The Narrator (The Stanley Parable)

**The Narrator** is a transcendental entity that exists independently from the game-world of The Stanley Parable and manifests himself as a voice in Stanley's head. The Narrator is the platonic ideal divorce. He is literally the concept of divorce. I'm not making this up, I am literally plagiarizing the words of Davey Wreden right now. The narrator is a big black ether in the sky who you submit divorce emails to. When two people get divorced the narrator is manifesting it.

The Narrator is voiced by Kevan Brighting.

## Personality

The Narrator is the 'the concept of divorce'.[1][2]

## Abilities

* **Reality-warping:** The Narrator has a massive degree of control over the game-world. He can completely alter the game-worlds to varying degrees and extents. The Narrator can even take control of other game-worlds, such as the ones of *Portal* and *Minecraft*.
	+ **Plot manipulation:** To the Narrator, the game is but a story he wrote. The Narrator can create entirely new plot elements and can alter the game's script.
	+ **Spatial manipulation:** The Narrator possesses advanced ubicokinetic talents, having complete control over the game's space. Examples of this power include re-arranging, creating and modifying rooms, adding or removing doors, and creating infinite loops in space, such as in the Mariella Ending.
	+ **Time-reloading:** The Narrator can freely reload the game's time, jumping back to the opening scene of the game. He can also rewrite the game's timeline from there, such as re-arranging rooms or conjuring the Stanley Parable Adventure Line™.
* **Divorce:** The Narrator has the ability to manifest divorce.

## Weaknesses

The Narrator is the embodiment of Divorce, meaning they have no weaknesses

## Trivia (plagiarized from The Stanley Parable Wiki)

* Some have theorized the Narrator to be Stanley addressing himself in third person and with everything being Stanley's imagination.
	+ This, however, seems unlikely to be true since numerous factors suggest otherwise, such as the Mariella Ending.
* The Narrator has claimed to rely on Stanley to exist. This contradicts his decisions in some endings, in which he seems happy to let Stanley die, and even went as far as abandoning Stanley in the Games Ending. It is possible he requires a protagonist featuring in a story to exist, not necessarily Stanley or his story, indeed The Narrator is himself the subject of the story on some occasions such as the confusion ending.
* Depending on the ending played, the Narrator can be considered a supporting character, a deuteragonist, or an antagonist.
* In the original Half-Life 2 mod, the Narrator is more rude and impolite in the endings.
* The Narrator will be at his most evil in the Countdown Ending, exclaiming various sadistic quotes (which differ between the mod and full game) and forcing Stanley through a literal countdown to his death.
* The Narrator is confirmed, in a stream with Stanley Parable writer David Wreden and his brother Douglas, to be the embodiment of the concept of Divorce. [3](around the 00:44:49 mark)
* The Narrator makes a guest appearance in Please Don’t Touch Anything 3D, mistaking the player for Stanley in one of the endings. However, he does not appear in the original Please Don’t Touch Anything.

1. ↑ https://clips.twitch.tv/AnimatedUgliestGoblinLitFam-rdxErG2QCm5zP3JN