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The Watcher

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The Watcher	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })A recurring character whose role is, well, to Watch and literally nothing else. Yet, strangely, instead of remaining completely passive it will probably give some advice to the hero and then disappear, or otherwise interfere in some small (but important) way to help the heroes triumph. Indeed, given the various observer effects, if they were really doing their job, they shouldn't be detectable at all. Often explained by saying The Watcher has some rules which restrict it from taking action, and it will then regularly ignore this Obstructive Code of Conduct as much as it can... Not to be confused with the Mysterious Watcher — who observes the characters from afar for their own purposes — though the two can certainly overlap. Also not to be confused with the person on the other side of the TV screen/Fourth Wall, nor the Evil Overlooker, which is a box art phenomenon. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })Also see The Mentor and the Mysterious Informant. Frequently an All-Powerful Bystander. Normally a Fantastic Anthropologist. Compare The Omniscient Council of Vagueness. Examples:
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The Watcher / int_11b7db91	comment	Cuber, the spinner of "graybles" in Adventure Time, functions as a watcher, albeit one from the future.
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The Watcher / int_1331990c	comment	In Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Kyubey is the living embodiment of this trope. Despite being a Manipulative Bastard, his actions only indirectly influence the storyline, and he really cannot break the rules which are assigned to him (grant a wish to an up-and-coming Magical Girl, no matter how weird it is). Of course, this does not stop him from giving out Wham Line after Wham Line in almost every episode. He's also one of the few examples to employ this trope somewhat malevolently, being the absolute king of Exact Words and You Didn't Ask.
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The Watcher / int_14cf013a	comment	On Buffy, Angel shows up in the early episodes only to offer Buffy cryptic messages about upcoming threats. Despite their name, Giles and the other members of the Council of Watchers act more like Mentors, and occasionally fight demons themselves. Played straight(er) in the movie, where there was only ONE Immortal Watcher, who has trained The Chosen One's for centuries. He was allowed to do so by the Big Bad, so that the Big Bad would have some entertainment every now and again. Of course, The Watcher DOES intervene to save Buffy's life, and shortly afterwards dies for it.
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The Watcher / int_1682583	comment	In Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam, Big Bad Paptimus Scirocco would like people to think he is this, as evidenced by his Catch-Phrase "I'm merely a witness to history", but the truth is he's just a very good player of Xanatos Speed Chess and is content to make a move only when he has to.
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The Watcher / int_1adee40d	comment	Sanae Hanekoma from The World Ends with You, whose purpose it is to actually watch over the Game as a whole.
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The Watcher / int_20028d77	comment	The Spectre in Kingdom Come acts like this. His job is to witness the coming (possible) apocalypse, not to interfere with it (only to punish the wicked should anyone be left after said apocalypse). Pastor Norman McKay who accompanies him fulfills the same role (having been chosen by The Spectre to accompany him in his observations). Norman however refuses inaction; telling The Spectre that this would be as evil as those who brought the whole situation to happen, and steps in to stop Superman's Unstoppable Rage.
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The Watcher / int_23bf2bf0	comment	The New Universe from Marvel has The Witness, a character who dies as a result of the White Event, but continues to exist as an intangible ghost. He is drawn to places where people are manifesting paranormal powers, but can only watch what happens, unable to intervene in any way.
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The Watcher / int_24a6dfde	comment	Virgil in lonelygirl15. He's not the only "watcher" in the series, but he's the only example of "The Watcher".
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The Watcher / int_25f6f1a0	comment	In Umineko: When They Cry, Bernkastel takes this role for the first two games, but once Beatrice indicates that she knows where Bern's loyalties lie, she takes a much more active role. It may or may not be the same Bernkastel as in Umineko, but Frederica Bernkastel is The Watcher of the Higurashi: When They Cry continuity, as she is the collective amalgamation of all past Rikas, and is responsible for plugging Rika into another kakera after Hanyuu invokes her power.
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The Watcher / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons had an example of this in the episode "Helter Shelter", where the Simpsons participate in a reality show where they are reduced to late 19th century living, and the producers enforce ratings stunts to keep the show interesting. When the Simpsons ask the show's creator if they can have lunch with the crew, he claims, "We're not allowed to interfere with the reality of the show." This is after the crew deliberately uprooted the house and sent it down a river.
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The Watcher / int_2675c915	comment	Season 5 of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. features the Chronicoms, a race of alien androids sent to observe life on Earth but never interfere, unless it's to prevent an extinction-level event.
