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Ham and Deadpan Duo
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A pair of characters, either lifelong partners or just met up, in which one is a ham of decent size and the other speaks in a deadpan tone. The juxtaposition of the two, along with each of them on their own, is a common source of comedy for the audience. Can overlap with a few Duo Tropes: When combined with Straight Man and Wise Guy and Boke and Tsukkomi Routine, usually the straight man/tsukkomi is the deadpan and the wise guy/boke is the hammy one. A subtrope of Red Oni, Blue Oni, where the ham is the red one, and the deadpan is the blue. Savvy Guy, Energetic Girl brings gender to the mix: The Savvy Guy is deadpan and the Energetic Girl is hammy. Gleeful and Grumpy Pairing which contrasts their positive and negative emotions. The Super-Trope to Hammy Villain, Serious Hero, where the ham is the villain and the deadpan the hero. |
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Genshin Impact has Fischl von Luftschloss Narfidort, the hammy Prinzessin der Verurteilung who speaks in a quasi-Elizabethan manner; and Ozvaldo von Hrafnavins, her loyal raven familiar who not only "translates" Fischl's manner of speech but also sasses back at her every now and then. | |
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Crash Bandicoot racing games have Chick and Stew, two anthropomorphic roosters introduced in Crash Tag Team Racing who are in Motorworld for a sports report: Chick is the serious commenter and Stew the wacky one. They come back in Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled where they present the DLC content to the players before becoming playable themselves and with default stats which fit their respective personalities. | |
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Cable & Deadpool has a whole series built on this — the Straight Man and Wise Guy variant, naturally. Cable is the rough, militant deadpan to Deadpool's over-the-top hamminess. If Cable is not available, he's usually swapped out for Wolverine. | |
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In Dust of Dreams, book nine of the Malazan Book of the Fallen, there are Draconus and Ublala Pung, of all people. One is a millennia-old Elder God, the other a giant man-child. While they wander the prairie, Ublala is being his usual cheerfully boisterous self and Draconus remains the reserved Deadpan Snarker. | |
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RWBY: Ren is quiet, thoughtful, and prone to expressing his wit in deadpan and sarcastic ways, such as when he's asked to distract the sniper during the tournament, despite being the one with no shield, and his response is an understated "Sure, why not". His lifelong partner Nora is expressive, energetic, and loud. During the same tournament fight, when Jaune asks her to finish the fight with a single hit, she grins broadly, leaps in the air with her power needlessly flaring everywhere just for effect, and hits all four opponents with an exaggerated hammer swing. When Nora is telling Yang a story about her dream, she exaggerates the adventure for mood and suspense, while Ren quietly interjects with the actual, more boring, facts of the dream, deadpanning her enthusiasm. | |
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Dawn of War has Lord Bale and Sindri Myr, a Chaos Lord and Sorcerer respectively. Bale's role is to go around making loud noises, while Sindri's is to be an increasingly obvious plotting betrayer speaking in relatively measured tones — the only time he goes into true Large Ham mode himself is his ascension to Daemon Prince. | |
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From Animaniacs and their own spin-off series, there's Pinky and the Brain. Brain, the Evil Genius, mostly behaves in a deadpan manner (bar the occasional exclamation of "Yes!"), while the energetic Pinky is constantly jumping around and involuntarily spouting Verbal Tics. | |
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In The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, in the Shivering Isles expansion, we have Sheogorath and Haskill. The first is a god of madness, who tends to spend half of the time yelling everything he says and making all sorts of non-sequiturs. The other is his chamberlain, who is completely stoic about absolutely everything and tends to be quite snarky in his conversations with the player. | |
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In Batman: The Brave and the Bold, The Comically Serious Batman is often paired with Boisterous Bruiser Aquaman. | |
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Nick And Lever: Nick is a loud and flashy Large Ham, whereas Lever is more deadpan and subdued. Unlike most examples where the deadpan half of the duo is snarky and gloomy, Lever is just as cheerful and optimistic as Nick. | |
