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See also [[Ultimate Evil]]. Compare with [[He Who Must Not Be Heard]].
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== Anime & Manga ==
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* Floyd Thursby, the murder victim in ''[[The Maltese Falcon]]''.
* The Patient in ''[[The Screwtape Letters]]''.
* Emmanuel Goldstein in [[George Orwell|Orwell]]'s ''[[Nineteen Eighty
* Beatrice Baudelaire from Lemony Snicket's ''[[A Series of Unfortunate Events]]''.
* [[Altered Carbon]] includes the often-referenced but never-present Elias Ryker. {{spoiler|It emerges that the central character, [[Takeshi Kovacs]], is inhabiting Ryker's body or "sleeve" while Ryker himself is "on stack," imprisoned in a digital environment.}}
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* ''[[Moonlighting]]'' characters often referred to the "Ensalmo Case," which sort of combines this with [[Noodle Incident]]: The case was only mentioned in passing. There were no characters named Ensalmo, nor did the case ever come to a close.
** It's revealed in the [[Grand Finale]] that it was never solved.
* During several episodes of ''[[My So
* And, of course, the ultimate example, Charlie, from ''[[Charlies Angels]]''. He usually appears as [[The Voice]], but has sometimes appeared as [[The Faceless]] in several episodes and only finally reveals himself to the Angels {{spoiler|during the final episode, "Let Our Angel Live" when he shows up at the hospital to be by Kelly's side after she is shot}}.
* Chef in ''[[Star Trek Enterprise]]''. In the last episode, he's revealed to be... William Riker? Actually, Riker was on the holodeck playing Chef.
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** Sarah, the town telephone operator.
** Then, of course, there was "Juanita," the waitress that Barney sometimes flirted with on the telephone.
* ''[[
** The camp's P.A. announcer was both this and [[The Voice]].
** The characters' loved ones back in the States, obviously...although some of them did "appear" via home movie, including Henry's wife Larraine, Frank's wife Louise, B.J.'s wife Peg, and Radar's mother (played by [[Uncanny Family Resemblance|Gary Burghoff in drag]]).
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* Susies' parents in ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]''. Their voices were heard from off-panel once or twice, but they never appeared.
** Susie's mom was seen from the waist down once.
* [[The Phantom (Comic Strip)|The Phantom]] is usually wearing a mask or sunglasses; whenever he's not, he's usually shown from behind or has his head out of frame. In-story, anyone who sees his face will die (mainly through [[Laser
* In ''[[Cul De Sac]]'', Dil has a horde of unseen older brothers whose hobbies include building trebuchets.
* The title characters in George Herriman's early 20th century strip ''[[The Family Upstairs]]''. They live on the top floor of an apartment building and cause endless problems for the poor souls situated below them.
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