Drop the Hammer: Difference between revisions

** Graf Eisen's Destructionform is basically the insane lovechild of the aforementioned Goldion Hammer and [[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann|the Giga Drill]].

** Cranked up ''even more'' in ''Force'', where Vita gains a new weapon called Warhammer. It's huge and looks like it has a fusion reactor in the middle.

* Usopp of ''[[One Piece]]'' fame has three of these: a normal one used for carpentry (though it's a surprisingly good weapon; he managed to beat one of Arlong's [[Quirky Miniboss Squad]] half to death with it), the "Usopp Pound", a massive-looking hammer that supposedly weighs five tons {{spoiler|but is really two frying pans bound in plastic on a stick that weights 2 kg}}, and the "Golden Pound", an even bigger hammer, supposedly weighing ten tons, that {{spoiler|is really a balloon which pops upon impact}}.

** In [[Norse Mythology]], Thor's hammer Mjollnir shared the same properties - it grew or shrank as needed, could be thrown like a boomerang (and hit with the force of thunder when it did). The only thing Mjollnir lacked was the ability to throw a energy bolt.

*** Considering that Mjollnir is supposed to ''be'' lightning when thrown, the energy bolt isn't so much missing as used differently...

* Sana and her mother in ''[[Kodomo no Omocha]]'' regularly use the squeaky toy version.

* In ''[[Demashita! Powerpuff Girls Z]]'', Buttercup wields an oversized Daruma Otoshi hammer with casual ease. As a testament to her strength when transformed and how heavy the weapon actually is, her teammates (working together) can barely lift the thing.

* Vento of the Front from ''[[To Aru Majutsu no Index]]'' uses a hammer to channel the winds.

* In ''[[The Lucifer and Biscuit Hammer]]'', Sir Noi Crezant, the Lizard Knight, has been sent to gain the aid of the great warrior Amamiya Yuuhi in hopes of finding the Princess Samidare and protecting the planet from the incredible 'Biscuit Hammer' poised to crack the Earth in two.

 

 

* Jodie Foster has to use a sledgehammer against a thief in ''[[Panic Room]]'', who then falls straight down a flight of stairs and [[Made of Iron|instantly recovers as though nothing happened at all]]. Presumably after {{spoiler|one of his cohorts pulls a [[Heel Face Turn]] and shoots him in the back of the head}}, [[Sarcasm Mode|said thief spent a painful afternoon in physical therapy and made a full recovery.]]

** In ''[[The Avengers (film)|The Avengers]]'', Captain America makes the mistake of ordering Thor to "drop the hammer." Iron Man warns him that this was a bad idea... but not soon enough to prevent several hundred feet of the surrounding forest from being flattened.

* Kevin from ''[[Sin City]]'' uses a sledgehammer to lay [[The Big Guy]] and [[Badass]] Marv out cold.

* Ilsa from ''[[Hellboy (film)|Hellboy]]'' carries a sledgehammer and later uses a smaller hammer to shatter some glass.

* Morrell in ''A Room For Romeo Brass'' wields a claw hammer.

* Subverted in one scene in the remake of ''[[Dawn of the Dead 2004]]'': Michael discards his ([[Too Dumb to Live|almost certainly more useful]]) crowbar in exchange for a croquet mallet, and then promptly gets jumped by a zombie. As expected, the mallet promptly breaks across the zombie's head without fazing it; he ends up killing it by driving the broken-off mallet-handle under its chin and through its brain.

* ''[[Braveheart]]'': William Wallace uses a war hammer to great effect during the battle of Stirling before switching to his [[BFS|massive honkin' claymore]].

** In ''A Dance with Dragoms'' [[Big Guy]] Archibald Yronwood wields a great warhammer.

* "Grond", Morgoth's "Hammer of the Underworld" in [[J. R. R. Tolkien|JRR Tolkien]]'s ''[[The Silmarillion]]'' is a mace in some adaptations, a hammer in others. Not to be confused with the giant wolf-shaped battering ram named after it that features in ''[[The Lord of the Rings (film)|Return of the King]]'', despite equal massive smashiness.

* Perrin Aybara in Robert Jordan's ''[[The Wheel of Time]]'' often finds himself choosing between a blacksmith's hammer and a battleaxe, each representing the sides of personality able to create and destroy. In ''Towers of Midnight'', he trades in his blacksmith's hammer for {{spoiler|''Mah'alleinir'', a massive warhammer that is is also the first weapon forged with the One Power in three thousand years}}.

* [[Roger Zelazny]]'s ''Creatures of Light and Darkness'' features a weapon called the Hammer That Smashes Suns. Of course, it might look more like a giant crossbow. That fires ''comets''.

** {{spoiler|Not quite! In the comic it's shown that he's actually been alive again for quite a while.}}

* A brightly-colored hammer is the weapon of [[El Chapulin Colorado]].

* ''[[Top Gear]]'': While he has never used it in battle, per se, Jeremy Clarkson's tool of choice during a challenge is, has been, and always will be a hammer.

