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The Silent Bob

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The Silent Bob	comment	A speechless (or nearly speechless) Stoic who can hold entire conversations without saying a word. Usually, they'll look soulfully, blink, raise an eyebrow, or make another otherwise minuscule gesture and get their point across. In fact, they're usually better at communicating nonverbally than most of us are at communicating verbally. This can overlap with any stereotypically quiet character type: The Voiceless, The Quiet One, the Silent Snarker, or the Heroic Mime. What matters is their uncanny ability to communicate complex thoughts non-verbally. This can be done to preserve the badass factor of a speechless character without sacrificing his ability to communicate. Or it can be played for laughs, with other characters responding to the quiet guy's looks as if they're long, poignant soliloquies on the nature of love, life, or liberty. They may even inspire the odd Placebo Eureka Moment. More often than not, it turns into a Bilingual Dialogue with the other person just not talking. Another aspect of this trope is that it's normally incredibly significant when these characters speak; either they have something profound to say which will give the heroes incredibly useful insight, or another character's irritant tendencies are thrown into sharp relief when they manage to push The Stoic to the breaking point and he loses his temper, or the character's silence is a joke, and whatever they have to say is the punchline thereof. No matter which it is, the fact is that the other characters always find it to be of note when the Silent Bob does deign to speak. Very commonly a trait of the Optional Party Member, as he/she is often added at the last minute or as an extra feature in a port (or is deemed simply too much trouble to add to the script) and is given very little or no dialogue. However, what little they do say, no matter how groundbreaking or important to the plot it is, is completely ignored, because it is usually just inserted between other characters' speech in cutscenes. This trope is named for Silent Bob, a character played by director Kevin Smith in all of The View Askewniverse movies, from Clerks to Jay and Silent Bob Reboot, who would only speak once or twice per movie, and instead said volumes with silence. Compare The Speechless, The Voiceless, The Quiet One, and Silent Partner. Examples
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The Silent Bob / int_12c30b45	comment	Balabalalde in the "Improfanfic" series Dark Heart High has so many bandage shaped Power Limiters over his entire body and face, he communicates exclusively by blinking his right eye and moving his head. This is played straight and funny throughout the series.
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The Silent Bob / int_139da7b9	comment	The player character in Zettai Hero Project never speaks a word of dialogue, but he can say volumes with a single Sweat Drop.
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The Silent Bob / int_14494034	comment	Abraxas (Hrodvitnon): In this Godzilla MonsterVerse fanfiction; whilst the Titans' Animal Talk is now able to be translated through scenes being told from their POVs and through Vivienne's unlocked abilities, the mute human Lubyov communicates solely through her facial and body language.
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The Silent Bob / int_15457357	comment	Pete the Cat on Pete the Cat. He normally isn't even depicted with a visible mouth, but his friends can usually still understand what he's trying to tell them. He usually talks or sings about Once per Episode, generally to express the episode's Aesop.
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The Silent Bob / int_1556da65	comment	PokÃ©mon Detective Pikachu: Pikachu can communicate with PokÃ©mon just fine, but Mr. Mime only speaks in gestures, being based on mime and all. Thus, Tim is capable of understanding what Mr. Mime is telling them.
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The Silent Bob / int_159a53b	comment	Lil' Char and the Gang: Despite Bulbasaur only speaking in PokÃ©mon Speak, his friends can understand him perfectly. It seems like the older 'mons have more trouble, though.
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The Silent Bob / int_15f82a09	comment	In the 2000AD strip Nikolai Dante, Nikolai's half-brother Viktor is believed to be mute. Not so. He completes the longest known Silent Bob in comics history by remaining speechless for fifteen years, saying his first and last words 6 episodes before the end of the saga: "Goodbye, Nikolai." The only other sounds he's made are belches and screeches when he activates his Weapons Crest, turning himself into a huge Romanov Eagle.
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The Silent Bob / int_1858fe06	comment	Bark the Polarbear, a long-forgotten character from the video games, was reintroduced in the Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics) 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. Not too different from Jay and Silent Bob, of course.
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The Silent Bob / int_1ae51709	comment	Mr. Funny in The Mr. Men Show. He only honks during Season 2 of the show run.
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The Silent Bob / int_1b386512	comment	Satsuki from Ranma Â½. Only her fellow Yamato Nadeshiko Kasumi clearly understands what she says.
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The Silent Bob / int_1cc09117	comment	Enryu, a bodyguard/shinigami from a Bleach Filler Arc. One wonders how a Silent Bob would release his zanpakuto... He eventually does, and his voice is approximately four octaves above a seven year old girl's.
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The Silent Bob / int_1f351ebc	comment	SongBird Symphony: Egbert, an egg with only two feet poking out. Player Character Birb always answers as if Egbert talked.
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The Silent Bob / int_2126592a	comment	Saki Maruyama from Girls und Panzer, who was compeletely silent until the very last episode, where she had a single line.
