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The signature narration style in Film Noir. A bored-looking, world-weary, utterly cynical detective (hardboiled and/or defective) with his feet on the desk meets a Femme Fatale, while the voiceover gives us his mental play-by-play: The Private-Eye Monologue is characterized by certain pronunciation and speech patterns that make it immediately recognizable and utterly cool. The most basic rule to remember is that it is a monologue, so it is spoken (not written), preferably in a deep chain-smoker baritone. The last (or second last) word in the sentence is emphasized, to make clear where it ends. Short, choppy sentences in past tense with little conjunction (buts, howevers, and therefores) between them are preferred, and the lexicon mainly consists of short, simple words; that's why such monologues are so super quotable. Purple Prose and most Big Words are taboo. The most important aspect is thinking-in-metaphors. Creative metaphors and similes are the alpha and omega of a good Private-Eye Monologue, in stark contrast to the simplicity of the vocabulary. They demonstrate the relatively good education of the speaker without estranging him from the audience by sounding geeky. These characters also tend to accentuate their metaphors by addressing everything via descriptors instead of their names, symbolizing their reluctance to connect with anyone or anything on a personal level. References to popular culture and politics are pure win. Mentioning the climate and the current weather, usually in the beginning, is often a must. Even more impressive are religious (Judeo-Christian) symbolism and mythology, just don't overdo it. Repeating a metaphor or simile is a faux pas. Must be black and white, with preference given to grimy offices, frosted-glass doors, half-open Venetian blinds, and a cheap and conspicuously open bottle of hooch. Bonus points for saxophone music or impractically slow ceiling fans. Tends to make one wonder how someone so jaded could have such a fertile imagination, or why he isn't a poet or a public lecturer. When done well it is always a consistent narrative. Done badly, this monologue just becomes laughable amounts of complaining like a spoiled emo teen. Nigh impossible to play straight these days. (A classic subversion is Did I Just Say That Out Loud?.) The tough First-Person Smartass, of course, is far from dead. See Captain's Log for voiceover of the lead character talking out a journal or diary entry. Examples |
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In the Switch (1975) episode "The Late Show Murders," Pete occasionally reads aloud from the detective novel ''The Saracen Horse''. The events of the novel match up suspiciously well with whatever the villain, a corrupt private eye, happens to be doing at the moment. | |
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Adventure Time: BMO does this in the Noir Episode "BMO Noire", as his search for Finn's missing sock turns into a storyline straight out of Raymond Chandler. | |
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inFAMOUS character Cole McGrath uses this in every comic-style cutscenes. | |
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Rorschach's journal in Watchmen is an insane version of this. This is parodied in an issue of Radioactive Man. The vigilante "Heart of Darkness" (yes, that is his name) opens the story with a very similar monologue, only even more floridly overwrought and paranoid. (He claims that everyone is in on a massive government conspiracy, including even the Shriners.) |
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Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics): In "Pirate Plunder Panic", Vector begins every issue with one of these, only to change it when the Chaotix pretend to become pirates, and utterly confused in the final issue, thinking they're archaeologists while still doing the monologue. He has to stop and punch himself in the head to get back to normal. | |
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While a bit short on metaphor, "The Tale of X9" episode from Samurai Jack is almost wholly done in this style to great effect. | |
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Both played straight and parodied in the Tex Murphy games. | |
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The Count Duckula episode "All In A Fog" had the Count playing at being a film noir private eye, and a Running Gag involving other characters asking him how he did the Private-Eye Monologue without moving his lips. A similar joke occurs in the Bonkers episode "Frame that Toon", which also uses the PI dialogue. At the end, it's revealed that Bonkers isn't doing the narrating, a doppelganger is. |
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In the Sluggy Freelance story arc "Phoenix Rising," reporter Nash Straw starts doing one of these after his Face–Heel Turn. | |
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Much of Hellboy: Seed of Destruction is accompanied by Hellboy's internal monologue (and, in a few scenes, Abraham Sapien's, though his isn't nearly as hard-boiled). The first arc was scripted by John Byrne, but Mike Mignola himself doesn't use it. | |
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Tom and Jerry: Jerry's narration in "Blue Cat Blues" is clearly based off this. | |
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Yakko also did an Apocalypse Now-style narration in "Hearts of Twilight", one that shows him and his sibs on the hunt for a rogue movie director. Amusingly, Yakko describes his journey across the Warner Brothers studio lot as if it really is like war-torn Cambodia - and when his party reaches the director, his minions behave a lot like Colonel Kurtz's deranged followers. | |
