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Note that they do ''not'' have to be enemies. It can be the [[Big Bad]] and [[The Dragon]] trying to out-[[Evil Laugh|evil-laugh]] each other, or a pair of heroes spouting [[Bond One-Liner|Bond One Liners]] as they mow down the [[Mook|Mooks]]s. The point is that their screen presences and overacting are competing.

* In ''[[Baccano (Light Novel)|Baccano!]]'', someone managed to get [[Ax Crazy|Ladd Russo]] and [[Talkative Loon|Graham Specter]] into the same enclosed space for a bit. The results were...''explosive''.

* ''[[Mazinger Z (Anime)|Mazinger Z]]'': In the Dynamic Heroes e-manga (a [[Crossover]] featuring the main [[Go Nagai]] series), Kouji Kabuto fought Great Marshall Of Hell as riding Mazinger. The two of them have very hammish tendences. It is noteworthy as it was, maybe, the first time in the history of the franchise Kouji and {{spoiler|Dr. Hell}} faced each other directly as both were riding giant robots. Too bad it was a Curb-Stomp Battle.

** And in ''[[Great Mazinger (Anime)|Great Mazinger]]'' the legendary duel between Tetsuya and Great General of Darkness. They were trying not only to kill each other but also out-ham each other.

** And in ''[[UFO Robo Grendizer (Anime)|UFO Robo Grendizer]]'' the final battle between Duke and Emperor Vega.

* ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]'' is essentially a continuous series of [[Ham -to -Ham Combat]] scenes, with all moments of Kamina and Viral together on screen automatically topping the list.

{{quote| '''Simon:''' Take this! Finishing move! {{spoiler|Super Tengen Toppa}}... Giga... ''Drill''... ''BREAKER!!''<br />

* In ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro Nini]]'', Battler, [[Hot-Blooded]] though he is, isn't usually prone to hamminess. However, at the end of the second arc, probably to help pull the audience past the [[Downer Ending]] they just saw, he gets his ham on against Beatrice. Start from Beatrice's [[Memetic Mutation|"IT'S PAAFECTO!!"]], and you'll see two hams fighting it out right.

* Pretty much every card game in the ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' series.

* The final 15 minutes of ''[[Akira (Manga)|Akira]]'': "TetSUOOOOOOOOO!" "KaneDAAAAAA!"

* ''[[Mobile Fighter G Gundam (Anime)|Mobile Fighter G Gundam]]''. All the freaking time. [httphttps://web.archive.org/web/20180618112320/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHSSDFBQ2Co&feature=related Especially when it involves Domon and Master Asia together.]

* ''[[Turn aA Gundam (Anime)|Turn a Gundam]]'' has Harry Ord vs Gym Ghingham. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aKeU2NqWrE UNIVEEEEEEEEEEERSE!!]

* ''[[Sengoku Basara]]'': [[Running Gag|"Yukimura!" "Your Lordship!"]] "''Yukimura!''" "''Your Lordship~[[!''" "'''YUUUKIMURA~]]!'''" "'''''YOUR LORDSHIIIIP!'''''"

* [[The Hero|Guy Shishioh]] vs [[Big Bad|Palparepa]] in ''[[Gao Gai GarGaoGaiGar]] FINAL''

{{quote| '''Guy:''' I'll show you...the true power of courage!<br />

* The ''[[Angel Beats (Anime)|Angel Beats!]]'' OVA takes this [[Up to Eleven]]. As part of a plan to trick Angel, Yuri pretty much orders an Apocalypse of Ham where everyone tries to out-ham each other with the Tension Meter. If the plan fails, everyone fasts (including no water) for a week. {{spoiler|[[Tall, Dark and Bishoujo|Shiina]]}} of all people wins, bringing the Tension Meter up to [[Over Nine Thousand|9999]] just by saying "CUTE!!!" {{spoiler|The plan still fails, though. Good thing [[Death Is Cheap]]!}}

* [[Bleach]] gives us the amazing porkitude of Yumichika Ayasegawa vs. Charlotte Cuulhorne in the Arrancar arc. Once they call each other "ugly troll", thus pressing their same [[Berserk Button|Berserk Buttons]]s, much screaming and attacking and [[Volleying Insults]] ensue. Bonus points to [[Tite Kubo]] for knowing when to stop. The fight [[Mood Whiplash|flips]] from [[Ham -to -Ham Combat]] to [[Let's Get Dangerous]] before the fandom can say "[[Curb Stomp Battle]]".

