration in The Master and Margarita is third-person omniscient, but every now and then the narrator instructs the reader to "please note" some particular detail; or comments on how the real events he's describing were later mis-reported In-Universe; or goes off on satiric or downright strange asides. | |
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In Amagami SS, the Sae Nakata arc had a narrator. Said narrator was Joji Nakata, who proceeded to lay into the plot and the This Loser Is You protagonist with a voice so smarmy it could melt butter. | |
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Space Quest uses this throughout the series with choice commentary on your actions. The fourth and sixth games have Gary Owens narrating your exploits. | |
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The Land of Green Ginger is told in the voice of a rather melodramatic children's storyteller. The prose's tendency towards the light purple with a heavy salting of Capital Letters Are Magic and pseudo-"Arabian Nights" Days mannerisms is demonstrated in the first paragraph: | |
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Rod Roddy in Soap frequently made fun of the show's absurdly melodramatic plotlines in the Previously on… and On the Next segments of the show. | |
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A Series of Unfortunate Events by Daniel Handler, writing as Lemony Snicket, gives this trope its name. Combined with Private Eye Monologue in All the Wrong Questions, a Prequel series featuring Lemony as a Kid Detective. | |
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Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo's English Dub narrator (blessed with the powerful voice of Michael McConnohie) constantly breaks the fourth wall and interacts with the characters. In the final episode, he complains about how he never got a chance to be on the screen. He also apparently lives with his grandmother. | |
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Knickerbocker Holiday begins with Washington Irving sitting down to write a history of old New Amsterdam. He wants his book to sell, so he'll make it amusing and romantic and avoid unsavory political details that might offend aristocratic descendants. He has to intervene in the action a couple of times to keep it that way. | |
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If Calliope's scrapbook is any indication, then she may serve as an lemony narrator à la Stranger Than Fiction, whilst also existing within the narration itself. | |
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The unnamed narrator of Fire Emblem: Three Houses: Fifth Path frequently makes snarky comments about the cast and the events surrounding them or engages in humorous asides. | |
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Midst has three of them. They snip at each other, wax eloquent on the lives of background characters, and cheerfully assure the listener that both Fuse and Moc Weepe are screwed. | |
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Like To Be Or Not To Be, North's follow-up Shakespeare parody, Romeo and/or Juliet has him back in full force, and while he's okay with how the reader can follow the original plot of the play this time around, he snarks on a lot of options and is frequently annoyed at how the reader chooses to skip certain scenes. The only time he's not around is when it shifts to Rosaline's perspective who narrates everything herself. | |
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In Slay the Princess, the Narrator is very talkative and is the one who directs you on your quest. He displays varying levels of irritation and enthusiasm depending on how much you obey him. When you start openly defying him, the consequences of your actions have him narrate your death in a manner that suggests the Narrator thinks you have it coming. It ties into the game's Ambiguous Situation, as it's unclear how much the Narrator is telling the truth about you needing to slay the princess to prevent The End of the World as We Know It. | |
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Harry Plinkett's movie reviews on RedLetterMedia definitely qualify. One minute he's discussing the characterization tropes used in Citizen Kane and in the next, he's molesting his cat and offering to mail his fans Pizza Rolls. | |
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The Narrator of Pit People, from the same people who made Battleblock Theater, is unique as he also doubles as the Big Bad. | |
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Sebastian Cabot went all Lemony as the narrator of both The Jungle Book (1967) and The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh. In the latter he broke the fourth wall to help Tigger down from a tree. | |
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"The Princess and the Queen", a novella connected with the A Song of Ice and Fire series, is framed as a work of in-universe history, written by a Maester with a dry tone. For instance, the author talks about how the dynastic struggle he's describing is popularly known as "The Dance of the Dragons", which he describes as exactly the kind of stupid name for a bloody civil war that a minstrel would think up (this is a Take That Me since that conflict is referenced in the title of the novel A Dance with Dragons). | |
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The narrator in One Piece normally remains pretty objective, but when Luffy, Zoro, Chopper, and Robin all head off in different directions, and only Robin going in the right one, despite having clear directions to go in a straight line, even he gives up on them. | |
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In Futurama: "You watched it, you can't unwatch it. Stay tuned for more Tales of Interest!" Inexplicably, but Dr. Zoidberg pops up as a Lemony Narrator at the conclusion of "Love and Rockets": |
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The narrator in Girl Days frequently makes sarcastic remarks or quips as telling the story. | |