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Despite the name, the MS Paint Adventures series Problem Sleuth mostly averts this trope until right at the end, when they become actual private eyes in the real world. Technically, they were already private eyes in the real world, and there are hints and splashes of evidence of such scattered throughout the earlier parts of the epic (references to doing things in a hardboiled way, for example). But since the problem that kicks off the plot is the seemingly-simple request to leave your office, you never really get to do your hardboiled monologuing because of all the crazy puzzle shit. | |
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Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, in a rather eccentric style. | |
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Shido from Nightwalker does this often. | |
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Hellraiser: Inferno. While only being a police detective, Joseph has a noirish-style internal monologue while working the Engineer case. It's a recap of his personal failures as he's looking back on how he wound up in hell. | |
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Parodied in The Naked Gun when Frank Drebin is so caught up in his monologue that he completely loses track of where he's going: | |
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In the Blaseball fanfiction What We Do With The Shoes, the viewpoint character's continuous monologue is justified by them narrating events into a tape recorder. But despite their best efforts to purposely maintain this style, the fact that they are Narrating the Present occasionally interferes... | |
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Done hilariously well in a The Kids in the Hall sketch. | |
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Frequently parodied on Whose Line Is It Anyway? Eventually made into a full blown game, with the exposition delivered as an aside facing the audience |
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Castle: In "The Blue Butterfly", Castle finds an old PI's diary from the '40s. Throughout the episode, we cut to his imagination of the events depicted in the diary, with the regular cast filling the roles. Castle is the PI, of course, and he provides narration in this style. Later on, after being barred from the 12th Precinct, Castle becomes a PI himself and in one episode starts doing the monologues out loud in his office. On the first occasion, a client walks in on him. The second time, Beckett who is of course now his wife arrives and does the typical voice of a client, turning it into a Private-Eye Dialogue... then they start to make out. Then the client walks in. The third, he's going with Beckett and she advises him to stop doing if he wants to have a chance of getting lucky. |
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Looney Tunes: The Daffy Duck and Porky Pig short "Rocket Squad" effects this with Daffy providing the narration. Think Dragnet meets Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century. Daffy does this on location in two cartoons: "Daffy Dilly" (giving the butler the third degree) and "The Super Snooper" (as a detective going through the motions on how he thinks a femme fatale committed a presumed murder). |
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Juno Steel in The Penumbra Podcast does these, naturally. | |
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The 2003 version of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ranges this in the beginning of each episode from the turtles to their enemies like Shredder ("Tales of Leo" and "Exodus Part 2"), Hun ("Hun on the Run"), and Bishop ("Worlds Collide Part 3", "Aliens Among Us", and "Outbreak"). Seasons 6 and 7 don't apply this. This is a holdover from the comics, which used this trope as a parody of Frank Miller's writing. | |
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As a result of Frank Miller and Alan Moore's influence this trope has almost become the industry standard, with internal narrative caption boxes becoming the standard over the more traditional thought bubbles. How noir-like they are varies; of the two DC characters most associated with them, Batman's usually are, while The Flash's generally aren't. | |
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Parodied in The Hebrew Hammer. Seems to be played straight early in the film, until the colors return to normal and the voice over is revealed to be actually coming from a tape player at his desk. | |
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Magnum, P.I.: Thomas Magnum did this in just about every episode. And when rival PI, Luthor Gillis was in town, Luthor turned it up to 11. |
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Parodied in Community when Chang comes to think he's a detective, which causes him to take long pauses before answering questions so he can monologue to himself. At the end he and the Dean both do this simultaneously so they drown each other out. And once he gets what he wants, Chang's monologue is just his own insane laughter. | |
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Nestor Burma (Guy Marchand) always has these when working on his cases. | |
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Used and parodied in the video game Discworld Noir, with the usual Discworld insistence that metaphors have to be precise. | |
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Jamie Madrox, the Multiple-Man of X-Factor Investigations, likes to imagine his life as a Film Noir detective movie, and narrates to himself accordingly. | |
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Back when Eberron was a new setting, one of the threads on the official forums discussed running a noir campaign in it. Naturally, it quickly developed into snippets of a half-orc private detective in Sharn following this trope. | |
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Our Miss Brooks: "Postage Due" sees Miss Brooks search for a vanished postman wearing a trench coat and narrating the action. | |
