Basic Trope: A character with a grandiose and larger-than-life personality, prone to Chewing the Scenery.
- Straight: Bob has a tendency to shout and/or emphasize every other word for no reason, and is prone to reacting to everyday things in an overblown way.
- Exaggerated:
- Bob shouts everything he says in varying volumes and is a Anthropomorphic Personification of Mundane Made Awesome.
- World of Ham.
- No Indoor Voice
- Downplayed:
- Bob is a bit jumpy and raises his voice often, but nothing out of the ordinary.
- Bob is a Cold Ham.
- Justified:
- Bob is half-deaf and does not realize how loud he is, and also a dramatic person in general.
- Bob is an Attention Whore, and figures the best way to steal the spotlight is by hamming it up.
- Inverted: The Stoic.
- Subverted: Bob is introduced through a Dynamic Entry, yelling at the protagonist. But once he has joined Bob's team, he is calm and collected.
- Double Subverted: ...Except when a dream of his goes awry. Then he hams it up again.
- Parodied:
- With Catlike Tread, among others.
- Bob is represented by a giant dead pig.
- Zig-Zagged: He has continuous mood swings, and changes between neutral, dramatic, and subtle.
- Averted: No cast member is louder than the others in their everyday life.
- Enforced:
- The director or writer demands that the actors play their characters in an over-the-top fashion.
- Camp
- Lampshaded:Alice: Geez, I wish Bob would shut up. His constant yelling's giving me a headache.
Claire: Too bad our complaining hasn't stopped him before.- Alice: "Aren't you being a bit dramatic?"
- "DID SOOOOOMEBODY ORDER A LARRRRRRGE HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAM?!" "I— Um, no, I don't think so."
- Invoked: Bob sets up scenarios for himself that would prompt him to overact.
- Exploited: Bob was given a role in the school play that he did not want at all, so he acts like this to get kicked off the production.
- Defied:
- Bob decides to take anger management classes.
- Bob learns how to control the volume of his voice.
- Discussed: "So Bob's showing up at that party tomorrow?" "Yeah, why?" "[Sigh] Better bring my earplugs."
- Conversed: "I don't know if the actor playing Bob is one of the worst... or one of the best."
- Played for Laughs: Bob annoys Alice every day with his dramatic shouts.
- Played for Drama: Bob alienates Alice from him with his dramatic behavior.
- Implied: Bob is a Posthumous Character. The people who knew him list his tendency for being loud in battle as a defining trait, but this is not elaborated upon.
- Deconstructed: Nobody is able to take Bob seriously due to this trait.
- Reconstructed: Good thing he enjoys being seen as a clown. In fact, people laughing at him just gives him more incentive to continue.
- Plotted a Good Waste: The director wanted to create a So Bad, It's Good show, so he specifically asked all actors involved to ham it up.
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