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->'''Tom Smith''': "[[RageBreakingPoint Chocolate?! CHOCOLATE!'']] '''''CHOOOOCOOOOOOLAAAAAATE!'''''"
-->-- '''[[RecurringExtra Tom Smith the Fish]]''', ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants''

--->'''Man''': "COME ON ENGLAND! '''COME ON ENGLAND!''' '''''WOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAOOOOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUGH!!'''''"

* Music/{{Nightwish}}'s vocalist, Floor Jansen, can and will come up with grandiose belting and screams from time to time, especially during [[https://youtu.be/4V_eoR6r1Tw?t=8m7s live performances]].

->'''Tom Smith''': ''"Chocolate?'' Did you say '''chocolate''''?!"

->'''Tom Smith''': ''"Chocolate? Did you say ''''chocolate''''?!"

->'''Tom Smith''': ''"Chocolate? Did you say ''''chocolate''''?!"\\
'''Patrick Star''': "Yes sir, with or without nuts!"\\
'''Tom Smith''': "[[RageBreakingPoint Chocolate?! CHOCOLATE!'']] '''''CHOOOOCOOOOOOLAAAAAATE!'''''"

->'''Patrick Star''': "Yes sir, with or without nuts!"
->'''Tom Smith''': "[[RageBreakingPoint Chocolate?! CHOCOLATE!'']] '''''CHOOOOCOOOOOOLAAAAAATE!'''''"

->''"Chocolate? Did you say ''''chocolate''''?!"\\
"Chocolate?! CHOCOLATE!'' '''''CHOOOOCOOOOOOLAAAAAATE!'''''"

