Black-clad servants of the Shadow, who was himself servant to the Black Guardian. They had skeletal features and wore monk-like hooded robes. As the name suggests, they never spoke, and appeared not to have any mouth.
The Doctor and Romana encountered them on the Shadow's planet - an artificial construction in a fixed orbit between the twin planets of Atrios and Zeos. They travelled between these worlds via a secret transmat system. They abducted Princess Astra on one of their raids.
They were all wiped out when the Atrian Marshal launched a missile attack on Zeos, which was diverted to the Shadow's domain.
Appearances: The Armageddon Factor (1978).
- Writers Bob Baker and Dave Martin named these creatures after "mutants", but the design team took them literally and made them mouthless.
- BBC paperwork referred to actor Stephen Calcutt as "Super Mute", so presumably he's the one in the Doctor / Drax shrinking sequence.
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