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Posthumous Narration
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Occasionally, in watching a show or film that features a narration in voice over, you find that the narration is not because the writers got too lazy to show what's happening, but because they want to present you with the odd phenomenon of a deceased character telling you the story. There's no explanation given for why or how this character can tell the story in question, or whom they're telling it to; we don't see them as a ghost, or as a character writing or speaking their last words. They're just a very talkative voice that happens to belong to a character who doesn't survive the movie. It might result from Near-Death Clairvoyance, Life Flashing Before Your Eyes, or even a Dying Dream (which raises the possibility that they're also an Unreliable Narrator). In some forms of media, this trope is well on its way to reaching the status of an Undead Horse Trope - for example, a sizeable portion of Creepypastas of the "Lost Episode" and Video Game categories tend to end in this way. After their character of choice murders the protagonist (usually a slightly veiled Author Avatar), the protagonist comments on and narrates their death for a few lines afterwards, which comes off as a bit uninspired considering the amount of stories which essentially end in the exact same way. Being a death trope and all, there are going to be unmarked spoilers below. You have been warned. See also Dead All Along, Dead to Begin With, Epilogue Letter. Examples |
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The Tales from the Crypt episode "You, Murderer" opens with the protagonist dead in his car as a result of an accident, and he narrates the events leading up to his death. Except he dies halfway through the flashback by receiving blunt force trauma from another character hitting him in the head with a statue instead and still continues to narrate the events leading up to the present as the ones who killed him attempt to hide his body. | |
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In Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones, the rescued Empress of Time is the narrator and dies at the end of the tutorial section of the game, which doesn't prevent her from continuing the narration. Given her mystical nature as the incarnation of Time, it is at least partially justified. After the Big Bad is defeated, she shows up in the form of the Sands of Time and leaves for another world. Given that she is the Sands, it makes sense that she was simply trapped inside the Big Bad. | |
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Played with in Megamind. The movie starts off with the main character falling to his death, and almost everything after that is his life flashing before his eyes. When the flashbacks catch up to the present, he seems completely willing to die. | |
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A variation in Star Trek Online: Ambassador Spock was thrown into the past of an Alternate Universe rather than killed, though anyone in the prime universe where the game is set would assume that he has been dead for many years and he certainly would have no knowledge of the goings-on of the game's universe after he left it. Nonetheless, the Ambassador provides substantial narration to explain events that occurred long after he vanished. | |
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Mary-Alice Young, the narrator of Desperate Housewives, died in the opening of the pilot episode. The Strangerhood explicitly parodied this: MADtv (1995) parodied this too. |
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Shallow Grave is narrated by David, who is the only one of the three main characters to die in the film. | |
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Sore Thumbs lampshades it in one story arc, which has a narrator who tells us up front that he's dead and talking to us from Heaven. We never found out which character he was, and everybody who wasn't a main character wound up dead. | |
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Samurai Jack: X-9 in the Tale of X-9 Film-noir episode. | |
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In The Bucket List, the opening and ending narration have Carter (Morgan Freeman) talking about the death of Edward (Jack Nicholson). Carter dies a few months before Edward. | |
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In a Poem Within A Book example, "The Legion's Pride", recited by a soldier in A Study In Sorcery, is couched as a posthumous declaration by another Anglo-French soldier, who'd died during a peacekeeping mission to avert conflict between rival German baronies. | |
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The main character of Struck by Lighting dies in the first scene. The majority of the film is an extended flashback of his life. | |
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Subverted in an episode of the sitcom Wings. An episode opens with Joe face down in a pool in a shot intentionally reminiscent of the opening of Sunset Boulevard, with a voiceover from Joe telling us that he's going to show us how he got there. At the end of the episode (Part I of a two-parter where Joe leaves Sandpiper Air and Brian, Lowell and Helen have to figure out how to track him down and convince him to come back) it's revealed that he was face down in the pool because he was setting a new breathholding record at a wild party. | |
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In Bruges, possibly. It's intentionally not left very clear whether the main character lives or dies, last we see him his is in critical condition begging in narration to live, while everything goes black... | |
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The opening of Monsieur Verdoux, overlooking the Villain Protagonist's grave, features narration. | |
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Eternal Darkness includes this line in the opening: "I am Dr. Edward Roivas. I am a clinical psychologist. I am also dead." | |
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Subverted in the opening narration of Discworld Noir. Turns out he was Not Quite Dead. | |
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One of the Prequel books, The Andalite Chronicles, is technically supposed to be Elfangor downloading his memories as he's being killed, but still fits the spirit of this trope. | |
