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22This is the villainous counterpart to HeroicMime; while the hero's silence makes them [[FeaturelessProtagonist open to interpretation]], the Silent Antagonist's silence makes them a sort of EnigmaticMinion, or in the worst of cases, an UnknownRival or an [[ImplacableMan utterly implacable force of nature]]. There is just something deeply uncomfortable about a character who commits various abominable acts [[DissonantSerenity without so much as a peep from the perpretator]], their indifference making them seem utterly inhuman.
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24A SubTrope of HeWhoMustNotBeHeard. The SuperTrope of EnemyMime (though not all villainous mimes have to be fully silent). SisterTrope to EnigmaticMinion. See also SoftSpokenSadist, who ''does'' speak, but is very calm and relaxed.
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31* None of the villains featured in ''Anime/DigimonAdventureTri'' spoke a single word leaving their motives and personalities unknown. This includes the Digimon Emperor, Alphamon, Imperialdramon, the resurrected Dark Masters, and Yggdrassil. Gennai is the only aversion to this trope as he speaks while revealed to be the bad guy.
32* In ''Manga/DragonBall'', Evil Buu remains completely silent for the one chapter he appears in. ''Anime/DragonballZ'', however, gives him a few lines of dialogue to [[{{Filler}} increase the episode's runtime]].
33** Janemba from ''[[TheMovie Fusion Reborn!]]'' never actually spoke. In his first form, he was only able to [[PokemonSpeak say his name]] over again and his second form only consists of maniacal laughs or growls.
34** Kid Buu speaks broken sentences in the original ''Anime/DragonBallZ'', but doesn't speak a legible word in ''Anime/DragonBallZKai'' and the original manga.
35* ''Literature/HeavyObject'' has Dimiksy Nikolaschka, who never talks any time he appears.
36* The Captain of ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'' never speaks. In fact, [[TheStoic the only time he shows any emotion at all]] is an OhCrap when Alucard releases his Level Zero transformation, and a quick smile during his battle against Seras. [[spoiler:And that only happens right before he dies, implying that he's a DeathSeeker, which fits in nicely with a monologue said by Integra's father in a flashback.]]
37* Thirteen of the Seventeen Angels from ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'', the exceptions being Leliel, Arael, Arimisael, and Tabris [[spoiler: (also known as Kaworu)]].
38* Subverted with Pica in ''Manga/OnePiece''. For about a dozen chapters or so after he was introduced, Pica never vocalized anything, not even screams or grunts. It also meant he would attack without [[CallingYourAttacks calling them out]], giving Zoro a difficult time. It turns out it was all a lead-up to a gag: [[spoiler:Pica's voice is actually very high pitched, in contrast to his enormous, thug-like appearance. People make fun of him and laugh at him due to his voice, so he just stays quiet--not for his own embarrassment, but to avoid unnecessary death and annihilation through him retaliating.]]
39* Noro from ''Manga/TokyoGhoul'' is both TheVoiceless and TheFaceless, never making a sound even when suffering brutal injuries. His utter silence is one of ''many'' things creepy about one half of the [[TheSyndicate Aogiri]] CoDragons. It isn't clear whether he simply chooses not to speak or is incapable of it.
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43* ''Franchise/TheFlash'' foe Murmur has [[TongueTrauma got his tongue cut out]] and his lips sewn together.
44* In ''ComicBook/{{Joker}}'', ComicBook/HarleyQuinn of all people is this. She does do some awesome stuff (and [[OfCorsetsSexy look]] [[{{Stripperiffic}} damn]] good doing it), though. This might just be because Harley's [[PerkyFemaleMinion usual characterisation]] wouldn't gel with the comic's atmosphere so well. It's implied she is capable of speech since she's shown opening her mouth in several panels as if mid word, but since the story is told from the point of view of a man named Jonny the implication is he's not paying attention to what she's saying as part of his general issues with women.
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48* ''FanFic/AngelOfTheBat'': TheDragon in the second story, "The Odmience" is entirely silent, eventually revealed to be caused by his vocal cords being severed. [[spoiler: He does scream in the climax (which one can do without vocal cords) and is gifted an electrolarynx in the epilogue, after his redemption, granting him the ability to speak.]]