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Calvin of Calvin and Hobbes delivers dead-on parodies of the Private-Eye Monologue as "Tracer Bullet", one of his alter egos. It's surprising how well it's done, since in his intro to the strip's Tenth Anniversary Book Bill Watterson admits he's not a fan of the Hardboiled Detective genre and really knows nothing about it except what he picked up by osmosis from pop culture. | |
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The Dresden Files uses this kind of narration when it's not lapsing into novelized anime/comicbook territory. Unlike most examples, though, Harry is perfectly aware of what he's doing, and takes great pleasure in noting when it doesn't all go to spec. | |
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Black Jack Justice has an interesting variation: there are two main character PIs, and they both have this type of monologue. Occasionally parodied by having the two begin arguing through monologues. | |
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Animaniacs: They spoofed this in the short "This Pun For Hire", a film noir parody that mostly riffed on The Maltese Falcon. The episode opens with Yakko narrating. When we see him in his office, he's casually reading from the episode's script. Yakko also did an Apocalypse Now-style narration in "Hearts of Twilight", one that shows him and his sibs on the hunt for a rogue movie director. Amusingly, Yakko describes his journey across the Warner Brothers studio lot as if it really is like war-torn Cambodia - and when his party reaches the director, his minions behave a lot like Colonel Kurtz's deranged followers. |
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SCP Foundation: SCP-2100-J is a fedora that causes whoever wears it to do one of these out loud. There's also the strange reality bending entity Murphy Law that appears on SCP entries and tales who can use this to alter reality to fit his monologue. |
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The Element of Crime, a film both homaging and deconstructing Film Noir, offers an interesting variation: the whole movie is a hypnosis induced flashback, and the Private-Eye Monologue actually consists of a dialogue between the detective undergoing the hypnosis and his therapist. It is also done is the present tense, instead of the past tense. | |
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Married... with Children had an episode ('Al Bundy, Shoe Dick' S06E11) where Al became a private eye and they spoofed the usual monologues, especially by having him monologue while other characters are talking so that he misses important information. And, being Al, he also says things aloud he intended to be only in the monologues. | |
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A similar joke occurs in the Bonkers episode "Frame that Toon", which also uses the PI dialogue. At the end, it's revealed that Bonkers isn't doing the narrating, a doppelganger is. | |
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The Garfield's Babes and Bullets special has Garfield doing this as detective Sam Spayed. | |
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No voice work, but Hotel Dusk: Room 215 does this stylistically, especially in the post-chapter summaries. The main character's a former NYPD looking for a friend who apparently betrayed him. | |
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Parodied in Spider-Man (PS4). As a Running Gag, Spider-Man frequently takes on the persona of the "tough but lovable seen-too-much detective" Spider-Cop and narrates his adventures in this manner out loud. His Friend on the Force, Captain Yuri Watanabe, is not amused. | |
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Batman: The Brave and the Bold does this often — rather appropriate, with its regular dropping of the phrase "World's Greatest Detective". | |
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In Silverblade, whenever Jonathan Lord transforms into one of his film characters, he acquires the tropes that go along with that character as well. When he becomes Sam Slade, P.I. in order to infiltrate a crime scene, the comic suddenly acquires a private eye monologue. | |
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In Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne, Max frequently comes across televisions displaying Dick Justice, a program which openly parodies this trope, and Max's inner monologue itself. | |
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The Night Mayor alternates between two viewpoint characters, one of whom is an author of hardboiled detective thrillers; the chapters where he's the viewpoint character are narrated in first person in this style. | |
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Played straight throughout the Max Payne series. The entire story is provided with a voice-over by Max, who has every right to be more than a little grumpy. Also parodied in the first game as Max, while in a drug-induced dream, receives a phone-call from himself, where the other him is firing off an endless line of weird metaphors. Max, thinking it is load of gibberish, dismisses it as a prank call, but can't help having a weird sense of deja vu, thinking the caller sounded familiar. In Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne, Max frequently comes across televisions displaying Dick Justice, a program which openly parodies this trope, and Max's inner monologue itself. The fact that the movie didn't have this was a strike against it. The third game carries on this tradition in a fashion that is straight and grim, with Max taking on an even more bitter and borderline Wangst-y tone with his monologues. |
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Similarly, in Moon Cops on the Moon's protagonist, Neal is a 1st person Hardboiled Detective protagonist engages in a large amount of this. | |
