History Main / EnemyMime

* An AntiHero example comes from ''Disney/{{Tangled}}''. One of the thugs at [[BadGuyBar the Snuggly Duckling]], Ulf, is revealed to be into mime during the song "I've Got A Dream". [[ChekhovsSkill His talent comes in handy]] when [[spoiler: the Thugs team up to break Flynn out of prison.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/CarmenSandiego'' has [[PunnyName Mime Bomb]], a high-ranking V.I.L.E. agent with a mime theme. Even before he became a full-fledged member of the organization, he was using his skills to spy on other students for the teachers.

* The mime [[TheWoobie Trent]] had to face in one episode of ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama''.

* "The Gentlemen" from ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' count: pale-faced, [[SlasherSmile grinning]], silent monstrosities. They have voice-leeching powers, too.

* Art the Clown in his currently 2-movie series consisting of ''Film/AllHallowsEve'' and ''Film/Terrifier'', with sequels on the way, is a horrific homicidal mime who derives pleasure in slaughtering and murdering people. [[DeathOfAChild Children are not spared of his psychotic ways either]].

* In ''Film/{{Batman}}'', when the Joker assassinates Ricorso in broad daylight, his [[{{Mooks}} goons]] first show up disguised as street mimes (presumably so they don't appear overtly dangerous to the cops, the press, or the gangsters) and then spray machine gun fire over a crowd to cover his escape. The Joker himself is wearing [[SharpDressedMan a dandyish suit and top hat]], and has also applied a little lipstick (not too much, since his lips are red naturally) to appear more mime-like. This could be a Jokerish twist on the St. Valentine's Day Massacre of 1929, where (supposedly) members of Chicago's South Side gang got close enough to assassinate their North Side rivals by disguising themselves as police officers.

* Perhaps as a nod to the Tim Burton films -- on which many aspects of the series were closely patterned, at least at first -- the Joker on ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' had three hulking goons in mime-face named Lar, Mo, and Cur, who accompany him on his capers in four episodes ("Harlequinade," "Make 'Em Laugh," "Holiday Knights," and "The Creeper"). While they became less menacing with every new appearance, eventually being reduced to comically incompetent DumbMuscle, they are ''quite'' menacing in the earlier episodes, hardly ever speaking and standing around looking angry and bloodthirsty. They were last seen in the animated film ''WesternAnimation/BatmanAndHarleyQuinn'', dancing at a karaoke club that is apparently reserved for henchpeople only.

* The mime [[TheWoobie Trent]] had to face in one episode of ''WesternAnimation/TotalDramaIsland''.

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* For a brief period during the nineties, there was a gang of villainous mimes that made several appearances in the ''Franchise/SpiderMan'' titles. They were defeated, at least once, when Spidey [[spoiler:webbed several large sheets of glass into an invisible box around them.]] As seen [[http://community.livejournal.com/scans_daily/6384522.html here!]] They made a return to battle ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}. Who... [[CrowningMomentOfFunny Mime shot them]].

* Aside from being one of the good guys, The Mime from the comic book ''Comicbook/MisterBlank'' fits this trope to a T.

* One ''ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}'' short had him fighting a bunch of mimes in full mime costume who had just stolen a device that allowed their mimed weapons to actually work. (Like a lot of Deadpool stories, it didn't make much sense, and [[RuleOfFunny didn't have to]].)
* The mime in [[http://www.garfield.com/comics/vault.html?yr=1994&addr=940501 this]] ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'' strip ''probably'' isn't evil, but he ''obviously'' doesn't like it when people hit on his girlfriend, as Jon found out the hard way. (If he is a good man, it's clearly a case of GoodIsNotNice.)

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* The [[GangOfHats Hi-Hats]] in ''Film/TheWarriors''.
** They were ultimately cut from the film, and are only named in the trailer; they weren't developed any further than that until the video game adaptation was released thirty years later.

* Not quite used in the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' series, where mimes in Ankh-Morpork are hung upside down over scorpion pits with a sign on the wall saying "learn the words". But the whiteface, frowning clowns, the ones that never get splashed with water and are never the butt of the joke? Yeah, even other clowns, who go through life in a sort of nihilistic angst, fear them.
** Pterry strongly hinted in ''The Art Of Discworld'' that Vetinari banned street theater because he knows something we don't. Given that the Fools' Guild (which trains clowns, jesters and mimes) is [[spoiler: actually one of the Discworld's largest spy networks, to which jesters all over the continent feed information on their high-born employers]], the Patrician probably has a darn good reason to lock mimes up.
** The Patrician's political enemies count this as one of his ''good points''.

