Tropescilloscope: The Voiceless

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

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