Tropescilloscope: The Voiceless

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

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