Hoof is apparently a mute because he never says a single word in either of the episodes he appears in, apart from the occasional grunt.

Marceau also showed his versatility in motion pictures such as First Class, in which he played 17 roles, Shanks, where he combined his silent art, playing a deaf and mute puppeteer, and his speaking talent, as a mad scientist ; as Professor Ping in Barbarella, and a cameo as himself in Mel Brooks ' Silent Movie, in which, with purposeful irony, his character has the only audible speaking part, uttering the single word " No!

Producers of the film have dealt with the language barrier rather interestingly – Jones ' character is mute and does not say a single word throughout the movie.

Their single parent is a giant, mute aquatic individual, called Primus Gruntus Maximus, to whom they are born as embryos inside skin warts, much in the way of the Surinam Toad ( see Pipa pipa ).

Their captors are the mute Monoids, seemingly identical alien beings with a single eye.

Popular tradition narrates that the sacred painting representing the image of the Madonna was found in the 8th century by a deaf and mute shepherd, who was looking for a missing cow on Mount Civita.

Originally a mute character, he started speaking in No. 149, October 5, 1940 ( see image for his first words as he tries to help some hungry dogs ).

Some have also been produced to mute the audio ( or replace it with noise ) when profanity is detected in the captioning, where the offensive word is also blocked.

Plungers are often used in a manner similar to the hat mute, where the musician manipulates the plunger in front of the bell while playing with their other hand.

It is used to indicate that the " e " is to be pronounced: separately from the preceding vowel ( e. g. " reëntry "), or " at all "-like in the name of the Brontë sisters, where without diaeresis the final " e " would be mute.

A silent or mute ' e ' counts as a syllable before a consonant, but not before a vowel ( where " h aspiré " counts as a consonant ).

He is a school teacher made to chemically analyze a " green powder " of uncertain origin by his students, and, upon lighting the powder on fire, is violently launched into a mysterious parallel dimension next to ours where mute " Watchers of the Living ", obviously deceased souls or alternate versions of existing people in our world, take keen interest in us.

Each microphone was channelled to a central switching panel, where an operator would read the score and mute those that were not in use to keep noise and leakage to a minimum.

Elimberris is itself a variant of Iliberri, where Ili-comes from the Iberian word iltir or iltur ( the " t " is mute ) meaning town, city, oppidum, a frequent prefix in names of Iberian cities, and which was probably borrowed into Basque and also Aquitanian ( cf.

Merda (" Shit "): a mute strip where various characters are nonsensically obsessed by their relationship with excrement.

Interpretation services via Video Remote Interpreting ( VRI ) or a Video Relay Service ( VRS ) are useful where one of the parties is deaf, hard-of-hearing or speech-impaired ( mute ).

When they get to the town where " the English woman with the ill boy and the mute girl " are supposed to be, they start singing under every fence.

In the Gospel of Mark, after passing through Sidon Jesus enters the region of the Decapolis, a group of ten cities south east of Galilee, where the Healing the deaf mute miracle is reported in Mark 7: 31-37, where after the healing, the disciples say: " He even makes the deaf hear and the mute speak.

Having been unconscious for almost a year, and then a mute for six more years, Elphaba goes to the Vinkus, the land where Fiyero was prince, and meets his wife and children.

Furthermore, unlike modern spoken French ( at least in the north of France ), a silent or mute ' e ' counts as a syllable before a consonant and is pronounced, but is elided before a vowel ( where " h aspiré " counts as a consonant ).

That same plot device was also used in the 2007 film Transformers, where Sam Witwicky, a human boy befreinds the Autobot Bumblebee, a mute alien robot.

The producer of Skyward Sword has said that, as Link is entirely mute, having the other characters speak while Link remains silent would be off-putting.

' The significance for Link being a mute in the entire game series was so that the game-player or audience was able to have their own thoughts as to how their Link would answer the characters instead of him having scripted responses.

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Category: Fictional mute characters

Category: Fictional mute characters

" Unlike Neuman, who is mute and appears primarily on covers, Smythe sometimes spoke and was frequently seen inside the magazine, interacting with parody subjects and other regular characters.

Feminist author Susan Faludi called RoboCop one of " an endless stream of war and action movies " in which " women are reduced to mute and incidental characters or banished altogether.

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There also were several human characters, most notably the mute Clarabell the Clown, who communicated by honking horns on his belt and squirting seltzer, J. Cornelius Cobb and Chief Thunderthud, head of the Ooragnak tribe of Native Americans ( kangaroo spelled backward ).

Generally, there is little dialogue as Tom and Jerry almost never speak ; however, minor characters are not similarly limited, and the two lead characters are able to speak English on rare occasions and are thus not mute.

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Category: Fictional mute characters

He brought to life on film several memorable comic characters, such as the Larry Alcala creation Asiong Aksaya, the caveman Barok, Charley the mute in Bamboo Gods And Iron Men and the quack doctor Mang Kepweng.

* In the book The Weight of Silence, Calli, one of the main characters, is mute due to witnessing a traumatic experience when she was four years old.

For some unknown reason, Penelope is always mute ( more precisely-does only natural cat sounds ) in these stories ; only the self-deluded Pepé speaks ( several non-recurring human characters are given minimal dialogue, often nothing more than a repulsed, " Le pew!

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Category: Fictional mute characters

Category: Fictional mute characters

The sweet-natured and honest Brother looks like an ordinary African American man, distinguished only by his being mute and-although other characters in the film never see them-his feet each have three large toes.

Tyler Shainline contends that " Some of the best characters were the ones that never got the chance to be overused, like Mr. Skullhead, a mute skeleton whose clips were narrated by Motel 6 spokesman Tom Bodett ...".

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Category: Fictional mute characters