Large Ham/Web Original

His acting within his reviews can sometimes outdo the movies he's reviewing.

There Are No Girls on the Internet. Hams, on the other hand...

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Web Comics

• Twice Blessed has Cade Masters, ADVENTURER EXTRAORDINAIRE!
• The universe of Girl Genius is a World of Ham:
  • OTHAR TRYGGVASSEN, Gentleman Adventurer! fits this, especially in the radio play, as Lampshaded in this comic (of a radio play). Othar has been "kidnapped" by Ferretina, the Weasel Queen, famous for devouring young men, grilled with cheese. One of the closing questions is "And what kind of cheese goes best with grilled ham?"
    • Pushed even further into the zone of absolute hamminess by Cheyenne Wright portraying Othar in the audio plays.
  • Ferretina herself qualifies.

"I think it's the loneliness that makes a...person begin to have...strange thoughts. Thoughts that drive her to explore the twisted, blasphemous back alleys of science. That allows - no - forces her to create monstrosities! Monstrosities fit only to unleash upon those sanctimonious villagers who reviled and mocked her because of her father's experiments!"

• • Hamminess and Chewing the Scenery seem to be a consistent side effect of the Spark. Othar and Ferretina are just the ones who do it when they aren't going off on a Mad Scientist rant.
  • The Jagermonsters have tendencies that way as well.

"Ve kin only redeem ourselfs vit honourable death!"
"Yez, svift, painful, honourable death!"
"Hyu knife, brodder!"
"Right here, brodder!"
"*sigh* Ve didn't gets caught, hyu eediots."
"Whew!"

• • The character identified by the Word of God as Dr. Chouteh here, escorted by copious lampshading and enough chewed scenery to put the carpenter's kids through college. Foglios confirmed that he was actually based on Brian Blessed .
  • Agatha herself knows how to set the right tone when addressing unruly minions.
  • Mad Scientists habitually try to go overboard with everything, to the point that they are either irritated or surprised when someone points out how their approach is needlessly overcomplicated.

Higgs: I've seen this over and over! Damfool Sparks who think they've got to send a full scale army of giant, singing rosebushes, or it isn't romantic enough!

• Dr. Disaster from Gunnerkrigg Court. He starts hamming it up with his very first lines: "Spacemonauts! The Earth is in peril!" It's unclear whether he's like this all the time, or just acting. Ironically, he has a crush on Jones, the resident Stoic.
  • Parley knows how important it is to put up a good show (later, Mort joins too).
• Misfile: New Knight Templar Xaphrael makes his entrance in this strip. "That voice, it's a Large Angelic Ham!" And the Whole Cryptic Conversation that follows it.
• Xykon and, to a lesser degree, Lord Shojo, appear to be enjoying themselves a little more than is entirely healthy. Both of them being dead and all.
  • Elan. "Dun dun DUNNH!"
  • Belkar Bitterleaf would like to remind everyone that he is a SEXY SHOELESS GOD OF WAR!
• The main character of Everyday Heroes. "Who am I? ... I ham am MISTER MIGHTY!" Lampshaded here when his wife doesn't join in the hamfest.
• Yatta-ta! The greatest swordsman in all Kivallia!. Although he just might be.
• Nova.

"I am THE ELEGANT NOVA OF PROGRESSION!"
"SCIENCE!!!"

• The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob has Galatea ("CRAZY? YOU DARE?! ALL THE WORLD IS MAD AND ONLY I AM SANE!!") and Riboflavin ("I SAID BOW, YOU HALF-SENTIENT LEMUR!"). Galatea has a big crush on Riboflavin at one point.
• Homestuck's Vriska, a fact which Karkat Lampshades in the AlterniaBound flash by effortlessly predicting her next lines without having any Psychic Powers at all. (Initiate a conversation with Vriska as Karkat to see this).
  • Of course, Karkat is also prone to overdramatics, especially when angry. See his first conversation with John (from his perspective).
  • Terezi has a lot of fun Role Playing as a Legislacerator.
  • John greatly enjoys (over)acting out scenes from his favorite movie, much to Karkat's dismay (spoilers).
  • Hussie himself. After all, he doesn't just draw Homestuck...
• In El Goonish Shive, Mr. Verres gets his moment, even if only for one panel.
• The webcomic Max Overacts is about a 8 year old boy named Max who is, essentially, the physical embodiment of this trope. ("Get Me The Louvre! We Must Vitamin-Enrich Their Permanent Collection!")
• "I am RICHARD! Chief Warlock of the Brothers of Darkness! Lord of the Thirteen Hells! Master of the Bones! Emperor of the Black! Lord of the Undead! and mayor of a little village up the coast. It's very scenic during the spring time, you should visit sometime."

Web Original

• HELLO MY LOYAL SUBSCRIBERS! THIS IS PHANTOMSAVAGE AND WELCOME BACK TO (insert LP here)
• Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series:
  • Yami/Pharaoh certainly qualifies.

