Chewing The Scenery / Anime & Manga

• Code Geass:
  • TAKE THIS! THE STORM OF MY LOYALTY!!!
  • Lelouch sometimes goes into this.
    "YOU THINK I CARE ABOUT THAT!? FIND NUNNALLY NOW! THAT'S AN ORDER! ALL FORCES SEARCH FOR NUNNALLY!!!!!"
    • Code Geass R2 episode 19 has Lelouch chewing off scenery (1:06-1:13, 3:54-4:14) while breaking down. However, at 5:07-5:40 the drama still works.
  • STOP IT! STOP GIVING ME YOUR PITY! SPARE ME YOUR CHARITY! THIS IS SOMETHING I HAVE TO ACHIEVE ON MY OWN! AND SO FOR THAT, I SHALL STAIN YOUR HANDS WITH BLOOD, EUPHEMIA LI BRITANNIA!
  • Anytime Emperor Chuck makes a speech.
    • You might as well say any role played by Norio Wakamoto speaks like this. It's absolutely impossible to describe. Norio Wakamoto can be the biggest ham in Wolf's Rain as an owl that gets some of the least lines in the entire series... so yes, anything Wakamoto does is potentially going to be like this. The man manages to roll his Rs...while saying "Nobunaga Oda".
  • Michael McConnohie's Emperor Chuck is equally hammy as well, and does a mean Evil Laugh in Episode 22. YES, YOU'RE WORTHY OF BEING CALLED MY CHILD NOW!
• Dragon Ball Z's Super Buu brought us such lines as "PROOOOOOODDDUUUUUUUUUCE!!!!" and "FEED ME, YES, EVERYONE FEED ME NOOOOOW!"
  • Vegeta's much-parodied "IT'S OVER NINE THOUSAAAND!" from the Ocean dub.
  • Another Vegeta quote:
    Vegeta: People of the Earth. RAISE YOUR HANDS RIGHT NOW OR YOU'RE ALL GOING TO DIIIIIIE!
  • YOU WON'T ESCAPE... MY WRAAAAAAAAAAAATH!!!
  • KAKAROOOOOOOOT!
    • Voice actor Vic Mignogna, best known as suave blonds like Edward Elric and Tamaki Suoh, actually did lose his voice when acting as Screaming Warrior Broly for too long.
  • "AND THIS, IS TO GO EVEN FURTHER BEYOND! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA" (continues for several minutes.)
  • Linda Young as Frieza. Regardless of what anyone thinks of her casting, there's no denying that her actual performance was glorious:
    • "I am FRIEZA!!!!! The most powerful BEING in the UNIVERSE!!!!!!! And you are nothing but a MONKEY!!!!!. You can't win, because I am MIGHTY!!! And YOU are NOT!!!"
    • Of course, any time Frieza laughs, regardless if Ryusei Nakao, Linda Young, or Chris Ayres is voicing the character.
• The Fullmetal Alchemist (2003) dub:
  • There's Roy Mustang's famous miniskirt line in episode 13.
  • Then there's his famous "I LOVE dogs!". It also turns out that the voice Mustang had then was actually based on his voice actor's first tryout... as Armstrong.
  • From episode 30 of Brotherhood: "IIIII OTO DA!!"
  • THIS SCENERY-CHEWING TECHNIQUE HAS BEEN PASSED DOWN THE ARMSTRONG LINE FOR GENERATIONS!
• The whole point of the Giant Robo Anime and its main selling point is providing every single character with one of these on a regular basis. There's not a single person in the final episode who can be accused of underacting, even the random redshirts.
• The 2012 anime adaptation of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure made Dio even more memetic thanks to the dulcet tones of Takehito Koyasu and Patrick Seitz taking large bites out of the scenery, in and out of battle. The entire cast does quite a bit of scenery chewing, but Dio really takes the cake.
  Dio: [after forcibly kissing Erina] You thought you would get your first kiss from JoJo, BUT IT WAS ME, DIO!
  • Another standout example: Major Rudol von Stroheim.
    FFFFFFOOOOOOOL! German science is the world's greatest!
• Most of the main cast in Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann acts like this on a regular basis via Hot-Blooded ranting.
  • Especially Kamina. WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK HE IS!?
  • ESPECIALLY Simon. MY DRILL IS THE DRILL THAT WILL PIERCE THE HEAVENS!!!
• Episode 3 of My-Otome Zwei gives us Nina's Big "NO!" after Nao is petrified.
