In this article, the concept of the “narrator” is presented and put to a test, especially in its necessary connection to a linguistic sphere. On the basis of a theoretical discussion of narration as a transmedial phenomenon, that is a phenomenon existing in various media, the article will try to show that the narrator too is a transmedial device, whose existence is not necessarily related to language it its strictest linguistic meaning. The narrator is rather a mental construction in the process of communication at the basis of certain media types. Admittedly, its origin as a theoretical concept in the field of modern narratology is mainly the novel as epitomized by the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Indeed, in no other specific media product has the narrator had such a prominent role as in these novels, which have been used by narratologists for the development of most of the existing concepts in the field. However, the fact that a device is prominent in a certain media type should not restrict its use to that media type alone. On the contrary, its applicability to other media is especially interesting to study. This is what will be done in this article, starting with a general theoretical discussion of the concept of “narrator” and continuing with an overview of the possibility of the existence of the narrator in both literature and other media types, both language-based and not.