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A (short) monologue at the beginning of the work (usually during the Title Sequence) to briefly explaining the show's premise. Their role is to provide the quick Exposition to help the viewer adjust to the changes in the setting, relative to the audience. The monologue can be delivered by any characters or even a narrator. Major characters who fulfill this job may be doing an Inner Monologue. When minor characters fulfill this job, that may be an indication they will act as a Greek Chorus for the work. Frequently, the monologue can take place over a Montage, but this element is not required. The opening monologue may be paired with a closing monologue, or continued through the rest of the film by whatever character/narrator that began the story. If the monologue describes a fantastical story around which the plot is based, it's also a Myth Prologue. See also Expository Theme Tune (for a theme song that provides the work's background exposition) and Opening Scroll (the exposition is provided in text on the screen). Sister Trope to Opening Narration (where a recurring work uses an opening monologue Once per Episode). Compare Private Eye Monologue. |
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas memorably begins: "We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold..." | |
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Terminator 2: Judgment Day opens with a monologue delivered by Sarah Connor. The sequel Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines does so with one by John Connor. | |
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Star Fox 64: "Corneria, fourth planet of the Lylat System. The evil Andross turned this once thriving system into a wasteland of near extinction. General Pepper of the Cornerian Army was successful in banishing this maniacal scientist to the deserted, barren planet, Venom.... | |
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Homeworld has a rather epic one. | |
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The first Devil May Cry opens with the narrator's monologue explaining Sparda's rebellion against the Underworld. | |
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The second game starts with a narrator's recap of Sparda's legend and a brief introduction to his son, Dante. | |
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The first episode of Jejak Suara Adzan begins with Dimas telling the viewers about the various uses of social media, leading up to how he is trying to use it in order to become famous. | |
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Last Rights starts with an Infodump from the series' First-Person Smartass Captain Kanril Eleya, explaining why surface armies are still relevant in an era of starships that can glass planets (i.e. you need boots on the ground to capture and hold territory if you want it in anything resembling the state it started), which then segues into the actual story. | |
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X3: Terran Conflict: "Almost a millennium has passed since the last great plague of human kind had been wiped out from the solar system and its precious blue pearl planet Earth." Its predecessor X3: Reunion set the narration up as a news bulletin. Watch it here. |
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LG15: the resistance: "The fountain of youth is real, and it's in the blood of dozens of girls across the world..." This is shown over a montage of all the natural trait positive characters to appear in lonelygirl15 and KateModern. | |
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Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior, the elderly man delivering the opening monologue is revealed to be the mute savage child all grown up. | |
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Richard III begins with our Big Bad title character covering most of the exposition with his "Now is the winter of our discontent..." | |
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V for Vendetta: "Remember, remember // The 5th of November, // The gunpowder, treason and plot. // I know of no reason // Why the gunpowder treason // Should ever be forgot..." | |
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Half-Life 2 opens with the G-Man awakening Gordon from stasis and delivering a short monologue about how his skills are needed to save humanity once again. Dr. Breen is also heard giving a welcoming speech via telescreen as Gordon arrives in City 17. | |
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Godmothered: At the beginning, Agnes (narrating) explains what it's like to be a Fairy Godmother living in the Motherland. | |
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"From the Treaty of the Treason: In penance for their uprising, each district shall offer up a male and female between the ages of 12 and 18 at a public "Reaping". These Tributes shall be delivered to the custody of The Capitol. And then transferred to a public arena where they will Fight to the Death, until a lone victor remains. Henceforth and forevermore this pageant shall be known as The Hunger Games." | |
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Escape from New York: "In 1988, the crime rate in the United States rises four hundred percent. The once-great city of New York becomes the one maximum security prison for the entire country. A fifty-foot containment wall is erected along the New Jersey shoreline, across the Harlem River, and down along the Brooklyn shoreline. It completely surrounds Manhattan Island. All bridges and waterways are mined. The United States Police Force, like an army, is encamped around the island. There are no guards inside the prison, only prisoners and the worlds they have made. The rules are simple: Once you go in, you don't come out." (The woman who does this sounds very much like Jamie Lee Curtis, but it's been claimed it's not her.) | |