[[folder:Video Games]]
* Any scene featuring Nightmare in ''[[VideoGame/SoulSeries SoulCalibur]]''.
--> '''''"YES! YES! THIS IS IT!"'''''
--> '''''"MY THIRST... IS ENDLESS!"'''''
--> '''''"SOULS! COME UNTO ME!"'''''
* Possibly in an incredibly strange homage to ''Theatre/AStreetcarNamedDesire'', normally nonham Senel from ''VideoGame/TalesOfLegendia'' screams "STELLAAAAAAAAAAA" at one point in the game in a very over the top manner.
* Joneleth Irenicus, BigBad of ''VideoGame/BaldursGateII'', has less screentime than most {{Big Bad}}s, but damn does he make up for it.
* ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry'':
** ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry1'': "I should have been the one to fill your dark soul with LIGHT!"
** Between the two of them, in ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry4'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySY5YMoBp7c Dante and Agnus manage to masticate the entire cathedral]] while having a serious discussion on the nature of man.
** Even the most [[WorldOfHam ridiculously hammy dialogue]] of the [[VideoGame/DevilMayCry3DantesAwakening third game]] managed to remain believable. You'd think [[MagnificentBastard Arkham's]] ''[[MeaningfulName very name]]'' would be quite a clue; [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvmHdEkwNf8 behold.]] [[note]][[GeniusBonus Not to mention that "ark" is pronounced like the Greek-originated prefix "arch" which means "highest".]][[/note]]
* ''VideoGame/SengokuBasara'' is the such a samurai WorldOfHam, it's a wonder there's any scenery left. There's Mouri's ''"I AM THE CHILD OF THE SUN, NOW COOOOOOME!!"'', and Nobunaga's ''"I AM THE DEVIL KING OF THE SIXTH HEAVEN!!!'' (plus he's played by Creator/NorioWakamoto). But even the other voice actors have expressed respect and sympathy for Soichiro Hoshi who voices HotBlooded Yukimura who has NoIndoorVoice and who really, really, really loves his '''''"OYAKATA-SAMAAAAAAAAA!!!!!"'''''
* ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'': Despite being a giant tentacle corpse monster thing, the Gravemind eats ''everything'' it can find, including the scenery. And it [[GratuitousIambicPentameter often speaks in trochaic heptameter]] (which actually matters, given Creator/{{Bungie}}'s self-acknowledged [[ArcNumber obsession with the number seven]]).
* ''VideoGame/{{Ace Combat 6|FiresOfLiberation}}'': ''"MAAAAATILDAAAAAAAAA!"'' That scene was then {{MST}}ed with hilarious results by ''WebVideo/{{Unskippable}}''. Which was beautifully parodied even more with the plane crash in the opening of ''VideoGame/{{Haze}}'', also by the ''Unskippable'' lads.
* Kane from ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquer''. Every scene involving him has some of the most awesomely bombastic, larger-than-life acting one could ask for. Hell, in the intro to ''Kane's Wrath'', his pre-battle speech comes complete with ''explosions'', ''thunder'', and ''earthquakes''. ''[[VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert3 Red Alert 3]]'' goes for a WorldOfHam with Creator/TimCurry as the Soviet Premier, Creator/GeorgeTakei is the Japanese Emperor and J.K. Simmons as the American President. The only denser concentration of ham is a purely theoretical double act with Creator/WilliamShatner and Creator/{{BRIAN BLESSED}}. Adding Wrestling/RicFlair in the mission pack is the icing on this ham-cake. The funny thing is, he's actually fairly quiet and charismatic in a completely different way (with one memorable lapse) throughout the original game. Not that anybody's complaining either way.
** Curry's performance in ''3'' went so over the top that he made ''himself'' [[{{Corpsing}} corpse]] [[https://youtu.be/niZpcdp2v34 in one particular scene]].
--->'''Premier Cherdenko''': Commander! You've rained on my glorious parade! For this, I'm sending everything I got at you, but I won't let you have the satisfaction of catching me. I'm escaping to the one place that hasn't been corrupted by capitalism... SPACE!
* ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots''. The whole thing. Double points for any scene with Liquid Ocelot, who can blow things up by [[GivingSomeoneThePointerFinger pointing at them dramatically]]. He Points. Bang. ''*Helicopters falls out of sky*''; Pulls his other arm up as everyone is collapsing, and starts to make MACHINE GUN noises! " ''BANGBANGBANGBANG..."''
** Also right after the Metal Gear fight when the game does a modern version of the end of the first game with "Fox..." "...Die!" [[spoiler: Liquid jumps up, says, "Not this time!" then giggles and dances around like a little girl before running away.]]
** Then there's "'''''SSSSSNNNNNNAAAAAAAAAAKKKKKEEEEEE!'''''! from everyone. There are other overly acted out scenes but they never really yell.
---> ''[+Behold! GUNS of the PATRIOTS!+]''
** By no means is this limited to the fourth installment:
---> "What was she fighting for? What am I fighting for? WHAT ARE YOU FIGHTING FFOOOORR?!?"
** Although Raiden only turned into a LargeHam in ''[[VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance Revengeance]]'', a specific slip from him in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty'' is one of the biggest {{Memetic Mutation}}s in the ''entire'' [[VideoGame/MetalGear series]].
---> Colonel? I've got Emma Emerich here... '''We've managed to avoid [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohDvQGGZzfI DROWNING!]]'''
** ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVThePhantomPain'' has a darker story than previous instalments, but by no means does this decrease the amount of ham:
---> Such a ''lust'' for revenge... '''''WHOOOOOOOOO?!'''''
* ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'' is full of them.
** Barry "Jill Sandwich" Burton from the original UsefulNotes/PlayStation version is a prime example.
---> "It's Forrest! Oh my [[labelnote:COD]] GOD[[/labelnote]]!"
---> "''Just - take - a - look - at - '''THIS!'''''"
---> "Run Jill! He's insane!"
** The Raccoon City Police Chief: "But you're not leaving my town! Everyone's gonna DIE!".
** Wesker (or "''[[SayMyName WESKERRRRR!!]]") has some of the most over-the-top villainous monologues ''ever.''
** ''[=RE4=]'' wasn't so bad and never had anything over-the-top, but ''[=RE5=]'' has Chris overacting every scene. Wesker's gem monologues are good, and become awesome when he throws his glasses at Chris so he can punch him whilst he's distracted!
---> "Seven minutes is all I can spare to play with you."
---> "CHHHRRIIIISSS!!!! SSSHHHEEEVVVVVAAAA!!!!!" EEEXXXXCCCCEEELLLLLAAAAAA!!!
---> "Uroboros will be released into the atmosphere, ensuring ''complete, GLOBAL, '''SATURATION'''''".
* ''VideoGame/MegaManX'':
** Zero's infamous [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LISmPmdUhYA WHATAMIFIGHTINGFOOOOOOOOOOORRRAAAAGH!!!!]]. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lf-JE2FKD-k Recently redubbed]].
** In ''[[VideoGameRemake Maverick Hunter X]]'', X prepares for his climactic battle with Sigma by [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mg37WizMc0M vigorously devouring the scenery]]. It's actually quite chilling. Possibly justified by the fact that the Vile battle (and Zero's fate) were shifted from the first Sigma stage to the third, meaning that X had just watched Zero die minutes before, not a whole fortress ago, and therefore the pain and fury are nice and fresh.
* Practically all of ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaSymphonyOfTheNight''. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMTizJemHO8 Most known for this one]]. The dialogue was completely redone in the PSP port ''The Dracula X Chronicles'' (which also included ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaRondoOfBlood''), [[NarmCharm for better or for worse]].
* Sergeant Reznov from ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty: World at War'' must have gotten really hungry after the events of the level "Vendetta", because starting with ''"Their Land, Their Blood"'', he can't stop yelling at his men to keep killing Germans wherever they find them. Commissar Markhov, however, manages to outeat even him, as his [[NoIndoorVoice lack of volume control for his voice]], coupled with the fact that half his lines are spoken from ''a megaphone,'' ensure that he can be heard all the way over in Berlin.
* ''VideoGame/TalesOfVesperia'' has Zagi:
--> "I will carve your NAME into my BLOOOOOOOD!"
%%* All of the assassins in ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes'' at some point. Nathan Copeland, from ''Desperate Struggle'', is one of the best examples.
* The eponymous Kain of the ''VideoGame/LegacyOfKain'' series is [[OurVampiresAreDifferent able to sustain himself on both blood AND scenery]].
* Saavedro in ''VideoGame/MystIIIExile'' is prone to this - his despairing cries when you trap him are particularly gnawful.
* Creator/TonyJay in ''VideoGame/PlanescapeTorment'': "I WILL TEACH YOU MUCH... ''OF PAIN''!"
* Dog gets so much of this in ''VideoGame/HalfLife2'', without even speaking.
* ''VideoGame/MetalWolfChaos'' has the President and Vice President of the United States engaged in HamToHamCombat when battling each other in HumongousMecha.
* ''VideoGame/{{Xenosaga}}''[='=]s Albedo rides the line between this and LargeHam. Margulis also gets a couple of these. They usually involve him screaming "'''[[SayMyName UZUKIIIIIIIIII]]!'''"
* ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'':
** Dremora, a ProudWarriorRace of [[OurDemonsAreDifferent lesser Daedra]] who tend to serve as [[DestroyerDeity Mehrunes Dagon]]'s LegionsOfHell, [[EvilIsHammy ham it up]] throughout the series. They take a [[TookALevelInBadass level in badass]] between ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion Oblivion]]'' and ''Skyrim'', which is accompanied by a level in ham, as well.
--->''"I honor my lord, by '''destroying you!'''"''
** ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]]'' has the infamous Heimskr, a priest of Talos who preaches in Whiterun's Wind district. His repeating spiel has been a source of amusement and annoyance for players since day one.
--->'''Heimskr:''' "We are but '''MAGGOTS,''' '''''WRIIITHING''''' in the '''FILTH''' of our own '''CORRUPTION!''' While you have ascended from the '''DUNG''' of mortality, and now walk among the '''STARS!'''"
* Even in the WorldOfHam that is the ''VideoGame/DynastyWarriors'' series, Lu Bu's reaction when you kill his {{Love Interest|s}} Diao Chan stands out.
--> "Diao Chan! Ohhh, ''Diao Chan!!''"
* [[Creator/ScottMcNeil Scott McNeil]]'s performance as the Psychopath Antoine in ''VideoGame/DeadRising2'':
--> '''HOW DARE YOU?! I AM ANTOINE!''' '''''I AM THE KING OF CUISINE!!!'''''
* ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'': [[BigBad Master Xehanort.]] Bonus points for being voiced by Creator/LeonardNimoy and Creator/ChikaoOhtsuka. His various incarnations too.
--> KINGDOM HEARTS! [[LargeHam FILL ME WITH THE POWER OF DARKNESS!!!]]
--> '''DARKNESS CONQUERS ALL WORLDS!!!'''
--> '''VoiceOfTheLegion:''' "This [[spoiler:Χ-blade]] will open a door, one that leads to ''ALL WORLDS!'' Then, Keyblade-bearing warriors will flock here from each and every one of them, ''to battle for the light within KINGDOM HEARTS!'' And just like the legend says, ''the Keyblade War will BEGIN!''"
* Lani Minella:
** She reached the pinnacle of this trope with the undead dragon queen Sindragosa in VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft.
** Her voice acting as Adria in ''VideoGame/{{Diablo}}'':
---> '''Adria:''' The Butcher '''IS A SADISTIC CREATURE'''...
* Just about ''every'' boss in ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'', but Yogg-Saron wins by being ''made of mouths to chew with.''
--> '''BBBOOOONNNNNEEEEEESSSSSTTTTOOORRRMMMMMM!''
* Ganon in ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaCDiGames Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaCDiGames Link: The Faces of Evil]]'':
--> '''Ganon:''' You DARE bring light to mah LAIR?! '''[[IllKillYou YOU MUST DIE!!!]]'''\\\
'''Ganon:''' [[WeCanRuleTogether Join me, Link. And I will make your face the grrrreatest in Korridai!]] Or else you will DIE!
* ''VideoGame/SinAndPunishmentStarSuccessor'':
-->My blood... [[HotBlooded IS ON FIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEE!]]
* ''VideoGame/DestroyAllHumans'': RADIOACTIVE [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot EXPLODING]] [[EverythingsDeaderWithZombies ZOMBIE]] [[{{Irony}} COWS]]!!!!
* From ''VideoGame/AsurasWrath'': Gongen Wyzen. "AAASSHHUUURRAAA THE TRAITOR!!! AAAASSSSHHUUURRRAAA THE DESTRUCTOR!!! YOU DO NOT BELONG TO THIS WORLD!!! (Commences finger poke of doom) DDDDDDDDDIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!"
* ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'':
** Dr. Eggman was having way too much fun at the beginning of VideoGame/SonicAdventure. "''You know '''NOTHING''', fools!'' It's ''Chaos'', the '''GOD'' of '''DESTRUCTION'''!!! '''MUAHAHAHAHAHA'''!!!" In ''VideoGame/SonicGenerations'', [[spoiler:even his past self is thrown off by his scenery chewing tendencies.]]
** Also, the AntiClimaxBoss of ''VideoGame/SonicHeroes'', the Metal Overlord comes out with such gems as "This victory shall soon turn into DESPAAAAAIIIIRRR!!!", "IT'S! TOO! LAAATE!!" and, of course, "BUUURRNNN! TOOOOO DEEEAAATTHHH!!!", complete with voice echo! What's more, he is ACTUALLY eating the ship while he's on while doing so (implied). What's more, he gets worse after he takes off!
* Mike Toreno tends to do this in his ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas'' cutscenes. Even more so when [[spoiler:he phones CJ repeatedly to "motivate" him to get his pilot's license, having survived the helicopter explosion]].
* Loghain in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins''. Who, unsurprisingly, shares a voice actor with [[VideoGame/LegacyOfKain Kain]]. Simon Templeman seems to subsist on a steady diet of scenery whenever he's voicing a game character. Not that anyone's complaining.
* The Arishok in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'' when Hawke gets in a duel with him. Snarky!Hawke him/herself gets in on the act in the "Mark of the Assassin" DLC where s/he decides that the only way to act like a noble is to be as over-the-top and obnoxious as possible.
* In Tali's loyalty mission in ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'', [[TheParagon Paragon Shepard]] can approach the Admiralty Board to defend her with an impassioned speech. If you're playing as female Shepard, Creator/JenniferHale simply ''demolishes'' the scenery and then spits what's left of the Migrant Fleet out into your stunned face.
* Every villain in the ''VideoGame/ProfessorLayton'' series (Don Paolo, [[spoiler:Anton, Clive and Descole]]) has one thing in common: at some point in their game/movie, they will shout Layton's name very loud.
-->'''LLLLLAAAAAYYYYYTTTTTOOOOONNNNN!!!!!'''
* Cyril Kalmar in ''VideoGame/{{Rift}}'', at least in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFfuGW1LvmY Guardian intro cinematic.]]
--> "You are our salvation. '''You are a ''Guardian''!'''"
* Kefka in ''VideoGame/DissidiaFinalFantasy'', with an encore in its sequel Duodecim. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PG7lvNkyPZs A sample of what I mean.]]
* Parodied in ''VideoGame/SaintsRowTheThird'' by Josh Birk/Nyte Blade.
--> '''Birk:''' '''"MARIOOOOOOOOOOOOOON!"'''
* The news anchor from ''VideoGame/BillNyeTheScienceGuyStopTheRock'', played by Pat Cashman of ''Series/AlmostLive'' and ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosBrawl'' narration fame, ''loves'' this trope. Best exemplified by his screaming rant on Day 5:
--> '''''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis ...with winds! Exceeding! 250 Miles! An hour!]] So have a nice evening!''''' [calms down] ''And...'''good night!'''''
* Hakeev in ''VideoGame/StarTrekOnline''. By the time Obisek/the Romulan PC finally kills him, it's questionable if there's a piece of scenery in the entire ''Beta Quadrant'' without teeth marks on it.
-->"This isn't over! When the '''''Iconians''''' get here--"
* Councilor Vay Hek from ''VideoGame/{{Warframe}}'' takes NoIndoorVoice to a whole new level. Perhaps it's to make up for being just a degraded clone head kept alive by inferior Grineer life support machinery...
--> '''Vay Hek:''' '''''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOygJJ7Zudk DID YOU REALLY BELIEVE... IT WOULD BE... THIS... EASY!?!?]]'''''
* Pretty much every character in ''VideoGame/{{Battleborn}}'' Applies, Although Ambra in particular would like to remind you to WASH your FILTHY HANDS.
* Lara Croft in ''VideoGame/TombRaiderLegend'' is normally calm and snarky, but after beating the FinalBoss and confronting her [[WeUsedToBeFriends former friend Amanda]], Lara is suddenly ''extremely'' pissed towards her, thinking that she was the one that caused the death of Lara's mom in the past. Lara starts yelling at her in a way that sounds more hilarious than dramatic.
--> '''Lara''': All these years I blamed myself... and it was YOU! You killed her!
--> '''Amanda''': Killed her!? She's not dead! She went where I was supposed to go, where ''you'' could have gone!
--> '''Lara''': [[DramaticGunCock *cocks and aims her guns at Amanda*]] Make sense right this second or I WILL EXECUTE YOU WHERE YOU STAND!
--> '''Amanda''': I told you to pull out the sword! I told you--
--> '''Lara''': [[PunctuatedForEmphasis WHERE! *BANG* IS! *BANG* MY! *BANG* MOTHER!?!]]
* The announcer in ''VideoGame/SpinRhythmXD'' loves to shout:
** the [[TitleScream title]].
--> '''Announcer''': [[TitleDrop Spiiiiin Rhythm!]]
** your scoring rank.
--> '''Announcer''': Brilliant! (For the B rank.)
** your new record.
--> '''Announcer''': New Record!
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* Ren from ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'' in almost every episode. '''"[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FT4YbO_1mvA What do you MEAN you don't agree with me?! DO YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE DEALING WITH??!!!!]]"'''
** "''Do you have to keep tapping like that?!'' You bloated sack of protoplasm!"
** From the episode ''Stimpy's Fan Club''':
---> '''Ren:''' "I... I was nice today. Nice to all those insipid little monkeys... Answering their ''stupid'' letters. My hands... DIRTY! THE DIRT WON'T COME OFF! '''''AAAAAAAHHHH!''''' [Lying in bed] President... What a joke. President... President of WHAT?! [Enviously looking over at Stimpy] ''His'' fan club?! How they love ''him''! Look at him, lying there asleep. [Creeps over to Stimpy's side] The idol of millions. He's a fool! A blind, silly little fool. How easily I could end the farce... With these hands! These DIRTY hands! '''AND WITH THESE HANDS I HOLD THE FATE OF MILLIONS!!!''' They think he's a ''god''... But he's as mortal as we. I know! [Visually drawing a dotted line along Stimpy's neck] Just... One... Quick...'''''TWIST!''''' And it's over... Just one... Just... [a single hair on Ren's head twitches] '''''AAAAH! IT'S HAPPENING AGAIN!!! MY BRAIN!!! MY HOT... STINGING... BRAAAAAIIIINNN!!!! WHAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!! WHAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!! [[RuleOfThree WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!]]'''''"
