Ham-to-Ham Combat: Difference between revisions

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* ''[[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.

** In [[The Movie|the second movie]] the {{spoiler|[[Big Bad|Anti Spiral]]}} and Dai-Gurren Brigade turns it [[Up to Eleven]] and decides to have an [[Lensman Arms Race|arms race]] in out-hamming each other. Case in point:

{{spoiler|'''Anti Spiral:''' Interesting! Then; Anti Spiral... Giga... ''Drill''... ''BREAKER!!''}} }}

* In ''[[Code Geass]]'' this is what happens when you get [[The Emperor|Charles]] and his son [[Magnificent Bastard|Lelouch]] together.

* ''[[Mobile Fighter G Gundam]]''. All the freaking time. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHSSDFBQ2Co&feature=related Especially when it involves Domon and Master Asia together.]

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

* [[The Hero|Guy Shishioh]] vs [[Big Bad|Palparepa]] in ''[[GaoGaiGar]] FINAL''

'''Palparepa:''' You will show me?! }}

* The ''[[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]]!}}

** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueYUwcZV-n0 "YOU BETRAYED THE LAW!!" "LAAAAAAAW!"]

* ''[[A Few Good Men]]'':

'''[[Tom Cruise|Kaffee]]:''' I want the ''truth''!<br />

'''[[Jack Nicholson|Jessep]]:''' ''You can't '''handle''' the truth!'' }}

** By the third movie, pretty much [[World of Ham|everyone is trying to out-ham the other]], including [[Hans Zimmer]], the sound-track composer.

** Which makes perfect sense that the next film will focus around Jack and Barbossa. Because like the first film proved, how can one not have fun watching Johnny Depp and Geoffrey Rush, two of the finest actors alive, having a ham contest in pirate garb and dialogue?

'''Barbarossa:''' NO! What [[To Arr Is Pirate|ARRRR]] ya doin'!? }}

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

* ''[[Doctor Who]]'' is a bastion of Ham-to-Ham Combat.

** In "The Christmas Invasion", the Tenth Doctor argues with the Sycorax leader.

'''The Doctor:''' I! DON'T! KNOW!! }}

** When the Tenth Doctor and Donna get into a ham-off, it's epic.

* In ''[[Robin of Sherwood]]'', guest star Lewis Collins and Nickolas Grace had a competition to see who could out-camp the other. The results are magnificient and full of glorious [[Ho Yay]].

* Basically, any time any group of [[Power Rangers]] face their [[Big Bad]]. ''Especially'' when a [[Hot Blood]]'d Red Ranger faces their [[Big Bad]].

* Any scene in ''[[Mork and Mindy]]'' with Exidor and Mork. Exidor is a role that requires the finest hamming, and Mork is... well, [[Robin Williams]].

* An episode of ''[[Roseanne]]'' had Roseanne's cousin Ronnie visiting from New York. Cousin Ronnie was played by Joan Collins. A rare female case of Ham-to-Ham Combat ensued.

** And when Lithgow's boss, the Big Giant Head, appeared, he was... [[William Shatner]]!

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

'''Jack:''' No one is, it's just happening. }}

* ''[[Rome]]'': Any scene in involving Pompey, Cicero and Cato. Pompey and Cicero will attempt to out-bumble each other, and Cato and Pompey will attempt to out-snarl each other.

* 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|Star Trek the Original Series]]'', [[William Shatner]] brings enough ham to the table to feed a small nation. But in the episode "The Doomsday Machine", he meets his match in Captain Matt Decker.

'''Decker:''' "Don't you think I know that? ''Don't you think I know that?!'' THERE WAS! ''BUT NOT ANYMORE!!''" }}

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

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruLQDpdQi4A There was that one time] [[Hulk Hogan]] [[WCW|was summoned to the Dungeon of Doom by a wizard to fight]] [[The Big Show]].

* When [[Shawn Michaels]] and [[John Cena]] exist on the same show, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-EFX2ClTR0 it's] kind of inevitable.

** And then we got [[John Cena]] and ''[[Dwayne Johnson|The Freakin Rock]]'' in the same building. You could just ''[[Incredibly Lame Pun|smell]]'' the glazed ham these two brought.

