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* ''[[Astro Boy (Manga)|Astro Boy]]'''s Lord Deadcross.
* Ai Enma's "grandma" from ''[[Hell Girl (Anime)|Hell Girl]]''. Although she talks, all we ever see of her form is her silhouette. The only human that takes a good look at her is completely horrified by what she saw.
* The Sacred Ancestor, the Vampire King [[Dracula]] remains unseen save for flashbacks where he receives no physical description save for his [[Red Eyes, Take Warning|eyes]] in all mediums of ''[[Vampire Hunter D]]''.
 
 
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* On ''[[Sports Night]]'', Luther Sachs was the owner of Continental Corp, which owned Continental Sports Channel, which broadcast the titular [[Show Within a Show]]. Though there were many times he was referenced (through such things as people having to take a call from him or having to go meet him, etc.) he was never seen or heard.
* In public-relations specials, these characters need not even be fictional. After playing [[The Voice]] (Carlton the doorman on ''[[Rhoda (TV)|Rhoda]]''), Lorenzo Music (who also provided the voice for [[Garfield and Friends (Animation)|Garfield]]) later appeared on a ''[[Garfield (Animation)|Garfield]]'' TV special with his back to the camera at all times, as Garfield's creator Jim Davis remarked that he'd never seen his face. The producers of an E! special on Beanie Babies did something similar with the founder of the Ty corporation.
** Bill Wilson, founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, and ''[[GravitysGravity's Rainbow]]'' author [[Thomas Pynchon]], both of whom refuse to appear on camera throughout their whole careers.
** In his first interview after leaving the band in 1980, former [[KISS (Music)|KISS]] drummer Peter Criss appeared with his back to the camera, apparently at the insistence of his former band mates. At the time, KISS had never appeared in public without their trademark stage makeup. Criss would reveal his face in a television appearance later that year. The band would abandon its makeup in 1983 in an "unmasking" on [[MTV]].
** Similar to the first example, [[VH 1]]'s ''[[I Love the Exties|I Love The 90s]]'' had a segment on MovieFone, with the celebrities commenting that they had no idea what "Mr. MovieFone" looked like. They actually had the actor, Russ Leatherman, on the show.
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* Nils' mother Elna in the first season of Norwegian sitcom ''Mot I Brøstet'', only referred to and heard through one-sided phone calls for the first 7 episodes. The sequel series ''Karl&Co'' did the same with Ulf's wife Magda, who stayed unrevealed throughout the entire series.
* Howard Wolowitz's mother on ''[[The Big Bang Theory]]'' is never seen, but her voice is constantly ringing out around his home.
* Captain Mainwaring's wife Elizabeth from ''[[DadsDad's Army (TV)|Dads Army]]'', who is apparently much scarier than the Nazis. We get the briefest of glimpses in one episode where the two are lying in bunks, with the captain on the bottom. Above him in the top bunk is an extraordinarily massive indentation, suggesting a literal mountain of a woman.
* Peggy's mother in ''[[Married With Children]]''. She is implied to be ''amazingly'' obese, so perhaps the idea is that the camera couldn't have fit her in?
* In ''[[Keeping Up Appearances]]'', Violet ''was'' this for the earlier series. She eventually made her full-time appearance as a character later in the run.
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