Tropescilloscope: The Voiceless

Speech-capable character never or rarely speaks. (read more at tvtropes.org)

More Tropes Crazy-Prepared The '60s Fun with Acronyms Dying Moment of Awesome Exact Words Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Motor Mouth Off-into-the-Distance Ending An Aesop Does Not Like Shoes "Shaggy Dog" Story My Greatest Failure Narrator Translation Convention Red Right Hand Eiffel Tower Effect Didn't Think This Through No Celebrities Were Harmed Loophole Abuse Humiliation Conga Badass Boast Corpsing Parental Neglect May–December Romance I'm a Humanitarian Older Than They Look Light Is Not Good The Smurfette Principle Tap on the Head Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Stealth Hi/Bye Big Bad Duumvirate Daddy's Girl Bottomless Magazines Hollywood Law Wounded Gazelle Gambit Unusual Euphemism Science Fiction Films Flipping the Bird Offscreen Teleportation Comically Missing the Point Domestic Abuse Martial Arts Movie Rousing Speech Arranged Marriage Plot Hole Conspicuous CG Evil vs. Evil Sanity Slippage Mood Whiplash The Stoic As Long as It Sounds Foreign Would Hurt a Child Curb-Stomp Battle Wrong Genre Savvy Costume Porn Car Fu In Medias Res Action Girl The Cavalry Knife Nut Soundtrack Dissonance Becoming the Mask Deus ex Machina No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Only Known by Their Nickname Here We Go Again! Woman in White Bloody Hilarious Earn Your Happy Ending Lampshade Hanging Canon Foreigner Bunny-Ears Lawyer Aside Glance Meaningful Name Mistaken for Gay Took a Level in Jerkass Hoist by His Own Petard Made of Iron A.I. Is a Crapshoot Diabolus ex Machina Jerk Jock Facial Horror Soft Glass Take That! Paper-Thin Disguise Hate Sink Obstructive Bureaucrat Those Two Guys Public Domain Feature Films Enemy Mine Expy Author Appeal Dramatic Irony My God, What Have I Done? Vitriolic Best Buds Redshirt Army Stylistic Suck Pretty Little Headshots Ripped from the Headlines Bad "Bad Acting" Credits Gag Kubrick Stare Extreme Doormat Killed Mid-Sentence Downer Ending Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Evil Sounds Deep Epic Movie Final Girl Visual Pun Spared by the Adaptation Brick Joke Rule of Symbolism Monumental Damage Adaptation Expansion Psychological Thriller Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Alpha Bitch Guile Hero Adaptational Badass Break the Cutie She's Got Legs As the Good Book Says... The Mole Exactly What It Says on the Tin Parental Incest Babies Ever After Apocalypse How Failed a Spot Check Determinator Only Sane Man Distracted by the Sexy Cowboy Cop Corrupt Corporate Executive Foreshadowing Advertised Extra Developing Doomed Characters Crucified Hero Shot Scenery Gorn Word of God Bavarian Fire Drill Arc Words Fanservice I Have Your Wife Bait-and-Switch Spell My Name with an "S" Cloudcuckoolander What the Hell, Hero? Humans Are Bastards Big "NO!" Hidden Depths Ax-Crazy Arch-Enemy The Chessmaster Took a Level in Badass Police are Useless Pragmatic Villainy Video Credits Flashback Back from the Dead Armor-Piercing Question No Ending Curse Cut Short Fiery Redhead Mr. Fanservice Rich Bitch Coming-of-Age Story Music Stories Bi the Way Married to the Job Naked People Are Funny Fantastic Racism "The Reason You Suck" Speech Extremely Short Timespan After the End Catapult Nightmare Playing Gertrude Honor Before Reason And I Must Scream Badass Longcoat Line-of-Sight Name The Cameo Immune to Bullets Villain Song Roaring Rampage of Revenge The Remake The Great Depression Red Herring Anguished Declaration of Love Genre Shift Chekhov's Gunman Christmas Movies Index Amoral Attorney Rule of Funny Spanner in the Works Dramatic Gun Cock Get Out! Dropped a Bridge on Him All There in the Manual The '80s Easily Forgiven Adorkable Meaningful Background Event Deliberate Values Dissonance The Casanova Mugging the Monster Have a Gay Old Time Antagonist Title Toplessness from the Back Amusing Injuries Noodle Incident Rule of Cool Revenge Rule of Three Rated M for Manly Black Comedy Cat Scare Jerk with a Heart of Gold Dark Reprise Rasputinian Death For Want of a Nail Neck Snap Sequel Escalation Eye Scream Product Placement "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Recycled IN SPACE! Unreliable Narrator Training Montage Film Series Cool Old Lady Nice Guy Kill It with Fire Kids Are Cruel Famous Last Words Meaningful Echo Action Genre All for Nothing Drowning My Sorrows Villain with Good Publicity Authority Equals Asskicking Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Evil Brit Femme Fatale BFG N-Word Privileges Malevolent Masked