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When the character (often but not always a video game character) carries more than one weapon this way, that's a [[Hyperspace Arsenal]].
Not to be confused with a [[Duck|Hyperspace Mallard]].
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== Advertising ==
* On a commercial for the [[Cartoon Network]], a man being stalked by a mugger calls Cartoon 911 and is advised to reach behind his back and pull out a giant hammer.
== Anime and Manga ==
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* This is [[The Awesome Slapstick|Slapstick's]] primary method of attack.
* In one strip of the Italian Comic ''Lupo Alberto'', one of the two characters starts talking about old comics and their "special effects", until the other one, annoyed, reminds him the last one, A.K.A. said "Mallet that popped out of nowhere used to punish the bad guys".
== Literature ==▼
* In the Tom Holt novel ''Grailblazers'', one of the knights has an hereditary power—that any male of his line can, when reaching vaguely behind them, always grab a weapon of some sort.▼
* In [[The Stormlight Archive]] by [[Brandon Sanderson]], some of the most powerful weapons in the setting, Shardblades, can be summoned from thin air with an effort of will by their owner, they will appear after ten of the owner's heartbeats.▼
== Film ==
* In the 1992 [[Marx Brothers]] homage ''[[Brain Donors]]'', Harpo
* In one scene in ''[[The Mask (film)|The Mask]]'', the title character pulls an enormous mallet out of his pocket in order to [[Ring Ring CRUNCH|smash an alarm clock]].
* ''[[Highlander]]'' and, particularly its spinoffs, makes little to no effort to explain where the immortals pull their swords from. While early on, they'd have characters wearing long coats, later on they'll have characters (particularly females) pull out swords while wearing form fitting clothing.
* While being less a Mallet and more a [[Ocarina of Time|Megaton Hammer]], Ramona Flowers uses one in ''[[Scott Pilgrim vs. the World]]'' to fight her [[Bi the Way|ex-girlfriend]].
** As mentioned in the Comics section above, Ramona pulls this full-length sledgehammer out of a handbag that looks small enough to have difficulty containing Scott's self-respect.
▲== Literature ==
▲* In the [[Tom Holt]] novel ''Grailblazers'', one of the knights has an hereditary power—that any male of his line can, when reaching vaguely behind them, always grab a weapon of some sort.
▲* In ''[[The Stormlight Archive]]'' by [[Brandon Sanderson]], some of the most powerful weapons in the setting, Shardblades, can be summoned from thin air with an effort of will by their owner, they will appear after ten of the owner's heartbeats.
== Live Action TV ==
* At one point on ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'', Mike bumps his head and [[Identity Amnesia|believes he's James Lipton]] from ''Inside the Actors' Studio''. Crow gleefully whacks him on the head with a giant "Clown Hammer" to snap him out of it.
== Newspaper Comics ==
* In ''[[Pearls Before Swine]]'', Rat once had a "Mallet o' Understanding" which he'd whip out to use on other characters who displeased him.
== Tabletop Games ==
* In the ''[[GURPS]]'' anime universe, one of the character abilities is the non-damage-dealing ten-ton hammer that can be pulled out of nowhere. It is
* ''[[Maid RPG]]'', the game with its roots deep in anime, has "Weapon From Nowhere" as one of Maid Powers. It allows a surprise attack (the target is denied an opposed roll).
* In ''[[Teenagers from Outer Space (roleplaying game)|Teenagers from Outer Space]]'', the "Hyperspace Hammer" is a standard piece of equipment available to player characters basically at any store. Unlike most of the other examples on this page, it's completely technological -- the hammer is literally in hyperspace until needed, and materializes around a beacon device in the character's hand just long enough to hit its target before returning.
== Video Games ==
* Overlaps with [[Hyperspace Arsenal]], but a vast number of video games incorporate the ability for characters to draw a weapon (or similar tool) at will from nowhere.
