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Contrast to [[Lull Destruction]]. Subtrope of [[Silence Is Golden]].
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== Anime and Manga ==
* The Training montage chapter before the Submerged Fish Hunt in ''[[Tower of God]]''.
* The ''[[Ah
* Chapter 166 in ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'', focusing on Okochi Akira, an unusually quiet student, is done entirely without dialogue. Even when characters speak to each other, only pictures or one or two words are shown in the speech bubbles. [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] by Chachazero holding a sign reading "This chapter is brought to you in near silence."
* Lampshaded in ''[[
* The first episode of ''[[Texhnolyze]]'' comes close, but it does have a few lines of dialogue towards the end.
* Episode 9 of ''[[Mitsudomoe]]'' dedicates one of its segments to this trope. Other than a few lines of [[Angrish]] from Mitsuba, everything else is conveyed non-verbally.
* The third short of ''[[
** Happens again in episode 6.3 of Season 2.
* The ''[[Muteki Kanban Musume]]'' manga has a chapter nearly devoid of dialogue. It also features one of the greatest [[Unstoppable Rage|rage]] faces in history after {{spoiler|a blackbird steals a bit of Miki's lunch}}, after which, [[Hilarity Ensues]].
* ''[[Nichijou]]'' has one of these, in a sequence involving the exceptionally stressful final moments in the completion {{spoiler|and subsequent destruction}} of a card tower.
* Chapter 89 of the original [[Lupin III]] manga series went entirely without dialogue until the final page (possibly as a homage to cartoons like [[
* ''[[Risky☆Safety]]'': Yuya's classmate is [[The Voiceless]], so the episode where she gets [[A Day in the Limelight]] is presented as a [[Silent Movie]], complete with sepia-tone art and intertitles.
== Comic Books ==
* The ''[[G.I. Joe]]'' comic book actually had entirely silent issues, where stories were told without dialogue, captions or even sound effects.
* [[Marvel Universe|Marvel Comics]] used this gimmick in every single comic they published cover-dated February 2002, calling it "'Nuff Said Month". As well, around the time of 9/11, Marvel had most of its comics, for the most part, silent issues, with no dialogue or little.
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** ''Peter Parker: Spider-Man (Vol. 2) #38'' arguably had the most appropriate plot - Spider-Man fighting a gang of criminal mimes.
* One ''[[Sin City]]'' short story titled, appropriately enough, "Silent Night". There's just one line spoken at the end.
* ''[[
* Used in, of all things, an issue of ''[[Deadpool]]'' when Deadpool goes temporarily deaf.
* An issue of ''[[
* The ''~2000 AD~'' series ''Bob Byrne's Twisted Tales'' is a series of one-off strips, all of which have no dialogue at all. Byrne, the artist, came up with the idea when he got annoyed by letterers sticking speech bubbles all over his art.
* From the same artist, ''Mister Amperduke'' is an entire [[Graphic Novel]] in which the closest thing we get to dialogue is the odd semiquaver to indicate a character whistling.
* Issue #28 of [[The Powerpuff Girls]] (DC Comics) had a story--"Princess For A Day" (involving their school adversary Princess Morbucks) which had no dialogue, save for a two-word balloon just before the climax of the story.
* The [[
* ''[[Alpha Flight]]'' had a dialogue-less section after {{spoiler|James Hudson's death}}. Proved to be a nightmare of his widow.
* ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]'' frequently had strips with no dialogue, relying on the characters' gestures and shown emotions to convey the story.
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== [[Film]] ==
* One bizarre retroactive application of this trope is with regards to silent movies. With the coming of DVD, it has become common for old silent film shorts, especially those that have fallen into public domain, to appear on budget-line VHS and DVD compilations. Especially with regards to "series" such as Charlie Chaplin and Laurel & Hardy films, it's common to see these referenced on these releases as "episodes".
* ''[[Silent Movie (
* Tom Hanks is speechless for most of ''[[Cast Away]]''.
* The Pixar film ''[[
== Live-Action TV ==
* ''[[
* ''[[Space: Above and Beyond]]'': "Who Monitors the Birds?"
* In one episode of ''[[Wizards of Waverly Place]]'', Justin and Harper become good friends due to their shared appreciation of silent movies (which Alex hates). After Alex messes up their friendship, they get back at her by turning the world into a silent movie, treating the audience to a few minutes of [[Deliberately Monochrome]] and [[Silence Is Golden]].
* Another live action example is 'The Invaders' episode of ''[[The Twilight Zone]]'', which apart from Rod Serling's opening/closing narrations only has one line of dialogue {{spoiler|and it's not spoken by lead actress Agnes Moorehead - who on reading the script asked where her part was - but by episode director Douglas Heyes as the Earth astronaut whose ship is being destroyed}}.
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* Nearly the first half of ''[[The Prisoner]]'' episode "Many Happy Returns" plays out without a single line of intelligible dialogue (there are a couple of lines spoken in an unknown foreign language, but more in the background of a scene).
* The ''[[Frasier]]'' episode "Three Valentines" features an act made up entirely of Niles preparing for a date, with his obsessing over fixing a loose thread on his pants ultimately wrecking the apartment, all while saying nothing besides gasps and grunts after a brief phone conversation at the start.
* [[Two Guys,
* The ''77 Sunset Strip'' episode "The Silent Caper" (one of several episodes written by series co-star Roger Smith) is not only an hour show with no dialogue but predates ''all'' of the above. (Yes, including "The Invaders.")