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The Silent Bob / int_2179055c	comment	Freddy from Cromartie High School never utters a word (which is why Kamiyama had to give him his name) He seems to communicate mainly through stares. Even when he "sings", he just basically stands there with a mic posing with his mouth open.
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The Silent Bob / int_21a2eb09	comment	Ms. Mimi in one episode Angelina Ballerina: The Next Steps communicates with the titular character and her friends through writing notes, head shakes, and music. All because she has laryngitis. In fact, early in the episode, an yogurt selling mouse greets Angelina and Vici by using a bell in his cart and waving his hand on them.
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The Silent Bob / int_222c2051	comment	Casey on Chuck is The Silent Bob by comparison with the rest of the cast. His tendency to respond to things that irritate, anger or amuse (mostly the first two) him with grunts is lampshaded frequently, to the point that Chuck even has a coding system to identify what a particular grunt means. Adam Baldwin is also a master with his facial expressions, and Casey is hilariously terrifying when his Berserk Button is being pushed (see Casey's steadily building rage when Morgan has to anger him to break his affliction with "couch lock" in "Chuck Versus the Couch Lock." He goes from paralyzed to Unstoppable Rage without being able to move or speak). Additionally, Casey can also be incredibly profound when he does break his silence on matters such as Chuck and Sarah's relationship.
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The Silent Bob / int_230ec9cf	comment	Effy from Skins; her tongue might have loosened a bit in the second season (after her lines in the first involved, basically, one cut-off monologue and a scream), but expressive tics and eyebrow twitches are still a major part of her communication strategy.
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The Silent Bob / int_23553960	comment	Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain has Quiet, a Cold Sniper who, throughout most of the game, never speaks a word. The most vocalization she is observed doing is humming while sniping. This is not because she can't speak, but because she is infected with an English language-attuned strain of vocal cord parasites, a bioweapon that could possibly destroy the world by robbing it of its most common language if she ever spoke in English. The most she talks is with Code Talker in Navajo, and the one time she is forced to speak in English to save Snake's life, she immediately disappears into the desert to ensure her parasites die with her.
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The Silent Bob / int_25818ae2	comment	From October 1996 to January 1998, Sting never spoke on camera to add mystique to his new Crow-esque persona.
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The Silent Bob / int_261c8d3f	comment	In The Simpsons episode "Lisa's Wedding", teenage Maggie is described as being a chatterbox — but then she merely rolls her eyes at her father in silence. She's also supposed to have an angelic singing voice, but she gets cut off just as she's preparing to do so. All the audience gets is the sound of her inhaling. Lampshaded in "Three Gays of the Condo" where Homer says that his only worthwhile creation was Lisa. When Maggie takes offense, Homer replies with "Prove me wrong, Silent Bob." Notably, Maggie has said exactly two words in actually canonical episodes: her first word, "Daddy" and later, "Ja." Don't forget when the kids were fostered by the Flanders and nearly baptized...on the way to the river, Maggie spins her head around ala The Exorcist and says "Daddily doodily!" "Sequel?" Maggie can Silent Bob with the best of them, canon be damned.
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The Silent Bob / int_291e9857	comment	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, Quelaag's Sister's dialogue implies that the player character is crying.
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The Silent Bob / int_29e77392	comment	Death's skeletons in Horrible Histories.
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The Silent Bob / int_2c082d05	comment	Jason Voorhees from Friday the 13th. This is quite popular in slasher movies, as Michael Myers from Halloween has it too. Michael does at one point say something, only in the much reviled Rob Zombie remake sequel. It's "Die". (A monster is only truly scary if there is nothing humanizing about it. They need to stay silent or become defeatable, or worse, relatable.)
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The Silent Bob / int_2f3aa7ef	comment	My Little Pony: My Little Pony 'n Friends: In "Rescue at Midnight Castle", Habbit, the Moochick's long-suffering rabbit assistant, never speaks out loud, and communicates purely through body languages, pointing, tapping the Moochick's shoulder and a variety of exasperated facial expressions. My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: DJ Pon-3 is depicted this way in her Rainbow Rocks animated short as well as the film itself, communicating solely with gestures. In the novelization, she only talks through text messages, possibly due to actually being The Speechless. The Lower-Deck Episode shows that the same goes for her main universe counterpart as well.
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The Silent Bob / int_32a01588	comment	Gideon in Pinocchio.
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The Silent Bob / int_37a15a81	comment	The Gone-Away World by Nick Harkaway features an entire troupe of literal Heroic Mimes, only one of whom ever speaks as he's the designated communicator.
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The Silent Bob / int_37aadfaa	comment	Hellbound: Hellraiser II: When confronted with the new cenobite almost 75% through the film, Tiffany's first word spoken is "Shit!"
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The Silent Bob / int_3cd90f30	comment	Subverted with Heartfire in Season 4 of Arrested Development. She only communicates through thoughts (which are shown as words in front of her onscreen), but everybody misinterprets her.
