Ham To Ham Combat / Video Games

• Air Force Delta Strike: The combat flight sim has the "Stand By" missions and the largest aerial ham to ham combat ever produced in a video game.
  "WHERE'S YER DRIVE, GAWD-DAMMIT?!"
• BlazBlue:
  • Check out an average match sometime. Ye Gods.
  • Any time Ragna and Jin meet.
  • Special mention for when Bang and Makoto, two of the most hammy and Hot-Blooded characters, fight. This video demonstrates.
  • Another notable example lies in Hazama vs Ragna matches, in which the entire fight consists of both shouting at the top of their lungs for the other to die.
• The Forgotten Realms is a World of Ham, but having Big Bad Irenicus (David Warner) facing off with Minsc (Jim Cummings) in Baldur's Gate is incredibly, epically hamtastic.
  Irenicus: Once my lust for power was everything, but now I hunger only for revenge, AND I. SHALL. HAVE IT!
  Minsc: I am tired of shouting battle-cries at this mage! Boo will finish his eyeballs once and for all so that he does not rise again! Evil! Meet my sword! Sword! Meeet eeeeviiiil!
• Brütal Legend: The core gameplay has two military leaders trying to destroy each others' Rock Stages.
• Dante's Inferno: Dante is rather hammy by himself, but it's only when he faces Old Nick that they both crank it up to sufficiently scenery-chewing intensity.
• Castlevania: Symphony of the Night: Due to the So Bad, It's Good nature of the voice acting in the otherwise fantastic game, the clash in the prologue between Dracula and Richter Belmont could qualify.
  Richter: Your words are as EMPTY as your soul! Mankind ill needs a savior such as you.
  Dracula: What is a man? A miserable little pile of secrets. But enough talk; HAVE AT YOU!!
• Command & Conquer:
  • It's been that way since the beginning, but Red Alert 3 goes all out for the World of Ham, with their casting for the Premier of the Soviet Union, Emperor of Japan, President of the United States, and President of the European Union.
  • Tiberium Twilight gives it a good showing between Joseph Kucan and Iona Morris.
  • Tiberian Dawn averts this for the vast majority of the game... but not through a lack of ham from the actors (most of the recurring ones ham up at one point or another). There just aren't all that many scenes with more than one actor.
• The final boss fight in Dead Space 2, where both Isaac and Nicole/The Marker take their scenery-chewing levels high.
• Dante vs. Agnus before their fight in Devil May Cry 4, a bizarre in-universe example. For starters, the fight happened in a trashed opera house, so we have Agnus opening with poetic dialogue and Dante following suit, complete with stage lights (whoever mans them probably does so out of fear of evisceration) as well as stage props like benches and confetti. It really has to be seen.
• Diablo III, being the World of Ham that it is, often has this during dramatic scenes. The most obvious example is the cinematic between Act I and II, depicting Tyrael and Imperius' argument that led to Tyrael's (willing) fall.
  Imperius: TYRAEL! The ancient law of the High Heavens strictly forbids us from interfering with the mortal world. Yet YOU have done so! BRAZENLY!
  Tyrael: All I am guilty of, Imperius, is bringing JUSTICE! While you hide, COWERING, behind your throne!
  Imperius: SILENCE! You will now answer for your transgressions!
  Tyrael: You CANNOT judge me! I am Justice itself! We were meant for more than this—to protect the INNOCENT! But if our precious laws BIND you all to INACTION... then I will no longer stand as your brother!
  Imperius: SACRILEGE!
• The Silver Shroud questline in Fallout 4 allows the otherwise stoic Sole Survivor to pretend to be Radio Drama crimefighter the Silver Shroud and ham it up as a golden age Anti-Hero. But it's only in the Automatron DLC, where the Mechanist, who has also taken up the identity of a comic book character, will acknowledge the Sole Survivor as the Silver Shroud, allowing the two to engage in gloriously hammy exchanges.
• Final Fantasy:
  • Dissidia Final Fantasy: Pretty much any voice-acted scene where the villains are talking to each other counts. Doubly so if Kefka or Exdeath is involved.
    Garland: We will never come to accept one another. WE SHALL ALWAYS BE IN CONFLICT!
