History Main / EnemyMime

* Played with and [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] in ''Film/TheCrow'', when a police officer facetiously refers to the chalk-faced Eric Draven as "a mime from Hell."

* "The Icon" Wrestling/{{Sting}} played with this trope in Wrestling/{{WCW}} during the fall of 1996 and most of 1997, effectively creating an enormously popular new wrestling character in the process. After being framed by Wrestling/HulkHogan's New World Order, Sting announced that he was going to go into seclusion for a while until he thought of a way to [[ClearMyName clear his name]]. As he made this announcement, the audience could see that his "Wrestling/UltimateWarrior"-style greasepaint had begun to consume his face in a bizarre and unsettling literal example of BecomingTheMask, bleaching everything but his nose, lips, and lower jaw clown-white. The following week, Sting appeared in the rafters above the arena with a ''completely'' white face, black lips, and black Gothic "crosses" over his eyes, making him look suspiciously like a mime (although Sting's portrayer, Steve Borden, would eventually admit in an interview that the makeup design was suggested to him by nWo member Wrestling/ScottHall as a tribute to Brandon Lee's appearance in the movie version of ''Film/TheCrow''). Not only that, but Sting [[TheVoiceless did not speak a single word]] while wearing the whiteface for over a year (finally blurting out an insult to Hogan in anger after he was stripped of the WCW Championship). In the meantime, he kept showing up in the ring (sometimes via the rafters and sometimes via the crowd) with a black baseball bat, attacking the nWo or silently subjecting his former allies to a series of "loyalty tests." The whiteface, black bat, and BadassLongcoat that Sting also wore would go on to become key parts of his wrestling [[StealthPun iconography]] and are still part of his signature look today (although he now speaks quite frequently, and has hardly ever been a heel since).

* In the WhatDoTheyFearEpisode of ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama Island'', Trent admits to being afraid of mimes due to an incident from his childhood when one started following him around and copying him when he got separated from his mother. Chris sends a mime to chase him around and try freak him out, but he ultimately gets the better of the mime by jumping into the water. The mime takes a breath and was about to follow him, but Trent hurriedly points out that it would ruin his make-up. That makes the mime sulk and walk away.

* ''WesternAnimation/TotallySpies'' has Jazz Hands, a Mime Villain hell-bent on showing the world the beauty of his craft, usually by converting people into mimes. At first he seems to be a poor mime himself, as he never seems to shut up, but [[LetsGetDangerous when he does buckle down he gives the heroines quite a tough time]]. Notable abilities have included tying the spies with unbreakable mimed rope and [MakeMyMonsterGrow inflating himself into a balloon-bellied giant]]. Both are countered with opposing pantomime, Jerry "untying" the rope binding the heroines and Sam pricking Jazz Hands with a rose pin to pop him, sending him flying as he forcibly deflates back to normal.

* In the WhatDoTheyFearEpisode of ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama Island'', Trent admits to being afraid of mimes due to an incident from his childhood when one started following him around and copying him when he got separated from his mother. Chris sends a mime to chase him around and try freak him out, but he ultimately gets the better of the mime by jumping into the water where it can't follow him.
* ''WesternAnimation/TotallySpies'' has Jazz Hands, a Mime Villain hell-bent on showing the world the beauty of his craft, usually by converting people into mimes. At first he seems to be a poor mime himself, as he never seems to shut up, but [[LetsGetDangerous when he does buckle down he gives the heroines quite a tough time]].

The villain of the work is a dastardly white-faced, beret-wearing mute with world domination on his mind. Occasionally they are motivated by a lesser goal, but still, evil... and almost always French. A possible reason for this is that the late Creator/MarcelMarceau (the most [[OverlyNarrowSuperlative famous mime ]] [[SmallReferencePools in the world]]) was French, despite him being a beloved figure who was actually heroic, having saved Jewish children from UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, using mime to keep them quiet while they were waiting to be smuggled out of occupied France.

* ''ComicBook/{{Hawkeye}}'': The Clown is much nearer to this than to EvilClown, being a quiet, contained sniper and hitman wearing traditional mime makeup of whiteface, black lipstick and eyeliner, and a single tear. Though he's Polish, not French.

* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'': For a brief period during the nineties in ''ComicBook/PeterParkerSpiderMan'', there was a gang of villainous mimes called the Murderous Mimes that made several appearances. They were defeated, at least once, when Spidey [[spoiler:webbed several large sheets of glass into an invisible box around them.]] As seen [[http://community.livejournal.com/scans_daily/6384522.html here!]]