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Superman: The Animated Series: During the three-part "World' Finest," Joker comes to Metropolis to make an alliance with Lex. Joker remains his hammy, over-the-top self, while Lex is stoic and only barely tolerant of his new partner.◊ | |
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Junkrat and Roadhog in Overwatch are a downplayed example, in that Roadhog isn't always deadpan, but he's definitely The Quiet One and does get some snarky lines, while Junkrat is manic and rubbery, an irrepressible font of energy. It even extends to their motions in things like the "Junkertown: The Plan" short: Roadhog is relatively controlled and slow, while Junkrat bounces around like a post-apocalyptic take on The Joker. | |
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Hiyo and Vivid!: Ayamorin is an outgoing, cheerful Wu-tuber who tries to make Hiyo smile, while Hiyo is physically incapable of smiling despite being Ayamorin's biggest fan. | |
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Droopy is always the Deadpan pitted against a Large Ham antagonist (Wolfie the wolf, or Spike the bulldog). | |
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Batman is the Comically Serious Terror Hero deadpan, and Robin (Dick Grayson) is the Large Ham Technicolor Ninja Hurricane of Puns quipmaster. | |
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The protagonist of Daughter for Dessert is deadpan at times, while Mortelli is a ham. | |
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In The Fifth Element, Korben Dallas, the serious Action Hero, is the Deadpan; and Ruby Rhod, the Camp Straight Jive Turkey Non-Action Guy is the Ham. | |
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The Mask: Anyone wearing the magical mask becomes Big Head, an evil cartoon character complete with wacky attitude and impossible physics. The downside? They're frequently targeted by Walter, an inhumanly strong, stoic and silent brute who wants the mask for himself. | |
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Naruto has the hammy and exuberant Might Guy and his slouchy and snarky Eternal Rival Kakashi Hatake. | |
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My Hero Academia: Loud, bombastic, fun-loving Present Mic and deadpan, stoic, often gloomy Eraser Head. Eraser Head also has this dynamic with the loud, flashy, energetic All Might. | |
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Soul Eater: Troubled Souls: Tsuji is the brash, wisecracking Ham to Marcellus's cool Deadpan. Claudia is the theatric Ham to Caius's restrained Deadpan. |
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In Star Trek: The Original Series, Captain Kirk (while he is not always this way and can in fact be a Deadpan Snarker at times) is "a man of deep feelings" which tend to express themselves hammily whenever he's excited or trying to make a point. Spock is required to be The Stoic by cultural tradition, so his expressions (unless something is wrong) tend to be very deadpan. And if Kirk isn't around, Doctor "Bones" McCoy serves up the cranky ham in response to the "green-blooded hobgoblin". | |
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Devil May Cry: Sparda's twin sons form this dynamic; Dante is prone to bouts of hamminess (although he clearly plays it for amusement, shits and giggles) while Vergil is completely straight-laced. | |
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In Batman (1989), Batman is a serious Deadpan Snarker, making jokes while keeping a serious tone. Joker is a glorious Ham, living life to the fullest and showing the full gambit of Emotions while doing things that seem funny to him. It helps contrast the two and show that, while they may both be functioning Sociopaths (more so in Batman's case) and/or Psychopaths (more so in Joker's case), they handle their game and life overall differently. | |
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The energetic Pinkie Pie and her deadpan sister Maud Pie from My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic. | |
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Men in Black has Agent J, a hammy sassy black man, and Agent K, a stoic grizzled veteran who is so deadpan it's hilarious. | |
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The Ratchet & Clank series gives us hammy mad scientist Dr. Nefarious and his snarky butler Lawrence. | |
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In The Addams Family, with Raúl Juliá and Christopher Lloyd sharing a screen, there is ham in abundance. Gomez and Fester are balanced out by Morticia and Wednesday who are far more subdued, sometimes wrapping all the way around to Cold Ham. | |
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Superman/Batman again has the Dark Knight as the deadpan, while the Man of Steel is the large ham. | |
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Lupin III has the flamboyant titular thief and his sullen gunman Jigen as well as stoic samurai Goemon. | |
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