History LargeHam / ComicBooks

* The graphic novel ''Webcomic/TwiceBlessed'' has Cade Masters, [[http://www.twiceblessedcomic.com/?webcomic_post=9 ADVENTURER EXTRAORDINAIRE!]]
* ComicBook/{{Apocalypse}} is full of this.
* ''ComicBook/SquadronSupreme'': Master Menace, Marvel's alternate-universe equivalent of ComicBook/LexLuthor heavily mixed with Doctor Doom, shamelessly chews the scenery whenever he appears.
* ComicBook/NormanOsborn has shown surprising talent for this trope when he staged an attack by the Green Goblin on Air Force One. It's filled with such delightfully hammy lines as "GET BEHIND ME MR. PRESIDENT!" and "No Goblin! What YOU need is ''YOUR GLIDER!''" However, when it's Osborn in the Goblin suit, the ham quotient goes up to 11. [[AxCrazy As does the insanity quotient.]]

* ''ComicBook/TheSandman'': Destruction of the Endless, who was modeled after Creator/{{BRIAN BLESSED}}!
* [[ComicBook/{{Galactus}} "I am GALACTUS...]] [[ChewingTheScenery And I HUNGER!]]"

* Of all the characters that qualify for this trope, '''ComicBook/{{Darkseid}}''' deserves a special mention.
* Falstaff (again) in the ''[[ComicBook/SevenSoldiers Seven Soldiers of Victory]]'' story from ''Leading Comics'' #14, "The Bandits from the Books." In a story where everyone talks in all capitals and ends their sentences with exclamation points, his dialogue is in bigger, bolder type with more exclamation points. He even [[MundaneMadeAwesome makes eating a banana sound epic]].
* A rare instance where the ''narrator'' is a LargeHam occurs in Creator/GrantMorrison's ''ComicBook/SevenSoldiers: Frankenstein.''
--> "All in a day's work...for '''''FRANKENSTEIN!'''''"
* The ''X-Men'' villain Mojo. Even in the UltimateUniverse where he's human. If the Joker were a fat, alien media tycoon, this is who you'd get. Mojo runs a world where people are engineered to be reality TV stars. Needless to say some of these people are quite the large hams when they come over to 616, Shatterstar for example
* Rasputin in ''ComicBook/{{Hellboy}}'' has a tendency to ham it up even when he's losing. In his final appearance, as a ghost, he was ''shouting a hysterical tirade at a god''. She didn't take it too well.

* ''Comicbook/{{Empowered}}'''s Caged Demonwolf. He spends all of his time as a voice emanating from the [[SealedEvilInACan alien power-draining bondage gear he's stuck in]], but even as a talking inanimate object, he has the biggest speech balloons and an endless supply of {{Expospeak Gag}}s. The sinister, sealed sovereign's hammery rivals that of [[Creator/BrianBlessed blessed Brian]] himself!
--> "Heh, heh, heh. The merely mortal ''fools'' have failed to perceive [[ThirdPersonPerson the ravening shadowlord's]] burgeoning ''powers of suggestion''! And by the time they ''do'' -- ''too late'' will it be -- for [[ThirdPersonPerson the sinister snuffer of civilisations]] will have seized ABSOLUTE CONTROL of the much-vaunted '''TV REMOTE'''!!!"

* Sergei Korolev (the head of the Soviet space program during the UsefulNotes/ColdWar) is like this in public in the graphic novel ''Laika'' ("All because of that lying b*stard, GLUSHKO!"), but in private, it turns out he's actually much quieter and very sad.

* Black Mask, especially during Creator/JuddWinick's run on Franchise/{{Batman}}.
-->''I swear to God! I spent serious quality time thinking about ways to TORTURE your irritating, BOMB-THROWING BUTT '''TO DEATH!'''''
-->''Brother... I am ready to '''TORCH''' this hell hole into '''ASH'''... to '''KILL''' every sad mouth breather who was dumb enough to live here... and I'm ready to '''GO DOWN WITH THE SHIP'''. And between the two of us, little man... we both know '''I'M''' the one who's not afraid to die.''
* Haazen from ''Comicbook/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'' is one; during that sequence when he reveals his evil plan and blows up the courtyard with the fleet, he screams, "Let the Fire of Truth Rain Down." Of course, the man's spent almost his entire life forced into the role of the fawning servant, unable to act otherwise in public without blowing his cover. Under those conditions, the culmination of the EvilPlan he's been working on for decades ''deserves'' a bit of ham.
* ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}. Always talking, cracking jokes, and being full of himself.