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The game adaptation of I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream (but not the original short story) opens with AM's rant about how much he HATES, HATES, HATES humanity, performed with maximum ham by Harlan Ellison himself. | |
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Yellow Submarine opens up with a brief introduction to Pepperland. | |
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The prologue to Disney's Beauty and the Beast establishes the Beast's situation. | |
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MechWarrior 3 opened with a short explanation so that people would know just enough to get the opening cinematic. Meanwhile, the cinematic that shows how your task force ended up in its exact situation explained a lot more of the plot than would be necessary for someone about to drop into a war zone and who would theoretically know at least basic history. | |
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Oblivion (2013): Provided by Jack Harper while we get brought up to speed on the characters and situation and see a montage of Scenery Porn (The skies and some parts of the planet that look less wasteland-y), Scenery Gorn (the shot of the bombed-out Pentagon (with implications of it having been ground zero for a nuclear strike during The War) and the remains of New York and Washington, DC), Technology Porn (Tower 49, the Bubble Ship, the collector vessels, the guns and the Tet), Fanservice (Shirtless Scene and Toplessness from the Back) and some Irony in that most of the info is unwitting bullcrap on Jack's part. | |
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In the Supernatural episode Swan Song, there is an opening monologue given by Chuck. | |
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The opening to Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie combines this with Opening Scroll as Dulcea tells the story of the group that would be known as the Power Rangers. | |
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Super Metroid: "The last Metroid is in captivity. The galaxy is at peace." Then a log entry by Samus, and the game begins. The initial European release and all subsequent versions of Metroid Prime released thereafter open with a narration about Samus. |
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World of Warcraft has an opening narration when you create a new character specific to race. They were updated after the revamp of the old world during Cataclysm; even the races whose starting areas and quests, the Blood Elves and Draenei, were not radically changed got a new version. | |
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Being A DIK opens with the MC talking about the importance of family, including a Family of Choice if necessary, which ties into a theme of the game of the primary characters finding a family at Burgmeister & Royce. He follows this up with some background about himself and his father Neil, including his mother Lynette's Death by Childbirth leading to Neil raising him as a single parent and their modest financial situation, before getting to the start of the story at his summer job where he had developed a crush on his coworker Josy. | |
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One of these begins The Binding of Isaac: | |
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Virtue's Last Reward: "Why do people betray one another? If you can't trust anyone then everyone should DIE." | |
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Thor: The Dark World: "Long before the birth of light there was darkness, and from that darkness came the Dark Elves. Millennia ago the most ruthless of their kind, Malekith, sought to transform our universe back into one of eternal night. Such evil was blossomed through the power of the Aether, an ancient force of infinite destruction." | |
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Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia begins with an explanation about the eponymous order and its duty to combat Dracula. | |
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Melody begins with one in which the protagonist explains that everything happens for a reason, and that a misfortune ended up leading him to true love. | |
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As You Like It starts out with Orlando giving a whopping As You Know speech containing more or less the entire backstory of the play. | |
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In Turning Red, the story begins with Mei talking about herself and how she does things. According to the DVD commentary, the opening was based around the concept of "How would Mei direct a documentary about herself?" | |
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The third game, meanwhile, begins with a monologue from Lady, first explaining the legend of Sparda, then about how she never believed it until she met his two sons. This monologue is spoken over a Battle in the Rain between Dante and Vergil. | |
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Neverwinter Nights 2: Storm of Zehir doesn't start with this; first you build your party aboard the Vigilant. When you go belowdecks, Volothamp Geddarm narrates an opening montage. | |