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Tom in The Glass Menagerie introduces himself at the start of the play as both its narrator and a character in it. Thereafter he steps outside the Fourth Wall whenever he needs to narrate. | |
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Terry Wogan's infamous commentaries. | |
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The first half of The Emperor's New Groove is narrated by Kuzco, a huge Jerkass and Deadpan Snarker. The in-movie Kuzco goes through some character development, and thus ends up bickering with the narrator Kuzco. Surprisingly, once the in-movie Kuzco gets angry at the narrator and tells him to scram, the rest of the movie passes without narration. | |
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The narrator of Secret Series, Pseudonymous Bosch, takes quite a bit of inspiration from Handler's work, several times warning the reader that of the danger of secrets, and warning the reader not to continue reading. The entire first chapter switches all of the letters with X's, just to illustrate the point of how different and secretive the story is, saying that normally the first chapter of a book reveals the protagonists and their Back Stories, but he wasn't going to do that, instead giving the characters pseudonyms as opposed to their real names, and outright telling the reader he is going to replace everything that might help you identify the protagonists or their home 'if you were to come across it one day.' However, his quirky personality leads to more than a couple of slip-ups, and he often tells you right when he is about to do this. He doesn't put in a thirteenth chapter, and is known to give to tips on how to make the reading experience more exciting. The most apparent occurrence of this is when halfway through the book, you stumble upon a chapter entitled "I've Changed My Mind." He explains that he is going to stop writing the book while the protagonists are still safe. The narrator starts to rant on about how angry the audience must be, and how they might try to bribe him, He lets it slip that he is extremely susceptible to bribes, especially if given a certain kind of chocolate ... which he realizes he has with him ... He bribes himself. Though never stated completely outright it is eventually revealed that the pseudonymous author is, in fact, the grown-up version of one of the main protagonists of the series, Max-Ernst. The trope is still present but heavily downplayed in the Sequel Series, The Bad Books, which feature Paul-Clay, the younger brother of the narrator. This is to the relief of some reviewers of the books, who felt that the trope was used in the original books to the point of nearly driving the reader to distraction. | |
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In Total Drama Island by Gilbert and Sullivan, the "just the facts" character of the episode summaries doesn't preclude drollery. For example, a certain summary doesn't just say, "Bridgette alarms a family of skunks and gets sprayed." Instead, it says, "Bridgette alarms a family of skunks and pays the customary penalty." | |
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The Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine musical Into the Woods, a deconstruction of the Fairy Tale genre, includes a Lemony Narrator who deftly strings several fairy tales together. Until some of the characters, currently at the mercy of a vengeful giant, decide they don't like how he's telling the story, and sacrifice him to the giant. | |
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Ctrl+Alt+Del, Ethan hosts a Wintereenmas Games Bowl, which was put to print rather than comic (more here). Being about Ethan, any narrative account is likely to be this. | |
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Sophie Bell, of The Ultra Violets is incredibly fond of this, peppering in lots of Lampshade Hanging, pop culture references, and bizarre jokes involving the typography. | |
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Rocky and Bullwinkle showed two goons kidnapping the Narrator... and then realizing that they needed him ungagged so the story could progress forward. | |
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The Saki fanfic Saki: After Story, found here, features a narrator like this, although some of it seems to be author's notes in the middle of the story. | |
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Rucks, narrator of Bastion, is not only the narrator but also a character in-story that you interact with multiple times. This means he often doesn't know more about your situation than you do and a lot of his narration gets rather lemony as a result. Since The Kid is also a Heroic Mime Rucks narrates everything The Kid supposedly said. After the success of Bastion, this trope quickly became the trademark of Super Giant Games. Transistor, Pyre and Hades all feature very personable, very entertaining narrators... and they're all the same guy, too. |
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The narrator of Fly by Night starts off the musical by admitting that he doesn't know where to start, repeatedly realizes that he needs to rewind the story because he's completely skipped over what important characters were doing, and will occasionally say stuff that Makes Sense In Context. | |
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Witch's Wish has this with the instruction manual, which mentions how some novice witches use their fingertips to cast magic, but points out that later spells require precise stylus movement so the stylus is better off used. | |
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The Narrator of Battleblock Theater, whether he's commenting on the players in-game or the story in cutscenes, is constantly off his rocker. | |
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BattleBlock Theater (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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Danger Mouse's narrator often adds random information and after the more normal cliffhanger questions adds questions like "Will Penfold get over his fear of coathangers?", or "Will please someone return my washing machine?" He is such a part of the series that he is even given a name in canon — Isombard. After Danger Mouse has to ride a bike since the car broke: | |