* Spider Jerusalem from ''Comicbook/{{Transmetropolitan}}''.
--> "Who did you vote for vermin woman? ''Did'' you vote? Can you ''Read?'' Have you got ''Thumbs?'' '''Show me your fucking Thumbs! THUMBS!'''"
* ''Franchise/GreenLantern'': Orange Lantern Larfleeze: The greediest creature in the universe!
--> "The spotlight is MINE! This wiki is MINE! If you're reading this page, you're MINE! The blinky cursor letters are mine, too!"
* R. Crumb's ComicBook/FritzTheCat is very hammy in a number of early strips.
* Most of the Comicbook/{{Azrael}}s had a penchant for this.
-->"Know that men call you '''liar'''! Know that men call you '''betrayer'''! Know that men call you '''defiler'''! [[BadassBoast Therefore, it is the duty of the angel Azrael to bring you]] '''[[PrepareToDie punishment]]''' -- [[LargeHam the punishment of]] '''death by [[FlamingSword fiery sword]]!"'''
* Every single major character in ''Comicbook/TheMetabarons'' by Creator/AlejandroJodorowsky.

* ComicBook/{{Logicomix}} depicted Ludwig Wittgenstein as being like this.
* [[ComicBook/MaximumCarnage This is your old pal Carnage saying you can't spell slaughter without laughter,]] '''[[EvilLaughter AHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!]]'''
* ''ComicBook/LesLegendaires'' have several of these. One of the most notable examples includes Captain Shamira, Shimy's mother, who often delivers {{Badass Boast}}s in an overly aggressive tone.
** Of course, considering EvilIsHammy and what the villains are, [[SorcerousOverlord Darkhell]], [[EvilSorcerer Skroa]], [[GodOfEvil Anathos]] and [[PuppeteerParasite Abyss]] all displayed large ham tendencies. Notably, most of them are usually quite calm (though still having a taste for EvilGloating), but will easily go full large ham when excited or angry.
** Elysio had a very hammy moment at his introduction [[spoiler:(which was most likely a foreshadowing of the fact he was actually an amnesiac Darkhell)]]. After [[spoiler:Darkhell and him split up]], however, he seems to have lost this tendency and become calmer.
* The titular character in ''ComicBook/TheTombOfDracula'' was incredibly hammy even by most vampire standards. Every issue had him speaking in terms like these:
-->'''{{Dracula}}''': Feel HONORED clod--Be PROUD that your pitiful life can be used to further MINE. You did not DIE for any peasant...but for Dracula--LORD OF THE DAMNED!
* Rainbow Dash, the Cloud Gremlins, and the TV news anchorpony in ''ComicBook/MyLittlePonyMicroSeries'' Issue #2 .
* Sporting her Season 1 look hasn't stopped Luna from showing she's the real Princess of Ham in the second story-arc of ''ComicBook/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicIDW'':
-->'''Twilight Sparkle:''' "One more chance" to what?
-->'''Princess Luna:''' '''To claim what [[BigBad Nightmare Moon]] [[TheNightThatNeverEnds promised]] - An all powerful [[ToCreateAPlaygroundForEvil kingdom of their own!]]''' *said while on her hind legs with a dramatic lunar eclipse in the background*
** Pinkie Pie turns up the ham when she confronts her nightmares in Issue #6.
-->'''Pinkie:''' I am the '''''MOST''''' laughter-giving, fun-having, friend-making pony ever! '''''YOU HAVE NO POWER OVER ME!'''''
* '''"[[{{Comicbook/Annihilation}} ANNIHILUS]] IS THE WILL AND THE WAY AND HE WILL NOT BE DENIED!"''' Marvel's Annihilus always refers to himself in the [[ThirdPersonPerson 3rd person]], always shrieks at the top of whatever it is giant purple-and-green bugs have instead of lungs, and got a whole Cosmic CrisisCrossover named after him, during which he murdered '''billions''' and threw frequent temper tantrums because all of creation wasn't dying quickly enough.
* ''ComicBook/MonstersUnleashed'': THE MIGHTY SCRAGG'S SYNTAX RESEMBLES THAT OF A TYPICAL MARVEL VILLAIN, BUT HIS NATURE AS A [[MartialPacifist PACIFIST]] RENDERS IT [[TheComicallySerious HILARIOUS]] INSTEAD OF INTIMIDATING! WHICH HE IS PERFECTLY FINE WITH, AS SCRAGG IS FRIEND TO ALL LIFEFORMS AND GLORIES IN AMUSING THEM MOMENTARILY!
* ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}} and the Actress'' manages to pull this off as StylisticSuck with Latraviata, in static images. She's a famous Roman theatre actress and thus acts out her [[TheIngenue ingenue]] character like a {{Melodrama}}tic [[TheVamp sex bomb]].
* Doctor Dinosaur in ''ComicBook/AtomicRobo''.
-->"[[PaperThinDisguise BEHOLD!]] [[BlatantLies AN ORDINARY MOTORIST!]]"
* The British ''Lion'' comic book character ''ComicBook/TheSpider'' is rarely loud, but constantly over-acts in the most pompous and self-assured way imaginable.
* Almost any time Batroc the Leaper shows up in a ComicBook/CaptainAmerica comic, you know ham is going to be on the menu.

