Drop the Hammer: Difference between revisions

* Subverted in one scene in the remake of ''[[Dawn of the Dead (2004 film)|Dawn of the Dead]]'': 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 ''[[Zombieland]]'', the somewhat-cowardly lead character winds up grabbing a sledgehammer from a Test Your Strength carnival game and using it on his greatest fear (a clown zombie).

* In ''[[Streets of Fire]]'', hero [[Badass Longcoat|Tom Cody]] and villain Raven fight a duel, each armed with 12-pound sledgehammers.

* A picture book called ''Little Rabbit Foo Foo'' depicted the rabbit as using a motorcycle and a net to scoop up the various other forest dwellers, and then a hammer to "bop them on the head".

* A long handled hammer is the weapon of choice for most of the characters in [[The Runelords]] books. The description of the weapons, however is somewhere between a medieval poleaxe and a military pick.

* Khynan Rhys Gower, of ''[[Time Scout]]'', prefers a war maul for a close quarters weapon. He'll substitute a croquet mallet if he has to.