  • Since voice-acting was introduced, the games seem to do this rather regularly. Special mention has to be given to Tidus and Yuna's Stylistic Suck laughing scene in Final Fantasy X, although Wakka and Rikku came close to out-doing them with their regular sentence-ending occurrences of "yah?" and "y'know?"
• Final Fantasy VI. Trust us, this is hammier in the actual game:
  SABIN: Kefka! Wait!!!!
  KEFKA: "Wait," he says... Do I look like a waiter?
• Wallace and Vaida's supports in Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade. Armoured general Wallace is already a loud Boisterous Bruiser by himself, but when he meets this wyvern-riding Dark Action Girl with a scarred face and a no-nonsense attitude, the scenery becomes dense with their combined hamminess as they attempt to assert their superiority over one another in combat. Observe.
  Vaida: There you are, you bald old fossil. Still smarting from our competition?
  Wallace: Bald old fossil!? You spitting cobra! Are you trying to make me share in your bitterness at being so soundly defeated the other day?
  Vaida: Spitting cobra? I rather like that! But victory was mine the other day... So now which one of us is bitter?
  Wallace: You talk madness, woman! By what reckoning do you believe I lost to your pathetic display? Surely we are not talking about the same battle! I was perfection unleashed... Those lance thrusts were blindingly fast, intoxicating in their sublime form!
  Vaida: Wishful thinking, teapot! You were no prize on the battlefield! I saw you poke each unit one by one with your little needle... The whole thing took ages!
  Wallace: Well, all I saw was a big lump of grey flesh flitting about in the sky and belching on occasion! And your wyvern wasn't much better!
  Vaida: ...Well, obviously, we have not settled our score at all!
• Almost all dialogue in the God of War games defaults to this. It was ancient Greece, they hadn't invented indoor voices yet.
• Several Gundam games allow crossovers where the hammiest characters from each series can battle each other. Here is what happens when the aforementioned Master Asia and Gym Ghingham are pitted against one another.
• Halo:
  • Halo 3:
    • At the end of the level "The Covenant", the Arbiter, Gravemind, and the Prophet of Truth all have a scene together. Truth's participation ends with:
    Truth: I! Am! Truuth! The vooiiice of the Covenant!
    Arbiter: And so, you must be silenced. (stab)
    • Right afterwards, Gravemind chimes in with an evil laugh and a rhyming verse describing how he's now unstoppable.
    Gravemind: Now the gate has been unlatched, headstones pushed aside! Corpses shift and offer room, a fate you must ABIDE!
  • The levels in Halo 2 when you fight the Elite heretics as the Arbiter, alongside your own Elite allies. The Elites being a race of Large Hams, this trope crops up frequently.
    Sesa Refumee: I wondered who the Prophets would send to silence me. An Arbiter... I'm flattered.
    Rtas Vadumee: He's using a holo-drone. Come out so we may kill you!
    Sesa: Heheh... get in line.
    Also:
    Arbiter: Turrrrn, heretic.
    Sesa: Arbiter. I would rather die by your hands than let the Prophets lead me to slaughter.
    Arbiter: Who has taught you these liiies?
• The dialogue in Ganondorf's segment of Hyrule Warriors is mostly composed of Zant and Ghirahim competing for who can be a hammier kiss ass towards their boss. Ganondorf, in turn, admonishes them both and reminds them he is the largest ham of them all.
• Kid Icarus: Uprising has a large amount of hams in its cast, and they get into combat a lot.
  Viridi: Darn it, Hades! Get your filthy troops out of my bomb depot!
  Hades: You're really cute when you're flustered, rosebud.
• Killzone 3 casts Malcolm McDowell and Ray Winstone as Chairman Stahl and Admiral Orlock, the top rivals for leadership of the Helghast. They chew much scenery during committee meetings, and eventually go to the logical extreme of literal combat while still spitting scenery at each other.
• Kingdom Hearts has a cast of Large Ham villains from the Disney Animated Canon... and Xehanort's incarnations. In every game he is in, Xehanort's incarnation wins the battles handedly. There's a reason his Terra-Xehanort's form Heartless is the picture for the Large Ham for Video Games page.
• Even in the original The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel they were doing at the end of their first battle.