"I can do anything I want, because I'm voiced by DAN GREEN!"
"ATTENTION DUELISTS! MY HAIR HAS BECOME AN INTERNET PHENOMENON!"

• • And then we have Marik.

"Foolish fools! There are no women in Yu-Gi-Oh! There are only extremely girly men! And I am the most girly of them all!"

• Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog:
  • Nathan Fillion puts the "ham" in Captain Hammer. But he's playing a smarmy, self-absorbed superhero caricature--it would be impossible to portray the character any other way. Fillion remarked that it was the only time in his career a director had to tell him to be more of a ham.

Captain Hammer (singing while giving Dr. Horrible the finger): "Everyone's a hero in their WAAAAAAAY?!?"

• • Doctor Horrible himself becomes Doctor Hamible in the last act, during the song "Slipping", and Act II - Brand New Day is a delicious slice of ham.
• O'Malley from Red vs. Blue may very well be the largest ham in the history of Machinima.

"Now be careful, mustn't give away our position with maniacal laughter!"
"Even though what I want is something frightening! WHAT I WANT is something PURE EVIL, AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!"

• • O'Malley's the undisputed king of this in Red vs. Blue, but fellow villain Wyoming is no slouch, and The Director shows shades of this as well at times.

"I don't give a DAMN about you and your committee!"

• Strong Bad from Homestar Runner. In Strong Bads Cool Game for Attractive People, when Dadgeresque, AKA Senor Cardgage, "died", and Dangeresque, AKA Strong Bad, sounded like his head was about to blow off his body. This was just one of his many instances of hamminess, however.

Strong Bad: "Well, I heard a techno song one time that went like, 'Doom doom doom doom', and then this other part came in and it was like, 'Dudalado! Dudalado! Dudalado! Dudalado!' And there's always this high-pitched noise, you know, like a siren that's like, 'DOO-DA-DA-DIDDLE!! DOO-DA-DA-DIDDLE!!!' And then there's the obligatory old movie quote from some sci-fi movie, it's like, 'The system is down! DOO-DA-DA-DIDDLE!!! DOO-DA-DA-DIDDLE!!!!'"
Strong Bad: "WHY? WHY DO MY THIRTY-YEAR-OLD ELECTRONICS KEEP BREAKING ON ME???"

• • TROGDOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOR!!!!
• Survival of the Fittest:
  • Liam Black is this mixed with Narm. Candescence, the character's handler, stated this was very intentional (though they did regret it in hindsight.)

"Oh and a girl with silky brown hair and a FUCKING LASER!"
"Then the person threatening James... 'IS YOU!"

• • This is one of the handler Ragged Druid's trademarks, along with Small Name, Big Ego and Don't Explain the Joke.
  • Jimmy Brennan of v4 is also particularly hammy, alongside having a ridiculously huge potty mouth.

• The Lonelygirl15 recurring villain Ted McKinley (aka PharmaGuy), especially in his first appearance.
• The Angry Video Game Nerd alternates between somewhat constrained and really exaggerated Unstoppable Rage (particularly during rants, and sometimes even silent, like his Kaiju impersonation during the Godzilla video).

"I'm the LORD of the HARVEST!"
BRING IT DOWN, BRING IT DOWN!"

• While on the subject of web reviewers, just about anyone on That Guy With The Glasses qualifies.
  • Of course, there is The Nostalgia Critic himself (pictured). But Doug Walker's hamminess really shines as Chester A. Bum.
  • Spoony can serve up the ham, especially as Dr. Insano. Angry Joe can be as passionate as his name suggests and Linkara has his moments too, for HE is A MAN!.
  • Out of the women on the site, The Nostalgia Chick's Sidekick Nella is the one who revels in ham delightfully.

For Side-Kickassia! And geekery! [Races away bearing a sword.]

• • Elisa, as Dr. Tease and The Makeover Fairy, can hold her own too and even the Chick has a fair amount of moments.
    • To see Elisa really bringing home the ham, see her piece on the impact of Interview With a Vampire.
    • "The Dark Nella Saga" shows that all of Team NChick can gleefully ham it up like crazy, though Nella and Elisa remain the champions.
    • The Chick's review for The Little Mermaid provides great silent hamming from Nella!
  • While not a reviewer, Bhargav "Bargo" Dronamraju could very easily be the hammiest on the site.

"A sci-fi movie so terrible it makes my nipples TINGLE with FEAR! [...] YYYES! BATTLEFIELD EARRRRTH!!!"

• • Nowhere are they hammier, however, than during the Massively Multiplayer Crossover that is Kickassia. Spoony exemplifies this trope to an awesome degree. Linkara also deserves special mention for an extremely silly scene with Marz Gurl.

"Take comfort in my masculine arms!"