49* In ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'', after Android #13 fuses with the remains of #14 and #15, he becomes completely silent, never speaking a single word beyond grunts as Dr. Gero orders him to execute Goku in vengeance. Gero is quite relieved by this, having tried and failed to patch his exaggerated Southern accent previously in his base state.
50* ''Fanfic/JauneArcLordOfHunger'': After Darth Nihilus [[spoiler:[[DemonicPossession takes over Jaune's body]]]] and reveals himself to the heroes, he spends his first major appearance being almost completely mute, which highlights his unsettling and inhuman nature. This gets subverted later on when Nihilus speaks while [[spoiler:offering to make Cinder his apprentice.]]
51* ''Fanfic/TheMountainAndTheWolf'': The Night King is the only one of the Wolf's opponents not to answer his crude taunts and fights in complete silence. This only gives the Wolf more ammo.
52-->I'd threaten to cut out your tongue, but I can see you are so slow of wit that it would be useless to do so. Assuming, of course, that you even had a tongue to remove, and that it didn't snap off inside one of your slave's arseholes not long before your cock suffered the same fate.
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56* The BigBad of ''WesternAnimation/BigHero6'', [[MeaningfulName Yokai]], combines this trope with his [[WhiteMaskOfDoom creepy Kabuki mask]], [[DarkIsEvil black coat]] and massive swarm of [[{{Nanomachines}} microbots]] to make for a ''terrifying'' NoNonsenseNemesis. He finally speaks when [[spoiler:revealing himself as Professor Callaghan to Hiro Hamada]].
57* The BigBad of ''WesternAnimation/{{Migration}}'' is a New York [[EvilChef chef]] who doesn't ever speak and only growls, laughs, and screams.
58* King Herod's hunter in ''WesternAnimation/TheStar'' never says a single word throughout the whole film and only makes grunting sounds. His dogs, however, do most of the talking.
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62* In ''Film/Angel1984'', The Killer never speaks on screen, even seeming to pick up hookers via body language, but there is no indication that he is mute.
63* Kiriyama from the film version of ''Literature/BattleRoyale''.
64* Cropsy in ''Film/TheBurning'' never utters a word, he just screams when he is in pain.
65* The Winter Soldier in ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'' spends most of the movie as this, and it's [[NoNonsenseNemesis creepy as hell]]. It's also a change from the comics, [[spoiler:probably because ComicBook/BuckyBarnes' [[Creator/SebastianStan actor]] has a pretty distinctive voice]].
66* The Thin Man in the first ''Film/CharliesAngels2000'' movie. He originally had lines in the script, but they decided he'd be more villainous if he was TheVoiceless.
67* The half-masked man who hands out tickets in ''Film/{{Demons}}''. In his case, the fact that he never speaks seems to convey ''contempt'' more than it does active menace.
68* Katya, the blond assassin in the ''Franchise/DieHard'' film ''Film/DieHardWithAVengeance'', who utters only a single sound (a frustrated scream) in the entire film. Originally, she was explicitly intended to be mute and have a visible scar on her neck, but this wasn't included in the final film. Ironic, given that the actress who plays her, Sam Phillips, is a noted singer in real life.
69* Colonel Gunther Reza in ''Film/DuckYouSucker'' speaks a grand total of two lines, both during his first appearance. From that point on he's completely silent, a fact that only makes his ImplacableMan status all the more disturbing.
70* Unlike in the comics, Comicbook/{{Galactus}} in ''[[Film/FantasticFour2005 Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer]]'' is [[EldritchAbomination a sentient cloud]], and thus all the communication he would convey is left to his herald.
71* Jason Voorhees from ''Franchise/FridayThe13th'', in his case, he is a barely sentient IdiotSavant.
72* Michael Myers from ''Franchise/{{Halloween}}''. The only sound he makes is [[VaderBreath heavy breathing]], which along with many of his odd mannerisms makes him creepily inhuman. The [[Film/Halloween2007 remake]] did in fact have him talk, but only as a child. In the [[Film/HalloweenII2009 sequel]], he got one word in as an adult, [[spoiler: "Die!"]]
73* Karl Ruprect Kroenen from the film version of ''Film/{{Hellboy|2004}}''. The comic version not only speaks but is quite AffablyEvil.
74* UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler in ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade''. He meets Indy face to face, but doesn't say a word. A variation in that he's not an antagonist in the context of the scene, because he doesn't know who Indy is. Indy is wearing a stolen Nazi uniform and is remaining silent himself, so Hitler assumes he is just another autograph-seeking soldier. He takes Dr. Henry Jones's book from Indy and signs it, then promptly gives it back without realizing [[MissedHimByThatMuch that it was the diary he was trying to get his evil mitts on in the first place]].
75* ''Film/JamesBond'':
76** ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}'''s top henchman and [[BattleButler butler]], Oddjob, can't speak English, so he doesn't talk. Other than the painful scream he emitted as he was electrocuted.
77** Jaws from ''Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe''. He also counts for most of ''Film/{{Moonraker}}'' but it's finally subverted when he gets one line near the end of the film.
78** Mr. Hinx from ''Film/{{Spectre}}'', a big, no-nonsense badass who proceeds to give Bond the absolute fight of his life. The only time he speaks at all is [[spoiler:when Bond is about to send him out of a train via a rope and a really heavy weight, and he just says one word: "Shit..."]]
79* ''Film/JohnWickChapter2'' features Ares, an assassin who, unlike the above example, actually is explicitly mute; [[DownplayedTrope however,]] while she can't verbally communicate, she does speak through sign language several times and is understood, making this a {{Downplayed|Trope}} use of the trope.
80* Victoria in ''Film/NewMoon'', the second ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' film, is very active as an antagonist but never says a word. It's zig-zagged, though: in a deleted scene, she reminisces about her dead mate to a pair of humans whom she's about to kill; if left in, that would have been the only scene in the film in which she spoke, and she speaks freely in both the first and third films. This is somewhat in keeping with the books, in which she is voiceless in the first, is an entirely offscreen menace in the second, and doesn't appear until the climax of the third in which she is SuddenlySpeaking.
81* The 2004 film version of ''[[Film/ThePunisher2004 The Punisher]]'' features The Russian, a hulking assassin with no dialogue whatsoever. Oddly, this is the only incarnation of The Punisher where The Russian is silent; he's perfectly capable of speaking in the comics and video games.
82* ''Film/TheRocketeer'' has Lothar, TheDragon to Neville Sinclair. He only ever says three sentences and one word in the whole movie. This doesn't make him any less scary though.
83* Kyle and Ken Katayanagi in ''Film/ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld'', unlike their comic book counterparts.[[note]]This is because the casting agency cast Asian twins without asking if the twins could speak English; upon discovering they couldn't, the twins were DemotedToExtra and only appear in one scene with no lines.[[/note]]
84* Ghostface from ''Film/{{Scream}}'' zig-zags this trope. While he does not speak on screen (though he can still make quite a bit of noise as he lunges or if he's injured), he threatens his victims over phone calls.
85* Kevin from ''Film/SinCity''. Apparently, he spoke only to Cardinal Roark and "had the voice of an angel" but the audience never hears him.
86* The Mysterious Woman from ''Film/SkyCaptainAndTheWorldOfTomorrow''.
87* ''Franchise/StarWars'':
88** Darth Maul in ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'' only has a couple of lines, and none in the presence of the heroes. {{Averted}} in the ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'', where apparently getting [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe cut in half]] and going back and forth over the line of sanity made him a whole lot more willing to talk.
89** [[EnsembleDarkhorse Boba Fett]] was close enough to this in the original trilogy to count as well. In ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'' he fully qualifies and has zero lines, only vocalizing a death scream. In ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'', he only had four lines, only one of which was longer than seven words. Subverted in the prequel trilogy and spin-off materials, however. In the film universe, ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'' gives him [[BrattyHalfPint MUCH more to say.]]
90** The PraetorianGuard and the Knights of Ren from ''Film/TheLastJedi'' and ''Film/TheRiseOfSkywalker'' respectively, never speak throughout their appearances save screams when dying. The Knights do get the chance to speak in spin-off materials however.
91* Leatherface from ''Franchise/TheTexasChainsawMassacre''.
92* Rinzler, TheDragon in ''Film/TronLegacy'', is mute for 99% of the film. It's not just to make him creepier; it's because [[spoiler:Rinzler is Tron, reprogrammed to serve the villains, and hearing his voice would spoil TheReveal. When he ''does'' speak, it indicates that he's himself again. The only word he speaks before is "USER!" is his debut scene, which is hardly recognizable as Tron's voice.]]
