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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