History Main / TheVoiceless

* Constanze from ''Anime/LittleWitchAcademia'' mostly communicates in grunts of annoyance or handwritten notes. [[spoiler: She finally speaks in the final episode, but only to make a banal two-word remark.]]

* Constanze from ''Anime/LittleWitchAcademia'' mostly communicates in grunts of annoyance or handwritten notes. [[spoiler: She finally speaks in the final episode, but only says two words.]]

* Constanze from ''Anime/LittleWitchAcademia'' speaks only two words in the final episode after being silent the rest of the series.

* Kevin Smith in Creator/Suda51's ''VideoGame/{{killer7}}''. He never makes a sound other than the noise of him throwing a knife. He doesn't even grunt when the enemies explode on him. [[AllThereInTheManual Hand in Killer7]] says that his voice can summon gods. Interestingly they did record some voice samples for him and they're still present on the game disc, but are inaccessible without hacking; in addition to pain grunts, he has a line for activating his invisibility power ("Alright, gentlemen.") and another for landing a critical hit ("Well, you're a lucky son of a bitch.")

* Kevin Smith in Creator/Suda51's ''VideoGame/{{killer7}}''. He never makes a sound other than the noise of him throwing a knife. He doesn't even grunt when the enemies explode on him. [[AllThereInTheManual Hand in Killer7]] says that his voice can summon gods. Interestingly they did record some voice samples for him and they're still present on the game disc, but are inaccessible without hacking. In addition to pain grunts, he has a line for activating his invisibility power ("Alright, gentlemen.") and another for landing a critical hit ("Well, you're a lucky son of a bitch.")

* Kevin Smith in Creator/Suda51's ''VideoGame/{{killer7}}''. He never makes a sound other than the noise of him throwing a knife. He doesn't even grunt when the enemies explode on him. [[AllThereInTheManual Hand in Killer7]] says that his voice can summon gods. Interestingly they did record some voice samples for him and they're still present on the game disc, but are inaccessible without hacking. In addition to pain grunts, he has a line for activating his invisibility power ("Alright, gentlemen.") and another for landing a critical hit ("You're a lucky son of a bitch.")

* Constanze from ''Anime/LittleWitchAcademia'' speaks only one line in the final episode.

* Kevin Smith in Creator/Suda51's ''VideoGame/{{killer7}}''. He never makes a sound other than the noise of him throwing a knife. He doesn't even grunt when the enemies explode on him. [[AllThereInTheManual Hand in Killer7]] says that his voice can summon gods.

* Samus Aran of ''Franchise/{{Metroid}}'' used to be this. ''VideoGame/MetroidFusion'' only had a few lines outside of journal entries, but in ''VideoGame/MetroidOtherM'' she talks constantly.

*** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E24EquestriaGames Equestria Games]]" has several cases. Though all four princesses are present, Celestia and Luna don't speak, save for gasping when seeing the icy cloud, and saying ''"You guess?"'' with the Mane Six and Cadance. (Although if one listens carefully, it sounds like Nicole Oliver and Tabitha St. Germain, Celestia's and Luna's voice actors respectively, never recorded those two words for them during production.) After the Ponyville relay team fly through the Cutie Mark Crusaders' hoop in the opening ceremonies shouting their {{Catch Phrase}}s, Derpy follows them silently. The Cloudsdale team appears prominently, but none of them have lines this time around.

* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'': In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E66Two Two]]", "pryekrasnyy," the Russian word for beautiful, is the only word that the woman says the entire episode.

** The Winter Soldier never speaks. It's not that he can't -- indeed, as Natasha notes, he used to be more TheQuietOne -- it's just that he doesn't either need or particularly want to speak. And it serves to make him even more terrifying. It's later revealed that he ''can't'' speak unless he's ordered to. However, he can communicate just fine when he wants to, either through writing, miming, or through a form of sign language he and Natasha invented. Apparently it was either used on ops where speech wasn't practical or [[AgentsDating the equivalent of passing love notes across a classroom.]] [[spoiler: Chapter 67 has a WhamLine in the form of him speaking, signifying how far his brainwashing has degenerated.]]
*** Even after HeelFaceTurn, he continues as TheQuietOne, with his habitual silence combined with his disturbing knack for fading into the background meaning that some Hogwarts students seriously speculate somehow that he must be half-ghost.

** Also, the thief was silent throughout the original version. The only time he makes any vocalization is when he fakes getting his hands chopped off. Later versions had him speak, though.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Up}}'': Zigzagged at the beginning. As kids, Carl hardly speaks and Ellie hardly stops. Both characters are seen to speak during the following montage, but we don't hear it. Then the montage ends, and we hear Carl, but Ellie has died, and we don't even hear her as a ghost voice or through Carl's memories.
** Also the construction boss, who never says a word or makes a sound in either scene he appears in.

