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4[[caption-width-right:330:Even the commute is [[ChewingTheScenery scenery chewing]] for them.]]
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6Basically, a World of Ham is an entire universe populated by {{Large Ham}}s and the HotBlooded, where everything that happens is extremely dramatic, and every activity is ''deadly'' SeriousBusiness, where in every conflict '''''[[DisproportionateRetribution every]][[LawOfDisproportionateResponse thing]]''''' is on the line. Not [[{{Melodrama}} because of the treatment it receives]], but because ''[[RuleOfCool it just works]]'' when done that way! [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome Moments of Awesome]], SugarWiki/FunnyMoments, SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments, and {{Tear Jerker}}s happen almost one after another, giving works with this sort of setting unbearably high JustForFun/{{Holy Shit Quotient}}s.
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8Every factor (characters, plot, pacing...) is configured to produce the maximum possible amount EmotionalTorque, [[ActionFilmQuietDramaScene the more low-key scenes]] being used efficiently to make the more dramatic and action-filled scenes all the more breathtaking.
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10In such a world, you cannot merely ''act'' — [[SuddenlyShouting YOU MUST]] ''[[NoIndoorVoice OVERACT!]]'' Scenery[[DramaticPause …]] will be ''{{chew|ingTheScenery}}ed'' — ground to ''fine dust''. [[MilkingTheGiantCow Giant cows will be milked]] to ''desiccation''. ''Every single line'' of dialogue will be given as if it were a pronouncement from '''Heaven''' itself, or ''[[RageAgainstTheHeavens unto the Heavens]]'' ''[[SkywardScream themselves]]'' — '''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis WITH! ADDED! EMPHASIS!]]''' Every villain will '''roar''', or perhaps ''[[ColdHam sneer]]'', at the ''{{pitiful worms}}'' who '''[[WhoDares dare]]''' to ''crawl'' in their '''[[AGodAmI divine presence]]'''. Furthermore, there's a '''good''' chance that '''[[Creator/BrianBlessed BRIAN BLESSED]]''' can be found STOMPING around somewhere. In this kind of world, it may seem like everyone's having a ball being as [[LargeHam over the top]] as possible, but, in fact, it is the setting that ''requires'', nay, '''''DEMANDS''''' it… and by '''GOD''', its demands will be ''met!''
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12Works that take place in a World of Ham tend to be JustForFun/TropeOverdosed, and contain {{Melodrama}}, as well as plenty of HamToHamCombat. They also preclude EvilIsHammy, as that required just one side to be hams.
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14For a world actually made of hamlike substance, see MeatMoss. It'll probably be just as badass, though.
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16Compare DarkWorld, CrapsackWorld, CrapsaccharineWorld, WorldOfBadass, {{Dystopia}}, WretchedHive, DysfunctionJunction, WorldOfChaos, WorldOfSnark, WorldGoneMad, LayeredWorld, DeathWorld.
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24* Creator/OsamuTezuka: In his works, subtle delivery isn't exactly something his characters are fond of.
25%%* A lot of ''Magazine/ShonenJump'' manga can easily fall into this trope (yes, even the most [[Manga/DeathNote cynical ones]]).
26* ''Anime/AngelBeats'' usually isn't this, but becomes one in the OVA due to "Operation High Tensions Syndrome", which translates to "[[HamAndCheese be the most insane hams]] [[HamToHamCombat you can be]]".
27** It even has a meter on the screen constantly to measure exactly how hammy everyone is being at that particular moment. Turns out the meter can go [[ReadingsAreOffTheScale Over]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V19qAVRFnhY 9000.]]
28* ''Manga/AttackOnTitan''. It doesn't matter whether you're five or 50 feet away. Given that the overall theme of the series is Survivalism against the [[HumanoidAbomination Titans]], everyone who isn't [[TheStoic a stoic]] generally shouts and screams at one another or themselves as if they are in constant overdose of adrenaline.
29* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': Even the most [[TheStoic stoic ones]] can [[SuddenlyShouting suddenly start screaming]] and practically every character is ChewingTheScenery. For example, [[BloodKnight Kenpachi Zaraki]] is a master of screaming and dramatic poses.
30* ''Manga/BoboboboBobobo''. ''' It's a show based on Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar but about hair.
31* ''Anime/CodeGeass'' is unique in that the acting for a lot of characters is more in line with the {{Super Robot|Genre}} series, despite being about {{Real Robot|Genre}}s. Even the ''scenery'' is incredibly over the top, [[UnnecessarilyLargeInterior gigantic imperial halls]] and [[CrystalSpiresAndTogas blazing shiny towers]] in the Imperial Enclave separated only by a railway from [[WretchedHive incredibly dirty and impoverished slums]], on diametric opposites of the SlidingScaleOfShinyVersusGritty, and soundtrack keeps pace too.
32** ''"Everything is'' '''''[[color:red:Fa]][[color:orange:b]][[color:yellow:u]][[color:green:l]][[color:blue:o]][[color:purple:us]]!'''''''"''
33* ''Manga/DearBrother'': As a {{melodrama}}tic {{shoujo}} from TheSeventies, it fits in very well. ''Especially'' in the anime, where we have [[EmpathicWeather dramatic thunderstorms]], lots of MoodWhiplash and ''hundreds'' of both {{Repeat cut}}s and {{Pastel Chalked Freeze Frame}}s [[Creator/OsamuDezaki coming from the Master of said Freeze Frames himself]].
34* ''Anime/DeltoraQuest'', or at least, the English dub. There's the villains, the guardians of the Gems, and a tribe of [[NeatFreak Neat Freaks]], among other hammy things.
35* ''Manga/DragonBall'' is full of hammy villains and heroes. Especially evident in ''Anime/DragonBallZ''.
36* ''Manga/FairyTail'': The members shout half of the things they say on the top of their lungs, such as "WE ARE FAIRY TAIL!"
37* ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar''. The excessive amount of drama and bloodshed ''[[YourHeadASplode MAKE HEADS EXPLODE!]]''
38** Exemplified by Creator/ShigeruChiba's iconically hammy narration. It started off as an inside joke — he began delivering his "next-episode" bits [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_D_p-zZafA in an increasingly demented Hot-Blooded voice]], just to see how long he could go on gradually cranking it up before someone noticed. The fans noticed, all right, to the extent that when he leveled it off (out of fear of wrecking his voice or giving himself an aneurysm) they would come up to him in the street and ask why he stopped.
39* ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}''. It's a series based on RuleOfCool with a whole lot of {{Large Ham}}s, what do you expect? Particularly the {{O|riginalVideoAnimation}}VAs, which at times seem to be nothing more than epic fight scenes followed by hammy speeches followed by even ''more'' epic fight scenes.
40* ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'' makes countries into {{Anthropomorphic Personification}}s that, more than talking, actually '''yell''' at each other 90% of the time. That's pork and then some more.
41* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' isn't called 'the [[GlamRock glam rock]] version of ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar''' for nothing.
42** Why talk when you can '''SHOUT?!''' Why walk when you can '''SWAGGER?!''' Why jump when you can '''LEAP?!''' Why stand when you can '''POSE?!''' Why monologue when you can '''GIVE A SPEECH?!'''
43** The anime maintains the global hamminess. World of Ham + TalkingIsAFreeAction = someone is ChewingTheScenery every single line.
44** The power of [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness Parts 1 and 2]], Hamon (a.k.a. the Ripple) is literally a homophone for "jamón", which is Spanish for "ham"!
45* ''Manga/KarakuridoujiUltimo'' seems to be this. It doesn't help that part of the writing is done by '''[[Creator/StanLee STAN LEE]]'''.
46* ''Anime/KillLaKill'': Satsuki wasn't exaggerating when calling everybody "pigs in human clothing". Most lines are not spoken, but shouted. You don't open a door, you kick it across the room. The protagonist eats a lemon as you'd eat an apple, just so you can see how badass she is. Steal a school uniform? Get a gruesome death and have your corpse hung on display as a warning to others. The main character is [[OnlySaneMan the exception]] most of the time, but that's only so that she can ''really'' unleash the hog when the time is right.
47** Every time a new character is introduced, dramatic music and sound-effects blare out as their name and role flashes on the screen in '''HUGE BRIGHT RED BLOCK CAPITAL FONT'''! Even the wimpiest secondary character will tend to be introduced with maximum impact.
48* ''Manga/TheLegendOfKoizumi'' (Mudazumo Naki Kaikaku) is made of this. They play Mahjong with tiles made of depleted uranium.
49* ''Manga/LuckyStar'' has one of the best examples of this every time Konata goes to the HotBlooded anime store. You have not seen a true ham [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EX9QeZw32s UNTIL YOU HAVE HEARD HIM SCREAM (and why he screamed).]]
50** What a lot of people don't realize was that was a cameo for the mascots of the Japanese anime shop, ''Animate''.
51* ''Manga/MedakaBox'' gets a mention for a scene that was all about OPENING A DOOR!!
52* ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'': Most characters are incredibly campy, loud and intense, particularly All Might.
53* ''Anime/NadiaTheSecretOfBlueWater'': The first 8 or so episodes are just one epic ham after another. They're being chased by a tank! Now they're on a battleship! Now a submarine! Wait, something about Atlantis? That thing is going to shoot [[EnergyWeapon Frickin' Laser Beams]]!?
54* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' has perhaps the single ''least'' [[HighlyVisibleNinja subtle ninjas]] in fiction. For some reason they feel the need to [[ExplainingYourPowerToTheEnemy explain their tactics to the enemy]], at length, ''in the middle of a battle'' with [[CallingYourAttacks calls of "___ no Jutsu!"]], overly dramatic jutsus themselves and mad headbands.
55* ''Manga/{{Nichijou}}'': The world is equal parts Ham, {{Slapstick}}, and {{Moe}}.
56* ''Manga/OnePiece''. The only show in which characters will treat '''declaring war on the entire world''' as a ''[[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer matter of fact]]''. [[NotHyperbole We're kidding you not]]: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5zQpL25PtQ they actually did that]]. Usopp (then adopting the Sogeking persona) even took the opportunity to brag about his new slingshot.
57* ''Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt'': The only character that isn't made of unrelenting ham is Brief, and the universe [[ButtMonkey constantly]] [[TheChewToy punishes him for it]].
58* Pokemon's anime, while capable of being hammy, generally does not reach this level. The same cannot be said of ''WebAnimation/PokemonGenerations'', where they have a lot less time to devote to things and must thus show off characters quickly. Quickly in their case means loads and loads of HAM! Characters ROAR at each other before battles, old sages BELLOW wise phrases into the sky from atop castles, dastardly plans are given while SHOUTING and GESTURING. This is most evident in Episodes 3, 8, and 13, though you can see the HAM in other episodes.
59* ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'' is all Martial Arts Mayhem involving InvoluntaryShapeshifting and ham!
60* ''Anime/{{Redline}}'' takes place in a very soft sci-fi one... Racing is apparently the galactic pastime, and lord is it SeriousBusiness. Everyone has moments of ham, '''especially''' the announcers, and racers indulge in quite a bit of ham behind the wheel.
61-->'''Announcer:''' THA MAD BROZAZ LYYYYNCHUUMAN ANDO JOHNNYBOYAAAAA!\
62'''Announcer:''' MIKI ANDO TODOROKIIAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
63:: At this point, it sounds like the announcer is going into convulsions.
64* ''Franchise/SailorMoon'': About the only characters that aren't at least a five on the ham-o-meter are Sailor Pluto and Sailor Saturn (who go for [[EmotionlessGirl the other extreme]]), Usagi's parents (incidental characters at best) and... maybe some background extras. It seems [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histrionic_personality_disorder Histrionic Personality Disorder]] is just a natural side-effect of magic and super science. Even [[ShyBlueHairedGirl Ami]] eventually takes her hamminess up a notch with her character-based special about ''studying''. Let's not get started on all the villains except for Saphir and Dimande.
65** Minako/Sailor Venus. In the main series she usually tones it down to not outshine Usagi/Sailor Moon, who is super hammy herself, but whenever she doesn't risk that... Well, she's so hammy that in one occasion ''the MonsterOfTheWeek [[LampshadeHanging protested she was being too hammy]]''-and got hammily beheaded [[CombatPragmatist while he was protesting]].
66** Then there was the [[Anime/SailorMoon anime]] episode where she had to impersonate Sailor Moon to make it appear it wasn't Usagi, who had been captured ''and'' got her TransformationTrinket taken away. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvALBIfDB9c She hammed it up so much that Kaolinite, Sailor Uranus and Sailor Neptune were completely fooled and failed to notice the bad disguise and that Sailor Venus was not around]]. And Usagi was '''[[HypocriticalHumor totally embarrassed]]''' by the time Venus was done.
67* ''Manga/SaintSeiya''. As one of the most famous and classic shonen mangas, full of HotBlooded characters who adore to make passionate speeches about ThePowerOfFriendship and [[CallingYourAttacks loudly scream the names of their special techniques]], this is very much to be expected. At this rate, Saori/Athena and [[spoiler: Shun/Hades]] are pretty much the only main characters who act somewhat low-key in a regular basis.
68** And the latter actually '''is''' hammy when [[spoiler: he's not possessed by Hades]]!
69** [[{{Woolseyism}} To convey for Italian viewers the same sense of mystery and awe that classical mythology, which they are all too familiar with, inspired in the culturally distant Japanese, the Italian dub director cranked up the epicness of the dialogues, added quotes from classical Italian poems including the]] '''Literature/TheDivineComedy,''' [[{{Woolseyism}} and generally raised the stylistic level of all dialogues.]] The end result is one of the hammiest dubs ''in history''... And the viewers getting the sense of epicness.
70** The Latin-American dub from Mexico was no slouch in this either. Led by the late [[Creator/JesusBarrero Jesús "Chucho" Barrero]] as Seiya, both newbies and seniors were obviously having MASSIVE fun as they screamed their lines at each other and hammed it up like there was no tomorrow. There's a damn good reason the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Pnl_-KeXa4 A OTRA DIMENSION]] meme came from the LA-Spanish fandom.
71* ''Manga/SchoolRumble'': A show that takes the standard LoveDodecahedron, misunderstandings, and big personalities of your typical ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf''-esque shows, and then ramps it up. Exemplified rather nicely by one of the main characters: "Thank ''GOD I'' was born stupid!"
72* ''VideoGame/SengokuBasara''. The games are pretty hammy. The anime is made of bacon: while it has its share of low-key characters, the incredibly unrealistic (and ''very awesome'', past the initial surprise) way the battles are rendered, the fraction of ''exceptionally'' HotBlooded or just ''[[BloodKnight batshit insane]]'' characters present, even for anime, and the high drama and gravity of the events there depicted, all with incredibly rousing music in the background, make this anime fall ''squarely'' into this definition.
73* ''Manga/SoulEater''. All attacks must be called in the LARGEST POSSIBLE FONT, and explaining your strategy to the enemy mid-battle is expected. It gets to the point that enemies ''help each other'' in battle with their explanations. Interestingly, meisters tend to ALL be hot-blooded and hammy. Notable [[LargeHam hams]] include: Black☆Star, Gopher, Asura(as of recent), Ox, Giriko, Kiddo, and, to a point, [[BadassBookworm Maka]] herself.
74-->'''Soul:''' ''SOUL HACK!!!!!''
75%%* ''Anime/SpaceBattleshipYamato'' in all its incarnations.
76* ''Anime/SpacePatrolLuluco'', a series where people fight by transforming into guns and even the OnlySaneMan delves into the hamminess. It's to be expected given [[Creator/HiroyukiImaishi who directed it]].
77* ''Anime/StarDriver'' takes'' Anime/CodeGeass'''s camp and ramps it way up. It is a series chock-full of ''stupid, stupid concepts'', executed with such ham and panache and brio that you can't help but gape in ''awe''. You know what the protagonist is called? GALACTIC {{BISHONEN}}! And when the villains [[SayMyName scream it]], ''[[NarmCharm they manage to make it sound threatening]]''.
78* Most of the SuperRobotGenre, with special mention to ''Anime/GaoGaiGar'', ''Anime/MobileFighterGGundam'', and ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann''. The RealRobotGenre split off specifically by doing away with the ham.
79** ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' took this to another level in the second movie; the cast ham it up even ''more'' than they did in the original series. The best example is probably Lordgenome, who goes from saying "OVERLLOOAAAAD!" in the original series, to "OOOOOAAAVAAALOOOOWWAAHHHHDDDDAAAAH!!!" in the second movie.
80** Lordgenome is just the tip of the iceberg. While the Anti-Spiral was somewhat hammy in the original (as being hammy generally led to Spiral Power, which is against the Anti-Spirals), the movie took it up to 11. [[spoiler:Case in point: "Interesting! Then... Anti-Spiral... Giga... DRRRIILLLL.... BREEEEAAAAAKKKKAAAAA!!!!!"]]
