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The fact that they don't talk at all just makes them all the scarier

Cindy, The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius "M-m-mimes... nothing but mimes..."

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A sub-trope of Monster Clown, the enemy of the show is a dastardly white-faced, beret-wearing mute with world domination on his mind. Occasionally they are motivated by a lesser goal, but still, evil... and almost always French. A possible reason for this is that the late Marcel Marceau (the most famous mime in the world) was French.

Some Enemy Mime villains have Your Mime Makes It Real powers, such as the ability to erect an invisible wall or conjure an unheard gale-force wind which one must walk against. Others simply use gadgets to leech the world of sound and color, and hope and fluffy things right along with it. May or may not be affected by the "silence" condition when fought against. Really, any mime-like character will count.

Compare to the following tropes: Played for comedy far more often than Monster Clown. If he's particularly scruffy, he probably also Looks Like Cesare. When a mime is not necessarily evil but everybody treats him or her as such, that's Everyone Hates Mimes. When the evil mime doesn't speak, they are also a Silent Antagonist. Contrast with Heroic Mime (a hero who doesn't speak, and probably isn't a mime). Also not related to Enemy Mine; the name is just a pun on that trope.

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Subtrope of Grayscale of Evil.

Examples:

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Anime & Manga

Strings (merely called "the Pantomimer" in the Japanese version or "the Killer Doll" in the manga) in Yu-Gi-Oh!, is a rather strange example, seeming like more of a punk anarchist/goth with his shaved head, eyeshadow, and multiple piercings. Nevertheless, he is referred to as a mime in both versions, even though his only "trick" was standing still on a park bench without moving a muscle (easy to do, as Marik Brainwashed him into his minion, and seems to have destroyed his real mind in the process). Standing that still is impressive in real life, but real mimes often can do it. In the manga, it's stated that he had murdered his parents, and apparently repressed his entire mind out of guilt, so he was already mindless when Marik found him.

In Yakitate!! Japan, one of the final enemy bakers is a mime called Shadow. He is able to perfect mimic his boss's Kirisaki's baking techniques, which enable his bread to tie with Kazuma's bread.

Comic Books

Comic Strips

The mime in one Garfield strip probably isn't evil, but he obviously doesn't like it when people hit on his girlfriend, as Jon found out the hard way. (If he is a good man, it's clearly a case of Good Is Not Nice.)

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Fan Works

Invoked several times in Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series, most obviously with Steve the Mime.

The Batman / Sin City crossover A Dark Knight over Sin City features a gang of "guys in mime makeup" led by the Joker.

A.A. Pessimal's Discworld fic concerning civil war in the Fools' Guild, Clowning Is A Serious Business , strongly suggests one of the reasons why the Patrician does not allow mimes on the streets of Ankh-Morpork is because black-clad men, who have to be extremely physically supple and fit, are in fact a sort of ninja; the Fools' Guild's version of the silent, black-clad, Assassin. One Mime is captured having narrowly failed to do what the real Assassins have miserably failed in - breaching the security of Ramkin Manor and launching an attack on Sam Vimes. Lord Downey of the Assassins is not pleased and demands a chat with Doctor Whiteface on issues of professional demarcation...

Films — Animation

In Flushed Away, the French frog spy antagonists have a mime as part of their team.

An Anti-Hero example comes from Tangled. One of the thugs at the Snuggly Duckling, Ulf, is revealed to be into mime during the song "I've Got A Dream". His talent comes in handy when the Thugs team up to break Flynn out of prison.

"Bomb Voyage", a briefly-seen villain from the beginning of The Incredibles, is a French mime who uses explosives to perpetrate his crimes. He speaks, but only in French. And his makeup is so subtle that you might not even notice it.

Films — Live-Action

Literature

In the book Singularity Sky by Charles Stross, there are monstrous mimes, near-dead white creatures who attack by throwing flesh eating, nanobot-filled pies at people. They never rest or sleep, but occasionally get stuck in invisible boxes.

Discworld: Not quite used in the series, where mimes in Ankh-Morpork are hung upside down over scorpion pits with a sign on the wall saying "learn the words". But the whiteface, frowning clowns, the ones that never get splashed with water and are never the butt of the joke? Yeah, even other clowns, who go through life in a sort of nihilistic angst, fear them. Pterry strongly hinted in The Art Of Discworld that Vetinari banned street theater because he knows something we don't. Given that the Fools' Guild (which trains clowns, jesters and mimes) is actually one of the Discworld's largest spy networks, to which jesters all over the continent feed information on their high-born employers , the Patrician probably has a darn good reason to lock mimes up. The Patrician's political enemies count this as one of his good points.