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The Silent Bob / int_3d88b6d2	comment	Champions of Far'aus: The Stage Thief doesn't speak (likely to help conceal their identity), even with the member of Sarengal's cult they work with. Since their face is concealed, they can't use facial expressions to convey how they feel either, so they have to use body language and exaggerated movements to get their point across, such as tapping their feet impatiently when they expect to be payed by the cultist inspecting their latest batch of stolen loot.
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The Silent Bob / int_3f5f4ea2	comment	Mini-Me from the Austin Powers films. You might think he's The Voiceless (mostly he just makes the occasional squeal), but when performing Just the Two of Us, he speaks a single line "You and I", in an absurdly deep voice.
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The Silent Bob / int_427a40da	comment	Seki of My Neighbor Seki will grunt and make other noises as he gets into his elaborate desktop games, but he has yet to have a word of dialogue (though he is apparently capable of speaking off-camera). A rare example of a main character (and the title character at that!) who doesn't speak. It evidently runs in the family as his mother and sister are also never shown speaking.
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The Silent Bob / int_4407fa9a	comment	Golden Sun: Dark Dawn continues the trend, but plays with it a bit more. Matthew ("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 rather specific reaction to encountering Arcanus in the final dungeon. However, the dialogue his friends have around him mentions that he is this in-universe, to the point of being reluctant to introduce himself when asked.
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The Silent Bob / int_455e3038	comment	King of the Hill: Boomhauer isn't silent, exactly, but his complete and utter unintelligibility goes unnoticed by most characters, especially Hank, who according to Bobby often quotes Boomhauer's wisdom.
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The Silent Bob / int_45fddd2b	comment	Silent Bob, of course! Since he's played by Kevin Smith (the writer and director of the Askewniverse films), he has the fewest lines to memorize and some of the best dialogue, whether it's getting in a good joke, making with the wisdom, or saving the day. But the majority of the time, he just won't speak, which tends to frustrate Jay, as Bob is taciturn and the smart one. It never seems to occur to Jay that Bob is usually silent because Jay never shuts up and Bob can't get a word in edgewise. Jay, possibly as a result of spending so much time around Bob, doesn't quite believe in the notion that what Bob says is profound just because he's sparing with his words; he finds Bob's speech in Chasing Amy (describing an experience of his own that mirrors Ben Affleck's situation and cautioning him against making the same mistake) largely pretentious, and lampshades the profundity aspect of this trope. And in Clerks II, Bob is asked for advice... and "I got nothin'." Bob caps off the gag in Jay and Silent Bob Reboot wherein his only spoken dialogue is reciting/adapting Alec Baldwin's monologue from Glengarry Glen Ross to distract The Klan while Jay saves his daughter and her multi-ethnic friends from being lynched.
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The Silent Bob / int_4776861e	comment	In Theodore Tugboat, some of the docks are characters who only ever say a certain phrase — like "Uh-huh," or "Nope," which often leads to the character facing a moral dilemma in the story extracting profound wisdom.
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The Silent Bob / int_47dfc6f	comment	B from Total Drama Revenge of the Island, is not known for speaking. He even has his own personal interpreter to communicate what he wants to say. Spud from Total Drama Presents: The Ridonculous Race since he and Rock are an Expy of Jay and Silent Bob.
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The Silent Bob / int_4be1bdd0	comment	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 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 The Silent Bob. In The Lost Age, Felix is The Silent Bob, and Isaac's new speaking role reveals that he gets abrasive under pressure. Felix gets a grand total of two lines in TLA, and one of them is a Visible Silence. The other is a mistake (his portrait gets displayed instead of Sheba's in order to say: "Why?"). Golden Sun: Dark Dawn continues the trend, but plays with it a bit more. Matthew ("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 rather specific reaction to encountering Arcanus in the final dungeon. However, the dialogue his friends have around him mentions that he is this in-universe, to the point of being reluctant to introduce himself when asked.
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The Silent Bob / int_4e45b093	comment	The Big Bang Theory plays it straight then subverts it in the The Bow Tie Asymmetry episode in which Amy and Sheldon get married. In that episode Amy's mother played by Kathy Bates never lets her husband played by Teller get a word in edgewise and always answer questions addressed to him in his place. That is until she makes a scene at the wedding and and Penny tells her to zip it. Only then does Mrs Fowler ask her husband to say something and he tells Penny "Thank you."
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The Silent Bob / int_4f1f3628	comment	Norman the Doorman in The Suite Life of Zack & Cody.
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The Silent Bob / int_4f430a54	comment	In Mickey One, the Artist never speaks, but communicates through exaggerated facial expressions and gestures.
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The Silent Bob / int_5082a6a	comment	In The Three Musketeers, Athos has shades of this. He's even trained his manservant to respond to entirely nonverbal cues and gestures.
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The Silent Bob / int_50b9086a	comment	Ready Jet Go!: Sunspot and Moonbeam do not talk, but use body language and sound effects to communicate.