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Sonic Colors: Rise of the Wisps: After Sonic says he was taken out of the story of the Jade Wisp thanks to Tails' impression of Eggman's laugh, Tails challenges Sonic to read Eggman's lines. He reads them with an exaggerated impression with ad-libbing while making Eggman act and sound like a complete idiot. Tails asks him to give it a rest and just read what the translator actually says. | |
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A Tactician's Testimony: Katri often makes snarky comments in her narration, and reveals such things as her disbelief in the Mani Katti's power. | |
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TV Tropes: Your not-so-humble army of tropers almost certainly qualifies! Most recaps on the site stick to a revision of the work. Take a gander at the ones for Game of Thrones which are an exercise in humor with editors clearly having a blast covering each episode. | |
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The grandfather in The Princess Bride. Even though he's only reading a book to his grandson, he does provide commentary, clarifications, and lampshades on occasion. | |
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Marcus Zusak's The Book Thief is narrated by Death. This provides a nice little prologue and frame for the story, as he opens it by mentioning every instance when he was with the Book Thief - every time that she was near a dying person, which, as this is World War II Germany, happens often. It's also a good way to provide a lot of cushioning foreshadowing. | |
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The 2004 remake of The Bard's Tale has a narrator, voiced by Tony Jay, who is clearly wishing he was narrating a classic Heroic Fantasy rather than this sham of a story. As a result, the narrator is openly mocking and hostile towards the Bard. At one point, when the Bard slays a Money Spider and an implausible amount of loot falls out of it, the narrator gets annoyed at how little sense that makes and tells you he's just going to skip the parts about every monster dropping huge amounts of money in the future and the Bard complains how he's being deprived of a source of income. | |
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The narrator in Danganronpa Parody is a Deadpan Snarker that sometimes talks to the cast members (mostly Makoto). By the final episode, he leaves the show after getting sufficiently pissed at Makoto being such an Idiot Hero. | |
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In Fate Tiger Colosseum Upper for Saber Lion's scenario Kotomine Kirei acts as narrator and while he does give information he never passes up an opportunity to mock the opponents and before the final fight he gets annoyed at how naive Caren's plan was so he KOs Shirou and assists her saying he was tired of being the narrator. After losing and doing the outro, he complains the ending is boring. | |
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Fate/stay night (Visual Novel) | hasFeature |
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While not a third-person narrator, the Prince in the Prince of Persia: Sands of Time series has a tendency to go off on descriptive tangents when entering new areas. In Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones, it reaches the point where his alter-ego the Dark Prince has to interrupt him to call attention to an important plot event. | |
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Eurovision Song Contest: Terry Wogan's infamous commentaries. In Germany, Hape Kerkeling did about the same. |
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John Fowles does this marvelously in The French Lieutenant's Woman, where he goes off to write near-essays about the Victorian era, comments on how characters get away from him, inserts himself in a scene and writes two endings for the book (well, maybe three. Depending on how you look at it.) | |
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The French Lieutenant's Woman | hasFeature |
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SpongeBob SquarePants' narrator is a French man (inspired by Jacques Cousteau) voiced by the title character's voice Tom Kenny, no less. At one point, he gets so tired of waiting between time-skips, they have to hire a new one. | |
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Gadsby's narrator, who occasionally complains about circumlocutions mandatory for his lipogrammatic story. | |
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In the children's book The Anybodies, the narrator narrates in a conversational tone and provides us with anecdotes about his/her awful car, how the first time s/he heard the Beatles s/he thought "They'll never last", and how dull Fern's parents are. | |
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The narrator of Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea's Illuminatus!! trilogy, who remains anonymous through most of the series before being revealed as FUCKUP, Hagbard's supercomputer. | |
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Illuminatus! | hasFeature |
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The Book of Pooh's narrator often talked regularly with the characters, even to the point of having his own story in the series. | |
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In El Goonish Shive, narration tends to end up this way whether it's Dan himself or one of his characters doing the narration. | |
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Victor Vran: The protagonist starts hearing an unexplained voice at the start of the game that while guiding the protagonist, is also extremely sarcastic and goes off on tangents. For instance, while Victor is fighting a Giant Spider queen, the narrator gets side tracked trying to count her hundreds of eggs littering the floor. The narrator also serves as a Foil to Doug Cockle's more sparse first person narration of Victor as a Geralt of Rivia Expy. | |