 

* There's a reason it's called ''[[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]]'', you know. The titular weapon is named ''Ghal Maraz'' (Dwarf for "skull-splitter") and was wielded by Sigmar Heldenhammer, the Empire's founder-turned-god with a hammer for a holy symbol. Stat-wise it's one of the nastiest weapons in the game. The Dwarfs additionally favor hammers as much as they do axes.

** Incidentally, Heldenhammer is German for "Hero-hammer," which was ''Warhammer'''s nickname during the character-centric 4th and 5th Editions.

** The Salamanders chapter of Space Marines are known to prefer Thunder Hammers along with flamers and melta weapons, it helps to reinforce forging and smithing motifs.

 

* ''[[Exalted]]'', naturally, not only has hammers, but ''[[BFS|big fucking hammers]]'' made of one of the five magical materials. These are called Goremauls. The Abyssal signature character Falling Tears Poet is often seen carrying one that could probably fell an elephant in one blow.

** The ''[[BFS|Grand]]'' Goremaul is even bigger than the average Goremaul and could be used to smash out the front door and back door of your house in one blow.

== Video Games ==

* In ''[[Dark Souls]]'' , the player is able to obtain Smough's Hammer, a gigantic hammer wielded by one of the bosses in Anor Londo.

* The ''[[Super Mario Bros.]]'' series gives us the Hammer Brothers, and Mario himself sometimes uses the hammer as a callback to his ''[[Donkey Kong]]'' days. The Hammer become Mario's [[Weapon of Choice]] in the [[Super Mario RPG|various]] ''[[Paper Mario (franchise)|Mario]]'' [[Mario & Luigi|RPGs]].

** In ''Wrecking Crew'', Mario's (and Luigi's) ordinary hammer was good against walls but not enemies, but the secret Golden Hammer could stun enemies and demolish any wall in a single hit.

** In the original ''[[Super Mario Bros. (video game)|Super Mario Bros]]'' game, [[Big Bad|Bowser]] (and to a much lesser extent, his last two fakes) for some reason had the ability to throw hammers at Mario/Luigi as well as [[Breath Weapon|breathing fire.]]

** Although Raiden usually used a staff for a weapon, in MK4 he used a hammer, then left it on top of a tower the size of the Empire State Building, where anyone who wants to can use it.

** Noob Saibot uses a [[A Worldwide Punomenon|Troll]] Hammer in ''Armageddon''.

* Amy Rose of ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' has the Piko Piko Hammer.

** Tails actually uses one as a weapon before she does, though.

** And variants, like [[Game Breaker|Toss Hammer]], which poisons instead of stuns, the Pow Pow Hammer, which drops a ''giant'' hammer from the sky that stuns every enemy in a pretty big radius (or is a bunch of Pow Hammers in [[Tales of Symphonia|Colette]]'s case), and Hammer Rain, which does [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]. There's also Anise's Miracle Hammer from ''[[Tales of the Abyss]]''.

** And a couple of [[Tales of Symphonia|Presea's]] weapons (the ones that aren't axes).

* Multiple hammers are lumped into the axe weapon class in the ''[[Disgaea]]'' series.

** [[Disgaea 4: A Promise Unforgotten]] lets the Eryngya and Gargoyle monsters magichange into hammers, and these hammers will be ''very'' large if a giant monster transforms into one.

* A hammer is a recurring weapon in the ''Zelda'' games:

** The Magic Hammer in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past|The Legend of Zelda a Link To T He Past]]''

** There's also the hammer in ''[[Zelda II: The Adventure of Link|Zelda II the Adventure of Link]]'', though this was only used to break rocks blocking your path. The one in ''A Link to the Past'' is more versatile.

* In the roguelike game ''[[Angband]]'', priests were discouraged to use cutting or piercing weapons (the Church disapproves of shedding blood, it said). So, naturally, they had to use different blunt weapons. Hammers were not at the end of the list. Plus, there's [[Evil Overlord|Morgoth]]'s hammer Grond, which collapses walls around it when swung.

** The ''[[Ice Climbers]]'' both wield mallets to break ice (and the heads of their foes in ''Smash Bros'').

** Mr. Game and Watch uses them for his downward smash attack and Judgement special. In the case of the former, it actually knocks foes farther if the hammer hits ''near'' them as opposed to hitting them directly, though a direct hit launches foes at a low angle that can be difficult to recover from.

** One of Kirby's abilities as Yo-yo is called Hammer Drop, although it doesn't have anything to do with a hammer, besides looking like a single-hit [[Metronomic Man-Mashing]].

** Interestingly, [[Metal Gear Solid|the Colonel]] notes that despite looking like a big wooden mallet, Dedede's hammer is an incredibly advanced and powerful weapon that Dedede is very good at using.

** Dedede gets another hammer [[Crazy Awesome|with an attached flamethrower, missile launcher, and rocket engine]] during ''Super Star Ultra''.

* The paladins [[Dual Wield]] a war hammer and a lance in ''[[Warcraft]] II''. They switch to just humongous sledgehammers in ''[[Warcraft]] III''. In the latter case, their [[The Big Guy|twenty-inch biceps]] are justified, seeing as how the hammers' heads are the size of small ovens.