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The Watcher / int_28fe1376	comment	Fringe: The Observer and his organization are a group of bald men with advanced technology and almost no emotions (or taste buds) who observe major events in history, but seem to be showing up more and more frequently in the present day (Once an Episode, to be exact). Their purpose is unknown; they may be time travelers, immortals, or interdimensional police. They do sometimes interfere by communicating with the main characters in order to prevent the two universes from destroying each other, but they justify it as righting previous errors.
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The Watcher / int_2bb4ae0f	comment	Future Hiro took on this role in Heroes when he told Peter to "save the cheerleader", and again when he told his past self how to stop the bomb.
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The Watcher / int_2f9517bf	comment	Bookman and Lavi in D.Gray-Man are supposed to be unbiased recorders of "the secret history." Supposed to be...
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The Watcher / int_3436775c	comment	Medium: Allison's dead father-in-law fits the trope. He also annoys Allison by not giving straight answers and inflating the danger of what will happen just to be on the safe side or teach a lesson.
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The Watcher / int_39c20861	comment	The Watchers from Highlander are prototypical, being members of an organization who observed the conflict between immortals but were sworn to remain apart from it. And just like Uatu they're really really bad at that second part. The series actually deconstruct the idea of an organisation charged with observing a hidden world- while some take it very seriously, most treat it like any other nine-til-five job. They have pensions and even vacation time; in one episode Joe reveals to Duncan that they don't know who beheaded a recently killed Immortal, because that Immortal's watcher took some time off for his sister's wedding. The Watcher assigned to the oldest known immortal Methos is actually Methos himself, hiding in plain sight. Duncan discovers the truth when he meets the Watcher for the first time and his "an Immortal is near" sense is triggered.
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The Watcher / int_3b34143f	comment	Harry Potter: This is the role of anyone viewing a memory in a Pensieve. Simultaneous viewers can still interact with each other.
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The Watcher / int_3b7abee2	comment	The G-Man from the Half-Life series. Although he might also be considered the Sufficiently Advanced Alien as well. Then again, as time goes on, it appears that he's becoming less and less of a Watcher, especially after the death of Eli. "Prepare for unforeseen consequences", indeed.
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The Watcher / int_43576f5	comment	Supernatural has the Men of Letters, a secret society dedicated to studying the monsters and magic of the world but never directly interfering themselves (they have Hunters to do that for them). We learn in their first appearance that John Winchester's entire family were members, which is what led to his father's death pre-series, before John could learn of their existence.
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The Watcher / int_468bebb0	comment	In the Discworld novels, both Death and Lu-Tze of the History Monks are constrained by rules that prevent them interfering with history, although both bend these rules considerably in certain circumstances. They both at least have something to do in the world, whereas their meddling is sometimes provoked by actions of Auditors, who are truly supposed to do nothing at all but observe and register.
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The Watcher / int_4940a981	comment	Gubaru from the web fiction serial Dimension Heroes often watches the progress of the Dimensional Guardians via his base tucked away in a pocket dimension, occasionally contacting them via their Guardian Bands to offer advice.
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The Watcher / int_4e549f11	comment	Dreamscape: Eleenin relies on her allies and fairies to fight, because she doesn't have any offensive prowess of her own. Although its because she believes in The Power of Friendship, not because she's a Dirty Coward.
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The Watcher / int_50bcf7a6	comment	Homestuck has Doc Scratch. The audience does eventually learn that he has an agenda of his own, but he brings about this agenda by contacting a few people and giving them advice to nudge them in the right direction.
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The Watcher / int_56dce3c1	comment	The Watchers make a brief cameo in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2. Stan Lee is apparently a consultant. And they find him boring.
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The Watcher / int_5aa392c7	comment	The Watchers of Ghost Whisperer, who annoy Melinda with their inability to give straight answers.
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The Watcher / int_605dd875	comment	Stargate-verse: The Ancients. And if we say they don't interfere, we mean it. The number of times Ancients interfered in the plot can be counted on the fingers of one hand, and every time, the individual who did so was genuinely punished by the rest. On two occasions an Ancient has evaded punishment by sacrificing all their powers and becoming human, then using just their superior knowledge to interfere.
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The Watcher / int_691be369	type	The Watcher
The Watcher / int_691be369	comment	The X-Files has several people in Watcher-like roles (often emissaries of the Powers That Be, or those within the Powers That Be but secretly working against them, e.g. Mr. X).
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The Watcher / int_6c9193a1	comment	The Venture Bros.: Parodied: The Galactic Inquisitor insists he's only there to observe but his presence is so loud and burdensome he just keeps getting in the way. Unique in that he didn't try to intentionally interfere (though his presence was certainly obtrusive enough to count as interference) and everyone else just tried to ignore him. Subverted in that, according to the alien disguised as Rusty's dad, when he was done with his evaluation he would have destroyed the earth.