** For the ''LAST'' TIME! I! WANT YOU! TO BE! '''''QUIET'''''!!!!!
** "It is not '''I''' who am crazy. It is I who am '''''mad'''''!"
** "Oh no! I know what you want! '''''YOU COVETETH MY ICE CREAM BAR!'''''"
** "I've had this ice cream bar since I was a '''CHILD!!''' PEOPLE! ALWAYS TRYING TO TAKE IT FROM ME! '''''WHY WON'T THEY LEAVE ME, AAAALOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONNNEEEEEEEE!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?'''''
** "'''''YOU FILTHY SWINE!''''' I WILL '''''KILL''''' YOU!!!!"
** Stimpy sometimes slips into this on a few occasions, with the most notable scenery-chewing moment being his crying at the beginning of the ''[[WesternAnimation/RenAndStimpyAdultPartyCartoon Adult Party Cartoon]]'' episode "Ren Seeks Help".
** We only hear singer Stinky Whizzleteats on a record in "Stimpy's Invention" but he also qualifies: "I told ya I'd shoot! But you didn't believe me! '''''WHY DIDN'T YOU BELIEVE ME?!'''''"
* Sweet holy mother of Glob, Creator/JustinRoiland's ''gorgeous'' performance as Lemongrab in ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime''. He didn't chew the scenery- he completely DEVOURED IT! And he came back a year later later to reprise the role, HUNGRY FOR MORE SCENERY TO RAVENOUSLY FEAST UPON!
-->'''Lemongrab:''' This castle Is... In... UNACCEPTABLE CONDITION! ''UNACCEPTABUUUL!!!''
-->'''Lemongrab:''' NO ONE... NO ONE UNDERSTANDS! I AM ALONE! AND YOU MADE ME LIKE THIS! YOU MADE MEEE! '''YOOOU MAAADE MEEE!!!''' YOU'RE... MY... GLOB! '''YOU'RE MY GLOB!!!'''
** In the words of Tom Herpich (one of the two writers of Lemongrab's episodes) on Justin's performance as Lemongrab: "He crushed it perfectly."
** There are some scenery-chewing moments with Jeremy Shada as Finn:
-->'''Finn:''' I'LL KILL YOU, LUMPY SPAAACE!!!
** And also Creator/TomKenny as the Ice King:
-->'''Ice King:''' I have powers, TOO, you BUTTS!
* ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'': HE IS '''ZIM!!!'''
--> '''''FOOLISH EARTH PIGS!!'''''
--> '''''LIES!''''' THIS FILTHY EARTH BOY '''''LIES!'''''
--> No! You lie! YOU '''LIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIE!'''
** ''Any'' character voiced by Richard Steven Horvitz will chew the scenery given half a chance.
--> "But, invader's blood marches through my veins, like giant RADIOACTIVE RUBBER PANTS! THE PANTS COMMAND ME! DO NOT IGNORE MY VEINS!"
* [[spoiler:The vampire Joker]] is like this constantly in ''WesternAnimation/TheBatmanVsDracula'', constantly screaming and moaning and even once said the titular line, right before eating a cockroach.
* Creator/MarkHamill's Fire Lord Ozai in ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', particularly in the series finale War Room meeting. In fact, any of Hamill's villains could fit on this page, especially the Joker in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' and the Hobgoblin in ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries''.
* Professor Dementor in ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' was created with this trope in mind.
* ''WesternAnimation/XMenTheAnimatedSeries'':
** Henry Gyrich was always a little unhinged, but his appearance in the last episode shot him straight into scenery-chewing territory. Acoustic feedback from his microphone fails to slow him down. By the end of the scene, for the character's swan song, Barry Flatman shifts gears from merely chewing the scenery to practically ''devouring'' it.
** Storm was wondering if you could MEET HER AT THE MONORAIL!
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Metalocalypse}}'':
--> "I LOVE BEING MOTIVATED! '''[[SeriousBusiness I LOVE BEING MOTIVATED!!!]]'''"
-->"WE'RE HERE TO MAKE EVERYTHING METAL! BLACKER THAN THE BLACKEST BLACK TIMES INFINITY!"
-->"CA-CA-CA-YEAAAAAH! IT'S ME DOCTOR ROCKZO THE ROCK 'N ROLL CLOOOOWWWWWWN! YOU KNOW WHAT I DO BA-BA-BA-BABY?! I DO COCAAAAAAINE! CA-CA-CA-YEAH! COCAINE!"
* Calculon of ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' and his '''[[BadBadActing UNHOLY ACTING TALENT]]''':
--> '''[[MemeticMutation UNHOLY ACTING DOES NOT WORK THAT WAY! GOOD NIGHT!]]'''
--> ROOOOOOOBOOOOOOOT HOOOOOOUUUUUSEEE!
* Decepticons in ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'' are prone to scenery-chewing:
--> '''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwAjddZzNqI YOU INTERRUPTED MY SPEEEEECH!]]''' But don't worry. [[TheStarscream It won't happen again.]]
** Lugnut. Especially with anything in regard to his ''[[MemeticMutation GLORIOUS]]'' leader.
--> '''"STASIS LOCK ITSELF COULD NOT DETER ME FROM YOUR GRAND AND GLORIOUS PLAN! OH WISE AND NOBLE MEGATRON!"'''
* ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks'': '''FUCK YOUR COURT, NYUKKA!'''
** Colonel [[MeaningfulName Stinkmeaner]] is probably the best example.
--> "Bitch ass, punk ass, faggot ass, pussy ass, BITCH ASS NIGGA!"
--> "NIGGA! You better have insurance! Ass-whooping insurance! [[PreAssKickingOneLiner And you're about to pay a DEDUCTIBLE!"]]
--> "Who in the hell parked in my spot! That's like calling 1-800-COLLECT-AN-ASS-WHOOPIN', but NO, that ain't no toll-free call!"
** Gin Rummy is a frequent culprit as well. Being voiced by Samuel L. Jackson probably makes it more severe
--> "I'd be dead on his ass like Spenser For fuckin' Hire. I'll hunt him down and feed him his own testicles. And I'll do it in a jiffy. And I don't care if his mama there, his grandmama, innocent bystanders, little kids, baby-sitters, bill collectors. Whatever! ''I'll leave his whole block filled with hot brass if I have to. And you know why?'' '''BECAUSE I JUST DON'T GIVE A FUCK!'''
* My ability of chewing the scenery must be the work of...'''[[WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents FAIRY GOD PARENTS!]]'''
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSpectacularSpiderMan'':
** "'''SILENCE YOU IMPERIOUS ''MORON''!'''" Oh, Doc Ock. You shift between this and a boderline CreepyMonotone so well it's almost scary. It should be noted this is [[IncomingHam his first line after officially becoming a villain]].
** "WE'RE '''VENOM'''!!!"
** "MYSTERIO, MASTER OF THE ARCAAANAAA!"
* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'':
** [[LampshadeHanging Notably lampshaded]] in an episode where Cyborg gets a virus that messes with his programming. As a result, he ''literally'' starts eating the scenery...[[HilarityEnsues you can guess what happens]].
** Whenever Slade gets pissed. For example: "But the only thing you care about are your '''WORTHLESS LITTLE''' '''''FRIENDS!'''''"
** "[[SeriousBusiness YOU! RUINED! MY! DRESS!]]"
* ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerryTheMovie'': "We've [[MemeticMutation GOT]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoYWdHe4tQ4 to have]]......'''MONAY'''!!!"
* He is the [[CatchPhrase Terror that Flaps in the Night]]. He is the Caped Crusader who chomps chewy chunks from the scenery as he counters cheesy chumps. He is [[{{Beat}} ...]] ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck!'' Every single character on the show has moments of this. One especially cheesy episode lampshades this trope by showcasing a giant space slug which chews up the set in the background. Darkwing (of course) thinks it's [[HypocriticalHumor ridiculous]].
* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': Some of the characters Trey plays can leave a hole in the scenery.
** Cartman lives and breathes this:
-->'''Cartman''': [[PunctuatedForEmphasis I... AM...]] '''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis GOD!!!]]'''
** Randy. Constantly. In later episodes.
** Unusually, Mr. Mackey in "Royal Pudding".
-->'''Mr. Mackey''': ''(to [[NoRespectGuy Kyle]], taking over Ike's role as Tooth Decay)'' You call rolling your fat ass out on the stage and lazily blurting out your lines like a turtle takin' a [[PrecisionFStrike shit]], '''YOU CALL THAT TRYIN'?!'''
* ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars''. Three words. '''FOR THE ROYALTY!!!'''
** Well before Inferno, dear old Megatron proved that you don't have to [[NoIndoorVoice constantly lose control of your volume]] in order to devour the scenery; simply speaking in a more grandiose fashion than a trained Shakespearean actor among a troop of cretinous morons and one [[TheStarscream expectedly duplicitous spider]], oftentimes using [[SesquipedalianLoquaciousness unnecessarily long words]], and occasionally while doing things like [[FunnyBackgroundEvent brushing the teeth of your giant T-Rex head for an arm]]. Probably to clean the bits of scenery out of it, [[VerbalTic yyyeeeeessss]].
*** In the Season 2 finale, Megatron proves you can chew the scenery without saying a word, making his entrance by mugging for the camera while planting his foot on someone he'd just shot.
** ''Beast Wars'' is very much a WorldOfHam, with most of the Predacons, and even some of the Maximals, gnawing on the early-CGI landscape.
* Aku from ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'': "Samurai, samurai. [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Why.]] [[LargeHam Won't.]] [[WhyWontYouDie You.]] '''''[[NoIndoorVoice DIIIIIEEEE?!]]'''''"
** "...and '''GREAT FLAAAMMING EYEBROWS!'''"
* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'' Seriously, is there a single character who isn't Hammy to the extreme?
* Benson from ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'', big time, but only when provoked.
* Binky the Clown from ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'' spends the whole time screaming, to the point where there were shorts called "SCREAMING WITH BINKY". The cartoon played this for laughs quite often; at one point he was temporarily given a job as a newscaster, where he kept his signature mannerisms.
** "HEY!!! I WANT MY PANTS BACK!!!!"
--->'''Garfield''': "After being unable to find work, Binky eventually did what so many other clowns end up doing - he went into politics."
* ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'':
** Robotnik from ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog'' often overdoes his lines, like here.
--->'''Robotnik''': Why is my precious rocket ship drifting off into deep space?! Why am I reaching you at the coordinates of the abandoned space station?! WHY?! WHY?! WHHYYY?!
** In the ''WesternAnimation/SonicBoom'' episode "The Meteor", Sonic and Eggman [[FreakyFridayFlip end up swapping bodies]]. The real kicker? They keep their original voices. When Sonic speaks with Eggman's ham and inflections, he pulls out all the stops.
* Hank Hill from ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'':
** '''LOSER! YOU'RE A LOSER!''' ARE YOU FEELING SORRY FOR YOURSELF?! WELL YOU SHOULD BE, 'CAUSE YOU ARE '''DIRT'''! YOU MAKE ME '''SICK''' YOU BIG BABY! BABY WANT A BOTTLE? A BIG '''DIRT BOTTLE?!'''
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'':
** Rarity. Oh so very much. In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E23InspirationManifestation Inspiration Manifestation]]", You can almost imagine Tabitha St. Germain desperately trying to hold back the maniacal laughter in her rant at the end, especially with the [[ForDoomTheBellTolls omnious bells]] chiming in the background.
--->'''Rarity:''' ...until there isn't an inch of Equestria that hasn't been ''utterly transformed by'' '''''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis my! creative! GENIUS!]]'''''
** Also Luna, in "Luna Eclipsed", who combines LargeHam with NoIndoorVoice, GaleForceSound ''and'' FloweryElizabethanEnglish in one package. It probably helps that both she and Rarity are both voiced by Creator/TabithaStGermain.
--->'''Twilight Sparkle:''' Well... you kinda sound like you're yelling at me.\\
'''Luna:''' But this is the traditional Royal Canterlot voice! It is tradition to speak with the [[RoyalWe royal "we"]], and to use '''''[[GaleForceSound THIS MUCH VOLUME WHEN ADDRESSING OUR SUBJECTS]].'''''
** Pinkie Pie. Give her a big enough megaphone, and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Femf0b8PqPI her yelling can]] ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Femf0b8PqPI push back mountains.]]''
** Kathleen Barr does it too. The relevant equation is Trixie + Stage = '''VOLUME'''.
** You wouldn't think [[ShrinkingViolet Fluttershy]] would ever chew the scenery, right? [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwp60eYuie0 Wrong]]! Of course, she's suffered SanitySlippage leading up to this.
* ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' "Say my name! ''[[SayMyName SAY MY NAAAAAAME!]]''"
--> "[[PunctuatedForEmphasis I! AM!]] [[NoIndoorVoice NOT! A! FROOT! LOOP!]]"
--> "[[ButtMonkey IIIIII AM THE BOX GHOST!!]] ''[[CatchPhrase BEWARE!]]''"
* In ''WesternAnimation/ThunderCats2011'', Will Friedle is clearly getting ''very'' into it whenever his Lion-O recites the famous, "Thunder! ''Thunder!'' '''Thundercats!''' '''''HO!'''''" BattleCry. In fact, it sounds like he's trying to ''roar'' the line more often than not.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''
** Sideshow Mel is all over this trope. [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Every. Single. Line.]]
** In the episode "Behind the Laughter" during the period where the family split up to pursue solo careers Homer mentions having a short lived stage career where he literally chewed the scenery (as in he ate part of the set).
* Zoe from ''WesternAnimation/{{Littlest Pet Shop|2012}}'' not only chews the scenery, she sets it ''on fire''.
-->"''GAIL'S TRAPPED INSIDE'' '''''THE LARGEST EVER PET SHOP!!!!!'''''"
* Dill from ''WesternAnimation/StickinAround''...actually, scratch that, because saying that he's chewing the scenery would be '''''the {{understatement}} of the CENTURY.'''''
-->"'''''HOLYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY MACKEREL!!!!!!!!!!!!'''''"
* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse''
** Peridot has two sides to her personality: the cold and overly rational DeadpanSnarker side and the hammy side.
--->"''Freedom is MINEEEEEEEEE!!!!''"\\
"'''''DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIED DIE DIE DIE DIE!!!!!!!!'''''"\\
"Pff, who cares about how SHE feels? '''''WHO CARES ABOUT ANY OF YOU?!!!! YOU'RE ALL JUST ROCKS, RUDDY MUDDY CLODS BENEATH MY GRAVITY CONNECTORS!!!!! GHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUGH!!!!!!'''''"
** Pearl also has some moments of this.
--->"WE'LL NEVER ESCAPE!!! '''''THIS IS OUR NEW HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOME!!!!!'''''"\\
"''I'M NOT OVERREACTING!!!!!!!'' '''''GHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA...!!!!!!!!!'''''"\\
"'''''[[BadBadActing Of ALLLLLLLL INDIGNITIES!!!!!!!! Do what you want- I'll NEVER talk!!!]]'''''"
** Ronaldo's full character consists of pure ham. He's a bad case of NoIndoorVoice
--->"Jane!! '''''MY OHIME-SAMAAAAAAAAAAAAA!'''''"\\
"'''''YOU CAN'T MAKE UP DRAMA THIS GOOD!!!!!'''''"\\
"''WE'RE ABOUT TO WITNESS THE TRUE POWER OF THE'' '''''SUPREMOOOOOOOOOO!!!!'''''"
* Both Creator/TimCurry and Creator/TressMacNeille in ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndTheWitchsGhost'' as Ben and Sara Ravencroft:
-->'''Ben''': You should SERVE ME!!!!!\\
'''Sara''': I SERVE NO ONE!!!!!!!!!\\
'''Ben''': But I have THE BOOK!!!!! And I will return you back INTO THE BOOK!!!!
** God, almost anything that comes out of Sara's mouth:
--->'''Sara''': FOOLS!!!!!! I SHALL DESTROY THEE!!!!!!!\\
'''Sara''': I WON'T GO BACK '''ALONE!!!!!!!!!!!'''
* Sea Hawk in ''WesternAnimation/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPower'' has probably significantly lowered Etheria's oceans by ''eating all the islands'' with his overacting. Ironically enough, he's in a more or less confirmed relationship with Mermista, the show's biggest DeadpanSnarker.
-->'''Sea Hawk:''' ''ADVENTURE!''
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[[folder:Real Life]]
* Most politicians have shades of this, especially more than a century ago. You can guess why, in a world without microphones, booming voices and exaggerated mannerisms might be advantages when giving a speech.
** The politicians in the ancient Greek and Roman democracies may have been even more extreme. Unfortunately, for the most part, all we have are the texts of their speeches. There are some descriptions of speeches, however. In particular, we know that Late Republican Rome (around the 1st and 2nd centuries BCE), the most popular speechmaking style, especially in the courts, was the "Asiatic," which called for long speeches with florid language and hand gestures, overemphasized speech, and ManlyTears; when Creator/{{Cicero}} appeared with his SimpleCountryLawyer act, which used a clear style of oratory that got straight to the point, the audience was impressed with the freshness of it. (In Rome, watching trials was a major form of entertainment, and there was no shortage of them--you think modern Americans are litigious? They have nothing on the Romans.)
* Although the movie ''Film/MommieDearest'' seems to have Creator/JoanCrawford thoroughly digesting the scenery, according to her daughter, Christina Crawford, [[RealityIsUnrealistic the performance was understated]].
* UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler tended to do this every time he spoke in public. The movies (like the ''Film/{{Downfall}}'' example above) aren't really that far from the [[TruthInTelevision truth]] this time. Most other dictators have a tendency to indulge in the same style.
** It was Hitler's ranting in the ''Downfall'' movie, coupled with the subtitles and the German, that inspired the Hitler parodies that are popular on the internet.
** Hitler was reputed to do this a bit more literally in less-public venues. William Shirer mentions at one point in ''Berlin Diary'' that in some circles, he was referred to as ''Der Teppich-Fresser'' (the carpet eater), because it was rumored that when he was agitated, he would throw himself to the floor and start chewing the edges of the rugs.
* Somehow, against all logic, '''Creator/BrianBlessed''' has managed to accomplish this in real life. Observe his performance as guest host of ''Series/HaveIGotNewsForYou'', with lines such as '''''"PETROL! WE'RE RUNNING OUT!"''''' and, referring to [[UsefulNotes/GordonBrown the beleaguered Prime Minister Brown]], '''''"[[Film/FlashGordon1980 GORDON'S ALIVE!]]"'''''
* Transylvanian stage actor Gyorgy Kárp, who, among other roles, played [[Film/TwelveAngryMen Juror#3]], is often seen turning red and yelling so loud, it makes you wonder how come he didn't spit out his own lungs.
* UsefulNotes/FidelCastro. He used to deliver speeches taking 3 or 4 hours, even in front of the UsefulNotes/UnitedNations. They weren't quite amused... He was once asked an inane question at a party and spoke for FOUR HOURS without stopping. Dear god man...
* UsefulNotes/NikitaKhrushchev's infamous "We will '''BURY''' you!" speech, as well as a separate incident at the UN where he took off his shoe and started banging it against the table. Though, contrary to public belief, he wasn't [[BeamMeUpScotty saying he would bury the US.]] The speech Khrushchev was giving was not threatening to destroy the US, but that [[HilariousInHindsight communism would outlast capitalism, so the USSR would see the old ways die.]] As in "you will dig your own grave and we'll be the ones to attend your funeral", not ''cause it''.
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[[folder:Film — Animation]]