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* All of the several different [=ToTheArks =]from ''WebVideo/MarbleHornets'' can be considered this, though we don't yet know what their motives yet are.

* Le Mime, of ''WesternAnimation/XiaolinShowdown'' could create invisible objects. His weakness turned out to be that said objects could be modified by others using their imaginations.
** He also didn't know when to stop. When he started to [[MirrorRoutine mirror Clay's movements]], Clay took advantage and ''punched himself in the face'' -- Clay could take the hit, Le Mime couldn't.
* Inverted in a ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'' short, wherein Dexter becomes a MonsterClown, and [=DeeDee=] dons a mime outfit to combat his evil clown-iness.
** Going a step further, Dee Dee was in fact trained in pantomime and given her mime clothes by a group of friendly mimes she sought out.
* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerPuffGirls'', there is [[NonIronicClown a clown who is genuinely good and just entertaining a child at his party]]. When he gets hit by a tidal wave of bleach, he goes crazy and turns into Mr. Mime ([[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} no relation]]) who tries to silence the whole town and drain its color. When the girls restore the clown back to his normal, innocent self, he's [[DisproportionateRetribution beaten to a pulp and put in jail anyway]]. Even ''[[InteractiveNarrator the Narrator]]'' approved of this.
** He later appeared at the Girls' birthday party, however. Presumably, he won parole.

* Perhaps as a nod to the Tim Burton films - on which many aspects of the series were closely patterned, at least at first - the Joker on ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' had three hulking goons in mime-face named Lar, Mo, and Cur, who accompanied him on his capers in four episodes ("Harlequinade," "Make 'Em Laugh," "Holiday Knights," and "The Creeper"). While they became less menacing with every new appearance, eventually being reduced to comically incompetent DumbMuscle, they are ''quite'' menacing in the earlier episodes, hardly ever speaking and standing around looking angry and bloodthirsty. They were last seen in the animated film ''BatmanAndHarleyQuinn'', dancing at a karaoke club that is apparently reserved for henchpeople only.

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'' had a mime for the MonsterOfTheWeek, with the standard YourMimeMakesItReal powers, referred to (in his transformed state) only as the Mime.

* In ''TabletopGame/{{Dungeons & Dragons}}'' 3rd Edition, an issue of Dragon Magazine introduced a brother & sister pair of Drow assassins who were dressed like mimes in their artwork. Aside from the mime angle, they were really only notable because the sister (who was the leader of the two) was described as being very caring toward her brother instead of having the typical disdain that female Drow had for males.

* "The Icon" Wrestling/{{Sting}} played with this trope in Wrestling/{{WCW}} during the fall of 1996 and most of 1997, effectively creating an enormously popular new wrestling character in the process. After being framed by Wrestling/HulkHogan's New World Order, Sting announced that he was going to go into seclusion for a while until he thought of a way to [[ClearMyName clear his name]]. As he made this announcement, the audience could see that his "Wrestling/UltimateWarrior"-style greasepaint had begun to consume his face in a bizarre and unsettling literal example of BecomingTheMask, bleaching everything but his nose, lips, and lower jaw clown-white. The following week, Sting appeared in the rafters above the arena with a ''completely'' white face, black lips, and black Gothic "crosses" over his eyes, making him look suspiciously like a mime (although Sting's portrayer, Steve Borden, would eventually admit in an interview that the makeup design was suggested to him by nWo member ScottHall as a tribute to Brandon Lee's appearance in the movie version of ''Film/TheCrow''). Not only that, but Sting [[TheVoiceless did not speak a single word]] while wearing the whiteface for over a year (finally blurting out an insult to Hogan in anger after he was stripped of the WCW Championship). In the meantime, he kept showing up in the ring (sometimes via the rafters and sometimes via the crowd) with a black baseball bat, attacking the nWo or silently subjecting his former allies to a series of "loyalty tests." The whiteface, black bat, and BadassLongcoat that Sting also wore would go on to become key parts of his wrestling [[StealthPun iconography]] and are still part of his signature look today (although he now speaks quite frequently, and has hardly ever been a heel since). Long story short: While Sting was never supposed to be taken as a mime, [[FanNickname his fans took to nicknaming him things like "The Sad Mime" or "The Angry Mime."]]