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Sunset Boulevard actually starts with Joe Gillis' (William Holden) death; he tells us his story in Flashback. | |
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The Dresden Files is always narrated from the first person, so in Ghost Story which takes place after Harry's death in Changes, Harry Dresden narrates it while dead as a ghost. He's revived. | |
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Martin Septim in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. Made even weirder by the fact that he turned into a dragon. | |
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BioShock Infinite, if the loading screen quotes count as narration. Doesn't matter if it's the main game or either of the Burial at Sea episodes. | |
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MADtv (1995) parodied this too. | |
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The Torchwood episode "Random Shoes" does exactly this, with the events after Eugene's death being narrated by Eugene as they are figured out in the present. | |
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In Galápagos, the entire story is narrated a million years after the fact by the ghost of someone who died back in 1986. | |
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Batman: The Brave and the Bold: : At the end of the two-parter episode "The Siege of Starro!", Bwanna Beast controls the Star Conqueror to give the combined Metal Men the upper hand and save the world, but at the cost of himself being vaporized. The episode ends with the heroes attending his funeral. | |
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In Injustice: Gods Among Us, The Green Arrow narrates his last moments as he's beaten to death. | |
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Lamb: The Gospel According To Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal is a gospel written by Biff after being raised from the dead 2000 years later. | |
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The final issue of G.I. Joe: Origins revealed that Dr. Horvath had committed suicide by leaping to his death as he narrates the events that led to Michael Monk confronting him after his attempts at conditioning Monk to enact an insurrection towards Cobra. | |
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D.O.A. subverts it. In this 1950 noir, the hero dies from a slow poison, but not before he finds his murderer and tells the story to the police. | |
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In the Fallout: New Vegas DLC Honest Hearts, Jed Masterson does the closing narration, even though he died at the very start of the tale. Since the Modular Epilogue slides are narrated by a character relevant to each slide, this can also happen with various major characters in the main game and all DLC. If they die, of course. Dead Money zigzags this; Elijah narrates the ending despite his mandatory death, while the companion characters will only take part in the narration if all of them survive. |
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Grave of the Fireflies. "September 21st, 1945... That was the night I died." | |
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Everybody in Edgar Lee Masters' Spoon River Anthology is dead: each character speaks up from the grave. However, while the characters appear to have some awareness of what's happening immediately on or around their graves, they don't communicate with each other. | |
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Lori Lovecraft: The Dark Lady is narrated by Sir Andrew Parke-Jones, who died a week before the story starts. He follows the occult misadventures after she arrives in Scotland to accept his invitation only to learn he is dead. | |
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Subverted in the American Dad! episode "Star Trek" (nothing to do with the show, for once), which starts with a Sunset Boulevard-style shot of Steve lying facedown in a pool of cherry jello. Steve narrates how he became an accomplished children's book writer by writing a book making fun of Roger. He gets everything he wants, including a giant mansion and a pool of jello. There's also a movie that is going to be filmed based on his book. Then it turns out that the person in the pool was actually an actor who was supposed to be playing Steve in the movie accidentally killed by Roger (he wanted to kill Steve). The episode ends with Stan helping Steve dump the body in a lake. Steve admits this was "kind of a screw to the audience" and apologizes for it. | |
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Most of the events described in My Posthumous Adventures happen after the main character and narrator, Anna, dies on the operating table after a fall from a balcony. Subverted in the end, as it turns out it’s a clinical death followed by a coma. | |
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May happen in Fahrenheit after Lucas dies if you make the wrong choice "...and that's how my story ends" |
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In Like Dying Things Do the audience finds out near the end of the show that the narrator, Adam, has actually committed suicide and was dead the whole time. | |
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In Age of Empires II's Joan of Arc campaign, the main narrator is a French nobleman. In the last mission, where he can be controlled as a hero unit, he states the possibility that he could die in the battle, and if he is killed, he says "It is here... that my tale shall end." After the player wins the mission, he continues narrating regardless of whether he survives or dies, and refers to Joan's being canonized as a saint, which happened in 1920, long after he died. | |
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A few Sin City stories do this. | |
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Played straight in the final episode of Doctor Who Confidential, in a section called "River Song's Story" — River Song sums up the events of her life in the order she experiences them, as opposed to the order the viewers saw them, up to and including her death. Justified in that her consciousness was subsequently saved in a computer, and it's that version of her narrating the story, post-"Forest of the Dead". We see her telling the end of the story at the end of that episode. | |
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Dæmorphing has the Framing Device that all of the narrators are writing down the events in a journal, but there are several cases of characters narrating up to the points of their deaths, such as Melissa in The Abyss. | |
