History Main / VoiceForTheVoiceless

* ''ComicBook/TheInhumans'': Black Bolt's voice is so powerful his [[MakeMeWannaShout whispers can destroy cities]]. Most of the time his wife Medusa does the talking in his stead.

* ''Film/{{Transformers}}'': Since Bumblebee had his voicebox ripped out, he switches between radio stations saying random words in order to form full sentences.

* Arngeir in ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'' speaks for the other three Greybeards, as their [[MakeMeWannaShout voices]] are powerful enough that if they try to speak to a normal person, they might kill them, and Arngeir is the only one with enough mastery over the Voice to control his power. This is proven when one of them whispers--and ''the building shakes''.

* ''VideoGame/{{Stray}}'' has B-12 fulfill this role on behalf of the cat protagonist whenever they need to communicate with the city's robotic citizenry. Otherwise, the cat can only "talk" with meows and body language--something best demonstrated in [[spoiler:the beginnings of the Antvillage and Jail chapters, along with the end of the Control Room chapter]].

* The "voice for the voiceless" is sometimes meant metaphorically -- to say that someone will speak on behalf of an individual or group whose concerns are certainly capable of being voiced, but are ignored or disrespected by a more powerful group. The one doing the speaking will often refer to himself/herself (often accurately) as one who is more than capable of equaling if not more than equaling the opposing group.

* In ''Series/LizzieMcGuire'', Matt is the only one who can understand his [[TheVoiceless silent]] friend Lanny.
** Although all but Matt consider Lanny to be TheVoiceless, Matt repeatedly [[InformedAbility tells]] others that he finds it hard to get a word in edgewise when conversing with his friend.

* Mason the monkey from the ''WesternAnimation/{{Madagascar}}'' franchise does all the talking for his deaf-mute brother Phil, although Phil is shown to be able to use sign language in one scene.

* In ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}'', Claire Stanfield picks up the habit of speaking for his fiancee [[CuteMute Chane]], who is unable to talk. Being [[AxCrazy Claire]], most people assume he's just making her responses up until she confirms that he does, in fact, know exactly what she's thinking.

* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'': Since Team Rocket's Meowth is the only Pokemon that can speak human (more or less), he often fills this role when a Pokemon wants to speak to a human (usually the heroes). Sometimes he is a willing translator, and sometimes a psychic Pokemon will take over his body.

* ''ComicBook/TheInhumans'': ComicBook/BlackBolt's voice is so powerful his [[MakeMeWannaShout whispers can destroy cities]]. Most of the time his wife Medusa does the talking in his stead.

* ''Series/{{The Sandman|2022}}'': Chantal and Zelda are a pair of {{Perky Goth}}s who go everywhere together. Zelda never speaks audibly; when she has something to say she whispers it in Chantal's ear, and Chantal repeats it out loud.

* Riva, a deaf mediator who appeared in the ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode "Loud as a Whisper," traveled with a telepathic "chorus" that spoke for him. When they are killed in an assassination attempt, he has no way of communicating until Data builds a library to interpret his sign language, and the episode ends with Riva intending to teach his sign language to the warring parties. Why Riva did not simply write what he wanted to say was never addressed (the script implies that he and his family are illiterate).

* GodEmperor Jadis of the Seven from ''WebComic/KillSixBillionDemons'' is a half-rotted corpse entombed in crystal who can barely communicate except through whispering fragments of words, and pictographs she projects onto the surface of her crystalline prison. Despite this, Jadis is the most powerful oracle of all time thanks to her omniscience, and is worshipped by priesthood of fanatics who assiduously note down every errant sound or action made by their imprisoned god and interpret them as prophecies. While Jadis herself is inerrant (she literally cannot be wrong, nor lie), her priests' interpretations are very much not.

* ''Film/KillerKlownsFromOuterSpace'': None of the Klowns can talk, but after killing officer Mooney, one Klown [[DeadGuyPuppet uses his corpse as a ventriloquist dummy]] and can use it to speak, communicating his intentions to Dave.

-->'''Mooney''': ''Don't worry, Dave, all we want to do is kill you!''

* After being shot in the throat, Maine from ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'' can no longer speak, so Carolina gives him her AI Sigma to speak for him. Whether or not Sigma's words accurately reflect what Maine means to say is an excellent question.

* In the first several seasons of ''Series/TheBigBangTheory,'' Raj literally CannotTalkToWomen unless he's drunk. Thankfully for him, his HeterosexualLifepartner Howard has his back as the guy to whom he whispers what needs to be said... most of the time. Sometimes, Howard's annoyed comeback is all the translation the audience needs; other times, Howard will blatantly lie about what Raj said since he knows Raj can't contradict him out loud. The selective mutism eventually eases up as the series progresses.

* Deaf mermaid Gabriela in ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid'' has her octopus friend Ollie translate her sign language.