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** ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's]]'' on the other hand, this treatment is given to the ''main character'', more or less. In the very first episode, Yusei Fudo ''didn't even open his mouth'' until near the end. And as tradition, his first on-screen words were "Hey... duel me."

* Akira Okochi and Zazie Rainyday in ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' take this in two different directions. Akira doesn't speak ''much'', but talks normally when she does. Zazie, on the other hand, can hold entire conversations without speaking ''at all''. She answers a phone call and [[Silent Bob|relates how her day is going (apparently) without ever saying anything apart from a few ellipses and is understood perfectly]].

** Also Trowa Barton. There are [[Fanfic|fanfics]] claiming that he maintains a "words per day budget" and will resort to sign language if he runs out.

* Sasuke, [[Aloof Big Brother|Itachi]], Shino, Neji and Gaara in ''[[Naruto]]''. Although Sasuke and Neji [[Deadpan Snarker|used to make remarks, once in a while, about how stupid the others were]]. More or less the only female example is [[Shrinking Violet|Hinata]].

** They do in episode 26, but it seems to be limited to a few clicks.

* Veffidas from ''[[Macross 7]]'' has 5 lines tops throughout the entire series but whenever she talks, she usually has a point.

* Shiina from ''[[Angel Beats]]''. To the point that when she ''does'' decide to comment on the situation, the rest of the cast freaks out.

* [[Toriko|Melk]] {{spoiler|the First}} is said to be a quiet, shy man. {{spoiler|He's actually very talkative, its just that he literally talks so quietly no one can hear him.}}

* Kenshiro from ''[[Fist of the North Star]]'' acts this way most of the time. Most of his lines are less than five words long, and he usually has less than 10 per episode, despite being the main character.

* Warrant Officer Falman in ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist (manga)|Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' is this, and often gets [[Flanderized]] further in fanfiction.

* Doc Saito from ''[[Tiger and Bunny]]'' speaks very softly. So softly in fact, that he requires subtitles for the viewers to understand him. {{spoiler|Unless he's on the intercom or using a speaker, in which case he's ear-screechingly loud.}}

* Shiori from ''[[The World God Only Knows]]'', as present in the page picture. She is only quiet because by the time she knows what she wants to say, there is nobody to talk to, but that also means any word she says on the spot, without analysing it countless times beforehand, is significant. And when she is allowed to prepare a speech in advance, she [[Motor Mouth|is quite a talker]].

* Brian Slade from ''[[Velvet Goldmine]]'', despite being the main character and basically the ''subject'' of the movie, has surprisingly sparse dialogue throughout. When he does talk, he's almost always talking in riddles (or quoting [[Oscar Wilde]], which is much the same thing...)

** Also Jack Fairy, who doesn't say a word until the Death of Glitter concert.

** [[James Coburn]]'s character Britt (the knife-thrower), with 11 lines ''total'' during the 128 minute-long film Britt's lines are also invariably ''short'': in his [[Establishing Character Moment|introductory scene]] he says a total of five words. [http://movieclips.com/3LAj-the-magnificent-seven-movie-fastest-knife-in-town/ The scene is 2:28 seconds long.] 21 seconds into it, he says "You lost". 1 minute and 17 seconds later, at 1:38, he says "Call it." At 2:20, in response to Chris saying "Britt.", he says "Chris."

** [[Robert Vaughan]]'s Lee (the gambler) has a whopping 16 lines.

== Webcomics ==

* X of ''[[A Magical Roommate]]'' has never once spoken more than four words or six syllables in a single panel.

* Zz'dtri from ''[[The Order of the Stick|Order of the Stick]]''. Fitting as he is the [[Evil Counterpart]] of [[Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness|Vaarsuvius]].

* Ferb from the Disney cartoon ''[[Phineas and Ferb]],'' who, despite being one of the two main characters, generally only speaks once or twice per episode, expressing himself the rest of the time through nonverbal cues. These lines tend to be either the most random or funniest of the episode.

** And like everything on the show, this is lampshaded to death. In the first episode he's introduced as being "a man of action". In the episode "Candence Interrupted" he says two conservative lines, prompting Phineas to say, "well, aren't you chatty today."

* Raven from ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]''.

{{quote|Slade: "It's always the quiet ones, isn't it?"}}

** He got the name for having the genius idea of ''not discussing his plans in bars where other people could hear them'', not for being laconic.

* Helmuth Count Moltke, who masterminded the Prussian campaign against Austria in 1866 and the German one against France in 1870/71, was known as "der große Schweiger" (the Great Silent).

* Introverts, especially [[Myers-Briggs|IxxPs]], tend to act like this.

* John Deacon of [[Queen]]. When the band was together, he never sang on the albums and only answered questions in interviews if they were specifically directed to him. After Freddie Mercury died, he dropped out of the band and, aside from one single released in 1997, retired from the music business entirely.

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