* One of ''ComicBook/{{Ant}}'''s villains is Jessica Mime, who dresses like a (skanky) mime and has a sort of "mime power" in the form of gauntlets that allow her to make various shapes in the air out of HardLight. She's an obnoxious loudmouth even by non-mime standards, though.
* There was a one-shot ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'' villainess who was a mime who hated loud noises. That's about it. Likewise, Pierrot Lunaire of [[ComicBook/BatmanGrantMorrison the Club of Villains]] has a mime motif.
* The French comic book series ''ComicBook/DeCapeEtDeCrocs'' plays with this: the bad guy's foot soldiers are mute mime tribesmen from the Moon (seriously). Their abilities include swordfighting, artistic death and [[http://greenfieldluver.free.fr/never_trust_a_mime.jpg distracting people with the power of mime]].
* One ''ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}'' short had him fighting the same bunch of mimes in full mime costume who had just stolen a device that allowed their mimed weapons to actually work. (Like a lot of Deadpool stories, it didn't make much sense, and [[RuleOfFunny didn't have to]].)
* Mime from ''ComicBook/DoomsdayClock'' is a mute man, implied to be the ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'' universe's [[PracticallyJoker equivalent of the Joker]], who mimes all his actions with invisible tools (lockpicks, guns etc.) that actually work. It turns out that the tools are actually real, just invisible, although whether this is done through advanced technology or some power of his isn't revealed. He also [[TongueTrauma cut out his own tongue]] to [[EnforcedMethodActing enforce his role as]] TheVoiceless.
* The ''ComicBook/{{Hawkeye}}'' villain The Clown is much nearer to this than to EvilClown, being a quiet, contained sniper and hitman wearing traditional mime makeup of whiteface, black lipstick and eyeliner, and a single tear. Though he's Polish, not French.
* Aside from being one of the good guys, The Mime from the comic book ''ComicBook/MisterBlank'' fits this trope to a T.
* In ''ComicBook/RedRobin'' #20, [[ComicBook/Batgirl2009 Stephanie]] is fighting a villain named Romeo Void who dresses as a mime when Tim contacts her to warn her about Calculator being on the move.
* A ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'' story featured in the 60th issue of ''Cartoon Network Action Pack'', fittingly enough titled "Enemy Mime", had Jack confront a villainous mime that encased people inside glass.
* For a brief period during the nineties, there was a gang of villainous mimes that made several appearances in the ''Franchise/SpiderMan'' titles. They were defeated, at least once, when Spidey [[spoiler:webbed several large sheets of glass into an invisible box around them.]] As seen [[http://community.livejournal.com/scans_daily/6384522.html here!]]
* The 31st issue of ''ComicBook/YoungJustice'', a near-NoDialogueEpisode, features Impulse fighting a criminal gang consisting of super-powered mimes.

* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyV'': Gogo, who guards the Mime crystal at the sunken Walse Tower. Defeating him requires the party to SheatheYourSword for a few minutes (all the while the air counter is ticking down) as he answers every attack with [[ForMassiveDamage massive damage]].

** Pterry strongly hinted in ''The Art Of Discworld'' that Vetinari banned street theater because he knows something we don't. Given that the Fools' Guild (which trains clowns, jesters and mimes) is [[spoiler:actually one of the Discworld's largest spy networks, to which jesters all over the continent feed information on their high-born employers]], the Patrician probably has a darn good reason to lock mimes up. The Patrician's political enemies count this as one of his ''good points''.

* Subverted in ''Literature/TheGoneAwayWorld'' by Nick Harkaway where a troupe of mimes are among the good guys [[spoiler:saving the day at the end with their mad kung fu skills]].

* In the book ''Literature/SingularitySky'' by Creator/CharlesStross, there are monstrous mimes, near-dead white creatures who attack by throwing flesh eating, nanobot-filled pies at people. They never rest or sleep, but occasionally get stuck in invisible boxes.
* In the novel ''Literature/WhiteTeeth'' there's a couple of mentions of a mime-like weirdo (whom the characters never actually meet) named "Mr. White Face" (actually an Indian immigrant wearing white greasepaint and blue lipstick) who stalks the streets of North London, creepily staring at people (and angrily swearing at anyone who dares to stare back). He's actually one of several eccentric street people around that area of the city who enjoy creeping people out. The book paints them as JerkassWoobie characters who are either beaten down by life, insane, or mentally retarded.

* Bomb Voyage, a briefly-seen villain from the beginning of ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'', is a French mime who uses explosives to perpetrate his crimes. He speaks, but only in French. And his makeup is so subtle that you might not even notice it.

* Commis in ''The Islanders'' by [[Creator/ChristopherPriestNovelist Christopher Priest]]. He taunts some poor stagehand while in makeup while also threatening the same guy in the street out of it.

Contrast with HeroicMime (a hero who doesn't speak, and probably isn't a mime). Not related to EnemyMine; the name is just a pun on that trope.