Men Mooks Heroic BSoD Be Careful What You Wish For Poor Communication Kills Action Survivor Death by Sex Silence Is Golden Kick the Son of a Bitch The Dreaded The '70s Parental Substitute Creepy Child Brutal Honesty Foregone Conclusion Sacrificial Lion Eagleland Beware the Nice Ones Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Blood Knight Faux Affably Evil Unspoken Plan Guarantee Adaptational Heroism Male Frontal Nudity The X of Y Decoy Protagonist Pet the Dog Not Quite Dead Crazy Jealous Guy Whole Plot Reference German Films Creator Cameo Drill Sergeant Nasty Undying Loyalty Hooker with a Heart of Gold The Ghost Big Eater Dissonant Serenity Dark Action Girl Breaking the Fourth Wall Slasher Smile NO INDOOR VOICE Bar Brawl Gorn Reality Is Unrealistic Sadistic Choice Lock and Load Montage Evil Cannot Comprehend Good "Well Done, Son!" Guy Chiaroscuro And the Adventure Continues Combat Pragmatist Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Sci-Fi Horror Hypocritical Humor One-Man Army Cain and Abel The Bully Vomit Discretion Shot Male Gaze What Happened to the Mouse? Artistic License – History Cluster F-Bomb Up to Eleven Knight Templar Index of Film Westerns Slap-Slap-Kiss Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass folderlabel Evil Is Petty The Atoner Kick the Dog Mind Screw The Hero Dies Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas The Big Guy Logo Joke Major Injury Underreaction Rape as Drama Heterosexual Life-Partners Aluminum Christmas Trees Not So Above It All The Starscream Four-Temperament Ensemble Celebrity Paradox Leave the Camera Running Re-Cut Neck Lift Call-Back Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Evil Plan Animal Title Index Taking the Bullet Big Applesauce Spiteful Spit Papa Wolf Star-Crossed Lovers Deal with the Devil Anachronic Order Blatant Lies The Load Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Cool Old Guy Token Minority Gratuitous English Mighty Whitey Greater-Scope Villain Betty and Veronica Beard of Evil Shirtless Scene Every Car Is a Pinto Gory Discretion Shot Disney Villain Death The Dog Bites Back Black Best Friend Reality Ensues Not So Different Groin Attack Romantic False Lead Small Name, Big Ego Fat Bastard Framing Device Demonic Possession Not So Stoic Jump Scare Fish out of Water Villain Ball Fantasy Films Only a Flesh Wound Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun This Is Gonna Suck Demoted to Extra Adaptational Villainy Homage Let's Get Dangerous! Pimped-Out Dress Foil Sinister Minister Important Haircut The Vamp Depraved Bisexual Your Head A-Splode Blackmail The Mafia Film Noir Index Say My Name Alas, Poor Villain It Will Never Catch On Oh, Crap! Pretty in Mink Abhorrent Admirer Laughing Mad Evil Laugh Beauty Is Never Tarnished Riddle for the Ages Zombie Stories Victoria's Secret Compartment Shipper on Deck Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Eureka Moment Hero of Another Story No OSHA Compliance Insult Backfire Mythology Gag Call-Forward Novelization Based on a True Story Never Found the Body Heroic Sacrifice Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Scenery Porn Dark Is Not Evil Trailers Always Spoil Chekhov's Skill Pyrrhic Victory Self-Deprecation Throwing Your Sword Always Works The Quiet One The Reveal As You Know Mr. Exposition Well-Intentioned Extremist Peek-a-Boo Corpse All There in the Script Your Cheating Heart No Name Given Totally Radical Needs Wiki Magic Love Better to Die than Be Killed Shown Their Work Happily Married Not What It Looks Like Psycho for Hire Epic Fail Overprotective Dad Gainax Ending Real Life Writes the Plot Make It Look Like an Accident Age Lift Affably Evil Serious Business Defiant to the End Bound and Gagged Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Even Evil Has Loved Ones Death by Irony The Dragon Drives Like Crazy Camera Abuse Red Oni, Blue Oni Death Glare Handicapped Badass Those Two Bad Guys No Antagonist "Awesome McCool" Name Ms. Fanservice The End... Or Is It? Love Triangle Psychopathic Manchild Man on Fire Department of Redundancy Department Break the Haughty Bloodier and Gorier The Stoner Punny Name The Lost Lenore Dull Surprise Good Is Not Nice Artistic License – Geography I Need a Freaking Drink Big Brother Instinct Defrosting Ice Queen In the Back La Résistance Face–Heel Turn He Knows Too Much Establishing Character Moment Camp Gay Auto Erotica Badass Bookworm Bury Your Gays Slashed Throat Gender Flip Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Unwitting Instigator of Doom Deadpan Snarker Half the Man He Used to Be