** Mila Rose and Apacci from Harribel's [[Amazon Brigade]] simply ''can't'' be in the same scene/panel WITHOUT punching/kicking/screaming/etc. at each other. In the meantime, Sung-Sun will [[Surrounded Byby Idiots|snark at them from the background.]]

** Being two [[Large Ham]] [[Mad Scientist|Mad Scientists]]s, Mayuri and Szayel's match was not just a matter of [[Creepy Awesome|which one was the creepiest]], but also of who was the '''hammiest'''.

* ''[[Mawaru Penguindrum (Anime)|Mawaru Penguindrum]]''. {{spoiler|Masako Natsume vs. Yori Tokikago}}. Much awesome, dramatic flail and weapon flinging issue whenever these two meet.

* Puppetmon versus MetalEtemon in ''[[Digimon Adventure (Anime)|Digimon Adventure]]''.

{{quote| '''[[Jack Nicholson|Jessep]]:''' You want answers?!<br />

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* The [[Live Action Adaptation]] of ''[[Josie and Thethe PussycatsPussy Cats]]'' has a scene where [[Parker Posey]] and [[Alan Cumming]] try to out-laugh each other. Out-[[Evil Laugh]] each other, to be exact.

* [[William Shatner]] says that scenes in ''[[Star Trek VI: the Undiscovered Country (Film)|Star Trek VI theThe Undiscovered Country]]'' between him and [[Christopher Plummer]] were like "two ham-asauruses".

** When Iman turns into William Shatner in one scene, the [[RifftraxRiff Trax]] commentary jokes that Shatner is trying to out-ham ''himself''.

** ''[[Star Trek II: the Wrath of Khan (Film)|Star Trek II theThe Wrath of Khan]]''. [[William Shatner]] on [https://img.cinemablend.com/filter:scale/quill/6/5/0/6/5/d/65065d1aaf9a9d6b54426d2910f07cfcd2b9bb4b.jpg one starship], [[Ricardo Montalban]] on [https://img.cinemablend.com/filter:scale/quill/2/7/a/6/3/f/27a63f3f78e339cfd779f9cfe2e116c564ef3144.jpg the other], spending the entire film blasting the crap out of each other while shaking the galaxy with their thunderous overacting. Via video link - they never share a room with each other. Scream it with me now: '''[[Say My Name|KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!]]'''

** The ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series|TOS]]'' episode ''"[[Star Trek/Recap/S3/E14 Whom Gods Destroy''|Whom Gods Destroy]]" featured a veritable clash of the titans between Shatner and [[Steve Ihnat]]. When Inhat's character disguises himself as Kirk (and is thus played by Shatner) it's a miracle that the universe didn't collapse in on itself.

* Obviously for a movie set in a [[World of Ham]], ''[[Repo! theThe Genetic Opera]]'' encounters this quite a bit. The most notable example is in the song "Mark It Up", where all '''three''' Largo siblings are trying to out-ham each other.

* ''[[Flash Gordon (Filmfilm)|Flash Gordon]]'', especially the 1980s movie. Pick any scene with more than one character on screen. No exceptions.

* ''[[Night Atat the Museum]]'' 2: Kamunra and Lawrence after the laterlatter crashes the Wright Brothers plane.

* Charles Laughton and Peter Ustinov in ''[[Spartacus]]''. Proof positive that Hamdom does not-- <big>[[Brian Blessed|BRIAN BLESSED]]!</big>

* ''[[Face Off|Face/Off]]'': [[John Travolta (Creator)]] vs. [[Nicolas Cage]]. Even better, they are out-hamming each other while taking the other actor's mannerisms [[Up to Eleven]].

* Very interestingly averted in ''[[The Princess Bride (Filmfilm)|The Princess Bride]]''. When Cary Elwes and Chris Sarandon finally meet, it looks like they're about to engage in ham-to-ham combat, but Elwes' character instead instantly defeats the prince with his classic [[To the Pain]] speech. The "Battle Of Wits" between Cary Elwes and Wallace Shawn, however, ''definitely'' qualifies.

