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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

* The [[Dragon Ball]] series. Recaps the previous episodes. And closes the final scene. On occasions he narrates in the middle of episodes. The Funimation Texas dub narrators are infamous for gravely voiced, "Last time, on Dragon Ball Z!". The Japanese dub sounds like an elder man telling a story.

** "I would like ([[Audience Participation|You would, wouldn't you?]]), if I may (No, you may not), to take you on a strange journey (So strange they made a movie out of it!)."

* ''[[The Hallelujah Trail]]:'' Veteran western character actor John Dehner provides an ongoing commentary on the supposed historical context surrounding events, sometimes including maps and arrows to help the viewer keep track of just where everyone is.

* It's entirely possible to just listen to ''[[Casino]]'' from another room and understand almost everything that's going on because of the detailed narration.

* Kuzco in ''[[The Emperor's New Groove|The Emperors New Groove]]''. Eventually, the ''onscreen'' Kuzco tells him to shut up.

* Every adventure in the ''[[Hank the Cowdog]]'' series is told by Hank himself.

 

* [[Rod Serling]] in ''[[The Twilight Zone]]''.

* Ron Howard's voiceovers in ''[[Arrested Development (TV series)|Arrested Development]]''.

* ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court]]'' has two narrators. Antimony does the bulk of the narration from some unspecified point in time. (According to [[Word of God|Tom Siddell]], [[Literary Agent Hypothesis|she's telling the whole story]], even the bits without narrator-text boxes.) And Tea (that white-haired girl) serves as a fourth-wall-breaking [[Mr. Exposition|Miss Exposition]] on a few of the end-of-chapter bonus pages.

* ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'' has a narrator who sometimes interacts with the characters.

* The BLU Spy in ''[[Cuanta Vida]]''.

 

== [[Web Original]] ==

* A weird example is the Narrator from [http://chimerabazaar.blogspot.com/ The Chimera Bazaar's] spin-off [http://nightmareabyss.blogspot.com/ Nightmare Abyss] who is a main character.

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

* The narrator of ''[[Powerpuff Girls]]'', starting out every episode with, "The City of Townsville:" and ending every episode with a variation of, "[[So Once Again the Day Is Saved|So, once again, the day is saved, thanks to the Powerpuff Girls!]]" In the [[Freaky Friday]] episode, the Narrator ended up sounding like Bubbles at the end.

* The Storyteller in ''[[Dave the Barbarian]]''.

* ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'' has a French-accented narrator inspired by Jacques Cousteau, who seems to be "studying" SpongeBob and friends. He rarely interacts with the characters, save for one memorable moment where, as he was narrating, SpongeBob ran over him.

** The Fish TV Announcer (Who looks like an actual fish) is mentionable.

 

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