History PlayingWith / HeroicMime

** The player's character is [[MotorMouth so incredibly]] [[SesquipedalianLoquaciousness wordy]] that all [=NPCs=] can't get a single word in.

** The character has [[MakeMeWannaShout a magically destructive voice]] with PowerIncontinence, so (s)he keeps completely silent, bottling the words in, just waiting for the FinalBoss battle.

** The hero is immune to being [[StandardStatusEffects Muted]]. [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall What is there to mute, anyway]]?

** The hero does talk, it's just that they [[SpeakingSimlish speak simlish]], leaving their actual dialogue up to the imagination.

** The character has [[MakeMeWannaShout a magically destructive voice]] with PowerIncontinence, so they keep completely silent, bottling the words in, just waiting for the FinalBoss battle.

** The player character talks during loading screens or in cut scenes, but falls conspicuously completely silent whenever the player is in control of him.

** Alternately: The player character has nobody to talk to.
** Also alternately: The player character is TheSilentBob. He doesn't need words to get his message across.
** Or the player character is a [[AllMonksKnowKungFu badass monk]] who has taken an oath of silence.
** On the same note as alternately: The character never has a chance to talk, everybody else is talking too much to notice you, or at least until they need you to make a decision.

* '''Downplayed''': The player character talks during loading screens or in cut scenes, but falls conspicuously completely silent whenever the player is in control of him.

* '''Played For Drama''': A massive PlayerPunch occurs when there's an invasion going on and only the player character knows about. But because [[PoorCommunicationKills he cannot talk,]] and the group was too busy to read the stuff he wrote down [[NeverLearnedToRead(Or the game reveals he's illiterate)]]. The BigBad and his army rolled in and cause a CurbStompBattle for the heroes. Later on, the survivors [[WhatTheHellHero call the]] [[WhatTheHellPlayer player character out]] for not warning them. One may even accuse that just because he doesn't talk, it makes him better that the rest of them. This comes back during a BadEnding wherein the BigBad kills the player character before taunting him one last time to call for help...but the hero can't.

** The player character is mute.

** The player character meets Alice, whose brother is also mute. She helps him find the rest of the party.

* '''Played For Drama''': A massive PlayerPunch occurs when there's an invasion going on and only the player character knows about. But because [[PoorCommunicationKills he cannot talk,]] and the group was too busy to read the stuff he wrote down (Or the game reveals he's illiterate). The BigBad and his army rolled in and cause a CurbStompBattle for the heroes. Later on, the survivors [[WhatTheHellHero call the]] [[WhatTheHellPlayer player character out]] for not warning them. One may even accuse that just because he doesn't talk, it makes him better that the rest of them. This comes back during a BadEnding wherein the player character kills the BigBad and [[IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim finishes the job]].

%%* '''Implied''': ???
%%* '''Played For Laughs''': ???
%%* '''Played For Drama''': ???

* '''Played For Drama''': A massive PlayerPunch occurs when there's an invasion going on and only the player character knows about. But because [[PoorCommunicationKills he cannot talk,]] and the group was too busy to read the stuff he wrote down (Or the game reveals he's illiterate). The BigBad and his army rolled in and cause a CurbStompBattle for the heroes. Later on, the survivors [[WhatTheHellHero call the]] [[WhatTheHellPlayer player character out]] for not warning them. One may even accuse that just because he doesn't talk, it makes him better that the rest of them.

* '''Zig Zagged''': A game series where some of the player characters of certain games in the series do not talk, while others do.

** [[{{GLaDOS}} "ARE YOU EVEN LISTENING TO ME!?"]]

* '''Exploited''': ???

* '''Enforced''': "If we have the character say something the player doesn't want to say, it will make the game less immersive."

** See FeaturelessProtagonist.

** EnemyMime.

** [[EnemyMime Villainous Mime]]

** Villainous Mime.

** See PlayedForDrama below

* '''Played For Laughs''': The player character not only doesn't talk, but even when he's in serious pain. His mouth seems to be moving that signifies screams of agony but no sound at all.

* '''Played For Drama''': A massive PlayerPunch occurs when there's an invasion going on and only the player character knows about. But because [[PoorCommunicationKills he cannot talk,]] and the group was too busy to read the stuff he wrote down (Or the game reveals he's illiterate). The BigBad and his army rolled in and cause a CurbStompBattle for the heroes. Later on, the survivors [[WhatTheHellHero call the]] [[WhatTheHell player character out]] for not warning them. One may even accuse that just because he doesn't talk, it makes him better that the rest of them.

* '''Downplayed''': ???