Muting

Muting
Marnot (Marvel Comics) demonstrated the ability to remove a person's ability to speak.
Power/Ability to:	Remove a being's ability to speak.

"Isn't it ironic to yell the word silence?"

― Fighter (8-Bit Theater)

The ability to remove a being's ability to speak or vocally communicate. Sub-power of Voice Manipulation and Silence Manipulation.

Also Called

• Silencing
• Vocal Revocation
• Vocal Dampening

Capabilities

User can remove target's ability to speak or vocally communicate temporarily or permanently, which can severely limit an opponent's ability to relay information. If the target has to speak to use their abilities (speaking to cast a spell, activate technology, etc.), this naturally makes them impossible to use.

Associations

• Muscle Manipulation if the effect is caused by manipulating vocal cords.
• Sensory Deprivation
• Silence Manipulation
• Sound Absorption
• Sound Manipulation
• Voice Thievery

Limitations

• Silence Adaptation
• Opponents with Telepathy are not hindered by the user's ability.
• If the user is incapacitated, the user's power will wear off.
• May have a limit on how many people user can affect at once or at the same time.
• Cannot affect the users of Supreme Voice.

Known Users

• Marnot (Marvel Comics)
• Walter Shreeve/Shriek (Batman Beyond)
• Mother of Creation (Image Comics)
• Demons (Judo-Christian Mythology)
• Val Santiago (Lost Girl)
• Jesse Turner (Supernatural)
• Gabriel (Supernatural)
• Cain (Supernatural)
• Silencing Charm Users (Harry Potter)
• The Gentlemen (Buffy the Vampire Slayer); via Voice Thievery
• Chameleons (Shadow Falls); their voices and sounds numb while invisible
• Mutran (BIONICLE)
• Baji (Naruto)
• Valentine Morgenstern (The Mortal Instruments)
• Monkey Totem (Charmed)
• The Silent Card (Cardcaptor Sakura)
• Regina Mills/The Evil Queen (Once Upon a Time)
• Remiel (Tales of Symphonia); via Angel Toxicosis
• Lolph (Gravity Falls)
• Charity Callaghan (Charmed 2018)
• Chirox (BIONICLE); via Kanohi Shelek
• Vochaos (Ghostforce); in Booster Mode
• Monspeet (The Seven Deadly Sins/Nanatsu no Taizai); via Commandment of Reticence
• Miraculous holders (Miraculous Ladybug); to their kwamis

Known Locations

• Island of Silence (Marvel Comics)
• Stream of Silence (My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic)

Gallery

Charity Callaghan (Charmed 2018) muting Mel's voice magically.

As one of the oldest demons in existence, Cain (Supernatural) can...

...easily silence a talkative King of Hell.

Walter Shreeve/Shriek (Batman Beyond) has a muting device on his right generator that can suppressed the sound of a contiguous area, producing absolute silence and making the waves cancel each other by replaying the sound it captured out of sync.

Monspeet's (The Seven Deadly Sins/Nanatsu no Taizai) Commandment of Reticence cause anyone who expresses hidden feeling and/or emotions rendered unable to speak.

In Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir, when a Miraculous holder wishes, he can snap his fingers pointing at his kwami, rendering him completely mute.