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*** Good rule of thumb: the more Time Lords in a story, the bigger your serving of ham.

*** Speaking of The Master, Peri parodies this trope with him

Peri: So what? I'm Perpugilliam Brown, and I can shout just as loud as you! }}

* This especially fits [[Tom Baker]], who hams it up to almost [[Brian Blessed]] levels both in the show and off it. Apparently there's a gene in any person with the surname Baker that transforms them into concentrated ham when in the presence of a TARDIS.

* [[Paul McGann]], while fairly subdued as Doctors go, has his moments...

** In the single movie he played as the Doctor, he sliced enough Ham to cover the much longer tenures other Doctors had.

"The Master wants to take all my remaining lives! SO THAT HE WILL ''LIVE'' AND I WILL '''DIE'''!" }}

** Though his non-hammy evil turn in ''The Natural History of Fear'' is such concentrated [[Nightmare Fuel]] that ham is almost preferable. Hammy evil!Eight is entertaining as hell, but his subdued evil manages to be utterly terrifying [[Fetish Fuel]]. Listening to him whisper while he's lobotomizing a woman who's awake, aware, and terrified...good ''grief''.

* Though overall more subtle than Four, Six, and Ten, [[Christopher Eccleston]]'s Ninth Doctor made ham sandwiches in some episodes.

** There was his scene alone with the Dalek in "Dalek", in which Eccleston was ''literally'' foaming at the mouth by the end of his scary, awesome speech:

** In the Previous episode "The Empty Child":

* [[David Tennant]] has blood made of espresso.

** Pretty much any line from the episode "The Christmas Invasion".

** And in ''The Doctor's Daughter,'' what could be the hammiest ''proclamation of pacifism,'' ever:

** Since "The Waters of Mars" was one of his last performances as the Doctor, Tennant apparently decided to go out with a bang. The scenery-chewing when he decides to actually take action is so completely over the top it threatens to implode in a singularity of ham.

** Tennant manages to compress a metric ton of Ham into one word in ''The End of Time'': '''[[Glamor Failure|SHIIIIMMER!]]'''

'''The Doctor''': "'''''ALLONNNNS-Y!!'''''" *slams the throttle forward full-blast* }}

** Tennant's most hammy habit was adding explosive "-a!" sounds to the end of words as he got excited and started-a to over-enunciate-a. See "AND I'M NOT LISTENING-A!" from series two's "The Idiot's Lantern" and "BAREFOOT ON THE MOON-A!" from series three's "Smith and Jones" for particularly jarring examples.

* [[Matt Smith]] is sounding like a ''very'' promising ham so far.

** He's quite a ham just after his regeneration:

** In the first Dalek centered episode of his reign:

** From 'The Beast Below':

** GERONIMO!

** He does a hell of a lot of shouting in "Flesh and Stone":

'''The Doctor''': "'''''LIKE! ME! FOR! INSTANCE!!!!!!!!!!"''''' }}

*** Then there was "I WAS NOT EXPECTING THIS!"

*** And of course "I! Am! TAAAAAAAALKING!"

*** One of Matt Smith's great moments: "TARDIS bang bang, Daleks BOOM!"

** Anthony Ainley on playing the Master: "I'm not a ham. You can ''cure'' a ham!"

** Jonathan Pryce's Master from ''[[Affectionate Parody|The Curse of Fatal Death]]'' has to be [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYpaSzw1qck seen to be believed].

** Really, ''any'' incarnation of the Master who doesn't rattle the heavens and leave tooth marks on the scenery through the sheer force of his acting is just flat-out doing it wrong.

"'''''[[I'm a Humanitarian|DINNERTIIIIIIIIIIIIME!!!!!]]'''''" }}

** [[Derek Jacobi]] during the last ten minutes of his performance in the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' New Series episode "Utopia". Having given a subtle, moving performance as the kindly Professor Yana for most of the episode, {{spoiler|he then is transformed into the Doctor's uber-evil arch-foe the Master... and at the same moment, into a really [[Large Ham]]. Consequently, John Simm is a very ''very'' [[Large Ham]], albeit an evil one.}}

** [[John Simm]]'s Master may be the hammiest yet. Four words. "Here! Come! The Drums!"

*** Not to mention that the first minutes of Last of the Time Lords (the episode that follows that whole Here Come The Drums thing) is the Master singing 'I Can't Decide' by Scissor Sisters.

* [[Omnicidal Maniac|Davros]] fits this trope like a glove.

{{quote|'''Dalek (To the Cyber-leader):''' IT! IS! NOT! WAR! IT! IS! PEST-CONTROL!}}

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* The [[Big Finish Doctor Who]] audio play ''Omega'' has an in-universe [[Large Ham]] in the form of Daland. A [[Classically-Trained Extra]] on a [[Show Within a Show]], he declares, upon hearing that he might be replaced by a robot: "no mere ''machine'' could do my job!!" To which [[Deadpan Snarker|Sentia]] replies: "I dunno, a fridge could do your job. You can fit a lot of ham in a fridge."