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Spider-Man: "Who am I? You sure you want to know? The story of my life is not for the faint of heart. If somebody said it was a happy little tale, if somebody told you I was just your average ordinary guy, not a care in the world... somebody lied. But let me assure you — this, like any story worth telling, is all about a girl...." | |
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Dragon Age: Origins has a narration and montage explaining the origins of the darkspawn and the Grey Wardens, followed by a narration specific to your character's origin story. | |
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In Mad Max: Fury Road, Max gives a brief one with a raspy voice. | |
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Zero Wing: "In AD 2101 War Was Beginning..." | |
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The first episode of The Noddy Shop opens up with one by its' protagonist Noah Tomten: | |
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The original Japanese version of Princess Mononoke places a brief text narrative at the beginning of the film; the English-dubbed version replaces it with a verbal narrative explaining the setting to viewers. | |
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Pacific Rim's prologue is narrated by the protagonist Raleigh Beckett, who explains about the war of Kaiju and Jaegers. He also briefly continues into the first action scene, to explain some key concepts like dual pilots and the Drift. | |
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X-Men Film Series: All are voiced by Professor Charles Xavier, except for Dark Phoenix. X-Men: "Mutation: it is the key to our evolution. It has enabled us to evolve from a single-celled organism into the dominant species on the planet. This process is slow, and normally taking thousands and thousands of years. But every few hundred millennia, evolution leaps forward." X2: X-Men United: "Mutants. Since their discovery, they have been regarded with fear, suspicion, even hatred. Across the planet, debate rages. Are mutants the next link in the evolutionary chain, or simply a new species of humanity, fighting for their share of the world? Either way, it is an historical fact: sharing the world has never been humanity's defining attribute." X-Men: Days of Future Past: "The future: a dark, desolate world, a world of war, suffering, loss on both sides. Mutants, and the humans who dared to help them, fighting an enemy we cannot defeat. Are we destined down this path, destined to destroy ourselves like so many species before us? Or can we evolve fast enough to change ourselves, change our fate? Is the future truly set?" It's paired with a closing monologue: "The past: a new and uncertain world, a world of endless possibilities and infinite outcomes. Countless choices define our fate; each choice, each moment, a ripple in the river of time. Enough ripples, and you change the tide, for the future is never truly set." X-Men: Apocalypse: "Mutants, born with extraordinary abilities, and yet still, they are children, stumbling in the dark, searching for guidance. A gift can often be a curse. Give someone wings, and they may fly too close to the sun. Give them the power of prophecy, and they may live in fear of the future. Give them the greatest gift of all, powers beyond imagination, and they may think they are meant to rule the world." As mentioned above, someone else narrates the opening of Dark Phoenix: Jean Grey. This change was done to highlight her increased focus in the story. The monologue is as follows: "Who are we? Are we simply what others want us to be? Are we destined to a fate beyond our control? Or can we evolve, become something more?" Just like X-Men: Days of Future Past, there is also a closing monologue, befitting of its Grand Finale status: "I know who I am now. I am not simply what others want me to be. I am not destined to a fate I can't control. I evolved beyond this world. This is not the end of me, or the X-Men. It's a new beginning." |
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The exposition for Henry IV, Part 2 is delivered by Rumor, personified as a character "full of tongues." | |
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The first installment of The Chaos Engine series starts with a few screens of text describing the titular machine's rise to power and short presentation of six mercenaries who were sent to destroy it. | |
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Love of the S*n: The first episode opens with a quote by Alan Watts regarding the afterlife, which the show is all about. | |
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What with Rocket Age being written in the style of old pulp serials, every adventure has a monologue that can be read out if the Games Master so wishes, preferably in melodramatic style to match the text. | |
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Apricot Cookie(s)! opens with the eponymous character practicing her opening monologue in case someone makes a comic about her. | |
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Just like X-Men: Days of Future Past, there is also a closing monologue, befitting of its Grand Finale status: "I know who I am now. I am not simply what others want me to be. I am not destined to a fate I can't control. I evolved beyond this world. This is not the end of me, or the X-Men. It's a new beginning." | |
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"I am Andrew Ryan, and I am here to ask you a question. Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow?" The monologue delivered near the beginning of BioShock by said Magnificent Bastard is one of the most eloquent and well done speeches in any game. | |
