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Unseen Audience

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14 feature instances
5 referencing feature instances

Unseen Audience	type	FeatureClass
Unseen Audience	label	Unseen Audience
Unseen Audience	page	unseenaudience
Unseen Audience	comment	Most often, the narrator of a story is unseen, and may not even be a character within it. However, sometimes we do see the narrator, and he seems to be talking to us (the audience) breaking the Fourth Wall; but instead, he or she is actually talking to another character within the story, but we don't realize that until later. This is often done to surprise the audience with the listener's identity. It is, however, a tricky thing to do, as the author must be careful not to have the narrator mention something he couldn't know at any point, or say something that reveals too early whom he is addressing. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })If this is employed by a character who is not the narrator, especially for comedic effect, then it is a Fourth Wall Psych. Examples
Unseen Audience	fetched	2018-10-20T19:58:49Z
Unseen Audience	parsed	2020-06-25T17:30:22Z
Unseen Audience	isPartOf	DBTropes
Unseen Audience / int_2212773a	type	Unseen Audience
Unseen Audience / int_2212773a	comment	Inverted in Angel. Lorne seems to be talking to a literal audience (in a theatre), but is revealed to be talking to nobody but the TV audience (though he doesn't know he's talking to us, either).
Unseen Audience / int_2212773a	featureApplicability	1.0
Unseen Audience / int_2212773a	featureConfidence	1.0
Angel	hasFeature	Unseen Audience / int_2212773a
Unseen Audience / int_3e5de40b	type	Unseen Audience
Unseen Audience / int_3e5de40b	comment	One episode of Scrubs is narrated by Dr. Cox, speaking to an initially unknown person (implied but not stated to be his shrink). Partway through the episode, Dr. Cox blames the listener for his going soft, and at the end of the episode it's revealed he's talking to his infant son.
Unseen Audience / int_3e5de40b	featureApplicability	1.0
Unseen Audience / int_3e5de40b	featureConfidence	1.0
Scrubs	hasFeature	Unseen Audience / int_3e5de40b
Unseen Audience / int_4b790c7b	type	Unseen Audience
Unseen Audience / int_4b790c7b	comment	In Iron Man 3, Tony narrates bits of the story. The Stinger reveals that he's talking to Bruce Banner, a.k.a. the Hulk.
Unseen Audience / int_4b790c7b	featureApplicability	1.0
Unseen Audience / int_4b790c7b	featureConfidence	1.0
Iron Man 3	hasFeature	Unseen Audience / int_4b790c7b
Unseen Audience / int_4f067404	type	Unseen Audience
Unseen Audience / int_4f067404	comment	The Just Shoot Me! episode "My Dinner With Woody", which has a Whole Plot Reference to Annie Hall, starts with Maya talking to the camera, as Alvy does at the beginning of Annie. At the end, it is revealed that Maya had been talking to the water delivery guy.
Unseen Audience / int_4f067404	featureApplicability	1.0
Unseen Audience / int_4f067404	featureConfidence	1.0
Just Shoot Me!	hasFeature	Unseen Audience / int_4f067404
Unseen Audience / int_6d27b424	type	Unseen Audience
Unseen Audience / int_6d27b424	comment	The mockumentary Pirates of Silicon Valley starts off with what looks like a talking head of Steve Jobs. The camera then revolves around to behind Steve, revealing that he's actually talking to someone across the table from him.
Unseen Audience / int_6d27b424	featureApplicability	1.0
Unseen Audience / int_6d27b424	featureConfidence	1.0
Mockumentary	hasFeature	Unseen Audience / int_6d27b424
Unseen Audience / int_8a063c55	type	Unseen Audience
Unseen Audience / int_8a063c55	comment	The Gods of Arr-Kelaan does this twice, first with Inti the Sun God (who narrates the first part of the series to the combined Norse and Olympian pantheon) and then later with Ronson, who narrates his escape from Hell to an actually invisible goddess.
Unseen Audience / int_8a063c55	featureApplicability	1.0
Unseen Audience / int_8a063c55	featureConfidence	1.0
The Gods of Arr-Kelaan (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Unseen Audience / int_8a063c55
Unseen Audience / int_91e45f5	type	Unseen Audience
Unseen Audience / int_91e45f5	comment	The last case of Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney features Phoenix doing this. At first, it seems like he's addressing the player, then later, it sounds as if he's addressing Apollo and Trucy, but it is finally revealed that he has been addressing the Jurists/Lamiroir this whole time.
