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== Anime ==
* In the ''[[Pokémon (Animeanime)|Pokémon]]'' anime, Meowth of Team Rocket translates for all the other Pokémon, especially in episodes or shorts where the trainers aren't around for the day or where Ash and friends are forced to cooperate with the Team Rocket trio. Most of the time, though, he translates for the Rocket trio's other Pokémon.
* Kaname can understand whatever Sosuke is saying in his Bonta-Kun suit in ''[[Full Metal Panic]]'', despite the voice box glitch that makes everything comes out as "Fumoffu!"
 
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* In [[The Marx Brothers]], Chico translated for Harpo.
* The native-American gophers in shorts between ''Underdog'' cartoons-- one talks like Tonto, but translates for the other who speaks Indian gibberish.
* Toyed with in ''[[Four Weddings and Aa Funeral]]'', with Charles and his deafmute brother David. The time he has to translate what David says, it's when {{spoiler|he acts as Charles's best man during his wedding to Henrietta... ''and objects to the union in sign language''.}} [[Crowning Moment of Funny|Predictably]], [[Hilarity Ensues]].
* Pseudolous, [[Butt Monkey]] and [[Love Interest]] of the [[Hot Amazon]] Gymnasia in ''[[A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum]]''. After meeting for the first time his love intest ''Gymnasia the Silent'', a towering blonde amazon incapable of speech and expressing herself in oddly mismatched pantomimes, he reveals that her gestures are actually an highly organized form of sign language, and he's the only character of screen able to grasp it. Everyone else thought Gymnasia as incapable of expressing at all.
* Used in ''Love Potion no. 9''. When the female lead, Diane, gets a sample of the Love Potion no. 8, she receives the power of a [[Compelling Voice]], of a sexual nature and working only with the opposite sex. Upon entrancing a rich mook, to avoid [[Blessed Withwith Suck|the potential hassles of being chased, harassed or desired by every single man at her speaking distance]], she cleverly puts the mook under the assumption she just enjoys [[Cute Mute|"play the mute game"]], that is using a simplified form of [[Hand Signals|sign language while in public]], and letting him graciously act as her mouthpiece.
* Mr. Cotton's parrot in ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]'' is something like this, even though Mr. Cotton himself doesn't speak at all (because his tongue has been cut out).
 
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"That is highly inelegant," Antoninus remarked.<br />
"But mostly accurate," Empodicles added. }}
* A running gag in ''[[Jeeves and Wooster (Literaturenovel)|Jeeves and Wooster]]'' is that Bertie has to translate whatever Jeeves is saying for the benefit of one of his "pals", most of whom are [[Upperclass Twit|Upper Class Twits]].
{{quote| "[[Zany Scheme|The scheme I would suggest]] cannot fail of success, but it has what may seem to you a drawback, sir, in that it requires a certain financial outlay."<br />
"He means," I translated to Corky, "that [[Layman's Terms|he has got a pippin of an idea, but it's going to cost a bit]]." }}
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== Live Action TV ==
* ''[[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers]]'': Trini, is this to Billy. After Trini left the show, Billy lost the need for this, with the writers toning done his [[Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness]] along with his general nerdness.
* In the ''[[Star Trek: theThe Next Generation]]'' episode ''Loud As A Whisper'', Riva, a famous negotiator, is born deaf and mute (as are all members of his race's royal family). He has what he calls a chorus, three telepaths who speak for him, each one representing an aspect of his personality: Scholar/Artist, Passion/Warrior, and Harmony/Wisdom. When his chorus is killed, he is forced to speak by sign language. Data then takes on the role, due to his ability to learn and master 5 sign languages in a few seconds.
** Also in ''[[Star Trek: theThe Next Generation]]'': Geordi is sometimes the [[Techno Babble]] translator for Data, less often it's the other way around. Worth nothing with the Geordi/Data interaction in ''[[Star Trek: theThe Next Generation]]'' is that Geordi translates the Technobabble that Data gives to the rest of the crew and also explains the meaning behind various human behaviors and idioms to Data, which might as well be a foreign language to Data due to him being an android. Geordi essentially does double-duty in this role.
* In ''[[The Big Bang Theory]]'', Leonard spends much of his time translating Sheldon's sayings (and explaining his habits) to Penny and other strangers.
* In ''[[The Tenth Kingdom]]'', Tony is the only one who can understand what Wendell (who was turned into a dog) is saying.
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Reid: The level of overkill indicates an Unsub in a psychotic break. Multiple Unsubs in violent psychotic breaks operating in the exact same location is exceedingly unlikely.<br />
Morgan: Yeah. It's probably one guy. }}
* Daphne (who signs, reads lips, and speaks) somewhat operates as this literally for Emmett (who signs, apparently does read lips, but doesn't speak) on ''[[Switched At Birth (TV)|Switched Atat Birth]]''.
* The comedy/magic duo Rebo & Zooty in ''[[Babylon Five|Babylon 5]]'', played by the [[Real Life]] comedians/magicians [[Penn & Teller]]. Zotty doesn't speak but wears a machine that they claim translates his thoughts. Rebo usually interprets for him.
 
 
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* In the new ''[[Strawberry Shortcake]]'' stories, Blueberry Muffin does this for Longface Caterpillar.
* Scarlett to Snake Eyes who is [[The Voiceless]] in ''[[G.I. Joe: Renegades]]''.
* Raf is the one who interprets Bumblebee for the other kids in ''[[Transformers Prime]]''. How he intuitively understands binary clicks just as well as he does English is not explained.
* Alan is this for his brother [[Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness|Tom]] on ''[[The Amazing Chan and The Chan Clan]]'':
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'''Suzie''': Alan?<br />
'''Alan''': This is where they make magic tricks. }}
* Zilly, for Klunk, in ''[[Dastardly and Muttley Inin Their Flying Machines]]''.
 
 
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