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Nostalgic Narrator
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Ah, the life of a trope. One day you're just a recurring idea, flitting around in a writer's head, the next you've got your very own wiki page. I remember when I was just a YKTTW, an insignificant blue entry swimming with hundreds of others. Back then, I had fewer Wicks, a lot fewer examples, and my trope description looked like this: This is a specific type of Framing Device, a first-person Narrator who is looking back on his experiences. Generally (not always), it's an adult looking back at his childhood. These stories are generally big on nostalgia, but they also attempt to capture the naïveté and confusion so prominent in childhood. Since it's the author looking back on things, we may get Unreliable Voiceovers or other inconsistencies, but we also tend to get a candid look at childhood — including petty fights and foul mouths. Can overlap with Narrator All Along when the narrator uses a third-person limited viewpoint and switches to first person in the last reel. Compare with How We Got Here, where the story starts at the end and then transfers into this trope. When adding examples, be sure the narrator is evidently an older self looking back on the past; not all first-person stories qualify. |
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Everybody Hates Chris: Comedian Chris Rock narrates about his childhood in 1980s New York. | |
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Played with in the Farseer trilogy, the first trilogy of Realm of the Elderlings: the narrator throws in occasional mentions of his physical frailty and his isolation, building up a picture of him as old and alone, but at the end of the third book it turns out that he's still quite young; his adventures have just been that hard on his body and his friendships. | |
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The final book in The Queen's Thief series is recorded by the narrator, Pheris, decades after the fact. He hints at this by mentioning palace decorations that have changed in the intervening decades and sometimes foreshadows the fate of certain characters. | |
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Peter Jackson's The Hobbit is shot like this, beginning with Bilbo writing the events in his memoirs, so he can leave Frodo with the last story of his adventures. | |
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The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles originally did this, although the video release and DVDs got rid of it. | |
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Parodied in an episode of The Simpsons, complete with "Future" Bart's voice being provided by the narrator from The Wonder Years. | |
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Kvothe in The Name of the Wind is unusually young to play this trope straight, but he's looking back on himself from when he was younger nevertheless. | |
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Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior: At the end we discover that the elderly narrator is actually the feral kid. | |
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In The Long Long Holiday, the narrator is an elderly Colette, recalling her and her brother's adventures during World War II. | |
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Sunstone has a now happily married Lisa writing a novel detailing how her unconventional relationship unfolded. | |
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Evershade: In the beginning of "Reforming", Kyle looks back on the last baseball practice before his mutation activated: | |
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Batman: Black and White: "Heroes" is narrated by the protagonist from some unspecified distance in the future, looking back on "that year, when I was ten years old". | |
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A Modest Destiny kicks off with an elderly Maxim berating his grandkids, then starting to tell the story of the first time he saved the world. Every now and then, the comic cuts back to present day, such as to reveal which of his potential Love Interests he married. | |
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The Last Guardian is narrated by the boy when he's an adult, and The Stinger reveals that he was telling it to the village children. | |
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Thomas and the Magic Railroad originally would have featured an older Lily in this role. | |
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Played straight in The Tibetan Dog, where the protagonist is an old man telling the story of himself when he were young. | |
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The Wonder Years: The Trope Codifier. The narrator is an older Kevin Arnold reminiscing about his childhood in The '60s. | |
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Season of Miracles opens with Zack as a middle-aged man visiting the old baseball field, where he picks up a baseball lying in the grass. Most of the rest of the movie takes place in flashback. | |
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Call the Midwife: the series was initially based on the memoirs of Jennifer Worth, and Vanessa Redgrave narrates as the voice of the older Jennifer. This has continued even though young Jenny is no longer a character in the series and the show has long since exhausted Worth's original books. | |
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Edward Scissorhands is ultimately this, as Kim - now an elderly woman - is telling the story of the title character to her young granddaughter. | |
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Done rather chillingly in Age of Empires II. The Attila campaign is narrated by an old monk who was captured and rode with Attila, and sums up the experience of conquering, butchering, and looting. At the end he goes silent before saying, "Sometimes... I miss it." | |
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Oliver Beene has this. The adult version of the main character narrates the story on how he lived his life in The '60s. | |
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A deleted scene from the 2003 film adaptation of Peter Pan would have made Wendy this, having her go on to narrate that after she grew up, her own daughter went on adventures with Peter. | |
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Ralph narrates The Coral Island as an older man who fondly remembers his time as a fifteen-year-old castaway with his two friends. | |
