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[[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?]] Looks like your audience needs some convincing, and that's where the announcers come in. Adding a classic sports play-by-play or color-commentary announcer, or a movie trailer-type announcer is an easy way to make anything more dramatic, more exciting, more thrilling. '''[[Large Ham]] announcersAnnouncers''' are particularly effective. For a variant, rather than one of the loud announcer styles, you can go with the whispering golf-announcer style instead.

* [[Don La FontaineLaFontaine]] is probably the [[Trope Maker]].

* [[Peter Cullen]] does some [[Toonami]] promos, even including the ''[[Hamtaro (Anime)|Hamtaro]]'' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CicpFu7MLbg promo]. Despite it being about cute hamsters, Cullen managed to make it sound badass.

** ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam Wing (Anime)|Mobile Suit Gundam Wing]]'' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIa7bQfxiMQ Promo]

** ''[[The Big O (Anime)|The Big O]]'' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhyZGcxNP90 Promo]

** ''[[Batman: The Animated Series (Animation)|Batman the Animated Series]]'' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUYWltB1y00 Promo]

** ''[[Superman: theThe Animated Series]]'' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sarC2XUjF_c Promo]

* [[Don LaFontaine]] apparently enjoyed lampooning himself:

** For [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJMGS7l0wT8 Geico]

* ''[[DragonballDragon Ball]]''

* ''[[Pokémon (Animeanime)|Pokémon]]''

* In ''[[Lucky Star (Anime)|Lucky Star]]'', the announcers on the bridge take Yui's race to pass some random vehicle who passed her and make it more awesome.

* ''[[Future GPX Cyber Formula (Anime)|Future GPX Cyber Formula]]'', being a racing anime, has announcers that often shouted "goal" whenever racers cross the finish line.

* [[Mobile Fighter G Gundam (Anime)|GUNDAM FIGHT ALL SET! READY? GOOOO!]]

* Marc Summers, the host of ''[[Double Dare (1986 TV Show)|Double Dare]]''. He had to talk about things like giant PB&J sandwiches, human tacos, balloons filled with jelly, and banana split cars and make it all sound like an extreme sport. All while being obsessive/compulsive. Man's got balls.

* ''[[Pokémon Stadium]]'' and ''[[Pokémon Battle Revolution]]'' try for it. [[Your Mileage May Vary]] as to how awesome they are.

* The ''[[Super Smash Bros.]]'' [[Large Ham|announcer]]''[[The Other Darrin|s]]''. The announcer changes with each game, and each of them are always hammy. '''GAME!'''

* DJ Atomika, your eye in the sky on EA Radio BIG in ''[[SSX (Video Game)|SSX]] 3'' doesn't actually commentate on events as they occur, but gives listeners the lowdown on the throwdowns after the fact while taking song requests and reporting local news. Looks like the dreaded snow snakes are back...

* ''[[Mad WorldMadWorld]]'' features Kreese Kreeley and Howard "Buckshot" Holmes giving the audience slay-by-slay coverage of the brutal Deathwatch bloodsport. Frankly, their interactions are some of the best parts of the game.

{{quote| '''Howard:''' Well, it looks like there are no more people left for Jack to kill.<br />

'''Kreese:''' Yeah, but Jack could still defile the bodies.<br />

'''Howard:''' How so?<br />

'''Kreese:''' You know, take trophies and stuff; check out my necklace of human ears!<br />

'''Howard:''' Check out my stream of projectile vomit! * vomiting noises *<br />

'''Kreese:''' Ah, dude, did you have potatoes ''and'' corn?<br />

* ''Eggman'', of all people, in ''[[Sonic Colors (Video Game)|Sonic Colors]]''. Snarky announcements from Sonic's nemesis will often play over a PA system in each level (coinciding with the theme that all the stages are part of Eggman's "[[Amusement Park of Doom|amusement park]]"). Since the game's script was written by the guys behind ''[[Mad WorldMadWorld]]'', these, too, are some of the best parts of the game.