  Rean: I have to warn you — the International Bank of Rean has the highest interest rate on the continent.
• In The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel II, Rean Schwarzer engages in this with Crow Armbrust in their respective Divine Knights where while they're about to fight one another, they're also trying to out-ham one another. By the time the fight was over, their classmates mocked them for being so over-the-top.
  Crow: I won't let anyone interfere! This is going to be our final battle!
  Rean: That's exactly how I want it to be! We'll fight until we can fight no more... until our strength runs dry and our souls burn out! (cue epic screaming from the both of them)
• Despite the potential in having very hammy villains in the Reapers, the Mass Effect series essentially averts this until Mass Effect 3 and an encounter during the Citadel DLC. Shepard finds Traynor playing Kepesh-Yakshi (nor, as Shepard calls it, "space chess") and they meet Polgara T'Suzsa, an asari player who Traynor has a rivalry with. Traynor and T'Suzsa have a grudge match, and soon the pork starts to flow, complete dramatic closeups.
• Two PSP Mega Man remake games, Mega Man Powered Up and Mega Man: Maverick Hunter X have mountainous piles of ham thanks to the new voice acting they were given. Highlights include X and Sigma's final dialogue in Maverick Hunter X, featuring none other than Mark Gatha (former voice of Domon Kasshu) as X, and Fire Man saying anything to anyone in Powered Up, but especially Bomb Man and Doctor Wily.
• Bowser against Fawful and Midbus (a literal Large Ham) in Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story.
• Metal Gear lives on this trope. Rather try to find any characters that are completely unhammy.
  • Metal Gear Solid: Ocelot, Grey Fox, Vulcan Raven, Psycho Mantis, Sniper Wolf, LIQUID!
  • Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty: OCELOT!, Vamp, Fortune, Fat Man, Solidus.
  • Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater: Ocelot, Boss, Volgin, THE PAIN!, the Fear, the Fury.
  • Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots: Snake, Ocelot, Raiden, Vamp, Laughing Octopus, Raging Raven, Screaming Mantis.
  • The End, the Sorrow, and Crying Wolf are probably the only villains in the entire series who are not Large Hams, but mostly only because they can't draw the breath to yell all the time.
    "I'M COVERED IN BEES!"
  "YOU WILL ALL BE MADE ONE! MAKE! US! WHOLE!!!!!"
• The Nightmare Before Christmas: Oogie's Revenge: Several of the boss battles can qualify (and the final battle definitely does).
  • First take Jack, whose natural hammy theatrics are taken further when in Musical Assassin mode then pit him in dance fights with huge song and dance sequences — complete with backup dancers (no, really, you can actually sing and dance most the bosses into submission Broadway style) — against the following:
    • Oogie Boogie, who is voiced by Ken Page, who has voiced some of the hammiest musical characters in the last 30 years.
    • Lock, Shock, and Barrel - each one seems to have been personally trained in the ways of ham by Oogie himself.
    • And Dr. Finkelstein, the local Mad Scientist whose been Brain Swapped and Crazier.
• Planescape: Torment has one where Ravel (Crazy Ham) meets The Transcendent One (Evil Sounds Deep). Or the ending sequences of PS:T in the Fortress of Regrets for that matter. You don't even need the sound. The writing at that point is sufficiently epic to convey the "hamminess" all by itself.
• Shadow vs. Mephiles in Sonic the Hedgehog (2006). Mephiles spends his sweet time chewing the scenery while Shadow tries to shut him up. In Shadow's self-titled game, it's basically him vs. Black Doom vs. Dr. Eggman. Oddly enough, Shadow's fairly low-key in Sonic Adventure 2, his debut game.
• Sengoku Basara is Ham 'n' Slash in Sengoku era Japan.
• Street Fighter has several, including the Rival Matches in IV between El Fuerte vs. Zangief and Dee Jay vs. Rufus
• Super Robot Wars: Original Generation 2 has Sanger Zonvolt, the Sword that Cleaves Evil! fighting his own clone undead cyborg alternate universe counterpart Wodan Ymir, the Sword of Magus! By the time the conflict reaches Critical Ham, however, they immediately turn around and unleash it on a common foe.