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Gunnerkrigg Court has Antimony narrating the first few chapters; so far we cannot tell precisely how far in the future she is narrating from, but it's more than two years. | |
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Bionic Commando: "Let me tell you about the man I met when I was young." | |
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The Sandlot - Scott Smalls reminisces about one childhood summer revolving around baseball. | |
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The short-lived television series set in the early-to-mid-'70s The Kids are Alright with Timmy Doyle as the narrator. | |
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Horribly subverted in Bokurano: The first narrator's word choices make it sound like he's talking about the distant past, but he's actually only narrating maybe two days back, and even less time until he abruptly dies. | |
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Interestingly, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time uses this; its two sequels don't, though the third frames the whole trilogy by calling back to it. | |
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A Christmas Story - Ralph Parker reminisces about one childhood Christmas revolving around a desire to receive a particular gift. | |
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In the Banjun Drama episode "Unforgettable Love", the boys of TVXQ are left alone in their house after Yunho leaves to go on a blind date. Hung up on the topic of girlfriends, they each take turns reminiscing upon the most unforgettable girls they've met. This serves as a framing device to segment into the main narrated flashback scenes. | |
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Eddie Huang narrated Fresh Off the Boat only in Season 1. | |
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Young Sheldon had the adult version of Sheldon narrating his childhood in 1989 through 1990. | |
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Eileen is told from the perspective of Eileen as an old woman fifty years after the events of the story, contemporaneous with when the book was written. Unlike most examples, older Eileen is hardly nostalgic for her youth, which was generally miserable, but the age gives her some distance and perspective on what she was like back then. | |
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The Warhammer 40,000-based Ciaphas Cain novels are framed as his memoirs, annotated by a member of the inquisition (and possibly lover). | |
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In the Dramatic Audio version of the Left Behind book Glorious Appearing, a grown-up Kenny Williams (the son of Buck and Chloe Williams) narrates some of the events that took place in the book from sometime in the future. | |
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Summer of '42 - A man reminisces about the summer of 1942, during which he lost his virginity at 15. | |
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Used in various stories of the Empath: The Luckiest Smurf series that involve flashbacks to earlier times, including the novel where Empath learns that he is Papa Smurf's only biological son. | |
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Millennium Actress is mostly told as a series of anecdotes the titular actress relates to documentary filmmakers (with some occasional interruptions by the documentary director and cameraman) and depicted as scenes from her movies, though there is no narrator as such. | |
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Little Manhattan plays with this, as it's about a 12-year-old boy's first love, as narrated by himself, looking back from the ripe old age of 13. | |
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Both Icewind Dale games use this. The narrator in the first game turns out to be the Big Bad Belhifet stewing over the memory of his defeat and relishing the approaching end of his century long banishment. The narrator of the second is a little girl who accompanied the party for a while on their journey who is now an adult remembering their adventure as she sets out on her own journey. | |
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Halo 2: The Aniversary edition reframes the events of the game as Arbiter telling Jameson Locke the story of how he and Master Chief became friends when Locke comes to him for information about the Chief. | |
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Ōkami has a subversion. At first, it seems like a disembodied voice retelling the story. It turns out that Issun is really the narrator. And in Ōkamiden, instead of being Issun, it's Kuni. | |
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Amadeus, recounted by a mad Salieri. | |
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Stand by Me: The main events of the film are narrated by Gordie, who is writing a short story about the event in the Framing Device. | |
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Michael becomes this when recounting his student days in Vikram Seth's novel An Equal Music. | |
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A Mary Poppins Read-Along cassettenote later re-released on CD and digital framed the story as an older Jane Banks (voiced by Karen Dotrice, who played her in the movie) recalling the misadventures she and Michael experienced while under Mary Poppins' care. | |
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The last chapter of Eric, or Little by Little reveals that the narrator is one of Eric's schoolmates, although it isn't clear which one, since the rest of the book is in the third person. The narrator decided to write a biography of his dead friend in order to honour his memory and warn other boys away from his fate. | |
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The Mermaid of Black Conch is set in 1976, but part of the book consists of David's journal entries written in 2015 and 2016, in which he reminisces about his romance with Aycayia. | |
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How I Met Your Mother: The level of narration Older Ted provides varies from a (sometimes necessary) Mr. Exposition to a framing device to not even appearing. | |
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The black•ish spinoff, mixed-ish had this trope. Not only Bow appears to be the narrator of the series, but narrates the story of how she lived in 1985. | |
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The Goldbergs with Adam Goldberg as the narrator. | |
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