• In My-Otome, Tomoe is normally one of the more reserved characters, but she becomes much angrier and hammier after joining the Big Bad's army, almost to Screaming Warrior levels during both of her battles with Arika.
• In the same vein, during some of the later episodes of Neon Genesis Evangelion the English dub cast did this sort of thing in quite a few scenes, perhaps most in Tiffany Grant's portrayal of Asuka's climactic battle in The End Of Evangelion and when Ritsuko destroys the "Reiquarium", sounding absolutely insane in the English dub while Yuriko Yamaguchi had a much more detached delivery in the original Japanese.
  • Also from Evangelion's original dub, a Red Shirt in the first episode exclaiming "EVERY SINGLE MISSLE HIT THE TARGET!".
  • Scenery-chewing is hardly exclusive to the dub - Megumi Ogata's screams, for instance, could raise the dead, and especially in the climax of Evangelion 2.0.
• Sailor Moon's villains love feasting on the scenery, especially in the English dub:
  • Queen Beryl: You are MIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINE!!!!!!!!!!!
    • Naz Edwards even manages to make her screams digest the scenery.
  • Everything that comes out of Rubeus' mouth.
  • Queen Nehelenia: ''ZIRCONIAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!"
  • Alan and Anne were already notoriously hammy in the DiC dub, but this gem came out of Anne's mouth: KITCHEN'S CLOOOOOOOOSED!
  • Every villain voiced by the late Kirsten Bishop, but especially Emerald.
• In the climactic episode of Record of Lodoss War, evil sorcerer Wagnard gets to chomp on many bits of scenery, especially during his death scene. (His English VA does likewise, but that's hardly a drawback. It actually works in the character's favor.)
• Gaara's Minor Injury Overreaction in Naruto in both Japanese and English:
  Gaara: BLOOOOD! IT'S MY BLOOOOOD!
  • Itachi's Motive Rant from episode 136 of Shippuden. If you pay attention, you could hear his seiyuu literally GASPING for breath between sentences!
    • As one can imagine, Crispin Freeman had a field day with that scene.
  • Jiraiya: "When you've reached the stature I have... THE LADIES... KNEEL AND WORSHIP... AT YOUR AWESOMENESS!!!"
  • Chapter 579: Complete with shaky text to indicate insanity:EVEN HE COULDN'T BECOME A TRUE SAGE IN THE END JUST LIKE ME! My power in the sage mode...If you're Dr.Snakes, I hope you keep that in your mind... I'm no longer a snake... The perfect force of sage helped me shed my snake skin...AND I'M A DRAGON NOW!!
• Koutarou Taiga from GaoGaiGar. The rest of the cast dutifully attempts to keep up. They mostly succeed.
• Light in Death Note whenever he's Kira-ing, and Mikami at times, mostly when he's "deleting" people. The best example is during the penultimate episode when he attempts to kill Near, the rest of the SPK force, and all of the task force members apart from Light, which would get rid of anyone who is in Light's way. He gets more psychotic than ever and goes on an absolutely insane deleting spree, repeating the word over and over again as he writes down all the names and it culminates with him screaming the word at the top of his lungs towards the sky. Terrifying for some, but probably quite entertaining for others.
  • An example that involves literal chewing: the (in)famous potato chip scene.
• Baccano!'s psycho hams, Ladd Russo and Graham Spector. Of course, then there's Claire Stanfield, who's in a category all his own. But he still manages to ham up his philosophy while fighting Graham and Ladd.
  "THANK YOU! FUCK YOU! THE STAR IS HERE!"
• Shakugan no Shana: Dantalion is quite fond of taking hamminess up to eleven For Science!!
• Excel♡Saga: Any time Lord Il Palazzo annouces that "This world, is corrupt!". Or whenever Excel is extolling the virtues of ACROSS to the ignorant masses. Excel's dub VA got landed in the hospital for this one.
• They Are My Noble Masters begged the question of Hikari Ni Nare versus Shining Finger, the answer will leave you full for a week.
• Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei: I'M IN DESPAIR! SHOUTING OUT THINGS THAT BUG ME IN OVERDRAMATIC WAYS HAS LEFT ME IN DESPAIR!
• In One Piece, Marshall D. Teach aka Blackbeard enjoys doing this, whether showing off his powers to Ace, announcing his plans at Impel Down, or Declaring war on the World after stealing Whitebeard's powers. Of course, this being One Piece there are bound to be others.
  • If that's how he does it in the manga, let's just wait until Akio Ōtsuka gets to deliver these same lines in the anime. Oh, booooooy.
