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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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== Fan Works ==
* 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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{{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
== [[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|
== Western Animation ==
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