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Jessica Jones (2015) regularly has Jessica provide some sort of internal monologue. Besides being fitting for the story, as Jessica is a private investigator, it also ties in to one of her issues. In the penultimate episode of the series, she admits that she is not comfortable with talking about her issues to other people. The internal monologue is her talking her problems through with herself. | |
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Mick Oberon does this almost constantly, with occasional digressions to complain about how he has pretend he has a grudge with grammar to fit in in the human world these days. | |
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Superman does one in Superman: The Animated Series, in the episode "The Late Mr. Kent". | |
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The series There Will Be Brawl is set in a gritty film-noir-ish version of the Mushroom Kingdom, so it's only natural that Luigi (the protagonist) narrates much of the story in this fashion. It's played completely straight though. | |
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All of the Lori Lovecraft stories are narrated by a character who isn't Lori. Whenever Private Detective (and Lori's sometime lover) R.C. Bowman is narrating, the narration is done is in this style, complete with some very strange analogies. | |
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One of the characters in Radiance is a private investigator, so naturally his chapter is in first person with the requisite Weather Report Opening. | |
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Played straight in a different fashion than usual in Kiln People by David Brin. The protagonist is a private eye who uses dittos (avatar golems you upload yourself into) with a built-in recorder and a compulsion to narrate everything that happens. But the results are precise and dry. | |
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All the Wrong Questions combines deadpan detective narration with the Lemony Narrator trope, since the protagonist is Lemony Snicket himself. | |
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Robert B. Parker, often considered the heir to Chandler, used this to great effect in his Spenser novels. | |
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Sin City, a stylistic imitation of classic film noir, made extensive use of it, and even managed to play it straight. It is responsible for the classic line, "Walk down the right back alley in Sin City, and you can find anything." Frank Miller is addicted to this trope. It shows up in almost everything he's written, including Batman: Year One, The Dark Knight Returns, many issues of Daredevil, and the Wolverine limited series (co-written with Chris Claremont). |
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Played with in Altered Carbon. Takeshi Kovacs is actually a Super-Soldier and former revolutionary terrorist hired for a private investigation by his megarich client to find out Who Dunnit To Me. So his thoughts have little to do with the case (except when he has a crucial "Eureka!" Moment) and have more to do with philosophical musings on the future society he lives in. | |
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Also parodied in the first game as Max, while in a drug-induced dream, receives a phone-call from himself, where the other him is firing off an endless line of weird metaphors. Max, thinking it is load of gibberish, dismisses it as a prank call, but can't help having a weird sense of deja vu, thinking the caller sounded familiar. | |
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The third game carries on this tradition in a fashion that is straight and grim, with Max taking on an even more bitter and borderline Wangst-y tone with his monologues. | |
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Fillbert: When Fillbert becomes a detective, their use of similes is Zig Zagged: | |
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Rise of the Minisukas: Parodied. The Minisuka "Noir" dresses as a classic movie detective, and "intones as if narrating the scene like an old-time detective show". But right like all Minisukas, she can only tell "Baka" and "Anta Baka". | |
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Noir Episode "Necessary Evil" opens with Constable Odo making his first Federation log entry, which consists of a long rant on the tendency of humans to accumulate useless information, ending with his one sentence report: "Everything's under control." But as Odo investigates an attempted murder which is linked to his past, the log entries begin to take on the form of the more traditional narrative. Odo, it's later revealed, is a fan of Mickey Spillane novels. | |
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Parodied in Archer Dreamland. At several points Archer appears to be delivering one of these only for the camera to pan out and reveal he's talking to a stray dog, a hobo, a prostitute and eventually just straight-up talking to himself because he's so tired and hopped up on pills. | |
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Parodied in Mass Effect 3: Citadel. Shepard is sent a collection of recordings from their old squadmate, Mordin Solus, and one is a noir-esque short story narrated entirely in this style. | |
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Spoofed in a Pinky and the Brain episode parodying Film Noir: Brain would do a Spock Speak monologue, and Pinky would suggest the standard Private-Eye Monologue alternative. | |
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The introduction for Question 6 in You Don't Know Jack: Movies is given in a voice parodying the stereotypical movie private eye, and shows smoke curling around the screen. | |
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Setsuna does this pretty much every time she appears in Negima The Abridged Series. | |
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The Mass Effect fanfic "Noir Tali Is Noir" got its start as one of these from the perspective of the eponymous engineer, before being developed into an actual story. | |