93* From the French film ''Film/TheUmbrellaCoup'', [[ProfessionalKiller Moskovitz]] doesn't speak outside of a single line. It was done due to his actor, Gordon Mitchell, not being fluent in French and was fitting the character of a cold-hearted hitman anyways.
94* The Baseball Furies gang in ''Film/TheWarriors'' never utter a word, even as they fight the Warriors. (They do grunt a bit as they're punched or clubbed, but that's it.)
95* In ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'', the Future Sentinels do not speak or make any sort of noise, which is bad for any mutant trying to hide as they can creep up on you and you wouldn't know it until it be far too late.
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99* ''Literature/BennyRoseTheCannibalKing'': Benny Rose, the main antagonist of the book, never speaks but instead communicates in glares and sadistic body language.
100* [[spoiler:Lord Vile]] from ''Literature/SkulduggeryPleasant'' doesn't speak [[spoiler:until ''Death Bringer''. He whispers Valkyrie's name before snapping out of it.]]
101* Almost all of the Demons from ''The Elfstones of Literature/{{Shannara}}'' are like this, except for their boss, [[DemonLordsAndArchDevils the Dagda Mor]], who has one line of dialogue. Most notable is [[TheDragon the Reaper]], who is silent, [[TheFaceless faceless]] and [[ImplacableMan implacable]], pursuing the two main characters tirelessly for most of the book.
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105%%* Kimi Milard from ''Series/{{Alphas}}'' qualifies as this.
106* Tuco's cousins in ''Series/BreakingBad'' fulfill this criteria, like a pair of [[ImplacableMan Mexican Terminators]].
107* Played to horrifying effect in the ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' episode "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS4E10Hush Hush]]" with "the Gentlemen", a group of demons/monsters/whatever-the-hell-they-are who show up to steal people's voices and rip out hearts. Throughout the episode, they never utter a word, just grin at each other and use gestures... and yet they still manage to be ''absolutely terrifying.''
108* ''Series/DoctorWho'': In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E16TheWatersOfMars The Waters of Mars]]", the Flood says all of a few lines through one of its victims, and then never says a word again. ([[HellIsThatNoise Inhuman screeching and roaring]], on the other hand...) Used to great effect, since the focus of the episode isn't on the Flood at all, but the Doctor's own [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds rapidly unraveling mental state]].
109* ''Series/GameOfThrones'':
110** The only vocalizations the White Walkers ever make is a sort of shrill screech, and even then it only happened twice (once in Season 2 and once in Season 3). It's unknown if they either can't speak, choose not to speak, or don't understand/haven't bothered to learn the CommonTongue that mankind uses.
111** Their leader, the Night King, never speaks a word in any language on-screen. This simply adds to the feeling of him being more of a force of nature than an actual, emotion-driven person.
112** The Mountain counts as well, as throughout the majority of the series, he really doesn't verbalize much if anything at all and seems to lose whatever speech he's capable of upon becoming whatever Qyburn made him.
113* ''Series/Hawkeye2021'': Maya is initially the antagonist to Clint and Kate, who doesn't speak at all. {{Justified|Trope}}, as Maya has been deaf all her life, and thus has little reason to talk. She does communicate through ASL though, with Kazi translating for Clint and Kate. In ''Series/Echo2024'' Mays speaks a little, but quite softly so it's hard to discern. However, by this point, she is the protagonist.
114* This is what Charlotte Page becomes in the ''Series/HenryDanger'' episode "The Beat Goes On" after she is [[MindControlMusic musically brain warped]] by Dr. Minyak.
115* ''Series/LabRats'': Any bionic human who is under the influence of the [[SuperpoweredEvilSide Triton App]] becomes this.
116* Twin {{serial killer}}s Robert and Nicholas Millberry from Series 2 of ''Series/{{Luther}}'' never communicate while hunting, spending their whole first episode and most of their second in total silence. Robert doesn't talk until after his arrest, and Nicholas only speaks to Luther during their last confrontation, when body language alone will not do the trick.
117* In the ''Series/MastersOfHorror'' episode "[[Recap/MastersOfHorrorS1E1IncidentOnAndOffAMountainRoad Incident on and Off a Mountain Road]]", the villain Moonface fits the typical mute serial killer character. His only sort-of dialogue is shushing his victims to be quiet while he tortures and murders them.