81** Essentially, Spiral Energy runs on hamminess.
82** ''Anime/MobileFighterGGundam'' might just be even more full of Ham. Between [[JustForFun/TropeOverdosed all of the over-the-top martial arts cliches]], [[HamToHamCombat the speeches given in between every punch]], and the entire premise of [[RuleOfCool fighting a martial arts tournament with giant robots to determine the next ruler of the world]], it's impossible to not invoke this trope. That's not even including the fact that ''everyone'' and ''everything'' is HotBlooded (from the WrenchWench main love interest to the stereotypically KnightInShiningArmor Frenchman to a ''horse'').
83** There's also ''Manga/GiantRobo''.
84** And ''Anime/ShinMazinger'', too; the ''narrator'' is probably the biggest ham in the show. In fact, maybe we should just say ''every'' {{Super Robot|Genre}} show directed by Yasuhiro Imagawa will be set in a World Of Ham.
85** ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam00'' is quite a World Of Ham, despite being more of a {{Real Robot|Genre}} series. Just look at Ali and Graham...
86*** Setsuna gets pretty hammy in the final episodes, too: "Gundam Exia. Setsuna F. Seiei. SLASHING THROUGH THE FUTURE!". Then Exia body-slams the O Gundam into an asteroid.
87* ''{{Manga/Toriko}}'' literally does this with food.
88* In the world of the original [[Manga/YuGiOh ''Yu-Gi-Oh!'' manga]] by Creator/KazukiTakahashi (Viz: first seven volumes, ''Duelist'', and ''Millennium World''), games and gaming in general are taken very seriously.
89** ''Anime/YuGiOh'' Anime series. Every series makes a [[WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries children's card game]] [[SeriousBusiness a matter of life and death]], but Yami Yugi plays every single card with the sort of drama normally reserved for parting the Red Sea.
90** Heck, English dub Yami Yugi manages to ham up ''[[MundaneMadeAwesome drawing a card at the start of his turn]]'' (in fact, the introduction of Duel Disks for Battle City onwards seems partly so the characters can use more than just their upper bodies to flourish their card draws). He has to, as he is voiced by Creator/DanGreen.
91** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XU-nKVzCpss Here's a video]] comparing English dub Yami Yugi and ''WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries'' Yami Yugi. Looks like English dub Yami Yugi is ''extremely'' dramatic and takes things too seriously.
92** Rival characters often spice up the ham. Thunder strikes to declarations of their name, souls literally burning with flames as they speak, entering arenas by jumping out of dragon shaped aircraft: it's hard to find a series that doesn't add to the ham. Zexal comes close, but even then the rival characters start the series with eerie whistles and robotic jetpacks and end with super sentai transformations.
93** ''Anime/YuGiOhARCV'' is easily the hammiest series, given that main character Yuya Sakaki is also an entertainer. Then there's the Gongenzaka family, and Shingo Sawatari, who copies and trumps Yuya's hamminess, and Shuzo Hiragi, who is almost constantly shouting "burn!" and "hot-blooded!" And of course, the series MC, Nico Smiley. Even normally stoic Reiji Akaba hams it up at times. It's telling that when Jack Atlas shows up in series, he is ''not'' the hammiest character in series, though he certainly is quite a respectable platter.
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97* During MediaNotes/{{the Silver Age|OfComicBooks}}, pretty much every comic book storyline happened in a World Of Ham, probably the best example being [[Creator/MarvelComics Marvel's]] [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Asgard]]: an entire ''Dimension'' of Ham!
98** This could be said of most things written by Creator/StanLee. ''[[CatchPhrase Excelsior!]]''
99* And MediaNotes/{{the Bronze Age|OfComicBooks}} brought us Creator/JackKirby's ComicBook/NewGods Saga, a senses-shattering cosmic god-war between ''two'' Worlds of Ham! With Earth, the Doomed Dominion, caught in-between!!! As a tribute to Kirby, Creator/JohnByrne penned ''Comicbook/{{Darkseid}} vs Comicbook/{{Galactus}}: The Hunger'', where all parties spoke as if performing in ''Theatre/TheRingOfTheNibelung''. In this setting, it's quite appropriate.
100* ''ComicBook/SinCity.'' Just about everything written by Creator/FrankMiller debatably exists in such a world, but ''Sin City'' particularly thrives on RefugeInAudacity on several levels.
101* ''Comicbook/{{Nextwave}}''. Plot? Dialogue? Sanity? OH NOES! If you can't accept it as it is, Creator/WarrenEllis shall kick you. And then you shall [[MadeOfExplodium explode]].
102* ''ComicBook/{{Transmetropolitan}}''. Halfway justified because the main cast are two halfway psychotic journalists/bodyguards, a bunch of politicians running for president, an editor-in-chief, and a {{cyberpunk}} Creator/HunterSThompson.
103* ''ComicBook/ScottPilgrim'' has so many tasty, delicious moments of ultra-ham.
104%%* ''ComicBook/TheTriganEmpire''.
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108* ''Fanfic/TokyoMewMewNoHopeLeft''. ''Every'' character is a large ham. Even characters who are only mentioned for a sentence scream at the top of their lungs or burst into dramatic tears.
109* ''Fanfic/{{Deserving}}''. Exhibit A is ''Literature/HarryPotter'' MilkingTheGiantCow and casting fireworks with his wand in order to ''comment on someone's birthday party''. Then we have glorious dialogue such as "[[MundaneMadeAwesome LUBE!]] Always lube. Don't make me repeat it." ([[http://wtffanfiction.tumblr.com/post/12632386622/lube-always-lube-dont-make-me-repeat-it ... came the menacing voice]].)
110* ''Fanfic/WeissReacts'': Everyone hams it up at least once. Everyone, even [[OnlySaneMan Weiss]]. The only non-ham is [[StraightMan Raven Branwen]], and even SHE'S TheComicallySerious.
111** The universe it spawned, ''Fanfic/TheReactsverse'', inherited the hamminess of its progenitor.
112* The Italian remake of ''FanFic/BattleFantasiaProject'' is a MagicalGirl-centered crossover including, among many hammy series, the above-mentioned ''Franchise/SailorMoon'' and ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'', and is being written by authors from one of the RealLife examples of this trope. It's a rather hammy story.
113* Take ''Code Geass'', with Hammy Mechas, Eye Powers, and People. Take ''Jojo'', with Hammy Stances, Stands, and People. Mix the two together, and get ''Fanfic/LulusBizarreRebellion''. Every major character eventually is consumed by the crazy ham. Everyone!
114* ''WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries'': [[CatchPhrase ATTENTION DUELISTS!]] The main character is voiced by Creator/{{DAN GREEN}}! Most abridged series enhance the ham, or even introduce ham where there wasn't any, for laughs. When the original material was already hammy to begin with, the results can be astounding.
115* ''Theatre/AVeryPotterMusical'' and its sequel. To the point that they became the inspiration for HamToHamCombat.
116* ''FanFic/MobileFighterEvangelion''; when the mercs from ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' are considered tame by the universe's standards, you know you're in for a ham buffet. For starters, Gendo thinks railguns are perfectly good for mail delivery and gardening ([[StuffBlowingUp simultaneously]]), Misato considers ramping up the side of a building on a [[CoolBike rocket powered motorcycle]] with nukes going off behind her ''a normal day's commute'', Rei is a stoic badass who eats metal as an intimidation tactic, and Doctor Akagi is a MadScientist prone to psychotic bouts of laughter and declaring herself a god.
117* ''Fanfic/FarceOfTheThreeKingdoms'' starts where ''Romance'' leaves off and escalates from there.
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121* ''WesternAnimation/Fantasia2000'': Has freaking FLYING WHALES. Anyway, what did you expect from pieces such as the "''Firebird'' Suite" or Beethoven's 5th Symphony? The original counts as well. This just proves that anything can become [[MundaneMadeAwesome overly dramatic]] if you set it to properly bombastic music.
122* The Disney version of ''WesternAnimation/AliceInWonderland'': pretty much all of Wonderland is quite hammy.
123* The FakeOutOpening to ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3''. Imagine an AnachronismStew MegaCrossover and lines like "Well, I brought My DINOSAUR, WHO EATS [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot FORCE FIELD DOGS!]]" and "[[InsistentTerminology That's MR.]] [[CardCarryingVillain Evil Dr. Pork Chop]] to you!" taken perfectly seriously.
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127* ''Film/{{Amadeus}}'': Mozart's music is awesome by itself, but, as a soundtrack, it ''blows your mind''. [[TheResenter Salieri's]] attitude doesn't help tone things down either.
128* ''Film/BattlefieldEarth''. Copious amounts of HamAndCheese from everyone.
129* ''Film/TheBirdcage'' is set in the 1990s Miami gay community and revolves around the eccentric characters that populate the local drag scene. To put it in perspective: Creator/RobinWilliams is ''The Straight Man.''
130* ''Film/DeathBecomesHer'' centers around two vain Beverly Hills women, one of whom (Creator/MerylStreep) was a hammy actress to begin with, and another (Creator/GoldieHawn) who even briefly becomes a ''large'' ham as seeing the other stealing her man (Creator/BruceWillis enjoying himself profusely) drives her to compulsive eating. They become young again through a ridiculously over-the-top sorceress played by Isabella Rossellini, and turn into ''undead'' hams through AmusingInjuries.
131* ''Film/TheExpendables''. This is a movie which features Creator/SylvesterStallone, Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger and Creator/BruceWillis ''in the same scene'', and we are not even counting the ''rest'' of the cast. The film should have been named Ham-singularity, and then the sequels add Creator/ChuckNorris, Creator/JeanClaudeVanDamme, Wesley Snipes and Antonio Banderas. HamToHamCombat is inevitable.
132* Pretty much everybody gets to ham it up in ''Film/FromDuskTillDawn''.
133* ''Film/{{Gladiator}}''. It’s ''Imperial Rome'', for love of the gods! Creator/OliverReed! Creator/RussellCrowe! Creator/RichardHarris! Creator/JoaquinPhoenix chewing everything in sight when he’s not trying to chew Creator/ConnieNielsen and bellowing “Am I not merciful?” Chariots! Galloping horses! Giant arenas made of marble! Sweating slaves! Directed by Creator/RidleyScott for Pete’s sake! '''Are you not entertained'''?
134* ''Film/TheProducers''. Let's just say this: ''Creator/GeneWilder was the understated one'' among the lead characters, and his EstablishingCharacterMoment had him screaming "I'M HYSTERICAL". Which his character is.
135---> I'm in pain, and I'm wet...AND I'M STILL HYSTERICAL!
136** When paired against Zero Mostel, one can't ''help'' but be a little understated.
137** The [[RecursiveAdaptation film adaptation of the Broadway adaptation]] is even hammier.
138* ''Film/{{Flash Gordon|1980}}'', which has Creator/BrianBlessed in it, and a soundtrack by Music/{{Queen}}.
139-->[[HesBack GORDON'S ALIVE?!]]
140* ''Film/RepoTheGeneticOpera'' is another notable musical example. It's a wonder any of the set was still standing after the cast was finished [[ChewingTheScenery munching on it.]]
141* The cast of ''Film/RobinHoodPrinceOfThieves'', which is to be expected given that it features Creator/AlanRickman and Creator/BrianBlessed.
142* ''Film/{{Troy}}''. Say what you will about the film, but even a resenter will have a bit of fun seeing Peter O'Toole, Brian Cox, Brendan Gleeson and even Creator/BradPitt compete in a scenery-devouring contest.
143** Consider this: [[Film/{{Hulk}} Eric Bana]] is [[OnlySaneMan the quiet one]]?
144* ''Film/RatRace''. Besides [[NoRespectGuy Breckin Meyer]], everyone hams up.
145* ''Film/ThreeHundred''. It is a world of ham. It is filled with PEOPLE OF HAM! DIALOGUE OF HAM! CREATURES OF HAM! ''THE VERY LAND ITSELF BLEEDS WITH THE BLOOD OF HAM!'' This is a world where it is apparently perfectly sensible to use the corpses of your enemies as construction mortar, where no-one questions the logic of a king who wages a losing war for the sole purpose of seeing a warrior KneelBeforeZod. Almost every single line, every single action, every single ''frame'' is '''overflowing''' with Ham.
146** This is Hamness!!
147** THIS! IS! '''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis HAMWORLD!]]'''
148* ''Film/TheRef'' is pretty much one hammy TheReasonYouSuckSpeech after another.
149* ''Film/{{Braveheart}}'' : '''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugR-Iyp-e1k FREEEDHAAAAAAAAM]]'''
150* Anything directed by Creator/JohnWaters is bound to be this, but his work in the 1970s deserves special mention. Waters knew absolutely nothing of how to write convincing or even realistic dialogue, yet had a cast willing to deliver said dialogue with absolute gusto and conviction.
151* ''Franchise/StarWars''. Just for starters, every installment has a BigNo.
152* Anything with Creator/BruceCampbell. YouKnowTheOne about "if thine eye offend thee, then pluck it out?" Well, in ''Film/EvilDead2'', his EvilHand attempted to strangle him, so he cut it off with a chainsaw, declared the [[ChainsawGood Chainsaw Groovy]] and [[ArtificialLimbs grafted it to the stump]].
153** ''Film/ArmyOfDarkness'' is the most popular ''Franchise/EvilDead'' film due to completely discarding the horror and concentrating on the ham. Undead, medieval, ''steampunk'' ham.
154** By the same token, ''Film/BubbaHotep''. Bruce Campbell playing the "late" Elvis... Ossie Davis as JFK; nuff said.
155* ''Film/SkyCaptainAndTheWorldOfTomorrow'': Jude Law is AcePilot Joe Sullivan. He battles HumongousMecha with his [[DoAnythingRobot Do Anything Plane]]. There are [[StupidJetpackHitler Clockwork Nazi Robots]] and [[LegoGenetics mouse-sized elephants]]. And two of every animal on earth being loaded into a rocket ship.
156* ''Film/InglouriousBasterds'': There's Lt. Aldo Raine, the Bear Jew, UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler, Dr. Goebbels, and probably more.
157* ''Film/XXx'':
158** The movie opens with Creator/VinDiesel BASE-jumping off a sports car that he's just driven off a bridge, and it just goes uphill from there.
159** Right before that, a Music/{{Rammstein}} [[DarkWorld concert]] with obvious people of ham and a ham-spy dressed like Film/JamesBond...
160* ''Film/MoulinRouge'' {{Melodrama}} and absinthe trip-like [[DisneyAcidSequence musical numbers]] where the [[SceneryPorn (wonderful)]] scenery is gleefully chewed.
161** "[[Music/{{Madonna}} Like A Virgin]]" deserves special mention — to say nothing of the wonderful HamToHamCombat of the two main characters trying to outdo one another, but then the entire ''wait staff'' joining in in a way over the top dance number.
162** Also by Baz Luhrmann, ''[[Film/WilliamShakespearesRomeoAndJuliet Romeo + Juliet]]''. Keeping Shakespeare's original text (see Theater, below) probably helped the cast to really liven up — [[DragQueen Harold Perrineau]] being the best example.
163* Speaking of musicals, ''Theatre/JesusChristSuperstar'' is ''The Passion'' set in a World of Ham and [[NewAgeRetroHippie 60's counterculture]]. Every single line between Jesus and [[TheResenter Judas]] is HamToHamCombat, sung in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjOvk7RFYTU#t=4m56s notes so inhuman few actors can sing them]]
164** "Actors" being the key word there; singers don't find those notes all that difficult.
165* ''Film/BramStokersDracula'': Every actor is gloriously hamming it up except for Creator/KeanuReeves, [[DullSurprise for whom overacting seems physically impossible]]. Also Creator/RichardEGrant and Creator/AnthonyHopkins having [[HamToHamCombat a good time together]].
166* ''Film/HarryPotter''. Creator/KennethBranagh, Creator/JasonIsaacs, '''Creator/EmmaThompson''', Creator/AlanRickman, Creator/RobbieColtrane, Miranda Richardson, Brendan Gleeson, Creator/RalphFiennes, Creator/DavidTennant ([[OneSceneWonder brief though his role may be]]), '''Creator/{{HELENA BONHAM CARTER}}''' and even Creator/JessieCave (the girl who played Lavender Brown) have entire scenes devoted to their hamminess. Rumor has it that during ''Chamber of Secrets'' Isaacs, Branagh, and Rickman had an ongoing wager seeing who could get the hammiest takes into the final cut.
