Examples of characters fighting with the narrator?

Hi everyone,

I've hit upon what seems to me to be the best voice for a series of novellas/shorts I've had on the backburner for a while, but it features the main character regularly fighting for control of POV from the narrator and being annoyed when the narrator describes things she does unfavorably.

Anyway, I'm sure it'll be a lot of fun to develop and write, but I was curious if anyone had examples that they've been fond of. I've read through the list here: TV Tropes - Interactive Narrator, but am looking more for examples that you'd personally recommend checking out to help me narrow down the research.

THANKS!

 

Thanks for the responses everyone. Sorry I took a few days to get back, finals kicked my butt this year. I still have a ton of grades to get in by 9 AM too . . . -_-

Anyway, I'm still working out exactly how the narration is going to work. I don't want the narrator to be OP with knowledge, but I'm playing with it being a quirk of prophecy, where the main character has enough magickal ability (and some unique circumstances) that she is predicting a possible far-future of a character that is looking back on her life in time, but without the ability to predict her own future. That'll be pretty much background for a bit though, and the narrator will offer the opinion that she is delusional and *that* arrogant that she is imagining herself as someone important enough to look in on.

So in this case, the narrator isn't interactive or a physical character except for in her head. I think this is part of the "audience, what audience" trope also, although the prota at least believes she's real. She is aware of the narrator but everyone else just thinks she's nuts or writes it off.

I believe I remember a Disney cartoon that actually had Walt Disney talking to the cartoons and drawing for them. I don't remember that aspect of Emperor's New Groove or of the 60s Batman or of Me, Myself and Irene, but it's been years since I've seen any of those; I may go back and check out the movies again. I'm not familiar with noire writing, do you have any recommendations of it?

 

Thanks Trick, I'd completely forgotten about that one. I have seen it but it's been a while and I remember enjoying it. I'll check it out again.

 

Good ideas guys. I've read the Tigger example a couple of times when researching this idea; although that's a little too interactive for my purposes, it's still a good example of the trope.

I never knew what that game was called! I've seen it several times in editorials about video games; I found it highly amusing whenever it was brought up or discussed. That definitely sounds like what will be going on between the protagonist and the narrator, although he isn't prescient about what she will do in the future. He's more of an observer. The Hawthorne Effect will be at play in various ways though.