Parental Abandonment Jerkass Wham Line Frame-Up Artistic License – Military Chase Scene Continuity Nod Truth in Television Mercy Kill Eldritch Abomination The '50s Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Badass in a Nice Suit Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! I Did What I Had to Do Attempted Rape Bland-Name Product Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? A God Am I Shout-Out Hypocrite Running Gag Broken Pedestal Determinator aka: The Determinator Cool Guns Very Loosely Based on a True Story Spiritual Successor Wretched Hive Suspiciously Specific Denial Plucky Comic Relief Pay Evil unto Evil British Films Genre Savvy Never My Fault Despair Event Horizon Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Face Death with Dignity Manchild Roger Ebert: Great Movies List '80s Hair Serial Killer You Killed My Father Never Trust a Trailer Karmic Death Overly Long Gag Market-Based Title Hollywood Darkness Mad Scientist Faking the Dead Sir Swears-a-Lot Obfuscating Stupidity Henpecked Husband A Father to His Men Suspiciously Similar Substitute Stock Footage Lighter and Softer Destination Defenestration Nothing Is Scarier Real Life Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Superhero Madness Mantra Empathic Environment Jitter Cam Shut Up, Hannibal! Big Fancy House My Beloved Smother Fourth Date Marriage Asshole Victim Thriller Idiot Ball Room Full of Crazy Evil Counterpart Hero Antagonist Dies Wide Open Catch-Phrase Action Prologue Impaled with Extreme Prejudice I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Shower Scene Artistic License – Law Ominous Latin Chanting Military and Warfare Films Scary Black Man True Companions Darker and Edgier Suddenly SHOUTING! Tempting Fate Scare Chord One-Word Title Evil Is Hammy Bullying a Dragon Bittersweet Ending Disguised in Drag Adapted Out Central Theme Villain Opening Scene Laser-Guided Karma Japanese Films It's All About Me Horror Comedy Creative Closing Credits Skewed Priorities Green-Eyed Monster Deliberately Monochrome Show Within a Show Beta Couple Dogged Nice Guy Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Vomit Indiscretion Shot Retired Badass Darkest Hour Affectionate Parody Author Avatar Sequel Hook Ambiguously Gay Berserk Button Freeze-Frame Bonus Twist Ending Imagine Spot The Alleged Car Only in It for the Money Wicked Cultured Adults Are Useless Sole Survivor Reasonable Authority Figure Tagline Time Skip Jerkass Has a Point Deconstruction Due to the Dead Would Hit a Girl The Ditz Dirty Cop Fate Worse than Death The Bad Guy Wins Implacable Man No-Sell Adaptation Dye-Job Anachronism Stew Setting Update Race Against the Clock Early Installment Weirdness Fanservice Extra O.O.C. Is Serious Business Informed Ability Smoking Is Cool Leitmotif Does This Remind You of Anything? Black Dude Dies First Really Gets Around Hope Spot Straight Gay Manly Tears Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Loads and Loads of Characters Non-Indicative Name Reality Has No Subtitles Dark and Troubled Past A Date with Rosie Palms Sexy Discretion Shot Stuff Blowing Up Shell-Shocked Veteran Heel Realization Danny Peary Cult Movies List Drugs Are Bad Tranquil Fury The Musical Left the Background Music On Bilingual Bonus Dressing as the Enemy Yandere Death by Adaptation Ambiguous Ending Stealth Pun Too Dumb to Live The Stinger Badass Normal Captain Ersatz Film Noir Casting Gag Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Body Horror Badass Grandpa Our Vampires Are Different Grievous Bottley Harm Black Comedy Rape It's Personal From Bad to Worse Punch-Clock Villain Irony Our Zombies Are Different Refuge in Audacity Vacation Films Actually Pretty Funny Dwindling Party Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane The Film of the Book Dutch Angle Precision F-Strike Sealed Evil in a Can Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Book-Ends Not Even Bothering with the Accent Naïve Newcomer Bolivian Army Ending Cat Fight Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Evil-Detecting Dog Getting Crap Past the Radar Nice Hat Sports Stories Off with His Head! Improbable Weapon User An Axe to Grind Offscreen Moment of Awesome Black and Gray Morality timeperiod Bowdlerise Red Eyes, Take Warning Calling the Old Man Out Biopic Super Strength Historical Villain Upgrade Heroes Want Redheads Cool Car Card-Carrying Villain Double Entendre Manipulative Bastard Bond Villain Stupidity Reckless Gun Usage You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Police Brutality Anti-Hero Same Language Dub How We Got Here