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** They made a return to battle [[Deadpool]]. Who.. [[Crowning Moment of Funny|Mime shot them]].
* The French comic book series ''[[De Cape et de Crocs]]'' plays with this: the bad guy's foot soldiers are mute mime tribesmen from the Moon (seriously). Their abilities include swordfighting, artistic death and [http://greenfieldluver.free.fr/never_trust_a_mime.jpg distracting people with the power of mime].
* Aside from being one of the good guys, The Mime from the comic book ''[[Mister Blank]]'' fits this trope to a T.
* There was a one-shot [[Batman]] villainness who was a mime. That's about it.
* One of ''[[Ant]]'''s villains is Jessica Mime, who dresses like a (skanky) mime and has a sort of "mime power" in the form of gauntlets that allow her to make various shapes in the air out of [[Hard Light]]. She's an obnoxious loudmouth even by non-mime standards, though.
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* Played with and [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] in ''[[The Crow]]'', when a police officer facetiously refers to the chalk-faced Eric Draven as "a mime from Hell."
* In the 1996 spy spoof ''[[Spy Hard]]'', the [[Big Bad]] has some Amazonian Indians in "tribal" makeup (and who [[Schizo-Tech|communicate with cell phones]]!) [[Chased by Angry Natives|track the good guys through a jungle]]. As a [[Manatee Gag]], one of the Indians is shown in "mime-face."
* Kit Kat in ''[[Hudson Hawk]]'' never speaks a word through the whole movie, communicating instead by using pre-printed cards.
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== Professional Wrestling ==
* "The Icon" [[Wrestler/Sting|Sting]] played with this trope in [[WCW]] during the fall of 1996 and most of 1997, effectively creating an enormously popular new wrestling character in the process. After being framed by [[Hulk Hogan]]'s New World Order, Sting announced that he was going to go into seclusion for a while until he thought of a way to [[Clear My Name|clear his name]]. As he made this announcement, the audience could see that his "[[Ultimate Warrior]]"-style greasepaint had begun to consume his face in a bizarre and unsettling literal example of [[Becoming the Mask]], bleaching everything but his nose, lips, and lower jaw clown-white. The following week, Sting appeared in the rafters above the arena with a ''completely'' white face, black lips, and black Gothic "crosses" over his eyes, making him look suspiciously like a mime (although Sting's portrayer, Steve Borden, would eventually admit in an interview that the makeup design was suggested to him by nWo member [[Scott Hall]] as a tribute to Brandon Lee's appearance in the movie version of ''[[The Crow]]''). Not only that, but Sting [[The Voiceless|did not speak a single word]] while wearing the whiteface for over a year (finally blurting out an insult to Hogan in anger after he was stripped of the WCW Championship). In the meantime, he kept showing up in the ring (sometimes via the rafters and sometimes via the crowd) with a black baseball bat, attacking the nWo or silently subjecting his former allies to a series of "loyalty tests." The whiteface, black bat, and [[Badass Longcoat]] that Sting also wore would go on to become key parts of his wrestling [[Stealth Pun|iconography]] and are still part of his signature look today (although he now speaks quite frequently, and has hardly ever been a heel since). Long story short: While Sting was never supposed to be taken as a mime, [[Fan Nickname|his fans took to nicknaming him things like "The Sad Mime" or "The Angry Mime."]]
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* In ''[[The Adventures of Dr. McNinja]]'', the eponymous hero fights a battle (or two) against fast-food pitch-clown [[No Celebrities Were Harmed|Donald McBonald]], who has access to mime powers. The good doctor defeats him with a pantomime of an invisible rocket launcher. (In [http://www.drmcninja.com/mcdonalds.html this story].)
* ''[[Casey and Andy]]'' features a Mime Assassin as a recurring antagonist. He utilizes Mime Powers in addition to ordinary and specialized firearms (such as a water-gun loaded with Very Holy Water for fighting off [[Satan]], who just happens to be [[Planet Eris|dating one of the main characters]]), but is foiled when the Quantum Cop turns said powers against him, locking him in an invisible, unbreakable box.
* ''[http://www.livingwithshine.net/comicsENG/lws_006.html Living with Shine]'' has one. He actually has powers... mime powers. (Can create invisible walls) but most of the time he is treated as joke by the cast. [[Running Gag|Also, he speaks...]]
* A now defunct webcomic featured a villain with battle mimes as henchmen. When a character commented on the absurdity of this, the villain replied that, being silent, agile, and well trained, Mimes were just ninjas with pizazz.
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* 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.
* ''[[Totally Spies]]!'' has Jazz Hands, a Mime Villain hell-bent on showing the world the beauty of his craft, usually by converting people into mimes. At first he seems to be a poor mime himself, as he never seems to shut up, but [[Let's Get Dangerous|when he does buckle down he gives the heroines quite a tough time]].
* An episode of ''[[Rugrats]]: [[All Grown Up!]]'' had a ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]''-esque card game, which featured a monster called The Atomic Mime.
* The mime [[The Woobie|Trent]] had to face in one episode of ''[[Total Drama Island]]''.
* An episode of ''[[Garfield and Friends]]'' that aired late in the series's run had Garfield, Jon, and Odie visit a carnival. A Gypsy fortune-teller at the carnival (who actually [[Fauxreigner|wasn't a Gypsy at all]], but an [[Ambiguously Jewish]] woman) places a curse on Garfield, turning him into a werewolf. (Yes, a cat being turned into a wolf. [[Somewhere a Mammalogist Is Crying|Don't think about it too hard.]]) Once the curse wears off, Garfield gets his hands on the spell book and decides to teach the actress a lesson. When the actress sees which curse Garfield has selected for her, she screams [[Cool and Unusual Punishment|"No! Not that! Anything but that!"]] and tries to run away. But before she can escape, Garfield recites the chant....and turns her into a mime. Some passersby show up and see the woman, scream "A mime!" and run off in terror. Garfield then turns to Jon and Odie and shrugs, saying: [[Take That|"There are worse things in this world than wolf-creatures, you know."]]
* A Thanksgiving episode of ''[[South Park]]'' from several years back showed the kids getting ready to stage a Thanksgiving pageant starring Timmy as Helen Keller and Timmy's pet turkey, Gobbles, as Helen's pet. Cartman is in charge of writing the songs for the pageant, but he can't come up with lyrics. The play's director suggests that he put on a blindfold (in order to experience what it would have been like to be Helen Keller) and write down what he sees. Once Cartman's eyes are covered, the screen goes black and then yields to a montage of images. Most of them are "traditional" scary things, such as rotting corpses and vermin - but we also see the disturbing shot of a mime [[
* An episode of ''[[Family Guy]]'' revealed Paris has a lot of "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_jwC8mKpRM mime on mime violence]".
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