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I think it's minor enough to ask on the Trope Description Improvement Drive. If that paragraph is very old and/or there are numerous examples of The Speechless team pet on The Voiceless, there may be a bigger issue, though.
I hadn’t thought of the possibility of misuse. Thanks - I’ll check for that before proceeding. Come to think of it, there’s some possibility of confusion here, and not just for pets, because the trope names don’t make the distinction clear, and works don’t always explain if a voiceless character can speak or not. This may be a TRS case after all.

I just noticed that the trope description of The Voiceless contradicts itself. It explicitly states that it's for characters who can speak, but for some reason don't, at least not on-stage. But then it contains this paragraph:
"Sometimes The Voiceless is The Team Pet, who is no doubt smarter than his masters, but can only communicate through normal animal noises and perhaps the occasional sardonic eye roll or other body language."
By that description, the team pet is The Speechless (a character who can't speak) and not The Voiceless.
At first, I was going to bring it to the Trope Description Improvement Drive, but the pinned post there, which lists the thread's purpose, didn't mention correcting contradictions (it seems to be more about improving writing and adding clarity). Should I bring it there anyway? Or can we build consensus here? I don't think it's a case for TRS since I'm not proposing a change of the actual trope definition.
Edited by GnomeTitan