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Cecil from Welcome to Night Vale, who at first seems like a typical carefully neutral and reserved public radio host but then goes off on tangents like how he doesn't believe in mountains and fell in love with Carlos the minute he saw him. | |
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Welcome to Night Vale (Podcast) | hasFeature |
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As is tradition with the books, A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004) is narrated by Lemony Snicket. He gives mild commentary on the events he's reciting to the player as well as gives them some tutorial information. | |
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The author of The Death Eaters' Disney World Trip thoroughly enjoys taking potshots at Voldemort and his Death Eaters in their narration, while lampshading the Crack Fic nature of the fic at times. | |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: In "Hearth's Warming Eve", Spike acts like one for the play telling the origin of Equestria, making aside comments and riffing on alliterations describing how the Windigos had turned Equestria's lovely weather into another frozen wasteland. | |
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Robert Lee, the narrator of Mythbusters. He makes frequent jokes about the Mythbusters (who, in fairness, make it easy for him) and always seems to have a theme-related bad pun ready. | |
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Jim Dale in Pushing Daisies. "Young Ned did not think of her as being born or hatched or conceived in any way. Chuck came ready-made from the Play-Doh Fun Factory of life." | |
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Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
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Mega Man Reawakened has Robert sometimes making snarky comments on scenes he's narrating, even ones where he's not present. | |
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Zula Patrol always opens each episode with remarks from its snarky narrator, who at one point refuses to narrate what is actually going on because he says he is taking a break, thereby exempting himself from his narration duties. | |
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The narrator from the King's Quest fangame Silver Lining could turn into this if you perform the wrong actions. Get your hands off that, Graham! | |
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Yoshiki Tanaka's Legend of the Galactic Heroes novels (on which the anime are based) do this in a subtle fashion. The exposition sections read like a casual academic lecturenote Yoshiki Tanaka is actually a history professor. It should be noted that the original novels were Light Novels that were written in the Japanese kana scripts instead of the more formal kanji. This is why the prose appears so casual when translated. | |
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Roger Ramjet: The narrator has his own highly idiosyncratic style, sometimes seeming to confuse even himself: | |
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The Dresden Files roleplaying game is written as if the author was actually a character from The Dresden Files, and other characters have added comments in the margins. Sometimes it's informal clarifications of the rules, but other times it's jokes, pop culture references, or amusing comments about the beings and events that supposedly inspired the rules. | |
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Shin Mazinger. It's like the narrator's trying to be more Hot-Blooded than the characters themselves. Like "ENEEEEEEEEEEEEERGAAAAAAAAAAAA...ZZZZZZZZZZEEEEEEEEEETTTTOOOOOO." | |
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The Hobo Bros' cameraman and editor, Martin, sometimes puts snarky comments on the screen describing what Luke and Kevin are doing. | |
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Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace has a third-person narrator who drops phrases like "batsoid," "the howling fantods," and "tear-assing" amid conventional narration, as well as frequently using the word "like" as filler. | |
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MARDEK: If you're not hearing characters be bloody hilarious, you're going to be receiving a healthy, sour dose of this trope in descriptions of the items. In particular, a handy item called "God Piss" reads: | |
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To Be or Not To Be: That Is the Adventure unsurprisingly features this, since it's a parody of Hamlet as a choose-your-own-adventure book. Sticking to the canon route mostly has him bemoaning your terrible decisions and attempting to salvage things by retconning events and/or wresting control from you, but he's got plenty of snark to dish out for the rest of the book as well. | |
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Eat Me: The narrator talks in a very flowery style, extolling foods and flavours in lavish detail, expresses opinions on things in the story, and calls you/the player character by endearments and diminutives such as "darling", "dear", and "child". | |
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Augustus Hill in Oz. He gets even more lemony after his death at the end of Season 5. | |
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Pokémon: The Series: Not during the main anime so much, but he does during Pokémon Chronicles and such. | |
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In James M. Barrie's plays (best known for Peter Pan) he manages to do this with his stage directions, often turning them into extended witty essays explaining character motivations or things about the background that couldn't possibly be staged. Some productions run with it and add an actor as narrator to do some appropriate Reading Stage Directions Out Loud. | |
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In the Ratchet And Clank reboot, Captain Qwark is the narrator of the game and often gives a mix of hints as well as lampshading whatever is happening on-screen. | |