* "The Icon" Wrestling/{{Sting}} played with this trope in Wrestling/{{WCW}} during the fall of 1996 and most of 1997, effectively creating an enormously popular new wrestling character in the process. After being framed by HulkHogan's New World Order, Sting announced that he was going to go into seclusion for a while until he thought of a way to [[ClearMyName clear his name]]. As he made this announcement, the audience could see that his "Wrestling/UltimateWarrior"-style greasepaint had begun to consume his face in a bizarre and unsettling literal example of BecomingTheMask, bleaching everything but his nose, lips, and lower jaw clown-white. The following week, Sting appeared in the rafters above the arena with a ''completely'' white face, black lips, and black Gothic "crosses" over his eyes, making him look suspiciously like a mime (although Sting's portrayer, Steve Borden, would eventually admit in an interview that the makeup design was suggested to him by nWo member ScottHall as a tribute to Brandon Lee's appearance in the movie version of ''Film/TheCrow''). Not only that, but Sting [[TheVoiceless did not speak a single word]] while wearing the whiteface for over a year (finally blurting out an insult to Hogan in anger after he was stripped of the WCW Championship). In the meantime, he kept showing up in the ring (sometimes via the rafters and sometimes via the crowd) with a black baseball bat, attacking the nWo or silently subjecting his former allies to a series of "loyalty tests." The whiteface, black bat, and BadassLongcoat that Sting also wore would go on to become key parts of his wrestling [[StealthPun iconography]] and are still part of his signature look today (although he now speaks quite frequently, and has hardly ever been a heel since). Long story short: While Sting was never supposed to be taken as a mime, [[FanNickname his fans took to nicknaming him things like "The Sad Mime" or "The Angry Mime."]]

* A story arc in ''VideoGame/KingdomOfLoathing'' involved [[PunnyName "four-shadowed mimes"]] invading the kingdom as advance scouts for the Humorless Ones (who wouldn't send in the clowns: clowns make noise). They first appeared as wandering monsters during April Fools' Day 2012, then invaded in full-force during late October 2012, and are supposedly still hiding out in the Kingdom waiting for further instructions. Additionally, the mimes are internally classified as [[EldritchAbomination "horror"]] monster types.

* Perhaps as a nod to the Tim Burton films - on which many aspects of the series were closely patterned, at least at first - the Joker on ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' had three hulking goons in mime-face named Lar, Mo, and Cur, who accompanied him on his capers in four episodes ("Harlequinade," "Make 'Em Laugh," "Holiday Knights," and "The Creeper"). While they became less menacing with every new appearance, eventually being reduced to comically incompetent DumbMuscle, they are quite menacing in the earlier episodes, hardly ever speaking and standing around looking angry and bloodthirsty. They were last seen in the animated film ''BatmanAndHarleyQuinn'', dancing at a karaoke club that is apparently reserved for henchpeople only.

* Wrestling/Goldust. Not truly a mime, and indeed his natural eloquence is a large part of his gimmick. But his face-paint is ''very'' mime-like (increasingly so after he returned to WWE in 2009), and his [[AmbiguouslyGay overly effeminate behavior]] and bizarre body-language tics also smack of stereotypical miming. His brother [[Wrestling/CodyRhodes Stardust]] looked even more like a mime, and moved more like one as well.

* In the first game of the [[BrokenSword ''Broken Sword'' series]], the principal antagonist for the majority of the game is the elusive ProfessionalKiller [[spoiler: and WellIntentionedExtremist bent on stopping the true Big Bads, a group of faux [[UsefulNotes/TheKnightsTemplar Knights Templar]], from ruling the world]], Khan. Khan is a MasterOfDisguise, and his first appearance in the Director's Cut fits this trope. Obviously subverted in that he's not actually a mime and talks later on.

Some Enemy Mime villains have YourMimeMakesItReal powers, such as the ability to erect an invisible wall or conjure an unheard gale-force wind which one must walk against. Others simply use gadgets to leech the world of sound and color, and hope and fluffy things right along with it. May or may not be affected by the [[StandardStatusAilments "silence" condition]] when fought against. Really, any voiceless, sinister character will count if they have a clown-like appearance or perform extremely stylized movements, or both.

Played for comedy far more often than MonsterClown. If he's particularly scruffy, he probably also LooksLikeCesare. When a mime is not necessarily evil but everybody treats him or her as such, that's EveryoneHatesMimes. When he's an antagonist who simply doesn't speak, it's SilentAntagonist. Similarly, this is not related to HeroicMime. Also not related to EnemyMine; the name is just a pun on that trope.