Accidental Murder Big Damn Heroes Slasher Movie Closed Circle The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Redemption Equals Death Adult Fear Death Seeker Morality Pet Taking You with Me Genre Throwback Fainting Crapsack World The Power of Love Bring My Brown Pants Wham Shot Posthumous Character In Name Only All Men Are Perverts Horror Films Australian Movies Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Manic Pixie Dream Girl Storming the Castle Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Boom, Headshot! Grey and Gray Morality Italian Films Insane Troll Logic Worthy Opponent Karma Houdini Intergenerational Friendship The Ace Retirony Dramedy Documentary Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Broken Aesop Expository Hairstyle Change Missing Mom Ascended Extra Batman Gambit Awesome, but Impractical Accidental Misnaming Mama Bear Only One Name Death of a Child Smug Snake She Cleans Up Nicely Men Are the Expendable Gender Ironic Echo Ship Tease Fingore An Arm and a Leg The Chick Intrepid Reporter Dirty Old Man Brother–Sister Incest Ungrateful Bastard Fake Shemp Silent Movie Canadian Movies Russian Films The Brute Romantic Comedy Properly Paranoid Even Evil Has Standards No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Villain Protagonist Love at First Sight Vampire Fiction Composite Character And Starring Driven to Suicide Butt-Monkey Politically Incorrect Villain Bare Your Midriff Disappeared Dad The Voiceless Fatal Family Photo Red Shirt For the Evulz The Lancer Disproportionate Retribution There Is No Kill Like Overkill B-Movie Bad Boss Improvised Weapon Insistent Terminology One Steve Limit Cold-Blooded Torture Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Hong Kong Films The Hero I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Villainous Breakdown Fan Disservice Leaning on the Fourth Wall Covers Always Lie Did Not Get the Girl Sassy Black Woman Once More, with Clarity! You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Double-Meaning Title From Nobody to Nightmare Shoot the Shaggy Dog Interrupted Suicide Television Movie Index The Place Historical In-Joke Captain Obvious Chekhov's Gun Maybe Ever After All Girls Want Bad Boys Retcon War Is Hell Woman Scorned Mexican Standoff Large Ham Cruel and Unusual Death Annoying Younger Sibling Artistic License – Gun Safety Not Using the "Z" Word Disney Death Five-Man Band Alliterative Name Dumb Blonde Fatal Flaw Match Cut Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Names to Run Away from Really Fast Bald of Evil Improbable Aiming Skills Gone Horribly Right Friend to All Children Big Bad Hair-Trigger Temper Air-Vent Passageway Mystery and Detective Films Ghost Fiction Ass Shove Anyone Can Die Character Development Animal Motifs The Un-Reveal Broken Bird Animated Credits Opening Cool Shades Take a Third Option Fire-Forged Friends Meet Cute Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Damsel in Distress Moment Killer Ambiguous Disorder Heel–Face Turn Eyepatch of Power Together in Death What You Are in the Dark Brainless Beauty Stepford Smiler As Himself Those Wacky Nazis Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Title Drop Contrived Coincidence More Dakka Children Are Innocent Guns Akimbo Hell Is That Noise All Just a Dream Belligerent Sexual Tension Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Funny Background Event Daylight Horror Historical Hero Upgrade French Films Unusually Uninteresting Sight Pre-Mortem One-Liner Unresolved Sexual Tension Made of Explodium Pragmatic Adaptation Obviously Evil Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Put on a Bus Kill 'em All Bloodless Carnage Actor Allusion 20 Minutes into the Future Funny Foreigner Blood from the Mouth Big-Bad Ensemble The Faceless Anti-Villain Gold Digger Race Lift Artistic License – Biology The Sociopath Random Events Plot Abusive Parents Mundane Made Awesome Works Set in World War II Stalker with a Crush Bond One-Liner The Alcoholic Instant Death Bullet Adaptation Name Change Agony of the Feet Country Matters Cassandra Truth Gilligan Cut Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor The '90s Artistic License – Physics Last-Name Basis Award-Bait Song Protagonist Title The Smart Guy Early-Bird Cameo Outrun the Fireball He Who Fights Monsters Historical-Domain Character Adaptation Distillation It Can Think World of Ham You Have Failed Me A Minor Kidroduction Almost Kiss Rewatch Bonus Freudian Excuse Dual Wielding Dirty Coward The Oner Adaptational Attractiveness MacGuffin Everyone Has Standards Chewing the Scenery