History LargeHam / ComicBooks

** This is probably a big reason why the Fantastic Four cemented so many Marvel-specific tropes in the late [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]] and [[UsefulNotes/TheBronzeAgeOfComicBooks Bronze Age]].

** Spidey purposely took the ham up to eleven in his own title, during the ''ComicBook/{{Identity Crisis|1998}}'' storyline, where he took four new superhero identities while a fugitive, specifically in his identity as Prodigy. (An exaggerated version of [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] heroes.) When he finally ditched that identity and the other three, he told Mary Jane that "even WesternAnimation/MightyMouse wouldn't say half the things" he had said as Prodigy.

--->'''Doom''': Typical shoddy American workmanship. Such incompetence would not be permitted in the Latveria of -- '''DOCTOR DOOM'''.
--->'''Guard''': How do you do that?\\
'''Doom''': Do what?\\
'''Guard''': Speak in all capitals like that?\\
'''Doom''': Silence, minion.

* ''ComicBookXMen'':

* Franchise/{{Batman}}:

* ''Franchise/GreenLantern'': Orange Lantern Larfleeze: The greediest creature in the universe!

* From ComicBook/TheNewGuardians, [[http://img130.imageshack.us/img130/3218/snowflamedesnewguardian.jpg Snowflame]], who is powered by cocaine, and deems himself a "TRUE GOD" after beating up some nobody.
* ''ComicBook/TheSandman'': Destruction of the Endless, who was modeled after Creator/{{BRIAN BLESSED}}!

* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'' and ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'' villains tend to get this way. Scenery-chewing, dramatization and verbosity are practically mandatory. Some examples:

* ComicBook/DoctorDoom:
** "Doom is displeased that people think he underacts. Doom NEVER underacts. ''Doom'' is also displeased that some [[ComicBook/{{Doom}} one-shot video-game tie-in]] lout is calling himself DOOM in the third person! There is only one [[DoomyDoomsOfDoom DOOM]] - ''[[MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate Doctor]]'' DOOM! These are clearly plots by that perfidious dolt '''[[ComicBook/FantasticFour REED RICHARDS!!]]'''"
** Lampshaded during the ''ComicBook/{{Onslaught}}'' saga; Joseph was telling Comicbook/CaptainAmerica about being rescued by someone and Cap interrupted to say he knew it was Dr. Doom. When Joseph asked how Cap knew that, Cap's answer was "Frankly, the entrance line ''alone'' told me that much."
** Also lampshaded during a cameo appearance in ''[[ComicBook/SpiderMan The Amazing Spider-Man]]'' #50, in which Doom expresses displeasure at being escorted through the public terminal of an airport due to mechanical difficulties [[spoiler: (amusingly, the guard turns out to be Captain America undercover.)]]:

** In an essay about his run on ''Fantastic Four'', Mark Waid once noted that "you know you've Doom's voice down when every single sentence contains at least one pompous adjective."

** This is probably a big reason why the ComicBook/FantasticFour cemented so many Marvel-specific tropes in the late [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]] and [[UsefulNotes/TheBronzeAgeOfComicBooks Bronze Age]].
* '''"[[{{Comicbook/Annihilation}} ANNIHILUS]] IS THE WILL AND THE WAY AND HE WILL NOT BE DENIED!"''' Marvel's Annihilus always refers to himself in the [[ThirdPersonPerson 3rd person]], always shrieks at the top of whatever it is giant purple-and-green bugs have instead of lungs, and got a whole Cosmic CrisisCrossover named after him, during which he murdered '''billions''' and threw frequent temper tantrums because all of creation wasn't dying quickly enough.
* ComicBook/{{Apocalypse}} is full of this.
* Almost any time Batroc the Leaper shows up in a ComicBook/CaptainAmerica comic, you know ham is going to be on the menu.
* [[ComicBook/MaximumCarnage This is your old pal Carnage saying you can't spell slaughter without laughter,]] '''[[EvilLaughter AHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!]]'''
* ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}. Always talking, cracking jokes, and being full of himself.
* [[ComicBook/{{Galactus}} "I am GALACTUS...]] [[ChewingTheScenery And I HUNGER!]]"
* ComicBook/{{Loki}} is displeased that thou hast not included me into this page.

* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'': Spidey gets to ham it up and have fun doing so in his ''ComicBook/MarvelAdventures'' team up with Comicbook/DoctorStrange. In fact, the level of ham becomes essential in bluffing a CosmicEntity, who is blind and can't see how small the "Great Hidden One Known As The Spider-Man" is.
** Spidey purposely took the ham up to eleven in his own title, during the ''ComicBook/{{Identity Crisis|1998}}'' storyline, where he took four new superhero identities while a fugitive, specifically in his identity as Prodigy. (An exaggerated version of [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] heroes.) When he finally ditched that identity and the other three, he told Mary Jane that "even WesternAnimation/MightyMouse wouldn't say half the things" he had said as Prodigy.

* For that matter, Strange himself too, on ''many'' occasions. His {{Magical Incantation}}s were what appealed him to fans in the first place. (Like, "By the Hoary Hosts of Hoggoth." Or, "By the All-Seeing Eye of Aggamoto.")

* The titular character in ''ComicBook/TheTombOfDracula'' was incredibly hammy even by most vampire standards. Every issue had him speaking in terms like these:
-->'''{{Dracula}}''': Feel HONORED clod--Be PROUD that your pitiful life can be used to further MINE. You did not DIE for any peasant...but for Dracula--LORD OF THE DAMNED!

* The ''X-Men'' villain Mojo. Even in the UltimateUniverse where he's human. If the Joker were a fat, alien media tycoon, this is who you'd get. Mojo runs a world where people are engineered to be reality TV stars. Needless to say some of these people are quite the large hams when they come over to 616, Shatterstar for example.
* Originally, Johnny Blaze put on a "spook act" as the ''ComicBook/GhostRider''. When the Rider started manifesting its own personality, it's revealed that while ''Johnny'' is acting, ''Zarathos'' really is that dramatic.

* Most of the Comicbook/{{Azrael}}s had a penchant for this.

* ''Comicbook/JusticeLeagueInternational'' villain Manga Khan is not only the founder and former president emeritus of the Manga Khan School of Melodrama, he suffers from a disorder that causes him to behave in a ridiculously grandiose manner. He neglects to take his medication because he's in denial.

* ''Comicbook/{{Empowered}}'''s Caged Demonwolf. He spends all of his time as a voice emanating from the [[SealedEvilInACan alien power-draining bondage gear he's stuck in]], but even as a talking inanimate object, he has the biggest speech balloons and an endless supply of {{Expospeak Gag}}s. The sinister, sealed sovereign's hammery rivals that of [[Creator/BrianBlessed blessed Brian]] himself!

* Haazen from ''Comicbook/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'' is one, though he hides it well for ''decades'' by pretending to be a fawning servant to the Draays in public. When he unveils his EvilPlan, he does so by having a hijacked Republic fleet blow up the Draay Estate's courtyard while standing unflinching before the explosion, turning to the heroes in full Sith armour, and delivering a thunderous speech on how they've played straight into his hands throughout the story.

* Every single major character in ''Comicbook/TheMetabarons'' by Creator/AlejandroJodorowsky.

* Spider Jerusalem from ''Comicbook/{{Transmetropolitan}}''.