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The Silent Bob / int_513e22f6	comment	Scandinavia and the World: Finland rarely speaks, and if he does, it's Finnish, unless Sister Sweden forces him to or he's in the sauna.
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The Silent Bob / int_535c15bf	comment	Basil Hoffman's character in My Favorite Year.
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The Silent Bob / int_57ad879c	comment	Jay, possibly as a result of spending so much time around Bob, doesn't quite believe in the notion that what Bob says is profound just because he's sparing with his words; he finds Bob's speech in Chasing Amy (describing an experience of his own that mirrors Ben Affleck's situation and cautioning him against making the same mistake) largely pretentious, and lampshades the profundity aspect of this trope.
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The Silent Bob / int_5cad8158	comment	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 mute — yet Matt and Melina understand him perfectly.
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The Silent Bob / int_5ed98c03	comment	Komi from Komi Can't Communicate hardly ever talks out loud because of her overwhelming social anxiety. It's a common trait on her father's side of the family. Her father is just as silent as she is, and for much the same reason. Her brother Shousuke, on the other hand, is perfectly capable of communicating, he just actively chooses not to. Komi's grandmother is similarly stoic, but as the family matriarch is more prone to being assertive than her son and grandchildren.
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The Silent Bob / int_5f279ff8	comment	Ume, the sound-effects man in Android Announcer Maico 2010, communicates solely by using his sound-effects machine.
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The Silent Bob / int_6348f5cf	comment	Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha ViVid has Kris, Vivio's bunny plushie Device. Unlike most other Devices, Kris isn't capable of speech. This does not stop it from communicating properly with everyone, somehow managing to convey complex ideas through a series of stares and twitches.
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The Silent Bob / int_65016f12	comment	Giorgio, the silent limousine driver in Roundabout never speaks and only communicates with facial expressions, eye rolling, eyebrow raising, and silent sighing. Everyone understands her perfectly without her saying a single word.
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The Silent Bob / int_6658d35c	comment	Lucky in Waiting for Godot is silent through most of the play, until he is asked to 'think', when he issues forth a three page speech of fractured philosophical gibberish.
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The Silent Bob / int_6bbde1c8	comment	Taken very literally in Overwatch. Ashe's robot butler is named B.O.B. and doesn't talk, but is rather expressive with his body language and blinking.
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The Silent Bob / int_6c4031ea	comment	Dopey in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
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The Silent Bob / int_6d3911ef	comment	Edgar Fenn from Spirits of Anglerwood Forest. He has full conversations with numerous characters using only his expressions. He only speaks twice, but we don't actually hear him, instead hearing other characters repeat what he just said.
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The Silent Bob / int_6dcfae40	comment	The voice of Black Bolt of The Inhumans is immensely destructive and so he must never make even the tiniest sound if he's not trying to blow something up real good. However, he's mastered body language so well that he can communicate perfectly — many people are surprised by how well they understand him. (The best at understanding him is his wife and queen Medusa, who tends to speak for him most of the time in front of anyone who has problems.) This depends very much on the writer. Sometimes, Black Bolt is this; other times, he uses a sophisticated, complex sign language. Either way, his queen and wife is the best as understanding and translating for him.
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The Silent Bob / int_718d36e1	comment	Gangsta. has the Silent Nicolas, who does occasionally talk but vastly prefers not to as a deaf man. Instead he mostly communicates via sign language.
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The Silent Bob / int_72262aee	comment	A minor character from the Avatar: The Last Airbender series, called Longshot. He's an expert archer who is part of Jet's group. At first he's just a background character, but when Jet reappears in Season 2, intent on reforming himself and making a new life, Longshot is one of only two characters from the group with him, and although he never speaks the others frequently react to his looks as though he does. (Often with replies like "That's deep", or "Good point", and so on.) Probably a bit of a Silent Bob homage. (Like Bob, he does break his silence, but only at the very end, when Jet is dying and he tells the main character's group to go ahead of them and catch the Evil Chancellor responsible.) This trope was specifically mentioned in the Avatar: The Abridged Series and called "Silent Bob Syndrome". Because he couldn't object, Jet called him by whatever insulting name he could think up.
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The Silent Bob / int_7385bc4d	comment	Doranichov from The Doraemons can't speak, but he usually communicates with gestures, and his exact contents of "speech" are depicted using pictures rather than text.
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The Silent Bob / int_73d7930f	comment	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 mob — but he has no audible lines; it's just crowd noise. Expanded Universe material goes on to establish that, once he gets talking, the trick is getting him to shut up. The Silent Bob is actually a Hat for one of the races in in Star Trek; exemplified by Grand Negus Zek's personal valet Maihar'du who has taken a vow of silence to anyone other than his lord. This is seen as quite common for the Hupyrian species.
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The Silent Bob / int_73f5b8e2	comment	In The Black Company there's Silent. He has some kind of vow of silence, which he breaks but once naming the lady and thus sealing her magic power.
