History Main / TheSpeechless

* In ''Literature/DragonBones'', Ciarra can't talk. No one knows exactly why this is, it's just some of the various ills that befall the family. Of the family members living in castle Hurog, Ciarra's elder brother Ward is the most mentally healthy one (he lost his speech for some time when his father nearly killed him, and has been ObfuscatingStupdity ever since.) Everyone else ranges from complete {{Cloudcuckoolander}} (the mother) over suicidal (the brother) to sociopathic killer (the father). There's a kind of curse on the family and their castle. [[spoiler: Ciarra does get better once the curse is broken and/or she gets away from castle Hurog.]]

* In ''Literature/DragonBones'', Ciarra can't talk. No one knows exactly why this is, it's just some of the various ills that befall the family. [[spoiler: She does get better once the curse is broken and/or she gets away from castle Hurog.]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsRainbowRocks'', Vinyl Scratch never speaks at all. What really pushes her into this is, in the prequel novel, she communicates to people next to her via text messaging, hinting that she might be completely mute.

* ''Series/TheTwilightZone'' the aptly named episode "Mute" centers around a girl unable to talk. Everybody initially believes it's because she's in shock after seeing her house burned down (with her parents) but later assume it's because she had never been taught how to speak. Really she was trained to be psychic from birth and held all her conversations telepathically with her parents that where part of some strange cult.
* In ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', Mrs. Troi's servant Mr. Hom does not speak; members of his species, if they take jobs as servants, are conditioned to speak only to their employers.

* There some speechless characters of ''SesameStreet''.
** The Honkers don't speak, but they communicate by their nose to honk their horns on their head. And make music. The honkers comes in different color. And they are cute furry monsters.
** Linda (portrayed by deaf actress, Linda Bove) doesn't speak at all because she is deaf, But she can communicate by using sign-language.
** Sully (portrayed by Richard Hunt) is Biff's silent friend. But he does hard construction work with his partner, Biff. Sully also does well on playing the piano.

* In ''Film/LightningJack'', Jack's sidekick is mute, which creates a funny moment when he knocks on a door, and when asked who's there he can't answer.

* In the cult [[TheBBC BBC]] preschool show ''{{Kerwhizz}}'' the three teams each consist of a kid and his/her android pet. Pip, the android dog, is constantly frustrated by the fact that although he's smarter than his girl partner Ninki he can only bark and growl, which means she often fails to realise when he gets the answer right, and shouts out the wrong answer instead. Ninki got her comeuppance in one episode where their voices were temporarily swapped. This caused Pip to launch into a long speech about how his talents would at last be recognised, while Ninki could only howl in despair.

* Despite making lots of noise, Scrat from ''IceAge'' doesn't speak. Also, Mama T.Rex and Rudy in the third film.

* Julie Berry's ''All the Truth that's in Me'' is a book about a girl who has had half her tongue cut out. Although [[spoiler: she can speak at the end, she just didn't realise she could because her superstitious mother forbade her from trying]]

* Katya from ''Film/DieHardWithAVengeance'' is mute from an assassination attempt that left prominent scarring on her throat.

* Cambot from ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' has only talked during the theme song's RobotRollCalls.

* The ProfessorGuineaPig from the original ''Film/TheFly'' couldn't speak after his teleporter accident swapped his head with a housefly's, so communicated with chalkboard, typewriter, and by knocking on tables.

* Liam and Ryan McPoyle's sister Margaret from {{ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia}} she is stated to be mute, she responds to communication by licking her lips.

* In ''Series/Star Trek: The Next Generation'', Mrs. Troi's servant Mr. Hom does not speak; members of his species, if they take jobs as servants, are conditioned to speak only to their employers.

* Mokona, from ''MagicKnightRayearth'' can only say "Puu", making him also TheUnintelligible. While he may not seem to act like it and is accorded little respect, Mokona is arguably more intelligent than anyone else in the cast -- but the details are a monumental spoiler.

** Soundwave also doesn't speak in this series, though he can play back any sound he's heard (with the addition of the pretty vocoder effect that goes with the speech of other versions of Soundwave.) However, he doesn't use even this that often. Most notably, the episode where Ratchet and Wheeljack battle Soundwave for a Cybertronian artifact hidden on Earth. Being a silent scourge that ''just. Keeps. Coming!'' made him almost scary. ThePowersThatBe say that he ''can'' talk, he just chooses not to. How much weight to give this is unknown, though, because there are times being able to speak would have ''really'' come in handy and he still didn't.

* [[{{Noggin}} Moose A. Moose's]] best friend Zee doesn't speak. [[AmbiguousGender Zee]] communicates to Moose through SqueakyEyes.

* Kai from RobotHolocaust is this with a bit of BarbarianHero & TheBigGuy.