History Main / HeroicMime

->''"[[LampshadeHanging Good, I'll take your silence for a yes]]. [[CrowningMomentOfFunny Now go get'em, sport.]]"''

** This was also carried over into his appearance in the MassiveMultiplayerCrossover strategy-RPG ''VideoGame/ChaosWars''; he has no lines of dialog beyond [[VisibleSilence "......"]], and is the only character with no vocals when acting in combat. It is specifically commented on and {{lampshaded}} by other characters at several points.

* The nameless protagonist of {{Sierra}}'s ''VideoGame/QuestForGlory'' speaks only a handful of times in the span of five games: telling the potion maker about the dryad in the first game, grumbling to himself in the first game, and saying "Right", "Just the facts", and "What's a pomegranate" in the second game. Otherwise, he's your standard HeroicMime.
** {{Lampshaded}} in the FanRemake of ''VideoGame/KingsQuestII'', when King Graham (who was a Heroic Mime himself in the original version) triggers an Easter Egg unleashing the ''Quest for Glory'' hero. "You don't say much, do you? Surely, you might speak to me of your adventures!"

** It's {{lampshaded}} by [=GLaDOS=], naturally. Chell's lack of response to her monologues leads her to say [[AC:"Are you even listening to me?"]]

* The Avatar in the ''Franchise/{{Ultima}}'' series. The series {{Lampshades}} this at one point, in the form of a stage play making fun of the Avatar's propensity for silence.

* The player character Trainers in the ''Pokémon'' series don't talk a lot, although there's a short and very confusing conversation with a mimic in ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'' in which the player character does say a couple of lines, asking the mimic girl if she likes imitating people. It's also lampshaded in ''[[VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver Gold and Silver]]'', which ends with fighting Red, the protagonist of the last game, who only speaks in [[VisibleSilence ellipses]], although the dead-serious delivery of it definitely makes it a CrowningMomentOfAwesome for the series.

** Was also {{lampshaded}} in ''[[VideoGame/PokemonRubyAndSapphire Ruby and Sapphire]]'' when an {{NPC}} asks where the player came from, but the only options are "Yes" or "No", leading to some awkward responses.

* Subverted in ''Videogame/PokemonConquest''; while the main character does not speak during cutscenes except for surprised expressions and reactions, outside of cutscenes and during battle, s/he is pretty talkative, though his/her lines are mostly stock phrases for the situation.

* Agent Cobra in ''SyphonFilter: The Omega Strain''.

->'''Link:''' ''"Shut up Epona, you're a horse, horses aren't supposed to talk."''
->'''Epona:''' ''"[[LampshadeHanging And neither are you]]."''
->'''Link:''' ''"Touché."''
-->-- [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess Twilight Princess]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmOMAA_vAuM The Abridged Series]]

* The protagonist of ''SpiderAndWeb'' is a borderline example: he/she can answer "yes" and "no" to the interrogator's questions in the FramingDevice interrogation scenes. He can also say "tango" and "waltz" (keywords to turn a device on/off).

** In ''VideoGame/PokémonColosseum'', this is usually the case. Wes doesn't speak, ''except'' during Pokémon Battles when the player uses the Call command, a game mechanic unique for this game, most often used to make a Shadow Pokémon snap out of the rage it tends to fly into due to the [[TheCorruption dark corruption]] that Shadow Pokémon are cursed with. When this happens, Wes simply shouts its name.

* Brilliantly Lampshaded in [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGameZettaiHeroKaizouKeikaku?from=Main.ZettaiHeroProject Zetai Hero Project: Unlosing Ranger vs Darkdeath Evilman]] during the ending when the main character is asked for an interview after saving the world. The AntiHero asks the question 'Can he even talk?' to which the supporting characters take a moment of confused silence followed by the credits.

** In the ''VideoGame/PokemonMysteryDungeon'' games, the only times a message box comes up for your character are when they're thinking something to themselves and at the end of the main story. They do say things out loud occasionally, but this manifests itself as your character walking in place for a few seconds and a line of RepeatingSoTheAudienceCanHear exposition from the target, or alternately a message box reading "[Name] told Character X about Event Y".
*** Except in the "Sentry Duty" minigame, where the PC is the one who shouts "The footprint is [Pokémon]'s! The footprint is [Pokémon]'s!"
*** In the second installments of the ''Mystery Dungeon'' series, if your starter character is a member of your rescue squad while in a dungeon (but not the leader), s/he will speak in ellipses when the player-controlled leader talks to him/her.
*** Subverted in ''VideoGame/PokemonMysteryDungeonGatesToInfinity'', where they speak multiple times throughout the course of the story. While it's usually just them repeating a term that they're unfamiliar with in order to get an explanation, they do get some noteworthy lines. They still mostly resort to inner monologues and implied speech, though.

* As a first for the mothership titles in the ''TalesSeries'', Ludger, the protagonist of ''VideoGame/TalesOfXillia2'' is completely silent, save for some grunts and the usual [[CallingYourAttacks calling of attacks]] in battle. The only actual lines you can hear from him are for the dialogue choices you pick in skits and cutscenes, and they aren't actually voiced until you enable the option in a NewGamePlus.

->'''Link:''' ''"Sut up Epona, you're a horse, horses aren't supposed to talk."''

** ''VideoGame/{{Portal 2}}'' parodies it in an early scene where Wheatley asks Chell to speak, and a prompt appears telling you to press a button to speak to him. But when you press it, Chell jumps instead, as she always does when you press that button. Wheatley suggests that Chell has suffered brain damage from her long sleep. Both he and [=GLaDOS=] tell her she's a mute.

* The protagonist's silence is explained at the ''very'' end of ''Sequester''--[[spoiler:he hasn't spoken a single word since his sister died. Even when he has nightmares (like the one the whole game may have been), he doesn't scream in his sleep.]]

** ''VideoGame/ShiningWisdom'' has yet another mute hero, Mars. Whats partially annoying is the princess is turned into a swan and replaced by a fake and the fake pretends you recused her. You can't say anything so the fake steals a special object that almost certainly dooms the kingdom.

** One explanation may be because of the Material Emancipation Grill, "which may, in semi-rare cases, emancipate dental fillings, crowns, tooth enamel, and teeth."
*** And vocal cords? You never know...

->'''Link:''' ''"Sut up Epona, you shouldn't talk, you're a horse."''
->'''Epona:''' ''"[[LampshadeHanging Neither should you]]."''

->Link: ''"Sut up Epona, you shouldn't talk, you're a horse."''
->Epona: ''"[[LampshadeHanging Neither should you]]."''
->''"Touche."''

->''"So, how about you disarm a few bombs on your way along the bridge, hmm? *{{beat}}* [[LampshadeHanging Good, I'll take your silence for a yes]]. [[CrowningMomentOfFunny Now go get'em, sport.]]"''

* Other than the player-chosen dialogue trees, the protagonists (Vault Dweller, Chosen One, Lone Wanderer, Courier, etc.) in the ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' series are never shown speaking.

* Claude Speed, the main character in ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto 3'' does not say anything throughout the game. He makes a cameo in ''Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas'' and also says nothing, causing CJ to call him a "mute asshole".

** It's possible that he may not even be able to talk normally after [[NightmareFuel what happens to him]] after being captured. This doesn't explain why he's silent before that, of course, and why when he's rescued he doesn't even nod or shake his head. People talked about him basically every time they saw him before or after, and sometimes asked him questions.

See SilentAntagonist, for when the villain is like this.