167* You get your first taste of ham in ''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow'' when the Criminologist begins explaining the plot in the most over-the-top fashion possible, but it's not until the Time Warp and Sweet Transvestite that the true depths of hammitude are revealed. Of course, at any good screening, the biggest hams in the movie will be the [[AudienceParticipation audience]].
168* ''Film/ThePrincessBride''. Cary Elwes, Chris Sarandon, Christopher Guest, Wallace Shawn, Wrestling/AndreTheGiant and Billy Crystal in one film. It's as beautiful as it sounds.
169** Hey, what about Creator/MandyPatinkin? He's got the coolest line of all time! JustForFun/{{Hello}}. MyNameIsInigoMontoya. YouKilledMyFather. PrepareToDie.
170** Cary Elwes vs. Mandy Patinkin — the duel is a [[YouFightLikeACow glorious]] combination of {{Flynning}} and HamToHamCombat. IAmNotLeftHanded indeed.
171** Bizarrely, Christopher Guest's acting doesn't [[Film/ThisIsSpinalTap go to eleven]]. (His finger count does, though.) "And certainly [[SerialEscalation NOT TO FIFTY]]!"
172* Frequently played for fun in the ''Franchise/BackToTheFuture'' trilogy. Few things are more delightful than Tom Wilson picking on Crispin Glover.
173** And Creator/ChristopherLloyd. ''1.21 GIGAWATTS!'' ''[[CatchPhrase GREAT SCOTT!]]''
174* Also played for fun in ''Film/ShortCircuit''. All of the human characters except for [[FunnyForeigner Ben]] seem to forget what an indoor voice is.
175* The comics were pretty hammy to begin with, but the film adaption of ''Film/ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld'' takes this trope even further.
176* ''Film/{{Excalibur}}''. Example: During a siege, Uther asks one of his knights if he's seen Merlin. His response: "I '''HAVEN'T!!!'''"
177** Uryens has Excalibur and an off-screen knight crows "Keeeep it Uuuuuuryeeeens!"
178** Another good example is Merlin himself. John Boorman said something to the effect that the actor was capable of inflecting every vowel sound possible into a single syllable.
179-->"A dream...to some. A NEE-YIGHT-MAY-UH TO UH-THUHS!!!"
180** Wagner!
181* The UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity of ''Film/KingOfNewYork'' is a World of Ham.
182* As is the BigApplesauce of ''Film/GangsOfNewYork''. With a [[VaudevilleVillain mustachio-twirling, top hat-wearing]] Creator/DanielDayLewis as the villain.
183* ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean!'' '''''Captain''''' Jack Sparrow plus B''[[TalkLikeAPirate arrrr]]''-bossa plus Elizabeth ("I just wanted the pleasure of doing that myself!") plus Davy Jones ("A lost bird that never learned to fly!") plus Music/KeithRichards... pure HamToHamCombat. Orlando Bloom playing it normal brings things down a bit though.
184* ''Film/BigMoneyHustlas'' has plenty of this going around. But first, you gotta HYPNOTIZE THAT MOTHERFUCKA!
185* ''Film/TheFastAndTheFurious''. A RatedMForManly series that from jumpy cameras to cars flying down suspiciously empty streets to [[{{Stripperiffic}} every girl dressed like a stripper]] to every other line of dialogue uttered [[PunctuatedForEmphasis REALLY intensely FOR no DISCERNIBLE reason]].
186* ''Film/PootieTang'' is set in a world of Ham and [[DontMakeMeTakeMyBeltOff Badass Belts]].
187* ''Film/ConanTheBarbarian1982'' is like day-old pizza: delicious, ridiculously cheesy, [[BreadEggsMilkSquick and you could catch ebola from it]]. Consider the ham pedigree: Creator/JamesEarlJones (''Franchise/StarWars''), Creator/MaxVonSydow (''Film/{{Flash Gordon|1980}}''), and finally Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger (''everything he's ever been in''[[note]] as in cheesiness, [[DullSurprise not overacting]][[/note]]). Even the ''[[IncomingHam opening narration]]'' by Mako. And ''then'' you have... [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBGOQ7SsJrw Conan the Musical!]]
188* ''Film/TheWizardOfOz''. Intensive {{Melodrama}}, helped by beautiful visuals and music, and everyone overacting at least once, with [[EvilIsHammy The Wicked Witch of the West]] being the best example.
189* ''Film/{{Network}}'', which gives every actor a CharacterFilibuster at least once — and they all take full advantage. JustifiedTrope: They are all insane.
190* The Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse has both a literal world (as in a location), and a few movies that fit the trope.
191** Film/{{Thor}}'s Asgard. Visually stunning and basically every inhabitant is boisterous. Quite appropriately, Creator/AnthonyHopkins is the King of Hamminess. He manages to shut down one of Chris Hemsworth's NoIndoorVoice speeches with a single line of dialogue. ''Film/ThorRagnarok'' even manages to sneak in recursive ham, as Asgardian actors re-enact the climactic scenes from ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld'', while Thor's hot-blooded attitude comes off as comically out of place on the junk planet of Sakaar, where most of the residents are effectively working stiffs and the ruler is an AffablyEvil hedonist played by Creator/JeffGoldblum.
192** ''Film/TheAvengers2012'' has this in noticeable doses, but it seems to be more a function of having six people with massive egos and over-the-top schticks (Tony, Natasha, Thor, Loki, Steve, and Fury) all crammed into a very small space under stressful conditions, while the only humble, normal people are kept out of the action (Hill and Coulson — [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuGaVI3iogo not that the former can't overact...]]), sit on the sidelines snarking bitterly at everyone (Bruce), or get brainwashed and kidnapped moments after showing one of the most level-headed displays of reason in the first half of the film (Clint).
193** Come ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'', and we add twins with an amusing accent (Pietro and Wanda) and a villain as hammy as Loki in Ultron, who shows robots are clearly on the next level of EvilGloating.
194** And ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'' features a lot of HamToHamCombat, because the Avengers are too busy hamming it up to actually discuss things quietly and rationally (well, except for one scene, which quickly devolves into SnarkToSnarkCombat instead).
195* ''Film/IvanTheTerrible'': Everyone shouts a lot and gestures as if they are speaking from the other end of a football pitch, but Tsar Ivan is the supreme ham. "For the sake of the [[PunctuatedForEmphasis GREAT! RUSSIAN! KINGDOM!]]"
196* Nearly everyone on the ''Film/ConAir'' airplane (Creator/NicolasCage, Creator/JohnMalkovich, Creator/SteveBuscemi, Creator/DannyTrejo, Creator/VingRhames, M.C. Gainey, the CampGay "Sally Can't Dance"), plus Colm Meaney as a federal agent, is clearly having fun on their roles:
197-->'''Cyrus:''' Don't move or the bunny gets it.
198* The 1937 film ''The Great Garrick'' is an invoked example of this trope, as all the actors ([[spoiler: except for Creator/OliviaDeHavilland]]) are playing [[LargeHam very large hams]] who are engaged in a [[HamToHamCombat a spitting match]] over comments allegedly said by one of them. By the end of the film, there is very little scenery left as everyone [[spoiler: except Olivia De Havilland]] gets a large taste of the sets.
199* ''Film/TheATeam''. Highlights include firing the cannon of a falling tank in an attempt to fly it into a lake.
200* ''Film/JudgeDredd''. "LAAAAAAAW!"
201* Most of the kids in ''Film/TheSandlot'' are big hams.
202* ''Film/TheManWithTheIronFists'' What do you get when a rapper makes a kung-fu film? Lots of BadBadActing and Creator/RussellCrowe ChewingTheScenery. Nice cinematography but the dialogue is pure kung-foolery.
203* ''Film/TheWarriors''. Can you DIG THE HAM suckas?
204* ''Film/StreetsOfFire'' might as well be the SpiritualSuccessor to ''The Warriors'', which it is since Creator/WalterHill is responsible for both movies.
205* ''Film/SuckerPunch'' in the fantasy sequences at least.
206* ''Film/TheGoonies''. Hollywood long ago decided that children communicate solely in shouts or screams and just never calm down. To some extent this is [[TruthInTelevision truth in television]], but "to some extent" is parsecs below where this film is.
207* Plenty of Creator/{{Troma}} movies, but especially ''Film/TromeoAndJuliet''.
208* In ''Film/TheHungerGames'', the Capital is this. Aside from [[BigBad President Snow]], everyone acts flamboyant andor [[ImpossiblyTackyClothes dresses ridiculously]], with the standouts being [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrLpJw_hwCE Caesar]] and [[http://thehungergames.wikia.com/wiki/Gallery:Effie_Trinket Effie]].
209* Everybody in ''Film/BeautifulCreatures'' {{camp}}s it up with great enthusiasm, with the champion of ham being Creator/EmmaThompson as Sarafine.
210* ''Film/Dune1984 '': The hammiest is Baron Harkonnen, but everyone else is close behind him.
211* ''Film/TheBigLebowski''. Every major character has some lines that they repeat with increasing emphasis.
212-->'''Walter:''' This is what happens when you fuck a stranger in the ass, Larry. [...] YOU SEE WHAT HAPPENS? THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU FUCK A STRANGER IN THE ASS! HERE'S WHAT HAPPENS, LARRY! HERE'S WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU FUCK! A STRANGER! IN THE ASS!
213* ''Film/TheFifthElement'' looks straight out of a sci-fi magazine, with colorful andor downright ridiculous clothes, and features both Creator/GaryOldman as the villain and Chris Tucker as a CampStraight radio host.
214* ''Film/TheLivingWake'' takes place in a Creator/MontyPython-eque world where everyone has some extreme quirk (or several), everyone is over-the-top and dramatic, and random dance numbers just happen sometimes. At one point, one character ''literally throws ham'' at another.
215* ''Film/OceansEleven'' and its sequels. The thieves many times are [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mJf24luhuo bigger than life]] or forced into [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1tkwdfz7n4 hammy impersonations]]. The villains are even worse (including Creator/AlPacino in full "HOO-AH!" mode). And the second movie has Creator/BruceWillis AsHimself, profusely enjoying it.
216* ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad''. From the character design to the action to the performances, everything in the film is played over-the-top. As [[http://www.sbnation.com/2015/5/15/8611525/MAD-MAX-FURY-ROAD-REVIEW-CANT-STOP-SCREAMING-AHHHHHHH Spencer Hall]] might say, '''MAD MAX IS A MOVIE MADE WITH CAPS LOCK ON!'''
217* ''Film/TheHuntsmanWintersWar.'' Creator/CharlizeTheron and Creator/EmilyBlunt are already tops for their work as a pair of warring evil magic queens in lavish gowns but then you throw in Creator/ChrisHemsworth as the hero and Creator/JessicaChastain as his love with a crazy Scottish accent and it gets better.
218* ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'': Creator/BobHoskins is the only one who doesn't get in on the shtick [[spoiler: until the end]], but even he goes a bit over the top with his hard-boiled noir detective style. The toons are, of course, toons, and Creator/ChristopherLloyd is brilliantly nuts. The supporting cast alternates between depressed (when Valiant or Doom are around) to joining in on the cartoonish fun and games (when Roger is present), and Acme and Maroon are very nicely overplayed for such small roles.
219* ''Film/BreakerMorant'' is a legal drama where EDWARD WOODWARD plays the title character, Jack Thompson shouts about half of his lines, and Bryan Brown does a good job of playing a boisterous lout.
220* ''Film/DrGoldfootAndTheBikiniMachine:'' Creator/VincentPrice and a bunch of ''Beach Party'' actors in a 60's MadScientist spy-spoof. Reportedly, Price was very disappointed when the producers scrapped their initial plans to make the thing a musical.
221* ''Film/{{Tevya}}'': The acting isn't subtle. Tevye is hammy, Khave moans melodramatically, and the Orthodox villagers are, except for Fedye, cartoon villains.
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225* ''Literature/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'', both the [[WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDameDisney Disney film]] and the book.
226* All the works of Creator/AlexandreDumas' ''oeuvre''. Especially ''Literature/TheCountOfMonteCristo'' and ''Literature/TheThreeMusketeers''.
227* Creator/FriedrichNietzsche, one of the foremost philosophers of [[RomanticismVersusEnlightenment Romanticism]], seems to think the world we live in should be like this. His style, which tends to reflect Scripture style, is so hammy, offensive and pretentious NO author has probably ever topped him afterward.
228** Only in ''The Birth of Tragedy'' and ''Thus Spoke Zarathustra''. In the former case, he added a preface to the second edition of the book in which he explicitly repudiated the bombastic elements of his youthful style. In the latter, he wrote half-a-dozen books after it, and none of them came anywhere close to the histrionics of ''Zarathustra''.
229*** In the former case, he repeats the EXACT SAME PARAGRAPH in different words for [[OverNineThousand Over 9000]] pages.
230* ''Literature/TheFirstDwarfKing'' is a novel populated by [[LargeHam Large Hams]] and [[EvilIsHammy hammy villains]]. Bonus points for [[HamToHamCombat the characters' arguing]].
231* ''Forbidden Brides of the Faceless Slaves in the Secret House of the Night of Dread Desire'', by Creator/NeilGaiman, is a short story about a writer living in a World of Ham, who tries to write "realistically", but fails — his attempts to depict life in the world of Gothic novels he lives in inevitably turn into parody (or is it satire from his point of view?). In the end he decides to write fantasy instead, and that's when he gets into normal family drama. Only to be interrupted by his long-lost brother jumping in through the window with a sword...
232* Alexander Pope's ''Literature/TheRapeOfTheLock'', set InAWorld where people go on being hammy even after they die, and where haircuts are SeriousBusiness.
233* The fact that ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' gets away with this to the extent that it does imply that we ourselves may be living in a World Of Ham.
234** ''Literature/TheSilmarillion'' is included with the scriptures? Hmm... Considering it has a RockOpera based on it,[[note]]"[[Music/BlindGuardian Nightfall In Middle-Earth]]", sung in the [[PowerMetal Key of Ham]][[/note]] and features an entire {{Gotterdammerung}} against hordes of demons and dragons through the [[ThePowerOfRock magic of song]]... .
235* ''Literature/{{Redwall}}''. Name one character who hasn't had at least one hammy line.
236** Corp. Rubbadub (''Long Patrol'') only talks in beatbox, but that probably still counts.
237* As an AffectionateParody and satire of both opera in general and ''Literature/ThePhantomOfTheOpera'' specifically, Creator/TerryPratchett's Literature/{{Discworld}} novel ''Literature/{{Maskerade}}'' qualifies. Discworld is a fairly hammy place to be in any case, but basically every trope from opera is taken and hammed up massively. This includes, among other things, a character who can sing in harmony with herself, a grandiose, emotional aria whose actual lyrical content is along the lines of "This damn door sticks! It sticks no matter what I do!" and the villain's death scene, which was played in true operatic style, right down to the [[spoiler:sword being between his arm and his chest, rather than actually cutting him. He dies anyway, from the sheer density of ham involved in opera]]. Literally — he's so caught up he doesn't realize it's fake until it's too late.
238* Creator/JackChalker's ''Literature/RiverOfDancingGods'' books pretty much embody this, with everything but everything governed by THE RULES to ensure proper [[HeroicFantasy Swords And Sorcery]] action.
239* Creator/WilliamShatner? Ham. Shatner at a Shatner-focused convention? The whole pig. A [[http://jeffburk.wordpress.com/shatnerquake/ Shatnerquake]] with Shatner, [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Captain Kirk]], [[Series/TJHooker T.J. Hooker]], [[Series/{{Rescue 911}} Shatner]], [[Series/BostonLegal Denny Crane]], and just about every character William Shatner has portrayed? If that doesn't scream "World of Ham", nothing does.
240* In ''Literature/ShadowOfTheConqueror,'' every main character is as HotBlooded as [[WebVideo/{{Shadiversity}} their creator]], and not the least bit shy about letting the world know how they feel in the most bombastic manner possible.
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244* This is a defining trait of the Creator/MontyPython troupe. If a given skit, scene, song, what have you doesn't start with at least one character being a large ham, just give it a few minutes...
245* Creator/{{ESPN}}. Even the straight people there have their hammy moments.
246* Pick a SoapOpera. Any SoapOpera. But ''especially'' {{telenovela}}s (Mexican ones in particular; Brazilian dubbers often note how difficult it is to LipLock when everyone is so hammy!).
247** ''Series/{{Passions}}'' deserves special mention, though: in what other show have you seen an old lady fight off a mountain lion while water-skiing? (We won't mention the orangutan-nurse's love scenes.)
248** However, there are some soaps that fall under World Of DullSurprise. ''Fair City'', I'm looking at you.
249* ''Series/TwentyFour'' is like this.