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L.A. Noire being a Noir game has this at the beginning of every Patrol case. | |
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Phineas and Ferb: In the episode "Finding Mary McGuffin", when Phineas and Ferb become detectives for the day. Phineas monologues out loud, much to Candace's annoyance. As they search, and as Phineas monologues, they interrogate their father, Lawrence, after which this happens: |
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They spoofed this in the short "This Pun For Hire", a film noir parody that mostly riffed on The Maltese Falcon. The episode opens with Yakko narrating. When we see him in his office, he's casually reading from the episode's script. | |
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Roger Smith of the film noir-esque The Big O is a "negotiator" who often ends up investigating the cases of his clients in a manner similar to a Private Eye. He does the Private-Eye Monologue frequently, especially during the first season. | |
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In the Girl Genius side-story "Ivo Sharktooth, PJ", Sharktooth has one of these, made all the funnier by retaining his Jaegermonster Funetik Aksent. Lampshaded at one point: | |
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Shakespeare Without the Boring Bits presents Macbeth from the point of view of Macbeth in this manner. "Call me Mac." | |
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Kabuki: "I feel the burning of their gaze and it keeps me warm. I hold onto it and proceed. I find myself thinking of my sensei again...and of a little girl training her body to perform beyond built in psychological taboos. I think of this as I bite off my finger." | |
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Parodied with detective Flint Paper in Sam & Max. While his manner of speaking is fairly normal, reading of his mind reveals that he exclusively thinks in metaphors. And in "The City That Dares not Sleep" we get to hear Max attempting to do one, when Sam finds his Flint Paper fanfic, full of Stylistic Suck. Sam from "They Stole Max's Brain!" also does these out loud, but nobody besides him finds them interesting. | |
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The Daffy Duck and Porky Pig short "Rocket Squad" effects this with Daffy providing the narration. Think Dragnet meets Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century. | |
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In NCIS, when Tony reads a brief excerpt of McGee's mystery novel aloud, he gives it the full film noir treatment. | |
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Boy Meets World parodies this in the Noir Episode. | |
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Ms. Tree contains a written narration in this style by the heroine. | |
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The Real Ghostbusters One episode involving an Egyptian artifact heist that went awry decades earlier had this from the unpossessed ghost of a P.I. | |
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Darker than Black sees Gai Kurasawa start one of these, complete with cigarette smoking, window blinds and other private detective trappings but he gets interrupted by his Genki Girl assistant. | |
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The protagonists' narration in the Danganronpa series almost always becomes this at one point or anything, especially before a class trial where they deliver a long soliloquy about what's about to happen. | |
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The Pink Panther did this in "Black and White and Pink All Over". | |
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Ruby Rocket Private Detective. Ruby barely even says a word to the client, and eventually turns him away because she's too busy monologuing to listen to his problem. | |
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Spoofed on Hyperdrive, where Teal interrupts. | |
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Since the CollegeHumor improv musical show Play it by Ear has a Noir Episode in "The Missing Member", naturally it features these. | |
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Petra from Emerald City Confidential monologues occasionally when narrating background information or when considering characters' motives. | |
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Paradox Space: "Indemnity Double Reacharound" mixes this with Troll terminology to create an utterly bizarre monologue from Inspector Berrybreath. Crowbar has one in "The Inaugural Death of Mister Seven," fitting with his role as an old-school mobster. Later on in the story, Doc Scratch uses his omniscience to read and respond to Crowbar's narration. |
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Between the Lions would have occassional noir segments narrated by Sam Spud, a potato detective. He would give cliche narrations like "she was as cool as a cucumber", only to find his client actually IS a cucumber. | |
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Played straight in Full Throttle, which is especially impressive seeing how the protagonist is a outlaw biker gang leader. | |
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Valhalla: Odin in "The magic mead", often including references to his enormous thirst for the mead he's after. | |
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John Taylor sometimes lapses into this when he's describing the Nightside or some of its more appalling neighborhoods and residents. Joanna Barrett indirectly calls him on this in Something From The Nightside, accusing him of lecturing to her rather than conversing. | |
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Spoofed in the Rugrats episode "The Case of the Malties Woodchuck" (a play off of the Maltese Falcon). Tommy does the Private-Eye Monologue, similes and metaphors included, but since he's one year old, the metaphors often get derailed into his own little segues. | |