Unseen Audience / int_91e45f5	featureApplicability	1.0
Unseen Audience / int_91e45f5	featureConfidence	1.0
Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney (Visual Novel)	hasFeature	Unseen Audience / int_91e45f5
Unseen Audience / int_9a02d243	type	Unseen Audience
Unseen Audience / int_9a02d243	comment	The Prince's voiceover in Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. It is revealed near the end that he is recounting his adventures thus far to Farah.
Unseen Audience / int_9a02d243	featureApplicability	1.0
Unseen Audience / int_9a02d243	featureConfidence	1.0
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unseen Audience / int_9a02d243
Unseen Audience / int_ac2909b5	type	Unseen Audience
Unseen Audience / int_ac2909b5	comment	In Bastion, the entire game is narrated by a character name Rucks, but who he's talking to is unclear until in one of the later missions it turns out that Rucks has been recounting The Kid's journey to Zia, who wasn't there for most of it. It also gets played with, since in the very final mission, it turns out that the entire recounting took place while The Kid was off doing the final mission, and Rucks has nothing to say anymore, since they're caught up to the present, and he's got no idea what's happening or what has already happened for the final mission. The narration once Zia is totally caught up is just them talking about the future should The Kid succeed.
Unseen Audience / int_ac2909b5	featureApplicability	1.0
Unseen Audience / int_ac2909b5	featureConfidence	1.0
Bastion (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unseen Audience / int_ac2909b5
Unseen Audience / int_c43df4d8	type	Unseen Audience
Unseen Audience / int_c43df4d8	comment	The Doctor Who episode "The End of Time", Part 1 is narrated by an ominous voice eventually revealed to be Timothy Dalton as the Lord President of the Time Lords, telling the story to the assembled Time Lords (who had previously been assumed to be dead).
Unseen Audience / int_c43df4d8	featureApplicability	1.0
Unseen Audience / int_c43df4d8	featureConfidence	1.0
Doctor Who	hasFeature	Unseen Audience / int_c43df4d8
Unseen Audience / int_ca92edf1	type	Unseen Audience
Unseen Audience / int_ca92edf1	comment	The interrogators in Call of Duty: Black Ops are Hudson and Weaver.
Unseen Audience / int_ca92edf1	featureApplicability	1.0
Unseen Audience / int_ca92edf1	featureConfidence	1.0
Call of Duty: Black Ops (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unseen Audience / int_ca92edf1
Unseen Audience / int_d4fdfff4	type	Unseen Audience
Unseen Audience / int_d4fdfff4	comment	A few years back, an episode of ER had Luca apparently narrating his thoughts throughout. It looked pretty cheesy, and as if he was justified in turning down offers to talk to a therapist. Until the reveal, where you see that he's paid a prostitute just to sit and listen.
Unseen Audience / int_d4fdfff4	featureApplicability	1.0
Unseen Audience / int_d4fdfff4	featureConfidence	1.0
ER	hasFeature	Unseen Audience / int_d4fdfff4
Unseen Audience / int_d607c683	type	Unseen Audience
Unseen Audience / int_d607c683	comment	No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle: Sylvia is reduced to working in a seedy peepshow, recounting the game's story over a phone to an unseen, unheard customer. The ending reveals that it's Travis, who's waiting for her to work out exactly why he's there. Once she does, he takes her away from the show.
Unseen Audience / int_d607c683	featureApplicability	1.0
Unseen Audience / int_d607c683	featureConfidence	1.0
No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unseen Audience / int_d607c683
Unseen Audience / int_ff35db96	type	Unseen Audience
Unseen Audience / int_ff35db96	comment	Haruhi Suzumiya: Whoever the heck Kyon is talking to. This being that series, musing about it would create multiple Epileptic Trees.
Unseen Audience / int_ff35db96	featureApplicability	1.0
Unseen Audience / int_ff35db96	featureConfidence	1.0
HaruhiSuzumiya	hasFeature	Unseen Audience / int_ff35db96

The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.

Unseen Audience	processingCategory2	Narrative Devices
UnseenAudience	sameAs	Unseen Audience
No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle (Video Game) / int_eba07fdd	type	Unseen Audience
Cuanta Vida (Webcomic) / int_eba07fdd	type	Unseen Audience
The Gods of Arr-Kelaan (Webcomic) / int_eba07fdd	type	Unseen Audience

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