Large Hams are always going to be found somewhere in a book series. These are frequently fan favorites. * Gustav II Adolph in 1632 and to a lesser degree, his Danish counterpart King Christian of Denmark. The hamminess is cranked to epic levels when the two are in the same room after the Danes are defeated and frogmarched into the Union of Kalmar. * "My name is Ruy Sanchez de Casador y Ortiz. Prepare to die." * The titular character of Howl's Moving Castle. * The tall, exuberant Dutchman Mijnheer Peeperkorn in Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain. (He was modeled after Real Life German author Gerhart Hauptmann.) * Also by Thomas Mann: Alois Permaneder, the Bavarian in Buddenbrooks. * Nicholas van Rijn, interstellar entrepreneur in Poul Anderson's Technic History stories