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== Pro Wrestling ==
* "The Shooter" Dean Malenko in the original ECW NEVER spoke, usually having a mouthpiece (Jason, Shane Douglas). At times this was played up in promos, such as when Douglas noted that Malenko was very happy after winning a title, and for his victory speech... he said nothing (even as Douglas held the microphone to his mouth). Of course, this made it an even bigger event after Dean's and [[Eddie Guerrero]]'s last match in ECW when he asked for the mike and gave a farewell speech.
* [[Wrestler/Kane (wrestling)|Kane]] was this trope for a while after debuting at ''Bad Blood'' in 1997. He helped to cement his role as a silent badass monster. Over the years, he slowly found himself capable of speaking more and more usually during face runs in order to humanize him which eventually culminated years later when he unmasked. First, he started talking with a voice box when he challenged [[Stone Cold Steve Austin]] to a First Blood match in 1998. Later, he revealed he could make noise when he let out an animalistic yell over a downed ally (X-Pac... or was it [[Chyna]]? This troper can't remember...) Then, finally, they had Kane speak on his own - and, yes, his words were "suck it."
** [[TNA]] later repeated the basic [[Suddenly Voiced]] gimmick with Abyss.
* Countless "evil foreigners", mostly of the Samoan or jungle variety (Wild Samoans, Kamala, Abdullah the Butcher, et al). Save for the occasional primal moaning, of course.
** Vladimir Kozlov passed through a fascinating progression of this. He started out never speaking at all (which was also emphasized by his ring entrance, which featured no music or sound). Eventually he got a musical theme and began speaking, but he could only say things in Russian with the occasional English phrase. Now he speaks in English (with a Russian accent) pretty much exclusively, but still doesn't talk all that much.
* [[Wrestler/Sting (wrestling)|Sting]] took a vow of silence in [[WCW]] during the third quarter of 1996 (right after the New World Order hired an impostor Sting to frame the real Sting for a heinous act) and would not speak again until very late in 1997 - and that was only out of anger at being stripped of the WCW Championship.
* Hornswoggle, the mischievous leprechaun, has been around since 2006 and has only spoken a handful of times since then. The first time was in 2007, when he expressed his fear of the Little Boogeyman by saying (among other things), [[Hypocritical Humor|"Little people are scary!"]] Subsequent appearances primarily showed him being unable to talk unless he tentatively mimicked the words of others, such as when [[Christian]] got him to shout, "MOOSE!" at Vickie Guerrero.
** Except now he's able to talk, thanks to a wish from Santa (yes, really).
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