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The Silent Bob / int_755b343f	comment	In the Halo Expanded Universe novel Halo: Ghosts of Onyx, there's a character named Lucy, who is a Spartan-III of Beta Company. One of the only two survivors of the operation that saw the entirety of Beta Company wiped out except for her and one other male Spartan, she has been unable to speak since then, which is chalked up to post-traumatic stress. Nonetheless, she's still an effective officer and trainer who knows how to get her point across. In Halo: Glasslands she finally speaks, after punching Dr. Halsey in the face.
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The Silent Bob / int_755fadab	comment	Unlike the original novels, where Kuyou Suou is incomprehensible, in You Got HaruhiRolled! she is understood just fine, despite having long underscores before and after all her words. This has stopped now that the 10th and 11th novels are released and she now speaks normally in canon.
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The Silent Bob / int_792239e5	comment	Volt is this in Tales of Symphonia, speaking only in Visible Silence and not even making noise during his fight (aside from the lightning strikes that occur when he attacks.) He also doubles as The Unintelligible, since everyone acknowledges that he's indeed communicating, but only Raine can actually understand what he's "saying".
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The Silent Bob / int_7988cb68	comment	Inverted by the Elcor from Mass Effect. Their body language is too subtle for any other species to detect (and their voices utterly monotone), so they must verbally declare each and every emotion.
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The Silent Bob / int_799145cf	comment	Keychain of Creation: Ragara Karen traded her voice to Berengire, the Weaver of Voices.
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The Silent Bob / int_7b0ba742	comment	Midnight Mark from The Boat That Rocked. Most of his communication involves lighting a cigarette.
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The Silent Bob / int_7c038c18	comment	Phineas and Ferb: Ferb Fletcher, who despite being a main character, only speaks about once or twice per episode. He also rarely shows facial expressions, but can usually be interpreted by others, especially his brother Phineas. Sometimes they do fail to, though, usually for humorous effect. Perry is an even better example, given that he can't speak, only purr. And, though Doofenshmirtz has shown to be able to understand what he "says", Perry is mostly just understood by facial expressions and some small actions (like greeting with his hat, pointing or even facepalming). In the episode "Minor Monogram," however, Doof expressly states that he pretends Perry is talking about recent movies he's seen.
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The Silent Bob / int_7fc4cb80	comment	Monica in Don Jon is a classic Silent Bob, communicating mostly by facial expressions (mainly eye-rolls) before finally saying something profound near the end.
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The Silent Bob / int_80942169	comment	Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide: Buzz Rodriguez. he doesn't speak until the Volunteering episode, mostly due to things being fine up to that point.
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The Silent Bob / int_8258e260	comment	Super Mario Bros.: Mario is possibly the epitome of this trope in Paper Mario. All he has to do is open his mouth for three seconds to say a whole sentence. It gets to ridiculous extremes in Super Mario RPG where Mario can not only bounce all over the place and flail his arms about to tell his side of the story, he can shapeshift into other characters as he explains the situation.
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The Silent Bob / int_85a5a3b9	comment	In Transformers: Prime, Soundwave rarely says anything, but on occasion will play back a voice clip of another character talking (with some distortion reminiscent of G1 Soundwave's voice). He finally talks after being captured by the Autobots, right before crashing his own hard drive.
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The Silent Bob / int_86c3beca	comment	Girl Genius: Punch, one of the Heterodyne Boys' creations and assistants, was unable to speak. Heterodyne shows often characterized him as "big, slow, and stupid," but in truth he was smart, strong, loyal, kind, and dignified, and he and his counterpart Judy had no trouble communicating. Now that Gil fixed him, he can talk, but he won't shut up.
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The Silent Bob / int_887acd55	comment	Tran in New Girl manages to be a Magical Asian and Nick identifies him as his best friend, despite uttering only one sentence on-screen, ever.
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The Silent Bob / int_8889af94	comment	Darryl and Darryl from Newhart, except in the series finale.
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The Silent Bob / int_8aaeda7e	comment	MonsterVerse: Many of the more prominent Kaiju/Titans, though bestial, have clearly-realized personalities which are communicated through their actions, their complex facial emoting, and their overall body language. The more expressive Kaiju include Godzilla and Kong themselves, and also Femuto, Ghidorah and Rodan.
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The Silent Bob / int_8b419fa5	comment	Lackadaisy: Viktor speaks, but communicates more effectively with facial expression. In this preview comic, he and Mordecai have a mild argument. Victor never says a word. Mordecai reacts entirely to Viktor's facial expressions.
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The Silent Bob / int_8d318bad	comment	It gets to ridiculous extremes in Super Mario RPG where Mario can not only bounce all over the place and flail his arms about to tell his side of the story, he can shapeshift into other characters as he explains the situation.
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The Silent Bob / int_8d7f29ec	comment	Matt Rutherford in Glee throughout the first season, he has a total of two lines. He later returns in the final season and says hello to Mercedes and nothing else.