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The opening speech by Kratos, in Tales of Symphonia. | |
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Youth (2017): Suizi's opening narration introduces herself, the story, and two of the main characters. | |
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Equilibrium starts with a short opening monologue vaguely explaining the events that caused The End of the World as We Know It, and the start of the world "not as we know it", coupled with some historical documentary footage and reused footage from the film itself. | |
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Avatar When I was lying in the V.A. hospital with a big hole blown through the middle of my life, I started having these dreams of flying. I was free. But sooner or later, you always have to wake up..." | |
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Bayonetta has the most awesome opening narration sequence ever. The naration is going while the player is fighting off a horde of angels on pieces of a destroyed clocktower that's plummeting down the side of a cliff. And the game only gets more awesome. | |
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Romeo and Juliet and Henry V each feature a famous opening monologue delivered by an anonymous narrator, the so-called "Chorus" (the name being a holdover from ancient Greek theatre). | |
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Mobile Suit Gundam Wing begins with a narrator explaining that the year is After Colony 195 and humans now live both on the Earth and in Outer Space. He also summarizes the causes of the ongoing war at the beginning of the series and occasionally provides in-episode explanation of terms the viewer might not be aware of. This narrator has a tendency to repeat himself, and may go on for several minutes before allowing the plot to start. |
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Daughter for Dessert begins with the protagonist giving a cursory backstory to Amanda and himself: Lainie dying while giving birth to Amanda, the protagonist making a meal for Amanda which would eventually become her favorite food, the protagonist always drumming one important life lesson into Amanda, and the protagonist opening a diner to teach Amanda the value of hard work. | |
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Chicago opens with an audience advisory from a member of the Ensemble: | |
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Girl Genius starts with a storyteller (an Author Avatar of Phil Foglio) telling a little tale to kids - presumably he's telling the Girl Genius story itself. | |
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"A Kung-Fu Master Thomas and Sylvia were attacked by several unknown guys (Sylvia was kidnapped by them)..."note The original Japanese version (Spartan X) refers to him as a "Kanfu master". | |
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In The Comedy of Errors, Aegon gives most of the show's exposition about the backstory of the twins in a single very long monologue in the play's first scene. | |
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"The police cannot stop the street gangs... As a vigilante, you must defend your people's turf!!!" "The Skinheads have taken Madonnanote Not that one. hostage. Take the lawnote "Take the power" in the Turbografx-16 version. into your own hands!" |
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Looper: "Time travel hasn't been invented yet, but in thirty years, it will be. It will be instantly outlawed, used only in secret by the largest criminal organizations. It's nearly impossible to dispose of a body in the future. I'm told. Tagging techniques, whatnot. So when these future criminal organizations in the future need someone gone, they use specialized assassins in our present, called loopers." | |
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In Mad Max: Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior, the elderly man delivering the opening monologue is revealed to be the mute savage child all grown up. In Mad Max: Fury Road, Max gives a brief one with a raspy voice. |
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Xenoblade Chronicles 1 and Xenoblade Chronicles 2 both begin with this, giving the basic rundown of the respective games' world and situation. | |
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The Wizard of Oz: | |
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The Six Shooter has an opening monologue describing the hero and ending in a Title Drop: | |
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Heroes of Might and Magic II's premise is explained in the intro by an unidentified narrator — "The troubles all began three years ago, with the passing of the old king, Lord Ironfist...". | |
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Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time: "Some people think time is like a river, that flows swift and true in one direction. But I have seen the face of time, and I can tell you... they are wrong. Time is an ocean in a storm. You may wonder who I am, and why I say this. Sit down, and I will tell you a tale like none you have ever heard." | |
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Ben's classic monologue in Full Throttle. | |