* ''[[Mary of Scotland (Filmfilm)|Mary of Scotland]]'': In the 1936 [[Katherine Hepburn]] and Fredric March film, the ''entire cast'' seems to be engaged in ham-to-ham combat, with the possible exception of [[John Carradine]], who during filming once said to "Katherine of Arrogance," who had expressed a desire to play both [[Mary of Scotland|Mary, Queen of Scots]] and [[The Virgin Queen|Queen Elizabeth I]], "If you did that, how would you know which queen to upstage?"<br /><br />If John Carradine is the ''least'' hammy member of your cast, something has [[Gone Horribly Wrong]]. Or maybe [[Gone Horribly Right|right]].

* [[William Shatner]] (again) and [[Ernest Borgnine]] commenced Hammification against each other in the [[So Bad It's Good]] [[Religious Horror]] flick, ''[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072869/ The Devil's Rain]''.

* [[Liam Neeson]] and [[Ralph Fiennes]] as Zeus and Hades, respectively, in the 2010 remake of ''[[Clash of the Titans (Film)|Clash of the Titans]]''. Any time they are onscreen together (or [[A Worldwide Punomenon|hell]], onscreen with any other actor). No exceptions.

* ''[[Batman Forever (Film)|Batman Forever]]'' buries the needle on the Ham-o-meter when [[Tommy Lee Jones]] (Two-Face) and [[Jim Carrey]] (The Riddler), [[Villain Team-Up|team up in the middle of the movie.]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7WornrF-gs Observe].

** [[Danny De VitoDeVito]] (The Penguin) and [[Michelle PfeiferPfeiffer]] (Catwoman) in ''[[Batman Returns (Film)|Batman Returns]]'', or [[Arnold Schwarzenegger]] (Mr. Freeze) and [[Uma Thurman]] (Poison Ivy) in ''[[Batman and Robin (Filmfilm)|Batman and Robin]]''. Then again, it is [[A Worldwide Punomenon|Got Ham City]].

* [[Malcolm McDowell]] is tough to out-ham, but Lori Petty manages to match him in ''[[Tank Girl (Filmfilm)|Tank Girl]]''.

* The scene with Lynch and Pike in the car together in ''[[The a A-Team (Filmfilm)|The a Team]]'' movie screams of this. It's clear they're both just having fun with the movie, and then they get in a conversation together...

* ''[[The Dark Knight Saga]]''

** ''[[The Dark Knight]]'': [[Christian Bale]] vs. [[Heath Ledger]] as Batman and the Joker.

** ''[[Batman Begins]]'' makes this a ''plot point''; Ducard teaches Bruce Wayne that theatricality can be a powerful weapon, and Bruce Wayne, the character, starts [[Chewing the Scenery|chewing the scenery]] to intimidate criminals. He ends up facing Dr. Jonathan Crane, who dresses up as Scarecrow and uses similar tactics. The Dark Knight follows the same concept; Bale vs. Ledger is going on, but ''Batman vs. Joker'' is ham Ham-to-Ham ham combatCombat ''in the story''.

* ''[[Spy Kids]] 3'': [[Sylvester Stallone]] and [[Ricardo Montalban]] were arch -nemeses. They knew exactly what kind of movie they were in. They enjoyed themselves.

* ''[[Heat]]'': Averted in Michael Mann's film. With [[Al Pacino]] chewing large chunks of scenery elsewhere, and [[Robert De Niro]] himself not unknown to it, their first scene together, ever, should easily have been one large hamfest. Instead, on purpose, we got [[Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene|a low key chat in a diner over coffee.]]

* ''[[Dungeons and& Dragons (Filmfilm)||Dungeons and& Dragons]]'' features the rare treat of [[Jeremy Irons]] locked in a battle of the hams with [[Fascinating Eyebrow|his own eyebrows.]] A scene had a weird variant: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1p5w8oR-OYM Overacting vs Underacting], with Irons' bombast against [[Thora Birch]]'s [[Dull Surprise]].

* ''[[Mrs. Henderson Presents]]'': [[Judi Dench]] and [[Bob Hoskins]].

* ''[[Kung Pow Enter the Fist (Film)|Kung Pow! Enter the Fist]]'': Absolutely any scene with more than one character. For example, Ling and Betty's face-off and the final battle between Betty and the Chosen One.

