Tropescilloscope: The Voiceless

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

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