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* Flandre of ''[[Princess Resurrection]]'' only says "Huga", but Hime seems to understand what she is saying. Likewise with the rest of Flandre's "siblings". Played straight wither a "Mermaid" character (No name given, she simply called that) who lost her voice and got stuck on a ship until she turned into a [[Emergency Transformation|Blood Warrior]] after saving one of the characters (she could only use her voice once and would've dies afterward).
* Subverted in ''[[Cyborg 009]]''. 0013 is a chubby but still kinda cute-looking boy with [[Hidden Eyes]] who speaks through telepathy and acts [[Gentle Giant|cheerful and innocent]]... [[Tragic Monster|until he has to fight 009]] and reveals himself as a [[Kid with the Leash]] of a HUGE robot. {{spoiler|He still reminds kind (saves an [[Innocent Bystander]], punishes a bunch of assassins, releases the [[Dude in Distress]] professor) and ultimately commits suicide.}}
* Chane Laforet from ''[[Baccano!]]!''. Her fiance, {{spoiler|Claire Stanfield}}, even lists her muteness as one of her [[Charm Point|Charm Points]] -- though he does manage to carry some impressively long conversations with her regardless, thanks to the frequent use of yes/no questions.
* Lily Strosek of ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha|Magical War Chronicle Lyrical Nanoha Force]]'', a [[Mysterious Waif]] that appears to be something similar to the first Reinforce. Seems to only be capable of communicating through telepathic thoughts. Flashbacks later reveal that she used to be able to speak, but the trauma during her time confined as a lab experiment rendered her mute.
* Tama from ''[[Omamori Himari]]''. However, she ''brutally'' subverts this trope. {{spoiler|She's eating fellow ayakashi soley to increase her power to what it was before she became [[Sealed Evil in a Can]]. And they're not dead when she starts eating, either.}}
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* {{spoiler|Tomoyo Daidouji}} temporarily becomes one in the [[Cardcaptor Sakura]] anime, {{spoiler|under the magic of a Clow Card. Shaoran and Sakura have to team-work to seal the card and dispel its effects.}}.
* Ren from ''[[DearS]]'' is on the same approximate wavelength as Chi from ''Chobits'', above.
* Celty from ''[[Durarara!!]]'' is an interesting take on this one. Because she [[Headless Horseman|doesn't have a head,]] she of course can't speak or communicate using facial expressions, but she ''can'' communicate well enough by [[Talking with Signs|typing things out on a cellphone or computer]]. (Her roommate {{spoiler|and later fiancé}} Shinra can tell what she's thinking or trying to say just from her body language, though – as Celty puts it, he "can read the expressions on the face I don't have.") Celty also thoroughly averts the "clueless or childlike" stereotype; she's very intelligent and fully understands what's going on around her, and her twenty-odd years spent in Japan have given her a pretty thorough understanding of Japanese social norms. She is very cute, though, just not in the innocent, childish way you would normally expect.
* Lycoris from the .hack novel ''[[.hack//AI buster|AI Buster]]'' is mute when she first appears.
* [[Bitch in Sheep's Clothing|Anna Mouri]] from ''[[Devil and Her Love Song]]''. Slightly a subversion, because, as commented by the main character, [[Manipulative Bitch|she's bold enough to use her inability to speak as a weapon]].
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* [[Tastes Like Diabetes|Boo]] in Disney and Pixar's [[Monsters, Inc.]] Through the movie, she learns Mike Wazowski's name.
* ''[[Dumbo]]'', the eponymous character from the Disney movie, is a mute ''protagonist''. It works surprisingly well, since he's particularly expressive and he has talkative friends. It also helps that the little guy is essentially an infant/toddler for the whole movie so it makes a bit more sense for him to be [[The Voiceless]].
* Dopey, the cutest of the (Disney) [[Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Disney film)|Seven Dwarfs]]. It's noted that they aren't sure whether he's actually mute.
{{quote|'''Snow White:''' You mean he can't talk?
'''Happy:''' We don't know -- he's never tried! }}
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