* ''[[Thor (Filmfilm)|Thor]]'' [[Fun Withwith Acronyms|L.A.M.]] gives us a celestial level [[Ham -to -Ham Combat]] when the [[Norse Mythology|Norse gods]] took it to [[Chewing the Scenery|scenery eating]] levels.

** During the banishment scene, arguably ''the'' scene featuring this trope, Hopkins takes this to new levels when he inexplicably ''barks'' at Loki. (This has become a [[MeMemetic MeMutation]] among the fandom. "HAAAAWWWWWRRRRR!")

* [[Bing Crosby]] and [[Bob Hope]] in any of the ''[[Road To]]..'' movies.

* [[Joe Pesci]] and [[Daniel Stern]] have a brief scene to this effect in [[Home Alone|Home Alone 2]] when their characters try to trick Macauley Culkin into thinking they've been hit by paint cans.

* Par for the course for anything [[Dracula]] related. See ''[[Bram StokersStoker's Dracula (Film)|Bram Stokers Dracula]]'': In the blue corner: [[Anthony Hopkins]] as an antiheroic [[Mad Scientist]]! In the red corner: [[Gary Oldman]] as a heavily accented [[Classical Movie Vampire]] in a wig! On the outside left: [[Tom Waits]] as [[The Renfield]]! Not even the power of [[Keanu Reeves]] can prevent the ensuing hamfest.

** Don't forget [[Richard E. Grant]] and [[Anthony Hopkins]] hamming against each other. A true hamfest.

* In ''[[Arsenic and Old Lace]]'', director [[Frank Capra]] told [[Cary Grant]] and [[Raymond Massey]] to go wild on camera. The result is Grant playing the dashing yet hapless hero Mortimer to the scenery-chewing maximum, while Raymond Massey plays his psychotic older brother Jonathan in reverent homage to [[Boris Karloff]] whom his character is supposed to resemble.

* The argument between Severus Snape and Sirius Black in ''[[Harry Potter and Thethe Order of Thethe Phoenix (novel)|Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix]]'' escalates quickly into childish name-calling. Considering both characters are scene-stealing and bombastic on their own, the fact that they have a scene together at all should make the wizarding world explode. Just imagine if the scene had been in the movie.

{{quote| '''Sycorax:''' I DEMAND TO KNOW WHO YOU ARE!<br />

'''The Doctor:''' [[Punctuated! For! Emphasis!|I! DON'T! KNOW!!]] }}

*** "The Five Doctors", between Richard Hurndall replacing Hartnell, Troughton, and Pertwee, with Peter Davison's Fifth Doctor positively restrained in comparison. Extra ham from Anthony Ainley as [[The Master (trope)|The Master]] and Richard Mathews as Rassilon.

** There's a truly spectacular ham-off between Colin Baker and '''[[Brian Blessed|BRIAN BLESSED]]''' in ''The Trial Of A Time Lord'' (episodes 5-8). No wonder Peri (Nicola Bryant) left the show after this; it would be physically impossible to be exposed to such overwhelming hammy glory for more than five minutes without ending up either dead or pregnant.

** Colin Baker ''again'' in ''Timelash'' where he squares off against Paul [[Blake's Seven7|"Avon"]] Darrow. As has been said elsewhere, the resulting combat has to be seen to be disbelieved.

** Don't forget showdowns between the Doctor and [[The Master (trope)|The Master]]. ''Any'' of them.

*** The entire Pertwee era is just one huge [[Ham -to -Ham Combat]] zone. If it isn't Pertwee and Delgado, it is Pertwee and Nicholas Courtney.

** Even the cast and crew weren't averse to a bit of Ham -to -Ham Combat among themselves. Roy Skelton, one of the Dalek voice actors during the classic series, says he and his colleagues would often compete with each other on set, to see who could be the most [[Evil Is Hammy|evil-sounding]] Dalek.

** In ''The Horns of Nimon'', Lalla Ward almost manages to out-ham ''Tom Baker himself''. He resists the onslaught, but then, unbelievably, they are ''both'' beaten -- completelybeaten—completely and utterly beaten -- bybeaten—by Graham Crowden as Soldeed. His famous DREEEeeeAAAAaaAaAAAAms of CONquest are only the icing on the cake.