[[folder:Film — Live-Action]]
* Pervasive during the silent film era. {{Justified|Trope}} in that, because audiences couldn't hear them speak, actors relied on exaggerated facial expressions and gestures to convey emotion.
* ''Film/ForrestGump'' to Jenny, as she's about to leave with her radical lefty boyfriend:
-->'''Forrest:''' You know what I think? I think you, should go back, to Green-Bow, AL-A-BAM-A!
* The waitress in ''Film/MaximumOverdrive'': "WE MADE *YOU*!!!"
* It may be easier to list who doesn't in ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean''.
* ''Franchise/StarTrek'':
** Kirk's infamous "[[TheKhan KHAAAAAAAN!]]" [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRnSnfiUI54 scream]] in ''Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan''. In fact, Creator/WilliamShatner has one of these at least every five minutes, in ''everything'' he's ever done. The Khan thing is actually deliberate, since, if you remember what happens immediately thereafter (that it was all a ruse to make Khan underestimate them), it's made apparent that ''[[JustifiedTrope Kirk]]'' [[JustifiedTrope is the one who is acting]], ''not'' Shatner.
** Meanwhile, in ''Film/StarTrek2009''.....
--->'''''[[SayMyName SPOOOOOOCCCCCCKKKKKKK!!!!!]]'''''\\
'''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Io0OQ2zPS4 FIRE EVERYTHING!]]'''\\
'''I WANT SPOCK DEAD NOW!!!'''
** ''Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness'':
*** Brought back, where the one [[spoiler:to do the "KHAAAAAN!" is ''[[TheStoic Spock]]''!]]
*** [[spoiler: Creator/PeterWeller]] hams it up during his MotiveRant. He also [[MilkingTheGiantCow Milks the Giant Cow]] during this.
----> '''[[spoiler: Admiral Marcus]]''': "War is coming! AND WHO'S GONNA LEAD US?! YOU?! If I'm not in charge, our entire way of life IS DECIMATED! So you want me off this ship, you better KILL ME!"
** It is also so noticeable in Wrath of Khan because it is, by a long shot, Shatner's most restrained performance with this being the one time he goes rather over the top. (Seriously, watch a bunch of Shatner's other stuff, especially in recent years when he has become essentially a parody of himself, and then watch Wrath of Khan, the subtlety he shows is both brilliant and quite shocking giving Shatner's normal acting style.)
*** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAvRBDQqSmY What... doyoumean? I....hadthoughtthatShatner'sstyleofactingwasjust....toomuchforthetime.]] Add movements for more hilarity. Or not.
*** '''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bZKEhgieoc IIIIIIII'MMMMMMM CAPTAIN KIRK!]]'''
*** '''OHH! THE HUMANITY!!!'''
** In ''Film/StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry'', Creator/ChristopherPlummer as Klingon [[BigBad General Chang]] also does his best to out-ham Shatner. Especially in the climax, when he [[ShoutOutToShakespeare endlessly quotes William Shakespeare]] at the top of his lungs, and ''spin in his captain's chair''..
** [[Theatre/JuliusCaesar "CRY HAVOC! AND LET SLIP THE DOGS OF WAR!"]]
---->'''[=McCoy=]:''' I'd give real money if he'd just ''shut up.''
** Averted in ''Film/StarTrekTheMotionPicture'' by everyone. But, this aversion is one of the elements that detractors of the movie tend to point to when referring to this film as a cold, flat experience. In such a case, it could be an example of [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools Tropes Are Not Bad]].
* Creator/MargotKidder in Full Moon Entertainment's ''Film/{{Beanstalk}}'', who gives the characters in ''Film/Troll2'' a serious run for their money.
* Creator/WilliamAtherton as Walter Peck in ''Film/{{Ghostbusters 1984}}'' when he [[spoiler:demands the arrest of the Ghostbusters after forcibly shutting down the containment unit]].
* Alternate Trope Namer via MemeticMutation: The Monster Audrey 2 from ''Film/LittleShopOfHorrors'', whose [[CatchPhrase signature phrase]] is ''"Feed'' Me, Seymour!" played by [[BoisterousBruiser deep-voiced]] and [[MagnificentBastard enthusiastic]] Levi Stubbs.
* ''Film/MortalKombatTheMovie'' has a handful, such as when Sonya gets captured by [[BigBad Shang Tsung]]:
-->"'''NOOOOO!!!!! PUT ME DOOOWWWN!!!'''"
* ''Franchise/TheMatrix''
** Morpheus' speech to Zion in ''Film/TheMatrixReloaded'', although he had good reason to shout as the cave had no PA system.
** [[LargeHam Agent Smith]], especially in his final YouHaveNoChanceToSurvive speech in ''Film/TheMatrixRevolutions''.
* Creator/MelGibson in many movies, especially [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLrrBs8JBQo all the FREEEEEDOOOOOM!!s]]
* Creator/AlPacino in ''Film/TheDevilsAdvocate''. Practically his whole performance, but especially the line "God... is an ''absentee landlord''!"
** Not to mention his final BigNo, which is so massive it basically causes the movie to implode on itself.
** Many, MANY Pacino movies qualify. The final shootout in ''Film/Scarface1983'' comes to mind.
* Creator/MarlonBrando's cry of '''[+"[=STELLaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa=]!"+]''' in ''Theatre/AStreetcarNamedDesire''. Parodied on ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'' with Elaine Benes. Among [[MemeticMutation other places]].
* Creator/DennisHopper's character in ''Film/BlueVelvet'', Frank Booth, provides one of the scarier example of this trope.
* A review of Creator/JeremyIrons in the horrid ''Film/DungeonsAndDragons2000'' film commented he was chewing so much scenery they had to rebuild the sets twice.
* Most Film/JamesBond villains, actually.
** Creator/ChristopherWalken as Max Zorin in ''Film/AViewToAKill''.
** [[Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe Jaws.]] Literally.
** Who can forget Boris Grishenko from ''Film/GoldenEye''? '''''I AM INVINCIBLE!!!'''''
** And Creator/JonathanPryce in ''Film/TomorrowNeverDies''.
** Points have to be given to Creator/StevenBerkoff as General Orlov in ''Film/{{Octopussy}}'' through combining this with the speech patterns of Creator/WilliamShatner and a ludicrously [[JustAStupidAccent over-the-top Russian accent]] to turn a simple military briefing into a gloriously hammy [[CharacterFilibuster rant against Western decadence and spinelessness]], not to mention [[CallingTheOldManOut calling out his top colleague as a coward]] for not following his [[EvilPlan maniacal plan]].
*** This is actually fairly standard for Berkoff. His whole idea of theatre is that it has to be overstated, over the top acting.
* King Leonidas in ''Film/ThreeHundred''. And yes, we ''[[MemeticMutation know]]'' what [[PunctuatedForEmphasis this is]], thank you.
** Blasphemy? Madness? Athens?
** '''NO!'''
* Creator/DanielDayLewis in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1i4cAvR5O3Q every movie he stars in]].
** ''Film/ThereWillBeBlood'':
*** "I. Drink. Your. MILKSHAKE! *slllluuurrrrrpppp!* '''Film/ThereWillBeBlood I DRINK IT UP!!'''"
*** "'''I'VE ABANDONED MY CHILD!!!! I'VE ABANDONED MY BOY!'''"
*** "'''BASTARD IN A BASKET! BASTARD IN A BASKET!'''"
*** "'''DRAAAAIIIINAAAAGE!'''"
** ''Theatre/TheCrucible'':
*** "BECAUSE IT IS MY NAAAAAME! Because I cannot have another in my liiife! Because I lie and sign myself to lies! Because I am not worth the dust on the feet of them that hang! How may I live without my name? I have given you my soul; '''LEAVE ME MY NAAAAAAAME!'''"
*** [[PunctuatedForEmphasis '''SHE'S! A! WHOOOOOOOOOOOORE!!!!"]]
*** I SAY GOD IS DEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAD!
** ''Film/GangsOfNewYork'':
*** "What'll it be, boys? '''RIB OR CHOP? [[TheButcher LOIN OR]] [[LargeHam SHANK]]?"'''
** ''Film/LastOfTheMohicans'':
*** "You STAY ALIVE! [[IWillFindYou I WILL FIND YOU]]. No matter how long it takes, no matter how faaaar!"
* ''Franchise/StarWars'':
** Darth Vader's BigNo [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWaLxFIVX1s at the end]] of ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith''. Also added to the UsefulNotes/BluRay release of ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'', [[spoiler:in the scene where Palpatine tries to electrocute Luke]], to the chagrin of much of the fan base. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkPKZhXth7M One even parodied it in a YouTube video.]]
** In general, Creator/IanMcDiarmid gives a relatively subdued performance as Palpatine. But once the charades are dropped in episode 3, and the Jedi know he's a Sith lord, [[EvilIsHammy it's time to wolf down the scenery like there's no tomorrow]]. This is the real reason most of the movie was CGI: he devoured all the sets!
*** '''"[[EvilOverlord POWWWWWWAAAAAHHHH!!!!]] [[DrunkOnTheDarkSide UNNNNN-LIMITED..POWWWWWWAAAAAAHHHH!!!!]] "'''
*** Playing bumper cars with the Galactic Senate boxes while [[EvilLaugh cackling like a loon]] has to count, too.
** Luke during the entire LukeIAmYourFather scene. "He told me enough! He told me you killed him! (...) No... that's not true! That's ''impossible!'' (...) [[BigNo NOOOOOOOOO! noooooo...]]"
** Many of Anakin's lines in ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'' are either this, garbage, or just plain normal, depending on your point of view. But a special mention goes to his confession on Tatooine:
-->''[[https://youtu.be/w685Cy0f53Q?t=125 I... I killed them. I killed them all. They're dead. Every single one of them''. And not just the men, but the women, and the children, too. They're like animals, and I slaughtered them like animals! I ''hate'' them!]]''
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPhHl2DpD4E Armitage Hux's big speech]] in ''Film/TheForceAwakens''. It's like he walked up to one of the cameras, yanked the film right out of it and proceeded to gnaw and chew the shit out of it for over two minutes.
* Any time Harvs and Batsy are within a hundred feet of each other in ''Film/TheDarkKnight'' turns into this. (One expected them to break out the BigNo, but [[BigNo NOOOOOO]]...)
** Well, Harvey did, Batman was just a little late for it.
*** Just about any time Harvs or Batsy got pissed off in the second half of the movie.
*** It's not about what I want, IT'S ABOUT WHAT'S FAIR!!!
** What do you believe in, huh? '''WHAT DO YOU BELIEVE IN?'''
** WHHHHHHERE IZZZZZZHEE?!
* Creator/TimBurton's ''Film/Batman1989'' features Creator/JackPalance, well, being Jack Palance. Not to be outdone, Creator/JackNicholson [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] this in-universe, and actually [[UpToEleven Out-Hams]] him, when he borrows one of his lines.
--> '''Joker:''' "BOB-UH! YOOOOU! ARE MY [[PunctuatedForEmphasis NUMBER! ONE! GUY!]]"
* ''Film/BatmanAndRobin'' has it whenever Poison Ivy or Mr. Freeze are on screen.
-->What killed the dinosaurs? THE ICE AGE!!
* As ''Ebert's Bigger Movie Glossary'' notes, "no Creator/NicolasCage movie is complete without the scene in which Cage's character finally loses his temper and screams at the top of his lungs."
** ''Film/TheWickerMan2006''. All of it.
---> "'''[[MemeticMutation OH, NO! NOT THE BEES! NOT THE BEES! AAAAAHHHHH! OH, THEY'RE IN MY EYES! MY EYES! AAAAHHHHH! AAAAAGGHHH!]]'''"
---> "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6i2WRreARo '''MURDER! THIS IS MURDER!!! YOU'LL ALL BE GUILTY!!!''']]"
---> "How'd it get burned? HOW'D IT GET BURRRRNED?"
---> "'''KILLING ME WON'T BRING BACK YOUR GODDAMN [+HONEY+]!!!'''"
** ''Film/{{Knowing}}'':
--->"'''YOU WANT SOME OF THIS?!?''' *thonk*
** ''Film/{{Moonstruck}}'':
---> "'''I'VE LOST MY HAND!!! AND I'VE LOST MY BRIDE!!!'''"
** When he incarnates Castor Troy in ''Film/FaceOff'' : "Ha HA HA HA HA Ha!"
** In fact, every time he plays a dangerous lunatic.
** As Big Daddy in ''Film/KickAss'' he mimics the speech pattern of Creator/AdamWest.
** Perhaps the most over-the-top performance in his entire career comes in ''Film/VampiresKiss'', in which he portrays a vampire or a paranoid schizophrenic or possibly both.
---> "YOU'RE FIRED!!!!"
---> "I'M A VAMPIRE! I'M A VAMPIRE! I'M A VAMPIRE! I'M A VAMPIRE! I'M A VAMPIRE!"
** Or in ''Film/{{Deadfall}}'', where he often gets ''[[{{Angrish}} incomprehensibly]]'' hammy and ends up [[HamAndCheese singlehandedly making the movie worth watching]] because of it.
---> "WHAT AM I, A FUCKING RETAAARD, MAAAN!? AM I A FUCKING RETAAAARD, HUUUH!?"
** ''Film/GhostRiderSpiritOfVengeance''
---> '''"HE'S SCRAPING AT THE DOOR! SCRAPING AT THE DOOOOOOOOOOAAAAHHHH!!"'''
** Even ''Film/NationalTreasure'', which features Nic as the otherwise level-headed Ben Gates, includes a scene where he gets to go completely bonkers: With Ben and Riley's plan to get part of a treasure map out of Buckingham Palace in jeopardy, Riley encourages Ben to make a scene, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMZ9S1p8XAs and boy does he ever!]]
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeXIoBnu2MU Nic Cage in general, frankly.]]
* In ''Film/{{Serenity}}'', any scene where [[TheWoobie River]] has a mental breakdown. ''Especially'' when she collapses in the streets of Miranda, screaming a frantic prayer in Chinese.
* Creator/SharonStone's performance in ''Film/{{Casino}}'' isn't looked too fondly upon now because it frequently involved this. Roughly the entire last third of the movie seems to involve her screaming at either Creator/RobertDeNiro or Creator/JoePesci about something.
* Creator/JackNicholson in ''Film/TheWitchesOfEastwick'' (most notably in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVW_6pK93n0#t=1m35s his speech about women towards the end]]). But, hey, what did you expect? It's ''Creator/JackNicholson'' playing the freakin' ''Devil''.
* Creator/CharltonHeston's performance in ''Film/{{Planet of the Apes|1968}}'':
--> ''You cut up his braaaaaaiiiinnn!''
--> ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQME8mx4DMo It's a madhouse! A MAAADHOUUUSE!]]''
--> '''''[[EarthAllAlong YOU MANIACS! YOU BLEW IT UP!]]''' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5R_pS0h5Qk GODDAMN YOU! Goddamn you all to hell!]]''
** Really, ''any'' of his performances, from ''Film/TheTenCommandments1956'' to ''Film/{{Earthquake}}''.
* ''Film/SoylentGreen'': "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Sp-VFBbjpE You tell everybody. Listen to me, Hatcher. You've gotta tell them!]] '''Soylent Green [[ItWasHisSled is people!]]'''"
* Creator/BrianCox in ''Film/{{Troy}}'' certainly qualifies. Then again, Brian Cox in almost anything. That man is definitely [[LargeHam not kosher]].
-->[+"I will '''smash''' their walls to the ground! HEAR ME, ZEUS!"+]
* ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings''