118%%* Sluggo from the Mr. Bill segments on ''Series/SaturdayNightLive''.
119* This is basically the point of the ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'' episode "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Silent Enemy]]". Aliens show up and menace the ''Enterprise'', but refuse to respond to any hails, save for playing back an edited version of a message Archer had sent to them. But no alien voice is ever heard and the crew never does figure out what exactly they were doing, nor why they were doing it.
120* Karla the head of Moscow Centre, played by Creator/PatrickStewart in the BBC adaptation of ''Series/TinkerTailorSoldierSpy'', appears in just one short scene; a flashback in which he is interrogated in a Delhi prison cell by Creator/AlecGuinness as George Smiley. He doesn't say a word, barely twitches an eyebrow, and pockets Smiley's engraved gold cigarette lighter. The scene is unforgettable.
121* ''Series/TheXFiles'':
122** Flukeman in "[[Recap/TheXFilesS02E02TheHost The Host]]" is a humanoid radioactive parasite incapable of language.
123** The Peacock Brothers in "[[Recap/TheXFilesS04E02Home Home]]" seem to understand English, as their mother speaks to them, but they remain silent while onscreen.
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127* [[Wrestling/EdFarhat Original Sheik]] and Wrestling/AbdullahTheButcher most of their careers. They did begin talking in their semi retirement, especially Abdullah, who developed an apathy for all things [[OnlyInItForTheMoney but money.]]
128* [[Wrestling/SeanWaltman X-Pac]] and Wrestling/JimCornette pushed the rest of Wrestling/{{WWE}} to let Wrestling/{{Kane}} remain one of these, all his speaking being done by Wrestling/PaulBearer. As soon as they were gone, Kane started talking though.
129* Wrestling/{{Tursas}} did not speak until a year after being revealed by Wrestling/DieBruderschaftDesKreuzes in Wrestling/{{CHIKARA}}[[/folder]]
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132* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'':
133** The Necrons: skeletal, alien robots with a heavy undead flavoring. One of their trademarks was being the mysterious faction as the motivations for their actions were inscrutable, largely because, well, they just never vocalized. Their origins and reasons for wars of conquest and genocide to abducting entire populations of humans just weren't known to many players who didn't read up on them, as well as even some of the most accomplished in-'verse scholars.
134*** These days, a [[{{Revision}} significant retrofitting to their lore]] changed them somewhat; while they still do the same things as before, their motivations are much less opaque and their leadership has been given considerably more personality as well as the ability to speak. Their rank and file are more or less unchanged however: after nearly 60 million years in stasis, the neural systems allocated to the common "citizens" of the Necron empires is, well, ''more'' faulty, and their cognitive faculties have decayed to the point of leaving them as little more than automatons.
135** The Sisters of Silence are, well, silent AntiMagic women crewing the Inquisition's Black Ships, which abduct psykers and transport them to terra for conditioning into sanctioned and/or kill them to feed the GodEmperor. Note that they're a NecessaryEvil: unsanctioned psykers pretty much inevitably fall to Chaos and end up summoning daemons or worse, while the killing of thousands of psykers is necessary to keep the Astronomican (a psychic "lighthouse" in the Warp) lit, without which interstellar travel is impossible for humans.
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139* In ''Theatre/TheGoldenApple'', Paris never speaks, though he hardly needs to talk when Hector is around.
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143* "Bendy" from ''VideoGame/BendyAndTheInkMachine'' never speaks. He growls and makes breathing noises, but that's it. Considering that his mouth looks painted on, he might not even be capable of speech.
144* ''VideoGame/DawnOfWar'': In ''Dark Crusade'', the Necron Lord of All Kronus never speaks, and all banter is delivered through his MouthOfSauron Thomas Maccabe (a Mechanicus remade into a Pariah). The only exception is when they attack the Chaos stronghold, where he says something in BlackSpeech to Eliphas the Inheritor. Eliphas, a FauxAffablyEvil SmugSnake who communicates to the other commanders by telepathy, sounds genuinely rattled.
145-->'''Eliphas:''' I... your soul is gone!