** The serial ''[[Doctor Who/Recap/S26 E2/E02 Ghost Light|Ghost Light]]'' is famous for two things, its ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' level of incomprehensibility, and the sheer level of glorious over-acting by every. single. cast. member. Even the extras. Somehow, though, it manages to be utterly awesome and a firm fan-favourite.

* Matthew Morrison and [[Neil Patrick Harris]] in ''[[Glee]]'', competing for a role in ''[[Les Misérables (Theatretheatre)|Les Misérables]]'', singing [[Aerosmith (Music)|Aerosmith]]'s Dream On and getting progressively [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_3-vjvPiUU more over-the-top]. It is ''unbelievably'' [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|awesome]].

{{quote| '''[[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Devastation]]:''' That was your lesson for today! Your homework: Feel the emotion that rages within you. It is called--FEEEEEEEEAR! [Best if imagined in Macho Man Randy Savage's voice.]}}

* Ham-to-Ham Combat was really the basis of Hawkeye and Trapper's (later B.J.) whole relationship in ''[[MASHM*A*S*H (television)|M*A*S*H]]''. This was as much their characters desperately trying to deflect the horror around them with silly puns, as it was Alda, Rogers, and Farrel having altogether too much fun working together.

* ''[[Babylon Five5]]'':

** The climax of "Moments of Transition" turns into three-way Ham To -to-Ham Combat between Delenn, Neroon, and Shakiri. The part where Neroon {{spoiler|makes his [[Heroic Sacrifice]]}} elevates the whole thing to [[Narm]] levels.

* The British impressions show ''[[Dead Ringers (TV series)|Dead Ringers]]'' had a [[Running Gag|repeated sketch]] in which [[Ian McKellen]] and [[Alan Rickman]] battled it out in [[Ham -to -Ham Combat]] for [[Evil Brit|token British bad guy roles]]. They were inevitably blown out of the water by a [[Incoming Ham|dramatic entrance]] from '''<big>[[Brian Blessed|BRIAN BLESSED!!]]</big>'''.

* ''[[ICarly (TV)|I CarlyiCarly]]'': Spencer and [[Jack Black]] in "iStart A Fan War".

* ''[[3rd Rock Fromfrom the Sun]]'': John Cleese versus John Lithgow!

* On ''[[30 Rock (TV)|Thirty Rock]]'', whenever occasional guest star Will Arnett's character [[Ho Yay|gets into it]] with Jack Donaghy.

{{quote| '''Devon:''' I'm honestly not trying to make this sound gay.<br />

* ''[[The Colbert Report]]'':

* ''[[Stargate SG -1]]:'' Put two [[Evil Is Hammy|System Lords]] in a room together, and this is the inevitable result. It helps that their voices are [[Evil Sounds Deep|extremely deep]] and they often like to display their [[Glowing Eyes of Doom]].

* The main characters in ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]'' absolutely love, ''love'', LOVE doing this, [[Cavemen vs. Astronauts Debate|usually over very bizarre, trivial, or theoretical disputes]], and usually while sitting in their booth in McLaren's. So commonplace is it to see them over-dramatically ([[Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness|and often over-eloquently]]) yelling and cussing at each other in the middle of the crowded bar over, say, what the most common food in America is, that [[Fridge Logic]] forces the conclusion that their [[Ham -to -Ham Combat]] must be a well-known, taken-for-granted fixture of the bar, or else it would draw dozens of gawking spectators or scare customers away.

* In just about every episode of ''[[Star Trek: the Original Series (TV)|Star Trek theThe Original Series]]'', [[William Shatner]] brings enough ham to the table to feed a small nation. But in the episode "[[Star Trek/Recap/S2/E06 The Doomsday Machine|The Doomsday Machine]]", he meets his match in Captain Matt Decker.

{{quote| '''Kirk:''' "Beamed your crew down to the planet? But there ''is'' no planet!"<br />

* In the finale of each episode of ''[[Ru PaulsRuPaul's Drag Race]]'', the two worst contestants are forced into a "Lip Synch for your LIFE!" dance-off.