** Creator/CateBlanchett as Galadriel in ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheFellowshipOfTheRing The Fellowship of the Ring]]'' showing why giving her the Ring is a bad idea: [[https://youtu.be/K3VOf3CBGvw?t=200 "In place of a dark lord, you would have a QUEEN! NOT DARK BUT '''BEAUTIFUL AND TERRIBLE AS THE DAWN! ''TREACHEROUS AS THE SEA! STRONGER THAN THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE EARTH!''''' ALL SHALL LOVE ME AND DESPAIR!"]]
** Creator/JohnNoble chews the scenery while munching on everything remotely edible in ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheReturnOfTheKing The Return of the King]]''. And he has [[ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne atrocious table manners]].
* When Pink in ''Music/PinkFloyd Music/TheWall'' decides that he is a British fascist leader and sings "In the Flesh". Just watch as a rock star (Music/BobGeldof) playing a rock star (Music/RogerWaters) during an insane fantasy of being a fascist dictator while in front of an audience of Pink's rock fans during a concert.
* Creator/JimCarrey's comedic styling. Which is part of what makes the live-action ''Film/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas'' so much fun to watch. [[LargeHam Green eggs and ham, indeed]].
* Certain bites of James "Jimi" Kinstle's performance as Norman Osborn (a.k.a. The Green Goblin) in the ''Spider-Man'' fan film ''The Green Goblin's Last Stand''. As may be expected from a classically-trained actor playing a homicidal maniac, this is genuinely frightening at times. That joke about Osborn being scarier without his mask on? It's true here.
* The last two scenes of the second flashback in ''Film/TheBadAndTheBeautiful'' got this from Creator/KirkDouglas and Creator/LanaTurner respectively.
* The saving grace of ''Film/{{Daredevil}}'' was a delightfully over-the-top portrayal of [[PsychoForHire Bullseye]] by Creator/ColinFarrell. He barely speaks and rarely raises his voice, but his snarling, twitching, and whispered ramblings chew the scenery in a big way. He kills people with pencils, peanuts, and paper clips in scenes that [[CrossesTheLineTwice cross the line]] into ComedicSociopathy. Just about every scene he's in is simultaneously hilarious and disturbing because of his overacting juxtaposed with the sadistic character.
-->"He made me... miss. ''I never miss!''"
%%* Creator/RobinWilliams is this trope made flesh.
* Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFl-WQAXMto performance]] in ''Film/KindergartenCop'', a film where he spends half his time screaming incomprehensibly at small children.
--> '''GAAAAHHHH!!!!'''
--> '''SHADDUUUUPPPP!!!!!'''
--> '''IT'Z NAHT!! A TWOMUR!'''
--> '''Bring your toy back to the CAHHPEHT!!'''
* ''Film/{{UHF}}'' "Stupid! [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qileP4bAzek You're so stupid!]]"
* Happens in ''Film/SilentNightDeadlyNightPart2''. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7gIpuIVE3k GARBAGE DAY!]] Now a staple of {{memetic mutation}}s.
* Michael Stephenson in ''Film/{{Troll 2}}''. Has to be seen [[{{Narm}} to be believed]].
-->[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyophYBP_w4 They're eating her! And then they're gonna eat me!]] [[BigOMG OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOODDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD!]]
--> "And you can't piss on hospitality! '''I WON'T ALLOW IT!'''"
** Also Deborah Reed as Creedence.
--> "Think about the ''CHOLESTEROL''! Think about the ''TOXINS''!"
* '''[[Film/{{Superman}} COME TO ME, SON OF JOR-EL!]]''' '''[[KneelBeforeZod KNEEL BEFORE]]''' '''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cg1yUMqJMcw ZOD!]]'''
** Creator/KevinSpacey as Comicbook/LexLuthor in ''Film/SupermanReturns''.
-->"[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRVUOGUmxJI WRONG!]]'''"
--> '''''KRRRRYYYYYPTONITE!'''''
--> '''Lois Lane''': But millions of people will die!
--> '''Lex Luthor:''' ''' BILLIONS!''' Once again, the press underestimates me.
* And ''Film/CabinFever'' has an example of chewing the scenery in a literal sense, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qq_2GOoFaXE PANCAKES!]]
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOILKHmZBwc NOOOO...WIIIIREEEE.....HAAAAAANGGGEEERRRRSSSSS!!!!]]
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zm_ui-EuQks Because I am NOT one of you FANS!]]
** Tina! Bring me the ax!
** The ''Variety'' review of ''Literature/MommieDearest'' stated: "Dunaway does not chew scenery. Dunaway starts neatly at each corner of the set in every scene and swallows it whole, costars and all."
* Creator/GaryOldman in ''Leon''/''Film/TheProfessional'':
-->'''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrTsuvykUZk "Bring me everyone."]]'''
-->"What do you mean "everyone"?"
-->"'''''[[VillainousBreakdown EVERYONE!]]'''''"
* ''Film/StreetFighter'': Creator/RaulJulia makes quite a exit from acting in his last role, and is the best thing in it:
--> '''M. Bison:''' Something wrong, Colonel? You come here to fight a madman, and instead you found... a god!? You still refuse to ACCEPT... my '''[[AGodAmI godhood?!]]''' '''KEEP your own god! In fact, this might be a good time to PRAY to Him!''' '''''For I beheld {{Satan}} as he''''' '''FELL FROM HEAVEN!''' '''''LIKE LIGHTNING!!!'''''
* ''Film/TheProducers'':
** Leo Bloom without his blue blanket.
** '''FAT!'''
** Creator/GeneWilder in the original.
* UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler's VillainousBreakdown in ''Film/{{Downfall}}''. Creator/BrunoGanz's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bmkUlXp5sk scenery-chewing]] has become a MemeticMutation thanks to the {{Gag Sub}}s applied into it. For example, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfkDxF2kn1I Hitler gets banned from Xbox Live]].
* Creator/WoodyHarrelson's DELICIOUS turn as a mad conspiracy theorist in the new ''Film/TwoThousandTwelve'' movie practically screams this trope.
** Well, [[LargeHam Woody Harrelson]], right there.
* Hans Conried as the villainous Dr. Terwilliker in ''Film/The5000FingersOfDrT''.
-->[+"Should you wish to escape: THE BARBED WIRE ON THE FENCE IS '''''[[VoiceOfTheLegion ELECT-RIFIED]]!!''''' [[EvilLaugh Mwahahahaha]]!"+]
-->[+"I want him {{disintegrat|orRay}}ed: '''ATOM... BY ATOM!'''"+]
* Captain Rhodes in ''Film/DayOfTheDead1985'':
-->''''[+I'M RUNNIN' THIS MONKEY FARM NOW, FRANKENSTEIN, AND I WANNA KNOW WHAT THE FUCK YOU'RE DOING WITH MY TIME!!!+]''''
--->'''''[++CHOKE ON 'EM!!!++]'''''
* Zadok, the drunken old sea dog in ''Film/{{Cthulhu}}'' (2007).
-->"They came out of the sea AND KILLED LOTS OF PEOPLE!"
* ''Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory'' had Creator/GeneWilder as Willy Wonka:
-->'''[++"It's all here, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9gRzmCf1EI BLACK AND WHITE, CLEAR AS CRYSTAL!]] YOU STOLE fizzy lifting drinks! You bumped into the ceiling which now has to be [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking washed and sterilized]], so you get...++] [+++[[MemeticMutation NOTHING! You LOSE! GOOD DAY, SIR!]]"+++]'''
** In fact, any time Gene Wilder freaks out and/or loses his temper in a film, so much so that his face goes reddish purple. ''Series/WillAndGrace'': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6WxmAAvpCc
** Gene Wilder period. "ANY SIGNS THAT THEY ARE SLOWING!" "THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE!"
* Or Creator/AntonioBanderas in ''Film/{{Assassins}}''. He's quite hammy to begin with, but he chews the scenery in such a way that it gained the status of being the EnsembleDarkHorse.
-->"''[++ YOU BLEW IT!!! I AM STILL ALIVE!!! HAHAHA!!!++]''"
** Best bit is when he is sharpening his marksmanship skills by shooting fruit and he turns to an orange that he has beside him : "Ha Ha Ha! I just killed [++YOUR BROTHER!++]'
* '''''[+++[[Film/EvilAlienConquerors IT WOULD TAKE A THOUSAND OF YOUR TINY MEALS TO SLAKE MY GIGANTIC APPETITE!!!]]+++]'''''
* ''Film/BattlefieldEarth'' is a [[WorldOfHam Universe of Ham]], but Jonnie "Goodboy" Tyler and [[Creator/JohnTravolta Terl]] are easily the biggest scenery chewers.
** '''Jonnie:''' ''(to his tribemates)'' Has anyone here ever seen one? ''(prances around them excitedly)'' A demon... a monster... a beast! YAAAAAAH!!!
** '''Terl:''' ''(to Ker)'' While you were still learning how to SPELL YOUR NAME, ''I''... was being trained... TO CONQUER GALAXIES!!!
* The entire film of ''Theatre/{{Doubt}}''. Case in point, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_T67xFhhfIg the Confrontation scene]] "'''YOU HAVE NO RIGHT!!'''" or "'''I HAVE MY CERTAINTY'''"
* Anything with Creator/JackPalance in it. If Creator/TimBurton's impersonation of the man on [[Film/Batman1989 Batman's commentary track]] is any indication, the man chewed as much scenery in real life as he did on celluloid!
* ''Franchise/JurassicPark'', near the beginning: SHOOT HA! SHOOOOT HAAAA!
* Satoris, the evil cult leader from the ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' episode, ''Film/TheFinalSacrifice,'' is very fond of chewing scenery (and spitting it out again).
* Prince John, ''Film/RobinHood2010'': I declare him, to be an '''OUT[+LAAAAAAAAAAAAAAW!!!!+]'''
* ''Film/DrStrangelove''. Most of ... well, Strangelove himself's lines.
** ''Animals''... vill be ''brred''... and '''''SLAUGHTERED...''''' '''HAAAAAA!''' ''(wrestles with [[EvilHand own arm]])'' '''MEIN FUHERER! I CAN WALK!!!'''
** Creator/GeorgeCScott was forced to [[LargeHam ham it up]] to ''unbelievable'' levels, which he himself HATED. The director most frequently chose these takes, and the actor was outraged.
** Creator/StanleyKubrick actually [[EnforcedMethodActing tricked Scott]] into doing this (as General Buck Turgidson). For each scene he told Scott to go completely over the top in the first few takes, before playing it straight in the later ones, [[LeftItIn promising to not use the earlier, wilder ones]]. ([[ILied He lied]].)
* Creator/BradPitt plays a ''[[TheSchizophreniaConspiracy total loon]]'' in ''Film/TwelveMonkeys''.
** He also gobbles the scenery a few times in ''Film/InterviewWithTheVampire'', particularly when Louis' manor is on fire.
--->This place is cursed... '''''DAAAAAAAAAAAAAMNED!!!!'''''
* Creator/BillMurray actually [[ShoutOut shouts out]] '''''"Feed'' me, [[Theatre/LittleShopOfHorrors Seymour!]]"''' at the end of the movie ''Film/{{Scrooged}}'' to encourage the [[BreakingTheFourthWall theater audience]] to respond to his hilariously over-the-top [[{{Improv}} ad-libbing]] throughout the film, most notably in the dinner sequence.
-->'''Frank:''' ''(thinks he sees a ghost)'' AH-'''[=HAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaa!=]'''
-->'''Waiter:''' Oh ''no'' sir, that's the Baked Alaska, sir, that's a dessert.
* ''Film/TheAddamsFamily'' was all about this; between Creator/RaulJulia and Creator/ChristopherLloyd there wasn't a set unchewed.
** For that matter, anything Raúl Juliá has acted in. [[MemeticMutation OF COURSE!]] Chris Lloyd is no slouch, either.
* Creator/NickNolte. Full stop.
** Nick Nolte's character in ''Film/LorenzosOil'' crying and wailing hysterically over the numerous side effects of his son's illness.
** And he does it pretty frequently in ''Film/{{Hulk}}'' (2003), with the scene pictured above being his ultimate moment.
-->'''WebVideo/HonestTrailers''': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U55NGD9Jm7M And Bruce Banner's father]], who's either an unpredictable MadScientist or just Nick Nolte [[ThrowItIn wandering onto the set]] and being himself for a few hours.
* ''Film/InglouriousBasterds'':
--> "'''TEDDY FUCKIN' WILLIAMS HITS IT OUT OF THE PARK!!!!!''' Fenway's on it's feet for Teddy!!! '''FUCKIN' BALL GAME!!!!!'''"
* Creator/TomHardy in ''Film/{{Bronson}}'': almost the whole scene with the librarian. (Quicker, quicker, QUICKER, QUICKAH!, [++QUICKAH!++], [++FUCK OFF! SIT DOWN!++] Awesome, believable and completely justified.
** Also the lip sync of 'When I'm a RAHCK AND ROWLLLLLLL STAAAAH!'
* Creator/TomHardy in ''Film/Legend2015'' as mentally unstable gangter Ronnie Kray.
* The 1996 ''Film/WilliamShakespearesRomeoAndJuliet'', main offenders Harold Perrineau and Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio. [[Narm/{{Film}} This makes Mercutio's death unintentionally hilarious.]]
* Creator/RobertMitchum as the crazy industrialist in ''Film/DeadMan''. He spends most of his time ''"talkin' to a goddamn bear"'' or hiding behind his desk, shotgun in hand.
-->'''"SHUT UP!''' Mah boy is ''dead!'' Oh, I ain't askin' this time. I'm tellin'. And if somebody don't like it, '''''I'm prepared to do a little killin' of my own!''''' ''(later)'' I want this out over the wires. Post a $5000 reward from here to hell and back. Bring everybody in. I want that bastard's head. And make sure you include a [[TheAllegedSteed full description of my Pinto]]. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking I want that horse back]].
* Sure, ''Film/MastersOfTheUniverse'' was pretty bad, but Creator/FrankLangella as Skeletor sure did chew himself some scenery, especially in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOsHoqhbUIU this scene]].
--> '''Skeletor:''' Now. I, Skeletor, am [[TitleDrop Master of the Universe]]! YES! Yes... I feel it, the power... fills me. ''YES'', I feel the universe within me! I am... I am a part of the cosmos! The power flows... Flows through me! Of what consequence are you now? This planet, these people. They are '''NOTHING''' to me! The universe is '''POWER!''' Pure, unstoppable '''''POWER!''''' and '''I''' am that force! '''I''' am that power! '''[[KneelBeforeZod KNEEL BEFORE YOUR MASTER!]]''' Fool! you are no longer my '''EQUAL!''' I am '''more than man''', '''MORE THAN''' '''''LIFE!''''' [[AGodAmI I... am... a...]] '''[[AGodAmI GOD!]]''' Now. You... will... '''''KNEEEEL!!!!!'''''
* ''Film/BramStokersDracula'' has Creator/KeanuReeves in [[DullSurprise his usual mode]]... but this is redeemed by Creator/AnthonyHopkins as Doctor van Helsing, particularly when he actually roars "Feed me!" for an [[HilariousInHindsight unintentional]] [[PlayingWithATrope invoked trope]].
* Creator/WillemDafoe in ''Film/TheBoondockSaints'':
** "'''[+THERE WAS A+] [+++FIRE FIGHT!!!!!!!!!+++]'''"
* Creator/AlanRickman in ''Film/RobinHoodPrinceOfThieves'' as the Sheriff of Nottingham was gloriously hammy in his portrayal. His best line was probably (at the end of a long list of canceling donations to various charities) "...and call off Christmas!"
** ...which was ruthlessly mocked in Mel Brooks' ''Film/RobinHoodMenInTights''. That movie's Sheriff of Rottingham put a cherry on top by sometimes utterly messing up the word order.
* Creator/HerbertLom as Inspector Dreyfus in ''Franchise/ThePinkPanther'' films tends to do this a lot after Inspector Clouseau unwittingly succeeds in pushing him over the edge mentally, especially in ''Film/ThePinkPantherStrikesAgain'', where he plays an EvilOverlord.
* Creator/PaulGiamatti as King John in ''Film/{{Ironclad}}''. "YOU '''DARE''' TO QUESTION MY REIGN!!!!"
