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Ever other web page calls it by the Silent Protagonist, and it's more easily to recognize. Heroic Mine sounds like the good version of The Joker.
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As a side-note, I have this exact same issue with Quick Time Events vs. Press X to Not Die *.
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I think Mute Protagonist would be better. Not everyone who could fit the trope is a hero, after all.
What? It's the SILENT PROTAGONIST. Everybody knows this. If I go up to someone who doesn't read TV Tropes and I say: "What's a Silent Protagonist?" so long as they speak English well, they will understand. It's a protagonist who doesn't make a sound.
Thats why I'm fond of the term "mute protagonist". I prefer the original, but that's because (like many people) I don't like change. But I can accept the logic of Mute Protagonist.
But a Heroic Mime? Mimes communicate through motion and gestures. they do communicate. A silent protagonist does not. A heroic mime sounds like a street performer that fights crime. Who the hell changed it to "Heroic Mime"? Change it back, or change it to Mute Protagonist (since, despite my own preferences, it is more applicable to the trope).
I propose to rename it Mute Playable Character. Makes more sense than Heroic Mime (what does it mean? A Mr. Mime with superpowers?)
I agree with Clu Legacy, also, Caim from Drakengard is FAR from heroic. (He's mute for storyline reasons, but still applies)
Caim from Drakengard and Amaterasu from Okami aren't technically heroic mimes because they're literally mute. Caim lost his voice as a pact, and, like the other Brush Gods in animal form, Amaterasu obviously cannot speak as a wolf. I think characters who have plot reasons to be mute shouldn't technically count.
By plot reasons I mean a physical disability, or stuff that confirms that they never said anything in-universe. Link from BOTW for example counts as this trope because he, despite having an in-universe reason not to speak, has dialogue options, which means he CAN and DOES talk. This trope applies to characters who CAN speak but aren't shown to the player/viewer when they do.
If they explicitly can't speak, they need to be "The Voiceless" or "The Speechless".
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The Glaive of FFXV is one. though he/she ends up being completely demoted to extra in favor of the non-silent Noctis.
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What about the protagonists of the Mega Ten series in the anime and manga adaptations? Are they still silent? I know Shin Kanzato from Trinity Soul, Serph in the novel, and Yu Narukami in the anime talk, but I'm referring to others like Minato Arisato from P3 Manga, Souji Seta from P4 Manga, Akira Kurusu from P5 Manga, Naoya Toudou from P1 Manga, Raidou Kuzunoha in the manga, the main characters of the Devil Survivor franchise (both in the games and the adaptations) and Akemi Nakajima. Do they talk?
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Is Jin Sakai from Ghost of Tsushima this trope?
And Sorey from Tales of Zestiria?
And Rean Schwarzer from Trails of Cold Steel?
And the hero from Code Vein?
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Question, who made the art on this page? It isn't credited to anyone, as far as I can see - perhaps that should be fixed
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The source is on ImageSource.Internet
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Was Clockwork Smurf (a mechanical golum/robot created by Handy Smurf appearing in one Smurfs episode with sporadic follow-up cameos) ever eligible for this particular non-game trope?
Was GI Joe's Snake Eyes ever eligible for this particular non-game trope?
Should the protagonist from Kingdoms of Amalur really be an example?He/she does actually have dialogue in the context of the story, there just isn't any voice acting to accompany it.
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I think a bit of a culling for the examples is in order. Not because there's too many, but because there seems to be some confusion and people have started adding games where the protagonist does in fact speak, but doesn't have 'fully voiced dialogue'. And this Trope is about protagonists who do not speak, not about whether the developer opted to hire a voice-actor to read those lines out.
Angry gets shit done.
Should we add a folder for parodies and the like? VG webcomics always poke fun at this trope after all and several games are pretty self aware too.
Cracked recently had an image list of "Before they were famous" video game characters, and the one for Gordon Freeman kinda sorta hit this trope on the nose. Would this
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Should ICO be considered an inversion of this trope? In that the protagonist Ico does talk, and you understand his dialogue, but, at least in the first playthrough, the game doesn't let you understand what the deuteragonist Yorda is saying.