250* ''Franchise/PowerRangers'', particularly whenever anyone is morphed, and villains at any time. Especially in [[Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers the]] [[Series/PowerRangersZeo early]] [[Series/PowerRangersTurbo seasons]].
251** Almost all {{Toku}}satsu, really; since everyone is wearing rubber suits, they all compensate for lack of visible faces and occasionally freedom of motion by [[NoIndoorVoice SHOUTING REALLY LOUDLY]] and using a lot of [[HeadBob exaggerated]] [[MilkingTheGiantCow body language]]. Those ''not'' in rubber suits ham it up too, probably so as to not be left behind. Even the original Franchise/{{Godzilla}}!
252--->"Serizawa! '''[[BigNo SERIZAAAAWAAAAAAAA!!!]]'''"
253** Bringing this wonderful trope to a beautiful extreme is ''Series/KamenRiderFourze'', penned by the man who wrote the aforementioned ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann''. Not one episode goes by without mass scenery chewing, MilkingTheGiantCow, bombastic characters or wild and out-of-control battle sequences.
254* ''Franchise/StarTrek'' is basically a ''Universe'' of ham.
255** [[Creator/WilliamShatner The... TOS episode...]] [[Recap/StarTrekS3E1SpocksBrain Spock's Brain...]] [[Creator/WilliamShatner isthe... absolute... EPITOME! OF! THIS! TROPE!]]
256*** [[NarmCharm Ham and ham! WHAT IS HAM?!]]
257** ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' had a ShowWithinTheShow in the holodeck program "The Adventures of Captain Proton!", an AffectionateParody of 1930s ''Film/{{Flash Gordon|Serial}}''-type serials; both the holodeck characters and any Voyager crewmember playing them ham things up as much as possible.
258** The same can be said of the ''Film/JamesBond'' {{Expy}} ''Julian Bashir: Secret Agent'' from ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine''. [[EvilIsHammy Evil!Sisko devours the scenery]] while Nana Visitor has too much fun with her bad Russian accent.
259** Qo'noS, the [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Klingon]] homeworld, is an epicenter of ham. Actually, anywhere Klingons go is guaranteed to be overflowing with ham. [[TheStoic With the exception of Worf.]]
260** The MirrorUniverse runs on Rule of Ham even more than the main universe does. In the main universe, generally only the villains, and the entire Klingon race, are ham. In the Mirror Universe, everyone is evil, so everyone is an enormous slice of ham.
261** The Tellarites, a race of [[PigMan pig-faced people]], also deserve special mention. In-universe, the highest form of entertainment on their homeworld is EXTREMELY LOUD AND FURIOUS DEBATE — to the point where ''the government itself'' is basically a literal shouting match, with ideas being judged on the volume of the speaker. It's considered a point of honor to always respond with furious, immense passion and loudness when talking to a Tellarite — as one might expect, they often have trouble with the polar-opposite [[TheStoic Vulcans]].
262** ''Series/StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds'' has the episode "The Elysian Kingdom" which involves the crew getting turned into fairytale archetypes sans Dr. M'Benga, who acts as the OnlySaneMan. The only other crew member not to be affected is TheStoic Hemmer, and even he gets in on the Ham! Especially notable though is the tough as nails La'an Noonian Singh as an over to top PrincessClassic.
263* ''Series/{{Neds Declassified School Survival Guide}}'' has got to be one of the most over-the-top Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} live-action shows on the network! What with the bullies coming off like the most stereotypical bullies you can find (pushing people against lockers, giving them wedgies, chasing them around with the most hilarious EvilLaugh you'll ever hear, pushing them around to their annoyance, not fear, ''annoyance''), an EvilTeacher MadScientist mix, the school vice Principal that acts and dresses like he's from ''Series/{{Miami Vice}}'', and it gets crazier from there.
264* The ''Series/{{Blackadder}}'' franchise contains Creator/BrianBlessed, Creator/TomBaker, Creator/StephenFry, Creator/RikMayall, Creator/RowanAtkinson, Miranda Richardson, Ronald Lacey a.k.a. [[OneSceneWonder The Baby Eating Bishop of Bath and Wells]] (and also Major Toht from ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk''), Creator/HughLaurie, Creator/RobbieColtrane, Ade Edmondson, and many, many others.
265* ''Series/AlloAllo'' is very similar to ''Blackadder'' in the amount of Ham. Virtually every actor was chosen for their ham qualities.
266* ''Series/SpartacusBloodAndSand'' features not only an enormous cast of naked, oily Large Hams battling to the death in the arena but also Creator/LucyLawless as a rare female of the species.
267* ''Series/{{Glee}}'', and arguably TruthInTelevision as well, considering that the primary cast is a group of high-schoolers; theatrical, drama-nerd high-schoolers no less. And when you consider the fact that virtually the entire show takes place from the warped, surreal viewpoint of one character or another... yeah.
268* ''Series/{{Monkey}}'', both the original Japanese series, and the BBC dub.
269* ''Series/DoctorWho'' has every MonsterOfTheWeek trying to out-ham the last, with the Doctor themself out-hamming them all.
270** The show has [[LargeHam/DoctorWho its own Large Ham page]].
271** This especially applies during Creator/TomBaker's [[Characters/DoctorWhoFourthDoctor era as the Doctor]]. Part of this was because the two genres that formed the bulk of his tenure were GothicHorror and witty character-focused comedy, both of which reward unsubtle characterisation. Mostly it was because he was such a catastrophically powerful ham black hole that he would (and occasionally did) derail the show if he didn't have an outrageous and three-dimensional supporting cast to provide some balance. Creator/RobertHolmes went on record as saying that the writers had to spend a lot of time and effort providing these for him, and if Tom hadn't been so over the top, the era wouldn't have been one of the show's characterisation high points. The wilder he gets, the wilder everyone else gets, culminating in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS17E5TheHornsOfNimon The Horns of Nimon]]" where the entire cast reaches swivel-eyed {{pantomime}} levels of acting (and Tom ''still'' blows everyone else off-screen without making a visible effort).
272* There's no doubting that ''Series/GilligansIsland'' was an island full of ham — and we're ''not'' talking about the wild boar.
273* ''Series/ZekeAndLuther'', where skateboarding is SeriousBusiness.
274* ''Series/BabylonFive'': Being [[TheEpic an epic]] it pretty much has to be. But it is [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools well done]] ham. This gets {{lampshade|Hanging}}d early and often. In one episode Garibaldi attempts to have a SeinfeldianConversation[[note]]Specifically, if one should fasten the button on his pants before zipping it up, or vice versa[[/note]] with Sinclair, stating that "not every conversation has to be about the end of the world." In another, Ivanova accuses a character of having "the worst case of TestosteronePoisoning I've ever seen." And both these examples are just from the First Season.
275** {{Lampshaded}} and ''weaponized'' by the Centauri, who are culturally so hammy and prone to bombastic claims that [[PlausibleDeniability when caught in lies they can claim it was just grandstanding]]. One such occasion was the first contact with Earth, where they claimed of being from a galaxy-spanning empire rather than the [[VestigialEmpire shrinking one]] they have.
276* The ''Franchise/StargateVerse'' universe is one of these, where EVERY villain except the Replicators is incredibly bombastic (Jack O'Neil even [[Quotes/IncomingHam reacts properly]] to one's [[IncomingHam introductory line]]). And maybe it's no coincidence that the SGC is headed by General [=HAMmond=].
277-->'''[[LargeHam Ba'al]]:''' You '''dare''' mock ''me''!?\
278'''[[TheSnarkKnight O'Neil]]:''' C'mon, [[BigBad Ba'al,]] you should know [[BunnyEarsLawyer me]] [[LampshadeHanging by now.]] Of ''course'' I dare mock you!
279* ''Series/TheITCrowd'' is this, except for the titular IT department. This was deliberate, the writers wanting the day to day office life to approximate a South American SoapOpera and to try and portray the IT department as OnlySaneMan (for a given value of sane).
280* While not one normally, the world of ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'' often spontaneously morphs into one of these, due to the fact that everything that happens is either Ted's twenty-year-old, emotion-tinted, perspective-skewed memories, or Ted's extra-colorful retelling of twenty-year-old, emotion-tinted, perspective-skewed memories (or perhaps a blend of the two).
281* ''Series/TheAquabatsSuperShow'' There isn't a single character who isn't over-the-top.
282* ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia''. Even [[OnlySaneMan the Lawyer and the Waitress]] have their moments.
283* Arguably, ''Series/WhereInTimeIsCarmenSandiego''. A fun game would be for the viewers to try to pick the hammiest actor on the show.
284** It gets even better when you realize that the producers of the show fully expected the contestants to be just as involved as the host and other actors were. Whenever the Chronoskimmer was attacked, Kevin (the host) would go absolutely nuts, running around and screaming that they were in "big trouble" as alarms flashed and the camera shook like crazy. Half of the time, you'd see one or two of the kids on the show ''not reacting at all,'' or slowly swaying back and forth. It's understandable — they were kids trying to win a game show, not break into acting — but it's still great for some unintentional humor.
285* ''Series/{{SCTV}}'' evoked this trope with their parody movie trailers for such epics as "How the Middle East Was Won" and "The Man Who Would Be King of the Popes", starring the likes of Richard Burton, Richard Harris, Katherine Hepburn, and Peter O'Toole all loudly determined to outact each other. The ''SCTV'' characters themselves are all over the top.
286* In ''Series/{{Danger 5}}'', every character is over-the-top.
287* ''Series/{{Dads}}'': "Over-the-top" is every character's default tone.
288* ''Series/FatherTed'' is notable for having many [[OneSceneWonder one-off characters who proceed to chew as much scenery as they can in their limited time onscreen]]. Honourable mentions go to the racist townsfolk from ''Are You Right There, Father Ted?'' ("Feckin' Greeks! They invented gayness!"), Henry Sellers ("Sack ''me''?! I ''made'' the BBC!") and the [[LargeHam particularly-hammy]] priest from the Christmas Special ("You must excuse me for my ''impetuous'' interruption!"). And this is on top of the regular characters, including [[TheAlcoholic Father Jack Hackett]].
289-->'''Jack:''' RATS! HAIRY JAPANESE ''BASTARDS''!
290* ''Series/{{Roseanne}}'' got like this quite often. Kind of a given when your main cast is Roseanne, John Goodman and Laurie Metcalf and the supporting cast includes Estelle Parsons, Martin Mull and Sandra Bernhard.
291%%* ''Series/TwinPeaks''.
292* ''Series/WandaVision'' has within the throwbacks to old sitcoms a parade of overacting that wouldn't be out of place in the originals. Just look at [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPojTmFgglw the ever-changing opening]], all of them with snippets of the actors mugging endlessly.
293* ''Series/Warehouse13'': In the episode "Savage Seduction," our heroes are transported by an Artifact into a Spanish Telenovela — quite literally a World of Ham. And it seems to affect the characters even when they're not "in character;" Pete's holding another Artifact that protects him from the effects of the Telenovela, but he's still chewing more scenery than he usually does.
294* ''Series/WhoseLineIsItAnyway'' has consistently been a whirlwind of ham, and that's really part of the charm that's made it an enduring cult favorite over the years. Ryan Stiles and Colin Mochrie are a frequent source of HamToHamCombat, and Wayne Brady, being TheCastShowoff, frequently out-hams them both.
295* ''Series/TheBorgias'' has hammy moments aplenty, as you could expect from a series that Jeremy Irons plays the main character in, but he isn't the only one serving up the ham. Several characters (Savonarola and late-second-season Juan especially) have NoIndoorVoice or at least partake in SuddenlyShouting or PunctuatedForEmphasis.
296* ''Series/SeventhHeaven'': The show is notorious for this, with almost every character overreacting to the slightest thing.
297** Example: Annie overreacting over Ruthie managing to get her baby twin brothers to say their first words to her, rather than Annie.
298** Plus, Eric's overthinking about then-11-year-old Simon's "going steady" with another classmate, which he believes would feed into premarital sex and teen pregnancy.
299** Also, a man coming to the Camden home [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext asking Annie to lift a "curse" she "gave" him]].
300** Actually, most members of the show's {{hatedom}} believes that the entire show fell under this, with [[{{Narm}} numerous "dramatic" moments becoming unintentionally hilarious, enough to make a comedy out of this supposed "drama"]].
301* ''Series/RuPaulsDragRace'' invokes this as hard as a reality show possibly can. A reality TV competition of {{Drag Queen}}s? Now you ''know'' you're gonna see some big personalities here. Any given season is filled to the brim with endless sass, {{Catch Phrase}}s, [[InsultComic Insult Comedy]], {{Attention Whore}}s (we're looking at you, Laganja Estranja), {{Motor Mouth}}s (we're looking at you, Silky Nutmeg Ganache) and big, loud arguments. Hell, this is a show hosted by Creator/{{RuPaul}}, who's already shameless with this. (It should be noted, by the way, that by numerous accounts, the queens you see on the show are indeed a little less colorful when the cameras aren't on.)
302* Gotham City on ''Series/{{Gotham}}'' is ''so'' much this trope it may as well be called Goth Ham City. It comes with the territory of being a live-action comic book show that borrows heavily from the NarmCharm of [[Series/Batman1966 the 60's Batman series]]. Every episode we have Creator/RobinLordTaylor as the Penguin, Erin Richards as Barbara Kean, Cory Michael Smith as the Riddler, Creator/CameronMonaghan as basically the Joker, Benedict Samuel as the Mad Hatter, Creator/JadaPinkettSmith as [[TheQueenpin Fish Mooney]], and Creator/MichaelChiklis as the Executioner all gloriously hamming it up. It gets to a point where the sane characters are the minority, but it's all part of the fun.
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305[[folder:Music]]
306* A hallmark of the Romantic period.
307* Most music by ''Music/{{Celldweller}}'' fits here. Songs from 'Soundtrack for the Voices in My Head' often take it to the next level.
308* Almost all [[EpicMovie epic movies]], fantasy films, action movies, and science fiction films contain a hammy or bombastic soundtrack. Bonus points if the music was composed by Music/HansZimmer, Music/DavidArnold, Music/JohnWilliams or Music/BrianTyler.
309* All of Music/{{Eminem}}'s narrative universe: "You better LOSE/ yourself in da music...". Except for ''Recovery'', in which he seems to have settled down into a much more "adult" persona, with the music changing accordingly, becoming much more understated but at the same time much more contondent. Returns in ''The Marshall Mathers LP 2''.
310* There are entire genres which exist for and through incredible levels of ham. Starting with ThePowerOfRock, through PowerMetal and finally back to ''Music/TenaciousD'':
311** "AND HE SAID: "Be you angels?" And we said NAY, we are but MEN, ROCK!! OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONNNN!!!"
312** Master Exploder. Just Creator/JackBlack's [[YourHeadASplode Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!]]
313%%* Absolutely everything by [[Music.DragonForce DragonForce]].
314* Every song written by Music/JimSteinman. They're all about extreme emotional trips of love and despair, typically require the singer to howl, and even his personal spoken-word piece "Love and Death and an American Guitar" is downright crazy ("So... I... ''took'' my ''guitar''... and I ''SMASHED it against the WALL''. I ''SMASHED it against the FLOOR''. ''Smashed it against [[BreadEggsMilkSquick the body of a varsity cheerleader]]''...")
315** Especially when said songs are performed by Music/MeatLoaf. Reaches its epitome in "Bat Out of Hell":
316--->"Then like a SINNER... BEFORE... the GATES of HEAVEN, I'll come ''crawlin''' on ''back'' to ''you''..."
317** Steinman's work with Music/CelineDion is hardly low-key, either.
318--->"BABY, BABY, if I ''kiss'' you like ''this''\
319and if you ''whis''per like ''that''..."
320** Or Bonnie Tyler, whose ragged vocals match Jim's penchant for ridiculously over-the-top emotional lyrics in songs like "Total Eclipse of the Heart" and "Faster Than the Speed of Night."
321* HeavyMetal in general. PowerMetal especially. Brilliantly parodied in ''Film/ThisIsSpinalTap''.
322* Even though the pieces are lyricless, Music/GustavHolst's "The Planets" seems to indicate that we are living in an entire Solar System of Ham.
323%%* The entire discography of Music/{{Muse}}.
324%%* Music/LinkinPark and their back catalogue.
325* '''''Music/{{Manowar}}'''''. Practically every song is a HeavyMithril battle epic that's not so much sung as roared, or an emotional ballad to departed comrades.
326%%* ''Music/{{Stratovarius}}''
327* Drum and Bass generally tends to be very hammy. ''Music/{{Pendulum|Band}}'' is one such example.
328* Music/PublicEnemy — nothing is half-hearted, everything is full of passion and conviction. FIGHT THE POWER!
