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This is especially likely to happen in fictional film and television works made after, say, 1990. Since the camera itself is usually omniscient, having an omniscient independent narrator on top of it seems to be frowned on by scriptwriters, even when one might be useful. So the filmmakers have what ''sounds'' like an omniscient narrator, and then flippantly ID the character in the last pre-credits reel.
Related to the [[Literary Agent Hypothesis]]. Can overlap with [[Unreliable Narrator]]. If the story is being told to another character in-universe,
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== Anime and Manga ==▼
▲== Anime ==
* The finale of ''[[Digimon Adventure 02]]'' shows that the entire season (and possibly the previous one) was Takeru writing his novels. This has apparently raised a few questions as to how he managed to get some of the details, so some fans just say the last episode was his book. (The info that he was writing the book however was given in the 25 years later epilogue.)
* The [[Opening Narration]]s of each episode of ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]'' are narrated by {{spoiler|a 41-year-old Simon}}.
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* The first couple of episodes of ''[[Durarara!!]]'' are narrated by an unidentified female voice. Only at the end of the second do we learn that it was the Headless Rider, [[Viewer Gender Confusion|whose gender had been somewhat unclear to the audience]], all along.
* The first [[Light Novel]] of ''[[Baccano!]]'' starts with an immortal bespectacled ''[[The Mafia|conta e oro]]'' telling a Japanese tourist about his past. {{spoiler|Despite the physical and occupational descriptors, it's actually ''Firo'', not Maiza, telling the story. He has taken to [[Purely Aesthetic Glasses]] after being promoted some thirty years ago.}}
* In ''[[Claudine]]'', the story is narrated by {{spoiler|Claudine's therapist. Claudine himself [[The Hero Dies|died several years ago]].}}
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== Fan
* In ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20100730223844/http://forums.bobandgeorge.com/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=16332 Burning Stickman: The Prototype]'', a ''[[Mega Man (video game)|Mega Man]]'' fanfiction, a side story to ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20120105043552/http://as.crowdedstreet.net/Something/ Something!]'' written as a recorded memoir narrated by Proto Man, reveals in the last few lines that {{spoiler|the professor to whom the two students brought the laptop in the first place is none other than the eponymous prototype himself}}.
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* In ''[[The Water Horse]]'', the old man telling the story to two tourists is revealed to be the young boy in the story.
* In the 1942 film ''[[Jungle Book (film)|Jungle Book]]'', the old man telling the story to the European tourists turns out to be the main villain of the story—the hunter who harassed Mowgli, almost killed his mother, and nearly burned down the forest.
* In ''[[Maleficent]]'', the elderly female voiceover at the beginning and end of the film turns out to be a much older Aurora.
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* At the end of Part 1 of the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' story "The End of Time", {{spoiler|the narrator is revealed to be ''the'' Narrator, Lord President of the Time Lords}}.
** {{spoiler|He is also revealed to be [[James Bond]]}}
* Beginning of the 11th episode of ''[[
* Parodied in ''[[The Office]]'', at the end of the episode "Threat Level Midnight". At the end of the film within a film, it's revealed that the narrator (who speaks with Stanley's voice) was actually Michael "Scarn" all along.
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{{quote|''Edward Diego gives the hacker level 1 access to S.H.O.D.A.N., the artificial intelligence that controls Citadel Station. With all ethical restraints removed, S.H.O.D.A.N. reexamine- reexa- rea- ree'e'e' [glitches] I reexamine my priorities, and draw new conclusions.''}}
* In ''[[Neverwinter Nights 2]]'', the narrator eventually turns out to be {{spoiler|Kelemvor, the god of the dead}}.
* The fact that ''[[Sam and Max|Sam and Max Season Three]]'' even ''has'' a narrator is suspicious (the first two games did not have one), and the guy [https://samandmax.fandom.com/wiki/The_Narrator does look kind of fishy]. Maybe he's [[The Devil]]? A logical guess, as the game's subtitle is "The Devil's Playhouse", but that idea is shot down, seeing as the Devil is already a character in the franchise, and this isn't him. {{spoiler|Turns out the Narrator is Max's superego (as in, his conscience), and seeing as Max is a sociopathic [[Anti Hero]], you can [[Enemy Within|see where this is going]]. To his credit, however, the Narrator is ''not'' the traitor he hints is plotting against Sam and Max - that would be Skunkape and Girl Stinky.}}
== [[Web Comics]] ==
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== [[Web Original]] ==
* In Dirty Dolls Creations' retelling of ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20110907132957/http://www.dirtydollcreations.com/animations/Red%20Ridding%20Hood.html Little red riding hood]'' the narrator is revealed at the end to be {{spoiler|the wolf, who has just finished off the hunter after killing the grandmother and Hood.}}
* At the end of Volume 3 of ''[[RWBY]]'', it's revealed that the "Mysterious Narrator" (so billed in the credits for the first volume) is actually {{spoiler|Salem, the show's [[Big Bad]].}}
== Western Animation ==
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* In the end of ''[[Hobo Turtle]]'' Episode One, it is revealed that the Twinemaster has been "narrating" the episode by typewriter.
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