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[[Damage Sponge Boss]] can be a justification for this trope.
[[The All-Solving Hammer]] is when this becomes a [[Running Gag]]. Can sometimes be related to [[What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?]] and [[Death of a Thousand Cuts]]. See also [[Plot Tailored to the Party]], [[Smash Mook]]. [[Your Answer to Everything]] may be said about this. Compare [[With This Herring]], which is when someone ''starts'' with very limited resources, but can gain better ones. Contrast [[Every Device Is a Swiss Army Knife]] when something does have enough functions to tackle a wide range of problems.
Not related to [[Drop the Hammer|characters who use hammers as their (primary) weapon]]. Unless, of course, they use nothing but this hammer at every opportunity.
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*** ''[[The Order of the Stick]]'' presents [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0020.html]: "[[Bland-Name Product|Evan]]'s Spiked Tentacles of Forced Intrusion"; later [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0624.html] also "Bugsby's Flicking Finger" and "Bugsby's [[Flipping the Bird|Expressive Single Digit]]".
*** In the same vein, parodied in ''[[Nodwick]]'' ("[http://comic.nodwick.com/?comic=2004-07-07 Digby's Squeezing Hand]") and Otiluke with his whatever-spheres ("[http://comic.nodwick.com/?comic=2004-04-28 ''Otiluke's three freezing spheres and top-hat'' spell]") - used on another obviously-themed spellcaster.
*** A poster [[Schlock Mercenary|from Howard Tayler]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20160429102751/http://store.schlockmercenary.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=P
* ''[[Exalted]]'':
** The [[Deal with the Devil|Green Sun Princes]] are explicitly told to [[Defied|move away from this paradigm]]. What separates them from their Yozi masters is that they can think outside of the box and mix-and-match their masters' gimmicks to best deal with the situation at hands.
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** It gets better, too. According to the GM's house rule, characters can only spend experience to improve skills they actually used. All Kyros ever uses is his fireball. Ergo...
** Kyros's ''latest'' trick? Help the party on the quest they've been botching for the last several (realtime) years by ''annihilating a mountain range''. You can panic now.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120130154604/http://www.broadside.net/M09083135.htm This] Greenside cartoon (see also [[Tom Lehrer]] above).
* ''[[Rusty and Co.]]'' [http://rustyandco.com/comic/19/ here]:
{{quote|'''Mimic:''' To a hammer, the world is full of nails.
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