329* The video for Music/WeirdAlYankovic's "Tacky" manages to do this even though Weird Al is the only one whose voice can be heard, since every single guest star and Al himself have cranked up their strutting and posing to scenery-destroying levels. Creator/JackBlack is probably the most overacted though.
330* Music/{{Primus}} is made of ham. It's no coincidence that lead singer/bassist Les Claypool often performs in a pig mask.
331* Music/{{Ultravox}} under Music/MidgeUre's leadership practically ''embodies'' Ham. The classical-infused compositions, with heavy uses of lentandos and crescendos, are the just the tip of the iceberg; the verses are just as over-the-top ("We Came To Dance" has dancers having to move in time ''[[DancingIsSeriousBusiness 'cause they're being whip-cracked]]''!) & Midge vocalises each lyric with the melodrama you'd expect from an [[LargeHam opera singer]]. Hell, this band somehow managed to make [[https://youtu.be/yaRXdqe_JPQ a song]] about ''[[MundaneMadeAwesome listening to someone's voice]]'' majestic!
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334[[folder:Myths & Religion]]
335* Holy scriptures. Any holy scriptures. ANYTHING involving Gods as protagonists. ''Literature/TheBible''. ''Literature/TheQuran''. ''Literature/TheSilmarillion''. Myth/GreekMythology. Myth/NorseMythology. If a fictional character from any work is invoking the name of GOD (especially in cases of [[AGodAmI having the role of God]]), [[YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe his speech shall reflect the poetry of the Bible]] or Qur'an, with overdosed injections of mythical allusions added in their sentences. And behold, that makes this trope OlderThanFeudalism.
336** Parodied in the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "Damien" where [[TheAntiChrist the eponymous character]] and in some cases Jesus himself talk in [[HollywoodApocrypha Poetic]]. Damien only gets mocked for it.
337** The Manga Bible actually succeeds in making it even MORE hammy. Not one character there can say anything without posing dramatically and bellowing his dialogue like he's at an amateur dramatics convention.
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340[[folder:Pinballs]]
341* ''Pinball/AmericasMostHaunted,'' which grabs its schlocky premise in a lowbrow death grip and never lets go.
342* Seen in ''Pinball/WWFRoyalRumble,'' for obvious reasons.
343* A large part of the humor in ''Pinball/MedievalMadness'' is the sheer over-the-top hamminess of it all.
344-->'''Peasant:''' They took our SHRUBBERY!
345* ''Pinball/TheAddamsFamily'', thanks in no small part to having the movie's hammy humor concentrated on Creator/RaulJulia.
346-->'''Gomez:''' It has to warm up... so it can KILL YOU!
347* Both ''Pinball/AttackFromMars'' and ''Pinball/RevengeFromMars'' feature over-the-top alien invasion scenarios and scene-chewing Martians galore. A [[WeaponizedLandmark mechanized Abraham Lincoln statue]] is considered ''tame.''
348* ''Pinball/RedAndTedsRoadShow'': Two [[Series/BlueCollarComedy road-ripping rednecks]] with [[HeroicComedicSociopath a bulldozer and dynamite]] — what else would you expect?
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350
351[[folder:Pro Wrestling]]
352* Pro Wrestling. The whole thing. All of it. No need to go into detail, because everything about it is a World of Ham. In most cases, a wrestler's position on the card is directly proportional to the amount of scenery they chew. As with the ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' example above, this was originally a matter of practicality. If you're in the middle of a ring surrounded by thousands of fans, taking part in a largely non-verbal performance, you ''need'' to overact and be rather loud so that the guys in the cheap seats can see and hear what's going on. Granted, in the larger arenas, the cheap seats still won't be able to hear, but it's the effort that counts.
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354
355[[folder:Puppet Shows]]
356* Anything with Franchise/TheMuppets, from ''Series/TheMuppetShow'' to their movies, or even their guest spots on talk shows. The Muppets always bring the ham. And no, that's not a pig joke. "'Pig joke'?! I'll show YOU a pig joke!! HIIIIIIIII-YAH!!!" They also had some pretty over-the-top guests, most notably the late Zero Mostel, whose "Fears" sketch featured even his index finger overacting.
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358
359[[folder:Radio]]
360* ''Radio/TheNavyLark''. Somehow, even on ''radio'', the cast managed to chew enough scenery to keep a good-sized Shakespeare festival supplied for years.
361* Most RadioDrama sounds like this to many accustomed to television, considering that the actors ''have'' to talk about what they're doing as the audience doesn't have any visual aids.
362* ''Prairie Home Companion''
363* A March 1952 episode of ''Radio/TheJackBennyProgram'', which already starred the prosciutto-rich Benny and Phil Harris featured as guest stars Music/FrankSinatra, Creator/GeorgeBurns, Creator/DannyKaye, and '''[[Creator/MarxBrothers Groucho Marx]]''', leading to perhaps the least kosher radio show in history.
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365
366[[folder:Sports]]
367* [[UsefulNotes/AssociationFootball Soccer/Football]]. Every goal is celebrated like it won you UsefulNotes/TheWorldCup, and '''every''' "[[WoundedGazelleGambit injury]]" [[TheatricsOfPain is played up to draw a penalty]]. Bonus points if the ref doesn't buy it, and the player jumps right back up and joins the flow like nothing happened.
368** Enters a whole other dimension of ham with Spanish-speaking commentators, hot Latin blood and all that:
369--> Number 5! Number 5! Number 5! GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO[cut for length]OOOOOOOOAAAALL!!!
370* Professional ballroom dancing, particularly the Latin category. The costumes are skimpy, usually in flashy colors and covered in glitter and rhinestones. The dancers, even the men, wear tons of makeup and fake tans. Not to mention the always huge, even more fake smiles to display the whitened teeth.
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373[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
374* Virtually any tabletop roleplaying game has the potential to be this, depending on the inclinations of the Dungeon Master and the players.
375* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'', in whatever media form it takes. The game itself almost requires the player take on this sort of attitude. The novels are bombastically hammy. The ''VideoGame/DawnOfWar'' game series is so hammy that it has become the subject of several internet memes https://1d4chan.org/wiki/Dawn_of_War#Soulstorm. HamToHamCombat is inevitable. The Imperium is based around being as ostentatious as physically possible in veneration of the Emperor ("Be faithful! Be strong! Be vigilant!"). Chaos is based around going ''beyond'' the physically possible, because the Dark Gods demand even more ("MAIM! BURN! KILL!"). Orks consider being LOUD AND MEAN to be valid battle tactics ("WAAAAAAAGGGGHHH!"). The Eldar and Tau are relatively sedate, but in a non-World Of Ham setting they would blow everyone away. The only factions that ''isn't'' pure ham and cheese are the Tyranids, who can't exactly speak, and the Necrons, who appear to be completely mute! (to their enemies; the wireless communication Lords and Crypteks use is given a long raspy tone in the TranslationConvention)
376** Even then, the Necrons are magnificently hammy even without speaking. Necron Lords in every medium, stomp, not walk, ''stomp'' around the battlefield pissed they didn't get the [[Franchise/StarWars Imperial March]] for theme music. The talking characters introduced later are so theatrical that they seem mildly resentful that they don't have [[DastardlyWhiplash a mustache to twirl]]. And the Tyranids? Well, somehow they seem to be a hammy HordeOfAlienLocusts.
377** The presence of Tyranids can cause other people to get hammy in ApocalypticLogs.
378* ''TabletopGame/{{Paranoia}}'' is all about this trope when it's done well.
379* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' world ''TabletopGame/{{Eberron}}'' is designed like this. "ACTION POINTS!"
380* ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}''. This is a game where there are three base stats, three skills and an entire combat system governing your ability to make epic, bombastic speeches and generally persuade people via [[ChewingTheScenery scenery-chewing]]. The game actively encourages you to do this and being [[RuleOfCool sufficiently awesome]] will impress the gods of the laws of physics, convincing them to pull a few strings in your favor. (Seriously; this is how the fluff justifies stunting.)
381* ''TabletopGame/{{TORG}}'' has among its realities the "Nile Empire", inspired by pulp dime novels. A world full of [[ContractualGenreBlindness stereotypical]] villains, [[TheAce dashing (super) heroes]] and [[DamselInDistress distressed damsels]].
382* ''TabletopGame/TeenagersFromOuterSpace'' demands this of its players:
383--> "You've just been grabbed by the foot by an unknown thing on an alien planet. If you aren't screaming like a cat dipped in Nair, you aren't grasping the seriousness of the situation."
384* There isn't a single major villain in ''TabletopGame/RocketAge'' who won't monologue, attempt to lower someone into molten steel or try to blow up a world (or two). Heroes tend to slip into this as a defense mechanism.
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387[[folder:Theatre]]
388* Theatre itself is an entire [[TitleDrop world of ham]], the original one, if only because all the techniques and traits associated with [[LargeHam large hams]] originated from theatre. This is because it's mostly required by the constraints of the art form itself — the actors' performances must have impact on the audience in the back rows who are going to be some distance away and aren't going to see subtle nuances.
389* Pretty much all of opera, be it Romantic or not. Inevitable when your medium is the narration of every little thing that happens to you via really loud singing while OrchestralBombing plays in the background. The music isn't always hammy (see: Gluck, Mozart) but the characters are usually way larger than life; ChewingTheScenery with NoIndoorVoice is standard practice due to overlarge theaters, no microphones, and inattentive audiences, thus forcing every action and word to be heavily telegraphed; and the plots are usually so far gone, contrived and over-the-top — often based in mythology — that there's really no other way to be. To say nothing of often having to jump the language barrier ''and still come across''. Modern practice is making it a little more subtle and realistic with time, but there are still all the logistic and artistic problems to address. There's a reason that the genre SoapOpera uses "opera" in its title. And let's not even get started on any aria and solo parts.
390* Music/RichardWagner, Lord High [[GratuitousGerman Kapellmeister von der]] Schinkenwelt. After all, he composed the ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iq0POBWEIuM Ride of the Valkyries]]'', [[MusicToInvadePolandTo Music to Conquer]] [[UsefulNotes/ImperialGermany Empires By]]. And his lyrics are just as [[LargeHam Hamtastic]], as in this from ''Theatre/DieWalkuere'':
391-->''Holiest longing's highest need,\
392 Yearning desire's searing demand\
393 Burns for me bright in my breast,\
394 Drives to death and deed!\
395 Needful! Needful I name thee, o sword!\
396 "Needful! Needful!" Envied steel!!\
397 Show forth thy sharpness's shearing fang!\
398 Come forth from thy scabbard to me!''
399* ''Theatre/{{Carmen}}'': Not only does the opera take just about every popular trope of the late 19th century (gypsies, Spain, tobacco, smuggling, dangerous women, soldiers, bullfighting, unrequited love) and turn it up a notch, it does so in the hammiest way imaginable. Escamillo's "Toreador Song" is a five-minute-long blast of ham in which he repeatedly compares his prowess in the ring with his prowess in bed. There is also "Écoute, écoute, compagnons", another hammy blast about how sneaky you have to be to smuggle cigarettes.
400* Somewhat related: the J.G. Wentworth opera commercials.
401* ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'', pun unintended. ''Theatre/{{Macbeth}}'' a lot more so.
402** If given to the right actors, any of Shakespeare's plays. Done properly (enunciated, with stilted hand gestures and a very serious look) it can either be filled with {{Narm}} or exceptionally Hammy.
403** It can be argued that many of Shakespeare's plays were originally ''meant'' to be hammy. For much of his career the man had to compete against such traditional London pastimes as drinking, whoring and [[ValuesDissonance watching a bear fight dogs while getting jabbed with a pointed stick.]] He did it, successfully, with as much overacted innuendo, swordplay and comedy as he could cram into a show.
404** The 1996 Creator/KennethBranagh adaptation of ''Hamlet'' deserves special attention, with '''Creator/BrianBlessed''' arguably turning in one of the ''most'' subdued performances of the movie. Wrap your head around that, [[TheWorfEffect if you can]].
405* Creator/HenrikIbsen wrote a {{horny vikings}} play in 1859, while still a young man: ''Theatre/TheWarriorsAtHelgeland'' is ''excessively'' hammy from beginning to end, containing sword fights, badass boasting, and a cataclysmic climax where the designated heroine Hjørdis jumps off a cliff in the middle of a thunder storm only to be collected by {{the wild hunt}}. Ibsen never topped the amount of hamminess he achieved in this play.
406* If Creator/CirqueDuSoleil has taught us anything with its shows, it's that you don't need lots of intelligible dialogue/lyrics to be hammy. Gestures and expressions pick up the slack — and all on top of the often jaw-dropping feats the performers pull off.
407** Circus in general is an extremely hammy art form (not necessarily a CircusOfFear, though that can certainly qualify as well). When the entire soundtrack consists of a whistle, a brass band, maybe some clown horns, and a steam-powered organ so loud that it can be heard ''for miles'', how can it all not be hammy ''in excelsis''? In recent editions of the Ringling Bros. & Barnum & Bailey Circus, even ''[[HammyHerald the ringmaster]]'' sings and dances.
408* Count the number of Broadway musicals that ''aren't'' this. The most JustForFun/{{egregious}} examples are from Creator/GilbertAndSullivan, Creator/MelBrooks, and Music/StephenSondheim.
409* Creator/AndrewLloydWebber: ''Theatre/ThePhantomOfTheOpera'', his most successful work, is a full-on balls-to-the-wall {{Melodrama}} in which several of the characters (including two of the three leads) are ''opera singers''. If that doesn't bring the ham, nothing will.
410* Pantomime is built on this trope, and when you have amateur actors involved, the [[{{NO INDOOR VOICE}} SHEER EAR-SHATTERING VOLUME]] and HamToHamCombat can reach ridiculous (but hilarious) levels.
411%%* ''{{Fools}}''.
412%%* ''Theater/WeWillRockYou'' wears this trope proudly on its sleeve.
413* ''Theatre/{{Starship}}''. Even the background is hammy when it needs to be.
414* "[[Theatre/LittleShopOfHorrors Little Shop, Little Shop of Horrors]]! [[LyricalDissonance Bop shu bop, you'll NEVER stop the terror]]!"
415* ''Theatre/{{Peter Pan|1954}}'': Neverland is this, since it's the product of children's imaginations. The pirates especially tend to be [[LargeHam enjoying themselves]], with Captain Hook the hammiest of them all.
416* In the 2013 stage adaptation of ''Theatre/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory'', little Charlie and his parents are the only characters who ''don't'' ham it up at least once. Most everyone else hams it up as a way of life, none more so than Willy Wonka. Of course, in a world where there's scenery that can be ''literally'' chewed upon, can one blame them for indulging?
417* In ''Theatre/ShrekTheMusical'', the entire cast qualifies, but Farquaad especially so.
418* ''Theatre/SeventeenSeventySix'' is particularly guilty of this trope, but it was intentionally invoked: composer/lyricist Sherman Edwards and librettist Peter Stone were deliberately attempting to shake up the image of the American Founding Fathers and the signing of the Declaration of Independence as stoic and composed. As such, the show opens with John Adams screaming at the rest of the Continental Congress, and the legislators singing in response ("SIT DOWN, JOHN! SIT DOWN, JOHN!"). It only gets hammier from there, from the Southern delegation dancing a minuet to the Committee of Five (who wrote the Declaration itself) having a rhyming battle to get out of actually doing the work to OneSceneWonder Richard Henry Lee ''bursting'' onto the stage on horseback and bellowing "HELLLLLLLLOOOOOOO, JOHNNY!" The sheer hamminess of 95% of the show also helps to contrast the much quieter five percent, especially the [[MoodWhiplash somber Act I finale]] "Momma, Look Sharp," about a soldier in the colonial army dying on the battlefield and calling for his mother.
419* Creator/TakarazukaRevue productions are generally melodramatic, lavish, and more stylized than what a Western audience might be used to. This is especially evident when comparing original productions with Takarazuka adaptations — acting, makeup, costume, sets, everything Zuka must be high-budget and often sparkly. The impression that a Takarazuka production ideally should make on the audience is that it is in its own "World of Dreams", separate from reality altogether. The actresses play highly idealized concepts of "men" and "women" as well, extending to their offstage gender presentation.
420* As in the original film and the film of the musical, ''Theatre/TheProducers'' has nearly every character ham it up as much as possible, which is entirely appropriate for a show about an attempt to put on the worst Broadway show ever.
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422
423[[folder:Video Games]]
424* ''VideoGame/BaldursGate''. For reference, Jaheira is probably by any standard the least hammy, most "normal" major character in the entire game. She goes around screaming "FOR THE FALLEN!" and "NATURE TAKES THE LIFE SHE GAVE!" in a fake-Russian accent. In most other circumstances she'd be the cast's LargeHam.