* Similarly, Jason Voorhees of ''Franchise/FridayThe13th'' never spoke except as a child in the flashbacks and in the earlier films before he became a zombie he would occasionally grunt and scream. (The closest he came was [[spoiler:saying "Ow!"]] in the third movie.) He wouldn't even talk in the ''Film/FreddyVsJason'' pre-movie conference when asked a question. This was even lampshaded by [[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Freddy himself]], which served to piss Jason off. No one died that day, thankfully.

* Colby (Lee Van Cleef) from ''Film/HighNoon'', seems to speak at the beginning, but has no lines beyond a few harmonica tunes.
** Not to be confused with Charles Bronson's similarly harmonica-bound character in ''Once Upon A Time In The West'', who was more TheQuietOne.

** Another Bond example: Emil Locque, the PsychoForHire ProfessionalKiller in ''Film/ForYourEyesOnly''. We see him speaking on the phone at one point, but we cannot hear him. He later screams in terror when Bond kills him. Otherwise, he is silent.

* One of the holders of the Pieces of Eight in ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanAtWorldsEnd'' never spoke, but as it turned out, it was because [[spoiler:he actually had a very high-pitched, squeaky voice.]].
** Cotton, one of Jack's crew members, also never speaks, since his tongue was cut out. He speaks through his parrot instead (which isn't a very good speaker).

* Ryan, the protagonist of ''Film/TenDeadMen'', is not shown speaking during his RoaringRampageOfRevenge beyond grunts of pain or exertion. He is shown speaking in flashbacks, but his voice is not heard. Only at the end of the film does he deliver a single WhamLine to the Projects manager:
-->[[spoiler:I killed Hart two days ago]].
** Additionally the Project Manager's PerkyFemaleMinion does not speak. Unlike Ryan, it is not established if she can speak and is choosing not to, or if she is physically incapable of speech.

** Also the Bloody Baron. One can assume Harry has heard him speak, since he impersonates him to fool Peeves and it works, but he never says a word the readers can hear.

* Wacky the Wolf, from ''Series/ANTFarm''.
** Noted in one episode; When Lexi disguises herself in a cheap replica of Wacky's costume, and starts asking why the rest of the cheerleaders seem to hate her, one of them notes that Wacky never speaks.

** ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' also has Admiral Thomas Henry from "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS4E21TheDrumhead The Drumhead]]". He never speaks a word during his one scene, instead casting a DeathGlare upon InsaneAdmiral Norah Satie during her paranoid rant against Captain Picard.

* Ward in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII'' starts out able to speak, but an encounter with some Esthar soldiers renders him mute for the rest of the game. However, Kiros and possibly Laguna have gotten REALLY good at reading his body language, to the point where they can interpret entire conversations with him.

** Chell in sister series ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'' as well, but she is described as explicitly refusing to talk back to SelfDemonstrating/GLaDOS so as to prevent [=GLaDOS=] from goading her into doing something foolish.

* Mathilda, the Black Baron's "ho" in ''VideoGame/MadWorld'', never says a thing. She does, however, give little poses after [[TheChewToy punting the Baron into the latest deathtrap]]. She seems to enjoy her work.
** In the SpiritualSuccessor ''VideoGame/AnarchyReigns'', however, she finally [[SuddenlySpeaking speaks]].

* ''VideoGame/MarioIsMissing'': Weegee, according to {{Fanon}}.
** An quick elaboration here is that while he ''does'' speak in the actual game, fanon explains his silent nature as when he actually does speak, something especially horrible will happen.

* The Tenno player characters from the game ''Videogame/{{Warframe}}'' have the capability to speak, but feel that actions speak better and instead communicate to each other using subtle gestures if any communication is needed. The only Tenno to speak so far is Valkyr, who upon using her "Warcry" ability emits a scream.

* The Zoq-Fot-Pik from ''VideoGame/StarControl II'' are a trio of aliens (one green and vaguely plantlike, one blue and cylindrical, and one red and spherical) who evolved together, and always come in groups of one each. The red one never seems to say anything, though.
** In fact, one of the dialogue options when meeting them is "Doesn't that guy behind you say anything?", to which the other two reply "Nope," and "Not a word."