* Creator/JohnTurturro in Creator/AnthonyHopkins' confusing art flick ''Slipstream'', playing a over the top growling, insane producer who is sidesplittingly funny as well and this a year before Creator/TomCruise in ''Film/TropicThunder''. In one scene, he loses it with the director when he brings his child to the filming and almost nearly attacks him like a wild animal. I don't know if it was ment to be this way or if Tuturro was just hamming it up big time, though he would be in competition with Creator/ChristianSlater, who literally dies of overacting in the movie as the actor playing a menancing gangster along with Creator/JeffreyTambor who is at least subtle about it. Though in Slater's case it might just be that the script called for his chewing the scenery.
* Creator/CrispinGlover in ''River's Edge'', where he plays a cokehead who acts like the dark side of George [=McFly=], complete with stuttering threats and nervous chatter.
* Creator/RebBrown in almost anything he does, complete with over the top yelling at the top of your lungs acting style like most 80s action stars, his highlight though would be ''Film/SpaceMutiny'' with lines such as
--> "SON OF A BITCCCCCCCCCCCCCHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
--> "LEEEEAAA WAAATTTCCHHH OOUUUUTTTT!"
--> "AHHHHAAAHAAAAAA"
--> "C'mon MOOOVVEEE, MOOOVVEEE,MOOVVVEEE, MOOOVVVVEEE,MOOOVVVEEE!"
--> "Let's get out there and KICCCKKK SOOMMMEEE ASSSSSS!"
* And in another movie called ''Film/StrikeCommando'' after a little kid dies he screams the villians name like this
--> "JAAAAAKKKAOODDDDAAAAA!"
* That Tom Riddle fellow in the ''Film/HarryPotter'' films. In [[PunctuatedForEmphasis every]]. [[EmphasizeEverything Single]]. [[ThisIsForEmphasisBitch Scene]]. He consumes more scenery than unicorn blood. All of Voldemort's portrayers have their moments, but Ralph Fiennes especially. He even has videos dedicated to the anticipation of his most hammiest of moments on [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyYo7xv4wlw Youtube]].
** '''''TROLL IN THE DUNGEON!!!!!'''''
* ''Film/EverAfter'': Everyone is occasionally (probably consciously, due to the quick changes between humor and seriousness) guilty of this, child!Danielle in particular.
** Honourable mention to Marguerite who throws a full-blown temper tantrum with stamping and screaming and yelling in front of the Queen of France.
** "I would rather die a thousand deaths than SEE MY MOTHER'S DRESS ON THAT [[PunctuatedForEmphasis SPOILED! SELFISH! COW!]]"
* The scenery literally fell apart when Tobey Maguire starts wrecking the kitchen in ''Brothers''. See it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3L5Fz7HDno here]]. (1:07 onwards)
** '''''YOU KNOW WHAT I DID!!!!????'''''
* Sir Creator/BenKingsley as Don Logan in ''Film/SexyBeast'': "You're the problem! You're the fuckin' problem you fuckin' Doctor White honkin' jam-rag fucking spunk-bubble! I'm tellin' you, Aitch, you keep lookin' at me I'll put you in the fuckin' ground, promise you!"
* "[[Creator/ChristopherLloyd I]] [[Film/SuburbanCommando WAS]] [[HarmlessFreezing FROZEN]] [[MemeticMutation TODAY!]]
* ''Film/{{Transformers}}'': "I ... AM... [[SayMyName MEGATRON!!!]]
* The DVDCommentary for ''Film/{{Priest}}'' mentions that many of Creator/KarlUrban's scenes seem to exist for the purpose of letting Urban chew scenery.
* Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse:
** ''Film/IronMan1'': TONY STARK WAS ABLE TO ''BUILD THIS'' '''''IN A CAVE!''''' WITH A '''''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtntTvuv8Aw BOX OF SCRAPS!]]'''''
** Creator/TomHiddleston as Loki in ''Film/{{Thor}}'' and ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'' singlehandedly accounts for approximately 70% of the scenery-chewing in those movies.
--->'''Loki:''' '''''TELLLL MEEEE!!!'''''\\\
'''Loki:''' [[KneelBeforeZod Kneel before me.]] I said... ''KNEEL!!!!''\\\
'''Loki:''' ''THIS'' is my bargain, you MEWLING ''QUIM!''\\\
'''Loki:''' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4gN_yc_7ug I am a GOD, you dull creature!]]
** Loki's extensive chewing is to be expected, though, seeing as his father Odin (played by Creator/AnthonyHopkins) does some extreme chewing of his own.
--->'''Odin:''' ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TA5ncj50Alk You are unworthy of these realms... You're unworthy of your TITLE... YOU'RE UNWORTHY!!!]]''\\
'''Loki:''' Father...\\
'''Odin:''' ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-8s7g0uAEk HYAEEERGH!]]''
** Brother Thor also gobbles much scenery, mixing fancy vocabulary.
** In one of the HilariousOuttakes of ''The Avengers'', Creator/CobieSmulders' Maria Hill does a ComicalOverreacting to [[spoiler:Agent Coulson's death]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGhz5o2cWKc that must be seen to be believed.]]
** ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'': Ronan the Accuser doesn't so much as chew the scenery as maul and raven it to bloody pieces. Creator/LeePace recalled once how he would keep glancing back to Creator/JamesGunn to tell him when to dial it back, while Gunn just kept going "more, more." The final product, when Ronan is ''really'' allowed to cut loose, is a screaming fanatic who manages to make ''Thanos'' look subtle by comparison:
-->'''Ronan''': You call me '''BOY!''' I will unfurl one-thousand years of Kree justice on Xandar, and ''burn it to its core!''
* Watch Creator/HelenMirren and Creator/ChristopherPlummer munch away on the beautiful Russian country side in ''Film/TheLastStation''.
* Almost everyone in ''Film/JudgeDredd'', especially when pronouncing the word "law"/"[[Creator/SylvesterStallone lauwh]]"/"[[HamToHamCombat lllaaaawww]]". The most notable is probably [[EvilIsHammy Armand Assante's]] [[MemeticMutation notorious]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aaubVlhNK4 delivery]].
* [[Music/NewYorkDolls David Johansen]] really chews up the scenery in ''Film/TalesFromTheDarksideTheMovie''. Even when [[spoiler:[[OrificeInvasion a cat is crawling down his character's mouth]], he manages to keep chewing the scenery]].
* ''Film/{{Virtuosity}}'': Creator/RussellCrowe is a one-man feeding frenzy.
--> "Hey buddy! How's the wife and kid? Still dead, huh?"
* While everyone in ''Film/JupiterAscending'' is [[HamAndCheese having some fun]] with the script, no one is chewing more scenery than Creator/EddieRedmayne. Most of the time, he speaks in a hoarse whisper... Until things start going downhill, and then [[SuddenlyShouting he breaks out the shouting]].
-->'''Balem:''' '''''I CREATE LIFE!!!!!'''''\\
'''Balem:''' And... I... destroy it.
* The ''Franchise/{{Rocky}}'' films give us the wonderful Creator/BurgessMeredith as Rocky's trainer Micky, who appears to be a wizened vegetable [[AWizardDidIt magically granted life]], on the sole proviso that he devour scenery wherever it may present itself.
--> '''Micky:''' He's a '''''[[MemeticMutation WRECKIN' MACHINE!]]'''''
--> '''Micky:''' GEDDUP, YOU SONOFABITCH!...CAUSE MICKY LOVES YA!
* ''Film/CleopatraJones'' has Snake, a heroin dealer who wavers between badass pimp and yapping puppy from line to line.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheChristmasTree'', when Mrs. Mavilda is firing Judy, she chews it so hard that the voice actress's mic almost blows out.
* [[Film/LogansRun NO! Don't go in there! You don't have to die! No one has to die at 30! You could live! LIVE! Live, and grow old! I've seen it! She's seen it!]]
* Creator/RichardEGrant takes scenery chewing to a whole new level in ''Film/HudsonHawk''. "What can I tell you? I'm the villain!"
* An over the top hilarious moment in ''Film/TwentyTwoJumpStreet'' happens when Jenko finds out the the person Schmidt had sexual relations with was none other than Captain Dickson's daughter.
-->'''Jenko''': '''OHHH SHIT! OHHH SHIT!''' ''[laughs hysterically]'' '''OH SHIT! NO! That is NOT happening right now! NO!''' ''[yells to everyone in the room]'' '''HEY Y'ALL, HE'S FUCKING THE CAPTAIN'S DAUGHTER! YO!'''\\
'''Dickson''': Every time...he say that shit...\\
'''Jenko''': OH MY FUCK!\\
'''Dickson''': That's another foot in your ass!\\
'''Jenko''': '''Schmidt! You clearly- Oh this is the best thing ever!''' ''[laughing hysterically]'' '''SCHMIDT FUCKED THE CAPTAIN'S DAUGHTER!''' ''[dancing and chanting]'' '''SCHMIDT FUCKED THE CAPTAIN'S DAUGHTER! SCHMIDT FUCKED THE CAPTAIN'S DAUGHTER! SHIT! FUCK!''' ''[still laughing]'' '''YOU FUCKED CAPTAIN DICKSON'S DAUGHTER?! CAPTAIN! WHAT THE- YOU BRAGGED TO HIM TO HIS FACE! TO HIS ACTUAL FACE! CAPTAIN- Do you understand that this face, Right here, you bragged to that face? You actually high-fived Schmidt for fucking your daughter! HOLY SHIT! OH MY GOD! THIS IS-''' ''[noticing Dickson's unamusement]'' It's really not that funny.
* ''Film/YoungFrankenstein'' - the whole cast. Everyone, and I do mean everyone, is as far over the top as one could imagine. Then there is Creator/GeneWilder in the title role, whose performance is so melodramatic and madcap that it must be seen to be believed.
-->'''Dr. Frederick Frankenstein''': I am a scientist, not a philosopher! You have more chance of reanimating this scalpel than you have of mending a broken nervous system!
-->'''Medical Student''': But what about your grandfather's work, sir?
-->'''Dr. Frederick Frankenstein''': My grandfather's work was doodoo! I am not interested in death! The only thing that concerns me is the preservation of life! [jams the scalpel into his leg, lets go of the scalpel and it sticks upright out of his leg, grasps it again, then slowly crosses his legs to block the scalpel from view]
* As expected when one of the best dramatic actors of his generation plays Dr. Zachary Smith, Creator/GaryOldman dines defiantly while delivering his delectably devilish dialogue in Film/LostInSpace. Scintilatingly scrumptious.
* Creator/SamuelLJackson in... oh, just about everything he’s been in. The man can get ''loud'' when he needs to. “''[[Film/PulpFiction WHAT DOES MARCELLUS WALLACE LOOK LIKE?!?!?!?]]''”
* ''Film/TheTwoFacesOfDrJekyll'' - Paul Massie, as both Jekyll and Hyde; "WHAT HAVE I DONE? WHAT HAVE I DONE?"
* Creator/JeffGoldblum does a lot of this in the second act of ''Film/TheFly1986'', which covers the first few days after his character's TeleporterAccident. Up until then he is an endearing GibberingGenius. But as a SlowTransformation begins, his behavior slowly changes -- first he's talking ''really'' fast and even pounding the table in a cafe as he muses over how his teleporter must have purified his body, because why else is he so much stronger and feeling so good? Come a failed attempt to convince his lover to be teleported as well, Goldblum starts chewing the scenery with abandon (with lots of MilkingTheGiantCow) as he rhapsodizes over the power of taking a "deep, penetrating dive into the plasma pool" -- as she realizes and tells him that the teleportation must have gone wrong ''[[OOCIsSeriousBusiness because he's acting so oddly]]''. At the climax of the act he rages at her and even punches a wooden support beam into splinters as he tosses her out of his loft/laboratory. (His bellowing "YOU'RE JEALOUS!" is a RunningGag in the Cinematic Venom review of the film.) Now alone, he takes a look at himself in a bathroom mirror, and the mounting reveals of [[BodyHorror what's actually happening to him]] see all the rage and scenery-chewing drain away, leaving a trembling, whispering, ''absolutely terrified'' man, in the space of a few minutes. Between this and the ''rest'' of his work in the film, this was Goldblum's StarMakingRole, proving that this trope can be ''very'' good indeed [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools when used skillfully]].
* In ''Film/HowToGetRidOfCellulite'', Wojciech Mecwaldowski as Krystian pulls all the stops as the jealous ex in the highly memetic MistakenForRomance scene. His jittery behavior, bug-eyed expression and PunctuatedForEmphasis delivery with an AtomicFBomb and BigNo makes the entire scene ridiculous.
* In ''Film/TheSocialNetwork'', after [[Creator/AndrewGarfield Eduardo Saverin]] founds out that [[spoiler:his ownership stake was reduced to near-nothing]], he goes ''ballistic'' in the Facebook office:
** First he confronts Mark, who's on his laptop and "wired in", as Sean puts it. Eduardo ''smashes'' the laptop.
---> '''Eduardo:''' How 'bout now, you still wired in?!
** Then, when Sean lectures him on how Eduardo pretends he runs the company while wearing "his ridiculous suits":
---> '''Eduardo:''' SOOOOOOO-RRY!! MY PRADA'S AT THE CLEANERS! ALONG WITH MY HOODIE AND MY [[PrecisionFStrike FUCK]]-YOU FLIP-FLOPS! YOU PRETENTIOUS DOUCHEBAG!
** And shortly before security escorts him away, he makes one last threat of TranquilFury at Mark:
---> '''Eduardo:''' And I'll bet what you hated the most is that they identified me as a co-founder of Facebook, ''which I am.'' You better lawyer up, ''asshole'', 'cause I'm not coming back for 30%. I'm coming back for ''EVERYTHING.''
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[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
* ''Anime/CodeGeass'':
** '''''[[EnsembleDarkHorse TAKE THIS!]] [[MemeticMutation THE]] STORM [[Creator/CrispinFreeman OF]] [[MemeticBadass MY]] LOYALTY!!!'''''
** Lelouch sometimes goes into this.
--->'''"YOU THINK I CARE ABOUT THAT!? FIND [[spoiler:NUNNALLY]] NOW! THAT'S AN ORDER! ALL FORCES SEARCH FOR [[spoiler:NUNNALLY]]!!!!!"'''
*** ''Anime/CodeGeass R2'' [[http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=57830334 episode 19]] has Lelouch chewing off scenery (1:06-1:13, 3:54-4:14) while [[VillainousBreakdown breaking down]]. However, at 5:07-5:40 [[NarmCharm the drama still works]].
** '''''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TT4UAoQHW0o#t=1m20s STOP IT! STOP GIVING ME YOUR PITY!]] SPARE ME YOUR CHARITY!''''' '''THIS IS SOMETHING I HAVE TO ACHIEVE ON MY ''OWN!''''' '''AND SO FOR ''THAT'', I SHALL STAIN YOUR HANDS WITH ''BLOOD'', [[spoiler:EUPHEMIA LI BRITANNIA]]!'''
** Anytime [[TheEmperor Emperor Chuck]] makes a speech.
*** You might as well say any role played by Creator/NorioWakamoto speaks like this. It's absolutely impossible to describe. Creator/NorioWakamoto can be the biggest ham in ''Anime/WolfsRain'' as an owl that gets some of the least lines in the entire series... so yes, anything Wakamoto does is potentially going to be like this. The man manages to roll his Rs...while saying "Nobunaga Oda".
** Creator/MichaelMcConnohie's Emperor Chuck is equally hammy as well, and does a mean EvilLaugh in Episode 22. '''''YES, YOU'RE WORTHY OF BEING CALLED MY CHILD NOW!'''''
* ''Anime/DragonBallZ's'' Super Buu brought us such lines as "PROOOOOOODDDUUUUUUUUUCE!!!!" and "FEED ME, YES, EVERYONE FEED ME NOOOOOW!"
** Vegeta's [[MemeticMutation much-parodied]] "[[OverNineThousand IT'S OVER NINE THOUSAAAND!]]" from the Ocean dub.
** Another Vegeta quote:
--->'''Vegeta''': People of the Earth. RAISE YOUR HANDS RIGHT NOW OR YOU'RE ALL GOING TO DIIIIIIE!