  • Luffy when he's really angry and/or yelling someone's name. Examples: "CROCODIIIIIIILE!", "EN-NER-RUUUUUUU!" and of course, "ROOOOOOOOO-BIIIIIIIIIN!" And just before the timeskip, "UUUUUUUU-SOOOOOOOOOOPPPPPP!"
  • Chopper pulls a nice one in episode 162 after the Knight of the Sky shoots Shura off of his mount using an Impact Dial.
    Chopper: SO-RA NO KI-SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!
  • In this scene, Luffy, Spandam, Sogeking, Franky and even Robin tried to out-chew each other. Sogeking takes bonus points for his boast being about a custom-made sling.
• Minori in Toradora!, especially near the end of the series. Although sometimes she's just overdramatic just for fun... diet warriors, indeed. The homeroom teacher also really chews the scenery during the Pro Wrestling event and has to be carried off.
  Minori: Nosebleeds are tears of the heart!
• In Niea_7, Tomoko Kawakami is clearly having the time of her life voicing Karna, tearing through every scene in which she occurs with almost limitless abandon—but especially during the "alien awareness meetings".
  Karna: I've been an elite ever since I was born... and I'm so beautiful!
• Sayaka Ohara's role as Beatrice in Umineko: When They Cry. My god, she really was having a blast at that role.
  • "Let's start chewing scenery together, USHIROMIYA BATTORAAAAAAAA!!"'
  • Kinzo doesn't express anything half-way. Ooooooooooo, Beh-aaaaah-to riiiichiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!
• Kaoru does this intentionally in Amagami SS.
• Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds' Lucciano should really calm down before he hurts himself.
• The English Dub of Hellsing Ultimate is full of this. The best example is probably the Major's Speech, which is simply glorious.
• This seems to be the entire point of Amelia's character in the Slayers series.
• The evil sultan in the classic Astro Boy story "The Greatest Robot In The World" not only chews scenery figuratively, but in one scene he does it literally.
• Gundam:
  • Lord Djibril in Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny, as he prepares to fire the Requiem.
    "And now Gilbert Durandal, I will play a Requiem, for you and all your kind!
  • Mobile Suit Gundam Wing: Duo's infamous scream when his Gundam gets destroyed, which is so overblown that it reaches into space. His English VA, Scott McNeil, said that the scream was a copy of the one he did when he saw his wife back over his motorcycle in the driveway.
  • Kamille Bidan in Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam, especially due to the histrionic nature of the character. It's evident in both the original Japanese and the dub.
  • ∀ Gundam:
    • Harry Ord, the resident CHAR, wants you to know that you'll feel the wrath of his revenge across the UNIVAAAAAASE!!!
    • Still, Harry is no match for Gym Ghingham and GEKKOCHOU DE ARU!! Heck, he chews up so much of the scenery in this clip of SD Gundam G Generations that he devours Super-Ham Master Asia along with it.
  • Mobile Fighter G Gundam: Domon Kasshu.
    • And friends!
    • Even in this World of Ham, Master Asia stands out above all others.
      "I shall become the Undefeated of the East, West, North, South, and Center! I shall become SUPER ASIA, and be master of all!
• Roman Saotome from SKET Dance takes this to a whole 'nother level; she warps the scenery via Otome Vision, much to the shock of Himeko and Bossun.
• The Big O: Roger Smith calling his mecha, Big O, normally uses tame levels of shouting, but in some episodes he really goes all-out.
• Ichiko Sakura from Good Luck Girl!, transforming into Kenshiro when she needs to avoid her newest classmate. Her equally hammy rival Momiji sees this, so she — and eventually everyone else in the area — copies her.
• In the ADV dub of Super Dimension Fortress Macross, the voice performances are pretty over the top for Hikaru, Misa, Roy, Exedore, and Kai-Fun. Compare Vic Mignona, Monica Rial, Brett Weaver, Andy McGavin, and Christopher Ayers to the more subdued performances of Tony Oliver, Aline Leslie, Dan Woren, Ted Layman, and Eddie Frierson decades ago in Robotech. Kakizaki (like the original Japanese seiyuu Katsumi Suzuki) is equally hammy whether voiced by Jason Douglas or Richard Epcar.
• In Star Blazers, Eddie Allen performs Desslok in a hilarious effete voice that makes him come off as a fop. In the original Space Battleship Yamato, Masato Ibu gives Desler a typical bad guy's deep voice.
• Just try to name someone from Kill la Kill who doesn't riddle the scenery with teeth marks.

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