146* Caim in ''VideoGame/{{Drakengard}}'' becomes this in the sequel (having lost his voice in the first game as the price for making a life-saving pact with a dragon), where he becomes a RogueProtagonist.
147* Interestingly, not counting flashbacks, Sephiroth himself actually never speaks in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII''. This is most noticeable during the final encounter with him, where he doesn't say a single word. Most villains in the series give a speech of some sort before throwing down with the heroes, but Sephiroth? Nothing. [[spoiler:The "Sephiroth" who appears for most of the game and is comparatively chatty is simply Jenova taking his form and acting out his will; the true Sephiroth spends much of FFVII sleeping in the planet's core, and thus can't speak.]] Subverted in '' VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIIRemake'': [[spoiler: Sephiroth doesn't speak directly because he doesn't appear at all, but he talks to Cloud in his visions.]]
148* The Neighbor from ''VideoGame/HelloNeighbor'' never speaks, although he does gasp when he sees the player. [[spoiler: In the ending of Alpha 3, he ''cries''.]]
149* ''VideoGame/HollowKnight'' has the titular Hollow Knight as the mute BigBad. The Broken Vessel and Nosk also lacks any dialogues.
150* In ''VideoGame/HotlineMiami'', this applies to [[spoiler:[[HeroicMime the hitman]] [[RogueProtagonist when you fight him]]]].
151* ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFightersXIV'': GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere final boss Verse is one. He just shows up at the end of the King of Fighters tournament, screams something that sounds like "verse" (hence the name) and attacks.
152* ''VideoGame/KnightsOfAmbrose'': Lilith is introduced as a silent angel with no will of her own. This changes in ''VideoGame/CelestialHearts'', where she gains sentience and the ability to speak.
153* Darth Nihilus in ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublicIITheSithLords'' technically "speaks" in bizarre language that is possibly generated telepathically. None of the major characters have any trouble understanding it (including the PlayerCharacter), but the player is left clueless, as his dialog is not subtitled, in contrast to all the other characters' lines, which are (even when they're speaking perfectly clear English). This serves to make him even more unsettling.
154* ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'':
155** King Bulblin from ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess'' doesn't talk and is assumed to be an unintelligent monster [[SuddenlySpeaking until he gets a few lines near the end.]]
156** Dark Link never speaks.
157** Vaati talks a lot in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaFourSwords'' and ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheMinishCap''. For some reason, he remains silent in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaFourSwordsAdventures''.
158** While Ganon is usually pretty chatty, his incarnations in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaI'' and ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'' have zero lines of dialogue.
159* In ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'', although possibly unintentionally, [[spoiler:Harbinger]] comes off as one. You might expect a [[EvilGloating long exposition]], but you [[NoNonsenseNemesis just get shot]] instead. It's in ''stark'' contrast to his appearances in the second game.
160* ''Franchise/{{Metroid}}'':
161** The {{Space Pirate}}s themselves initially started out like this, which better served to emphasize their alienness and made them come across as unthinking drones completely subservient to their leadership. The ''VideoGame/MetroidPrimeTrilogy'' subverts this as, while the Pirates still don't speak beyond their roaring and warbling in-combat, their scannable logs quickly reveal a far more "human" side to them (such as backtalking their superiors and keeping pets) while still emphasizing their LackOfEmpathy (not batting an eye at horrific experimentation on their own kind and expressing disdain of Chozo culture not related to technology or warfare).
162** Ridley, despite being a major antagonist and the one personally responsible for starting the series in motion by destroying Samus's home colony and killing her parents, never says anything beyond roaring. He doesn't even leave behind any written logs to scan from in the ''VideoGame/MetroidPrimeTrilogy'', instead we get our information from his underlings, who have implied that he's a cunning warlord who relishes in violence and death. [[SuddenlySpeaking He's quite chatty in the official Metroid manga and prequel however]], so it's not like he's just some animalistic beast.
163** Dark Samus from the ''Prime'' trilogy is another major antagonist who never speaks or writes a word; this especially stands out in ''Corruption'', which features fully voice-acted cutscenes, and of which she is the BigBad. She is nonetheless able to formulate complex long-term plans and communicate them to her followers, so whether she only speaks offscreen or is capable of some other form of communication is left to interpretation.
164* ''VideoGame/{{MOTHER 3}}'': The Masked Man does not talk at all... [[spoiler:until Claus unmasks himself.]]