* We could be here all week if we tried to list all the examples in the genre of [[Power Metal]] considering the prominence of [[Large Ham|Large Hams]]s and guest vocalists. Special mention, however, goes to the following:

** [[Avantasia]], much like Ayreon, gets this as a direct result of the numerous guest vocals. The songs "The Wicked Symphony" and "Stargazers" in particular have managed to bring together three (four in the case of "Stargazers") of the largest hams in power metal by having [[Edguy (Music)|Tobias Sammet]], [[Symphony X|Russell Allen]], [[Masterplan (Music)|Jorn Lande]] and, in the case of "Stargazers," [[Helloween (Music)|Michael Kiske]] all sing on the same songs.

* From the realm of classical music comes Rossini's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FAa-g_7PRM "Duetto buffo di due gatti"] [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|("Comic duet for two cats")]]. Any sopranos who do not use this song as an exercise in competitive hammery are just doing it wrong.

* Heavy metal is ''made'' of this trope, especially if a band has two lead guitarists (Glenn Tipton and K. K. Downing of [[Judas Priest (Music)|Judas Priest]], most famously). They'll hit all the highest notes, play the fastest riffs, and do everything short of tickling their guitars to death. The hammiest of them can not only short-circuit their guitars, but cause them to ''melt''.

* In [[Journey (Musicband)|Journey]]'s [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xw4AV_BeE24&ob=av2e "Chain Reaction"] music video singer Steve Perry and guitarist Neal Schon engage in this, culminating in Steve laying the smackdown on Neal.

** Another example is [[D Generation X]]. [[Shawn Michaels]] thought [[Triple H]] was funny as hell behind the scenes, [[Triple H]] started trying to crack Shawn up on television, and it just evolved into [[Ham -to -Ham Combat]] meets [[No Fourth Wall]].

* THE [[Ultimate Warrior|ULTIMATE WARRIOR]]!

{{quote| ''[[Shawn Michaels]]:'' Bullets hurt me...}}

{{quote| '''Jack Benny (as [[It Makes Sense in Context|his pants are being removed]])''': Allen, you haven't seen the end of me!<br />

* ''[[Wicked (Theatretheatre)|Wicked]]'' has a scene set almost immediately after Dorothy leaves munchkinland in ''[[The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Literature)|The Wonderful Wizard of Oz]]'' where Elphaba and Glinda begin bickering and eventually catfight. Now, Glinda is miscast if she's not a [[Large Ham]] but the special treat in this scene is the actress playing Elphaba beginning to ham it up as well. It's also the last comic scene in the show too, so the actresses clearly like to have fun with it.

* [[Cirque Du Soleil]]'s ''[[Mystere]]'' turns the eternal struggle that is [[Order Versus Chaos]] into this, pitting the conceited emcee Moha-Samedi against story-intruder [[Non-Ironic Clown|Brian Le Petit]]. This climaxes with the emcee declaring '''"[[Get Out!|GET OUT!]]"''' and Brian taking on a look sooooooo pitiable that one can't help but "Awwwww..." for him... {{spoiler|which is his intention -- effectively ''calling upon hammy reinforcements''!}}

{{quote| '''Irenicus:''' Once my lust for power was everything, but now I hunger only for revenge, AND I. SHALL. HAVE IT!<br />

** ''[[Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty]]'': OCELOT!, Vamp, Fortune, Fat Man, Solidus.

** ''[[Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater]]'': Ocelot, Boss, Volgin, THE PAIN!, the Fear, the Fury.

** ''[[Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots]]'': Snake, Ocelot, Raiden, Vamp, Laughing Octopus, Raging Raven, Screaming Mantis.

*** The End, the Sorrow, and Crying Wolf are probably the only villains in the entire series who are not [[Large Ham|Large Hams]]s, but mostly only because they can't draw the breath to yell all the time.

{{quote| "I'M COVERED IN BEES!"}}

* The final boss fight in ''[[Dead Space 2 (Video Game)|Dead Space 2]],'' where both Issac and {{spoiler|Nicole/The Marker}} take their scenery-chewing levels [[Up to Eleven]].

{{quote| YOU WILL ALL BE MADE ONE! '''[[ThisPunctuated! IsFor! SpartaEmphasis!|MAKE! US! WHOLE!!!!!]]'''}}

* ''[[Planescape: Torment]]'' has one where Ravel ([[Crazy Ham]]) meets The Transcendent One ([[Evil Sounds Deep]]). Or the ending sequences of PS:T in the Fortress of Regrets for that matter. You don't even need the sound. The writing at that point is sufficiently '''epic''' to convey the "hamminess" all by itself.

