Fauxlosophic Narration: Difference between revisions

 

Also compare [[Blah Blah Blah]] and [[Wall of Text]].

 

* ''[[Eureka Seven]]'''s next episode previews. This one is pretty ingenious, actually-it actually is relevant, usually, but the ambiguous language ("the boy" and "the girl" instead of "Renton" and "Eureka", for example) makes it sound like it could be talking about anything, because that's not [[Sarcasm Mode|pretentious or anything.]]

** Renton making his in-episode monologues addressed to his sister oft treat into this as well.

** What makes this especially fun is that these musings are entirely in-character for {{spoiler|Father}}.

* ''[[Paranoia Agent]]'' has the Mysterious Old Man rambling on about seemingly completely random things during each preview. Not helping is that it includes puns that only work in Japanese.

 

== Comic Books ==

* Done to [[Green Lantern]] by Tommy Monhagan in ''[[Hitman]]''. Kyle Rayner is hoodwinked from all sides and ends up helping Tommy put the smack down on homicidal government agents. He ends waxing Fauxlosophic after the adventure. Before Kyle comes to his senses and arrests Tommy, he sneaks off.

 

== Fan Works ==

* ''[[My Inner Life]]'' is a huge example of this. Jenna attempts to convince the readers that she is a deep, philosophical thinker in her prologue about dreams and past incarnations. The story is about Jenna's deluded fantasy that she was a Mary Sue of epic proportions in an alternate universe.

 

== Film ==

* The opening and closing of ''[[Sucker Punch]]'' involves narration about guardian angels, which are basically {{spoiler|Sweet Pea's musings on the role that Baby Doll played in her life and, more immediately, springing her from the [[Bedlam House]]}}.

* Tons of [[Mondo]]-style films. To quote [http://horror-movie-a-day.blogspot.ca/2009/01/faces-of-death.html a review] of ''Faces of Death'', "we get long stretches where real or not, the footage has no death. And at one point, there aren’t any "faces" either, because the movie stops cold(er) for a good ten minutes to warn us about the dangers of littering and pollution. I bet your schoolyard pal never boasted about the cool scene where you see a bunch of beer and soda cans on a beach. We also get lectured on hunger, World War II, nuclear weapons, and being careful while hiking."

 

== Literature ==

* ''[[The Wheel of Time]]'' by Robert Jordan begins each book with an intro (to the intro) of the book which, despite being rather short relative to the books themselves, is still quite huge by conventional standards. Pops up additionally throughout the writing as well.

** In-story example: Vetinari occasionally gets very non-sequitur-ishly philosophical. Could be deliberate, though, because anyone talking to him at the time finds it ''seriously'' disconcerting.

** The Fauxlosophic Narration is most often [[Played for Laughs]] as a parody of works that do this in all seriousness.

* In the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' serial ''[[Doctor Who S 17 E 5 The Horns Of Nimon|The Horns of Nimon]]'', Soldeed interprets everything Nimon says as this.

 

* ''[[The Mystery of Irma Vep]]'' ends with a melodramatic rambling speech by Lady Enid as she stares off over the blasted heath that ultimately has no purpose except to make fun of Victorian melodrama.

 

* Kreia from ''[[Knights of the Old Republic]] II'' skirts this trope for the majority of her dialog, but tends to pull off something more to the effect of [[Contemplate Our Navels]].

* The ''[[Super Mario World (video game)|Super Mario World]]'' rom hack "Rise to the Challenge" is filled with this.

* ''[[Max Payne (series)|Max Payne]]'''s [[Private Eye Monologue]] musings often stray into this when he takes time off from capping mafiosos in order to muse about the nature of choice, the true meaning of fairy tales, and the end of the world.

 

* Like the anime example above, pick any serious webcomic. And even a few humorous ones.

* Appears occasionally in ''[[Molten Blade]]''. Most of Fred's [[Inner Monologue|inner monologues]] fall into this category.

"Did...Did something happen? [[Breaking the Fourth Wall|Why are you here?"]] }}

* ''[[Wapsi Square]]'': [http://wapsisquare.com/comic/bouncesback/ Used deliberately to avoid questions.]

 

== Western Animation ==

 

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