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Narrating the Present
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This is where someone In-Universe narrates the present (or possibly the future), and when that future eventually becomes the present, the narration in question will be revealed. It's usually stated in past tense, but not always. A Fourth-Wall Observer or Third-Person Person might do this; expect them to be called on it by another character. Can overlap with Posthumous Narration. Note that this is for narration, not a prophecy. Compare Thinking Out Loud. Contrast Present Tense Narrative. |
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Horizon Forbidden West: One of the Oseram showmen Aloy meets in the ruins of Las Vegas has some trouble coming out of narrator mode, commenting on everything that happens like he's announcing for one of their shows. The game subtitles even include the quotation marks as if he's reading a script. Aloy quickly decides she's just going to move past it. | |
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Alan Mendelsohn, the Boy from Mars by Daniel Pinkwater: Leonard & Alan buy a manuscript on Hyperstellar Archeology and read it, in which it mentions them by name buying the manuscript and reading it. | |
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In Community Pierce decides he wants to be in Abed's novel, and quickly changes his mind when he discovers this is going to involve Abed following him around narrating his life, while pretending he's not talking. | |
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The Night Circus: (major spoiler) At the end of the book we find out that Widget, a character whose magic manifests as being able to read people's pasts, is actually retelling the story to Mr. A. H— because he's collected the pasts of all the characters involved in the story. | |
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Throughout 36 Questions, Judith describes what is happening for the sake of the recording, usually prefacing it by saying "For the record". | |
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Calvin and Hobbes has Calvin appear to do this in many an Imagine Spot. | |
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Ultimately subverted in Supernatural where it turns out Chuck really is a Prophet and not just a bad author, as he thinks of himself. | |
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Super Paper Mario has the Big Bad, Count Bleck, often speaking in this manner. Some have speculated that he is quoting his own dialogue from the Dark Prognosticus when he does this. | |
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In Discworld the books in Death's library write someone's life as a narrative as it happens. The last scene of Mort is actually Mort reading that scene from his own book. | |
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In an episode of The Boys: Diabolical a resident of a home for super powered kids has this as his power. Naturally, he is the narrator for the episode. | |
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An episode of American Dad! had Klaus doing this. When asked what he was doing he explained he was pretending his life was a DVD and he was doing the audio commentary. Later in the episode Klaus' voice is head narrating over the scene so that we can't hear what anyone is saying. According to Klaus we miss the funniest line in the episode because of this. | |
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Azumanga Daioh: While the girls are getting excited over their impending trip to Okinawa, the action freezes and Tomo starts narrating about how the trip would end in tragedy. Yomi tells her to knock it off. | |
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Quantum Leap sometimes has Sam giving a past-tense narration in voiceover, although it's unclear when he would have found time to go back and write any of these events down. There's one particularly odd moment in the episode "Play It Again, Seymour:" Sam catches himself using hard-boiled detective slang in the narration, and Sam-on-screen reacts to this, leading to the Fridge Logic conclusion that Sam just walks around mentally narrating his own life in the past tense. | |
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In The Orbiting Human Circus (of the Air), protagonist Julian the Janitor's personal Interactive Narrator always uses the present tense when relating the action that happens to and around Julian in real-time. | |
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The Invention of Lying: Mark has created a document he pretends to have "discovered" which tells a magnificent story of aliens, ninjas, and robot dinosaurs, which was allegedly written in the 14th century. The document ends with: | |
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Stranger Than Fiction is on the border. The "narrator" in that case is actually the author and is thus making things happen, not just narrating on them. It could be argued that she's just writing what she "sees" as many authors claim to do, but it is largely implied that she is the creator of the events in the story, and not just the reporter. | |
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Batman: Wayne Family Adventures: In "Haley", Dick provides superhero narration for his puppy Haley as she attacks the vacuum. Tim, who's actually doing the vacuuming, does not find it amusing. Dick begs to differ. | |
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In Alan Wake, Alan has a running voiceover of his thoughts and actions as if he's reading a novel. Or writing one. | |
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A Certain Droll Hivemind: Misaka-11111 retains the Sisters' distinctive Verbal Tic. The psychiatrists are trying to get the Sisters to stop, and it's implied they could, but they prefer it this way. Misaka-11111 mentions several times that she would be much less confused if everyone else narrated themselves. | |
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The Incredible Shrinking Man: Scott narrates the entire movie, but it's strongly implied at the end that he'll shrink down to a subatomic size - so when does he have time to write down what he's saying? | |
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Welcome to Night Vale has one episode where it narrates the life of one of the town's residents as it happens in the second person. The events of this day include him stealing a mysterious crate and being tracked down by some of the town's mysterious enforcers, who note that finding him was easy because for some reason everything he thinks and does is being broadcast through the radio. Naturally it is not explained how Cecil, who is not usually capable of knowing someone's innermost thoughts and memories, was able to do this. | |
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Doctor Who: The first episode of "The End of Time" is bookended by seemingly out-of-universe narration of what is going on in the episode. We discover at the end of the episode that the narrator is the Lord President of Gallifrey, who is the Big Bad of the 2nd episode. | |
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The Bill: Whenever a suspect is being questioned and they respond non-verbally, ie by shrugging, one of the officers in the room will describe the gesture for the benefit of anyone listening to the interview on cassette. Truth in Television: This was and still is standard protocol for Real Life police interviews. | |
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In Episode 33 of Monty Python's Flying Circus, an announcer delivers a recap of "The Show So Far," which leads all the way up to: | |
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In the "Archive of Worlds" arc of Batman/Superman, the villain Auteur.io has a penchant for providing his own hammy narration. He gets annoyed several times when Superman and Batman don't play along. | |
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Invader Zim: A Bad Thing Never Ends: The Announcer has a habit of doing this as part of his Large Ham schtick, typically to boost his own ego and insult everyone around him. | |
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Family Guy, in a Cutaway Gag where Peter spent two weeks narrating his life. We see him walk into the kitchen and say aloud: | |
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This is revealed to be the origin of the narration in the last episode of Burn Notice. | |
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