Narrating the Present: Difference between revisions

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* This is the [[Verbal Tic]] of the Sisters clones in ''[[A Certain Magical Index]].'' They will say a sentence then go on to describe what they're doing or feeling at the time as if reading it from a book.

* ''[[Bokurano]]'' starts with narration that seems to look back from sometime after the events in the story. {{spoiler|then the narrator dies and the narration stops.}}

* ''[[Azumanga Daioh]]'': While the girls are getting excited over their impending trip to Okinawa, the action freezes and Tomo starts narrating about how the trip would end in tragedy. Yomi tells her to knock it off.

* [[Depending on the Writer]], [[Deadpool]]'s [[Metafictional Device|Little Yellow Boxes]] (that is, narration boxes) are actually him speaking the narration out loud without realizing, and other characters can hear it.

* ''[[The Invention of Lying]]'': Mark has created a document he pretends to have "discovered" which tells a magnificent story of aliens, ninjas, and robot dinosaurs, which was allegedly written in the 14th century. The document ends with:

{{quote|One day, a great writer by the name of Mark Bellison, would stumble upon them in the desert, after being fired by his shit boss Anthony and mocked by Rob and Shelly, two huge douche bags. Lecture Films Motion Picture Studios would go on to make the picture and it would be a big success, and Mark would become very wealthy and famous from it. [[The End]]. }}

* ''[[The Incredible Shrinking Man]]'': Scott narrates the entire movie, but it's strongly implied at the end that he'll shrink down to a subatomic size - so when does he have time to write down what he's saying?

* ''Alan Mendelsohn, the Boy from Mars'' by [[Daniel Pinkwater]]: Leonard & Alan buy a manuscript on Hyperstellar Archeology and read it, in which it mentions them by name buying the manuscript and reading it.

* In ''[[Discworld]]'' the books in Death's library write someone's life as a narratitive as it happens. The last scene of ''[[Discworld/Mort|Mort]]'' is actually Mort reading that scene from his own book.

* ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]'' has Calvin appear to do this in many an [[Imagine Spot]].

* In ''Sword And Sarcasm'', it's common knowledge that mysterious invisible beings called the Choral Djinn secretly chronicle all the events of our lives. Part of Herbert's curse is that he and anyone standing near him can hear them. That is, they can hear the comic's caption boxes.