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The Watcher / int_7041cf12	comment	Osaragi from Kaguya-sama: Love Is War doesn't actively participate in plots, but she does take notice of all the things going on with Iino, and the situation in middle school. Thankfully, this means she can see the good points of those who are shunned, like Iino and Ishigami.
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The Watcher / int_78aabbd5	comment	Raiden in the first Mortal Kombat film is a watcher; he gives advice to the heroes, but the other Elder Gods will not allow him to directly interfere. In the second movie, Mortal Kombat: Annihilation, he gives up his godhood so he can take a more direct hand.
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The Watcher / int_90c73dda	comment	Animorphs: The Ellimist claims to be this at first. Later, it is revealed that although both he and his evil counterpart Crayak would love to be more proactive, they tie each other's cosmic hands. Every time we see one of them do something, the other has agreed behind the scenes to let them do it as a part of a compromise, because otherwise they could cancel each other out endlessly. The trick to making progress in their "game", for the Ellimist, is hoping that the Animorphs will have the right reaction to the limited help or information he is able to give them, and/or that Crayak won't realize the true significance of a "move".
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The Watcher / int_919c4f7d	comment	Teo and Lippti from Radiant Historia, though they are allowed to give the hero advice from time to time. Specifically, Teo and Lippti are permitted to tell Stocke anything they like, they just can't see any possible timelines until he's already created them with a decision, and thus can only coach him on where he went wrong. The one thing they are absolutely forbidden to do is reveal or even imply anything about the goals and identity of the Black Chronicle wielder to the holder of the White Chronicle. This frustrates Stocke's efforts, but they later reveal it also protected him, since it works both ways. When they break this rule, they can only provide oblique and obscure clues, and it causes them excruciating pain.
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The Watcher / int_94cfab39	type	The Watcher
The Watcher / int_94cfab39	comment	Deep Throat in All the President's Men, as in Real Life.
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The Watcher / int_97853439	comment	Philemon from the first two Persona games is mostly this, limiting his direct actions to giving the heroes the power to summon avatars of their inner psyche and pressing the Reset Button when his Evil Counterpart manages to destroy the world. In subsequent games in the series, he simply lets his servant Igor do all the work.
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The Watcher / int_99c24198	comment	Parodied in The Pro with The Viewer, who observes the world from a cloaked satellite and grants superpowers to the main character on a whim. His robot companion frequently calls him The Voyeur.
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The Watcher / int_9c1d0ac8	comment	Concerned referred to this behavior as a "G-Peep."
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The Watcher / int_9e4b626	comment	The mysterious narrator/ the Lord of the castle in Knights in the Nightmare is one. He implies that the entire world was created as an experiment into human nature.
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The Watcher / int_a03824e8	comment	From The DCU, The Phantom Stranger, is a little more proactive than most Watchers (in fact, he is, as he points out in the JLA/Avengers crossover, a sometimes member of the league), but still fits the bill. Destiny of the Endless is perhaps the DCU's purest example, although there are others as well. It helped that in some of his comic incarnations, the Phantom Stranger was an agent of the Lords of Order and it was his duty to intervene against cases where Chaos was involved.
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The Watcher / int_b0fcce7	comment	Played straight(er) in the movie, where there was only ONE Immortal Watcher, who has trained The Chosen One's for centuries. He was allowed to do so by the Big Bad, so that the Big Bad would have some entertainment every now and again. Of course, The Watcher DOES intervene to save Buffy's life, and shortly afterwards dies for it.
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The Watcher / int_bb3fde3d	type	The Watcher
The Watcher / int_bb3fde3d	comment	Danny Phantom characters: The Observants who follow Uatu's example and watch, but never act; and Clockwork who watches and acts when he feels the need to.
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The Watcher / int_c08ac18b	comment	In Original Sin #0, new Nova Sam Alexander asks Iron Man and Captain America why Uatu watches everything. After a beat, Cap admits that they have no idea. Nova later learns that Uatu is looking for a world where his father (who was the cause of the Watchers' "no-interference" policy) was right.
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The Watcher / int_c0c57462	comment	Gaspar from Chrono Trigger.
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The Watcher / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: The Time Lords. Again, while they were officially supposed to never interfere, a lot of them were really bad at it. Notably, their doctrine of noninterference was largely self-imposed; they made that decision in the first place because they're almost all horribly corrupt, and the doctrine is basically there to keep them from screwing up and/or conquering everything else. Played straight with the Watcher from "Logopolis", who watched the Doctor and his companions throughout the serial, and was revealed to be a manifestation of the Fourth Doctor, which Foreshadows his regeneration into the Fifth Doctor.