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Devil May Cry: The first Devil May Cry opens with the narrator's monologue explaining Sparda's rebellion against the Underworld. The second game starts with a narrator's recap of Sparda's legend and a brief introduction to his son, Dante. The third game, meanwhile, begins with a monologue from Lady, first explaining the legend of Sparda, then about how she never believed it until she met his two sons. This monologue is spoken over a Battle in the Rain between Dante and Vergil. |
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Futurama seems like it's starting with one of these, then it zooms out to reveal that Fry is just playing a video game and providing his own commentary. It perfectly sets the tone for the show. | |
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The creators of Total Annihilation didn't have enough money for much of a story, but what little story (and money) they had was put into an opening video with some narration. | |
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Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs opens with a bit of Fauxlosophic Narration that leads into A Minor Kidroduction, and finishes with a straightforward opening monologue that establishes the whole "Flint wants to invent stuff/Swallow Falls is in a depression" plot point. | |
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Chrono Cross: "What was the start of all this? // When did the cogs of fate begin to turn? // Perhaps it is impossible to grasp that answer now, // From deep within the flow of time... // But, for a certainty, back then, // We loved so many, yet hated so much, // We hurt others and were hurt ourselves... // Yet even then we ran like the wind // Whilst our laughter echoed, // Under cerulean skies..." | |
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The first episode of Mimpi Metropolitan starts with a narration about the city of Jakarta and why people from all over Indonesia (such as the protagonists) come there to make a living. | |
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The Hunt for Red October: | |
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Freddy vs. Jason: Freddy gets one of these where he explains his origins, how he's been wiped from the collective memory of Springwood, and his plan to use Jason to return once again. | |
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The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power: Once again, Galadriel does the honors: | |
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Both How to Train Your Dragon (2010) and How to Train Your Dragon 2 begin with Hiccup's introduction: "This is Berk..." | |
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Each Operation in Medal of Honor: Vanguard begins with Keegan narrating over stock footage of World War Two, giving the context to the respective Operation. | |
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Courage the Cowardly Dog has one, provided by the Nowhere Newsman. | |
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Serenity starts with an opening monologue in the form of a class history lesson. This catches up to the movie's "here-and-now" events in a nested Russian Doll fashion. | |
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The initial European release and all subsequent versions of Metroid Prime released thereafter open with a narration about Samus. | |
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At the beginning of Rags, Shawn narrates over some establishing shots about how the story is a Cinderella story that takes place in New York, and stars a boy named Charlie. Shawn also closes out the film with more narration. | |
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"Inspired by his never ending quest for progress, in 2084, man perfects the Robotrons, a robot species so advanced, that man is inferior to his own creation..."note This on-screen variant occurs during the Attract Mode. It's storyline sequel Blaster (a first person shooting game, but not necessarily this kind) also has onenote Again, occurring in the Attract Mode.: "It is the year 2085. The Robotrons have destroyed the human race..." |
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Pitch Black opens with the crew of the Hunter Gratzner in stasis in deep space. The captured Riddick notes that his brain —or at least the animalistic side— is still awake, and asserts the situation in voiceover, surveying the rest of the crew and his plans for escape. | |
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"Space Ace, defender of truth, justice and the planet Earth..." | |
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Space Pirates and Zombies has a fairly long one, narrated by The Cynical Brit. | |
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X-Men: "Mutation: it is the key to our evolution. It has enabled us to evolve from a single-celled organism into the dominant species on the planet. This process is slow, and normally taking thousands and thousands of years. But every few hundred millennia, evolution leaps forward." | |
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Esh's Aurunmilla has two narrations, which are one narration with a narrator with a low voice and one with Don Davis as the narrator. | |
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Badlands uses this in Buck's case: | |
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House of the Dragon: By adult Rhaenyra (Emma D'Arcy, who's not seen in the series until the sixth episode of Season 1). | |
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Hellboy — "What makes a man a man? Is it his origins, the way things start? Or is it something else, something harder to describe? For me it all began in 1944, classified mission off the coast of Scotland. The Nazis were desperate. Combining science and black magic they intended to upset the balance of the war..." | |