Subverted in The Gone-Away World by Nick Harkaway where a troupe of mimes are among the good guys saving the day at the end with their mad kung fu skills

The short Michael Moorcock story Elric at the End of Time sees Elric desperately battling a horde of mute pierrots (French-style whiteface clowns).

Commis in The Islanders by Christopher Priest. He taunts some poor stagehand while in makeup while also threatening the same guy in the street out of it.

In the novel White Teeth there's a couple of mentions of a mime-like weirdo (whom the characters never actually meet) named "Mr. White Face" (actually an Indian immigrant wearing white greasepaint and blue lipstick) who stalks the streets of North London, creepily staring at people (and angrily swearing at anyone who dares to stare back). He's actually one of several eccentric street people around that area of the city who enjoy creeping people out. The book paints them as Jerkass Woobie characters who are either beaten down by life, insane, or mentally retarded.

The Further Adventures of Batman: In "The Sound Of One Hand Clapping", the Joker, Batmans notorious Monster Clown antagonist, falls in love with Camilla Cameo, also known as "The Mime". She wears mime makeup and the only sounds she ever makes is one scream and one peal of laughter. Quite a Foil for the garrulous Joker.

Live-Action TV

"The Gentlemen" from Buffy the Vampire Slayer count: pale-faced, grinning, silent monstrosities. They have voice-leeching powers, too. Despite only appearing in one episode, they're viewed as one of the most iconic and terrifying monsters in the show's history.

An episode of Highlander: The Series featured an group of assassins who used pantomime as a cover. They were led by an evil Immortal called Christoph Kuyler.

A trio of villainous mimes are behind the murders in The Goodies episode "Daylight Robbery on the Orient Express".

One of these was the antagonist, and later protagonist, of the Freddy's Nightmares episode "Silence is Golden".

The child predator in the Unsub episode "Silent Stalker" turns out to be a birthday mime who lures his young victims using a show rabbit named Mr. Piper.

One of the recurring villains to menace Odd Squad is named Evil Mime. The episode "Behind Enemy Mimes" reveals that there are actually three evil mimes menacing the town, and Ms. O's old partner Agent O'Donahue has gone undercover as one to infiltrate their group.



Pro Wrestling

Radio

On The Moth Radio Hour, Phyllis Bowdwin relates the story of her encounter with a mime on the streets of New York City in The '70s that got a real kick out of humiliating women.

Tabletop Games

Theater

In some productions of Jesus Christ Superstar, Judas Iscariot is constantly shadowed by two voiceless and literally faceless humanoid figures (actually two mime-artists in flesh-colored bodysuits) who act out various eerie imaginings known only to them. They represent Judas's evil side, and when he hangs himself near the end of the play, they're the ones who slip on the noose.

Video Games

Web Comics

Web Original

All of the several different ToTheArks from Marble Hornets can be considered this, though we don't yet know what their motives yet are.

The "Panous-Panous" — Mooks in the amateur French sentai show France Five — have been described as "ninja-mimes".

Lord Opticord and his minions in Sock Baby have the mime theme going on, but they were most certainly not mute. Quite the contrary...

Whateley Universe: Marcel, Robur's right-hand man.

SCP Foundation has the joke article SCP-5040-J , with two mime gangs fighting each other in utter silence.

, with two mime gangs fighting each other in utter silence. There was a claim circulating on the Web some years back (it even made its way onto Wikipedia until it was removed) that there was a nasty, Snobs Versus Slobs historical rivalry between mimes and Blackface minstrels, similar to that between vaudeville and burlesque performers, or metal and punk fans in our own day. What make this legend plausible are the many similarities between mimes and blackface comedians: both wear heavy makeup (of contrasting colors, to be sure), white gloves and (at least sometimes in the case of mimes) top hats; and both are loathed by many people nowadays. But the story was soon exposed as a lie when it was pointed out that mime artistry didn't start to become popular in America until Marcel Marceau visited the U.S. in the mid-1950s, by which point blackface minstrelsy was clearly dying out.

Western Animation