425** And, on the opposite side of the spectrum, we have Minsc. This man is undisputedly considered among the series' greatest hams. The man's mere ''presence'' is an IncomingHam. What does he say for simply walking? "Stand back, '''FOR JUSTICE'''" at the top of his lungs.
426--->You point...I PUNCH!\
427Go for the eyes Boo! ''GO FOR THE EYES!'' YAAH! *squeeek*\
428SWORDS not words!\
429SWORDS FOR EVERYONE!\
430Buuuutt-kicking... FOR GOODNESS!!
431** In fact, once battle comes around, the curse of hamminess tends to find even your most level-headed companions. And as if proof was needed that hamminess makes no discrimination, it affects companions from all across the sliding scale of good and evil, law and chaos. A few samples:
432--->'''[[BlackKnight Dorn]]:''' Hah! I'll '''rip you apart''', you whey-faced cur!\
433'''[[NatureHero Cernd]]:''' [[GaiasVengeance THE SILENCE OF NATURE WILL CLAIM YOU]]!\
434'''[[EvilSorceror Edwin]]:''' Your ''worthless'' lives ''end here''!\
435'''[[OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame Korgan]]:''' Blood and glory, ''now you die''!\
436'''[[ThePaladin Keldorn]]:''' ''Good is on our side this day''!\
437'''[[WarriorPoet Haer'Dalis]]:''' For the Doomguard, '''I strike a blow'''!\
438'''[[FarEast Yoshimo]]:''' Pay attention... [[TranquilFury you will get no second chance]]!\
439'''[[TheArchmage Nalia]]:''' If you fight, you die! [[BadassBoast You cannot match our power]]!\
440'''[[BewareTheNiceOnes Aerie]]:''' For all that is decent, I fight!\
441'''[[AllMonksKnowKungFu Rasaad]]:''' I'll see you in the ground!\
442[[spoiler:'''[[PromotedToPlayable Sarevok]]:''' Death comes for you; feel its icy breath!]]
443* Much of the ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands}}'' series is pretty hammy, but a special mention must go to [[VideoGame/Borderlands2 the second game's]] DLC ''Mister Torgue's Campaign of Carnage''. As the plot of the DLC involves a tournament which is an affectionate parody of professional wrestling, this is to be expected.
444* ''VideoGame/ChampionsOnline'': The initial training mission is an alien invasion which you complete by taking the superhero Ironclad (who is a ham of titanic proportions all by himself) ''and shooting him out of a cannon at the alien mothership.'' And it only ramps UP from there...
445* ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquer'' likes this trope in its settings.
446** The ''[[VideoGame/CommandAndConquerTiberianSeries Tiberium]]'' universe is less blatant about it, but it's a very hammy CrapsackWorld once you get past the in-progress apocalypse. By ''[[VideoGame/CommandAndConquer3TiberiumWars Tiberium Wars]]'', the setting has upped the ham. [[EvilIsHammy Kane]] himself is hammy enough, but then you get Creator/BillyDeeWilliams as the director of GDI and you know it's gonna be awesome.
447** The ''[[VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlertSeries Red Alert]]'' universe, on the other hand... ''[[VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert Red Alert 1]]'' is hammy but sane. ''[[VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert2 Red Alert 2]]'' embraces the pork and experiments with some zany ideas. ''[[VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert3 Red Alert 3]]'' has Creator/TimCurry, Creator/JonathanPryce, Creator/JKSimmons, and Creator/GeorgeTakei as major characters. It's worth noting that the Ham Acting is entirely intentional in the later game. You can see the big-name actors are having a lot of fun with it, and with Tim Curry's character deceased in ''Uprising'', Creator/MalcolmMcDowell and Wrestling/RicFlair are right there to yank the ham from his jowls.
448** ''[[VideoGame/CommandAndConquerGenerals Generals]]'' is relatively sedate, but the ''Zero Hour'' expansion is extra-hammy to make up for it.
449** All three series have their hammy units and unit quotes, implying that the troops on the field are just as hammy as their leaders. Notable examples include the USA Paladin tank from Generals, The Nod emissary from the Tiberium Universe, and practically everything that can talk from ''Red Alert 3''.
450* ''VideoGame/{{Contra}}''. Especially ''Neo''.
451* The PocketDimension of ''[[Franchise/MortalKombat MORTAL KOMBAAT!]]'' is powered by Ham and FLAWLESS VICTORY.
452* ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry''. Even the ''sets'' manage to be hammy! But nothing can match the sheer hamminess of the series' main character.
453* ''VideoGame/DisgaeaHourOfDarkness'':
454** '''Captain Gordon, Defender of Earth!''' definitely takes the cake, but Laharl's attempts at being evil (not to mention his personal special attacks) are pretty hammy as well, and [[LoveFreak Flonne]] is, well... very enthusiastic about her heroism and ThePowerOfLove. Vulcanus and Mid-Boss also get plenty of good posturing done, and [[spoiler:Prinny Kurtis]] [[IncomingHam makes an entrance in style]] as well. ''Etna'', of all characters, comes off as one of the most sedate during the body of the story — yes, the same character known for her over-the-top, [[NeverTrustATrailer wildly inaccurate]] chapter previews which rival even Gordon for hamminess.
455** The sequels all continue this trend, and every game has at least a few hams. ''VideoGame/{{Disgaea 2|CursedMemories}}'' has Rozalin and Axel, [[VideoGame/Disgaea3AbsenceOfJustice 3]] has Mao and ''especially'' Mr. Champloo, and [[VideoGame/Disgaea4APromiseUnforgotten 4]] features Axel again as well as Valvatorez, who has given up ham for "the power of SARDINES!"
456* ''VideoGame/DynastyWarriors'', in which it's worth unlocking every single one of the characters just to find how many new and ham-tastic variations on "I DEFEATED AN OFFICER!" are possible. Particularly excellent is Zhang Jiao's shriek that ''"The Heavens have SPOKEN!!!"''
457-->"Unnleash your raaaage, my [=CHOsen=] [=CHILdren=]. Unnnnleash-your-rage-upon-the-Han, and bring forth, THE AGE of the Yellow TURBANS!"\
458"I don't belieeeeve in magiiiic... ONWAAAARD"\
459"So, you summon-a-rainstorm, with your magic. Whahahat of it?"
460** Or his henchman Zhang Bao:
461--> "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XF-MDuXXiSI Feel the power of my MMMMMMAAAAAAGIIIIIC!]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeSMpetv34M You flaming idiots!!]]"
462--> "I AM LU BU!!!"
463--> [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5madfK_fJF4&feature=related DID YOU THINK THAT I'D RESPOND TO ALL OF YOUR TAUNTS?]]
464** Then there's ''VideoGame/DynastyWarriorsGundam'', which even has the normally stoic Real Robot characters taking a cue from [[Anime/MobileFighterGGundam Domon and friends]] and abandoning Kosher. Say it with me now... "'''[[Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam Camille's]] a man's name! AND I'M A MAN!!!'''"
465*** Let's just hope they don't get too crossover-happy and do ''Dynasty Warhammer 40k''... The world might not be able to handle so much ham.
466%%* ''VideoGame/FreedomForce''.
467* While well acted, ''VideoGame/EternalDarkness'' certainly qualifies for its melodramatic script.
468--> ''[[MemeticMutation MAY THE RATS EAT YOUR EYES!!!]]''
469* ''VideoGame/GearsOfWar2'''s single player qualifies with Marcus' and Dom's outbursts. Otherwise it's just TestosteronePoisoning like its predecessor.
470--> '''Marcus:''' It's — it's a '''GIANT HAM!''' '''THEY'RE SINKING CITIES WITH A GIANT HAM!!!'''
471%%* ''VideoGame/GodHand''.
472* In ''VideoGame/GodOfWar'', even the rocks are Large Hams! Kratos spends most of the time killing everything, but when he speaks...
473-->'''KRATOS:''' [[IncomingHam ZEUS!! I BRING THE DESTRUCTION OF OLYMPUS!!!]]
474** The titans deserve special mention. Near the beginning of the second game:
475--> "YOU WILL PAY... FOR THAT... KRAAAAAAAATOOOOOOS"!
476* ''VideoGame/InazumaEleven'' is a kids' game about soccer. The first game can get a little [[CallingYourAttacks over-the-top]] for a middle school soccer tournament, But then we get to the ''second'' game. It's an AlienInvasion. [[SeriousBusiness With soccer]]. Suffice it to say, the overall tone of the series can be summed up as "''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' [[JustForFun/XMeetsY meets]] soccer".
477* ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' gives us the Old World Blues DLC set in BIIG MOUNTAIIIN!, where everybody talks like a hammy actor from a 1950's B movie. You can even indulge in some scenery-chewing hammery by channeling your inner MadScientist.
478* The ''VideoGame/MetalGear'' series has probably the highest concentration of ham in any media, ever! It's easier to list the characters that are not completely hammy. In the first four main games, there are more than 20 villains, every single one a LargeHam in their own right. They can even make a [[TheStoic stoic]] LadyOfWar out to be a LargeHam.
479** And then there's Liquid Ocelot, the King of Ham, who out-hams all other characters in the game combined.
480-->'''Liquid Snake:''' I'm ''you''! I AM YOUR '''[[EvilCounterpart SHADOW]]'''!
481* ''VideoGame/SengokuBasara'', where even supposedly low-key strategy/planning scenes are filled with wall-smashing punches and [[SayMyName epic, manly name shouting]].
482* The ''VideoGame/SoulSeries'' is the unquestionable king of this trope. Every battle quote is as over-the-top and poetic as possible, and when a character wins a match they do a little dance with their sword, punch the ground/bend over provocatively, and SCREAM ABOUT THEIR BACKSTORY.
483** Rock is a World of Ham all of his own: "Spirits, grant me strength! I'LL CRUSH YOU! THIS IS THE END! BAAAAANGOOOOOOOOOOO!"
484** [[LargeHam Nightmare]] is '''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis IN! A! LEAGUE! OF! HIS! OWN! GRAAAAAAUGH!!]]''' (It's to be expected, though, considering [[Creator/NobuyukiHiyama who he's voiced by]]).
485*** "You will be in Hell...[dramatic sword sheath] ...long before me!"
486* In ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'', everyone but the Master Chief seems to be a big ham.
487** Captain Keyes would only be a medium ham, but everything he says lets you know what a great officer he is.
488** Cortana has her moments, but in ''VideoGame/{{Halo 3}}'' she digs into the ham for all that it's worth.
489** Sgt. Johnson is another Large Ham, and he knows it.
490** All of the Prophets count, but the Prophet of Truth easily steals the cake.
491** Though he pales a bit compared with the other characters, the Arbiter is a serious ham in his own right.
492** Shipmaster Rtas 'Vadum only has a loud ham voice and a calm ham voice, and nothing else.
493** And then there's Gravemind, the pure and awesome manifestation of hamminess. When it first reveals itself, its first words are '''"I am a monument to all your sins!"'''
494* ''Franchise/StreetFighter'', [[MemeticMutation OF COURSE!!!]].
495* ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars'' especially due to how tongue in cheek the characters are. That, and the fact that you have a crossover of ''multiple'' HotBlooded, over-the-top {{Screaming Warrior}}s from across the multiverse.
496** [[VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsOriginalGeneration SANGER, SANGER ZONVOLT,]] '''''THE SWORD THAT CLEAVES EVIIIL!'''''
497* As mentioned above, ''VideoGame/DawnOfWar'', in which everyone from the lowliest Chaos Cultist to the narrator to the fiery incarnation of the God of War and Murder is always hammy, all the time. ''Winter Assault'' is the absolute pinnacle, including the [[{{Determinator}} indomitable]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wu4jH3YP5ZA General Sturnn]], the AxCrazy [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DliMrKCpeww Lord Crull]], and [[EnsembleDarkHorse of course]] the LaughablyEvil [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QV_BklBHjQY Warboss Gorgutz 'Eadhunter]]. When Gorgutz and Crull meet, it is truly [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9r5OKlQIkk a sight to behold]].
498** The ''Soulstorm'' Chaos Lord's rant on [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cO3MttgvHUY metal boxes]] became [[MemeticMutation incredibly popular]] for the sheer ham value. The video also has Lord Bale's infamous "SINDRIIIIII!" from the first campaign.
499** ''Soulstorm'' adds the Sisters Of Battle, more bombastic and strident than the orks. Build a flame-thrower tank and the driver will announcer herself with "Behold...''THE IMMOLATOR!'' '''''BURNING GLORY!'''''"
500** The bloody Commissars. "''FEAR ME'', BUT ''FOLLOW''!"
501*** Which continued into ''VideoGame/DawnOfWar 2''. "Be like General Tarsus of yore, BULLETPROOF, AND FREE OF FEAR!"
502** Or the Space Marine Scouts: "FOOOO THE EMPRAH!"
503** The sequel's voice acting was more sedate, to the dismay of some fans. Probably why Araghast, the Chaos Lord in ''Chaos Rising'', is so popular. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bb889frNf1E "FACE ME, IF YOU DARE."]]
504** EvilIsHammy is taken very seriously, as demonstrated here. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-gSJW3sHXE FORCES OF CHAAAOOOOOOOSSSSSS, FiLL ME WITH POWWAAAAAAAAAAHRRRHRHGLGLHHH!!!!]]
505** ''Dawn Of War II: Retribution'', in addition to {{Ascended Meme}}s, bring back the ham by the herd. Orks, Chaos forces, everyone will ham it up at some point. Especially the [[MadScientist Mad Mek]].
506*** "OI! TRESPASSAHZ! INVADAHZ! ‘OOLIGANS AN’ NE'ER-DO-WELLS! NOBODY, BU’ NOBODY, JUS’ POPS OU’ O’ THIN AIR ON THIS 'ERE SPACE 'ULK, WIFOU’ ME SAY-SO! NOW, PISS-OFF, OR I’M LIKE TO SAY-SO TO SOMEFIN’ NASTY!"
507*** "Dem Orkz got a Mek for a boss! Dat's just sad, dat is."
508* ''VideoGame/{{Diablo}}'' probably is a world full of hams. From the High Heavens above, we have the Archangels [[BigGood Tyrael]], [[HotBlooded Imperius]], and even [[GeniusBruiser Itheriel]] and [[HopeBringer Auriel]] when they speak. From the Burning Hells, we have the [[BigBadDuumvirate Three Prime Evils]] Diablo, Mephisto, and Baal. And so on and so forth with the player characters and among their followers. Even the funny Ghost of the Cow King himself is hammy...or rather, [[{{Pun}} beefy]].
509* Power levels are very clearly defined by hamminess in ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei'' games. Basically, the tougher the enemy is, the less afraid he'll be, the more boastful he'll be, and the more awesome and powerful he'll be.
510* ''VideoGame/StarCraft'', where everyone from Tassadar down to basic Terran Marines is overacted unless they have some kind of special reason not to be. The Zerg Overmind is perhaps [[EvilIsHammy the worst offender]].
511** ''VideoGame/WarcraftIII'' even more so. For example, Arthas is prone to proclaiming things like "Betrayer of the Light!" when you send him into battle. Even if said "battle" consists of [[{{Narm}} bashing open a defenseless barrel]]...
512** ''VideoGame/StarCraftII'' takes the ham of the first game and up-hams it to almost unnerving levels. After a few hours of hearing one unit after another trying to out-ham all the others, it's actually nice to hear Mohandar's calm, soft voice for a change.
513* Hyrule, as interpreted by ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaCDIGames''. It's accompanied with plenty of [[MilkingTheGiantCow huge, unnecessary hand gestures]].
514* ''VideoGame/KingsQuestMaskOfEternity''. Everybody speaks in YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe, even the peasants.
515* Filgaia in ''VideoGame/WildArms4''. When you have synchronized dramatic speeches, a guy wearing a rocket pack and wielding an anti-tank chainsaw, and another person punching out a missile followed by yet another dramatic speech, you ''might'' just live in a world of ham.
516%%* ''Website/GaiaOnline''.
517* The ''VideoGame/StarFox'' games. Especially ''VideoGame/StarFox64'' with its over-the-top voice acting.
518* ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'':
519** One of the Heavy Weapons Guy's sandvitch eating quotes is even "[[http://tf2wiki.net/w/images/c/c5/Heavy_sandwichtaunt06.wav DON'T RUN, IT'S JUST HAM!]]"
520** What can you say about a world where Billy the Kid, Stonewall Jackson, UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln, Alfred Nobel, John Henry, UsefulNotes/NikolaTesla, Sigmund Freud, Davey Crocket, and Fu Manchu were the main characters' predecessors? (That someone dropped the ball by not sending Teddy Roosevelt back in time to join the fun.)
