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The '''Cute Mute''' has an appearance that's innocent to a fault. Whatever situation that causes their inability to speak probably also gives them that clueless, childlike demeanor. Unlikely to know or grasp social conventions, they will often be found innocently doing incredibly awkward things that will wind up spelling trouble for the other characters.
Lack of speaking alone does not qualify a character for this trope. Someone who can't speak but otherwise doesn't fit the trope is [[The Speechless]]. Someone who can speak but is never shown to do so onscreen is [[The Voiceless]].
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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
* 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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* Fon, [[Nicolas Cage]]'s love interest in the 2008 version of ''Bangkok Dangerous''.
* ''[[The Guns of Navarone]]''. Anna, the Resistance fighter who's also {{spoiler|[[The Mole]]}}.
* Burt Lancaster had a childhood friend, Nick Cravat, who appeared in several of Lancaster's movies. Cravat was never able to get rid of his thick Brooklyn accent, so he communicated by mime when in a movie where the accent would be inappropriate. He often seemed on the verge of stealing the
* Harpo Marx, pictured, most notably in [[Duck Soup]]. He can't talk at all, and instead talks in horns, which leads to probably the most clever scene he's ever done where he is able to carry on a phone conversation by honking horns in such a way that it sounds like replies.
* Edward in [[Veronika Decides To Die]] (probably in the book as well, but I haven't read it).
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