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== Film ==
* ''[[Stand Byby Me]]'': The main events of the film are narrated by Gordie, who is writing a short story about the event in the [[Framing Device]].
* ''[[A Christmas Story]]''
* ''Little Manhattan'' plays with this, as it's about a 12-year-old boy's first love, as narrated by himself, looking back from the ripe old age of ''13''.
* ''[[Amadeus]]'', recounted by a mad Salieri.
* ''[[Mad Max]] 2 (The Road Warrior)'': At the end we discover that the elderly narrator is actually {{spoiler|the feral kid}}.
* The [[Dustin Hoffman]] flick ''[[Little Big Man (Film)|Little Big Man]]''.
* [[Woody Allen]] provides this kind of narration for ''[[Radio Days (Film)|Radio Days]]''.
* ''Summer of '42''
* ''[[The Sandlot]]''
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* ''[[To Kill a Mockingbird]]''
* The A.E. Housman poem "[http://www.bartleby.com/123/13.html When I was one-and-twenty];" actually a subversion, as it's from the perspective of a 22-year-old looking back on when he was 21. (At least, that's the way that Tommy Makem recites it in the middle of a song, "The Sally Gardens," on ''Tommy Makem and Liam Clancy''.)
* The ''[[Warhammer 40 K40000]]''-based ''[[Ciaphas Cain]]'' novels use his memoirs (complete with footnotes added by a member of the inquisition (and [[Ship Tease|possibly lover]]).
* Kvothe in ''[[The Name of the Wind]]'' is unusually young to play this trope straight, but he's looking back on himself from when he was younger nevertheless.
 
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* An interesting video game example: The first ''[[Prince of Persia]]: Sands of Time'' uses this, the two others don't, though the third frames the whole trilogy by calling back to it.
* Slightly subverted in ''Okami''. At first, it seems like a disembodied voice retelling the story. It turns out that {{spoiler|Issun}} is really the narrator.
* In ''[[Age of Empires II (Video Game)|Age of Empires II]]'', the Attila campaign is narrated by a monk who says "sometimes, I miss it", referring to his time being a Hun captive.
* [[Bionic Commando (Video Game)|"Let me tell you about the man I met when I was young."]]
* Both ''[[Icewind Dale]]'' games use this. The narrator in the first game turns out to be {{spoiler|the [[Big Bad]] Belhifet stewing over the memory of his defeat and relishing the approaching end of his century long banishment.}} The narrator of the second is a little girl who accompanied the party for a while on their journey who is now an adult remembering their adventure as she sets out on her own journey.
 
 
== Webcomics ==
* ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court (Webcomic)|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.
{{quote| ''... boy, things sure have changed since then, huh?''}}
* ''[[How I Killed Your Master]]''-- shoot, it's right there in the name!
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== Western Animation ==
* ''[[Jakers! theThe Adventures of Piggley Winks]]''
* Parodied in an episode of ''[[The Simpsons]]'', complete with "Future" Bart's voice being provided by the narrator from ''[[The Wonder Years]]''.
 
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