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''Ah, the life of a trope. One day you're just a recurring idea, flitting around in a writer's head, the next you've got your very own wiki page. I remember when I was just a [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/discussion.php?id=dtutz10liu2ufdkubfaqpgs8 YKTTW], an insignificant blue entry swimming with hundreds of others. Back then, I had fewer [[Wick |
''Ah, the life of a trope. One day you're just a recurring idea, flitting around in a writer's head, the next you've got your very own wiki page. I remember when I was just a [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/discussion.php?id=dtutz10liu2ufdkubfaqpgs8 YKTTW], an insignificant blue entry swimming with hundreds of others. Back then, I had fewer [[Wick]]s, a lot fewer examples, and my trope description looked like this:'' |
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This is a specific type of [[Framing Device]], a [[Point of View|first-person]] [[Narrator]] who is looking back on his experiences. Generally (not always), it's an adult looking back at his childhood. These stories are generally big on nostalgia, but they also attempt to capture the naïveté and confusion so prominent in childhood. Since it's the author looking back on things, we may get [[Unreliable Voiceover |
This is a specific type of [[Framing Device]], a [[Point of View|first-person]] [[Narrator]] who is looking back on his experiences. Generally (not always), it's an adult looking back at his childhood. These stories are generally big on nostalgia, but they also attempt to capture the naïveté and confusion so prominent in childhood. Since it's the author looking back on things, we may get [[Unreliable Voiceover]]s or other inconsistencies, but we also tend to get a candid look at childhood—including petty fights and foul mouths. |
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Can overlap with [[Narrator All Along]] when the narrator uses a third person limited viewpoint and switches to first person in the last reel. |
Can overlap with [[Narrator All Along]] when the narrator uses a third person limited viewpoint and switches to first person in the last reel. |
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* ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court]]'' has Antimony narrating the first few chapters; so far we cannot tell precisely how far in the future she is narrating from, but it's more than two years. |
* ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court]]'' has Antimony narrating the first few chapters; so far we cannot tell precisely how far in the future she is narrating from, but it's more than two years. |
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{{quote|''... boy, things sure have changed since then, huh?''}} |
{{quote|''... boy, things sure have changed since then, huh?''}} |
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* ''[[How I Killed Your Master]]'' |
* ''[[How I Killed Your Master]]''—shoot, it's right there in the name! |
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* ''You Damn Kid'' does this, sometimes comparing how different things were back then. |
* ''You Damn Kid'' does this, sometimes comparing how different things were back then. |
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* ''[[A Modest Destiny]]'' kicks off with an elderly Maxim berating his grandkids, then starting to tell the story of the first time he saved the world. Every now and then, the comic cuts back to present day, such as to reveal which of his potential [[Love Interest |
* ''[[A Modest Destiny]]'' kicks off with an elderly Maxim berating his grandkids, then starting to tell the story of the first time he saved the world. Every now and then, the comic cuts back to present day, such as to reveal which of his potential [[Love Interest]]s he married. |
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