History Characters / ASilentVoice

* DisabledLoveInterest: Shoko goes through a lot of misfortune because of her deafness, especially from bullies in her elementary school years. However, later in life, she becomes a potential love interest for one of her former tormentors, Shoya Ishida, who wants to make up for everything he's done to her.

* FightingYourFriend: Nagatsuka ends up fighting Ishida in the manga when [[spoiler: Ishida furiously calls him out over how little he cared about Nishimiya and barely had her involved in the movie project. Nagatsuka fights back by saying how Ishida cared more about her and [[ItsAllAboutme barely thought about his own needs]]]].

* FoodSlap: When Shoya confronts her over bullying Shoko, Ueno throws her ice cream cone at him and storms off.

* HeelRealization: Sahara is her OnlyFriend. Ueno also slaps Sahara when the other girl protects Shoko from her. After she's cooled off, Ueno is sorry and doesn't understand why Sahara says they'll still be friends. She also remarks that she hates herself and that maybe Shoko really ''is'' [[NotSoDifferentRemark simialr to her in that regard.]]

* {{Jerkass}}: Participated in bullying Nishimiya, but unlike Ishida, shows no remorse for it. She also puts down Sahara from time to time, and harshly insults Nagatsuka when a mix-up leads to him thinking she was interested in him. Later, she, too, has the nerve to address Nishimiya's ''mother'' condescendingly.[[note]]Of all second-person pronouns, Ueno uses "omae" on Nishimiya's mother, in which its usage towards one's superiors is very rude.[[/note]]

* ApatheticTeacher: In a nutshell. He doesn't encourage the bullying, but he doesn't step in to stop it until the Principal got involved. And once Ishida started getting bullied, he tells him that he brought it on himself for everything he did.

* HateSink: Rivals Naoka and Miki in this regard. It's bad enough that he has no regrets over his halfhearted response and later outright complicity in Shoko being bullied, but he has the gall to suggest that the Nishimiyas are faking Shoko's disability as a con and to claim that Shoya being scapegoated was good or him.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: Mixed with BewareTheQuietOnes due to Shoko mostly communicating through sign language. Shoko is for the most part a NiceGirl even to a fault, who only wants to make friends, especially with the one who bullied her in grade school. However, she eventually retaliated against Shoya by biting his hand and fighting him.

* JerkassRealization: A subtle case but seeing firsthand how hostile and unwilling to forgive her mother was to Ishida despite his good intentions plays a factor in Yuzuru deciding to ease upon him.

* HateSink: Rivals Naoka and Miki in this regard.

* EveryoneHasStandards: She of all people is the one to call Naoka out on locking everyone outside of Shoya's hospital room when he's in a coma, overlaps with JerkassHasAPoint.

* NiceGirl: Subverted in the Manga but played straight in the movie where she is nothing but friendly to Shoko.

* BullyingTheDragon: After attacking Nishimiya earns her a slap from her mother, she merely smacks her back in a rage and turns her tirade onto her, despite the latter, a grown woman, being far more capable of fighting back.

* AdaptationalKarma: Inverted. In the manga, she's on the receiving end of a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown by Yaeko after Naoka [[LaserGuidedKarma dished out her own attack on Yaeko's disabled daughter]]. In the film, however, after attacking Shoko, apart from one slap, she and Yaeko have an equally matched, childish catfight before being broken apart by Miyako. Her loss of Shoya's feelings to Shoko is also much more downplayed in the film, as the extent of her feelings isn't explored in-depth like in the manga.

* AmbiguouslyBi: In the manga, [[spoiler: the nature of her relationship with Sahara at the end]] is highly questionable.

* OreOnna: She uses the aggressive-masculine pronoun of ''ore'' to refer to herself.

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** The second time, during the DramaBomb at the bridge, as harsh and cold might be, he rightfully called out everyone (sans Shoko and her sister) for their flaws. Long list short, he called out Ueno for being an unrepentant bully with petty jealousy issues, Sahara for not standing up for herself or others when she needs to do so and just runs away from her problems; Kawaii for being even worse than Ueno, as she refuses to take any responsibilities for Shoko's bullying; Nagatsuka for being too clingy to him, despiting helping him only one time; and (in the manga) Mashiba for being a BullyHunter full of resentment. It says something that after [[spoiler:Shoya ends up comatose]], Mashiba has a JerkassRealization, Sahara realizes she ''is'' a DirtyCoward and Ueno learns she is a petty girl.