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[[File:evilmime_8910.png|frame|The fact that they don't talk just makes them all the scarier.]]
[[File:evilmime 8910.png|frame|The fact that they don't talk just makes them all the scarier.]]




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== Video Games ==
== Video Games ==
* In ''[[No One Lives Forever]] 2'', the villains include an entire gang of evil mimes armed with submachineguns. Who sing the French national anthem. You heard that right. ''Singing'' mimes.
* In ''[[No One Lives Forever]] 2'', the villains include an entire gang of evil mimes armed with submachineguns. Who sing the French national anthem. You heard that right. ''Singing'' mimes.
* Though barely seen in the movie, the videogame version of ''[[The Warriors (video game)|The Warriors]]'' features a street-gang consisting entirely of mimes. Known as the Hi-Hats, the only one of them that talks is their stuttering leader, who's clearly more of a [[Monster Clown]] anyway. They also use blades as their signature weapon, which -- barring two appearances of firearms -- are the most powerful weapons in the game.
* Though barely seen in the movie, the videogame version of ''[[The Warriors (video game)|The Warriors]]'' features a street-gang consisting entirely of mimes. Known as the Hi-Hats, the only one of them that talks is their stuttering leader, who's clearly more of a [[Monster Clown]] anyway. They also use blades as their signature weapon, which—barring two appearances of firearms—are the most powerful weapons in the game.
* The third expansion of ''[[Guild Wars]]'' features an evil mime that steals the voices of three villagers and prevents the player character from using shout buffs.
* The third expansion of ''[[Guild Wars]]'' features an evil mime that steals the voices of three villagers and prevents the player character from using shout buffs.
* The ''[[Penny Arcade]]'' game ''[[Penny Arcade Adventures]]: On the Rain Slick Precipice of Darkness'' features mimes as enemies. And the final boss of Part One is a {{spoiler|[[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|Mime Cthulhu]]}}.
* The ''[[Penny Arcade]]'' game ''[[Penny Arcade Adventures]]: On the Rain Slick Precipice of Darkness'' features mimes as enemies. And the final boss of Part One is a {{spoiler|[[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|Mime Cthulhu]]}}.
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== Web Original ==
== Web Original ==
* The "Panous-Panous" -- Mooks in the amateur French sentai show ''[[France Five]]'' -- have been described as "[[McNinja|ninja-mimes]]".
* The "Panous-Panous"—Mooks in the amateur French sentai show ''[[France Five]]''—have been described as "[[McNinja|ninja-mimes]]".
* Lord Opticord and his minions in ''[[Sockbaby]]'' have the mime theme going on, but they were most certainly not mute. Quite the contrary...
* Lord Opticord and his minions in ''[[Sockbaby]]'' have the mime theme going on, but they were most certainly not mute. Quite the contrary...


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== Western Animation ==
== Western Animation ==
* Le Mime, of ''[[Xiaolin Showdown]]'' could create invisible objects. His weakness turned out to be that said objects could be modified by others using their imaginations.
* Le Mime, of ''[[Xiaolin Showdown]]'' could create invisible objects. His weakness turned out to be that said objects could be modified by others using their imaginations.
** He also didn't know when to stop. When he started to [[Mirror Routine|mirror Clay's movements]], Clay took advantage and ''punched himself in the face'' -- Clay could take the hit, Le Mime couldn't.
** He also didn't know when to stop. When he started to [[Mirror Routine|mirror Clay's movements]], Clay took advantage and ''punched himself in the face''—Clay could take the hit, Le Mime couldn't.
* Inverted in a ''[[Dexter's Laboratory]]'' short, wherein Dexter becomes a [[Monster Clown]], and DeeDee dons a mime outfit to combat his evil clown-iness.
* Inverted in a ''[[Dexter's Laboratory]]'' short, wherein Dexter becomes a [[Monster Clown]], and DeeDee dons a mime outfit to combat his evil clown-iness.
* In an episode of ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]'', there is a clown who is genuinely good and just entertaining a child at his party. When he gets hit by a tidal wave of bleach, he goes crazy and turns into Mr. Mime ([[Pokémon|no relation]]) who tries to silence the whole town and drain its color. When the girls restore the clown back to his normal, innocent self, he's [[Disproportionate Retribution|beaten to a pulp and put in jail anyway]]. Even ''[[Interactive Narrator|the Narrator]]'' approved of this.
* In an episode of ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]'', there is a clown who is genuinely good and just entertaining a child at his party. When he gets hit by a tidal wave of bleach, he goes crazy and turns into Mr. Mime ([[Pokémon|no relation]]) who tries to silence the whole town and drain its color. When the girls restore the clown back to his normal, innocent self, he's [[Disproportionate Retribution|beaten to a pulp and put in jail anyway]]. Even ''[[Interactive Narrator|the Narrator]]'' approved of this.