History Main / TheQuietOne

* [[TomoakiIshizuka Pata]] of XJapan and Ra:IN. Generally seems quiet and sleepy, is the least showy member of his bands. Is also one of the most skilled who's had the least drama out of either.

* Future Trunks from ''DragonBallZ'' could be counted as this, he doesn't even [[CallingYourAttacks call out his attacks]].
** Also Android 16.

* Cass Cain ([[ComicBook/{{Batgirl 2000}} Batgirl II]]) from ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' speaks little and mostly with short words. This is the result of [[AbusiveParents her father]] raising her without talking to her or letting her hear people talk, so that [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower body language would be her language]]. Even after [[AppliedPhlebotinum magic]] fixed this, she was never comfortable with words.

* Teal'c from ''{{Stargate SG-1}}''. "You speak?" "Only when it is appropriate." [[CatchPhrase Indeed.]]

* Hugo Stiglitz of ''InglouriousBasterds'', who's definitely one of the bloodthirstiest of the Basterds (and that's saying quite a lot).

* Brian Slade from ''VelvetGoldmine'', despite being the main character and basically the ''subject'' of the movie, has surprisingly sparse dialogue throughout. When he does talk, he's almost always talking in riddles (or quoting OscarWilde, which is much the same thing...)

* When Radio Rock DJ "Midnight Mark" is introduced in ''TheBoatThatRocked'', Quentin says of him "Hardly ever speaks. Not even when he's broadcasting, which is...interesting."
* Joshua, the unusually taciturn hitman in ''LittleOdessa''

* The antagonists in each of the three original ''{{Terminator}}'' films don't really say much. The second movie plays with this, as the T-1000 actually does get a decent amount of lines at first while the T-800 doesn't say too much like the one from the original. Then after TheReveal that the former is actually the villain while the latter is the hero, the T-800 begins talking more frequently, while the T-1000 is almost entirely silent for the rest of the film, only having two really brief conversations from that point (four if you count when it's taking someone else's form).

* Cass Cain ([[ComicBook/{{Batgirl 2000}} Batgirl II]]) from ''{{Batman}}'' speaks little and mostly with short words. This is the result of [[AbusiveParents her father]] raising her without talking to her or letting her hear people talk, so that [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower body language would be her language]]. Even after [[AppliedPhlebotinum magic]] fixed this, she was never comfortable with words.

* Omega from OmegaTheUnknown, who says nothing for the first few issues, though he eventually deems it important enough to ask a suicidal woman how she could conceive of ending her existence, and opens up a little after that.

* Auron from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'' is a stoic, taciturn man who chooses to only talk when it is important. Kimahri speaks even less, and that's not counting giving the protagonist the silent treatment at the beginning of the game,

* {{X-23}} in her very first appearance in the comics, ''NYX'', has only a handful of panels in which she says anything, and the rest of her companions consider her a CreepyChild and StrangeGirl as a result. She has perhaps even ''fewer'' lines (and none prior to the last two issues) in her origin series, ''Innocence Lost'', where she's arguably the DecoyProtagonist and its her mother/creator Dr. Sarah Kinney who's the main character. In fact it's the abuse she suffered in ''Innocence Lost'' that led to her near-muteness in ''NYX''.

* Auron from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'' is a stoic, taciturn man who chooses to only talk when it is important. Kimahri, who talks even less than Auron does, also qualifies.
** Kimahri in particular is so quiet that he doesn't even have a spoken line until about a third of the way through the game.
*** That's because Kimahri was giving main character Tidus the silent treatment (for whatever reason).

** He does. Unless you believe that the asylum actually inserted electronics into the patients every night.
*** Why else did that Acute die after Bromden's nightmare?

** ''Series/PowerRangersMegaforce'': Troy talks less than any of his teamates.

* [[TheNameless The player character]] from ''VideoGame/SaintsRow'' has exactly four lines in game, each spoken during the final cutscene of a chapter. Other than that, s/he doesn't say a word. S/he becomes more vocal in the later games however, stating that his/her quietness was due to being a lackey.

** Dorothy from ''Rune Factory 2''.

* Rune Factory examples:
** Dorothy from RuneFactory2.

* Nighttrace fits this perfectly in ''Transformers Meta''.

--->'''Buffy''': ItsALongStory.
--->'''Oz''': I got bit.
--->'''Buffy''': Apparently not that long.

You might expect TheQuietOne to be a loner, but unless he's the AloofBigBrother, that's hardly ever the case, probably because of the assumption that LonersAreFreaks. Unless [[NoRespectGuy of course]] [[OnlySaneMan they're not]].

You might expect TheQuietOne to be a loner, but unless he's the AloofBigBrother, that's hardly ever the case, probably because of the assumption that LonersAreFreaks. Unless of course they're not.

In a {{Deconstruction}} setting, his quietness is a reflection of deep psychological problems, which is why he is more commonly an AntiHero than a hero. Otherwise TheQuietOne just comes across as cool, calm, collected, and slightly above the madness of their universe; a less vocal DeadpanSnarker. Can be Main/ByronicHero

In a {{Deconstruction}} setting, his quietness is a reflection of deep psychological problems, which is why he is more commonly an AntiHero than a hero. Otherwise TheQuietOne just comes across as cool, calm, collected, and slightly above the madness of their universe; a less vocal DeadpanSnarker.

You might expect TheQuietOne to be a loner, but unless he's the AloofBigBrother, that's hardly ever the case, probably because of the assumption that LonersAreFreaks.