10 Video Game Villains That Don't Say A Word
9. Advisors (Half-Life 2)
These ugly sons of guns. Some of the younger gamers out there may not know just how long we've been waiting to take revenge on these... things...
The Combine Advisors (or "Shu'ulathoi" for our Vortigaunt friends) are the ruling species of the pan-dimensional empire known as The Combine. Giant, squishy grubs with breathing masks and baby robot arms, they appear physically helpless for most of the games. We mostly see them doling out orders via FaceTime, and the first thing they do at the end of Half-Life 2 is flee in their life-support pods.
While we can surmise that the Advisors can communicate to their subordinates, it's implied that their communication is entirely psychic, though they never attempt this with Gordon or Alyx. During the events of Episode 2, Gordon and Alyx come face to face with an Advisor, and assume that killing it will be as easy as destroying its life support. Simply angering it, the closest the advisor comes to communication is via something not unlike a whale call, unintelligible to our heroes.
The Advisor soon flees, only to return later just to stab poor Eli in the back of the head. I suppose murder is, technically, one way of communicating.