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The narrator of Hyper Fighting Machine Marmalade often attempts to engage the reader in conversation, when he isn't exaggerating the (school-aged) protagonists' romantic troubles in full-on Sarcasm Mode. | |
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In Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, the original manga has an unseen narrator who explains certain aspects of the story to the readers while also frequently making snarky remarks towards the characters' antics. The anime has no narration at all since it takes more of a Show, Don't Tell approach, but there are some gags the anime kept that really only worked with the narration. | |
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The narrator is the only voice in Digimon Resumido with Gratuitous English and he gets progressively annoyed each episode. | |
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The South Park episode "Pip", which is based very loosely on Charles Dickens' Great Expectations, is narrated somewhat lemonishly by Malcolm MacDowell, who introduces himself as "A British Person." | |
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The narrator in Little Misfortune alternates between addressing the player and the game's protagonist, often poking mean-spirited fun at the girl's misadventures. It's because the narrator is a dimension-hopping parasite who has been making her relive the same day over and over for pure sadistic enjoyment. | |
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The narrator of the Quest for Glory series, especially after voice acting is added. In Quest for Glory IV John Rhys-Davies provides the voice, who does a very good job with the odd material. And the role isn't left solely to the Narrator: several of the other voice actors ad-libbed so much, and so well, that the dialog doesn't precisely match what's printed on screen, and it's hilarious. | |
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Atlas Shrugged: Good god, Atlas Shrugged. The narrator is just a bit hagiographic about the main characters. And then there's the rundown after the infamous train scene on why none the people on the doomed train could be considered "innocent" victims. Runs into the "show, don't tell" problem, which is probably inevitable considering the extreme length of the novel and the author's extensive use of methamphetamines while writing it. | |
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In the first episode of Live From Mount Olympus, Hermes cuts in to tell the audience that Polydectes is just as bad as Dictys says, if not worse. | |
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Constantly in The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob, at least when it doesn't drift into Interactive Narrator. | |
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Despite the fact that he's at the mercy of the Chantry, Varric of Dragon Age II insists on adding obviously fake, sensationalistic tinsel to the Framing Device story at random times. His Blatant Lies range from people single-handedly felling ogres to himself suddenly becoming Scarface to his best friend's sister having incredibly large breasts. Within the story itself, it's also acknowledged that he does this with Hawke's diary - interacting with the diary in Hawke's bedroom may prompt him/her to remark that he not only reads the diary, but adds embellishments. | |
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Calvin & Hobbes: The Series has a narrator prone to leaving out excessive details, making brief asides, questioning bits of Fridge Logic, and personally addressing the readers. | |
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The Wuzzles: The narrator seems to have it out for every character in the show, and the first episode ends with him leaving in disgust while the story is technically still going. | |
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The Sun God and the Moon Goddess from Our Little Adventure sometimes narrate and put their two cents into what's happening. | |
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R.L.Stine's horror gamebook series, Give Yourself Goosebumps, has a lot of moments of these. | |
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The author of Genius: The Transgression occasionally snarks about what the Geniuses do. | |
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Andrew Wells in Season 7 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. He narrates the stories he makes up. | |
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The narrator of Aesir: Cross Wars. Whenever a character does something dumb, he points it out and sometimes interacts with the characters. He's also the author, so he can control the characters and make them do something like press a button that leads to an obvious trap. | |
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The Electrical Life of Louis Wain: The film's disembodied narrator (voiced by Olivia Colman) will make the occasional cheeky comment, such as saying the streets of Victorian London smell like shit, or teasing the viewer for thinking Louis' fortunes are about to improve. | |
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Jared Vennett from The Big Short. He constantly gives his own snarky asides and introduces famous celebrities to explain arcane financial terms. | |
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In the Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt episode "Trans-Homers," the two bitchy angel protagonists are turned into robotic versions of themselves after eating the "hearts" of two sentient Transformers-like robots who inexplicably crash-landed in their house. During this period, the show's narrator becomes so confused as to what is going on that he at one point asks "I'm sorry, what show am I narrating again?" | |
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The writer of GURPS: Dungeon Fantasy (a D&D style world) takes occasional lighthearted shots at the players. | |