* ''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]: [[Dawn of War]]: Dark Crusade''. Any stronghold mission featuring two of the following: Space Marines, Orks, Chaos, Imperial Guard, and Eldar (exception: if Eldar are on defense). Two grimdark hams will duke it out along with their armies.

* ''[[Blaz BlueBlazBlue]]''

* ''[[Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney]]'' "OBJECTION!" "I SAID OBJECTION FIRST!"

{{quote| '''Truth:''' I! Am! Truuth! The ''vooiiice'' of the '''Covenant!'''<br />

{{quote| "Now the gate has been unlatched, headstones pushed aside! Corpses shift and offer room, a fate you must '''ABIDE!'''"}}

{{quote| '''Sesa Refumee''': I wondered who the Prophets would send to silence me. An Arbiter... I'm flattered.<br />

'''Rtas Vadumee''': He's using a holo-drone. Come out so we may kill you!<br />

{{quote| '''Arbiter''': ''Turrrrn'', heretic.<br />

'''Sesa''': Arbiter. I would rather die by your hands than let the Prophets lead me to slaughter.<br />

* ''[[Team Fortress 2 (Video Game)|Team Fortress 2]]''. A better selection of fine military-grade ham you are not likely to find. While the [[Boisterous Bruiser|Heavy]] ([http://wiki.teamfortress.com/w/images/6/69/Heavy_battlecry05.wav "YAAAAAAARGH!"] [http://wiki.teamfortress.com/w/images/0/03/Heavy_specialcompleted09.wav CRY SOME MORE!"]), the [[Drill Sergeant Nasty|Soldier]] ([http://wiki.teamfortress.com/w/images/f/fb/Soldier_taunts17.wav "This is MY WORLD! YOU are not WELCOME in MY WORLD!"]) and the [[Violent Glaswegian|Demoman]] ([http://wiki.teamfortress.com/w/images/b/bd/Demoman_taunts03.wav "I'm gonna stick me ''thumbs'' in yer ''eyes'' and hang on 'til ye'r ''dead!'']") are the obvious choices, we also have the [[Fragile Speedster|Scout]] ([http://wiki.teamfortress.com/w/images/a/a6/Scout_specialcompleted03.wav "BONK!"] [http://wiki.teamfortress.com/w/images/0/0b/Scout_award05.wav "LOOK AT ME!"] [http://wiki.teamfortress.com/w/images/b/b4/Scout_invincible04.wav "I am a frickin' ''blur'', here!"]), [[The Medic]] ([http://wiki.teamfortress.com/w/images/5/5f/Medic_taunts14.wav "Would you like a second opinion? You are also ugly!"] [http://wiki.teamfortress.com/w/images/f/f7/Medic_specialcompleted10.wav "Oops! That was not medicine!"] [http://wiki.teamfortress.com/w/images/1/17/Medic_taunts16.wav "A-ha-ha! Oktoberfest!"]), and the [[Cold Sniper|Sniper]] ([http://wiki.teamfortress.com/w/images/e/ed/Sniper_specialcompleted45.wav "Thanks fer standin' still, wanker!"] [http://wiki.teamfortress.com/w/images/7/7b/Sniper_specialcompleted15.wav "Wave goodbye to yer head, wanker!"] [http://wiki.teamfortress.com/w/images/4/47/Sniper_specialcompleted16.wav "Standin' around like a bloody idiot!"]). Even the ''[[The Unintelligible|Pyro]]'' has hammy-sounding muffled grunts and a truly porcine interpretation of a [[Star Wars|Tusken Raider]]. The least hammy are the [[The Engineer|Engineer]] and the [[Magnificent Bastard|Spy]], but even those two can have their moments.

* ''[[Command and& Conquer]]''. It's been that way since the beginning, but ''[[Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3]]'' goes all out for the [[World of Ham]].

* Almost all dialogue in the ''[[God of War (Video Gameseries)|God of War]]'' games defaults to this. It was ancient Greece, they hadn't invented [[No Indoor Voice|indoor voices]] yet.