165* [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Bowser]] in ''VideoGame/PaperMarioStickerStar'' doesn't speak at all, and only gets voiced by Kenny James for his roaring. [[note]]This was due to Shigeru Miyamoto allegedly not liking Bowser's portrayal in previous games[[/note]]. It makes Bowser rather menacing compared to the humorous and [[EvilIsHammy hammy]] portrayal he got in all the other ''VideoGame/PaperMario'' and ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigi'' games. Unfortunately, limited screentime in ''Sticker Star'' and the sheer amount of personality Bowser showed in those previous Mario [=RPGs=] undermined whatever the developers were going for, and players did not respond positively. The backlash lead to this interpretation of Bowser getting dropped from future Mario [=RPGs=].
166* ''VideoGame/PathOfExile'''s previous Epilogue villain, the Elder, is a silent EldritchAbomination whose sole existence to [[AbstractEater devour the imaginations of humans]] and spread the Eldritch Decay from beyond the void. It is capable of communicating, as evidenced by memories of how he tricked people into freeing him, but now it has no reason to. This is in contrast to the Shaper, who WasOnceAMan and has many of his thoughts dispersed throughout scattered memories.
167* Mr. X, a recurring EliteMook in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil2'' constantly hounds the protagonist and never makes a sound. When he is fought for the last time, he has mutated into a monstrosity and lets out a roar. ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil2Remake'' keeps Mr. X quiet, but gives him subtle body language to make him look more menacing.
168* Tabuu from ''[[VideoGame/SuperSmashBros Super Smash Bros. Brawl]]'' doesn't say a thing throughout his entire storyline. While the other characters communicate through gestures and expressions, augmented by short grunts or exclamations ([[VideoGame/MetalGear Snake]] is the only character to speak a full sentence) Tabuu doesn't say a thing. No EvilLaugh, no angry grunts, no screams of pain, nothing.
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172* Israphel, from ''WebVideo/ShadowOfIsraphel'', never says a word in any of his appearances. Even his most recurring CoDragons, who have spoken a combined total of ''two words'', are chattier. To get around this, he occasionally leaves mocking signs, but he does this less as the series goes along.
173* The Meta from ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue'' is only capable of growling (a prequel episode shows that it was a consequence of being repeatedly shot in the throat), making him, in the words of Simmons, "the scariest fucking mute in the galaxy".
174* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'':
175** Neopolitan is mute, and her motives and identity are completely unknown, though she clearly has a connection with Roman Torchwick. What is known is she is a total badass: she defeated both Yang and Ruby [[CurbStompBattle with ease]] and [[spoiler:slaughtered an entire Atlas airship full of trained soldiers on her own.]]
176** In the non-canon spinoff ''WebAnimation/RWBYChibi'', Neo prefers to [[TalkingWithSigns talk with signs]] for the sake of funny.
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180* In ''Webcomic/AliceGrove'', the tall, hulking Mr. Church (to date) has not said a word. However, he's demonstrated that he is a ''very'' dangerous foe of Alice and her friends by crushing Sedna's shoulder with one hand, taking a blow from a pipe to the head (and promptly tearing its wielder limb from limb), and catching Alice in the middle of a FlashStep as she tried to kill his master.
181* There are a few enemies in ''Webcomic/AwfulHospital'' who don't speak any lines, such as Molly Curdle and the X-Ray Skeleton. They are not to be trifled with.
182* Invoked in ''Webcomic/{{Goblins}}'' by one of the AlternateUniverse Minmaxes; as a result of MinMaxing, he traded away his ability to speak in exchange for becoming a more deadly combatant.
183* ''Webcomic/{{Nebula}}'': Ceres; assuming that their unintelligible thought bubbles aren't meant to represent distorted speech, they don't say a single word in any of their appearances, even when Sun (who they both know could kill them with little to no effort) is glaring down at them and demanding to know [[ColdBloodedTorture what they're doing to the planets]] and what it is they ''want'' from him.
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187* [[WasOnceAMan Mannequin]] in ''Literature/{{Worm}}'' is incapable of speech, having severely modified his body and long since removed his mouth, digestive tract, lungs, and anything else similarly without use. Instead, he communicates by mocking gestures with his fingers.