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The announcer of the tutorial level for Myth II: Soulblighter is described in-game as a "(usually) patient tutor" as he instructs you in how to play the game. However if you ignore his instructions, he'll begin to chastise you, and lose his patience, going as far to ask you if you intend to learn anything. | |
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In Violet, the player character is imagining their girlfriend Violet narrating everything. | |
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The Ciaphas Cain series has two, a Lemony Memoir Writer and a Lemony Editor, the eponymous commissar and the local Bunny-Ears Inquisitor respectively. In particular, the latter will sometimes go on a tangent criticizing the former's style of writing, especially the tendency to be all about him. They also get into regular disagreements concerning Cain's heroism / lack of heroism / cowardice / lack of cowardice. | |
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Loud Boy: Altered has two of them, the narrator and the author herself. They often appear at the beginning of the episode and at the end, bickering with each other and snarking at one another, and the author just trying to get under the narrator’s skin. | |
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Books Don't Work Here Because there is No Fourth Wall and the main character argues with him so much certainly makes the director a character. He also “pays� a British guy to read his lines while narrating the comic so he definitely qualifies for this trope. | |
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Briefly, at the end of Tangled: | |
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Santa Claus (1959), where the narrator actively involves himself in the plot. | |
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On Family Guy, Peter once went through a period where he narrated his life. Lois was not well-pleased. During the Word Crawl opening of each installment of the Laugh It Up, Fuzzball trilogy (Family Guy's Star Wars spoof), the words go off on strange tangents, including one that openly mocks the Fox executives about not retaining merchandising rights to the Star Wars franchise, using an animated blue elephant for no reason other than the waste $52,000. |
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The Narrator in Reaper (Ivan Navi) tends get distracted from time to time and be voice his opinions on the characters and their actions. | |
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Battle Royale isn't as frequently lemony as most of these entries, but tends to lapse into this when someone is about to die or has just died. For instance, immediately after informing the reader that a character was dead before she hit the ground, the narrator remarks that precisely how much earlier depends on whether one means physically or emotionally. This may or may not be Koushun Takami's Signature Style, since as of this writing he's only written one book. | |
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Tolstoy writes short essays in War and Peace on topics such as the nature of greatness, war, history, and how much he hates Napoleon. Sometimes, they're actually related to the plot. | |
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The segments narrated by the title character in The Bartimaeus Trilogy trilogy are strewn with his (sarcastic) opinions on the matters at hand, as well as many other subjects. These often lead to several footnotes to make sure Bartimaeus doesn't get too off-topic, as well as explaining some of the story's world. This is actually justified in the third book. Bartimaeus explains that, as a spirit, his intelligence is advanced enough to carry on several trains of thought at once. So he's leaving footnotes in his own thoughts for the reader's convenience. Understandably, this causes some issues when he and Nathaniel share Nathaniel's body in the last book. When a chapter is written in Nathaniel's point-of-view during the end of the book and Bartimaeus tries to do Lemony Narrating, Nathaniel cuts him off mid-footnote. He still does in in his own chapters, though. |
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Subverted at one point in Doom Eternal. Imps are described with, "Weakness: Bullets". Which seems like a joke, but it actually means that bullets, specifically, as opposed to energy weapons or shotgun shells, are particularly effective against Imps. | |
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When reading Please Tell Me! Galko-chan, you'll find some side notes about the characters that can be pretty amusing | |
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Dead Souls features a narrator who is very snarky and makes a lot of wry comments about the world he is profiling, as well as readers' likely reactions to the story he is telling. | |
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Willo the Wisp (1981): One episode has Willo introduce the episode, then provide a commentary that doesn't quite match up with the action and is frequently sarcastic. | |
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The captions for the third series of Mighty Avengers get very snarky. The recap pages and narration for Loki: Agent of Asgard and New Avengers (2015), by the same author (Al Ewing), are similar. | |
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He also mentions The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe that if he were to describe all the horrible creatures serving the White Witch, then your parents would probably not let you read the book. | |
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Future Ted in How I Met Your Mother often berates his younger self for stupid or obnoxious behavior. He's exceptionally Lemony-ish in "Dowiseptrepla", an episode revolving around Future!Ted lampshading every single easily avoidable, utterly moronic decision that led to Marshall and Lily buying their apartment (which Marshall always remembered as one of his three biggest mistakes ever) by showing the characters saying something smart, commenting "that's what we should have said," and showing the stupid thing they actually said. | |