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The Silent Bob / int_8d840259	comment	Giorgy from the SCTV "Hey Giorgy" sketch was a Silent Bob, even using a variation of the Coolidge line "You lose...Comrade!" (see Real Life below)
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The Silent Bob / int_8e0265d8	comment	And in Clerks II, Bob is asked for advice... and "I got nothin'."
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The Silent Bob / int_8e04cc99	comment	Trump Card: This happens whenever Taylor and Tattletale interact. Tattletale's power lets her deduce large amounts of information from extremely tiny amounts of data, so when Taylor is copying that power each of them can convey complex concepts to the other with nothing more than a tiny gesture.
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The Silent Bob / int_91445c96	comment	Bob caps off the gag in Jay and Silent Bob Reboot wherein his only spoken dialogue is reciting/adapting Alec Baldwin's monologue from Glengarry Glen Ross to distract The Klan while Jay saves his daughter and her multi-ethnic friends from being lynched.
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The Silent Bob / int_91935099	comment	Bang-Bang from The Brothers Bloom manages to be a deadpan snarker with only roughly two lines throughout the movie.
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The Silent Bob / int_93fc1d2b	comment	Mario is possibly the epitome of this trope in Paper Mario. All he has to do is open his mouth for three seconds to say a whole sentence.
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The Silent Bob / int_945b7a4f	comment	Tangled: The Series: Angry and Red are two girl thieves that Eugene and Lance rescued from thugs in exchange of their own freedom. Red does not says much, but when she does, it is to deliver an Armor-Piercing Response:
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The Silent Bob / int_9688ee61	comment	Mori-senpai from Ouran High School Host Club is an example of this, though he does speak more often than most silent characters of this type. He communicates often with facial expressions or gestures, and occasionally speaks. What's more, he generally only really speaks to Honey-senpai or when matters concern Honey-senpai.
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The Silent Bob / int_981900a1	comment	Kuroko's Basketball: Mitobe doesn't talk at all, but the second-year members of Seirin High's basketball club can understand what he's trying to convey.
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The Silent Bob / int_9e6cec94	comment	Sphinx in Gone in 60 Seconds (2000). And yes, this involves both a phone call and the odd eloquence at the end of the movie.
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The Silent Bob / int_9fa025d	comment	In Mother 3, the protagonist is always silent. Once they retire the title, they can speak again, and sometimes cutscenes will go back to an earlier conversation and reveal what the now vocal character said. An NPC, Leder, never utters a single word and people acknowledge it. 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 global apocalypse from happening.
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The Silent Bob / int_9fb9bec4	comment	Outsider: A Zig-Zagging Trope for the Loroi as a whole. They generally play it straight, as they rely on their sanzai ability for normal conversation and speak aloud only in unusual circumstances but are quite "vocal" in their facial expressions, body language, and actions. This strip is a prime example, showing Beryl and Cloud's reactions to Fireblade using her TK abilities to manhandle the human main character, Alex Jardin. However, during a space battle, Jardin sees that all the officers are speaking in the Trade Language; Beryl explains that with everything going on, vocal communication is more efficient than sanzai, and its limited range makes vocal communication between ships necessary. Later on, the diplomatic officer Tempo notes that her caste, the Mizol, is trained in spoken language and negotiation, to better serve their functions. Justified by the Unsheathed's traditional vow to not speak outside of danger. Fireblade, the one Unsheathed who is part of the main cast, is yet to speak, but it's very obvious through her body language and actions that she has a low opinion of Jardin and doesn't trust him one iota.
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The Silent Bob / int_a22bb6ad	comment	Brock Lesnar rarely speaks, due to the fact that his voice is a bit too high pitched to be intimidating (and he's not a great talker anyway) so Paul Heyman often serves as his mouthpiece.
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The Silent Bob / int_a4616794	comment	Raincloud from Friendship is Witchcraft. Never speaks, and doesn't even have any expressions (because she's literally a rain cloud), yet she's somehow able to have a "conversation" with Rainbow Dash in her first scene.
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The Silent Bob / int_a6543322	comment	Touhou Journal brings us Reimu, able to hold kindly conversations with other characters without ever speaking a word. There are other characters who are also silent, such as Kisume, fellow miko Sanae, and Unzan, all of which identify very strongly with Reimu. The speaking characters often lampshade this.
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The Silent Bob / int_a77293a6	comment	Varmints: The large, bearded man with a bearskin coat. He doesn't do much talking, but he does laugh at one point.
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The Silent Bob / int_a8a16c81	comment	Strays: Feral is mute, but his wide hand gestures, combined with Unsound Effect, make him perfectly understandable.
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The Silent Bob / int_ad29dc16	comment	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.
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The Silent Bob / int_ae0356e0	comment	Courage the Cowardly Dog: Courage tends to do this when trying to explain something to Eustace or Muriel by shapeshifting into various things. The only sounds he makes in these events are various... grunts, for the lack of a better term. However, he tends to talk normally otherwise.
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The Silent Bob / int_aeb84363	comment	In most live-action adaptations of A Christmas Carol, the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come (the darkest and scariest of the three) never speaks, but gets his point across to Scrooge just fine without doing so.
