Basic Trope: A character who is very dramatic yet very self-contained.
- Straight: Alice speaks quietly, exuding little emotion, yet her voice carries a dramatic flair nonetheless.
- Exaggerated:
- Alice's voice never rises above a whisper, and her emotions are completely unreadable. She's more dramatic than a Large Ham.
- It is a World of Cold Ham.
- Downplayed:
- Alice is a stoic woman with a bit of ham sprinkled in there.
- Alice is hammy and a little bit stoic at times.
- Justified:
- Alice is a dramatic person who has extremely sensitive hearing, and thus speaks in a dramatic whisper.
- Alice is trying to be The Stoic, but she's actually a very emotional person. This slips through her attempts at an icy demeanor.
- Inverted: Alice likes yelling, yet somehow avoids being dramatic.
- Subverted: Alice enters the scene speaking quietly, dramatically, and using contained movements. Once she's established, she becomes just a Large Ham, The Stoic, or she drops the drama and the stoicism...
- Double Subverted: ...and then regains both...
- Zig Zagged:...and then loses it again. She does this repeatedly throughout the entire story.
- Parodied: Alice is written as being "absolutely monotone when talking yet sounds more dramatic than anyone else in the world".
- Averted: There are no hammy characters, large or cold otherwise.
- Enforced:
- One of the current characters is already an adored Large Ham. The director decides that any hammy characters that follow will be contained while over-the-top.
- Alice's actress is known mostly for playing either Large Hams, Stoics, or both. This role is to show that She Really Can Act.
- Alice's actress was given a role on a show where she wanted to be The Stoic, but the producers wanted her to be a Large Ham, as she's known for that. Or it could be the other way around. Regardless, the producers and Alice found a compromise.
- Lampshaded: "Wow. She's not even yelling, yet she sucks in all the attention."
- Invoked: Alice is a leader, so she balances the line between being hammy and being quiet so that she will be memorable and listened to.
- Exploited:
- Alice is given a hammy role on a show that she hates passionately. She act likes this to get the producers to fire her from the show.
- Alice's strange combination of dramatic in the guise of methodically stoic makes for a perfect narrator or exposition giver for a series when tension needs to be built up.
- Defied: Alice refuses to be hammy or stoic.
- Discussed: "You know, most leaders are just completely over-the-top or just flat when they speak. It's kind of nice to see that this girl can be both."
- Conversed: "Alice...I can't tell if you're trying to be quiet or dramatic...or are you being both?"
- Played for Laughs: Alice talks like this so that her teachers won't tell her to quiet down.
- Played for Drama:
- Alice is the Dark Action Girl who serves as the villainess of the story. She acts like this because it incites fear and makes it hard for the heroes to get a read on her.
- Alice is an Anti-Hero whose cold yet heavy words due to a Freudian Excuse of a Dark and Troubled Past always highlights how close she is to teetering into a Face–Heel Turn.
- Alice has a throat condition that makes it hard for her to speak, and she acts dramatically to be absolutely sure people are paying attention.
- Implied: Alice is never seen on-screen. Whenever anyone describes her, she's described as being a soft-spoken showman.
- Deconstructed: People are not inclined to take Alice seriously because of her flair for the dramatic, even if it's not over-the-top.
- Reconstructed: Fortunately, she couldn't care either way. Her actions can speak for themselves.
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