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* Yuya's classmate in the ''[[Risky☆Safety]]'' anime, to the point where no seiyuu was ever cast for her character. When she finally gets [[A Day in the Limelight]], the episode is presented as a [[Silent Movie]] complete with intertitles.
* Komi from ''[[Komi Can't Communicate]]''. As the title suggests, she has an [[Ambiguous Disorder]] that makes her unwilling or unable to speak to others. She can talk if she has to, but it takes a lot of effort on her part.
* Kawasaki [[Spell My Name with an "S"|Raimu/Lime]] from ''[[Bakuon!!]]'' isn't mute (there's at least one moment where she steps away from the action to take a cell phone call), but she never speaks on screen and resorts to [[Talking with Signs|written notes]] when she has to communicate.
== [[Comic Books]] ==
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* The Thin Man, played by Crispin Glover, in the ''[[Charlie's Angels]]'' films.
* ''[[The View Askewniverse]]''/''New Jersey Trilogy'' movies by Kevin Smith
** Silent Bob, who [[The Silent Bob|earns his nickname]]. If you pull the string on Silent Bob's action figure, nothing happens. Each film has about one instance of him talking, ranging from a profound monologue (''Clerks'') to an Indiana Jones impression after throwing someone off a train (''Dogma'') to him just finally losing it with Jay's stupidity (''Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back''). The trend is subverted in ''Clerks II'': {{spoiler|When in jail at the end and having to figure out what to do Jay says to Bob, "That's your cue man!" To which Bob tries to think out something and just shrugs off with a "I've got nothing"}}.
*** In ''[[Chasing Amy]]'' he starts gearing up for his speech when Jay gripes that, oh look, Bob's opening his mouth, motherfucker thinks that just because he never says anything that one time he motherfucking says something he thinks it's so motherfucking profound. Bob points out that he at least has a leg up on Jay, who talks all the time and yet has never said anything remotely meaningful.
** God, in ''Dogma'', since living humans would die instantly if they ever heard her speak out loud; the Metatron has to speak for her.
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* Harpo of the [[Marx Brothers]] built his professional persona around pantomime. As a youth, his Uncle Al wrote him a vaudeville part that was silent, but Harpo insisted on ad-libbing some lines. Afterwards, he read a review that said his excellent pantomime was spoiled once he started talking. Thereafter, he never spoke in a performance again, and very rarely allowed his voice to be recorded. However, he does audibly sneeze in ''At the Circus'' and might be harmonizing "Sweet Adeline" with his brothers in ''Monkey Business''.
** According to Joe Adamson in ''Groucho, Harpo, Chico and Sometimes Zeppo: A Celebration of the Marx Brothers'', the producers of their next-to-last feature, ''A Night in Casablanca'', wanted to give Harpo a single spoken line—a scream of "Murder!"—so they could promote the film with "Harpo Speaks!" Harpo listened to the proposal, thought it through, and shook his head. (However, he did like the proposed tagline enough to use it as the title of his autobiography.)
** If you're curious what Harpo sounded like, some recordings of his voice can be found [https://
* Stanley, the title character in [[Jerry Lewis]]' ''The Bell Boy'', doesn't say a word until the very end of the film (although Lewis, in a dual role, also appears as himself and speaks while doing so).
* Lane's super-genius kid brother Badger in ''[[Better Off Dead]]'' never says a word on-screen, which doesn't seem to keep him from picking up trashy women. There's also a young Asian immigrant who never speaks because he doesn't know any English - although his brother does, and talks like Howard Cosell, thanks to repeated viewings of ''[[Wide World of Sports]]''.
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* ''[[Bittersweet Candy Bowl]]'' has Amaya.
* Erma, from ''[[Erma]]'' - in over 250 strips, she's had one speech bubble - and it didn't have any words in it.
* ''[[Outsider]]'': Fireblade is staunchly mute. [[Word of God]] says that this is because her caste, the telekinetic berserkers known as Teidar, effectively has a vow of silence; they speak only to issue a challenge to fight, communicating telepathically otherwise.
== [[Web Original]] ==
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** The Joker has Punch and Judy, two hulking musclemen dressed like clowns. In fact, when Clayface disguises himself as them and ''does'' speak, the Joker quickly smells a rat.
** The Penguin has the Kabuki Twins, two female assassins. Given their blind loyalty to him and how no bare flesh is ever seen on either of them, some have speculated that they may be robots, or even mutated birds that he created using his mastery of orinthology.
* Ernie the Giant Chicken in ''[[Family Guy]]''; he can talk, but only does so in one episode. Of course, most of his appearances focus on his epic and destructive fights with Peter, and Peter doesn't have much dialogue there either.
== [[Other Media]] ==
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