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[[File:gromittvtropes 3568.gif|link=Wallace and Gromit|frame|Considering [[Bungling Inventor|who he has]] [[Too Dumb to Live|to deal with]], can you blame him? ]]
{{quote|''"Don't you roll your eyes at me; it's a good plan!"''
The Silent Snarker is just that. A combination of [[Deadpan Snarker]] and [[The Voiceless]], [[The Speechless]] or [[The Unintelligible]]. A character who does not speak, usually a sidekick, who is [[Hypercompetent Sidekick|a lot more competent]] than his superior, [[Snark Bait|who does things most]] [[Deadpan Snarker]]s [[Snark Bait|would have a field day with]]. But since they cannot or don't speak, they communicate their snark through eyerolls, [[Face Palm|facepalms]], furrowed brows and [[Aside Glance|aside glances]]. These characters normally have very expressive faces to properly convey their silent exasperation.
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'''[[The Voiceless]], [[The Speechless]], and [[The Unintelligible]] characters only ([[The Silent Bob|Silent Bobs]] are exceptions). If they can talk, or at least talk frequently, they don't count for this trope.'''
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== Anime
* Pikachu in the earlier seasons of ''[[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]]''.
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* Odie from ''[[Garfield (Comic Strip)|Garfield]]'', every once in a while. Garfield himself is an odd case of us actually seeing what the Silent Snarker is thinking. If we couldn't read his thoughts, he would count for this. This is explored with the [https://web.archive.org/web/20081221160206/http://www.truthandbeautybombs.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=4997&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0 Silent Garfield] experiment, which removes his dialogue but leaves him in the panel, still making his grins and [[Aside Glance|aside glances]].▼
* Gromit from ''[[Wallace and Gromit]]'' is the long-suffering master of this trope and the [[Trope Codifier]].
** Gromit's silent snarking ''so'' effective that back when ''A Grand Day Out'' was in production, [[What Could Have Been|he was originally supposed to talk]], but a scene where he reacts silently to Wallace stood out so much to the creators that they made him permanently silent.
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* ''[[Star Wars]]''
** Based on C-3PO's reactions to some of the things he says, if his speech were translated, R2-D2 would be a definite Deadpan Snarker [[The Unintelligible|who speaks in robot noises.]]
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* Ilyn Payne of ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'', a mute headsman, is very mocking of {{spoiler|the now crippled}} Jaime Lannister, "laughing" at his monologues openly. Theon's squire Wex also shows signs of this.
* Very often, when John Godfrey Saxe's poem [https://www.allaboutphilosophy.org/blind-men-and-the-elephant.htm "The Blind Men and the Elephant"] is printed with illustrations, the elephant itself is rolling its eyes, as if to say, "These six stupid humans have no clue." (As it ''should'' think.)
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* Diefenbaker from ''[[Due South]]'' is treated as one of these thanks to the various reaction shots from his human co-stars.
* ''[[Glee]]'' has Brad the Silent Pianist.
== Newspaper Comics ==
▲* Odie from ''[[Garfield (Comic Strip)|Garfield]]'', every once in a while. Garfield himself is an odd case of us actually seeing what the Silent Snarker is thinking. If we couldn't read his thoughts, he would count for this. This is explored with the [https://web.archive.org/web/20081221160206/http://www.truthandbeautybombs.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=4997&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0 Silent Garfield] experiment, which removes his dialogue but leaves him in the panel, still making his grins and [[Aside Glance|aside glances]].
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