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The Starfinder podcast Cosmic Crit uses this for recaps at the beginning of each episode in the third season from the point of view of private detective Sprouts Marlowe. | |
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Hank gives his take in The Venture Bros. episode "Everybody Comes to Hank's". | |
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Parodied in Stupid Mario Brothers with Max Payne saying his out loud which makes him look weird to everyone else. | |
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Milo Garrett in 100 Bullets. | |
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Cthulhu Armageddon by C.T. Phipps: A rare non-detective story example with Cthulhu Armageddon where the protagonist, John Henry Booth, uses flowery, purple, and pulpish metaphors about his eldritch cyclopean surroundings filled with antediluvian structures that forebode dread. It's just our protagonist is a cynical tough guy and smartass when describing them so the effect is the same. Similarly, in Moon Cops on the Moon's protagonist, Neal is a 1st person Hardboiled Detective protagonist engages in a large amount of this. |
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Averted in The Cat Piano despite it being a Film Noir. | |
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Ace Hart, Private Eye Dog, in Dog City often opened his cases with one. Which usually broke off as he realised Elliot had forgotten to draw something, or taken the plot in an odd direction. | |
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Gabriel narrates the fourth chapter of Evil Diva like this. He appears to be writing a film noir novel based on the events happening around him (then again, maybe he just writes his diary entries in the hard-boiled detective voice). It's not spoken dialogue, but it's as close as Gabe can come. | |
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Red vs. Blue: Family Shatters: In "Hard Boiled", West dreams of himself as a noir detective who narrates in a stereotypical gritty style, with short, choppy sentences and at least one metaphor. | |
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A Prairie Home Companion: The "Guy Noir: Private Eye" sketches are a spoof of this. | |
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Action Doom 2: Urban Brawl has the character do this throughout the game, both in cutscenes and in the game itself. | |
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Pibgorn the guy in the trenchcoat | |
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In Clegg, the protagonist Harry Clegg provides a first person narration of the events in a typical hardboiled style. The opening lines set the scene: | |
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LoadingReadyRun's skit "30 Minutes or Less" shows the gritty world of pizza delivery through this method. | |
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Occasionally used either unlabeled or as entries in the "war journal" of The Punisher. | |
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The first, movie theater version of Blade Runner came with a voice-over narration by Deckard (Harrison Ford), the main character and Blade Runner, who was indeed both a Private Eye and a government assassin of rogue replicants. All of Deckard's voice-overs were removed from the Director's Cut, because they had been added against Ridley Scott's wishes, due to Executive Meddling, in the hopes that the narration would provide some explanation of Deckard and his world for the audience (it didn't). Reportedly, Ridley Scott and Harrison Ford hated them, a sentiment echoed by many moviegoers and critics. According to some, Ford tried to do as bad a job with the voice-overs as possible, an accusation Ford denies. | |
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Done in classic style in Out of the Past, itself a classic Film Noir. Jeff narrates the extended flashback to his girlfriend, and the rest of the film to the audience. | |
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In the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic episode "Rarity Investigates!", Rarity repeatedly does this while helping to clear Rainbow Dash's name, and even accidentally says a few out loud. | |
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The Doctor Who audio dramas (as well as several of the books and comics, but never the series) have featured a companion of the 6th Doctor named Frobisher. He's a shapeshifter private eye who prefers to spend his time in the shape of a penguin. The audio drama "The Maltese Penguin" pretty much is full of monologues, many of which are entirely inaccurate. | |
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In Lacuna (2021), the Player Character, Neil Conrad, occasionally monologues to the audience his insights into the world and the cases he's investigating. Said monologues are especially noteworthy, in that the game features no other voicework, adding a lot more gravitas to them. | |
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Tropical Heat: In the episode "Double Switch" private detective Nick Slaughter does this. | |
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"The Girl Hunt" in The Band Wagon is half Private-Eye Monologue, half ballet. (It should be noted here that the monologue's writer was Alan Jay Lerner.) | |
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While not technically a detectivenote while his job does involve a fair amount of investigation, especially when hired to steal a specific item for someone, he is still primarily a thief otherwise played straight by garrett of Thief in his mission briefings. Almost every mission begins with Garrett dryly describing the job and the basic plan for infiltration with similes and jabs at the owner of the building thrown in. This works very well to set the games Film Noir flavored Low Fantasy style. | |