** YOU WON'T ESCAPE... MY WRAAAAAAAAAAAATH!!!
** '''KAKAROOOOOOOOT!'''
*** Voice actor Creator/VicMignogna, best known as suave blonds like [[Manga/FullmetalAlchemist Edward Elric]] and [[Manga/OuranHighSchoolHostClub Tamaki Suoh]], actually ''[[TruthInTelevision did]]'' lose his voice when [[PlayingAgainstType acting as]] ScreamingWarrior Broly for too long.
** "AND THIS, ''IS TO GO EVEN FURTHER BEYOND!'' '''''AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA'''''" (continues for several minutes.)
** Creator/LindaYoung as Frieza. Regardless of what anyone thinks of her casting, there's no denying that her actual performance was glorious:
*** "'''I am''' '''''FRIEZA!!!!!''''' '''The most powerful''' '''''BEING''''' in the '''''UNIVERSE!!!!!!!''''' And you are nothing but a '''''MONKEY!!!!!'''''. You can't win, because '''I am''' '''''MIGHTY!!!''''' '''And YOU are NOT!!!'''"
*** Of course, any time Frieza laughs, regardless if Ryusei Nakao, Linda Young, or Creator/ChrisAyres is voicing the character.
* The ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist'' dub:
** There's Roy Mustang's [[MemeticMutation famous]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJUlTg3mfTo miniskirt line in episode 13.]]
** Then there's his famous "I '''LOVE''' dogs!". It also turns out that the voice Mustang had then was actually based on [[Creator/TravisWillingham his voice actor's]] first tryout... as ''Armstrong''.
** From episode 30 of ''[[Manga/FullmetalAlchemist Brotherhood]]'': [[LovesTheSoundOfScreaming "IIIII OTO DA!!"]]
** '''[[RunningGag THIS SCENERY-CHEWING TECHNIQUE HAS BEEN PASSED DOWN THE ARMSTRONG LINE FOR GENERATIONS!]]'''
* The whole point of the ''Manga/GiantRobo'' Anime and its main CharmPoint is providing every single character with one of these on a regular basis. There's not a single person in the final episode who can be accused of underacting, even the random {{redshirt}}s.
* The 2012 anime adaptation of ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' made Dio even more {{memetic|Mutation}} thanks to the dulcet tones of Creator/TakehitoKoyasu and Creator/PatrickSeitz taking large bites out of the scenery, in and out of battle. [[WorldOfHam The entire cast does quite a bit of scenery chewing]], but Dio really takes the cake.
-->'''Dio:''' ''[after forcibly kissing Erina]'' You thought you would get your first kiss from [=JoJo=], [[MemeticMutation BUT IT WAS ME]], '''[[LargeHam DIO]]'''!
** Another standout example: [[ThoseWackyNazis Major Rudol von Stroheim.]]
--->[[YouFool FFFFFFOOOOOOOL!]] German science is the world's greatest!
* Most of the main cast in ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' acts like this on a regular basis via HotBlooded ranting.
** ''Especially'' '''[[BoisterousBruiser Kamina]]'''. '''''[[{{Catchphrase}} WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK HE IS!?]]'''''
** ''ESPECIALLY'' '''[[TheHero Simon]]'''. '''''[[{{Catchphrase}} MY DRILL IS THE DRILL THAT WILL PIERCE THE HEAVENS!!!]]'''''
* Episode 3 of ''Anime/MyOtomeZwei'' gives us Nina's BigNo after [[spoiler:Nao is [[TakenForGranite petrified]].]]
* In ''Anime/MyOtome'', Tomoe is normally one of the more reserved characters, but she becomes much angrier and hammier after joining the BigBad's army, almost to ScreamingWarrior levels during both of her battles with Arika.
* In the same vein, during some of the later episodes of ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' the English dub cast did this sort of thing in quite a few scenes, perhaps most in Creator/TiffanyGrant's portrayal of Asuka's climactic battle in ''The End Of Evangelion'' and when Ritsuko [[spoiler:destroys the "Reiquarium"]], sounding absolutely insane in the English dub while Yuriko Yamaguchi had a much more detached delivery in the original Japanese.
** Scenery-chewing is hardly exclusive to the dub - Megumi Ogata's screams, for instance, could raise the dead, and especially in the climax of ''[[Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion Evangelion 2.0]]''.
* ''Anime/SailorMoon'''s villains love feasting on the scenery, especially in the English dub:
** Queen Beryl: '''You are MIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINE!!!!!!!!!!!'''
*** Naz Edwards even manages to make her ''screams'' digest the scenery.
** Everything that comes out of Rubeus' mouth.
** Queen Nehelenia: ''ZIRCONIAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!"
** Alan and Anne were already notoriously hammy in the [=DiC=] dub, but this gem came out of Anne's mouth: ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZmF8yhblTs KITCHEN'S CLOOOOOOOOSED!]]''
** Every villain voiced by the late Kirsten Bishop, but [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1J-j8CkMl54 especially]] Emerald.
* In the climactic episode of ''Roleplay/RecordOfLodossWar'', evil sorcerer Wagnard gets to chomp on many bits of scenery, especially during his death scene. (His English VA does likewise, but that's hardly a drawback. It actually works in the character's favor.)
* Gaara's MinorInjuryOverreaction in ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' in both Japanese and English:
-->'''Gaara''': '''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hl_PVxEgaPs BLOOOOD!]]''' '''''IT'S MY BLOOOOOD'''''!
** [[spoiler:Itachi]]'s MotiveRant from episode 136 of ''Shippuden''. If you pay attention, you could hear his seiyuu literally GASPING for breath between sentences!
*** As one can imagine, [[spoiler:Creator/CrispinFreeman]] had a field day with that scene.
** Jiraiya: "When you've reached the stature I have... THE LADIES... KNEEL AND WORSHIP... ''AT YOUR AWESOMENESS!!!''"
** Chapter 579: Complete with shaky text to indicate insanity:[[spoiler:EVEN HE COULDN'T BECOME A TRUE SAGE IN THE END JUST LIKE ME! My power in the sage mode...If you're Dr.Snakes, I hope you keep that in your mind... I'm no longer a snake... The perfect force of sage helped me shed my snake skin...AND I'M A DRAGON NOW!!]]
* Koutarou Taiga from ''Anime/GaoGaiGar''. The rest of the cast dutifully attempts to keep up. They mostly succeed.
* Light in ''Manga/DeathNote'' whenever he's Kira-ing, and Mikami at times, mostly when he's "deleting" people. The best example is during the penultimate episode when he [[spoiler:attempts to kill Near, the rest of the SPK force, and all of the task force members apart from Light, which would get rid of anyone who is in Light's way. He gets more psychotic than ever and goes on an absolutely insane deleting spree, [[MadnessMantra repeating the word over and over again]] as he writes down all the names and it culminates with him ''screaming'' the word at the top of his lungs towards the sky.]] Terrifying for some, but probably quite entertaining for others.
** An example that involves literal chewing: the (in)famous [[https://youtu.be/KC6T3_O2iWc potato chip]] scene.
* ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}'''s [[AxCrazy psycho]] [[LargeHam hams]], Ladd Russo and Graham Spector. Of course, then there's Claire Stanfield, who's in a category all his own. But he still manages to ham up his philosophy while fighting Graham and Ladd.
** [[IncomingHam THANK YOU! FUCK YOU! THE STAR IS HERE!]]
* ''LightNovel/ShakuganNoShana'': Dantalion is quite fond of taking hamminess UpToEleven ForScience!
* ''Manga/ExcelSaga'': Any time Lord Il Palazzo annouces that "This world, is corrupt!". Or whenever Excel is extolling the virtues of ACROSS to the ignorant masses. Excel's dub VA got [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0240493/trivia landed in the hospital for this one.]]
* ''VisualNovel/TheyAreMyNobleMasters'' begged the question of ''[[Anime/GaoGaiGar Hikari Ni]] [[Creator/NobuyukiHiyama Nare]]'' versus ''[[Anime/MobileFighterGGundam Shining]] [[Creator/TomokazuSeki Finger]]'', the answer [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjTCmzVNYdM will leave you full for a week.]]
* ''Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei'': '''[[{{Catchphrase}} I'M IN DESPAIR!]] SHOUTING OUT THINGS THAT BUG ME IN OVERDRAMATIC WAYS HAS LEFT ME IN DESPAIR!'''
* In ''Manga/OnePiece'', [[EvilCounterpart Marshall D. Teach aka Blackbeard]] enjoys doing this, whether showing off his [[CastingAShadow powers]] to Ace, announcing his plans at [[spoiler: [[TheAlcatraz Impel Down]]]], or [[spoiler: Declaring war on the World after stealing [[PersonofMassDestruction Whitebeard]]'s powers]]. Of course, this being [[WorldofHam One Piece]] there are bound to be others.
** If that's how he does it in the manga, let's just wait until Creator/AkioOhtsuka gets to deliver these same lines in the anime. Oh, booooooy.
** Luffy when he's really angry and/or [[SayMyName yelling someone's name.]] Examples: "CROCODIIIIIIILE!", "EN-NER-RUUUUUUU!" and of course, '''"ROOOOOOOOO-BIIIIIIIIIN!"''' And just before [[spoiler:the timeskip]], "UUUUUUUU-SOOOOOOOOOOPPPPPP!"
** Chopper pulls a nice one in episode 162 after the [[http://whistle-down-the-wind.tumblr.com/post/21984737457/gan-fall-sora-no-kishi-vs-shura-one-piece Knight of the Sky shoots Shura off of his mount]] using an Impact Dial.
---> Chopper: SO-RA NO KI-''SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!''
** In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5C4WXzRYnI this scene]], Luffy, Spandam, Sogeking, Franky and even [[TheStoic Robin]] tried to out-chew each other. Sogeking takes bonus points for his boast [[MundaneMadeAwesome being about a custom-made sling]].
* [[CloudCuckoolander Minori]] in ''LightNovel/{{Toradora}}'', especially near the end of the series. Although sometimes she's just overdramatic just for fun... diet warriors, indeed. The homeroom teacher also really chews the scenery during the Pro Wrestling event and has to be carried off.
-->'''Minori:''' Nosebleeds are tears of the heart!
* In ''Anime/NieaUnder7'', Creator/TomokoKawakami is clearly having the time of her life voicing [[AnimeChineseGirl Karna]], tearing through every scene in which she occurs with almost limitless abandon--but ''especially'' during the "alien awareness meetings".
-->'''Karna:''' I've been an elite ever since I was born... and I'm so beautiful!
* Creator/SayakaOhara's role as Beatrice in ''VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry''. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_1QuqO4dRo My god, she really was having a blast at that role.]]
** "Let's start chewing scenery together, USHIROMIYA BATTORAAAAAAAA!!"'
** Kinzo doesn't express anything half-way. '''Ooooooooooo, Beh-aaaaah-to riiiichiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!'''
* Kaoru does this intentionally in ''VideoGame/{{Amagami}} SS''.
* ''Anime/YuGiOh5Ds''[='=] Lucciano should really calm down before he hurts himself.
* The English Dub of ''Manga/{{Hellsing}} Ultimate'' is full of this. The best example is probably the Major's Speech, which is simply glorious.
* This seems to be the entire point of Amelia's character in the ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}}'' series.
* The evil sultan in the classic ''Manga/AstroBoy'' story "The Greatest Robot In The World" not only chews scenery figuratively, but in one scene he does it literally.
* ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'':
** [[NoIndoorVoice Lord Djibril]] in ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEEDDestiny'', as he prepares to fire the [[WaveMotionGun Requiem]].
---> "And now [[EvilerThanThou Gilbert]] [[DarkMessiah Durandal]], I will play a [[FinalSolution Requiem]], for you and [[FantasticRacism all your kind]]!
** ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing'': Duo's infamous scream when his Gundam gets destroyed, which is so overblown that it reaches [[TheScream into space]]. His English VA, Scott [=McNeil=], said that the scream was a copy of the one he did when he saw his wife back over his motorcycle in the driveway.
** Kamille Bidan in ''Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam'', especially due to the histrionic nature of the character. It's evident in both the original Japanese and the dub.
** ''Anime/TurnAGundam'':
*** Harry Ord, the resident CHAR, wants you to know that [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8uXxvl9K-s you'll feel the wrath of his revenge]] across the [[GratuitousEnglish UNIVAA]][[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aKeU2NqWrE AAAASE!!!]]
*** Still, Harry is no match for Gym Ghingham and '''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRcjGRDbxbY&t=0m52s GEKKOCHOU DE ARU!!]]''' Heck, he chews up so much of the scenery in this clip of ''SD Gundam G Generations'' that he devours [[EvilIsHammy Super-Ham]] [[Anime/MobileFighterGGundam Master Asia]] along with it.
** ''Anime/MobileFighterGGundam'': Domon Kasshu.
*** And friends!
*** Even in this WorldOfHam, Master Asia stands out above all others.
---->"I shall become the Undefeated of the East, West, North, South, and Center! I shall become '''SUPER ASIA''', and be '''''master of all!'''''
* Roman Saotome from ''Manga/SKETDance'' takes this to a whole 'nother level; [[ArtShift she warps the scenery]] via Otome Vision, much to the shock of [[BreakingTheFourthWall Himeko and Bossun]].
* ''Anime/TheBigO'': [[Creator/SteveBlum Roger Smith]] calling his mecha, Big O, normally uses tame levels of shouting, but in some episodes he really goes all-out.
* Ichiko Sakura from ''Manga/GoodLuckGirl'', [[ArtShift transforming into]] [[Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar Kenshiro]] when she needs to avoid her newest classmate. Her equally hammy rival Momiji sees this, so she -- and eventually everyone else in the area -- copies her.
* In the ADV dub of ''Anime/SuperDimensionFortressMacross'', the voice performances are pretty over the top for Hikaru, Misa, Roy, Exedore, and Kai-Fun. Compare Vic Mignona, Creator/MonicaRial, Creator/BrettWeaver, Andy [=McGavin=], and Christopher Ayers to the more subdued performances of Creator/TonyOliver, Aline Leslie, Creator/DanWoren, Ted Layman, and Eddie Frierson decades ago in ''Anime/{{Robotech}}''. Kakizaki (like the original Japanese seiyuu Katsumi Suzuki) is equally hammy whether voiced by Creator/JasonDouglas or Creator/RichardEpcar.
* In ''Anime/StarBlazers'', Eddie Allen performs Desslok in a hilarious effete voice that makes him come off as a fop. In the original ''Anime/SpaceBattleshipYamato'', Masato Ibu gives Desler a typical bad guy's deep voice.
* Just try to name someone from ''Anime/KillLaKill'' who ''doesn't'' riddle the scenery with teeth marks.
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A common term for a scene where an actor's acting so damn hard that they're picking bits of scenery out of their teeth for days. Sometimes scenes can actually require this, but more often the actor and/or director just has the character go over the top.