* A rare instance where the ''narrator'' is a LargeHam occurs in Creator/GrantMorrison's ''ComicBook/SevenSoldiers: Frankenstein.''
--> "All in a day's work...for '''''FRANKENSTEIN!'''''"
* Franchise/{{Superman}} and ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} villains tend to get this way. Scenery-chewing, dramatization and verbosity are practically mandatory. Some examples:
-->'''ComicBook/LexLuthor:''' I'm the only sane inmate of Asylum Earth. I'm not eager to hand tomorrow over to an interplanetary extremist with laser eyes. There's only room on this world for one leader, Superman. When I'm finished with you, every last gibbon out there will know you for the menace you are... and they'll realize that Lex Luthor is their savior.
-->'''Dru-Zod:''' '''KNEEL BEFORE ZOD!'''
-->'''[[ComicBook/DemonSpawn Nightflame]]:''' NAY! Your chrome-plated chariot does not frighten me! Now you shall know of the power of Nightflame! And of my flame-sword!
-->'''Black Starr:''' FOOL! You think all there is to reality is what is seen? Yes – I appear young – and I may be younger still... or even be you, if I so desire!
-->'''Satan Girl:''' Fool, you'll '''NEVER''' find a cure for them! I know... because it was '''I''' who unleashed this doom of the crimson virus on them!
-->'''ComicBook/{{Darkseid}}:''' Darkseid IS!
-->'''[[ComicBook/LastDaughterOfKrypton Reign]]:''' "'''Yes''', my child. Let the universe bear '''witness''' to your '''pain'''. '''Grieve''' the life you knew."
-->'''Superboy-Prime:''' "I'LL KILL YOU! I'LL KILL YOU TO ''DEATH''!!
* Franchise/WonderWoman:

** Spidey purposely took the ham up to eleven in his own title, during the ''[[ComicBook/SpiderManIdentityCrisis Identity Crisis]]'' storyline, where he took four new superhero identities while a fugitive, specifically in his identity as Prodigy. (An exaggerated version of [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] heroes.) When he finally ditched that identity and the other three, he told Mary Jane that "even WesternAnimation/MightyMouse wouldn't say half the things" he had said as Prodigy.

** Also lampshaded during a cameo appearance in ''The Amazing Comicbook/SpiderMan'', in which Doom expresses displeasure at being escorted through the public terminal of an airport due to mechanical difficulties [[spoiler: (amusingly, the guard turns out to be Captain America undercover.)]]:

* Franchise/{{Spide|rMan}}y gets to ham it up and have fun doing so in his ''ComicBook/MarvelAdventures'' team up with Comicbook/DoctorStrange. In fact, the level of ham becomes essential in bluffing a CosmicEntity, who is blind and can't see how small the "Great Hidden One Known As The Spider Man" is.
** Spidey purposely took the ham up to eleven in his own title, during the "Identity Crisis" storyline, where he took four new superhero identities while a fugitive, specifically in his identity as Prodigy. (An exaggerated version of [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] heroes.) When he finally ditched that identity and the other three, he told Mary Jane that "even WesternAnimation/MightyMouse wouldn't say half the things" he had said as Prodigy.

* Haazen from ''Comicbook/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'' is one; during that sequence when he reveals his evil plan and blows up the courtyard with the fleet, he screams, "Let the Fire of Truth Rain Down." Of course, the man's spent almost his entire life forced into the role of the fawning servant, unable to act otherwise in public without blowing his cover. Under those conditions, the culmination of the EvilPlan he's been working on for decades ''deserves'' a bit of ham.

** Spidey purposely took the ham UpToEleven in his own title, during the "Identity Crisis" storyline, where he took four new superhero identities while a fugitive, specifically in his identity as Prodigy. (An exaggerated version of [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] heroes.) When he finally ditched that identity and the other three, he told Mary Jane that "even WesternAnimation/MightyMouse wouldn't say half the things" he had said as Prodigy.

* Super-strong characters tend to get this way, especially those who are gods. Marvel has [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHercules Hercules]] and [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Thor]], DC has Orion of the ComicBook/NewGods, and the ComicBook/DarkAvengers have ComicBook/{{Ares}}. Who possibly tops Thor for sheer hamminess.

* The ''X-Men'' villain Mojo. Even in the UltimateUniverse where he's human. If the Joker were a fat, alien media tycoon, this is who you'd get. Mojo runs a world where people are engineered to be reality TV stars. Needless to say some of these people are quite the large hams when they come over to 616, Shatterstar for example

* Falstaff (again) in the ''[[ComicBook/SevenSoldiers Seven Soldiers of Victory]]'' story from ''Leading Comics'' #14, "The Bandits from the Books." In a story where everyone talks in all capitals and ends their sentences with exclamation points, his dialogue is in bigger, bolder type with more exclamation points. He even [[MundaneMadeAwesome makes eating a banana sound epic]].

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