Tropescilloscope: The Voiceless

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

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