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As I Lay Dying is a bit of a Non-Indicative Title (if taken literally), because Addie only narrates one chapter, which is placed after she's dead and her family is on their trek to bury her. However, it goes in this section because she discusses things that happened when she was alive, specifically a strong hint that her favorite child was the result of adultery. | |
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Played with in Reversal of Fortune; Sunny Von Bulow isn't dead, but she's in a coma. | |
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Savages: Subverted. The film is narrated by O, who states that just because she's the narrator doesn't mean she survives to the end. This seems to bear out in the final shootout when Ben, Chon, and O choose to overdose on morphine to die together after Ben is fatally wounded; O's narration even gives a Call-Back to her original statement. However, the shootout turns out to be a Fantasy Sequence, and O does survive. | |
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Casino: Interesting variation. Nicky Santoro narrates much of the film - not aware that his character is going to get whacked - and the second his character does, the narration gags violently and ends - leaving the audience wondering just who the hell he was talking to. Also subverted: Ace Rothstein is shown dying in a car bomb at the start of the film, but it is later discovered that he escaped with his life. |
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Uzumaki is narrated by Kirie Goshima, with the introduction describing it in the past tense. When we reach the end, it turns out she and many others are only technically alive. | |
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Subverted in Fallen. Det. John Hobbes' (Denzel Washington) opening monologue, where he states that he's "going to tell you about a time [he] almost died", seems to point to the battle between him and Azazel in the climax, only to reveal the voiceover is Azazel in the body of a cat repeating the opening line. | |
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Clémentine does this in Blue Is the Warmest Color through her diary. | |
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The Lives of Harry Lime: Every episode began with the narration: | |
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In Death Note, L does this in the opening to the second Re-Light Special: "L's Successors". Played with in the same special with Watari. He shows up during these segments, but he merely acts as an announcer/human title card. He does not talk about his own death or any other events of the film. |
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Looper. The audience doesn't find out the trope is in play until the very end though. | |
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The final Animorphs novel should be a Rachel book, and starts as one...until that suicide mission she started turns out to really be a suicide mission. After that the narration switches between the other Animorphs. Due to the Ambiguous Ending, this trope may also apply for everyone but Cassie as well. One of the Prequel books, The Andalite Chronicles, is technically supposed to be Elfangor downloading his memories as he's being killed, but still fits the spirit of this trope. |
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Halo: The Flood (the official novelization of Halo: Combat Evolved) features this, mainly as a way for the reader to get information about a battle that no one actually survived. | |
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In Windaria, the story begins at Alan's funeral and is told by him after his soul has left his body. | |
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Toorop states at the beginning of Babylon A.D. that he's going to die, and we see it happen. Flashback to a week earlier. Subverted as it turns out he's revived after being shot through the heart, and the other two protagonists are killed instead. | |
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Downplayed and played with in Man on the Moon, in that the Biopic is introduced by its own dead subject, Andy Kaufman (as played by Jim Carrey), in a Deliberately Monochrome prologue. It's clearer in the screenplay, but this is eventually revealed to be part of a Video Will he left behind for his Cheerful Funeral. But then the film proceeds to a one-year-later epilogue that suggests Andy actually managed to fake his death and has simply assumed his Alter-Ego Acting persona full time. And after that a closing Credits Gag has Andy leaning into the frame as himself as the film's title card comes up, which could be interpreted as a suggestion that everything is Andy's version of events from the great beyond. | |
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Obi-Wan Kenobi's story in From a Certain Point of View details his death and subsequent merging with the Force from his point of view. | |
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In Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, the ending monologue is given by Spock after his death. Of course, what the audience doesn't know is that he's Only Mostly Dead. | |
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At the beginning of Bokurano one of the characters is monologuing, presumably having seen the events of the series already. The character is Waku, who died in the second episode. | |
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Stinkmeaner from The Boondocks narrates several times throughout "Stinkmeaner 3: The Hateocracy", even interrupting Huey at one point. | |
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Defied in Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time: The player controls the Prince during a flashback he narrates, and can of course cause a Game Over by getting him killed. But since the Prince is narrating in-universe, not just to the audience, he brushes off the "death" as a misstatement. | |
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The Ancestor in Darkest Dungeon provides the player with battle commentary and exposition on the areas and bosses, despite having been Driven to Suicide long before you arrived. This is possibly justified considering that it's actually the Heart of Darkness using the ghost of your Ancestor as a puppet throughout the game. Or is it? | |