521* ''VideoGame/BrutalLegend'', which you probably should expect from a game created entirely from pure METAL!
522--> '''''DECAPITATTIIIIIIIIOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNN!!!'''''
523** Given that it basically boils down to Jack Black VS Tim Curry in a world that has replaced physics with HEAVY METAL...
524* ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins''. The only characters who aren't hammy are {{deadpan snarker}}s. Mind you, most are both. They manage to ham up being deadpan, it's amazing.
525* Chewing the scenery is part of the [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Krogans]] [[PlanetOfHats hat]] in ''Franchise/MassEffect'', which makes Tuchanka a Planet Of Ham.
526* ''VideoGame/{{Bayonetta}}'': The forces of both Heaven and Hell are loud and dramatic, and even the humans who form pacts with them get in on the ham when the action goes down.
527* Outside of combat, the ''VideoGame/ValkyrieProfile'' series is closer to NarmCharm than this, but certainly has aspects of it, particularly in the [[YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe "English"]] translation. In combat, the ham is so overwhelming, "It shall be engraved upon your soul!" (It helps that every playable character gets a fully voice-acted PreAssKickingOneLiner, PreMortemOneLiner, [[CallingYourAttacks called special attack]], and BondOneLiner.)
528** Every wizard has their chance to overdo their lines when they call down the Great Magics. Put a couple big casters in with the right weapons against Lezard Valeth and watch the HamToHamCombat with great glee.
529* ''VideoGame/{{Sacrifice}}'' takes place in one of these. The gods lead by scenery-chewing example, and their devotees follow suit.
530* ''VideoGame/EvilZone'': Just look at Danzaiver and Greg, add Setsuna and Midori as well.
531* Nosgoth, the world where the ''VideoGame/LegacyOfKain'' games are set, has the ham flying in all directions. Between Simon Templeman's (justly) pompous, over-articulated delivery of [[MagnificentBastard Kain's]] lines, and Michael Bell's dramatic, simmering rendition of [[TheWoobie Raziel's]] voice, the ham gets delivered by the truckload, with all the other characters frantically trying to stack their ham higher than the protagonists. ''"But does one ever truly ''have'' a ''choice''? One can only match, ''move'' by ''move'', the machinations of Fate..."''
532** Which makes for a funny moment in the [[HilariousOuttakes Outtakes]], where the director asks Rene Auberjonois to ramp the Ham UP. Michael Bell's reaction? "WHOA! License to kill! Let me and the scenery out of the room!"
533* ''Franchise/KingdomHearts''. Good Lord, ''Kingdom Hearts''. It's easier to list the moments when characters, particularly villains, ''aren't'' hamming it up than when they are.
534** '''''[[MemeticMutation DARKNESS!]]'''''
535* ''Franchise/TouhouProject''. The games have no voice tracks, but they have loads of over-the-top posturing. Special mention goes to the fighting game spin-offs, which have actual spriting for the cutscenes. Very theatrical spriting. Print works tend tone it down a bit, though.
536** An especially special mention goes to Toyosatomimi no Miko, who tends to carry herself with the air of a very hammy and affable supervillain, complete with the required amount of '''''[[WesternAnimation/{{Megamind}} PRESENTATION!]]''''' Seriously, her personality tends to shine through in every scene she appears in. Literally: She is often surrounded by {{Bishie Sparkle}}s and tends to radiate blinding light!
537* Whatever world that ''VideoGame/OsuTatakaeOuendan'' and ''VideoGame/EliteBeatAgents'' takes place in is certainly a hammy one. Whether it's an overwhelmed babysitter, a ramen shopkeeper seeking customers, or Cleopatra trying to lose weight, the distressed victim is sure to emit a sky-filling scream... which promptly attracts the team of cheerleaders/dancers/agents, who immediately proceed to help solve the problem with [[ThePowerOfRock The Power Of Dance]].
538* ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}''. Most characters are either stupidly stoic or hams. And even the stoics say some overdramatic lines. It doesn't take itself too seriously though, and it has DRACULA for god sake. Dracula's always gonna be hammy. It arguably increases the series' appeal, especially ''[[VideoGame/CastlevaniaSymphonyOfTheNight Symphony of the Night]]''. [[MemeticMutation What is a man]], indeed.
539* ''VideoGame/FZero''. When even the [[TheStoic straight-laced, get-right-to-the-point]] Captain Falcon (note that he is ''not'' the BoisterousBruiser as seen in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'') breaks out some hickory-smoked scenery-chewing ''without even batting an eyelash'', you know that the Ham levels are at an all-time high. It should also be pointed out that {{Card Carrying Villain}}s (and that is to say, pretty much ''every'' villain aside of [[TheManBehindTheMan Deathborn]] and ''maybe'' [[BigBad Black Shadow]]) are more like '''Billboard''' Carrying Villains.
540* ''[[VideoGame/AirForceDelta Air Force Delta Strike]]'' turns it way up and serves up wholesale ham both in the EnemyChatter in missions and in the stillshot character interactions between missions. The look on [[AlmightyJanitor Almighty Mechanic]] Grandpa Bob's face when you crash a plane is priceless, but can be easily confused for [[spoiler: extreme constipation]].
541* ''VideoGame/DungeonsAndDragonsOnline: Eberron Unlimited'' seems to be this way, with voiced [=NPCs=] chewing the scenery whenever possible. The [=DMs=] also tend to speak in a deep, ominous voice for no particular reason sometimes. And the WORST offender is Cellimas Villuhne, a cleric NPC you meet early on in the game. The ONLY line she delivers that isn't over the top is at the end of the first dungeon, when she offers a reward for your help. She only shows up in three dungeons, but the way she acts you'd think she chewed enough of the scenery to dig them all out herself.
542* ''VideoGame/KidIcarusUprising'', so, ''so'' much. It's combined with CasualDangerDialogue and NoFourthWall, to boot! Everyone with a speaking role is a LargeHam, DeadpanSnarker, or (most commonly) both.
543* ''VideoGame/PokemonVietnameseCrystal'' is an extremely poorly translated bootleg of ''Pokemon Crystal Version''. Everyone in the game speaks in all caps, has very poor grammar, and comes off as very hammy. There are little gems like this all throughout the game: "I AM VERY DISGUSTED WITH THE TRASHY MAN. IN SPITE OF THE MONSTER, AND THE COACH, ONLY TRASHY, I WILL BEAT DOWN THEM ALL. FOR THIS I MUST STRENGTHEN MYSELF. THE MONSTER IS THE SAME TOO. COLLECT ALL THE TRASHY, RIGHTEOUS FELLOW ALL ARE UNPARDONABLE! YOU DON'T AFFECT ME. THE TRASHY STROLLING IS AN EYESORE!"
544* Hell is an Afterlife of Ham in the videogame ''VideoGame/DantesInferno''. If people aren't screaming lamentations or cackling madly, something's wrong.
545* To say that ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'' is filled with hammy, scenery-chewing moments would be an understatement. Nearly ''every'' character you encounter is super hammy, to the point of self-parody:
546** The Mad Dummy:
547 --> "HEY GUYS! Dummies. Dummies! DUMMIES! Remember how I said NOT to shoot at me? Well... FAILURES! YOU'RE FIRED! YOU'RE ALL BEING REPLACED!!! Hahaha. Hahaha! HAHAHA!"
548** Don't forget THE GREAT PAPYRUS!
549** hOI!!!!!! I'M tEMMIE!!!!
550* With the exception of Rachel {{Alucard}}, who is too busy being the {{Ojou}} to get hammy, every other character in ''Franchise/BlazBlue'' is hammy to the umpth degree. And they come in all possible kinds of flavors, too, from [[AntiHero Ragna]] [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast the Bloodedge's]] cocky, shounen-heroic ham; [[EldritchAbomination Arakune's]] [[LaughingMad insane]], [[TheUnintelligible gibbering]] ham and [[KnightTemplar Hakumen's]] sheer badass ham to [[IdiotHero Bang]] who is simply a walking LargeHam scene (so much, in fact, that his SuperMode comes complete with a ThemeMusicPowerUp about how awesome he is)... And then there's [[FauxAffablyEvil Hazama]] / [[{{Troll}} Terumi Yuuki]], [[EvilIsHammy who outhams them all]]. Go ahead and look up a match on Website/YouTube to get an idea. Just be sure to turn your headphones down before you do so.
551* ''VideoGame/AsurasWrath'' is full of this, with Asura himself and his mentor Augus being stand out examples.
552** Perhaps the best way to describe just how hammy it is this: It's Dragon Ball Z X God of War. Yeah.
553* We can add yet another Creator/BioWare IP to the list. A wide variety of characters in ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights'' and ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights2'' (particularly your cohorts in ''Storm of Zehir'') merrily ham it up. And a sizable majority of the PlayerCharacter voices (even the ladies) seem to be channeling '''Creator/BrianBlessed'''. And like Creator/BioWare's subsequent ''Franchise/DragonAge'' series, when they're not hams, they're {{deadpan snarker}}s, and sometimes they're both.
554* ''VideoGame/SpaceChannel5'' doesn't just have a world of ham, it has a GALAXY of ham.
555* ''VideoGame/ShadowHeartsCovenant'' is this in spades. It starts out fairly mild, with a few wacky folks like the tailors but pretty normal. And then comes [[IncomingHam Joachim Valentine]] and it goes from there. At one point [[TheHero Yuri]] and [[DirtyOldMan Roger Bacon]] are discussing losing something important to them with sad music in the background. It's about a porno mag.
556* ''VideoGame/Dota2''. To fight for the Ancients, one must apparently be either a LargeHam or a ColdHam, no exceptions. Notable examples include [[TheBerserker Axe]] ("I SAID GOOD DAY SIR!"), [[DemBones Clinkz]] ("I'll! See! You! ''BUUUUUURRRRN!''"), [[OurGhostsAreDifferent Wraith King]] (who would like you to know that '''HE NOW HAS ''ALL'' THE SEXY'''), [[DrunkenMaster Brewmaster]] ("Three of me! ''HAHA!''"), [[ShockAndAwe Storm Spirit]] (''"BLOOOOOOOW THE MAN DOWN!"''), [[MagicKnight Sven]] (whose responses are mostly battle roars), and Phoenix (who doesn't let a silly little thing like ''[[TheUnintelligible not having intelligible lines]]'' get in the way of scenery-chewing). To top it off, the game has an item that lets you eat ''trees''. That's right, it allows you to ''literally'' [[ChewingTheScenery chew the scenery]].
557* The world of ''VideoGame/LollipopChainsaw''. You are a cheerleader with a chainsaw killing zombies, with the fashion accessory of your boyfriend's severed talking head on your belt. You kill zombies that moan that they have [[EarWorm Katy Perry songs stuck in their head]] and spew rainbows when you kill them thanks to [[AwesomenessIsAForce simply being awesome]]. Yeah, that's the normal stuff.
558* The world of ''VideoGame/{{Tekken}}'' is incredibly hammy. Even the ninjas, animals, and non-speaking robots are overflowing with ham!
559* ''VideoGame/PlanescapeTorment'' joins the fine constellation of ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' games which fit this trope. From a ChivalrousPervert floating skull asking you to spare female zombies for [[ILoveTheDead needs a floating skull doesn't have a means of acting upon]] to a mad mage who is eternally on fire as a torment for being a pyromaniac — and enjoys it — nearly everyone is hammier than a Christmas ham wrapped in bacon on a bed of pork chops. Even the few apparently level-headed characters are just one or two conversation options away from a HeroicBSOD. But the hammiest ham is the BigBad.
560--> BigBad: "I can forge planes with my power — I can unmake ''you''."
561* ''VideoGame/BillNyeTheScienceGuyStopTheRock'' has so much ham, the ''only'' person who averts this is the news reporter.
562* ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft''
563** TRIFLING GNOME! YOUR ARROGANCE SHALL BE YOUR UNDOING!
564** Suffer, mortals, as your PATHETIC magic BETRAAAAAAAAAAYS yoouu!!!
565** MADNESS SHALL CONSUME YOU!!!
566** I am ''DEATHWING'', the DESTROYER, the END of all things... unstoppable... indomitable... I! AM! THE CATACLYSM!!!
567* ''VideoGame/ProjectXZone''. Even characters who usually aren't hammy get to ham it up in this game.
568* ''VideoGame/TotalWarWarhammer'' lives and breathes pork products, though a synthesis of the gloriously hammy ''Total War''-franchise and the hammily glorious ''Warhammer''-franchise could hardly be anything else.
569* ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'': almost all its villains are perfect examples of EvilIsHammy and often ColdHam as well. Albert Wesker, Alex Wesker (slightly less so than her brother, but that's not saying much), Sergei Vladimir, Alexia Ashford, Alfred Ashford, James Marcus, Ramon Salazar, Ricardo Irving... And some of the heroes get in on the act (especially Barry Burton, but Leon has his moments).
570* ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' is not just [[UltimateShowdownOfUltimateDestiny video gaming's biggest crossover]], but also one of its hammiest. Almost every attack is over the top to amazing extents (most famously, '''''FALCOOON PUNCH!'''''), every character has a taunt (three starting from ''Brawl'') that has them either making a [[BondOneLiner cheesy one-liner]], [[MilkingTheGiantCow gesticulating wildly]], or acting out in other hammy ways. In the Smash Ball, each fighter gets access to a visually-satisfying FinishingMove that usually encompasses the entire screen, or in some cases, comes with its own cutscene altogether. Even the Announcer is a giant ham, best showcased in the 50 Fact Extravaganza.
571* The world of ''VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}}'' [[DoubleSubversion double subverts]] this trope. In the "real world" there are a few hammy characters, but it isn't everyone. However, a significant part of the game is going into the MentalWorld of various characters, and almost universally the figures in there are over the top dramatic.
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575* ''Franchise/AceAttorney'' series. Even the most serious and stoic characters have at least one hammy moment. One of the biggest running gags is the over-the-top mental breakdowns both the heroes and villains have. In fact, it seems like you can't make a decent rebuttal of someone's argument without shouting OBJECTION! or HOLD IT! even when outside of the court!
576* The entire ''VisualNovel/ShinzaBanshoSeries'' with all of its [[VisualNovel/DiesIrae sub]][[VisualNovel/DiesIraeInterviewWithKazikluBey ser]][[VisualNovel/KajiriKamuiKagura ies]] are just an explosion of ham with a level of cheeky self awareness and honesty that is hard to find anywhere else. Everything from the writing to the voice acting to the music is all overly dramatic and over the top simply for the sake that it can. And even with all that said there are still characters that manages to out ham everyone else around them. This has really become a [[SignatureStyle recurring trait in writer Takashi Masada's work]].
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580* ''WebAnimation/TheMostPopularGirlsInSchool''. To quote Shay van Buren: "This is the worst thing that has ever happened to anybody ever!"
581* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' is this, ''plus'' WorldOfBadass.
582-->'''Nora:''' Hahahaha! ''I'm queen of the castle! I'm queen of the castle!''\
583'''Ruby:''' Justice will be swift! Justice will be painful! It will be [[FoodFight DELIIICIOUSSS]]!\
584'''Weiss, Blake, Yang:''' [[BigYes YYYEAAAAHH!]]\
585'''Nora:''' OFF WITH THEIR HEADS!
586* In ''Webanimation/RWBYChibi'', everyone gets literally cartoonish — for instance, like the FoodFight quoted above there's a [[https://youtu.be/LqyFn9I3IVM?t=1m32s pillow fight]] (the soundtrack for the "death scene" is even named "[[https://soundcloud.com/alex-abraham-music/hammed-up-tragedy-highlight Hammed Up Tragedy]]"). The bad guys in particular go from menacing to CardCarryingVillain.
587-->'''Cinder:''' [[https://youtu.be/NlO9dymswPM?t=2m34s Quiet! I need to concentrate! This is a very delicate procedure. With the addition of this evil candle, voila! One deliciously evil cake, ready to explode! Any questions?]]
588* Also from Creator/RoosterTeeth, ''Webanimation/CampCamp''. Everyone is either impressively quirky (not counting the campers, there is overtly cheery counselor David, bombastic owner Cameron Campbell, and the gravelly and mysterious Quartermaster) or compensates through sheer volume (Max and Gwen might be saner than everyone else, but they're prone to shout and swear).
589* Following trend set by their [[VideoGame/KidIcarus1986 game of origin]], every character in ''WebAnimation/HadesMisguidance'' gets at lest one hammy moment. Even characters from other games get in on the ham when they guest star.