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The Silent Bob / int_b007da1c	comment	Schumann from Classi9 was never heard or seen saying anything, but his classmates, Liszt and Chopin are perfectly capable of holding a conversation with him.
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The Silent Bob / int_b2ac2311	comment	Snoopy is this in almost every Peanuts animated special and movie, most notably What a Nightmare, Charlie Brown!. Creator Charles Schulz had considered many ways to animate his thoughts into speech, before deciding not to have him speak at all and communicate only in pantomime, which worked out rather well.
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The Silent Bob / int_b46add0d	comment	Silent Keith from the 2010 season of Canada's Worst Handyman was one of these.
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The Silent Bob / int_b5ac5dd2	comment	This trope was specifically mentioned in the Avatar: The Abridged Series and called "Silent Bob Syndrome". Because he couldn't object, Jet called him by whatever insulting name he could think up.
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The Silent Bob / int_b6b6098	comment	In Moshi Monsters there is the chief of the Woolly Green Hoodoos who is said to be "the strong silent type" and "words are not his thing, man".
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The Silent Bob / int_b7e8e4b6	comment	My Little Pony 'n Friends: In "Rescue at Midnight Castle", Habbit, the Moochick's long-suffering rabbit assistant, never speaks out loud, and communicates purely through body languages, pointing, tapping the Moochick's shoulder and a variety of exasperated facial expressions.
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The Silent Bob / int_b94ae31e	comment	Gromit, of Wallace & Gromit fame. While he does not say anything, apart from rare yelp or bark, he remains nonverbal but his single eyebrow speaks volumes.
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The Silent Bob / int_b9fb035	comment	Sharkenstein: Hoskins, the boat driver, doesn't really talk. Rather, her uses hand gestures to communicate.
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The Silent Bob / int_bbe33e8a	comment	Marilyn Whirlwind from Northern Exposure is the extremely laconic foil to the high-strung Dr. Fleischman.
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The Silent Bob / int_bcdcf629	comment	Mayor Edsel from Transformers: Animated, who communicates solely with body language interpreted by his aide. In Transformers: Prime, Soundwave rarely says anything, but on occasion will play back a voice clip of another character talking (with some distortion reminiscent of G1 Soundwave's voice). He finally talks after being captured by the Autobots, right before crashing his own hard drive.
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The Silent Bob / int_bce6ca9a	comment	Assistant of Humanity Has Declined. Though the ability to understand him seems to be limited to "Watashi".
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The Silent Bob / int_bfa1d565	comment	Boston Legal lampshaded this when Denny and Alan had to go before the Supreme Court (naturally played by lookalikes). Denny bets Alan that he can't get Justice Thomas to talk. Alan ends up winning the bet, with his standard behavior that would never fly in a real court.
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The Silent Bob / int_c1a76652	comment	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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The Silent Bob / int_c1d0f909	comment	Killer Croc in Suicide Squad (2016). He snarls frequently, but hardly talks. When he does so, it's either intimidating or hilarious.
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The Silent Bob / int_c2463c55	comment	Kimahri of Final Fantasy X remains silent most of the time, and doesn't say a word for a long time after his initial appearance, so when his mouth opens, you listen. It gets to the point that his first line of dialogue isn't until you're about a quarter of the way through the game (roughly at the 12-hour mark).
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The Silent Bob / int_c4282b71	comment	My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: DJ Pon-3 is depicted this way in her Rainbow Rocks animated short as well as the film itself, communicating solely with gestures. In the novelization, she only talks through text messages, possibly due to actually being The Speechless. The Lower-Deck Episode shows that the same goes for her main universe counterpart as well.
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The Silent Bob / int_c836b8f1	comment	Rongar from The Adventures of Sinbad, although in his case it wasn't exactly optional — he didn't have a tongue.
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The Silent Bob / int_c95e9d87	comment	Up: During the Minor Kidroduction at the start, Carl hardly ever speaks as a child while Ellie hardly stops. Matter of fact, Ellie does all the talking when the two kids are together, and she even claims people who don't talk much are her type. In a case of irony, we never get to hear Ellie's voice as an adult or senior during the montage of Carl and Ellie's married life together.
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The Silent Bob / int_cb802e97	comment	Macross 7 has Veffidas, the drummer of Fire Bomber. She very rarely speaks, and never really emotes, but she seems almost physically incapable of not hitting something with her drumsticks at any given time.
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The Silent Bob / int_cbad9b62	comment	Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Admiral Eisenach somehow manages to command a space fleet through subtle hand gestures. When he does speak, his fellow officers are shocked, sometimes claiming they thought he was mute. The narrator even records the exact date he spoke, just as he does for other galaxy-shaking historical events.
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The Silent Bob / int_cc22fae4	comment	In the musical Once Upon a Mattress, the King has been cursed with muteness. As a result, all his "lines" are delivered by miming. He even features in two songs! But when he does get the chance to speak, boy, does he ever relish in it (the kindest you could say about his wife is that she's a domineering, insufferable shrew. The most accurate you could say about his wife is not fit for public conversation).