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The murder victims in every episode of The Forgotten narrate their own identification and the efforts to find their killer. | |
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Sid Hudgens from L.A. Confidential. | |
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The prologue to the first annual of Marvel Team-Up which focused on Spider-Man and the X-Men is narrated by a doomed minor character recalling the circumstances up to his death. It plays with this by making it look like his death is referring to how the person he once was died like what happens with several other characters in the story after they are mutated, but later on it's shown he was in fact killed during the opening accident. | |
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The Strangerhood explicitly parodied this: | |
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The Art of Racing in the Rain is told by a dog who dies at the end. | |
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Leo Köpernick narrates See How They Run, even after he is killed off. | |
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The Human Comedy opens with Mr. Macaulay, patriarch of the Macaulay family, having been dead for two years. He appears as a floating head in the sky and introduces his hometown and the characters. He pops up throughout, giving more narration and making occasional unseen ghostly visits. | |
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Danganronpa 3 Side: Despair begins with Chisa Yukizome in a movie theater watching her death from the first episode of Side: Future and then telling the story of how her students at Hope's Peak Academy fell into despair. | |
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In Legend (2015), Frances is the narrator of most of the movie. She even lampshades the fact that most viewers will think she survives her suicide attempt because she's narrating, but she doesn't. | |
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Johnny Seaview provides a posthumous narration describing the Doctor investigating his murder in the comic strip "The Deep Hereafter" in Doctor Who Magazine. | |
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Ed in one of the "Plot-Hole" featurettes on the Shaun of the Dead DVD. He gives voice-over narration about how he died and turned into a zombie, but he speaks articulately. He doesn't grunt incomprehensively like his zombie form does at the end of the actual movie. | |
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In The Grey Zone, the girl who survived the gas chamber and was executed narrates the results of the Auschwitz uprising. | |
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Money Heist is narrated at the beginning and end of episodes by Tokyo. She dies in the middle of the last season, but keeps narrating anyway. | |
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Jackie in The Darkness, who gets better. Twice. | |
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Jimmy's brother rises from the ground to give an introductory monologue in Two Hands. | |
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At the end of Dead Man's Letters, it is revealed by one of Larsen's students that the professor died shortly after writing his letters, and that they are being read posthumously. | |
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The narrator of the film American Beauty, who comes right out and tells us that we're going to see him die at some point. | |
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Augustus Hill in Oz does his odd narrations throughout the series. He's killed in the Season 5 finale, but continues to narrate events in Season 6. In addition, various dead inmates took their turn at narration in the last season. | |
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In Jotun Thora tells of her life of glory as a Viking warrior, her ignoble death, and her triumph over the Jotun in Norse purgatory. | |
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South Park: Invoked rather viciously in "Butt Out", where Cartman takes part in an anti-smoking PSA saying that he died from secondhand smoke, and then the activists try to kill him to make it look real. | |
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In the beginning of Apaches, a boy named Danny playing outside with his friends narrates that his family is preparing a "dinner party". At the end, it's revealed that the "dinner party" is actually his funeral wake. | |
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In Tangled, Flynn Rider starts out narrating the film with "This is the story of how I died." He did. But he got better. The made-for-TV sequel/pilot for Tangled: The Series has Eugene start the opening narration with "This is the story of how I died... and went to heaven!" in reference to how his new situation is so much more pleasant than his old life as Flynn Rider. |
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Final Fantasy XIII: Vanille. Note that she was in fact put into crystal stasis, which is considered equivalent to death by most people in-game. Doesn't stop her from making an (albeit brief) appearance in the sequel. | |
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Parodied in Coco, which takes place in the Land of the Dead. Imelda explains to Miguel that she doesn't really hate music; she just forced it out of her life after her husband left her to make the task of raising Coco easier for her. | |
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In Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm Generations, the narrator is Hiruzen Sarutobi, the Third Hokage, who died fairly early on in the series. He talks about his own funeral too. | |
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Susie Salmon in The Lovely Bones, who also does a little narration before her death. | |
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In Oracle of Tao, Ambrosia narrates starting with a story from her parents, then continues after her child is born, up to her daughter's adulthood and her death, then talks about her afterlife. Apparently, she's addressing the player, not anyone in-game. | |
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Irrational Man is narrated by its two main characters, Abe and Jill, following the different points of view. Abe's narration continues up to the point where he intends to kill Jill; the attempt goes wrong, he dies instead, and his narration ceases. | |
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