* Sergei Dragunov of ''Franchise/{{Tekken}}'' doesn't speak at all -- the only noises he makes are grunts when he's attacking or being hit (and, in the case of one of his ''Tekken 6'' win poses, ''humming''). Not much of a problem, in that (since it's a FightingGame) he communicates mainly by kicking ass.
** ''Tekken 6'''s Scenrio Mode reveals that he is, in fact, capable of speech, he just chooses to not speak 99% of the time (a fact that is frequently [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by several characters, especially Alisa). In one level, [[RobotGirl Alisa]] reacts with amazement when he utters a single word ("I am shocked. You can speak!"), and, in another level, he goes one further by speaking ''a sentence'' to Raven. The audience never actually ''hears'' him speak, as all of Scenario Mode's dialogue (minus the cutscenes) is purely text-based.
*** Sergei's official profile lists his hobby as "singing", and word is he has quite the singer's voice.
** Neither do any of the [[DittoFighter Mokujins]].

** She's also seen muttering to herself at one point in Kagetsu Tohya about the paradoxes and contradictions going on and hoping she can fix it before Shiki notices.

* Theoretically Cthulhu in ''Webcomic/CthulhuSlippers'' ''can'' speak, he just choses not to.
* Jason from ''Webcomic/{{Transmission}}'' started practically unvoiced, but as he started to recover from the abuse his uncle inflicted upon him he started speaking more often.
* J from ''Webcomic/OperationReboot'' has apparently said a lot off panel but hasn't said a word [[http://enchantedpencil.com/webcomic/?webcomic1=009-his-nickname-is-j/ on panel]].

* ''Webcomic/{{Precocious}}'': The few times Yvette has spoken on screen was in text so small as to be unreadable. Initially it was assumed to be just her terminal shyness, but she later became more of a CreepyChild who could be quite assertive through gestures and it was once suggested that she was cursed.

* ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'': Snoopy doesn't really talk in the cartoons, but he does laugh, cry, and say words like "hey!", "ow!", and "woah!" On a few occasions in the specials (and regularly in the newspaper strip) we hear him "speak" through his thoughts.

* ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'': For all intents and purposes, Brainy never ever says anything, just... snores.

* ''Series/Hawkeye2021'': Echo, who's deaf, communicates entirely through American Sign Language.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph'' franchise, most Sugar Rush racers don’t play a speaking role, while Jubileena Bing-Bing only gets a couple lines in the first movie (she doesn’t talk in the second film, ''Ralph Breaks The Internet''), and Rancis Fluggerbutter and Candlehead only get one to three speaking lines in each ''Wreck-It Ralph'' movie. The only Sugar Rush racers that speak with full dialogue in the films are Vanellope Von Schweetz and Taffyta Muttonfudge (unless you count King Candy/Turbo, who steals the position of Vanellope in the first ''Wreck-It Ralph'' movie [he doesn’t return in the second film as he dies towards the end of the first film] and is also not meant to be in Sugar Rush, since he belongs to the game Turbo Time [in his Turbo form]).

* ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries'': The Chameleon is an odd case -- he never once uses his ''own voice'', instead imitating other people.

* In the 2015 iteration of ''WebAnimation/DCSuperHeroGirls'', Mr. Parasite never speaks, the only utterances me makes being limited to sighs and exasperated grunts.

* The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come from "WesternAnimation/AChristmasCarol2009" due to being portrayed as a shadowy figure who goes after Scrooge and let us tell you that this ghost is not to be messed around with as it's the most terrifying ghost.

** ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' act like this in most of their shorts, with the notable exception of "Plane Dumb".

* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'': In "[[Recap/TheVentureBrosS1E4TheIncredibleMrBrisby The Incredible Mr. Brisby]]", the title character has an imposing [[ScaryBlackMan black]] henchman who makes evil faces while carrying out his commands, but never speaks. [[spoiler: Until the end, where in his final confrontation, he shrugs, [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere "Man, I don't even need this job," and stalks off]].]]

* In Abel Gance's ''Austerlitz'', Emperor Francis of Austria does not have a single spoken line. When Tsar Alexander (who does all the talking) is not pushing him offscreen, he can be seen fidgeting nervously with his various decorations and looking completely overwhelmed.

** Taskmaster (aka [[spoiler: Antonia Dreykov]]) from ''Film/BlackWidow'' never utters a word or grunts until the very end of the movie, where after having [[spoiler: her]] brainwashing courtsesy of [[spoiler: Dreykov]] undone by Natasha, [[spoiler: she]] asks, "Is he gone?", before losing consciousness.

* ''WesternAnimation/PinkPanther'': The panther almost never speaks in the original shorts. In fact, there are only two cartoons in which he actually speaks ("Sink Pink" and "Pink Ice" with the voice of Creator/RichLittle). When he got his own spinoff series in the 1990's, he spoke in nearly every episode (voice of Creator/MattFrewer).