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Creepy Sci-Fi/paranoia movie Dark City had an opening monologue clumsily tacked on at the command of the producers, which is a Spoiler Opening for the film's central mystery. Happily, it's been removed from the recent Director's Cut. | |
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Underworld (2003) begins with Kate Beckinsale's character expositing about the war between the vampires and the werewolves. | |
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The first Level 30 Psychiatry comic has a narration that turns out to be Roll reading aloud a flyer for the titular business. | |
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Doctor in Love starts with a brief one setting the scene at St. Swithin's Hospital in 1960. | |
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The Neanderthal Man: "In brooding beauty whose parallel one would have far to seek, stand California's high Sierras, fisherman's paradise and hunter's haven, where the defacing hand of civilization has fallen only lightly, and nature's vestments are displayed in all her rugged, primeval abandon." | |
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The Warriors either uses or averts this: the theatrical cut opens with a Travel Montage and then drops us into the action. The Director's Cut has an Opening Scroll that drives home the comparison between the movie and Anabasis. | |
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The intro to Wing Commander pans over space charts while playing a recording of JFK giving a speech about the Space Race, which segues into other radio broadcasts delivering exposition about the Pilgrams, mankind's invention of Faster-Than-Light Travel, and the disastrous First Contact with the Kilrathi. | |
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Casino Royale (1954)note The first screen adaptation of a James Bond novel, released in 1954 as a television movie/episode of the anthology series Climax! begins with Climax! host William Lundigan introducing the film and explaining what a shoe is. | |
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Kick-Ass: "I always wondered why nobody did it before me. I mean, all those comic books, movies, TV shows. You think that one eccentric loner would've made himself a costume. I mean, is everyday life really so exciting? Are schools and offices so thrilling that I'm the only one who fantasized about this? Come on, be honest with yourself. At some point in our lives we all want to be a superhero. That's not me by the way. That's some Armenian guy with a history of mental health problems. Who am I? I'm Kick-Ass." | |
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"A beginning is a very delicate time. Know then that it is the year ten-thousand, one-ninety-one..." Narration was used to insane levels in the Dune (1984) movie, in order to condense the plot of a six hundred page book down to two hours without confusing anyone. It didn't really help. | |
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The second and third Electric Wonderland stories begin with an explanation describing the comic's futuristic Cyberspace setting and (vaguely) the four main characters. In the third story, characters' word balloons obscure large parts of the opening narration, and it is never used again. | |
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When A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum was in touring before the Broadway opening, the audience was not sure how to take it. So a monologue and opening number ("Comedy Tonight") was added to tell the audience that this was a comedy and not to be taken seriously. The monologue was: | |
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"Dragon's Lair, the fantasy adventure where you become a valiant knight..." "Space Ace, defender of truth, justice and the planet Earth..." |
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The animated Felix the Cat movie opens with a laughably CGI version of Felix's head giving us one. | |
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"The era and time of this story is unknown. After the mothership "Arkanoid" was destroyed, a spacecraft "Vaus" scrambled away from it. But only to be trapped in space warped by someone........" | |
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NieR begins with Kainé giving Grimoire Weiss a piece of her mind about his helping the Shadowlord . In the form of a screaming, obscenity-laden rant. | |
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The narrator's monologue in the third installment of Star Control. | |
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Mighty Mouse begins his Bakshi episode "Mighty's Wedlock Whimsy" note where he and Pearl Pureheart prepare to get married on a stage thusly: | |
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As mentioned above, someone else narrates the opening of Dark Phoenix: Jean Grey. This change was done to highlight her increased focus in the story. The monologue is as follows: "Who are we? Are we simply what others want us to be? Are we destined to a fate beyond our control? Or can we evolve, become something more?" Just like X-Men: Days of Future Past, there is also a closing monologue, befitting of its Grand Finale status: "I know who I am now. I am not simply what others want me to be. I am not destined to a fate I can't control. I evolved beyond this world. This is not the end of me, or the X-Men. It's a new beginning." |