• Super Robot Wars Z features a save-skit with two villains voiced by Takehito Koyasu, Asuham Boone and Gym Ghinganham yelling at the top of their lungs about ending the game, especially on who's louder. And meanwhile, Neo Roanoke (also voiced by Takehito Koyasu), just shrugs and not participate in the Ham-to-Ham Combat.
• Team Fortress 2:
  • A better selection of fine military-grade ham you are not likely to find. While the Heavy ("YAAAAAAARGH!" CRY SOME MORE!"), the Soldier ("This is MY WORLD! YOU are not WELCOME in MY WORLD!") and the Demoman ("I'm gonna stick me ''thumbs'' in yer ''eyes'' and hang on 'til ye'r ''dead!''") are the obvious choices, we also have the Scout ("BONK!" "LOOK AT ME!" "I am a frickin' ''blur'', here!"), the Medic ("Would you like a second opinion? You are also ugly!" "Oops! That was not medicine!" "A-ha-ha! Oktoberfest!"), and the Sniper ("Thanks fer standin' still, wanker!" "Wave goodbye to yer head, wanker!" "Standin' around like a bloody idiot!"). Even the Pyro has hammy-sounding muffled grunts and a truly porcine interpretation of a Tusken Raider. The least hammy are the Engineer and the Spy, but even those two can have their moments.
  • Even the Spy hams it up sometimes, especially after dominating an opponent, or getting hit by Jarate.
    [dominating Medic] I'm looking at your X-Ray, and I'm afraid YOU SUCK!!
    [dominating Soldier] Oh, Soldier... Who will they ever find to replace you? Anyone! [Evil Laugh]
    Jarate!? NOOOOOOOO!
  • Those two don't need ham. A short "Oh dear, I made quite a mess" is more effective than anything else in the game. Especially if you just got stabbed...
  • The Engineer's Evil Laugh does wonders whenever he breaks it out, and additionally his subdued "I told you don't touch that darn thing" still manages to be hammy.
  • Taken to its logical conclusion with the Ham Shank, which allows every class except the Spy and Engineer (fittingly enough) to go around beating people to death with ham.
• Warhammer 40,000 games:
  • All the way back in Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate, Captain Kruger and Warlord Zymran were duking it out with power swords and pork products in equal measure. See attached.
  • Dawn of War: Dark Crusade. Any stronghold mission featuring two of the following: Space Marines, Orks, Chaos, Imperial Guard, and Eldar (exception: if Eldar are on defense). Two grimdark hams will duke it out along with their armies.
  • Especially apparent in the Disorder campaign of Winter Assault. Watching the Ork Warboss and Chaos Champion talk to each other is...impressive. [1]. This is, of course, completely and lovingly appropriate for the setting.
  • In Dawn of War II every single unit (except the Tyranids, for obvious reasons) has the habit of making brilliantly (yet, in many cases, appropriately) hammy remarks both while fighting and not. In the first case, this leads to a ham-to-ham combat during an actual one - that is, if you can hear it over the ludicrous amounts of dakka. For some of the narmiest, try ordering your units to take cover in bushes.
  • In Soulstorm, the Sisters of Battle and Dark Eldar who somehow manage to be even hammier than their Space Marine/Craftworld Eldar counterparts.
    "FIRE!!! FIRE, my sisters! Do not falter, do not BLINK, until the enemy are CINDERS! CINDERS and ASHHHHHH!!!"
    "RAISE! OUR! STANDARD!! LET IT STRIKE FEEEAARR!!"
• The Witcher: Though Geralt of Rivia tends to play low-key, the banter between him and Azar reaches a crescendo with the climax of their battle.
• Taking place in the World of Ham that is ''Disgaea, it's not uncommon to have moments like this;
  • Disgaea: Hour of Darkness has the very sassy and narcissistic Mid-Boss going up against the Hot-Blooded and pompous Captain Gordon, Defender Of The Earth! over a picnic basket.
  • 'Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice has this constantly, whether it's the self-proclaimed demon delinquent Raspberyl against an antagonistic Inner Mao, Master Big Star vs Salvatore, and the post-game even has the entire party ham it up after their battle against Prism Red.
  • Disgaea Infinite has a route where Laharl and Mao can get into a "Guffaw Battle" and try to out Evil Laugh each other.

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