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An entire episode of Codename: Kids Next Door has Hoagie Gilligan, AKA Numbuh 2, playing the part of a grade school Private Eye with an office in the janitor's closet. Not only does he use the PI dialogue, the entire episode is a parody of the film noir genre with school hallways becoming fog-shrouded streets, the hallway monitor acting like a hard-nosed police detective, and everyone using bad 30's slang. Which is appropriate for the series, seeing as most all of the episodes are either parodies of movies, or movie genres. Used again in two more episodes, one of which had Numbuh 3 as the detective. Hilarity Ensues. |
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The first episode of The Burkiss Way finishes with a sketch spoofing this: | |
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In the Teen Wolf fanfic Bogarted, Derek is hit with a curse, which forces him to narrate his entire life, Film Noir style. | |
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Very common on Veronica Mars, which works, given that Veronica moonlights as a private eye. | |
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Employed in the Jimmy Neutron episode One Of Us when Jimmy investigates the town's sudden transformation into permanently-happy zombies. | |
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5 Second Films: The Big Drip. | |
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One of the GURPS Magic Items supplements has an item called "The Black Fedora". Wearing it increases your abilities of deductive reasoning, but also makes you want to put on a trenchcoat and monologue (ie: about gams and their inability to quit), and makes you incapable of using words like "money" or "woman", replacing them with terms such as "dough" and "dame". | |
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Private Eye Monologue | |
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Parodied in season 2 of X-Ray & Vav with the introduction of Flynt Coal, "a Private Eye stuck in the forties" according to X-Ray. Whenever he starts a monologue, the scene goes monochrome and he talks like he's narrating a film noir. However, the whole thing is said out loud, and he then goes to repeat himself to the guys, as if it had been in his head. | |
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Dimension X's "Pebble in the Sky": When Bel Arvaden speaks in an aside to the audience to narrate his opinions and the setting changes, he changes his tone and cadence to fit the classic pattern of a radio detective. | |
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Amphibia: In "Little Frogtown", Hop Pop is inspired by a detective movie Anne happened to have saved on her phone to do a film noir-style investigation of the disappearance of his old friend Sal. This includes copious monologues, which Hop Pop sometimes argues with. The episode ends with Hop Pop getting "stuck" in monologue mode, leaving the kids weirded out. | |
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Episodes of Durarara!! are narrated by various characters and sometimes evoke this, especially the one narrated by Intrepid Reporter Shuuji Niekawa. | |
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In the Star Trek: Voyager uber fic "The Last Kiss Goodbye," Jane Kates (Kathryn Janeway) is a Los Angeles private eye hired to find the missing beauty Anna Borg (Seven of Nine) at the behest of Paramount producer Canon Bragger (Brannon Braga). | |
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In Kingdom of Loathing, the Penne Dreadful pasta thrall is a hard-boiled detective inhabiting a skeletal body made out of enchanted pasta who is prone to doing these sorts of monologues. You may find your opponent in combat wondering "Who is he talking to?" | |
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MacGyver did this in the early seasons. He's introduced by voiceover, using a story from his childhood (the first time he tried to ride a horse) as a metaphor for his current mission (infiltrating a Soviet campsite, destroying the captured U.S. technology they're there for, and rescuing a pilot). The voiceover narration is eventually dropped. | |
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Burn Notice: Michael Weston sounds like he's giving a lecture. | |
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Spoofed on Sabrina the Teenage Witch, where Sabrina interrupted Salem several times. Also occurs when Sabrina goes to hire a detective to snoop on Harvey only to discover it's her old romantic admirer Roland the troll. She is transformed into a black and white 50s style femme fatale and he explains he charges so much to pay for his fog and voiceover machines. | |
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The TV Series of Mike Hammer was chock-full of this trope, of course. | |
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Deadpool attempts this in Cable & Deadpool #13. The results are... interesting. | |
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Kamen Rider Double, itself a Homage to Western detective drama, does this regularly. | |
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The Chronicles of Amber starts off using this style; the first-person narrative returns to the style now and then. | |
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Parodied in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Big Goodbye". At the denouement, after Riker asks Data what happened in the holodeck, Data puts on an exaggerated Humphrey Bogart-esque voice and manner and begins to monologue "It was raining in the city by the bay. A hard rain. Hard enough to wash the slime—" before Picard tells him to shut up, and he meekly turns back to the Ops console (while still wearing his 1940s gangster costume). | |
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