History Main / NoiselessWalker

* The Hand ninjas in ''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}'' are this, AND they can mask their heartbeats, making it extremely difficult for Matt to track them. He has to listen for their weapons, and when they drop those, their breath.

-->-- ''Literature/TheEndOfTheRaven''

* ''Series/KungFu'': Shaolin Priests are trained to walk silently.

* ''Manga/SpyXFamily'', Yor, fitting for an assassin, can appear in places without people noticing. The first time she and Loid met, he was not aware of her walking past him (and he has HyperAwareness).

* In ''Literature/TheVoyageOfTheDawnTreader'', the duffers warn Lucy that the magician who made them invisible walks about noiselessly. Subverted, as they simply do not hear him because they are so noisy.

* In ''Literature/TheBelgariad'', this is {{Hand Wave}}d with a brief mention that Garion learns the trick of walking soundlessly through a forest full of twigs and leaf litter by watching his LoveableRogue friend Silk for a few minutes.

* The Hand ninjas in ''{{Series/Daredevil}}'' are this, AND they can mask their heartbeats, making it extremely difficult for Matt to track them. He has to listen for their weapons, and when they drop those, their breath.

* Simon in ''Series/Misfits'' initially had both {{invisiblity}} and inaudibility as his powers, leaving him completely undetectable.

* ''Manga/HunterXHunter'': When teamed with Killua, secondary character Melody[[note]]"Senritsu" in Japanese original[[/note]] (a very sensitive to sound Musical Hunter) asks if Killua is an assassin by trade, explaining that his footsteps are the quietest she's ever heard, barely audible at virtually no distance. The screen shows them jogging along a street flooding in the rain and Killua's steps don't make any splashes. Killua says it's become a habit.

* In ''Manga/MissionYozakuraFamily'', all of the Yozakuras can do this as [[BadassFamily family of super-spies]]. Taiyo picks up this skill too after a month of TrainingFromHell, unnerving his classmates who mistake him for some kind of ninja.
* ''Manga/SpyXFamily'', Yor, fitting for an assassin, can appear in places without people noticing. The first time she and Loid meet, he was not aware of her walking past him (and he has HyperAwareness).

* ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'' Multiple characters can do this:
** Signature trait of Bucky's, thanks to being the Winter Soldier. That and a talent for fading into the background mean that he has a tendency to apparently appear out of nowhere.
** Harry also moves more or less silently by the second book, when he wants to, slipping into a kind of [[MenacingStroll predatory stalking movement]] that tends to abruptly remind whoever's watching him that though [[HalfHumanHybrid half of him is human, the other half is definitely ''not'']].

* ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'' has this as a signature trait of Bucky's, thanks to being the Winter Soldier. That and a talent for fading into the background mean that he has a tendency to apparently appear out of nowhere.
** Harry also moves more or less silently by the second book, when he wants to, slipping into a kind of [[MenacingStroll predatory stalking movement]] that tends to abruptly remind whoever's watching him that though half of him is human, the other half is definitely ''not''.

This trope is one of the most plausible reasons for managing a StealthHiBye (the other being OffscreenTeleportation) and may overlap with TheLightfooted. See WithCatlikeTread for when this trope fails.

** The 5[[superscript:th]] Edition "Pass Without Trace" spell grants the caster and everyone around them a major bonus to the Stealth skill.

This trope is one of the most plausible reasons for managing a StealthHiBye (the other being OffscreenTeleportation). See WithCatlikeTread for when this trope fails.

** The Hand ninjas in ''{{Series/Daredevil}}'' are this, AND they can mask their heartbeats, making it extremely difficult for Matt to track them. He has to listen for their weapons, and when they drop those, their breath.