History Main / SuddenlyVoiced

* This happens to characters who wind up in ''SuperSmashBros Brawl''. [[{{Metroid}} Samus]] speaks for the first time ever (if you only count actual vocal speaking; she narrated the intro to ''Super Metroid'' and had loads of dialogue in ''Metroid Fusion''). The {{Pokemon}} Trainer (aka Red) even speaks a bit, despite traditionally being a HeroicMime so much so that even when you fight him in ''Pokemon Gold and Silver'' and ''Pokemon Stadium 2'', all he ever says is [[VisibleSilence "..."]]; all his lines, though, are taken from the "Pokemon entering battle"/"Pokemon leaving battle" dialogue boxes used in the games.

* ''PokemonMysteryDungeon'': The protagonist is a standard HeroicMime, with the twist that s/he does internal monologues relating to the situation at hand. The protagonist finally does speak out loud at the ending of both games, but goes to being quiet and thoughtful afterwards.

* Michael Myers was a silent (possibly mute?) killer for over seven ''Franchise/{{Halloween}}'' movies. But the director's cut of Rob Zombie's ''Film/{{Halloween II|2009}}'' actually has Michael scream "DIE!" before [[spoiler:killing Loomis]].

* In the ''Film/{{Gone in Sixty Seconds|2000}}'' remake, the character of 'The Sphinx' is mysterious due to his muteness, when he suddenly speaks very philosophically at the end of the film with a British accent (actor Vinnie Jones' natural accent). When one of the others says they thought he was from Long Beach, he merely shrugs.

* Michael Myers was a silent (possibly mute?) killer for over seven ''Franchise/{{Halloween}}'' movies. But the director's cut of Rob Zombie's ''Film/HalloweeII2009'' actually has Michael scream "DIE!" before [[spoiler:killing Loomis]].

* In the ''Film/GoneInSixtySeconds2000'' remake, the character of 'The Sphinx' is mysterious due to his muteness, when he suddenly speaks very philosophically at the end of the film with a British accent (actor Vinnie Jones' natural accent). When one of the others says they thought he was from Long Beach, he merely shrugs.

* Michael Myers was a silent (possibly mute?) killer for over seven ''Franchise/{{Halloween}}'' movies. But the director's cut of Rob Zombie's ''Film/{{Halloween II|2009}}'' actually has Michael scream "DIE!" before [[spoiler:killing Loomis]].

* Michael Myers was a silent (possibly mute?) killer for over seven ''Franchise/{{Halloween}}'' movies. But the director's cut of Rob Zombie's ''Film/HalloweenII2009'' actually has Michael scream "DIE!" before [[spoiler:killing Loomis]].

* For that extremely rare non-controversial example, your challenge is to find a single ''MonkeyIsland'' fan who didn't accept that Dominic Armato was perfect for the role of Guybrush Threepwood within thirty seconds of him opening his mouth at the start of ''VideoGame/TheCurseOfMonkeyIsland''.

* In the first ''MrBean'' movie, the character was changed from being a combination of TheVoiceless and TheUnintelligible to speaking freely, and gave a speech before a crowd near the end. [[JustifiedTrope The premise of the movie sort of forces it]], though, since Bean interacts with several characters who speak directly to him (no one ever really did in the original program). The second sort of upholds the [[StatusQuoIsGod status quo]], in that he spends most of the movie in France and has little occasion to speak English.

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* For the longest time Barry, the editor and all around ace of an assistant for WebVideo/GameGrumps and WebVideo/SteamTrain, barring a few instances outside of the shows and one minor line of dialogue for the sake of a joke, never communicated in any way other than his standard yellow text. Then came Steam Rolled, Steam Train's equivalent to Game Grumps VS and even there he only spoke using in game communications...at least until the end of the [[CounterStrike CS: GO]] episode where he spoke once and has been speaking on Steam Rolled ever since.

* The protagonist in the first ''SaintsRow'' would only have a male one liner at the end of each campaign. S\he more than makes up for this in the sequel, with not one but six different voices to choose from, and unique dialogue for each. The third game even adds in a female Russian accent and Zombie grunts.

* Clarabelle the Clown was the silent helper of Buffalo Bob on The Howdy Doody Show for years-- until this closing shot on the very last show: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmBzqZrZN8o]]

* Inverted with Furrball on ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures''. In one early episode ("Fur Trek"), he was voiced by RobPaulsen, but was later [[TheOtherDarrin replaced]] by Creator/FrankWelker. For some of the first-recorded episodes (including "Buster and the Wolverine"), Welker just gave Furrball an actual voice, but it was later reduced to Furrball either being silent or just meowing.

* DMFA has [[Pip, whose voice casts him in a whole new light.]]

* Gronk the dinosaur from ''{{BC}}'' originally could only [[PokemonSpeak say his name]], but in later strips he started speaking fluently like the other animals.

* Gronk the dinosaur from ''{{BC}}'' originally only spoke by [[PokemonSpeak saying his name]], but in later strips he started speaking fluently like the other animals.

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePinkPanther'' cartoon gave its cat a debonair British accent, courtesy of Rich Little in "Pink Ice" and Paul Frees is "Sink Pink" ("Why can't man be more like animals?"), for only two episodes. He became TheVoiceless, then got a new voice in his 90s TV series, this time by Matt Frewer.

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePinkPanther'' cartoon gave its cat a debonair British accent, courtesy of Rich Little, for only two episodes. He became TheVoiceless, then got a new voice in his 90s TV series, this time by Matt Frewer.

* {{Peanuts}}/Snoopy was another animal that communicated via thought balloons. One strip from the 60s accidentally gave him a regular word balloon and stem--he laps up a potato chip from the floor and says "Anything that falls on the floor is legally mine."

* [[{{Peanuts}}/Snoopy]] was another animal that communicated via thought balloons. One strip from the 60s accidentally gave him a regular word balloon and stem--he laps up a potato chip from the floor and says "Anything that falls on the floor is legally mine."

** One strip accidentally gives Garfield a regular speech bubble, but that was probably just crappy interns. Jon reacts to Garfield as if he could understand him in the later comics as well.

* In the original {{Heathcliff}} strips and comics, the orange cat never talked. In both [[TheHeathcliffAndDingbatShow cartoon]] [[HeathcliffAndTheCatillacCats adaptaions]], he speaks regularly and is voiced in both by MelBlanc.