* Shadow vs Mephiles in ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog (2006 video game)|Sonic the Hedgehog]]''. Mephiles spends his sweet time chewing the scenery while Shadow tries to [[Shut UP, Hannibal|shut him up]]. Although in ''[[Sonic Adventure 2 (Video Game)|Sonic Adventure 2]]'', Shadow's fairly low-key, in his debut game it's basically him vs Black Doom vs Dr. Eggman.

* ''[[Air ForceAirforce Delta]] Strike'': The combat flight sim has the "Stand By" missions and the largest aerial ham Ham-to-Ham ham combatCombat ever produced in a videogame.

{{quote| "WHERE'S YER DRIVE, GAWD-DAMMIT?!"}}

* ''[[DantesDante's Inferno (Videovideo Gamegame)|Dantes Inferno]]'': Dante is rather hammy by himself, but it's only when he faces [[Satan|Old Nick]] that they both crank it up to sufficiently scenery-chewing intensity.

* Bowser against Fawful and Midbus ([[Full Boar Action|a literal Large Ham]]) in ''[[Mario and& Luigi: Bowsers Inside Story (Video Game)|Mario and Luigi BowsersBowser's Inside Story]]''.

* [[The Nightmare Before Christmas: OogiesOogie's Revenge]]: Several of the boss battles can qualify (and the final battle definitely does).

** [[Played With]] in [[The Nostalgia Critic (Web Video)|The Nostalgia Critic]]'s review of ''[[Dungeons and& Dragons (Filmfilm)||Dungeons and Dragons]],'' when he ordained a contest between Profion's hammy overacting and the Empress' quiet underacting. Ultimately he decided [[Take a Third Option|they both sucked equally]].

* From ''[[Cerberus Daily News]]'': [https://web.archive.org/web/20150106074734/http://www.cerberusdailynews.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=1307&start=50 VOLUS FIGHT!]

* The [[Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney]] [http://www.youtube.com/user/Sonic90127 fandub] of "Rise From The Ashes" evokes the game's Ham To -to-Ham Combat nicely, which is impressive given that Phoenix and Edgeworth are [[Talking to Himself|the same actor.]]

** In ''[[Beast Wars (Animation)|Beast Wars]]'' Megatron and Tarantulas have formulated an [[Evil Plan]]. They begin to laugh in celebration. This becomes an [[Overly Long Gag]] as they try to have the last laugh.

* ''[[Xavier: Renegade Angel]]'': Shakashuri Blowdown- the ridiculous fight that Xavier has with himself. (There are 2 Xaviers.) This produces exchanges (said in the hammiest voices imaginable) like "You sound like THE ugliest son of a bitch I have EVER HEARD!" "YOU sound like the PHYSICAL MANIFESTATION of some LOSER'S inner DEMONS!"

{{quote| '''Gathers:''' Don't kill yourself, you crazy bastard!}}

* From ''[[Xavier: Renegade Angel]]," Xavier's epically stupid battle with himself, from "Shakashuri Blowdown."

{{quote| '''Xavier:''' You sound like the ugliest son of a bitch I ever heard!<br />

'''Other Xavier:''' YOU sound like the physical manifestation of some LOSER'S inner DEMONS!<br />

'''Xavier:''' YOU sound like some total chode's inability to confront his past actions!<br />

* There are a lot of these in ''[[Adventure Time (Animation)|Adventure Time]],'' but special mention has to go to any scene involving Finn and Lemongrab together.

{{quote| '''Lemongrab:''' TOO YOUNG! TOO YOUNG TO RULE THE KINGDOM!<br />

'''Finn:''' *puffs out his chest and slaps Lemongrab on the hand* WATCH your MANNERS with the PRINCESS!<br />

'''Lemongrab:''' HHHHHHHHHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO?!<br />

'''Finn:''' What the HUH?!<br />

* [[Model United Nations]] can on occasion descend into this when representatives of two unpopular countries, like North Korea and Myanmar, end up in a debate with each other.

{{quote| Hell, I know I'm a prima-donna, I admit it. The thing that bothers me about Monty [UK General Bernard Law Montgomery] is [[At Least I Admit It|he won't admit it]].}}

{{quote| '''Minister:''' (*outlines government policy)<br />

'''Goverment [[M Ps]]MPs:''' HEAR HEAR, HUZZAH, GREAT, HEAR HEAR!<br />

'''Opposition [[M Ps]]MPs:''' SHAME! CORRUPTION! HOW DARE YOU! }}

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