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{{quote|"''Stand aside, everyone! I take LARGE STEPS!''"|'''[[Miles Gloriosus]]''', ''[[A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum]]''}}

A ridiculously larger-than-life character typically played by a guest star with an Internet Movie Database listing longer than the rest of the cast put together. Full of energy, ''joie de vivre'', [[Hot-Blooded|blood as hot as the surface of the Sun]] and poetically powerful speeches with [[Milking the Giant Cow|dramatic gestures]] that [[Chewing the Scenery|can devastate a scene to a billion pieces]] and transform the most soul-crushingly boring into the most '''''[[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?|EPIC]]'''''.

 

 

Popular implementations include: '''[[Brian Blessed]]''' in Britain, [[William Shatner]] in North America, and [[Norio Wakamoto]] in Japan. Many large hams in the past have some experience in stage acting and theater: when you have to poetically act for the back rows ([[Opera|especially when coupled with music]]) it makes sense. Having an outrageous appearance is helpful but not a requirement. While often male, female actors can pull it off, but it's rarer for them. Often cast as a [[One-Scene Wonder]], or a [[Ham and Cheese|key redeeming element]] in shows that are [[So Bad It's Good]].

While [[Narm]] is their primary flaw, the large hams are likely to have come from [[Just for Pun|Hillshire Narm]] (Go [[Keet]]!) But more often these actors are [[Narm Charm]].

 

 

If it is '''the setting itself''' that seems to ''demand'' that ham is served ''in profusion'', dipped in ''abundant'' [[Hot-Blooded]], because it's ''just'' how the setting ''works'', you may be in front of a '''[[World of Ham]]''' [[World of Ham|of]] ''[[World of Ham|Ham]]'': those can provide for '''marvelous''' entertainment, ''if'' your [[Willing Suspension of Disbelief]] is elastic enough.

[[Category:Tropes of Legend]]

[[Category:Chewing the Scenery]]

[[Category:Large Ham]]