Basic Trope: Narrating events as they happen.
- Straight: Hiro in The Adventures of Hiro picks up a sword. The narrator says, "Hiro picked up a sword."
- Exaggerated: The narrator gives long-winded explanations of every event in the series that occurs, even if it's very clear what's happening.
- Downplayed: The narrator states that Hiro picked up a sword, but also mentions how he feels about wielding the sword, which isn't immediately obvious.
- Justified:
- The narrator is a character in the work or is otherwise an Interactive Narrator — since they tend to be Easily Impressed or otherwise take notice of things that other characters often don't, they often state things that are rather obvious.
- The narrator is trying to explain what's happening to someone else in the scene who doesn't understand what's going on.
- Inverted: The narrator gets things entirely wrong. Hiro is picking up a sword, but for some reason, the narrator claims he's taking a shower.
- Subverted:
- What we thought to be a narrator turns out be someone spying on Hiro for Evulz and reporting to him.
- We're not seeing the actual events, we're seeing the narrator's grandchildren's impression of his story.
- Double Subverted: "Again with the obvious stuff. What do I pay you for?"
- Parodied: ???
- Zig-Zagged: The narration sometimes states the obvious, but sometimes it will say things that aren't immediately apparent.
- Averted:
- There's no narration.
- The narration only states things that aren't immediately clear to the audience.
- Lampshaded: "And Hiro picked up a sword. You can tell that he did so, because you just saw him do it."
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: Hiro asks the narrator to help him remember what he was supposed to do.
- Defied: ???
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: "How come this show is telling us that Hiro picked up a sword, when we just saw him do it?"
And then the troper got to the bottom of this Playing With page, and went back to Narrating the Obvious.