* [[Sonic the Hedgehog|Amy Rose's]] signature weapon is a mallet that shows up out of nowhere. There's not a single TV show or video game she shows up in either in which she doesn't have the hammer at all (since [[Sonic Adventure]]) or in which she keeps the hammer in a logical place. It gets [[Lampshaded]] in ''[[Sonic X]]
{{quote|[Amy throws hammer at Eggman's airship]
'''Eggman:'''
[Amy pulls out another hammer out of nowhere.]
'''Decoe/Bocoe:'''
'''Bokun:'''
* Literally in the game ''[[Patapon]] 2''. Ormen Karmen, the Karmen chief and the Penultimate Boss, has one attack where a gigantic hammer appears in his hands and he crashes it down on the patapons. When he finishes attacking, the hammer shrinks back into the void.
* In the ''[[Super Smash Bros.]]'' series, one of Peach's attacks strikes the target with a random blunt object from out of nowhere, such as a golf club.
* While most of [[The Legend of Zelda|Link]]'s equipment would fall under the [[Hyperspace Arsenal]] trope, he does acquire oversized-hammer weapons in various games, such as the Megaton Hammer or the Skull Hammer.
* A serious example happens in the ''[[Elder Scrolls]]'' games, where the Bound Weapon / Armor spells are basically pulling an [[Infinity+1 Sword|Infinity
* Lucca from ''[[Chrono Trigger]]'' attacks with a hammer if her target is too close for her guns. The hammer always has the same properties as the gun she's equipped with, too.
** Actually, it ''is'' [[Pistol-Whipping|her gun]].
*** Not so sure, in her [https://web.archive.org/web/20120517162334/http://www.rpgplanet.com/chrono/images/ct/oaw-lucca.jpg official artworks], she is depicted as carrying a mallet. Its no surprise at all that she carries one since she is a [[Wrench Wench]] and hence, the mallet is unlikely to be a hammerspace one.
* In ''[[Lego Batman]]'', Harley Quinn can pull a mallet out of nowhere and bludgeon the enemy with it. This is one of the most effective melee attacks in the game.
* In ''[[Samurai
* [[Super Mario Bros.|Mario and Luigi]] use hammers fairly often. There has never been a logical place that they could be kept. Mario has even reached into the air, have a solid iron hammer the size of a garden shed appear in a puff of smoke (No, I am not kidding), which then proceeds to disappear.
* Peacock from ''[[Skullgirls]]'' can pull a hammer out of nowhere to whack an enemy with. The creepy part about this is that when she's done with the hammer, where does she put it? ''She shoves it into one of her empty eye sockets.''
== Webcomics ==
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== Western Animation ==
* Wakko Warner from ''[[Animaniacs]]'' used a mallet as needed...of course, definitions of "as needed" are flexible on that show.
** The sizes of mallets he uses are also quite flexible, ranging from the semi-sensible, to the ridiculously-large. In one short, the Warners are filling in for Plotz's sick secretary and Wakko has trouble with the photocopier. His solution is [[Percussive Maintenance|to smash the offending machine with a mallet that's about ''half the size of the room'']].
* [[Inspector Gadget]] had one in his hat, held aloft by a gloved mechanical arm. In the second live-action film, G2 did this as well.
* The classic [[Looney Tunes]] shorts are probably the [[Trope Maker]] or at least the [[Trope Codifier]]. It seems to be a fundamental law of physics in the [[Looney Tunes]] world that mallets will always and only exist in situations when someone deserves to be hit with one. Mind you, the [[Looney Tunes]] characters can pull ''[[Hyperspace Arsenal|anything]]'' [[Hammerspace|from behind their backs]] [[Rule of Funny|if it would be amusing at the time.]]
* Gideon from ''[[Pinocchio]]'' at least twice pulls a mallet, the second time we see he pulls it out of his sleeve.
* The Devil does this to [[Pluto the Pup|Pluto]] several times during Pluto's trial in Hell in ''[[
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