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Coco: Miguel gives one in the beginning, explaining the exile of music in the Rivera family. | |
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9: "We had such potential, such promise... but we squandered our gifts, our intelligence. Our blind pursuit of technology only sped us quicker to our doom. Our world is ending. Life must go on." | |
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There's one in Transformers, where Optimus Prime explains about the Allspark. Somewhat unnecessary, since he explains again to Sam and Sam explains to the government agents and Optimus explains again to the other Autobots. | |
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Saints Row IV opens to narration provided by Jane Austen concerning the Third Street Saints' rise to power and stardom, as well as what it means to be a hero. | |
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The Departed: "I don't wanna be a product of my environment. I want my environment to be a product of me." Hearing that in Jack Nicholson's gruff yet acidic voice sends chills up one's spine. | |
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Sky Blue begins with Jay meditating on how the world got so crap. | |
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Lady Galadriel's opening monologue from the first The Lord of the Rings movie, The Fellowship of the Ring, which lays down the creation of the Rings of Power, the One Ring, the war against Sauron, and the fates of the One Ring's previous bearers before Bilbo got hold of it. Plus, we don't actually meet Galadriel until almost the end of the movie. A good portion of this speech was cribbed from a speech by Treebeard in the book, but having a sentient tree-shaped being explain the plot in a very slow voice is possibly not the best way to pull your audience in. This monologue actually went through several narrators, including Frodo (rejected because doing so would reveal he had survived) and Gandalf. Galadriel was eventually selected as the person most suitable to giving out such information. | |
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My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Friendship Games Discovery Family broadcast is preceded by an additional scene of Sunset narrating the two previous movies and parts of "The Science of Magic" and "Pinkie Spy" shorts in a letter to Princess Twilight. | |
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X-Men: Apocalypse: "Mutants, born with extraordinary abilities, and yet still, they are children, stumbling in the dark, searching for guidance. A gift can often be a curse. Give someone wings, and they may fly too close to the sun. Give them the power of prophecy, and they may live in fear of the future. Give them the greatest gift of all, powers beyond imagination, and they may think they are meant to rule the world." | |
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"...look for it only in books, for it is nothing more than a dream remembered. A Civilization Gone with the Wind." | |
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Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors: "Why do I... know? Why... Why do I know... These things?" | |
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The Turn of the Screw (Benjamin Britten's opera) adapts the novel's prologue into an opening neo-Baroque recitative for tenor and piano, explaining how the Governess's story was discovered and how she came to reluctantly accept her position. There is no further narration, leaving the tenor free to double as the villain, Peter Quint. | |
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Treasure Planet: Battle at Procyon's campaign begins with an opening monologue narrated by Admiral Amelia: | |
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Sunshine: Starts with Robert Capa, Cillian Murphy's character, explaining the situation and how the protagonists got there and what their goal is, in a voice-over during the first minute. To summarize: | |
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Mega Man Legends has one that starts with "In a land covered with endless water..." | |
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"In the year 2291, in an attempt to control violence among deep-space miners, the New Earth Government legalized no-holds-barred fighting. The Liandri Mining Corporation, working with the NEG, established a series of leagues and bloody public exhibitions. The fight's popularity grew with their brutality. Soon, Liandri discovered that the public matches were their most profitable enterprise. The professional league was formed: a cabal of the most violent and skilled warriors in known space, selected to fight in a Grand Tournament. Now it is 2341. Fifty years have passed since the founding of Deathmatch. Profits from the tournament number in the hundreds of billions." | |
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Conan the Barbarian (1982), delivered by Mako at his hammy best: "Between the time when the oceans drank Atlantis, and the rise of the sons of Aryas, there was an age undreamed of. And unto this, Conan, destined to wear the jeweled crown of Aquilonia upon a troubled brow. It is I, his chronicler, who alone can tell thee of his saga. Let me tell you of the days of high adventure!" | |
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Kevin Costner's version of The Postman began with exposition by a female, who at the end is revealed to be his daughter, giving the story of his life. | |
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