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The Silent Bob / int_cf5c0f55	comment	The Suikoden series, with the exception of III, has all of it's heroes as Heroic Mimes, their only emotion readable by expressions on their faces. While the first two games are limited by PSX graphics, they do show surprise and confusion. Suikoden V, however, gives the main character a wide variety of expressions and conveys his emotions with his only dialogue being player choices.
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The Silent Bob / int_d2d6de50	comment	Ocean's Eleven and sequels has Yen. Being Chinese, he doesn't know English (yet somehow the others are just OK with his Mandarin...). And most of the times where he does speak, swearing will be involved.
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The Silent Bob / int_d47f11e0	comment	Nina Tanleven: The majority of the ghosts in the series make no sounds, or at most a cry of rage or sorrow, getting their points across by mere gestures and expressions. Played with by Alida Fletcher in The Ghost in the Big Brass Bed, the first ghost whom Chris and Nine have met that actually speaks — they hear her calling for her father, but she never speaks directly to them, instead again relying on gestures and expressions. Also played with by Phoebe Watson, Alidaâ€™s younger sister, whose ghost speaks a single word right after she dies but otherwise just communicates through action.
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The Silent Bob / int_d603791d	comment	The Sandman aka "Sandy" from Rise of the Guardians talks by making tiny images out of sand above his head. The other characters understand what he's saying... most of the time.
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The Silent Bob / int_d62bc996	comment	In Tom and Jerry, both Tom and Jerry almost never speak in the shorts, usually leaving the talking to other characters. There were occasional times where both protagonists would speak, usually briefly as a gag or when singing. A particular gag about their voices was they were never consistent. Tom often switched from having the smooth voice of a Jazz musician, an eerie echoing voice, or a stereotypical Simpleton Voice, sometimes all in the same cartoon. In one short, Jerry narrates the story about Tom losing the love of his life in the voice of an older gentleman.
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The Silent Bob / int_d70bc477	comment	Susan the Silent in Finian's Rainbow, who communicates through dance. She finally talks near the end of the show, when a wish makes it possible for her.
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The Silent Bob / int_d7c4626a	comment	In The Sandman (1989) and Lucifer, Duma, the Angel of Silence, communicates this way with others. It's implied that he might be using a form of telepathy, or it might just be that his angelic/deific companions are experts at reading him. He does have the greatest example of a "Yes sir" in the history of literature... without saying a line.
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The Silent Bob / int_d8570146	comment	Spud from Total Drama Presents: The Ridonculous Race since he and Rock are an Expy of Jay and Silent Bob.
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The Silent Bob / int_dbde69cf	comment	In MARZENA we have Sandra, the female version of this trope and who communicates using 99.9% body language. Made more troubling by the Author using French Quotation marks for the few times where she does say anything.
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The Silent Bob / int_de48ce05	comment	Literally every single character on Happy Tree Friends.
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The Silent Bob / int_ded0e62f	comment	The Count of Monte Cristo features an old man who is almost completely paralyzed. He communicates with his granddaughter with a system of blinks, and is often described as having a particular expression that gets his point across. It turns out that he's something of a Retired Badass to boot.
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The Silent Bob / int_e278316b	comment	The Butler in The Prisoner (1967) never uttered a sound, and was rather stoic, though he could be startled from time to time.
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The Silent Bob / int_e67a7d6c	comment	Zazie Rainyday of Negima! Magister Negi Magi, who has a way of holding entire conversations through a series of nods and ellipses. Rule of Funny moment later on: During a Gaiden chapter of the latest Arc we get to check in on all the other characters not currently in Negi's party. Ayaka has a lively conversation with Zazie OVER THE PHONE. Yes, Zazie is her standard quiet self (she says 'bye' at the end of the call). Yes, Ayaka's details after the call are all entirely accurate. Yes, everyone in the room with Ayaka is just as confused as you are as to how this works. Word of God is understanding all classmates intuitively is Required Secondary Powers for any Class Rep at Mahora Academy. This is by far the least unlikely thing that happens in the series. She actually speaks in her appearance in Chapter 297. And from then on, while still quiet, she keeps talking when it's needed. Zazie reappears in UQ Holder!, and readers unaware of her role in the previous series might not understand the fuss about Zazie talking just as much as any other character.
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The Silent Bob / int_f51c266d	comment	Jonathan, Ophthalmology's Loyal Scribe in the Dr Glaucomflecken series communicates entirely through terse nods and simple facial expressions. He is able to carry entire conversations this way, even over the phone.
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The Silent Bob / int_f54a039	comment	Sheriff Earl in All Shook Up.
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The Silent Bob / int_f91f25d8	comment	Gungrave leaves the impression that this is a result of being dead. But Brandon/Grave was a man of few words his whole life. His videogame incarnation never speaks with only one exception.
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