-->'''Superboy-Prime''': "I'LL KILL YOU! I'LL KILL YOU TO ''DEATH''!!

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-->'''ComicBook/SuperboyPrime''': "I'LL KILL YOU! I'LL KILL YOU TO ''DEATH''!!

* The titular character in ''Comicbook/TheTombOfDracula'' was incredibly hammy even by most vampire standards. Every issue had him speaking in terms like these:

* [[ComicBook/MonstersUnleashed THE MIGHTY SCRAGG]]'S SYNTAX RESEMBLES THAT OF A TYPICAL MARVEL VILLAIN, BUT HIS NATURE AS A [[MartialPacifist PACIFIST]] RENDERS IT [[TheComicallySerious HILARIOUS]] INSTEAD OF INTIMIDATING! WHICH HE IS PERFECTLY FINE WITH, AS SCRAGG IS FRIEND TO ALL LIFEFORMS AND GLORIES IN AMUSING THEM MOMENTARILY!

** ''ComicBook/LastDaughterOfKrypton'' has Reign: "'''Yes''', my child. Let the universe bear '''witness''' to your '''pain'''. '''Grieve''' the life you knew."
* ComicBook/SuperboyPrime frequently demonstrates that his power levels are Silver Age and hamminess is no exception. "I'LL KILL YOU! I'LL KILL YOU TO ''DEATH''!!

* "[[ComicBook/DoctorDoom Doom]] is displeased that people think he underacts. [[http://doomcomicdrama.ytmnd.com/ Doom NEVER underacts]]. ''Doom'' is also displeased that some [[Comicbook/{{Doom}} one-shot video-game tie-in]] lout is calling himself DOOM in the third person! There is only one [[DoomyDoomsOfDoom DOOM]] - ''[[MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate Doctor]]'' DOOM! These are clearly plots by that perfidious dolt '''[[ComicBook/FantasticFour REED RICHARDS!!]]'''"

--->'''Guard''': How do you do that?
--->'''Doom''': Do what?
--->'''Guard''': Speak in all capitals like that?
--->'''Doom''': Silence, minion.

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

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

* [[ComicBook/TheSandman Destruction of the Endless]], who was modeled after Creator/{{BRIAN BLESSED}}!

* Vitamin Flintheart from ''ComicStrip/DickTracy''. He was originally designed as a parody of Creator/JohnBarrymore.
* [[Characters/GLOrangeLanternCorps Orange Lantern]] Larfleeze: The greediest creature in the universe!

* ComicBook/SuperboyPrime frequently demonstrates that his power levels are Silver Age and hamminess is no exception. "I'LL KILL YOU! I'LL KILL YOU TO ''DEATH''!!