{{quote| '''Eggman:''' We here at Eggman's Incredible Interstellar Amusement Park consider ourselves the universe's first fully Green amusement park! Although the green is from all the nausea and vomiting, but still, green is green!}}

* The Administrator from ''[[Team Fortress 2 (Video Game)|Team Fortress 2]]'', who started out just as [[The Voice]]. Then Makani, a [[Big Name Fan]], [http://makani.deviantart.com/art/mission-begins-in-five-102983857 designed the actual character]...then [[Valve]] [[Sure Why Not|adopted the design offically.]] What really makes her character is the poisonous contempt she displays for the teams.

* ''[[Portal (Video Gameseries)|Portal]]'' has [[G La DOSGLaDOS|its own hilarious announcer.]] And an actual automated Announcer in the [[Portal 2 (Video Game)|sequel.]]

{{quote| "In the next test, you will utilize the laws of momentum to allow movement through portals. If the laws of physics no longer apply [[After the End|in the future]], God help you."}}

* ''[[Star WarstheWars: The Old Republic]]'' has Baron Deathmark, the Huttball announcer.

{{quote| "Perhaps the worst throw in Frog-dogs history, RRREAALLY RREAALLLY TERRRIBLE!" }}

* [[The Joker]] takes up the role of announcer in ''[[Batman: Arkham Asylum]]''. [[Hilarity Ensues]].

{{quote| "Harley tells me [[Cool Car|the Batman's car]] is still parked right outside Intensive Treatment. We can't have him up and leave us! Every thug, villain, murderer and [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|kindergarten teacher]] that isn't carrying out party orders should head there now and smash it to pieces!"}}

* ''[[S 4S4 League]]'''s announcer. [[Critical Hit|CRITICAL! CRITICAL!]] '''[[Capture the Flag|TOUCHDOWN!]] STRRRRRIIIIIKE!!'''

* ''[[F -Zero]]'': "You've got boost power! ALL RIGHT, FIRST PLACE!"

{{quote| "Today's special offer: half-price hair replacement!"}}

* "[[Finish Him!]]!" ''[[Mortal Kombat]]'s'' very own Shao Kahn even announces ''when he's the one fighting''.

{{quote| "FATALITY!"}}

* ''[[Killer Instinct (Video Game)|Killer Instinct]]'': '''"[[Memetic Mutation|C-C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER!]]"'''

* The announcer from ''[[Unreal Tournament (Video Game)|Unreal Tournament]]'' was so memorable, the voice clip was stolen for ''[[Warcraft 3]]'' genre-changing mod ''[[Defense of the Ancients]]''.

** [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|OWNING!!!]]

* Mickey Cantor in ''[[Monday Night Combat]]'', who is a direct descendant of Andres Cantor, the soccer announcer pictured at the top of the page. Not only is he an extremely energetic play-by-play announcer ("It's kill city out there, fans! The mortality rate is at an all time HI-OOOH!"), he's also an expert corporate mouthpiece ("Aptilube! Patience, practice and persistence now come in bottle form!"). He seems to especially enjoy encouraging the pros -- andpros—and any fans who happen to have brought their sniper rifles from home -- tohome—to kill MNC mascot Bullseye.

{{quote| "ULTIMATE CHARGE!"}}

* ''[[X -Men Legends]]'' has one. "COMBO!"

{{quote| '''Computer''': PRRRRROCESSING!}}

* ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' has Spike, who through the course of the first season discovers his enjoyment of announcing things like footraces {{spoiler|and/or fisticuffs (hooficuffs?)}} and fashion shows. He takes great pride and [[Large Ham|hamminess]] in this.

* In the early days of radio and television, ''all'' newscasters were [[Large Ham|hammy]]. Today this behavior is restricted to sports commentators. And newscasters who used to be sports commentators .<ref>eg [[Keith Olbermann]].</ref>.

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