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== Advertising ==
* The Bartles & James wine cooler campaign with Frank Bartles and Ed James (or rather, actors playing them as folksy old men.) They sat on a porch while Frank explained all about their new product, while Ed quietly tinkers with something, admires his handiwork, or sips a wine cooler. Frank monologues constantly put words in Ed's mouth ("Ed says...") -- and Ed may or may not even acknowledge the
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== Literature ==
* ''[[The Gone-Away World]]'' by Nick Harkaway features an entire troupe of literal [[Heroic Mime
* Mac, the proprietor [[Truce Zone|MacAnally's]] in ''[[The Dresden Files]]'' is a one-syllable sort of guy. It gets to the point that when Mac says a full sentence, Harry is stunned.
{{quote|''"He... used grammar."''}}
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== Live Action TV ==
* Morn from ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]].'' Subversion: he is never shown talking, but other characters frequently comment on how gregarious, funny, charming, etc. he is.
** One early episode actually shows Morn ''screaming'', as part of a violent
** And in keeping with Morn's barfly image, his name is an anagram of NORM!
** [[Expanded Universe]] material goes on to establish that, once he gets talking, the trick is getting him to shut up.
** [[Star Trek: The Next Generation|Mr. Homn, Lwaxana Troi's valet.]] He speaks exactly one time: "Thank you for the drinks."
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* Effy from ''[[Skins]]''; her tongue might have loosened a bit in the second season (after her lines in the first involved, basically, one [[Non Sequitur Thud|cut-off monologue]] and a scream), but expressive tics and eyebrow twitches are still a major part of her communication strategy.
* Norman the Doorman in ''[[The Suite Life of Zack and Cody]]''.
* Before the above, Disney was already doing this with Lanny in ''[[Lizzie McGuire]]''. Mr. and Mrs. McGuire are amazed when Matt has a ''phone'' conversation with Lanny, who is always shown as being
* An ''[[All in The Family]]'' episode features a hippie couple, the girl of whom never speaks with her boyfriend explaining that she only talks with her eyes. Archie is predictably skeptical: "Open wide and let's hear the Gettysburg Address!" Even Mike and Gloria become frustrated with them, with Gloria yelling at the girl to shut up while the guy is in the middle of explaining yet another thing she's supposedly saying.
* In an episode of ''[[Black Books]]'', Manny and Bernard individually go to a counselor who simply listens to them talk through their problems until they come to a breakthrough all by themselves.
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* All four times that the [[Player Character]] of ''[[Saints Row]]'' opens his mouth, someone gets owned. He talks normally in the sequels however.
* Kevin Smith in ''[[Killer7]]'' - the creators ''claim'' they weren't familiar with the real-life film director of the same name who played Silent Bob himself.
* Quite a few [[Silent Protagonist
* Bark the Polarbear, a long-forgotten character from the video games, was reintroduced in the ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' comic book as a Silent Bob, teamed up with the psychotic and easily amused Bean the Duck. Bark is by far the more reasonable of the two, though he's yet to have had a single speech bubble.
* [[Previous Player Character Cameo|Red]] from ''[[Pokémon Gold and Silver]]'' speaks only in ellipses, as a nod to [[Heroic Mime|his role]] in the [[Pokémon Red and Blue|previous games]].
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** An NPC, Leder, never utters a single word and people acknowledge it. {{spoiler|When Leder DOES speak, he reveals an [[Awful Truth]] to Lucas about the history of the island, revealing how everyone on the island was brainwashed to prevent a second catastrophe from happening.}}
* The player character from ''[[Dark Souls]]'' is never heard to speak. However, he/she can respond yes or no to questions, and dialogue from other characters implies that they do in fact speak. For example, [[The Woobie|Quelaag's Sister's]] dialogue implies that [[Iron Woobie|the player character]] [[Not So Stoic|is]] [[Player Punch|crying]].
* ''[[Golden Sun]]'' player characters are traditionally limited to pantomime and nodding/shaking yes or no to questions (which always seem to end in "[[But Thou Must!]]")... but [[Heroic Mime|only when you're playing as them]]. In the first game, Felix is very aloof toward the player characters but a devoted protector to the hostages, and Isaac is
** ''[[Golden Sun: Dark Dawn]]'' continues the trend, but plays with it a bit more. Matthew ([[Punny Name|"Mut"]] in the Japanese versions) is far more expressive than his predecessors thanks partly to the new emoticon reactions, and in the American version he even has a [[Precision F-Strike|rather specific reaction]] to {{spoiler|encountering Arcanus in the final dungeon}}. However, the dialogue his friends have around him [[Lampshade Hanging|mentions]] that he is this in-universe, to the point of being reluctant to introduce himself when asked.
{{quote|That's Matthew. He doesn't talk much.}}
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* Jack from ''[[Penny and Aggie]]'' talks when he needs to, but hardly ever needs to.
** Michelle however is most certainly [http://www.pennyandaggie.com/index.php?p=1013 NOT Silent Bob.]
* Punch, one of the Heterodyne Boys' creations and assistants, in ''[[Girl Genius]]'', was unable to speak. Heterodyne shows often characterized him as [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20050914 "big, slow, and stupid," but in truth he was smart, strong, loyal, kind, and dignified,] and he and his counterpart Judy had no trouble
* Mr. Stinky, one of two characters in ''[http://www.flyingmanandfriends.com/ Flying Man and Friends]'', does not speak, nor does he use thought bubbles. But Flying Man somehow still manages to carry on conversations with him.
* Ragara Karen from "[[Keychain of Creation]]" traded her voice to Berengire, the Weaver of Voices.
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