590* The entirety of the main cast of ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'' counts, although some characters do tend to ham it up more than others; Nutty, Cuddles, Lifty and Shifty, Lumpy, Russell, Disco Bear and Mime are the most prominent examples.
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594%%* Nothing, absolutely ''nothing'' qualifies more for this trope than ''Webcomic/AxeCop''.
595* Being a world ruled by [[ForScience Mad Science (badly!)]], ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' is definitely a World of Ham.
596* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' has this from time to time, mostly in the form of SnarkToSnarkCombat. Though Hivebent is pretty much hammy throughout.
597* ''Webcomic/DoubleK'': five words — ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' {{Fan Web Comic|s}}. If that isn't a recipe for incredibly loud shouting, we don't know what is.
598* In ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja'', the Radical Land definitely qualifies, where "radical" and "ham" are pretty much interchangeable, and the main universe the work takes place in isn't far behind.
599* ''Webcomic/{{Drowtales}}'' is packed to the BRIM with hams. Special note, however, goes to [[MaternallyChallenged Quain'tana]], [[TheSociopath Snadhya'rune]], [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Kiel'ndia]], [[AnIcePerson Sil'lice]], [[BarbarianHero Tur'geis]], [[AmazonianBeauty Die'tra]], [[CuteAndPsycho Kalki]], and any and all [[KnightTemplar Kyorl'solenurn]].
600* ''WebComic/{{Paranatural}}'': Excluding [[OnlySaneMan Max]], just about everyone in Mayview is their own brand of crazy and overdramatic.
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604* Website/TVTropes:
605** THIS VERY WIKIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII! It IS THIS TROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOPE! We tropers can get a bit... PASSIONATE about our FAVOURITE SEEEEEEERIEEEES!
606** Seriously... look at all the caps we've put on this page alone. We had way too much fun doing this...
607** This is especially obvious when someone who has... let us say a "more balanced attitude"... toward a particular work, or a particular genre, or a particular type of work (animation, horror movies, Korean comic books, whatever) makes an edit that, while inoffensive and normal in and of itself and made with all the best intentions, is taken as a purposeful affront by [[FanMyopia a fan of the work, genre, or whathaveyou]] because of the "anyone with any sense would be as fanatic about this Work/Genre/Type of Whatever as I am, and since you disagree you are '''''EVIL!!!!!'''''." (It helps to read that last word in Creator/ErnestBorgnine's Mermaid Man voice.)
608** Consider that as tropers, despite using English as a common tongue, we are all spread across the globe. As stated above, we are all hammy, or at least sometimes we tend to exalt ourselves when discussing our favourite subjects. Basically what I mean to say is: WE ARE THE VERY PROOF WE LITERALLY LIVE. IN. A. [[TitleDrop WORLD. OF. HAAAAAAAAAAAAAM]]!
609** SelfDemonstrating/BrianBlessed is the only article on Website/TVTropes where bite marks are visible.
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613* ''LetsPlay/TheRunawayGuys'' is made up of the already hammy LetsPlay/{{Chuggaaconroy}}, LetsPlay/ProtonJon, and LetsPlay/NintendoCapriSun, together it goes beyond. And then they have guests sometimes... that also hams it up to ham galore!
614* ''WebVideo/TheLostBoys'' has [=SullyPwns=] tune it down a bit as [=ZeldaMaster=], [=MucingOrange=], and not least the hugest of them all LetsPlay/JohneAwesome are large enough hams to blow off the roof.
615* 4 NoIndoorVoice ChildhoodFriends, still being BashBrothers? Loads of laughter and silliy antics? It's [[LetsPlay/WiiRikeToPray WiiLikeToPlay]]!
616* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUSnoXaCMZI Golduck Productions]]. Every single character in this SoBadItsGood flick. "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUSnoXaCMZI GOLD]][[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwtilmZ7f7M DUCK]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvvf55sbVc8 PRODUCTIONS]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6piL1nNT7Sk PRESENTS]] ..." Get my point, the first link leads to the "Some Sucky Action Movie" and the rest simply link to the sequels and spinoffs. WE'RE ALLLLLLL GOOOOOOOOOOOOOONA DIEEEEEEEEEEE!" NoIndoorVoice Indeed.
617* ''Website/ChannelAwesome'', where lots of geeks got known for their over-the-top reviews of... well, everything. Even more in the anniversary specials...
618** The ''WebVideo/TGWTGYearOneBrawl, where the site's reviewers and WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd show [[WimpFight they can't fight]], [[HamToHamCombat except on the overacting field]].
619** ''WebVideo/{{Kickassia}}'', with the exception of [[TheStoic President Baugh,]] who never raises his voice even when his country is invaded, and his family, who never look up from their books.
620** Then came ''WebVideo/SuburbanKnights'' and ''WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee''. Helped by the fact that some of the reviewers are aping hammy performances.
621** [[WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick Nella's]] "pony melodrama", which manages to include a whore teacher with a heart of gold, a polar bear as Jesus and family relationships getting torn apart.
622* Since the release of VideoGame/{{Undertale}}, many fans have added voice acting. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSw0mV0jbdo This rendition of the Mad Dummy]] is fantastically overacted and captures the Dummy's [[NoIndoorVoice lack of an indoor voice]] perfectly.
623%%* ''Film/{{Sockbaby}}''.
624* In ''WebVideo/TheFantasticFavioBros'', every character is a LargeHam, from the overly ChivalrousPervert hero Favio and his {{Cloudcuckoolander}} brother Tony to the ObviouslyEvil villains who think that EverybodyMustGetStoned.
625* ''[[WebVideo/EpicRapBattlesOfHistory EPIC!!! RAP!!! BATTLES!!! OF!!!! HIS! TO! RY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!]]''
626* Creator/RoosterTeeth's guys and girls sure have much fun, specially on Creator/AchievementHunter (people going crazy while playing games) and [[https://youtu.be/Xx4_vFj9F6o the]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZiA26mFRdk&index=40&list=PLFemIFGf65Oe_8OMB3cWBYpEBcRAsJ-Em weekly]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3ZourZ7-sU RT]] [[https://youtu.be/uQ8S7SPvGig Recap]].
627* As much as ''WebVideo/SMPLive'' can be called a WorldOfSnark, it can be called a world of ham even more, as nearly every character has their hammy moments, and the shenanigans the characters tend to get up to are so bizarrely over-the-top.
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631* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': With a few exceptions, pretty much everyone gets a moment of ham.
632** Special mention goes to [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Pinkie Pie]], [[DramaQueen Rarity]], and [[NoIndoorVoice Princess Luna]]. Rarity's scenery chewing is [[MemeticMutation funny]] since [[LargeHam she often does it]]. Fluttershy's Scenery chewing is [[MemeticMutation funny]] since [[TheQuietOne she almost never does it.]]
633** "Weird Al" Yankovic guest-starred on the show to challenge Pinkie Pie to a [[HamToHamCombat Goof-Off]]. The result naturally was this.
634* Apparently, in the [[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture near future]] according to ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'', people don't have as much trouble with constant screaming nowadays. EVERY world in ''Invader Zim'' is a World of Ham.
635-->'''Zim:''' SOON I shall bring The Tallest close enough to [[EvilIsHammy WITNESS MY INGEEEEENIOUS EEEEEVIL!]] AH HAAAA HA HA HA HAAAAAAA HO HA HO HAAAAAAA I said evil!\
636'''Dib:''' [[BigNo NOOOOOOOOOOO!]]\
637'''Membrane:''' Son, there'd better not be [[NoodleIncident any walking dead]] up there!
638* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' is run ''entirely'' on RuleOfCool, taking [[Series/Batman1966 the 1960s Batman's]] hamminess and cranking it up a few notches. [[TransformingMecha THE BATMOBILE IS A MECHA]]!!
639** Not just any mecha. It appears to be some kind of [[Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann Ganman]] / [[SpellMyNameWithAnS Gunmen]].
640** Then there's AQUAMAN!!! And ''then'' there's the Music Meister, who turns the hamminess up with a MusicalEpisode that features ''Batman's RoguesGallery doing a VillainSong''.
641* The alternate reality seen in the ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' episode "Legends", which took many aspects of the Adam West ''Batman'' show and the ''WesternAnimation/{{Superfriends}}'' cartoon, threw in a [[CaptainErsatz pastiche version]] of the Comicbook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica, and put them alongside the more serious modern Justice League. Cue LampshadeHanging on everything from a police department consisting of two Irishmen, kid sidekicks, and villains leaving hammy clues for the heroes to follow.
642* Most ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' continuities take place in universes of Ham. Optimuses are especially notable — most of them are hammy ''even without trying to be dramatic'', as their voices have Just. That. Much. Gravitas. Megatrons are more [[EvilIsHammy traditionally hammy]], however. ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'' is especially hammy[[note]]despite [[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Razorbeast the one who actually turns into a pig]] not making it onto the show[[/note]] — it may have featured tigers, dinosaurs, and insects, but every bot there truly transformed into a heck of a ham, [[VerbalTic yessss]].
643** Creator/DavidLetterman once did a TopTenList of "things that sound cooler when being spoken by a giant robot." [[Film/TransformersFilmSeries Movieverse]] Optimus Prime puts in an appearance. How well does it work? Even his "David, nice to be here" is awesome.
644** Honorable mention goes to Primus and Unicron, who are simultaneously tremendously hammy, and [[GeniusLoci sapient worlds]]. Primus even has a particularly hammy robot population living on him. (They were created in his image, after all.)
645* ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperHeroSquadShow''. The entire Franchise/MarvelUniverse in {{Chibi}} LargeHam form in ''[[CityOfAdventure one city]].''
646* Everyone in ''WesternAnimation/TheAngryBeavers'' hams it up every thirty seconds or so. Except [[UnabashedBMovieFan Oxnard]] [[BadBadActing Montalvo]].
647* ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyTest''. From Johnny, to Dukey, to Bling Bling Boy, to Brain Freezer, and the [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking many]] [[MemeticMutation whipcracks]] heard whenever a character even so much as moves a limb, everyone on the show loves to ham it up every now and again. The 2021 revival loses the whipcracks but the characters are still as dramatic as ever.
648* Everyone on ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' has had their moment of hamminess, whether it be Cloud Cuckoolanders like Rolf and Ed, or hot-headed characters like Eddy and Sarah, or the ObsessivelyOrganized Double D, these children are very loud.
649* ''WesternAnimation/ElTigre'' belongs in this category — [[CatchPhrase THIS I SWEAR!!!]]
650* ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'' had an episode featuring a planet populated only by costumed superheroes, and Darkwing, having no powers, became the designated [[DistressedDude "Ordinary Guy"]]. Not that the Masked Mallard himself was light on ham back home. He was, after all, the Terror that Flaps in the Night.
651* ''WesternAnimation/MuchaLucha'' world. Well, what can be expected from a show about ''wrestlers'' with a tendency to [[CallingYourAttacks call their attacks]]?
652* The early episodes of ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce'' were very over the top. "Send Carl to THE HOME!!!"
653* All of ''WesternAnimation/TheThiefAndTheCobbler''. From over-the-top armies and war machines to [[StoutStrength giant brigands]] who treat a DICTIONARY as if it were the Holy Grail, the whole world is made of ham. "''The BALLS ARE GONE! My KINGDOM will COME to DESTRUCTION AND DEATH!!!!''"
654* The clan of Scotsmen from ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'' fit this trope perfectly. "''SHEEP STOMACH STUFFED WITH MEAT AND BARLEY!!!''"
655* Just about everyone on ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor,'' being an AffectionateParody of the [[SpyFiction Spy and Espionage]] genre.
656* ''WesternAnimation/ThePenguinsOfMadagascar'' is a world of yelling, exaggerated gestures and wild facial expressions. And yet, even in this world of ham, King Julien and Skipper stand out.
657* ''WesternAnimation/TimeSquad'' turned the ENTIRE TIME-SPACE CONTINUUM into this!
658* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' has become this since its [[UnCanceled post-cancellation,]] merely due to the massive amount of ComedicSociopathy, [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown fighting,]] and [[ChewingTheScenery general lack of control]] that [[{{Flanderization}} now]] [[SadistShow define]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ji9PUO7Yps0 nearly the whole cast.]]
659* ''WesternAnimation/{{Metalocalypse}}'' is hammier than the hammiest ham... Times infinity.
660* ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken''. This show is filled to the brim with it, since many of the sketches tend to [[CrossesTheLineTwice be notorious]] for [[LawOfDisproportionateResponse overdramatic reactions to the slightest of actions]].
661* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' qualifies, as the entire town of Springfield can't go one day without stirring chaos or bringing an uproar into fruition, "Who Shot Mr. Burns" being a prime example:
662-->'''Moe:''' I lost my bar!\
663'''Barney:''' I lost ''his'' bar!\
664'''Lisa:''' He robbed the school of music!\
665'''Skinner:''' He robbed the school of financial security!\
666'''Tito Puente:''' He robbed the school of Tito!\
667'''Homer:''' [[FelonyMisdemeanor He can't remember my name!]]\
668'''Marge:''' [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking He's]] [[LampshadeHanging causing us all to yell!]]
669* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'': WHAT TIIIIIIIIIIIIIIME IS IT?
670* ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'' tends to have some rather expressive characters, with even the titular character having his moments occasionally.
671%%* ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow''. Oh God.
672* ''WesternAnimation/BigCityGreens'' has a colorful cast of characters, both in the literal and metaphorical sense. Becomes more prominent in episodes post-2019, where there are more [[DerangedAnimation wacky expressions]] and just loud characters in general.
673* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' also qualifies to a fault, at least most of the time. It's way easier to list the characters who don't have hammy tendencies rather than the ones that do.
674* ''WesternAnimation/XMenTheAnimatedSeries'': Damn near everyone in the entire series. Special shoutouts to Apocalypse (LOOK UPON THE FUTURE AND TREMBLE!), Graydon Creed, Fabian Cortez, Wolverine, Magneto, Mister Sinister and of course, everything [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fz93UFClpo Storm does.]] {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d by Rogue:
675-->'''Rogue:''' Lighten up on the speeches, Sugar.
676* All of ''WesternAnimation/CowAndChicken'' and ''WesternAnimation/IAmWeasel'', as practically everyone seems to shout every other line. It's especially pronounced by Creator/CharlieAdler hamming it up as ''[[ManOfAThousandVoices half the cast combined]]'', most notably as the Red Guy, who [[SuddenlyShouting switches between a normal voice and shouting at the top of his lungs]] with basically every line.
677* ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'' due to the excessive amount of screaming from certain characters ([[NoIndoorVoice Gene]] especially, [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Louise]], and even from [[OnlySaneMan Bob]]) at least OncePerEpisode. For what they lack in expression, they make up for in volume.
678* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerPuffGirls'' has quite the bit of amped up volume from quite the amount of characters, even side ones, considering the show parodies the superhero genre. Mojo Jojo, HIM, the girls themselves, Prof. Utonium, even the Mayor, etc. have their moments.
679* If ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' is anything to go by, the 31st century will be one. From Shatner-esque space captain Zapp Brannigan to robot soap opera actor Calculon to extraterrestrial invader[=/=]news anchor Morbo to [[NoIndoorVoice LRRR, RULER OF OMICRON PERSEI 8]], the world of tomorrow is a world of ham.
680* ''WesternAnimation/{{The Amazing World of Gumball}}'' combines this trope with WorldOfWeirdness, especially in later seasons.
681* ''WesternAnimation/OKKOLetsBeHeroes'': When the setting is an AffectionateParody of a bunch of action genres, [[EveryoneIsASuper overpopulated by heroes]] and [[CardCarryingVillain Card Carrying Villains]], and the narrative is filled with {{Shout Out}}s to anime and video games, it's hard to describe it otherwise. The characters gesticulate with so much intensity that they tend to become OffModel.
682* Everything in ''WesternAnimation/{{Chowder}}'' is loud, frantic and over the top, with the title character being the loudest of all.
683* ''WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder'' is full of ham. Being a SpaceOpera featuring a protagonist whose weapon is ThePowerOfFriendship, his asskicking steed, a plethora of theatrical galaxy-conquering villains, and every location being a PlanetOfHats, hamminess can be found everywhere in this galaxy.
684* Practically ''everyone'' in ''WesternAnimation/PetAlien'' is prone to going LargeHam over-the-top and yelling at complete random. [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Dinko]], [[FatIdiot Gumpers]], and [[BrattyHalfPint Melba]] in particular are in full ham mode almost every time they're on-screen.
685* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'': Nearly all the characters on the show have short tempers and are easily excitable, and quite prone to yelling, resulting in this trope. Stumpy, Mr. Cat, Pretty, and Olaf especially have a tendency for theatrics.
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