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%% PLEASE DO NOT ADD HISTORY MAP MISSIONS UNDER
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\"PLEASE DO NOT ADD HISTORY MAP MISSIONS UNDER \"THAT ONE LEVEL.\" THE TROPE ONLY APPLIES TO THE MAIN STORY LEVELS.\"

This does not make sense, since there are reasonable amount of levels in History Mode that qualifies. The same logic might as well apply to \'\'Hyrule Warriors\'\', since Adventure mode is the exact same thing as History Mode for this game. Why does this need to be contested?
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You're correct that they could have easily come up with someone to do a voice for Mr. Otterton had they wanted. After all they did have someone do his feral snarling when he went savage.
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You\'re correct that they could have easily come up with someone to do a voice for Mr. Otterton had they wanted. After all they did have someone do his feral snarling when he went savage.
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So you're right that his non-speaking in that scene must have been intentional. The thing that always struck me was how absolutely silent he was in that scene. No words, not even a sigh of contentment or a vocalized
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So you\'re right that his non-speaking in that scene must have been intentional. The thing that always struck me was how absolutely silent he was in that scene. No words, not even a sigh of contentment or a vocalized \"mmmmm...\", nothing.

The more I think about it, the more I\'m starting to feel that Mr. Otterton may in fact qualify for TheVoiceless after all. The trope calls for \"The character who, though able to speak, never does so on screen\". It\'s usually played as a gag and the character often ends up finally saying something profound at the end of the film.

We know Mr. Otterton can speak, in fact his ramblings about night howlers is what initiates the RedHerring conclusion that night howlers are wolves. Yet he never speaks on screen even at a moment where it makes absolutely no sense for him not to. True, it\'s not a gag in this film like many of the other TheVoiceless examples so that may count against it.

The trope repair discussion was calling out that this trope was used incorrectly by many, many examples to site where a minor or background character says nothing even when there\'s no compelling reason in-story for them speak. This is what prompted the mass-cleanup that removed the examples on this page.

But as noted above, for Otterton not to say anything while embracing his wife, just seems odd and perhaps a justification for the trope.

Thoughts??
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