History LargeHam / ComicBooks

* ComicBook/{{Loki}} is displeased that thou hast not included me into this page.

* Black Mask, especially during JuddWinick's run on Franchise/{{Batman}}.

* For that matter, Strange himself, on ''many'' occasions.

* [[ComicBook/XMen Apocalypse]] is full of this.

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

* Franchise/{{Spide|rMan}}y gets to ham it up and have fun doing so in his ''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.

* [[ComicBook/XMen. Apocalypse]] is full of this.

* [[SquadronSupreme Master Menace]], Marvel's alternate-universe equivalent of SelfDemonstrating/LexLuthor heavily mixed with SelfDemonstrating/DoctorDoom, shamelessly chews the scenery whenever he appears.

* Of all the characters that qualify for this trope, '''{{Darkseid}}''' deserves a special mention.
* Falstaff (again) in the ''[[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]].
* A rare instance where the ''narrator'' is a LargeHam occurs in Creator/GrantMorrison's ''SevenSoldiers: Frankenstein.''

* 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

* {{Loki}} is displeased that thou hast not included me into this page.

* The Blue Blade from ''TheTwelve'' or, as he would announce, "'''''The Bluuuue Blaaaaaade!!!'''''", was an ErrolFlynn wannabe, with the camp elements of his original design turned up to eleven for laughs.

* {{Deadpool}}.

* From 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.

* [[MaximumCarnage This is your old pal Carnage saying you can't spell slaughter without laughter,]] '''[[EvilLaughter AHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!]]'''

* '''"[[{{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 trantrums because all of creation wasn't dying quickly enough.
* ''{{Asterix}} and the Actress'' manages to pull this off as StylisticSuck with Latraviata, in static images. She's a famous Roman theatre actress and thus acts out her [[TheIngenue ingenue]] character like a {{Melodrama}}tic [[TheVamp sex bomb]].

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* '''"[[Annihilation ANNIHILUS]] IS THE WILL AND THE WAY AND HE WILL NOT BE DENIED!"''' Marvel's Annihilus always refers to himself in the 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 trantrums because all of creation wasn't dying quickly enough.

* [[{{Batman}} The]] [[SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker Joker]], especially in the Comics Code Authority days, pretty much ''thrives'' on this trope.

* The graphic novel ''TwiceBlessed'' has Cade Masters, [[http://www.twiceblessedcomic.com/?webcomic_post=9 ADVENTURER EXTRAORDINAIRE!]]

** Lampshaded during the ''{{Onslaught}}'' saga; Joseph was telling 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."

* [[SquadronSupreme Master Menace]], Marvel's alternate-universe equivalent of LexLuthor heavily mixed with DoctorDoom, shamelessly chews the scenery whenever he appears.

* Super-strong characters tend to get this way, especially those who are gods. Marvel has [[TheIncredibleHercules Hercules]] and [[TheMightyThor Thor]], DC has Orion of the NewGods, and now the DarkAvengers have Comicbook/{{Ares}}. Who possibly tops Thor for sheer hamminess.
** Thor has the excuse that he comes from a ''[[WorldOfHam world]]'' [[WorldOfHam of ham]] -- Asgard. Where you know the inevitable fate of the scenery the moment anyone at all opens their mouth.
* [[ComicBook/TheSandman Destruction of the Endless]], who was modeled after {{BRIAN BLESSED}}!

* When StanLee was still writing comics, he wrote ''every character'' this way. Lee himself has shared his love of ham on ''many'' occasions. ''[[WhoWantsToBeASuperhero "EXCELSIOR!"]]''
* Pick a JackKirby character. Any Jack Kirby character. And when Lee and Kirby collaborated, it was something to behold.
** This is probably a big reason why the ComicBook/FantasticFour cemented so many Marvel-specific tropes in the late SilverAge and BronzeAge.

* A rare instance where the ''narrator'' is a LargeHam occurs in GrantMorrison's ''SevenSoldiers: Frankenstein.''

* ''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 [[BrianBlessed blessed Brian]] himself!

* [[SpiderMan Spidey]] gets to ham it up and have fun doing so in his ''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.

* Black Mask, especially during JuddWinick's run on {{Batman}}.

* Haazen from ''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.

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

* [[GreenLantern Orange Lantern]] Larfleeze: The greediest creature in the universe!

* Most of the [[{{Azrael}} Azraels]] had a penchant for this.

* Every single major character in ''Comicbook/TheMetabarons'' by AlejandroJodorowsky.
* From NewGuardians, [[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.

** Elysio had a very hammy moment at his introduction [[spoiler:(which was most likely a foreshadowing of the fact he was actually an amnesiac Darkhell)]]. After [[spoiler:Darkhell and him split up]], however, he seems to have lost this tendencie and become calmer.
* The titular character in Comicbook/TheTombOfDracula was incredibly hammy even by most vampire standards. Every issue had him speaking in terms like these:

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* "[[SelfDemonstrating/DoctorDoom Doom]] is displeased that people think he underacts. [[http://doomcomicdrama.ytmnd.com/ 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 '''[[FantasticFour REED RICHARDS!!]]'''"

** This is probably a big reason why the FantasticFour cemented so many Marvel-specific tropes in the late SilverAge and BronzeAge.

* [[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.

* ''[[JusticeLeagueOfAmerica Justice League International]]'' 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.

** Lampshaded during the ''Onslaught'' saga; Joseph was telling 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."

--> "Heh, heh, heh. The merely mortal ''fools'' have failed to perceive [[ThirdPersonPerson the ravening shadowlord's]] burgeoning ''powers of suggestion''! And by the time they ''do'' -- ''too late'' will it be -- for [[Third Person Person the sinister snuffer of civilisations]] will have seized ABSOLUTE CONTROL of the much-vaunted '''TV REMOTE'''!!!"

* [[FantasticFour "I am GALACTUS...]] [[ChewingTheScenery And I HUNGER!]]"

* "[[DoctorDoom Doom]] is displeased that people think he underacts. [[http://doomcomicdrama.ytmnd.com/ 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 '''[[FantasticFour REED RICHARDS!!]]'''"

* [[SpiderMan Spidey]] gets to ham it up and have fun doing so in his ''MarvelAdventures'' team up with Comicbook/DoctorStrange. In fact, the level of ham becomes essential in bluffing a CosmicHorror, who is blind and can't see how small the "Great Hidden One Known As The Spider Man" is.

--> "Heh, heh, heh. The merely mortal ''fools'' have failed to perceive [[ThirdPersonPerson the ravening shadowlord]]'s burgeoning ''powers of suggestion''! And by the time they ''do'' -- ''too late'' will it be -- for [[Third Person Person the sinister snuffer of civilisations]] will have seized ABSOLUTE CONTROL of the much-vaunted '''TV REMOTE'''!!!"

* [[{{Batman}} The]] [[TheJoker Joker]], especially in the Comics Code Authority days, pretty much ''thrives'' on this trope.

* Vitamin Flintheart from ''DickTracy''. He was originally designed as a parody of John Barrymore.

* Falstaff (again) in the ''[[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 does a WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome about eating a banana.

* The ''[[ComicBook/XMen 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