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* "Excuse me! [http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Elassar_Targon Elassar Targon], Master of the Universe, reporting for duty!" A pilot in the [[X Wing Series]], Elassar has the odd distinction of always ''reacting'' hammily.

** [http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Garik_Loran Face Loran] is a former child star turned X-Wing pilot, and is a past master as unleashing the right amount of ham in the right place at the right time. His hamminess got him a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] / [[Crowning Moment of Funny|Funny]] when he had to [[False-Flag Operation|impersonate]] ''another'' [[Large Ham]], [[Small Name, Big Ego|Captain Darillian]].

* [[Mystery Science Theater 3000]] subject ''The Sword and the Dragon'' has everyone talk like this. One of the host spots had Bill as the hero, "For it is ham that I seek! Ham! HAAAAAMM!!!" It actually comes off underplayed compared to the actual movie.

* Several characters from [[A Song of Ice and Fire]]:

** "[[Third Person Person|STRONG BELWAS]] NEEDS [[Trademark Favorite Food|LIVER AND ONIONS]]!"

* [[Honor Harrington|Anton Zilwicki]] is usually somewhat [[The Stoic|stoic]], but he has his moments.

* [[Soon I Will Be Invincible|Doctor Impossible]], when he's in [[Mad Scientist]] mode. Leads to some amusing scenes where he seems visibly annoyed that the heroes are forcing him to put on his game face and rant when he'd rather [[Villains Out Shopping|kick back and relax with a latte]].

* Professor Challenger in ''The Lost World''.

* Commissar Ibram Gaunt in the Gaunt's Ghosts novels does this all the time. He leads from the front and when inspiring his troops he usually yells "MEN OF TANITH!! DO YOU WANT TO LIVE FOREVER!!"

* [[Ambadassador]] Varg from [[Codex Alera]] has his moments

* In ''[[Death Star]]'', Admiral Motti has a hammy [[Oh Crap]] when he realizes the title battle station is about to blow.

* In ''[[The Dresden Files]]'' novel ''Small Favor'', Harry hams it up when he's performing some carefully-controlled magic in front of a group of [[Muggles]] while evil faeries are assaulting the room they're in. Immediately afterward, [[Knight in Shining Armor|Michael]] switches the ham up when he breaks down the door, and his holy sword ''Ammorachius'' erupts in white light so bright it blinds everyone watching and disintegrates the light-sensitive faeries while screaming a prayer to God in Latin that is literally being channeled from Heaven.

** In other words, [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Heavenly Ham.]]

** In ''Turn Coat'', [[Big Friendly Dog]] Mouse loads on the ham when he takes a bullet for Molly due to her poor judgment, and she has to dig it out and clean the wound. The entire time he makes pitiful whines at the slightest touch, and treats the wound as something terrible and debilitating. When Molly is done and has to leave, Mouse promptly springs back up, apparently completely fine. Even Harry is impressed that Mouse was smart enough to deliberately ham things up to drive home the point to Molly.

** ''Changes'' has a moment where {{spoiler|Murphy}} is apparently channeling the voice of the [[Archangel Michael]] as she pronounces heavenly doom upon the Red Court.

* Tigerstar and Brokenstar, main villains from ''[[Warrior Cats]]'' both qualify. It helps that there's a meeting every month where they can give hammy speeches, but when they {{spoiler|die and go to the Dark Forest}}, they feel obliged to hold these meetings, just so their trainees know that a ham is in charge.

* Snowball and Squealer from ''[[Animal Farm]]''. Fitting, because they are not only pigs, but based off Trotsky and Molotov, respectively