History Main / SuddenlyVoiced

* ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerryTheMovie'' had the titular characters realisinh they could talk after introducing themselves to some animals they met on the streets at night.

* In the ''Franchise/FireEmblem'' franchise, while ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemMysteryOfTheEmblem BS Archanea Saga]]'' for the UsefulNotes/{{Satellaview}}, the [[VideoGame/FireEmblemPathOfRadiance Tellius]] [[VideoGame/FireEmblemRadiantDawn games]], and all titles starting with ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening Awakening]]'' featured voice acting, one of the draws of ''VideoGame/FireEmblemHeroes'' is that every single playable character featured in the game, spanning from all fourteen mainline entries in [[Franchise/FireEmblem the series]] plus a handful of [[OriginalGeneration original characters]], is fully voice-acted, many for the first time. ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemGaiden Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia]]'', the remake of ''Fire Emblem Gaiden'', is the first game in the franchise to feature complete voice acting for all plot-important dialogue and Support conversations. The only unvoiced dialogue is flavor text when investigating objects and interacting with other characters in towns.

This is also common in video game series whose origins predate the UsefulNotes/Nintendo64/UsefulNotes/PlayStation/UsefulNotes/SegaSaturn era. Older gaming consoles had limited processing power and cartridge storage space, which meant that voice acting took up a lot of resources and was low-quality, so dialogue was mostly limited to text. As hardware got more powerful, players started to expect that even {{Heroic Mime}}s have at least audible grunts, if not fully voiced dialogue.

* Much like his ''Film/TransformersFilmSeries'' counterpart, Bumblebee had been mute in ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime'' -- until the penultimate episode, [[Recap/TransformersPrimeS3E13Deadlock "Deadlock"]], [[spoiler:when Megatron blasted him into the synthetic Energon-filled Omega Lock, which not only healed those injuries, but also restored his voice, resulting in a BondOneLiner before skewering Megatron with the Star Saber.]]

* On the album release of ''Spidey's Super Stories'' segments from ''[[Series/TheElectricCompany1971 The Electric Company]]'', Franchise/SpiderMan is now voiced by Jim Boyd (who plays Arthur J. Crank) on the show. On the TV show, Spider-Man is silent with Word Balloons.

** Becomes a plot point in one illustrated book based on the comic. All animals are capable of speech, but have a rule against using it. Garfield and the other pets in the town sense a huge natural disaster on the way (something that animals in RealLife sometimes do as well) and Garfield proposes that they temporarily relax the ban so they can warn their owners.