1 | '''Basic Trope''': A character with a grandiose and larger-than-life personality, prone to ChewingTheScenery. |
2 | * '''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. |
3 | * '''Exaggerated''': |
4 | ** Bob shouts everything he says in varying volumes and is a AnthropomorphicPersonification of MundaneMadeAwesome. |
5 | ** WorldOfHam. |
6 | ** NoIndoorVoice |
7 | * '''Downplayed''': |
8 | ** Bob is a bit jumpy and raises his voice often, but nothing out of the ordinary. |
9 | ** Bob is a ColdHam. |
10 | * '''Justified''': |
11 | ** Bob is half-deaf and does not realize how loud he is, and also a dramatic person in general. |
12 | ** Bob is an AttentionWhore, and figures the best way to steal the spotlight is by hamming it up. |
13 | * '''Inverted''': TheStoic. |
14 | * '''Subverted''': Bob is introduced through a DynamicEntry, yelling at the protagonist. But once he has joined Bob's team, he is calm and collected. |
15 | * '''Double Subverted''': ...Except when a dream of his goes awry. Then he hams it up again. |
16 | * '''Parodied''': |
17 | ** WithCatlikeTread, among others. |
18 | ** Bob is represented by a [[VisualPun giant dead pig]]. |
19 | * '''Zig-Zagged''': He has continuous [[MoodWhiplash mood swings]], and changes between neutral, dramatic, and subtle. |
20 | * '''Averted''': No cast member is louder than the others in their everyday life. |
21 | * '''Enforced''': |
22 | ** The director or writer demands that the actors play their characters in an over-the-top fashion. |
23 | ** {{Camp}} |
24 | * '''Lampshaded''': |
25 | -->'''Alice:''' Geez, I wish Bob would shut up. His constant yelling's giving me a headache.\ |
26 | '''Claire:''' Too bad our complaining hasn't stopped him before. |
27 | ** '''Alice:''' "Aren't you being a bit dramatic?" |
28 | ** "DID SOOOOOMEBODY ORDER A ''[[TrrrillingRrrs LARRRRRRGE]] HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAM''?!" "I-- Um, no, I don't think so." |
29 | * '''Invoked''': Bob sets up scenarios for himself that would prompt him to overact. |
30 | * '''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. |
31 | * '''Defied''': |
32 | ** Bob decides to take anger management classes. |
33 | ** Bob learns how to control the volume of his voice. |
34 | * '''Discussed''': "So Bob's showing up at that party tomorrow?" "Yeah, why?" "[''Sigh''] Better bring my earplugs." |
35 | * '''Conversed''': "I don't know if the actor playing Bob is one of the worst... or one of the ''[[SoBadItsGood best]]''." |
36 | * '''Played for Laughs''': Bob annoys Alice every day with his dramatic shouts. |
37 | * '''Played for Drama''': Bob alienates Alice from him with his dramatic behavior. |
38 | * '''Implied''': Bob is a PosthumousCharacter. The people who knew him list his tendency for being loud in battle as a defining trait, but this is not elaborated upon. |
39 | * '''Deconstructed''': Nobody is able to take Bob seriously due to this trait. |
40 | * '''Reconstructed''': Good thing he enjoys being seen as a clown. In fact, people laughing at him just gives him more incentive to continue. |
41 | * '''Plotted a Good Waste''': The director wanted to create a SoBadItsGood show, so he specifically asked all actors involved to ham it up. |
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43 | '''Return''' to the [[LargeHam LAAARGE HAAAAAAM page]], puny ''mortal''!!! |
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