This can include BerserkButton, FreakOut, and other exaggerated emotions.

It's well worth noting that this trope is [[FountainOfMemes one of the biggest causes of memes]].

[+'''This is a SuperTrope, which includes:'''+]

A SisterTrope to {{Melodrama}}.

Compare {{Narm}}, NarmCharm.

Contrast DullSurprise (emotionless moments when emotion is called for), DramaticDeadpan (when the dramatic punch is from how low key it's presented).

Not to be confused with ThisBillboardNeedsSomeSalt (actually munching on the scenery) or TrashTheSet.

!!Examples:

[[folder:Anime and Manga]]

* Creator/MarkHamill's Fire Lord Ozai in ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', particularly in the series finale War Room meeting. In fact, any of Hamill's villains could fit on this page, especially the Joker in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' Joker and Hobgoblin in ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries''.

* In the ADV dub of ''Anime/SuperDimensionFortressMacross'', the voice performances are pretty over the top for Hikaru, Misa, Roy, Exedore, and Kai-Fun. Compare Vic Mignona, Creator/MonicaRial, Creator/BrettWeaver, Andy [=McGavin=], and Christopher Ayers to the more subdued performances of Creator/TonyOliver, Aline Leslie, Creator/DanWoren, Ted Layman, and Eddie Frierson decades ago in ''Anime/{{Robotech}}''. Kakizaki (like the original Japanese seiyuu Katsumi Suzuki) was equally hammy whether voiced by Creator/JasonDouglass or Creator/RichardEpcar.

* ''VideoGame/{{Metal Gear Solid 4|GunsOfThePatriots}}''. The whole thing. Double points for any scene with Liquid Ocelot, who can blow things up by [[GivingSomeoneThePointerFinger pointing at them dramatically]]. He Points. Bang. ''*Helicopters falls out of sky*''; Pulls his other arm up as everyone is collapsing, and starts to make MACHINE GUN noises! " ''BANGBANGBANGBANG..."''

** Although Raiden only turned into a LargeHam in ''[[VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance Revengeance]]'', a specific slip from him in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2'' is one of the biggest {{Memetic Mutation}}s in the ''entire'' [[VideoGame/MetalGear series]].

* ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry'': "I should have been the one to fill your dark soul with LIGHT!"
** Between the two of them, in ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry4'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySY5YMoBp7c Dante and Agnus manage to masticate the entire cathedral]].
** Scarily enough, [[FridgeBrilliance Dante and Agnus are having a serious discussion about the nature of man]] behind all that [[FloweryElizabethanEnglish Shakespearean prose]] and hammy acting. Having a serious discussion would have just felt wrong for the series, but since the scene happened to be in an ''opera house'', players ignored the conversation and focused only on the theatrics.
** Even the most [[WorldOfHam ridiculously hammy dialogue]] of the third game managed to remain believable. You'd think [[MagnificentBastard Arkham's]] ''[[MeaningfulName very name]]'' would be quite a clue; [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvmHdEkwNf8 behold.]] [[note]][[GeniusBonus Not to mention that "ark" is pronounced like the Greek-originated prefix "arch" which means "highest".]][[/note]]

** "I told ya I'd shoot! But you didn't believe me! '''''WHY DIDN'T YOU BELIEVE ME?!'''''"

* The music video for Al B. Sure!'s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fckqglxb49s''Nite and day'']] has to be seen to be believed. The man is animated, to say the least.

** Really, ''any'' of his performances, from ''Film/TheTenCommandments'' to ''Film/{{Earthquake}}''.

** '''"[[EvilOverlord POWWWWWWAAAAAHHHH!!!!]] [[DrunkOnTheDarkSide UNNNNN-LIMITED..POWWWWWWAAAAAAHHHH!!!!]] "''' Playing bumper cars with the Galactic Senate boxes while [[EvilLaugh cackling like a loon]] has to count, too.

*** ''[[https://youtu.be/w685Cy0f53Q?t=125 I... I killed them. I killed them all. They're dead. Every single one of them''. And not just the men, but the women, and the children, too. They're like animals, and I slaughtered them like animals! I ''hate'' them!]]''
** In general, ''Creator/IanMcdiarmid'' gives a relatively subdued performance as Palpatine. But once the charades are dropped in episode 3, and the Jedi know he's a Sith lord, it's time to wolf down the scenery like there's no tomorrow. This is the real reason most of the movie was CGI: he devoured all the sets!

* ''Film/BatmanAndRobin'':
** Poison Ivy.
** What killed the dinosaurs? THE ICE AGE!!

* In ''Film/TheSocialNetwork'', after he founds out that [[spoiler:his ownership stake was reduced to near-nothing]], he goes ''ballistic'' in the Facebook office:

* ''Music/{{Nightwish}}'''s vocalist, Floor Jansen, can and will come up with grandiose belting and screams from time to time, especially during [[https://youtu.be/4V_eoR6r1Tw?t=8m7s live performances]].

->"''Chocolate? Did you say ''''chocolate''''?!''"
->"''Chocolate?!! CHOCOLATE!!!!!'' '''''CHOOOOCOOOOOOLAAAAAATE!!!!!!!!!!!!'''''"
-->-- '''[[RecurringExtra Tom Smith the Fish]]''', ''WesternAnimation/{{SpongeBob SquarePants}}''

* ''WesternAnimation/XMen'':

** "'''SILENCE YOU IMPERIOUS ''MORON''!'''" Oh, Doc Ock. You shift between this and a boderline CreepyMonotone so well it's almost scary. It should be noted this is [[IncomingHam his first line after officially becoming a villain.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans''

** Whenever Slade gets pissed. For example: "But the only thing you care about are your '''WORTHLESS LITTLE''' '''''FRIENDS!!!!!!!!'''''"
** "[[SeriousBusiness YOU! RUINED! MY! DRESS!!!!!!!!!!]]"

--> "It's called a [[ItIsPronouncedTroPAY VI-DAY-OH TAH-PE!]]"

* Ichiko Sakura from ''Manga/BinbougamiGa'', [[ArtShift transforming into]] [[Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar Kenshiro]] when she needs to avoid her newest classmate. Her equally hammy rival Momiji sees this, so she -- and eventually everyone else in the area -- copies her.