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The Watcher / int_c72021c5	comment	In Deus Ex, this role is played by different characters throughout the game. Initially, The Watcher is Alex Jacobson, the computer guy at UNATCO; he drops out after the La Guardia mission. Daedalus takes over the role at the beginning of the Majestic-12 sequence.
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The Watcher / int_d54469f8	comment	Meta Knight acts as the Mentor for Kirby in the anime adaptation, and tends to act this way rather a lot of the time, often serving as Mr. Exposition. Although he and his henchmen do take the odd opportunity to display how badass they are on a regular basis, Meta Knight seems happy to leave the problem solving to Fumu and the ass kicking to Kirby.
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The Watcher / int_d5c2a7a3	comment	In the Thief series, the Keepers act like this for the most part, although they will get involved if the situation demands it. Since they are undisputed masters of stealth, even when they do get involved nobody realizes it, and very few outside their organization are aware that they even exist. Deconstructed in the third game, when the Keepers — more specifically, their Glyphs — are the problem. A rogue Keeper who became a twisted immortal monster through her abuse of Glyphs is the Big Bad, and the leader of the Keepers spends the entire game hampering Garret's progress before finally accepting that the Keepers have become too attached to the power of the Glyphs. Right before the Hag kills him, he tells Garret to activate the Final Glyph which ends the power of the Glyphs and with it the Keeper organization. At the very end of the game Garrett is the last true Keeper. Which is rather ironic since he spent most of his life rejecting that calling.
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The Watcher / int_db30cf92	comment	Warrior Cats: StarClan take this attitude toward the living characters, believing that interfering directly with the physical world would make the living cats their "playthings". This hasn't stopped them from occasionally making their will very clear, such as when they cause lightning to strike a specific tree, causing it to fall over and create a handy bridge to an important island, while simultaneously killing off a traitorous warrior attempting to usurp WindClan's leadership. Actually, there is no concrete proof that StarClan was responsible for the lightning strike. Some of the characters assume it was a message from StarClan, but StarClan never takes responisbility for it, and for all we know it could have been a freak lightning strike. It's more likely that StarClan wasn't responsible because they've never done anything that drastic before.
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The Watcher / int_dbabed11	type	The Watcher
The Watcher / int_dbabed11	comment	Hyrule Warriors: Cia, the Guardian of Time, was originally a straight example of this as she observed the various timelines of the Legend of Zelda series. Things started to go wrong as she became more and more enamored with The Hero as she observed the heroic deeds of his various incarnations, and became more and more envious of the various Zeldas. After being egged on by Ganondorf's corrupting influence, Cia abandoned her duty and raised an army to invade Hyrule to get rid of Zelda and take the Hero for herself.
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The Watcher / int_f349915b	type	The Watcher
The Watcher / int_f349915b	comment	Astinus of the Dragonlance novels is The Watcher of Krynn. Rumoured to be the god Gilean (the God of the Book, of course) in human form, he's the only man on the planet who, according to Raistlin's time vision, is not dying. He spends all of his time recording the events of the world in (generally) unbroken sittings. This is even to the extent that he'll be writing things like On this morning, Caramon entered my office— before turning to the visitor. He has also unintentionally interfered in events — mostly through Time Travel, when a protagonist obtained and brought back to the present one of his books from the future. On that day there was only one recording in his book: On this day of Overwatch Rising, Caramon of Solace brought me a volume of Astinus's Chronicles. A book that I will never write.
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The Watcher / int_f4abd380	comment	An "Onlooker" in BlazBlue is supposed to observe and not (directly) interfere. Their power to "observe" things (i.e acknowledging the existence and happenstance of things, which - due to quantum theories - has multiple applications) is far greater than anyone else, but if they decide to interfere, they'll steadily lose their power bit by bit. Rachel Alucard is one of those Onlookers; she's also one of the "players" in the verse's Cosmic Chess Game who moves others (particularly the hero, Ragna) to help her protect the world from the villains. As the games' story continue, however, she'd been forced to interfere a couple of times just to ensure her victory, and as of the fourth game she's steadily losing her powers. Another Onlooker is Amane Nishiki, who later succeeds Rachel's job of watching over and protecting the world.
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The Watcher / int_ff35db96	type	The Watcher
The Watcher / int_ff35db96	comment	Mikuru Asahina from Haruhi Suzumiya is a Time Traveler who's assigned to watch over Haruhi to unlock the mystery about why it's now impossible to time-travel beyond a certain day.
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