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Clarence's Big Chance: A platformer about a Gonkish, fat, balding 35-year-old Basement-Dweller who scored a date with someone online and has to prepare for it. | |
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Never Have I Ever: McEnroe's narration is in this style, and includes references to his own life and tennis career. Andy Samberg narrates Ben in the same way, and Gigi Hadid does this for Paxton too. | |
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The novel Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) features one in the form of the hugely digressive author, Jerome K. Jerome. | |
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Halfway through Re:CREATORS, we're treated to Episode 13, which recaps the series so far. However, the narration is done by Meteora, one of the characters with a strange sense of humor, who injects her own strong opinions about other characters into the narration without a lot of subtlety. She also jokingly derails the recap around the time she made her first appearance by instead introducing a character who shares her name but looks like a Buxom Beauty Standard, dresses in a Stripperiffic fashion, and even sounds completely different, and is such a God-Mode Sue that she effortlessly defeats the Big Bad in the first episode. | |
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John Flanagan, writer of Ranger's Apprentice and Brotherband, can get pretty sassy at times. At one point in the latter series, while recording Always Identical Twins Ulf and Wulf arguing, he notes that they're so identical in every way that even he's lost track by this point. | |
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When he is the narrator in Fate/hollow ataraxia, Avenger definitely has a very unique style. It rapidly shifts between sarcasm, murderous hatred, lust, approval, respect and vague idlings about his own narration. | |
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Out in full force in Smashtasm season 2. | |
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Juliet Stevenson, the narrator of Queens of Mystery, gives an extended sidebar concerning a family with a history of bad luck: an unfortunate yodeling accident, political defeat to a donkey, and an unfortunate incident concerning a champion Samoan arm wrestler, the less of which is said, the better. And this is merely a sidebar. | |
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This Kingdom Hearts animation features Sora dealing with one during the tutorial, who insults him throughout it, makes him select the sword weapon rather than the shield or wand, and attempts to be as much of a ham as possible with Sora repeatedly calling him out the whole time. | |
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The narrator of Sgt. Frog. The Funimation dub has a narrator who actively hates the show and only does this to cover his gambling debts, and throws in Lemony subtitles, the writer of which is apparently a separate character from the narrator. Mr. Caption don't take jack from no one! In one episode the narrator quits and is replaced by a British woman who doesn't know what's going on and spends most of the unusually dramatic episode complaining about how she was told this was a madcap comedy. She then quits, and the old guy comes back out of guilt. |
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Sondheim revisits this trope in his play with John Weidman, Assassins, a musical comedy pastiche about people who have killed or tried to kill American presidents. In this one, the narrator safely reassures the audience about what bad people the assassins are and how their actions have nothing to do with any flaws in our own society...until they get sick of his cheery platitudes about hard work and the American Dream and run him off the stage. The recent revival puts a twist on it and has the narrator transform into Lee Harvey Oswald. | |
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Wallace Greenslade on The Goon Show, often professing himself as baffled as the listeners as to what is going on. | |
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Oracle of Tao: Ambrosia is also the narrator. She goes on-side topics about her family or personal history, glossing over what a normal narrator would consider the main story. It somehow manages to avoid Protagonist-Centered Morality, since Ambrosia has no real illusions of her own righteousness. But she talks a great deal about her personal interests in the story at hand (if she's interested in it), her failings in knowledge of legends and history, and her overall skepticism in the story's plot. Ambrosia mainly narrates in the opening parts of either the main game or the Playable Epilogue, and seems to care even less about the main story the second time, preferring to instead talk about her marriage and subsequent child. |
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The Witcher: The main trilogy has Dandelion, who acts as the author of the in-game journal. As such, his commentary of Geralt's (and the player's) exploits is laced with a lot of jokes, sarcasm, lampshading, and the occasional What the Hell, Hero? moment. Then there's the storyteller of the standalone Gwent adventure Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales, who is revealed to be Borch Three Jackdaws, the golden dragon. |
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The famous history of japan video is narrated like a 12-year-old off his meds, but still gives a reasonably accurate lesson on Japan's history. | |
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Part of the charm of Sips' videos, together with his Surreal Humor. If there's no story in a game he plays, he makes one up. | |
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Celebrity Bric-a-Brac Theater often has a narrator along these lines. Christopher Walken narrated Romeo and Juliet, Sean Connery lent his talents to The First Thanksgiving, and Jack Palance granted The First Christmas a sinister air. | |
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