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== Anime & Manga ==
* Strings (merely called "the Pantomimer" in the Japanese version) in ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'', is a rather strange example, seeming like more of a punk anarchist/goth with his shaved head, eyeshadow, and multiple piercings. Nevertheless, he is referred to as a mime in both versions, even though his only "trick" was standing still on a park bench without moving a muscle (easy to do, as Marik [[Brainwashed]] him into his minion, and seems to have destroyed his real mind in the process).
** Standing ''that'' still is impressive in real life.
** In the manga, it's stated that he had murdered his parents, and apparently repressed his entire mind out of guilt, so he was already mindless when Marik found him.
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* For a brief period during the nineties, there was a gang of villainous mimes that made several appearances in the ''[[Spider-Man]]'' titles. They were defeated, at least once, when Spidey {{spoiler|webbed several large sheets of glass into an invisible box around them.}} As seen [http://community.livejournal.com/scans_daily/6384522.html here!]
** They made a return to battle [[Deadpool]]. Who.. [[Crowning Moment of Funny|Mime shot them]].
* The French comic book series ''[[De Cape Etet Dede 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.
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== Fan Works ==
* Invoked several times in ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series (Web Video)|Yu-Gi-Oh the Abridged Series]]'', most obviously with Steve the Mime.
* The [[Batman]]/ [[Sin City]] crossover ''[[A Dark Knight Over Sin City]]'' features a gang of "guys in mime makeup" led by the Joker.
 
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== Films -- Animation ==
* In ''[[Flushed Away]]'', the French frog spy antagonists have a mime as part of their team.
* An [[Anti-Hero]] example comes from ''[[Tangled (Disney)|Tangled]]''. One of the thugs at [[Bad Guy Bar|the Snuggly Duckling]], Ulf, is revealed to be into mime during the song "I've Got A Dream". [[Chekhov's Skill|His talent comes in handy]] when {{spoiler|the Thugs team up to break Flynn out of prison.}}
* "Bomb Voyage", a briefly-seen villain from the beginning of ''[[The Incredibles]]'', is a French mime who uses explosives to perpetrate his crimes.
 
 
== Films -- Live Action ==
* In ''[[Batman (Filmfilm)|Batman]]'', a team of [[Career Killers]] working for the Joker and dressed as mimes spray machine gun fire over a crowd to cover his escape after an assassination. Said mimes could just be Joker's usual [[Mooks]] in costume, which sort of makes sense if they wanted to approach in broad daylight without appearing overtly dangerous to the cops, the press, or the gangsters. In any case, [[Big Lipped Alligator Moment|they are never seen again after the scene just described]].
* The [[Gang of Hats|Hi-Hats]] in ''[[The Warriors (Filmfilm)|The Warriors]]''.
** Note: They were ultimately cut from the film, and are only named in the trailer; they weren't developed any further than that until the video game adaptation was released thirty years later.
* Somewhat subverted in ''[[Robin Hood: Men in Tights]]'' when the villainous Sheriff of Rottingham and Prince John watch a mime, decide to kill him, and then change their minds. [[Incredibly Lame Pun|"A mime is a terrible thing to waste."]]
* 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 Byby 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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* "The Gentlemen" from ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' count: pale-faced, [[Slasher Smile|grinning]], silent monstrosities. They have the sound-leeching powers mentioned above, too.
* An episode of ''[[Highlander the Series]]'' featured an [[Murder, Inc.|group]] of [[Career Killers|assassins]] who used pantomime as a cover. They were led by an evil Immortal called Christoph Kuyler.
* A trio of villainous mimes are behind the murders in ''[[The Goodies (TV)|The Goodies]]'' episode "Daylight Robbery on the Orient Express".
 
 
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== Video Games ==
* In ''[[No One Lives Forever]] 2'', the villains include an entire gang of evil mimes armed with submachineguns. Who sing the French national anthem. You heard that right. ''Singing'' mimes.
* Though barely seen in the movie, the videogame version of ''[[The Warriors (Videovideo Gamegame)|The Warriors]]'' features a street-gang consisting entirely of mimes. Known as the Hi-Hats, the only one of them that talks is their stuttering leader, who's clearly more of a [[Monster Clown]] anyway. They also use blades as their signature weapon, which -- barring two appearances of firearms -- are the most powerful weapons in the game.
* The third expansion of ''[[Guild Wars]]'' features an evil mime that steals the voices of three villagers and prevents the player character from using shout buffs.
* The ''[[Penny Arcade]]'' game ''[[Penny Arcade Adventures]]: On the Rain Slick Precipice of Darkness'' features mimes as enemies. And the final boss of Part One is a {{spoiler|[[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|Mime Cthulhu]]}}.
* The Mime, a bit player from ''[[Animaniacs (Animation)|Animaniacs]]'', was featured as a generic enemy in the ''Animaniacs Game Pack''. His power was to mime an invisible box every so often making him invincible while still remaining deadly.
* In one small area in the game ''[[Shadow Madness]]'', mimes are [[Random Encounters]].
** "They sully the park with their presence!"
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== Web Comics ==
* In ''[[The Adventures of Dr. McNinja (Webcomic)|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 (Webcomic)|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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== Web Original ==
* The "Panous-Panous" -- Mooks in the amateur French sentai show ''[[France Five (Web Video)|France Five]]'' -- have been described as "[[McNinja|ninja-mimes]]".
* Lord Opticord and his minions in ''[[Sockbaby]]'' have the mime theme going on, but they were most certainly not mute. Quite the contrary...
 
 
== Western Animation ==
* Le Mime, of ''[[Xiaolin Showdown (Animation)|Xiaolin Showdown]]'' could create invisible objects. His weakness turned out to be that said objects could be modified by others using their imaginations.
** He also didn't know when to stop. When he started to [[Mirror Routine|mirror Clay's movements]], Clay took advantage and ''punched himself in the face'' -- Clay could take the hit, Le Mime couldn't.
* Inverted in a ''[[DextersDexter's Laboratory]]'' short, wherein Dexter becomes a [[Monster Clown]], and DeeDee dons a mime outfit to combat his evil clown-iness.
* 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 (Animation)|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 [[Added Alliterative Appeal|lasciviously licking his lips]]. What makes it ''truly'' frightening is that when Cartman takes off the blindfold and the director asks him what he has seen, his only response is [[Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant|"Just what I always see when I close my eyes."]]
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