== Professional Wrestling ==
* A recent segment of Raw was done without a word of dialogue. [[The Undertaker]] makes a return after a long absence. His music plays. The crowd cheers loudly. Before he can do or say anything, [[Triple H]] makes a surprise return after an even longer absence. The crowd goes nuts. The two of them stare each other down, and then turn to look at the [[Wrestlemania]] logo. The crowd ''explodes''. More staredown, dueling chants, dueling taunts, not a word spoken.
== Videogames ==
* ''[[Alien Hominid]]'' manages to tell a somewhat simple, but funny story with absolutely no dialogue. (Unless ''screaming'' counts)
* ''[[Another World (
* ''[[
* ''[[Metroid Prime]]''
== Webcomics ==
* ''[[
* ''[[Questionable Content]]'' has had a few of these.
* [http://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0277.html This strip] of the [[Web Comic]] ''[[Darths and Droids]]''.
* ''[[The Order of the Stick
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20111007173706/http://framelesscomic.tk/?p=1 Frameless] [https://web.archive.org/web/20191216132653/http://framelesscomic.tk/?p=11 Comic] [https://web.archive.org/web/20191216132658/http://framelesscomic.tk/?p=15 does] [https://web.archive.org/web/20111007175842/http://framelesscomic.tk/?p=17 this] [https://web.archive.org/web/20111108155039/http://framelesscomic.tk/?p=18 all] [https://web.archive.org/web/20191216132656/http://framelesscomic.tk/?p=19 the] [https://web.archive.org/web/20111108163706/http://framelesscomic.tk/?p=20 time.]
* Used sparingly but effectively in [http://wordwearycomic.blogspot.com/2011/09/3-september-2011.html these] [http://wordwearycomic.blogspot.com/2011/11/29-november-2011.html issues] of ''[[The Word Weary]]''.
== Web Originals ==
* [[
== Western Animation ==
* The ''[[
** Several shorts are dialogue-less, such as the one where Dad goes golfing...or tries to.
* Another case where the only line of dialog occurs at the very end is a ''[[Tiny Toon Adventures]]'' episode parodying the Fantasia short "The Sorcerer's Apprentice", with Buster as the "apprentice" and Bugs as the "sorcerer".
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*** The short "The Kite," one of the most atypical segments of the show, is also dialogue-free.
*** The episode "C Flat or B Sharp" where the only dialogue is near the beginning where Yosemite Sam gives Buster, Plucky, and Hamton instructions on moving the piano.
* ''[[Kids Next Door]]'' episode "Operation: THE-FLY"
* The ''[[Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi]]'' episode "Ikkakujuu".
* ''[[Samurai Jack]]'' was famous for doing this (and doing it very well) for dramatic effect in most action sequences. The cartoon is almost a no dialogue ''series'' considering how many times it happened. Jack himself has no dialogue in a few episodes. Particularly notable is "The Four Seasons of Death", where only one character in one segment has any lines at all.
* ''[[Star Wars: Clone Wars]]'' but it comes easier as each episode is only about 4 minutes.
* ''[[The Fairly
* Another partial
* The ''[[Angry Beavers]]'' episode "Silent But Deadly" has the beavers stuck in their house surrounded by sleeping wolverines. The entire episode is largely silent (except with music) due to the brothers attempting to escape without waking the predators up. A pseudovariation occured in a later episode in which the brothers had a competition to not talk. (They solved this by carting around giant tape players with tapes that had words on them so they could communicate. Yes, it's '''that''' kind of show.)
* The ''[[Rocko's Modern Life]]'' episode "Fatal Contraption", in which Rocko buys a living food processor, features no dialogue except for an announcer saying "Buy this! Food-O-Matic 2000!"
* ''[[
* The [[Bugs Bunny]] short ''Baton Bunny'' in which he plays a conductor is his only cartoon with no dialogue, although in the early short Rhapsody Rabbit was mostly silent Bugs had three lines of dialogue "Eh, what's up, doc? Who? Franz Liszt? Never heard of him. Wrong number.", "Fi-ga-ro! Fi-ga-ro!", and "Look, one hand! No hands!"
* The Leonardo segment of the ''[[
* ''[[
* Hanna-Barbera actually had a continuous series with no talking. "Blastoff Buzzard" was a Road Runner-esque segment of their 1977 show [[The CB Bears]].
* The ''[[Pinky and The Brain]]'' short "The Brain's Apprentice", in a parody of the Sorcerer's Apprentice, features Brain building a robot but Pinky shuts it down. When he activates it he accidentally creates thousands of clones that almost do succeed in taking over the world, but Brain interferes and only at the last minute does he realize what could've been. the cartoon contained no dialogue except for the garbled gibberish spoken by the humans.
** There was also the ''[[
* There was an episode of ''[[
* ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'': Both "Appa's Lost Days" and "The Tale of Momo" segment of "Tales of Ba Sing Se". Both subverted (as there is some spoken dialogue, though they are few and far between), and played straight, as most of the vocal sounds are coming from the animal stars of the episode.
* The ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'' episode "Tri-Stone Area": the characters speak solely in minimally-intelligible "cave talk", with occasional cutaways to photo-animation of the creators explaining what's going on, in case anyone isn't following.
* The DVD for ''[[Batman
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