Tropescilloscope: The Voiceless

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

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