== Radio ==

* During the legendary [[The Jack Benny Program|Jack Benny]]-Fred Allen feud, any time either of the two appeared on the other's show, the hamminess reigned unrestrained.

'''Fred Allen''': It won't be long now! }}

== Video Games ==

* The ''[[Forgotten Realms]]'' is a [[World of Ham]], but having [[Big Bad]] Irenicus ([[David Warner]]) facing off with [[Crazy Awesome]] Minsc ([[Jim Cummings]]) is incredibly, epically hamtastic.

'''Minsc:''' I am tired of shouting battle-cries at this mage! Boo will finish his eyeballs once and for all so that he does not rise again! Evil! Meet my sword! Sword! Meeet eeeeviiiil! }}

* ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]'' lives on this trope. Rather try to find any characters that are completely unhammy.

** ''[[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]], but mostly only because they can't draw the breath to yell all the time.

* ''[[Dissidia Final Fantasy]]'': Pretty much ''any'' voice-acted scene where the villains are talking to each other counts. Doubly so if [[Final Fantasy VI|Kefka]] or [[Final Fantasy V|Exdeath]] is involved.

** Since voice-acting was introduced, ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' games seem to do this rather regularly. Special mention has to be given to Tidus and Yuna's [[Stylistic Suck]] laughing scene in [[Final Fantasy X]], although Wakka and Rikku came close to out-doing them with their regular sentence-ending occurrences of "yah?" and "y'know?"

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

* ''[[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.

* Dante vs Agnus before their fight in ''[[Devil May Cry]] 4''. A bizarre in-universe example, complete with stage lights and noticeably more poetic dialogue than usual. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySY5YMoBp7c It really has to be seen.]

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

* At the end of the level "The Covenant" in ''[[Halo|Halo 3]]'', the Arbiter, Gravemind, and the Prophet of Truth all have a scene together. Truth's participation ends with;

'''Arbiter:''' And so, you must be silenced. ''(stab)'' }}

** At that point, Gravemind chimes in with an evil laugh and a [[Gratuitous Iambic Pentameter|rhyming verse]] describing how he's now unstoppable.

** The levels in [[Halo 2]] when you fight the Elite heretics as the Arbiter. The Elites being a race of [[Big Ham|BigHams]], this trope crops up frequently.

'''Sesa''': Heheh... get in line. }}

** Also:

'''Arbiter''': Who has taught you these ''liiies''? }}

* ''[[Super Robot Wars Original Generation]] 2'' has '''Sanger Zonvolt, the sword that cleaves evil!''' fighting his own <s>clone</s> [[Ninja Zombie Pirate Robot|undead cyborg alternate universe counterpart]] '''Wodan Ymir, the sword of Magus!''' By the time the conflict reaches Critical Ham, however, they immediately turn around and unleash it on a common foe.

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

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

* ''[[The Witcher]]'': Though Geralt of Rivia tends to play low-key, the banter between him and Azar reaches a crescendo with the climax of their battle.

* ''[[Dante's Inferno (video game)|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.

* ''[[Danny Phantom]]'': Technus (who was a grade A ham from the start) versus Super Danny (who, apparently, is one of the hammiest characters of all without his human side to subdue it).

* Colonel Gathers and General Treister in [[The Venture Brothers]].

* Anytime Brain and Snowball face off in ''[[Pinky and The Brain]].''

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

'''Other Xavier:''' If I ever hear one more word from your stinky mug, I swear to Jack-off I'll knock your clock off! }}

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

'''Lemongrab:''' *frowning* MMMMMM...! *gasps* -MUH! }}

** Any scene with Finn and the Ice King.

* Speaking of [[World War Two]]: Patton and ''any'' other general. Special note goes to him and Montgomery: The invasion of Sicily would have probably been a lot less bloody for the Allies if the two weren't trying to show each other who's the better conqueror.

** The movie ''[[Patton]]'' had Patton say this line:

* The British House of Commons, because of the incredibly adversarial setup of the Chamber, often features attempts by the Members to out-ham one another. A typical exchange generally goes like this:

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