History Main / CuteMute

* After gaining her humanoid form, Melony becomes a downplayed example of this trope, since she IS capable of speech in that form, unlike when she was originally a completly silent and inanimate watermelon, but she usually only communicates in various random voice grunts with no text based dialogue.

%%* "[[NoNameGiven Assistant]]" in ''LightNovel/HumanityHasDeclined''. A rare male example.

* [[AntiMagic Suzuho Hasegawa]] from ''LightNovel/MagiciansAcademy'' is mute when her Midnight Blue Vampire personality is dormant. This makes her appear even shyer than she normally would be and forces her to use signs to communicate.

* The eponymous humanoid alien woman in ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'', "The Empath." She has a pixie haircut, gives a lot of startled expressions, and makes no sound even when she's weeping.

* ''Series/TheWalkingDead'': Connie's deaf and one of the nicest and friendliest characters, who communicates with sign language or by writing.

* ''Manga/KomiCantCommunicate'', as you [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin might guess from the title]], has this as the premise, with the main character Komi -- a kind, beautiful girl LovedByAll everywhere she goes... but with a crippling communication disorder, [[ShrinkingViolet severe shyness]] and [[NervousWreck social anxiety]], she's nigh-incapable of speaking or interacting. She gradually gets better after she's befriended by Tadano.

* ''Manga/KomiCantCommunicate'', as you [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin might guess from the title]], has this as the premise, with the main character Komi -- a kind, beautiful girl with HundredPercentAdorationRating everywhere she goes... but with a crippling communication disorder, [[ShrinkingViolet severe shyness]] and [[NervousWreck social anxiety]], she's nigh-incapable of speaking or interacting. She gradually gets better after she's befriended by Tadano.

%%* Lycoris from the Franchise/DotHack novel ''[[LightNovel/DotHackAIBuster AI Buster]]'' is mute when she first appears.

* Chane Laforet from ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}''. Her fiancé, [[spoiler:Claire Stanfield]], lists her muteness as one of her {{Charm Point}}s -- though he carries on impressively long conversations with her regardless, thanks to the frequent use of yes/no questions and an apparent ability to read her mind.

* Celty from ''LightNovel/{{Durarara}}'' is an interesting take on this one. Because she [[HeadlessHorseman doesn't have a head]], she can't speak or communicate using facial expressions, but she ''can'' communicate well enough by [[TalkingWithSigns typing things out on a cellphone or computer]]. (Her roommate [[spoiler:and later fiancé]] Shinra can tell what she's thinking or trying to say from her body language, though -- as Celty puts it, he "can read the expressions on the face I don't have.") Celty also averts the "clueless or childlike" stereotype; she's very intelligent and fully understands what's going on around her, and her twenty-odd years spent in Japan have given her a thorough understanding of Japanese social norms. She is very cute just not in the innocent, childish way you would normally expect.

* Rin from ''Manga/InuYasha'' had been mute since the trauma of losing her parents, but she grew out of this quickly when she became Sesshoumaru's MoralityPet.
* [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Oshino Shinobu]], the tiny ruined vampire from ''LightNovel/{{Bakemonogatari}}'' is supposed to be voiced by Creator/AyaHirano. Whether or not this is true we have no idea, as she hasn't uttered a sound. She spends most of her time sitting in a corner, apparently sulking. She's ''adorable,'' especially when [[KissOfTheVampire drinking blood]]. In Episode 4 of ''Nisemonogatari'', she broke her silence and revealed herself to be talkative. [[TheOtherDarrin She was voiced by]] Creator/MaayaSakamoto.

In a musical, she's often TheSingingMute. See also SexyFlaw, when the character's muteness is seen as a romantic "turn-on".

In a musical, she's often TheSingingMute.

* The main protagonist of ''VideoGame/ChibiRobo''.

* Jericho from ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' is [[SlashedThroat physically unable]] to speak, but he sure is [[{{Bishonen}} cute]].

* ComicBook/{{Batgirl|2000}} Cassandra Cain/Batgirl II, at least until her brain is rewired by a telepath so she can talk. Even after, she is still shown to be reclusive and taciturn, but is also a very friendly, quite upbeat, and somewhat cheeky NiceGirl who happens to also be a PetitePowerhouse that can outfight Batman.

** Unlike his more sociable G1 version, Soundwave from the same series provides a deep mystery on if he really can talk besides his recordings of others' lines (which naturally have the pretty vocoder effect that goes with the more talkative versions of Soundwave.) No face, no voice but a lot of potential to the point of even topping Starscream (according to characters like Megatron). He goes on to prove he's quite the badass: a silent ImplacableMan that nobody ever crosses ''for a reason,'' as Airachnid and later Wheeljack go on to learn the ''hard'' way. Oh, and he gets to speak on his own ''exactly once.'' "[[spoiler: Soundwave superior, Autobots inferior!]]"

* In ''Literature/DragonBones'' Ciarra is mute, and also acts and looks like twelve, even though she's actually sixteen. It is never quite clear whether her childlike behaviour is a side effect of her muteness, or rather a reaction to the fact that everyone treats her like she's mentally retarded. Probably the latter, as she can act very mature and ladylike if she wants to impress someone. Both her big brother Ward and the house ghost Oreg feel very protective about her.

* Shouko Nishimiya in ''Manga/ASilentVoice'' is deaf and as such communicates, or at least tries to, with a notebook. This failed early on, because her fellow students saw her muteness and the notebook as reasons to mock and torment her. She is able to speak, but her deafness leads to her words being extremely strained and extremely hard to understand.

* ''Manga/KomiCantCommunicate'', as you [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin might guess from the title]], has this as the premise, with the main character Komi -- a kind, beautiful girl with HundredPercentAdorationRating everywhere she goes... but with a crippling communication disorder that leaves her nigh-incapable of speaking or interacting.

* Sawako in Takeshi Kitano's ''Film/{{Dolls}}'' ends in a regressive, childish state after attempting suicide. She does not speak, focus her attention in toys and little pink objects and tends to aimlessly wander around until her former boyfriend ties her to his own waist. Not that this system saves her to be raped for extra drama.

* In ''Fanfic/TheNightUnfurls'', Hugh is a young boy who is [[TheSpeechless mute]], a BandageBabe and ThePollyanna. He can still [[KidHero kick ass]], though, and he is [[GeniusBruiser definitely not stupid]].

* Klaymen from ''VideoGame/TheNeverhood'' is a goofy, ditzy creature made out of clay. Aside from grunts and screams, he never speaks [[spoiler: until the final cutscene, when he introduces himself to Hoborg]].

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%%* ComicBook/{{Batgirl|2000}} Cassandra Cain.

* Chii from ''Manga/{{Chobits}}''. She learns to speak soon enough, but is still an exemplar of the trope (her first word aside from "Chii?" is "Panties").

* Errand, the little boy in the ''Literature/{{Belgariad}}'', is initially capable of only saying the word "Errand", [[VerbalTicName which is why the party takes to calling him that.]] It's explained that when Zedar found him, all he said was "I have an errand for you, boy"; Errand repeated the one word and followed him. Over the next two books, he learns more words, but he can only say one-word sentences. After the TimeSkip between the ''Belgariad'' and the ''Malloreon'', he learns how to speak properly. In the ''Malloreon'' his real name is revealed to be [[spoiler:Eriond; he explains that he picked up the word 'Errand' from Zedar because it sounded familiar to him.]]