-->--'''Azrael (Ludovic Valley),''' [[spoiler: shortly before being shot multiple times]].

* [[ComicBook/LesLegendaires Les Légendaires]] have several of these. One of the most notable examples includes Captain Shamira, Shimy's mother, who often delivers {{Badass Boast}}s in an overly aggressive tone.

-->'''Nightflame:''' NAY! Your chrome-plated chariot does not frighten me! Now you shall know of the power of Nightflame! And of my flame-sword!

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* Almost any time Batroc the Leaper shows up in a ComicBook/CaptainAmerica comics, you know ham is going to be on the menu.

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

* "[[SelfDemonstrating/DoctorDoom Doom]] is displeased that people think he underacts. [[http://doomcomicdrama.ytmnd.com/ Doom NEVER underacts]]. ''Doom'' is also displeased that some [[Comicbook/{{Doom}} one-shot video-game tie-in]] lout is calling himself DOOM in the third person! There is only one [[DoomyDoomsOfDoom DOOM]] - ''[[MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate Doctor]]'' DOOM! These are clearly plots by that perfidious dolt '''[[ComicBook/FantasticFour REED RICHARDS!!]]'''"

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

* Selfdemonstration/SuperboyPrime frequently demonstrates that his power levels are Silver Age and hamminess is no exception. "I'LL KILL YOU! I'LL KILL YOU TO ''DEATH''!!

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

*** According to ''ComicBook/Thor2014'', ''Mjollnir'' is a ham-filter. That is, if it's wielder tries to talk normally while [[HenshinHero transformed]], it will ''automatically filter it into ham''. [[YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe Asgardian]] ham. Including calling Earth Midgard.

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

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

* ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}.

* Superboy Prime frequently demonstrates that his power levels are Silver Age and hamminess is no exception. "I'LL KILL YOU! I'LL KILL YOU TO ''DEATH''!!

** SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker, especially in the Comics Code Authority days, ''thrives'' on this trope.

* SelfDemonstrating/{{Deadpool}}.

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* "Doom is displeased that people think he underacts. [[http://doomcomicdrama.ytmnd.com/ Doom NEVER underacts]]. ''Doom'' is also displeased that some [[Comicbook/{{Doom}} one-shot video-game tie-in]] lout is calling himself DOOM in the third person! There is only one [[DoomyDoomsOfDoom DOOM]] - ''[[MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate Doctor]]'' DOOM! These are clearly plots by that perfidious dolt '''[[ComicBook/FantasticFour REED RICHARDS!!]]'''"

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

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

* "[[SelfDemonstrating/DoctorDoom Doom]] is displeased that people think he underacts. [[http://doomcomicdrama.ytmnd.com/ Doom NEVER underacts]]. ''Doom'' is also displeased that some [[Comicbook/{{Doom}} one-shot video-game tie-in]] lout is calling himself DOOM in the third person! There is only one [[DoomyDoomsOfDoom DOOM]] - ''[[MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate Doctor]]'' DOOM! These are clearly plots by that perfidious dolt '''[[ComicBook/FantasticFour REED RICHARDS!!]]'''"

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

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

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

* NormanOsborn has shown surprising talent for this trope when he staged an attack by the Green Goblin on Air Force One. It's filled with such delightfully hammy lines as "GET BEHIND ME MR. PRESIDENT!" and "No Goblin! What YOU need is ''YOUR GLIDER!''" However, when it's Osborn in the Goblin suit, the ham quotient goes up to 11. [[AxCrazy As does the insanity quotient.]]

** Lampshaded during the ''{{Onslaught}}'' saga; Joseph was telling Comicbook/CaptainAmerica about being rescued by someone and Cap interrupted to say he knew it was Dr. Doom. When Joseph asked how Cap knew that, Cap's answer was "Frankly, the entrance line ''alone'' told me that much."

* [[{{Galactus}} "I am GALACTUS...]] [[ChewingTheScenery And I HUNGER!]]"

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

* {{Logicomix}} depicted Ludwig Wittgenstein as being like this.

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

* Sergei Korolev is like this in public in the graphic novel Laika ("All because of that lying b*stard, GLUSHKO!"), but in private, it turns out he's actually much quieter and very sad.