** Also from Big Finish's ''[[Deep Space Nine]]'' parody ''Bang-Bang-A-Boom!'', Patricia Quinn as the outrageous Queen Angvia, the [[Green-Skinned Space Babe|Green Skinned Space]]... ''Valkyrie''.

** Hell, Andrew Sachs even gives ''Adric'' a pretty hamtastic upgrade while voicing his [[Not Good with People|crazy-old-man/scorpion-king]]/[[A God Am I|God-Mode]] self (yes, [[It Makes Sense in Context|you read that right]]) in ''The Boy That Time Forgot.''

* The Empress of Racnoss, villain of the 2006 Christmas special ''The Runaway Bride'', was an enormous piece of Spider-Ham. "''KIIIIILL'' THIS LITTLE CHATTERING DOCTOR-MAN!"

* To go a little more old school, Professor Zaroff in the Second Doctor story "The Underwater Menace" is a GLORIOUS bit of ham all the way through, his most magnificent bit of ham being the cliffhanger of part three: "[[Nothing Can Stop Us Now|NOSSING IN ZE VORLD CAN SHTOP ME NOW!]]"

* Not to mention the antics of Graham Crowden as Soldeed in ''The Horns of Nimon'', particularly his death scene, complete with manic cackling, staring eyes, "Lord Nimon? Lord Nimon? It is I, Soldeed!" and "You Fools! Fools!! You will die for your interference!!!"

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* In ''The Daleks' Master Plan'', Kevin Stoney is both nuanced and over-the-top at the same time, playing the traitorous "I, MAVIC Chen, GUARdian of the Solar System!"

* The Carrionites in "The Shakespeare Code". [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GA3tAHiJA3E Around 1:19].

* [[Brian Blessed]] as Yrcanos in ''Mindwarp''.

* From ''The End of Time'', {{spoiler|[[Timothy Dalton]]'s Rassilon delivers some spectacularly spittle-flecked lines.}}

* ''The Talons of Weng-Chiang'' features Magnus Greel, an enormously hammy 51st-century time traveler kidnapping girls in Victorian London and draining their life-energy.

* Lady Cassandra. ''MOIST''URIZE ME! (Keeps the Ham nice and juicy.) Also bleeds over into Billie Piper ("It's like a ''bouncy castle!!''") and David Tennant ("a little bit ''fox-ay!''") when the Doctor and Rose end up [[Body Surf|hosting Cassandra's personality]].

* Aris from ''Kinda'', when he gets taken over by the Mara and is granted the gift of <s> Ham</s> speech.

'''Fifth Doctor:''' YES, SO I HEAR! }}

* Also Omega, from ''The Three Doctors'', with the help of some truly hammy scriptwriting.

* Amy Pond isn't averse to busting out the ham on occasion, for example [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02BxPxLTR3M this scene]. However, [[Tropes Are Not Bad]], as she manages to be simultaneously hammy, [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|awesome]] ''and'' [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|heartwarming]].

* Let's not forget River Song. While [[Alex Kingston]] tends to be a little more kosher than most ''Who'' actors, she appears to be having a little more fun with the character.

** "Let's Kill Hitler" features River at her hammiest, {{spoiler|because [[Evil Is Hammy]]!}}

* Donna Noble, fastest HAM in Chiswick.

* Son Of Mine, from "Human Nature" / "The Family of Blood". Considering his other modes of speaking are [[Creepy Monotone]] and '''[[Nightmare Fuel|Goddamn Unsettling]]''' Sing-Song, this is one of the few times where straight up hamming comes as a ''relief.''

* The Wire, from the New Series episode "The Idiot's Lantern", really rates a mention here.

* Between his wardrobe, mannerisms and obsession with fine dining, one-off villain Shockeye from ''The Two Doctors'' is one of the hammiest characters ever to appear.

* In the 1980s, the Cyber Leader, despite being supposedly emotionless, delivers some of the hammiest lines in the history of the show.

"My army awaits, DOCTOR!" }}

* Sutekh in ''Pyramids of Mars'' and the ''[[Faction Paradox]]'' audio series manages to be a [[Large Ham]] while speaking in barely more than a whisper. This was lampooned in the DVD extra "Oh Mummy!", in which Sutekh (still voiced by Gabriel Woolfe) attempts to find work after ''Pyramids of Mars'', featuring a truly unforgettable gag in which Sutekh shows the "documentary" crew his cute little bunnyrabbit. "I call him Neil. Neil. '''NEIL BEFORE THE MIGHT OF SUTEKH!'''"