Line #35 PlayingWith/TheVoiceless


1	'''Basic Trope''': A character who never speaks on screen, despite apparently being capable of it.
2	* '''Straight''': Alice has no voiced lines.
3	* '''Exaggerated''': Alice has no voiced lines in spite of being a major character in a long TV series.
4	* '''Downplayed''':
5	** Characters are depicted talking on the phone to Alice, but during her rare on-screen appearances she's never shown talking.
6	** Alice's voice is heard in some scenes, but it's muffled by other sounds, making it impossible to discern what she's saying.
7	* '''Justified''':
8	** Alice has laryngitis.
9	** Alice doesn't speak another character's language.
10	** Alice's friends are very talkative, denying her a chance to speak aloud.
11	* '''Inverted''':
12	** Alice has more lines than any other character in the show.
13	** TheVoice
14	* '''Subverted''': Alice seems to be voiceless, but starts speaking normally halfway through the show.
15	* '''Double Subverted''': ...but that was the local ventriloquist, [[TheTrickster Bailey]], [[VoiceForTheVoiceless throwing her voice.]]
16	* '''Parodied''':
17	** Alice's friend Charlie remarks on how eloquent and musical a speaker she is. [[TakeOurWordForIt We never hear this.]]
18	** There is a [[FreakyFridayFlip body swap episode]], and Alice stays silent despite her mind being that of [[MotorMouth Denise]].
19	** Alice never speaks unless she is [[LiteralMinded offscreen.]]
20	* '''Zig Zagged''':
21	** Alice mostly never speaks, then sometimes does.
22	** It's never clear if the silent Alice is the same person as the [[TheVoice mysterious Alice who only talks over the phone]].
23	* '''Averted''': Alice always communicates through talking.
24	* '''Enforced''':
25	** 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.
26	** Alice's actress 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]].
27	* '''Lampshaded''': "Alice really isn't talkative today, is she?"
28	* '''Invoked''': Alice goes [[ElectiveMute mute by choice]].
29	* '''Exploited''': Bob takes advantage of Alice's silence to give a big speech of his own.
30	* '''Defied''': "I'm going to talk, and [[FourthWallObserver everyone who might be watching]] is going to hear me!"
31	* '''Discussed''': "Alice, are you Ok? Did you swallow your tongue?"
32	* '''Conversed''': "Is this Alice character mute?" "I...honestly don't know."
33	* '''Deconstructed''': Alice's silence leads to a case of PoorCommunicationKills.
34	* '''Reconstructed''': Alice is usually written as silent, but does have some speaking lines when the storyline requires it.
35	* '''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.
36	* '''Played For Drama''': ???
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