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191* The [[Franchise/TheSlendermanMythos Slender Man]] is this, in addition to often being hidden in plain sight. [[NothingIsScarier It's part of his charm.]] However, he did [[EvilLaugh chuckle briefly]] in entry 23 of ''WebVideo/MarbleHornets''...
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195* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'': [[EldritchAbomination GOLB]] doesn't speak a single word. [[spoiler:Not even after [[ActofTrueLove Betty fuses with him]].]]
196* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' has Combustion Man, who would rather [[HavingABlast blow stuff up]] with his mind than talk.
197* ''WesternAnimation/TheAvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes'': Skurge the Executioner, Annihilus, and Galactus do not speak at all during their appearances.
198* ''WesternAnimation/CodeLyoko'': [[AIisACrapshoot X.A.N.A]] is one of the scariest foes without needing any words. All it needs is a computer to send monsters to deal with its problems.
199* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'' had the deadly assassin Curare, who never speaks in any of her episodes. Since Terry has a tendency to [[YouFightLikeACow trade wisecracks]] throughout his fights, her silence, as well as her skill level, seems to draw an answering seriousness and maturity from Terry.
200* ''WesternAnimation/Castlevania2017'': "[[Recap/Castlevania2017S1E3Labyrinth Labyrinth]]": The cyclops never vocalizes at all, and is instead entirely silent and emotionally unresponsive during the its fight with Trevor.
201* ''WesternAnimation/HongKongPhooey'': While vacationing, Phooey once encountered a pickpocket who never spoke.
202* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'': The fourth season features an apparent EnemyWithout of the title character who appears to her in the Avatar state and dressed as she was when she fought the previous season's big bad. She never speaks the entire time she repeatedly beats up Korra, and what exactly she is remains ambiguous to the end.
203* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': [[Characters/FriendshipIsMagicKingSombra King Sombra]], in contrast to the loud and hammy villains like Nightmare Moon, Discord, and Queen Chrysalis, gets exactly five lines in his entire two-parter and none of which is longer than four words or said to any of the heroes. WordOfGod is that it was done to enforce that, more than anything, he was an AdvancingWallOfDoom waiting to lay waste to the Crystal Empire the second Princess Cadance's rapidly draining stamina gave out and her force field collapsed. Averted in his return during the two-part season 9 premiere, where he's much more talkative.
204* ''WesternAnimation/{{Gumby}}'': The Blockheads never speak aside from laughing.
205* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'': The leech villain in "The Headsucker's Moxy" does not speak.
206* ''WesternAnimation/SuperRobotMonkeyTeamHyperforceGo'': This is what Jinmay is in her first appearance when she was under Sakko's control.
207* Soundwave's ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime'' incarnation, who has stopped talking on his own since coming to Earth. He "speaks" by replaying clips of other people talking (with the standard Soundwave voice effect underneath), and usually doesn't even bother with ''that'' unless prompted.
208** This actually led to some ViewerGenderConfusion, because the first voice he replayed was that of ActionGirl Arcee.
209** By the end of the series, he's spoken exactly ''once'': [[spoiler:When captured and being interrogated by the Autobots, he tells them, [[WesternAnimation/TransformersTheMovie "Soundwave superior, Autobots inferior,"]] before shutting himself down.]]
210* In ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'' [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Scare Bear]] is a masked, bloodied psychopath dressed in a bear suit wielding a knife. In all his appearances, he's said absolutely nothing but breathed heavily behind his mask. Even villainous organizations like The Guild of Calamitous Intent passed on his membership because he's just too damn creepy, even for supervillains.
211* ''WesternAnimation/WallaceAndGromit'' has the following examples:
212** Feathers [=McGraw=] from ''WesternAnimation/TheWrongTrousers'' never even squeaks. It adds to his mildly creepy act.
213** Beyond one growl (since he's a dog), Preston from ''WesternAnimation/ACloseShave'' never says anything. [[spoiler:When he is revealed as a robot, he makes a quiet roar at his near-victims.]]
214* Lord Dominator in his ([[SamusIsAGirl or rather, her]]) first appearance in the second season of ''WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder''. [[SuddenlySpeaking At least until the last scene.]]
215* Apocalypse from ''WesternAnimation/XMenEvolution'' is like this during his first appearances, though he finally talks during the GrandFinale.
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