History PlayingWith / TheVoiceless

* '''Inverted''': Alice has more lines than any other character in the show.

** Alice's actor left the show after last season: in order to properly write her out they had to use a FakeShemp without an appropriate [[StuntDouble voice double]].

* '''Enforced''': Alice's actress has laryngitis when they're about to shoot, so the scenes are rewritten so that an already dialogue-light part has no dialogue in it.

* '''Enforced''':
** Alice's actress has laryngitis when they're about to shoot, so the scenes are rewritten so that an already dialogue-light part has no dialogue in it.

* '''Straight''': Alice only communicates with her friends with [[TalkingWithSigns notes]] or [[SilentSnarker expressive gestures.]]
* '''Exaggerated''': Alice is TheSpeechless.

** Alice only makes quiet grunts and hums but never be SuddenlySpeaking.

** Alice is selectively mute.
** Alice has [[WebAnimation/HomestarRunner taken a vow of silence]].
** Alice has been [[SamusIsAGirl disguising herself]] [[SweetPollyOliver as a man]]; her clearly feminine voice would break her disguise.
** Alice [[EveryoneHatesMimes is a mime]].

* '''Inverted''': Alice is a MotorMouth.

** Alice's vocal cords have [[SightGag cobwebbed over.]]

** Alice is cast by an actress who can't speak in English, and the production team decides to make her voiceless in order to omit the need of dubbing.
** Alice was originally a [[Creator/KikukoInoue fine 17 year old anime character]] who would speak a lot, but the production team lacked the budget to hire a good voice actress, nor do they have time for preparing her script, so they decided to [[DummiedOut remove all of her dialogues]] and portray her as a [[TheStoic stoic]], voiceless character instead.
* '''Lampshaded''': "Alice really isn't talkative around us, is she?"
* '''Invoked''': Alice never speaks because if she spoke, [[MakeMeWannaShout her powers]] would [[BrownNote kill everyone]] in a six mile radius.
* '''Exploited''': Bob needs backup on a stealth mission, so he brings Alice, who won't chatter and give him away.

* '''Discussed''': "..." "Honestly Alice, [[YourAnswerToEverything that's your answer to eveything.]]"
* '''Conversed''': "Is Alice mute?" "I...honestly don't know."
* '''Deconstructed''': Alice's speechlessness leads to a case of PoorCommunicationKills.
* '''Reconstructed''': Alice stays silent most of the time, but speaks [[TheQuietOne when it is really needed]].

* '''Played For Drama''': Alice ''used'' to be a real chatterbox... Until some horrible incident. Bonus points if the incident was caused or enabled by something she said.

* '''Exaggerated''': Alice ''never'' speaks. Not to her friends, to her family... '''Nobody'''.

** [[TheSpeechless Alice]] is selectively [[CuteMute mute.]]

** [[TheSpeechless Alice]] is [[CuteMute mute.]]

* '''Zig Zagged''': Alice mostly never speaks, then sometimes does.

** Alice only makes quiet grunts and hums but never be SuddenlyVoiced.

** Alice is cast by an actress who can't speak in English, and the production team decide to make her voiceless to omit the need of dubbing.

** Alice has been [[SamusIsAGirl disguising herself]] [[SweetPollyOliver as a man]], her voice would break her disguise.

** Alice's actor has laryngitis when they're about to shoot, so the scenes are rewritten so that an already dialogue-light part has no dialogue in it.
** Alice was originally a [[Creator/KikukoInoue fine 17 year old anime character]] who would speak a lot, but the production team lacked the budget to hire a good voice actor, nor do they have time for preparing her script, so they decided to [[DummiedOut remove all of her dialogues]] and portray her as a [[TheStoic stoic]], voiceless character instead.

%%* '''Implied''': ???
%%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???

* '''Enforced''': Alice's actor has laryngitis when they're about to shoot, so the scenes are rewritten so that an already dialogue-light part has no dialogue in it.

* '''Downplayed''': Characters are depicted talking on the phone to Alice, but during her rare on-screen appearances she's never shown talking.

** Alice has taken a vow of silence.
** Alice is a mime.

* '''Downplayed''': ???

* '''Exploited''': ???

%%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???
%%* ???

%%* '''Played For Drama''': ???

* '''Justified''': Alice has laryngitis.

* '''Parodied''': Alice's vocal cords have [[SightGag cobwebbed over.]]

* '''Deconstructed''': Alice's speechlessness leads to a case of PoorCommunicationKills.
* '''Reconstructed''': Alice stays silent most of the time, but speaks [[TheQuietOne when it is really needed]].

* '''Played for laughs''': All the other characters refers to Alice as "that notorious chatterbox" whom they dread running into because it is almost impossible to stop her when she first starts talking. Coincidently; Alice never speaks when she is on-screen.

* '''Played for laughs''': All the other characters refers to Alice as "that notorious chatterbox", although the audience never sees her talking when she is on-screen.

'''Basic Trope''': A character who never speaks.
* '''Straight''': Alice only communicates with her friends with notes.

** Alice is mute.
* '''Averted''': Alice always communicates through talking.