** How can we forget the Griffin Riders from ''[[Warcraft]]'' II and III who have an infinite supply of giant hammers to throw at the enemy. For bonus points their quotes reveal that the "warhammers" cost "40k".

* Hammers seem to be the war weapon ''[[Weapon of Choice|de rigueur]]'' in ''[[Beyond Good & Evil (video game)|Beyond Good and Evil]]''-- both the good guys and the [[Alien Invasion|evil army]] use them. Some of them are [[Weapon of Choice|part axe]] as well, and some even shoot ''[[Family-Friendly Firearms|lasers]]''.

* Yangus uses hammers as one of his favored weapon sets in ''[[Dragon Quest VIII]]''.

{{quote|[[Shout-Out|"Hadst I a hammer, wouldst I hammer in the morning. Wouldst I hammer in the evening, all over this land."]]}}

* ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' has had hammers and mauls in some of their games, but ''[[Final Fantasy XI]]'' gives them to [[The Medic|White Mages]] and cranks it all the way up to... well, you know. [[Limit Break|Hexa Strike]] + well-geared WHM = a tiny pile of powder that was once a [[Dem Bones|skeleton]].

* Hammers are popular in ''[[Vindictus]]''. Tank character Fiona can use a one-handed hammer, starting at level 24. The first challenging boss on the Perilous Ruins beginner missions, the Gnoll Chieftan, uses a massive two-handed hammer larger than the player character. Many Gnoll bosses on higher-level missions use similarly massive ''[[Kill It with Fire|flaming]]'' hammers. Starting with the Ruins of Sanctity missions, Gnoll mooks start using big two-handed hammers as well.

** Use of hammers is handled realistically -- packing a massive amount of damage, but [[Mighty Glacier|slower, more cumbersome, and easier to evade]] than swords or one-handed clubs. The game AI even emulates the effects of fatigue on bosses that use them. Fiona's one-hander is smaller and lighter than the two-handed Gnoll versions, allowing her more speed and agility by comparison, but causing less damage.

* Probably one of the largest hammers compared to the user's size appears in ''[[Touhou]] Hisoutensoku''. It is one of [[An Ice Person|ice fairy]] Cirno's high-end spallcards, and the head is practically AS LARGE AS THE GAME SCREEN ITSELF. There is also a minor [[Memetic Mutation|meme]] based around this spellcard; "[[Hulk Speak|CIRNO SMASH PUNY [X] WITH GLACIER MALLET.]]"

* ''[[Alice: Madness Returns]]'' uses a Hobby Horse for a gigantic sledgehammer in-game. Turning the game's Physx settings to Medium and above will display more prominently its destructive capability.

** And it turns every fifth walnut it cracks into a pigeon.

*** And supposedly every fifth bird it kills into a walnut.

* Krunch Bloodrage of ''[[Looking for Group]]'' uses a big ol' hammer to bash heads when he isn't using his fists. His father [[Dual-Wielding|dual wields]] a pair of [[Carry a Big Stick|one-handed maces]] when he [[I Surrender, Suckers|"surrenders"]]. OTOH, Krunch's brother Rayd favors the [[An Axe to Grind|battleaxe]].

* ''[[Van Von Hunter]]'' uses a hammer as his primary weapon.

* John Egbert of ''[[Homestuck]]'' has hammers as his primary weapon specialty. [[Crippling Overspecialization|It proves to be a problem]] when he couldn't lift his sledgehammer. He gets a much lighter one later though, the [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=002537 Pogo Hammer!]

** All the main characters are given a chance to set their weapon specialty for the rest of the "game." John, picks the hammer mostly because it allows him to free up space in his inventory, commenting that he "can't imagine it's going to be all that relevant."

* In the third RP of ''[[Darwin's Soldiers]]'', Alfred uses a sledgehammer to kill a Dragonstorm experiment...by knocking its head clean off.

** In the same RP, [[Wrench Wench|Sharon]] also uses a hammer to kill a guard.

* [[MSF High Forum]]: Ilushia weilds one of these. More recently Danny has taken up wielding one.

* ''[[RWBY]]'': Nora's weapon, which is [[Swiss Army Weapon|also]] a [[Grenade Launcher]]. With [[Heart Symbol|hearts]] on it.

* A number of weapons resembling hammers have been used historically.

** [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/War_hammer2.jpg/100px-War_hammer2.jpg Warhammers] didn't look much different from your average carpenter's hammer - they just had longer handles. Placing a lot of the weight at the point of impact gave the weapon a lot of punch, breaking bones through armor that was intended to deflect the lesser impact of blades. The real-world hammers often had a small flat face on one side of the head and a simple pick on the other. Strike with the flat face and you can quickly use your weapon again; strike with the pick and with any luck you'll penetrate your opponent's armor entirely, at the cost of possibly having to take a moment to yank the pick out again.

** Mauls resemble sledgehammers. They were primarily an archer's weapon, serving double-duty in hammering down protective stakes before a battle and attacking any enemies that drew too close for comfort.

* The use of hammers in war is evident in the sport of polo, which was originally a war exercise for Persian cavalry.