• • They get it on again on Suburban Knights. Especially Phelous as the Rockbiter and Paw as |Profion (a character well discussed in the Film page).
  • Phelous in general, especially when he starts growling his words.
  • Diamanda Hagan could easily give Nella a run for her money. Ham-off away!
  • Linkara's dad as Whatley in the Silent Hill: The Grinning Man review, in a wig that wouldn't look out of place in Spinal Tap, and it is glorious.
• Mille Chanteau of Ilivais X is the queen of ham. If she's in battle, it's all but guaranteed anything she says is an epic speech of some kind, and it's not limited to then either. Of course, there's also Seyne (that comes with being a Sanger Zonvolt Expy though), most of the GEKICOM and STRUQ members, hell, even Iriana has her moments.
• Bottom of Wormtooth Nation hams it up in every scene. This is understandable since he is based on the character of the same name from A Midsummer Night's Dream.
• There Will Be Brawl is a series that plays Melodrama so straight that it's almost a parody, so this kind of acting is a requirement. Ganondorf and Wario (played by Ham extraordinaire Kyle Hebert) deliver.
• "And now, a Dramatic Reading of a real break up letter from a real person..."
• "THIS is TRUE LUNACY!"
• A Very Potter Musical has a larger than normal quotient of these.
  • Snape, Draco, and Voldemort all qualify, with Snape being the most Egregious example by far. Dumbledore is up there as well, especially when he starts lapsing into a Yiddish accent. Really, half of the play is the actors all trying to out-ham each other... which doesn't detract from it at all.
• Then there is Heart from Me and My Dick. (For those who haven't seen it, it's much Better Than It Sounds.)
• I'm a Marvel And I'm a DC: Green Goblin (who's also a big fan of Willem *DAFOE!*'s performance) and Deadpool. Thor, to an extent... and there's Ghost Rider doing an homage to the ham who portrayed him.
• In Gaia Online:
  • Pretty much everything Labtech X says.
  • Then we have JOHNNY GAMBINO.

"BWAHAHAHA!"

• • Who could forget the Overseer?

"FEELS GOOD MAN!"

• • Rigel and Mintaka are beginning to show hints of this as well.

"SOOOO FABULOUS!"

• Mugal in the Fan Film Godzilla vs the Kaiju Killer.

"I SAID PICK IT UP!"

• "This is gonna be my BEST... DAY... EVER!"
• Raocow deserves mention as well.

"I GOT A HEART!"
"JUMP HEIGHT! UPGRADED!!!!"

• Butterfree in Box of Danger's Pokémon: The Abridged Series. Also counts as Memetic Badass.
• Raye/Sailor Mars in Sailor Moon Abridged. "IT'S THE LAST TRAIN, ONE WAY TRACK TO HELL!"
  • Also, Zoycite, Queen Beryl, Mina/Sailor Venus, Molly, and just about every character that Kris Rix plays other than Amy.
• Doctor Steel goes through a lot of scenery; consciously Played for Laughs.
• Sean Malstrom, as exhibited in this blog piece:

"Malstrom- World-wide sex symbol to women. When a new article appears, his mailbox gets flooded by the ladies demanding passion from him. "A business article on video games? That is so hot!" they squeal. Each Malstrom article also gains him a million dollars from jet-sitting super secret investors. Malstrom is also prone to self-delusions. ("Hey," he says, "if you are going to have delusions, might as well go for the really satisfying ones!")"

• Many, many Dramatic Readings, but Man Without A Body's epic readings of Atlanta Nights, My Inner Life, 30 "H"s, and other classics of So Bad It's Good particularly come to mind.
• Internet Personality Vangelus, reviewer of Transformers and Kamen Rider toys alike. Likewise, his alter-ego The Milk Daddy.

"YOU'RE ABOUT A THREE MISSISSIPPI COUNT AWAY FROM THE WRONG SIDE OF A RAPE, BROTHER."

• Most of the cast of The Golden Age. Of course, the fact that it was entitled the Golden Age was kind of your first clue. Not too subtle, The Golden Age of Comic Books.
• If you thought the line "I will now enjoy my fruit snack." couldn't be said in a hammy way, you need to change your opinion right now.
• "Hey everybody, it's Chuggaaconroy!"
• Pipes! of the Freelance Astronauts. "Whenever the mic input volume meter jumps up into the red, I know I've told a good joke."
• These mad scientists in Lenore the Cute Little Dead Girl. ^{[dead link]}
• Video game music podcast Nitro Game Injection has Larry Oji. With him, EVERY episode is sponsored by ham.
• James David Manning.
• EPIC MEAL TIME! It just wouldn't be EMT without ham. And bacon strips. And bacon strips. And bacon strips...
• Stupid Mario Brothers has:
  • Any role played by Richard (Mario)
  • Wario is this trope in earlier seasons, and has become one again after season three where he was a Big Bad.
  • Max Payne in his appearances.
• Ghost of True Capitalist Radio is a massive ham(bone) thanks to his Hair-Trigger Temper, infinite number of Berserk Buttons and a large number of trolls calling in.
• Just about everyone gets in on this at some point in Shiny Objects Videos.
• Frying and Buying
• Professor Peter Port in RWBY.

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